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Hour 2: the GOP's chances · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Well, there's so much going on with the midterm, so
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Speaker 1: much going on with Donald Trump traveling around the country.
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Speaker 1: And of course, we have that scandal playing out in
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Speaker 1: Alaska that we just told you about a moment ago.
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Speaker 1: That's why we're fortunate to have John Decker. John Decker
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Speaker 1: is the WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
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Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
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Speaker 1: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. And John...
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Speaker 1: We're fortunate to have you this morning because I know
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Speaker 1: you traveled with the president to Alaska. You interviewed him there.
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Speaker 1: And there was rumblings about this potential scandal that the
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Speaker 1: Peltoa campaign kept saying, no, no, no, that's ridiculous. And
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Speaker 1: now we find out from the New York Times that
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Speaker 1: it may be all true. What did you hear when
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Speaker 1: you were there? And are you surprised at this outcome?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not surprised by the outcome and the reporting
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Speaker 2: in the New York Times, which has not been matched
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Speaker 2: by anybody. That's because this reporter was so good. He
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Speaker 2: has all of his sources locked up in terms of
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Speaker 2: this story. And do I have any doubts about the
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Speaker 2: veracity of this story?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't.
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Speaker 2: Now, when I was out in Alaska, Senator Dan Sullivan,
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Speaker 2: who I interviewed, spoke about this. He believed that there
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Speaker 2: was essentially dirty tricks being perpetrated by the Peltola campaign
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Speaker 2: as it relates to the constituent named Dan Sullivan also running.
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Speaker 2: And the Peltola campaign denied any such involvement in Dan Sullivan,
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Speaker 2: the constituent, wanting to run.
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Speaker 1: For the U.S. Senate.
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Speaker 2: I think that this has a major impact on that race.
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Speaker 2: And I say that thinking before that story came out
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Speaker 2: that Mary Peltola was going to win that race. And
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Speaker 2: she may still win that race. Remember, they have a
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Speaker 2: lot of early voting there. A lot of votes have
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Speaker 2: already been cast. So this story may not have the
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Speaker 2: kind of impact that it would have had had it
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Speaker 2: come out, let's say, two months ago. But it will
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Speaker 2: have an impact. And in a very close race, I
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Speaker 2: think it will have a negative impact on Mary Peltola.
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Speaker 2: And as a result, I think that Dan Sullivan is
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Speaker 2: going to eke out a victory in that race.
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Speaker 1: Interesting.
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Speaker 3: Now, John Decker, I see people who are running around
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Speaker 3: the White House extolling the virtues of the New York Times.
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Speaker 1: Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize. I thought for all these years
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Speaker 1: it was fake news. Right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, their Pulitzer Prize-worthy news organization, when they come out
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Speaker 2: with a story that benefits the administration, right? That's what
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Speaker 2: we're seeing here. This was great reporting on the part
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Speaker 2: of this reporter. I think there's just one reporter involved
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Speaker 2: in this, and boy, he really was able to track
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Speaker 2: things down. He even had a former campaign manager for
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Speaker 2: Mary Peltola actually go on the record and talk about
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Speaker 2: how the Peltola campaign was involved in looking for an
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Speaker 2: individual in the voter rolls who had the same name
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Speaker 2: as the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. And they got somebody,
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Speaker 2: this person from a remote fishing village in in Alaska
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Speaker 2: to decide to run for the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Senate.
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Speaker 2: He got two and a half percent of the vote
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Speaker 2: in the primary, but that was enough to move him
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Speaker 2: on to the general election where the top four finishers
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Speaker 2: are competing. And so we'll see. We'll see ultimately what
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Speaker 2: happens next Tuesday. It's going to be a while, by
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Speaker 2: the way, for us to know who wins that particular race.
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Speaker 2: And the reason I say that is based upon what
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Speaker 2: happened in the primary. It takes a while to count
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Speaker 2: votes from certain remote parts of Alaska, and to get
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Speaker 2: a final vote count, I think it's going to take
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Speaker 2: a few days.
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Speaker 1: What I really loved about the story, and you're going
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Speaker 1: to appreciate this as not only a journalist but an attorney,
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Speaker 1: was how a few of the people that were involved
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Speaker 1: and the sources that were involved, especially the named sources
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Speaker 1: like the campaign manager, tried to pull out at the
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Speaker 1: very end. And the New York Times wrote that entire thing,
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Speaker 1: that why they weren't going to allow it to be
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Speaker 1: pulled out and why they tried to pull out. I
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Speaker 1: thought that was fascinating. Not only was it a good read,
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Speaker 1: but it is also smart on their part because it
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Speaker 1: stakes their claim to this is why we did it
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Speaker 1: and this is why it's legal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just. straight shooting with the readers explaining what
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Speaker 2: happened behind the scenes, you know, those individuals went on
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Speaker 2: the record, uh, on the record, uh, they cooperated, uh,
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Speaker 2: with the reporter, uh, in going on the record, describing
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Speaker 2: what happened, describing how, uh, this constituent named Dan Sullivan, uh,
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Speaker 2: ultimately was, uh, uh, recruited to run for this Senate seat.
