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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Well, there is now some backlash to the report that
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Speaker 1: was released by Mayor Mamdani. And I said yesterday, and
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Speaker 1: I'll say it again, it's the best thing he's ever done.
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Speaker 1: I have been extremely critical of him. But finally, finally,
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Speaker 1: somebody has released these records. And the records we're talking
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Speaker 1: about are the records that show the city knew that
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Speaker 1: there were deadly toxins in the air right after 9-11.
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Speaker 1: For months after 9-11. And they knew this just a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks into it, after doing their testing. And
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Speaker 1: so they allowed all of these people, citizens, construction workers, firefighters, police,
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Speaker 1: the people who live down there, the residents, to stay
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Speaker 1: down there and breathe.
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Speaker 2: It all in.
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Speaker 1: And thousands and thousands and thousands have died for them
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Speaker 1: keeping that a secret. We learned about it 25 years later.
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Speaker 1: There has to be some charges on this. There has
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Speaker 1: to be something that happens. And we're now hearing, one
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Speaker 1: by one, we're going to hear from people that are
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Speaker 1: upset about this. But the first one's out of the box,
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Speaker 1: and he was tremendous yesterday, is Jim Brasi, president of
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Speaker 1: the United Firefighters Officers Association Association. who held a news
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Speaker 1: conference and you could feel his anger.
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Speaker 3: It is appalling that they did this to us, despite
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Speaker 3: our willingness to knowingly go into that environment repeatedly for
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Speaker 3: long-term exposures, long after the acute exposure of that day,
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Speaker 3: to give dignity to the people that were lost, to
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Speaker 3: give the greatest possible effort towards a recovery, and then
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Speaker 3: hopes to put New York back on its firm footing
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Speaker 3: that it was on the days before 9-11.
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Speaker 1: And he believes they did it, Curtis, for the worst
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Speaker 1: of reasons, for fiduciary reasons, for money, because they didn't
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Speaker 1: want to have to spend all the money or spend
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Speaker 1: all of the time waiting for rebuilding until the air cleared.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to move in there immediately and rebuild it.
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Speaker 1: Even Mayor Bloomberg admitted that. He wanted to He had
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to rebuild a whole new city within a
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Speaker 1: city that is easily accessible. He was all excited about that.
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Speaker 1: Nobody cared seemingly about the firefighters, but they cared about
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Speaker 1: rebuilding their own little pet projects. Now, we've heard from
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Speaker 1: both Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg, and both were embarrassing stories.
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Speaker 1: Both should be called before Congress. Both should answer to
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Speaker 1: a commission like the Warren Commission that needs to study this.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Giuliani came out and said, no, the EPA said
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Speaker 1: the air was clear. We followed them trying to shift
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Speaker 1: the blame. Yeah, but you had your own study, Mayor,
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Speaker 1: that you ignored. So you knew, no matter what the
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Speaker 1: EPA said, you knew that air was deadly. You knew
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Speaker 1: that air was dangerous and you ignored it. And Mayor Bloomberg,
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Speaker 1: his was worse. He didn't mention the study. He didn't
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Speaker 1: mention the dangerous air. He just patted himself on the
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Speaker 1: back at how well he did in rebuilding that area,
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Speaker 1: proving that what the Fire Association was saying in the
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Speaker 1: first place. This was all about money. This was all
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Speaker 1: about expediting the project. This was all about not admitting
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Speaker 1: fault to anything. I'll tell you what, Giuliani was bad.
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Speaker 1: Bloomberg and his statement was even worse, to completely ignore
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Speaker 1: that he was complicit in hiding the study.
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Speaker 4: Well, look how precarious it's going to be for the
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Speaker 4: former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who is in charge of the foundation,
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Speaker 4: has self-funded it, you know, the memorial, the museum down
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Speaker 4: at 9-11.
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Speaker 2: He's always in.
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Speaker 4: The middle of the scrum of the politicians who will
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Speaker 4: show up tomorrow, and rightfully so, because he basically helped
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Speaker 4: that effort take place.
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Speaker 2: But you're right.
