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Peter King | Former Congressman | 04-22-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Peter King is well. I always say King, Giuliani, Giuliani, King,
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  Speaker 1: and whichever order you want to do it. Since I'm
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  Speaker 1: alive and I just turned fifty nine, they're the best
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  Speaker 1: politicians I've seen in New York. Pete was a valued
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  Speaker 1: congressman for almost four decades and homeland Security and now
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  Speaker 1: he's on the station and he's really smart, and he's
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  Speaker 1: a met band. He knows everything about everything. We love
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  Speaker 1: Pete King. So people, welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? I don't know. I've been waiting now
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  Speaker 2: on Hull for twenty five minutes. Remind me of the
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  Speaker 2: days when you and Imus and Bernard and Charles be
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  Speaker 2: talking away and I'd be sitting in Washington waiting for
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  Speaker 2: you guys to let me on. So I thought, that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I was back in the past.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just donuts me again. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how many years now that you said that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: clearly you and I must have met there. I often
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  Speaker 1: forget where I meet people, but like you and Bo,
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  Speaker 1: that all started on Imus, and I tell people when
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  Speaker 1: I got basically excommunicated and how to work in Florida
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  Speaker 1: for the better part of a decade, even more that
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  Speaker 1: you and bol you guys came up My shows in
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  Speaker 1: Miami meant a lot to me getting back here in
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  Speaker 1: New York's. I'll always love you for that. But how
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  Speaker 1: many years are you on the Imiss show?
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  Speaker 2: I said, I come on like in the mid nineties.
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  Speaker 2: I think when I was in Congress. I got elected
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  Speaker 2: Congress in ninety two, and I say within the first
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  Speaker 2: year or two I was, I was on with Imus.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be on once or twice a month, I guess
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  Speaker 2: if Wow. The best part of that was Bernie would
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  Speaker 2: call me first, because you know, then you couldn't Danna Washington,
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't hear what was being said in New York.
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  Speaker 2: It was out of this, you know, the yeah, the radios.
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  Speaker 2: Bernie would tell me what Imus was mad about or
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  Speaker 2: what he might attack me on. And that was good
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  Speaker 2: the phone, you know, then they get on on Imus
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  Speaker 2: called me a crook or a thief or something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and and we go from there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he was great with that Benaughty, the guy
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  Speaker 1: that always tells the same story. You just it is
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  Speaker 1: Phil Simms. Phil Simms a great quarterback for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Him and Jim Nance had recurring roles on I miss
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  Speaker 1: and Phil would call in and he would say, Bernie,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of mood is the I man in today?
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  Speaker 1: And Bernie would say, well, take a guest, Phil, What
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  Speaker 1: do you think Phil? And he's like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: with his Kentucky droll, you know. But it was all
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  Speaker 1: part of the fun. And you know, I still say
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  Speaker 1: to everybody that cares that nobody had a bigger influence
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  Speaker 1: on my career and what I do. Then I missed.
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  Speaker 1: So talking to his kid was will Coole Iron Whytt
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  Speaker 1: is now twenty seven years old, and wow, he's making
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  Speaker 1: a great living and he's about to get married and
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  Speaker 1: theaters doing terrific too. So that's all good, souff. I
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  Speaker 1: could tell you the imuses are doing much better right
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  Speaker 1: now than I think we are in Iran. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it dependually you talk to but you know, I speak
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  Speaker 1: to people on the inside. They've got some people in
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  Speaker 1: and around Trump who loved Trump like I do. They
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  Speaker 1: love them, and they're very frustrated. They're like, what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing here? What's what's going on? What is the endgame?
