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Mike Lawler | New York 17 Congressman Recaps Last Night's Debate Against Democrat Challenger Cait Conley · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler is correct and great on this show 100%
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  Speaker 1: of the time.
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  Speaker 2: 100%, 100%, 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Now, in my case, when I say 100%, am I
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  Speaker 1: right or wrong, Mike? You are correct, sir. The king
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  Speaker 1: of Rockland County, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Saul.
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  Speaker 1: That was quite a debate last night. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how this lady... faces her constituents today, how
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  Speaker 1: she faces her party. I'm not saying this because I
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  Speaker 1: love you, because I do love you. You wiped the
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  Speaker 1: floor with her last night. Did you feel that way
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  Speaker 1: when you left? I did. I did.
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  Speaker 2: And in part because I have a real record of
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  Speaker 2: delivering for my district. And no matter how many times
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  Speaker 2: she tries to impugn my integrity or attack that record,
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  Speaker 2: the fact is that I have delivered and I have
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  Speaker 2: fought for my district and as the president calls me,
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  Speaker 2: a pain in the ass, it's because I will not
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  Speaker 2: back down to anyone when it comes to defending my constituents. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you saw that last night. Jess and Tom Gorman,
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  Speaker 2: whose beautiful 18-year-old daughter Sheridan was brutally murdered, they asked
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  Speaker 2: a very direct question. Do you support Kathy Hochul's new
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary law? The reason their daughter is dead is because
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  Speaker 2: of Chicago's sanctuary law, because of Joe Biden's open borders,
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  Speaker 2: because of cashless bail. That's why their daughter is dead.
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  Speaker 2: And they asked a very pointed question, and they got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of bullshit from Kate Conley. She refused to
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  Speaker 2: answer it, and so I answered it for her and
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  Speaker 2: pointed out that she does, in fact, support Kathy Hochul's
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  Speaker 2: disastrous sanctuary state law. She would not support legislation at
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  Speaker 2: the federal level to ban sanctuary cities. And I made
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  Speaker 2: the point that I stand with the Gormans. The fact
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  Speaker 2: is that Kathy Hochul has released over 7,000, 7,000 convicted
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  Speaker 2: illegal immigrant criminals back out onto the streets. Murderers, rapists,
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  Speaker 2: drug dealers, gang bangers, gun traffickers. She doesn't give a
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  Speaker 2: shit about New Yorkers. She doesn't care if somebody ends
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  Speaker 2: up dead because she released a criminal back out onto
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  Speaker 2: the street. You remember Kathy Hochul said, If anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Commits a crime, I'll be the first person to call.
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  Speaker 2: The federal government.
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  Speaker 1: Bullshit. She's a straight-up liar.
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  Speaker 2: She's a straight-up liar. And she not only hasn't called
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  Speaker 2: the federal government, she's refused to honor these detainer requests,
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  Speaker 2: and she released these criminals back out onto the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Have you become... Bruce Blakeman's campaign manager. I'm just curious
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  Speaker 1: because your little rant just now is all Bruce needs,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, to win. I believe that. And I know
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  Speaker 1: the Gormans love you.
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  Speaker 2: He should be hammering her over this issue.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: And this issue alone.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: She does not care what happens to New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're right. And I had a chance to meet
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  Speaker 1: the Gormans at your rally in Rockland County. It was
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly emotional moment there, too, and you were great.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you brought that up last night. And
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  Speaker 1: when she said you vote with Trump 100% of the time, look,
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  Speaker 1: the president loves you. He did call you a pain
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  Speaker 1: in the ass, but he loves you, Mr. Salt. I
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  Speaker 1: know you love him. You do not. You do not
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  Speaker 1: vote with Trump 100% of the time. In fact, some
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  Speaker 1: people out there call you a rhino. So she lied
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: There's no question. It's provably false. And here's the point
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  Speaker 2: to me. You know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: I'm elected to represent my district and I fight for
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  Speaker 2: my district every day. But fighting for your district also
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  Speaker 2: requires you working to get things done. Is her position
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  Speaker 2: that I should never work with the president? Is her
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  Speaker 2: position that I should just stand on a street corner,
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  Speaker 2: hold a sign and say Orange Man bad? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she has come out in favor of impeachment. She's not
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  Speaker 2: even a member of Congress and she has come out
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  Speaker 2: in favor of impeachment. If she wins, we will have
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  Speaker 2: two years of absolutely nothing. It'll be straight up gridlock.
