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Victoria Coates | VP of the Heritage Foundation & Former Deputy National Security Advisor Offers Expert Opinion on Violent Nationwide Rio... · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Paris, like I told you guys two years ago when
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  Speaker 1: I went to my daughter Ava's graduation in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: and we spent the first three days of our one-week
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  Speaker 1: visit to Paris, London, and Wales. In Paris, I told you,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like Pakistan. I told you that years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Europe is gone. It's over. President Trump said it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Paris is a Muslim nation. Folks, don't get caught up
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  Speaker 1: in Islam, radical Islam, and Muslim culture. Okay? I know
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  Speaker 1: people get very offended. Don't say that about the Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Okay? Every plane that gets hijacked these days,
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  Speaker 1: they're Muslims. You know? It's the same thing I told
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  Speaker 1: you earlier with the Palestinians. Hamas, they're Palestinians. They may
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  Speaker 1: be progressive, they may be radical, but they're Palestinians. Radical
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  Speaker 1: Islam is Muslims. They're not Jewish. They're not Italians. They're
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  Speaker 1: not the Irish or the Germans. And they are coming
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  Speaker 1: to a city near you. Stop worrying about the language,
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  Speaker 1: the words. I don't. Randy Bynum doesn't. Because we're telling
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  Speaker 1: you that President Trump doesn't. Because we're telling you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: It's enough. Don't get mad when I call the mayor
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  Speaker 1: a terrorist because he doesn't wear an explosive vest or
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  Speaker 1: carry a gun. The ideology is the same. We are
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  Speaker 1: in big trouble here. All that footage from Paris, all that,
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  Speaker 1: that's us. in a very little amount of time. It
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  Speaker 1: looked very similar to the George Floyd summer, didn't it?
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  Speaker 1: You've had stuff like that here in New York since
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  Speaker 1: October the 7th. I didn't look at it and go,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, I've never seen that before. It's coming.
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  Speaker 1: It is coming. Fight back now. Am I wrong, Victoria Coates?
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning, Sid. No, you're absolutely, you're not wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And we're about 10 years behind. And I was struck
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  Speaker 2: with my art history degrees. You know, you mentioned the
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  Speaker 2: Mona Lisa, the AI Rail did as well. The Louvre
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  Speaker 2: is closed today. The museum put out a statement and
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  Speaker 2: they said, because of the student social movement, we are
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  Speaker 2: closing the museum. So imagine you're there with your daughter
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  Speaker 2: on your graduation trip and you have your time tickets
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  Speaker 2: for today for which you've paid. And you can't get in.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get to see the Mona Lisa. You don't
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  Speaker 2: get to see Michelangelo's slaves. You don't get to see
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  Speaker 2: the Venus de Milo because the terrorists have terrorized the
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  Speaker 2: government of France.
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  Speaker 1: And what pisses me off is they say, well, because
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  Speaker 1: of the students. Look, this did start with the students.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that a week ago, two weeks ago, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it was. There's no students left. All these fires, people
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  Speaker 1: beating up cops in the street, people beating up their
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  Speaker 1: own people. Store owners in the streets, stealing stuff, those
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  Speaker 1: aren't students. Those are Antifa. Those are anarchists. Those are pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian.
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  Speaker 1: You notice, this is true, Victoria, they're not burning down
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  Speaker 1: Muslim mosques. They're not attacking the Muslim... They leave those alone.
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  Speaker 1: And there are plenty, and I mean plenty, of Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: flags in the street that the media in the United
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  Speaker 1: States won't show. So it's not about the students. It
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been about the students. This is immigration and the
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  Speaker 1: bad guys taking over a city like they've done too
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  Speaker 1: many times.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And they're organized. They're ready to go. They have
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  Speaker 2: all the flags. They have all the masks. They have
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  Speaker 2: all the Molotov cocktails, and they wait for a provocative
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  Speaker 2: incident that they can exploit, whether it be George Floyd,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be October 7th, whether it be the protests
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  Speaker 2: over school situation, where they just have nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with the topic. There's a reason Greta's there, Thunberg, the Norwegian.
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  Speaker 1: She's there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she's there.
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  Speaker 1: You should be ashamed, that one. I should be in
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  Speaker 1: school while she takes a boat over to Gaza, that moron. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, any cause. It's the omni cause. It's just
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  Speaker 2: any grievance they're going to take up and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to use it to spread unrest and to destabilize the West.
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  Speaker 2: The president is 100 percent correct on this than the
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  Speaker 2: vice president. This is a campaign to destabilize the West.
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  Speaker 2: And they've gone where it's weakest, which happens to be Paris.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not going to end there.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. And when you say the weakest in Paris,
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  Speaker 1: go right to the leadership. You know, Macron has been
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  Speaker 1: a wuss, a woke wuss, Victoria Coates, for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to start somewhere... He's a good
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  Speaker 1: place to start because he was actually talking yesterday. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the students are long gone from these protests, long gone.
