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Highlights of Curtis & Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Wow, this Larry. Well, before we get to this explosive
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Speaker 1: story that is right out of James von Seven, let
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Speaker 1: us mention Natalie is a way today. She's getting her
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Speaker 1: procede on her knee and on the loan from Mark Simone.
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Speaker 1: Is a man that I have dubbed the Quiet Storm
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Speaker 1: Chris producer for the Mark Simone Show, and in honor
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Speaker 1: of two greats in the radio business no longer with us,
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Speaker 1: Frankie Crocker and Vaughan Harper, or the Quiet Storm at WBLS.
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Speaker 1: What sultry voices, I mean, doesn't get any better than that, Chris,
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Speaker 1: except you have to be heard from from time to time.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's silent people that had huge careers. It was Harpo,
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Speaker 2: there was silent Bob mister Bean. Course of course they
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Speaker 2: were all on TV. It doesn't work really well for radio.
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Speaker 2: It's a little bit harder to be a silent radio host.
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Speaker 2: Little bit, that's the most words you've said.
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Speaker 1: That's immersed words in a extricating words from him. Now,
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Speaker 1: slowly but surely he's coming out of his show.
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Speaker 2: That's a huge breakthrough. Is there anything else you want
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Speaker 2: to say?
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Speaker 1: No, I think that's it is yours. Go ahead. Yeah, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm good. But taking away at your show. You love
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Speaker 1: the nickname though, I quite I love that, so that's
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Speaker 1: your nickname. But speaking, you know, there was I saw
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Speaker 1: this movie one time about Air Force One with Harrison Ford.
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Speaker 1: You know, when terrorists take it over. He's got the
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Speaker 1: marshals on boarder. This was a scene that could have
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Speaker 1: led up to something like that, because clearly, according to
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Speaker 1: the Washington Post and now every publication has it, the
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Speaker 1: President of the United States was under severe threat when
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Speaker 1: he had gone to the NATO summit. We all remember
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Speaker 1: how nice uh he made out with Erdowan there. They
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Speaker 1: were talking about working cooperatively together. All the other nations
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Speaker 1: of NATO were there, and the whole world's attention was
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Speaker 1: to whoever it was that Donald Trump, our President, was
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Speaker 1: sitting with at that moment, Zelenski, everybody else had their turn.
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Speaker 1: Little did we realize behind the scenes, the Secret Service
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Speaker 1: was working on a plan to almost I guess you
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Speaker 1: could call it smuggle the President of the United States. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that keeps showing the scene. Have you been watching? They
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Speaker 1: keep showing the scene. They covered really well, everyone, including
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Speaker 1: all the reporters who accompany him. But we know that
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Speaker 1: our guy who were going to be talking to in
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Speaker 1: the seven o'clock hour did not go on that flight.
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Speaker 1: Did not go on the Air Force one flight, remember
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Speaker 1: the guitar jet of the gift, because he flew on
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Speaker 1: his own. So but he'll be able to give us
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Speaker 1: more details. But the President was hidden in an airport
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Speaker 1: catering container and was taken to a military jet for
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Speaker 1: a secret fight out of Turkey after the NATO summit.
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Speaker 1: Remember they had flown the baby blue old air Force
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Speaker 1: one in and everyone just assumed, Okay, we're swapping it
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Speaker 1: out because the Katari jet, although it's very luxurious and
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Speaker 1: the President loves it, just was not up to snuff
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Speaker 1: security one.
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Speaker 2: It turns out that was part of the ruse, that
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Speaker 2: was part of the fake, because they said, well, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna put We're gonna have another air Force one coming
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Speaker 2: in because this one isn't so safe, and that was
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Speaker 2: part of the fake. The amazing part of it was
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Speaker 2: how well they pulled it off. Because Trump, of course
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Speaker 2: stood in front of the plane and anchor stood in
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Speaker 2: front of the plane, answered some questions like he always does,
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Speaker 2: walked up the steps and they followed him up the steps,
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Speaker 2: you remember, because they always do in case he falls
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Speaker 2: or something like that. And then he was secretly shuttled.
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Speaker 2: He went out a lug in the back at the
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Speaker 2: bottom of the plane, secretly shuttled to an Air Force
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Speaker 2: C thirty two to a on a catering truck that
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Speaker 2: was supposed to come in and bring food. They took
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Speaker 2: the food out, they put the president in the catering truck.
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Speaker 2: Then they took them to fly out, and the press
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Speaker 2: and even most of his staff were on the plane
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Speaker 2: and didn't realize he wasn't on the same plane.
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Speaker 1: Right, So the baby blue old Air Force one takes
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Speaker 1: off and goes to the same location in Britain, cause
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Speaker 1: remember she got meeting Shad. The President was secretly moved
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Speaker 1: from that Air Force plane back to the older version
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Speaker 1: of Air Force one, the baby bloom model. He then
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Speaker 1: got off in view of reporters and walked across the
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Speaker 1: tarmac to the Qatar plane that eventually would take him
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Speaker 1: back to the United States. But isn't that amazing The
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Speaker 1: reporters were all on the older Airforce swan the tried
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Speaker 1: and Chrue one the baby blue one, and they assume
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Speaker 1: the President was on board.
