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Sid & Friends In The Morning Celebrates The Birthday Of John Catsimatidis · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning. Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 2: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 3: 77 WABC.
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  Speaker 4: It's Labor Day.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you're listening, but listening in bed because
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to go to work today. Joining us
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  Speaker 1: also today in the studio, I'm Jake Novak, in for
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  Speaker 1: Sid in Friends in the Morning, along with Michael Cohen
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  Speaker 1: and John Katsimatidis. Joining us a little bit later, Anthony Cumia.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great new addition to our To our party.
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  Speaker 1: Our takeover crew.
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  Speaker 5: To our new morning show.
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  Speaker 1: Our takeover crew.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this isn't just news. This is fun. This
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  Speaker 3: is informative. And, yeah, this is a party.
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  Speaker 1: Speak of informative. First of all, I want to inform everyone,
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  Speaker 1: if you missed it at the top of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: it is John Kasmatidis' birthday today. We sort of sang
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  Speaker 1: happy birthday. We didn't know if we were going to
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  Speaker 1: get it. I needed my little tuning fork before I
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  Speaker 1: could sing on the air.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday. I'll do my loud singer voice.
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we really do want to keep the audience.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. So I'm not going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But now John sent us something, you know, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes here on this program and at this station, John,
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  Speaker 1: John Katsimatidis sends us a lot of stories throughout the
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  Speaker 1: day by text. He just sent us one during the
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  Speaker 1: break about how the FCC might crack down on broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: outlets that publish these fake polls that turn out to
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  Speaker 1: be partisan polls, not just the push polls that you
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  Speaker 1: usually see, but polls that are completely fake. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys know, I ran shows at CNN, CNBC,
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  Speaker 1: and Fox for 32 years. And one of my rules
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  Speaker 1: on any show I did was that we do not
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  Speaker 1: report just on a poll.
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  Speaker 4: A poll.
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  Speaker 1: Only if it's a major breaking change in a poll. Polling,
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  Speaker 1: 90% of what you see that's called political reporting, Michael Cohen,
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  Speaker 1: is just telling you what the poll numbers are. That's
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  Speaker 1: not political reporting.
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  Speaker 3: You can call it whatever you want. The way people
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  Speaker 3: describe a poll is it is a snapshot at a
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  Speaker 3: very specific moment in time. And of most people out there,
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  Speaker 3: Many remember me from my very famous meme of says
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  Speaker 3: who I was on CNN with Brianna Keillor. I'll never
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  Speaker 3: forget it. And she's telling me that Donald Trump is underwater.
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  Speaker 3: In the polls.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is 2016, correct?
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  Speaker 3: This is 2016.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember what... Was that during... After the nomination?
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  Speaker 4: Or.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, this was after the nomination. And I turned around
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  Speaker 3: and I said... Says who?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it became this international meme. A joke upon me.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 7: That.
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Because I actually read the poll.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to goad her... Into making a certain statement...
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  Speaker 3: So that I could really sort of... Level her on
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  Speaker 3: her own... On her own playing field. Ultimately... She got
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  Speaker 3: the last laugh at that moment. But you know what
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  Speaker 3: history ended up proving when Trump won the election? I
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  Speaker 3: was right. And what was I really trying to get
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  Speaker 3: out of her? That poll was predicated on 1,000 individuals.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Who get called up. First of all, I want to
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  Speaker 3: know who's the dope that answers. Who even has a
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  Speaker 3: telephone today? A house phone that you're calling. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have one. I don't know anyone that has a house
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  Speaker 3: phone anymore.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a house phone anymore. It still exists.
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  Speaker 5: But I haven't answered in over 10 years.
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  Speaker 1: Is that why you never got my gift? No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just kidding.
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  Speaker 3: So what ends up happening is I go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to explain that you have to have a
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  Speaker 3: landline and there's a thousand people. A thousand people do
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  Speaker 3: not speak for the 350 million Americans that are out
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  Speaker 3: there that have maybe a different ideology. On top of that,
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  Speaker 3: the poll companies... In order to make their money quick,
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  Speaker 3: what do they do? They have the same 1,000 people.
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  Speaker 3: They already know how Jake Novak, they already know how
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  Speaker 3: John Katsimatidis is going to answer.
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  Speaker 1: A tracking poll.
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  Speaker 3: And what ends up happening is you use it in
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  Speaker 3: order to justify the... The query at the beginning. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, will Jake Novak be president?
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And then they turn around and they ask questions specifically
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  Speaker 3: designed in order to get the answer that the poll
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  Speaker 3: is being paid for.
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  Speaker 1: John, I'd like to ask you because I'm asking everybody
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  Speaker 1: about this so far. I haven't been able to get
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  Speaker 1: an answer. As bad as the national polls are, the
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  Speaker 1: says who situation is, they're usually not that terribly far off.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and by the way, in this divided country,
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  Speaker 1: being only a few points off can be the difference
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  Speaker 1: between right and wrong. But these statewide polls, John, you
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  Speaker 1: would think that with a smaller sampling size, they would
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  Speaker 1: be more accurate. The statewide polls are sometimes off by 20,
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  Speaker 1: 30 points. I mean, is there anything like that in
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  Speaker 1: your business? Because I know you track everything that goes
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  Speaker 1: out of the supermarkets. I mean, honestly, how are they
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  Speaker 1: getting this so wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Why? Because it's all cell phone these days. Nobody has
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  Speaker 5: a home number. Very few people. When you had a
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  Speaker 5: home number, you knew if you're talking in Brooklyn, you
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  Speaker 5: lived in Brooklyn right now. It's like when you're born
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  Speaker 5: with a phone number, 90% of the people hold on
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  Speaker 5: to that phone number, even if you move to Timbuktu.
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  Speaker 5: You could be sitting on the beach in the Bahamas
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  Speaker 5: for the rest of your life, and you're answering the
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  Speaker 5: 9-1-7 number.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the funny thing about this. This is a major, major,
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  Speaker 1: you have no idea if you're just listening. You have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what a major crisis this is for the
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  Speaker 1: news media, the mainstream media especially. Because it shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: a crisis. It actually should be a good thing for democracy.
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  Speaker 1: If the polls suddenly become a non-factor because they're just
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  Speaker 1: so inaccurate and we can't track people, then that shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt democracy. That should help democracy. We'll actually have to
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  Speaker 1: focus on the issues and policy. Maybe we'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: But the mainstream media, and as I said, I ran
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  Speaker 1: shows on the media for 32 years. 90% of the
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  Speaker 1: people in the mainstream media have no idea how to
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  Speaker 1: cover an election if the polls aren't the main story.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know how to do it. and they are
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  Speaker 1: in a major, major panic over this. That's why, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, they sponsor the polls. You know how most
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  Speaker 1: of the polls are ABC or CBS in New York Times?
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  Speaker 3: Right, the Ipsos, right, Wall Street Journal poll.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they create their own material. To actually have to
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  Speaker 1: report on actual policy... and actually have to meet with
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  Speaker 1: and speak to voters, not just a small sample, is
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  Speaker 1: something that the media right now, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: is not equipped to do.
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  Speaker 3: Jake, if they had to go ahead and report on policy,
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  Speaker 3: that would mean that they would actually have to read
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  Speaker 3: the policy in order to understand, which is good luck,
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  Speaker 3: because right now the... The information highway moves so fast,
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  Speaker 3: it's like the Autobahn. And everybody's trying to keep up,
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  Speaker 3: especially the lamestream media. So what do they do? You're right.
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  Speaker 3: They go ahead, and instead of talking about policy, instead
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  Speaker 3: of reading it and breaking it down, no, no, that's
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  Speaker 3: not what they're going to do. They're going to turn around,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to talk about a poll that they paid for,
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  Speaker 3: which creates their own narrative, their own material. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's an incredible.
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  Speaker 5: They look around. It's like, have you seen that commercial
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  Speaker 5: or not commercial? A joke. You look around and say,
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  Speaker 5: what would you like the results to be?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of the things, though, that's very interesting
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  Speaker 1: is this is something I took. I took. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I worked as a pollster during the 1992 presidential.
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  Speaker 3: Job that you have not done.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I have not. Plumbing. I never fool around with electricity.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know how to rotate tires?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know how to do that. I know
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  Speaker 1: how to change a tire, but I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to rotate tires. But I worked as a pollster in
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the 1992 election. And I worked
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  Speaker 1: for an amazing outfit that didn't tell us what campaign
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  Speaker 1: had contracted us, which I thought was very ethical. I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea whether I was working for the Bush
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  Speaker 1: campaign in 92 or the Clinton. I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: There were a couple of things I learned. And back then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, most people had landlines. It was a whole
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  Speaker 1: different world. But I'll tell you something. This is something
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  Speaker 1: I also learned in some classes I took in college.
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  Speaker 1: The poll is all about how the question is worded.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever I do report on a poll, I make
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  Speaker 1: sure I go into the actual website to see what
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  Speaker 1: was the exact wording of the poll that they asked people.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the most things that you might think are very,
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  Speaker 1: very vanilla and very, very benign, I find can be
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  Speaker 1: misinterpreted by people. Do you know that the standard question
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  Speaker 1: they ask on presidential approval is worded this way? How
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  Speaker 1: do you think President X, whether it's Trump or is
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  Speaker 1: doing his job? And you might just think that's pretty vanilla.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty. But you know what? Some of us are like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. I like President Trump. But they might
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  Speaker 1: find a way to misunderstand that.
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  Speaker 3: It also doesn't mean a damn thing. I want people
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  Speaker 3: to understand this. It doesn't mean a damn thing.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to tell you why. Simply because you
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  Speaker 3: may like Trump. You may dislike Trump. It's not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: about him. It's who is on the other side. Are
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  Speaker 3: you prepared to hold your nose and vote for the
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  Speaker 3: person that maybe you like less simply because they're doing
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  Speaker 3: some things right? The other ones don't even have a
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  Speaker 3: platform other than the fact that I'm anti-Trump. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's the problem with what's going on right now. I
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  Speaker 3: don't see the Democrats having a message. Let's just talk
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  Speaker 3: about what, and many of us from here, WABC, are
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  Speaker 3: going to Dallas to this midterm convention. This, I wrote
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  Speaker 3: about it in my sub stack the other day. It
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  Speaker 3: blows me away. I have been saying for years now,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was Jamie Harrison and now Tim Martin, the
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  Speaker 3: head of the DNC, it's time to start thinking about smarter.
