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Anthony D'Esposito | U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General Celebrates Columbus Day on S&FIM · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Trying to figure out some Italian politicians. Yes, he was
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  Speaker 1: about to join me. Locally, I couldn't find many. We
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  Speaker 1: got two on the council, Frank Marano and Vicky Palladino.
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  Speaker 1: And then we've got the Staten Island Borough President, Vito Pocella. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't figure out another Italian local politician. Then I
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  Speaker 1: went to Trump's administration. And all I could find was D'Esposito.
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  Speaker 1: I must be missing somebody. So here he is, the
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  Speaker 1: former great Long Island congressman, now the general inspector for
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's Labor Department, my brother Anthony D'Esposito. Despo, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: What's up, brother?
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  Speaker 2: Happy Columbus Day, my man.
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  Speaker 1: You too. Any other Italians? In the administration? I can't
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  Speaker 1: think of any.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think. I mean, you got... There's got
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  Speaker 2: to be. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't think. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: There's other ones in the.
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  Speaker 2: In the five boroughs, there's two. That's the scary part.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, who are the two in the five boroughs?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you said you got Marano, right? And you got
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  Speaker 2: Vito Fasella.
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  Speaker 1: And Vicky Palladino.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so you got three. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: There's another guy who I happen to like, but he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't vote the right way all the time. His name
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  Speaker 1: is Jim Gennaro. You know him?
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  Speaker 2: I know him well. He actually is a Chaminade guy,
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  Speaker 2: and his family owned a jewelry store on Long Island
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  Speaker 2: in Belmore many, many years ago, and they sold it
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  Speaker 2: to a guy by the name of Gary Hughes, who
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  Speaker 2: owns Gennaro Jewelers, who used to be on the town
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  Speaker 2: board with myself and Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how about that? So I've met him a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times at the shul in Queens. Jamaica Estates. He's
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  Speaker 1: a very nice guy, but for some reason, he's not
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  Speaker 1: on the Italian caucus. How does that make sense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is interesting, but he seems like, for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, he seems like a pretty common-sense type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, too. I think he is, too. So,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to you, because I'm watching Fox News last night.
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  Speaker 1: Joanna Areola. What are we thinking? Joanna Areola. She's Italian, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Tony. My city council lady in Howard Beach
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  Speaker 1: in Queens, Joanne Areola. So I'm proud of you, bro.
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  Speaker 1: See you on TV last week. You're standing there with
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  Speaker 1: your buddy Keith and the vice president of the United States, J.D. Vance.
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  Speaker 1: So over the last couple of weeks, I've had Lee
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  Speaker 1: Zeldin on. He's uncovered a ton of fraud, billions from
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  Speaker 1: the EPA. Dr. Oz is on this show all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing it with Medicare. And Medicare and Medicaid. And
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  Speaker 1: here you are. You've uncovered also like billions of dollars. Congratulations, Ann.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, listen, I don't want to say it's
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  Speaker 2: easy to do, but when you're surrounded by a great team,
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  Speaker 2: as I am at the Inspector General's office, but more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: when you are surrounded by an administration, when you have
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  Speaker 2: a president and a vice president who are committed and
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  Speaker 2: are providing the resources that you need to really root
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  Speaker 2: out this fraud and waste, it is refreshing. And the
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  Speaker 2: fact is that President Trump When he signed this executive
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  Speaker 2: order back in March, and he, you know, very thankful
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  Speaker 2: to be placed on this fraud task force that's led
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  Speaker 2: by J.D. Vance, he made it very clear that this
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  Speaker 2: was a whole-of-government approach. He doesn't want individual departments doing
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  Speaker 2: their own thing. He wants everyone working together. He wants
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  Speaker 2: information shared. And he really wants to crush the fraud
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  Speaker 2: issue in America. And like you said, whether it's Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Oz and Secretary Kennedy at the HHS and CMS. I mean, Medicaid, Medicare,
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  Speaker 2: health care fraud, all the stuff that's going on in California,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's the work that they're doing, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the in the SBA or even in the Treasury and elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: But the Department of Labor, we've you know, we've we
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  Speaker 2: started with unemployment insurance, which we talked about this before,
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  Speaker 2: but it's in the billions of dollars. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: state of California and Gavin Newsom, they owe twenty two
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars to the unemployment insurance trust fund. Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 2: blows about $ 2 million a day in improper payments and
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  Speaker 2: fraud when it comes to unemployment insurance. But now the
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  Speaker 2: focus and what really has not just the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America fired up, but I will tell you that
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably one of the least popular people in India
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  Speaker 2: right now. is this H-1B visa fraud. Yeah, my threat
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  Speaker 2: level is through the roof right now, but that's all right,
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  Speaker 2: because that's how you know you're over the target. The
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  Speaker 2: fact is that when we calculate it, there's about... $ 21
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  Speaker 2: billion in fraud to our foreign labor visa program. And
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  Speaker 2: what that means very simply is that, you know, your kids,
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  Speaker 2: my nieces, you know, other people's kids, grandkids, when they
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  Speaker 2: go to school and they go out to try to
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  Speaker 2: get jobs, so many of these fields, whether it's medicine, tech,
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  Speaker 2: And others, they're being taken by foreign labor. And why?
