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Karol Markowicz | NY Post Columnist on Bibi's Chances in Israel's National Election · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The amazing columnist from the New York Post, who has
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  Speaker 1: now moved to Florida a couple years now, Carol Markowitz. Carol,
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  Speaker 1: good Boca Raton morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Sid. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. Boy, you're missing so much here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to be kicking yourself in the ass every day.
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  Speaker 2: Am I?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. No, nothing. You're missing nothing. Absolutely nothing. So, B.B.
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  Speaker 1: sends that warm message, and there's a lot of talk
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  Speaker 1: about his election coming up, and You know, there's been
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  Speaker 1: six elections, six over the last couple of years in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Bibi's won five. And almost every time there's always doomsday
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  Speaker 1: predictions about Bibi. But this time around, I'm really getting
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  Speaker 1: this doomsday sense and even a little bit of nervousness
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  Speaker 1: from my friends who work with Bibi. What are your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on this upcoming election?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think nervousness is the right emotion. You
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  Speaker 2: can't be going into an election thinking this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a walk. That's always going to be the
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  Speaker 2: worst thing that you can do. So I like that
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  Speaker 2: Bibi's team is nervous. They should be working really hard.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that they are. And I hope that they
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  Speaker 2: get him across the finish line. So it's tough in Israel.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of parties. He's not just competing against
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  Speaker 2: one person. He could be competing against several people who
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  Speaker 2: form a coalition, and that's that. So this idea that
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  Speaker 2: Bibi is going to win it in a walk. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely tough.
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  Speaker 1: It is very tough. So, you know, I had a
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  Speaker 1: off the air conversation yesterday about my meeting tomorrow with
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  Speaker 1: the vice president of the United States, which is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen three o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the West Wing
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  Speaker 1: of the White House. And J.D. Vance yesterday somewhere, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Heather Johnson found this.
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  Speaker 2: He says all in conference. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What was it called?
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  Speaker 2: At the all in conference, the all in podcast, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. He says we cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign
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  Speaker 1: policy be subservient to the state of Israel. Let me
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  Speaker 1: just say this, okay? There's a bunch of people in
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  Speaker 1: this administration who agree with J.D. I'm telling you that
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  Speaker 1: not as an opinion, as a fact, but he's the
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  Speaker 1: guy running for president. And again, like they say in tennis,
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  Speaker 1: this is an unforced error. You got to be smarter
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  Speaker 1: the way you say it. You may feel that way
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  Speaker 1: and you may even be right. You may be. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he is, but you may be right. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to run for president, don't you have
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  Speaker 1: to be a little smarter in your presentation?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would say that I think he is very
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  Speaker 2: much walking this line. I think this was all on purpose.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he said it by accident. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he thoughtlessly said this. I think he said it
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  Speaker 2: with intent. And here's the thing. If you read the
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  Speaker 2: whole quote, it's actually, yes, he absolutely said that. It's
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  Speaker 2: a ridiculous thing to say. I fully agree. the whole quote,
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  Speaker 2: what he's trying to say is that Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 2: separated from Israel and that he doesn't always agree with
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  Speaker 2: Israel and that this is the first administration ever to
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  Speaker 2: not always agree with Israel. And so he says that
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  Speaker 2: that's the correct way to do it and that you
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  Speaker 2: can't be subservient to NATO and you can't be subservient
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  Speaker 2: to Israel. That's the whole quote. Listen, if he governs
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  Speaker 2: as president with the same close relationship that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: governs with Israel, I mean, that'll be great, right? He's
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  Speaker 2: saying that Donald Trump is not always supportive of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm saying if that's what non-supportive looks like, we'll
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  Speaker 2: take it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. You're right. And he's right
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  Speaker 1: about that. I mean, Trump comes out, he blasts Bibi,
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  Speaker 1: he embarrasses Bibi. You know, he very rarely says bad
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  Speaker 1: things about people like Putin, for example, or some of
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  Speaker 1: these real, real awful people. But he'll come out and
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  Speaker 1: call Bibi an upping moron. He does do that. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's also, you know, calculated on Trump's part
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  Speaker 1: because he knows that Bibi's not going to get angry.
