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Never Forget, Nine-Eleven: NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez, powered by politiweek.com.
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  Speaker 3: That's 877- 825-3371 and share your thoughts. We're talking about 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: It is the 25th anniversary of 9-11. And if you
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  Speaker 3: want to give me a call, we will air your
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on our Open Phone America segment at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the show. And I want to start with the
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  Speaker 3: weight of this day, September 11th, 2026, the 25th anniversary
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  Speaker 3: of the terrorist attacks that changed many, many things. And familia, look,
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  Speaker 3: I remember being a young buck in Brooklyn, New York,
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  Speaker 3: moved to Hudson County in Jersey and cutting hair in
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  Speaker 3: the barbershop during that time. And, you know, I had
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  Speaker 3: just started a corporate job, sold my barbershop, gotten into
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  Speaker 3: a cell phone place and eventually took a job working
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  Speaker 3: for one of the major cell phone carriers, Fortune 10
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  Speaker 3: company at the time, probably still is. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: how astounded I was by the 9-11 attacks. And for
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  Speaker 3: those of you who've listened to this show for a
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  Speaker 3: long time, you've heard my story. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: hear it again, maybe I'll save it for the end,
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  Speaker 3: for that last segment as well. But, you know, one
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  Speaker 3: minute that morning it was, you know, pásame el cafecito, right?
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  Speaker 3: Pass me the coffee. The next minute it's chaos, right?
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  Speaker 3: People wondering, do we still have our liberty here? We
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  Speaker 3: had come of age in many ways knowing America wasn't perfect,
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  Speaker 3: but we didn't know that we would be subject to
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  Speaker 3: Pearl Harbor-like attacks in this century. But that's exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 3: And from the rubble of those towers, many a hero emerged.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very, very just impactful time, I can say.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been privileged over the years to sit down
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  Speaker 3: with some of the giants who lived through that history.
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  Speaker 3: America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani has joined me more than once
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  Speaker 3: on this program, sharing the leadership that pulled New York
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  Speaker 3: City through the smoke and the tears. Police officer from
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  Speaker 3: the Port Authority Police Department, Will Jimeno, God bless him.
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  Speaker 3: He came on to recount those harrowing hours where he
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  Speaker 3: was trapped under the rubble in the World Trade Center
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  Speaker 3: lobby where it meets the train station. You know, a
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  Speaker 3: story of survival and faith that still gives me chills.
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  Speaker 3: And these conversations aren't just interviews. They're living history. They're
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  Speaker 3: reminders that ordinary Americans did extraordinary things in the most
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  Speaker 3: dangerous of circumstances. Well, tonight we continue that tradition. We
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  Speaker 3: welcome New York City Councilwoman Vicky Palladino. She'll be joining
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  Speaker 3: us live from Queens. She's making headlines all week, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: for standing tall and demanding that Mayor Zoran Mamdani stay
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  Speaker 3: away from the city's official 9-11 memorial service. You may
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  Speaker 3: have heard this clip of her that went viral. Check
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  Speaker 3: this out.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not asking politely for the mayor not to come
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  Speaker 7: to 9-11, to that ceremony. I am asking, I am
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  Speaker 7: demanding that he not show his face at that sacred ground.
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  Speaker 7: He does not belong there. When you associate yourself with
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  Speaker 7: the likes of Hassan Paika... And you have as your
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  Speaker 7: chief counselor right here in this building, Rasim Qasim, who
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  Speaker 7: was handed a sacred pen yesterday. Very cryptic.
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  Speaker 3: And Councilwoman Palladino, she laid it out plainly right there.
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  Speaker 3: This day is a sacred day. It's not a photo op.
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  Speaker 3: It's not for politics. And she's not stopping there. Councilwoman
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  Speaker 3: Palladino will be giving us the scoop on the absolute
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  Speaker 3: all-out crazy spectacle of AOC. And Mayor Mamdani laughing, yes, laughing,
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  Speaker 3: while the names of the victims were being read. Listen
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  Speaker 3: to this.
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  Speaker 5: Angela Reed Kite.
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  Speaker 7: Andrew LaCourte. Carol Ann LaPlante. Jeffrey G.
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  Speaker 4: Latouche.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine L.
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  Speaker 7: Labore. Amarneth Latchman.
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  Speaker 8: Ganesh K. Ladkut.
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  Speaker 7: James Patrick Ladley. Joseph A.
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  Speaker 8: LaFalse.
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  Speaker 7: Jeanette Louise LaFawn Menehino. David James LaForge. And my father,
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  Speaker 7: police officer Ramon Suarez. Dad, we miss you. We love you.
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  Speaker 3: I hope I'm making you proud. Just imagine, these are
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  Speaker 3: the family members. acknowledging their names 25 years later. And
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  Speaker 3: you've got the mayor of the city of New York,
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  Speaker 3: a congressman representing the 13th congressional district, laughing it up,
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  Speaker 3: having a grand old time. Now listen, I understand that
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  Speaker 3: this might be a moment taken out of context. I
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  Speaker 3: understand that they probably were not trying to be malicious.
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  Speaker 3: My critique here is on, you are professionals. You live
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  Speaker 3: in front of a camera. You should know better. There
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  Speaker 3: is no room for that. There is no room for that.
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  Speaker 3: They panned that whole room. You saw the face of
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  Speaker 3: Barack Obama. You saw the face of Bill Clinton. You
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  Speaker 3: saw the face of George W. Bush. You saw the
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  Speaker 3: face of Joe Biden. The face of Rudy Giuliani. Every
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  Speaker 3: single one of these statesmen were there with their wives
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  Speaker 3: and And they all had a very solemn, serious face on.
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  Speaker 3: There's no excuse to be chumming it up, palling around,
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  Speaker 3: laughing it up the way AOC and Zoran Mandani were
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  Speaker 3: doing it. I mean, that's just my opinion. And we'll
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  Speaker 3: get into that with Councilwoman Vicky Palladino and get her thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: She's a public official. She's a New York City Councilwoman.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to know if they've done this type of
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  Speaker 3: thing to her, taking her out of context and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I don't know if it was out of context.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they were laughing at the dead. I
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  Speaker 3: think they were uncouth, laughing at something amongst themselves. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: great to see you too. Sucks meeting here again, blah, blah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever. But you don't put that face on.
