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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review Analyzes V.P. Vance's Loyalty to Tucker Carlson · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Me and my beautiful wife, Danielle, my son, Gabriel, had
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  Speaker 1: just watched my first cousin, Norm Coleman, interview the Vice
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States, J.D. Vance, who will be
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  Speaker 1: speaking today from the White House at 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: This afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And we're about to go back to our hotel room
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  Speaker 1: and pack as we were leaving the next morning, which
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  Speaker 1: we did Tuesday morning. Got me back here for my
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  Speaker 1: first show yesterday. And we're heading down the escalator from
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  Speaker 1: the very, very beautiful Venetian Conference Center, and I hear
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  Speaker 1: my name, Sid!
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  Speaker 2: And I look behind me, and who could it be?
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  Speaker 1: Who'd be screaming Sid in Las Vegas for many people?
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  Speaker 1: But in this case, it happened to be the editor
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  Speaker 1: of the National Review, a guy who is a dear
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine, on this show every week, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: short of a genius. We don't agree on a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, actually, but I really think the guy's
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  Speaker 1: a genius.
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  Speaker 2: My friend, Rich Lowry. And there we were on.
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  Speaker 1: An escalator in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Danielle, Gabe, Sid, and Lowry. Well, how about that, Lewis?
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Small world. Small world. But Rich would hate to paint it,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Rich Lowry. Good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: You're leaving out an important detail.
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  Speaker 2: Which was?
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  Speaker 3: Because I yelled, Sid. And then you continue to look
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  Speaker 3: at your phone, not looking up, whatever, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear, bro. I'm deaf. I think I did
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  Speaker 2: do that, too. I did.
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  Speaker 3: You did, and then you looked back, and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's an actual buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because so many people came up to me.
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  Speaker 1: They always do at these events. And after a while,
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  Speaker 1: don't forget, that's my last day there. So at that point,
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  Speaker 1: I'm there for three days. All right. Oh, my God. Which,
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  Speaker 1: after a while, it's like, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: But who knew it would be a superstar like you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you did a good job. You know who also
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  Speaker 3: knocked it out of the park? Scott Jennings.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. He's great.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa. He's great. He also killed it last year. And
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  Speaker 1: he was on the show, you know, last week. And
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  Speaker 1: I said to him, I said, I guess you'll be
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  Speaker 1: the person to replace Caroline Leavitt. I can't think of
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  Speaker 1: a better new press secretary than you when he's been
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  Speaker 1: mentioned quite a bit, actually, as the possible replacement. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: for me, the MVPs, the best speeches, were me, Randy Fine,
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  Speaker 1: and Scott Jennings. What do you think about Jennings possibly
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  Speaker 1: getting that job?
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  Speaker 3: I think he'd be fantastic, right? I mean, he's under
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  Speaker 3: fire every night in CNN and best everyone. Great guy.
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  Speaker 3: So I think he'd be a great choice. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have any insight into how that's going.
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  Speaker 2: Neither do I.
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  Speaker 3: The betting markets say he has a pretty good chance.
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  Speaker 1: Great chance. Alina Haba's name keeps popping up. So one
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  Speaker 1: spot you and I kind of disagreed, and we left
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  Speaker 1: the same time, went up to J.D. Vance, was Vance's speech.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to congratulate Isaac Shore. Don't know who
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  Speaker 1: he is, but he's a columnist for the New York Post,
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  Speaker 1: and he either listens to me or reads my Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Because he wrote a story today which J.D. Vance cannot
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  Speaker 1: outrun his Tucker Carlson problem. And I said this yesterday
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  Speaker 1: on this show, above and beyond the Jewish stuff, which
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  Speaker 1: I thought he failed.
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  Speaker 2: He failed, okay?
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  Speaker 1: You've got to condemn Tucker just for Trump. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: made J.D. Vance who he is. He's a multimillionaire now.
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  Speaker 1: He's a VP. He's running for president. And Tucker Carlson
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  Speaker 1: takes as many shots at President Trump as he does Israel.
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  Speaker 1: So the question becomes, where the hell is the vice
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  Speaker 1: president's loyalty?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Isaac Shore, you write for the media, used
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  Speaker 3: to be a National Review guy. Young, sharp writer. And
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  Speaker 3: that was your instant reaction when we left the room.