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  Speaker 1: And he has to, to a certain extent, like Vance
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  Speaker 1: did yesterday, kind of appease to this crowd, not huge,
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  Speaker 1: not the biggest in America, but certainly this crowd of
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  Speaker 1: people that wake up every day hating Israel. He knows that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a miscalculation to do that. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you that Trump definitely pops off on Bibi.
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  Speaker 2: And I do think it's a calculation. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: when he's trying to get deals with his Arab partners.
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  Speaker 2: I completely think that that happens. But I think what
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  Speaker 2: Trump and Bibi have is a very close, tight relationship. Again,
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  Speaker 2: if we could have a relationship between the U.S. president
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  Speaker 2: and the prime minister of Israel that mimics Trump and
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  Speaker 2: Bibi going forward, I would be very, very happy with that.
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  Speaker 2: Trump is the most pro-Israel president we have ever had,
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  Speaker 2: bar none. So if Vance is saying that the way
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  Speaker 2: Trump is towards Israel is the way that it should be, great.
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  Speaker 2: Bring that forward. Let's have that happen moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: One more on Vance. A lot of people have contacted
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  Speaker 1: me the last two days. Big, big, big, big, big
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  Speaker 1: people like Trump, but really big people. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: do you expect that by the time you leave that
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  Speaker 1: office tomorrow, he will have already or at least sometime
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  Speaker 1: in the near future repudiate or condemn Tucker Carlson? And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to or not. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make it very clear to him that reminding
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  Speaker 1: people every day that that's your buddy. Forget about the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish stuff for a second. Put the Jews aside. This
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  Speaker 1: guy calls Trump the Antichrist. This guy says that Trump
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  Speaker 1: is evil. Trump's a bad guy. So now what you've
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  Speaker 1: done is now you've got the Jews against you. Now
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  Speaker 1: you've got the Trump supporters against you. Now you've got
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish Trump supporters against you. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he's going to do that tomorrow or not. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to ask him to. But do you agree that
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  Speaker 1: somewhere down the road he must do that if, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio runs?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that Rubio is signaling he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to run. So we'll just set that aside for now.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is, it's not that he must do that.
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  Speaker 2: It's that he obviously will do that. To me, it
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  Speaker 2: is an obvious thing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so look, right now, who is telling him to
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  Speaker 2: repudiate Tucker Carlson? His friends, his friends. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: are his friends. We want him to win. We want
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  Speaker 2: him to succeed. We don't want Vance to go down
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  Speaker 2: in flames. We don't want president AOC, right? So this
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  Speaker 2: is his friends talking to him right now saying you
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  Speaker 2: should really repudiate this lunatic that's attached to you. Who
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  Speaker 2: will it be in the general election pinning Tucker Carlson
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  Speaker 2: to him? It won't be his friends anymore. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: the New York Times. It'll be the Washington Post. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be all the liberal news stations. They will tie him.
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  Speaker 2: If you think that the way Abdul El-Sayed is tied
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  Speaker 2: to Hassan Piker is something right now, just wait to
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  Speaker 2: see what they do to J.D. Vance when he's running
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  Speaker 2: against you know, AOC or Gavin Newsom. He will become
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  Speaker 2: the person that they talk about all day, every day. J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance has to see that coming. I've tweeted this. Tucker
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  Speaker 2: Carlson is an anvil tied to J.D. Vance's leg. So J.D.
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  Speaker 2: will have to untie that at some point. I recommend
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  Speaker 2: he do it sooner rather than later for his own
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  Speaker 2: political strategy. But if he doesn't want to, believe me,
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  Speaker 2: the liberal media will absolutely... pin Tucker to him and
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  Speaker 2: make him be his bestest friend going into the general election.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. And look, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in this town that are, you know, not mad
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  Speaker 1: at me because they love me, but they're, you know, upset.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like Ina Vernacor, for example, love her, a
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  Speaker 1: great Brooklyn councilwoman. She's going on and on. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't trust me because of Tucker. Sweetheart, you're not
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  Speaker 1: telling me anything I don't know, okay? I know that.