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  Speaker 2: Because they get paid 25 to 35 percent cheaper. And
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  Speaker 2: these H-1B visas were only put in place originally to
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  Speaker 2: be temporary. It's not a business model. And last week,
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  Speaker 2: we said we had enough. And I've launched investigations over
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. We've issued subpoenas. We've executed
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  Speaker 2: search warrants. And we were able to do two things. First,
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  Speaker 2: we suspended some of the biggest companies across the world,
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  Speaker 2: including Adobe and Microsoft, so they can no longer apply
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  Speaker 2: for these visas, which obviously, if that's part of your
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  Speaker 2: business model, it's crushing. So it was them two in
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  Speaker 2: addition to seven others. And we also launched an investigation
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  Speaker 2: into nine major universities, most of them You know, pretty
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  Speaker 2: and I'm putting this in air quotes, pretty, pretty prestigious.
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  Speaker 2: But me and you have dealt with them in the
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  Speaker 2: past because they're also petri dishes of hate. And they
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  Speaker 2: are completely extorting and exporting the J1 visas, which, you know,
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  Speaker 2: once we get through this investigation, it'll be revealed to
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  Speaker 2: the American people that not only are they taking billions
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  Speaker 2: and billions of dollars in federal grants, But some of
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  Speaker 2: that money is being shipped back to Communist Party China,
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  Speaker 2: as well as leaking some very important information. Remember, these
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  Speaker 2: people are hired on these J-1 visas to conduct research,
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  Speaker 2: research that's supposed to be provided to American medicine, American technology.
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  Speaker 2: American super intelligence, not information that's supposed to be shipped
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  Speaker 2: over to the Chinese Communist Party to, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: be our adversary.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. About two minutes to go. You're doing a great
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  Speaker 1: job for Trump Labor Department. You had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: go back and run again. You decided not to because
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  Speaker 1: you're doing such important work and doing such a great job.
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  Speaker 1: And Trump loves you. But is there a part of
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  Speaker 1: you that's a little envious or maybe not at all?
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  Speaker 1: Janine Driscoll running against Laura Gill in a couple of weeks?
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  Speaker 2: It's in my blood. I talk to Janine every single day. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I'm always in touch with Chairman Cairo and Bruce. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be back this weekend to be boots on the ground
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  Speaker 2: and knocking on doors and campaigning with my friends online.
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  Speaker 2: Because it matters. It matters to the future of America.
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  Speaker 2: It matters to Long Island. Like Nicole mentioned a little
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  Speaker 2: while ago, it's about making sure we maintain and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: grow the majority so that Mike Johnson can continue to
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  Speaker 2: do the great work that he's doing. and also make
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  Speaker 2: sure we keep the Senate so that President Trump's agenda
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  Speaker 2: can keep moving forward, both in the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: But really what it comes down to is common sense
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  Speaker 2: versus crazy. And we've talked about it, you and I,
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  Speaker 2: for years. And every year since, you know, I've been
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  Speaker 2: involved in politics since as long as I can remember,
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  Speaker 2: and every year people say, just around this time of
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  Speaker 2: the year, you know, this is the most important election
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  Speaker 2: of our lifetime. And I can honestly say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was speaking to Chairman Cairo the other day, and
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  Speaker 2: this really may be the most important election of our
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  Speaker 2: lifetime because common sense and crazy are on the ballot,
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  Speaker 2: the future of New York. It is scary the things
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  Speaker 2: that Zohra Mandani and Kathy Hochul are going to do
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  Speaker 2: to the state of New York, and it's even scarier.
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  Speaker 2: When you see some of the people that are going
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  Speaker 2: to be coming in to serve in the House of Representatives,
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  Speaker 2: one of the most storied institutions in the world, and
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  Speaker 2: they are coming in like the people who won in
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  Speaker 2: New York City primary races. I mean, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: serve in Congress after being elected by six and a
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  Speaker 2: half percent of the Democrats in New York City, not
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  Speaker 2: even six and a half percent of the whole population,
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  Speaker 2: six and a half percent of the Democrats. And that
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  Speaker 2: is scary. And that's why we need Common sense, strong
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  Speaker 2: Republican conservatives in those seats. We need people like Janine Driscoll.
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  Speaker 2: We need people like Mike Lalo. We need people like
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  Speaker 2: Mike LaPetri. We need to make sure that these races
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  Speaker 2: remain in our favor because President Trump needs them. Mike
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  Speaker 2: Johnson needs them. The Senate needs them. And more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America needs them because Trump we
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  Speaker 2: need to keep fighting this fight because these democratic socialists
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  Speaker 2: of america i mean you know me and you look
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  Speaker 2: at i'm sure i look at polls a lot of
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  Speaker 2: polls i look at polls every day uh and the
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  Speaker 2: places where we should be crushing it uh it is
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  Speaker 2: it is very scary how tight it is and and
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  Speaker 2: it's happening because of these lunatics that completely want to
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  Speaker 2: destroy the very fabric of our democracy uh and uh
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  Speaker 2: how much they hate america when you're running on your
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  Speaker 2: hatred of america that's how you know that this election
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  Speaker 2: is the most important one of our lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: The great Anthony D'Esposito, general inspector for President Trump's Labor Department,
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  Speaker 1: doing an unbelievable job exposing and uncovering billions and billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars of fraud, was a great congressman. Something tells
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  Speaker 1: me he'll be back there one day as well. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: I love the guy. Anthony, happy Columbus Day. Great job today,
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  Speaker 1: as always.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Columbus Day, brother. I'll see you soon.
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  Speaker 1: All right, love you. Anthony D'Esposito right there on Sid
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