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Sid & Friends In The Morning Rings in the Weekend! · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
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Speaker 1: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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Speaker 3: Congratulations especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the
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Speaker 3: New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I can't believe
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Speaker 3: he didn't make it years ago. Today, Sid forever joins
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Speaker 3: a roll call of some of the greatest legends in
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Speaker 3: the history of New York broadcasting and talk radio. the
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Speaker 3: best in the business, and he's the best in the business.
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Speaker 3: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
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Speaker 3: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves. And
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Speaker 3: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience. And I happen
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Speaker 3: to be one of those people in the audience. And
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Speaker 3: I had for a long time, long before I became president.
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Speaker 4: We begin with breaking news.
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Speaker 5: An ICE agent who shot a person in Manhattan in
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Speaker 5: Marble Hill, around 225th Street and Marble Hill Avenue. Mayor
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Speaker 5: Mamdani says that agent shot a New Yorker and that,
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Speaker 5: according to early reports, several agents surrounded him and a
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Speaker 5: five-year-old child in his car before they opened fire. That
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Speaker 5: man is hospitalized in stable condition. Mayor says the child
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Speaker 5: was unharmed. We heard from one witness who was there
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Speaker 5: moments after the shots were fired.
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Speaker 6: I mean, why are you guys killing my father? Why
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Speaker 6: are you guys killing my father?
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Speaker 4: The man was completely tanned.
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Speaker 5: Protests are growing. The shooting sparking outrage from New Yorkers
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Speaker 5: and local leaders.
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Speaker 4: This is devastating for our community.
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Speaker 7: We've been asking and demanding ICE leave our community, and
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Speaker 7: this is the result of what happened.
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Speaker 4: The one thing that's clear is ICE has got to
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Speaker 4: get the hell out of our neighborhood.
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Speaker 5: Mayor Mamdani says he plans to demand President Trump and
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Speaker 5: all ICE enforcement operations in New York City.
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Speaker 8: ICE agents surrounded the man's vehicle before opening fire. They
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Speaker 8: wore construction vests and masks that concealed their faces. There
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Speaker 8: was no reasonable way to identify them as ICE agents.
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Speaker 8: When ICE agents opened fire, a five-year-old child, a five-year-old
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Speaker 8: child was in the backseat of the car. Thank God
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Speaker 8: that child is physically unharmed. For the past two hours,
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Speaker 8: I have been on the phone with President Trump and
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Speaker 8: Secretary Mullen negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot.
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Speaker 8: Those negotiations were unsuccessful. Just moments ago, ICE put the
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Speaker 8: man in an unmarked vehicle and whisked him away. Let
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Speaker 8: me say this plainly. What happened today was an outrage.
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Speaker 4: You were booed.
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Speaker 2: You were heckled.
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Speaker 9: Clearly, you have some supporters and some people on that
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Speaker 9: side of the issue who view you as a traitor.
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Speaker 4: Your statement.
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Speaker 9: issued yesterday morning, seem to anger many in the Jewish community.
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Speaker 9: What do you make of that conflict that seems to
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Speaker 9: be going on? How do you feel about being called
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Speaker 9: a traitor? And do you feel misunderstood?
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Speaker 10: You know, I was proud to attend last night's vigil,
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Speaker 10: as I did last year, to listen to testimonies from
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Speaker 10: family members of those who were killed on October 7th.
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Speaker 10: And those have been killed in the three years since.
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Speaker 10: And all of whom united in a vision for peace
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Speaker 10: and an end to the genocide in Gaza. And when
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Speaker 10: we're speaking of that genocide, we're speaking of one that
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Speaker 10: has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians in the last three years.
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Speaker 10: As for those protesting me, I am the mayor of
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Speaker 10: New York City, and this is what I signed up for.
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Speaker 11: What my friend here just wants to do is he's
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Speaker 11: kind of like a glitchy AI chat bot. You say
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Speaker 11: the same thing over and over and over again, but
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Speaker 11: let me tell you this. He has taken money from
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Speaker 11: groups associated and support the Muslim Brotherhood. He has taken
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Speaker 11: money from individuals on his campaign who openly support Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda.
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Speaker 11: He's taken money from the George Soros family. What we
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Speaker 11: found out is that this thing goes way back. Apparently
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Speaker 11: they paid for his education in Colombia. Now they're paying
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Speaker 11: for his campaign. By the way, that's a billionaire.
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Speaker 2: Last I checked. What degree did I get at Columbia?
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Speaker 4: We're out of time.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a 30-second rebuttal.
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Speaker 12: What degree did I get at Columbia? I get interviewed
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Speaker 12: by him, not by you. As a doctor, I understand
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Speaker 12: exactly what's happening.
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Speaker 13: Not a physician.
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Speaker 2: He says I like to say the same thing.
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Speaker 14: Not a physician.
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Speaker 12: He says I like to say the same thing. He's
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Speaker 12: done the same thing over and over and over again.
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Speaker 2: You know what that is?
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Speaker 12: Vote to keep your prescription drug prices high. 19 times.
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Speaker 12: A million dollars alone from Big Pharma. Another million dollars
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Speaker 12: from the health insurance corporations. Of course he is touting
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Speaker 12: their talking points. This is a guy who has not
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Speaker 12: been serious about providing people healthcare his entire career. What
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Speaker 12: he has been serious about is making sure that he
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Speaker 12: can monetize his time in public office. 14 million dollars,
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Speaker 12: two yachts, a McMansion in Florida. So at the end
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Speaker 12: of the day, I'm a doctor. I want people to
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Speaker 12: have health care.
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Speaker 2: All right, 30 seconds. We're going to move on after this.
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Speaker 2: 30 seconds.
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Speaker 11: How does a guy who's had less than four years
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Speaker 11: of work experience, who, by the way, on the campaign
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Speaker 11: trail said he had 10, own a luxury property in
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Speaker 11: the United Arab Emirates? He's worth a million bucks. Somebody
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Speaker 11: has to tell me how this math works. A, his
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Speaker 11: facts are wrong. Those are lies. But he has consistently...
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Speaker 11: not telling the truth. Well, let me just say it.
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Speaker 6: He's lying.
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Speaker 2: So he lied about being a physician.
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Speaker 11: He lied now about being an Egyptian citizen or not
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Speaker 11: being an Egyptian citizen.
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Speaker 2: I can't figure out what he is today.
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Speaker 11: But this impacts what he's trying to tell you where
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Speaker 11: he wants you to be.
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Speaker 2: That's a con man. Today or yesterday was October 7th.
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Speaker 2: This is why you should get absolutely angry.
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Speaker 11: He could not bring himself to even acknowledge the pain,
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Speaker 11: the terrorism, the rape, The murders, cutting off of women's breasts,
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Speaker 11: putting children in ovens, and killing them in front of
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Speaker 11: their families, could not even muster.
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Speaker 14: So I've condemned that.
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Speaker 2: He could not even muster. I've condemned that. I didn't
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Speaker 2: turn it into political theater.
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Speaker 9: A little bit about yesterday.
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Speaker 15: There was some deep disappointment as a lot of Jewish
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Speaker 15: voters were watching carefully to see what you would say
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Speaker 15: on October 7th. And they were disappointed in you not
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Speaker 15: saying anything. And then today you were asked about it,
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Speaker 15: and we couldn't get down to an answer in the
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Speaker 15: chaos of the debate. What would you like to say
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Speaker 15: to the Jewish voters about October 7th specifically?
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Speaker 12: Let me make a clear point here. I learned that
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Speaker 12: when people are grieving, don't step on their grief. And
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Speaker 12: I know that how much things were being watched, that
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Speaker 12: this was going to be, whatever I said, it was
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Speaker 12: going to feel like politicizing that moment. So I decided
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Speaker 12: not to say anything. I think, as I've said every
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Speaker 12: year since October 7th, that the murder of innocent people
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Speaker 12: is wrong, that what happened is wrong, and that, of course,
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Speaker 12: we grieve victims, innocent victims. But you looked at the
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Speaker 12: statement that Mike Rogers made. I mean, this was making
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Speaker 12: political theater out of pain in another country. I didn't
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Speaker 12: want to do that.
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Speaker 16: I was chief of staff of the DEA and the
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Speaker 16: Biden administration. I have always fought the fentanyl crisis and
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Speaker 16: fought the opioid crisis. The real shame here is that
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Speaker 16: the money that we got to fight the opioid crisis
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Speaker 16: in New York, Letitia James is allowing that money to
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Speaker 16: fund drug use. These drug injection sites that take people in,
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Speaker 16: give them needles, allow them to shoot up on fentanyl
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Speaker 16: and heroin, and then push them back out on the street.
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Speaker 16: It's totally unethical. It's totally illegal. I promised the neighbors
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Speaker 16: I'd bring it up tonight. I want you to know
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Speaker 16: I'll shut those down.
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Speaker 17: On day one.
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Speaker 16: We'll use the money for treatment.
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Speaker 18: This is nothing more than a distraction from her failed policies.
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Speaker 18: And because she is basically... What policies?
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Speaker 2: I'm not in office.
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Speaker 18: You're putting policies forward that unfortunately most professionals indicate will
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Speaker 18: not work for the state of New York. You have
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Speaker 18: not demonstrated any commitment and or compassion with regards to
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Speaker 18: individuals who have lost their loved ones from opioids.
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Speaker 16: I'm the one who's actually met with the victim.
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Speaker 17: Excuse me, I'm talking.
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Speaker 18: It's important that we move forward and ensure that these
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Speaker 18: funds that we that the office of the New York
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Speaker 18: state attorney general responsible for creating goes to, again, prevention,
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Speaker 18: education and for beds in the state of New York.
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Speaker 18: And we are doing just that.
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Speaker 12: Miss James, name a past New York attorney general that
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Speaker 12: you admire.
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Speaker 18: Tick tock.
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Speaker 16: Only admires herself.
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: We admire others.
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Speaker 18: I admire all of the past attorney generals because it's
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Speaker 18: a difficult job and you've got to stand up.
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Speaker 16: Dennis Facco, at a time when New York state needed it,
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Speaker 16: we had another former federal prosecutor become attorney general and
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Speaker 16: bring law and order to the state.
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Speaker 4: The consensus is, is that Letitia James is going to win.
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Speaker 4: Sir Whitmer is going to join me coming up this
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Speaker 4: morning at 940. And I've done a bunch of events
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Speaker 4: with Saritha, or Saritha, I don't know, over the last
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Speaker 4: couple of months. And she's just such an impressive young lady.
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Speaker 4: She's so smart. She understands all the issues. And all
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Speaker 4: Letitia James has going for her is she's a black
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Speaker 4: woman and a Democrat. That's it. Otherwise, she's corrupt. She's
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Speaker 4: a liar. She gained her office by promising to take
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Speaker 4: out President Trump, literally making up crimes, making up crimes,
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Speaker 4: the Attorney General, just so she can go after President Trump.
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Speaker 4: And even last night, because the fat, stupid, black, racist
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Speaker 4: Errol Lewis did nothing to help Saritha, nothing, he absolutely
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Speaker 4: was biased for Letitia James. Even last night, when it
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Speaker 4: became very, very evident that Saritha was outclassing Letitia James,
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Speaker 4: what did James do? I'll tell you what James did.
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Speaker 4: You're going to see the same exact thing coming up
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Speaker 4: this Tuesday night on New York 1.
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Speaker 17: When.
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Speaker 4: Hochul debates my friend Bruce Blankman, who's going to join
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Speaker 4: me on this show in about 30 minutes. She brought
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Speaker 4: up Trump. Now, you've got to understand something. Saripa is
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Speaker 4: not MAGA. She's not Sid Rosenberg. She's not close to Trump.
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Speaker 4: They don't even know each other. Truth be told, about
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Speaker 4: a month and a half ago, you guys remember, I
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Speaker 4: was in Nassau County with Bruce Blankman when President Trump
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Speaker 4: came to town. So yes, he did rally for Bruce Blankman,
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Speaker 4: but it was mostly a law and order rally. You
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Speaker 4: guys remember that? That was the first time Saritha even met,
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Speaker 4: even spoke to President Trump. And they haven't talked since.
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Speaker 4: So Letitia James breaking out the Trump card last night,
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Speaker 4: that would have worked if it was Bruce Blankman or
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Speaker 4: Sid Rosenberg. But that's not Saritha. And the truth is,
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Speaker 4: every time, even those drug injection sites, every time they
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Speaker 4: brought up something that was substantive that matters here in
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Speaker 4: New York, Letitia James had no answers. Did you watch
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Speaker 4: out last night, Noam?
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Speaker 14: I did not, no.
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Speaker 4: I missed it. Now, why is that the case? Because
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Speaker 4: you don't think Seripa can win.
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Speaker 14: No, that's not the reason I didn't watch it. I
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Speaker 14: just had other things to do.
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Speaker 4: Okay. Because you don't think Seripa can win. And you're saying,
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Speaker 4: why am I going to invest an hour when we
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Speaker 4: know already Saritha is a better candidate.
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Speaker 17: Right.
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Speaker 4: She's a smarter person.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 4: But the truth is, she's probably going to get whacked.
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Speaker 4: So you said, why should I invest time watching that?
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Speaker 19: Well, no doubt, it's incredibly difficult for Republicans to win
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Speaker 19: statewide office. You have to do everything exactly right. So, yeah,
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Speaker 19: the odds against her.
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Speaker 4: To say the least. But you can't argue... that she
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Speaker 4: is the much more impressive, much more prepared, much smarter.
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Speaker 4: Letitia James does nothing. What does she do? She stands
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Speaker 4: there behind Mayor Mamdani. First of all, she looks ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: You're the Attorney General. Can you get a jacket that fits?
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Speaker 4: She buttoned her jacket last night. She's all fat and
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Speaker 4: physically repulsive to begin with. She has this one stupid look.
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Speaker 4: She stares into the camera like I don't know what.
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Speaker 4: And Oprah's nothing. No answers. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. That's
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Speaker 4: all she does.
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Speaker 7: That's it.
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Speaker 4: And then you get that Governor Kathy Hochul who decides
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Speaker 4: here's a good idea. We got this Cornell reporter. alleged
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Speaker 4: rape case going on, let me bring my biased, prejudiced
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Speaker 4: Attorney General, Letitia James, who, mind you, already on Facebook,
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Speaker 4: has decided the outcome. She's already, already indicted and arrested
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Speaker 4: all those seven boys who may or may not be innocent. Now,
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Speaker 4: I've said this, and I mean it. What they did
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Speaker 4: was morally reprehensible. It was gross. To see these kids
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Speaker 4: coming out now like they're victims makes me nauseous, okay?
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Speaker 4: Because even if this girl said yes to two guys,
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Speaker 4: I know she didn't say yes to seven. So at
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Speaker 4: the very least, what these boys or men did was
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Speaker 4: morally grotesque. But on a criminal level, How do you
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Speaker 4: add somebody to the case who's already decided the outcome
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Speaker 4: on Facebook the week before? That's Letitia James.
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Speaker 20: No.
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Speaker 19: And you would think also it jeopardizes the case afterwards,
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Speaker 19: even if they were able to prosecute their case. Can't
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Speaker 19: they come back and say, well, look what she wrote
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Speaker 19: on Facebook before.
