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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 05-01-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Katie mcfalland does a great job on Fox News about
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  Speaker 1: ten times a week. She's here with us quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit every Friday because we love her KT good morning,
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  Speaker 1: how are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm terrific, thank you, Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you back. I know you just terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say about the Secret Service. I know
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  Speaker 1: I said this all week long, but it's worth repeating again.
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  Speaker 1: I did text the President early Sunday morning. He got
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  Speaker 1: right back to me and he said thank you, saying
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay, and he thanked in this text to me
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  Speaker 1: the Secret Service early Sunday morning. Of folks said, well
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  Speaker 1: he's got to do that, and he loves the cops.
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  Speaker 1: But he did it again today. So he wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: that with the Secret Service in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was
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  Speaker 1: not this time around. He seems to really think the
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  Speaker 1: Secret Service did a good enough, if not decent job.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: I think two things. They did an ex.
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  Speaker 1: Up for Ria, kat I can hear you. You're about
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  Speaker 1: to say they did an excellent job where'd you go?
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  Speaker 2: Excellent job at the ballroom itself, right, but not a
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  Speaker 2: very good job on the perimeter security. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: it was very easy for people either staying at the
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  Speaker 2: hotel or even going to the event to get through
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  Speaker 2: the various early on checkpoints. And that's that all needs
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  Speaker 2: to be re examined.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't you think the fact that they're in
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  Speaker 1: a hotel where there's three thousand people staying that that
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  Speaker 1: added to the difficulty of keeping the president safe.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And then I think it's to your point. Your
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  Speaker 2: point is the best one is that the venue is
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  Speaker 2: a bad venue, but it's the only venue. It's the
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  Speaker 2: only venue to do a dinner of that size in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: And that's historically where the big stuff in Washington happens,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's the National Prayer Breakfast, whether it's the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the White House Correspondence dinner, whether it's any of these things.
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  Speaker 2: So to President Trump's immediate point, that's why you need
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  Speaker 2: to build a ballroom that's a secure you can get
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  Speaker 2: thousands of people in it. Do you know that we
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  Speaker 2: have when we have big events like a state dinner,
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  Speaker 2: where you want to be able to invite five hundred people,
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  Speaker 2: there are that many people who want to attend, who
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  Speaker 2: want to be part of history. They have to put
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  Speaker 2: up a tent and porta potties. That's not the United States.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even in the Reagan administration, when I would
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  Speaker 2: go to White House, big events like that, big dinners,
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  Speaker 2: they were crowded and they'd have an overflow crowd. It's
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  Speaker 2: like a junior crowd in the basement in another room.
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  Speaker 2: But we need a ballroom. We need a ballroom for
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  Speaker 2: not just state dinners, but we need it for big
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  Speaker 2: events like that that can be secure. Safe. You know
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  Speaker 2: who's there. You know when their birthdays are, secret service
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  Speaker 2: checks everybody. There's no straight people wandering in. So time
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  Speaker 2: to build a ballroom. Forget about the politics, just do
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  Speaker 2: the job.
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  Speaker 1: The politics are stupid too, because let's face it. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say you know you're a Democrat, and all the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: hate Trump, all of them except for Fedimin.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So you hate Trump, and the last thing you want
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  Speaker 1: is Trump to build something beautiful, get credit for it,
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  Speaker 1: and then enjoy it. Here's where they're being stupid. By
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  Speaker 1: the time this thing is built, if Trump has three
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  Speaker 1: months left in office, he'll be lucky. Point being that
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  Speaker 1: this ballroom is really for the next president and all
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  Speaker 1: those presidents after. And you know you're a Democrat, you
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  Speaker 1: hope many of those are Democrat presidents. By the time
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  Speaker 1: they build this Trump, will you be able to enjoy it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a Trump's arrangement syndrome. There's nothing he
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  Speaker 2: can do that they're going to like, whether they like
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  Speaker 2: it secretly or not, they're all going to complain about
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  Speaker 2: it and criticize it. And you know, Prump could have
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  Speaker 2: met peace in the Middle East, prevent around from getting
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons, make the United States the energy superpower of
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  Speaker 2: the world, control the world oil supply, bring you know,
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  Speaker 2: bring China to its to an economic issue because it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have energy that's not controlled by the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And they would still hate Trump, of course, cure cancer
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  Speaker 2: and they would complain that he's putting the guys who
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  Speaker 2: do chemotherapy out of work right.
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  Speaker 1: On colleges, right, Yeah, No, it's ridiculous. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to ask you because you have such great experience,
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  Speaker 1: and you mentioned your days with Reagan, and for my life,
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  Speaker 1: he was always my favorite president, always Ronald Reagan until
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  Speaker 1: this guy came along. Now I love them both, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I love both Ronald Reagan and President Trump. You've worked
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  Speaker 1: with both, you know both very very well, very intimate
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  Speaker 1: meetings with both Reagan and Trump very similar, not really
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on those two guys in particular.
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  Speaker 2: They're both the extraordinarily consequential presidents, probably Trump even more.
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  Speaker 2: The difference is that President Reagan was inspirational. His speeches
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  Speaker 2: were just you know, you cry, there were so beautifully done.
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  Speaker 2: His personal courage was terrific. President Trump is different. He's
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  Speaker 2: a businessman. He understands the economic power of the United
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  Speaker 2: States and he's going to he's not afraid to use it.
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  Speaker 2: He's not as inspirational as speaker, but I think as
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  Speaker 2: a strategic thinker, he's probably a step ahead of Reagan.
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  Speaker 2: And here's why. So take Iron as the example in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. Are they're like four levels of this.
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  Speaker 2: One level is you don't want around to get nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 2: The next level is a changed Iran could be a
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  Speaker 2: force for peace in the Middle East. If you have
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  Speaker 2: Middle East peace, if you have the Abraham Accords that
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  Speaker 2: were extended to Iran. And that's an if, but if
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  Speaker 2: it happened, you would have the part of the world
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  Speaker 2: that has been the source of all the world's major
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  Speaker 2: conflicts for the last fifty years at peace. And it
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  Speaker 2: would be one of the world's major trade regions. It
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  Speaker 2: could become just the world would be a different place.
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  Speaker 2: And then the next level of this is what President
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  Speaker 2: Trump is doing in this strategic sense if he wants
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  Speaker 2: to have the United States control world energy. So we
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  Speaker 2: have the American energy, oil, natural gas. We're now the
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  Speaker 2: world's largest oil one of the largest oil exporters. We
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  Speaker 2: are the world's largest natural gas energy exporters. We now
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  Speaker 2: control the Venezuelan oil. We have an influence over a
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  Speaker 2: number of countries in the Middle East, the golf Arab countries,
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  Speaker 2: particularly the United are UAE, which just quit Opek. If
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  Speaker 2: you could get Iran in that constellation where we would
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  Speaker 2: have influence over their oil and their energy, we would
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  Speaker 2: then dominate, I don't know, seventy five eighty percent of
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  Speaker 2: the world's energy. The only thing that China would have
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  Speaker 2: left is really Russia. So what's the next step. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the really critical dimension that looks out over
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  Speaker 2: a generation is that the country which has technology married
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  Speaker 2: to cheap energy is going to be the country that
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  Speaker 2: controls artificial intelligence. Quantum computing really controls the future. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when you look at the globe, there are many countries
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  Speaker 2: or several countries have a lot of abundant energy, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States, which
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  Speaker 2: countries have superior technological capabilities by an order of magnitude
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  Speaker 2: states in China, there's only one country that has both
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  Speaker 2: the United States with its technological superiority and innovation and
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  Speaker 2: creativity married up to cheap energy, puts US in a
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  Speaker 2: position of being the sole superpower for a generation. China
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have any energy. That's why it's so critical for
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  Speaker 2: them now.
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  Speaker 1: No, I agree, Right now we are the only superpower,
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  Speaker 1: China power, Russia power. The only superpower right now is US.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned the word courage talking about Reagan
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  Speaker 1: and Trump, and they both got shot. Obviously Reagan's was
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  Speaker 1: a lot more serious. Hinckley almost killed him. Then he
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  Speaker 1: went back and he continued to serve for years after
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  Speaker 1: that assassination attempt, and again he was pretty messed up.
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  Speaker 1: Monald Reagan Trump, they've tried to shoot three times and
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  Speaker 1: they hit his heero of course back in Butler. So
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about courage, I mean you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: two guys. Now, neither, thank god, was assassinated like John F. Kennedy, Well, Lincoln,
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  Speaker 1: but you're talking about two guys that have actually been
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  Speaker 1: shot on the job, putting intense and I.
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  Speaker 2: Think that the similarity between the two of them is
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  Speaker 2: that Reagan, after he survived, you know, almost killed in
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  Speaker 2: an assassination attempt, he said and others around him said,
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  Speaker 2: he was a changed man. He felt he was a
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  Speaker 2: man of destiny, that God had kept him alive to
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  Speaker 2: do something really important in the world, and that was
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  Speaker 2: take down the Soviet Union and world peace. And from
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, I think he's also a changed man, certainly
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  Speaker 2: since Butler. You know, if you look at the things
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  Speaker 2: he was saying in his first term and compared to
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  Speaker 2: now and his first term, a lot of it was
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  Speaker 2: about him and about how he was going to do this,
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  Speaker 2: he was going to do that. Now it's much more
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  Speaker 2: about the nation, the country. You know, he likes his
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  Speaker 2: fair share of praise, but now he seems much more
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  Speaker 2: like a man on a mission that's not about himself
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  Speaker 2: but about the future of the country and really the
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  Speaker 2: future of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes I get annoyed. And you know, nobody loves
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  Speaker 1: him more than me, except I mean, I adore the man,
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  Speaker 1: love him and sometimes I want him to be the
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  Speaker 1: Trump of twenty sixteen seventeen. Like, I don't care anybody
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  Speaker 1: says to me that guy twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen would
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  Speaker 1: be trashing Mamdani right now. And this guy because he
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  Speaker 1: wants New York to thrive and the economy and all that.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is nine years later, a little more level headed,
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  Speaker 1: he's older, it's been shot. But you can try to
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  Speaker 1: convince me otherwise twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, Mamdani would be
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  Speaker 1: getting thrashed every day by Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but I think that the current Trump is a
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  Speaker 2: shrewder Trump. So if you look at the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: we knew he knew that the Strait of Hormuz is
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  Speaker 2: going to be closed. That's always Iron's go to move.