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  Speaker 3: You don't give that energy out when people are remembering
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  Speaker 3: the day that the towers got hit, right? And this
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  Speaker 3: was a big deal. It was something, again, like I
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  Speaker 3: remember it like yesterday. People lost a lot. You hear that?
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this. That's as the planes hit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm over the heading footage.
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  Speaker 3: That's the second.
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  Speaker 4: Plane.
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  Speaker 3: People freaking out. Debris falling to the floor. Watching planes
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  Speaker 3: fly into buildings. Absolute chaos. You don't think we could keep.
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  Speaker 1: A straight face for just a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: Nobody wants to relive this day. But everybody wants to
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  Speaker 3: commemorate it.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because you have to. We have to acknowledge those who
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  Speaker 3: have fallen to this. We have to remember what we've
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  Speaker 3: gone through. And While the names of the victims are
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  Speaker 3: being read and you've got family members doubled over weeping
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  Speaker 3: on those reflecting pools, weeping on the signs where their
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  Speaker 3: names are engraved, you've got these two giggling like a
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  Speaker 3: pair of schoolgirls at lunch. Disrespect doesn't even begin to
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  Speaker 3: cover what they've done, in my opinion. And a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people are calling for both of them to resign.
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  Speaker 3: I doubt anything will happen, but just interesting to note, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's video that's not going to play well for them
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  Speaker 3: come re-election time. But wait, there's more. Councilwoman Vicky Palladino,
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  Speaker 3: she's also going to weigh in on President Trump's powerful
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  Speaker 3: speech at the RNC midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. And
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  Speaker 3: speaking of that, I've got a clip on El Trompito
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  Speaker 3: at the RNC, and I think it's worth listening to.
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  Speaker 3: Check this out.
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  Speaker 2: On election night, we're going to prove that America does
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  Speaker 2: not belong to those who hate it.
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  Speaker 8: America belongs to those who love it.
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  Speaker 3: So we got Councilwoman Palladino who will be weighing in
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  Speaker 3: on President Trump's speech, like I mentioned, and also giving
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  Speaker 3: us her thoughts. thoughts on the upcoming midterm elections in
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  Speaker 3: addition to what she has to say about this 9-11
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  Speaker 3: 25th anniversary. I also have a clip of President Trump
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  Speaker 3: during 9-11 back in the days that I want to
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  Speaker 3: play for you because I think It's important to remember
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  Speaker 3: what El Trompito was doing back then. All right, check
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  Speaker 3: this one out.
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  Speaker 8: I've never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen two huge 110-story buildings that are reduced to rubble,
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  Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of lives. I just got to see
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  Speaker 2: something that I've never seen before. I have hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: men inside working right now, and we're bringing down another
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  Speaker 2: 125 in a little while, and They've never done work
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  Speaker 2: like this before. And they're hardworking people, but they've never
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  Speaker 2: seen anything like it. And they've never done work like
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  Speaker 2: this before.
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  Speaker 8: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me what it's like at Ground Zero. Tell me
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  Speaker 5: about the workers that you saw and what they're doing there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not only is it devastation, but it's very dangerous
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  Speaker 2: because every few minutes a whistle would go off and
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  Speaker 2: everybody would just run because you have all the buildings
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  Speaker 2: around it, which are in such a weakened state that
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  Speaker 2: people just don't know. And so they just have to
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  Speaker 2: take off. And then they come back and they're working
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  Speaker 2: under 50-story buildings that you don't know if they're going
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  Speaker 2: to fall down. So it's a terrible thing for the workers,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 8: For the world, really.
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  Speaker 5: Have you spoken to any of your men? Do you
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  Speaker 5: know how they're reacting to this? Because emotionally, this must
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  Speaker 5: be so incredibly difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are a lot of them, but they've never
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  Speaker 2: seen bodies like this. I mean, the bodies all over.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the great thing is when they find somebody
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  Speaker 2: that's alive, like the five firemen that they just found
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  Speaker 2: a little while ago. So that's the great thing, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what they're all striving for. But Generally speaking, that's
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  Speaker 2: not what the case. That's not the case. So they
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  Speaker 2: are working very, very hard, but it's a very depressing
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  Speaker 2: situation for these folks.
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  Speaker 5: As you walked around and as you saw the piles
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  Speaker 5: of rubble, there are thousands of families out there who
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  Speaker 5: are hoping that someone might be in a pocket somewhere,
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  Speaker 5: still alive, still breathing, waiting to be dug up. As
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  Speaker 5: you assessed that damage, from your perspective, do you believe
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  Speaker 5: that's possible?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I would certainly not want to be the one
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  Speaker 8: to say it's not possible.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly it's... It's a tough situation, but you can't give
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  Speaker 2: up hope because there's always hope. I mean, the five men,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure their families thought that they probably were gone.
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  Speaker 8: And now they walk in the door. A couple of
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  Speaker 8: them walked away after they.
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  Speaker 3: Those five men he's talking about, one of them was
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  Speaker 3: police officer Will Jimeno. And that was an amazing story. Again,
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  Speaker 3: this is a file interview of President Trump when he
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  Speaker 3: was just Donald Trump, the builder in New York City
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  Speaker 3: on September 12th, I believe, of 2001. 25 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And just remarkable, right? Because some people in the news
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  Speaker 3: were saying Trump doesn't know anything about this. He wasn't
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  Speaker 3: at 9-11. He wasn't at Ground Zero. This is an
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  Speaker 3: actual NBC News video of him at Ground Zero on
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  Speaker 3: the day after 9-11. And as I understand it, he
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  Speaker 3: was down there the day of. And I think Rudy
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  Speaker 3: Giuliani has corroborated that because he has a building down
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  Speaker 3: there and was checking on it. in uh... in the
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  Speaker 3: hours after the attacks but uh... disinteresting how they'll do
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  Speaker 3: anything to just poopoo this guy.
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  Speaker 2: We dug out so there probably are some more people
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  Speaker 2: in there and therefore you can't give up hope you've.
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  Speaker 5: Had an impact on the skyline of new york what
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  Speaker 5: is it like as you see it now.