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  Speaker 3: I was more positive. I'm still more positive. But look,
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  Speaker 3: he should denounce Tucker. He should just say, look, I
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  Speaker 3: don't agree with everything he says, but I'm friends with him.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how hard is that? But obviously he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: want to do it until he's absolutely cornered into doing it. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Norm Coleman, who was questioning him, mentioned Tucker to his credit,
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  Speaker 3: but didn't try to corner him on Tucker. If you
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  Speaker 3: get three minutes with J.D., you'll get it out of
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  Speaker 3: them one way or the other, right? Or someone kind of.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to get that time because it's been
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  Speaker 1: brought to my attention, and I can't tell you how,
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  Speaker 1: that J.D. wants to talk to me, okay? And there
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  Speaker 1: may be a meeting coming up in the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks in D.C.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. But yes, if I was sitting.
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  Speaker 1: There, unlike my cousin, who did a tremendous job, tremendous job,
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  Speaker 1: likes J.D., is tight with all the big Republicans, and
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to cause any real issue... I would have
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  Speaker 1: stopped by to talk to her.
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  Speaker 2: He brought them all up. He brought up Joe Rogan.
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  Speaker 2: He brought up Megyn Kelly. He brought up Nick Fuentes.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as Vance really dodged the Tucker part
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  Speaker 1: and started talking for minutes about Rogan.
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  Speaker 2: And Fuentes, I would have been like, J.D., let's go
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  Speaker 2: back to Tucker. What is your deal with Tucker?
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  Speaker 3: In J.D. 's defense, I love Norm, but the way
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  Speaker 3: he asked the question was, how do you draw the
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  Speaker 3: line on who you go on? And then he mentioned
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  Speaker 3: all these names. Whereas it would have been like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: do you agree with Tucker that Donald Trump's the Antichrist?
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  Speaker 3: Or something like that, right? But look, I think the
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  Speaker 3: average person sitting in that room wouldn't have any idea
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  Speaker 3: that the Jews have any reason to fear J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance.
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  Speaker 2: Right, but you're right about that. But you're right about that.
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  Speaker 3: The innovation when he came in, the innovation when he
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  Speaker 3: went out.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We have a special connection with Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Jews and Christians both believe we're made in the image
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  Speaker 3: of God, said that anti-Semitism is corrosive. And then I
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  Speaker 3: think this is a key thing that people that are
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  Speaker 3: really parsing the speech really carefully are missing. There's been
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  Speaker 3: this huge war over the legacy of Charlie Kirk with
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  Speaker 3: the anti-Zionist, anti-Semite type saying, oh, he's on the verge
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  Speaker 3: of being a huge hater of Israel. Whereas J.D. went
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  Speaker 3: out of his way to say it was Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 3: who told me. that anti-Semitism is corrosive to the soul.
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  Speaker 3: So he's sort of bringing him back in the circle
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  Speaker 3: he belongs in. So I rate it higher than you did,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously he doesn't want to denounce Tucker unless absolutely
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  Speaker 3: forced to.
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  Speaker 1: He also, he did all those things, you're right, and
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  Speaker 1: we're coming up, as I mentioned last hour, on the
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  Speaker 1: very emotional commemoration of Charlie's assassination on Thursday. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Thursday, 9-11 on Friday. That whole blood libel thing
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  Speaker 1: he talked about, come on, Rich. That's exactly what Tucker says.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even accurate. It's not even accurate. So he
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  Speaker 1: blew that up.
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  Speaker 3: There is an echo of Tucker. I get that. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's the main criticism of people. But the
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  Speaker 3: key thing was he was saying that, one, he messed
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  Speaker 3: up blood libel and blood guilt. But he was saying
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  Speaker 3: blood libel is something you're accused of that you don't do.
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  Speaker 3: And both Jews and Christians reject this. Right. The idea
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  Speaker 3: of blood guilt, whereas Tucker is basically saying that the
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  Speaker 3: Christians reject blood guilt, but Jews don't.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why Jews are so bad. That's not what J.D.
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  Speaker 3: was saying. But but it was it was a little
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  Speaker 3: weird and discomforting. I'll give you that.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to sound exactly like his buddy who everybody
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  Speaker 1: in that room hated that night. He may have gotten
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  Speaker 1: applause and some standing ovations, but you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: find a person in that room saying, And Tucker actually
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  Speaker 1: responded in Politico yesterday and said, oh, my God, basically
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  Speaker 1: these whiny Jews, here we go again. They're committing genocide,
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  Speaker 1: but they're the victims. Who even cares what they say anymore?
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  Speaker 1: That was Tucker's response in Politico yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's where Tucker is. No doubt about it. The
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  Speaker 3: other key thing from J.D. is he said, and I
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  Speaker 3: think you may have mentioned this line when we were
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  Speaker 3: walking out, You know, things aren't the way they were
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  Speaker 3: 40 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: When we're talking about Israel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think what he meant by that is, 40 years ago,
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  Speaker 3: you say that they're the only democracy in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 3: We should support him. And I think he means that
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  Speaker 3: now you need to be more hard-headed about it. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, he said, like, repeatedly, it is in
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  Speaker 3: our interest to be an ally with Israel. But he wants, J.D.
