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Anthony D'Esposito | U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General Was In Attendance for Blakeman vs. Hochul NY Gubernatorial Debate · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So, of course, we've been talking all morning long about
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  Speaker 1: the debate last night. Again, at the risk of repeating
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  Speaker 1: myself all morning long, I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: To do it.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman wiped the floor with the incumbent, the current governor,
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul, last night.
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  Speaker 2: She was embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: I got to say, the only debate performance that I've
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  Speaker 1: seen in the last many, many years that was worse
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  Speaker 1: than Hochul last night was probably Joe Biden versus Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I said this earlier this morning. I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, I actually thought she was stroking out.
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  Speaker 1: She was so terrible, and Bruce was so solid. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to get as many opinions as possible. This
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  Speaker 1: fine gentleman was in that audience there last night with
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  Speaker 1: Peter King, who's coming up next, Joe Cairo, and the
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  Speaker 1: amazing police commissioner of Nassau County, Patty Ryder. He happens
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  Speaker 1: to be President Trump's general inspector for his Labor Department
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  Speaker 1: and was, not that long ago, one of our most
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  Speaker 1: valued congressmen, my dear, dear friend, my brother, Anthony D'Esposito.
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  Speaker 2: Tony D., good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Big Sid. So, first of all, I just
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  Speaker 3: want to make something very clear. I am discussing this
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  Speaker 3: debate in my personal capacity and in no connection with
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration. That said, last night's debate was an
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  Speaker 3: absolute indictment of the failures of Kathy Hochul and her
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  Speaker 3: inability to govern the state of New York. Chairman Cairo
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  Speaker 3: got a bunch of us together. We were actually not
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  Speaker 3: in the audience at the debate. We were watching from
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  Speaker 3: Sarada at King Umberto, myself, Peter King, Chairman Cairo. Like
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned, Commissioner Ryder was there, a bunch of others.
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  Speaker 3: And we were all in agreement, not because Bruce is
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  Speaker 3: a great county executive, not because Bruce is our friend,
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  Speaker 3: not because Bruce is a great leader, but because... He
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  Speaker 3: performed by far and away in an exceptional manner last night.
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  Speaker 3: No questions asked. Bruce won that debate hands down, and
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  Speaker 3: I think he did. fantastic job dismantling all of the
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  Speaker 3: nonsense and BS that Kathy Hochul and the Democrats have
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  Speaker 3: tried to spew over the last, especially the last few months.
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  Speaker 3: He was, I think the words I used last night
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  Speaker 3: was he was like a surgeon. He went in there
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  Speaker 3: and piece by piece, he discussed the things that Kathy
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  Speaker 3: Hochul has done to make our state less affordable, to
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  Speaker 3: make our state tough to live in. The reasons as
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  Speaker 3: to why we are last in economic growth. The reason
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  Speaker 3: as to why so many people are fleeing New York
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  Speaker 3: State for elsewhere because they can't afford to live here.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that she hasn't supported law enforcement. And obviously,
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  Speaker 3: her support of the Democratic Socialist anti-Semite who now leads
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  Speaker 3: the city of New York, Zoran Mondami. And the only
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  Speaker 3: answer that she could give over and over and over
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  Speaker 3: again was Donald Trump, Donald Trump. I've never seen, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we talk about people pretty often that are suffering from
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  Speaker 3: Trump derangement syndrome. She, by far and away, might be
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  Speaker 3: the leader of it because Everything that she talked about,
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  Speaker 3: she just kept leaning back to Donald Trump. And I
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  Speaker 3: have to say, again, Bruce did a great job. He
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  Speaker 3: talked about all of the positives that we've had in
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  Speaker 3: the last two years because of Donald Trump, like a
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  Speaker 3: secure border, like record investment in the United States of America,
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  Speaker 3: like making sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 3: to hurt us and our allies. I mean, there are
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  Speaker 3: many things. And he also reminded the fact that one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons as to why things do cost a
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  Speaker 3: little more these days is because he inherited the worst
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  Speaker 3: economy in probably modern history from Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: That is the bottom line. Look, I was even surprised
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  Speaker 1: last night. I had people like George Pataki on yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: the last Republican governor in Bob Holden, the amazing Democrat
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  Speaker 1: former city council member, they're both endorsing Blakeman, and we
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  Speaker 1: all agreed she was gonna go to Trump. Trump, but
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  Speaker 1: no one could have imagined, I'm sorry, nobody could have
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  Speaker 1: imagined that she would mention President Trump nearly as much
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  Speaker 1: as she did last night. I went to AI this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the exact number, exact number, how
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  Speaker 1: many times she mentioned Trump. All AI said this morning
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  Speaker 1: was more than a dozen.
