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John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator Says President Trump is Too Smart for the Adversaries Attacking Him · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: How about this guy, the great John Katz and Matides? Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Red Apple Media does not one but two great shows
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  Speaker 1: on this station. every week, 5 p.m. every weekday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: alongside Rita Cosby. It's the Cats and Cosby Show. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, his masterpiece, 8 a.m. every Sunday morning, the
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  Speaker 1: Cats Roundtable. Just a quick one, John. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You were not in the Hamptons, I don't think, this weekend, but... Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. What a disaster. It was?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we were waiting. You know, we have a house
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  Speaker 2: right on the beach, and we were waiting for the
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  Speaker 2: worst-case scenario, and... I think we survived. You know, our pictures,
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  Speaker 2: we have cameras all over the place. Okay, good. And
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  Speaker 2: it looks like everything became okay, but... Some people, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of damage.
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  Speaker 1: A lot. So do you have somebody by your house
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  Speaker 1: in Suffolk County that can kind of drive by and
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  Speaker 1: take a look for you in Margo?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, my friend Gus and my friend Joe that take
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  Speaker 2: care of the house. And you don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: that bill.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and they take care.
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  Speaker 1: What about my friend that lives right next door, the
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  Speaker 1: great Stuart and Shirley Podolsky?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, well, Stuart Podolsky sent me pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he did?
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday morning. And, you know, for some reason, his house,
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  Speaker 2: which is right next door to me, the ocean takes
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  Speaker 2: away the sand from him and gives it to me.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, for some reason. I mean, it's the way tides,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can't judge how tides go.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, you can't do anything about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Whose house is more expensive?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Whose house is more expensive? Whose house is going to
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  Speaker 2: be left after a big storm?
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  Speaker 1: That's what matters, right? That's what matters. Not who starts
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  Speaker 1: the game, who finishes the game.
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  Speaker 2: Stuart has a nice house, and it burned down a
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  Speaker 2: few years ago. But when he rebuilt, he had to
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  Speaker 2: build it all the way back under the new rules.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: My house is still right up front.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: Which is, you know, I enjoyed it. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: I bought my house about 10, 15 years ago, me
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  Speaker 2: and Margo went to see it on a Friday. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We signed a contract on Monday. That quickly? Oh, we
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  Speaker 2: saw it. We loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Love it first sight.
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  Speaker 2: We got a view of both sides. We have a
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  Speaker 2: view of the ocean and a view of the bay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 2: And you can sit in your dining room and look
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  Speaker 2: at both sides.
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  Speaker 1: How do you beat that?
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  Speaker 2: How do you beat that? You got to come over sometime.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was close. Yes. A couple years ago for
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  Speaker 1: your birthday, I went to the church, but I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen the house yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get to our mutual friend, President Trump, had
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  Speaker 1: a busy weekend, went to see Tennessee play Texas, big
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  Speaker 1: college football game, and then had a bunch of other meetings.
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  Speaker 1: 37 days away now from the election, John.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is under attack. And I spoke to him
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  Speaker 2: last Monday when I was with him. And we're under attack.
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  Speaker 2: I spoke to your friend Joe Grutter, who it's not
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  Speaker 2: only the evil empire. You know, Russia, North Korea, China, Iran. Iran.
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  Speaker 2: They want a weaker Trump because Trump is too smart
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  Speaker 2: for them and too strong for them. And every American
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  Speaker 2: has to realize that. Trump is too smart for them, too.
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  Speaker 2: And Europe, too. And, you know, I'm disappointed that Carney,
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  Speaker 2: the prime minister of China, is supporting, wants to do
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  Speaker 2: business with China. Yeah. Which is, China will wipe his... Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in, in, he's very close to Mark Krohn. Uh, and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: They're both bad guys.
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  Speaker 2: But here's what happened. No, I don't want to use
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  Speaker 2: bad guys. They're doing things that are stupid because I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you why. Uh, they're looking to save money on
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  Speaker 2: tariffs because president Trump has their number. They realize that,
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  Speaker 2: you know why we have a 40, nobody talks about it. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: me and Larry Kudlow talk about it all the time
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  Speaker 2: when we go to dinner. Uh, you know, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: what really happened, why we have a $ 40 trillion deficit because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, first of all, we started with 5 trillion
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  Speaker 2: when Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton sat down, they sat
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  Speaker 2: down and they made a deal as Americans. Maybe they
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  Speaker 2: didn't like each other, but they made a deal for
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  Speaker 2: America that, and took the deficit from $ 5. 5 trillion down
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  Speaker 2: to $ 5 trillion. That's the last time we ever saw
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  Speaker 2: $ 5 trillion. Now it's $ 40 trillion. Now let me let
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  Speaker 2: everybody out there know why. Because we were very generous
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  Speaker 2: to Canada. We're very generous to Europe. We're very generous
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. Foreign aid. But foreign aid went as far
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  Speaker 2: as when we sell Germany a car, They charge, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going to make up numbers because I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the exact numbers. A $ 50, 000 Chevrolet, they put a $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 2: tariff on it. And then when they sell his Mercedes-Benz,
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  Speaker 2: the tariff is very little. So the smart thing what
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is doing is leveling the playing field. We
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  Speaker 2: want to be fair to you. You be fair to us.