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Speaker 14: She even got involved?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 19: So on either side of it, you would think, find
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Speaker 19: somebody else who can take over the case.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you got all these issues with crime in
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Speaker 4: New York City. I love Jessica Tisch. I love her.
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Speaker 4: She's doing a fantastic job working with a mayor that
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Speaker 4: goes out of his way to hurt us. I get it.
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Speaker 4: And they're boasting about their crime numbers every day. But
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Speaker 4: the truth is, the city is still not safe. The
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Speaker 4: bail reform... out of Albany with those legislators, horrible people
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Speaker 4: like Andrea Stewart Cousins and Carl Heastie, that still exists.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Andrew Cuomo, and to a certain extent, thank you,
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Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul. That still exists. Letitia James has not made
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Speaker 4: New York City any safer. She did keep her promise.
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Speaker 4: And what was that? What was the one promise Letitia
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Speaker 4: James made to the voters?
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Speaker 14: She was going to prosecute Donald Trump.
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Speaker 4: That's right. Prosecute President Trump as if he's a danger
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Speaker 4: to anybody. And she sat there or stood there last night,
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Speaker 4: Letitia James, and got her ass thoroughly handed to her.
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Speaker 4: I am so proud of Saritha. Again, she's going to
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Speaker 4: join me at 940 this morning. She may not win
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Speaker 4: this election because New Yorkers are stupid. I said that
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Speaker 4: to Bo Snurdley on a show a couple of days ago.
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Speaker 4: He got a little riled up about that, but it's
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Speaker 4: the truth. New Yorkers are biased and stupid. Anybody who
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Speaker 4: can watch Letitia James work and think this lady is
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Speaker 4: impressive or worthy of an attorney general position is stupid.
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Speaker 4: There is no other explanation.
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Speaker 21: But that's all they want to hear is the playbook
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Speaker 21: that she used is whenever she lost track of what
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Speaker 21: she was going to fight, back was, well, it's just
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Speaker 21: more of she does not fight back against Donald Trump.
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Speaker 4: She's not even a Trump person. Right.
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Speaker 7: And she brought that part up.
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Speaker 4: Time and time again. Time and time again.
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Speaker 21: If you watched it and you go on Logic, she clearly...
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Speaker 21: killed her.
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Speaker 4: She killed her. Letitia James had no answers.
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Speaker 7: And doesn't have answers.
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Speaker 4: No. Trump, Trump, Trump. I mean, you really don't like
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Speaker 4: Letitia James or you love Sirica.
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Speaker 20: No.
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Speaker 4: It's both.
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Speaker 21: Both of them are because she speaks exactly what you
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Speaker 21: want to hear at the very least. And she already
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Speaker 21: did it countless times. She talked about I about examples
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Speaker 21: about how people do not feel safe and how the
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Speaker 21: numbers of violence against women in this city is astronomical.
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Speaker 21: And that Letitia James has not done anything about it.
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Speaker 17: No.
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Speaker 21: She specifically pointed out things to her. And she has
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Speaker 21: talked to people all over the state. And Letitia James, oh,
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Speaker 21: she's like, well, it's clear you haven't talked to enough people.
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Speaker 21: And you clearly have an agenda of going after another
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Speaker 21: government job under.
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Speaker 7: Trump when it's not. She worked under all these other presidents, too.
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Speaker 7: She worked under Obama.
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Speaker 4: Obama, Biden, Democrats. She's not a MAGA Trumper. In fact,
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Speaker 4: it came up last night, some of the endorsements. She's
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Speaker 4: getting support from him.
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Speaker 7: That's not her fault.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but she's getting support from Democrats, too, from anti-Trump people.
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Speaker 4: In fact, Plaintiff's Lawist, cut number 10, Saritha explains to
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Speaker 4: this moron, Letitia James, I have anti-Trumpers endorsing me as well.
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Speaker 4: Cut number 10.
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Speaker 16: You know, every time Letitia James mentions Donald Trump, just
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Speaker 16: remember it's because she can't defend her failing record. She
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Speaker 16: just admitted that the Medicaid fraud unit went from first
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Speaker 16: to worst under her watch, and she has no good
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Speaker 16: explanation for that. The reality is I have gotten the
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Speaker 16: president's endorsement, and I've gotten the endorsement of people who
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Speaker 16: are very critical of the president. People like Alicia Wiesel,
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Speaker 16: the son of Elie Wiesel, who endorsed me because we
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Speaker 16: are dealing with a surge of anti-Semitic hate crimes under
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Speaker 16: Tish James, and she's doing nothing about it.
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Speaker 17: I've gotten the.
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Speaker 16: Endorsement of 42 sheriffs across New York. That's an overwhelming majority.
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Speaker 4: That's stunning.
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Speaker 16: The current sheriffs of New York endorsed the challenger instead
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Speaker 16: of the sitting attorney general who they've worked with for
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Speaker 16: eight years.
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Speaker 4: Wow, look at Anthony D'Esposito on TV right now. Anthony D'Esposito?
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Speaker 4: with J.D. Vance and Sutherland. Isn't that pretty cool? Trump
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Speaker 4: administration cracks down on alleged visa abuse. And there's Anthony.
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Speaker 4: And now he's on Fox News Live with Brian Kilmeade.
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Speaker 4: But let me get back to Sarita for a second,
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Speaker 4: because we're about to talk about this ice shooting in
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Speaker 4: New York City. And she also went after Letitia James
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Speaker 4: on this immigrant conversation. Of course, James and Mamdani and
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Speaker 4: Jumaani and all these morons... yelling and screaming how we
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Speaker 4: treat immigrants so badly in New York City and around
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Speaker 4: the country. Here was the immigrant argument, Lewis. Cut number nine.
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Speaker 16: My family is an immigrant family. I know firsthand how
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Speaker 16: distressing it can be to be stopped because of the
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Speaker 16: color of your skin. Because immigrant families want the same
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Speaker 16: thing as every other family. They want safe communities.
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Speaker 7: We fled lawlessness.
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Speaker 18: Well, then you should say something to the president of
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Speaker 18: the United States.
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Speaker 4: Oh, shut up. Because what he's doing is separating families.
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Speaker 4: Shut up.
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Speaker 18: Putting children in cages.
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Speaker 4: No, he's not. Obama did that, you dumb bastard. What
19:11
Speaker 4: he's doing is dehumanizing individuals. No, he's not. Who deserve
19:13
Speaker 4: to be seen. Dehumanizing. And each and every day in
19:16
Speaker 4: the office of the Attorney General. Yeah, shut it off,
19:18
Speaker 4: shut it off.
19:19
Speaker 7: She's such an asshole.
19:20
Speaker 13: God.
19:21
Speaker 4: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
19:23
Speaker 7: We know you don't like him. Great. That's great.
19:25
Speaker 20: Right.
19:26
Speaker 4: So yesterday, here in New York City, this is all
19:29
Speaker 4: anybody's talking about. Bunch of vice agents masqueraded as construction workers.
19:36
Speaker 4: I'm not sure why they did that. I don't know.
19:38
Speaker 4: We'll get Tom Homan on next week. And they were
19:41
Speaker 4: going after a guy who's got a long rap sheet,
19:44
Speaker 4: was arrested twice in New York, I believe 2023 and 2024.
19:58
Speaker 4: Gang ties. So ICE is out there around 225th Street,
20:03
Speaker 4: Marble Hill, yesterday looking to apprehend and arrest this guy. Now,
20:08
Speaker 4: I don't know what happened next. I don't know. The
20:11
Speaker 4: guy did have a five-year-old kid in the car. Bullets,
20:15
Speaker 4: shots ring out. They shoot the guy. The bullet didn't
20:22
Speaker 4: hit him in any real serious places. He's not in
20:25
Speaker 4: any jeopardy of dying. He sat there on the sidewalk
20:28
Speaker 4: being handcuffed. So, obviously, there are concerns about why the
20:34
Speaker 4: ICE officer shot this guy when there's a five-year-old in
20:40
Speaker 4: the car. And I understand that. And let me tell
20:43
Speaker 4: you something. Mark Wayne Mullins, he takes his job very,
20:47
Speaker 4: very seriously. The other ICE officers, they take their jobs very,
20:53
Speaker 4: very seriously. Police... have no issue investigating police. So I
21:01
Speaker 4: am very, very confident they will get down to the
21:05
Speaker 4: bottom line here, why that officer decided to use his
21:09
Speaker 4: revolver with a five-year-old in the car, and if in
21:13
Speaker 4: fact they find out that this ICE officer was being irresponsible,
21:18
Speaker 4: maybe even reckless, you can bet your bottom dollar that
21:23
Speaker 4: there will be consequences for the ICE officer. No doubt
21:27
Speaker 4: about it. But the fact remains, this is a bad
21:32
Speaker 4: guy with a criminal record who should not be in
21:36
Speaker 4: our country. So the mayor, instead of explaining it like
21:40
Speaker 4: I just did, saying, hey, we want an investigation, we
21:44
Speaker 4: want to find out why ICE did what they did, but, but,
21:49
Speaker 4: We've got an illegal alien who committed crimes on our streets.
21:53
Speaker 4: We don't want that. He doesn't do that. This piece
21:56
Speaker 4: of garbage doesn't do that. And who's standing right next
21:59
Speaker 4: to him with the same stupid face she had on
22:01
Speaker 4: during the debate? Letitia James. And Jumaane Williams. And all
22:06
Speaker 4: he's going on and on about is that this guy
22:09
Speaker 4: should be released from ICE custody. Then he lies. He goes,
22:13
Speaker 4: you know, I've been talking for two hours to President Trump.
22:16
Speaker 4: I promise you, President Trump maybe lasted a minute on
22:21
Speaker 4: that phone call. Maybe. Okay. I talked to President Trump
22:25
Speaker 4: for two hours and my goal was to have this
22:28
Speaker 4: man released. And again, I asked the same question. Regardless
22:33
Speaker 4: of the ICE tactics, all right, you can be critical
22:37
Speaker 4: of what happened, even though the mayor probably has less
22:41
Speaker 4: information than I do. But regardless, why would you want
22:45
Speaker 4: a criminal, an illegal alien criminal, back on the streets
22:50
Speaker 4: of New York City? Can you explain that?
22:53
Speaker 14: No, I can't.
22:55
Speaker 4: That's all he talks about. You know, I get it.
22:58
Speaker 4: Shots fired, five-year-old in the car.
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Speaker 22: Why?
23:01
Speaker 4: I get it.
23:02
Speaker 14: That part you could absolutely be outraged at.
23:04
Speaker 4: Right, and there should be an investigation, and there will be.
23:07
Speaker 4: Trust me. But why does it turn into, well, this
23:11
Speaker 4: man needs to be released. He's not innocent. He's a
23:15
Speaker 4: gang-banging criminal. Why should he be released into our streets? Why?
23:21
Speaker 4: And why is Letitia James, who again got her ass
23:24
Speaker 4: kicked by Saritha last night, as the Attorney General, her
23:28
Speaker 4: job is to keep New Yorkers safe, Why is she
23:31
Speaker 4: standing there agreeing with the mayor? Explain that to me.
23:35
Speaker 19: It's all about scoring political points.
23:37
Speaker 4: No, that's not good. Enough of that.
23:38
Speaker 14: But that's why she's there.
23:39
Speaker 4: I know, but it's enough of that. That's why Seripa
23:42
Speaker 4: needs to win. One thing has nothing to do with
23:46
Speaker 4: the other. You can be critical, maybe outraged, although you
23:49
Speaker 4: know there's good details, yeah, about what happened with ICE.
23:52
Speaker 4: But why would you want a criminal back on the
23:55
Speaker 4: streets of New York?
23:57
Speaker 20: Why?
23:57
Speaker 21: It's not the solution to the ICE agent.
23:59
Speaker 8: No.
24:00
Speaker 4: Exactly.
24:00
Speaker 7: You're right.
24:01
Speaker 17: It's not.
24:02
Speaker 21: The investigation has to take place and figure out what
24:06
Speaker 21: actually what happened.
24:06
Speaker 4: And again, five or six people have gotten shot. A
24:10
Speaker 4: couple were killed. Good in Minnesota. Pretty in Minnesota. Five
24:16
Speaker 4: or six. Compared to thousands and thousands and thousands of
24:23
Speaker 4: rapists and murderers and pedophiles. The worst of the worst.
24:29
Speaker 4: The worst of the worst that have been arrested and deported.
24:34
Speaker 4: The numbers speak to my favor. Doesn't mean you can't
24:39
Speaker 4: tweak some stuff. Doesn't mean ICE doesn't need to be
24:42
Speaker 4: a little more careful. But to argue, in terms of
24:46
Speaker 4: the numbers, whether or not ICE is doing a good
24:50
Speaker 4: job is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. They're doing a great job.
24:56
Speaker 4: Could they be better? Sure. What happened yesterday? Is that
25:00
Speaker 4: deserving investigation? Sure. But come on. The mayor wants another
25:05
Speaker 4: criminal put back on the streets? How does that make sense?
25:11
Speaker 4: What else is what that's going on? What else you got?
25:13
Speaker 19: Well, I mean, we know about the Homeland Security is
25:16
Speaker 19: saying he's a member of this Dominican gang.
25:19
Speaker 14: And it's this incredibly violent gang.
25:22
Speaker 19: First of all, they're involved with all kinds of robberies
25:24
Speaker 19: and assaults here in New York across the country.
25:27
Speaker 4: Drugs.
25:28
Speaker 17: Right.
25:28
Speaker 14: They're big in the drug trafficking thing. That's where they're
25:30
Speaker 14: making their money.
25:31
Speaker 19: And what they're really known for is their street violence
25:34
Speaker 19: and using they don't use guns.
25:36
Speaker 14: They use machetes in a fair amount of their attacks.
25:39
Speaker 4: Oh, come on.
25:40
Speaker 17: Jesus.
25:40
Speaker 4: I mean, real barbarians, real animals. They are. They're animals.
25:45
Speaker 4: We don't want these people here. Go back to Venezuela.
25:49
Speaker 4: Go back to the Dominican Republic. This guy's from the DR.
25:52
Speaker 4: We don't want you here. Regardless of what ICE did yesterday,
25:57
Speaker 4: there should be an investigation for that. We don't want
25:59
Speaker 4: gang-banging criminals on the streets, Mr. Mayor, you epping asshole.
26:06
Speaker 19: That i'm sorry deal well i mean that's as much
26:08
Speaker 19: as we know about this individual the other part is
26:11
Speaker 19: what you said the n y p d says they
26:12
Speaker 19: made to arrest one was pretty minor infraction the other
26:16
Speaker 19: no was burglary that was from unit tissue that was
26:18
Speaker 19: from jessica tissue police commissioner yesterday so he does have
26:21
Speaker 19: a prior criminal record here he's here illegally that's another
26:25
Speaker 19: crime and then uh... we don't know what is involvement
26:28
Speaker 19: was in what crimes he may have carried out as
26:31
Speaker 19: a gang member that gang member by the way uh...