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Speaker 4: His response to this damning drop of 170,000 documents— and by
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Speaker 4: the way, this is only the first of more documents— Remember,
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Speaker 4: they found 68 boxes in the city's Environmental Protection Agency office.
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Speaker 4: They claim they didn't know where they were. Giuliani people
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Speaker 4: claim they didn't know where they were when he was
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Speaker 4: still in office, Bloomberg, 12 years.
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Speaker 2: We don't know where they are.
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Speaker 4: De Blasio does not escape criticism, even though he was
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Speaker 4: Zoran's biggest supporter.
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Speaker 2: We didn't know where they were. And Adams, right? We
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Speaker 2: didn't know where they were. Well, they were in the
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Speaker 2: office the whole time.
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Speaker 4: And now we're beginning to see there's a portal, and
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Speaker 4: the city is putting everything up. So you're going to
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Speaker 4: have a chance to see these documents for yourself. Rudy's response,
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Speaker 4: he had an aide put it on his social networking account.
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Speaker 4: They were blaming the federal EPA of Christy Todd. I
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Speaker 4: call her Witless, the former governor of New Jersey who
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Speaker 4: had been appointed by Bush 43. She eventually apologized for
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Speaker 4: the misinformation that she spread.
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Speaker 1: So I give her credit for that. Shouldn't these guys apologize?
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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. But they won't.
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Speaker 4: They won't because now there's an investigation, Department of Investigation
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Speaker 4: for the city. As you have called for and I
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Speaker 4: call for, there should be a federal investigation where everyone
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Speaker 4: should have to come and give testimony, public testimony, not
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Speaker 4: behind closed doors. And we try to put this together.
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Speaker 4: But I can assure you, because some people came up
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Speaker 4: to me, oh, the UFO, the UFA, these are the
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Speaker 4: two firefighter unions. They're trying to curry favor with Zohar now.
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Speaker 4: I met with both of them during the mayoral campaign,
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Speaker 4: as I did when I ran against Adams in 2021.
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Speaker 4: I know all these guys. Eddie Brown was the former treasurer,
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Speaker 4: my best guardian angel ever. He saved my life in
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Speaker 4: New Orleans. So I knew them all personally, and they
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Speaker 4: were very blunt with me. We don't think he could win,
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Speaker 4: but we hate Zorhan. I mean, I didn't meet any
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Speaker 4: of them, but said anything like, give him a chance.
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Speaker 2: I hated him. So for them to come out, especially on.
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Speaker 4: A day where they gathered out in Staten Island and
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Speaker 4: they had their banner up, the huge banner.
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Speaker 2: That says 343.
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Speaker 4: Those are the firefighters who died on that day and
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Speaker 4: still counting because as they remind us, more members now
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Speaker 4: have died from World Trade Center related illnesses than died
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Speaker 4: on that day. 12,000 have been diagnosed with at least
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Speaker 4: one form of illness that is directly attributable to to
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Speaker 4: what happened at the World Trade Center site in the
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Speaker 4: aftermath of the collapse.
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Speaker 1: More importantly, it's estimated that 9,000 have died. So this
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Speaker 1: is mass murder, is what it is. And because those
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Speaker 1: lives could have been saved, you can't tell me that
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Speaker 1: if they were to know that early that that was dangerous,
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Speaker 1: they couldn't have done something. They would have made major changes.
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Speaker 1: By the way, as Lieutenant Deputy Brosny said yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Had they been more transparent about those toxins, we probably
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Speaker 5: would have stalled recovery. got better decon, set up better facilities,
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Speaker 5: set up better work rotations so that we could have
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Speaker 5: limited the exposure.
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Speaker 1: So you hear what he's saying? They wouldn't have stopped.
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Speaker 1: Knowing it, they would have got the proper gear on.
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Speaker 1: They would have made sure they limited exposure, but they
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Speaker 1: would have kept working. They would have kept rebuilding the city.
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Speaker 1: And so this whole argument that, oh, it was too important.
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Speaker 1: We had to get this done fast. They would have
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Speaker 1: kept going. You just had to slow down a little bit.
