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Mike Lawler | Congressman, New York District 17 | 05-22-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The king of Rockland County. President Trump refers to him
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  Speaker 1: as mister Salt, one of my dearest friends in New York.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of this guy. A president has not
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  Speaker 1: come to New York to speak in that area for
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  Speaker 1: fifty years, not since Gerald Ford in nineteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 1: But Mike Lawler means so much to Congress in our
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  Speaker 1: state and this country that President Trump, right after, right
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  Speaker 1: after he swears in Kevin Walsh as our new FED
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  Speaker 1: chair is coming to Rockland County. Yes, to speak about
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  Speaker 1: the economy, but we need to endorse Mike Lawler. So, Michael, congratulations, Poal.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Sid appreciate it. And I know you were on
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  Speaker 2: air yesterday bitchin saying that I wasn't calling you back.
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  Speaker 3: That's true once again.
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  Speaker 1: But why do you do that though? I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you weren't voting yesterday. What the hell were
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  Speaker 1: you doing? I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have a thing called the job. Fine,
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  Speaker 2: and I know you're important and a big deal, right,
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  Speaker 2: but somethings it takes me more than five seconds to
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  Speaker 2: be able to.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no no. This was this was
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  Speaker 1: three hours and I know you weren't in DC, and
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  Speaker 1: I know you weren't voting, so I know you got
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  Speaker 1: a job. Sometimes a job entails going for lunch with
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  Speaker 1: Randy Pne, So I'm not exactly so what you were doing,
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  Speaker 1: but you weren't getting back to me for hours, and
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  Speaker 1: all I wanted to know was what am I sitting?
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  Speaker 1: What am I doing? Because my fear was You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: stick me in some auditorium with six thousand people, and
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't gonna work for me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, let me say you have a seat, it's marked, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: your name is on it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. If you don't fucking show.
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  Speaker 2: Up, you are never ever getting an invite anywhere ever. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we got you a State of the Union ticket after
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  Speaker 2: all your bitching, all your moaning, all your cry baby
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  Speaker 2: antics on air, off air, next messages, phone calls, tweets, insanity,
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  Speaker 2: and then you don't show up.
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  Speaker 1: There was a blizzard, Mike, there was Amtrak shut it down.
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  Speaker 1: What was I supposed to do?
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  Speaker 2: Hit shit in the car and drive like the rest
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  Speaker 2: of America?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, the difference is I've got a license that
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  Speaker 1: was taken away nine years ago, so I can't just
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  Speaker 1: get in the car and drive.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they have drivers. I know, could have got
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  Speaker 2: you a nice driver and you could have got there.
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  Speaker 3: In four hours.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's hilarious about that is that said I know, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: But Michael kept saying that morning as John kats Matiti's
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  Speaker 1: for his driver. Sure, Hey John, it's sid I gotta
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  Speaker 1: get to DC today. You might giving me a driver
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. How out of that gone?
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  Speaker 1: No chance? No chance. So now you put my name
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  Speaker 1: on the chair. Now, how does this work? Are they
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  Speaker 1: gonna be is all? Are all these chairs in front
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  Speaker 1: of President and Trump? Are there gonna be some chairs
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  Speaker 1: behind President Trump? What does this look like?
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  Speaker 2: You're going to sit in a nice VIP area, You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a full view of the stage, You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to see the president. But I'm just
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  Speaker 2: telling you, if you don't show up, lose my number.
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  Speaker 2: I never I never want to hear another request for
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  Speaker 2: for a fucking.
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  Speaker 3: Ticket to anything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, you know, I have to be honest. I
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  Speaker 1: love you so much, I really do at this point.
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  Speaker 1: You like my brother. I love you that much, and
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  Speaker 1: I love the President. But there's a part of me
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't want to show up just to get your
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  Speaker 1: reaction on this show on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Listen. Certainly made for good radio. Right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there because it'll all kidding aside. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really happy for you. And you know, look, you and
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  Speaker 1: the President, you've had your little back and forth here
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  Speaker 1: and there during that whole salt issue. There were a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times where he want to other people, Oh
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  Speaker 1: that pined the ass lawler. I know that's true. I
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  Speaker 1: know you know that's true. But he really does respect
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of you, and he knows what a
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  Speaker 1: great congressman you want. I gotta tell you something. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna feel badly now. Even George Santos called you a
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  Speaker 1: very good congressman on this show last hour. You feel
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  Speaker 1: badly now.
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  Speaker 3: No, listen, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I look, I think the President coming to Rockman County,
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  Speaker 2: as you pointed out, first time in fifty years a
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  Speaker 2: president has come to Rockland for this type of public event.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's certainly a great honor. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: as I fundamentally believe, if you want change, if you
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  Speaker 2: want things to be addressed with respect to the issues
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  Speaker 2: that matter to you, you have to be in the arena.