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Speaker 2: And that was a month ago. Think about that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the Washington Post did a great job and obviously somebody
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Speaker 2: leaked this to them and they weren't saying who that
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Speaker 2: person is. But what an amazing story. I mean, this
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Speaker 2: is gonna be a movie. Well, they're gonna do a
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Speaker 2: movie on this.
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Speaker 1: I think the president now that a child can declare
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Speaker 1: that he should be eligible for an Emmy Award or
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Speaker 1: an Academy award, because if he didn't pull it off,
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Speaker 1: if he didn't make it look like it was just
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Speaker 1: the normal process of boarding a plane, you know, waving
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Speaker 1: when he's just about ready to get on, and pulling
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Speaker 1: that off, he could never have been.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. I was talking to my wife about
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Speaker 2: it last night and she said, man, they really had
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Speaker 2: to convince him of that, And I said, are you
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Speaker 2: kidding me? Are you kidding me? That is the coolest
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Speaker 2: maneuver ever. Nobody, everybody that has a little bit of
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Speaker 2: kid in him, and I know Donald Trump does goes, oh, man,
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Speaker 2: this is gonna be cool. If we pull this off,
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Speaker 2: it is going to be historic. And now it is
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Speaker 2: going to be historic. People are going to be talking
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Speaker 2: about this for years.
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Speaker 1: And it was done because of this severe Iranian threat,
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Speaker 1: and we know, look there with threats before Butler. By
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Speaker 1: the way, we know more about this situation now than
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Speaker 1: we do about what transpired Butler.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad this is like the third time you
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Speaker 2: brought that up, and I think that it's worthy of
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Speaker 2: bringing up every single time there's an incident, because you're
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Speaker 2: absolutely right, it is a national embarrassment that Butler hasn't
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Speaker 2: been further investigated and that all the information on Butler
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Speaker 2: hasn't been released.
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Speaker 1: And remember, right prior to Butler, which was the final
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Speaker 1: campaign appearance before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, it
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Speaker 1: was a murder for higher proxy in Iranian who was arrested,
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Speaker 1: who was sent to the United States to try to
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Speaker 1: put together a hit team. And then there were others
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Speaker 1: who were hacking some of the Trump campaign official so
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Speaker 1: they were on the case of wanting to annihilate Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump before he ever dropped the first bamba on Iran
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Speaker 1: at all. He's always been a focus of an Iranian assassination.
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Speaker 1: But in the past, we know we've been told that
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Speaker 1: there have been presidential motorcades and flights that were fake
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Speaker 1: in which the president wasn't on Bush forty three. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we were in war in Iraq, Obama, we were war
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Speaker 1: in Libya, so they were using all kinds of diversionary methods,
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Speaker 1: but nothing, nothing that approaches this what I call trichnology.
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Speaker 1: For all the proper reasons to protect protus. The President
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Speaker 1: of the United.
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Speaker 2: States come on the shoot at the bottom of the parade,
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Speaker 2: the catering truck that he had to crawl into. This
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Speaker 2: is great, This is the stuff of movies. But I
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Speaker 2: love that you keep bringing up Thomas Crooks, because you're
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Speaker 2: absolutely right. There are there are books put out out
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Speaker 2: on past assassins like Oswald. I mean, every time there's
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Speaker 2: somebody that was an assassin. How much do we know
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Speaker 2: about Thomas Crooks?
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Speaker 1: Nothing?
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Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing. And I got to tell you, the media
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Speaker 2: was awful on this story. They just moved on from it.
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Speaker 2: They completely moved on from it. And it was obviously
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Speaker 2: stuff is still being hidden. It was hidden at the time.
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Speaker 2: It's still being hidden. And it makes you suspicious.
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Speaker 1: It has to.
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Speaker 2: It makes you suspicious, it makes you curious. You bring
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Speaker 2: it up over and over, and good for you because
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Speaker 2: it deserves to be. Well, you're one of the few
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Speaker 2: that doesn't forget it.
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Speaker 1: No, can't, because even prior to that, the president was
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Speaker 1: using private planes because he was just the candidate, the
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Speaker 1: former president. They had to use decoy planes because they
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Speaker 1: didn't feel they were being properly provided security, which they
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Speaker 1: weren't by the Biden administration. You know, it was a
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Speaker 1: dollar short day late for Trump. It's like this guy's
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Speaker 1: the target of an assassination on a regular bit. Not you, Biden,
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Speaker 1: lucky for you, but Donald Trump. And again this just
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Speaker 1: brings to the forefront how this president has a target
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Speaker 1: on his back no matter where he goes.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well there's been four now, four assassination attempts.