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Speaker 2: And limit the exposure.
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Speaker 1: And as you pointed out yesterday, it's a very important
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Speaker 1: point because we keep thinking about the firefighters. We keep
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Speaker 1: thinking about the people that volunteered and the police officers
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Speaker 1: there at the scene digging through the rubble. What about
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Speaker 1: the residents?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They were told it was fine.
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Speaker 2: Come back. You can live there.
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Speaker 4: The students right next to the location across the street
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Speaker 4: is one of the most elite high schools in the country,
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Speaker 4: Stuyvesant High School. They were told it's OK to come back. Teachers, staff,
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Speaker 4: maintenance people, students, everyone was told, get back, you know,
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Speaker 4: get back to the job. We all got to come together.
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Speaker 4: We can't allow the collapse of lower Manhattan, the economic
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Speaker 4: center of the world because of. Wall Street and the
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Speaker 4: financial institutions. Michael Bloomberg was elected simply because he would
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Speaker 4: rebuild lower Manhattan. He was way behind in the polls
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Speaker 4: against Mark Green. That was the day of the Democratic primary,
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Speaker 4: by the way. They had a stopped account. But he
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Speaker 4: would have lost even with all of his money because
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Speaker 4: nobody liked Bloomberg at the time.
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Speaker 2: He was not a very likable kind of guy.
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Speaker 4: Once Rudy embraced him afterwards and said he's going to
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Speaker 4: rebuild the city, That propelled.
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Speaker 2: Them to victory. But it was even a close election.
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Speaker 4: So the bulk of the responsibility is clearly on Rudy
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Speaker 4: and his staff.
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Speaker 1: It's on all of them.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: And Bloomberg, because he inherited it.
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Speaker 1: Everybody, all four of the mayors, they had this information.
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Speaker 1: Everybody had this information. Anybody could have exposed it. And
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 1: I think Mamdani's now earned his right to go on 9-11.
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Speaker 1: I think he's now earned his right, and I was
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Speaker 1: dead set against it. But God blessed anybody that was
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Speaker 1: behind releasing these documents because... it is so important to
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Speaker 1: know the weight of this moment. All these people didn't
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Speaker 1: have to die because documents were hidden by not just
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Speaker 1: one administration's, four administrations. hid these documents for mayors and
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Speaker 1: all the people that had access. Remember for a while,
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Speaker 1: they said they disappeared. They couldn't find the documents. All
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Speaker 1: four of the administrations said that. So there's a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of people that need to be held accountable. And
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Speaker 1: we should stay on this every single day until there
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Speaker 1: is some accountability. By the way, I know that President Trump,
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Speaker 1: even though he may not listen all the time, does
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Speaker 1: get a feed of what we say. I mean, he
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Speaker 1: gets a printout of what we say. What about you, Mr. President,
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Speaker 1: a New Yorker? What about you? Why don't you push
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Speaker 1: for an investigation? You have sway over the Republican Party,
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Speaker 1: their leaders in the Congress, their leaders in the House
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Speaker 1: and the Senate. Push them into having an investigation next week.
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Speaker 2: Start it right away.
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Speaker 1: I know you're in the middle of the midterms. This
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Speaker 1: will only help you because it was all Democrats. Well,
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Speaker 1: not Bloomberg. It was all Democrats that were hiding this mostly,
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Speaker 1: let's say 90% Democrats.
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Speaker 2: So it's an issue.
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Speaker 1: It's an issue for you. I'm just trying to talk
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Speaker 1: them into it. Start an investigation. Use this as an issue.
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Speaker 1: This might be the biggest issue in the country. It
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Speaker 1: just hasn't started to spread yet.
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Speaker 1: Or visit C-Crane.com. As you know, in Dallas, they're having
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Speaker 1: a midterm convention for the Republicans, something that Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: threw together, a two-day event. And there was a few
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Speaker 1: surprises there. Donald Trump, of course, was the main speaker,
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Speaker 1: but We'll get the latest on everything that happened from
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Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
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Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
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Speaker 1: That can be found on the iHeartRadio app. John, you know,
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Speaker 1: I said there were a few surprises. I want to
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Speaker 1: play something for you that you know well about, but
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Speaker 1: I want to play it for everybody that's listening. This
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Speaker 1: was the biggest surprise.
