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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review Reacts to Mamdani's Tone-Deaf October 7th Statement · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry, editor, National Review. Rich, what can I say? Yiskadalvi, Yiskadash,
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  Speaker 1: Shemay Robo. That's the mourner's prayer for your New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: If you've told me any time over the last three
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  Speaker 2: and a half months we'd be swept in a playoff
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  Speaker 2: series because we scored zero, two, and three runs, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have been surprised.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: My level of disappointment is not quite as low as
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  Speaker 2: it might have been otherwise, but... That's what we do.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees said, welcome to be a Yankee fan. We
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  Speaker 2: lose in the postseason. That's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: At least you get there. I was having this argument
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  Speaker 1: at the dinner table last night with my Met band buddies.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, you left us. I go, we don't even
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  Speaker 1: make the one. We are a Yankee fan now, but
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  Speaker 1: you don't even make the playoffs. At least the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: get there. But I got to tell you, it's more
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  Speaker 1: disappointing when you get there and don't move on. The
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  Speaker 1: Yankees were going on 18 years now since 2009. And look,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. The Yankees struggled offensively all year. All year long.
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  Speaker 1: They had a couple of breakout moments here and there,
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  Speaker 1: and the injuries didn't help George Stanton-Bellinger, but they struggled
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  Speaker 1: offensively all year. I was not surprised either. I would
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  Speaker 1: be surprised if that was the case against Houston or
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland or the White Sox, but not the Rays. But
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  Speaker 1: if you would have told me the Yankees were going
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  Speaker 1: to get swept by Tampa Bay, I would have been surprised. Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I would have said we'd go to a game four.
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  Speaker 2: But look, they're a better team. I didn't pay much
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  Speaker 2: attention to them in the regular season, but they're a
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  Speaker 2: really good team. And I think the tenor of the
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  Speaker 2: whole series was set by Trent Grisham dogging it on
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  Speaker 2: a boop single that the Rays hitter hustled into a double.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, this is what it's going to be. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Rays had a couple misplays last night,
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  Speaker 2: but we didn't make them pay. We didn't get the
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  Speaker 2: big hits. So the problem with this team, I was
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  Speaker 2: listening to the fan after the game won, and someone
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  Speaker 2: was like, we need George Steinbrenner back. Well, the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: sucked for long stretches during George Steinbrenner. But what you
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  Speaker 2: need is just, it's really hard to do. You need
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  Speaker 2: players that can just always do the right thing. Like
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  Speaker 2: Derek Jeter, he had slumps. He had problems. His range
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  Speaker 2: wasn't great at shortstop, especially towards the end. But he
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  Speaker 2: never made a stupid baseball play. I can't remember one
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  Speaker 2: stupid baseball play. And the Yankees just had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys that just do dumb things in clutch moments,
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  Speaker 2: and When you've got to win a game 2-1, which
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  Speaker 2: is what we needed to do against the Rays basically
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  Speaker 2: every single time, it kills you.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, though, about George because, you know, he was
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  Speaker 1: so angry in 76 when the Yankees got swept by
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  Speaker 1: the Reds and that's when he went out and got
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  Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson and, you know, Catfish came and Bucky Dent,
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. They had a great run. Beat the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: in 76. Beat the Dodgers again in 77. Lost to
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in that strike-shortened season in 81. But then again,
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  Speaker 1: they went playoff missing for a while, right? All those
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  Speaker 1: great years of Don Mattingly, the Yankees won nothing.
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  Speaker 2: All during the 80s, they were misshapen teams. There's one episode,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it was like 85 or 86 or something,
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  Speaker 2: where Mattingly and a contingent of players screwed up their courage.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, we're going to go see George. And they
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  Speaker 2: told him, George, we just need one pitcher. This team's
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  Speaker 2: so good offensively. Just please, go get us one pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: And then like a week later, he trades for Jack Clark.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't make any sense, I know.
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  Speaker 2: And they got better because he was suspended. He was expelled, actually.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I remember that, yeah. Poor Don Mattingly. Last year, 95,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees get to the playoffs. They lose to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Yankees bring in Tino from Seattle, say
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  Speaker 1: bye-bye Donnie, and they win the World Series the very
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  Speaker 1: next year. So we're going to see. I love Randy Levine.