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Speaker 2: It's been pretty incredible. By the way, we're only here today,
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Speaker 2: all of us, because we didn't win the power ball.
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Speaker 2: And so because I would think that if you were
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Speaker 2: to have hit it, or if Chris would, if you
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Speaker 2: hit it, would you be out of here?
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Speaker 3: I would not be here today now if I hit
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Speaker 3: the power ball.
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Speaker 1: So Natalie said she wouldn't be here, I would have.
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Speaker 3: I would have waited until she was she was healthy again,
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Speaker 3: and then I would have oh, oh yeah, you like
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Speaker 3: the night in shining off, Oh my god, and then
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Speaker 3: I would have taken real quick, and then I would
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Speaker 3: have taken my nine hundred million dollars and you never
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Speaker 3: would have seen me again.
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Speaker 1: He's talked more here in this segment than I've ever
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Speaker 1: heard Chris talk here and all the time that I've
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Speaker 1: been here when they joined me with you, Larry in
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Speaker 1: the Morning, and by the way, Jimmy failure will be
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Speaker 1: with us the entire eight o'clock hour. We got to
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Speaker 1: ask him if he played Power Bowl. Yeah, that's a
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Speaker 1: great idea to be. Curtis Leewa and Larry MENTI in
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Speaker 1: the Morning.
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Speaker 4: On seventen WI.
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Speaker 2: Well, we talked earlier about the Great Escape and anchor
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Speaker 2: a Turkey, the President slipping out a catering door, getting
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Speaker 2: in a catering truck and taking a military plane when
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Speaker 2: the press thought he was on Air Force one and
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Speaker 2: he wasn't even there. It must be all the buzz
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Speaker 2: in Washington. So let's talk to John Dekker right now,
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Speaker 2: wr White House and Washington correspondent and host of the
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Speaker 2: podcast The White House Briefing Room with John Decker, which
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Speaker 2: can be found on the iHeartRadio app. So walk us
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Speaker 2: through this, John. It's quite a story and it starts
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Speaker 2: with what they believe was a serious Iranian threat.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's right. So this is reporting exclusively by the
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Speaker 5: Washington Post, no pushback from the White House, so you
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Speaker 5: have to imagine what is contained in that A very
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Speaker 5: lengthy story is accurate. As you mentioned, the President was
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Speaker 5: in NATO, as was I, for the NATO summit. He
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Speaker 5: was in Ankora, Turkey, and on the flight back, as
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Speaker 5: you know, the President put out a social media post
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Speaker 5: indicating that he would not be taking the same plane
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Speaker 5: that he arrived in, that new plane that was gifted
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Speaker 5: to the United States by Katar. Instead, the President wrote
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Speaker 5: on social media he'd be taking the old Air Force
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Speaker 5: one back. But as this story plays out, that was
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Speaker 5: not the case. There was still concern about some sort
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Speaker 5: of an attack coming potentially from Iran. After all, those
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Speaker 5: Iranian missiles do have the ability to travel as far
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Speaker 5: as Acrea, a pretty easily twenty five hundred mile range.
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Speaker 5: Ankara only one thousand miles from Tehran, so you can
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Speaker 5: imagine the concern by the Sea Service, And as you
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Speaker 5: pointed out, Larry, there was essentially an effort that was
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Speaker 5: successful to transfer the President from the plane that the
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Speaker 5: press was traveling on that Air Force one old plane
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Speaker 5: to a different plane entirely, and that's how the President
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Speaker 5: got from Ankara, Turkey to the UK. Pretty remarkable in
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Speaker 5: terms of what was done by the Secret Service to
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Speaker 5: protect the president.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely remarkable. Have you been able to talk to any
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Speaker 2: other members of the press corps about how they didn't
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Speaker 2: know at all that the President was up there? Tell me,
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Speaker 2: first of all, how that works. How would you not
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Speaker 2: know he was on the plane.
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Speaker 5: Well, there are often times when I'll be traveling on
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Speaker 5: Air Force one today and what typically happens is we
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Speaker 5: are there for when the President arrives from the White
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Speaker 5: House on Marine one. We see Marine one land, we
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Speaker 5: see the President get off Marine one, walk from the
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Speaker 5: helicopter to Air Force one, walk up the steps of
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Speaker 5: Air Force one, and then we immediately walk up the
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Speaker 5: back steps of Air Force one. And there could be
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Speaker 5: instances where we do not see the President the entire flight.
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Speaker 5: He does not come back and talk to us. So
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Speaker 5: nothing would appear to be out of the ordinary in
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Speaker 5: terms of what happened in Turkey. The fact that you
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Speaker 5: know this is exactly what happened. The press saw the
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Speaker 5: President go up the steps of Air Force one, the
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Speaker 5: press traveling to the UK went up the back steps
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Speaker 5: of Air Force one. They didn't see the President during
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Speaker 5: that flight, and nothing unusual. And then when we get
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Speaker 5: off Air Force one, we wait for the President to
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Speaker 5: walk down the steps to de plane to walk down
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Speaker 5: the steps of Air Force one, and that's exactly what
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Speaker 5: happened in the UK. So you know, look, it's easy
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Speaker 5: to do. I think the difficult part was, you know,
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Speaker 5: the catering truck, as you mentioned, getting the president transferred
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Speaker 5: to that catering truck which is lifted up and then
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Speaker 5: lifted down, and then getting the president from there aboard
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Speaker 5: the new plane which flew to the UK.