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  Speaker 1: He was still talking about paying heed to the students yesterday. Now, look,
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  Speaker 1: the French police, to their credit, they got much more aggressive,
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  Speaker 1: even got physical last night. They put the curfew out there,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not as bad last night as it was prior.
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  Speaker 1: But they're getting ready for a big weekend. Saturday, they'll
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  Speaker 1: be all over the country. And Sunday, the National Football
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  Speaker 1: League has their first game ever in Paris. The Steelers
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  Speaker 1: and the Saints, they haven't canceled it yet. And you
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  Speaker 1: know these lunatics, these anarchists, are going to try to
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  Speaker 1: make something bad happen there. You just know that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's too big of a target. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is the United States literally coming to their ground, to
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  Speaker 2: their backyard. They can't resist it. So, of course, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to try. And Macron, his policies over the last
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  Speaker 2: 10 years have just bankrupted France. He's just kept spending,
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  Speaker 2: kept spending, kept spending. And now the country just has
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  Speaker 2: no money left. It's a fiscal disaster. We have to
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to that, too, because we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to continue to provide limitless services going forward
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  Speaker 2: with our $ 40 trillion debt, which is a national security issue.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're stuck. talking very sternly with our European
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  Speaker 2: partners about the need for them to be the primary
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  Speaker 2: defense against Russia. And you look at the numbers, Sid,
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  Speaker 2: the collective GDP of the European Union plus the UK
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  Speaker 2: is 25 trillion. It is 10 times the GDP of Russia,
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  Speaker 2: which is 2.5. So why can't they take care of Russia?
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  Speaker 2: They can't because they've spent themselves into a disaster. There's
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  Speaker 2: no money left for defense. They've allowed this creeping immigration
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  Speaker 2: situation to turn into a civilization-threatening catastrophe. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: know what's to be done in what my boss, Don Rumsfeld,
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  Speaker 2: used to call old Europe. New Europe is different. I
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  Speaker 2: was in Warsaw two weeks ago. It's not like this
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  Speaker 2: at all, for good reason. And old Europe, though, is dying.
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  Speaker 1: Old Europe is gone, and it's not coming back anytime soon.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, here's Macron, who was actually blaming the United
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  Speaker 1: States and Iran for the protests in his country. And
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  Speaker 1: mind you, Victoria Coates, as his country was burning, you
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  Speaker 1: would have thought that Macron would have been all over
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  Speaker 1: the country looking to try to stop it. No, he
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  Speaker 1: was watching— you can't make this up— he was watching Celine Dion
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  Speaker 1: put on a concert in in France as the city
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  Speaker 1: was burning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was dancing with Brigitte.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He likes doing that. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, it's like, it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Nero fiddling while Rome burned. It's just gobsmacking. And then
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  Speaker 2: in his statement, the line that stuck with me is
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  Speaker 2: how can the French do this to France? Like they're not.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're a moron. Right. They're not French. They're North Africans.
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  Speaker 1: They're North Africans. They're, They're from every place else. There
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  Speaker 1: are some French, obviously. You know, we do the same
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  Speaker 1: thing here. We always, well, it's all George Soros. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. There are New Yorkers, too, that get involved
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  Speaker 1: in this stuff. So there are some. But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It's not all French. And that's why what Trump said
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  Speaker 1: yesterday is right. This is not about the students. This
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  Speaker 1: is about immigration. You open your borders and you leave
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  Speaker 1: yourself open to nonsense like this. What started as a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate protest has turned into... Chaos because it's not the French. No.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, we had Ro Khanna was on Fox
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  Speaker 2: and Friends earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: What a loser. God. I know.
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  Speaker 2: Just talking about how this is about energy prices and
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  Speaker 2: legitimate grievances. And that's that's what's going to happen here.
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  Speaker 2: If we elect all of these crazy people two weeks
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  Speaker 2: from today, everybody gets to go to the polls. I
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  Speaker 2: work for a 501c3, so I wouldn't advocate for an
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  Speaker 2: individual candidate. But I would just say, look at this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is what happens when politicians start to
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  Speaker 2: legitimize this, to normalize it, to tolerate it. It's all fine.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be diverse. They want to be inclusive.
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  Speaker 2: So so they're not going to call out folks who
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  Speaker 2: are going to impose this kind of ideology on our people.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's why these elections and it's the little elections.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just the big marquee governor and Senate races
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  Speaker 2: this time. Folks need to pay attention to what's happening
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  Speaker 2: on their school boards, their mayor's races, their local their
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  Speaker 2: local elected officials. And just watch so that this doesn't
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  Speaker 2: creep into our country the way it's crept into France.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. My guy, Michael Petri on Long Island actually
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  Speaker 1: received the police union endorsement yesterday in Tom Suozzi's own town.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Long Island race here in New York that
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But look, you're right. The small races
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  Speaker 1: matter just as much. But going back to the big races,
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  Speaker 1: that lunatic Tallarico in Texas and, of course, Angie Nixon
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  Speaker 1: down in Florida. But I think everybody is pretty much
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  Speaker 1: saying the same thing. The Mamdani win. in New York
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  Speaker 1: was a disaster, not just for New York, but for
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  Speaker 1: the whole country. He's become the base of that movement.