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Speaker 7: Yes, I'm Senator John Fetterman, Pennsylvania. Yes, I'm a Democrat.
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Speaker 2: Why am I here talking to you today?
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Speaker 7: Because, well, I'm a common sense Democrat. I'm always going
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Speaker 7: to stand with America. I'm always going to reject the
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Speaker 7: extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.
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Speaker 1: Wow. He was attacking a lot of Democrats at the
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Speaker 1: end there. There is a lot of speculation at this
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Speaker 1: point he's going to become a republican or at least
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Speaker 1: caucus with the republicans after the midterms what do you
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Speaker 1: think john.
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Speaker 6: Well what i think is that he has said that
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Speaker 6: he will not switch parties uh... formally uh... even if
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Speaker 6: there is a switch in congress in terms of who
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Speaker 6: controls the senate so he said that publicly uh... the uh...
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Speaker 6: speech that john federman delivered by video yesterday got a
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Speaker 6: very muted reaction inside the convention hall, and that was
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Speaker 6: pretty interesting to me. I think that John Fetterman is
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Speaker 6: essentially a man without a party. He is not someone
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Speaker 6: who's welcome in the Democratic Party, and at least I
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Speaker 6: saw the reaction from Republicans in that convention hall. He's
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Speaker 6: not someone who's necessarily welcome other than his vote in
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Speaker 6: the Republican Party. He's really an anomaly, and I think
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Speaker 6: that this is likely his last term in the U.S. Senate.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting you say that because the polls in Pennsylvania
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Speaker 1: have him very low with Democrats, down in the 30s,
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Speaker 1: some in the high 20s. But the polls with Republicans
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Speaker 1: are pretty good for him in Pennsylvania. So it really
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter how they feel about him in Dallas or
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Speaker 1: how some of the people that went to that convention went.
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Speaker 1: It's going to matter how the voters in Pennsylvania feel
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Speaker 1: about him. So if he were to run, say, as
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Speaker 1: a Republican, as of right now, he could win.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I've seen this play out before. Remember a
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Speaker 6: guy named Arlen Specter?
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Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 6: Arlen Specter switched parties.
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Speaker 8: Didn't work out well for him.
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Speaker 6: So look, you know, I'm a person who knows Pennsylvania
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Speaker 6: politics probably better than anyone. I worked for the most
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Speaker 6: beloved U.S. senator ever from Pennsylvania, a guy named John Hines. And,
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Speaker 6: you know, to me, John Fetterman has some issues politically. And,
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Speaker 6: you know, we'll see whether he can work out those issues.
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Speaker 6: But as you point out, his approval rating within his
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Speaker 6: own party is extremely low. He would likely get a
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Speaker 6: primary challenge, and he would likely lose in that primary.
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Speaker 6: And that's exactly what Arlen Specter faced in his own
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Speaker 6: party way back when. He switched parties and it didn't
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Speaker 6: work out well for him ultimately. He was defeated at
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Speaker 6: the polls, and I think that's the same route that
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Speaker 6: John Fetterman is facing as he considers what his political
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Speaker 6: future looks like.
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Speaker 4: Well, John, you were in the hole for the midterm
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Speaker 4: Republican convention and the theme speech given by the president.
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Speaker 4: The hook of it that came out is this $ 5, 000
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Speaker 4: promise dividend. If you– I didn't quite get it. You'll
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Speaker 4: get this bribe if you keep the Republicans in the
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Speaker 4: House and the Senate in majority because you can't give
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Speaker 4: a dividend. That's what you give when you have stocks.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 2: What the hell was the president talking about?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, this is actually, you may recall, Larry, I
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Speaker 6: actually proposed this idea to him back in July of
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Speaker 6: last year. I asked the president, would he consider with
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Speaker 6: all the tens and tens of billions of dollars in
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Speaker 6: tariff money coming into the U.S. Treasury, whether he would consider,
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Speaker 6: I called it a tariff rebate check. He calls it
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Speaker 6: a Trump dividend. But whatever you call it, that's what
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Speaker 6: the president said he's considering. There are two provisions. Two
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Speaker 6: conditions associated with it. Let me skip the word proviso.