26:33
Speaker 19: that gang rather started behind bars at Rikers Island in
26:37
Speaker 19: the 90s. You know, it's an American side. It's Dominicans,
26:40
Speaker 19: almost all Dominicans in the gang. And it's an American-born gang.
26:45
Speaker 19: So the Department of Homeland Security knows a lot about
26:49
Speaker 19: this group.
26:50
Speaker 14: And they want all these members off the street.
26:52
Speaker 4: So Rita talks about that stuff all the time.
26:54
Speaker 13: You know that, right?
26:55
Speaker 4: Gang members and that type of crime and recidivist crime
27:00
Speaker 4: and all that. She's on top of everything, Saritha. This
27:04
Speaker 4: Letitia James is a moron. She really is. She's black
27:09
Speaker 4: and she's a woman. Congratulations. I guess that's all you
27:14
Speaker 4: need to win these days in sanctuary cities and sanctuary states.
27:18
Speaker 4: If you're black... And you're a woman. And, of course,
27:22
Speaker 4: the most important of all, if you hate my friend
27:25
Speaker 4: President Trump, you're a winner.
27:27
Speaker 7: That's all they lean on.
27:28
Speaker 4: You're a winner. Black, female, I hate Trump.
27:32
Speaker 21: Oh, I don't know the facts to this. But she
27:35
Speaker 21: still is endorsed by President Trump. And if you want
27:38
Speaker 21: to still have him in the state's lives, then you
27:41
Speaker 21: vote for, you know, that's all you can do.
27:43
Speaker 4: In the meantime, Sarita explained that we played it already.
27:45
Speaker 4: I got anti-Trumpers endorsing me. I mean, if you said
27:48
Speaker 4: to me, Sid Rosenberg, Sid, who were some of the
27:51
Speaker 4: radio talents before you that, you know, you liked that
27:57
Speaker 4: may have molded your career? It would take me one
28:00
Speaker 4: second to reel up a whole bunch. Howard Stern, Don Imus,
28:05
Speaker 4: Bob Grant, Paul Harvey, Mike Brancesa, Chris Russo. Right, Noam?
28:11
Speaker 4: How long would it take you to reel off what
28:13
Speaker 4: news guys actually molded your career?
28:17
Speaker 14: Not long.
28:18
Speaker 4: Give me a couple right now.
28:19
Speaker 14: Bruce Anderson, who is a legendary news anchor here at WABC.
28:24
Speaker 19: Boy, was he just a super nice guy and And
28:27
Speaker 19: he would always give me advice about what to do,
28:29
Speaker 19: you know, how to get the next job.
28:30
Speaker 14: So that's the first person that comes to mind.
28:33
Speaker 4: You would think Letitia James, when she's asked a question
28:37
Speaker 4: by Errol Lewis, who, again, let me repeat, this fat,
28:40
Speaker 4: stupid black racist went out of his way, went out
28:44
Speaker 4: of his way to run cover for James last night.
28:47
Speaker 4: Is that not fair, Lou?
28:48
Speaker 21: Every time Sarita came back with rebuttals, they said, out
28:53
Speaker 21: of time, we're out of, we're not. We're not there
28:56
Speaker 21: to watch the moderators give them time limits. I'm not
29:01
Speaker 21: watching that.
29:02
Speaker 4: I want to see debate.
29:03
Speaker 21: I want to see the two of them talking and
29:07
Speaker 21: trying to combat each other with the facts and the numbers,
29:11
Speaker 21: which Sarita is in possession of. and see how Letitia
29:17
Speaker 21: James can.
29:17
Speaker 8: Come back at it.
29:18
Speaker 4: Sir Ritter kept mentioning all these numbers to lose point,
29:21
Speaker 4: and James had nothing. Nothing.
29:24
Speaker 7: Time's up.
29:25
Speaker 4: You've got 40 seconds.
29:26
Speaker 7: They never did that to Letitia James.
29:28
Speaker 4: No, not once. Not once. And then they asked James
29:31
Speaker 4: again the question, give us an AG you admire. She's
29:35
Speaker 4: the current AG. She should have three or four roll
29:39
Speaker 4: off her tongue. Listen to this. Cut number 11. Hey, Letitia,
29:44
Speaker 4: you dumb bastard. Give us a former AG you admire.
29:48
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
29:49
Speaker 20: Ms.
29:49
Speaker 12: James, name a past New York attorney general that you admire.
29:55
Speaker 17: Hello.
29:56
Speaker 16: Hello.
29:57
Speaker 22: Come on.
29:58
Speaker 4: Give me one, baby. Come on. Hello, is this on TikTok?
30:01
Speaker 4: I only admire myself. You can't make it up. He's
30:05
Speaker 4: such a stupid bastard.
30:06
Speaker 22: I know, of course.
30:08
Speaker 14: She's like, Elliot Spitzer? No, no, I can't.
30:10
Speaker 4: I don't think you want to go there. I don't know.
30:14
Speaker 4: So there were two debates last night. There was that one.
30:18
Speaker 4: You know, there's a rumor going on. I have not
30:20
Speaker 4: been able to confirm this. You may end up, this
30:24
Speaker 4: is pretty unbelievable, with Hasan Piker... and Sid Rosenberg in
30:30
Speaker 4: the same building today.
30:32
Speaker 14: Where's that going to happen?
30:34
Speaker 4: Well, I can't tell you because I'm waiting for confirmation.
30:37
Speaker 4: But it could happen at the same time in the
30:41
Speaker 4: same building. Now, no one has been tougher, no one
30:46
Speaker 4: on Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and his uncle Cenk than me.
30:51
Speaker 4: To the point now where Piker goes on his very
30:55
Speaker 4: popular Twitch podcast, you guys know this, and talks about me,
31:01
Speaker 4: I would say, every other week. Is that about accurate, Noam? Yeah,
31:05
Speaker 4: a lot.
31:05
Speaker 23: A lot.
31:06
Speaker 4: And lately he's been talking about, you know, he's the
31:09
Speaker 4: biggest racist in the world. He's called me the biggest
31:11
Speaker 4: racist in the world. But I like him. In fact,
31:14
Speaker 4: I love him. He's colorful. He dresses well. He's got
31:18
Speaker 4: that beautiful bald head. He's got this great tan. It's
31:23
Speaker 4: kind of odd, actually, when I play those cuts. You
31:25
Speaker 4: don't know him? What's he trying to do there? I
31:28
Speaker 4: don't know. It's weird, but there is a rumor that
31:32
Speaker 4: Hasan Piker... and Sid Rosenberg will be in the same
31:35
Speaker 4: building today. So my recommendation is do not change this
31:40
Speaker 4: channel until I'm done at 10 o'clock to find out
31:42
Speaker 4: if that's going to be the case. Yikes. But according
31:45
Speaker 4: to sources, Abdul El-Sayed, America-hating Abdul El-Sayed, who, like Saritha
31:55
Speaker 4: and James, debated Mike Rogers in Michigan last night, told
32:00
Speaker 4: Hassan Piker that he's actually hurting his campaign. Did you
32:05
Speaker 4: see that, Noam?
32:06
Speaker 14: I mean, I saw parts of the debate. What did
32:07
Speaker 14: he say there?
32:08
Speaker 4: Well, I was not doing the debate. I guess it
32:10
Speaker 4: was a story that came out before or after. that
32:13
Speaker 4: Piker reached out to, excuse me, El-Sayed reached out to
32:16
Speaker 4: Hassan and said, you're actually hurting me. Oh, okay. Not
32:20
Speaker 4: helping me.
32:20
Speaker 14: Okay, I can see that.
32:21
Speaker 4: But in the debate, I think it was pretty one-sided, too. Now, again,
32:25
Speaker 4: I'm biased because I hate Democrats, all of them. I
32:29
Speaker 4: hate their guts. So I'm biased. But what I watched
32:33
Speaker 4: and saw this morning, and I watched a lot of it,
32:36
Speaker 4: The clips, the videos, it looked to me like here, too,
32:40
Speaker 4: Mike Rogers was a much better candidate. Any opinion on
32:44
Speaker 4: that one?
32:45
Speaker 20: No.
32:45
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, I thought Al Sayed had some zingers as well.
32:49
Speaker 4: He did.
32:49
Speaker 19: Now, the question is, this one, I think unlike, unfortunately,
32:52
Speaker 19: the Attorney General's debate, there were a lot of people watching, right?
32:55
Speaker 14: This is a big race. In fact, Fox has this
32:58
Speaker 14: race essentially even between the two of.
33:00
Speaker 4: Them right now.
33:02
Speaker 14: So the debate could be everything in terms of making
33:04
Speaker 14: people's minds up.
33:05
Speaker 4: But there's one place where Rodgers has to go to
33:09
Speaker 4: really ensure a victory. If somebody was to say to you,
33:14
Speaker 4: Noam Layton, who is a bigger threat to the world today?
33:20
Speaker 4: And when you hear this, you're going to laugh because
33:23
Speaker 4: it's really a ridiculous question. Who is a bigger threat
33:28
Speaker 4: to the world today, Iran or Israel?
33:33
Speaker 17: Yeah.
33:34
Speaker 14: Was that one of the questions?
33:35
Speaker 10: Yes.
33:36
Speaker 4: And Abdul El-Sayed said it's a ridiculous question. He wouldn't
33:41
Speaker 4: answer it. He didn't say it's a ridiculous question because
33:44
Speaker 4: why would you put Israel and Iran in the same sentence?
33:48
Speaker 4: He didn't do that. I mean, if I asked you,
33:50
Speaker 4: Lou Rapinoe, who's a bigger threat to the world today,
33:54
Speaker 4: Iran or Israel, you'd be offended because it's such a
33:59
Speaker 4: stupid question, right?
34:01
Speaker 7: Well, that's a stupid question.
34:03
Speaker 17: Right.
34:03
Speaker 21: And you're asking that because you're friends with Trump.
34:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly right. But in the meantime, El-Sayed had difficulty
34:10
Speaker 4: answering that question. Here it is, cut number four. He
34:14
Speaker 4: refused to say, refused to say that Iran is a
34:19
Speaker 4: bigger threat than Israel. That's why this guy's going to lose.
34:23
Speaker 4: Cut number four.
34:24
Speaker 12: I'm going to ask you again tonight, who do you
34:26
Speaker 12: think is a bigger threat to the United States, Israel
34:28
Speaker 12: or Iran?
34:29
Speaker 2: You have 60 seconds.
34:30
Speaker 12: And again, Rick, I'm just going to say that that's
34:31
Speaker 12: a ridiculous hypothetical.
34:33
Speaker 14: Because here's what's happening right now.
34:35
Speaker 12: Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go
34:39
Speaker 12: to war with Iran. We have watched as Iran has
34:43
Speaker 12: responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle
34:46
Speaker 12: East and then choking off the world's energy supply. So
34:51
Speaker 12: this is a situation in which I don't think we
34:53
Speaker 12: should be a part.
34:54
Speaker 14: I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel.
34:57
Speaker 4: Oh, how's that for an answer right there? Is that unbelievable?
35:02
Speaker 14: He had to navigate that question because.
35:05
Speaker 19: The majority, the reason he has so much support is
35:07
Speaker 19: from the left, the people who hate Israel.
35:09
Speaker 4: But here's the answer. Here's the very simple answer. Iran.
35:12
Speaker 17: Right.
35:12
Speaker 4: That's it.
35:14
Speaker 19: Right, but he had to think about his support comes
35:16
Speaker 19: from these lunatics on the left.
35:18
Speaker 14: So he couldn't say it outright like that.
35:21
Speaker 4: There was more of this debate I've got here on
35:23
Speaker 4: this sheet today. Here, Rogers goes after Al-Said for being
35:28
Speaker 4: a con man and lying. He's a liar to the
35:32
Speaker 4: American people. Lewis cut number five.
35:35
Speaker 11: What my friend here just wants to do, as he's
35:37
Speaker 11: kind of like a glitchy AI chatbot, is say the
35:40
Speaker 11: same thing over and over and over again.
35:42
Speaker 2: But let me tell you this.
35:45
Speaker 11: He has taken money from groups associated and support the
35:48
Speaker 11: Muslim Brotherhood.
35:49
Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
35:49
Speaker 11: He has taken money from individuals on his campaign who
35:53
Speaker 11: openly support Hamas.
35:54
Speaker 4: Oh, God.
35:55
Speaker 2: Hezbollah.
35:56
Speaker 17: Oh.
35:56
Speaker 6: Al-Qaeda.
35:57
Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
35:57
Speaker 2: He's taken money from the George Soros family.
35:59
Speaker 11: What we found out is that this thing goes way back.
36:02
Speaker 2: Apparently, they paid for his education in Colombia.
36:04
Speaker 17: Yeah.
36:05
Speaker 11: Now they're paying for his campaign. By the way, that's
36:07
Speaker 11: a billionaire, last I checked.
36:09
Speaker 2: What degree did I get a Columbia? We're out of time.
36:10
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a 30-second rewind.
36:11
Speaker 12: What degree did I get a Columbia? I get interviewed
36:14
Speaker 12: by him, not by you. As a doctor, I understand
36:17
Speaker 12: exactly what's happening. He says I like to say the
36:19
Speaker 12: same thing. He says I like to say the same thing.
36:21
Speaker 12: He's done the same thing over and over and over again.
36:23
Speaker 14: You know what that is?
36:24
Speaker 12: Vote to keep your prescription drug prices high 19 times.
36:27
Speaker 12: A million dollars alone from Big Pharma. Another million dollars alone.
36:31
Speaker 12: from the health insurance corporations. Of course he is touting
36:33
Speaker 12: their talking points. This is a guy who has not
36:36
Speaker 12: been serious about providing people health care his entire career.
36:38
Speaker 12: What he has been serious about is making sure that
36:41
Speaker 12: he can monetize his time in public office. $ 14 million,
36:44
Speaker 12: two yachts, a McMansion in Florida. So at the end
36:47
Speaker 12: of the day, I'm a doctor. I want people to
36:49
Speaker 12: have health care.
36:50
Speaker 4: All right, 30 seconds.
36:50
Speaker 2: We're going to move on after this. 30 seconds.
36:53
Speaker 11: How does a guy who's had less than four years
36:56
Speaker 11: of work experience, who, by the way, on the campaign
36:59
Speaker 11: trail said he had 10, own a luxury property.
37:03
Speaker 2: In the United Arab Emirates.
37:05
Speaker 22: Good question.
37:05
Speaker 2: He's worth a million bucks. Somebody has to tell me
37:07
Speaker 2: how this math works.
37:08
Speaker 14: Good question. A, his facts are wrong.
37:10
Speaker 2: Those are lies.
37:11
Speaker 11: But he is consistently not telling the truth. Well, let
37:15
Speaker 11: me just say it. He's lying.
37:17
Speaker 2: So he lied about being a physician.
37:19
Speaker 11: He lied now about being an Egyptian citizen or not
37:21
Speaker 11: being an Egyptian citizen.
37:23
Speaker 2: I can't figure out what he is today.
37:25
Speaker 11: But this impacts what he's trying to tell you where
37:29
Speaker 11: he wants you to be.
37:30
Speaker 2: That's a con man.
37:31
Speaker 4: That's a con man right there, Noam.