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  Speaker 3: These folks don't know how to think smart. All they
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  Speaker 3: know how to do is ask you for money. Every
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  Speaker 3: single day you get 10, 12, 20 different texts or
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  Speaker 3: emails asking you to send 5, 10, 20, 50, 100,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it may be. They're just nothing more than a
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  Speaker 3: money-raising machine, which they don't even do good things with.
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  Speaker 3: Why do I say that? Well, here's the craziest part.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans came up with this unique, novel idea. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to have something that's never been done before, a midterm convention.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to be enormous. And they're doing it
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  Speaker 3: in Dallas, Texas. And what do the Democrats do? Well,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to counter program. Anytime you hear the word counter,
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  Speaker 3: that means you're on defense.
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  Speaker 1: It means you won. It means your side won. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You set the agenda. By the way, let's shift to
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  Speaker 1: something else because we have John on the phone. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be with us for the show.
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  Speaker 3: Or at least till the kids start singing Happy Birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and when the kids start running in. I was
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  Speaker 1: very interested in getting your take on this as soon
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  Speaker 1: as it happened. And that is the number one national
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  Speaker 1: story today, which is this terrible situation in Miami at
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  Speaker 1: Miami-Dade Airport where the Amazon cargo plane. And thank God
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  Speaker 1: it was a cargo plane and not a passenger jet
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  Speaker 1: filled with 200 people.
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  Speaker 3: Except still five people died.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but still five people died. The first thing you
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  Speaker 1: told us in the text chain yesterday, John, was that
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  Speaker 1: it looked like this jet started its approach way too
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  Speaker 1: late and should have done another circle around. Is that
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  Speaker 1: still your gut feeling about this accident?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think there's more than that. I think there's
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  Speaker 5: much more than that. I don't know what it is yet,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm going to give you my opinion. My opinion,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, this company that works for Amazon is
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  Speaker 5: the second time in two years that had a jet
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  Speaker 5: land long. The question is, it's a secondary airline that
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  Speaker 5: does work for Amazon. And do we have... Remember, we've
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  Speaker 5: had this discussion before. Do we have more woke pilots
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  Speaker 5: that got the job for one reason or another, but
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  Speaker 5: they shouldn't be pilots. They should be doing something else.
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  Speaker 1: The 737 MAX jet crashes were blamed on that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like to see the resume of these pilots
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  Speaker 5: and their experience in flying and their history, number one. Now, look,
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  Speaker 5: I've flown into, you know, I had 4,000 hours when
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  Speaker 5: I quit. When I quit flying jets. And I've flown
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  Speaker 5: into Miami Airport a hundred times. Those runways are beautiful runways.
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  Speaker 5: It's very, very hard to do anything wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're long.
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  Speaker 5: And a 60, it was a 767 has been a
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  Speaker 5: relatively very safe airplane. And the fact is, I don't
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  Speaker 5: think it's the airplane's fault. They have thrust reverses. They
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  Speaker 5: have brakes. And they haven't told us yet. Jake, you
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  Speaker 5: worked since 5 o'clock on the news. Have they told
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  Speaker 5: us yet who died? Was it the pilots?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: No, they haven't been able to send us out.
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  Speaker 3: They're also not released. The two pilots, I believe, survived.
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  Speaker 3: Five additional people were killed and five injured. They're not
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  Speaker 3: releasing yet the names of the deceased out of respect
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  Speaker 3: for the families.
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  Speaker 1: And whether they died on the ground or whether they
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  Speaker 1: were part of the packing crew in the jet.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting as well. I just really quickly want to
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  Speaker 1: piggyback just off of something that John said about the
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  Speaker 1: woke pilots. It's not just about woke pilots. It has
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  Speaker 1: been a known fact that in a number of foreign countries,
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  Speaker 1: especially third world countries, there's a massive amount of nepotism
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  Speaker 1: in the nationalized airlines. And what they usually try to
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  Speaker 1: do with these airlines is, okay, we got the son
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  Speaker 1: of the cousin of some ruling guy, make him the co-pilot.
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  Speaker 1: But for God's sakes, please have a more experienced, skilled
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  Speaker 1: guy as the main pilot. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 1: the situation here, but you remember there were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Malaysia jet crash that still hasn't been solved. There's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of discussion about that because in some
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  Speaker 1: of these third world countries, Being a jet pilot, which
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  Speaker 1: is a very prestigious position, especially in these kinds of countries,
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  Speaker 1: they do have a nepotism issue in addition to what
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  Speaker 1: we might have in these Western countries where we do
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  Speaker 1: these woke things with DEI and stuff like that. It's
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  Speaker 1: really scary.
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  Speaker 3: Well, over there they have it in the Air Force
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  Speaker 3: and being a pilot here, you basically have it in banking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in banking and I guess sometimes in referees after
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  Speaker 1: what happened. We've got to talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we definitely will. By the way, that was some game.
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  Speaker 4: Incredible.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not a Michigan fan. Let me be
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  Speaker 3: very clear about that.
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  Speaker 1: Neither am I.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 3: But they deserve it. They had the time. They had
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  Speaker 3: that play. What an incredible Hail Mary. John, did you
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  Speaker 3: see that? Because that, I think, is the number one
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  Speaker 3: story of the day trending right now.
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  Speaker 5: No, I didn't see it. I was busy with the grandkids, and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I only get them just so upping on.
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  Speaker 5: There's periods of times where I don't see them for
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  Speaker 5: seven days.
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  Speaker 3: Well, for those who aren't aware what was going on,
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  Speaker 3: University of Michigan was playing Western Michigan University. There was
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  Speaker 3: a play that went into the.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go. So what I have here is that
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  Speaker 1: this is this controversial ending.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to get a job as a sports announcer.
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  Speaker 1: This is what happened in the game, John, for everyone
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  Speaker 1: else listening. This is the most controversial ending to a
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  Speaker 1: football game I can ever remember, and there have been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them. There were just a few seconds
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  Speaker 1: left in the game. Michigan, it seemed like this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be the last play, but then something happened.
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  Speaker 1: But this was supposed to be the last play of
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  Speaker 1: the game. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 9: Otherwise that's also toward the end.
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  Speaker 1: Well time didn't expire they ended up looking at that
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  Speaker 1: play and they said that a western michigan player i
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  Speaker 1: didn't see it i don't know if anybody else did
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  Speaker 1: touch the ball as it went out about so they
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  Speaker 1: put another second on the clock here's what happened when
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  Speaker 1: i got.
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  Speaker 3: A second a tenth of the sentence is.
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  Speaker 1: That this is what happened they got another chance here
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  Speaker 1: in ann arbor michigan catches a break Well, it's a miracle,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also a mess. Michigan winning that game 13-12.
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  Speaker 1: A number of referees, Michael Cohen and John, said they
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  Speaker 1: looked at the replay and they think that giving Michigan
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  Speaker 1: an extra tenth of a second was total garbage. I'm
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  Speaker 1: quoting them directly. There's going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: protests about this, but I have news for you Western
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Michigan fans. Don't expect the NCAA to overturn They're not
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: going to overturn that game for Western Michigan. Maybe for
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame and maybe for UCLA. Or maybe for.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Alabama, but they're certainly not doing it for Western Michigan University.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: But I have to say something, and this is something
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I think we can all comment on whether you're a
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: huge sports fan or not. This professionalization of college sports
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: is doing exactly what I said would happen when they
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: ruled that you could pay the college players. Do I
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: think it's fair to pay these college players who put
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: their bodies on the line? And absolutely, I think it's fair.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: But what I also said was, Eventually, it will take
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: away that illusion that we had that these were real
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: students playing. And here you have this controversy now. But
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: there's money on the line in these games now, much
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: more than just the old days. Some of these players
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: may not get as much money in their pockets anymore
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: when this happens. All right, we got to take a break.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little bit more about that
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: and more. A lot of breaking news this morning. I'm
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: going to check on oil and gas prices for you
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: because we did have the resumption of hostilities between Iran
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and the United States. Something very different happened. This weekend
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and the way the U.S. strategy changed, I'll tell you
• 17:40
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• 17:42
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• 17:46
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• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Joe Nolan is out this morning, but let me get
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you updated on the traffic situation from the Apple Bank
• 18:23
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• 18:26
  Speaker 1: We don't really have any delays right now, although most
• 18:29
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• 18:31
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• 18:34
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• 18:38
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• 18:41
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• 18:43
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• 18:45
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• 18:48
  Speaker 1: already kicked off about 47 minutes ago, and the big
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: West Indian American Day Parade, which begins at 11 a.m.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: A number of street closures, Eastern Parkway, a lot of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Eastern Parkway is going to be closed, but specifically Ralph
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Avenue and Plaza Street West, that's going to be a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: big part of it. Flatbush Avenue is going to be
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: closed between Grand Army Plaza and Empire Boulevard, Ocean Avenue.
• 19:08
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• 19:12
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• 19:15
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• 19:18
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• 20:07
  Speaker 1: A little bit of Motown. And I think this is
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: for Labor Day, right? Working my way. Well, is it
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: an oxymoron that most people don't work on Labor Day?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. Joining us right now is a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: person I consider to be my partner now here at WBC,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: former Governor David Patterson. By the way, if you don't know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: David Patterson and I do an amazing show every Saturday
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: at 3 p.m. called The Left Versus the Right. I
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• 20:34
  Speaker 1: have a Friendly and reasonable political discussion that's also fun
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: every weekend, but we also get into a lot of things.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Governor Patterson, are you putting on your headdress and other
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: outfit for the West Indian Day Parade today?
