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Opening Segment 9/10/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Sliwa and Larry Menti in the morning on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there is now some backlash to the report that
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  Speaker 2: was released by Mayor Mamdani. And I said yesterday, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it again, it's the best thing he's ever done.
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  Speaker 2: I have been extremely critical of him. But finally, finally,
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  Speaker 2: somebody has released these records. And the records we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about are the records that show... The city knew that
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  Speaker 2: there were deadly toxins in the air right after 9-11,
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  Speaker 2: for months after 9-11. And they knew this just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks into it after doing their testing. And
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  Speaker 2: so they allowed all of these people, citizens, construction workers, firefighters, police,
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  Speaker 2: the people who live down there, the residents, to stay
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  Speaker 2: down there and breathe it all in And thousands and
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  Speaker 2: thousands and thousands have died for them keeping that a secret.
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  Speaker 2: We learned about it 25 years later. There has to
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  Speaker 2: be some charges on this. There has to be something
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  Speaker 2: that happens. And we're now hearing, one by one, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to hear from people that are upset about this.
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  Speaker 2: But the first ones out of the box, and he
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  Speaker 2: was tremendous yesterday, is Jim Brasi, president of the United
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  Speaker 2: Firefighters Officers Association, who held a news conference and you
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  Speaker 2: could feel his anger.
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  Speaker 3: It is appalling.
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  Speaker 4: That they did this to us, despite our willingness to
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  Speaker 4: knowingly go into that environment repeatedly for long-term exposures, long
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  Speaker 4: after the acute exposure of that day, to give dignity
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  Speaker 4: to the people that were lost, to give the greatest
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  Speaker 4: possible effort towards a recovery, and then hopes to put
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  Speaker 4: New York back on its firm footing that it was
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  Speaker 4: on the days before 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: And he believes they did it, Curtis, for the worst
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  Speaker 2: of reasons, for fiduciary reasons, for money. Because they didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to have to spend all the money or spend
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  Speaker 2: all of the time waiting for rebuilding until the air cleared.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted to move in there immediately and rebuild it.
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  Speaker 2: Even Mayor Bloomberg admitted that he wanted to. He had
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to rebuild a whole new city within a
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  Speaker 2: city that is easily accessible. He was all excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody cared seemingly about the firefighters, but they cared about
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  Speaker 2: rebuilding their own little pet projects. Now, we've heard from
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  Speaker 2: both Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg, and both were embarrassing stories.
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  Speaker 2: Both should be called before Congress. Both should answer to
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  Speaker 2: a commission like the Warren Commission that needs to study this.
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Giuliani came out and said, no, the EPA said
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  Speaker 2: the error was clear. We followed them trying to shift
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  Speaker 2: the blame. Yeah, but you had your own study, Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: that you ignored. So you knew, no matter what the
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  Speaker 2: EPA said, you knew that error was deadly. You knew
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  Speaker 2: that air was dangerous and you ignored it. And Mayor Bloomberg,
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  Speaker 2: his was worse. He didn't mention the study. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: mention the dangerous air. He just patted himself on the
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  Speaker 2: back at how well he did in rebuilding that area,
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  Speaker 2: proving what the fire association was saying in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: This was all about money. This was all about expediting
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  Speaker 2: the project. This was all about not admitting fault to anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Giuliani was bad. Bloomberg and his
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  Speaker 2: statement was even worse, to completely ignore that he was
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  Speaker 2: complicit in hiding the study.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look how precarious it's going to be for the
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  Speaker 1: former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who is in charge of the foundation,
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  Speaker 1: has self-funded it, you know, the memorial, the museum down
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  Speaker 1: at 9-11. He's always in the middle of the scrum
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  Speaker 1: of the politicians who will show up tomorrow, and rightfully so,
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  Speaker 1: because he basically helped that effort take place.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: His response to this damning drop of 170,000 documents— and by
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  Speaker 1: the way, this is only the first of more documents— Remember,
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  Speaker 1: they found 68 boxes in the city's Environmental Protection Agency office.
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  Speaker 1: They claim they didn't know where they were. Giuliani people
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  Speaker 1: claim they didn't know where they were when he was
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  Speaker 1: still in office, Bloomberg, 12 years.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know where they are.
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  Speaker 1: De Blasio does not escape criticism, even though he was
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  Speaker 1: Zoran's biggest supporter.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't know where they were. And Adams, right? We
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  Speaker 3: didn't know where they were. Well, they were in the
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  Speaker 3: office the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: And now we're beginning to see there's a portal, and
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  Speaker 1: the city is putting everything up. So you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to see these documents for yourself. Rudy's response,
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  Speaker 1: he had an aide put it on his social networking account.
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  Speaker 1: They were blaming the federal EPA of Christy Todd. I
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  Speaker 1: call her Witless, the former governor of New Jersey who
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  Speaker 1: had been appointed by Bush 43. She eventually apologized for
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  Speaker 1: the misinformation that she spread.
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  Speaker 2: So I give her credit for that. Shouldn't these guys apologize?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. But they won't.
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  Speaker 1: They won't because now there's an investigation. Department of Investigation
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  Speaker 1: for the city, as you have called for and I
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  Speaker 1: call for, there should be a federal investigation where everyone
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  Speaker 1: should have to come and give testimony, public testimony, not
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  Speaker 1: behind closed doors. And we try to put this together.
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  Speaker 1: But I can assure you, because some people came up
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  Speaker 1: to me, oh, the UFO, the UFA, these are the
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  Speaker 1: two firefighter unions. They're trying to curry favor with Zohar now.
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  Speaker 1: I met with both of them during the mayoral campaign,
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  Speaker 1: as I did when I ran against Adams in 2021.
