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Opening Segment 11/11/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's Veterans Day, and we're all in the house today.
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  Speaker 2: And I just want to bifurcate this, if I can,
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  Speaker 2: Larry and Natalie, because Veterans Day, unlike Memorial Day, how
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  Speaker 2: many times have you heard people say, oh, happy Memorial Day?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Schmuck putts. Oh, God, Schmendrick. It's a day we honor
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  Speaker 2: our dead, Memorial Day. Honor the dead. Those who actually
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  Speaker 2: served in combat, you honor them. Veterans Day is for
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  Speaker 2: anyone who ever served. Wartime, peacetime, National Guard, anybody who
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  Speaker 2: had any kind of military involvement. And it's celebrated differently
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  Speaker 2: in different parts of the country. So, for instance, I
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  Speaker 2: found out that in Wisconsin... It's the only state that
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  Speaker 2: is not an official paid holiday for government employees. And
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  Speaker 2: you would say, gee, I wonder why, Wisconsin. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that goes from left to right. That's the one state
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  Speaker 2: politically that always vacillates. But here in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: I can speak directly to it and actually to New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: I prefer the New Jersey way in many of the
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  Speaker 2: areas of the state. New York City, all the kids
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  Speaker 2: are off from school. Are they learning about Veterans and
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  Speaker 2: Veterans Day? So what I did yesterday, Larry, is I
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  Speaker 2: went to the Gray Pupaya. This is right on 72nd
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  Speaker 2: and Broadway where a lot of the kids come after
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  Speaker 2: high school because they get a few dogs, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for less than $ 10 and something to wash it down with.
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  Speaker 2: And they stand outside, and these were pretty bright kids.
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  Speaker 2: I said, they talk about Veterans Day this week at all,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Monday or Tuesday, you know, leading up.
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  Speaker 3: To the holiday? No.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what Veterans Day is? They sort of flummoxed.
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  Speaker 2: I say, is there any intent to discuss Veterans Day,
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  Speaker 2: do you think? Like in history class, you have current events.
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  Speaker 2: And naturally, when I brought up current events, they said
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  Speaker 2: to me exactly what my sons have said to me
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  Speaker 2: who go to public schools, that they don't discuss current
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  Speaker 2: events because it might upset some people. So if we
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  Speaker 2: have a Veterans Day holiday where school is out, How
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  Speaker 2: is that benefiting a new generation to understand what Veterans
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  Speaker 2: Day is, as opposed to what I've seen and I
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  Speaker 2: participated in many years ago in New Jersey, some of
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  Speaker 2: the smaller towns, where you go to school on Veterans
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  Speaker 2: Day and they dedicate the whole curriculum to veterans visiting,
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  Speaker 2: coming in, speaking in the assembly, educating the youngsters and
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  Speaker 2: even the teachers and the teacher's aides into their.
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  Speaker 3: Service and the history. Veterans Day.
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  Speaker 2: So I prefer the New Jersey way. I know the
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  Speaker 2: big cities there, they don't do it. Newark, Elizabeth, Patterson,
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  Speaker 2: I think Trenton, they follow New York City. But they're
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  Speaker 2: the ones who probably need it the most, those kids
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  Speaker 2: in the inner city.
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  Speaker 3: But you can do both. You can talk about Veterans Day.
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  Speaker 3: You can honor veterans the day before and then have
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  Speaker 3: off on that day. You can say, this is why
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have off tomorrow. You can bring a
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  Speaker 3: veteran in. I know they'd love to come in and
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  Speaker 3: talk about their service. And that's the way you should
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  Speaker 3: do it. Because the federal government and the states, they
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  Speaker 3: take off. All the government buildings, they're off. But they
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  Speaker 3: don't insist that everybody else take off. And the horrible
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  Speaker 3: part about it, the worst part about it, if you
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  Speaker 3: have a company... And you have a veteran showing up
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  Speaker 3: to work today. You didn't give him the day off
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  Speaker 3: for all that he potentially did for us or was
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  Speaker 3: willing to do for us. Shame on you. Every veteran
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  Speaker 3: should be, if they don't have a state law, if
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  Speaker 3: they don't make it so that everybody's off, then you
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  Speaker 3: should give the veterans in your department the day off.
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  Speaker 3: And if you didn't do it this year, I understand.
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  Speaker 3: You probably weren't thinking about it. Do it next year.
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  Speaker 3: Just everybody that served in your office, everybody that served
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  Speaker 3: in your company, just call them in and say, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, take tomorrow off. Because why? If you're going
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  Speaker 3: to have this special day to honor veterans, do something
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  Speaker 3: for the veterans. Do something for the people that served.