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  Speaker 2: And he's put his foot down.
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  Speaker 1: And NATO, too.
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  Speaker 2: They were not contributing to NATO.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, terrible.
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  Speaker 2: We provided the defense of Japan, Australia, all of Europe.
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  Speaker 2: It was our money, our taxpayer money. We defended Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 2: the United Arab Emirates, all of them. We defended the
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  Speaker 2: entire free world, and the bottom line is the American
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer has the bill.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: $ 40 trillion deficit.
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  Speaker 1: They complain about the bill for Israel.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, they're looking at us, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're a debtor. You owe $ 40 trillion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, please.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we saved your ass.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we keep paying the bill for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: We saved your ass, and we kept paying your bill.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And President Trump was the only smart guy that says,
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  Speaker 2: because he's a businessman.
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  Speaker 1: Smart.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: And courageous.
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  Speaker 2: The Venezuelan deal. The Venezuelan deal. He got $ 65 billion
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  Speaker 2: of crude oil. You know what that is? That's the
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  Speaker 2: next 20 or 30 years. It's worth trillions and trillions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars. It's huge. It's huge.
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  Speaker 1: Huge.
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  Speaker 2: But he was the only smart in Canada, in Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just, you know, when Detroit, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Democrats, and, you know, I'm sure some Republicans, too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, look, I was a Bill Clinton Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: I still am. You know, they say, okay, the board
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  Speaker 2: of directors, a meeting at the board of directors office,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to move this Chevrolet factory from Detroit to Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to save 20%. You know what President
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  Speaker 2: Trump is doing? He says, well, you're going to save 20%,
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  Speaker 2: and Detroit loses all their union jobs. President Trump is
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  Speaker 2: smart enough to be, he's on the blue-collar worker's position. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, his husband. That's why Anthony Scaramucci wrote the book
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  Speaker 1: about the blue-collar president.
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  Speaker 2: He tells them, you're going to save 20% to General
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  Speaker 2: Motors or whoever it is? Yeah. And you know what
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  Speaker 2: he says to them? We're going to charge you a
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  Speaker 2: 20% tariff.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Good for him.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't want to lose our jobs.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: And he's bringing over trillions of dollars. trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: of new businesses that we're going to need new, new jobs,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about the oil from Venezuela. You're right. It's
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  Speaker 1: a huge deal.
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  Speaker 2: 65 billion barrels, 30 years worth of.
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  Speaker 1: Oil, trillions of dollars, like you said. And I did
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  Speaker 1: hear president Trump say this weekend, all you guys complaining
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  Speaker 1: about the oil prices. I got to tell you, it's
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  Speaker 1: still lower than it was when Biden was president. You're Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Oil.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true?
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  Speaker 2: Right now we're, we're in the oil business for 50 years.
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  Speaker 2: I was on Fox. I like, on Friday, it's right
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  Speaker 2: now there's a game being played. They figure if they
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  Speaker 2: raise the price of gasoline, and the game is being
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  Speaker 2: played by the evil empire, and if they raise the
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  Speaker 2: price of gasoline, diesel is like $ 7, $ 6.
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  Speaker 1: 50.
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  Speaker 2: If they raise the price of gasoline and the stupid Fed,
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  Speaker 2: and I say that, and I know President Trump forgave them,
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  Speaker 2: Not really. I know that. I talked to them. And
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  Speaker 2: they raise interest rates. So to buy a home with
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  Speaker 2: a 30-year mortgage, it's 7%. It's outrageous. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, that's outrageous. Kevin Warsh, you're killing us. What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's it. Gasoline, and they want Trump to lose
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  Speaker 2: or Trump's people that he's supporting to lose. Of course. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I want the American people to be smart enough to
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  Speaker 2: realize that America is under attack. And let's don't vote Democratic,
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  Speaker 2: independent vote for America. Don't vote for your party.
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  Speaker 1: Good advice. One more for you, because I love this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I know you love him, too. And he loves you.
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  Speaker 1: He's such a great guy. Had a chance to spend
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  Speaker 1: some time with him when I hosted an event in
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the Hamptons. I forgot already. I may have been.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't South Hampton. That was the following week. West Hampton, actually.
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  Speaker 1: I had a chance to hang out with Mark Schneier.
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  Speaker 2: Rabbi Schneier! Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a big.
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  Speaker 2: We had a big gala on Wednesday night honoring Rabbi Schneier,
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  Speaker 2: the father.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the dad!
