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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review Looks Ahead to 2028 White House Run · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning, Rich Lowry. How are you today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not too bad. A little disappointed about the Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: but trying to enjoy the last few games. We might
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  Speaker 2: have Yankee baseball for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not going to be for a long time
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  Speaker 1: because as soon as this postseason is over, there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a lockout next year or so.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. Yeah, I'd say we'd miss at least three months
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  Speaker 2: of the next season.
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  Speaker 1: No, the whole year. Whole year? Well, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: spoke to the attorney who was actually like the new
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Miller, you know, Yeah. He's a good friend of
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  Speaker 1: my buddy Keith Cantu, which I'm going to see tomorrow night, actually,
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  Speaker 1: at our monthly dinner for Bruce Blakeman. And he was
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  Speaker 1: not very confident there'd be any baseball next year. Any. So,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see.
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  Speaker 2: The owners want a salary cap, and the union is
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  Speaker 2: dead set against it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You can come up with clever things on paper, but, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be ugly.
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  Speaker 1: So, what do you think? I mean, the Yankees did
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  Speaker 1: not win the division. I've been saying for months, Craig
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  Speaker 1: Carton will join me next hour, but I've been saying
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  Speaker 1: for months, they don't need to win the division to
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  Speaker 1: win the American League pennant. You know, Aaron Judge, injury bad.
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Cole does not look good. The bullpen has taken
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  Speaker 1: a step backwards. But I still really believe in my
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  Speaker 1: heart of hearts. Short series against Tampa. They're beating the
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  Speaker 1: Rays or Boston. How do you feel about the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: moving forward?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not feeling good. I think it's a big blow
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  Speaker 2: not having Judge. Even if they get him back in
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  Speaker 2: a subsequent series, what is he going to look like?
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  Speaker 2: Is he going to be 100%? Is his timing going
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  Speaker 2: to be there? I think without him, the offense is just...
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  Speaker 2: quite bad. So it wouldn't surprise me if we lose
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox. I'm not predicting it, but it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: shock me, but just my expectations are very low now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be happy to be surprised on the upside.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So my beautiful wife, Danielle, she watches this Bravo channel.
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  Speaker 1: She likes the housewife shows. So about two years. So
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  Speaker 1: last night we're watching one of these shows, I think
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  Speaker 1: New York. And then when the show ended, Andy Cohen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he is, he does this late night talk
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  Speaker 1: show from his little studio here in New York. And
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  Speaker 1: he brings on two guests, and they're usually housewives from
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  Speaker 1: Miami or New York or New Jersey, Utah, any one
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  Speaker 1: of those very successful franchises. So last night, he's got
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  Speaker 1: one guest is a New York housewife, and the other
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  Speaker 1: guest is Jessica Tolove, who, of course, she's on The
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  Speaker 1: Five every day on Fox News.
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  Speaker 2: What was she doing on there?
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  Speaker 1: Well, what is she doing on there? She's a liberal.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stand Jessica Tarloff. I hate her on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: I don't dislike her. I hate her. Andy Cohen, who
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  Speaker 1: works on CNN every now and then with Anderson Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: he's a liberal, and she's a housewife man. So show
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  Speaker 1: me a liberal and a housewife man, and I'll show
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  Speaker 1: you a guest in the clubhouse for Andy Cohen. And
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  Speaker 1: he asked her on this show, which is really about nonsense,
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  Speaker 1: who do you think will be the candidates for For
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  Speaker 1: the presidency in 2028, Republican and Democrat, she was leaning
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  Speaker 1: towards Rubio, who was on this show with me just yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: but refused to even acknowledge running in 2028. And then
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  Speaker 1: she talked about Harris or AOC. What do you see
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  Speaker 1: in the future?
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  Speaker 2: J.D., as we talked about a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Are you picking J.D. because, and Tolove did mention this
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  Speaker 1: last night, and here's where you both may be right.