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  Speaker 1: But when you talk about friends, that's why J.D. wants
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  Speaker 1: me there tomorrow because I do like him. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like him as much as Marco Rubio. His people know that.
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  Speaker 1: They know that. I don't like him as much as
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  Speaker 1: I like Ted Cruz. They know that, too. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: at best, at best, J.D. is third or fourth on
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  Speaker 1: my list. But I don't dislike him. I don't dislike him.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, if he's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: nominee for the Republicans, I'm not voting for AOC. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not endorsing Kamala Harris or any of those lunatics. So
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  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm going to have to make this
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  Speaker 1: trip tomorrow and tell him what we want, what we need,
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  Speaker 1: what he needs, in my opinion, to do to succeed.
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  Speaker 2: The last vice president who won a presidential election is
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  Speaker 2: George H.W. Bush. That was a really long time ago.
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  Speaker 3: So J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance should think about that. He should think about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the country doesn't normally elect the vice president.
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  Speaker 2: make him president. He's going to need all the support
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  Speaker 2: he can get. And the tiny sliver of the Republican
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  Speaker 2: Party that is anti-Israel, and it is a tiny sliver,
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  Speaker 2: he should really consider that they are not going to
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  Speaker 2: be the ones who support him when it comes down
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  Speaker 2: to it. The Republican Party remains a pro-Israel party because
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  Speaker 2: why wouldn't you be? Why wouldn't you be? It has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with Jews in America. It has to
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  Speaker 2: do with the fact that Israel is a capable, strong
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  Speaker 2: country in the Middle East, our absolute best ally, the
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  Speaker 2: one that would come to our aid at any moment
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  Speaker 2: and would do it so capably. So that's what J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance needs to understand. It's not about shared values. It's
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  Speaker 2: not about anything like that. It is about that we
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  Speaker 2: need them and they need us, and it is a
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  Speaker 2: symbiotic relationship that is supported by.
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  Speaker 1: And should be supported.
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  Speaker 2: 100%.
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  Speaker 1: This is the amazing New York Post columnist, Carol Markowitz.
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  Speaker 1: So you won the Tweet of the Day competition. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you know that exists, but it does.
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  Speaker 1: And you won. Congratulations. Here it was, folks, yesterday. Carol Markowitz,
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  Speaker 1: so good. She goes, Matis Yahu had shows canceled. Michael Rappaport,
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  Speaker 1: my dear friend, had shows canceled. Jewish artists were kicked
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  Speaker 1: out of the satellite art show in Miami Beach last year. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: ChatGuard didn't even include these in a list of Jews
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  Speaker 1: with canceled shows. But wait, I'm supposed to care about Macklemore?
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Here's the good news. Either do I. Give
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  Speaker 1: me a break, Harold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. You know, for years now, since October 7th,
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  Speaker 2: Jews have been getting canceled all over the place. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the line that they use is, oh, security concerns.
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  Speaker 2: We have security concerns. I mean, forget about Jews. The
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  Speaker 2: Daily Wire was supposed to premiere their movie in Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 2: Alamo Drafthouse in Washington, D.C. this week. That got canceled
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  Speaker 2: because they have the wrong opinion, and they got pressure,
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  Speaker 2: and they canceled their screening. I mean, it happens all
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  Speaker 2: the time to Jews, to conservatives. I'm supposed to care
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  Speaker 2: about this no-talent Macklemore guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. And I think that the Jews are
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  Speaker 2: doing the right thing. You know, I love Robert Kraft.
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  Speaker 2: His blue square thing, I'm super not into. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be a victim. I want to be like
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  Speaker 2: he is right now, strong and capable and saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're not performing in my arena. And that's that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's still too wishy-washy for me. He did great
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  Speaker 1: there by saying you can't perform at Gillette Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: I know he is. I love him. It's not our thing.