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Speaker 2: And I think that that's a good thing for a
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Speaker 2: news organization, trying to win credibility with readers and maintain
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Speaker 2: its credibility. And the New York Times did a good
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Speaker 2: job in terms of doing that.
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Speaker 3: Now, John Decker, if I had invested in Cheesecake Factory stock,
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Speaker 3: I'd probably be swimming in dough. The two superstars of
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Speaker 3: their respective parties, President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama,
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Speaker 3: can't stop talking about Cheesecake Factory when attacking one another,
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Speaker 3: including even the Treasury Secretary went to the local Cheesecake
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Speaker 3: Factory there in the greater D.C.
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Speaker 1: Area. Have you ever seen anything like this?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have, because, you know, both Barack Obama and
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, it's pretty clear, They're not fans of one another.
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Speaker 2: And in the 2024 campaign for president, in the 2016
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Speaker 2: campaign for president, in the 2020 campaign for president, they
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Speaker 2: both said unflattering things about each other. They do not
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Speaker 2: hide their dislike for each other. So, no, it doesn't
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Speaker 2: surprise me at all. And, you know, you have to
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Speaker 2: go back all the way to when President Barack Obama
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Speaker 2: was in the White House as president. that White House Correspondents' Dinner,
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Speaker 2: in which he devoted pretty much his entire speech at
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Speaker 2: the White House Correspondents' Dinner to insulting a private citizen
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Speaker 2: named Donald J. Trump.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're a veteran at the White House. You've
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Speaker 1: been through several administrations. And I know you've been through
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Speaker 1: these scenarios that we're about to see, where an opposing
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Speaker 1: party either takes one of the chambers of Congress or
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Speaker 1: both of them. And what that means. So what can
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Speaker 1: we expect from your experience over the next couple of
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Speaker 1: years in both of those scenarios? They take one, they
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Speaker 1: take the House, and the Democrats I'm talking about take
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Speaker 1: the House and then lose the Senate, or if they
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Speaker 1: win both?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, if you had asked me yesterday before
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Speaker 2: this news regarding the New York Times story about the
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Speaker 2: Peltola campaign, I would have said that I think the
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Speaker 2: Democrats will win both the House and the Senate. So
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Speaker 2: I think the Alaska race changes things in terms of
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Speaker 2: my calculations. I think that after the midterms, Democrats will
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Speaker 2: control the House. They won't control the Senate, but it
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Speaker 2: will be a very narrow majority. And also keep in mind,
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Speaker 2: I think Susan Collins is going to win. And she
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Speaker 2: is one of those independent minded Republicans, along with Lisa Murkowski,
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Speaker 2: which means that the president cannot always count on a
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Speaker 2: unified Republican Party to support all of his nominations, for instance.
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Speaker 2: So It's not as simple as just saying, you know,
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Speaker 2: one is controlled by the House, the House is controlled
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Speaker 2: by the Democrats, and the Senate is controlled by Republicans.
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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a really narrow victory
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Speaker 2: for Republicans in the Senate in particular. What it means,
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Speaker 2: it means that the president's legislative agenda will stall. He
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Speaker 2: can't get things through Congress. And as a result, I
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Speaker 2: think it's going to frustrate him. The other day I
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Speaker 2: asked the president about this. Larry, I asked the president,
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Speaker 2: are you prepared for political gridlock after the midterms? And,
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Speaker 2: you know, the president, I think it's so interesting because
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Speaker 2: for most politicians, you ask that question, Larry and Curtis,
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Speaker 2: they say, I'm not going to talk about hypotheticals. First
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Speaker 2: of all, we're going to win. I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: talk about a hypothetical situation. The president actually took the
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Speaker 2: question on and he said, well, if we lose, he
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Speaker 2: actually said it, if we lose, It will mean that
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Speaker 2: I will veto everything that comes my way if Democrats
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Speaker 2: control both houses of Congress. And then that will force them,
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Speaker 2: the president told me, to compromise, to compromise on legislation.
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Speaker 2: So the president's prepared for that possibility. The president's prepared
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Speaker 2: for being bipartisan. Bipartisanship should happen. Republicans lose control of
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Speaker 2: both the House and the Senate.
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Speaker 1: Oh, fascinating.
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Speaker 3: John, the president is on his way to South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: He should take residency there because of all the golf
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Speaker 3: courses in Myrtle Beach. Why is he there so much?