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  Speaker 1: El-Sayed in Michigan, if he really does go on to
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  Speaker 1: beat Mike Rogers, that will be a disaster for our country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we're going to see it start to
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  Speaker 2: manifest itself. And as I said, I'm down here I'm
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  Speaker 2: down in Texas today, getting a little bit of sense
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  Speaker 2: of what's going on. And the people I'm talking to
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  Speaker 2: are just horrified by the notion that their next senator,
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  Speaker 2: you know, replacing John Cornyn would be Tallarico. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's antithetical to what they believe in just
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally here in Texas. So If that does happen, it
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  Speaker 2: means the state itself has been the victim of a
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  Speaker 2: kind of a reverse crusade. And, you know, there's some
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  Speaker 2: sort of a force at work here that really wants
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  Speaker 2: to get strike at the heart of what it means
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  Speaker 2: to be a Texan. And I think you're seeing that
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  Speaker 2: with Mamdami and your great city, which I also love
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  Speaker 2: to visit. You know, and that is, I mean, given
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  Speaker 2: the scale of New York, that is a national issue,
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  Speaker 2: and we're seeing it manifest itself. So the question then
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  Speaker 2: has to be, do you want that in your state?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want that then potentially, you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: White House in 2028? And do you want to look
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  Speaker 2: like Paris?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, no. So the last two years, I've had
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  Speaker 1: really the fortunate opportunity to watch you speak in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: great JNS.org, and I know how much you love Israel
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  Speaker 1: and the Israelis, and you're not Jewish, and B.B., And
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  Speaker 1: that election is a week from today. I actually blasted J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance today. You know, he had me come to the
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  Speaker 1: White House. And I went. And I sat and I
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  Speaker 1: talked with him. And the last thing he said to
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  Speaker 1: me was, I swear, Victoria, he goes, let's keep in touch.
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  Speaker 1: Let's keep the dialogue going. I've tried to book him
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  Speaker 1: on the show three times. I can't get him. They
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  Speaker 1: won't even get back to me, his team. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure why they had me at the White House
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. I know it was a dog
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  Speaker 1: and pony show, but very disappointed. that the last month
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  Speaker 1: and a half I've gotten nothing, I mean nothing from him,
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  Speaker 1: and he comes out and he won't endorse Bibi. He
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  Speaker 1: won't do it. But President Trump certainly did. I even
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  Speaker 1: played the phone call earlier today when Bibi called him
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  Speaker 1: afterwards to thank him. That election in Israel is one
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  Speaker 1: week from today. Any thoughts on how that might go?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Israel is a country of nine million
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  Speaker 2: prime ministers, as you know well.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. That is great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Everyone has their opinion. And, you know, I feel
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  Speaker 2: very strongly. It is not my business. who's the Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister of Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu is a friend of mine,
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  Speaker 2: has been for many years. I think he is a
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  Speaker 2: great Israeli patriot and has done tremendous things for the country.
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  Speaker 2: But that is a question for the people of Israel, really.
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  Speaker 2: And I am very curious to know how the anti-Semites
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  Speaker 2: who have, you know, originally they didn't like Zionism, then
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  Speaker 2: they didn't like a couple of people in the Netanyahu cabinet.
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  Speaker 2: And then they've got now focused on the prime minister
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  Speaker 2: as if Bibi would just go away, everything would be fine. Well, A,
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  Speaker 2: Bibi wasn't always here. He did go away several times
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  Speaker 2: and things didn't necessarily improve. But that's not your business.
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  Speaker 2: And what are you going to do? I mean, at
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  Speaker 2: some point he will leave. You know, President Trump will leave.
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  Speaker 2: We'll all leave. What are you going to do then?
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  Speaker 2: Are you just going to admit you don't like Jews
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  Speaker 2: at that point because you can't personalize it on and
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  Speaker 2: blame it on one person? But what I really want
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  Speaker 2: to see in a week from from Israel is their
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  Speaker 2: vibrant democracy functioning. There'll be a vicious squabble afterwards to
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  Speaker 2: form the government.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. I would never bet against Netanyahu
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  Speaker 2: in that process. He's the master of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll see what comes out. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's the business of anyone who values that relationship to
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  Speaker 2: work with a legitimately elected government of Israel. And that
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  Speaker 2: demonstration that democracy can happen in the Middle East. And
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  Speaker 2: where is that happening? It's happening in the Jewish state.
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  Speaker 1: Bottom line. Victoria Coates, you're always great. Amazing. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for hopping on today. Enjoy the Longhorn State. I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: Calarico can't win, but he might. So enjoy your day today.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk again often.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: Bye, Victoria. Coach right there. She really is great.
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