37:33
Speaker 20: No?
37:33
Speaker 14: What was his response to that?
37:35
Speaker 4: That cut it off. I have no idea. I'll have
37:37
Speaker 4: to go back and watch.
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Speaker 13: I don't know.
37:39
Speaker 4: We've got so much going on in this program today.
37:41
Speaker 4: We don't have time for all that, no.
37:43
Speaker 14: No, there is a lot going on.
37:44
Speaker 4: We've got Saritha coming on today, and she's going to
37:48
Speaker 4: talk about her unbelievable effort. She wiped the floor with
37:53
Speaker 4: the current Attorney General Letitia James. Joe Takapina is going
37:56
Speaker 4: to be here. We're going to dive into the latest
37:59
Speaker 4: specifics on the Cornell 7. Bernadette Castro-Lewis, how about that?
38:05
Speaker 7: Get her back. Let's go.
38:06
Speaker 4: What was the statement she would make to me every
38:09
Speaker 4: week on the I Missed in the Morning show?
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Speaker 7: Don't stop doing that.
38:13
Speaker 4: It's not true. Hey, Bernadette. That's not true. On the
38:16
Speaker 4: beach today, what did you find more of, syringes or fingers?
38:20
Speaker 21: We are not going to talk. Don, now you know
38:24
Speaker 21: the parks have been so safe and the beaches.
38:27
Speaker 7: Stop doing that.
38:28
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm sorry, Bernadette.
38:30
Speaker 14: Let's not stop lying.
38:33
Speaker 22: K.P.
38:33
Speaker 4: McFaul will be here today. Roger Stone makes his return today.
38:37
Speaker 4: But big happenings up in New York. In Syracuse, Bruce Blankman,
38:43
Speaker 4: running for governor, and President Trump are going to campaign together.
38:48
Speaker 4: So our first guest this morning coming up happens to
38:51
Speaker 4: be the Nassau County executive and soon to be the
38:55
Speaker 4: next governor here in New York. Leading us off this
38:58
Speaker 4: morning on a day you'll spend with President Trump, my
39:01
Speaker 4: good buddy, Bruce Blateman.
39:04
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
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Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
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Speaker 4: D-O-A. Dead on arrival. An unspeakable tragedy. An unspeakable tragedy.
39:14
Speaker 4: That's right. John Lennon murdered 46 years ago, but today
39:19
Speaker 4: is his birthday. Is that right?
39:20
Speaker 20: 1940.
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Speaker 7: So he'd be 60 plus 26.
39:22
Speaker 4: He'd be 86 years old today.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And is Sean.
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Speaker 21: Was born in 75 his son on the same day.
39:34
Speaker 4: Same day so it was wow so today's sean's birthday
39:38
Speaker 4: just like me and my mother yeah right we are
39:41
Speaker 4: both april the 19th naomi and sid.
39:44
Speaker 7: Yes five years later he lost his father.
39:46
Speaker 4: Oh that's terrible yeah you know i just heard from
39:48
Speaker 4: craig lennon Same spelling, L-E-N-N-O-N, but no elation. Craig's not
39:54
Speaker 4: a rock and roll star, but a great guy. Anyway,
39:56
Speaker 4: we're going to take a break. I do want to
39:58
Speaker 4: say this. I want to get at some point today.
40:02
Speaker 4: to this amazing event I was honored at last night.
40:05
Speaker 4: The big honorees, and deservedly so, were John and Margot Katzmatidis.
40:10
Speaker 4: God bless them, both wonderful people. The DEA, not the
40:13
Speaker 4: Drug Enforcement Agency, the Detectives Endowment Agency, led by Scott Monroe,
40:19
Speaker 4: who's doing a great job, had a big event in
40:23
Speaker 4: Howard Beach last night. But you know who I met
40:25
Speaker 4: for the first time? Never met this guy before. And
40:28
Speaker 4: I love him. Hank Sheinkopf.
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Speaker 17: Oh.
40:32
Speaker 4: What a classy, beautiful man he is. I loved him
40:35
Speaker 4: last night.
40:36
Speaker 7: Let me guess, he loved the show.
40:38
Speaker 4: Loved me, loves the show. He showered me with compliments
40:42
Speaker 4: all night. Well, everybody did. Again, again, and maybe somebody
40:46
Speaker 4: else at ABC will admit this, I was the most
40:50
Speaker 4: popular guy in the place. And Bo Dietl was there
40:53
Speaker 4: with me. I love Bo and Margo, but I was.
40:56
Speaker 4: Who else was there? Tomar Station? John and Margo.
41:00
Speaker 14: So you were more popular than them?
41:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a lot of applause. No question about it.
41:06
Speaker 4: Who else? George V. Chad Lopez. Craig Eaton. There were
41:14
Speaker 4: no other hosts. Dominic Carter, Greg Kelly, and Rita Cosbio
41:18
Speaker 4: couldn't make it.
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Speaker 7: Bo Dietl?
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Speaker 4: Bo was, he wasn't honored. He did mention him, Scott Monroe.
41:25
Speaker 4: We got a smattering of applause. Yes, Bo was awesome.
41:28
Speaker 4: We love Bo. But he's just a smatter. Yeah, not
41:30
Speaker 4: like me, no. You want honest answers? You want me
41:33
Speaker 4: to lie?
41:33
Speaker 2: I don't care.
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Speaker 14: No, that's why I'm asking.
41:34
Speaker 7: A smattering is 18 levels below.
41:36
Speaker 14: It is, yeah.
41:39
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I can be in Syracuse
41:42
Speaker 4: today with Trump and Blakeman. And I'll still get the
41:45
Speaker 4: same amount of applause. We'll ask Bruce. We'll ask Bruce.
41:49
Speaker 22: Okay.
41:49
Speaker 7: Okay.
41:50
Speaker 4: He's coming up next.
41:51
Speaker 6: All right.
41:52
Speaker 4: He's coming up next.
41:53
Speaker 14: Did anybody cry last night?
41:55
Speaker 4: Nobody cried last night. No, no crying. No crying. I'm
41:58
Speaker 4: crying today right now.
41:59
Speaker 14: What do you think, Bruce?
42:01
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
42:05
Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
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Speaker 4: Bruce, good morning, buddy. How are you?
42:10
Speaker 22: Good morning, Sid. We're doing great. Feeling great. Feeling like
42:13
Speaker 22: a winner.
42:14
Speaker 4: Feeling like a winner. So please tell me you're not
42:16
Speaker 4: driving to Syracuse.
42:17
Speaker 17: Are you?
42:19
Speaker 22: No, we're going to take a plane up to Syracuse today.
42:21
Speaker 4: Good. That's a very, very long trip. And you're going
42:24
Speaker 4: up there today to do something that every governor has
42:28
Speaker 4: promised to do, especially the last two louses, Kathy Hochul
42:32
Speaker 4: and Andrew Cuomo, and that is to fix some of
42:35
Speaker 4: these great towns. They've got colleges. Towns like Syracuse, my
42:39
Speaker 4: son's applying there, and Binghamton. Yet, yet, they're a mess. Drug-addled, poverty-stricken, horrible. Rome, Utica, Buffalo, Rochester,
42:52
Speaker 4: Syracuse today. All these governors promise to fix these places.
42:56
Speaker 4: They do nothing about it. Something tells me you'll fix it.
43:01
Speaker 22: Oh, definitely. Listen, when you travel upstate New York and
43:05
Speaker 22: you go to Buffalo and Rochester and Syracuse and all
43:08
Speaker 22: those cities and towns and villages in between, it is
43:12
Speaker 22: some of the most beautiful country in the United States
43:15
Speaker 22: of America. Many charming towns, great places. And the urban areas,
43:21
Speaker 22: they have good bones. They've got good access, but their
43:25
Speaker 22: infrastructure has been allowed to crumble. They're not investing money
43:30
Speaker 22: in law enforcement. You've got drug-infested communities. You've got gang activity.
43:36
Speaker 22: You've got homelessness. Those are things that I will not
43:40
Speaker 22: tolerate as governor of New York. We are going to
43:43
Speaker 22: clean up those urban areas, make them exciting again, make
43:47
Speaker 22: them vibrant, create good jobs, create jobs with good benefits
43:51
Speaker 22: so people have the health care they need. And we
43:54
Speaker 22: are going to revitalize the whole state, not just upstate,
43:59
Speaker 22: not just downstate, the whole state. So I love going
44:03
Speaker 22: up there. The people are terrific. They're the salt of
44:07
Speaker 22: the earth. And, you know, Sid, you know what Kathy
44:09
Speaker 22: Hochul said about Upstaters, right?
44:11
Speaker 17: I do.
44:12
Speaker 22: She said they weren't sophisticated enough to make important decisions.
44:17
Speaker 22: And she's from Upstate. Well, there's one thing about the
44:21
Speaker 22: people Upstate that I've found. They have common sense and
44:25
Speaker 22: good judgment, things that Kathy Hochul are lacking.
44:29
Speaker 4: 100%. She did say that. They're not sophisticated. She basically
44:33
Speaker 4: called black people stupid. That's Kathy Hochul. Now, look, I
44:37
Speaker 4: saw you with President Trump in Nassau County. Great rally
44:41
Speaker 4: you guys put on a couple of weeks ago. Rumors
44:43
Speaker 4: are that President Trump is going to come back to
44:46
Speaker 4: Long Island before your election, but today he's going to
44:49
Speaker 4: be in Syracuse with you because even though he's on
44:52
Speaker 4: a federal level, he, like you, Bruce Blakeman, is still
44:56
Speaker 4: a New Yorker that cares about about places like Syracuse.
45:02
Speaker 22: Well, Donald Trump loves New York. He is a New Yorker,
45:06
Speaker 22: and he likes to come back. But particularly, he said
45:10
Speaker 22: he wanted to come to upstate New York because he
45:13
Speaker 22: heard from me and how I talked about the fact
45:16
Speaker 22: that those big cities, those suburban areas, and those little
45:21
Speaker 22: rural towns, they need some help. They need to be revitalized.
45:25
Speaker 22: And He understands that, and he understands that you need
45:29
Speaker 22: the whole state to be doing well. So he's coming upstate,
45:33
Speaker 22: and it's always exciting when the President of the United
45:37
Speaker 22: States comes to your community. I don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, Independent.
45:41
Speaker 22: I don't care whether it's a Republican president or a
45:44
Speaker 22: Democrat president. Come on. The Commander-in-Chief is coming to your community.
45:49
Speaker 22: That's an exciting event.
45:50
Speaker 4: All going to be huge. So I'm not sure if
45:52
Speaker 4: you had a chance. You were up at dinner with
45:54
Speaker 4: Bernadette and others last night. But Saritha, who loves you,
45:58
Speaker 4: and I've seen Saritha at all your events. That's really
46:00
Speaker 4: how I got to know her pretty well. She kicked
46:03
Speaker 4: the crap out of Letitia James. Bruce, trust me, she
46:07
Speaker 4: kicked her ass on New York One last night in
46:10
Speaker 4: that one debate, okay? And every time Letitia James couldn't
46:14
Speaker 4: answer a question, what did she do? She brought up
46:18
Speaker 4: President Trump. Now, what's funny is, Saritha is not even MAGA.
46:22
Speaker 4: Not like you, not like me. She's not even MAGA.
46:25
Speaker 4: But every time Letitia James couldn't answer a question, she
46:29
Speaker 4: would just say Trump. Something tells me, coming up this
46:33
Speaker 4: Tuesday night, in your New York One debate with Kathy Hochul,
46:38
Speaker 4: she's going to do the same thing, don't you think?
46:41
Speaker 22: Well, I know she's going to do it because she
46:43
Speaker 22: can't defend her record. How do you defend a record
46:46
Speaker 22: whereby you have the highest taxed state in the United
46:50
Speaker 22: States of America? That's a badge of shame. She's the
46:54
Speaker 22: biggest pickpocket in America. She's got her hands in our pockets,
46:59
Speaker 22: taking our money, each and every day. How do you
47:02
Speaker 22: defend the fact that you approved 48 utility rate hikes?
47:07
Speaker 22: That's averaging one a month, and that our utility bills
47:12
Speaker 22: are 70% higher than the national average. How do you
47:15
Speaker 22: defend the fact that you are not supporting local law enforcement,
47:20
Speaker 22: that criminality has increased, that you can't walk into a
47:24
Speaker 22: CVS or a Walgreens and buy a bottle of shampoo
47:28
Speaker 22: without having to ring a buzzer and get a store
47:31
Speaker 22: clerk to come and unlock a glass door so you
47:34
Speaker 22: can buy the shampoo. How do you defend that record? So,
47:38
Speaker 22: of course, she's going to want to talk about other things.
47:41
Speaker 4: And, you know, we just commemorated October the 7th, and, Bruce,
47:45
Speaker 4: you were great, all your comments. Hochul gave us nothing. Yeah,
47:50
Speaker 4: she was a little critical, I guess, but not really
47:53
Speaker 4: because she never mentioned his name of Mamdani's statements. But
47:56
Speaker 4: I say this to everybody, whether you're Bruce Blakeman running
47:59
Speaker 4: for governor, Bruce is running against Hochul and Mamdani. Whether
48:04
Speaker 4: you're Janine Driscoll running for Congress. She's running against Laura
48:08
Speaker 4: Gillum and Mom Donnie, right? Whether you're Michael Petri, he's
48:12
Speaker 4: running against Tom Swazi and Mom Donnie. So you made
48:16
Speaker 4: the message very, very clear to Jewish New Yorkers, not
48:20
Speaker 4: because you're Jewish, and you are, and a proud Jew,
48:24
Speaker 4: but if they want to be treated better in the
48:26
Speaker 4: state of New York, if they want to see these
48:28
Speaker 4: anti-Semitism numbers start to get to a place where you
48:32
Speaker 4: can live with it, then the truth is... You're the
48:35
Speaker 4: guy for the job, right?
48:38
Speaker 22: Well, you know, Zoran Mondami is not only a danger
48:42
Speaker 22: to Jews, he's a danger to anybody who loves American values.
48:46
Speaker 22: He calls for collectivism. That's nothing more than another name
48:50
Speaker 22: for communism. Do we want to live in a communist country?
48:55
Speaker 22: Do we want to live in substandard housing? Do we
48:58
Speaker 22: want to wait a year to get a hip replacement?
49:01
Speaker 22: Do we want to wait online for four hours to get...
49:04
Speaker 22: substandard food from grocery stores. That's the world Zoran Mondami
49:09
Speaker 22: wants to create. So he's a danger to everyone. And look,
49:14
Speaker 22: I don't think he particularly likes Christians. no couldn't find
49:17
Speaker 22: an hour out of his day to go to the
49:19
Speaker 22: uh installation of the head of the catholic church the
49:22
Speaker 22: largest religion in new york city so uh he still
49:26
Speaker 22: hasn't said what he was doing that was more important
49:28
Speaker 22: that day canceled the breakfast for the puerto rican day
49:32
Speaker 22: parade leaders yep What was that all about? Every other
49:36
Speaker 22: mayor hosted them at Gracie Mansion. And I called my
49:39
Speaker 22: Puerto Rican friends and I said, why did he cancel
49:41
Speaker 22: your breakfast? And they said, we don't know because he
49:44
Speaker 22: hasn't said, but we think he just didn't want all
49:47
Speaker 22: those Christians in his house.