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  Speaker 3: wants to get the votes of under-40-year-old males who are
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  Speaker 3: skeptical or hostile to Israel. So I think that's why
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  Speaker 3: he tap-dances a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: He does.
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  Speaker 1: He does top dance. I mean, he actually went out
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  Speaker 1: of his way to say that. Look, Trump was on
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  Speaker 1: this show last year. He said to me, Sid, 15
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  Speaker 1: years ago, the strongest lobby in D.C. was Israel. You
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  Speaker 1: would never hear a Republican or a Democrat ever, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever badmouth Israel. Now he says, outside of a couple
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  Speaker 1: of Republicans, that's all they do is badmouth Israel. So
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  Speaker 1: when J.D. Vance says not Israel's our closest ally, which
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  Speaker 1: they are, When J.D. Vance goes on this whole rant
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  Speaker 1: where he compares the relationship with the United States between
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  Speaker 1: Israel and the United Kingdom, that was helpful?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I mean, the U.K. is not just a
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  Speaker 3: close and important ally. We have deep cultural similarities and
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  Speaker 3: affinities with the U.K., and I think that's what he's
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  Speaker 3: saying about Israel. He's basically saying the countries we have
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  Speaker 3: the most in common with are the U.K. and Israel.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's a really pro-Israel statement. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, the thing about the Israel lobby and AIPAC,
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  Speaker 3: they do important work, and they matter, and it matters
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  Speaker 3: if they spend a lot in a race or not.
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  Speaker 3: But what matters in the end of the day is
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  Speaker 3: just what American people think. If American people want to
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  Speaker 3: turn against Israel, they'll turn against Israel, and AIPAC won't
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  Speaker 3: be able to stop it. And they've been pro-Israel for
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  Speaker 3: 40 years because they like Israel, and they think it's
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  Speaker 3: a good country. It's not because of AIPAC. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this focus on AIPAC has been So absurd in my mind.
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  Speaker 3: It reminds me a little bit of the focus on
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  Speaker 3: the NRA during the gun debate. The NRA was really
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  Speaker 3: powerful for a while. Does anyone talk about the NRA anymore?
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  Speaker 3: You know, they really kneecap themselves with lavish spending and scamming.
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  Speaker 3: and internal fighting, but the American people are still pro-gun
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  Speaker 3: because they're pro-gun. These lobbies, they don't matter that much.
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  Speaker 1: Although, I heard this rumor, I'm not sure if it's true,
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  Speaker 1: a guy that I really like and a guy that
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  Speaker 1: I'm endorsing very enthusiastically in that Senate race in Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rogers... going up against, of course, Abdul El-Sayed. And
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  Speaker 1: the rumor is that Rodgers turned down APAC money. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know if that's true?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's true. It might make sense
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  Speaker 3: he did it just to avoid a vulnerability since El-Sayed
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  Speaker 3: is so obsessed about it. But he looked and sounded good.
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  Speaker 3: He was there at the conference, too, and he has
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  Speaker 3: a real chance to win that race. And it would
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  Speaker 3: be kind of... ideologically, it would be hugely gratifying if
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  Speaker 3: Democrats did everything they did could to take the Senate,
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  Speaker 3: you know, got right to 50 and couldn't get over
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  Speaker 3: the top because El-Sayed loses to Rogers. That would just
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  Speaker 3: be great.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to lose.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think Rogers is going to beat El-Sayed in the
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  Speaker 1: end in Michigan. And, you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: races out there that Mike Johnson, I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: you're there for the morning session, but Matt Brooks, so
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  Speaker 1: they had a Zoom interview with Mike Johnson, and he
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  Speaker 1: mentioned all these big races. He mentioned LaPetrie and Driscoll.
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  Speaker 1: Out of Long Island for Congress, he mentioned my friend
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya. Out in Minnesota, the former sideline reporter from
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  Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, he mentioned some of these Senate races,
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  Speaker 1: including Rogers and El-Sayed. And listen, maybe it's because I
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  Speaker 1: want it to be this way. Maybe I'm willing it
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  Speaker 1: to be this way. But I'm starting to feel more
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  Speaker 1: confident as we get closer to November that the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: will retain both the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: I think you disagree, but that's where I'm going right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not there. I think we're probably going to
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  Speaker 3: lose the House. I think it's almost a guarantee, 80
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  Speaker 3: or 90 percent chance. But look, I love Mike Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: I hope he's right. I hope you're right. But I'm skeptical.