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  Speaker 2: There will be no ability to get anything done on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of the district because she will waste everybody's time
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  Speaker 2: on impeachment. And the fact is that we need to
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  Speaker 2: deal with real challenges facing the American people, from health
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  Speaker 2: care costs to energy costs to housing costs, all of
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  Speaker 2: which are exponentially higher in the state of New York
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  Speaker 2: than anywhere else in the country. And Democrats control everything
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  Speaker 2: in Albany. and everything in New York City. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I gave her four opportunities yesterday to denounce
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mamdani and his radical anti-Semitism, and she refused.
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  Speaker 1: She refused.
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  Speaker 2: She refused to denounce him.
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  Speaker 1: All four times. She kept talking about, well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really like the DSA. Yes, but denounce Mamdani. She refused
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  Speaker 1: all four times. And to your credit, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about being a... a politician for all. You're a
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  Speaker 1: politician for Republicans and Democrats in Rockland County. You said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I just got an endorsement from a big time Democrat
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  Speaker 1: in Maine. My best friend in Congress is Josh Gottheimer.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Democrat from New Jersey. They did a very
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  Speaker 1: good job last night of pointing out you're not just
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  Speaker 1: there for Republicans. No, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I've consistently been rated among the most bipartisan
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  Speaker 2: precisely because I'm able to navigate through very difficult situations
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  Speaker 2: and build consensus. In order to build consensus, you have
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  Speaker 2: to bring Republicans and Democrats together. It's what I've always
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  Speaker 2: been able to do. It's why I've won in a
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  Speaker 2: two to one Democratic district that has 80,000 more Democrats
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  Speaker 2: than Republicans. That's home to the Clintons and George Soros,
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  Speaker 2: because I go into every community. I've delivered for every community.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Sid, I've done over 2,000 in-person, in-district events
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  Speaker 2: in less than four years. I've closed over 10,000 constituent cases.
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  Speaker 2: We've brought back over $ 120 million to the district in
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  Speaker 2: benefits due and community projects and critical infrastructure projects and
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  Speaker 2: support for law enforcement. I've passed over two dozen bills,
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  Speaker 2: 17 of which have been signed into law. That doesn't
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  Speaker 2: happen if you're a partisan hack. That happens from actually
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  Speaker 2: doing the work. And I can't, for the life of me,
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  Speaker 2: understand Kate Conley's argument. It's her position that you should
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  Speaker 2: just oppose Donald Trump at all costs, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: badly it hurts the people you are elected to represent.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's her position. And I've got to tell you
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  Speaker 1: something else. I know. You talk about denouncing Mamdani, and
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  Speaker 1: anybody who argues... that Mamdani is not an anti-Semite who
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  Speaker 1: says he's not one, who argues that he is, I
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  Speaker 1: should say, is either biased or an idiot. He is
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  Speaker 1: a raging anti-Semite. He is the epitome of an anti-Semite.
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  Speaker 1: He's the worst anti-Semite.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, think about it in this very simple terms. He
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  Speaker 2: called for Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested, okay? A duly elected...
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  Speaker 2: prime minister of a Democratic ally, called for him to
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  Speaker 2: be arrested. Nicolas Maduro, a dictator and thug responsible for
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  Speaker 2: the deaths of thousands of Americans with the illicit drug trade,
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  Speaker 2: and was multiple times indicted by the Southern District of
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  Speaker 2: New York, he calls for him to be released The
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  Speaker 2: only reason you would take that position, other than being
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  Speaker 2: a fucking lunatic, is that you are a raging anti-Semite
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  Speaker 2: and you hate Jews.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Well, my point was... That's the only reason you
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  Speaker 1: would take that position.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So my point was last night, not only did she
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  Speaker 1: not denounce Mamdani, and again, you gave her four opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I listened to her very
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  Speaker 1: carefully over the Israel argument. Do we continue to provide
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  Speaker 1: aid to Israel? You're a champ with that. An absolute champ.
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  Speaker 1: She did not convince me last night that she cares
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  Speaker 1: even a little about Israel despite two or three attempts.
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  Speaker 2: No, listen, she would fall right in line with all
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  Speaker 2: the radical socialists, all the Democrats that want to remove aid.
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  Speaker 2: Her biggest booster in Congress, Pat Ryan, just to the
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  Speaker 2: district north, voted to cut off aid, also said he
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  Speaker 2: no longer wants support from AIPAC, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: is just saying you don't want support from Jewish Americans. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she she will go hook, line and sinker
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  Speaker 2: with these folks. She's got no backbone, no ability to
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  Speaker 2: stand up to them politically. And again, I gave her
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to do it last night. It was easy.