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Speaker 1: So that is a very very serious situation based on
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Speaker 1: a credible threat against the President's life and everyone on
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Speaker 1: Air Force one accompanying him by the Iranians. But then
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Speaker 1: I have to do a pivot and shift back to
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Speaker 1: the reflecting pool. John Decker. Okay, And apparently the President
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Speaker 1: who's been drag kicking and screaming, finally went to truth.
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Speaker 1: Social acknowledged that the blue lining peeled the water purification
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Speaker 1: failed to prevent the algae, that it wasn't slashed by vandals.
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Speaker 1: There was no video a proof, but then after saying
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Speaker 1: all that with his post, he's still on the case
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Speaker 1: of David Hearn, the former olympian. Could you explain that
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Speaker 1: I can't.
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Speaker 5: You know, the President did put out that social media
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Speaker 5: post saying that maybe some of the problems associated with
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Speaker 5: the reflecting pool were caused by the shoddy work by
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Speaker 5: the contractor that still doing work to repair the work
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Speaker 5: that they originally did. But the President still will not
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Speaker 5: give up in claiming that vandalism was responsible for some
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Speaker 5: of the damage to the reflecting pool and pointing his
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Speaker 5: finger at this former olympian. And as you know, the
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Speaker 5: US Attorney's Office in Washington, d C. Led by Jeanine Piro,
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Speaker 5: has dropped all charges against that individual associated with the allegations,
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Speaker 5: the original allegations that he was responsible for alleged vandalism
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Speaker 5: on the reflecting pool.
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Speaker 2: You said you were flying today on Air Force One.
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Speaker 2: I hope you get a chance to talk to the
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Speaker 2: President because you know about the story in New Jersey
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Speaker 2: where six six hundred non citizens were found in the
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Speaker 2: voting roles. Now they've found seventy five thousand non citizens
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Speaker 2: who who are on jury duty and they weren't supposed
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Speaker 2: to be on jury duty and on one of the
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Speaker 2: places where they get those names are from the voting roles. Right,
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Speaker 2: there's a call now for some bigger investigations in state
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Speaker 2: in New Jersey. I'm not sure if this is made
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Speaker 2: national news yet. It just really happened yesterday. I hope
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Speaker 2: you get a chance to ask the president about it.
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Speaker 5: I did not see that. I'm glad you told me
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Speaker 5: about that, and hopefully, yeah, we'll have a few opportunities
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Speaker 5: to ask the President some questions. It's a trip the
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Speaker 5: President is making on hopefully the new Air Force one.
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Speaker 5: I'll give you a full report what that's like on Thursday,
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Speaker 5: Larry and Curtis. But we're traveling to Ohio for what's
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Speaker 5: called the Patriot Games. The President is going to be
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Speaker 5: attending them, and then we'll fly back to the White House.
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Speaker 5: Arrived back around ten o'clock this evening. But no, I
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Speaker 5: did not know about that story. And that's I think
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Speaker 5: a very newsworthy story given what we know already has
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Speaker 5: happened in the state of New Jersey. And that's just
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Speaker 5: one state. You know, there could be other states that
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Speaker 5: have had similar situations where individuals who are not citizens
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Speaker 5: were on the voting rolls, and I'm certain that other
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Speaker 5: states are doing exactly what New Jersey did to see
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Speaker 5: indeed whether or not that was the case with their
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Speaker 5: respective state.
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Speaker 1: Down John Decular President has worked very hard to put
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Speaker 1: together that coalition of twenty seven nations, which includes countries
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Speaker 1: like Israel, Turkey, Sirius, Saudi Arabia to bring peace to Gaza.
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Speaker 1: And he outlined how negotiations had gone well in Cairo
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Speaker 1: with Hamas, representatives of Hamas and representatives of this peace committee,
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Speaker 1: and that we were moving forward. Next step would be
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Speaker 1: to put in place a interim government so that Hamas
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Speaker 1: cann over the governing of their area and Israel their
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Speaker 1: area and the Gaza and Bibe Natanielle was reserved. Then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden on Sunday he announces, no, we're
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Speaker 1: off for this, We're not leaving Gaza and those weapons
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Speaker 1: have got to be turned over by Hamas. Now I
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Speaker 1: gotta believe the president is like saying, Bhebe, what the
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Speaker 1: hell are you doing? It takes a lot to get
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Speaker 1: twenty seven nations together to agree on anything. Why are
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Speaker 1: you throwing a monkey wrench into this?