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Speaker 3: This Graham campaign seems to be losing the support of
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Speaker 3: some well-known Republicans.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're right. So Ralph Norman is a congressman, and
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Speaker 2: he was in that runoff Republican Senate primary against Darlene Graham.
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Speaker 1: And he lost.
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Speaker 2: And he's still really angry about it. He's in his
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Speaker 2: early 70s. He spent his whole life in Republican Party politics.
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Speaker 2: He saw this as a great opportunity to finally be
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Speaker 2: a U.S. senator. And then what does President Donald Trump do?
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Speaker 2: He says, I'm endorsing someone who's never been a politician,
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Speaker 2: the sister of Lindsey Graham. And that's angered his family
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Speaker 2: in particular. His entire family has publicly said, we are
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Speaker 2: voting for Annie Andrews, the opponent of Darlene Graham. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if that impacts the way other Republicans feel.
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Speaker 2: or the way the supporters of Ralph Norman feel, but
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Speaker 2: the president is very nervous. This race has gotten very close.
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Speaker 2: There's been polling which shows that the race is now
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Speaker 2: tied statistically, and the president feels it's necessary to go
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Speaker 2: down to South Carolina for another time. to help out
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Speaker 2: darling graham with another campaign rally when you.
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Speaker 1: Make a couple of predictions you said you talked about uh...
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Speaker 1: but dan sullivan and you talked about maine what do
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Speaker 1: you think about michigan in texas uh.
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Speaker 2: two different things so i think that they're it's interesting
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Speaker 2: that you ask me that question larry because i thought
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Speaker 2: i think that of these two states it's where both
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Speaker 2: parties have flawed candidates uh... republicans have a flawed candidate
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Speaker 2: in texas with ken paxton for all the scandals and
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Speaker 2: political baggage that he has. And Democrats have a flawed
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Speaker 2: candidate in Abdul El-Sayed for all the reasons that we know.
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Speaker 2: His support of Hassan Piker, his campaigning with Hassan Piker,
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Speaker 2: the things that he said out on the campaign trail
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Speaker 2: even before running for the U.S. Senate. I think that
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Speaker 2: in Texas, that's going to be the big surprise of
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Speaker 2: this election cycle because a Democrat hasn't won statewide Since 19...
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Speaker 2: What's her name? Governor....
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Speaker 1: Help me out here.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember. Early 90s. Ann Richards? Ann Richards. Thank
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Speaker 2: you so much, Larry. Since Ann Richards won statewide. That's
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Speaker 2: going back to the early 90s. But I think that
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Speaker 2: James Tallarico is going to pull out a victory there.
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Speaker 2: I talked to so many Texas Republicans when I was
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Speaker 2: down at the Republican... midterm convention in early September, and
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Speaker 2: they told me, this candidate, their candidate, Ken Paxton, is
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Speaker 2: so bad. They told me at that time, he's just
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Speaker 2: not going to win. So I think that that's going
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Speaker 2: to be the surprise of this midterm election. As it
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Speaker 2: relates to Michigan, I know what the betting markets say.
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Speaker 2: The betting markets say Abdul Sayed is going to win.
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Speaker 2: I know what the polls say. They say Abdul El-Sayed's
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Speaker 2: going to win. I think they're wrong. I think that
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Speaker 2: Mike Rogers is going to win that race And it's
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Speaker 2: because El-Sayed is a flawed candidate for all the reasons
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Speaker 2: that we know. And so, interestingly enough, it will be
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Speaker 2: a pickup, the way I see it, for Democrats in
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Speaker 2: Texas and a pickup for Republicans in the state of Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that was great, John. I'll tell you what, I've
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Speaker 1: always avoided asking you about races and who you thought
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Speaker 1: was going to win because I thought you wouldn't answer.
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Speaker 1: But man, that analysis was perfect. Way to go. That
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Speaker 1: was great. Well, I say way to go. You've been
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Speaker 1: doing this for years. John Decker, WR White House and
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Speaker 1: Washington correspondent and host of the podcast, The White House
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Speaker 1: Briefing Room with John Decker, which can be found on
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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Thanks a lot, John. That was fascinating.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Curtis. Bye-bye.
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Speaker 1: Line has thousands of quality.
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Speaker 2: Remember, Curtis, a.
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Speaker 1: Couple of years ago, almost to the day, there was
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Speaker 1: a story about a cruise for life. It was some
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Speaker 1: people that had this great idea. They were going to
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Speaker 1: buy a cruise ship. Then you can buy a cabin.
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Speaker 1: on the cruise ship, you get it for life, you
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Speaker 1: pay a monthly fee, and they take you around the world.