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  Speaker 1: I really do. I love the Yankee organization. I had
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  Speaker 1: a blast. Once I dropped the Mets, it was about the...
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, second or third week of the season
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  Speaker 1: when Mr. and Mrs. met, hugged Mom Donnie, and that
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  Speaker 1: was it. I called them anti-Semites. And Randy Levine took
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  Speaker 1: me in like a parent would take in an adopted child.
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  Speaker 2: I swear to God. When we look back at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year, top ten stories in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: that would be one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Got to be.
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  Speaker 2: Rosenberg switches to the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously, 58 years as a diehard New York Met fan,
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  Speaker 1: and I spent more time in Randy's box this summer
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  Speaker 1: than than maybe anybody, because he's such a sweet guy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll get back to the Yankees next year.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get to the.
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  Speaker 2: When it starts in June or July.
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  Speaker 1: Right, exactly. Let's get to the mayor yesterday. One day,
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  Speaker 1: one day, that's all Jewish people ask for, give us... See,
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  Speaker 1: I really want them to say nothing. I got on
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  Speaker 1: the air yesterday morning and I said, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't going to do that, of course not, just
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  Speaker 1: like I knew he was not going to not show
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  Speaker 1: up at 9-11. But my hope was he would just
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  Speaker 1: not say anything because if he said anything nice about
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  Speaker 1: the Jews, I knew he'd be disingenuous. Oh, he said
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  Speaker 1: something all right. And he spent most of his time
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  Speaker 1: in his statement attacking the Jews and Israel and even
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  Speaker 1: the United States. I'm not going to lie to you.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody hates this guy more than me. Even I was surprised, Rich.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so in journalism, there's something called the to-be-sure line.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're making an argument in a piece, and
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  Speaker 2: you have to make some concession to the other side
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  Speaker 2: just to cover yourself, so you say, to be sure, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: He had a to-be-sure line about the October 7th massacre
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  Speaker 2: in his October 7th statement. He had to say something
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  Speaker 2: about Hamas killing Jews. So he had one line or
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  Speaker 2: whatever was in there, and then he goes on and
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  Speaker 2: smears and libels Israel and the rest of it. It's disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: He also, he went on to smear and libel. And
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  Speaker 1: this is my frustration with Trump. You know, I love
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  Speaker 1: Trump so much. I'll see him again. Hopefully at the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the state department on Wednesday, he went on to call
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  Speaker 1: America complicit in the genocide America.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. But look, this is, this is what
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  Speaker 2: people who have this worldview, this is what they think.
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  Speaker 2: So you shouldn't be surprised if he actually says it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I guess I was, um, I was surprised. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to lie to you because I thought that
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  Speaker 1: even he'd be able to control himself for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes. But he's a bad guy. The bottom line
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  Speaker 1: is he's a bad guy, you know. So Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 1: is in Athens, Greece yesterday. John Katsimatidis must have been very,
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  Speaker 1: very proud because John's my favorite Greek. And he puts
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  Speaker 1: on this magnificent speech. So I get an invitation, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: from Marco. He actually texted me at 2.30 this morning saying,
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  Speaker 1: probably on the flight home from Greece to America, sends
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  Speaker 1: me an invitation, him and Howard Lutnick are putting on
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  Speaker 1: a big event for the American, not the Israelis, American
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  Speaker 1: hostages that were murdered after October the 7th at the
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  Speaker 1: State Department on Wednesday, okay? And he sends me a
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  Speaker 1: couple of tweets about his speech. First I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to his speech, then I want to get to
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of him running in 2028. That speech in
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  Speaker 1: Greece yesterday I thought was magnificent. Am I overstating it?
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  Speaker 2: No, totally magnificent. He's given two or three of these
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  Speaker 2: really memorable speeches during his time as Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 2: And when he's good, he's really good. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds to me like there's a Sid Rosenberg primary
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  Speaker 2: going on. You know, you're meeting with J.D., you have
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  Speaker 2: an invitation from Marco, and you have Ted on this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So everyone knows that the path of nomination runs through
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  Speaker 2: Sid and friends.