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Speaker 5: Well, you're leaving this one thing out of the equation,
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Speaker 5: and that is yes, you're right. Sunday, the Prime Minister
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Speaker 5: of Israel said, we're not agreeing to this peace proposal
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Speaker 5: that the president announced too much fanfare just two weeks ago.
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Speaker 5: But you also did not have Bayan fully from Hamas.
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Speaker 5: And as the President often says, Curtis, it takes two
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Speaker 5: to tango. So Hamas is saying we're not handing over
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Speaker 5: our weapons until Israel withdraws from Gaza, and Israel is
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Speaker 5: saying we're not withdrawing from Gaza unless and until Hamas
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Speaker 5: gives up all of their weapons, and so no meeting
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Speaker 5: of the minds. And as a result, that peace plan,
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Speaker 5: that peace proposal for Gaza right now at least essentially
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Speaker 5: is dead. It's not going forward.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the peace proposal for Iran for a second,
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Speaker 2: because it seems like Iran keeps changing the goalpost, keeps
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Speaker 2: moving it back a little bit further. They feel like
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Speaker 2: they have a deal, and then they don't have a deal.
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Speaker 2: And the President came out interestingly and said, well, the
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Speaker 2: straight up Hormuz is already open, uh, is it open?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 5: No, I mean, if your definition is are a few
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Speaker 5: cargo ships getting through on a daily basis the Strait
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Speaker 5: of Hormuz. The answer to that question is yes. But
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Speaker 5: is it the over one hundred cargo ships and oil
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Speaker 5: tankers that went through the Straight of Hormuz every day
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Speaker 5: before this conflict began? Then the answer is no. And
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Speaker 5: you know, I think that you know that is really
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Speaker 5: the definition of the straight up forms being open is
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Speaker 5: the ability for any ship, any cargo ship, any oil
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Speaker 5: tanker to get through the strait without any fear of
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Speaker 5: any attack coming from Iran, without having to pay any
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Speaker 5: tolls or fees.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 5: And that's not the case as things stand right now.
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Speaker 1: So economically, it seems the president feels he can squeeze
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Speaker 1: the Iranians because they don't have enough money to be
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Speaker 1: able to maintain themselves. Somehow, some way, they continue to
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Speaker 1: do it like the Cubans doing Cuba. We thought they'd
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Speaker 1: be collapsed. What is what is the president hoping is
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Speaker 1: going to happen there now with this shift, just that.
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Speaker 5: You know that there will be such a collapse economically
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Speaker 5: financially in Iran that they will capitulate, they will come
20:59
Speaker 5: to the bargaining tape. But you know, you have to
21:01
Speaker 5: factor in a few things here. First of all Iran
21:05
Speaker 5: now over the course of five months, does not depend
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Speaker 5: solely on the strait of formoves to get their oil
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Speaker 5: out to market. They can deliver that oil over land.
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Speaker 5: Now that's one thing. The other thing is they have
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Speaker 5: two countries that can sustain Iran while they're going through
21:22
Speaker 5: this economic crisis. One is Russia and the other is China.
21:27
Speaker 5: And as long as those two countries continue to help
21:29
Speaker 5: out Iran, it's going to be very difficult, I think,
21:33
Speaker 5: to see Iran capitulate fully to come to the negotiating
21:37
Speaker 5: table to end this conflict on terms that the President wants.
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Speaker 2: John Decker, White House and Washington correspondent for w Albarr
21:45
Speaker 2: and host of the podcast The White House Briefing Room
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Speaker 2: with John Decker. You can find that on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, John enjoyed the trip on Air Force One.
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Speaker 5: Well, Thanks a lot, Laurie, Thanks Curtis, and thanks for
21:56
Speaker 5: telling me about that New Jersey story. Really appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Sure, I can't wait to hear the answer so perfectly imperfect.
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Speaker 4: Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in the Morning Guaranteed Human
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Speaker 4: on seven tenor here now, Jimmy Fela wr host nine
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Speaker 4: to midnight Fox Across America with Jimmy Feller and host
22:18
Speaker 4: of Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy Fayla on the
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Speaker 4: Fox News Channel.
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Speaker 2: So I've been right behind you. There's all these TV monitors,
22:27
Speaker 2: all of them are talking about elections that are going on,
22:30
Speaker 2: especially the one in Wisconsin where we have another democratic
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Speaker 2: socialist running. I will tell you people who knew that
22:38
Speaker 2: zorin mom Donnie was giving us such a gift in
22:40
Speaker 2: the Republican Party because right now the Republicans Jimmy seem
22:46
Speaker 2: to be running more on democratic socialism than the Democrats
22:50
Speaker 2: because they can't get those words.
22:52
Speaker 1: Out of their mouth.
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Speaker 6: Yes, spot on analysis and first and foremost, you guys
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Speaker 6: are lucky I'm here because I could be playing in
22:58
Speaker 6: the WNBA right now. But I was like, you know what,
23:01
Speaker 6: you know, we've got a thing going. We do it
23:03
Speaker 6: every Tuesday. I love these guys. I'll get to those
23:05
Speaker 6: other guys.