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Speaker 1: Remember that? Oh, yeah. It's sort of like you had
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Speaker 1: your own condo on the ship. Exactly. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: what could go wrong? It was expensive. I mean, listen,
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Speaker 1: $ 119, 000 to $ 439, 000 was the cabin prices. Then you had
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Speaker 1: to pay either $ 3, 500 or $ 11, 000 a month. You know,
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Speaker 1: to keep the ship going. Yeah, maintenance fee. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: also for everything you get on the ship, you know,
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Speaker 1: the food and all of that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: Oh, the bacon, you know, and the buffet that everybody
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Speaker 3: lines up for. You're guaranteed extra bacon. Well, it's a
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Speaker 3: sad day for Cruise for Life. Almost exactly two years later,
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Speaker 3: the boat went out of commission.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this. In Cambodia, it went out of commission.
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Speaker 3: Worst place you could possibly go out of commission. The
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Speaker 3: only other place would be Mogadishu in Somalia where the
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Speaker 3: pirates are taking you over.
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Speaker 1: Now, they tell people they're going to get them back home,
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Speaker 1: but what they're saying is the cost was not what
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Speaker 1: they expected. They just are losing too much money on
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Speaker 1: this proposition that they thought was going to make money.
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Speaker 1: It's really funny. The people that actually bought the things...
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Speaker 1: They're not upset about being left off in Cambodia. They're
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Speaker 1: upset about not being able to cruise for life.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely loved every minute of it. And it's really super
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Speaker 4: sad that it's no longer. I hope that there is
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Speaker 4: a movement for the residents to buy the ship.
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Speaker 3: Ah.
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Speaker 1: They want to buy the love boat. They want to
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Speaker 1: all get together. Now, these are some people that must
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Speaker 1: have a nice retirement savings. And they're all getting together.
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Speaker 1: You know, the average age was in 60s or 70s.
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Speaker 1: And it was just people that wanted to go out
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Speaker 1: with a wonderful experience. You know, it's a great, great idea.
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Speaker 1: I wish them the best, but I got a feeling
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Speaker 1: they don't know how much money that's going to be.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't the only one who said that. There were
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Speaker 1: many of them that said they all want to get
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Speaker 1: together and buy the boat. Now let's get some talkbacks.
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Speaker 5: I did take it seriously. accidentally i caught looked one
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Speaker 5: day and i walked 327 days in a row of
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Speaker 5: over 10 000 steps that wasn't deliberate but then i
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Speaker 5: realized i could keep going so i am now at
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Speaker 5: 500 days of over 10 000 steps now it's a challenge.
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Speaker 3: Wow we talked about how 60 years ago that was
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Speaker 3: the It's sort of the pinnacle. You got to do
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Speaker 3: 10,000 steps a day to live a longer life so
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Speaker 3: you could cruise the.
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Speaker 1: Rest of your life.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you what, we've had a couple of
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Speaker 1: people now that have called in and sweared by it
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Speaker 1: because we were talking about, you don't have to do 10,000,
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Speaker 1: you could do 2,000, but they swear by it. Speaking
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Speaker 1: of hot dogs, Curtis should know this.
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Speaker 3: The best hot dog place in New York is probably
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Speaker 3: Great Papayas on 8th Street and 6th Avenue. I could
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Speaker 3: be eating a $ 200 steak dinner at Old Homestead.
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Speaker 2: If I drive by Great Papayas, got to drop by,
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Speaker 2: grab a couple of dogs.
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Speaker 4: Have a good one, guys.
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Speaker 3: Now, I'm no longer the expert here on Hot Dogs.
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Speaker 3: That was proven this morning by the quiet storm, Chris.
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Speaker 3: Did you believe not only how much he spoke? He's
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Speaker 3: on loan from Mark Simone. But what a hot dog
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Speaker 3: connoisseur he is, Larry. He outdid me with the hot dogs.
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Speaker 1: He perked up. Yeah. We know now how to get
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Speaker 1: him to talk. There you go. Ask me about hot dogs. Well,
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Speaker 1: bring in one. Okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Please. Let me eat them on the air. I'll eat
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Speaker 1: a hot dog anyway. My God.
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Speaker 3: This has brought out a new Chris that we never
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Speaker 3: knew of before.
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Speaker 1: Hot dogs. I'm looking real quick to see what the
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Speaker 1: best hot dogs in New York are. It says, oh,
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Speaker 1: Gray's Papaya. That's number one. Yeah, that's the consensus among
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Speaker 1: a lot of people. Wow, that's what he was just
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Speaker 1: talking about, right? Gray's Papaya. Way to go.