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  Speaker 1: You're kind of joking about that, but it's true. All
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  Speaker 1: three of those things are true. And ever since I
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  Speaker 1: met Rich... With J.D. Vance at the White House, I've
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  Speaker 1: heard from Marco Rubio exponentially more. You think that's just
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  Speaker 1: a coincidence because he made a speech in Greece or
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  Speaker 1: because we got Greenland? Or do you think that whole
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  Speaker 1: primary discussion is all part of it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not joking right now. I've discounted Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 2: running entirely. This is the one thing I've heard recently.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: You're kidding me. So you've discounted him running, but because
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  Speaker 1: of Sid Rosenberg, you're one of the biggest, best riders
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Because of Sid Rosenberg, now you're starting
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  Speaker 1: to think, which I can tell you he is going
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  Speaker 1: to run, by the way, that he may run, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is something that you do if you're looking ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't think he's going to run.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's going to run. No, no, he's going to run.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to me carefully.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think that?
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  Speaker 1: I know that. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Someone told you?
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you that. Okay. But I promise you,
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  Speaker 1: if you write an article tomorrow in the National Review
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  Speaker 1: that talks about Marco's candidacy, His likelihood of beating J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think Ted Cruz will finish a distant third.
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  Speaker 1: And I love Ted Cruz. I like him a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than J.D. If you write that article, I promise you,
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  Speaker 1: you won't be disappointed later.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to write it? All right.
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  Speaker 2: Duly noted.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to write it, don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you think he would run? I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 2: My theory still is that he has the greatest job
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  Speaker 2: on the planet. He'd have to give it up really
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  Speaker 2: soon now, really soon. We're talking months, not years, right?
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  Speaker 2: He'd have to give up kind of the Air Force
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  Speaker 2: One type plane he flies around on that he texted
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  Speaker 2: you from. He'd have to give up the red carpet
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  Speaker 2: ceremonies when he arrives in other countries and give up
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  Speaker 2: like really important work that he really believes in, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba,
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  Speaker 2: all the rest of it, to rent a car in
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  Speaker 2: Iowa and have a guy drive him around from Pizza
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  Speaker 2: Ranch restaurant to Pizza Ranch restaurant. in the hopes of
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  Speaker 2: toppling a guy that maybe Marco knows something we don't, right?
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  Speaker 2: And it's possible he does. But a guy who's probably
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  Speaker 2: going to get Trump's explicit or implicit nod in the
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  Speaker 2: form of J.D. Vance and probably running an uphill campaign
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  Speaker 2: against him. So just that seems unlikely to me. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if there's some indication that Trump and the
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  Speaker 2: real inner circle are not enamored of J.D. or Trump
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  Speaker 2: really wants an open race and he's not going to
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  Speaker 2: endorse anyone, he's going to kind of sit it out
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  Speaker 2: and comment. Maybe he does. I still think the odds
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  Speaker 2: are against it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review, one of
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  Speaker 1: the smartest guys. you'll ever listen to and read in
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  Speaker 1: all seriousness. I ask you every week about the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: and now we're just about there, three weeks away, four
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  Speaker 1: weeks away. Actually, three-plus weeks for the Israeli election. And
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  Speaker 1: just under four weeks here in America, three weeks from Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be any real indication. I know Trump
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  Speaker 1: was in Texas yesterday, and that's how it goes. That
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  Speaker 1: raised Paxton and Tallarico. He was in Nebraska. He was
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  Speaker 1: in Alabama. He was in a whole bunch of places.
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  Speaker 1: But there doesn't seem to be any indication over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of days where if you had your mind
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  Speaker 1: set one way or the other, where something happened to
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  Speaker 1: change your mind. Or am I wrong about that?
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right about that. The thing is I
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  Speaker 2: talk to Republican pollsters who are smart, who are responsible people.