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  Speaker 1: I know all these guys. Eddie Brown was the former treasurer,
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  Speaker 1: my best guardian angel ever. He saved my life in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. So I knew them all personally, and they
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  Speaker 1: were very blunt with me. We don't think you can win,
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  Speaker 1: but we hate Zorhan. I mean, I didn't meet any
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  Speaker 1: of them, but said anything like, give him a chance.
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  Speaker 3: I hated him. So for them to come out, especially on.
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  Speaker 1: A day where they gathered out in Staten Island and
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  Speaker 1: they had their banner up, the huge banner that says 343.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the firefighters who died on that day and
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  Speaker 1: still counting because as they remind us, more members now
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  Speaker 1: have died from World Trade Center related illnesses than died
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  Speaker 1: on that day. 12,000 have been diagnosed with at least
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  Speaker 1: one form of illness that is directly attributable to to
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  Speaker 1: what happened at the World Trade Center site in the
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  Speaker 1: aftermath of the collapse.
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  Speaker 2: More importantly, it's estimated that 9,000 have died. So this
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  Speaker 2: is mass murder, is what it is. And because those
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  Speaker 2: lives could have been saved, you can't tell me that
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  Speaker 2: if they were to know that early that that was dangerous,
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't have done something. They would have made major changes.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, as Lieutenant Deputy Brosny said yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Had they been more transparent about those toxins, we probably
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  Speaker 4: would have stalled recovery. got better decon, set up better facilities,
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  Speaker 4: set up better work rotations so that we could have
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  Speaker 4: limited the exposure.
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  Speaker 2: So you hear what he's saying? They wouldn't have stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing it, they would have got the proper gear on.
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  Speaker 2: They would have made sure they limited exposure, but they
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  Speaker 2: would have kept working. They would have kept rebuilding the city.
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  Speaker 2: And so this whole argument that, oh, it was too important.
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  Speaker 2: We had to get this done fast. They would have
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  Speaker 2: kept going. You just had to slow down a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And limit the exposure.
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  Speaker 2: And as you pointed out yesterday, it's a very important
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  Speaker 2: point because we keep thinking about the firefighters. We keep
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  Speaker 2: thinking about the people that volunteered and the police officers
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  Speaker 2: there at the scene digging through the rubble. What about
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  Speaker 2: the residents? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They were told it was fine. Come back. You can
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  Speaker 3: live there.
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  Speaker 1: The students right next to the location across the street
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most elite high schools in the country,
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  Speaker 1: Stuyvesant High School. They were told it's okay to come back, teachers, staff,
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  Speaker 1: maintenance people, students. Everyone was told get back to the job.
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  Speaker 1: We've all got to come together. We can't allow the
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  Speaker 1: collapse of lower Manhattan, the economic center of the world,
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  Speaker 1: because of Wall Street and the financial institutions. Michael Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: was elected. simply because he would rebuild lower Manhattan. He
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  Speaker 1: was way behind in the polls against Mark Green. That
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  Speaker 1: was the day of the Democratic primary, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: They had a stopped account. But he would have lost
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  Speaker 1: even with all of his money because nobody liked Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: at the time.
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  Speaker 3: He was not a very likable kind of guy.
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  Speaker 1: Once Rudy embraced him afterwards and said he's going to
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  Speaker 1: rebuild the city, that propelled.
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  Speaker 3: Him to victory. But it was even a close election.
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  Speaker 1: So the bulk of the responsibility is clearly on Rudy
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  Speaker 1: and his staff.
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  Speaker 2: It's on all of them.
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  Speaker 3: Right. And Bloomberg, because he inherited it.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, all four of the mayors, they had this information.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody had this information. Anybody could have exposed it any
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  Speaker 2: time along the way. And that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I think Mamdani's now earned his right to go on 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's now earned his right. And I was
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  Speaker 2: dead set against it. But God blessed anybody that was
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  Speaker 2: behind releasing these documents because it is so important to
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  Speaker 2: know the weight of this moment. All these people didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to die because documents were hidden. By not just
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  Speaker 2: one administration, four administrations hid these documents, four mayors and
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  Speaker 2: all the people that had access. Remember for a while
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  Speaker 2: they said they disappeared? They couldn't find the documents? All
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  Speaker 2: four of the administrations said that. So there's a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that need to be held accountable. And
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  Speaker 2: we should stay on this every single day until there
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  Speaker 2: is some accountability. By the way, I know that President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: even though he may not listen all the time, does
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  Speaker 2: get a feed of what we say. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: gets a printout of what we say. What about you, Mr. President,
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  Speaker 2: a New Yorker? What about you? Why don't you push
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  Speaker 2: for an investigation? You have sway over the Republican Party,
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  Speaker 2: their leaders in the Congress, their leaders in the House
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  Speaker 2: and the Senate. Push them into having an investigation next week.
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  Speaker 2: Start it right away. I know you're in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the midterms. This will only help you because it
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  Speaker 2: was all Democrats. Well, not Bloomberg. It was all Democrats
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  Speaker 2: that were hiding this mostly. Let's say 90% Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: So it's an issue.
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  Speaker 2: It's an issue for you. I'm just trying to talk
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  Speaker 2: them into it. Start an investigation. Use this as an issue.
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  Speaker 2: This might be the biggest issue in the country. It
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  Speaker 2: just hasn't started to spread yet.
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  Speaker 1: And if people want to get involved and talk back,
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  Speaker 1: how can they do so on this subject?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they go to the iHeartRadio app and remember the
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  Speaker 2: back of the week. It's a C-Crane radio, the radio
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  Speaker 2: that works when it matters most. And when we come back,
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  Speaker 2: we can update you, Curtis, on Billy Joel. Plus, a
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  Speaker 2: chance to see Andrea Bocelli at age 25. Billy Joel
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  Speaker 2: is doing much better, by the way.