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Speaker 6: Two conditions. One, Republicans have to control the House and
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Speaker 6: the Senate after the midterms. And the other is you
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Speaker 6: have to spend the money, the president says, on only
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Speaker 6: American products. This is going to be problematic. You need
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Speaker 6: congressional approval to spend something that would be in the
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Speaker 6: order of $ 1 trillion. That's how much it would cost
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Speaker 6: the U.S. Treasury if you're going to apply what the
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Speaker 6: president pledged.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 6: in reality to uh... every american adult uh... who is
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Speaker 6: in the country one trillion dollars think about that number
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Speaker 6: there are some republicans by the way who were against
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Speaker 6: the idea of a trump uh... rebate check uh... saying
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Speaker 6: essentially we need to pay down our debt before we
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Speaker 6: consider giving money back to the american taxpayer.
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Speaker 1: You know, you can usually tell the success of these things,
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Speaker 1: or maybe that's not the way to phrase it, the
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Speaker 1: mood in the country by who shows up and who
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Speaker 1: doesn't show up. Who didn't show up that did so
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Speaker 1: for good reasons?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think that you have some individuals who may
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Speaker 6: not have been welcome at this convention, and the first
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Speaker 6: person who comes to mind is John Thune. There were
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Speaker 6: some boos when the president mentioned the Senate majority leader
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Speaker 6: last night at the convention. He's not here for the
19:14
Speaker 6: two-day convention. One person who is there, however, someone you're
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Speaker 6: familiar with, a guy named Mike Waller. Mike Waller has
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Speaker 6: essentially said, I don't care. I'm going to be with
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Speaker 6: the president. I want to be attached to the president.
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Speaker 6: I want to be attached to the president's policy. So
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Speaker 6: he's taking time away from a very, very competitive congressional
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Speaker 6: race to travel down to Dallas to make a speech
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Speaker 6: and to be there with the president during the course
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Speaker 6: of the two days this convention's going on.
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Speaker 1: Mike Lawler's looking for a job if he loses.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's exactly right. I mean, look, you know that
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Speaker 6: race better than I do. And when I was in
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Speaker 6: New York last week, I saw quite a few Mike
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Speaker 6: Lawler campaign commercials. So maybe he's doing some fundraising down
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Speaker 6: here in Dallas, along with attending the president's speeches and
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Speaker 6: also delivering a speech of his own.
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Speaker 2: Now, John, I really have vertigo.
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Speaker 4: On this administration and how they refer to whatever you
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Speaker 4: want to call this thing on whatever given day it
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Speaker 4: is with Iran.
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Speaker 2: The other day, J.D. Vance says it's not a war.
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Speaker 4: Last night, correct me because you were there. The president
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Speaker 4: said gas prices will come down when the war is
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Speaker 4: over with Iran. So what the hell is it? The
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Speaker 4: president called it a war last night.
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Speaker 8: J.D.
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Speaker 4: Vance, who speaks tonight, said it's not a war. They
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Speaker 4: can't even get on the same page about what this is.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Curtis, you know, I guess someone only required going
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Speaker 6: through the speech and looking to make certain that the
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Speaker 6: word war was not contained in the president's remarks. Could
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Speaker 6: have simply X that out. deleted it and change it
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Speaker 6: to conflict, maybe. But yeah, the president did use the
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Speaker 6: word war last night, a week after the vice president, J.D. Vance,
21:01
Speaker 6: said what the U.S. has been involved with as it
21:04
Speaker 6: relates to Iran since late February, since February the 28th,
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Speaker 6: is not a war. But there is a blockade going on.