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: No, because of my concern for my personal safety, I'm
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: not going to do that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't think you were going to do that. Also,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: speaking of safety, they're going to cut short the parade
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: this year and end it at 5.30 p.m. let's let's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: hope that that stops some of the violence we've seen
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: at that parade, usually in the later hours. But if
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you've never been to it and you're listening here and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you're living in the New York area, if you've never
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: been to it, I kind of recommend it. It is
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: an incredible spectacle. It's something that you don't otherwise see
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: here in this country. It's a lot like the carnival
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: celebrations you see in other countries. It's worth seeing. But again,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: if you do take the subway, I mean, do not drive,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: especially you, Governor Patterson.
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: You know, I'm not going to do that either. But
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: I was really shocked. One of the news stations was
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: interviewing people about Juve and also inevitably West Indian Day Parade.
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: And this woman says, oh, they have all these barriers up.
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: The barriers are going to make it more difficult for
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: people to move around and that kind of thing. Well,
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: I guess she didn't notice that there were six people
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: who were killed during the West Indian Day parade last year.
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: And myself, my family is West Indian. My grandfather was
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: from Grenada. And it used to be really the nicest,
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: maybe even of all the parades, because it wasn't that
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: big compared to others. And at the same time, the
• 22:17
  Speaker 11: people were extremely nice. catering to the marchers and that
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: kind of thing. And so hopefully, because of the efforts
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: of the New York City Police Department today, there won't
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: be the type of violence and, you know, just incidents
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: that are going to sully the reputation of the parade itself.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: So, Governor, do me a favor. For those people who
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: aren't New Yorkers that are listening right now, What even
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: prompted the violence? I mean, the Indian Day Parade is
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: so much fun. There's dancing. There's great music. They have
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the food vendors and the carts that are symbolic of
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: the West Indies. I mean, what could possibly cause violence
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: or chaos?
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: Well, the first candidate, I would say, Michael, is alcohol.
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: And most of the incidents that did occur last year
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: occurred toward the end of the parade. That's one of
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: the reasons why it was such a good idea or
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: it was a good idea, but one that could have
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: been thought of before to end the parade before sundown
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: and before the official end of the parade.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: OK.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And I think there were some gangs that may have
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: taken advantage of the situation, all those people out in
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the streets as well. But, you know, this is an
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: interesting other discussion. We've been talking with John Katsimatidis about
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the immigrant experience in New York.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: By the way, David, it's John's birthday today. Just to
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: let everybody know, it's not what we call a milestone birthday,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: but I guess every birthday is a milestone these days.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: It's an old man's birthday.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, old man, my eye.
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: Make fun of John, but then again, I'm just a
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: couple of years behind him.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Um, but you know, John was talking about the immigrant
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: experience in New York and something that people, and this
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: is something that I learned when I moved to New York, uh,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: around high school time in 1981, uh, I moved on
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to an incredibly, into an incredibly elected eclectic neighborhood, my
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: block and far Rockaway Queens. We had Jews, we had Irish,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: we had Italians. One of my neighbors was a Haitian family,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the Montees. I remember them very well. Um, And it
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: was great to learn from that experience the different sub
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: communities within the black community in New York. Now, while
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: my father had he was a position, he was a clergyman,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: he was a rabbi, but he also taught at City
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: College when we lived here in New York. And he
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: came home and told me during those first few semesters
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: about how different some of the West Indian students were
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: from all the other different students. They were so much
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: more serious about study than even some of the native
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: New Yorkers who were there. He couldn't get over that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and how very much they were not only good students,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: but used to defend decorum in the class. My father
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: was once talking about Lenin, you know, the Soviet leader Lenin.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And some student in the class said, I didn't know
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: John Lennon was a communist. And it was the West
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Indian student who said, the professor is talking about V.I. Lennon.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: So it was just a funny story.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: By the way, he was.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Actually, no, there's a book out that says that John Lennon,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: towards the end of his life, became a conservative. We
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: can have another discussion about that at another time. But
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: David Patterson, tell us a little bit about that, about
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: how there's a whole culture of Jamaican, Haitian, other West
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Indian immigrants to New York that is a little bit
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: different from some of the other immigrant experiences.
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: Well, more of the Jamaicans and the groups from the
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: other parts of the West Indies came to New York first.
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: And the reason that they did is that they knew
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: about what was going on there. In other words, the
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: communication of those who had preceded them, let them know, hey,
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: this is a great place to live. You can get
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: an education here. You could get a decent job. You
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: could move your whole family here and expand your family. Now,
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: what inevitably happened at some points is there was some
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: kind of internal strife in that some of the– African-based
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: people who came here to the United States didn't think
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: they were getting the opportunities and didn't think that, uh,
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: sort of felt that the Haitian community was looking.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Down on them.
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: And I think that that was inadvertent. I think whenever, uh,
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: any group of people attain some kind of success, they're
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: going to flaunt it a little bit, but that created
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: internally in the community, a little bit of, uh, antagonism.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It's, uh, Listen, it's one of the internal things. It's interesting.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It's the internal battles that are often much nastier than
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the extramural battle.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Well, just take a look at the movie The Gangs
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: of New York. I mean, if that doesn't symbolize exactly
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: what you're talking about, when one person does well, well,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: then there has to be somebody that wants to take
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: that individual's place. And instead of wanting to achieve similar,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: they don't want to achieve it. They want to take it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you see the movie The Life
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of Brian, the Monty Python movie, It's so well encapsulated.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: They say, well, we hate the Romans. It takes place
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: during the time of Jesus. We hate the Romans, but
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the people that we really hate are the Judean people's front. Like,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: we're the people's front of Judea. That's who we don't like.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the internal battles within communities that are
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the nastiest, that are the absolute nastiest. We've seen that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: in the Republican Party. Initially, the very nasty pushback on
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: all the Trump people. Just anyone Trump related.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: We're seeing it in the Democratic Party too now with
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: your Democratic Socialists, your Communists that are sitting there and
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: hijacking the party as well. Good point, by the way,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Jake Novak. And it's not even 7 a.m.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Well, for me, I've been up early. By the way,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I've got one comment.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: My one comment is, and I say it every year,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: the Labor Day parade is not on Labor Day. All
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: the unions, they don't want to ruin their weekend.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: That just goes to show, boy, for those of you
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: who know about some of these parades, it's a lot
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of work. When you have to show, whether it's the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rican Day Parade, the St. Patrick's Day Parade, for
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: those who are involved in the parade, as much as
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you enjoy it, it's a lot of work.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: It's a lot of work. Oh, wow. I mean, I
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: thought Labor Day had to do with women giving birth.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Am I in the wrong holiday?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: That's for the birthright tourism that we were talking about.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I knew I was making a mistake.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: That's a different story. But I actually have to ask
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you another question now, David Patterson, because we got this
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: story over the weekend. about the, well, we're going to
• 28:48
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• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the new poll that
• 28:53
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• 28:55
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  Speaker 12: There is no wall street today because it's Labor Day,
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• 29:57
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• 30:12
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• 30:13
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• 30:17
  Speaker 12: and Treasury yields are adding to pressure on stocks, too.
• 30:20
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• 30:23
  Speaker 12: that there's very many of them, but they do include
• 30:25
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• 30:29
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• 30:34
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• 30:41
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• 30:43
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• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the West Indian Parade. Already the Javert celebration has started.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: A number of street closures, Eastern Parkway, Flatbush Avenue, a
• 31:48
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• 31:50
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• 31:51
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• 31:54
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• 31:57
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• 32:00
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• 32:02
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• 32:05
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• 32:08
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• 33:42
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• 33:53
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  Speaker 5: possibly led by the Brits. And that's what the James
• 34:04
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• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Without a very, very strong Washington, guess what? Europe is
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: not worth two cents Chinese money. Russia, China, Iran would
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: go in there one way or another, either invade them
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: with people. In other words, how many people invaded from
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: the Middle East have invaded the European community? Zillions. And
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: you know what the difference, too, is? The Germans, the French,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: they're no longer Vero. They only have one and a
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: half kids per family. And the people invading them from
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: the Middle East are having 14. So at what point?
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: They're either going to outvote them and take over Europe.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Or they're going to do it by civil war or something.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Well, that's called actually population control over the period of
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: time when they outpopulate you. Ultimately, what happens? Well, something
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: that we're seeing even here taking place in America where
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: communities of a specific group, then they start taking over
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: and then they put in their politician and then it
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: happens into the community next to them and next to them.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Next thing you know, the entire state becomes under the
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: same sort of ideology and the same concept, and then
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: ultimately they outpopulate you as a country.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Every country that has a welfare program, the group of
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: people that is mostly on welfare also always has the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: highest birth rate. That's the way it works. It's not
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: hard to figure this out. If you pay people to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: live and not work and you give them more money
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: for every child that they have, You are encouraging the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: lowest economic strata to have more children. It's as simple
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: as that. And you discourage people at the higher economic
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: stratas or people who are struggling in the middle class
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: from having any more children because they have to assume
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: that cost. It's a very simple, it's also quite, it's
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: almost suicidal. As the great Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: winning economist said, you can have open borders or you
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: can have a welfare state, but you can't have both.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: And I know you know that's true, John.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Yep, yep. And let me tell you something. The American
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: people have to realize that we are constantly under attack,
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: and they're trying to change our way of life. Now,
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: go back to my Hunter Biden interview.