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  Speaker 1: Are you picking J.D. because you believe he'll be anointed
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  Speaker 1: by Trump because on his own merits, he's not a
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  Speaker 1: better candidate than Rubio? I don't think so. But if
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  Speaker 1: Trump anoints him, he's in, right?
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll get some form of nod. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: that'll be very, very powerful. Maybe doesn't, you know, crazy
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  Speaker 2: things can happen. There can be a rupture in the
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  Speaker 2: relationship there. Who knows? But I think you've got to
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  Speaker 2: give them, like Sid, I don't know, a 70% chance
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  Speaker 2: of winning the nomination. 60%. You know, and 30% things
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  Speaker 2: happen all the time, right? If you have a good
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  Speaker 2: batting average, you hit 300, we're not shocked you get
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  Speaker 2: a hit. But you'd rather be hitting 700. So I'd
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  Speaker 2: give them about a 70% chance. I don't know, on
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat side, I don't think AOC ultimately has the
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  Speaker 2: juice to win the nomination. I think she's going to run.
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  Speaker 2: I think she should run for her purposes. I think
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  Speaker 2: she's going to be a pretty compelling candidate, but I
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  Speaker 2: think a really risky one for them. And she's so light,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's so superficial, knows nothing. The guy I
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  Speaker 2: fear is John Ossoff down in Georgia. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how much you paid attention to him.
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  Speaker 1: Too much attention, to be honest. I mean, he came out,
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that about a month ago actually, you know,
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  Speaker 1: intimated there's an affair going on between President Trump and Harp.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, bro.
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  Speaker 2: Horrible. Yeah, that was terrible. But he's relatively moderate compared
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  Speaker 2: to like an AOC. He's a pretty effective communicator, much
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  Speaker 2: better than when he started. He can win black voters,
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  Speaker 2: as he proved in Georgia. So someone like that, I think,
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  Speaker 2: is a profile that could be a really good communicator.
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  Speaker 2: candidate for them now this is kind of crazy but
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  Speaker 2: you know in our day and age you gotta say
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  Speaker 2: he's jewish right so gotta say that could be a
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  Speaker 2: real problem in a democratic that.
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  Speaker 1: Counts against them yeah that counts against them there's no.
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  Speaker 2: Question i think someone like that could could could be
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  Speaker 2: tough you know i think he might be like a
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  Speaker 2: top three candidate democratic nomination.
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  Speaker 1: I can see that so you know of course you
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  Speaker 1: and i spoke on thursday after i posted the picture
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  Speaker 1: of me in the oval office with trump and Look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to keep telling everybody how much I
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  Speaker 1: love President Trump. He knows. Everybody knows. And how much
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  Speaker 1: he loves me. But I am willing to bet this
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  Speaker 1: morning that he's very angry with me. I mean that.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was very critical. I take none of it back.
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  Speaker 1: I was offended. I was offended. by that nonsense that
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  Speaker 1: I saw between him and the mayor, not only on
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  Speaker 1: any given Monday, but on Yom Kippur of all days,
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  Speaker 1: for the Jewish people to watch this president not just
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  Speaker 1: meet the mayor, this anti-Semite piece of garbage, but to
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  Speaker 1: compliment him and talk about the potential to be a
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  Speaker 1: great mayor. Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor, not this loser.
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  Speaker 1: So I was really pissed. And I got to tell you, Politico... Mediate,
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  Speaker 1: all these different publications highlighted me. MAGA crowd upset with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: They mentioned Laura Loomer. They mentioned Steve Bannon. But my
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  Speaker 1: picture is in almost every one of these publications. And
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  Speaker 1: I know what got back to him. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: talk to his daughter-in-law, Laura Trump, coming up in about
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  Speaker 1: an hour. And my fear is that he's upset with me,
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  Speaker 1: but he has to understand that was a horrible optic
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Totally agree. Now, as we talked a couple months ago
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  Speaker 2: when Mamdami first went down there for the first time
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  Speaker 2: at the White House, I thought they were going to
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  Speaker 2: have a warm meeting, you know, and he was going
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  Speaker 2: to like them. But this has gone too far. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's time for the honeymoon.