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  Speaker 3: About one and a half percent of the people actually
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  Speaker 3: protect this country. And God bless them. God bless that
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  Speaker 3: they're there standing fortress against anything that may happen to
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  Speaker 3: this country. They deserve something. Good litmus test. Tomorrow, Larry,
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  Speaker 3: there'll be a vote in the New York City Council,
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  Speaker 3: which hates the military. They've given millions of dollars to
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens. They've given bupkis. They've given hugats to veterans.
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  Speaker 2: So Frank Marano, who's a city council person from South
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  Speaker 2: Shore of Staten Island, Republican, conservative, has a bill that'll
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  Speaker 2: be voted on the floor. If you are a disabled veteran,
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  Speaker 2: you should not have to pay property taxes in New
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  Speaker 2: York City.
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  Speaker 3: Makes sense, right? Right. That's great. That's a great law. Disabled, too.
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  Speaker 2: If you're able, you know, you got to pay property tax.
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  Speaker 2: So it's bifurcated the proposed law. I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: to be in city council chambers forever. to name and
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  Speaker 2: shame any of those who actually vote against this. You
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  Speaker 2: would think, what's your opposition to this? Disabled veterans not
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  Speaker 2: having them pay New York City property tax?
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  Speaker 3: Makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: But there are going to be some in that city
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  Speaker 2: council who are going to say absolutely a thousand times no.
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  Speaker 3: And there are small things you can do today, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, to make veterans feel special. If you know
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  Speaker 3: somebody in your neighborhood or your family or you know
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  Speaker 3: somebody at work that is a veteran, just say thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Just say, Thank you for being there, even if you
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  Speaker 3: didn't go to war, just in case that you were
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  Speaker 3: there to serve us. And you know what else we'd love?
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  Speaker 3: We would love to hear from you, not only about
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  Speaker 3: what we're talking about today, what should be done for
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  Speaker 3: Veterans Day, but also if you served, we would love
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  Speaker 3: to hear your story. So go ahead and leave us
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  Speaker 3: Say anything you want to say, especially if you're a veteran.
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  Speaker 3: we don't do enough on Veterans Day, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about this today because municipalities that don't do
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  Speaker 3: enough municipalities where the city council and the mayor and
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  Speaker 3: all the administrators are taking off, but they don't have
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  Speaker 3: it so the schools take off, shame on you. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't have a parade in your town, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't have some type of ceremony, praising veterans, remembering veterans,
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  Speaker 3: taking the veterans in your town and giving them a
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  Speaker 3: day and applauding for them, shame on you.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Natalie, you're out there in traditional New Jersey. What's
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  Speaker 2: it been like in the school systems there? Because in
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  Speaker 2: New York City, public Catholic schools, charter schools, they do
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  Speaker 2: not have discussion of Veterans Day either before, naturally, the
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  Speaker 2: day of.
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  Speaker 3: They're off or after.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I believe my kids went to school on
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  Speaker 4: Veterans Day. It's been a while since they were in
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  Speaker 4: the public school system.
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  Speaker 3: But I do remember.
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  Speaker 4: They always had one of those veterans assemblies. And it
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  Speaker 4: was so nice. It was so personal because they asked
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  Speaker 4: anybody in the school if they had a veteran in
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  Speaker 4: their life to invite them to come to the assembly.
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  Speaker 4: And then they would sit and they would talk to
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  Speaker 4: the kids. And I remember my kids always knew, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so-and-so's grandpa, he was in, you know, the war.
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  Speaker 4: And they all knew them. And they, you know, it
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  Speaker 4: was something special.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. That's wonderful. Except that we need to
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  Speaker 3: do more. I mean, I understand that, and everybody tries
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  Speaker 3: to do something just to make up for the fact
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  Speaker 3: that they're not doing enough. But this should be a day. Like,
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  Speaker 3: we should have parades. We should be watching the TV
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  Speaker 3: at 9 o'clock and watching a parade.
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  Speaker 2: I would add one caveat to that. Whether it's a
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  Speaker 2: wreath-laying or a parade, depending on the size of the community,
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  Speaker 2: if politicians haven't served, they shouldn't be there. The parade
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  Speaker 2: should be for veterans. I've been in enough of these
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  Speaker 2: to see like half the people in the parade have
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  Speaker 2: never served anything. It's like, how about a parade for
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  Speaker 2: the veterans, whether they served in peacetime? And then the
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  Speaker 2: politicians always in front, many of them who who vote
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  Speaker 2: against veteran benefits and taking care of veterans. and taking
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  Speaker 2: positions that are anti-military. Why would you be in the
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  Speaker 2: freaking parade?