• 36:40
  Speaker 11: And, you know, and.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I said to him, I don't know if, because they
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: edited it down a little bit, if it made it,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: but I said, the Democratic, some of the Democratic senators,
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: are saying, why are we attacking those boats coming off
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: of Venezuela full of trucks? And he says, we're doing
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: the right thing. I believe he said that.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, interesting.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Listen, that's one of the interesting dichotomies of this war
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: with Iran. You're hearing the same old tropes that you
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: hear every time the United States gets involved with an
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: enemy overseas. The same old thing. Why are we sending
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: boys over there and girls over there to fight when
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: we have so many things here on our own borders? Well,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Here you're having, at the same time that we're involved
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: with Iran, we are protecting our own borders with these
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: attacks on these drug boats. We have extradited Nicolás Maduro
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: from Venezuela. We have something now that people are calling
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the Donro Doctrine as a play on words from the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Monroe Doctrine. You know, we just talked about it with
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the Canada thing. If you're going to have China and
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you're going to have some of these drug lords from China,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: or if you're going to have Qatar and Iran... manipulating
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: issues here on our side of the of the world,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: on our hemisphere. And Iran's been involved with Venezuela for
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a very long time. One of the first people that
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Hugo Chavez, when he became president of Venezuela, met with
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who at the time was president of Iran.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: What their deals together, you know, for any decent purpose,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: nobody knows was only for bad stuff. Look, this is
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: we have the right to protect this. And to me,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: this is very interesting that at the same time we're
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: taking using our military power to protect our own borders
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: for the first time since, I don't know, the Spanish-American War,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: or at least the home front against the Japanese during
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: World War II. And at the same time, we're also
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: still looking overseas. It's a first time in history, I think,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: for both of those things to happen at once.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you, we've got to do something. The
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: Europeans have to realize, without a strong Washington, there is
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: no Europe.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: What has your friend from Spain been talking about? Because
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: The situation in Souta has not ended. We don't have 60,000
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: men from Morocco rushing the border. in a few hours
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: like we had a couple of weeks ago. But, you know,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: there's been.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: If you have any open time in the 9 o'clock
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: hour or something, we could have a friend from Spain
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: call in and give you an up-to-minute report.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Right, because what's been going on there is that the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: international news media has descended on Souta, trying to depict
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the people there as a bunch of racists. You know,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: it's the same old story. I mean, you had 60,000 men,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: mostly men from Morocco, of military age, is something that
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: John points out all the time, Rush their border in
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a single day. It's racist to say you want to
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: close the border, at least for now, until we figure
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: out what the heck's going on. It's racist to say
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I don't want these people sitting in my front lawn
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and doing God knows what, going to the bathroom. and
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: who knows i mean that's racist i mean it's it's
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: just so ludicrous you.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Know what's more ludicrous than that jake nobody's talking about
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: that right now at all when was the last time
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: that you saw the lame stream or uh the cable
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: news stations talking about what happened there in Suta. The
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: answer is you haven't.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: And why?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: I'm curious myself. Which I would ask John's friend from Spain.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: What happened to those individuals that stormed the beaches? Where
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: are they now? Do we have any idea? Or are
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: we just going to sweep it under the rug and
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: pretend that it didn't happen? Did they all go back
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: to their homeland? Or are they now scattered through Europe? Or,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: by the way, are they still in Spain? Here's the
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: crazy thing. Nobody knows the answer to it. It's one
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: of those questions that I throw out there. which i
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: would like to i would like an answer.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I mean these are basic media failures here this is
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a basic these are basic follow-up questions that aren't being
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: reported on it's amazing the ball that's being dropped now
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: what i have seen in the last few days in
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: suta is some of these government-owned news media tv stations
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: in europe going to suta trying to promote this narrative
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: that everyone there is a bunch of racists and to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the credit of the people in suta without causing any
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: violence they haven't hit or pushed or knocked down any
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: of these reporters But when they try to do what
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: we call in the business a live stand-up, when they're
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: standing there with their microphone on the scene, they're making
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of noise, and I'm not allowing them to
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: report these misrepresentations. But you point out something else, Michael Cohen,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: is that forget about the misrepresentations. They're not even following
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: up on the story at all. It's like they're wondering
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: why social media is beating them in the old media business.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: You show these videos that were on social media, and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: then you don't do any follow-up.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: You're talking about for two days, 48 hours, all you
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: saw was this invasion of Souta. That took place— by the way,
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: people don't even realize how fast time flies. July 31
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: of 2026 is when it happened. We're talking about now, what,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: six weeks ago? 80,000 people allegedly crossed into the country.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Where are they now?
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're going to try to get answers to that.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Let's take a break right now. When we come back,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: we're going to have General Blaine Holt join us. We
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: have a lot of topics to talk to him about
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: the situation with Iran and what looks like a new
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: standard operating procedure for us in that war going after
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Iranian oil.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Go ahead. General Holt is also an expert in airplanes.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And I was going to mention, we
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: want to ask him about this.
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: He'll give you his opinion on what he thinks happened
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: to the Boeing 767.
• 42:04
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: And I want to get his thought about how talks
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: might be restarting. Triple talks, U.S. mediated talks between Russia
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: and Ukraine. A lot to talk about with Blaine Holt.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: So stay tuned for that. It's Sit and Friends in
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the morning with the Takeover crew. We'll be right back.
• 42:42
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• 42:48
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• 42:50
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• 42:53
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• 42:55
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• 42:57
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• 42:59
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• 43:03
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• 43:07
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• 43:19
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• 43:20
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• 43:25
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• 43:31
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• 44:12
  Speaker 1: New York. It's Sit and Friends in the morning with
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the Takeover crew as Sid's taking Labor Day off. I'm
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Jake Novak with Michael Cohen and owner-operator John Casamatiti. He's
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: on the line with us right now with a lot
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: of stories he is uniquely qualified to talk about. It's
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: General Blaine Holden. Let's get you started, General, first with
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: the biggest story in America right now, which is this
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: overshoot of the runway by the Amazon cargo jet. Obviously,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: you know, well, let's do all the disclaimers. We have
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: to get the full investigation, etc.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: etc.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: but Tell us your initial reaction to this story. Five
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: people have died. What have you seen that stands out
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: to you?
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Well, we know being a cargo jet, it was probably
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: laden with a whole lot of weight. That's one factor
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: that they're probably going to be looking at at the NTSB.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: But then typically going into that hub in Miami, you
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: usually have tropical rain, some winds, that type of stuff.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: So pilots can't be complacent about that long runway where
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: they think, oh, it's a very, very long runway. I
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: think it's up to 10,000 feet. I don't have anything
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: to worry about. When you're coming across that threshold, You
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: can't hold that power up. You can't just try to
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: pull the yoke back without being too technical to grease
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: on a landing if you let too much runway get
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: behind you. And if you see that there's too much
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: runway getting behind you, you've got to jack those throttles
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: right up and get out of there and go try again.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: So I think what we're invariably going to find out
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: is we've got a pilot miscalculation about their landing situation. And,
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: you know, flying is a horribly unforgiving business, as John knows.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: And if a moment of complacency where you think you've
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: done it a million times can can get you really badly.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: General hope for the uninitiated listening. You know, we're in
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: an era of amazing technology, AI on that stuff. I mean,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to be asking, weren't
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: there bells and whistles and buzzers going off in the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: cockpit saying you need to try this again? Or is
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: that is that not a real realistic question?
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: So, so when you're in that landing round out, you
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: can be in the envelope where no bell or no
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: whistles going to go off and tell you you're a knucklehead. Um,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: you can be in the envelope and still take, uh,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: because what the jet can't do is tell you how
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: much runway is remaining. Uh, only your Mark one eyeball
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: can tell you that. And, and, and again, so what
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: the pilot should have realized as, uh, as he was
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: floating down that runway is he, he should have just
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: recognized this is a bad situation and, Thrown up the throttle,
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: sucked up the embarrassment and got underway. I've gone around
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: a couple of times in my life. And I'm glad
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: that I made that decision every single time.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting, General, because in my 60 years
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: of being on this earth and flying as often as
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: I do, it's only happened to me once that we
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: were landing and then all of a sudden they hit
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: the throttle and then they pulled straight back up, I guess,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: because they realized that they had waited too long.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: So.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: I'm curious as to why. Okay, fine. It's embarrassing. I
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: get it. Got to circle back around. It's like an additional, what,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: about 15 minutes, give or take. Who cares?
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we talk about this. Michael, and human factors
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: when we're doing academics for flying all the time, because
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: what pilots do in flight school is we go through
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: all these accidents. We go through reams of accidents where
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: there was human factors on board, what we call crew
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: resource management. How is the crew interacting? Co-pilot or the
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: first officer had a big job here, too. The first
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: officer is empowered to tell that captain to go around
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: any time. And so what we're going to find out
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: is cockpit breakdown, communications issues, inattention to detail, complacency. Those
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: are all the factors that the NTSB is looking for.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: And if you're on an airliner and the pilot goes around,
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: when you come back and land, you go tell him,
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: thanks for that. I appreciate your getting on that.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Totally agree. Totally agree.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: John, your thoughts?
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Well, my thoughts is... Something is wrong. That's a very,
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: very long runway, and it's the second time that it
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: happened to that airline overshooting a runway. In general, I
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: don't know if you remember, that particular airline that works
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: for Amazon did it two years ago, too.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: I think it's 21-something, the name of the group that
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: runs it.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought they were connected to Atlas as well.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: So I haven't kept up with the mergers and acquisitions,
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: but I think John's on the right tack here. So
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: if John were the NTSB investigator, I think what I
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: hear him saying is at the table, he would say,
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: I want to see this operator's training program. I want
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: to see how much time they're setting these situations up
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: in the simulator before these guys get out on the
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: line and go fly. I want to know about crew fatigue.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: I want to know about how long was the duty
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: day for these guys. And that's what you absolutely have
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: to do. When you investigate these things, you have to
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: go to the root cause wherever it takes you. And
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: then you modify the program. You don't do it the
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: same way you did it the last time.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: We're talking to general Blaine Holt and general John brought
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: this up in the last hour or earlier this hour.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: And I have to ask you because Um, it's one
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: of those things that I'm worried might get covered up. Uh,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: just your gut reaction. If it turns out that these
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: pilots were inexperienced, if it turns out that there's some
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: questions about why they were hired or how they were hired,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: how much confidence do you have that the general public
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: will even get a whiff of that?
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: Um, in, in this case, FAA with this Department of Transportation,
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: I think you've got a good chance of that. I'm
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: still very skeptical, as John knows, of things happening at
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: the DOT, but I'm hopeful that we will. And that's
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: just half of it. The other half of it is
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: I want to see heads on pikes. I want to
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: know who was fired. I want to know what operating
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: certificate was pulled from the company. Until you put consequences
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: down on these types of practices for having diversity over
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: meritocracy and flying, then this will continue.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: You know, if you can put someone in jail, and
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: I think you should, who is driving drunk, who ends
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: up killing someone or maiming someone, the idea that you
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: could If a human is responsible for this accident or
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: humans responsible for this accident, if humans don't go to
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: jail over this, if they are responsible, it would really
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: be a tragedy. Let's talk about something that's potentially more optimistic, potentially,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: and that is our weekend news coming out of Russia
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: and Ukraine. You had Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. meeting
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: on Saturday with Vladimir Putin, warmly received, by the way.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, Putin gets out of up out of his
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: chair and jumps to greet them. And he's the you know,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: he's the guy in charge there. And then they go
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: to Ukraine yesterday to speak with Zelensky. And Witkow says
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: some new ideas were exchanged. And more importantly, he says
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: that within the next day or so, he says right away,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: we're going to hear about U.S. mediated talks between Russia
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: and Ukraine. Do we have the right general hold to
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: be a little more optimistic this morning about this?