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  Speaker 8: Cycle whole different skylines like a whole different city and
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  Speaker 8: world uh.
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  Speaker 2: i cannot believe the site of lower manhattan without the
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  Speaker 2: world trade center and therefore we have to rebuild not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily in that form but We have to rebuild at
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  Speaker 2: least as good and maybe better.
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  Speaker 5: Just finally, can you tell me emotionally, as you walked around,
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  Speaker 5: we've heard some of the stories from the firemen. They're
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  Speaker 5: so exhausted, mentally and physically. What was it like for
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  Speaker 5: you personally to go in and see all of what
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  Speaker 5: you saw?
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  Speaker 8: Well, it was amazing to see it.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very depressing scene, but I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 2: you really can take heart. These firemen and policemen and
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  Speaker 2: the construction workers equally, the courage they have is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, they're working, digging out and lifting up steel.
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  Speaker 2: And above them you have 55-story buildings that are very
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  Speaker 2: possibly going to be pouring down on them any minute.
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  Speaker 8: And they're working like nothing's wrong. I mean, they're amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just went to what they call Ground Zero.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 3: This is the clip from the day before on the 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: Devastation, the human life that's been just wasted for no
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  Speaker 2: reason whatsoever.
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  Speaker 8: It is a terrible scene. It's a terrible sight.
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  Speaker 2: But New Yorkers are very strong and resilient and they'll
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  Speaker 2: rebuild quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Trump, what should be the response to this attack?
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  Speaker 7: How should the U.S. respond to such a devastation? Well,
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  Speaker 7: I think they have to respond quickly and effectively. They
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  Speaker 7: have to find out exactly what the cause was, who
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  Speaker 7: did it.
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  Speaker 2: And they have to go after these people because there
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  Speaker 2: is no other choice. And then secondarily and much less importantly,
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  Speaker 2: we have to rebuild in some form that will be
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  Speaker 2: just as majestic as the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 3: Trump has been the same guy year after year after year.
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  Speaker 3: That was him 25 years ago. Sounds exactly like he
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  Speaker 3: does today. The only difference, he wasn't a Republican back
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  Speaker 3: then and he wasn't the president. Those two things have
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  Speaker 3: caused a lot of people to hate him. But it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't change who he was or what he stands for.
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  Speaker 3: So I always give kudos to El Trumpito Donaldus Magnus,
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  Speaker 3: the 45th and 47th president of these United States. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I want to take a quick pause right here, come
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  Speaker 3: back and get into our conversation with Councilwoman Vicky Palladino.
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  Speaker 3: That's coming up. We also will continue to dig into
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  Speaker 3: reflections and different things. that are on your mind. If
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  Speaker 3: you want to join the program, feel free to do so.
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  Speaker 3: 877-825-3371 or 877-VALDES1. And remember, there is so much more
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  Speaker 3: straight ahead. Keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: This is America. This is America.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the best head of hair and podcasting.
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  Speaker 4: This is America with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. Rich Valdez keeping you company tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got Councilwoman Vicky Palladino from the city of
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  Speaker 3: New York joining us. She made all sorts of headlines
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  Speaker 3: this week when she told Mayor Mamdani that she wasn't
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  Speaker 3: requesting that he doesn't come to the 9-11 ceremony. She
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  Speaker 3: was demanding that he not show his face. Councilwoman Vicky Palladino, welcome.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on, Rich. Looking forward to doing
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  Speaker 7: this interview. Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: You bet.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously, you know, as I mentioned, you make headlines
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  Speaker 3: a lot. That happens to you every now and again,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, because you're so passionate. What I want to
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  Speaker 3: know is, you know, there's a lot of people that
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  Speaker 3: have comms directors, that have speech writers, lots of politicians
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  Speaker 3: that pay people to give them these kind of zingers,
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  Speaker 3: these one-liners to make sure they get all the headlines.
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  Speaker 3: Do you write them yourself? Was this pre-planned? Talk to us.
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  Speaker 7: I know, I know. Nothing, you know, my poor staff,
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  Speaker 7: I say it all the time. My chief of staff,
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  Speaker 7: she goes through the great pains of writing bullet points
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  Speaker 7: for me to follow or whatever. But you know, when
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  Speaker 7: you're so tuned in to the everyday, and I am,
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  Speaker 7: and I am passionate, as you mentioned. And hot-button issues
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  Speaker 7: are very, very big for me. And my Twitter is wild.
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  Speaker 7: You know, not my council member Twitter. It's the Vicky
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  Speaker 7: Palladino for NYC, and that is honorable. I think it's
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  Speaker 7: Adam or Vicky Palladino, so if anybody wants to follow,
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  Speaker 7: that's where I really, you know, let it loose, so
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  Speaker 7: to speak, and I have much more freedom. I don't
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  Speaker 7: need to follow the rules on the government page. So
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  Speaker 7: the fact of the matter is, you know, this week
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  Speaker 7: was exhausting. It was exhausting emotionally, physically for so many people,
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  Speaker 7: but several weeks ago, Mr. Galanti, who does not live
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  Speaker 7: in my district, he lives in Council Member Areola's district,
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  Speaker 7: which is South Queens. And he decided to do a
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  Speaker 7: petition about a lot of the nine, you know, September
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  Speaker 7: 11th families who really, really did not want, legitimately did
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  Speaker 7: not want Zoram Mamdani there, you know. And we heard
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  Speaker 7: a lot of talk a month before, you know, about
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  Speaker 7: how he shouldn't be there, the reasons why he should
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  Speaker 7: not be there. And the reasons why he should not
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  Speaker 7: be there is because of his anti-American, anti-Western culture, radical
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  Speaker 7: Islamic friends. And Hassan Paika being in the forefront these days.
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  Speaker 7: And Al-Said out there in, where is he? Minnesota or Michigan.
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  Speaker 7: But he's running for the United States Senate. So with
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  Speaker 7: all that being said, when Mr. Galante went to Joanne,
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: with this petition, he only had about 60,000. 60,000 went
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: to 80,000. 80,000 went to 101,000, which is when we
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: did the press conference this past Tuesday. But from Tuesday
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: to Wednesday, I want everybody out there to know, he
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: went from 101 on Tuesday to This is right before 9-11, Friday.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: So we did this press conference. And like you say,
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: you know, I had my folder in my hand with notes,
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: which I did not read. But because I speak from
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: my heart and I stay on top of things, I
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: let him have it. And there I was on the
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: steps of City Hall. You know, I go white. I
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: see white, nothing else. And I just pouted home. I said,
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: you know what? Why should I get up at the mic?
