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Highlights for Curtis and Larry. · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: You know, this was a scene for you, Larry. You
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  Speaker 1: go out to the pay telephone. You call up Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Channel and you say, what happened to my very
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  Speaker 1: dear friend Maria Bartiromo?
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  Speaker 2: And they say, there's nothing you can do. She's gone.
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  Speaker 2: She's gone. And you say, well, what?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing you can do. Gone.
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  Speaker 1: That's how quick this information came down the pipe yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: She had just finished her morning show. She did three
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  Speaker 1: shows a week for Fox News Channel. I would say
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  Speaker 1: for a select audience, they were looking for the heavy hitters,
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  Speaker 1: the whales out there, people in finance, people who had equity.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like it was going to be the ratings
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  Speaker 1: leader of all of Fox News, but it had a
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  Speaker 1: very select audience. And out of nowhere— they let her
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  Speaker 1: go and she has not responded. But the president of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, who must have been just as surprised
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  Speaker 1: at all of us, uh, put out a truth social
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  Speaker 1: last night, was very disturbed and said, there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of angry people who watch, who want
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  Speaker 1: to have answers. And I think I know what it was, but, uh, Boy,
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  Speaker 1: this is a woman with a tremendous history in broadcasting.
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  Speaker 1: And like Natalie, who was an intern for Barry Farber,
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  Speaker 1: that's how she.
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  Speaker 2: Broke into the business.
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  Speaker 1: She was an intern at WMCA when our own guy,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, was over there. And she was Barry Farber's intern,
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  Speaker 1: and he recommended to her, you really got talent. You
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  Speaker 1: need to branch out into TV and other forms of entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what she did, a Brooklyn girl.
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  Speaker 2: Great story.
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  Speaker 1: Went to Fon Fon All Girls High School, Rex Manor
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  Speaker 1: owned by her daddy and mommy. She was a hat
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  Speaker 1: check girl, worked at OTB. So we're not talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a smooth, easy ride. And she was the first, remember,
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  Speaker 1: to ever do updates from the floor of the New
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  Speaker 1: York Stock Exchange. That's how she became famous. And then
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  Speaker 1: over at CNBC and then brought over to Fox Business Channel.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody expected this.
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  Speaker 3: No, nobody expected it because they were even surprised at
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  Speaker 3: Fox News. And we can tell you that we know
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  Speaker 3: that for a fact because Peter Doocy asked J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 3: about it yesterday. And there is speculation right now that
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  Speaker 3: she will become the new press secretary. And so Peter Doocy...
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  Speaker 3: From Fox News, asked J.D. Vance, the vice president, filling
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  Speaker 3: in for the outgoing press secretary, if that is true.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I just saw the news literally as I
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  Speaker 4: walked out before. I love Maria. I think she's an
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  Speaker 4: amazing person, amazing talent. I don't get involved in the
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  Speaker 4: personal drama of media stations. In fact, I'd like to
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  Speaker 4: invite Peter Doocy to come up here and answer a
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  Speaker 4: question about what happened to Maria. But I think whatever
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  Speaker 4: she does, look, she's going to do great, and I
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  Speaker 4: wish her all the best.
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  Speaker 2: She's a very, very dear friend.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't even talked to her, so I don't know
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  Speaker 4: the backstory about why she's decided to leave Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she didn't decide to leave, according to Status, which
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  Speaker 3: is an online site. Status got information that she was
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  Speaker 3: let go. In a brief statement, Fox News said, we
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  Speaker 3: thank Maria for her work over the past 12 and
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  Speaker 3: a half years and wish her all the best on
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  Speaker 3: her next chapter. Status is a media watchdog site. And
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  Speaker 3: they say, that after Trump gave a speech in July
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  Speaker 3: about election interference, Fox Business officials ordered the network top
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  Speaker 3: stars to stay clear of all Trump's unsubstantiated claims about
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  Speaker 3: election interference. That is from the memo itself. Several outlets
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  Speaker 3: noted that Fox gave little airtime to Trump's speech in
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  Speaker 3: the hours and days that followed that speech. But Bartiromo
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  Speaker 3: is accused of leaking that company directive to the White House.
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  Speaker 3: This is according to Status again. It's unclear if she
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  Speaker 3: reached out first or if the Trump team made the request.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know how it happened, but they have been
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  Speaker 3: able to track down after all these years that it
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  Speaker 3: was her that leaked that memo. By the way, Here's
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  Speaker 3: a little sample of Trump's speech.