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Speaker 3: See, I recuse myself now. You are the hot dog
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Speaker 3: expert here at 710WOR, Chris, the Quiet Storm.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations. Thank you. I wear that title with honor. Now
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Speaker 1: let's get to Daria Albinger with the 730 News.
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Speaker 2: Daria.
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Speaker 6: Morning, guys.
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Speaker 7: Do you ever go to Hiram's in New Jersey?
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Speaker 1: Hiram's?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Where's that?
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Speaker 7: That's in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It is worth the trip.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 7: Maybe I'll bring some in for you guys some morning.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know we had so many hot dog aficionados here.
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Speaker 7: Sunny and warmer today.
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Speaker 8: High 68 degrees. Five days to the election. It's crunch
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Speaker 8: time for the candidates and for their surrogates. President Trump
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Speaker 8: will be in South Carolina. He's looking to drum up
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Speaker 8: support for Republicans on the ballot. Former President Obama will
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Speaker 8: be in Georgia on the stump for Democrats. Voters in
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Speaker 8: Israel may be headed to another election after neither Prime
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Speaker 8: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition nor the opposition could secure a
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Speaker 8: majority in parliament.
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Speaker 9: This was a real roller coaster of an election night.
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Speaker 9: The way this works is this is a parliamentary system
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Speaker 9: in Israel. So people don't vote for candidates. They vote
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Speaker 9: for parties. So you cast your vote for a party,
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Speaker 9: and then it's up to those parties. The parties get
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Speaker 9: a certain amount of seats in the parliament. They have
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Speaker 9: to work together to form a majority coalition. And then
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Speaker 9: that's what ends up staffing the new government, the new
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Speaker 9: prime minister, ministries, etc.
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Speaker 7: ABC's Matt Rivers. New Jersey's attorney general is looking into
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Speaker 7: a fatal shooting by a state trooper. It happened yesterday
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Speaker 7: in Munaki. The trooper firing on a driver who then
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Speaker 7: crashed into a building. The faculty at Cornell University is
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Speaker 7: moving forward with a no confidence vote in the school's leadership.
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Speaker 10: The vote of no confidence ties back to how Cornell's
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Speaker 10: administration handled the alleged 2024 Chi Phi sexual assault of
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Speaker 10: a former student identified in a recent lawsuit as Jane Doe.
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Speaker 10: Doe alleges she was gang raped and forced into doing
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Speaker 10: drugs at the fraternity's house. The meeting to debate whether
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Speaker 10: faculty should hold a vote of no confidence lasted a
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Speaker 10: half hour longer than expected, and Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff
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Speaker 10: was not present. Online voting is set to open Friday
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Speaker 10: and last about a week. Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
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Speaker 7: And 14 years ago today, Superstorm Sandy slammed the tri-state area.
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Speaker 7: It caused more than $ 30 billion in damages to the
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Speaker 7: Jersey Shore. and flooded the city's subway system. It also
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Speaker 7: prompted the National Weather Service to include storm surge warnings
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Speaker 7: to better communicate. the threat of coastal flooding. Knicks win,
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Speaker 7: I'll tell you what, Daria, you mentioned that place.
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Speaker 1: I looked it up. It's Hiram's? Is that what it's called? Hiram's, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hiram's in Fort Lee. It's number two on the list
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Speaker 1: in New Jersey after the Rutt Hut in Clifton.
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Speaker 7: Yes, where you can get the ripper, the deep fried
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Speaker 7: hot dog.
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Speaker 1: Listen to her.
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Speaker 3: You know, this used to be one of my expertises.
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Speaker 3: I got to give it up between the quiet one, Chris.
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Speaker 3: And our news gal, my mic can never get her
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Speaker 3: name right. That's okay. They know more about hot dogs
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Speaker 3: than me.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. They know where the best hot dog places are.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know it was such a hot topic. Izzy
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Speaker 1: came in, who's cutting audio for us today, and said Johnny's.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Johnny's, too. And you're from Pennsylvania, so you don't know
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Speaker 7: about Yakko's?
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Speaker 1: I don't know about Yakko's.
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Speaker 7: Yakko's in Allentown?
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Speaker 1: Really good. Well, Allentown's a ride.
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Speaker 2: True. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Allentown is not someplace I.
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Speaker 2: Would go to.
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Speaker 7: I figured your travels might have taken you through there
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Speaker 7: at one point.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: I go up there. I just don't go, hey, while
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Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm going to have a hot dog. That's all. Thanks, Daria.
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Speaker 1: You should do a podcast on hot dogs.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, up next, oh, man, the drama in Michigan. You
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Speaker 3: just heard John Decker. He predicted that Mike Rogers would
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Speaker 3: pull it out. But we're going to update you on
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Speaker 3: all the drama. I don't think any campaign has had
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Speaker 3: more different kinds of drama than are affecting the U.S.
