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Alan Dershowitz | Helps Preview V.P. Vance's Address Tonight at RJC Conference in Las Vegas · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Professor george was thank you for joining us listen i
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you but i am very anxious to
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  Speaker 1: hear and i'm not going to hear it live because
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  Speaker 1: it's been closed to the press but i'm very anxious
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  Speaker 1: to hear tonight this speech or hear about it from
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  Speaker 1: jd vance to the republican jewish coalition because of course
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  Speaker 1: as you know he seems to be skating on different
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  Speaker 1: sides of the fence when it comes to support for
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  Speaker 1: israel support for the jewish community etc etc etc and
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  Speaker 1: um I don't think it's a great idea to be
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  Speaker 1: a frontrunner for president this early. It's usually the kiss
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  Speaker 1: of death, but he kind of is, at least. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, are you also anxious to hear what he
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  Speaker 1: has to say?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. I mean, he may very well be the next
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States, the most powerful man on
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  Speaker 2: the face of the earth, the man who can determine
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  Speaker 2: the fate not only of America, but of Israel. I
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  Speaker 2: do not regard J.D. Vance as anti-Israel, based on the
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  Speaker 2: card record. I think of him as something of an isolationist,
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  Speaker 2: somebody who doesn't want to see... American tax money sent
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  Speaker 2: to foreign countries, including Israel. But I've never seen him
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  Speaker 2: kind of single out Israel for condemnation. Look, he may
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  Speaker 2: be the frontrunner among a general population of Republicans. He
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  Speaker 2: surely is not the frontrunner today among Jewish American Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: That clearly is Rubio. Rubio clearly has the advantage among
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  Speaker 2: Jewish voters, of course. you know, Jewish voters constitute two
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  Speaker 2: percent of the population. You know, anti-Semites think we control
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  Speaker 2: the world, control the media, control elections, that AIPAC.
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  Speaker 3: Decides who the next president is going to.
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  Speaker 2: Be, all of that nonsense. But we're only two percent,
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  Speaker 2: and among Republicans even less, because the majority of Jewish
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  Speaker 2: voters idiotically still vote Democrat. I don't know why they do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm about to.
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  Speaker 2: Publish a book called why I left the Dems, and
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  Speaker 2: so should you, confessions of a reluctant Republican. And I
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  Speaker 2: think many, many more Jews are moving away from Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them are not becoming Republicans. My wife, for example,
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  Speaker 2: she has left the Democratic Party. But she will not
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  Speaker 2: become a Republican yet. She is now an independent. She
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  Speaker 2: doesn't like Republican views on abortion, on separation of church
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  Speaker 2: and state, on a range of other domestic issues. But
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  Speaker 2: she can't vote Democrat. And she speaks, I think, for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of very serious thinking.
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  Speaker 4: I'm in the same exact camp, Alan. I'm in the
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  Speaker 4: same exact camp as your wife. If you want, I'll
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  Speaker 4: write the forward to your book because I cannot and
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  Speaker 4: I will not ever ascribe to a group of people
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  Speaker 4: that will hold up the hand of someone like a
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  Speaker 4: Graham Plattener and or a El-Sayed or a Mandani as
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  Speaker 4: if they are the next coming of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I agree with you, and I appreciate your willingness
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  Speaker 2: to write a preface to my book, but that's already
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  Speaker 2: been taken.
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  Speaker 3: A guy named, let me read it. Oh, yeah, President
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: And he said, that is a great patriot. It's our
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  Speaker 2: honor to welcome him to the party of common sense.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the party of common sense, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Is exactly a quote from Katz. He uses that phrase
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  Speaker 2: all the time. So I think the president is borrowing
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  Speaker 2: from our friend John when he talks about the party
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  Speaker 2: of common sense.
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  Speaker 5: We started that. We started that a couple of years
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  Speaker 5: ago on W.A.B.C. Common Sense. Now we should have patented it,
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  Speaker 5: but I guess it's not patentable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, copyright. You might be able to copyright.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I think it's better to have it in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Let everybody out there understand.
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  Speaker 2: That John Timothy is the commentator of common sense. The
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party is the party of common sense. And the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party is becoming a very anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-common sense.
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  Speaker 4: I look forward to reading your book, Alan. I'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope everybody looks forward to reading my book.
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  Speaker 2: I hope people buy it, and I hope people vote accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: We purposely put the book out in the months before
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  Speaker 2: the midterm elections in an effort to try to get
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  Speaker 2: people to understand that if you're a real supporter of America,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot support El-Sayed. You cannot support Elizabeth Warren. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot support the people, the squad. Remember, too, if the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats get control of the House, if they get control
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  Speaker 2: of the Senate— Who are going to be the chairman
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  Speaker 2: of the committees? Elizabeth Warren will be the chairman of
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  Speaker 2: the banking committee. El-Sayed will probably be, you know, chairman
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  Speaker 2: of a subcommittee on the Middle East. AOC will be
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  Speaker 2: a chairman of a committee. We do not want our
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  Speaker 2: legislature to be dominated by American-hating, anti-Israel, and other non-common-sense people.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I didn't take my wife's position. I disagree
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  Speaker 2: with some Republican positions. That's why my book is called
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  Speaker 2: Confessions of a Reluctant Republican. But as between who should
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  Speaker 2: control the legislative branch, it's not a close question. No question.
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  Speaker 2: We want people like Ted Cruz to be chairman of committees.
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  Speaker 2: some very good Republicans to be chairman of committees. I'm
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  Speaker 2: terrified about the idea of Democrats having control of.
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  Speaker 3: The legislative process. First, they will spend all of their.
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  Speaker 2: Time trying to go after Trump. You know, I wrote
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  Speaker 2: another book called Get Trump based on Letitia James's campaign promise.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what the democrats would do if they took
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  Speaker 3: over the house they would spend all of their.
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  Speaker 2: Time subpoenaing everybody in the trump administration and uh you
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  Speaker 2: know we see what happens well didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Al green just file yet again articles of impeachment isn't
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  Speaker 4: that a foreshadow of what they intend to do.
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  Speaker 2: I may have another job coming up because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, I defended President Trump in his first
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  Speaker 2: impeachment successfully. And if he were to be impeached again,
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  Speaker 2: believe me, I would be a strong opponent. And my
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  Speaker 2: former student, Jamie Raskin, you know, was one of the
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  Speaker 2: heads of the impeachment campaign.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: And probably he's chairman, you know, he'd become chairman of
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  Speaker 2: the Judiciary Committee, which would be terrible.
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  Speaker 4: Or the House Oversight Committee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah professor dershowitz i have to earlier in this
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  Speaker 1: program we played the audio of brad lander being accosted
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  Speaker 1: verbally at uh outside madison square garden on saturday this
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  Speaker 1: is a guy who has sold out his people at
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  Speaker 1: every opportunity accuses israel falsely of genocide shows up at
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  Speaker 1: right you know not every mosque is a radical islamist
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  Speaker 1: mosque in new york city but he shows up there
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  Speaker 1: endorses all these terrible candidates. I mean, you must have
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  Speaker 1: been satisfied by that, seeing that.
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  Speaker 2: He beat a terrific, terrific congressman. Look, he's not the
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  Speaker 2: only one who's been harassed. I went to the farmer's
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  Speaker 2: market this weekend on Martha's Vineyard and I was harassed.
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  Speaker 2: I was attacked. I fell over. I injured my hip.
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  Speaker 2: I injured my knee by people who harassed me. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they harassed me for three reasons. One, my
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  Speaker 2: support for Trump. Number two, my support for Israel. And
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  Speaker 2: number three, because I was a lawyer for people he
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  Speaker 2: don't agree with. My God, what a sin that was.
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  Speaker 2: John Adams was the lawyer for the people who were
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  Speaker 2: accused of committing the Boston Massacre. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And I get attacked because they don't like the clients.
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  Speaker 2: That I have represented. By the way, for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who followed my previous pierogi thing, when the guy
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  Speaker 2: on Martha's Vineyard wouldn't sell me pierogi, we won that fight.
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  Speaker 2: The farmer's market banned him and won't allow him to sell.
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  Speaker 3: So the word on Martha's Vineyard.
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  Speaker 2: Is if Dershowitz doesn't get pierogis, no one gets pierogis.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Professor, I want to say one of the
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  Speaker 4: things that John was talking about not too long ago,
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  Speaker 4: we actually played a small clip. He had former Vice
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  Speaker 4: President Mike Pence on the show. In fact, everything that
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  Speaker 4: John was saying and that Mike Pence said, which is
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  Speaker 4: where Democrats have now lost their mind, that's almost like
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  Speaker 4: the sum and substance of your new upcoming book.
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  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I was a Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: John, you should have trademarked that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I was 14 years old, I was on
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  Speaker 2: the streets of Borough Park in Brooklyn campaigning for Philip Schupler.
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  Speaker 2: And I have voted for every Democrat. I campaigned. I
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  Speaker 2: went to Democratic National Conventions. I have been a fervent Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: And a few years ago, I just said, I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do it. You know, there are a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of Jews who are what they call nostalgia Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my grandfather voted for Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: My grandmother. You have to stop looking to the past
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  Speaker 3: and you have to look.
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  Speaker 2: To the present and the future. The Jewish community in
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  Speaker 2: the United States is under siege.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, being a Democrat today, if you're Jewish.
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  Speaker 2: Would be like being an environmentalist in Nazi Germany in
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  Speaker 2: 1932 and not caring about what was happening on the
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  Speaker 2: streets and saying, well, we're worried about, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: thousand years from now, the environment may be affected. You
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  Speaker 2: have to put your priorities straight.
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  Speaker 5: Even an environmentalist. environmentalists in China right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: your life will last about two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Or be a gay rights activist in Gaza or in
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  Speaker 2: any part of the Middle East. You know, that's chickens
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  Speaker 2: for KFC. And it's exactly what some idiot Jews are doing.
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  Speaker 2: They're supporting, they have a self-hate wish And they're supporting
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  Speaker 2: candidates who are strongly opposed to their safety and strongly
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  Speaker 2: opposed to Israel. We're seeing that in Michigan when El-Sayed
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  Speaker 2: is pushing for the Jewish vote. I hope no self-respecting
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  Speaker 2: Jew will vote for him. But they will, just like
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  Speaker 2: they voted for Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: Professor Dershowitz, I have to ask you, I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: give it, I want to give you some bright side statistics. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: everything that I have, I've done a lot of research
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  Speaker 1: on the 2024 election, and I agree with you, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish vote one of the best things to say
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  Speaker 1: is almost like Fight Club. There really is no such
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  Speaker 1: thing as a Jewish vote. But in Pennsylvania, in the
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  Speaker 1: districts that happen to be swing districts in Pennsylvania, there
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  Speaker 1: is a significant Jewish vote. And every bit of honest
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  Speaker 1: data that I've seen from the 2024 election showed that
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  Speaker 1: there was a significant vote for President Trump among Jewish
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  Speaker 1: voters in those suburbs of both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see the same thing? And do you mention that
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  Speaker 1: in your book at all?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And in fact, if Rubio were to get the Republican nomination,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who the Democrats put up. I would
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  Speaker 2: say 80% of Jews would vote for Republicans if Rubio
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  Speaker 2: got the nomination, particularly if he got it against some
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  Speaker 2: hard lefty. If he got it against Shapiro, okay, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the vote would be, but that's not
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  Speaker 2: going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the Democrats are capable.
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  Speaker 2: Of nominating a Jew, no matter how qualified. One of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons they lost the last election is because they
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  Speaker 2: didn't nominate for vice president the most obvious candidate, the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: a popular governor of the swing state that could determine
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  Speaker 2: the outcome of the election.
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  Speaker 3: But because Kamala Harris said, oh, well, she's Jewish, and
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  Speaker 3: who knows what that will happen. No, we're not ready
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  Speaker 3: for a Jew. We're ready for a black woman, but
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  Speaker 3: we're not ready.
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  Speaker 2: For a Jew.
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  Speaker 3: No, the Jewish community can't accept that.
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  Speaker 4: Or a black woman married to a Jew.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that was something we talked about earlier on the program.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like there's going to be three contenders for
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat nomination who are Jewish. Josh Shapiro, J.B. Pritzker,
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  Speaker 1: and who was the other one?
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  Speaker 4: Michael Cohen.
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  Speaker 2: Rahm Emanuel.
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  Speaker 1: Rahm Emanuel, that's right. And I think that this is
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  Speaker 1: actually something the DNC wants. They'd like to be able
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  Speaker 1: to see these three guys run so they can say, well,
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  Speaker 1: that support was all split by these guys and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that we excluded. I think that there's something going
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  Speaker 1: on there. I think there's an encouragement to get all
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  Speaker 1: three of those guys to run.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I agree with you. I think the best thing
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  Speaker 2: that the radical Democrats could do is to say, look,
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  Speaker 2: we considered three Jews. By the way, none of them
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  Speaker 2: are today. Can you qualify them as strongly pro-Israel? Certainly
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  Speaker 2: none of them are as strongly pro-Israel as Rubio. They've
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  Speaker 2: all backed away somewhat from support for Israel in an
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  Speaker 2: effort to get The nomination, they saw the Bradlander result
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  Speaker 2: and how he beat a centrist, generally pro-Israel Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: And so they're moving away from it. But I think
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  Speaker 3: the goal is to get the three of them up there,
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  Speaker 3: make them have speeches at the Democratic Convention, and then
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  Speaker 3: nominate somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Who is, quote, safe. safe from Zionist control, safe from AIPAC,
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  Speaker 2: safe from Jewish control. I think that's what their goal is.
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  Speaker 2: And it might work. People say Jews are smart. Some
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  Speaker 2: Jews are very smart. Some of the dumbest people I know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the dumbest people I know are the kind
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  Speaker 2: of Jews who vote for Mamdani and who vote for
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  Speaker 2: their enemies.
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  Speaker 1: It's collective Stockholm syndrome, and we can do a whole
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  Speaker 1: program about that another time. But Professor Alan Dershowitz.
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  Speaker 2: uh.
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  Speaker 1: professor emeritus at harvard and uh... graduate of a sign
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  Speaker 1: and bt am a i'm a flat which grad civil
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  Speaker 1: will talk about i.
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  Speaker 3: I got turned away from flat flat which wouldn't accept
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  Speaker 3: me behind grades and so bad i.
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  Speaker 2: Graduated high school thirty-nine federal classes forty seven i was
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  Speaker 2: such a bad student then i finished first in my
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  Speaker 2: class in brooklyn college in yale or school but Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, living long is the best revenge.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow I turn 88.
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  Speaker 6: Mazel.
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  Speaker 4: Mazel.
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  Speaker 5: And we're going to wish you a big happy birthday tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Even though I was knocked on my rear
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  Speaker 2: end by.
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  Speaker 3: This guy who screamed at me at the farmer's market
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  Speaker 3: the other day. I'm in pain. I'm in pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to take a long walk today with
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  Speaker 2: my son, my daughter-in-law, my grandson are all up here
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  Speaker 2: at Martha's Vineyard visiting. celebrating my birthday for me, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're going to have a good birthday. I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: your good wishes.
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  Speaker 1: I may have asked for him until 120. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 3: I'll settle for 100.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll meet you there.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: We'll negotiate.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Professor Dershowitz.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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