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Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney Calls out Mamdani Over Discriminatory Judicial Advisory Committee · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Boysman.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we have this committee, the Mayor's Advisory Committee
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  Speaker 2: on the Judiciary. Right, we know Mayor's appoint judges the
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  Speaker 2: criminal court, Family court. I mean the mayor of New York.
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  Speaker 2: It's a powerful position. And every mayor since Mayor Coach
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  Speaker 2: has had this committee that recommends and evaluates judges for
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  Speaker 2: the criminal courts and the family courts, which we have
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  Speaker 2: vacancies on. And you know they list the Mayor's always
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  Speaker 2: listen to the chief Judge, they listen to other judges,
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  Speaker 2: they take their recommendations. And here we have the committee.
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  Speaker 2: It's got eighteen members plus the chair. Not a single Jew.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody I talked to, from Author right Donald to this
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  Speaker 3: lady Elizabeth, they all love this guy Levinthal and the
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  Speaker 3: mayor's excuse. This morning we did play. In fact, let
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  Speaker 3: me play it now and I'll Takopena is waiting, but
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  Speaker 3: let's play the mayor's excuse while Levinthal was rejected again.
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  Speaker 3: The mayor never rejects these people, never does. But he
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  Speaker 3: found a way to reject this guy. He was his
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  Speaker 3: excuse Lewison's cutt number twelve.
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  Speaker 1: We decided not to move forward with his appointment.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the fact that he served on Gallaine Maxwell's
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  Speaker 2: legal defense team.
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  Speaker 3: Wit a second, even Gallainne Maxwell in this country gets
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  Speaker 3: somebody to defender right. That's that's our judicial system. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: even the worst of the worst.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's why they have defense lawyers. It's not his not
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  Speaker 3: up to Hint to decide what's okay what's not. And
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  Speaker 3: we don't believe him anyway. Leventhal is Jewish, That's why
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  Speaker 3: he did not get in Joe Tacapina's Italian But I
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  Speaker 3: think he.
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  Speaker 1: Was bonon mitzfit. It's kind of odd. I don't know here.
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  Speaker 3: He is a great defense attorney, my friend of forty
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  Speaker 3: eight years, Joseph Tacapino. Is there any doubt in your mind, Joseph,
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  Speaker 3: that the mayor jumped in which he never does in
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  Speaker 3: these cases ever? And veto the Leventhal pick because Levenhal
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  Speaker 3: is Jewish.
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  Speaker 4: Zero doubt. Sid And I'm on fire at eight fifty
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  Speaker 4: the morning. I usually I'm not on fire until abou
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  Speaker 4: nine thirty, but eight fifty because when the court starts out.
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  Speaker 4: But this is this has gotten me. This one is disgusting,
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  Speaker 4: It's a blatant, it's it's anti Semitism, and more importantly's
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  Speaker 4: damn dangerous. Okay, John leventh, I know John's great, great,
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  Speaker 4: clearly someone we want on the bench, Okay, no question,
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  Speaker 4: But he is not being excluded because he represented an
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  Speaker 4: unpopular client. First of all, that's a dangerous lines to cross.
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  Speaker 4: And that whoever suggested that, I heard that quote from
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  Speaker 4: City Hall. You that is the most repulsively unintelligent thing
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  Speaker 4: I've ever heard. When it comes to determining qualifications. What
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  Speaker 4: the great lawyers do in this country, we don't choose
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  Speaker 4: our clients based on whether they're popular or not popular.
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  Speaker 4: We defend the Constitution of the United States of America
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  Speaker 4: by showing that everyone, even the most reviled defendant, receives
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  Speaker 4: confident legal representation. That's what we're commanded to do. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: The principle is the fundamental bedrock of our justice systems.
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  Speaker 4: Did so punishing a lawyer for representing someone who was
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  Speaker 4: you know, when I first heard it, I thought the
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  Speaker 4: suggestion was he was like on the Island with Epstein.
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  Speaker 4: But the fact that's why that's exactly I'm not even
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  Speaker 4: kidding you that I thought, because there's no way I thought, okay,
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  Speaker 4: because he represented someone who's unpopular. Therefore he's going to
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  Speaker 4: be disqualified. I mean, you moron. So, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: is there any doubts if the person was named I
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  Speaker 4: don't know El Cherrari, and he was a lawyer, and
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  Speaker 4: he represented one of the nine to eleven bombers or
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  Speaker 4: or one of the terrorists who made one of these
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  Speaker 4: atrocious acts. I mean, ever ever, ever cite that right?
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  Speaker 4: So it's you know, it's really every person choosing of
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  Speaker 4: crimes in Titolawi. That's not a loophole. That's one of
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  Speaker 4: the cornerstones of our justice system. The sixth Amendment doesn't
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  Speaker 4: only apply to popular people. Okay, So it's so so outrageous.