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Speaker 3: Senate run of El Saeed, the Democrat versus Mike Rogers,
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Speaker 3: the Republican.
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Speaker 1: Up next. Another neck and neck race for the U.S.
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Speaker 3: Senate in Michigan between El Saeed, the Democrat, and Mike Rogers,
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Speaker 3: the Republican. But a lot of melodrama. It's a soap opera.
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Speaker 3: So we take it back to the primary. Remember, El-Sayed
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Speaker 3: was favored by about eight points going into the primary.
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Speaker 3: The weekend before, he's at a pool party and they're
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Speaker 3: dancing to Eminem songs. You know, it's like him and
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Speaker 3: his staff.
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Speaker 1: We got it. We got it.
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Speaker 3: He just barely won by one percentage point against Haley Stevens.
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Speaker 3: Haley Stevens, who was the choice of a lot of
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Speaker 3: Jews and moderate Democrats. And we know El-Sayed, the choice
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Speaker 3: of the DSA and a lot of Muslims. So he
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Speaker 3: barely wins that. And the very next day, she does
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Speaker 3: the party thing and professes loyalty to his candidacy. Haley
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Speaker 3: Stevens said, I'm going to support El-Sayed. Well, things have
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Speaker 3: changed radically. Let me use that term radically. Because apparently
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Speaker 3: the conversations back and forth haven't gone that well between
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Speaker 3: both camps. So yesterday, her fiance is at a rally
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Speaker 3: for Mike Rogers and goes, look, you know, Haley will
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Speaker 3: do what she's going to do.
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Speaker 1: She's a loyal Democrat. But I'm on board with Mike Rogers.
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Speaker 3: Then Haley Stevens is doing all these interviews where she
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Speaker 3: always prefaces it. Now, I want you to know I'm
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Speaker 3: voting for El Saeed, but and then she lists a
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Speaker 3: whole bunch of reasons. why she thinks El-Said is not
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Speaker 3: a good candidate. So the drama continues in Michigan. And
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Speaker 3: just to let you know, remember his foray up into
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Speaker 3: the Upper Peninsula where he was a country western.
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Speaker 1: Star with the American... cowboy hat, red, white, and blue,
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Speaker 1: and he was dancing.
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Speaker 3: Apparently, in the polls, he's done well, and Mike Rogers
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Speaker 3: is doing well because he's living in the African-American community
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Speaker 3: in Detroit, and they're a bit jaundiced about El-Said. So
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Speaker 3: they're all going to places. where they need to change
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Speaker 3: the votes. Because let's face it, they both believe it's
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Speaker 3: a neck-and-neck race. I don't think anybody doubts it. But
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Speaker 3: El-Said has replaced Zoran as the menace in America. Remember
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Speaker 3: at first it was Zoran, AOC, and Bernie Sanders. El-Said
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Speaker 3: is the face of what you don't want, according to
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Speaker 3: the Republicans and some moderate Democrats in America. And to
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Speaker 3: show you the effect, you know how in Ohio... Ohio
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Speaker 3: hates Michigan. Michigan hates Ohio and football. Ohio State versus Michigan. Well,
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Speaker 3: last night, the president was in Ohio, you know, to
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Speaker 3: try to help the ticket there, especially Vivek. But then
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Speaker 3: Senator Bernie Marino comes on, well-respected in Ohio. He said
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Speaker 3: nothing about Republicans in Ohio. He said, El-Sayed should be
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Speaker 3: disqualified because he does not accept Jesus Christ as a savior.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that he understands the concept that our
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Speaker 3: rights come from God Almighty, that Jesus came here for
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Speaker 3: our salvation? So that was like, whoa, shots across the bow, because,
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Speaker 3: you know, a lot of the Ohio media is covered
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Speaker 3: in Michigan and vice versa because they're so close.
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Speaker 1: And then earlier, like two days before, RFK Jr.
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Speaker 3: who is the secretary of our health, a Maha guy,
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Speaker 3: he was at a rally in Michigan for Mike Rogers.
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Speaker 3: And he said, Arabs do not produce science or literature
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Speaker 3: and have never won major international awards. Obviously, that took
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Speaker 3: his own Maha supporters by surprise because they.
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Speaker 1: Have won awards.
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Speaker 3: And when I talked to some of the Maha people,
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Speaker 3: I said, look, I recuse him for one reason. His daddy, remember, RFK,
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Speaker 3: who had just won that very close California Democratic primary
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Speaker 3: against Gene McCarthy, was on his way to accept the
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Speaker 3: Democratic nomination 68 in Chicago. That contentious convention was shot
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Speaker 3: and killed by Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen of the
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Speaker 3: hotel where he gave his victory speech. That's when I
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Speaker 3: first learned about the Palestinian-Israeli problem because Sirhan Sirhan, still
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Speaker 3: locked up, is a Palestinian and said he did it
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Speaker 3: because of that.