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: I watched everybody get up at the mic. Very polite,
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: and that was very nice of them to do it
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: that way. You know, they asked gently. They were, just
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: stay away. One particular gentleman really hit home, and I
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: went on right after him. And he represented Catholics from Brooklyn.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: And he said, it's got nothing to do with being Muslim.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: And I did, you know, it's got nothing to, because
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: everybody likes to say Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, and I'm a racist,
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: I'm this, I'm that. Look, there's good and bad in
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: every culture, let's face it. But these were radical Islamic
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: terrorists that did what they did on that dreadful day. So, hey,
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: you know what? You're associating with Hassan Paika. El-Sahid, you
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: got this one up in the Bronx, Chevalier, who will
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: wipe her dirty hands on our flag. You don't denounce anything, okay?
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: So your phony baloney BS that you tried to feed
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: people a week or two before, that morning of our
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: press conference, that's when he signed this investigation that he
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: wants the air quality checked, that morning of our press conference.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Give me... In essence, Rich.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: You know, Vicki, I felt like that was a smoke
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: bomb just to throw a little shade at Rudy Giuliani.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: Correct.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: And I was just going to say that. Our good friend,
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: Rudy Giuliani, how dare you, Zoran, how dare you even
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: accuse Rudy That man, who could have stayed on longer
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: because of the state of emergency we were in, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: he followed the rules. He left his office and he
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: had the election because he was term limited out. So
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: what a lot of people don't know, that happened on
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: primary day, by the way, back in 2001. But he
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: showed the most enormous amount of leadership and courage and
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: Everything this young guy is lacking, everything he's lacking, not
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: to mention the patriotism end of things. He glued us together, Rudy.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: It was amazing. So now you throw the smoke bomb,
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: like you say, that morning, right before the press conference,
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: like you're doing something. You know, Zoe, go sit down
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: and shut up. Do us all a favor. Really, take
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: a back seat. And we don't need you. And I
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: give credit to Jessica Tisch. She did some round of
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: press yesterday on the 11th. And I was very proud
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: of her that she did that. And bottom line, Jessica
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Tisch is our firewall. I don't know what we would
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: do without Jess.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: You know, it's really challenging to see how Mayor Mamdani has,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: he comes into this administration with a city council, many
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: of your colleagues that align with him, that are Democrat
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Socialists of America. And, you know, I normally wouldn't be
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Team Tish, but for seeing how far to the left
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the rest of the Democrats are, you know, I'll take it, right?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It's kind of how it works.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: Well, I think of the balance that she has to work,
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: first of all. Jessica Tisch is from the Tisch family
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: of New York. That's as old money as you could get.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: One of the things I learned about Jess just yesterday,
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: and I keep in touch with Jess on text message,
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: great job, keep it up, don't lose the faith. You know,
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: I send her one line, you know, just keep going, Jess.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: You got to understand, she could be doing anything. When
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: she went, this happened, she was in college. And when
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: she came out of college, which I did not know this,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: her very first job was in counterterrorism. I learned that yesterday.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: And she went to work for the NYPD. And she,
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: you know, I worked with her as sanitation commissioner. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: have to say, she is so thorough in everything that
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: she does. She doesn't leave a rock unturned. And she
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: tries to work things out. Now she's police commissioner. She's
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: of Jewish origin. strong Jewish descent. She's working for an
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: anti-Semitic mayor. She believes in her cops. She believes in
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: law and order. And if we were able to uncuff
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: our cops, which we cannot do because my city council
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: prohibits that from ever happening, we would have a normal
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: running police department. No, she's not Carrick. No, she's not,
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: you know, what the heck was his name?
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: I forgot.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry. But she's not him. But she is as
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: strong as you're going to get in this administration. She's
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: all we have. She's all we have, Rich.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: We're not going to see a Ray Kelly in the
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Mamdani administration.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: Ray Kelly. There you go. Correct. Correct. That's the name
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: I was looking for. But she's doing a hell of
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: a job. Look, somebody gives you breadcrumbs because that's all
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: you're giving them is breadcrumbs. And she's got to try
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: to make a loaf of bread. It doesn't work that way. And,
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: you know, I say to people now, I don't use
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: the word defunding the police. I use the word depolicing
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: because we do have 32,000 cops, which we're probably 7,000
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: to 8,000 short on that number. But they're not allowed
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: to do their job. They're de-policed. They're working with handcuffs.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Councilwoman Vicky Palladino, you mentioned Hassan Piker, and I'm guessing
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: there is some pushback related to your comments. He, of course,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: made some comments where he kind of celebrated 9-11. You
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: making comments against him and against Zoran Mamdani and his
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: circle of friends that seem to also have either supported
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: or been unindicted co-conspirators like... Siraj, Hassan, the imam. There's
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of reason that these people are asking him
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: not to go. It's not because they don't like him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: It's because of his association.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: That's right. That's 100%. Because in the very, very beginning,
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: when all of this first came, you know, started, let's
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: just say September 11th was coming, okay? So let's just
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: say these conversations started back in early, mid-June. That's how
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: far back. this has been like an underlying simmer. You know,
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: the pot did not come up to a full boil yet.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: And, and what we were doing was we were laying
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: it all out there. Uh, and then, you know, a
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: certain radio talk show host on WABC radio. I don't
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: know if I'm allowed to say his name or not. He,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: he went out and he really pounded it and it
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: pounded it hard. Uh, as did I, as a guest
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: on his show. And, I tried to stay honestly rich. Well,
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: you know, he is the mayor. This is way back.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: And not to have the mayor of the city of
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: New York, even though I can't stand the guy, what
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: he stands for, who he stands with, maybe he should
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: be there. Okay. Just as ceremonial. Because remember, no politicians
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: are allowed to speak. This is a day strictly for
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: the family. So it's not like he, it's just going
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: to be his presence. His physical presence is going to
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: be there. So there was a time there where I
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: wriggled and wiggled, you know, a little bit on it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: And then I realized the stronger and watching these people
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: win these primaries and watching Hassan Paika work with Al-Sahid.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Then we've got, what's his name as his chief counsel? Kassam.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Kassam?