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  Speaker 1: What is the finish? Why do we keep stopping with
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  Speaker 1: these cease buyers and these extensions? Why don't we just
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  Speaker 1: finish the job. And I'm hearing more and more of
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  Speaker 1: that peter from people that are around the president a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not saying this big because I supported going
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  Speaker 2: into Iran. I still do. But I think the president
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  Speaker 2: of the mistake you may made early on was somehow
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  Speaker 2: thinking this is gonna be a quick war. It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be over in a few days. It's gonna be an
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  Speaker 2: unconditional surrender, and you have to condition to the American
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  Speaker 2: people will say, listen, we are doing this because we
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  Speaker 2: don't want you with your children and grandchildren blown apart
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  Speaker 2: by nuclear weapons and sometime this war has before. We're
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  Speaker 2: doing it now, but it's not gonna be easy. So
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  Speaker 2: if you have to pay an extra dollars dollar and
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  Speaker 2: a half for gas for a few months to save
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  Speaker 2: lives later on, we have to do it now. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't done. It was sort of implied the word will
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  Speaker 2: be over in a few weeks. So now the American
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  Speaker 2: people are not on his side with the war. I
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  Speaker 2: mean to be this early in the war and I
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  Speaker 2: have fifty five sixty percent of people against it. It's
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  Speaker 2: dangerous to be and Iran knows that. They also say,
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  Speaker 2: the way the media is piling on the president and
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  Speaker 2: they just feel they can they can wave them out.
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  Speaker 2: And also, you know, this is not a real estate deal.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're whitcup over there negotiating, but you're up
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  Speaker 2: against ideologues. These guys. This is not like Russia or
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  Speaker 2: China or even North Korea where those leaders want to live.
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  Speaker 2: These guys don't care if they die. This is totally
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  Speaker 2: different from really any other world we've been in. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not like you can, you know, devastate their infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: where you can knock out their leadership and somehow they're
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  Speaker 2: going to surrender or they're going to make a deal.
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  Speaker 2: And a deal even implies that these guys are rationally
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  Speaker 2: they're not. So this to me is a long haul
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think we can do that now. With
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  Speaker 2: the long haul, I think the rand fields they can
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  Speaker 2: wait us south. They can take almost infinite amount of punishment.
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  Speaker 2: So we have to get the trades open. We have
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  Speaker 2: to get something on the nuclear weapons of the the
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  Speaker 2: of the uranium and try and go for It's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be easy now, but we can't. So this is
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  Speaker 2: not a game that Donald Trump is playing. He's doing
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  Speaker 2: the right thing by being there. But we have to
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  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna have to somehow, you know, limit
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  Speaker 2: the goals right now, and it has to come out ahead.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not gonna be the victory that I think
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  Speaker 2: we could have.
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  Speaker 1: Had well, because you know, he's wiped out a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of leaders there, him and Is, we have no
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  Speaker 1: question about it. Nice joint deport by Trump and BIB,
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  Speaker 1: but they still have IRGC leadership. So what good is it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they killed a lot of people. We did. We killed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. We killed a lot, and we
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  Speaker 1: blew up a lot of stuff, and we certainly hurt
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  Speaker 1: their nuclear you know, weapons making going forward. There's no
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  Speaker 1: question even dating back to Midnight Hammer back over the summer.
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  Speaker 1: But if we leave now with the IRGC still in
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  Speaker 1: charge right, not call and E, but the IRGC is
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  Speaker 1: still in charge, then we're not that far away from
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  Speaker 1: Iran being right back where they were a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: No, not not really. I think the weapons have been
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  Speaker 2: probably knocked back at least five years. I would think,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not there anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I gotta tell you, I saw a report from
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  Speaker 1: NBC last night that said that Pete Heiksatt is basically
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  Speaker 1: lying that Iran still has a arsenal a huge amount
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  Speaker 1: of weapons. That's what NBC said last night, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I keep seeing these crazy stories about Russian submarines
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  Speaker 1: arriving in Iran with more weaponry. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: any of that is true, but NBC did report last
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  Speaker 1: night that according to a very very solid Pentagon source,
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  Speaker 1: that Iran's weaponry is still very high, not nearly the
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  Speaker 1: percentage that the administration is trying to sell us that
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  Speaker 1: is now gone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have a lot of faith in General Kane,
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  Speaker 2: and he gives much better numbers than that. If I
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  Speaker 2: had to choose between General Kine and W or NBC,
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  Speaker 2: I would go with General Kaine. Also, I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 2: people in the Pentagon who hate Pete hagg says, dislike
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, and I can see them waking ourselves to NBC.
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  Speaker 2: You can play with numbers anyway you want, but I
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  Speaker 2: would think again, I have a lot of faith in
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  Speaker 2: General Kane. Whether the numbers act good or not, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but there's certainly much much munch better than
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  Speaker 2: with this worst darter.