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  Speaker 5: This is election interference. They made up a fake case.
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  Speaker 5: They're fraudulent people. And the judge already knows what he's
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  Speaker 5: going to do. He's a Democrat judge. In all fairness
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  Speaker 5: to him, he has no choice. He has no choice.
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  Speaker 5: He's run by the Democrats. I know this city better
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  Speaker 5: than anybody knows this city. Nobody knows it like I do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was upset. The ruling had just came down
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  Speaker 3: and he was upset, Curtis. And I guess he said
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  Speaker 3: some things that made Fox and even Fox News go,
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  Speaker 3: let's stay away from this.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan who run it.
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  Speaker 1: They had to pay out a billion dollars in a
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  Speaker 1: settlement with Smartmatic and Dominion, remember? And because they had
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  Speaker 1: notes from Marie Bartolome at that time, Janine Pirro, Lou Dobbs,
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  Speaker 1: no longer alive. in which they were promoting that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: election interference. The reason, you know why they had to settle?
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  Speaker 1: It all comes back to Tucker Carlson. Because when he
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  Speaker 1: was deposed, when they went through his texts and his emails,
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  Speaker 1: he was saying, oh, everybody knew that was BS at Fox,
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  Speaker 1: that there was no election interference. So when the Murdochs
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  Speaker 1: are confronted with that, that they're going to put Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Carlson on the stand and cross-examine him, settle, settle, settle.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, settle. So they didn't want to have this again.
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  Speaker 1: I went through this to a small degree over at WABC. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani was fired by WABC because of the Smartmatic
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  Speaker 1: and the Dominion case and the fear that they could
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  Speaker 1: make billions of dollars from whatever company they were speaking at.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe that the last loyal woman standing for Trump,
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  Speaker 1: because Janine is now U.S. attorney in D.C. Lou Dobbs
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  Speaker 1: passed away. Marie Bartiromo probably informed Trump that going into
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  Speaker 1: this two-day convention in Dallas, they've been told, If you
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  Speaker 1: talk about election interference, we're not permitted to cover it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think they felt you crossed the line.
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  Speaker 2: You got to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will tell you this. I think Maria Bartiromo
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  Speaker 3: is going to be the next press secretary. And look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to claim that I know Maria Bartiromo,
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  Speaker 3: but I talked to her every week for three years.
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  Speaker 3: And it was because, you know how they set up
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  Speaker 3: for like, especially in the top five markets, they set
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  Speaker 3: up the network people to talk to the top five,
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  Speaker 3: the news departments in the top five. I did a
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  Speaker 3: Sunday morning show, and she was in on Sunday mornings,
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  Speaker 3: and we had her on every week. And she was
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  Speaker 3: the sweetest.
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  Speaker 2: They're not all.
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  Speaker 3: She was the sweetest. She stood out humble. She always
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  Speaker 3: asked if we needed to do it again. Did I
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  Speaker 3: make any mistakes? Because we did a pre-tape with her.
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  Speaker 3: And she would tell stories. She would tell stories about
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  Speaker 3: what was happening there. She always asked about my family.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: She was maybe the sweetest of the network stars that
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  Speaker 3: I ran into. Her and Al Roker were the two
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  Speaker 3: that I thought were just sweethearts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I concur.
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  Speaker 1: I did quite a few interviews with Marie Bartiromo, especially
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  Speaker 1: in this last mayoral election cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't be nicer. She was Brooklyn through and through and
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  Speaker 2: very proud of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is announced.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know there's been a lot of names
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  Speaker 3: bandied about, but my feeling is she might have just
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  Speaker 3: risen to the top of the heap because— When Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump feels like you've been loyal and when Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: feels like he owes you, as you've seen in his administration,
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned Jeanine Pirro.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: If you've seen in his administration, that happens a lot.
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  Speaker 1: On the line right now, Rob Astorino, former county executive
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  Speaker 1: guy who gave a really good run against Andrew Evil
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  Speaker 1: Eyes Cuomo for the governorship.
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  Speaker 6: And now.