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: I think we do with some trepidation. The thing that
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: we all have to realize, and I thought Jared Kushner
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: said it fairly well at his press conference yesterday, there's
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: no guaranteed outcomes here. The United States is the only
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: participant that's actually engaged in active diplomacy with the parties.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: There's no help coming from Europe. And they're working in
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: a situation where we've already got millions dead and a
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: war of attrition happening. where the glimmer of hope is
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: that both heads of state have very good reasons to
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: want to make the conflict stop. You've got Russia wants
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: back into the world economy and the Duma elections are
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: coming up. And you've got a pretty hostile group right
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: now around Putin that wants to see this war escalate.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: And then you've got on the other side President Zelensky
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: that needs to have something to show respect. To get
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: this thing off ramp because the Ukrainian people have they've
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: absolutely had enough of the killing fields. So so Wyckoff
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: and Kushner, they may not bring home the goods this week,
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: but but that's not a slight on them. This is
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: probably going to be diplomatic brain surgery at its highest
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: level of complication for the next decade.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: Days to come.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: But the fact is, despite everything I just talked about,
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: they are talking and that is essential. And so I
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: am hoping to hear about U.S. mediated talks because I
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: think that is our offering.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: You know, General, yesterday on my show, when you know,
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: you know, I had Steve Witkoff on with me. And
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: that's one of the things that he said. Why are
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: people attacking us for speaking? He goes, I have now
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: met with Vladimir Putin eight or nine times. He goes,
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: He warmly embraces me when I am there. He goes,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: if we do not engage in conversation, there's only one
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: definitive outcome, and that is nothing will happen. So the
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: fact that the United States is speaking to Russia, and
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: the fact that afterwards, he goes, we're going straight to
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: Ukraine to talk to Zelensky, these are all positive movements,
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: and the administration should be credited for it.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: No, they're getting hammered. And I thought Kushner put a
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: really good point on it, which is he got pinned on, well,
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: why are we doing talking to the Russians? And it's like,
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: how do you get the war done otherwise? And what
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: he said was, we're friends with the Japanese now. People
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: don't stay enemies forever. There's many good reasons to be
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: engaged with the Russians. They're the number two.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: Look at me and Donald Trump.
• 53:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, General Holt.
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: General Holt, we had to take a break.
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: This is a great tactical example.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: We had to take a break, but I was hoping
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you could stay on the line until after the break
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: because I need to ask you about what looks like
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: a new standard operating procedure with CENTCOM going after Iranian
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: oil tankers. So let's take a break. Let's sit in
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Friends in the morning. We're on with General Blaine Holt.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: We're going to get to the Iran situation and your
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: gas prices in just a moment.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: Well, now we have John Solomon coming on. And me
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: and John worked together 40 years ago when we started
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: the Hale newspaper. And, well, the president admires him and
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: has put up the work at the White House. John Solomon,
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: you always have breaking news for us. And tell us
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: what you're telling the president.
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, today, a lot of breaking news in the
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: Middle East. First, Iran is trying to create an exclusion
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: maritime zone outside the Strait of Hormuz. trying to put
• 54:58
  Speaker 7: pressure on the united states to drop its naval blockade
• 55:00
  Speaker 7: this is a good time for president trump it sounds
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: threatening but at the end of the day it shows
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: that iran is under such an economic pressure it's going
• 55:07
  Speaker 7: to try to do something it probably doesn't have the
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: military capability to do it has so few ships that
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: it probably wouldn't be able to enforce such an exclusion
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: zone so a lot of people in the trump administration
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: reading this as a desperate plea by iran meanwhile in
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: the mid-east as well Today, Israel launched a bunch of
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: attacks against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. First time we've seen
• 55:27
  Speaker 7: a lot of action in Lebanon in several weeks. There's
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: been sort of a general truce there, keeping a close
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: eye on that. Closer to home, the Maha movement and
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: the Maha chiefs inside the Trump administration, they're taking on
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: a major health crisis, one we don't talk about enough.
• 55:45
  Speaker 7: Extraordinary effects of screen addiction. Our children are addicted to
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: their video games, to their tablets, to their phones. And
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: it's beginning to create some enormous medical issues, including nearsightedness
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: at a much younger age, sedentary lifestyle and diabetes and
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: being overweight. Last week, the Trump administration put together a
• 56:05
  Speaker 7: massive plan to force parents or to work with parents
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: to get their children more healthy, get them off the screens.
• 56:13
  Speaker 7: get him into real life, they've released a guide, they've
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: got a storybook for children, encouraging them to do things
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: other than spend time on their screens. A major health initiative,
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: all the major health figures in the Trump administration, part
• 56:25
  Speaker 7: of this effort, the Surgeon General, Bobby Kennedy at HHS, Dr.
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: Bhattacharya at NIH, a full assault on what's become a
• 56:33
  Speaker 7: really significant health syndrome in America today. Those are some
• 56:37
  Speaker 7: of the headlines we're tracking today at Just the News, John.
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you. And I understand that right now happening
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: in the last hour or so, Zelensky is meeting with
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: Witkoff and meeting with what's going on. What do you hear?
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: Well, the second day of meetings in Ukraine after the
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: American delegation met with Vladimir Putin and Russian leaders over
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: the weekend, just continuing to try to keep the ceasefire
• 57:06
  Speaker 7: that started 24, 48 hours ago going, try to build
• 57:09
  Speaker 7: momentum towards a peace deal. Peace has been very elusive,
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: but both sides, I think, are wary of war. The
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: drone warfare has extended an extraordinary amount of pain on
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: both sides of the equation. Russia has another problem, which
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: may put it a little closer towards wanting to negotiate.
• 57:25
  Speaker 7: It isn't getting its cheap Iran oil anymore, now that
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: the Iran straits are closed, or the administrative removes its clothes.
• 57:32
  Speaker 7: And it's also running out of some of its drones,
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: because Iran used to be the maker of its cheap drones.
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: So Russia may have a little bit more incentive than
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: it has in the last three, four years to want
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: to negotiate. We'll see if this round of negotiations will
• 57:46
  Speaker 7: be different from the prior ones, which ended with.
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: Sort of a stalemate.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: John Solomon, it's Jake Novak. John, you were talking about
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: the Maha thing and the screen addiction. I am noticing
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: a number of school districts around the country, some of
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: them are public schools, and then, of course, I'm talking
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: about some private schools as well, that have now passed edicts,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: not just to keep your phones, you have to lock
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: up your phones to come to school, but they are
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: not going to use screens anymore. in the classroom anymore
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: than a move away from powerpoint and all this other
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff and basically say we understand you're on
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: screens other times of the day but in school you're
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: going to be with actual books in the good old-fashioned
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: blackboard is that something that the maha people are pushing
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: as well for the school specifically it it.
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: Was in fact it was one of things that was
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: applauded by bobby kennedy and other health officials at a
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: symposium last week forty states are thirty nine states of
• 58:35
  Speaker 7: the district of columbia have imposed some form of a
• 58:37
  Speaker 7: cell phone ban in school during school hours. It's been
• 58:41
  Speaker 7: a major movement. Now the secondary movement, individual school districts
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: saying we're going to take kids off of tablets and computers,
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: even during the learning environment, and go back to books
• 58:50
  Speaker 7: and chalkboards and things like that to try to reduce this.
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: Both a positive move, according to the Maha movement leaders
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: in Trump. They like it. They're applauding it. Another big
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: one that's also weighing in on this, Meta settled a
• 59:03
  Speaker 7: screen addiction, or the fact that it was accused of
• 59:06
  Speaker 7: making its products, like Instagram, addictive to children It put
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: $ 17 billion into a settlement for states, but more importantly,
• 59:15
  Speaker 7: it's going to create some restrictions. It's going to make
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: sure that during school hours, kids can't use Instagram. So
• 59:21
  Speaker 7: from the private sector to the public sector, a real
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: significant declaration of war on this addiction to screens.
• 59:28
  Speaker 14: One of the big things are parents getting involved because,
• 59:31
  Speaker 14: you know, school, it's a few hours a day. It's
• 59:34
  Speaker 14: a big chunk of the day. But the rest of
• 59:36
  Speaker 14: a kid's life is spent at home with their parents,
• 59:40
  Speaker 14: and they're going to do what their parents teach them,
• 59:43
  Speaker 14: lead by example. I remember years ago, it was very
• 59:47
  Speaker 14: impolite during dinner to take your phone out and start
• 59:52
  Speaker 14: going through.
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: No one would really do that. That didn't last very long.