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  Speaker 2: A dozen?
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  Speaker 1: She must have mentioned his name 50 times last night.
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  Speaker 2: That was her preparation for last night's debate?
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  Speaker 3: And you're absolutely right, and I think that speaks volumes
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  Speaker 3: and should really tell the story to the state of
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  Speaker 3: New York and the people who are going to cast
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  Speaker 3: their ballot. There was no way that Kathy Hochul prepared
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  Speaker 3: herself for last night's debate. And that really should tell
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  Speaker 3: New Yorkers like you and I that this debate and
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  Speaker 3: what she sees as this race can't be that important
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  Speaker 3: if you don't want to take the time to prepare yourself.
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  Speaker 3: to educate yourself with real facts and be able to
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  Speaker 3: go at Blake. And listen, there are things that she's
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  Speaker 3: done that she's made those decisions. And perhaps she does
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  Speaker 3: believe in them. Well, then defend them and tell the
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  Speaker 3: people of New York why you did it. But to
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  Speaker 3: just say that, I mean, you know, I think they
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  Speaker 3: talked about, you know, a lunch that Bruce had when
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  Speaker 3: he was six years old. And somehow that too was
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's fault.
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  Speaker 2: I know, so silly.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony D'Esposito joining me this morning, former congressman and now
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job for President Trump's Labor Department. He's
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  Speaker 1: a general inspector, although he's just coming on this morning
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  Speaker 1: as Anthony D'Esposito, folks. He made that point earlier. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the issue, of course, the one stick issue was what
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  Speaker 1: happened here in New York, Marble Hill last week when
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents shot this loser, this lowlife, this gang-banging criminal,
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  Speaker 1: Oscar Belgal. And, of course, Kathy Hochul made him the victim.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth is, is that he was shot, and
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  Speaker 1: no one is happy. When you fire in a car
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  Speaker 1: where there's a five-year-old, nobody is happy. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have Mark Wayne Mullen on this show coming up at 9.40
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I'm sure they're going to investigate why that
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  Speaker 1: was the case.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 1: But much like George Floyd, Anthony, George Floyd was a lowlife.
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  Speaker 1: He was arrested nine times. He put a gun in
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  Speaker 1: a pregnant woman's stomach. He was hardly a hero. And
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  Speaker 1: we've got statues and murals as if George Floyd, who
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  Speaker 1: never should have died, that's true, as if he was
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  Speaker 1: a good man.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with Oscar Belgal.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is a horrible person. He never should have
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  Speaker 1: been here in the first place. And Kathy Hochul wanted
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  Speaker 1: no part of that conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. And let's break it down very simplistically. And when
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  Speaker 3: you talk to my friend Mark Wayne Mullen a little while,
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  Speaker 3: you can say that I said this. Forget the fact
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  Speaker 3: that this guy's a bad dude. Forget the fact that
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  Speaker 3: this guy is a gangbanger. Forget the fact that this
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  Speaker 3: guy has been arrested and released, only released because of
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  Speaker 3: the laws that Kathy Hochul has put into place. Let's
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  Speaker 3: put all of that aside. I've worn the uniform. I've
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  Speaker 3: been in situations like that. When somebody is driving a
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  Speaker 3: car at you, that is considered deadly physical force. And
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  Speaker 3: we are taught... Obviously, there's an escalation of force, but
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  Speaker 3: we are taught that when you are presented with deadly
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  Speaker 3: physical force, you respond with deadly physical force. That's the
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  Speaker 3: basics of it. It doesn't even matter what he's done
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that. The fact is, now we know that, yes,
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  Speaker 3: he was a gangbanger. Now we know that he was
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  Speaker 3: a drug dealer. Now we know that he's been arrested
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of times and released because of Kathy Hochul's
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  Speaker 3: crappy laws. Now we know that he was in this
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  Speaker 3: country illegally. illegally. It doesn't matter who was in the backseat.
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  Speaker 3: That's his fault. He shouldn't have been driving around being
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  Speaker 3: a perp and here illegally with a five-year-old in the backseat.
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  Speaker 3: The fact is that we shouldn't be Monday morning quarterbacking
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  Speaker 3: any agents or any law enforcement professionals until the investigation
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  Speaker 3: is conducted, and that is being done. But on the
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  Speaker 3: basics of it, when you just look at what happened,
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  Speaker 3: you have a The 2,000-pound vehicle being driven towards you,
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  Speaker 3: that's deadly physical force. If anybody in this country can
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  Speaker 3: tell me that they can get hit by a car
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  Speaker 3: and survive or think that they survive, well, then they
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  Speaker 3: can explain as to why that's not deadly physical force.