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  Speaker 2: All she had to say is, of course, I reject.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: Right. She didn't do it. Horror Jimmy Kimmel last night.
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  Speaker 1: You guys also had a nice spirited debate with the Haitians,
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  Speaker 1: the Haitian TPS in New York State. Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was entertaining. I mean, she's literally saying that
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  Speaker 2: I did nothing. I mean, I've been the most vocal
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  Speaker 2: in support of extending Haitian TPS in pushing back against
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  Speaker 2: the administration. I passed the bill through the House. I
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  Speaker 2: discharged the bill to extend Haitian TPS. I had people
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  Speaker 2: in my own party attacking me over it. I got
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  Speaker 2: it passed through the House. It's in the Senate. And
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  Speaker 2: she's saying I did nothing. I didn't do my job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a joke. She clearly doesn't understand the
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  Speaker 2: legislative process. But, you know, moreover, I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 2: issue after issue after issue where she just continually lied.
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  Speaker 2: She tried to blame me for New York's high utility bills.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. I mean, it's laughable.
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  Speaker 2: I'm advocating to reopen and rebuild Indian Point to lift
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  Speaker 2: the moratorium on natural gas extraction to build pipelines. And
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  Speaker 2: she wants solar fields everywhere. There's not enough solar panels
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  Speaker 2: and wind turbines to generate the level of electricity that
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  Speaker 2: we need in this country. 70% of electricity is generated
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  Speaker 2: by natural gas. She wants to ban it. You look
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  Speaker 2: at the fact they talk about gas prices. Yes, there
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  Speaker 2: is volatility in the oil market. We want that to
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  Speaker 2: come down. In the Strait of Hormuz, oil is flowing
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  Speaker 2: 94% of what it was prior to the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the war. So we are making progress. We want the
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  Speaker 2: oil flow to happen. But here's the thing. This is
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  Speaker 2: a perfect example of why we need to increase domestic
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  Speaker 2: production of oil and gas. Democrats want to shut off
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  Speaker 2: oil and gas in the United States. They don't want
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  Speaker 2: to increase productivity of more reliant on foreign governments. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want that. I want us to be reliant on
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  Speaker 2: our own sources of energy. I want to be net
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  Speaker 2: energy exporters.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. This is ridiculous. Then she goes on, I'm
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  Speaker 1: all for data centers. I really am. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to slow down AI. She goes, you built five data centers.
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  Speaker 1: Five data centers were built since you took office. And
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  Speaker 1: you go, yeah, none of those were built since I
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  Speaker 1: took office. I mean, the facts matter to this lady?
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  Speaker 1: Any facts? Not in the least.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, all of these data centers are tied
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  Speaker 2: to our financial services industry. Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley,
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  Speaker 2: just across the border, the New York Stock Exchange in Mahwah.
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  Speaker 2: These data centers were built to protect our financial institutions
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  Speaker 2: and our financial information. God forbid there's an attack down
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  Speaker 2: at Wall Street. That was the whole premise behind it
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  Speaker 2: after 9-11. These data centers were approved long before I
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  Speaker 2: ever took office. I don't serve on a zoning board.
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  Speaker 2: I don't serve on a planning board. I had no approval,
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  Speaker 2: no role in the approvals of any of these data centers.
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  Speaker 2: And she's sitting here blaming me for it. Meanwhile, she's
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  Speaker 2: taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from AI companies in
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  Speaker 2: a no-show job that she literally negotiated on her way
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  Speaker 2: out the door of the Biden administration, okay? She wants
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  Speaker 2: to call me corrupt. She literally gets a a no-show
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  Speaker 2: job so that she could move up here from Virginia
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  Speaker 2: to New York to run for Congress. She doesn't own
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  Speaker 2: a house here. She doesn't pay taxes here. She will
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  Speaker 2: leave as quickly as she came when she loses on
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  Speaker 2: November 3rd.
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  Speaker 1: This is not going to be a close race, is it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, are you feeling like because of the amount
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  Speaker 1: of Democrats in that county? I know you never count
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  Speaker 1: the win before it happens. I get all that. But
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  Speaker 1: she's a liar. She's corrupt. She's not even from here.
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  Speaker 1: You become one of our most valued, if not our
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  Speaker 1: best congressperson. Are you telling me this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be close?
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's a tough district, and I take nothing for granted.