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Speaker 1: I like this idea, you shooting hoops with the ladies.
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Speaker 1: My money is on the ladies were YouTube. I promise Larry,
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Speaker 1: I'll get us back on message because I just want
23:19
Speaker 1: to say one thing.
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Speaker 6: I have taken my niece to two w NBA games,
23:23
Speaker 6: and I sat courtside and I was shocked to find
23:25
Speaker 6: out this week that men weren't already playing in that league.
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Speaker 1: That's what I say in the paint the elbows, like, guys,
23:37
Speaker 1: ye're rough there.
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Speaker 2: You have two men now declaring for the w ANBA draft.
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Speaker 2: You have to do it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I have no choice, and I'm more qualified
23:45
Speaker 6: than them because I have Cea Cup breasts. I'm so
23:48
Speaker 6: fat for vacation right now, like Fox is given up.
23:51
Speaker 6: They're not even trying to hit me with the ozembic
23:53
Speaker 6: needle anymore. They're just have at it pal well. So
23:57
Speaker 6: back to the point of comedy though, because that down
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Speaker 6: is up thing that's going on the WNBA is very
24:02
Speaker 6: similar to what's happening right now in these midterms. Okay,
24:05
Speaker 6: everyone is running for office in the Democrat Party on
24:08
Speaker 6: things you would traditionally pay someone to destroy, meaning if
24:13
Speaker 6: you said something insane in college like America deserved nine
24:16
Speaker 6: to eleven before you launch your campaign, someone is paid
24:19
Speaker 6: in your APO research team to go find that tape
24:22
Speaker 6: and buy it for a good deal of money or
24:24
Speaker 6: get an NDA out of the person. But they're actually
24:26
Speaker 6: campaigning on this. You know, they're trying to do the
24:29
Speaker 6: walk back thing. You saw the AOC. But when you
24:33
Speaker 6: say to us, you know, AOC woke one was crazy.
24:36
Speaker 6: We all saw the kind we all talked about it.
24:37
Speaker 6: But what you're basically saying is, yes, I was impressionable
24:40
Speaker 6: to idiotic group think, but you're also admitting that means
24:43
Speaker 6: you're vulnerable to the next round of idiotic group think,
24:45
Speaker 6: which is going on right now. Abolish prisons and you know,
24:48
Speaker 6: abolish ice and of course socialism, you know. And that's
24:50
Speaker 6: been my takeaway and covering the midterms. So because I've
24:53
Speaker 6: really paid attention like you guys, I have learned in
24:56
Speaker 6: studying policy that I am a capitalist to my core,
25:00
Speaker 6: but I hope to get rich enough someday to be
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Speaker 6: a socialist. Who doesn't you know what I mean, because
25:05
Speaker 6: that's where the money is right now?
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Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, hold on, I can't explain that I'm
25:09
Speaker 1: not gonna you're rich. You're a capitalist, just held out
25:13
Speaker 1: about huh, and yet you can't wait for the day
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Speaker 1: that you become a rich So I mean, are you
25:18
Speaker 1: gonna marry? Marry? I just know what I meant.
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Speaker 6: As like everybody preaching socialism, you know, the old cliche
25:24
Speaker 6: Champagne socialism, Like you could give me Hassan Piker as
25:27
Speaker 6: an example. This guy's walking around in ten thousand dollars suits.
25:30
Speaker 6: He's obviously not looking to do the common man thing.
25:35
Speaker 6: You know, we're all divvying up the pot. Okay, now
25:38
Speaker 6: you're not all gonna get to wet your beak, as
25:40
Speaker 6: they say on the Sopranos. Okay, And that's the point
25:44
Speaker 6: is you know, you're out there as a working class guy,
25:48
Speaker 6: You're trying to make things happen, and you realize the
25:51
Speaker 6: only way that socialism could actually flourish is if they
25:54
Speaker 6: could throw water on us like a gremlin and clone up.
25:57
Speaker 1: And man is otherwise the money.
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Speaker 2: I just love how the Democrats they had this thing
26:05
Speaker 2: wrapped up. Yeah, it was gonna be theirs. They we're
26:07
Speaker 2: gonna take the House, possibly the Senate, and then it
26:10
Speaker 2: all comes the Democratic Socialist saving the Republican Party.
26:13
Speaker 1: Amen.
26:14
Speaker 6: But Trump's doing all he can to help with a RAN.
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Speaker 6: He's like, we're not out of the water here yet.
26:20
Speaker 6: Yesterday he said I'm semi negotiating because this isn't a
26:24
Speaker 6: seventh grade breakup. It's a war with a RAN. It's
26:28
Speaker 6: like here, we're not talking right now, but I'm like,
26:31
Speaker 6: what's even happening? So, I mean, the truth is I
26:33
Speaker 6: expect some type of a wrap up in a Ran
26:36
Speaker 6: soon because he knows obviously this is the only leg
26:40
Speaker 6: the Democrats have left to stand on, as if gas
26:42
Speaker 6: is too high, or they can say grocries didn't.
