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Morning Joe and Chuck Scarborough’s One Leg Up On News 11-22-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, it's been a busy week, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was the reach for a Star luncheon or even a
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  Speaker 2: quick trip to the er and dealing with a stomach
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  Speaker 2: scar issue.
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  Speaker 1: We're back on track for now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Alex Garrett One leg Up Network, and I haven't
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  Speaker 2: been able to do a one leg up on news,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to say I didn't tell you so,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe I told you so.
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  Speaker 1: Because guess what.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Gates with drew his nomination a week after I
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  Speaker 2: went on this podcast and basically said, no sane person
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  Speaker 2: would he would confirm Mat Gates, and.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I was vindicated with that, and thanks to.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Pigano for his shutout on PEG's perspective as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'll link that episode in the description below. And Pam
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  Speaker 1: Bomb is.
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  Speaker 2: A great choice I think for aging. I think she'll
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  Speaker 2: get confirmed with Flying Colors.
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  Speaker 1: But the other.
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  Speaker 2: News stories involves the Scarboroughs not related. But I want
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  Speaker 2: to first go with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski because
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  Speaker 2: they had a as breaking nine to one one would
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  Speaker 2: call bombshell announcement earlier this week that I think could
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  Speaker 2: be viewed as an olive branch, which is why I
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  Speaker 2: said it, simply put, was major.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to.
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  Speaker 3: This from so many people, from political leaders to regular
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  Speaker 3: citizens deeply dismayed by several of President elect Trump's cabinet selections,
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  Speaker 3: and they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own
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  Speaker 3: concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to speak with the President elect himself. On Friday,
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  Speaker 3: we were given the opportunity to do just that, and
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  Speaker 3: I went to mar A Lago to meet personally with
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  Speaker 3: President elect Trump. It was the first time we have
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  Speaker 3: seen him in seven years now.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation,
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  Speaker 4: threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about that a good bit and.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to come as no surprise to anybody who
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  Speaker 4: watches this show, has watched it over the past year
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  Speaker 4: or over the past decade, that we didn't see eye
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  Speaker 4: to eye on a lot of issues, and we told
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  Speaker 4: him so.
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  Speaker 3: What we did agree on was to restar our communications.
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  Speaker 3: My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he
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  Speaker 3: and the United States profoundly disagreed. That's a task shared
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  Speaker 3: by reporters and commentators alike. We had not spoken to
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  Speaker 3: President Trump since March of twenty twenty, other than a
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  Speaker 3: personal call Joe made to Trump on the morning after
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  Speaker 3: the tempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania. In this meeting,
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  Speaker 3: President Trump was tearful, he was upbeat. He seemed interested
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  Speaker 3: in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the
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  Speaker 3: most divisive issues. And for those asking why we would
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  Speaker 3: go speak to the president elect during such fraught times,
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  Speaker 3: especially between US, I guess I would ask back, why
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't we? Five years of political warfare has deeply divided
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  Speaker 3: Washington and the country. We have been as clear as
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  Speaker 3: we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President
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  Speaker 3: Trump's actions and words in the coursening of public debate.
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  Speaker 3: But for eighty million Americans, election denialism public trials in
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  Speaker 3: January sixth were not as important as the issues that
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  Speaker 3: moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White
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  Speaker 3: House with their vote. Joe and I realized it's time
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  Speaker 3: to do something different, and that starts with not only
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  Speaker 3: talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, So, I guess a lot of people on
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the isle are saying, why are you
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  Speaker 2: caving to Trump? And then the other side says, well,
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  Speaker 2: you were bashing him for years. Look, here's what I
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  Speaker 2: think about this, meaning it's major.
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  Speaker 1: It's major that.
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  Speaker 2: This happened because I do believe to have one leg
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  Speaker 2: up on news, you have to have better communications with
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  Speaker 2: the present and with the White House. And if it
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  Speaker 2: could end Trump's continual fake news mantra, I'm all for it,
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  Speaker 2: because here's the thing. These networks and Trump went at
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  Speaker 2: it day after day each year of that term, each
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  Speaker 2: day of that first term. But if there could be
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  Speaker 2: some cordiality eight years later, if there could be some communications,
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  Speaker 2: as Mika Brazinski says, and if there could be some
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  Speaker 2: rapport between the media and the President of the United
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  Speaker 2: States while holding the president accountable, I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a big step that they went to
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  Speaker 2: meet with Trump and that Trump met with them.
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  Speaker 1: I think the.