49:49
Speaker 4: It's true. No question. You know, for a Republican to
49:52
Speaker 4: win office in New York, we know it's difficult. But
49:55
Speaker 4: you keep winning. You win easily because you appeal to
49:58
Speaker 4: Democrats and independents. So my buddy Mike Sullivan, you know
50:01
Speaker 4: well he loves you, Mr. Brennan and Carr. He wants
50:04
Speaker 4: to put on a fundraiser for his brother Tom Sullivan.
50:08
Speaker 4: Thomas is a great guy. Served in Iraq, Afghanistan. You
50:11
Speaker 4: know the whole story. He's campaigned with you, Bruce.
50:14
Speaker 22: So.
50:15
Speaker 4: He's putting it on at the Bell Harbor Yacht Club
50:17
Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks. And he said, you know, Sid,
50:20
Speaker 4: Stephen Van Zandt, he loves Thomas. Van Zandt is not
50:26
Speaker 4: exactly MAGA Republican. He works with Bruce Springsteen. He's not
50:29
Speaker 4: as crazy as Bruce. He's a much more level-headed guy.
50:32
Speaker 4: But Mike said, do you think it's a good idea?
50:35
Speaker 4: And I referenced you, Bruce. I said, look, look at Blakeman.
50:39
Speaker 4: He keeps winning in a Democrat neighborhood time and time again.
50:44
Speaker 4: And look what's happened with Blakeman's campaign the last couple
50:47
Speaker 4: of months. Bonnie Lautenberg. Bob Holden, and this week, Debra Messing.
50:54
Speaker 4: Of course it's a good idea for Van Zandt to
50:57
Speaker 4: be at this event, because if you're going to win,
51:00
Speaker 4: you need help from independents and Democrats, and nobody, Bruce Blakeman,
51:05
Speaker 4: does it better than you.
51:08
Speaker 22: You know, Sid, I'm a Republican, and I have certain
51:14
Speaker 22: policy positions, and I have certain political positions. And they
51:20
Speaker 22: are usually the opposite of liberal Democrats. But liberal Democrats
51:26
Speaker 22: are supporting me for governor because they love America. The
51:30
Speaker 22: difference between the Democratic Party that we all knew growing up,
51:35
Speaker 22: we had policy differences with them. But Mario Cuomo, Ed Koch,
51:40
Speaker 22: Hugh Carey, even Bill Clinton, you knew they loved America.
51:45
Speaker 22: This group with DSA, with Zoran Mondavi, The people that
51:49
Speaker 22: Kathy Hochul affiliates herself with, Chevalier, Lander, Bernie Sanders. These
51:56
Speaker 22: people hate America.
51:58
Speaker 4: They do.
51:58
Speaker 22: And liberal Democrats love America. They may not agree with
52:02
Speaker 22: me on everything, but they agree with me that we
52:05
Speaker 22: need to clean up our communities. We need to lower
52:07
Speaker 22: our taxes, lower our utility bills. We need safer neighborhoods.
52:11
Speaker 22: And we've got to stop the anti-American rhetoric coming from
52:15
Speaker 22: the Democratic Party. And Zoran Mondami is running the Democratic
52:19
Speaker 22: Party now.
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Speaker 4: He's a punk. Last one, and you've got to run
52:22
Speaker 4: to Syracuse, and I appreciate your time this morning. Is
52:26
Speaker 4: the state screwing you again? Why am I hearing stories
52:29
Speaker 4: about the public financing board not giving you your matching funds?
52:35
Speaker 4: What is that all about?
52:37
Speaker 22: Well, it's certainly been delayed. It's been going through a
52:41
Speaker 22: lot of different... hurdles to get over that really shouldn't
52:47
Speaker 22: be there. Of course, they're fooling around with us again.
52:51
Speaker 22: Of course, they're trying to stop me from rightfully getting
52:55
Speaker 22: the matching funds that we are overqualified for. So we'll
53:00
Speaker 22: see if the money lands today. If it doesn't, you'll
53:03
Speaker 22: be hearing from me on that issue. It's supposed to
53:05
Speaker 22: be wired in today. But, you know, they play games
53:09
Speaker 22: because they can't win the public policy issues. Kathy Hochul
53:14
Speaker 22: has made New York miserable. I want to make them
53:18
Speaker 22: happy again. I want to make New Yorkers get up
53:20
Speaker 22: in the morning and be happy to go to work,
53:22
Speaker 22: be happy to be a New Yorker. They're miserable under
53:24
Speaker 22: Kathy Hochul. So Kathy Hochul can't talk about a record.
53:28
Speaker 22: She can't attack mine because my record is making people happy,
53:32
Speaker 22: cutting their taxes, making them safer. Kathy Hochul is doing
53:37
Speaker 22: everything she can with dirty tricks and everything else. to
53:40
Speaker 22: try and stop me, but nothing will stop us. Nothing
53:44
Speaker 22: will stop us. The people are on our side, and
53:48
Speaker 22: we're going to win.
53:49
Speaker 4: We are going to win. What time does this big
53:51
Speaker 4: event with President Trump and you start in Syracuse today?
53:55
Speaker 22: Well, there's a whole series of events leading up to
53:58
Speaker 22: the president, but he'll probably going to speak early evening,
54:02
Speaker 22: probably between 6 and 7 p.m.
54:04
Speaker 4: Fantastic. Have a safe trip to Syracuse. You're magnificent, Bruce.
54:08
Speaker 4: You're not good. You're great. I love you so much.
54:10
Speaker 4: You're running a great campaign. And at the same time, amazingly,
54:14
Speaker 4: still doing a great job in your second term as
54:17
Speaker 4: Nassau County Executive, keeping that county the safest and best
54:22
Speaker 4: county anywhere in the country. You truly are amazing, Bruce Blakeman.
54:27
Speaker 4: Have a great day with President Trump today. Give my
54:29
Speaker 4: friend my regards. We'll talk again very, very soon. Thank you.
54:32
Speaker 22: Thanks, brother. God bless.
54:34
Speaker 4: Love you. Take care. Bruce Blakeman right there on Sid
54:36
Speaker 4: and Friends in the morning, about to head to Syracuse,
54:39
Speaker 4: New York. A long day, a big day, a great
54:43
Speaker 4: day with the President of the United States. Again, there
54:46
Speaker 4: are rumors, and I get good information. They'll be back
54:50
Speaker 4: on Long Island together, too, before Election Day. But for today,
54:54
Speaker 4: Blakeman and Trump in Syracuse. And no, a lot of
54:57
Speaker 4: you are asking me, I am not making it to
54:59
Speaker 4: Syracuse today. I will be in D.C. on Wednesday. personally
55:04
Speaker 4: invited by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Howard Lutnick.
55:08
Speaker 4: And my plan is to go see President Trump in D.C.
55:11
Speaker 4: on Wednesday.
55:13
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
55:17
Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
55:19
Speaker 4: President Trump will be with Bruce Blakeman. Blakeman joined me
55:21
Speaker 4: moments ago. We always get the best gas. And guess what?
55:25
Speaker 4: Coming up in about five minutes, she was a star
55:28
Speaker 4: on New York One last night. She beat the living
55:32
Speaker 4: daylights like Ray Mancini and Dooku Kim. God bless their soul.
55:38
Speaker 4: Letitia James took a beating at the hands of Saritha Komatidari.
55:44
Speaker 4: Is that how you say it?
55:46
Speaker 7: Saritha? Cometary.
55:49
Speaker 4: No, that's not right. It's Cometaready.
55:51
Speaker 7: Cometaready.
55:52
Speaker 17: Right.
55:53
Speaker 4: She's going to join us in about five minutes. She
55:55
Speaker 4: was just on Fox News with Lawrence Jones and so
55:58
Speaker 4: much going on in the city with the ICE shooting
56:01
Speaker 4: and obviously the Cornell deal. But before all that, tomorrow
56:06
Speaker 4: is a very big day for me because I'm going
56:09
Speaker 4: to celebrate two families that I love a lot. One,
56:13
Speaker 4: the McGurk family. And the other, the Ruffino family. Tomorrow morning,
56:20
Speaker 4: the beautiful Melanie McGurk, the daughter of my late great
56:26
Speaker 4: friend and partner, Bernard McGurk, is getting married. Isn't that beautiful?
56:31
Speaker 4: Bernard died four years ago last week, October the 5th.
56:35
Speaker 4: And since he's gone, he's got two grandchildren, two boys,
56:38
Speaker 4: his son. And now Melanie is getting married tomorrow. I'll
56:43
Speaker 4: be there for the service. Carol will be there, Bernie's
56:46
Speaker 4: beautiful wife. And how about this? The, I guess, the
56:53
Speaker 4: Monsignor that is actually officiating Melanie McGurk's wedding tomorrow? Father Casado.
57:01
Speaker 4: Monsignor Casado. Really?
57:03
Speaker 17: Yes!
57:03
Speaker 13: Wow.
57:04
Speaker 4: How huge is that?
57:05
Speaker 6: We love David.
57:06
Speaker 4: We do love him, yes. Monsignor Casado will be doing.
57:10
Speaker 4: And then I got a run from Bernie's daughter's wedding
57:15
Speaker 4: to a big party that Lou and MJ are having
57:18
Speaker 4: celebrating 20, 40, 60, 20 years. These two kids have
57:23
Speaker 4: been together 40 years. Lou has been in the business
57:28
Speaker 4: and the 60 is none of your business because MJ
57:31
Speaker 4: will get very upset with me. So we're going to
57:34
Speaker 4: go to Adrian's. Great.
57:36
Speaker 7: Now I don't have to do it tomorrow.
57:37
Speaker 17: Great.
57:38
Speaker 4: And now Lou and all his Irish friends are going
57:40
Speaker 4: to drink in the afternoon. They love to do that.
57:42
Speaker 4: And me. You're Jewish. Why do you drink in the afternoon?
57:45
Speaker 6: I will play like an Irishman.
57:46
Speaker 4: I think you've got an issue, by the way.
57:48
Speaker 6: What's that?
57:49
Speaker 4: I took you to a couple of Yankee games this year.
57:52
Speaker 4: And why is it that you have to have 12
57:55
Speaker 4: or 14 or 18 beer cans in front of you?
57:58
Speaker 17: Why?
57:59
Speaker 6: It only seems that way to you.
58:01
Speaker 4: No, that's the truth.
58:02
Speaker 6: No, I don't think it is.
58:03
Speaker 4: Luke keeps up with you because he's Irish.
58:05
Speaker 6: There's no way.
58:06
Speaker 7: I don't keep up with him. I don't keep up
58:08
Speaker 7: with him no matter what.
58:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, Luke doesn't even keep up with you.
58:11
Speaker 6: I'm very well behaved.
58:12
Speaker 4: You're not bad. I got to give you that. You're
58:14
Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, you actually don't even get loud.
58:18
Speaker 4: You're kind of quiet. Almost like you're medicated, like Mike Tyson.
58:21
Speaker 6: Like if I could sit there and have a six
58:23
Speaker 6: pack of Heineken's, it'd be totally normal.
58:25
Speaker 17: Right.
58:26
Speaker 4: Then why do you do it?
58:26
Speaker 6: I'm very well behaved.
58:27
Speaker 4: Oh, you're having fun? Yeah, sure.
58:29
Speaker 17: Okay.
58:29
Speaker 4: All right, great. So you're going to get hammered tomorrow
58:32
Speaker 4: at Lou's party?
58:33
Speaker 6: No, I can't because I got to go to this
58:34
Speaker 6: wedding tomorrow night.
58:36
Speaker 4: You're going to get hammered there, though.
58:37
Speaker 6: I mean.
58:39
Speaker 4: Are you taking the girlfriend to either one of these parties?
58:41
Speaker 6: Well, the wedding tomorrow is her best friend. So that's
58:44
Speaker 6: the reason I can't bring her to meet you guys
58:45
Speaker 6: at this... Great party to lose her on.
58:48
Speaker 4: Ah, got it.
58:49
Speaker 6: She's got to be, you know, doing the makeup and
58:52
Speaker 6: the brunch and the mimosas.
58:53
Speaker 4: I mean, it's really none of my business and certainly
58:55
Speaker 4: not to listen to what he's been doing. Seems like
58:57
Speaker 4: you guys are getting pretty close. I don't know.
58:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's going well.
59:01
Speaker 22: Yeah.
59:02
Speaker 4: Do anal?
59:02
Speaker 13: Ask her that tomorrow night.
59:06
Speaker 7: That's it.
59:07
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
59:11
Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
59:13
Speaker 4: Here she is. If God is good to us, our
59:16
Speaker 4: next Attorney General, my friend, Saritha Cometoretti. Saritha, I got
59:21
Speaker 4: to tell you, I texted you right away last night. Congratulations.
59:24
Speaker 4: You said thank you. I'm not saying it's because we're
59:26
Speaker 4: friends or you're the Republican candidate. You really did wipe
59:30
Speaker 4: the floor for Letitia James last night. Did you feel
59:34
Speaker 4: that way when you left that place?
59:36
Speaker 20: Well, thank you, Sid, first of all, for having me on.
59:38
Speaker 20: I always love being on the show. Thank you. You know,
59:41
Speaker 20: we were just trying to tell the people the facts.
59:43
Speaker 20: Tish James was evading it at every turn. The reality
59:48
Speaker 20: is New Yorkers right now feel less safe than they
59:51
Speaker 20: did when she came into office, and that's her fault.
59:54
Speaker 20: And she doesn't have any answer for it. I mean,
59:56
Speaker 20: what I was really stunned by was her answer on
59:59
Speaker 20: bail reform. Did you hear that?
1:00:00
Speaker 17: I did.
1:00:01
Speaker 20: She didn't have an answer.
1:00:02
Speaker 4: Were you surprised she didn't have an answer for bail reform?
1:00:06
Speaker 4: And I noticed she did what Kathy Hochul is going
1:00:08
Speaker 4: to do Tuesday with our friend Bruce. When she didn't
1:00:11
Speaker 4: have an answer, she just said, Trump, Trump, were you
1:00:14
Speaker 4: surprised that she was that ill-prepared and knew so little
1:00:19
Speaker 4: in this very important debate?
1:00:22
Speaker 20: No, because the reality is there is no way to
1:00:25
Speaker 20: defend her record. And she doesn't have any ideas about
1:00:30
Speaker 20: how to make New York safer or more affordable. If
1:00:33
Speaker 20: you look at her policies, she believes in releasing criminals
1:00:36
Speaker 20: into the streets. And every policy she's put, she's put
1:00:39
Speaker 20: into place. Bail reform, the laws that allow... violent criminals
1:00:47
Speaker 20: to be put back into communities instead of removed. All
1:00:50
Speaker 20: of those things are focused on letting criminals out. Then
1:00:54
Speaker 20: she talks about compassion. But what she totally ignores is
1:00:57
Speaker 20: the victims of the crimes. You know, an NYPD officer was,
1:01:02
Speaker 20: they tried to rob him when he was off duty.