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  Speaker 4: Guess he's so crazy. I have to tell you, I've
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  Speaker 4: just not heard this before. And they said, like that
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  Speaker 4: could be the reason, but he come up with a
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  Speaker 4: fake reason, like like I don't know, he wears shoot whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it is. The number is right back. The number
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  Speaker 3: is over nineteen. So no matter what you're going to say,
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  Speaker 3: you look bad. It's over nineteen. One hundred and forty
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  Speaker 3: thousand Jewish lawyers, the most of any ethnic group, not one,
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  Speaker 3: not one.
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  Speaker 4: That's even another. That's even though I'm just talking about
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  Speaker 4: eleventh dolls. The denial based on their stated reason is
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  Speaker 4: one of the most outrageous thing ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: So you know you mentioned, you mentioned nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 3: and earlier this week, I had a gentleman on the
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  Speaker 3: show and he was great. His name is what was
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  Speaker 3: Giovanni Galante? Okay, So his wife at the time, Stacy,
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  Speaker 3: was twenty nine years old.
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  Speaker 1: She went to work in the South Tower and she
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  Speaker 1: was murdered, died in those buildings.
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  Speaker 3: So this brave gentleman decided Giovanni to start a petition.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want the mayor. Doesn't want the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Down at that side, either, do I A man that's
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  Speaker 3: friends with Hassan Pike or a man that's endorsing Chevalier
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  Speaker 3: who said America deserved nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: A man that takes.
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  Speaker 3: Smiling selpies in the street with clerics that were co
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  Speaker 3: conspirators in the bombing of the buildings andnineteen ninety three,
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  Speaker 3: of course.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't belong there. And the families don't want him there.
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  Speaker 3: None of your family says it because they're afraid of
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  Speaker 3: political repercussion what he may do to them. But none
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  Speaker 3: of those families want him there. So this guy comes
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  Speaker 3: on the show and he's got about fifteen thousand signatures
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  Speaker 3: at the time. Now it's up to fifty because he
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  Speaker 3: came on the show to be honest, but I'm with
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  Speaker 3: him one hundred percent. I don't think the mayor should
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  Speaker 3: be anywhere near that sacred soil. He's gonna go, He's
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  Speaker 3: already said he's gonna go. But if he really cared
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  Speaker 3: what he doesn't about these families and New Yorkers, he
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  Speaker 3: would not show.
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  Speaker 4: Up, you know that, right, But he doesn't care, so
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  Speaker 4: they'll let that stand of that discussion. Of course, he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be there with that stupid Placiard smile. I
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  Speaker 4: mean what you just said. I think it was Theissan Piker.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's who you quote, one of his connections
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  Speaker 4: with one of his liffiliations. Yeah, he's the one who
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  Speaker 4: said that we deserved nine elem the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, not only did he not say that,
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  Speaker 3: he said it on a podcast. You know who his
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  Speaker 3: guest was on that podcast who offered zero pushback zero?
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  Speaker 4: It was Mom Donnie no no, so Mandami was on
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  Speaker 4: the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: And that was that he was sitting on a kitchen
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  Speaker 3: table with Piker, and Mamdani didn't go, hey, listen, hasan
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  Speaker 3: come on stop?
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  Speaker 1: That's a bit much. He didn't say a word.
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  Speaker 4: A bit much. Yeah, that's more than a bit much.
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  Speaker 4: That's I would knock your teeth, through your throat and
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  Speaker 4: down to your ankles. I swear to God, if someone
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  Speaker 4: said that in front of me. Oh, someone said in
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  Speaker 4: front of me, I forget that I'm a lawyer. I've
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  Speaker 4: become a pit. Vipers will just slaughter you.
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  Speaker 3: You would become that guy that to this day still
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  Speaker 3: owns the record for most hockey penalty minutes in the
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  Speaker 3: history of college hockey At Skidmore.
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  Speaker 4: I would relocate his windpipe in about one second. And so, so,
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  Speaker 4: I really would say, and it really to hear that,
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  Speaker 4: So this piece of garbage is sitting there when one
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  Speaker 4: of his buddies, his allies, someone he supports, said, maybe
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  Speaker 4: one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard about
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  Speaker 4: our country, about those people who killed. I have relatives
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  Speaker 4: who are killed and friends who were killed. So do
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  Speaker 4: you so do we all ideal it to? We all do.
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  Speaker 4: And it's disgusting that to hear someone say that, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and that he sat there and listened to it and
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  Speaker 4: didn't say that's outrageous. You know, that's outrageous. You know.
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  Speaker 4: I'll even even John McCain when he was going against
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  Speaker 4: Barack Obama and someone questioned Obama's citizenship and McCain stepped
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  Speaker 4: in and said, no, no, no, you don't say that.