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  Speaker 2: Networks, Mika and Joe I guess the starters having that
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  Speaker 2: rebuilding phase.
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  Speaker 1: Because they obviously know it will be here for four years.
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  Speaker 1: You need that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're all tired of the Trump bashing on
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  Speaker 2: one side and then the fake news moniker on the other.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the best way to meet in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: You actually talk to each other, you have communication, and
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  Speaker 2: I guess from Rosie o'donald. So she's not watching Morning
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  Speaker 2: Joe because she feels like they caved. Maybe Joe and
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  Speaker 2: Mika were doing the right thing. Maybe Joe and Mika
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  Speaker 2: were doing the right thing. Now, Mika Brazinski, obviously I
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  Speaker 2: believe Joe are married. Right, So here's the.
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  Speaker 1: Here's LONAO Mika.
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  Speaker 2: She's the daughter of diplomat and political scientists. Is the
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  Speaker 2: big new Brazinski who served as counselor to lend and
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  Speaker 2: Jesu B. Johnson and national security advisor to President jen
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  Speaker 2: Mee Harter. So her family has been connected in politics
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  Speaker 2: forever and on her mom's side. Actually, she is the
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  Speaker 2: grandniece of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Bennis, So she's in
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  Speaker 2: the political game. She's been around politics her whole life.
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  Speaker 2: I think she knows how this works. Joe Scarborough has
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  Speaker 2: stepped in.
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  Speaker 1: At times, but.
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  Speaker 2: I think that this is a great first step that
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  Speaker 2: MSNBC two MSNBC anchors. I remember that channel rapidly goes
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  Speaker 2: after Trump.
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  Speaker 1: For these two to step off that plane and say
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  Speaker 1: we're going to.
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  Speaker 2: Actually have communication because I think the whole country's tired
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  Speaker 2: of the dis unity and the disinformation.
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  Speaker 1: And I would say this meeting goes.
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  Speaker 2: Back to what an Riley was talking about the human ecosystem.
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  Speaker 2: The human ecosystem also should include a healthy media and
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  Speaker 2: a healthy relationship with the White House. So kudos to
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  Speaker 2: Joe Scarborough and Mika frobbing one leg up over everybody
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  Speaker 2: else on the liberal sphere of networks because they're doing
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  Speaker 2: something big here, something major. They are meeting with the
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  Speaker 2: president elect. They met with the President elect, and that's
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  Speaker 2: a good versart. Maybe it'll inspire other networks like CBS
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  Speaker 2: News to act you make amends with Trump over this
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  Speaker 2: whole edited inter with Kamala.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they inspires them.
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  Speaker 2: To meet with Trump and say, look, we will record you,
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  Speaker 2: we won't edit you.
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  Speaker 1: We will post post.
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  Speaker 2: Everything you say in the transcript. If that'll put us
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  Speaker 2: in your.
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  Speaker 1: Good graces, because I don't want to repeat of what
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  Speaker 1: happened when he first got to office.
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  Speaker 2: Remembory called BuzzFeed a steaming pilot garbage, and budsfeed is
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  Speaker 2: what it is. It's a a quiz thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's not always news.
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  Speaker 2: But the point is you can't have the president elect
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  Speaker 2: setting up there calling the media a steaming pilot garbage again,
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  Speaker 2: and you can't have the Trump pushback all the time either.
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  Speaker 2: There's gotta be a middle ground and maybe, just maybe
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  Speaker 2: that human egosism idea is behind this meeting where.
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  Speaker 1: You talk to each other, you communicate.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that did not really happen in the first term,
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  Speaker 2: because even though Trump would give ours long's press conferences,
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  Speaker 2: the media always skewed it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that should change. Just report what he actually said.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be nice for the whole country to bring
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  Speaker 2: some unity. And if you know, Ellen degenders out of
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  Speaker 2: the country, i'mything about that.
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  Speaker 1: If these celebrities really want to leave, fine.
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  Speaker 2: But the media needs to stay around and cover this
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  Speaker 2: White House, but fairly.
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  Speaker 1: Withholding them accountable. It can be done.
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  Speaker 2: A balance can be struck. I think Mika and Joe
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  Speaker 2: Scarborough are showing that now. Another Scarborough, who's been in
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  Speaker 2: our homes for fifty years, made this announcement the other
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  Speaker 2: night on NBC for New York.
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  Speaker 1: This is the voice of Chuck scart Well.
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  Speaker 5: Guys tonight final they I'd like to break some personal news.