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  Speaker 3: Just stay home. I don't understand at all. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons I think the veterans aren't treated
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  Speaker 3: as well as they should be is because, and this
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  Speaker 3: is the most abhorrent reason in the world, it's because
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  Speaker 3: they're not enough of a voting bloc. There's not enough
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  Speaker 3: of them to have power. They're willing to serve our country.
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  Speaker 3: They're willing to sacrifice their lives for our country. But
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  Speaker 3: guess what? There's just not enough of you. So we
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  Speaker 3: don't really have to pay attention. Now, two things to
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  Speaker 3: look at today. The mayor, I'm sure, has been invited,
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  Speaker 3: Zoran Mandami, to the wreath laying that begins the parade
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  Speaker 3: in Lower Manhattan. What will he say if he speaks?
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  Speaker 2: And then the president of the United States, the tradition
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  Speaker 2: of the presidency is they go to Arlington National Cemetery
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  Speaker 2: and they lay a wreath. He's going with his wife Melania,
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  Speaker 2: but he is aware of a huge statue that was
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  Speaker 2: erected in the National Mall. It's called the Foot Soldier,
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  Speaker 2: painted in all gold. that talks about his five deferments
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  Speaker 2: that he was granted during the Vietnam War, I hope,
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  Speaker 2: I hope he doesn't bring up the fact, if he
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  Speaker 2: is making statements at the Arlington National Cemetery today, that
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  Speaker 2: he could have ended the Vietnam War in a week.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's not. You love bringing that up, but no,
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  Speaker 3: he's not going to, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear any Republicans criticizing him for that. That
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  Speaker 2: was the dumbest, most stupid thing out of the many
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  Speaker 2: stupid things that he said.
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  Speaker 3: Right, keep going. And the crowd behind him, yay! All
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  Speaker 3: the MAGA Colts, Kool-Aid drinkers. So this, you bringing this
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  Speaker 3: up today is tainting Veterans Day. No, it's not. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it is. It's silly. It's just silly. Just keep your
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  Speaker 3: eye on the ball. You don't even think there's a possibility?
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  Speaker 3: Don't go into your derangement syndrome. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 3: going to talk. I think he's going to lay the
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  Speaker 3: wreath and he's going to leave. I see. Because he's
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  Speaker 3: done that in the past. And if he talks, because
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  Speaker 3: he may be answering questions. He wouldn't say anything about
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  Speaker 3: the Vietnam War. It's just, it's silly. It's silly that
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  Speaker 3: you said that he tweeted it last night.
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  Speaker 2: Would you agree it was silly that he said that,
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  Speaker 2: that he could end the Vietnam War in one week?
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  Speaker 3: I have learned to not, I've learned just to pay
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  Speaker 3: attention to what Donald Trump does. Because why? Why? Because
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't mean anything. That didn't mean anything. It didn't
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  Speaker 3: mean a thing. It didn't mean a thing except to
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  Speaker 3: people that don't like him like you. And the Ukraine
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  Speaker 3: war in a day when he's elected, right? You'll talk
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  Speaker 3: about that forever. Drink the Kool-Aid, Larry. No, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: drinking the Kool-Aid. I can criticize what he does. But
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  Speaker 3: not what he says. What he tweets. He said it, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: It's silly.
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  Speaker 2: At the rally in Iowa before all of his Kool-Aid
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  Speaker 2: drinking MAGA supporters.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. All right. Well, that's the biggest story of the week.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. You don't listen to anything that the
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  Speaker 3: president says. That is the biggest story of the week.
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  Speaker 3: Only what he does. It is so small in comparison
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  Speaker 3: to what's going on. You don't agree with that? It
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  Speaker 3: is so small in comparison to what's important.
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that you said you don't pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to what he says, only what he does.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Now I know. Yeah. Thank you. I learned that
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  Speaker 3: a long, long time ago. Thank you. Do you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you gained something from that? Oh, thank you. But
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  Speaker 3: up next, it's a good time story.
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  Speaker 2: An autistic boy who could have perished, saved by a
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  Speaker 2: community and the police, as you know, with autism, they're
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  Speaker 2: attracted to the water. And he may have been moments
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  Speaker 2: away from perishing. Boy, you're going to feel great about
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  Speaker 2: this story.