1:01:05
Speaker 20: And then when he fought back, they stabbed him 10 times.
1:01:08
Speaker 20: That happened just last week in the Bronx, right? Now,
1:01:11
Speaker 20: I went and visited that officer. Tish James didn't. But
1:01:14
Speaker 20: when you talk to that guy, he's a solid guy.
1:01:18
Speaker 20: He's going to recover from this. He's going to go
1:01:20
Speaker 20: back to work. He's going to serve our communities. And
1:01:23
Speaker 20: our attorney general is not going to serve him because
1:01:27
Speaker 20: it doesn't matter to her that the people who attacked
1:01:29
Speaker 20: him were repeat offenders who were let out under our
1:01:32
Speaker 20: broken bail laws. She just confirmed last night she's not
1:01:36
Speaker 20: interested in changing those laws. And she doesn't care that
1:01:41
Speaker 20: the people who attacked him were here illegally, and even
1:01:44
Speaker 20: after they were convicted of violent crimes, they stayed instead
1:01:48
Speaker 20: of being removed. She's more interested in keeping the criminals
1:01:51
Speaker 20: on the streets than protecting innocent New Yorkers, including an
1:01:54
Speaker 20: off-duty cop who got stabbed.
1:01:56
Speaker 22: Terrible.
1:01:57
Speaker 4: Just terrible. You know, I go back to Blakeman and Trump,
1:02:00
Speaker 4: and they're going to campaign together today in Syracuse. I
1:02:03
Speaker 4: know you know that. But the last time I saw
1:02:06
Speaker 4: you was at that Nassau County rally with Blakeman and Trump.
1:02:10
Speaker 4: And you were sitting there with these two lovely parents.
1:02:13
Speaker 4: In fact, the last time you were on this show,
1:02:15
Speaker 4: not that long ago, you were on with both of them,
1:02:18
Speaker 4: this beautiful 12 or 13-year-old boy that was riding his
1:02:22
Speaker 4: bike and happened to be in the wrong place at
1:02:25
Speaker 4: the wrong time. Went to a bodega with his new bike,
1:02:27
Speaker 4: and next thing you know, there's gunshots, and this beautiful
1:02:31
Speaker 4: young man was murdered. And they were on this show,
1:02:35
Speaker 4: the mom and dad and you, we all cried together.
1:02:37
Speaker 4: In Nassau County that day, we all cried together. But
1:02:42
Speaker 4: I'm going to gather that much like you said you
1:02:45
Speaker 4: went to visit the cop and Letitia James didn't, that
1:02:47
Speaker 4: while you spend a lot of time with victims, with
1:02:50
Speaker 4: angel parents, that Letitia James hasn't seen that couple yet either.
1:02:56
Speaker 4: Is that a fair assumption?
1:02:58
Speaker 23: It's a fair assumption.
1:02:59
Speaker 20: I mean, that was a heartbreaking day and it was
1:03:01
Speaker 20: a very moving appearance we had last time on your show.
1:03:03
Speaker 20: You know, the reality is, you know, she sits there
1:03:07
Speaker 20: and boasts about taking 10,000 guns off the street. That's ridiculous.
1:03:11
Speaker 20: She has eight years and she takes 10,000 illegal guns
1:03:13
Speaker 20: off the street. You know, New Jersey took 16,000 illegal
1:03:16
Speaker 20: guns off the street in one year. The reality is
1:03:19
Speaker 20: kids are getting shot in New York by violent criminals
1:03:23
Speaker 20: who have illegal guns. She doesn't do anything about it.
1:03:26
Speaker 20: When there was a spike in gun violence, she told
1:03:28
Speaker 20: people not to overreact. You know what I did as
1:03:31
Speaker 20: a federal prosecutor? I went in during COVID. I reopened
1:03:34
Speaker 20: the grand jury so that we could indict as many
1:03:36
Speaker 20: violent criminals as possible on illegal gun charges and get
1:03:38
Speaker 20: them off the street. That's what you do when you
1:03:41
Speaker 20: have the power to do something. She has all these powers.
1:03:43
Speaker 20: She doesn't use them. And she has no excuse for
1:03:47
Speaker 20: not using them. She has the legal authority. She has
1:03:49
Speaker 20: the resources. She just doesn't actually care about crime victims.
1:03:53
Speaker 4: True. All she cares about is Trump. She actually campaigned
1:03:58
Speaker 4: on getting Trump. She tried. It was so ridiculous. She
1:04:01
Speaker 4: made up crimes. She had to because she promised her
1:04:04
Speaker 4: constituents she was going to get them. That's what a
1:04:06
Speaker 4: louse she is. I mean, she's a louse. Even your conversation, again,
1:04:11
Speaker 4: you killed her on this, the injection centers, okay? Why
1:04:15
Speaker 4: would you encourage people to shoot up drugs? You know,
1:04:20
Speaker 4: my son, Gabriel Cerrito, he goes to high school in Chelsea,
1:04:25
Speaker 4: and he tells me, you know, Daddy, at least once
1:04:27
Speaker 4: or twice a week, He'll walk past anywhere between Union
1:04:31
Speaker 4: Square and 14th Street and 17th Street, and he'll see
1:04:34
Speaker 4: some junkie. And I'm a recovering addict, okay? So I
1:04:37
Speaker 4: am sympathetic to a certain extent. But he'll see some
1:04:40
Speaker 4: man or woman shooting up in the street. And it
1:04:43
Speaker 4: seems to me, Saritha, like people like Letitia James are
1:04:47
Speaker 4: encouraging that. Or is that a stretch?
1:04:50
Speaker 20: They're using taxpayer money to fund drug use. And listen,
1:04:54
Speaker 20: I've talked to the people in the neighborhood. They've reached
1:04:57
Speaker 20: out to me. And you know why? Not because of politics.
1:05:00
Speaker 20: They've actually reached out to their local assemblymen and senators
1:05:02
Speaker 20: and all the elected officials. And they're just tired of it.
1:05:06
Speaker 20: Nobody's listening to them. So then they reached out to me.
1:05:09
Speaker 20: This is why I have Democrats and Republicans supporting my campaign.
1:05:13
Speaker 20: Public safety is not political. They don't want to see
1:05:17
Speaker 20: us leading people to their deaths by funding drug use.
1:05:21
Speaker 20: They don't want to see people who are addicted to
1:05:24
Speaker 20: drugs wandering around like zombies on their streets, in their neighborhoods,
1:05:28
Speaker 20: in their kids' playgrounds. They don't want to be stepping
1:05:31
Speaker 20: over needles when they're walking their kids to school and
1:05:33
Speaker 20: they're frustrated. And I promised those families that I would
1:05:36
Speaker 20: bring it up in the debate. That's why I did.
1:05:39
Speaker 20: And the reality is, you know why she funds, you know,
1:05:41
Speaker 20: she supports those things. She'll never shut them down because
1:05:44
Speaker 20: of the same people who fund those drug injection sites
1:05:47
Speaker 20: fund her campaign.
1:05:49
Speaker 4: That's true.
1:05:50
Speaker 20: New Yorkers. She just serves the extremists who are ruining
1:05:54
Speaker 20: our city.
1:05:56
Speaker 4: You know, there's another big case going on in the
1:05:58
Speaker 4: city right now, and Sarita, I know part of your
1:06:01
Speaker 4: amazing resume, and I'll just patronize you, your resume is outstanding.
1:06:05
Speaker 4: You spent 12 years as a prosecutor prosecuting sexual assault cases.
1:06:11
Speaker 4: So right now, the whole city, the whole state, really
1:06:15
Speaker 4: the country, is wrapped up in this Cornell alleged rape case.
1:06:20
Speaker 4: And Kathy Hochul, the worst governor in the country. Yes,
1:06:23
Speaker 4: she's the worst. She's every bit as bad, maybe worse
1:06:26
Speaker 4: than J.B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, you name it. This mental
1:06:30
Speaker 4: midget decides, I'm going to bring on Letitia James, the AG.
1:06:35
Speaker 4: as a special prosecutor. And correct me if I'm wrong,
1:06:40
Speaker 4: but when you've already made public statements like Letitia James
1:06:44
Speaker 4: did on Facebook, where she basically said, these guys are guilty.
1:06:50
Speaker 4: Let me just say this. I've said this too. What
1:06:52
Speaker 4: they did, these boys, is morally reprehensible. In my mind,
1:06:57
Speaker 4: they're guilty of that. No matter what they say, no girl,
1:07:01
Speaker 4: no girl, messed up or not, wants to have sex
1:07:04
Speaker 4: with seven guys. Okay? So, at the very least... These guys,
1:07:08
Speaker 4: what they did was morally grotesque. But criminally, we don't
1:07:14
Speaker 4: know yet. But Letitia James, already on Facebook, basically said
1:07:18
Speaker 4: they're guilty. How in a million years can Kathy Hochul
1:07:23
Speaker 4: leave her on this case?
1:07:25
Speaker 20: Well, I was a federal prosecutor for 12 years. And
1:07:28
Speaker 20: as you know, Sid, my focus was terrorism. But when
1:07:30
Speaker 20: you're a prosecutor for 12 years, you do nearly every
1:07:32
Speaker 20: kind of case. So I prosecuted sexual assault cases. They're
1:07:36
Speaker 20: some of the most important, serious cases that you can handle.
1:07:39
Speaker 20: And you need a serious prosecutor to handle them with
1:07:42
Speaker 20: fairness and impartiality and integrity. Tish James does none of
1:07:45
Speaker 20: those things. She's never prosecuted a criminal case. She's political
1:07:49
Speaker 20: in everything she does. And in a true breach of
1:07:53
Speaker 20: ethics case, She and Hochul politicized this case, thinking they'd
1:07:57
Speaker 20: get some kind of election advantage. It's shameful. You have
1:08:01
Speaker 20: the lives and futures of eight young people in your hands.
1:08:05
Speaker 20: You need to approach that situation with complete apolitical, nonpartisan fairness.
1:08:12
Speaker 20: And they're not capable of doing that. To me, this
1:08:16
Speaker 20: entire situation just reinforces the fact that what New York
1:08:21
Speaker 20: needs now is a real prosecutor. This is not a joke.
1:08:25
Speaker 20: This is not a political football. This is people's lives.
1:08:29
Speaker 20: Everyday New Yorkers deserve someone in that office who's a
1:08:33
Speaker 20: nonpartisan law enforcement professional. That's what I am. We've had
1:08:37
Speaker 20: enough of the politics. Let's turn the page. Let's focus
1:08:41
Speaker 20: on public safety.
1:08:42
Speaker 4: Well, the other political story this morning is another major
1:08:45
Speaker 4: story in New York, which is getting national attention, been
1:08:47
Speaker 4: on Fox News all morning, and that is that we've
1:08:49
Speaker 4: got another ICE shooting. Now, look, okay, Sarita, I'm a
1:08:52
Speaker 4: huge ICE advocate. I love them. Mark Wayne Mullen, Tom Holman,
1:08:56
Speaker 4: I love these people, okay? I think they do a
1:08:59
Speaker 4: terrific job. I'm sorry that pretty is dead and good
1:09:03
Speaker 4: is dead. And this guy got shot. But when you
1:09:05
Speaker 4: look at the numbers, OK, they have now arrested and
1:09:08
Speaker 4: deported ice thousands. That's not an exaggeration. Thousands of murderers, pedophiles,
1:09:18
Speaker 4: drug dealers, rapists. So, yes, there have been five or
1:09:22
Speaker 4: six shootings. One's not good. I get it. But the numbers,
1:09:25
Speaker 4: you really can't compare. So look, if you say to me, Sarita,
1:09:30
Speaker 4: we need to investigate this ICE agent yesterday, why would
1:09:33
Speaker 4: he open fire with a guy in a car with
1:09:36
Speaker 4: a five-year-old? I'm going to say, I get it. Guess what?
1:09:40
Speaker 4: Mark Wayne Mullen's going to say the same thing. But
1:09:43
Speaker 4: one thing has nothing to do with the other. Why
1:09:46
Speaker 4: would the mayor, this idiot, why would he be on
1:09:49
Speaker 4: the phone with Trump for two hours? He lied. Trust me,
1:09:52
Speaker 4: Trump didn't talk to him for two hours, okay? But
1:09:53
Speaker 4: why would the mayor be asking for the release of
1:09:56
Speaker 4: this guy this morning when whether he was shot barely
1:09:59
Speaker 4: or not, this guy's a career criminal? He's got alleged
1:10:03
Speaker 4: gang ties. He's been arrested twice. He's got a long
1:10:06
Speaker 4: rap sheet. Why would the mayor, with Letitia James standing
1:10:11
Speaker 4: right next to him, want this animal back on the streets?
1:10:16
Speaker 20: No one wants to see people shot in the streets.
1:10:19
Speaker 20: No one. And that includes law enforcement, most of all.
1:10:21
Speaker 20: So what we really need to ask right now is
1:10:24
Speaker 20: how do you prevent things like this from happening? Now,
1:10:27
Speaker 20: we still don't know exactly what happened in this case.
1:10:29
Speaker 20: The facts are still coming out. But let's zoom out
1:10:32
Speaker 20: for a minute. The reality is we didn't used to
1:10:35
Speaker 20: have enforcement operations in neighborhoods like this when we allowed
1:10:39
Speaker 20: federal officials to take custody of violent criminals at the
1:10:42
Speaker 20: jailhouse door. When I started as a federal prosecutor, I
1:10:45
Speaker 20: started under President Obama, and that's how we did it.
1:10:49
Speaker 20: In the first five years I was a prosecutor, whether
1:10:51
Speaker 20: it was President Obama or President Trump, we simply took
1:10:54
Speaker 20: people who were arrested for violent crimes in New York
1:10:58
Speaker 20: State by the NYPD. And the NYPD would give the
1:11:02
Speaker 20: federal officials a call and say, we have this person
1:11:05
Speaker 20: in custody and he's here illegally and you have a detainer.
1:11:08
Speaker 20: And that transfer would happen at the jailhouse door. So
1:11:12
Speaker 20: the violent criminal would not go back into our communities
1:11:15
Speaker 20: and federal officials wouldn't go into our communities. There was
1:11:18
Speaker 20: no need. That is a safer way to do it.
1:11:20
Speaker 20: It honors due process. If there's need for some kind
1:11:23
Speaker 20: of court challenge, there's an opportunity for that. And it
1:11:27
Speaker 20: actually keeps everyone safe and it avoids these enforcement operations
1:11:31
Speaker 20: in neighborhoods. Isn't that what New Yorkers want? That's what
1:11:35
Speaker 20: our focus should be. I don't know why our current
1:11:38
Speaker 20: elected officials are more focused on releasing criminals into our
1:11:41
Speaker 20: communities than keeping communities safe. We should be working together
1:11:47
Speaker 20: to make sure that we keep violent criminals out of
1:11:51
Speaker 20: our communities and we do it in the safest way
1:11:55
Speaker 20: possible for those communities and for law enforcement and everyone involved.
1:11:59
Speaker 4: Did you get a bunch of text messages like I
1:12:01
Speaker 4: sent you congratulating you? Because I'm going to say it again.