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  Speaker 1: Too far and too long.
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  Speaker 2: Mamdami is everything we expected. Everything you said he was
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  Speaker 2: going to be. And Trump shouldn't be giving him any
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  Speaker 2: credibility whatsoever. Yes, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think he is?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's still, he thinks he's kind of charming.
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  Speaker 2: And he thinks he's a winner. at least at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: And he really loves New York City. And there's kind
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  Speaker 2: of wishfulness there, perhaps, that this guy is not going
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  Speaker 2: to be terrible for this city. He's actually going to
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  Speaker 2: be good for the city. But it's gone on too far.
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  Speaker 2: I get like being charmed by him at initial meeting.
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  Speaker 2: But how can you pay any attention to anything he's done,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the last several months and be in the
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  Speaker 2: same room with the guy?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. And then you get these morons who
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  Speaker 1: think that they love Trump or Trump loves them more
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  Speaker 1: than me. You were saying, Sid, you don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean I don't get it? Just with
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  Speaker 1: the president on Thursday. You don't get it. He's playing chess.
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  Speaker 1: He's always a step ahead. I'm not seeing that. This
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  Speaker 1: has gone on way too long, way too long, and
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  Speaker 1: he continues to compliment the guy. And the lip reader
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  Speaker 1: said at the very end, hey, come back to the
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  Speaker 1: White House with me. Watch how I work. This is
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  Speaker 1: not 3-D chess. This is not the long game. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the hell is going on, but the
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  Speaker 1: president of the United States really seems to like this creep.
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  Speaker 3: He does.
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  Speaker 2: Stick with your guns. Stick with your guns in this one.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right yet again.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. But on the same, listen, thank you very
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  Speaker 1: much for saying that, Rich, and you're as smart as
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  Speaker 1: it comes, so thank you. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: while I will continue to criticize the president for that,
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  Speaker 1: I will absolutely give the president an A-plus for his
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  Speaker 1: fiery speech at the U.N. yesterday. What did you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very Trump performance. It shows he's really focused on
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  Speaker 2: his legacy, and he considers his presidency the foreign policy,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps a foremost part of it. And I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: him when he says, I don't care about the politics
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  Speaker 2: of Iran. I think he cares a lot. I just
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  Speaker 2: think he realizes he can't get out of it the
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  Speaker 2: way he is in the condition it is now. And
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  Speaker 2: he's committed to seeing it through. This is one thing
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  Speaker 2: I've been surprised by. I would have thought summer gas
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  Speaker 2: prices still over $ 4 a gallon, he'd find some sort
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  Speaker 2: of exit ramp. And even if it was kind of
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  Speaker 2: a defeat, just just papered over, say it's great, and
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  Speaker 2: move on because he wouldn't be able to tolerate the
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  Speaker 2: high fuel prices. And instead, he's sticking it out. I
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  Speaker 2: think Republicans are going to pay the price, but he
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  Speaker 2: clearly thinks it's more important to ultimately have a successful
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  Speaker 2: outcome in the war. But it's going to be painful
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  Speaker 2: in November.
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  Speaker 1: I think. So tomorrow I'm going to make my way
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  Speaker 1: to the U.N. I've been in contact a lot lately,
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks with B.B. and his people. B.B.
