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John Solomon | Founder of "Just the News" | 05-29-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: John Solomon is a regular on this show now.
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  Speaker 3: He was on with Katz and Cosby a thousand times
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  Speaker 3: and I heard him and I said, Justin, this guy,
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  Speaker 3: John's good, and Justin goes, yeah, he's good. He's on
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  Speaker 3: them all the time. I said, let's book them. And
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  Speaker 3: I think he's been on now three times in the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: He's back today. John, Good morning, buddy, how are you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm great. My whole family loves your show.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, well, I love your whole family. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I love you too. Thank you for telling me that.
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  Speaker 3: That means a lot to me. You know, John has
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  Speaker 3: millions of followers. He's a really smart guy. And you
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  Speaker 3: listen to him for ten minutes, you know why people
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  Speaker 3: love him. Let's get right to Iron. I just didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I just had Katie mcfalling on moments ago. But I
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  Speaker 3: want to get your take too. I've been saying, and
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  Speaker 3: no one loves Trump more than me. I was with
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  Speaker 3: him again last party. I love him, I adore him.
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  Speaker 3: He does nothing wrong in my eyes. But we're stuck.
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  Speaker 3: That's the word. People hate using that word.
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  Speaker 2: They hate it the.
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  Speaker 3: You stalemate of the words. We're stuck. That's why he
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  Speaker 3: keeps talking about more.
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  Speaker 4: No one wants to hear quagmire.
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  Speaker 2: But right so, what term would you use?
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, I think there's one of the things you
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  Speaker 4: have to watch in a moment like this is that
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  Speaker 4: what we see publicly may not be what's really going
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  Speaker 4: on behind the scenes. And I think that's one of
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  Speaker 4: the big things I'm learning in my reporting. So right
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  Speaker 4: now it looks like we're in the quagmire. Why Iron
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  Speaker 4: looks like they want to wait this out. They played
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  Speaker 4: the cat and mouse game. They surface, we bomb them,
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  Speaker 4: they stopped for a few days. Behind the scenes and
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  Speaker 4: the private negotiations, the Iranians are sending a very different signal.
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  Speaker 4: In the private chats with Jared Kushner and Steve Wikoff,
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  Speaker 4: and that is we are tired, We're exhausted. We don't
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  Speaker 4: have the ability to fight to long term. Our economy
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  Speaker 4: is in a very difficult shape. But we're bifurcated. Our
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  Speaker 4: leadership is scattered across the country, hiding because if we
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  Speaker 4: talk on the phone, you kill us. We need to
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  Speaker 4: get consensus, but there are a growing number of civilian leaders,
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  Speaker 4: crazy molas, that feel like they've had enough of this
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  Speaker 4: conflict and they want to make a deal. President Trump
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  Speaker 4: is incredibly cognizant that Iran has a forty seven year
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  Speaker 4: now forty eight year record of being untrustworthy on every issue. However,
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  Speaker 4: the signals that his experts on the front lines are getting,
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  Speaker 4: he thinks it's worth letting you play out. Of the
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  Speaker 4: why they're let it play out a long time, He's
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  Speaker 4: going to play out a little bit. The intelligence they
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  Speaker 4: do get when they get intercepts is that Iran is
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  Speaker 4: beaten down, Their economy is really worried. Even the IRGC,
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  Speaker 4: with all of their rhetoric, is starting to feel the pain.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, some of the IRGC has fled up towards Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 4: Gives you a sense that they might be exit in
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  Speaker 4: the country to get out of dodge. So I think
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  Speaker 4: the President wants to let this play out, but he
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  Speaker 4: is not in any way wet behind the ears and
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  Speaker 4: about to be taken for a bad day. He will
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  Speaker 4: only make a deal if the three principles that he
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  Speaker 4: has put out there are met, which is, no nuclear program,
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  Speaker 4: you get rid of the uranium, and the strait of
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  Speaker 4: her moves has to be open. Now he is willing
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  Speaker 4: to say, Iran can have control of the stay of
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  Speaker 4: her moves, you have to leave it open. Has to
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  Speaker 4: be a free and open passageway. So that is the
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  Speaker 4: The Iranians know that those are three non movable ideas,
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  Speaker 4: and they still have agreed to the sixty day seasfire.
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  Speaker 4: So what we hear publicly, what we see with our
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  Speaker 4: eyes is menacing, but behind the scenes there are signals
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  Speaker 4: that they would like to make a deal. President Trump
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  Speaker 4: will play that out, but he is not afraid to
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  Speaker 4: start slinging missiles. And I think the next time he
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  Speaker 4: goes after Iran, if Iran acts badly going forward, I
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  Speaker 4: think you'll see the deployment for the first time in
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  Speaker 4: American history of laser weapons from space. You want a
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  Speaker 4: little shock and all Iron will show you shot and
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  Speaker 4: all those weapons are able to melt down into the
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  Speaker 4: ground in big ways and cause massive damage that the
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  Speaker 4: world has never seen before. So if Iron wants to
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  Speaker 4: test the next level of American weaponry, they might get
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  Speaker 4: a bad dayste to it soon. I think in the
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  Speaker 4: short term, the President feels the signals in the private
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  Speaker 4: setting are legitimate, He's going to let them play out,
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  Speaker 4: but he is not going to make a bad deal.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the things that was very important yesterday
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  Speaker 4: was the Secretary Bessant. He said, no sanctions relief, No
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  Speaker 4: sanctions relief until we have the uranium and the nuclear
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  Speaker 4: program has ended. So if they were not giving away
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  Speaker 4: stuff like Barack Obama did, you're going to have to
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  Speaker 4: make a major concession that the world has waited for
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  Speaker 4: for two decades before you get any sanctions relief. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's another that's the fourth now line in the sand.