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  Speaker 2: The dad. Oh, at Park East Synagogue. In 96 years old.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: He was as sharp as a tack at 96 years old.
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  Speaker 2: Lifetime Achievement Award. I introduced him. Oh, you did? Also, yes.
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  Speaker 1: I was a.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jewish, too. I know you are. I was the
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  Speaker 2: co-chairman or chairman of the dinner.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And we also honored the new CEO of FedEx.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: And they deliver 18 million packages a day. So 223
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  Speaker 2: countries or 223 locations. And it is phenomenal. And then
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  Speaker 2: Friday night or Saturday night, we had another gala honoring
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  Speaker 2: Zelensky for the Greek Orthodox chapel at St. World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 1: He was there?
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  Speaker 2: Zelensky was supposed to be there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: One day before, he says, I got to go back,
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  Speaker 2: have an emergency in Ukraine. And he did a live video. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he did? Yes. Okay, so it's live. Okay, fantastic. I'll
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  Speaker 2: send you the videos later, just so you're curious.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big deal. That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got a very big dinner coming up with
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  Speaker 2: Robert Kraft honoring Moynihan, anti-Semitism. I'm good friends with Robert Kraft.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you are?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Love you.
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  Speaker 2: And Brian Moynihan. I was on Bank of America. I
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  Speaker 2: was on one of his boards.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're going to be doing that. That's huge.
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  Speaker 2: And this Friday night, Margot is being honored by Libby Pataki,
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  Speaker 2: George Pataki's wife. She has a church of friars that
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of good things for people. And Margot
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  Speaker 2: is being honored. And it happens to be our anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm inviting dozens and dozens of people for our anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: complimentary of me.
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  Speaker 1: This is beautiful. Friday night, your anniversary, honoring Margot the
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  Speaker 1: same night.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. How do you beat that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Margot, you know, Margot likes to do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good things. She deserves it. You know, and she
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  Speaker 2: still has problems with her back. Yeah. But she's working
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: She's a terrific lady. I love your wife. Good for her.
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  Speaker 1: Good for both you guys. It's a lot of cool stuff.
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  Speaker 1: When you see Robert Kraft, ask him why his quarterback
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  Speaker 1: keeps throwing the football to the other team. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of odd that they are really struggling. One more. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you asked me, Trump was on me, not the last time,
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  Speaker 1: the time before that. And you said, you know, Sid,
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  Speaker 1: do me a favor, because I'm working on this. You've
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  Speaker 1: done a great job with it. Tell Trump they want
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of AM radios in our cars. And
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  Speaker 1: you remember, I brought it up with Trump, and he
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  Speaker 1: kept coming back to it. He was furious about it.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like you've won that battle.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's not us. It's America has won
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  Speaker 2: the battle. Halfway. But by unanimous consent, the House of
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  Speaker 2: Representatives did it, but they left the sunset clause in.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want that. Well, they left it in.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want it.
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  Speaker 2: And now the Senate has to vote on it. Trump
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  Speaker 2: is going to sign it. But let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: It's national defense. And some of these car companies that
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of alliances, to China. Let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you something. It all comes back. Look, I love the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese people. They are smart. They are smart. They are hardworking.
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  Speaker 2: But the Communist Party itself, they're out. They're out to
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  Speaker 2: get the world.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Especially us. People have to realize it.
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  Speaker 1: Especially us.
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  Speaker 2: We're under attack in so many different directions.
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  Speaker 1: From everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: WABC, our purpose is to make sure America survives. And
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  Speaker 2: that's our purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to be in every car all over
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  Speaker 1: the country. Great job, John Gatsby. He's terrific job. Keep
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  Speaker 1: fighting for America too. And I'm glad you had.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Catherine Shinko.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't she great?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't she great? She's a great lady and she deserves
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  Speaker 2: to win.
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  Speaker 1: She does.
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  Speaker 2: New York is a tough place to win for.
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  Speaker 1: That's your neighborhood, right? Upper East side.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, she's upper East side, upper West side. Uh, don't
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  Speaker 2: forget what the, what the Democrats socialists did. They first
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  Speaker 2: took out our friend Carolyn Maloney, who I've supported for
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  Speaker 2: 40 years. And they used Jerry Nadler, the Jewish guy
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  Speaker 2: from the West Side, who I supported for 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? They used Jerry Nadler to take out Carolyn Maloney.
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  Speaker 2: And then because Jerry Nadler is Jewish... They just took
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  Speaker 2: him out. He's out. He retired.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you retired because you weren't going to support him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they forced him out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk. Let's tell the truth. Yeah. And that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing me and you do.
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  Speaker 1: Tell the truth. We do tell the truth. Not everybody
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  Speaker 1: loves it all the time, but that's why John Katzmatidis
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  Speaker 1: and I are successful. Amazing job, John.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: great to see you, buddy. Thank you so much. We
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