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Speaker 6: And under international law, a blockade is possible. and an
21:19
Speaker 6: action that is only taken during wartime. So, yeah, I
21:23
Speaker 6: guess you have to get your stories double-checked and make
21:28
Speaker 6: certain that those who speak on the administration, including the
21:31
Speaker 6: vice president and the president, are essentially using the same terminology.
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Speaker 1: It's fascinating they picked Texas for this midterm convention. I
21:41
Speaker 1: think that shows in part the importance of the Senate
21:45
Speaker 1: race there. Because if Telerico were to beat Paxton, I
21:50
Speaker 1: think they'd lose the Senate because it shows a mood
21:52
Speaker 1: across the country. That's a seat they should never lose.
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Speaker 1: Did you get that feeling as well? Was it very
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Speaker 1: much about that Senate race?
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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 6: Ken Paxton was the first Senate candidate who's in a
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Speaker 6: competitive race to address the convention. And he's addressing, when
22:10
Speaker 6: he did so, his fellow Texans. And I agree with you.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's pretty remarkable that some polls show him
22:18
Speaker 6: trailing Tallarico in this head-to-head contest for November. And that's
22:24
Speaker 6: pretty remarkable when you consider what a red state Texas is. Now,
22:29
Speaker 6: Republicans have their own opportunity to flip a Senate seat.
22:32
Speaker 6: That's in Michigan. So, you know, you could actually see
22:36
Speaker 6: a situation where Texas is lost by Republicans, but they
22:42
Speaker 6: gain a seat in Michigan to offset the loss in Texas.
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Speaker 6: We'll just have to wait and see. Obviously, it's up
22:48
Speaker 6: to the voters, but Republicans are increasingly feeling more and
22:52
Speaker 6: more confident about flipping the Senate seat now held by
22:56
Speaker 6: a Democrat in the state of Michigan.
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Speaker 4: Now, question, John Decker. The president once again said, I
23:03
Speaker 4: am asking you to pretend that I am on the ballot.
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Speaker 4: I have never heard anybody ever mention pretend i'm on
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Speaker 4: the ballot in order to get you to vote uh
23:18
Speaker 4: i i don't think that's a working uh strategy.
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Speaker 6: Well yeah he's said it a few times over the
23:24
Speaker 6: course of the past few weeks said it last night
23:26
Speaker 6: of course in his remarks nearly two hours uh that's
23:29
Speaker 6: how long the president spoke uh and that's what the
23:31
Speaker 6: president believes is necessary to energize republicans imagine He says
23:37
Speaker 6: that I'm at the top of the ticket. He is
23:39
Speaker 6: not at the top of the ticket. This is a midterm,
23:42
Speaker 6: and turnout for midterms is always considerably less than turnout
23:47
Speaker 6: in general elections. And what Republicans fear is that the
23:51
Speaker 6: energy level that they see on the Democratic side will
23:55
Speaker 6: not be there on the Republican side in all elections. Curtis,
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Speaker 6: you know this quite well. It's all about turnout, getting
24:02
Speaker 6: your people turnout. to vote more than your opponents. And
24:06
Speaker 6: right now, there's a fear on the Republican side that they,
24:08
Speaker 6: the Republicans, will not be able to match the enthusiasm
24:13
Speaker 6: that Democrats have for going to the polls, either early
24:16
Speaker 6: voting or on November the 3rd.
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Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent, host of
24:22
Speaker 1: the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
24:25
Speaker 1: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Enjoy the
24:29
Speaker 1: trip to Texas, John.
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Speaker 6: Thanks a lot. It's good to be here having some
24:33
Speaker 6: good barbecue, and I'll talk to you next week, Larry
24:36
Speaker 6: and Curtis. I appreciate it. Bye-bye.
24:37
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24:42
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24:51
Speaker 4: I don't know, my Joe Neumeier, movie guy, I've never
24:54
Speaker 4: seen this in my life in New York City. Community
24:58
Speaker 4: rallies to save the Kips Bay Movie Theater, which is
25:02
Speaker 4: right by Bellevue and NYU. It's 15 small chop shop theaters.