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  Speaker 1: The fixture at Newsmax and naturally here at WOR, Saturdays
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  Speaker 1: 4 to 5. Now, Rob, as a good Republican, as
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  Speaker 1: you've always been, have you heard the call from the
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  Speaker 1: RNC and President Trump to come to Dallas, come to
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  Speaker 1: Dallas for the 9th and the 10th before 9-11, sort
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  Speaker 1: of a mini convention before the president makes the big
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  Speaker 1: push to hold the House and keep the Senate?
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  Speaker 7: I have heard the call, Curtis, but I am not going.
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  Speaker 7: As of now, I am not going. It's going to
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  Speaker 7: be interesting. Look, I think Newsmax and Fox will cover it.
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  Speaker 6: You'll have CNN and MSNOW will probably have as little
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  Speaker 6: as humanly possible.
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  Speaker 7: And even with that, with a sourpuss on and distort
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  Speaker 7: whatever is said. And the networks aren't going to cover it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this is not a presidential election or nomination convention.
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  Speaker 7: So I don't, look, I think it's a good idea
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  Speaker 7: to try it.
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  Speaker 6: But even before this starts, I just saw a poll yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: I think it was the Harvard-Harris poll. The Republicans in
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  Speaker 6: the generic ballot there with likely voters are actually winning
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  Speaker 6: on the ballot against Democrats. And some of the other
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  Speaker 6: polls that I've seen, just the other public polls, the
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  Speaker 6: numbers are starting to come down to getting.
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  Speaker 7: A little closer.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe things are actually heading in the right direction
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  Speaker 6: as people are starting to, you know, really understand what's
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  Speaker 6: at stake here.
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  Speaker 7: And as you got the El Sayeds and the others
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  Speaker 7: on the left getting a lot of attention and people like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what,
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  Speaker 7: what did they just say? So, you know, I guess
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  Speaker 7: Labor Day is their traditional kickoff and we're, we're here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not as optimistic as you are, and I
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  Speaker 3: follow the Cook Report like I follow box scores, and
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  Speaker 3: they don't paint a really good picture. Right now, it
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  Speaker 3: used to be 15 toss-ups. That was just a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks ago. Now there are 21 toss-ups in the House.
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  Speaker 3: 16 of them are Republican seats. And then when you
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  Speaker 3: go to the Senate, it used to be four. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's six. Five of the six are Republican seats. There
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  Speaker 3: are some horrible numbers right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but remember the Cook Report and those like it,
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  Speaker 6: Sabato and others, it's a subjective measure on what they
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  Speaker 6: go lean Democrat, lean Republican to some extent. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: they try to use an aggregate of the polls, but
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  Speaker 6: then they also try to use whatever formulas they decide
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  Speaker 6: to use.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not saying it's not a great mood right now.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think it is.
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  Speaker 6: If it were tomorrow, the election, I think Republicans would
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  Speaker 6: lose the House. I still think they're going to hold
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  Speaker 6: the Senate. I don't honestly, Texas is going to be
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  Speaker 6: Texas in the end. Maybe it's a little closer. And I,
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  Speaker 6: and I look, I've talked to people in Texas who
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  Speaker 6: have seen the inside numbers. They are not happy where
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  Speaker 6: things are right now, but there's still a lot of
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  Speaker 6: time to play out. And a lot of voters do
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  Speaker 6: vote the way they normally do.
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  Speaker 7: Same thing with Alaska.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Michigan is a real pickup opportunity. North Carolina
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  Speaker 6: is a little closer than people, people think. So there are,
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  Speaker 6: And Trump won that state three times. So there are
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  Speaker 6: still plenty of runway left.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Asciarino, let's look at the election prospects for 2028. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: we had an opportunity to look at J.D. Vance, again,
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  Speaker 1: our vice president, as the spokesperson for the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: until they find a permanent one. What is this weird
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  Speaker 1: obsession he has with Tucker Carlson? I cannot seem to
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  Speaker 1: treat him like dandruff, you know, like, yeah, we, we
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  Speaker 1: were friends, but you know, he's gone his own way.
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  Speaker 1: He's no longer a member of the Republican party. He's
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  Speaker 1: been ostracized by Trump. Why this continued almost like open
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  Speaker 1: friendship with him that is not being received well by
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Republicans.
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  Speaker 6: Well, first off, I think, We need to put this
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  Speaker 6: rumor to bed or just make the damn announcement and
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  Speaker 6: get it over with.
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  Speaker 7: Curtis, are you taking over for Caroline Leavitt or not?