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  Speaker 2: Style, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. I don't want to hear about the
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  Speaker 1: other side. That's what it is. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Even now, he's like, oh, I'll sit down with Macklemore. No!
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  Speaker 2: Don't sit down with Macklemore. Don't sit down with Macklemore.
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  Speaker 1: Well, people go, but you're sitting down with Katie Vance.
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  Speaker 1: You morons. He's the Vice President of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: He's not some crappy entertainer. It's not the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm tired of the... What about the other side?
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  Speaker 1: To me, it's a very, very... I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 1: last night, I was watching TV with my beautiful wife, Danielle.
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  Speaker 1: And season five just came out, just came out for Fowder. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that show. Love it. And when we
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  Speaker 1: watched the first four seasons and like one night, we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stop watching it. So season five just came out.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the episodes in season five is all
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  Speaker 1: about October the 7th. Right. And I'm telling you that
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson is All these losers, Candace Owens, even Kraft,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the other side, they should see this. Because
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  Speaker 1: in this episode, one of the stars that's been on
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  Speaker 1: the show since the first episode, they show that his family,
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  Speaker 1: his wife, his 17-year-old daughter, and 15-year-old son were murdered.
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  Speaker 1: But his wife was raped first, and then he quote-unquote
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  Speaker 1: slaughtered her. But the scenes they show at the Nova
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  Speaker 1: Festival of young, beautiful people, which happen in real life,
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  Speaker 1: getting murdered. I'm telling you, for all you idiots out
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  Speaker 1: there that think this is a two-sided issue and we're
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  Speaker 1: committing genocide, which we're not. We are not. Go watch
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  Speaker 1: season five of Fowler. Learn something. That's the problem. They're ignorant,
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  Speaker 1: stupid people getting information from podcasters. Learn something. No? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And, you know, I mean, podcasters is like
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  Speaker 2: the higher end. They're getting information from TikTok videos promoted
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  Speaker 2: to them by China. And it's a really bad situation
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  Speaker 2: that we have to deal with kind of this low
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  Speaker 2: information situation in America. Israel is our best friend. They also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I said earlier, the values are not important,
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  Speaker 2: but they kind of are. We do share values with them.
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  Speaker 2: We share Western values of freedom and democracy and openness
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  Speaker 2: and all of that. And the fact is that they
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  Speaker 2: are like us over there. That's who Israel is. Israel
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  Speaker 2: is most similar to America in the Middle East. And
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  Speaker 2: we have to preserve that. The fact that October 7th
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  Speaker 2: was this gruesome, brutal day and people took from that
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  Speaker 2: to help destroy Israel now that it was on its knees,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was really eye-opening for a lot of us.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, that FATA, it's It's telling a story that
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  Speaker 2: needs to be told. I don't know that the right
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  Speaker 2: people will hear it, but I hope that people like J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance will.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell them tomorrow. J.D. Vance this week,
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  Speaker 1: I swear to God, he mentioned a TV show that
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  Speaker 1: I happen to love. I happen to love it. He
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  Speaker 1: was talking about Emily in Paris. I love that show.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. Bill Collins' daughter is the star of the show.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, this is what it should be all about.
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  Speaker 1: It's about marriage. It's about love. People should be married.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great message from J.D. Vance yesterday. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say it tomorrow. I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: I'll make sure I catch up on Emily in Paris
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  Speaker 1: if you catch up on Fowler. How about that, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Vice President?
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see what he has to say.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: One more on the way out. The only time you
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: and I had a fight, and it was a real fight.
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  Speaker 1: It was a real fight. I was in my own
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  Speaker 1: gym at the YMCA, which I stopped going to because
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  Speaker 1: you had a Black Lives Matter banner over the pool,
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  Speaker 1: so I quit. Now we got a great gym with
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: all-American flags, my buddy Sean Cerrone, burn fitness. But I
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  Speaker 1: remember working out and calling you and arguing about Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Ron DeSantis. You remember this? Yep. It was a
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  Speaker 1: real fight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You mouthed off on me. And Trump and I are doing.