25:08
Speaker 4: Nothing special about it. It's not like a landmark theater.
25:13
Speaker 4: What is this, Joe? I mean, some have said they've
25:16
Speaker 4: never seen a bigger reaction to any local issue.
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Speaker 8: I support this 100%. I think this is one of
25:24
Speaker 8: those things about living in New York that you sort
25:27
Speaker 8: of forget about, like the livability aspect. I actually used
25:30
Speaker 8: to live right near there. I went to that movie
25:31
Speaker 8: theater a lot.
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Speaker 2: At Kips Bay.
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Speaker 8: I used to live on Lexington Avenue in like 28th Street. And,
25:36
Speaker 8: you know, there's nothing really around there movie-wise that if
25:40
Speaker 8: it shuts down, you know, you've got If you want
25:43
Speaker 8: to walk to Union Square, I mean, it's sort of
25:45
Speaker 8: such a New York-y thing, right? But you can go
25:47
Speaker 8: to Union Square, which is 20 blocks and two avenues away.
25:50
Speaker 8: So pack a lunch and, you know, hope that your
25:53
Speaker 8: movie is going to be longer than your commute to there.
25:55
Speaker 8: Or 19th Street and Broadway or up to 42nd Street.
25:58
Speaker 8: The folks who live in that community and that neighborhood
26:00
Speaker 8: really are underserved by movie theaters, which, as we know,
26:04
Speaker 8: people from, look at everything that's made money from Spider-Man
26:07
Speaker 8: to The Odyssey, people want to go to movies and
26:10
Speaker 8: people want to, you know, enjoy the community feel. And
26:13
Speaker 8: for this theater to shut down, it leaves them with
26:15
Speaker 8: sort of nothing. Going uptown is even worse. It's 30
26:18
Speaker 8: blocks up to like 62nd Street. So I support this.
26:22
Speaker 8: And the community there, a lot of the folks, I
26:25
Speaker 8: guess Natalie and I were just talking, a lot of
26:26
Speaker 8: the folks who go to the hospital there, if they've
26:29
Speaker 8: got family members in there and they want a break,
26:31
Speaker 8: they go to the movie theater to relax a little
26:34
Speaker 8: bit as a chance to kind of get their head together.
26:36
Speaker 8: What are they going to do, go to the CVS
26:38
Speaker 8: now or a Chase ATM? I think this is a
26:40
Speaker 8: horrible thing. It shuts at the end of the year.
26:43
Speaker 8: I hope that the AMC company can somehow find it to,
26:47
Speaker 8: you know, I'm sure the rent is extraordinary. I mean,
26:50
Speaker 8: it's a huge real estate footprint, but I'm with the community.
26:54
Speaker 8: Keep going on it. You know, fight back.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Joe, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary of 9-11,
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Speaker 1: and I have two young boys that weren't born when
27:04
Speaker 1: 9-11 happened.
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Speaker 7: They're 18 and 22.
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Speaker 1: They've learned a little bit about it in schools, but
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Speaker 1: I found, and I've talked to them about it, but
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Speaker 1: I found that one of the ways to really get
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Speaker 1: their attention and learn more about it is through movies.
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Speaker 1: And so recently, I'll tell you the one I showed
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Speaker 1: them first. You probably have a great list of movies
27:28
Speaker 1: about this, but I showed them United 93.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I thought that was just a wonderful movie. By
27:36
Speaker 1: the way, if you're going to watch that movie, I'm
27:38
Speaker 1: telling people that are listening now, Don't watch Flight 93.
27:41
Speaker 1: There's a movie out called that. Not that good. But
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Speaker 1: United 93 is wonderful. Don't you agree?
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Speaker 8: I absolutely agree. In fact, I think it's one of
27:50
Speaker 8: the best films about 9-11. That director, Paul Greengrass, by
27:53
Speaker 8: the way, has a movie out this weekend called The Uprising.
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Speaker 8: But United 93 is the.
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Speaker 2: One to watch.
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Speaker 8: It is a tough watch. It's tough, but it helps people.