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  Speaker 2: They're not lunatics who really think there's a polling era
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  Speaker 2: out there because it's so hard to get rural voters
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  Speaker 2: to respond to any poll now. And there doesn't need
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  Speaker 2: to be a huge polling era to make a difference
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  Speaker 2: in what this map looks like because the Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: barely ahead in Iowa, barely ahead in Alaska. So if
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  Speaker 2: there's even a one- or two-point polling error and the
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  Speaker 2: Republican overperforms on Election Day, they're going to hold the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think losing the Senate is a foregone conclusion,
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  Speaker 2: but I do think it's definitely in play. And a
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  Speaker 2: big part of it is Paxton is just such a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: The amount of money they're having to spend for him,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he's a terrible candidate, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he's a sleazebag, the fact that all we hear about
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  Speaker 2: him is– private recordings of him complaining and bellyaching about
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  Speaker 2: other people being responsible for his poor campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Trump! I mean, he said, this son of a bitch goes,
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  Speaker 1: Trump came to Dallas and now I'm doing worse. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Come on!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and actually, at some point, I should clue into you,
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  Speaker 2: it should occur to you that any private meeting with, like, donors,
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  Speaker 2: people are recording it. So don't say things that are
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  Speaker 2: going to be used to embarrass you, but apparently he
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  Speaker 2: can't get his head around that.
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  Speaker 1: No. Would you still feel more confident that the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: will retain the Senate than the House?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. I think it's like a 50, the Senate's a
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  Speaker 2: 50-50 shot, but Republicans are definitely losing the House.
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  Speaker 1: Stop saying definitely. How do you know definitely? What if
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  Speaker 1: Michael Petri wins? Would Janine Driscoll or, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: what's her name out there? Michelle DeFoya.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that it's, they can't, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: can lose three seats or whatever it is. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to lose more than three seats.
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  Speaker 1: Aye, aye, aye. What a disaster, Rich, no?
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  Speaker 2: Bad, but look, you know, when we're all celebrating on
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  Speaker 2: election night 2024, if you'd ask anyone, how are the
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  Speaker 2: midterms going to go in two years? Everyone would have said, badly.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, we understand, right, that the precedent has been
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  Speaker 1: set that the other side wins, and when the president's
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  Speaker 1: a Republican or vice versa, the other side wins. But
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the Democrats, again, I know I'm biased,
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  Speaker 1: they're complete lunatics. I mean, I don't care if they're DSA,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they're, Moderate. There are no moderates.
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  Speaker 1: There's one guy in Pennsylvania. They're lunatics. They're crazy. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have one policy where you can go, okay, this
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  Speaker 1: is good for America, so I know what the precedence is.
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  Speaker 1: I know what the history is. But this is a
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  Speaker 1: completely different set of Democrats, no?
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  Speaker 2: Totally agree. But the pattern in these elections is it's
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  Speaker 2: just a referendum on the party in power. And the
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  Speaker 2: thing that's people don't like is really important to people,
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  Speaker 2: which is prices. You know, if it's a wipeout, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a prices election. You know, the economy
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  Speaker 2: is pretty good. When Trump goes out there and says
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  Speaker 2: it's a golden age and cites all these amazing statistics,
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  Speaker 2: lowest poverty rate ever in the stock market, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 2: he's right. It's just the prices are up. They're up
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  Speaker 2: at the grocery stores and they're up at the pump.
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  Speaker 2: And that really matters to people. So that's And the
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  Speaker 2: polling on that is just catastrophic for Trump and Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, talking to you, I just want to kill myself.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's still going to be president. He's not going
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  Speaker 2: to end as president. Some people are like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats will take him as president. He's over. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a pain. You know, it's bad. It's a
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  Speaker 2: terrible setup for 28. But he'll still be president. And
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  Speaker 2: most of what he's doing is not legislative in nature, right?
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  Speaker 2: He got the big, beautiful bill. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: all he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, we need that. We need the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's not even happening.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. You know, thank God the Yankees won.
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  Speaker 2: Oops.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry, I swear to God, I love you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You're a lot of fun. Thank you. You're a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. Rich Lowry right there, the editor of the
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  Speaker 1: National Review. And according to him, the Republicans have no chance.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to Save America Act anymore. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to get impeached every day. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: complete nightmare.
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