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  Speaker 3: The agents had to make a split-second decision. We've had
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  Speaker 3: this conversation before, and I stand by it. There's very...
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  Speaker 3: few cops that dislike, you know, good cops dislike bad
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  Speaker 3: cops the most. And the fact is, is that mostly
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  Speaker 3: no cops go out there to do the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 3: They're making split second decision, knowing that you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have elected officials and people like Kathy Hochul and Zoran
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  Speaker 3: Mondami and others who are not going to have your back.
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  Speaker 3: And I say this all the time, and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to say it right now. We have never had a
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  Speaker 3: better friend to law enforcement. not just federal agents, not local, state.
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  Speaker 3: We have never had a better friend to law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: than we do right now with President Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 3: And these individuals and this situation will be investigated. They
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  Speaker 3: will find the facts. And if people did something wrong,
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  Speaker 3: But by the first view of it, the fact is
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  Speaker 3: that when you're getting a car driven at you, that
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  Speaker 3: can kill you. So you meet physical force with physical–
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  Speaker 3: equal physical force, and that's what happened. The fact is
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  Speaker 3: that Kathy Hochul should be defending law-abiding citizens, the people
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  Speaker 3: who can't walk around New York City anymore because they're
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  Speaker 3: afraid of what's going to happen. That's who she should
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  Speaker 3: be defending. But instead, the real sad part about this
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  Speaker 3: is she's pandering to the lowlights who she's trying to
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  Speaker 3: get their votes from to say that this is all
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  Speaker 3: ISIS fault. Nonsense. The fact is that she's created a
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  Speaker 3: less safe place. She's embracing people like Zohra Mondami who
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  Speaker 3: want to dismantle and defund the police and destroy any
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  Speaker 3: working relationships between federal agencies and local agencies. That's the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that she believes in. Her stupid idea of putting
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  Speaker 3: signs in Times Square, this is a no-gun zone. It's
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  Speaker 3: the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I've taken hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of guns off the street. Never once have I... cased
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  Speaker 3: after someone with an illegal firearm, and when it was
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  Speaker 3: all done, they came to me and said, oh, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, here's my gun permit. It's so ridiculously stupid
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  Speaker 3: that that's the problem, is that she keeps pandering to
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  Speaker 3: certain individuals. She's wrong. The fact is that Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 3: has continued to invest in Nassau County Police Department, in
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  Speaker 3: our Sheriff's Department, in our Corrections Department. He has worked
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  Speaker 3: every single day with these collaborations to make Nassau County safer.
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  Speaker 3: And people see it. I'm on the ground in Nassau County.
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  Speaker 3: I hear from Democrats, from independents who say, hands down,
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  Speaker 3: Bruce is and has worked with the police department to
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  Speaker 3: make Nassau County as safe as it can. The proof,
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  Speaker 3: the proof is there.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't raised taxes. Nassau County people want to come.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, one last thing. She tried to criticize home
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  Speaker 3: values in Nassau County. I think she said the average
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  Speaker 3: home in Nassau County is nine hundred and something thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: where two and a half years ago it was 650.
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  Speaker 3: And again, Bruce made a perfect point. So you're criticizing
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  Speaker 3: me because two and a half years ago you spent $ 650, 000
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  Speaker 3: on a house, and now your investment is worth $ 950, 000?
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  Speaker 3: That's a pretty damn good play. Why? Because people want
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  Speaker 3: to move to Nassau County because... It's a solid investment.
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  Speaker 3: It's a place where your kids want to go to school.
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  Speaker 3: It's a place where you want to get kept safe. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if he can mirror what he's done in
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  Speaker 3: Nassau County throughout New York State, we will make New
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  Speaker 3: York great again. And I think Bruce did a fantastic
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  Speaker 3: job on the debate last night.
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  Speaker 2: So do I. Anthony D'Esposito, it's always great to have
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  Speaker 2: you this morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love you. I'm in total agreement with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think the exact numbers were 600,000 to 850, but
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  Speaker 1: either way. the values of the homes in Nassau County
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  Speaker 1: going up. Anthony, great job as always. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Sid, be good.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Anthony D'Esposito right there, my dear friend. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, once again, the general inspector for President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: Labor Department. Peter King coming up next. Then we'll go
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  Speaker 1: to Mike Lawler. Then we will go to the man himself.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman will be here at about 8.50 this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And Mark Wayne Mullen. Huge show Wednesday morning. Sid and
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  Speaker 1: friends in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck is going on here?