1:12:04
Speaker 4: You were really impressive. I know that about you already.
1:12:06
Speaker 4: You're a very smart girl. But I got to say this.
1:12:09
Speaker 4: As good as you were... That's how bad Letitia James was. Like,
1:12:13
Speaker 4: she didn't care. I'm going to win anyway. I've already
1:12:16
Speaker 4: been in office. I'm black. I'm a woman. I hate Trump.
1:12:21
Speaker 4: I got nothing to worry about. She really approached that
1:12:23
Speaker 4: debate last night like, who cares? You came prepared. You
1:12:27
Speaker 4: killed her. Did you get a ton of messages just
1:12:30
Speaker 4: like mine?
1:12:31
Speaker 20: I did get a ton of messages. I'll tell you
1:12:33
Speaker 20: what would be better. I need people to go to
1:12:35
Speaker 20: my website, support our campaign. Our campaign's on fire. We
1:12:38
Speaker 20: need to get our message out to every single voter,
1:12:41
Speaker 20: every single New Yorker. And when we do that, we'll win.
1:12:44
Speaker 20: I'll beat her in November 3rd, just like I beat
1:12:47
Speaker 20: her last night.
1:12:48
Speaker 4: I love it. 24 days away. You and I, we've
1:12:52
Speaker 4: been talking for many, many, many months. Many months. We've
1:12:55
Speaker 4: done a lot of events together, even Rockland County. How
1:12:59
Speaker 4: do you feel, honestly, 24 days away?
1:13:02
Speaker 23: I feel great.
1:13:03
Speaker 20: We are going to win this because New Yorkers want change.
1:13:06
Speaker 20: I just need to make sure every single person knows
1:13:09
Speaker 20: I'm on the ballot and they got to come out
1:13:10
Speaker 20: and vote. You guys vote, we'll win.
1:13:13
Speaker 4: Dorothy, you really are terrific. I'm really proud to call
1:13:15
Speaker 4: you a friend. Great job last night. Great job this morning.
1:13:18
Speaker 4: I look forward to celebrating with you on November 3rd.
1:13:21
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, sweetheart.
1:13:22
Speaker 22: Thank you.
1:13:22
Speaker 4: All right, sweetie. Take care. There she is. Very, very
1:13:26
Speaker 4: impressive young lady. And she is running against the racist
1:13:31
Speaker 4: louse who hates President Trump, who's fat, too, by the way.
1:13:36
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that matters here, but why wouldn't you
1:13:40
Speaker 4: wear a jacket that fits? And why would you button
1:13:42
Speaker 4: that button? Did you see the fat coming out of
1:13:46
Speaker 4: that jacket, Lou?
1:13:47
Speaker 7: I was slightly distracted.
1:13:49
Speaker 4: Oh, my God. Why would you do that?
1:13:51
Speaker 7: Yeah, she doesn't present herself.
1:13:52
Speaker 4: Why didn't Errol Lewis at one point say, Letitia, will
1:13:56
Speaker 4: you do us all a favor and please unbutton your jacket?
1:14:00
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't he? Oh, I know why. Because he's also
1:14:02
Speaker 4: fat and stupid. Am I right, Noam? No, I'm going
1:14:06
Speaker 4: to talk about that. He likes going on New York.
1:14:09
Speaker 4: We'll take a short break. When we get back, two
1:14:11
Speaker 4: of my all-time favorite ladies in a row coming up
1:14:14
Speaker 4: this morning, one separated by the news. But how about this,
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Speaker 4: Tucson Lewis? KT McFarland and Bernadette Castro.
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Speaker 7: The super friends.
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Speaker 4: Come on now, baby. Come on. Don't say too much.
1:14:27
Speaker 4: Don't say that, Sid. Too much.
1:14:29
Speaker 21: Talk about the good things that we're doing.
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Speaker 7: Why can't you do that? That's old. That's not.
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Speaker 4: It's going to be great. KT and Bernadette.
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Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
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Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
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Speaker 4: All right. We really enjoyed Saritha. Hopefully she'll be our
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Speaker 4: next Attorney General. We've had Bruce Blakeman on this morning.
1:14:51
Speaker 4: Hopefully he'll be our next governor. You know, there's really
1:14:55
Speaker 4: nobody in this city, nobody who does more for Republicans
1:15:01
Speaker 4: than me.
1:15:01
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I don't care if you're Michael Petri running
1:15:05
Speaker 4: on Long Island, Janine Driscoll running on Long Island, Mike
1:15:09
Speaker 4: Lawler running in Rockland County, Bruce Blakeman, Sarita, any one
1:15:14
Speaker 4: of these people. Ann Donnelly running for DA even in
1:15:18
Speaker 4: Nassau County, Nicola Loda, Suffolk County. Nobody does more for
1:15:23
Speaker 4: Republicans than me. Maybe that's why Trump loves me so much,
1:15:26
Speaker 4: although I think he loves me because I'm good looking.
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Speaker 7: Oh, that's got to be it.
1:15:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it, because I'm really good looking.
1:15:30
Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: KT McFarland is on this show every Friday and she's
1:15:35
Speaker 4: just the best. We love her. KT, good morning. How
1:15:38
Speaker 4: are you?
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Speaker 23: That was such a terrific interview you just had with
1:15:43
Speaker 23: hopefully the next attorney general. She is so impressive.
1:15:47
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you said that because I respect your
1:15:49
Speaker 4: opinion as much as anybody. Sincerely, I mean that. So
1:15:52
Speaker 4: you really were impressed with her, right?
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Speaker 23: Really impressed with her.
1:15:58
Speaker 4: Can she win, though? But can she win? I mean,
1:16:01
Speaker 4: the problem is you've got Letitia James, who's already in office,
1:16:05
Speaker 4: who goes after Trump at every opportunity, which New Yorkers like.
1:16:09
Speaker 4: She checks off two other boxes because she's black and
1:16:12
Speaker 4: she's a female. So the question is, can our girl win?
1:16:18
Speaker 23: Well, I think the question is, can any Republican win?
1:16:20
Speaker 23: I mean, Bruce Blakeman, if it was on the basis
1:16:23
Speaker 23: of merit and effectiveness and talent, the Republicans would sweep.
1:16:28
Speaker 23: But what tends to happen in New York and many other,
1:16:32
Speaker 23: you know, red state, blue states is that they say, OK,
1:16:36
Speaker 23: the election results are in. Oh, wait a minute. Wait
1:16:38
Speaker 23: a minute. Wait a minute. We'll let you know tomorrow.
1:16:41
Speaker 23: We may have a few more votes that we haven't seen.
1:16:43
Speaker 23: And so you really have to wonder about the whole
1:16:45
Speaker 23: integrity of the electoral system, particularly in our big cities.
1:16:48
Speaker 4: That's true. I mean, you know, Brazil had like a
1:16:50
Speaker 4: billion people vote last week, a billion. They had the
1:16:53
Speaker 4: results that night. Spencer Pratt had to wait three weeks
1:16:56
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles to find out that he lost. I mean,
1:16:59
Speaker 4: it's just insane. But, you know, you just said it'll
1:17:03
Speaker 4: be very hard for any Republican to win here, yet
1:17:07
Speaker 4: you have been at the very front of the line
1:17:10
Speaker 4: trying to convince me to run for mayor in 2029.
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Speaker 23: Well, you're a really unique case, Sid. I mean, yeah, totally.
1:17:22
Speaker 23: Because most of the people who run are people who've had,
1:17:25
Speaker 23: you know, backgrounds in either law enforcement or in politics
1:17:31
Speaker 23: or in governance. And you're a shout out, you know,
1:17:34
Speaker 23: you're like a different class of candidate, like Trump was,
1:17:38
Speaker 23: like Reagan was. You're not a politician. Now, you're a
1:17:41
Speaker 23: public figure. You're a well-known public figure and you're known
1:17:44
Speaker 23: for your opinions and well thought out opinions. And you
1:17:47
Speaker 23: can argue with the best of people. But the but
1:17:50
Speaker 23: but I think that's that's the exception I would make
1:17:52
Speaker 23: is that can you have someone who's really from another
1:17:55
Speaker 23: field who's well known and successful in another field completely
1:17:59
Speaker 23: come in and then shake things up? Because, you know,
1:18:03
Speaker 23: there was who it was in the Reagan administration. Somebody
1:18:06
Speaker 23: said somebody famous said, you know, the thing about when
1:18:09
Speaker 23: you run for president, if you run for president, you
1:18:12
Speaker 23: don't need the job. because you're already famous, you're already
1:18:15
Speaker 23: a household name, you're already well-known, that's actually the candidate
1:18:19
Speaker 23: you want. And it was referring to Reagan, who was
1:18:21
Speaker 23: a household name before he ran for governor of California,
1:18:23
Speaker 23: before he ran for president, or certainly Donald Trump before
1:18:26
Speaker 23: he ran for anything. He was better known than anybody
1:18:29
Speaker 23: else running for president. And so I think that's why
1:18:32
Speaker 23: your candidacy would intrigue me if you decide to ever
1:18:36
Speaker 23: And then you could also be, you know, you could
1:18:38
Speaker 23: be doing your radio gig and you could do everything
1:18:41
Speaker 23: right up until the point where you couldn't do it anymore.
1:18:43
Speaker 23: Laws wouldn't let you. But it would be a very
1:18:46
Speaker 23: intriguing opportunity for someone who's a non-politician to just break
1:18:52
Speaker 23: that ceiling.
1:18:52
Speaker 4: I love you. And by the way, on top of that,
1:18:55
Speaker 4: how much fun would that debate be? Me and Mom Donnie.
1:19:01
Speaker 4: You would pay to see that, right? It wouldn't be
1:19:04
Speaker 4: Curtis Sleeper taking off the gloves. I would, you know,
1:19:07
Speaker 4: literally and figuratively think I would punch a guy across
1:19:09
Speaker 4: the face. By the way, there are rumors that Hasan
1:19:13
Speaker 4: Piker may be around these areas today. We're going to
1:19:15
Speaker 4: find out if that's true, too. making a whole bunch
1:19:18
Speaker 4: of stops for that crazy DSA. But, you know, you
1:19:20
Speaker 4: mentioned Trump, and I believe yesterday, President Trump came out
1:19:27
Speaker 4: and he said, listen, I am not going to do
1:19:30
Speaker 4: anything major in Iran in the next 24 days before
1:19:35
Speaker 4: the midterms. KT McFarland, if you were still advising President Trump,
1:19:40
Speaker 4: and you did, along with three other presidents, would you
1:19:43
Speaker 4: agree with that? Or tell him, think twice?
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Speaker 23: I think it was a statement that he made for
1:19:49
Speaker 23: two reasons. One, is there any chance of negotiation?
1:19:53
Speaker 22: There's not. We know that.
1:19:55
Speaker 23: But it's also done for a secondary reason, which is
1:19:57
Speaker 23: to calm down the world oil market. The last thing
1:20:01
Speaker 23: President Trump needs is for the oil to go above
1:20:05
Speaker 23: $ 100 a barrel right before the election. And the Democrats
1:20:08
Speaker 23: would use that as evidence of Trump screwing up this
1:20:11
Speaker 23: Saturday or the other thing. And the price of oil,
1:20:13
Speaker 23: after President Trump said that, it started going down. So
1:20:16
Speaker 23: I think that was very carefully calibrated to calm the
1:20:20
Speaker 23: oil markets. Now, what will President Trump do? I think
1:20:24
Speaker 23: two things would happen. One, if there was a casus belli,
1:20:27
Speaker 23: you know, a cause for war. If Iran was dumb
1:20:31
Speaker 23: enough to have a major attack in the Middle East
1:20:35
Speaker 23: or a major mass casualty attack of Americans anywhere in
1:20:38
Speaker 23: the world, or if they attacked Israel, which they have
1:20:41
Speaker 23: not done so far yet. They haven't been dumb enough
1:20:44
Speaker 23: to attack Israel directly because they know what Israel would
1:20:46
Speaker 23: do in retaliation. But if they were to do that
1:20:49
Speaker 23: before the election, some people think that's a possibility, that
1:20:52
Speaker 23: Iran is so desperate that it figures, well, they're going
1:20:54
Speaker 23: to increase the scope of the war and then get
1:20:58
Speaker 23: everybody really excited and then everybody will back down. If
1:21:01
Speaker 23: they do that, then I think no president would be
1:21:04
Speaker 23: able to ignore that and then would have to take
1:21:06
Speaker 23: military action. What President Trump is also signaling to Iran is,
1:21:11
Speaker 23: Guess what happens the day after the election? Win or
1:21:15
Speaker 23: lose the midterms, President Trump has made it pretty clear
1:21:18
Speaker 23: that he would resume military action. And my guess is
1:21:20
Speaker 23: he would not do it alone. He would do it
1:21:22
Speaker 23: in concert with Israel and he would do it in
1:21:25
Speaker 23: concert with the Gulf Arabs, especially even Saudi Arabia, because
1:21:28
Speaker 23: Iran has been attacking the Saudis.
1:21:31
Speaker 4: They have so there were two big debates last night
1:21:34
Speaker 4: locally New York one was the one we've been talking
1:21:36
Speaker 4: about you and I Sarita versus James for Attorney General
1:21:40
Speaker 4: but there was a huge Senate debate that Michigan race
1:21:43
Speaker 4: which is Pretty much the one along with Texas getting
1:21:47
Speaker 4: all the pub. And that is Mike Rogers going up
1:21:50
Speaker 4: against that America-hating, Jew-hating Abdul El-Sayed. I want to ask
1:21:56
Speaker 4: you one question that they raised at that debate last night.
1:22:00
Speaker 4: And I just want one more to answer because I
1:22:01
Speaker 4: think it's pretty simple. It's a ridiculous question. Ridiculous. Yet,
1:22:07
Speaker 4: one candidate, KT, had a hard time answering it. Here's
1:22:11
Speaker 4: the question. Who was a bigger threat to America, Israel
1:22:18
Speaker 4: or Iran? Right, right. No, that's it. Your reaction was perfect.
1:22:28
Speaker 4: but different than El-Sayed. Play this, Louis. This is cut
1:22:31
Speaker 4: number four. He was asked the same question. He actually
1:22:35
Speaker 4: went about it like it's a legitimate question.
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Speaker 9: I'm going to ask you again tonight, who do you
1:22:39
Speaker 9: think is a bigger threat to the United States, Israel
1:22:42
Speaker 9: or Iran?
1:22:43
Speaker 2: You have 60 seconds.
1:22:43
Speaker 12: And again, Rick, I'm just going to say that that's
1:22:45
Speaker 12: a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now. Our
1:22:49
Speaker 12: ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to
1:22:53
Speaker 12: war with Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded
1:22:58
Speaker 12: by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East
1:23:01
Speaker 12: and then choking off the world's energy supply. So this
1:23:05
Speaker 12: is a situation in which I don't think we should
1:23:07
Speaker 12: be a part. I don't want to be pushed into
1:23:09
Speaker 12: war by Israel.
1:23:11
Speaker 4: You believe this? All this loser had to say was Iran, obviously, right?