• 59:55
  Speaker 14: Now you go out, no matter who you're out with, friends, family,
• 59:58
  Speaker 14: They will pull phones out and start using them when
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 14: you normally would have had a social occasion, conversation, and
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 14: kids will pick up on that. It's like a perfect storm.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 14: They see their parents. Their parents like the fact that
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 14: it's kind of like a babysitter, especially for younger kids,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 14: to just hand them a phone or a tablet. And
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 14: I think the parents bear a lot of the responsibility
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 14: for what we're seeing these days. with kids just welded
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 14: to their screens. Anthony, you know something that I find
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 14: very interesting since you bring that up? I want every
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 14: single person who's listening to our voices now, the next
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 14: time you go out for dinner, look around. I start
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 14: seeing young people, and I'm talking about 20s, 30 and
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 14: so on. They're out on dates and you know that
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 14: they're that's a date, but they are all consumed on
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 14: their cell phone.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: There's no talking anymore. They're each literally either taking photos
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: of the food or they're constantly texting with one another.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: What sort of a date is it when you're actually
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: spending more time dealing with your phone than you are
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: with the person who you're sitting across the table with?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 14: Michael, that's so funny because I don't know who you
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 14: see people taking pictures.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 14: We all have amazing cameras on us 24 hours a day,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 14: seven days a week. But have you ever seen somebody
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 14: come up to you and go, oh, look, I got
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 14: to show you this veal pond from last night? The
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 14: answer is yes, because I'm the one who actually made it.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: Or my lasagna, which is known as, you know, Michael's
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: exceptionally delicious lasagna. I do have photos of it and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: I show people what a better cook I am than
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: they are.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't have anywhere to go for Rosh Hashanah, Michael.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: Hint, hint.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: In fact, I have a great story about that. I
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: had cooked a lasagna once for Ivanka. That was pre
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: her becoming Orthodox, where now, of course, she can't because
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: I make it.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, you didn't say you have meat in there.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, I do. And you can't eat it anyway.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: So my point is we finished. Three quarters of it,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: and there was one slice left. And I'll never forget,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Ivanka turns around and says to me, hey, MC, wrap
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: that up for me. I'm going to have it tomorrow.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: I said, no, no, no. I'm actually going to bring
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: it to the office tomorrow to cook for myself. So
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: she goes, I will fight you to the death for it.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: And that's how good it is. And if you don't
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: believe that story, Anthony, you ask Ivanka herself.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: Speaking of what? Go ahead, Anthony.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 14: No, I was going to say, well, I'd like to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 14: see a picture of it then. I already just sent
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 14: it to you. I love it.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: John Solomon, getting back to the Iranian situation and whether
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: we're in a new stage. So it was very interesting
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: to me that it seemed like our standard operating procedure
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: changed over the weekend where we hit oil tankers as
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: opposed to missile launchers or other things like that. Now,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at oil prices right now. They're up about
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: 1% where it's still at the $ 92 a barrel level,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: which is where we were on Friday. And a lot
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: of that has to do with the fact that, yes,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: we did destroy those oil tankers. But they weren't going anywhere.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, they were part of the blockade. They were
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: not on the open market. That said, we heard from
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: General Blaine Holt that we're getting close to that point
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: where CENTCOM will tell both the Kurds and some of
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: the other resistance leaders in Iran, that this is the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: time to go. Is there something, John Solomon, with all
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: of your contacts at the White House, is there something
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: that will tell you that something's up? I mean, you know,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: speaking of food, we know that when a lot of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: pizzas get delivered to the White House, that's usually a
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: big one. Is there something that's going to signal to
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: you that we could have a change?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe we should send pizzas to Iran. That should sort
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: of loosen them up a little. What do you say
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: to that, John?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they may need it soon. They have food shortages.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 7: They have gas shortages and oil shortages. An oil-rich company
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: has oil and gas shortages right now because of the
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: extraordinary impact of Donald Trump's economic blockade. So the military
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: leveled the main offensive weapons along and mid-range weapons a
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 7: long time ago. They every so often will take out
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 7: some short range to try to protect the region and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 7: our soldiers in it. But the real suffocating moment, the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: one that may cause Iran to topple, is now this
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: economic blockade, which is so extensive. Plus, the mullahs have
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 7: all of their money frozen. They can't even tap their
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: own bank accounts anymore. That's the moment when unrest starts
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: to go. Remember back in January before the president had
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 7: the first strikes in February, there was an enormous amount
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 7: of street protests. Those street protests were not young people
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 7: or women protesting. They were the bizarre folks, the people
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: who sell the merchants. It was the first time we've
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 7: seen that. The economic situation has gotten five or six
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 7: times more dire since that time. If you start to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: see street protests again driven by the merchants and those
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 7: in the marketplace, that will be the signal that maybe
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: a larger resistance movement is about to form, and then
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 7: the Kurds and people like that will start moving. I'd
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: be watching for another round of protests. That will tell
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 7: you that the Iranian people are done.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Anthony.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 14: We've seen this before, and we've seen the people of
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 14: Iran and other countries, too, when they get a little
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 14: tired of what their government is doing, try to stand
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 14: up and take the reins. It really depends on the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 14: support that they get from other countries and from the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 14: United States. I mean, we dropped the ball years ago
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 14: and didn't support.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 14: the people when they wanted to go against the uh...
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 14: the government in iran.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 7: Have a great revolution oh nine was such an extraordinary
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 7: missed opportunity for bronco we could have potentially embrace it
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 7: in over through the regime and i think this time
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 7: if the street protesters go you'll start to see some
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: sort of conglomeration maybe of uh... israeli uh... secret forces
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 7: the Kurds, and then there is a group of Iranian
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 7: resistance leaders that are pretty successful. They've been pretty good
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 7: even when the IRGC was at its full force. That
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: combination could create a hodgepodge that could tip the revolution.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 7: I think that's what Americans are working on now, to
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 7: put that sort of hodgepodge team together so that when
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 7: that moment comes, there is a meaningful resistance, one that
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 7: could topple the government.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: John Solomon, thank you so much for joining us. Anthony,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: we've got to take a break. But John Solomon, thank
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: you so much for joining us.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: Great to be with you guys.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: And thanks for all these updates and your usual breaking news.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: We've got a lot more to get to, by the way,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: coming up pretty soon. Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: governor in New York, who is not going to be
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: at the West Indian parade because he says he was
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: blocked from going by Kathy Hochul. So before you attack
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman for not getting out on the streets to campaign, remember,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: it's not as easy as it looks. We'll be right back.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Washington Square Park and 77.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 6: W.A.B.C.
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  Speaker 2: Both are real New York.
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  Speaker 5: W.A.B.C.
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  Speaker 3: Traffic and Transit.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: It's the Apple Bank traffic desk for you right now.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I want to let you know again that we have
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: that West Indian parade about to step off two hours
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: from now in Brooklyn. And that starts at 11. But
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: already since 6 a.m., they've been having the actual street
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: fair part of the West Indian Day Parade. So you
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: have to be ready for a number of street closures,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: especially in places like Nostrand Avenue and Eastern Parkway and
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: Flatbush Avenue. A lot of that close. You should also
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: know that the situation with the trains is much, much better.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: So if you want to take the subway, that's better.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: But some of those trains that go to some of
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: those areas are experiencing some delays because there are some
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: crowds holding the trains up. But these are just minor
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: delays on the A, the C, and the D. The
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: other trains in the subway system are running on regular
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Sunday schedules. Same with the Long Island Railroad, Metro North,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: New Jersey Transit. There are some delays on the subway,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: but nothing on those commuter rails. So that's really what
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: you need to know. Also, the Grand Central Parkway, getting
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: towards the Billie Jean King Tennis Center, the Arthur Ashe Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: that will probably be the only thing you'll see until
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  Speaker 1: we get that rush of traffic coming back home after
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  Speaker 5: Well, we are back. We are back. And, guys, I
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: want to thank you all for being on today. I mean, uh, it's, uh,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: Monday morning, uh, and, uh, we have the greatest ratings, uh,
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  Speaker 5: ever for Labor Day. We, uh, Monday. And, uh, I,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: I have to tell you that, you know, we have
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  Speaker 5: that Boston station coming soon. Maybe we should be doing
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  Speaker 5: the morning show there. You never know. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 5: what do you think, uh, Anthony?
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  Speaker 14: Oh boy. I, uh, I spent some time up there
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  Speaker 14: in Boston at, uh, WAF, uh, the Opie and Anthony show,
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  Speaker 14: of course, uh, Many years ago now, we were told
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  Speaker 14: to leave the Commonwealth of Massachusetts because we had said
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 14: the mayor of Boston, Mayor Tom Menino, at the time,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 14: was dead. We said that on April Fool's Day. It
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 14: seemed like a good idea at the time. But, yeah,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 14: we were ridden out on a rail after that happened.
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  Speaker 3: So, hey, I.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 14: Have work to continue up there in Boston, so who knows?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you one other thing. Boston, the one
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: thing I know about Massachusetts, 39% of Massachusetts is Republican.
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  Speaker 5: And you know how many congressional seats they have? Zero.
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  Speaker 14: Zero.
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  Speaker 5: How many Senate seats they have? Zero. Zero. So isn't
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 5: that taxation without representation?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, they did it in the old days.
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  Speaker 1: And so to explain a little bit further, it isn't
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  Speaker 1: just that somehow the 61 beat the 39% every time. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: there are parts of Massachusetts that if they were districted properly,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: in other words, a real neighborhood, not some gerrymandered thing,
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  Speaker 1: would actually have some– it would result in some Republican representation.
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  Speaker 1: But they gerrymandered these people out of their political franchise rights.
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  Speaker 1: It's just incredible. By the way, John, I've always said this.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: I wonder if you agree. The people who should draw
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: the congressional districts in America are the realtors. Realtors know neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: They know when the good part starts. They know when
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: the bad part starts. They know when neighborhoods change. I
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: would love to see a group of realtors redraw our
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  Speaker 1: maps in America.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you how I feel, and you guys tell
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  Speaker 5: me how you guys feel, that I don't care how
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 5: you redistrict the state. I don't care. Do whatever you want.
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  Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, if you have 39%, uh...
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  Speaker 5: registered uh... republicans then those people deserve uh... at least
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  Speaker 5: within ten percent within ten percent uh... representation of the
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  Speaker 5: state in congress.
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  Speaker 1: Well you know it seeking of people who have not
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  Speaker 1: been getting their representation and uh... something i've talked about
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: the governor david patterson on our show a number of
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: times this is very important for the redistricting battle something
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: that i think is a major story in america that
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: has been missed When the Supreme Court earlier this year
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: decided that race could no longer be used as a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate reason to draw a congressional district, and some states
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: immediately started to redraw that based on that decision, this
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: was the most liberating thing. This is not a bad
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  Speaker 1: thing for black voters. It was the opposite. This was
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  Speaker 1: the most liberating thing for black voters in the history
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  Speaker 1: of this country since, I would say, at least the
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: 1964 Civil Rights Act and maybe even Reconstruction. Let me
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: explain why. 90% of black voters, John and Anthony and John,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: have lived in these feudal, I call it feudal, black
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  Speaker 1: districts where their representatives have to do nada to get reelected. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: you have now made millions of black voters in America
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  Speaker 1: swing voters, which is what you want to be. Believe me,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: you want to be a swing voter. And we already
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: saw this.