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  Speaker 2: You have to engage, you have to be willing to
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  Speaker 2: sit down and negotiate in good faith. And too many
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  Speaker 2: people today in politics fundamentally believe that screaming and yelling
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  Speaker 2: and holding signs in protests is the way to get
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  Speaker 2: things done. And the reality is it is not. People
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  Speaker 2: have the right to do that, but the fundamental truth
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  Speaker 2: is that.
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  Speaker 3: Does not bring about change. You have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to sit down in good faith. That's what I've done.
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  Speaker 2: I did it when Joe Biden came to my district
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  Speaker 2: three years ago. I'm doing it today when President Trump comes.
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  Speaker 2: I think the people who you know in politics, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there was a press conference yesterday with the NAACP and
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  Speaker 2: others railing against me and saying that I'm not delivering
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  Speaker 2: for my district. I've delivered more from my district than
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  Speaker 2: anybody has representing this area. Oh yeah, because I show up.
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  Speaker 2: I show up in every community. We've closed over nine
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  Speaker 2: thousand cases individual constituent cases in three plus years, brought
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  Speaker 2: back over fifty million dollars in benefits to my constituents
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  Speaker 2: that they were due from the federal government, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: the irs, social Security, Medicare, veterans, benefits. I've brought back
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  Speaker 2: over seventy million dollars in community project funding to municipalities
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  Speaker 2: all across my district, which is more than double what
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  Speaker 2: my predecessor brought back. I have fought tirelessly for the
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  Speaker 2: people that I represent, whether they agree with me or not,
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  Speaker 2: whether they like me or not, I stand up for
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  Speaker 2: my district. And the reason the President is coming, and
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  Speaker 2: I think you alluded to this, the reason he's coming
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  Speaker 2: is because he does respect the fact that I stand up,
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  Speaker 2: that I push back for my constituent. And I was
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  Speaker 2: asked yesterday in an interview, you know you push back
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  Speaker 2: on the president a lot, but he doesn't attack you
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  Speaker 2: in the way he does Thomas Massey or you know
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  Speaker 2: some of these other folks in your difference. And my
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  Speaker 2: answer was, you know, my good looks and charming personality. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but it's because I don't make it personal. It's about
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  Speaker 2: the issues. It is about the substance of the issues.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not attacking him personally. When I did not, no,
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  Speaker 2: you like him, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean I think you do. You like him, and you
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  Speaker 1: do a very good President Trump impression. Yours is one
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  Speaker 1: of the best.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 2: Fundamentally, you have to be able to engage people. It's
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  Speaker 2: the only it's how life works. I mean, honestly, just
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  Speaker 2: think about marriage. Anybody who's ever been married fundamentally understands
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to agree on everything and you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to get everything you want.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 2: So why in God's name do you think when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to politics that you will or that you should.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the way it works.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's a very good analogy. You're right, I would
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  Speaker 1: say this to you. I was talking to our friend
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman yesterday and he's coming today obviously, and he's
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  Speaker 1: very close with President Trump. He was in the Oval
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  Speaker 1: Opus ninety minutes just two weeks ago. And again President
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  Speaker 1: Trump has endorsed him in a big way, in a
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  Speaker 1: very very big way, over Kathy Hokeel. But there was
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  Speaker 1: a time when there were three Republicans considering running for governor.
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  Speaker 1: It was Bruce, it was at least a phonic and
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  Speaker 1: it was you. And you did the very unselfish thing,
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  Speaker 1: which was, you know what Congress needs me. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a razor thin edge. And to be honest, Mike, not
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  Speaker 1: to patronize you. You're not just a member of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: You may be are most valuable. That's how good you are.