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  Speaker 1: You are skeptical. So, J.D., in the last poll I saw,
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  Speaker 1: because during my speech, I mentioned Marco Rubio's name. No context.
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  Speaker 2: Applause. They went nuts. they went nuts for Ted Cruz too.
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  Speaker 1: But really the, the one race I think that would
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  Speaker 1: be very intriguing would be if there was a primary
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  Speaker 1: between Vance and Rubio. And all I keep reading, which
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  Speaker 1: Lowry is all these polls, Vance beating Rubio easily.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're seeing those, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's vice president of the United States and, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure that's the way it would go if
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  Speaker 3: there were actually a race between the two of them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the abstract, if Trump wasn't tipping the
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  Speaker 3: scale one way or the other. But I don't think
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  Speaker 3: Rubio is going to run. I think he has a
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  Speaker 3: great job. He's one of the most important and powerful
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  Speaker 3: people in the world, more powerful than most heads of state,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in other countries. So why would he give
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  Speaker 3: that up soon, you know, within the next 12 months?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's more than that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's more than that. You're right about the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State position, but remember, he got crushed by
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, and I do believe he's got presidential aspirations,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think he could afford to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and get clobbered by Bantz. So you're right about
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State. You have to resign, and that's a
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  Speaker 1: huge position. But also, for some of these guys, Ron DeSantis, too,
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  Speaker 1: if you run again and you get clobbered again, this
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  Speaker 1: time by Bantz, It.
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  Speaker 2: May be all over at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, usually you don't get three bites of the
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  Speaker 3: apple anyway, but, you know, it matters how much you
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  Speaker 3: want it, you know, and these guys, they really want it.
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  Speaker 3: Running for president of the United States on the part
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  Speaker 3: of almost anyone is a crazy thing to do, right?
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  Speaker 3: It's so much effort and it's so hard and the
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  Speaker 3: odds are so much against you.
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  Speaker 2: They're just trying to kill you. They're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: kill you.
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  Speaker 3: But their ambition, you know, their ambition gets them there.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it does.
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  Speaker 2: J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance, though, if any person in the United States right
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  Speaker 3: now has the greatest chance to be president of the
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  Speaker 3: United States.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably not even that close. They start throwing
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  Speaker 1: in names like Glenn Youngkin and my guy from Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hawley.
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  Speaker 2: These people are going to beat J.D. Vance.
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  Speaker 1: J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Has at least a 50% chance of winning a Republican nomination.
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  Speaker 3: I would say more. And that gets you halfway there.
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  Speaker 3: And no Democrat has a 50% chance of winning the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic nomination. So, look, it doesn't mean he's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a race. Someone will challenge him
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  Speaker 3: for the nomination, and then I think it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be kind of tough for him in 28, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: It's a long way away.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one more, Rich.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching Peter Alexander from NBC, who's a nice guy,
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  Speaker 1: but he's, you know, he's liberal. He's with a capital L.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he named his first child His daughter Ava,
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  Speaker 1: just like I did. We had that in common years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke to Peter about that. Nice guy, but just lost.
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  Speaker 1: Complete liberal. And he was talking to my good buddy
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler, the congressman of Rockland County yesterday. And he
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: was trying to get Mike to hammer Trump because Trump
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: decided not to come here next Friday because he can't speak.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: He can't speak at the 9-11 memorial service. So he decided,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, to go to the Pentagon instead because they're
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  Speaker 1: going to allow him to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Trump denies that, says, no, no, no, stop it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not because of that.
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  Speaker 1: But the left media will be fixed on that, that
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  Speaker 1: President Trump turned on his own city because he's not
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  Speaker 1: speaking at the memorial. What are your thoughts on what's
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  Speaker 1: about to be, I think, a pretty big controversy? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know the truth of it. I think
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  Speaker 3: it'd be better if you were in New York, but
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: it's not as though he's going golfing. You know, there's
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: a horrible day in Washington, D.C., As well, but I
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: think it'd be better if you're up here.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: He should be here, right?
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, Pentagon people did die there, and he
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: is living in D.C. as a president out of the States,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: but he should be, right?
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that attack. Someone was posting something on
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Twitter the other day saying, I had never found this
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: angle before, and I watched some of it, and I
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: couldn't watch all of it because I thought maybe people
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: were going to start jumping, and I just can't take it.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: But God, just the sight of it, it was so
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: compelling and horrifying at the same time. You know, the
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: planes going into those buildings and the way they're burning afterwards,
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: it's just a gut punch every time you see it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Rich, it was great seeing you in Vegas and you
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: were amazing this morning as always. I love you, Rich.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: You're the best. Thank you, buddy. Rich Lowry right there,
• 16:20
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