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  Speaker 4: That's not right and that's not fair. That's what you
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  Speaker 4: do when you have dignity. Okay, what you don't do
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  Speaker 4: is sit there and let someone say something so despicable
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  Speaker 4: and not say a word and have the goal to
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  Speaker 4: show up at ground zero where your buddy just said,
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  Speaker 4: we all deserve what happened. I mean, he has no
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  Speaker 4: and you know what, I know he's a mayor and
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  Speaker 4: he thinks he has to be there because that No, no,
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  Speaker 4: if you are going to upset the families of the
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  Speaker 4: victims because of your prior political stances and your current
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  Speaker 4: political posh right, clearly, then don't do that. Don't go
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  Speaker 4: actually have the decency, not that he has the decency,
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  Speaker 4: but if he had a motisum of DC in his body,
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  Speaker 4: you don't show up at nine to eleven till put
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  Speaker 4: inflict pain on these people.
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  Speaker 3: Just now, that's it, That's it. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 3: care about and you claim you care about New Yorkers,
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  Speaker 3: don't go because the overwhelming majority, whether they say it
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  Speaker 3: or not, hate you. Sorry they hate you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go.
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  Speaker 3: Let me get the fauci from yesterday. Let me start
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  Speaker 3: with ram Paul, who was brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like Ram Paul.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I'm glad I did. By the way, whoever's
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  Speaker 3: got you in court.
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  Speaker 1: This morning at nine thirty, it's even.
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  Speaker 3: Better who you, whoever your client is, You're welcome, you good,
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  Speaker 3: Thanks sid Rosenberg, You're welcome. I heard Ram Paul say,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't like Ram Paul, but I thought he
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  Speaker 3: was great yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: He was great. He h.
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  Speaker 3: He said that next week he's gonna they're gonna vote,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, and look to hold Anthony Bouci in contempt.
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  Speaker 3: Uh what does that mean in terms of punitive repercussions anything?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let's start with that first. What happens after
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  Speaker 4: someone is held at that? But I do want to
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  Speaker 4: get to the over overwriting question about his ability of
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  Speaker 4: plea the system end solar contempt, the consumed vote said,
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  Speaker 4: isn't the end of the process? Right? The matter can
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  Speaker 4: be referred to criminal prosecution Congress can pursue a civil
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  Speaker 4: action to enforce compliance, or even in limited circumstances, it
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  Speaker 4: can rely on its inherent contemp power through really something
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  Speaker 4: that has really been using modern times, you know, and look,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a contempt. Citation is the beginning of the
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  Speaker 4: legal process, right, it's whether criminal charges are brought or
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  Speaker 4: penalties are imposed. It depends on a particular contemp mechanism
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  Speaker 4: being used and the actions of the appropriate authorities in
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  Speaker 4: the course. So really what happens is the judge sides
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day if he has been
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  Speaker 4: in violation, if he's committed contempt. Not not the course
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  Speaker 4: not right, It's the judge at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: And the guy's eighty five years old, and he's a
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  Speaker 3: scumbag and one of the worst people got ever created.
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  Speaker 3: But he is eighty five and that may that may,
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  Speaker 3: i guess, be a part of the judge's decision. But
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  Speaker 3: you did bring up moments ago, the big one, which
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  Speaker 3: is a lot of attorneys today, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Like John Tolly, your friend and others.
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  Speaker 3: On Fox News, they are talking specifically about Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: pardoned mister Fauci. So if he was pardoned by the president.
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  Speaker 3: He's not supposed to take the Fifth not once, let
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  Speaker 3: alone one hundred and eleven times. What is the issue.
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  Speaker 4: There that they're wrong? They're just wrong when they say that.
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  Speaker 4: Whoever saying that a lot of people believe that because
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  Speaker 4: Biden important fauci, he automatically loses the rights from book
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  Speaker 4: the Fifth Amendment, And that's not quite how the law works. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: that's a federal parton. Joe Biden gave him a federal parton, period,
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  Speaker 4: end of story. That's all he has the ability to do.
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  Speaker 4: A federal parton removes the risk of federal prosecution for
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  Speaker 4: the conduct it covers. But the Fifth Amendment could still
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  Speaker 4: apply to if truthful answers isn't exposed. Someone exposed, remember
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  Speaker 4: someone to state from the liability or the federal crimes
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  Speaker 4: outside the scope the pardon. A lot of states and
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  Speaker 4: we've hearned a lot of stuff about this are saying,
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if you've been pardoned. We that parton
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  Speaker 4: doesn't trouble us, and we're going to prosecute you. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to investigate you. So what do they prosecute? Investigate?