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Speaker 1: And I'm trying to go, what the hell did RFK running.
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Speaker 3: For president have to do with Palestinians and Israel?
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Speaker 1: So let's face it. On that one. That's too close
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Speaker 1: to home. Let's get back to Michigan for a second
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Speaker 1: because I've never thought El-Sayed was going to win because
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Speaker 1: I thought he was a phony. And you're right. He
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Speaker 1: is not Zoran Mamdani. Zoran Mamdani, you're right, was held
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Speaker 1: up as the villain. But Zoran Mamdani is slick. Like,
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Speaker 1: I think he is a very gifted politician. I think
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Speaker 1: he's dangerous. I think he represents everything I detest, except
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Speaker 1: for the fact that he knows how to handle it.
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Speaker 1: El-Sayed has always come off as a little mean and
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Speaker 1: a little demeaning. And I think you're seeing a lot
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Speaker 1: more of that now. That's why I never really thought
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Speaker 1: he was going to win. People compared him to Mamdani.
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Speaker 1: He's not Mamdani. He's not as good with Mamdani. He's
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Speaker 1: got a short circuit. And now, as the polls are
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Speaker 1: going the other way, and there's a lot of people
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Speaker 1: now predicting he's going to lose, he's getting angrier and
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Speaker 1: angrier and angrier, which is going to keep hurting him.
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Speaker 1: And the person he blames more than anyone else is
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. on podcast after podcast and interview after interview.
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Speaker 1: They can ask him anything and he goes after Trump.
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Speaker 11: We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in
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Speaker 11: the room. And I mean, Donald Trump is an idiot.
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Speaker 11: Whatever you think about him, he has one genius, which
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Speaker 11: is the genius of getting attention, which is because his
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Speaker 11: dad never gave him enough. And so he, because he
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Speaker 11: was a nepo baby, because he had resources, realized quickly
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Speaker 11: that he just craved for attention and then used the
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Speaker 11: bullying tactics that he uses right now to get it.
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Speaker 1: That was only a little clip of what he did.
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Speaker 1: He went on and on and on. They would ask
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Speaker 1: him other questions and he'd go back to Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: He's furious that he thought he had this thing won
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Speaker 1: and he's going to end up losing.
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Speaker 3: One thing that El-Sayed does better than Zoran is he
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Speaker 3: dances better country western than Zoran.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a low bar. That was pretty impressive. Come on,
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Speaker 1: admit it, Larry. He held his belt buckle and swayed
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Speaker 1: back and forth. You've got to do a little bit
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Speaker 1: better than that. That's not all of it.
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Speaker 3: Up next, oh, Natalie Megliore, back from the streets, giving
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Speaker 3: us feedback of the upcoming marathon that will be hosted
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Speaker 3: here at WOR710 by our own Larry and Natalie Megliore.
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Speaker 3: From beginning, throughout the race, and the post-race. Now, it's
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Speaker 3: 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Up from
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Speaker 3: the streets with the pre-marathon conversations with the peeps.
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Speaker 1: What did you come up with, Natalie?
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Speaker 10: What I came up with is it's not me that's
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Speaker 10: going to be running the marathon. So don't get so excited, gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: I'm not that excited.
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Speaker 12: I'm excited. We're going to be live that morning.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 12: You, me, Tim McClune, Natalie's going to be running the show.
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Speaker 12: None of us are running the marathon, though.
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Speaker 1: We have people from here that are running the marathon.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's several people.
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Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: None of them are very good, but they're running.
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Speaker 7: But they'll post a time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: We'll see how long it takes.
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Speaker 7: They'll finish.
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Speaker 12: Exactly.
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Speaker 7: Well, we'll see.
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Speaker 12: But we're just a few days.
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Speaker 10: Away from the best day in New York City, and
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Speaker 10: I'm not talking about Halloween, because Marathon Day, the TCS
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Speaker 10: New York City Marathon, falls the day after Halloween on Sunday,
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Speaker 10: November 1st. This year marks 50 years since the 26.2
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Speaker 10: mile course expanded to all five boroughs. And I caught
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Speaker 10: up with George Hirsch, who is one of the five
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Speaker 10: men who worked to bring the five borough journey to
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Speaker 10: life in a very unlikely time. Because at that time,
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Speaker 10: the city was on the brink of financial ruin. And
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Speaker 10: when George ran it, only about 2,000 people ran it.
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Speaker 12: It feels like each year the marathon.
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Speaker 10: Gets bigger and bigger with 60,000 people expected to finish
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Speaker 10: this year, guys.