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  Speaker 1: So you decided to walk away. But do you every
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  Speaker 1: now and then look at this race and go, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, kind of wish I was in it.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I made my decision and it was the right
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  Speaker 2: one for me and my family and my district. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know Bruce is out there fighting the
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  Speaker 2: good fight, and he will do a great job. And
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  Speaker 2: he's you know, he's got five months to make the
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  Speaker 2: case to New York. But Kathy Hockel, in many respects,
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  Speaker 2: is making the case for him. She just passed the
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  Speaker 2: most radical sanctuary state bill in the country. She is
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  Speaker 2: banning local law enforcement from cooperating at all with federal
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  Speaker 2: immigration officials. And what that means is that if somebody
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  Speaker 2: commits a crime under state law, murder, rape, child abuse,
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  Speaker 2: child sodomy, if somebody commits that crime under state law,
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  Speaker 2: local jurisdictions are barred from cooperating with federal agents that
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  Speaker 2: are seeking to detain that individual. Come on, it is
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 2: This law was passed yesterday. It is absolutely disgraceful this state.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think about Sheridan Gorman, eighteen year old
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  Speaker 2: girl her whole life, ahead of her whole life, ahead
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  Speaker 2: of from my district. Murdered in Chicago by an illegal
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  Speaker 2: immigrant who was previously arrested for shoplifting, but because of
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  Speaker 2: Chicago's disastrous pro criminal policies and pro sanctuary city policies,
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  Speaker 2: he was released back out onto the street and committed
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  Speaker 2: this heinous violent crime. These parents, Tom and Jess Gorman
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  Speaker 2: have to now live the rest of their life without
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  Speaker 2: their beautiful daughter because of these disastrous policies. And so
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  Speaker 2: what did Kathy Hope will say, hold my beer and
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  Speaker 2: doubles down on one of the dumbest policies you can
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  Speaker 2: actually enact anywhere in the country. And she's saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they say, oh, if you have a federal warrant. Federal
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  Speaker 2: warrants only come when there's a federal crime committed. So
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  Speaker 2: for state crimes like murder, like rape, nothing ungats That
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  Speaker 2: is unacceptable and every New Yorker should recognize, yes, we
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  Speaker 2: want people to be treated fairly, Yes we have a
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  Speaker 2: legal system that people should be afforded due process of law.
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  Speaker 2: But to engage the way that they are and to
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  Speaker 2: disregard federal law and to usurp our immigration law and
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  Speaker 2: say no, we're not going to cooperate. Now, think about
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  Speaker 2: it this way, said as an American citizen. As a citizen,
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  Speaker 2: if you commit a crime and the federal government seeks
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  Speaker 2: your extradiction, extradition or seeks you to be detained, they cooperate.
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  Speaker 2: So why are they cooperating when it comes to citizens
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  Speaker 2: but they refuse to cooperate when it comes to illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't there something fundamentally wrong here?
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  Speaker 1: Of course they are the party of illegal immigrants who
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  Speaker 1: commit these heinous motors. I do want to want to throw
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  Speaker 1: this out because now you're in a hurry. Tom Kenniff,
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  Speaker 1: the amazing attorney and Daniel Penny's attorney, but so many
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  Speaker 1: other cases he's won.
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  Speaker 3: He goes.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler is also a great weaponization fighter hero Detective
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  Speaker 1: Mike McMahon, who was railroaded by the Biden do OJ
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  Speaker 1: would still be in prison if Mike Lawyer did not
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  Speaker 1: help us lobby President Trump for his pardon. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go from Tom Kniff, he appreciates you.
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  Speaker 3: No, I appreciate that. Look the uh.
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  Speaker 2: And Mike McMahon, I'm glad he's out. He'll be he'll
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  Speaker 2: be there today. Him and his wife Martha Byrne.
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  Speaker 3: Oh cool.
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  Speaker 2: You know they they he deserved that part and he
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  Speaker 2: never should have been prosecuted in.
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  Speaker 3: The first place.
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  Speaker 2: But this is you know, our system is in shambles
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  Speaker 2: when you look at what states like New York are doing,
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  Speaker 2: uh and just total disregard for the rule of law
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  Speaker 2: and the quality of life. And it's why people are
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  Speaker 2: leaving this state in droves.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. I think about it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Not gonna lie now. I'm going to sign a contract
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  Speaker 1: take tension that's going to keep me here, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy about because I still love this city. I still
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  Speaker 1: love this state, and we do have great fighters like
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  Speaker 1: you there every day. But I think about it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I do think about it at any rate.
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  Speaker 3: Mike.
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  Speaker 1: We're all looking forward to seeing you later on today.
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  Speaker 1: We all congratulate you. You deserve this. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: small thing. Again, first time in fifty years that a
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  Speaker 1: sitting president comes to Rockland County and that is a
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  Speaker 1: testament to you. So Mike Lawler will see you this afternoon. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: I love you both.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, but said one thing. Yeah, when when
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  Speaker 3: you finish your show, get in the car.
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  Speaker 1: Income Oh really, what time you want me to be there?
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  Speaker 1: What time should I be there?
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  Speaker 2: You got to get there, you know, get there eleven twelve.
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  Speaker 3: O'clock somewhere eleven o'clock. Don't wait, I'm not coming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not coming.
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  Speaker 3: I can't make it. Then that's two.
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  Speaker 1: Let's I can't be rushed.
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  Speaker 3: Mike. I get.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you by noon. I love you to pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy, thank you. The great Mike Lawler there
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  Speaker 1: that I'll come better than this guy, the King of
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  Speaker 1: Rockland County, mister salt, Mike Lawler. We got a big
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  Speaker 1: party coming up later on today with the President in
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  Speaker 1: Rockland County.
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