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Speaker 8: the kids or folks who, you know, especially like you mentioned,
28:05
Speaker 8: your kids weren't born at that time to really understand
28:08
Speaker 8: the drama and the heroism that went on on that flight.
28:12
Speaker 8: Another good one is World Trade Center, also a tough
28:14
Speaker 8: watch with Nicolas Cage as a firefighter who's trapped in
28:17
Speaker 8: the rubble. It has a, you know, he's saved at
28:22
Speaker 8: the end of that movie, but it is a That's
28:25
Speaker 8: also really dramatic. Oliver Stone directed it. There's also Extremely
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Speaker 8: Loud and Incredibly Close.
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Speaker 1: I saw this.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it wasn't successful at the time. Tom Hanks is
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Speaker 8: a father who dies in the attacks, and his son,
28:39
Speaker 8: who has some issues, is trying to reconnect with the
28:43
Speaker 8: idea of him through these sort of treasure hunts that
28:45
Speaker 8: they went on. That's also a really good movie for kids.
28:49
Speaker 8: And then there's even one called, it's a musical called
28:53
Speaker 8: Come From Away. And it was on Broadway. They made
28:56
Speaker 8: a film of it on Apple TV. It's about the
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Speaker 8: town in Newfoundland that like 38 flights landed in, and
29:04
Speaker 8: they kind of welcomed folks in the days after. That's
29:08
Speaker 8: also a really good film to show kids to sort
29:11
Speaker 8: of have the understanding. You kind of think it's not
29:12
Speaker 8: about 9-11, but it is. And then one last one
29:16
Speaker 8: that I want to throw out there, just because it's
29:18
Speaker 8: also an early Adam Sandler performance doing a series, and
29:21
Speaker 8: it's called Rain Over Me. And it's a really good film,
29:24
Speaker 8: where Sandler is a guy who lost his family on 9-11,
29:29
Speaker 8: and he reconnects with a friend. And he has sort
29:31
Speaker 8: of just kind of fallen apart in the years since.
29:34
Speaker 8: And he and his friend sort of kind of get
29:36
Speaker 8: him back going into life. And it's a dramatic performance.
29:40
Speaker 8: from Adam Sandler, but it's really good. And I would
29:43
Speaker 8: recommend that as well. And even for kids, because it's not,
29:47
Speaker 8: it's an adult movie, but it also works with the
29:49
Speaker 8: emotions of that.
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Speaker 1: Would you consider Zero Dark Thirty a 9-11 movie?
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Speaker 8: I mean, I wouldn't, to be honest. I know a
29:56
Speaker 8: lot of people throw it in there. It's obviously about
29:58
Speaker 8: the hunt for bin Laden. I kind of think it
30:01
Speaker 8: obviously uses that as the launching off point, but I wouldn't.
30:04
Speaker 8: I think it's more, that's more sort of a CAI
30:06
Speaker 8: block apps, you know, special forces thing.
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Speaker 1: But it's so good.
30:09
Speaker 6: I wouldn't.
30:09
Speaker 1: It's so good.
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Speaker 2: It is so good though.
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Speaker 8: Yes, it is so good. I mean, so is the
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Speaker 8: Hurt Locker in its own way too, right? In which
30:16
Speaker 8: one best picture, but right. Zero Dark Thirty is really good,
30:19
Speaker 8: but I don't know if it just uses it as
30:22
Speaker 8: a launching off point. And especially for kids or for
30:25
Speaker 8: folks who maybe want to have something a little bit
30:27
Speaker 8: more kind of down to earth, a little bit more
30:29
Speaker 8: kind of understanding the grasping the emotions of that day
30:32
Speaker 8: yeah but united 93 is the is the is the
30:36
Speaker 8: one that still is so impactful so impactful and and
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Speaker 8: really immediate you really feel like you're on that plane
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Speaker 1: Well thanks a lot joe neumeier uh it's going to
30:45
Speaker 1: be a tough week but uh you're right these these
30:48
Speaker 1: movies will live on and will explain 9-11 to a
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Speaker 1: whole generation to come thanks so much