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something about black Americans. Black Americans
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: are real Americans. They're not migrants. Right. And I think
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  Speaker 5: they're going to vote on the on the side of
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  Speaker 5: America is a great country and should stay great.
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  Speaker 1: And they are the only ones. They are the only
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  Speaker 1: ones who can save the Democratic Party, in my opinion,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: because they are the only ones who can say we
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: have been loyal voters to the Democratic Party for a
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: very long time. You are throwing us over for these migrants,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: for these socialists. And I'm sorry, I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: some of these mainstream voters, White Democrats, as much as
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: we like John Fetterman and people like that, I don't
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: think that they are going to have the the the
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: juice on the streets, as they say, in my 90s.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I know I'm behind the times, but it's only the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: black voters who can save the Democratic Party. Anthony Cumia,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: they're the only ones. And they are, I think, willing
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  Speaker 1: to do it if they see what I'm saying to them,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: which is you are suddenly now a swing voter. Use
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: that power.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the unfortunate thing is.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 5: We need the Irish voters. We need the black voters.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: We need the hard-working Asian voters. We need the Hispanic voters.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: We think we should be all together to fight the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: migrants that are invading our country.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: Gotta let the boss talk.
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  Speaker 14: The unfortunate thing is there seems to be a very
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 14: few leaders, and I use the term loosely, in the
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 14: black communities, and they're the ones that, you know, the
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 14: squeaky wheel gets the oil. They're the ones that seem
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 14: to make the agenda for an entire race of people.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 14: I think we need a little more open-mindedness and a
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 14: little more free will and not going along with these
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 14: pseudo-leaders in a lot of these communities that seem to
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 14: be able to speak for an entire race of people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's good news. Millions of black voters now
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: are swing voters. I hope they use their power. And
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: it's the only bad news. For these leaders that Anthony
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: is talking about who haven't had to do their job
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: for years to get their jobs.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Let's take a break.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: I want Americans to stand up for America.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's simple as that. All right. Let's take a
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: break right now. In the next hour, we've got Bruce Blakeman.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: He needs to get a significant portion of the black
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: vote to win this governor's race. And he wanted to
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: get into a major black community today, but he was blocked.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about that and more. When we
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: come back, it's sitting friends in the morning with the
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: Takeover crew. We'll be right back.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 13: Coming up today at 1215, after Bill O'Reilly, it's Greg Kelly.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 8: Labor Day. Whoever invented it, I think it was actually
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 8: a Democrat, you know? Hey, they did one thing right.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 8: Labor Day, three-day weekend at the end of the summer.
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  Speaker 8: Enjoy the hell out of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's Greg Kelly. Coming up.
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  Speaker 1: and the D. Yes, that is probably due to the
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  Speaker 2: Sit in Friends in the morning. And Barish and McGarry
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  Speaker 2: remember 9-11. President Donald Trump on 9-11 2001 calls into
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: Channel 9 to describe what he saw and explaining how
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: it affects him.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is on the line.
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  Speaker 6: We know him as the man behind lots of real
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  Speaker 6: estate in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 9: And of course, Donald, I understand you were actually a
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  Speaker 9: witness to what happened this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I have a window that looks directly at the
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 6: World Trade Center, and I saw this huge explosion. I
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: was with a group of people, and I really couldn't
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: even believe it. And even, I think, worse than that,
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  Speaker 6: for years I've looked right directly at the building. I'd
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: see the Empire State Building in the foreground and the
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 6: World Trade Center in the background. And now I'm looking
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: at absolutely nothing.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 5: It's just gone.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 6: And it's just hard to believe.
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  Speaker 3: Donald, you have one of the landmark buildings down in
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: the financial district, 40 Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have any damage or did you know what's
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: happened down there?
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 6: Well, it was an amazing phone call. I mean, 40
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 6: Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 6: And it was actually before the World Trade Center was
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 6: it became known as the second tallest. And now it's
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: the tallest. And I just spoke to my people, and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 6: they said it's the most unbelievable sight. It's probably seven
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 6: or eight blocks away from the World Trade Center, and
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 6: yet Wall Street is littered with two feet of stone
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 6: and brick and.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 11: Mortar and steel.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 6: And there are thousands of people walking over the debris
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: over the Brooklyn Bridge, where they're sending them out over
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn, and then I guess they're
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 6: going to have to figure out how to get home
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  Speaker 6: from there. But they have between a foot and two
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 6: feet of debris right in front of a building that's probably,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: you would say, Alan, six or seven blocks away.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the late, the great Lee Greenwood. He is not,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: he's still with us. Why did I say the late?
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: The great Lee Greenwood. I had my problems with my
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: L's and my G's. He is going to be one
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: of our feature performers at the big gala Friday night.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: Wait, I thought you said that he wasn't with us anymore.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: No, I said he was, I said he is with us.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. I got to stop doing this on
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: this program. Lee Greenwood is a great guy and he's
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: going to be one of our performers at the big
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: gala honoring governor Pataki, honoring the other heroes of 9-11
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: this is not a celebration of 9-11 this is a
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: celebration of the people who saved us on 9-11 including
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: people like governor pataki because as i said before the
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: break and we have uh of course john casmatides with
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: us who will be our of course our host for
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  Speaker 1: this event you know we had this renaissance in new
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: york starting in the mid 90s with the election of
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: rudy giuliani in 1993 and Crime went down. Everything was
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: going great. And then 9-11, a lot of us thought, well,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: that's the end of that. It's going to go away.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: But because of the continued leadership of Pataki, and Giuliani
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: was still mayor for a few more months after that,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: and Mike Bloomberg, the renaissance of New York just kept
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: on going. And to me, that's just as much of
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: a miracle as almost anything else that happened.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. Guys, the big thing, as of last week,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 5: as of last Friday, this event is completely sold out. Wow.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: I'm getting phone calls from all over the place. Can
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 5: you get me one seat? Can you get me two seats?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 5: We are completely sold out. You know, people said to me, well,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: it's on Rosh Hashanah. I said, we can't help it.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: We can't help it that 9-11 falls on that same day.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 5: But 9-11 is a special, special holiday that we have
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 5: to remember. It's 25th year anniversary. We have to remember
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 5: for all Americans that 9-11 We can never allow that
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 5: to happen again. And we completely saw that.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing, John. It's amazing because my office is in
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: the back area where Margot, your wife, and two of
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: you organizing this thing. And I watch how hard she's
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: working on making this thing into reality. what it really
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: should be, the ultimate tribute to those who gave their lives, right,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: that give us the ability to do what we do
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: here every single day, which is to speak. that give
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: us our constitutional rights and the first responders and what
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: you and Margo and others are doing in order to
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: make this event a true memorial to those that lost
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: their life. John, I don't think it could be understated
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  Speaker 3: how amazing I think it is.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it is. You know, to have Lee Greenwood,
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  Speaker 5: Tony Orlando bringing home, you know, tie a yellow ribbon,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: bring it home. Joe Pistopo, you know, my way. And
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 5: Benny Bandugo and Cousin Brucie. I mean, you can't get
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: a better.
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  Speaker 3: Show than that. I mean, and then to have in
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: the audience people like Michael Cohen. I mean, seriously? Seriously,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: how did you pull that one off?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to give you a religious pass here, John.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: It is Rosh Hashanah, but it's the first night of
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: Rosh Hashanah and not hardly anyone actually goes to services.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: It's the next day, Saturday and Sunday, where you really
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: need to be in the synagogue. So I'm giving everyone
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a religious pass. There you go.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: Tell us more about some of the people we're going
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: to honor. We mentioned Governor Pataki, but I think they're
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: going to be other honorees, correct, John?
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 5: Well, Cardinal Dolan just called me a few minutes ago
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 5: to wish me a happy birthday, and he will be there.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 5: He will be there. And we're also going to honor
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: Cindy Adams for, well, a Lifetime Achievement Award. It's going
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 5: to be given to her by Cardinal Dolan. And Cardinal
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 5: Dolan will get the award for 16 years or 18 years,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 5: keeping New York City spirits up. And that is so important.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: And we may have some special visitors from God knows where.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 5: But we we can't the Secret Service won't allow us
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 5: to say anything.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so throwing that out, John, you know, I haven't
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: we've talked so much about 9-11 on this program. I
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: have actually never had the chance to ask you about
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: your 9-11 experience. Where were you when it happened? How
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: did you respond? I'd love to hear that story.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I was at, where was I? We had an
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: office on 87th Street or 56th Street, 56th Street. And
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 5: we had a television set in my office. And in
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 5: those days, not everybody had a television set in their office.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 5: And everybody from the whole office gathered around watching what's happening.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: And then we went up to the roof. of the
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: roof of our building on 56th Street and 11th Avenue,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: opposite the Crescent Street from CBS, and we could see
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 5: the World Trade Center, and my God, my God, the
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 5: tears in everybody's eyes.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: Joe Concha's with us on the Joe Concha Show, and Joe,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: we've been talking all morning about not only the gala
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: that's coming up Friday, but also just this 25th, year
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  Speaker 1: uh it's hard to call the word anniversary i know
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of people been calling it the 25th remembrance
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: but you know i someone will figure out a better
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: wording than i can but um you know what do
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: you think is is the best message really to put
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: across it it's literally been 25 years when i thought
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: about it this morning 25 years before 2001 was 1976
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: so just trying to think about how long ago all
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: that was um what are some of the ideas thoughts
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: going through your mind now about this.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, you know, I talked about this on Fox last
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  Speaker 13: night when we did a panel on the big weekend
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  Speaker 13: show as far as where were you on September 11th.
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  Speaker 13: And I was the only one on the panel who
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  Speaker 13: was actually in New York that day, like John Katsimatidis.