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  Speaker 1: No, but it might be Maria Bartolome after that announcement
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  Speaker 1: that she's gone yesterday unexpectedly from Fox.
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  Speaker 3: Could you imagine Curtis in that job?
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  Speaker 2: Could you imagine? The reporters wouldn't get.
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  Speaker 7: A word in. Not only that, but he would say,
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  Speaker 7: let me just say this.
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  Speaker 1: I totally disagree with the president on this one.
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  Speaker 7: That job would last a lot less than Scaramucci's.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure. But why this obsession that J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance has in not wanting to detach himself from Tucker Carlson?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 6: J.D.
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  Speaker 7: Vance's son works for Carlson, I believe.
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  Speaker 6: No, Carlson's son works in J.D. 's office.
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  Speaker 7: So there's a family connection there, too.
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  Speaker 6: Now, with the problems that Tucker Carlson, who has a
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  Speaker 6: big following, though, by the way, but the problems that
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  Speaker 6: he has kind of caused the Republicans and Trump, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know why Trump hasn't pulled him in at one
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  Speaker 6: of these lunches and said to J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance, you know, hey.
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  Speaker 7: What are you doing here? But here's the but.
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  Speaker 6: Is there any relationship that can't be repaired, i.e., Michael Cohen,
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  Speaker 6: Elon Musk?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, does anyone.
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  Speaker 6: Not think that Tucker Carlson might be speaking at the
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  Speaker 6: next convention or having a press conference or something?
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  Speaker 3: So– Hey, there was a really important meeting at the
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  Speaker 3: White House this week, and that was Donald Trump with
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  Speaker 3: the oil executives. I just went through the transcripts. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't really read them thoroughly, but I went through just
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  Speaker 3: to see if it jumped out with the president putting
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  Speaker 3: some pressure on them to bring down gas prices. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't find anything right now, but I can't believe that's
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  Speaker 3: not happening.
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  Speaker 6: Well, because the torture chamber is not in the Oval
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  Speaker 6: Office downstairs in the White House where the Secret Service
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  Speaker 6: took them and they were hooked up. You know, and
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  Speaker 6: here's the other thing that the vice president yesterday, I think,
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  Speaker 6: had an opportunity to kind of do. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the headlines, the vice president says nobody cares. The administration
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  Speaker 6: doesn't care about gas prices.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously, that's not true. I mean, there's a real direct
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  Speaker 7: correlation with the American mood.
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  Speaker 6: And obviously the way they might vote between gas prices
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  Speaker 6: and how they'll vote.
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  Speaker 7: We've seen that when it goes down, gas prices, the
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  Speaker 7: mood goes up, which is better for the Republicans. It's
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  Speaker 7: just the opposite. So it's a real issue. And it's
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  Speaker 7: one that I think they've got to not only pay attention.
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  Speaker 6: To, which they obviously are with the oil executives there,
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  Speaker 6: but be very cognizant in every word they say and
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  Speaker 6: not kind of blow it off, which I don't think
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  Speaker 6: he really did. But that's how it came across, at least,
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  Speaker 6: you know, in the headlines.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the gas prices are actually going
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  Speaker 3: to come down, and I think they're going to come
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  Speaker 3: down for several reasons. That torture chamber might be reason
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  Speaker 3: number one. I think there's going to be some heavy
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  Speaker 3: pressure on the oil companies after all the things that
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has done for them.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah. I mean, think of this one thing.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, who would the oil and gas industry prefer
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  Speaker 6: to be in charge? Republicans or Democrats who will go
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  Speaker 6: after them With a vengeance. I mean, even if they've
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  Speaker 6: made a ton of profit with oil price rises, they
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  Speaker 6: could eat some profit over the next month or so
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  Speaker 6: to bring down gas. And that would be to their
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  Speaker 6: own benefit. I mean, seriously, you have to think about
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  Speaker 6: the long run. If I'm a CEO of a company,
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  Speaker 6: oil and gas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good point. All right, well, appreciate it, Rob Astorino.
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  Speaker 1: Again, catch him here at WOR this Saturday, 4 to 5.
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  Speaker 2: Same time, same place next week.
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  Speaker 1: Rob, it'll be 9-11 and obviously a very solemn occasion.
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  Speaker 7: Yep, yep. Have a wonderful weekend, guys.
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  Speaker 2: You too.