26:43
Speaker 1: Become more affordable.
26:45
Speaker 6: And I know Trump has to realize that he's not dumb, okay,
26:48
Speaker 6: So there's got to be an off ramp here sometime soon,
26:50
Speaker 6: even if it's a cut and runoff ramp, because I
26:52
Speaker 6: think the average person, right, if the entirety of the
26:54
Speaker 6: media got out of bed tomorrow and was like, ah,
26:56
Speaker 6: we went to a ran for no reason, but gas
26:59
Speaker 6: was two ninety two a gallon, he's gonna get more
27:02
Speaker 6: good will out of that cheaper tank of gas than
27:04
Speaker 6: he has negative will out of them screaming about a Ran.
27:06
Speaker 6: So I do only the average person cares about a
27:08
Speaker 6: ran I truly, I don't. The guys in my taxi
27:10
Speaker 6: garage don't care about a Ran. And they're from a Ran. Okay,
27:12
Speaker 6: they're done with it, you know what I mean. They're
27:14
Speaker 6: paying for eighty a gallon, they're like, all right, make
27:16
Speaker 6: up your mind. Can I just pay three twenty five?
27:20
Speaker 1: They gotta fill up first, right before they even take
27:24
Speaker 1: that cab out. What is it like, one hundred and
27:26
Speaker 1: fifty bucks?
27:27
Speaker 6: It's bad, man, Yeah, one hundred and fifty for the shift,
27:30
Speaker 6: and then you gotta go get a tank of gas.
27:31
Speaker 6: But in a twenty dollars tank, twenty gallon tank of gas.
27:34
Speaker 6: Think if gas is up two dollars, that's an extra
27:36
Speaker 6: forty dollars out of your pay, you know. So on
27:39
Speaker 6: a five to six week, you know, day week, you're
27:41
Speaker 6: one hundred and hundred twenty bucks a week right out
27:43
Speaker 6: of your Pocket's tough, you know. So, Yes, the average
27:45
Speaker 6: rank and file guy just wants a ran to end.
27:48
Speaker 6: They don't care. They truly don't care, you know. And
27:51
Speaker 6: I understand the whole we don't want to get a
27:53
Speaker 6: nuclear bomb, but it's moved beyond that now because they
27:55
Speaker 6: don't have one. But the straight of horror moves is
27:57
Speaker 6: now what's hanging in the balance.
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Speaker 1: So it's open you're talking about.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the straight up hor moves is like my
28:06
Speaker 6: wife's legs before we got married.
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Speaker 1: Okay, it was the time. It was never closed.
28:15
Speaker 6: Signed a memo of understanding, and now you don't know
28:18
Speaker 6: what the's straight. Some days it's open, some days the
28:22
Speaker 6: Ayatola has a headache.
28:23
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do here. I don't know.
28:26
Speaker 2: Hey, are you hit by the Pianda chair attacks? Do
28:27
Speaker 2: you have that five million second home?
28:30
Speaker 6: No, I'm on Long Island. I'm safe not to say
28:32
Speaker 6: those houses aren't out there. But what a funny story,
28:35
Speaker 6: you know, the Scott Galloway. He talks to me like
28:38
Speaker 6: everybody votes for this, thinking like somehow there'll be an
28:41
Speaker 6: exception because they've you voted for it. That's not how
28:43
Speaker 6: this works. Okay, it's not how. It's just everybody's did.
28:48
Speaker 6: They're just after everything. And I've been fascinated by this.
28:51
Speaker 6: I'm sort of glad they walked it back. But you
28:54
Speaker 6: know what you're watching is these are economically illiterate people.
28:57
Speaker 6: They are economically illiterate. They haven't studied issue. They don't
29:00
Speaker 6: understand the damage that can be done. And that's the
29:03
Speaker 6: one thing though that I appreciate. And for real, this
29:05
Speaker 6: is not, in any way, shape or form, is supposed
29:08
Speaker 6: to be a slight at mom Donnie.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
29:10
Speaker 6: He is proving though that government can move fast when
29:13
Speaker 6: they feel like it. Because he's doing things we don't
29:16
Speaker 6: agree with him. We make fun of them every day,
29:18
Speaker 6: but they're happening, you know, and even if they're slight
29:20
Speaker 6: of hand happening, like obviously they didn't balance the budget,
29:23
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, But they took money from
29:26
Speaker 6: one end to the state, and you know, had some
29:28
Speaker 6: chicanery with pensions and everything else they did to make
29:30
Speaker 6: it look like this was going to level out. But
29:32
Speaker 6: the point is they're showing you that if the government
29:35
Speaker 6: wants to take action, it can. That's where I think
29:37
Speaker 6: Trump and mom Downe You're very valuable, even though they're
29:39
Speaker 6: diametrically opposed, is they're both trying to do the things
29:42
Speaker 6: they ran on, which traditionally in politics is no go.
