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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 06-05-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: One of my favorite guests. I love this lady, I
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  Speaker 2: really do. She's great on Box News, She's amazing with me.
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  Speaker 2: She's worked for four presidents in her lifetime, including.
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  Speaker 3: Most recently President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: She's one of my most enthusiastic supporters in this potential
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  Speaker 2: endeavor to run for mayor to my dear friend Kat mcfolland,
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  Speaker 2: and I did it.
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  Speaker 3: Kat.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to, but I couldn't. I couldn't control myself.
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  Speaker 2: Late last night, coming home from the city after a
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  Speaker 2: late TV appearance, I texted President Trump and asked him
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  Speaker 2: if I can come to the game and be with
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  Speaker 2: him Monday night in the box. I know it's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: I know it is, but I took a shot. What
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  Speaker 2: can I tell you?
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  Speaker 4: Did he get right back to here? He doesn't go
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  Speaker 4: to bed until about two in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I figured. I texted him about eleven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: and he texts me often, like you said, around midnight.
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  Speaker 2: He texts a lot of people we both know at
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  Speaker 2: two three o'clock in the morning, but he did not
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  Speaker 2: get back to me. Yeah, but he didn't get back
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  Speaker 2: to me. So water are I'm not going to be there,
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  Speaker 2: But I how to give it a shot, right, Katie?
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  Speaker 4: Come on, you know he probably has to ask mister Dolan.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you say?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's not exactly what I said this morning? Like
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  Speaker 2: you know, if he has a rally, he has it
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  Speaker 2: to speak, that's his deal. But you're right, this is
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  Speaker 2: Dolan's building. Dolan invited him. But if like Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: is coming, if Trump says, hey, Bruce, take said with you,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Dolan's gonna say no. But but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know it's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't get you myself.
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  Speaker 4: Now I think you shure well we'll see what he says.
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  Speaker 4: You know, President Trump, as you know, he's a very
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  Speaker 4: gracious man, and he's very good about extent making sure
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  Speaker 4: other people get included in things. And it's not all
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  Speaker 4: about him, even though that's the reputation he has. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure he's probably he probably didn't want a text
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  Speaker 4: doll in at two o'clock in the morning. He's probably
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  Speaker 4: got to wait, and he's probably got to talk to
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  Speaker 4: the Secret Service guys. Although you know, when you think
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  Speaker 4: about the Secret Service issues, what was the last game
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  Speaker 4: that the Knicks played at Madison Square Garden where there
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  Speaker 4: were like hundred and fifty thousand people in the streets. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: big jumbo trons, Yeah, out on the streets.
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  Speaker 3: It's a mess. Yeah, No, it's a mess.
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  Speaker 2: I mean forgetting about the game they played there. When
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  Speaker 2: they're playing on the road in San Antonio tonight and
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  Speaker 2: the win on Wednesday, they still sell out the Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: They actually show the game in Madison Square Gordon, So
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks are in Texas, but you can go to
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  Speaker 2: the Gordon and watch the game, and when they win,
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  Speaker 2: the party.
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  Speaker 3: Spills out to the streets.
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  Speaker 2: And I gotta tell you, kt, I don't like what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, A lot of arrests after the game one win,
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of kids all drugged up and drunk that
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  Speaker 2: don't even They don't watch the Knicks in November. They
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  Speaker 2: don't watch the Knicks in December, just like mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: He's not watching the Knicks and the Trailblazers like I
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  Speaker 2: am in November. Kathy Hochell doesn't watch a Nick game
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  Speaker 2: all year, but now everybody is enjoying this. It's New York,
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  Speaker 2: it's our team, even though I don't went for the
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  Speaker 2: team all year long, and they're getting out of control.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want this city to look like Detroit after
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  Speaker 2: the Pistons won, they set the city on fire, or
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles after the Lakers won, they set that city
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  Speaker 2: on fire. I don't want us to look like that,
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  Speaker 2: because if we win KT, we are looking at a
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  Speaker 2: very real possibility of three million or more canyon of
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  Speaker 2: heroes that could be a messo.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know what, but it's been thirty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Years to three one, fifty three years, fifty.
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  Speaker 4: Three know how many years have we got to the final?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that would be twenty seven years, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty seven Yeah, because I've got a thirty five year
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  Speaker 4: old son, and he's been sleeping in a Next T shirt,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a Next shirt jersey. Excuse he was five
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  Speaker 4: years old. And I know that I've been buying those
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  Speaker 4: Next jerseys for at least twenty seven years.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to move to Iran for a second.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you and I have these great conversations every week,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been pretty step fast when I keep saying
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  Speaker 2: to you, I think we're stuck. I think we're not winning,
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  Speaker 2: I think we're in a bad spot. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: more and more people are starting to sound like me
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  Speaker 2: in the media. I did see General Jack Keene this
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  Speaker 2: morning and he said, there's not going to be a
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  Speaker 2: deal with Iran. There's not going to be a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Write it down now, because a the cheat, they never
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  Speaker 2: comply be They're not going to agree to a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of the things that the President wants. See, we can't
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  Speaker 2: give him any money because they've proven you do that.
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  Speaker 2: They just fun Terror prox season, So he was fun
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  Speaker 2: there's not gonna be a deal with Iran. I've been
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  Speaker 2: saying that, really, as you know, for the better part
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  Speaker 2: of five or six weeks, and I think that's starting
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  Speaker 2: to become more of the conventional wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think, Yes, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think you're right that they'll cheat, that you can't trust him.
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  Speaker 4: But it's expand your periscope for a bit and look
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  Speaker 4: at the bigger region. What Trump's doing behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 4: and this is what nobody's really focused on. He's rearranging
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  Speaker 4: the architecture of the Middle East. It's not just about
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  Speaker 4: Iran in Israel. It's about all the golf Arab countries.
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  Speaker 4: It's about the stands, you know, kazakhstanzer by John Tadjikistan All.
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  Speaker 4: It's a bigger, bigger region in the same way that
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  Speaker 4: the Gods of Peace Accords and the Gods of Peace
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  Speaker 4: Plan involved not just the countries in the region, but
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  Speaker 4: countries as far as the way as Pakistan. So I
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  Speaker 4: think what he's looking to do now is that the
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  Speaker 4: golf Arabs are saying to him, Look, if you attack,
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  Speaker 4: we'd like it, we'd love Arod and the regime wash
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  Speaker 4: off the face of the earth. But we don't want this.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want this to become a bigger conflict that
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  Speaker 4: draws US in. So I think what Trump is doing
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  Speaker 4: is lining up all of the Golf Arabs. He's already
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  Speaker 4: got Uaes, already got Bahrain, but he wants to get
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  Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia. He wants to get Kuwait. Remember they've just
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  Speaker 4: bombed Kuwait yesterday. So Kuwait, which has been sitting on
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  Speaker 4: the fence, well now they're getting bombed by the Iranians.
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  Speaker 4: So where are they going to jump? They're going to
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  Speaker 4: jump to us. And the bigger picture of this is
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  Speaker 4: an alliance that is an expanded Abraham Accords alliance, which
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  Speaker 4: is Israel, the United States, the Golf Araub countries, all
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  Speaker 4: of the Golf are Ub countries, even other countries Muslim
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  Speaker 4: countries beyond the Golf region. And that means that there's
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  Speaker 4: a pee, there's a piece that they all recognize each other,
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  Speaker 4: which you know a lot of those countries don't yet
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  Speaker 4: recognize Israel officially. But then they all trade, and the
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  Speaker 4: Abrahamer corus, the beauty of the Abraham of courses. They
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  Speaker 4: started out as a trading deal, you know, an economic deal,
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  Speaker 4: a commercial deal, a trade deal between Israel and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the some of the Golf are Up countries,
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  Speaker 4: and it was wildly successful. They all know, everybody in
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  Speaker 4: the region knows how successful that has been, especially for
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  Speaker 4: the UAE. So if that be expanded to all these
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  Speaker 4: other countries and a bigger picture, that trading relationship then
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  Speaker 4: becomes a security relationship. I mean, if you and I
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  Speaker 4: had this conversation a year ago and I said, oh, Sid,
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  Speaker 4: guess what they're gonna be Israeli soldiers in the UAE
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  Speaker 4: operating the Iron Dome to protect the Gulf Arabs from around,
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  Speaker 4: we want to laugh you. So, no, no, they'll never
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  Speaker 4: be that alliance. But I think that's where President Trump is.
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  Speaker 4: He always thinks big, and he always thinks bigger than
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  Speaker 4: just the immediate issue. I think that's why he hasn't
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  Speaker 4: jumped in with a military response. He can always do
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  Speaker 4: the military response, but I think he wants to get
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  Speaker 4: all those other guys on board first.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: And I had Moranda the Vine on this show yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and she was talking about her conversation her terrific.
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  Speaker 3: Podcast pod Voice one with Trump. Yeah you saw that
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  Speaker 3: and interview with it.
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  Speaker 2: It was great, and specifically the content about the Trump
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  Speaker 2: BB dust up. Trump said, are you up being crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this is why people hate you? This is why
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  Speaker 2: what do you do when you're killing me?
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  Speaker 3: Here?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I never thought for a second that
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  Speaker 2: he didn't say that, because I know, I know for
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  Speaker 2: a fact, and I'm going to see BB. Yeah, of
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  Speaker 2: course I'm going to see BB in two weeks in Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Right, that's the point.
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  Speaker 2: The media wants you to believe that because Trump cursed
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  Speaker 2: him out, and he did, trust me, he did because
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  Speaker 2: he cursed them out. They don't like each other, The
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  Speaker 2: US sick of Israel.
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  Speaker 3: It's nonsense, right, it's nonsense.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've been in the alphilosophs with him when
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  Speaker 4: he has been a little spicy, shall we say, with
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  Speaker 4: other leaders. He only does that with leaders he thinks
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  Speaker 4: well of true, No, he doesn't say that. He doesn't
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  Speaker 4: say to some of the ones that he made disparage otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't say to them in spicy language the kind
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  Speaker 4: of stuff that he said to BB. And he certainly
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  Speaker 4: doesn't say it to people leaders who has a more
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  Speaker 4: former relationship. He's not going to say that to Chinese president. No,
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  Speaker 4: it was not a relationship. It's like that. He's not
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  Speaker 4: gonna say that to Bouten, But he can say it
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  Speaker 4: to BB, and BB probably gives back as good as
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  Speaker 4: he gets.
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  Speaker 2: No, he does would he would say to Zelenski. He
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  Speaker 2: did say yesterday that it would be in the best entry.
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  Speaker 2: So Putin and Zelenski to actually meet each other. You
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  Speaker 2: see that happening?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do you think they will?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you about Cuba. One of our local
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  Speaker 2: congress women, she's terrific out of Staten Island and Brooklyn
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  Speaker 2: Nicole Malyotakis.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's part Cuban, as you know, kat So
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  Speaker 2: she's she's furious because you remember when Chris van Holland
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  Speaker 2: went to visit the alleged gang member, remember that in
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  Speaker 2: El Salvador. So these democrats go down to Cuba and
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  Speaker 2: they treat these people who are terrible people. They just
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  Speaker 2: they're destroying the everyday Cuban. They treat them like their kings,
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  Speaker 2: like their royalty. Long story short, what's gonna happen with Cuba?
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  Speaker 4: I think if the deals are already in place, as
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  Speaker 4: President Trump, so we want to finish the Iran thing,
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  Speaker 4: and then we're going to go on our way. Bed
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  Speaker 4: are going to go to Cuba. The leaders of Cuba,
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  Speaker 4: the guys who are nominally running things, the corrupt and
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  Speaker 4: competent commune. If they don't leave, they get snatched and
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  Speaker 4: be charged for many crimes. But the next level down,
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  Speaker 4: the younger people, the people that Marco Rubio is talking
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  Speaker 4: to on a regular basis, the deals there. There are
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  Speaker 4: already people on how they can move, especially Cuban Americans
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  Speaker 4: are looking at how can I go back to Cuba.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to start businesses. I want to invest, I
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  Speaker 4: want to do trade. The people of Cuba want that
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  Speaker 4: to happen. It's just these sort of old corrupt you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the end final days of the Soviet Union,
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  Speaker 4: those old corrupt communists that are incompetent and they don't
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  Speaker 4: know how to stand out of their waye. So they
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  Speaker 4: either have them a duro solution or they you know,
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  Speaker 4: find a nice Swiss bank account somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Final sixty seconds. Based on your advice, I have reached
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  Speaker 2: out to these spensive social media teams, but I got
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  Speaker 2: to tell you, I'm getting nervous.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I asked a couple of people, I said, is this
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  Speaker 2: going to be over Tuesday night?
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  Speaker 3: Election day was Tuesday? I said yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now now it's Friday, and now Hilton is falling back.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe butserah even overtakes him at number one. It looks
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  Speaker 2: like this psycho DSA Nthia is catching up to Pratt
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  Speaker 2: at number two. We are looking, I guess, once again,
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  Speaker 2: at a crooked cheat in the state of California.
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  Speaker 4: That's what President Trump said. He said, he said yesterday
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  Speaker 4: and I pressed this isn't aside in his press conference
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  Speaker 4: he said, are you watching that they're going to steal that?
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  Speaker 4: Those Democrats are going to steal it. Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 4: know they're going to all of a sudden, mysteriously fine
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  Speaker 4: thousands of ballots stuck away in a mail room somewhere,
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  Speaker 4: And I don't they will try to steal it.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, that'll be the legal case of the century, won't it.
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  Speaker 4: If they try to steal it from Hilton and from
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  Speaker 4: Spencer Pratt.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be huge and they're gonna try it.
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  Speaker 2: May be a little too big to wag because.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're too big to direction.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, like not.
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  Speaker 2: At ten points, but now it's not the five or
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  Speaker 2: six either way. Katie mcfauland I couldn't love you more
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  Speaker 2: than I do. He's so great. We love you here
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  Speaker 2: on bodies, have yourself a great weekend. And we look
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  Speaker 2: forward to doing it again next week. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 2: actually next week, thanks by sweetheart Kate. See McFarland right
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