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  Speaker 4: Even if there's a and it's out there, we know
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  Speaker 4: that's out there that states are actually considering the potential
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  Speaker 4: of investigating Fauci and maybe even prosecuting him. End up
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  Speaker 4: story about his ability to take the Fifth Amendments. He
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  Speaker 4: has the ability at that point. So so it really
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  Speaker 4: there's no in my opinion that this well, look, the
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  Speaker 4: pardon changes the legal landscape for sure, but it's only
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  Speaker 4: conceivably criminal disposure. You know, if there was just federal conduct,
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  Speaker 4: the argument for provoking the Fifth Amendments really as much
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  Speaker 4: weaker then, but it's not Realistically there's possibly a state
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  Speaker 4: prosecutions or prosecution kind OF's not covered by the pardon,
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  Speaker 4: and and then the privilege is definitely still available. So
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  Speaker 4: you know, if Congress challenges the invocation, of course, not
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  Speaker 4: the witness, not the committee, not some political pack, they
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  Speaker 4: decide whether the privilege was properly asserted. Period.
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  Speaker 3: So on the way out, I think a lot of frustrations.
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  Speaker 3: Joseph the amazing defense attorney, as you hear right now,
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  Speaker 3: Joseph Tacopina, I think a lot of people like me
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  Speaker 3: a frustrated over the year. It's like Hillary Clinton broke
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  Speaker 3: the law. We saw Jim Comey, who's also a he's corrupted.
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  Speaker 3: He should be in prison. But we saw him for
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  Speaker 3: thirty minutes, tell us why she broke the law, and
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  Speaker 3: then tell us.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna do anything about it. He literally
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  Speaker 1: did that. He went up with.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty minutes about the emails and everything else, and then
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  Speaker 3: he said, ah, what is gonna let it go? And
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  Speaker 3: there's so many other Bill Deblasio's wife, where's that money?
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  Speaker 3: A billion dollars just disappeared. So people like me who've
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  Speaker 3: never been doing this in New York for almost eleven
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  Speaker 3: years yelling about these Democrats, always Democrats doing all these
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  Speaker 3: horrible things, and they never ever ever faced any real repercussion.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans have.
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  Speaker 3: Paul Mattafort went to jail, Michael Flynn went to jail,
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  Speaker 3: Pen Navarro went to jail. Steve Battle went to jail.
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  Speaker 3: These Democrats to ten times worse. They're never seems to
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  Speaker 3: be any repercussions. And my fear is it'll be the
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  Speaker 3: same thing with Bounty because he's eighty five, and the
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  Speaker 3: truth is they don't have any real real proof. His
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  Speaker 3: diary does say some things that don't look good, but
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  Speaker 3: any real proof to really hammer the guy. So this
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  Speaker 3: will be another case Joseph where in the end there'll
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  Speaker 3: be no real repercussions outside of ruining his legacy.
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  Speaker 4: Right, legacy you guy said, I mean really, he said
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  Speaker 4: it better than I could just have said it. That's
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  Speaker 4: exactly what's gonna happen is legocy to be ruined. But
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  Speaker 4: nothing else is happening to this guy. Be real, he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be permitted or need to be kind of
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  Speaker 4: appropriately invoking the Fifth Amendment because of exposure in state
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  Speaker 4: cape state state prosecutions, No question about that. So so
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  Speaker 4: we have that, so you know, there's not gonna make
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  Speaker 4: contemp proceeding. He took the fifty, took the fifth. That's it.
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  Speaker 4: And and the story but yes, he's a Look what
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  Speaker 4: he did is despicable, disgusting. It was fraudulent in many ways.
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  Speaker 4: I you know that he profited off the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's just but anyway, long story shortest, you just know
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  Speaker 4: that it's about a legacy that's that's decimated. So you know, congratulations,
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  Speaker 4: you have your fifteen minutes of fame. You know, at
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  Speaker 4: times the country thought he was a hero. It turns
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  Speaker 4: out he was not right and and you know, so
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  Speaker 4: great eighty five years old, enjoyed, you know, the last
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  Speaker 4: few years whatever it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's going to hell.
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  Speaker 4: But he's going to hell, so you believe in heaven
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  Speaker 4: and hell.
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  Speaker 1: I do. Okay, what do you think I'm going to?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're going to heaven. So I love you. I'll
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  Speaker 4: put in a word.
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  Speaker 3: You got connections there too. He's got connections with the judges.
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  Speaker 3: He ormy God, he's got an old Tacopina. Yes, with you, please,
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  Speaker 3: You're coming with me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry body. You're a wonderful, wonderful God. I love
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  Speaker 1: you so much and you were great again just now
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  Speaker 1: as you are everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Even though today's Thursday, Jojo, I had to put you
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  Speaker 3: on because I'm not going to be here tomorrow. That's
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  Speaker 3: how much I value this segment. I love your great job.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Okay, great work, Joseph Tacopina. That
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  Speaker 3: was really great explaining.
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  Speaker 1: All those legal details about the part and obviously about
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  Speaker 1: the contempt and all that.
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