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  Speaker 2: It's why I bust my ass. I'm out seven days
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  Speaker 2: a week. My team is working tirelessly, and we're making
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  Speaker 2: the case directly to voters. And I'm proud of my record.
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  Speaker 2: I do not shy away from my votes. I don't
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  Speaker 2: shy away from what I've done. I stand by every
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  Speaker 2: bit of it. And I will defend every position I've taken.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody ever has to guess where I stand. Unlike her,
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  Speaker 2: I actually know what I'm talking about. So when you
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  Speaker 2: look at these issues, the fact is nobody has fought harder.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody has delivered more for my district and New York
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  Speaker 2: in this term. And I will continue to stand up
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  Speaker 2: regardless of who I have to stand up to. To
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  Speaker 2: fight for this district, whether it's Kathy Hochul and Zoran
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani or Donald Trump, I will always do what I
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  Speaker 2: think is in the best interest of Rockland County, Westchester County,
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  Speaker 2: Putnam County and Dutchess County and the state of New York.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to win big. I'm telling you. Last one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm tight with Randy now. Levine, I'll beat
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee game tonight. And he's one of the guys
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  Speaker 1: that helped draw up this Protect Sports Act, which has
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  Speaker 1: gotten through the Senate with 77 votes. Now it's up
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  Speaker 1: to the House. Any real opinion on this new act
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  Speaker 1: to save college sports?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Randy's a constituent and a good friend, and I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate his work on this. Look, it needs to get done.
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  Speaker 2: It's become the wild, wild west in college sports, and
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  Speaker 2: it's killing it. And I think you've got to have
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  Speaker 2: some guardrails here. And so I think the fact that
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  Speaker 2: it got through the Senate, which is normally the biggest impediment,
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  Speaker 2: gives us a great opportunity to get it done before
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year when we get back after
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  Speaker 2: the election.
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  Speaker 1: So it was last night. Your only debate is how
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  Speaker 1: to do this again. I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I challenged her to six and, and she declined
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  Speaker 2: NBC news and CNN. And after watching last night, we
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  Speaker 2: know why, but look, we have one, we have one
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  Speaker 2: more debate scheduled on picks 11 on October 14th.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be curious if she shows up, but look, it's
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  Speaker 2: to me, Voters saw a very clear contrast. And at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, she can call herself a moderate.
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  Speaker 2: She can call herself whatever she wants. The fact is
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  Speaker 2: she supports increasing taxes by $ 4 trillion. She supports open
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  Speaker 2: borders and sanctuary state policy. She supports a government takeover
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  Speaker 2: of health care. These are stated positions that at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, From my vantage point, she would
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  Speaker 2: be an absolute disaster for the state of New York
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  Speaker 2: and for our country. She would be nothing but a
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  Speaker 2: rubber stamp for Zoran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul. I'm the
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  Speaker 2: only thing standing in the way here in the state
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  Speaker 2: of New York, along with, you know, Nicole Malliotakis and
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Garbarino and Nick Lolota, Elise Stefanik and Nick Langworthy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and Claudia Tenney. We're the only things stopping
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  Speaker 2: the all-out push towards socialism here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: All great people, mind you. So for folks who want
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  Speaker 1: to help you today, Mike Lawler, a couple of bucks
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  Speaker 1: before this big election, how do they do that?
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  Speaker 2: Listen, this is a $ 60 million race. The money is
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  Speaker 2: pouring in from all over the country, but we need
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  Speaker 2: everybody's help. If you can spare a few bucks, text
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  Speaker 2: Mike to 85007. That's Mike to 85007 or go to lawlerforcongress.com.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've watched a lot of debates over the years, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not just saying it's because you and I
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  Speaker 1: are close like brothers, which we are, and I love you.
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  Speaker 1: I love you a lot. You really were impressive last night.
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  Speaker 1: That was a beating. I actually said earlier, I felt
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  Speaker 1: badly now that I said it, but I compared it
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  Speaker 1: to Mancini, Dooku, Kim. That guy actually died in the ring.
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  Speaker 1: But that's how badly you beat this lady last night.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations. If you do it again October the 14th,
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  Speaker 1: I expect the same result. And the first week of November,
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  Speaker 1: you will retain that Congress seat, Mike, because you are
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  Speaker 1: the best. Thank you, my good friend.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Sid. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Talk soon. Love you. Thank you. There he is, the
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  Speaker 1: king of Rockland County, Mr. Salt. He's got it right
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