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Speaker 12: So could George have ever imagined this?
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Speaker 6: This is beyond my wildest imagination. I'd like to say
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Speaker 6: I've got a vision, but I never saw it at
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Speaker 6: this level.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
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Speaker 10: How does it feel when you watch these thousands of
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Speaker 10: people every year pounding the streets that you helped start this?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I pounded them. I ran that first marathon
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Speaker 6: back then in 1976. It just gives me a wonderful sense.
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Speaker 6: I feel very privileged to have been part.
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Speaker 1: Of all of this.
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Speaker 12: Now, 50 years.
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Speaker 10: And I talked to David, who has pretty much been
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Speaker 10: a part of it all, too, because I walked up
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Speaker 10: on David. standing right next to a picture that's up
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Speaker 10: along the metal barricades that line the course in Central Park,
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Speaker 10: that picture, it's of him, okay? People stopping to take
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Speaker 10: pictures with him and of him and to talk to him,
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Speaker 10: and why?
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Speaker 13: This is my 48th New York City Marathon.
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Speaker 12: What keeps you coming back?
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Speaker 1: I like to eat a lot.
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Speaker 13: And it's just something I do in most mornings.
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Speaker 1: And it's just a.
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Speaker 13: Very good thing for me up here. And, you know,
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Speaker 13: I like it. I like the way I look at 74.
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Speaker 13: My face has wrinkles, but my body doesn't. And it's
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Speaker 13: a good thing.
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Speaker 10: Listen, the second he said, I like to eat, I
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Speaker 10: was like, I better start.
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Speaker 7: Running because I like to eat too, David.
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Speaker 12: But for someone who is so.
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Speaker 10: Seasoned, 48 New York City marathons, 48 of them, I
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Speaker 10: had to ask him, for tips for first-time runners.
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Speaker 13: I would say pick up your number on Thursday. It's
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Speaker 13: a lot less crowded. And if you're running for a
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Speaker 13: particular time, push yourself a little bit before the start
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Speaker 13: so that you don't get jammed up too much at
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Speaker 13: the beginning of the race so that you can just
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Speaker 13: start and go straight without going around people.
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Speaker 1: But that's how I would do it.
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Speaker 10: Now, at the height, he said he ran three hours
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Speaker 10: and 25 minutes.
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Speaker 1: That's great.
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Speaker 10: But with George, who ran the original race, he has
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Speaker 10: a little bit of a different philosophy. You can see
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Speaker 10: the appreciation for the course and the city in how
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Speaker 10: he advises first-time runners to take it all in.
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Speaker 6: If you haven't run it before, there's so much... Energy
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Speaker 6: and adrenaline at the start. Go out slowly, more slowly
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Speaker 6: than you thought. In fact, I would say stay rather
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Speaker 6: sleepy for the first six miles. Don't even wake up
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Speaker 6: a little bit. And then when you get to First Avenue,
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Speaker 6: where it's just a block of noise on both sides
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Speaker 6: of you, slow down. Because those people can make you
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Speaker 6: start to run fast. And you know, you got 10
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Speaker 6: miles to go and that's a lot of distance. So, uh,
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Speaker 6: in other words, the answer is run within yourself. This
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Speaker 6: is a 26 mile foot race.
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Speaker 10: Now, anybody who listening may not be, uh, running the marathon,
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Speaker 10: but if you know people who are share this with them,
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Speaker 10: because a lot of first time runners, a lot of
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Speaker 10: people strive for this, like to, to do the 26.2
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Speaker 10: miles across New York city. Um, You know, I wake
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Speaker 10: up on Monday after the marathon and I think I'm
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Speaker 10: going to do it next year.
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Speaker 12: Do you really? Yeah, and then a week later, I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 12: it's not for me.
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Speaker 1: Not for me. Did you try? Do you go out
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Speaker 1: and run a little bit?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, then I start running like five, six miles, and
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Speaker 12: then I'm like, you know what? That's enough for me.
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Speaker 12: But my brother-in-law's running. I'm on eighth. I'm always at
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Speaker 12: mile eight.
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Speaker 10: Ken Rosato's at mile 20. You and Tim and Natalie
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Speaker 10: in Central Park, and it's going to be great. We're
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Speaker 10: going to have a great, fun time watching people run
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Speaker 10: while we stand there.
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Speaker 1: And coming up, we have Rob Similcare, who runs the...
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Speaker 1: TCH New York City Marathon, TCS New York City Marathon,
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Speaker 1: excuse me. And he is going to talk about preparations.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Natalie.
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Speaker 12: Well, we'll talk tomorrow about more marathon stuff.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 3: Up next, the two superstars were at it again, Barack
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Speaker 3: Obama and Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: But first, it's News at 8.