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: Ramzi Kassam. That's our chief counsel. His brother-in-law drove the plane,
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: one of the planes, his brother-in-law. How are we going
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: to allow this?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: It's wild.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: This is reality, everybody. This is what's working in New York. Now, no,
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: you don't belong there. Now I was perfectly strong, perfectly good,
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: and happy with coming out as powerfully as I did.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: You talked about Hasan Piker. He's taking shots at me.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: I've got people cramming my office with phone calls. I
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: had to keep my door locked. I never keep my
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: door locked. My office isn't closed. But I had to
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: lock my door and buzz people in. Never ever would
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: I do that. But let's remember too, what we uncovered
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: about Zoran. Zoran's got a whole committee working in city
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: council on the taxpayer dime to go after people like
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: me on social media. And that's what they're doing. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: they're flooding my social media with this BS. And they'll
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: put out a comment or two, but 700, I'll pick
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: one in particular, 743 people will leave the most disgusting
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: comments on that comment.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: What are they saying to you?
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's disgusting. It's not even fit for me to
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: say on your show. I mean, it's really quite bad.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: And I let it roll off. like a duck's back.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: Off a duck's back. If I need security, I have
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: a lot of friends who are former police officers who
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: are now working security for different companies. And they've told me, Vic,
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: whenever you go somewhere, don't go by yourself. I'll go
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: with you. So I have a rolodex of people who
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: will accompany me when I do need to go out.
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: I mean, Richard, sometimes it's to the point where we
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: saw what happened to.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: Correct.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: You know, these maniacs are everywhere. I could be going
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: to the grocery store. You know, everything is public knowledge now.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Nothing is out there that isn't. So they're reaching me
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: on my cell phone. They're not just going through social media. And,
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: you know, sadly, there's nothing I can do to block
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: my address. So, you know, you got to hope these
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: people stay at bay because if they're willing to take
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: a shot at the president four different times, three different times,
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: it's three different times in one serious attempt. that he
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: had to get away in the back of a van.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: Remember when he was overseas? So there are people out
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: there that are sick. And when you read their comments,
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: you know, I never took them serious. And I still
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: don't because nobody's going to stop me from saying and
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: doing what needs to be said and what needs to
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: be done. And it's you, it's me, it's others like
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: us that need to enlighten the American people Just not
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: New York. New York's a template and it's working. We
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: need to enlighten the American people that our country is
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: at stake right now. This November election is about, it's
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: a whole ball of wax because people have to understand
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Senate and Congress and in these blue states, they're taking
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: these people very seriously. And there's some states that are purple.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: that are taking these people very seriously. If we lose
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: the majority, my word, they can do, first of all,
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: it'll be impeach Trump every day. It'll be stack the
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: Supreme Court. They'd like to tear our constitution to shreds.
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: You know, they say in the Koran, now here's where
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: religion comes in, that if you don't follow Allah, then
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: you're an infidel. And this is fact. And this has
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: been going on for decades. You know, everybody forgets about
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: the 1993 bombing, Rich.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Okay, the World Trade Center, they went underneath.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ramsey Newsom, the blind shake.
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: Correct.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: That was a horrific day that I also watched live
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: on TV. I could tell you, my mother was sitting
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: with me right here in this kitchen, and we watched it.
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: And by accident. because they interrupted all programming. And they
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: took out I don't know how many floors. Don't forget
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: about 1993. People, this didn't just start to happen in 2001.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: They'd been infiltrating our government for decades. Then you had
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: Biden for four years with open borders.
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: We don't even.
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: Know how many people came in and are existing amongst us.
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: So get back to the election in November and how
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: very important that election in November is. The United States
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: of America must remain the United States of America. We
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: are proud people. And what they're forgetting, those people, is
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: that we have a war going on right here. And
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: we will win this war.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I want to circle back to this because I think
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: it's really important. And I also want to get your
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: take on AOC and Mamdani chuckling it up during the
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: reading of the names, which was wild to watch. A
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: couple other questions that I have for you, but I
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: want you to keep it locked right here. We're coming
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: right back with Councilwoman Vicky Palladino.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America. This is America.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: President Donald J.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Trump, Mr.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: President, welcome to the program, sir.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I know you very well, and I listen, but I
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: have a lot of people that listen, and they love
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: your show, and I appreciate it very much.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. Rich Valdez here with Councilwoman
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Vicky Palladino. She's incredibly passionate. She loves her city. She
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: represents the district in Queens, District 19. And, Vicky, I
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: want to circle back to something you were talking about
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: with regards to American pride and what it means to
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: be an American. What is at stake in this upcoming election?
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: Well, like I said, everything is at stake. What does
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: it mean to be an American? It means to be
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: all accepting. We accept everybody. You know, Ronald Reagan once said,
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: You know, you could go to France, but you'll never
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: be considered a Frenchman. You could go to England, but
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: you'll never be considered a Brit. You could travel all
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: over the world, but you could come to America and
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: you could come here and you could be an American.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: What does that mean? That means you could pursue whatever
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: you want to do. You must come here legally and
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: the doors, the floodgates open for you. We are a
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: strong nation, and we will fight. You know, this is
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: what I was saying before. We will protect our homeland.
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: I hope it doesn't get to that, that that's why
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: this November election is as important as it is, because
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: we've got to understand that I've often said the word
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: tolerance got us into this situation. You know, we were
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: raised to be tolerant. Tolerant means to be kind and
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: to accept others for who they are. We don't want
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: to lose that. But at the same time, what they
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: did with that word tolerance was they kicked the door in.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: And now we're stuck with all of this, the aftermath
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: of what that simple word tolerance means. And now here
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: we are. So that's why I'm urging everybody. We're the
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: only strong voices out there, Rich. There's not many of us.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: Because there's a media blackout. Channel 2, Channel 4, Channel 7.
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: You know, you got CNN, who knows? MSNBC. But a
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: lot of these moderates go that way. That's not your news.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: And sadly, what are we down to? We're down to podcasts.