1:23:16
Speaker 4: He made an argument, kind of like Mom Donnie, when
1:23:19
Speaker 4: he released that statement a couple of days ago on
1:23:21
Speaker 4: October the 7th, and he found it in his black
1:23:26
Speaker 4: heart to mention Israel in two sentences, and then went
1:23:29
Speaker 4: on for paragraphs talking about the plight of the Palestinians.
1:23:33
Speaker 4: This last night, I believe, KT, was akin to that.
1:23:39
Speaker 23: You know, I thought the mistake was the moderator should
1:23:41
Speaker 23: have had follow-up questions, and the follow-up questions should have been.
1:23:46
Speaker 23: OK, do you think Iran do you think it's OK
1:23:49
Speaker 23: for Iran to have nuclear weapons?
1:23:52
Speaker 4: Why didn't he ask that? Why didn't he ask that?
1:23:54
Speaker 23: That would have been that's a follow up, because as
1:23:56
Speaker 23: President Trump has said all along, we don't really care
1:23:58
Speaker 23: about regime change. We just want to stop their nuclear program.
1:24:01
Speaker 23: And it's not just it's not Israel leading us into this.
1:24:04
Speaker 23: If Israel wanted to stop their nuclear program, Israel could
1:24:06
Speaker 23: do it. except they couldn't have done the bunker buster bombs,
1:24:10
Speaker 23: which they needed the United States for. We didn't get
1:24:12
Speaker 23: let in by the nose by Israel. Donald Trump doesn't
1:24:14
Speaker 23: get let in by the nose by anybody. It was
1:24:17
Speaker 23: a deliberate decision, probably not great timing, you know, electorally,
1:24:23
Speaker 23: but not great timing. But it was a deliberate decision.
1:24:25
Speaker 23: We've got to stop Iran before it gets nuclear weapons.
1:24:28
Speaker 4: Right, but what about the people that would say to you,
1:24:30
Speaker 4: I agree with you 100%, and that is the answer
1:24:33
Speaker 4: to the question. It's that simple. And I love... President Trump,
1:24:36
Speaker 4: and I know he's telling the truth. But the people
1:24:38
Speaker 4: that hate him, first they go to Israel, okay? Israel,
1:24:41
Speaker 4: you're doing this for Bibi, which, of course, like you
1:24:43
Speaker 4: just said, is ridiculous because President Trump takes orders from nobody, okay?
1:24:47
Speaker 4: But they do say, oh, Sid, don't be so naive.
1:24:50
Speaker 4: This war, this conflict is about the straight. That's it.
1:24:55
Speaker 4: He wants to control the straight of Hormuz. He wants
1:24:57
Speaker 4: the oil. That's what this is all about. Throw Israel
1:25:01
Speaker 4: to the side. This is all about the straight and oil.
1:25:05
Speaker 4: What would your answer be to that?
1:25:08
Speaker 22: No.
1:25:08
Speaker 23: President Trump, if anybody had been paying attention, I think
1:25:12
Speaker 23: President Trump would have let it go after he bombed
1:25:14
Speaker 23: the nuclear sites. If Iran had just sort of, you know,
1:25:17
Speaker 23: made a few bold statements and then whimpered in silence,
1:25:21
Speaker 23: then I think President Trump would have called it a day.
1:25:23
Speaker 23: But they didn't. They closed the strait. So then what
1:25:25
Speaker 23: is our response? We have the armada already in place,
1:25:30
Speaker 23: having had it there for the military action, and then
1:25:33
Speaker 23: we impose the blockade. Now, even then, I think President
1:25:36
Speaker 23: Trump would have called it a day. And in fact,
1:25:38
Speaker 23: he would have. He had the memorandum of understanding. Iran,
1:25:41
Speaker 23: you reopen the strait. Iran, we'll stop the blockade. We
1:25:45
Speaker 23: won't blockade your ships in and out of your ports.
1:25:48
Speaker 23: And so Iran said, yeah, OK, fine. But then within minutes,
1:25:51
Speaker 23: you know, within days, violated that. So yet again, it
1:25:54
Speaker 23: was Iran was to take the aggressive action. President Trump
1:25:57
Speaker 23: would have settled there. And I think at any point
1:25:59
Speaker 23: with all these negotiations, he would have settled. They just
1:26:03
Speaker 23: won't let him settle. They want to expand the war.
1:26:07
Speaker 23: They broke the memorandum of understanding and they attacked the
1:26:10
Speaker 23: Gulf Arabs.
1:26:11
Speaker 22: That was pretty.
1:26:12
Speaker 23: Stupid of them, by the way. But they've overplayed their
1:26:14
Speaker 23: hand every direction. They still think that somehow President Trump
1:26:18
Speaker 23: is going to cower in the White House and agree
1:26:20
Speaker 23: to their demands before the election because he's going to
1:26:22
Speaker 23: be so nervous about the election. He's going to lose
1:26:24
Speaker 23: the midterms. What they don't realize is the day after
1:26:27
Speaker 23: the midterms, which is what President Trump told them yesterday,
1:26:29
Speaker 23: the day after the midterms, gloves are coming off. I
1:26:33
Speaker 23: have no hesitation. in resuming military action.
1:26:36
Speaker 4: I believe him. But the question does become, if God forbid,
1:26:40
Speaker 4: I mean, God forbid, this country's in big trouble, I'm
1:26:42
Speaker 4: not going to sugarcoat it. I'm not being overly dramatic.
1:26:45
Speaker 4: That's not my style. If we lose the midterms, we're
1:26:48
Speaker 4: all effed. Sorry, Katie.
1:26:50
Speaker 23: No, I disagree.
1:26:52
Speaker 10: Really?
1:26:53
Speaker 23: I disagree. All right, so let's just get granular about it.
1:26:56
Speaker 23: If you lose the midterms, what happens? All right, the
1:26:58
Speaker 23: House of Representatives, if it's in Democrat hands, it'll say impeach, impeach, impeach. Well,
1:27:03
Speaker 23: Trump's been to that movie. He knows how to respond.
1:27:05
Speaker 23: He's going to respond very differently than he did last time.
1:27:08
Speaker 23: So when they start saying, all right, the House says
1:27:11
Speaker 23: we're going to subpoena everybody.
1:27:12
Speaker 22: Well, guess what?
1:27:14
Speaker 23: You don't have to. You can reject the subpoena. You
1:27:17
Speaker 23: can choose not to go. At which point the House
1:27:20
Speaker 23: of Representatives passes legislation because it'll be Democrat controlled and
1:27:24
Speaker 23: they will vote to censor you and to send your
1:27:27
Speaker 23: name to the Trump Department of Justice for prosecution. Do
1:27:31
Speaker 23: you think that Trump Department of Justice is going to
1:27:34
Speaker 23: prosecute the people who have stood up to the Democrats
1:27:39
Speaker 23: in the House?
1:27:39
Speaker 22: No, no.
1:27:40
Speaker 23: It's a decision that the attorney general has to make. Now,
1:27:42
Speaker 23: the reason previously Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, the reason they
1:27:46
Speaker 23: were prosecuted and put in jail was because the Biden
1:27:50
Speaker 23: Justice Department chose to do that.
1:27:52
Speaker 22: Trump won't.
1:27:53
Speaker 23: Then the second thing is, why do you need the Senate? OK,
1:27:55
Speaker 23: you need the Senate to confirm cabinet officers. Trump already
1:27:58
Speaker 23: has a great cabinet. He's not getting rid of Marco Rubio.
1:28:01
Speaker 23: He's not getting rid of Scott Besson. He's not getting
1:28:04
Speaker 23: rid of Pete Hexley. He's got the people he wants.
1:28:06
Speaker 23: He doesn't need Senate confirmation. So then what can Congress
1:28:10
Speaker 23: really do? Well, they could probably try to add more taxes.
1:28:14
Speaker 23: Trump will veto that. They could probably add a lot
1:28:16
Speaker 23: more spending. Trump will veto that. He'll shut down government.
1:28:19
Speaker 23: Trump likes to shut down the government if they don't
1:28:21
Speaker 23: pass the spending bills. And then when you think about
1:28:25
Speaker 23: what are the policies President Trump has already implemented, they're
1:28:28
Speaker 23: baked in the cake. The House is not going to
1:28:32
Speaker 23: reopen the border. They can't do that. They have no
1:28:34
Speaker 23: authority to do that. The House can't stop President Trump.
1:28:40
Speaker 23: the president's AI directives. They don't have the authority to
1:28:43
Speaker 23: do that. The House of Representatives can't rejigger the tax
1:28:48
Speaker 23: cuts and rejigger the regulatory burden of cutting the red tape.
1:28:54
Speaker 23: They can't put on more red tape. Trump won't let
1:28:57
Speaker 23: them do that. So there's very little they can do.
1:29:00
Speaker 23: that they have the power to do, other than scream
1:29:03
Speaker 23: and shout on MSNOW or whatever. They can scream on
1:29:09
Speaker 23: those shows, but they can't effectively change what is happening
1:29:13
Speaker 23: to the American economy. They're not going to get rid
1:29:16
Speaker 23: of the $ 30 trillion of foreign investment that's already started
1:29:19
Speaker 23: to pour into the United States. to build factories all
1:29:21
Speaker 23: around the country. So I think when Scott Besson says
1:29:23
Speaker 23: we're looking at 5% economic growth next year, fourth quarter
1:29:27
Speaker 23: of this year, next year, that's going to happen no
1:29:29
Speaker 23: matter who controls the House or the Senate.
1:29:31
Speaker 4: Very good points, KT. This is why you're the best.
1:29:34
Speaker 4: Very good points. But whether it's going to be disastrous
1:29:38
Speaker 4: or not, you just made a very case it won't be.
1:29:40
Speaker 4: If we do lose, is it as easy as blaming
1:29:45
Speaker 4: the conflict in Iran?
1:29:49
Speaker 23: The Iran war is going to end one way or
1:29:51
Speaker 23: the other.
1:29:52
Speaker 4: I know that, but if we lose the midterms, is
1:29:55
Speaker 4: that as easy as oil's up, gas is up, diesel's up,
1:30:00
Speaker 4: goods are up? It's because of Iran. Or is there
1:30:03
Speaker 4: more to it, do you think, if we lose?
1:30:06
Speaker 23: Look, the price of oil is not dependent on who
1:30:08
Speaker 23: wins or loses the midterms. The price of oil is
1:30:10
Speaker 23: going to be dependent upon what happens in the Middle
1:30:12
Speaker 23: East and what happens with American energy production and exports.
1:30:16
Speaker 23: And what happens with American foreign policy? You know, we
1:30:18
Speaker 23: get Venezuela's oil, for example. We now control, what, 60
1:30:22
Speaker 23: percent of the world's oil between us, between Venezuela. Our
1:30:26
Speaker 23: Gulf Arab friends, especially the United Arab Emirates, they vote
1:30:31
Speaker 23: with us. They work with us on the international oil situation.
1:30:34
Speaker 23: So I'm not, you know, again, I don't think that
1:30:38
Speaker 23: the midterms are going to be that effective. I mean, sure,
1:30:41
Speaker 23: I want to win. I think it'll make it much
1:30:42
Speaker 23: easier for President Trump and he won't have all those
1:30:45
Speaker 23: impeachment headaches all the time. But he'll know he knows
1:30:48
Speaker 23: how to handle that. Been there, done that. He knows
1:30:50
Speaker 23: that drill. And as far as the specifics of his policies,
1:30:54
Speaker 23: they're already baked in.
1:30:55
Speaker 17: They're locked in.
1:30:56
Speaker 23: They can't be unlocked. And when you talk about the
1:31:00
Speaker 23: price of oil in the world, it will come down.
1:31:02
Speaker 23: There's plenty of oil. It just has to the Middle
1:31:05
Speaker 23: East has to be solved. And one way you solve
1:31:07
Speaker 23: it is the day after the election. If you don't
1:31:09
Speaker 23: think Mossad has the phone numbers, addresses and locations of
1:31:13
Speaker 23: the top thousand leaders of the IRGC sitting, you know,
1:31:17
Speaker 23: in their pocket, ready to act.
1:31:19
Speaker 17: Yep.
1:31:19
Speaker 22: Come on.
1:31:20
Speaker 4: No, I'm with you. They are just sitting ducks. I'm
1:31:22
Speaker 4: with you. Just like what happened. Operation Epic Fury that
1:31:26
Speaker 4: Saturday morning when it all started and we wiped out
1:31:28
Speaker 4: the Ayatollah and 40 others. That wasn't American intelligence. That
1:31:33
Speaker 4: was the Mossad. KT McFarland, as always, you're beautiful. You're great.
1:31:37
Speaker 4: I love you. Thank you so much.
1:31:39
Speaker 23: Well, thank you for having me on Ladies' Day, Sid.
1:31:42
Speaker 4: Yes! Your friend Bernadette. You're good friends with Bernadette Castro, no?
1:31:45
Speaker 23: Yeah, she's great. She's another awesome woman.
1:31:47
Speaker 4: Well, let's put her on. Let's say hello to her.
1:31:49
Speaker 4: Come on, put her on for a second. Hey, Bernadette Castro,
1:31:52
Speaker 4: I haven't had her on a radio show. Last time
1:31:54
Speaker 4: I spoke to her, I was on Imus' show like
1:31:57
Speaker 4: 20-something years ago. Bernadette, say hello to KT McFarlane.
1:32:01
Speaker 22: Yeah, KT, let me tell you something.
1:32:03
Speaker 17: You are one of the top three, maybe the top three,
1:32:07
Speaker 17: smartest woman I know. I'm serious. You're brilliant. And your
1:32:12
Speaker 17: analysis and your knowledge and your experience, it is a
1:32:16
Speaker 17: gift that Sid puts you on every Friday. No, really,
1:32:20
Speaker 17: you know I've always respected you. You're amazing.
1:32:23
Speaker 23: Well, we've even campaigned together, Bernadette.
1:32:26
Speaker 17: Didn't work out either way.
1:32:26
Speaker 23: But we live to tell the tale. We've been in
1:32:28
Speaker 23: the trenches together, KT.
1:32:29
Speaker 17: We have.
1:32:31
Speaker 4: We're going to let KT go enjoy our weekend. We're
1:32:34
Speaker 4: going to take a quick break through the news and
1:32:35
Speaker 4: come back with Bernadette Castro. Both of these ladies are amazing. KT,
1:32:40
Speaker 4: thank you again. Bernadette will talk very, very shortly. Sound good?
1:32:44
Speaker 17: Okay.
1:32:44
Speaker 4: All right, ladies. Here's the break.
1:32:47
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:32:50
Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
1:32:53
Speaker 4: The I-Man would say, I said, Bernadette's coming in today.
1:32:57
Speaker 4: You've got to be especially vicious. He'd say, what are
1:33:00
Speaker 4: you talking about? She's a nice lady. Come on. Oh,
1:33:05
Speaker 4: you've got to be really. I mean, I want you
1:33:06
Speaker 4: to be just terrible. All right, I-Man, I'll do what
1:33:10
Speaker 4: I can do. So Bernadette was running the Parks Department
1:33:14
Speaker 4: at that point, and I must say she did a
1:33:16
Speaker 4: fantastic job. But she would sit down, and I would go, hey, