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Highlights of Curtis & Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Why if the horrible weather we had on Tuesday, we
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Speaker 1: also had some rain and some isolated thunderstorms yesterday. And
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Speaker 1: the problem is when you have the river's already swollen
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Speaker 1: and you get even a little bit more rain after that,
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Speaker 1: you're going to have some flooding. And unfortunately in all
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Speaker 1: of this, over the last two days, five people in
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Speaker 1: New Jersey have died. There was a man that was
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Speaker 1: struck by lightning. Also in Cedar Brook and pain in Plainfield,
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Speaker 1: two people lost their lives when their vehicle is swept away.
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Speaker 1: That's been confirmed now. In the Passaic River just yesterday
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Speaker 1: one child was killed trying to swim in the swollen river,
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Speaker 1: and then another child is still missing and presumed dead.
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Speaker 1: So the severe weather over the last couple of days
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Speaker 1: and also knocked down trees. There's an old oak tree
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Speaker 1: you may have seen the picture of it on the
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Speaker 1: news that fell and fell into a house, taking out
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Speaker 1: it in entire deck.
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Speaker 2: And this happened all over there.
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Speaker 1: There was reports of at least thirty two fallen trees
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Speaker 1: and power was out for some time. As a matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, power was still out this morning for five
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Speaker 1: thousand people in New Jersey. So it was it was
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Speaker 1: a huge storm Tuesday, and the rain yesterday just exacerbated
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Speaker 1: it all. So I just wanted to let the people
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Speaker 1: know in New Jersey that are trying to get their
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Speaker 1: power back on, that are trying to rebuild their homes,
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Speaker 1: that are trying to get a new car because a
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Speaker 1: tree fell in their car, that you know, we're thinking
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Speaker 1: about you, and we realized how bad that weather was.
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Speaker 2: And luckily.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get at least one nice day squeezed
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Speaker 1: in over the next few days, so a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a respite on the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, there was flooding in downtown Patterson, which always
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Speaker 2: happens when the Wassaic overflows. I don't know of a
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Speaker 2: time where that hasn't happened. The first wood up the hill,
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Speaker 2: down the hill, it's down on the hill. And then
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Speaker 2: from the day before Hawthorne where they have water under
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Speaker 2: the ground. See a lot of these communities there are streams,
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Speaker 2: there are waterbeds under the ground. We don't even think
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Speaker 2: of that. And then all of a sudden, when they
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Speaker 2: get hit with a heavy rain and that mixes with
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Speaker 2: the water that is already under the ground, it causes
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Speaker 2: the streets to buckle because it's almost like it pushes
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Speaker 2: everything up. It causes enormous problems. And again, as you
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Speaker 2: had mentioned, Larry, the old trees come down because the
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Speaker 2: ground is so soft from rain after rain after rainstorm,
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Speaker 2: buckets of rain. Then it knocks the electrical power lines down.
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Speaker 2: Then it knocks our power in a whole region or
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Speaker 2: an area as a result. And again I can't say
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Speaker 2: it enough. We're gonna have more of this because of
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Speaker 2: the extreme weather, because of climate change. So why aren't
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Speaker 2: we starting to bury these power lines. It's just gonna
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Speaker 2: happen more and more. And a lot of these trees,
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Speaker 2: you know, only because I like to climb trees. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm a tree climber. Wherever I see trees, I'm ready
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Speaker 2: to climb them. From India here throughout Central Park, Riverside Park,
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Speaker 2: any chance I had to climb trees. There have been
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Speaker 2: a lot of diseases that have affected the trees, that
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Speaker 2: have like hollowed them out. So those trees are not
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Speaker 2: you know, like we used to say, oh that's a
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Speaker 2: solid old tree. A lot of those trees are not
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Speaker 2: that solid inside. They're still alive barely, but boy, when
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Speaker 2: a strong wind comes by or all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: their roots are pulled up out of the ground. They
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Speaker 2: come crashing down. In Patterson, I didn't know this until
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Speaker 2: just this moment. They had twenty five water rescues in
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Speaker 2: the streets.
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Speaker 1: Yep, in the streets, people stuck in their car right
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Speaker 1: by the In Woodland Park, they had to evacuate sixty
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Speaker 1: people because of high water in Monroe Township. That's where
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Speaker 1: the lightning strike was. It was a thirty two year
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Speaker 1: old that was out just for a walk and got
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Speaker 1: hit by lightning. So no what came through. It turned
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Speaker 1: out to be a deadly storm. And I'm glad all
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Speaker 1: of you survived it. But we're not alone. This is
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Speaker 1: happening not only across the country, it's happening in Europe
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Speaker 1: as well. Everybody's been dealing with horrible weather. They just
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Speaker 1: had another tornado in Wisconsin. I mean, you don't think
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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin for tornadoes, but that's the fifth one they've
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Speaker 1: had in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. We're gonna be talking Fauci all
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Speaker 2: morning long. There's so much from the Fauci hearings, But
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Speaker 2: when it came his time to cross examine Fauci Republican
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Speaker 2: Senator Ron Johnson in Wisconsin before he even began his
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Speaker 2: public what can we call it cross examination, intense as
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Speaker 2: it was, he apologized to the people Wisconsin. He said,
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Speaker 2: I'm coming. I know you've been hit by a bad tornado.
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Speaker 2: I'm coming. I'll be with you this weekend. So he
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Speaker 2: understood the devastation that transpired there. So it's going to
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Speaker 2: be an old Fauci morning. But the weather it dominated
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Speaker 2: hear us and also, as you mentioned, in Europe, one
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Speaker 2: hundred and ten degrees in powers, so it's heated up.
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Speaker 2: The fires have slowed down a little bit, thank god,
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Speaker 2: because they were moving in on Madrid and more importantly
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Speaker 2: moving in on Bordeaux. But they got to be plagued
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Speaker 2: with that to the rest of the month of August.
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Speaker 2: And then remember the earthquake in Japan. So it just
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Speaker 2: seems July has been the month where Mother Nature says,
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Speaker 2: Remember I control what goes on here. Remember you may
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Speaker 2: want to buck about me and be nice to be
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Speaker 2: because I can control a lot of what goes on,
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Speaker 2: not just you people down there.
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Speaker 1: I love that you mentioned Fauci, and I want to
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Speaker 1: play a little bit of Fauci right now, because I
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Speaker 1: know people are thinking, wait a second, Faluci, Fauci, Fauci.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be playing Fauci all morning and talking about
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Speaker 1: it all morning long. But because of the deaths and
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Speaker 1: because somebody affected, and because power is still out in
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Speaker 1: part of New Jersey, I just wanted to tell you
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Speaker 1: that we're thinking about you, and we understand that what's happened.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, when your electricity goes out, when
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Speaker 1: a tree falls into your house, you don't care about Fauci,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Weather affects everybody, and.
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Speaker 2: So when you're in that kind of an emergency and
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Speaker 2: you need to find out what's going on in the
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Speaker 2: world because it goes you seventy two inch big screen TV,
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Speaker 2: you ain't getting no reception there. You got that chea
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Speaker 2: crane radio, I know. I will tell you.
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Speaker 1: I got a text and a photo from Natalie she
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Speaker 1: had her seacrane radio out.
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Speaker 2: I'm obsessed. I'm honestly obsessed with it.
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Speaker 3: I know I'm a radio geek, I get it, but
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Speaker 3: I have the solar with the weather band. The weather
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Speaker 3: band was so amazing because you know you're watching your
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Speaker 3: TV weather and they're going through every other neighborhood in
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Speaker 3: the world, which of course is important, but I want
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Speaker 3: to hear what's going on in my area. The weatherband
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Speaker 3: is so specific, so it was great.