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  Speaker 1: I had our mutual friend Anthony ds Posito Peter on
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  Speaker 1: the show a couple of days ago, and you were
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  Speaker 1: the first on this show to say he's not running again,
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  Speaker 1: and you're right, you know your stuff. He has decided
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  Speaker 1: to stay as present in Trump's Inspector General with a
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  Speaker 1: labor department. He's doing a tremendous job, Anthony, uncovering billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars, like Leezelton is doing at the EPA. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's why Lee stays there and Harmeat Dyllon replaces Todd blanche.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but Anthony did admit on this show
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  Speaker 1: publicly a couple of days ago he is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: run for Congress again. So it's great news for Anthony
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  Speaker 1: that he's doing so well and Trump still wants him.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure it's great news for Congress that
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  Speaker 1: Laura Gillan looks like may I have another win? Although
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  Speaker 1: you like this Lady Driscoll, she'll be taking on Gillen
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  Speaker 1: next time around.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, Janine Driscoll is gonna be a great candidate. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Always one Anthony to Runnie couldn't do it. But Janine
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  Speaker 2: Driscoll is a first rate candidate. She's been at an
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  Speaker 2: elective office in esso County for a number of years.
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  Speaker 2: She's a four to more school graduate. She's active in
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  Speaker 2: the community. If she handles herself very well, very art
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  Speaker 2: taken it. She's smart, and she's gonna give a given
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  Speaker 2: more than a run for money. She's gonna take her out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Janine is ready to go for the last
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  Speaker 2: few days. Joe Cairo had a massive event last night
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  Speaker 2: at the Garden City Hotel. She gave a great speech.
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  Speaker 2: She really roused the crowd. So now Janine is going
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  Speaker 2: to do a terrific job in the campaign. People have
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  Speaker 2: to get behind her, and they have to realize that
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  Speaker 2: first of all, even under the worst of circumstances, this
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  Speaker 2: is a five or six point race. You put a
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  Speaker 2: good Republican candidate. We have a great Republican candidate in there.
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  Speaker 2: She's gonna win, but we got to get behind her.
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  Speaker 2: We can't find can have some Republican somewhere finding something
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  Speaker 2: if you said eight years ago, they may disagree with
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  Speaker 2: it or not. We have to get together as a
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  Speaker 2: party and standing with whether Anthony I know is strongly
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  Speaker 2: for her, Joe Carol was strongly for Bruce Blakeman was
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  Speaker 2: with her last night. Bruce and I were with Janie
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  Speaker 2: sitting at the table with her. Now she's going to
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  Speaker 2: do a great again, great campaign. And we have Michael
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  Speaker 2: Petri of Nicola Loda. I mean, Long Island has good
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  Speaker 2: members of Congress running and so but we got to
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  Speaker 2: we have to get rid of this defeatist attitude, and
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  Speaker 2: we got to get out front arguing why it's been
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  Speaker 2: such a great, great achievement by the President and with
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Congress, and you just get you get their
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  Speaker 2: act together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, toll twiscoll to. I'll put her on so I'll
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  Speaker 1: help her try to win this race. You mentioned Le Petrie.
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  Speaker 1: He's running against Tom Swazi again. I like Michael lot
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  Speaker 1: He's been in the studio a couple of times. So
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  Speaker 1: this campaign and the last one, he'll be back. So
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  Speaker 1: Lalita Garbarino, are they all running again?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Gobrino was definitely running. Yeah, Mike Andrew is the share
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  Speaker 2: of the Homeland Security Committee vitally important to New York
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  Speaker 2: and Long Island the load who is running? Uh, and
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  Speaker 2: again Michael Petrie's running the last time around. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: actually very little attention was focused on his race. All
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  Speaker 2: of our attention was on Anthony and Mike I came
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  Speaker 2: with him like two points of winning. So now he's
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  Speaker 2: been getting getting geared up for this now for the
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  Speaker 2: last six eight months, part of this solely behind him.
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  Speaker 2: He's running strong. So that's that's a real strong possibility
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  Speaker 2: for us, maybe a probability. And Janie she's in getting
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  Speaker 2: in the race late, but still I mean in the
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  Speaker 2: first year that I ran, I think it into July
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  Speaker 2: because we had all reapportionment fight going on in New
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  Speaker 2: York and the districts rover and drawn and I ended
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  Speaker 2: up winning. So no, she's not been can do it.