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: And we're down to Newsmax. We're down to Fox. They
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: do not cover anything that's really going on. And this
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: is why we're in this situation also.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: Ignorance.
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: Ignorance. People do not understand exactly because the comments that
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: I'm getting about, how could you say that? He's the mayor.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: He belongs there. Oh, you don't know. Those are the
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: light ones. You don't know what you're talking about. What
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: that does is those are normal people that are just
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: don't know what's going on. And those are the people that,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: if we're educated properly and got the newsprint in the
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: press properly and accurately, listen to mainstream media that got
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: it accurate, which there's no such thing. They got to
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: watch Fox. So they call me an old hag that's
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: a Fox hag or a Newsmax hag. I got one
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: person saying, oh, she's old. She'll probably be dying soon.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: I can't wait for the day she dies. You know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: this is the kind of BS you get. But we
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: got to go after everybody unless we can.
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: You know, I think you're framing it appropriately because there's
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: a reality that the left within the media, the left
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: within the government, the left within our country, they kind
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: of collude, right? Because they have a similar goal. And
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: the idea is to, like you said, weaponize kindness, right?
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: They weaponize the good nature in people. That's correct. So
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: they can do what they do and we can go,
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: but how could you exclude this? Or how could you
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: go at them this way? And how could you do that?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Not realizing the damage that's really being done if we don't.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Take action.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: I'm sick and tired of the word racist. Like one
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: of the things Hassan Piker and others have accused me
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: of very loudly is that I'm a racist. I'm the
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: furthest thing from a racist. Let's define. First of all,
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: they watered down that word racist several years ago. Let's
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: come forward. Now, you could say whatever you want, right, Hassan?
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: You're free to call.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: Me all kinds of names. Yeah, free speech.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, you can say whatever you want and condemn
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: our country and its patriots and condemn our president, condemn
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: our way of life and all of that. See, they're
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: so one-sided. It's all their way or no way. And
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: if you dare disagree with these people, as I do,
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: as you do, me a little bit more loudly because
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: I have the platform of the council, but either way,
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: don't be calling me names. And that's what I said
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: when I was on another show. I said, hey, Hassan,
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: I want you for five minutes. That's all I need
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: you for is five minutes. Don't be calling. And he
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: put it up on his thing. He put it up.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: So she wants me for five minutes. So they made
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: fun of the fact that I was Italian and I
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: sounded like some sort of mob wife. I could care
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: less what they say. This comes under. Sticks and stones
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: can break my bones, but your words will never harm me.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: So keep going. Give me the platform I need. Make
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: me famous so I can continue to come after you, Hassan.
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: Continue.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: You know, Vicki, what's interesting with a lot of that
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: is that the mob wives aren't really bad people. I've
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: come to know a few of them over the years.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: They're not bad. It's not an insult. They're good people.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I just want to pause right here, Vicky. We're going
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: to come right back and get your take on that,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: as well as AOC and Mamdani chopping it up, your
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: thoughts on Trump's speech. Keep it locked right here. It's
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Rich Valdez.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: This is America. This is America.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: He's brown, he's bald, and he's breaking it down.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's so handsome.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: What's his name?
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: All right, familia, welcome back. We continue with Madame Councilwoman
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Vicky Palladino, District 19, New York City Council. Vicky Palladino,
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: you're never at a loss for words. You always have
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: a lot to say. Your wisdom, your passion are definitely
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: appreciated on this program. I want to get your take on...
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: on everything we're talking about, but I want to add
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: into the mix the conversation between AOC and Zoran Mamdani. Now,
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: some people are saying this is being taken out of context.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: They're just trying to throw shots. And that may be true.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: But what I've seen the video, I saw Barack Obama
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: sitting next to Mike Bloomberg, sitting next to George W.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Bush.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: I didn't see any of them laughing and making a
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: joke when you're at a commemoration for one of the
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: largest terrorist attacks in American history. So what are your
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: thoughts on this?
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: Well, Rich, to your point, 100%. We saw generations of
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: presidents there and their wives. They were as solemn as
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: I've ever seen them in my lifetime. To watch IOC
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: and Zoran do what they did, like you say, it
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: could have been a bleep on a screen and a
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: camera caught it. The bottom line is this. They have
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: no clue, Rich. They have no clue what that day means,
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: nor do they ever really want to know. They were young.
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: They cannot encompass really true. Because, I mean, I know
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: a lot of young people who were hit really hard
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: yesterday in their minds and the seriousness of it. These
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: are leaders, people who want to become leaders. You know
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: the cameras on you.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: You fools.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: Right, exactly.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: And you're a professional in front of the camera. You're
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: a professional in front of crowds.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: Damn right. You know you're on the camera. You don't
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: act like old chums who are giggling like school-age children.
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: Because that's technically what they are. He's 34. Let's remember everybody.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: He only became a citizen seven years ago, eight years ago.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: And I mean, not in defense of him, but I
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: don't think he was even in New York when we
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: had 9-11.
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: No, I don't believe he was either. I heard that too.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: Someone told me that. It's in the back of my
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: mind somewhere. I can't get specific. But I remember hearing that.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: And point being, they did what they did. It was stupid.
• 42:57
  Speaker 7: It was ignorant. But that's exactly who they are. That's
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: exactly who they are. And that was a microcosm, a
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: microcosm of what we could expect. Should she, that lunatic,
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: who's going to run- All out crazy. All out crazy, right?
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: I forgot.
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: All out crazy. Is she going to run for president?
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: Is she seriously considering that? Or is she going to
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: run for state senate for Chuck Schumer's seat? Maybe I
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: should go for that seat. What do you think?
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: I'm all for it. I'm all for it. Can you imagine?
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: Oh, boy, would I love to go up against her.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what a face off that would be. It would
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: be great. Where can people send donations in case they
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: want to see that happen, Vicki?
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, not yet. I don't have anything set up yet.