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  Speaker 1: sent me that beautiful video congratulating me on making the
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  Speaker 1: New York Broadcasters Hall of Fame, which is coming up
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  Speaker 1: October the 22nd at the Rainbow Room. I'd love for
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  Speaker 1: you to be there. And he sent me the video
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  Speaker 1: when he was on this show a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: And I talked to his senior policy advisor, Dr. Ophir Falk,
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  Speaker 1: almost daily now, in fact, daily. And they invited me
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  Speaker 1: to come tomorrow, which is very, very nice. And there'll
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  Speaker 1: be other people there, I'm sure, influencers and hanger-ons, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that they all love B.B. But I really do. You
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  Speaker 1: know I do. And the fact that this mayor comes out,
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  Speaker 1: and again, the same nonsense, genocide, war criminal, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get people like Julian Menon, who I got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, one day, Rich, I like her. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I go back and forth. She's a Jew.
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  Speaker 1: She's a speaker of the city council. She's out there
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  Speaker 1: yesterday telling Bibi, cool it, cool down the rhetoric. Wait
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  Speaker 1: a second. BB doesn't talk about Mamdani every day. This
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  Speaker 1: guy's fighting wars in Lebanon, in Gaza. He doesn't care
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  Speaker 1: about Mamdani. Who's the one that talks about the other
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  Speaker 1: one every day, including this nonsense about arresting him? That's Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani started doing it again on Sunday and Monday before
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  Speaker 1: BB even made the video yesterday. What in God's name
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  Speaker 1: is Julie Menon talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Mamdani's obsessed with it. He acknowledged several
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  Speaker 2: months ago that he can't do it, doesn't have the
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  Speaker 2: authority to do it, obviously. But he just loves the idea.
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  Speaker 2: He loves the idea of frog walking, frog marching, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the head of the Jewish state into a New York
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  Speaker 2: City jail. And his people and supporters are even more
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  Speaker 2: explicit about it. So it's disgusting. And another reason why
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  Speaker 2: Trump shouldn't be playing around with this guy.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, because it hurts us. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: very upset. And I don't want to out him, but
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  Speaker 1: he called me Sunday. He was furious. Bruce Blakeman. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: come on. Bruce Blateman is running against Mamdani and Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: Not just Hochul. Hochul and Mamdani. Every one of our
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  Speaker 1: Republicans running in the midterms is running against Mamdani. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not him personally, but the threat of the DSA, progressive Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: taking over the country. So how can President Trump hold
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  Speaker 1: this big, beautiful rally in Dallas and the very next week...
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  Speaker 1: Hang out with the face, the face of socialism, communism, Marxism, DSA.
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  Speaker 1: Tell everybody how great he is and expect to win
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  Speaker 1: the midterms come November. Do you see the inconsistencies? Totally.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you just can't withstand the personal attraction of Momdami,
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  Speaker 2: whatever charm, whatever spell he has. over Trump. Wait until
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  Speaker 2: December to have that event if you have to do it,
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  Speaker 2: because you're just making Blakeman's job harder.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense. Rich Lowry, I love you to pieces.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: Good effort. I was always here. Always an amazing guest
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  Speaker 1: on this show. And he loves masturbation songs. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we found out this morning. Rich Lowry, the editor of
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  Speaker 1: the National Review, one of the smartest and most impressive
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  Speaker 1: guys in the country. His stuff is syndicated in papers
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  Speaker 1: all across the country. He's on Fox News all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You play Shebop by Cyndi Lauper, and he goes nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Was he not allowed to enjoy those types of songs? No,
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: good for Rich. So I love Rich Lowry, and he
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  Speaker 1: loves Greek food. I love that, too. He took me
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  Speaker 1: to Kalari on the west side years and years ago. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know about those Greeks. They love these songs, too. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's true, too. You're right. He should do a whole
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  Speaker 1: story on that in the National Review this week, actually. See,
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  Speaker 1: that would be fun. Yeah, so all you have to
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  Speaker 1: do is request it. Yeah. Hey, Rich, I know you're
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: still on hold. I want you to do a whole story.
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  Speaker 1: On the top ten masturbation songs of all time. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. I know he is. Because he's
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  Speaker 1: the best, Rich Lowry. Rich, we love you, buddy. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. Thanks so much. What a great way
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  Speaker 1: to start the show.
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