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  Speaker 13: I was on 46th and 5th. I had a job
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  Speaker 13: there at the time. And it was I remember a
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  Speaker 13: couple of things just as far as like where we
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  Speaker 13: were in 2001 and 2026, as far as So I
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  Speaker 13: got off at the Port Authority from New Jersey and
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  Speaker 13: was just walking to work. And one of the planes
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  Speaker 13: already hit the World Trade Center. And I had no
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  Speaker 13: idea because, again, we don't have instant access to news
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  Speaker 13: and information at that time. I think I had like
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  Speaker 13: a flip phone or something.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 13: So maybe someone can text you. And it was right
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  Speaker 13: after one of the planes. So I'm just walking through.
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  Speaker 13: But I see people looking down.
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  Speaker 5: They're looking south.
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  Speaker 13: And I don't quite know why. And I'm a little
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  Speaker 13: late for a meeting. So I'm just kind of like
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  Speaker 13: put my head down and. making sure I get there.
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  Speaker 13: And once I get to Fifth Avenue, from the ground,
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  Speaker 13: you had a clear field of view, you know, a field,
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  Speaker 13: like a vision of the World Trade Center, and you
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  Speaker 13: saw one of them on fire. And you're like, wow, what? Again,
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  Speaker 13: the whole thought process is that we couldn't possibly be
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  Speaker 13: attacked by our own airplanes by hijackers. You just thought, okay,
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  Speaker 13: this must have been some sort of horrible accident. Somebody
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  Speaker 13: accidentally must have lost control of a airplane and it
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  Speaker 13: hit the World Trade Center. This is bad. And then
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  Speaker 13: once I got up to my office, then my boss,
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  Speaker 13: as I got out of the elevator, he points at me,
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  Speaker 13: he goes, we're all getting out of here now. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 13: is it because of that smoke that's coming out of
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  Speaker 13: the World Trade Center? I heard it was a plane
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  Speaker 13: or something. And he says, no, a second plane just hit.
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  Speaker 13: And we got to evacuate. So they shut down at
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  Speaker 13: that point, all the tunnels, all the bridges. The only
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  Speaker 13: way you could get off the island was by ferry.
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  Speaker 13: And I was able to get on a ferry. But again,
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  Speaker 13: you're now at this point, you understand what's happening. And
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  Speaker 13: even through Times Square, people are running now at this point.
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  Speaker 13: And one I remember one gentleman yelling, he goes, they're
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  Speaker 13: coming after Times Square next day. Who what what's going on?
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  Speaker 13: You know, so I got off and that was that.
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  Speaker 13: And the thing that resonated with me the most was
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  Speaker 13: actually about 10 days later. And my friend Courtney, who
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  Speaker 13: I went to grade school with. And she married a
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  Speaker 13: friend of mine that I actually did a high school
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  Speaker 13: TV show with on community access television. Same as Paul.
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  Speaker 13: He worked down at Cantor Fitzgerald. So they were high
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  Speaker 13: school sweethearts, and they got married. And when I went
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  Speaker 13: to the funeral and I saw Courtney, again, this person
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  Speaker 13: I've known my whole life, she's pregnant. And I didn't
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  Speaker 13: realize that. And I'm like, oh, my God. They were
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  Speaker 13: about to have their second baby. And now I think
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  Speaker 13: 25 years later that that baby is now grown up
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  Speaker 13: as a 25-year-old person, an adult probably working in the
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  Speaker 13: real world. And I always just think like, boy, just
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  Speaker 13: how how cruel this was, like the people that were
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  Speaker 13: obviously left behind, especially in this case, a young couple
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  Speaker 13: about to start their great life with with two kids.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right.
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  Speaker 13: Anniversary has to go away. I think it would be
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  Speaker 13: smart on the president's part or any president's part to
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  Speaker 13: make September 11th a federal holiday. I had to look
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  Speaker 13: it up while I was listening to you guys. And
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  Speaker 13: it's not. And I think it should be because you
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  Speaker 13: talk about a day that impacted so many Americans. I
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  Speaker 13: think that's That's the deal. And I think about a
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  Speaker 13: month and a half later, George W. Bush going to
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  Speaker 13: the mound, to the rubber, Yankee Stadium, Game 3, Yankees, Diamondbacks,
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  Speaker 13: World Series, throws a perfect strike and the roar from
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  Speaker 13: the crowd in USA. And what I worry about, guys,
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  Speaker 13: is that are we at a place now, if we
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  Speaker 13: had another 9-11, would the country come together and rally
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  Speaker 13: behind the president? If an attack like that happened again,
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  Speaker 13: my answer was answered by Riley Gaines, who I was
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  Speaker 13: doing the show with last night.
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  Speaker 3: She said no.
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  Speaker 13: She goes, I know this because of what happened with
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 13: Charlie Kirk. And people celebrated that. And people laughed. So
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  Speaker 13: I don't know if we're together as a country like
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  Speaker 13: we were on September 1st. That's my long answer to
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  Speaker 13: your short question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not. And, you know, I did on my
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  Speaker 1: history show here on WBC last night, I talked about
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  Speaker 1: the Iran hostage crisis. And do you know that after
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter... ordered the rescue mission that was ended up
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  Speaker 1: in a terrible failure. And that was right at the
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: height of the primaries of the night. And he was
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: being primaried by Ted Kennedy. And of course the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: were running every single candidate for president stood up after
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: that failed rescue mission and said, we need to stand
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: with the president now and be, that would never happen today.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even a question. And that was something that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even that impactful as far as killing thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people was impactful in a political sense. There is no way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there is no way right now. that we would be
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: as unified. And you see that 9-11 was very much
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: seen as an opportunity by these Islamists to try to
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  Speaker 1: spread lies about who caused it, to try to spread
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  Speaker 1: lies about who the real victims were. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you listen to Mayor Mamdani, the victim is his make-believe
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: aunt who was afraid on the subway. And yes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there were Muslim Americans in New York City who
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: were a little apprehensive. I'm not trying to water that down.
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  Speaker 1: But my God, as the old here, the old Norm
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  Speaker 1: MacDonald joke, you know, if the if the Muslims nuked
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  Speaker 1: a country, my first concern would be how people would
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  Speaker 1: respond to the Muslim. That's not our first concern. We
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  Speaker 1: had thousands dead. My God, Joe Conch.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, Mayor Mamdani talking about how his teacher pulled him
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 13: aside after the attacks and said, you know, life's going
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 13: to be really hard for you now as a Muslim.
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  Speaker 13: That's the first thing that went through his mind.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I also don't believe that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I got to say, I want to take
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a contrarian position on this one.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 13: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that if, God forbid, the United States was
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  Speaker 3: attacked again and again, I'm going to say a thousand times,
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  Speaker 3: God forbid. But I think Americans would actually rally together
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  Speaker 3: and demand that the president retaliate. I do truly believe
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: it because I remember where I was. I was in
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 3: the high 20s on like 8th Avenue. And I remember
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: that walk up because I was so concerned about my
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: daughter who was in like first grade at the time.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: And I remember there was no transportation. There was nothing moving.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: So we walked all the way up there in order
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: to make sure she was okay. It was panic and fear.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that Americans would rally together. I really do.
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  Speaker 3: Because one thing we learned, whether it was the loss
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  Speaker 3: of the folks at Cantor, and I knew quite a
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  Speaker 3: few people, as well as all of the other companies
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: that were there in the World Trade Center, It didn't
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  Speaker 3: matter if you were a registered Republican, Democrat, or Independent.
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  Speaker 3: It was America being attacked. I don't want a situation
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  Speaker 3: like this to have to happen in order to bring
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  Speaker 3: us all back together. And that's what I'm hoping that
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: this 25th, we'll call it, anniversary of that horrific day,
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  Speaker 3: what I hope it does is I hope it instills
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  Speaker 3: American pride and just American... American feeling and unity back into.
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  Speaker 1: All of us.
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  Speaker 13: Michael, I admire your optimism. I absolutely do. And I
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  Speaker 13: wish I could agree with you. I just think that
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 13: it would be used as a political dynamite to go after, oh, Pete.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 11: Hegseth, we should impeach him.
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  Speaker 13: We had a guest on last night on Fox, a
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 13: Democratic congressman named Jake, I forgot his last name, I'm sorry, Akulas,
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  Speaker 13: I believe it was, from Massachusetts talking about day one,
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  Speaker 13: if they take back power, they're going to impeach Pete Hegseth.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 13: the secretary of defense. And when I asked her like, what,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 13: what rises to the level of impeachment, he went on
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 13: about munitions or something. It's like, I, and with Trump,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 13: you know, that he would be blamed for X, Y,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 13: Z creating hatred in the world. And we deserve this
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 13: just like Hassan Piker did. So I, I, I agree.
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  Speaker 13: We should have a country like that, but I think
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 13: after Charlie Kirk. And so many people celebrating the death
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 13: of a guy who encouraged open debate.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 13: A guy who went to campuses and sought out people
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 13: that disagree with him and then civilly had conversations with him.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 13: And he gets shot in the neck about a year ago.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 13: That's September 10th, by the way. That's another. I agree
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 13: with Jake. We need a better war than anniversary. It
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 13: just has such a positive connotation. Obviously, that's not an
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 13: anniversary there either. That that that and Luigi Mangione really. Really,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 13: just at this point, I don't have faith like I
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 13: used to that Americans come together in certain situations. And
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 13: the fact that Luigi Mangione raised more than a million
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 13: dollars for shooting a guy in the back dead on
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 13: a street in Manhattan, leaving behind two kids. And then
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 13: people actually donated to Luigi Mangione to the tune of
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 13: more than a million dollars to his GoFundMe page. saying
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 13: that he's a hero. And I'm like, oh boy, we're
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 13: in a much different place right now.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: The right thing to do is to attend the gala
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: or at least do something for a first responder. Let's,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's just whether Michael Cohen is
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: right or Joe Conch is right.
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  Speaker 5: All the money we collect goes to Tunnels to Towers
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 5: or Police Athletic League or the Pataki Foundation, who's doing
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 5: so many great things. And it's all going to charity.
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  Speaker 3: Well, John, let's us all wish you again a very
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: happy birthday, many, many more, and keep doing the great
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  Speaker 1: some of the areas where we have the West Indian
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  Speaker 1: Day Parade. Want to make sure everyone understands, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of street closing. That parade is about to start in
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