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: I'm waiting to see how this election goes on the
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: 4th and the 3rd, rather. And everybody get out there
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: and vote, please. It's one vote, one person, one vote. Please,
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: with the vote of fraud, stop talking about it because
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: it's discouraged too many people from voting. Get out there
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: and vote. Your very life is at stake.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Now, Vicki, I want to get into what you said.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: You said this is an important election. I think that
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: that same point was underscored by President Trump days ago
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: in Dallas, Texas, at the Republican National Midterm Convention. And
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: this was I thought it was a great speech. It
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: was good to see Trump on his game doing what
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: he does best, in my opinion. coalescing the people, bringing
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: people from the fringes in to the big tent. And
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: great to see. I think a lot of people are nervous.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I think if the election were today, perhaps we'd be
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: in good shape, but we still have a month and
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: a half or whatever to go. So it puts a
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: lot of us on edge. Talk to me about your
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: thoughts on his speech and the message that he spread
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: at the convention.
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: Thank God. I am so happy to see him. There
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: were so many rumors going around. And we, you and
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: I know that he's fine. But he was so on
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: top of his game. I'll go so far as to say,
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: I really think, Rich, this was probably one of the
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: best speeches he ever gave. He rattled off the accomplishments
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: of the Trump administration in 19 short months. People need
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: to hear this. We're getting all wrapped up in this
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: background music of what they are dictating, the media is dictating,
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: that we hear. Trump needs to do this more. We've
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: got how many days until the election? We have until
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: November 3rd. Get out there on the stump again, Trump.
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: Gather the people. He also has a very good bench
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: of people that he could send out, using J.D. Vance
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: more than he ever has. Let's get the bench out.
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: Let's get people out. But you, Trump, you did such
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: a fabulous job. When I heard the list, it was astounding.
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: And he stayed on script, which was super important. And everybody,
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: he looked healthy. He sounded phenomenal. I had somebody in
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: the room with me watching the speech, and they wiped
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: their brow. They said, oh, thank God he's back. He
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: was that good. So I am really happy, and I
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: really hope he gets out and does this more. People
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: need to see and hear his accomplishments, exactly how he
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: fixed this country. with illegal immigrants. There's no border crossings.
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: Imagine that. Look at what he did with those ships. Now,
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: if you listen to the left, he went and, you know,
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: he bombed ships. No, he took down drug cartels, everybody.
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: Drug cartels. What we've got doing in this country now
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: has dropped so much. This needs to be shouted out there.
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: People need to know. And the list goes on and
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: on and on and on and on. And, you know,
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: I don't know what else to say. We just keep
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: saying what we need to say. Just keep saying it.
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. The momentum is there. I think we all have
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: to keep our foot on the gas, get through to
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: the finish line. Don't pump those brakes. Yeah. Councilwoman Vicki Palladino,
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: I want you to get your, I guess your final
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: thoughts on, and again, underscoring what you started telling me before,
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: which was the, uh, The importance, right? I think President
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Trump framed it accurately. The backdrop of 9-11 with a
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: mayor who is friendly towards Islamist radical sympathizers who have
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: ties to different elements of various attacks. It's a juxtaposition
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: that I thought I'd never see in my life. I
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: doubt you ever thought you'd see it. And here we are.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: And I guess from a political perspective, and I think
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: President Trump's calculus, and he's usually right on these things,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: is that people are going to see this and not
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: like it. People are going to see this and take action.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: And they're going to say, this is about America, maintaining America.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: It's about keeping America what it is and avoiding socialism,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: you know, capitalism versus socialism. What are your final thoughts
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: on that election? Is that the right way to frame it?
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: And is it going to be successful?
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: Yes, I do believe it's the right way to frame it.
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: I want everybody to take their minds off of the
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: gas prices. I really do. It hurts our pockets. There's
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: no question about it. Everybody's hurting. Guys, you got to
• 48:36
  Speaker 7: put this on the back burner. You got to concentrate
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: on what's at stake here. And what I said before,
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: is quite true. You know, vote as if your life
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: depends on it, because it does. We are at a
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: crossroads now. And we will never, Trump will be disarmed.
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: Everything he's done, all his good, will go to the
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: wayside as if it never happened. They will go after him.
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: They will impeach him every single day. They will staff
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: the courts, the Supreme Court. Can you imagine having these
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: lunatics in Congress, in control of Congress and God forbid
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries? as Speaker of the City Council,
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: he too has taken a knee to Zoran Mamdani. The
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: Democratic Party is dead. The Democratic Party, and I have
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: to say, last night when Kennedy spoke, and he put
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: it out there, And he said it really very well.
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: He's from a staunch Democrat family. His uncle, his father,
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: you know, assassinated. JFK would have been a Republican today.
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: His dad, they'd be rolling over in their graves, and
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: they probably are, watching what's happening to America. That's not
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: their party anymore. The Democratic Party has ceased to exist
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: as we know it. So it is not the Democratic Party.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: It's we, the American people, versus the communists. You're an American?
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: Vote the American way of life. Don't vote the communist
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: way of life. This is a bipartisan election. You must
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: crisscross on the ballot here in New York. If you
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: don't vote Hochul, vote Blakeman. Do this down the line
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: throughout the country. I just want you to vote American
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: because it's American versus communism. The Democratic Party, folks, is dead.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Couldn't have said it any better myself. Councilwoman Vicky Palladino,
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: we're going to leave it right there. I want to
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: thank you for being here.
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Rich, for having me.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Keep fighting.
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: Thank you. Thank you, Rich. Appreciate you.
• 50:56
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• 51:17
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• 51:20
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• 51:30
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• 51:38
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• 51:50
  Speaker 3: All right, familia. Welcome back. Rich Valdez, keeping you company tonight,
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Friday night, nine 11 25th anniversary. And I want to
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: get into a couple of things. One, I want to
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: remind you to check out my episode on Lindsay Clancy
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: from yesterday. If you didn't have a chance to check
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: that out, um, It's good to be back from Puerto
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Rico and my vacation with my family. A guy's trip.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: We took a guy's trip. My brother has a stepbrother.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: They're sons, so my nephew. I guess we can call
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: the other guy my nephew, too. And my big brother.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: We had a great time. It really was. I've mentioned
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: that in a previous show. But just reiterating that it
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: was a good time and I appreciate you all you know,
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: putting up with me enjoying myself. I've taken a good
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: amount of time off this summer and lots of exciting
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: things have occurred. I think, you know, life is one
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: of those things you have to live, right? You can't
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: just think about doing stuff. You got to do stuff.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: And of course, you know, being able to afford stuff
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: comes into play, but where there's a will, there's a way.