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Speaker 2: I yeah, no, it's imperative that you have that, not
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Speaker 2: just for listening. I listened to the she Crane radio
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Speaker 2: because I love listening to talk radio, but for those emergencies,
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Speaker 2: my dad used to have shipped to shore radio, you know,
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Speaker 2: merchant seamen. They had to know what the weather was, remember,
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Speaker 2: or they could be down at Davy Jones's locker, the
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Speaker 2: maritime type. But this is as close to it as
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Speaker 2: you could get, and it's not huge like the old
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Speaker 2: maritime radios that my dad.
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Speaker 1: Well, the solar is about the size of a brick.
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Speaker 1: You can carry it around with you. You know what,
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Speaker 1: Since we're talking about it, why don't we tell people
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Speaker 1: that they can go to CA crane dot com that's
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Speaker 1: c C R A n E dot com to find
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Speaker 1: out exactly what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 4: You know, I've heard your commercials obviously a lot. The
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Speaker 4: reception is incredible because you know, you turned on an
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Speaker 4: old radio and it's just like, Okay, this isn't so great.
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Speaker 3: It's crystal clear, just like And I know I shouldn't
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Speaker 3: be surprised that you're not telling you the truth, but.
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Speaker 1: You thought I was lying as that one is.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, well, what he says is.
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Speaker 2: Truth, Natalie. He didn't take the fifth. He he didn't
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Speaker 2: do a Fouci didn't take the fifth. He told you
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Speaker 2: straight what it gives you.
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Speaker 1: But well, thanks for saying that about Sea Crane, And
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it came in handy when we have when
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Speaker 1: we we I don't get to use c crame when
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Speaker 1: there's a storm. I don't get to use it because
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Speaker 1: my son carries it around with him. You remember the
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Speaker 1: of the old movie Radio the guy, the guy that
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Speaker 1: carried around a radio with him alone. That's my son
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Speaker 1: during a storm and giving us all reports. So again,
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Speaker 1: Ceacrane dot com, c c R A n E dot com,
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Speaker 1: you talked about me taking the fifth. Let's give a
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Speaker 1: little tease of what's to come throughout the show. And
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Speaker 1: Josh Hawley, of course was one of the stars, and
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Speaker 1: Fauci of course played the fifth one hundred and eleven times.
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Speaker 1: Here is Josh Hallie responding to Fauci taking the fifth.
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Speaker 5: On the Advisive Council, I respectfully declined to answer based
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Speaker 5: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Speaker 2: Let's just get one thing straight.
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Speaker 6: You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because
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Speaker 6: you've been pardoned, as you very well know, as a
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Speaker 6: Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more,
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Speaker 6: Brown versus Walker eighteen ninety six. When he has been pardoned,
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Speaker 6: he may not stand upon his privilege. You know that
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Speaker 6: your lawyer is sitting behind you now, shifting nervously in
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Speaker 6: their chairs. They know it. This isn't about the Constitution,
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Speaker 6: This isn't about the law. This is about contempt, contempt
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Speaker 6: for this body, and contempt for the American people.
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Speaker 2: Man, was he good. It's a gatling gun, a verbal
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Speaker 2: gatling gun. And the lawyers were fidgeting, they were nervous
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Speaker 2: for whatever reason. But he picked up on that right away,
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Speaker 2: and then he asked a series of questions that made
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Speaker 2: a fool out of Fauci really did well well throughout
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Speaker 2: the morning. We'll be playing it to you. But I
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Speaker 2: can't and not fathom somebody in an open public, public,
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Speaker 2: congressional or Senate hearing taking the Fifth Amendment over one
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Speaker 2: hundred times if you would have said that would have
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Speaker 2: happened in my lifetime. I just said, nah, come on,
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Speaker 2: especially somebody who has appeared before. He's been like it.
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Speaker 2: What twenty two congressional hearings. We remember his jousting with
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Speaker 2: Rand Paul over and over. It was some of the
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Speaker 2: best congressional hearings ever. And then all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: to be like the Sphinx and just sit there and
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Speaker 2: keep repeating that over and over again.
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Speaker 1: I heard from and attorney why he did that. We
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Speaker 1: have to get to the next segment, but I'll leave
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Speaker 1: that as a tease. There is a good reason that
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Speaker 1: he took the fifth We couldn't figure it out yesterday,
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Speaker 1: but now it all makes sense. We'll have that coming up.
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Speaker 2: Well, anyway, we want your talkbacks on that. I know
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Speaker 2: many of you were transfixed as we were hearing it
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Speaker 2: here at seven ten WR. Maybe you saw a footage
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Speaker 2: of it, you know when you you checked your click,
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Speaker 2: so maybe actually watched it live. But it was historical.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything of that magnitude before where the
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Speaker 2: whole world should have been watching, because remember, what Fauci
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Speaker 2: did affected the entire world. We were, we are the
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Speaker 2: straw that stirs their drink. When it comes to health
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Speaker 2: and healthcare in the word, they look to the United
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Speaker 2: States and they were looking to the guy that they
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Speaker 2: thought was their god right right, doctor Fauci.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have much more of that throughout the morning.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have that. We're also coming up next. Curtis
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Speaker 1: told us about this a German toilet that's considered a
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Speaker 1: smart toilet because it can diagnose you, which is fascinating
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Speaker 1: that they can do it just from you sitting with
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Speaker 1: your pants off.
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Speaker 2: Hell of a lot cheap ending paying a doctor.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 2: Where is Leewa and Larry MENTI in the morning on
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Speaker 2: sevent ten? Woor Well, we always.
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Speaker 1: Look forward to talking to John Decker, but especially so today.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about this yesterday. John Decker is not
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Speaker 1: only the wr White House and Washington correspondent, but he's
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Speaker 1: also a constitutional attorney. He is also, by the way,
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Speaker 1: the host of the podcast The White House Briefing Room
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Speaker 1: with John Decker that could be found on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1: And the reason it's so important that your constitutional attorney
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Speaker 1: is because, of course, Anthony Fauci took the fifth one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eleven times and they were saying to him,
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Speaker 1: Ran Paul said it. Several of the Republican senators told him,
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Speaker 1: you don't have the right to take the Fifth because
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Speaker 1: you were pardoned. So what is the answer. Can he
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Speaker 1: take the fifth?
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Speaker 5: Well, that is every American's constitutional right. But the added
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Speaker 5: element to this is that he received a pardon. But
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Speaker 5: the pardon that he received from former President Joe Biden
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Speaker 5: on Biden's last day in office only covers a specific
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Speaker 5: period of time, and because of that, his lawyers advised him,
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Speaker 5: it would be in your best interest to plead the
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Speaker 5: fifth to invoke your Fifth Amendment rights because the time
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Speaker 5: period as it relates to the pardon only covers through
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Speaker 5: January the nineteenth of twenty twenty five. And as a result,
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Speaker 5: if he essentially perjured himself yesterday during his testimony, he
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Speaker 5: would be on the hook for that. The pardon would
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Speaker 5: not cover that particular instance.
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Speaker 1: One other thing I heard John to add to that
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Speaker 1: is they are investigating him. The US state attorney in
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Speaker 1: the US Attorney of General, he should say, in Florida
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Speaker 1: is also investigating him, and the pardon wouldn't cover state charges.
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Speaker 5: Right, that is correct, So pardons only apply to federal charges.
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Speaker 5: Federal convictions. They don't apply to state charges or state convictions.
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Speaker 5: So that is something that you know, Anthony Falci, who's
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Speaker 5: eighty five years old, has to now contend with, is
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Speaker 5: the possibility of a specific state bringing certain charges against
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Speaker 5: him for actions that he may have taken during the
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Speaker 5: course of his time advising President Donald Trump and advising
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Speaker 5: President Joe Biden during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, John Dicker. I want to pivot and shift
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Speaker 2: because sometimes I don't know if President Trump knows stuff
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Speaker 2: already or if he truly is surprised. But yesterday I
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Speaker 2: think he was asked a question about a Reuter's report
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Speaker 2: that Red China has sent four hundred showed the fired
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Speaker 2: Stinger missiles to Iran, which sort of conjured up an
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Speaker 2: image to me of how we had sent those same
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Speaker 2: Stinger missiles to the Moujah dem when they were shooting
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Speaker 2: out of the sky the Soviet Air Force in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 2: He seemed to say he had no idea about that.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you were on the premises at
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Speaker 2: that time, but I was in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 5: I asked a question of the President in the Oval
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Speaker 5: office yesterday, so I was there when that question was
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Speaker 5: posed to the president, and you're right, the President seemed
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Speaker 5: to be caught off guard when that question was posed
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Speaker 5: to him, and the President reverted back to conversations that
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Speaker 5: he had most recently with President She in which the
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Speaker 5: President said President She had given his assurances to President
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Speaker 5: Trump that he would in no way China would in
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Speaker 5: no way help Iran in this conflict that has been
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Speaker 5: going on since late February.
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Speaker 2: Well, all right, and Larry had discussed this before you
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Speaker 2: came on the air, and Larry's knee jerk response was,
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Speaker 2: if true, more tariffs, more tariffs against red China. Can
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Speaker 2: we assume that if in fact it turns out to
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Speaker 2: be true, John Decker.
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Speaker 5: Well we can that being said, you know what is
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Speaker 5: on the he in a short period of time September
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Speaker 5: the twenty fourth, and President Trump reconfirm that yesterday in
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Speaker 5: the Oval Office is a state visit by President she
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Speaker 5: at the White House, So that could potentially complicate that
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Speaker 5: state visit. I think that that would be an apt
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Speaker 5: response if indeed China was in any way helping out
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Speaker 5: Iran in this conflict. But ultimately it's up to the
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Speaker 5: President in terms of whether or not he wants to
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Speaker 5: impose those tariffs on an adversary like China, which is
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Speaker 5: not always looking out for America's best interest.
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Speaker 1: You know, it seems like every time we talk, I
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Speaker 1: bring up the Save Act, And the only reason I
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Speaker 1: do because you just say, look, the votes aren't there.
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Speaker 1: The only reason I do is because the President keeps
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Speaker 1: bringing it up, and Republicans keep bringing it up, and
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Speaker 1: some of them are attacking John Thoon for not getting
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Speaker 1: the job done right now, and now they're talking about
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Speaker 1: canceling the August recess to try to get this through.
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Speaker 1: So Donald Trump is hell bent on getting this through,
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Speaker 1: but he would he be able to do it if
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Speaker 1: they got rid of the filibuster?
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Speaker 5: Would he be able to pass the Save Act if
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Speaker 5: they got rid of the philibuster?
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Speaker 2: The answer to that question is yes.
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Speaker 5: But as John Thune said in fact within the past
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Speaker 5: week in an interview that he did on Fox News,
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Speaker 5: the votes are not even there to change the filibuster rules.
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Speaker 5: There are certain Republicans that do not want to change
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Speaker 5: those rules, and there's no way around that problem.
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Speaker 2: Either.
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Speaker 5: You can keep the Senate in session if you want
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Speaker 5: to do that, but it's just going through this process
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Speaker 5: that's not going to change the endgame. And in addition
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Speaker 5: to that, as I mentioned the other day, Leader Thun
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Speaker 5: is very much concerned about at least two of his
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Speaker 5: members that would like to be back in their home
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Speaker 5: state campaigning for reelection. And you know he wants to
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Speaker 5: give those Republican centers that opportunity, and keeping them in
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Speaker 5: Washington would essentially keep them off the campaign trail and
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Speaker 5: that would be problem at in terms of their reelection runs.
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Speaker 2: Please explain to USh John Decker the hold up on
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Speaker 2: the Attorney General becoming the permit in attorney general. They
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Speaker 2: are two Republicans Is corinth and Is Tillis who are
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Speaker 2: basically saying you got to put everything you said before
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Speaker 2: us on a piece of paper. I didn't quite understand
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Speaker 2: what they were talking about.
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Speaker 5: Okay, Well, Todd Blanche has said publicly, hey, there's no
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Speaker 5: anti weaponization fund. We've moved on from that position. Well,
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Speaker 5: if that's the case, there are two senators, Republican senators
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Speaker 5: who both sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that have
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Speaker 5: said to Todd Blanche, put that in writing, put that
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Speaker 5: idea in writing, and we will consider voting for your nomination.
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Speaker 5: The other problem for Todd Blanche is the fact that
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Speaker 5: the Justice Department negotiated a settlement which essentially prevents the
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Speaker 5: IRS from ever looking into any tax information of President Trump,
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Speaker 5: his sons, tax information, or the businesses that Donald Trump
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Speaker 5: has the Trump Organization. That's problematic for both John Cornyn
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Speaker 5: and Tom Tillis, And as a result, right now they're
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Speaker 5: not approving Todd Blanche's nomination to be the next Attorney
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Speaker 5: General on a permanent basis, and as a result, the
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Speaker 5: vote for his nomination was put off by the committee
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Speaker 5: chairman until they can secure the votes of those two
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Speaker 5: Republican senators.
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Speaker 1: It looks like Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski's visit to Washington
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Speaker 1: was an extremely successful one. Donald Trump had nothing but
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Speaker 1: good things to say about him and met with him.
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Speaker 1: It looks like the Congress is going to pass sanctions
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Speaker 1: against Russia. Things really changed in our relationships with Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: What is it going to be like going forward now?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's a good question. The President seemed to yesterday
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Speaker 5: in the Oval Office when asked about Ukraine and specifically
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Speaker 5: that Russia sanctions bill, he seemed to add another caveat
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Speaker 5: to his support for that legislation. He says that he
20:14
Speaker 5: once added to the legislation which has already passed the Senate,
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Speaker 5: tariffs on Iran in addition to sanctions on Iran. So
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Speaker 5: if that indeed is added as an amendment, the whole
20:27
Speaker 5: process needs to start all over again, because it would
20:31
Speaker 5: change the legislation that was already passed in the US Senate,
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Speaker 5: and of course the House hasn't voted on it yet.
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Speaker 5: But I agree with you, Larry, that it was a
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Speaker 5: successful visit by President Zelenski to Washington. He came here
20:45
Speaker 5: for the funeral of Lindsay Graham, and he leaves with
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Speaker 5: passage of that bill, and also the relationship between the
20:52
Speaker 5: US and Ukraine on much firmer footing. I think the
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Speaker 5: President really respects President Zelensky as things stand today.
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Speaker 2: Now, John dek know the culture Washington, Fauci's diaries being
21:04
Speaker 2: dropped because they were left on government servers, not even
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Speaker 2: his own private a lot of self aggrandizement saying yes,
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Speaker 2: I agree right, things that we knew. Okay, you got
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Speaker 2: a ego, this was so over the top. Well people
21:22
Speaker 2: expecting this at all in that Washington culture because he
21:25
Speaker 2: he was an integrated part of that.
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Speaker 5: Well, keep in mind, I covered the White House during
21:31
Speaker 5: that entire period of time. I was there every time
21:34
Speaker 5: he came into the White House Briefing Room to brief
21:37
Speaker 5: us on the latest concerning the coronavirus pandemic. I would
21:41
Speaker 5: see Anthony Fauci out, you know, at events that that
21:45
Speaker 5: I attended as well, and you could tell he really
21:48
Speaker 5: developed a huge ego as a result of all the
21:52
Speaker 5: attention that was thrust upon him during that period of time.
21:55
Speaker 5: So to me, not a surprise in terms of what
21:58
Speaker 5: he put in those die that were released by Senator
22:02
Speaker 5: Ran Paul this week. And you know, I think that
22:06
Speaker 5: obviously a lot of that went to his head in
22:09
Speaker 5: terms of all of the attention that he was getting
22:11
Speaker 5: during that period of time.
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Speaker 1: All Right, John Decker, Worr White House and Washington correspondent
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Speaker 1: and host of the podcast The White House Briefing Room
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Speaker 1: with John Decker, which could be found on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, John, Thanks Larry, Thanks Curtis, have a
22:26
Speaker 5: great day.
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Speaker 3: Bye bye, Perfectly imperfect Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in the.
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Speaker 2: Morning Guaranteed Humans on seven tenor and Gotam City. A
22:39
Speaker 2: problem that always transpires is normally a need by grider.
22:44
Speaker 2: They're not licensed, there's no registration, there's no insurance, there's
22:49
Speaker 2: no culpability. They pilot up and down the streets. They've
22:54
Speaker 2: caused their own deaths, this case that just happened yesterday,
22:58
Speaker 2: other people's deaths, bicyclist deaths on the bridges. It's endless
23:04
Speaker 2: and they've committed crime after crime and been able to
23:07
Speaker 2: get away with it. Like I've mentioned, Larry, as I
23:11
Speaker 2: stalk those e bike riders in the wee hours in
23:15
Speaker 2: the morning who were rolling up to the blue mailboxes
23:18
Speaker 2: and stealing mail, you know, with their belts as they
23:21
Speaker 2: push him down in there with the rat tape on
23:24
Speaker 2: both sides, it just sucks up the mail. There are
23:27
Speaker 2: all illegal e bikes, no enforcement whatsoever, and the mayor
23:33
Speaker 2: has rolled back any of the limited enforcement that existed before.
23:38
Speaker 2: So let's just take the case yesterday as a teenager
23:41
Speaker 2: riding over the Brooklyn Bridge and an illegal e bike.
23:45
Speaker 2: It should never have even been sold. So we'll see
23:48
Speaker 2: if in fact there's any follow up on that. He's
23:51
Speaker 2: carrying flowers, he's got other things, And where does it
23:55
Speaker 2: crash into an suv right in front of one Center's
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Speaker 2: by the Brooklyn Bridge across from City Hall. No helmet
24:04
Speaker 2: on driving recklessly, as reported by others who were in
24:09
Speaker 2: their vehicles at the time. Nine am, the start of
24:12
Speaker 2: the workday, dead on arrival, seventeen years old. And you
24:17
Speaker 2: say to yourself, how many more times does this have
24:20
Speaker 2: to happen before the mayor and the police commissioner. You see,
24:25
Speaker 2: the police commissioner could make a beef about this. She
24:28
Speaker 2: could really say, Hey, you know, I'm responsible for enforcement
24:33
Speaker 2: for the City of New York, and I am going
24:36
Speaker 2: to instruct the cops to start stopping these individuals and
24:39
Speaker 2: not just ticketing them, but in fact, Seei's seeing their bikes.
24:43
Speaker 2: For instance, this young man before he died was riding
24:47
Speaker 2: a deep power electric bike, which is illegal to sell
24:51
Speaker 2: it and operate in New York City because it accelerates
24:54
Speaker 2: the speeds upwards of forty miles an hour. We all
24:58
Speaker 2: know this is being done, and yet the lawlessness continues
25:04
Speaker 2: and lives are at stake. So you would say, if
25:06
Speaker 2: you're into preventing people from being hurt, you got to
25:12
Speaker 2: go back to Bob Holden, the Homer City councilman in
25:15
Speaker 2: which term limited Hujanti Kendrick's law which was to basically
25:19
Speaker 2: enforce put enforcement into place that these people have to
25:24
Speaker 2: be regulated the same way that anybody else. If you're
25:27
Speaker 2: on a motorcycle, you're regulated. If you're driving a car,
25:30
Speaker 2: you're regulated. You got to have insurance, you got to
25:32
Speaker 2: have a registration, all of those things. Nope, not these
25:36
Speaker 2: e bikes. Not in the state, not in the city.
25:39
Speaker 1: New Jersey just passed the law where everybody has to
25:42
Speaker 1: have a license. And the importance of having a license
25:45
Speaker 1: is not just to identify a person, but you have
25:48
Speaker 1: to go through a process to get that license. For instance,
25:52
Speaker 1: you need to know the rules of the road, you
25:55
Speaker 1: need to take a driving test. I'm not even sure
25:58
Speaker 1: why the city of New York or the State of
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Speaker 1: New York doesn't do this, because it does bring in
26:02
Speaker 1: more money. You have to pay to do those things.
26:05
Speaker 1: You have to pay to get the license, you have
26:07
Speaker 1: to pay to re up that license, So it would
26:10
Speaker 1: bring in revenue. But more important than that, it would
26:14
Speaker 1: make sure that people know how to drive these things,
26:17
Speaker 1: and there should be a license on them so that
26:19
Speaker 1: you can see who they are and if it is
26:23
Speaker 1: a legal bike. Most importantly, it shouldn't be able to
26:27
Speaker 1: go over twenty miles an hour. That's this is simple
26:30
Speaker 1: legislation that will save lives and make it much easier
26:34
Speaker 1: on the roads.
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Speaker 2: Larry. In Manhattan, we see it and it's bad, but
26:39
Speaker 2: in the outer boroughs it's even worse. They come on
26:42
Speaker 2: the sidewalks, they take up traffic. Sometimes they'll gup up
26:46
Speaker 2: together and they will be like modern day Hell's Angels,
26:50
Speaker 2: just causing chaos. Older people are terrified of them. They
26:54
Speaker 2: won't even come out of their homeshit times just to
26:56
Speaker 2: do the basics because you can hear them going up
27:00
Speaker 2: you know the man They are terraced on two wheels.
27:05
Speaker 2: A lot of them wearing masks, so you can't even
27:07
Speaker 2: identify them. Once they let's say, bump into somebody or
27:10
Speaker 2: knock somebody over, you have no way of finding. So
27:13
Speaker 2: even though they're all on video, they're waving. Many of
27:16
Speaker 2: them are so bold, so abrazen, they wave at the
27:20
Speaker 2: cameras that are everywhere, and it's basically you can't do
27:23
Speaker 2: nothing to us.
27:24
Speaker 1: It's the biggest hazard in the city on the roads.
27:27
Speaker 1: I run into it every single day. First of all,
27:31
Speaker 1: when you're walking to your car, you almost get hit
27:33
Speaker 1: by one because for some idiotic reasons. They put the
27:37
Speaker 1: bike lanes in between the pavement and the park cars
27:41
Speaker 1: so you can't even see them coming. I've learned how
27:43
Speaker 1: to stop, but several times I've almost got hit. Then
27:46
Speaker 1: when I get in my car and i'm driving, I
27:49
Speaker 1: have to worry about someone coming through a red light
27:52
Speaker 1: the wrong way on a one way street and speeding
27:55
Speaker 1: and almost hitting a pedestrian.
27:56
Speaker 7: I see it every single day. Is all on Zorhan.
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Speaker 7: He rolled back the few restrictions that existed. There weren't
28:04
Speaker 7: many to begin with. He just eliminated him. And you
28:08
Speaker 7: know why a lot of them are illegal aliens. They
28:11
Speaker 7: claim they're using it, you know, to deliver, to do
28:14
Speaker 7: different chores, just to have a good time. That's the
28:17
Speaker 7: worst reason. That would be the very worst one.
28:20
Speaker 2: Well they'll never say that, but I know that, and
28:22
Speaker 2: I think a lot of our listeners know that,