29:46
Speaker 6: Look at John Thune, Okay, right now, eighty four percent
29:49
Speaker 6: of Americans support voter I d he's you know, he's
29:51
Speaker 6: the guy who keeps saying we don't have the votes
29:53
Speaker 6: to get it. He just last week his money quote was, well,
29:55
Speaker 6: I think we should make this a campaign issue. I
29:57
Speaker 6: think we should run on this and see what the
29:58
Speaker 6: Democrats say. But what he you saying to us, Okay,
30:01
Speaker 6: we are currently have the Senate, the House, and the presidency.
30:05
Speaker 6: So if we go three for three, we can get
30:07
Speaker 6: back to where we are now and then you'll pass
30:08
Speaker 6: it like why not there? Okay, there's a comic. I
30:11
Speaker 6: don't think she's listening. Cory Kahaney. I love her. I
30:14
Speaker 6: started with her at Carolines and she said she had
30:16
Speaker 6: a great line. She's like the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
30:19
Speaker 6: She's like my niece once asked me, wants different between
30:21
Speaker 6: Democrats Replicans? She goes, a Democrat is like that really
30:23
Speaker 6: cool aunt who promises that you're gonna go to Disney World,
30:26
Speaker 6: but something always happens and you never get to go
30:29
Speaker 6: because a Republican is that uncle who says we don't
30:32
Speaker 6: have the money to go to Disney World, and then
30:34
Speaker 6: you find out he went without you.
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Speaker 1: Cory, if you're listening, that is a great By the way,
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Speaker 1: every time I see John Soon, I think of Lurch
30:48
Speaker 1: you rang. I mean he is quiet, ah, He's not authoritative.
30:55
Speaker 1: He just stands there and says to the president, no, no,
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Speaker 1: a thousand times, no, yeah, a million times.
31:02
Speaker 6: It's crazy that like Mitch McConnell's more animated than John
31:06
Speaker 6: Thune at this point, but he keeps saying, Oh.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing we can do. We don't have the votes.
31:10
Speaker 6: No one ever rest the votes. In politics, Legislation gets
31:13
Speaker 6: passed because you go get the votes. And he's using
31:15
Speaker 6: that as a non starter. Well, we don't have the votes.
31:17
Speaker 2: We'll put it up and let people vote against him.
31:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, and even if they do, the point is, if
31:21
Speaker 6: you wanted to pass, you can go and to go.
31:24
Speaker 6: We know how Washington works. Hey, you want to over
31:26
Speaker 6: the bill? No, how about a new water park? In
31:28
Speaker 6: your gesture, I'm in you know what I mean. We
31:31
Speaker 6: know how this works.
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Speaker 5: No.
31:33
Speaker 1: One's the starting point in the negotiation.
31:38
Speaker 2: You know, right before you came in, Natalie did a
31:40
Speaker 2: whole thing on rats in the city and the fact
31:43
Speaker 2: that people start saying that there seems to be less rats.
31:47
Speaker 2: You've been on the streets for a long long time.
31:50
Speaker 2: Is that true? Are there less rats?
31:52
Speaker 1: This is what happened.
31:53
Speaker 6: If you remember back to the winter when we were
31:55
Speaker 6: struggling with trash removal, I think Mamdani Usherton such an
32:00
Speaker 6: era of rat obesity that a lot of them just
32:02
Speaker 6: died off. Actually, do you remember they didn't pick up
32:07
Speaker 6: the garbage for like two months?
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Speaker 1: We had rats on Ozempa. It wasn't supposed to be
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Speaker 1: that way. I think it's my mom Donnie's helping. By
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Speaker 1: the way, how many times you have fellow cab drivers
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Speaker 1: who would go to the barn to pick up a
32:20
Speaker 1: yellow cab and then they would open up the hood
32:23
Speaker 1: and the rats had eaten all the wires.
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Speaker 6: That does happen if the CAB's been seated, But if
32:28
Speaker 6: the CAB's been sitting, that's a common thing. Ye, that
32:31
Speaker 6: that will happen. But believe me, there were worse things
32:34
Speaker 6: to open up your cab and find. I mean, if
32:35
Speaker 6: you want to go down that road, we're gonna have
32:37
Speaker 6: to bring in an exorcist, lady, But I can get
32:39
Speaker 6: you there.
32:40
Speaker 2: You know, you talked about the w NBA, but we're
32:42
Speaker 2: going to talk about it next with Sophie Cunningham and
32:44
Speaker 2: white privilege.
32:46
Speaker 1: So that privilege. We aren't you an example of white
32:51
Speaker 1: privilege in comedy?
32:53
Speaker 6: Well in the sense that I identify as a white woman
32:56
Speaker 6: and you think I'm getting ahead for that?
32:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wait to