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  Speaker 4: Iron's aware of that made this deal, So let's see
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  Speaker 4: where it gets. I think we should give the present
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more time. Iron is unbelievably untrustworthy, but
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  Speaker 4: I do think they're more beaten down than the media
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  Speaker 4: has led us to believe, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Them all the time. He wants, I'm not the problem.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote for Republican
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  Speaker 3: come November. I'm going to vote for j Damarco com November.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not the problem. You know, you know you said
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  Speaker 3: more than once. They're in that amazing, amazing little talk
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  Speaker 3: just now. It was great, it's detailed, was beautiful. That
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  Speaker 3: he's willing to wait it out. Okay, he's getting killed.
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  Speaker 2: His approval rating is under a forty.
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  Speaker 3: Percent in a lot of spots, especially with the economy.
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  Speaker 3: He has said, I don't care, but he has to
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  Speaker 3: care because we cannot afford to lose the midterms. And
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  Speaker 3: the longer he waits this out, the more bleak that looks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you saw the markets react yesterday to this,
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  Speaker 4: to this thing. Quite frankly, the economy would get worse
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  Speaker 4: if we had to sling another round of missiles. So
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  Speaker 4: he's aware of that. He's willing to do it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not afraid to do it. But I think what you
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  Speaker 4: saw yesterday was a significant easing of oil pressures. If
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  Speaker 4: the straight of her moves can be opened in the
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  Speaker 4: next ten days as this agreement gets set up, the
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  Speaker 4: oil prices will come crashing down. By the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 4: they'll be back down in the low threes and maybe
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  Speaker 4: even into the twos in some places. That will send
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  Speaker 4: a signal to the world that the president delivered what
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  Speaker 4: he said. We got to get rid of the military
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  Speaker 4: capabilities piece brings a dividend. The dividend will be the
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  Speaker 4: cheaper gas prices people will go. When you look at
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  Speaker 4: some of the polls that have Trump posts below forty percent,
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  Speaker 4: the Republican sample is off and down around twenty five
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  Speaker 4: twenty six percent, nowhere near what it was in the
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  Speaker 4: sampling that you would take before a presidential election. So
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  Speaker 4: some of these polls are juiced downward to make President
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  Speaker 4: Trump's approval look worson is when you look at the
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  Speaker 4: baseline of his base, He's in a very strong position
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  Speaker 4: and perhaps in fact, CNN had an amazing story the
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  Speaker 4: other day that President Trump may have the single largest
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  Speaker 4: swing of Republican support of any figure in modern American history.
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  Speaker 4: So the base is still with him. How you measure
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  Speaker 4: public sentiment is often a result of how you sample.
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  Speaker 4: If you bring down the Republican sample and you got
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  Speaker 4: twenty six percent, Republican and thirty three percent Democrat, which
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  Speaker 4: some of these poles have. Of course, it's I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be looking under forty percent in the polls I've
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  Speaker 4: seen where the samples are much gooser. He's at forty
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  Speaker 4: six to forty eight percent where the sample is more normal.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think his approval ratings are nearly as bad.
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  Speaker 4: And you look and say, hey, well he must be
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  Speaker 4: weak and lamee doc. He just pulled off two Senate incumbents.
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  Speaker 4: He literally throughout two Senate incumbents. That doesn't happen in
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  Speaker 4: American history very often. No one of them lost my
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  Speaker 4: thirty points.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, listen, there's no question that in the party
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  Speaker 3: he is, He's the man.
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  Speaker 2: He still is.
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  Speaker 3: Maga is alive and well in the party. Thomas Massey,
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  Speaker 3: see you, Bill Cassidy, see you five lowmakers in Indiana,
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  Speaker 3: see you so and watch Steve Hilton do the same
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  Speaker 3: thing in California. But that's not what I'm worried about.
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  Speaker 3: I'm worried about the American people, the voters. They don't
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  Speaker 3: have the same confidence as some of these Congress races
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  Speaker 3: are when it comes to November. I'm worried about these
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  Speaker 3: these other places. He can't go out there on advocate
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  Speaker 3: for every single candidate. Maybe he will across the country,
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  Speaker 3: but I hear you, Let's see what happens. He fixes this,
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  Speaker 3: the numbers will come down and we'll take it from there.
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  Speaker 3: You're a New Yorker and I've had this conversation with
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  Speaker 3: every guest I had today. Certainly you deserve to have it,
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  Speaker 3: John Solomon. When the mayor says I'm not marching Sunday, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you hate Bbe, I mean, you're moron, but fine, you
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  Speaker 3: hate Israel? Fine, but you know what this parade, as
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  Speaker 3: I said, the k T mcfallan, Brian will meet and others.