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  Speaker 5: The time has come to pass the torch. Fifty years,
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  Speaker 5: eight months and seventeen days after I walked into the
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  Speaker 5: door here at the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 5: I will step away from this anchor desk. My last
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  Speaker 5: newscast is going to be on December twelfth, three weeks
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  Speaker 5: from tonight, and I'll have more to say to you
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  Speaker 5: and to my extraordinary colleagues at NBC four than But
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  Speaker 5: for now I'll offer a simple, heartfelt thank you for
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  Speaker 5: allowing me in your living rooms and trust to us
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  Speaker 5: to bring you the news.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I think that he brought Chuckscerverau
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  Speaker 2: brought the news to us in an unbiased way, in
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  Speaker 2: a very warm demeanor, and made you trust him. And
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  Speaker 2: he is beloved in New York City, is he not?
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  Speaker 2: He said. There's only one word, gratitude, said Scarborough. Our
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  Speaker 2: WNBC viewers welcomed me into their homes for more than
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  Speaker 2: fifty years. Trust me in the present of the news,
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  Speaker 2: free of any agenda, faithful to the fundamental principles of accuracy,
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  Speaker 2: objectivity and fairness. That has been an extraordinary honor.
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  Speaker 1: NBC News reported this.
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  Speaker 2: NBC four New York reported this, announcing his intention to
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  Speaker 2: relinquish the anchor chair.
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  Speaker 1: After more than half a century.
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  Speaker 2: At NBC for New York, legendary broadcast journalist Chuck Scarborough
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  Speaker 2: will conclude his record setting run as a New York
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  Speaker 2: City DMA's longest serving local television news anchor on Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: December twelfth at five pm. Calling his planned retirement with
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  Speaker 2: an asterisk, Scarborough says that he will become a periodic
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  Speaker 2: contributor special station projects, M programs. Scarborough and his tenure
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  Speaker 2: with WNBC on March twenty fifth, nineteen seventy four, anchoring
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  Speaker 2: the six pm and eleven pm weekday news from Studio
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  Speaker 2: six B in thirty Rock, the current home of The
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  Speaker 2: Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. In twenty sixteen, he stepped
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  Speaker 2: away from WNBC's eleven pm anchor chair after more than
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  Speaker 2: forty two years, but remained a co anchor for the
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  Speaker 2: daily six pm daily newscasts continuing today, alongside co anchor
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Pascuerrella, lead anchor, sports anchor Bruce Beck, and meteorologist
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  Speaker 2: Janis Huff. Eric Lerner, the president and general manager of
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  Speaker 2: NBC for New York, says Chuck Scarborough is the gold
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  Speaker 2: standard in American broadcast journalism. His skills as anchor, reporter
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  Speaker 2: and newsroom leader are unmatched, and he is a pretty
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  Speaker 2: special guy off camera.
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  Speaker 4: Two.
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  Speaker 2: We are fortunate Chuck's Laps newscast will be next month.
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  Speaker 2: He returned to his news for from New York family
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  Speaker 2: from time to time and report.
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  Speaker 1: On special projects.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier this year, he actually celebrated fifty years. Fifty years
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  Speaker 2: of WNBC for New York and in a year where
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  Speaker 2: we've seen where we've seen John Sterling stepped down from
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  Speaker 2: the booth at Yankee Stadium, Sam Rosen.
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  Speaker 1: This is his last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's just another piece of childhood that is moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: And I thank Chuck Scarborough for always having one leg
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  Speaker 2: up on news and yes for the opportunity to get
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  Speaker 2: to meet him when we were on tour with Jane
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  Speaker 2: Pawley and that crew back in the nineties. Even got
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  Speaker 2: pictures with Lemburm and Matt Lower and the like. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: mister Chuck Scarborough se NBC four has always felt like
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  Speaker 2: a family, whether we were up in the offices of
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  Speaker 2: Frank Comerford, the general manager of NBC four New York,
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  Speaker 2: or on the set of Saturday Night Live. Chuck Scarborough
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  Speaker 2: and the WNBC family, and of course my finite friendship
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  Speaker 2: with Bruce Beck for years. Not only did they feel
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  Speaker 2: like we were in the living room with them, we
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  Speaker 2: literally were at studio with them as well, and that
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  Speaker 2: was so special over the years. So thank you Chuck
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  Speaker 2: for being so welcoming and so humble both on and
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  Speaker 2: off air, and we wish you a happy retirement at
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  Speaker 2: the One Leg Up Network, and thank you for having
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