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  Speaker 1: So here's DeSantis, who's the best governor in the country.
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  Speaker 1: I like Abbott, but DeSantis is the best. Yeah, easy call.
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  Speaker 1: Not even close.
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  Speaker 2: I would say he's the best governor in the history.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even think of. a better governor? Who has
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  Speaker 2: moved the conservative agenda forward more than Ron DeSantis, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're right. I mean, a lot of people think
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  Speaker 1: Rick Scott was great, too, but maybe you're right. When
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  Speaker 1: I lived there, Rick Scott was a governor, but maybe DeSantis.
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  Speaker 1: So were you kind of curious as to why he
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  Speaker 1: did not speak in Dallas last week, and do you
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  Speaker 1: think he will definitely run for president?
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. I, you know, I hadn't really thought about why
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  Speaker 2: he didn't speak in Dallas, but now, now looking back
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  Speaker 2: at it, it was, I felt a real administration push. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, that, that I feel like they definitely should
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  Speaker 2: have had him. And I, I didn't even realize he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't there. Will he run for president? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think again, he is the greatest governor, you know, ever. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but presidential shot seems at least this time around pretty
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  Speaker 2: out of reach. I think Trump is going to be
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  Speaker 2: making the decision as to who the nominee is going
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  Speaker 2: to be. His endorsement will be everything, and I just
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  Speaker 2: don't think that that endorsement will go to Ron DeSantis.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't like him. I think they have a much
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: better relationship now than they did, and I think that
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: that's the way it has to go, right? You have
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: to Look, Rubio ran against Trump. They are now bestest
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: of friends. I mean, Vance called Trump a Nazi years ago.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: He's now his vice president. You have to forgive and
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: move on, especially in politics. So I don't know. I
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: think that Trump is going to be the kingmaker. I
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: think everybody knows that. And we'll see if Vance remains
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: the guy that he picks, right? I mean, we're all
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: talking about it like that's a given, but Donald Trump
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: loves to put on a good show. You really never
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: know what he's going to do. No.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, who could have thought?
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: He likes to keep us guessing.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Who could have predicted J.D. Vance was going to be
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: his running mate this time around? I mean, everybody who
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: talked to says his kid, Junior, went up to him
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: and said, Dad, that's the guy. You got to see
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: this movie, Hillbilly Elegy. What a great story. No one
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: was talking about J.D. Vance. We were talking about Elise Stefanik.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: We were talking about, you know, a variety of people,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: but he does shock you. But I do feel like J.D.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Vance is the guy. And in fact, look, let's be honest,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: in a primary right now, as great as a governor
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: as Ron DeSantis was, he would get whacked by both
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Vance and Rubio in a primary.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Whacked. Right. Yeah. I mean, that's why I don't think
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: he even considers it is my guess. But where does
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz fit in? If it becomes the Vance Lane
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and he keeps pushing away allies of the Republican Party,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: does Cruz have a possibility? Vance made kind of a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: joke about him being unlikable, but I have always liked J.D. Vance.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I actually read Hillbilly Elegy when it came out and
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I thought it was fantastic. I thought he was great.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: But if he keeps pushing people away, he opens up
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: other lanes for people to run against him. And I
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: think that's a questionable move.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think there's any love lost between Teddy and,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know this, and J.D., and I think they're
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: going to be, Ted has already said some things. He
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: actually said about J.D. Vance a couple of weeks ago, publicly,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: he's not ready for this job. Ted Cruz said that. So,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: it may get a little ugly between Teddy politics and J.D.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Vance.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: All that, still to come, as always, Carol Markowitz, you're amazing,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I love you, thank you.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Ah, come on, God bless you, you're great. Carol Markowitz
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: right there, the amazing New York Post columnist who left
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: New York and went to Florida. And we're all coming eventually, Carol,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Wes Boca, find a nice place for me,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: will you?
• 18:10
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