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  Speaker 2: That did it in rag and they've done it many
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  Speaker 2: times in the past. But this Trump was waited carefully
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  Speaker 2: for that to happen and then he could spring the trap.
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  Speaker 2: And the trap was the blockade. In the past, we
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  Speaker 2: haven't had their military assets in the res to do
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  Speaker 2: a blockade. Trump had them prepositioned because of the first
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  Speaker 2: two months of the Iran War. They were already there,
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  Speaker 2: ready to spring the trap. If I look at President
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  Speaker 2: Trump and what he's doing with Mondommie, I mean, I'm guessing,
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  Speaker 2: but I think if this comes to a crisis in
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  Speaker 2: New York where Mondami is going to ask the state
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  Speaker 2: to bail him out because you know it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to work everything he's doing and the state doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: any money, and so Mondammie will turn to Trump and
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  Speaker 2: he'll say, well, you bail me out, just like what
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  Speaker 2: happened when Jerry Ford was president, when they turned to
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  Speaker 2: New York. New York had a turn to the federal government,
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  Speaker 2: said bail me out, bail us out, and Jerry Ford
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  Speaker 2: said drop dead. Right, that's when New York went into bankruptcy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Trump already said drop dead. He said it to God,
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  Speaker 1: the ohocle, drop dead. I'm not helping you, do not
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  Speaker 1: helping you.
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  Speaker 2: But when Mendamie asks, Trump will say drop dead. But
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  Speaker 2: he will say I've given you every chance. I've been
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  Speaker 2: a good guy to you. You haven't taken it up.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't. You're still having this sanctuary city stuff, still
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  Speaker 2: doing all the silly things that you're doing. I've given
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  Speaker 2: you every chance. You haven't taken every chance. Drop dead.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta think I love that drop dead Katie. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta think that Trump knows Ken Griffin pretty well, and
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  Speaker 1: Ken Griffin's fifty billion dollars. And then you know, on
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  Speaker 1: the way out here, the way Mom Donnie treated King Charles,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you think the Royalty is a
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  Speaker 1: joke or not. That idiot Curtis is like, I agree
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  Speaker 1: with Mam Donnie. They're a bunch of you know what
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about? You've got the guy comes here,
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  Speaker 1: does a tremendous job speaking in front of Congress, tremendous
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  Speaker 1: by the way, goes down to sacred soil nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: and this idiot, Mam Donnie is talking about a piece
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  Speaker 1: of jewelry that was given to the English ninety three
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  Speaker 1: years ago that nobody cares about. He's taken smiling selfies
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  Speaker 1: Katy mcfalland smiling selpies down at the side of nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven. The mayor doesn't realize he shouldn't be doing that.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Kathy Huckle and Julie Mennon did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. So just now again an opportunity for I'm
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  Speaker 1: Donnie to be a two ambassador to for New York
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  Speaker 1: and he literally pisses in the base of King Charles.
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  Speaker 1: What an idiot.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's the same guy who's Ken Griffith. We don't
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  Speaker 2: want you here. You know, how's that going to work.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to work at all, because everyone with
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  Speaker 2: any kind of you know, business interest in New York
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  Speaker 2: City is looking at not only their own personal stake
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  Speaker 2: of oh am I going to get text because I
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  Speaker 2: have this second residence, but everybody who works for them.
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  Speaker 2: So what mndonnie is really doing is saying rich people leave,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want you. And what does that do to
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  Speaker 2: the New York economy. It causes it to go into
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  Speaker 2: free fall even more quickly. And then I think that
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  Speaker 2: the trump final you know, patient move of President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I think that he has the option then of saying
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  Speaker 2: to Mandonnie dropped out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he started out with a two social a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago when he actually did say, mom, Donnie
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  Speaker 1: is quote and capital letter is destroying New York City. KT.
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  Speaker 1: You're not You're beautiful, you're great. We love you. What
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  Speaker 1: we thought. Thank you for another amazing appearance. Have yourself
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  Speaker 1: a great weekend. We'll do it again next week. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. Thank you Oh bless you Kat mcfalland
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  Speaker 1: a great job with us every Friday. We love KT.
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