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  Speaker 2: She's gonna do it, and she's really she's she's a
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  Speaker 2: tough fighter, strong woman, a very gifted attorney, very popular
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  Speaker 2: local elected officials. So now she's going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: But again people have to get behind her.
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  Speaker 1: And is Mazie pill up Ony twenty thing this time around?
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  Speaker 2: And yes, actually she's running for re elections the county legislature.
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  Speaker 2: She was elected the other legislatives last year for a
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  Speaker 2: two year term, but the Democrats in Obany they'd changed
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  Speaker 2: her from two year to one year because they figured
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  Speaker 2: that in the president and the gubernatorial year they had
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  Speaker 2: a better chance of picking up those local seats, so
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  Speaker 2: Marzie has to run again. She'll do well. I've always
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  Speaker 2: said we had never won in the Great Neck area
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  Speaker 2: since the War of eighteen twelve. Marzie won and she
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  Speaker 2: wins big every year. And the first time she ran,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, she has delivered the twins. Two weeks before,
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  Speaker 2: three weeks before, she was out campaigning at the train
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  Speaker 2: station on election morning.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. No, she's amazing. I love Marzia. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: was stronger. I always say this first time she went
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  Speaker 1: against Swazi, but I've grown to love that woman. You
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  Speaker 1: were right about that, Pete. All right, Pete, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: ended with this twelve straight losses again. For me, it's
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  Speaker 1: not about the wins and losses. I've rooted for horrible
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  Speaker 1: Met teams, teams that were managed by Joe Tory, teams
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  Speaker 1: from way back when that would lose one hundred games.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not about wins and losses. When you combine
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I hate the politics and there are
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  Speaker 1: two woke for me and they can't win, the Mets
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  Speaker 1: are a very difficult product to love these days.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, listen, I've been with the Mets since day one.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the first year when they lost one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty games. So that was tough. You're sitting under
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  Speaker 2: the pologrounds. Weatching that. No, listen, they have aling good team.
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  Speaker 2: And I really blamed Sterens for that, and he traded away.
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  Speaker 2: He gutted the hot and soul of the Mets was
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  Speaker 2: like Alonso, Nimo McNeil. They let Diaz go and so
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  Speaker 2: there's I there's no there's no care of the team.
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  Speaker 2: And Soto, even though he got a good numbers here
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  Speaker 2: last year, he was not really the solo. That team
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  Speaker 2: windows up and down by getting the good players. But
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  Speaker 2: other than that, they get, you know, the guys who
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  Speaker 2: really kept the team going well, especially with Indoor and
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  Speaker 2: Nimo McGreal. Maybe slows down a bit, but the other
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  Speaker 2: door are really going strong. So anyway, that was it,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no real need for it. It seemed like
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  Speaker 2: Stern's want to somehow create a team in his image,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe he has, unfortunately and it's not doing well.
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  Speaker 2: I know you've gone over the Yankees. I see where
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  Speaker 2: you're coming from, but to me, they have to give
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  Speaker 2: some reason why they really let those good players go,
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  Speaker 2: and it just it looks bad. It really doesn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna leave the match, but I have a
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  Speaker 2: hard time, really, for the first time in sixty four years,
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  Speaker 2: have a hard time getting excited. I really even had.
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  Speaker 2: I watched the game for a few winnings, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I don't watch it and I don't know. Maybe leave
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  Speaker 2: me go watch the Yankee game every now. You don't care, and.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get Steve Cohen on and maybe answer some
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  Speaker 1: of those valid questions Peter King, that you're raising and
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  Speaker 1: every Metman is raising. Maybe Cohen will stop by and
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  Speaker 1: give us some answer at any rate. As always, you've
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  Speaker 1: got all the answers. Your great another fantastic appearance, and
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  Speaker 1: your friend Bruce Blakeman is coming up next. So Nashau
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  Speaker 1: County owns this hour. Peter King, thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: Governor Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the man. You got it, okay, all right, buddy, love.
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  Speaker 1: You, I love you. Thank you.
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