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: And I tend to lean towards the figure out a
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: way to make it work, right? Go on Groupon, find
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: the way to get the cheaper flights, Do what you
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: got to do. This is a new era of life. And,
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: you know, being that we're reflecting on 9-11, I think
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: it's great that we talk about this stuff. Because 9-11
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: was 25 years ago. I had a brand new baby,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: my big girl. And I remember I was getting ready
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: for work. And at the time I worked for a
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Fortune 10 communications company. In Manhattan, I had an account,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: a major bank, Goldman Sachs, who was one of the
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: accounts that I serviced for this company. And I was
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: in fact going to be visiting the World Trade Center
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: that very day. And I remember I was feeling very lackadaisical,
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: if that's the right word. I just didn't want to
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: go anywhere. I was, you know, lollygagging around the house.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: I remember my wife, I was married back then. She said,
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: you're going to miss the bus. I was like, no,
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: I'll catch the next one, don't worry. Excuse me. And
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: you know what was interesting about it was I normally
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: didn't do that on days like that. But the news
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: was on like it was every other day. It was
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: a beautiful September morning. And I remember her telling me again, hey, listen,
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: you know, stop straightening your tie. It looks fine. You
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: better get going because... There was a plane crash. Some
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: small plane hit the World Trade Center. Now, my ears,
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: you know, peaked up. And I said, what?
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: Who?
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: And she said, yeah, like one of those little planes
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: hit the World Trade Center. And she said, you know,
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: there might be traffic, so you better hurry up. And
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: I thought to myself, it's terrorism. You know, my cynical
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: nature kicking in. So I start, I'm glued to the
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: screen now. My ADHD hyper-focus locks in on WPIX News.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Watching what's going on, play-by-play. And as I'm watching it,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: whatever it was, 10 minutes later, an hour later, whatever
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: that time frame was, the next plane hits while they're
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: filming the first plane, you know, inside the building. And
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: because these buildings are so massive, a full jumbo jet
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: could fly into it and they... didn't honestly know that
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: it was a commercial jetliner until the second one hit
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: it and they saw it. A lot of people thought
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: it was a smaller plane, including the people reporting the news.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: And I thought that makes sense because sometimes smaller planes,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: or at least smaller aircraft like helicopters, would fly sideways
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: in between the Twin Towers while they were doing tours
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: to show off with the people inside the helicopter. And
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: I only knew that because I'd been on one. And
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: I had some friends that worked at the heliport. And
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: I remember getting a discount and taking my ex-wife on
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: a helicopter tour. And I remember them doing pirouettes and
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: me squeezing her hand. I was like, oh my gosh,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: I got to get out of here. I was not
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: a fan of the glass-bottomed helicopter. It was nice, but
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: it was nerve-wracking to tell you the truth. But I
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: remember them doing these little pirouettes and things like that.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: So I figured, oh, somebody was doing that with like
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: a Cessna or something and, you know, crashed, uh, you know,
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: clipped a wing or something is what my initial thought was.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Then I see that there's a hole in the side
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: of it. Then you see the next big plane come
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: in and boom, there it is. Now I lived at
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: the time in North Bergen, New Jersey, which probably I'm
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: going to say four and a half miles directly away from, uh,
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: from New York city and maybe six or seven miles, um,
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: maybe five and a half miles, six miles away from
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: world trade center. And I could see it directly through
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: my bedroom window, clear kind of unobstructed view. I lived
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: on the, uh, the third floor. Long story short, when
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: I was watching this, what many say was a controlled
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: demolition with, um, all I could say was the implosion
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: of these towers when they went down on TV and
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: the TV stopped working because there were TV antennas on
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: top of the World Trade Center. I said, I don't
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: believe it. I looked outside and they were gone.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: And I was like, no way.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Like, how could that be? Because it was really just
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: a state of incredulity, right? You just, could not believe
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: what was going on. And all I saw was like
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: that cloud of smoke and an empty gap where those
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: two towers once stood. And it was clear as day
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: to me. This was not an accident. This was not anything.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: This was terrorists. This was, you know, the powers that
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: be doing what they do. I immediately heard the jets
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: flying overhead, F-15s and whatnot, whatever they were, F-35. And
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: that was my story. Now, I don't know why I
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: didn't head into the city that day. I really don't.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know that I would have made it down
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: to the World Trade Center in time. I would have
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: probably arrived around 9 or 9-ish to the city. My
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: office was on Broadway in the Flatiron section. So there's
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: a chance I might have been on the train on
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: the way if I went first thing. Or I would
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: have just been trapped in Manhattan. I don't know. But
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: I know that something told me not to go, not
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  Speaker 3: to leave my brand new baby, not to leave my home.
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  Speaker 3: And I didn't. I listened to that, which, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's always the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you have ADHD, you know, you always get
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  Speaker 3: these procrastination feelings. Don't do this. Don't do that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: no problem. I'll just keep watching my show or keep,
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  Speaker 3: locked in on the news or whatever it is. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: that is my 9-11 story and so many more, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: that came as a result of that. There was my
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  Speaker 3: first visit going down there. I worked for a cellular
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  Speaker 3: phone carrier and I remember getting off the subway down
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  Speaker 3: there and the smell of burnt human flesh was something
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  Speaker 3: I'll never forget. As soon as those subway doors opened,
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  Speaker 3: you could smell it. It permeated the The actual subway station.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a smell I'll never forget. I'll never get
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  Speaker 3: out of my mind because it was so unique and
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  Speaker 3: so horrid. But something that serves as a reminder of
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  Speaker 3: the gravity and intensity of this day. So for those
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  Speaker 3: that commemorate this day and lost people, I salute you.
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  Speaker 3: I salute the fallen. And for everybody else, I always
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  Speaker 3: say you got to stand for something. Because if you
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  Speaker 3: stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. And the only
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  Speaker 3: thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people
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  Speaker 3: to do nothing. So make sure you do something. Hasta
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  Speaker 3: la proxima. Take care. Good night. And God bless you, America.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Rich Valdez. And this is America.
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  Speaker 4: This is America.
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  Speaker 3: This is America.