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  Speaker 2: It's not in Tel Aviv, it's not in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 3: It's on Fifth Avenue in New York City where you won,
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  Speaker 3: you moron, you won here in New York City. So
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  Speaker 3: how could he possibly use Israel as an excuse not
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  Speaker 3: to march with Jews in New York.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he listen, he can't do so because his political
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  Speaker 4: views are exactly what we always reported them to be.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't like the Jewish people, He's distrustful of them.
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  Speaker 4: He has said it for years. Where he is and
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  Speaker 4: so we judge people more by their actions than their words.
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  Speaker 4: And I think this is a loud, loud action by
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  Speaker 4: the mayor, one of many. When you look at his
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  Speaker 4: twenty five you know, a year rise from young man
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  Speaker 4: to this. It's clear that he has these views and
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  Speaker 4: that these views are also predominant in his party. They're
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  Speaker 4: growing on the far left of the side. You got
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  Speaker 4: a candidate with a Nazi Tatsoo running in one state.
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  Speaker 4: You've got anti semitism protests and acts of anti Semitism
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  Speaker 4: going on every day, and even beyond that, you've got
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  Speaker 4: Democrat lawmakers trying to help our enemies like Cuba get
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  Speaker 4: around American sanctions. The far left of the party is
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  Speaker 4: trapped in an ideology that is extremely fringe and far
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  Speaker 4: from Middle America. And Mayor Mondami continues to make statements
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  Speaker 4: with his actions. It doesn't matter how much words he speaks,
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  Speaker 4: his actions speak volumes. And I think New Yorkers have
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  Speaker 4: figured him out already.
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  Speaker 3: Two more minutes now you got to run John on
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  Speaker 3: want your take on this governor race? And Hoko comes
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  Speaker 3: out and so I was talking about the ninety three
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  Speaker 3: championship next, which never happened.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine, listen.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said a couple of days ago, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if she really was going to lower taxes and crime
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  Speaker 3: was no longer an issue when she was fighting with
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Stewart cousins and Hasty up and all, and I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't care that she doesn't know anything.
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  Speaker 2: About the Knicks. She's a liar, but none of that
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  Speaker 2: is true.
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  Speaker 3: So she's just a liar on every level. What are
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  Speaker 3: the chances today you'll give to Bruce Blakeman, Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's going to look a lot like the
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  Speaker 4: Zelden campaign, which was so much closer than people ever imagined.
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  Speaker 4: In twenty twenty two, you have a really remarkable dynamic
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  Speaker 4: going on. People are voting right now in New York
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  Speaker 4: by leaving the state, by leaving the city, by departing.
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  Speaker 4: That is usually the largest sign of distress that the
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  Speaker 4: state is under. When people start fleeing by the tens
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  Speaker 4: of thousands, of hundreds of thousands of millions, you're seeing
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  Speaker 4: businesses start to pack up. They don't trust this whole
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  Speaker 4: idea of tax, tax, tax, and spend spend spend, And
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  Speaker 4: I think that the electorate is ripe for an upset.
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  Speaker 4: It's an uphill upset. You know, Blakeman is going to
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  Speaker 4: have to execute a perfect strategy, particularly get out the vote.
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  Speaker 4: But you see what Spencer Pratt is doing in la
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  Speaker 4: right now, a far left city, a far left state
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  Speaker 4: can easily be flipped by a Republican with the right messages.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the playbook for Blakeman may look a
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  Speaker 4: lot like what Spencer Pratt is doing in California. We'll
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  Speaker 4: see how that plays out in the next few weeks,
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  Speaker 4: but there is a way for a Republican to win
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  Speaker 4: New York. And if there ever were conditions the New
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  Speaker 4: Yorkers feeling like we're not in New York anymore, this
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  Speaker 4: is the year where I think that sentiment is more
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  Speaker 4: predominant than any time in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 3: So all hope is not lost, even though the numbers
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  Speaker 3: tell us we don't have a chance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. Listen, who thought that Donald Trump was
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  Speaker 4: going to be president in April and May of twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty four years? Not criminal trial in New York? Right
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  Speaker 4: it's all about the execution. And New Yorkers are common
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  Speaker 4: sense people, and I think they don't see a common
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  Speaker 4: sense leadership in their state right now. They are naturally
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  Speaker 4: Democrats the naturally democrat state, but sometimes naturally democrat states
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  Speaker 4: decide they want to shake things up, and this could
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  Speaker 4: be the other shake up. It's all going to be
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  Speaker 4: about the execution of Bruce Blakeman, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: very skilled candidate. Best far it really is.
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  Speaker 3: And look at the job you dot Nasal County Wards
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  Speaker 3: predominantly Democrat, John Solomon, excellent job. As always, you become
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  Speaker 3: our guy here. We love you, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it again soon. Thanks buddy, Take care, John
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  Speaker 3: Solomon back on Sitting Friends in the Morning for the
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  Speaker 3: third time in about a month. Really isterrific.
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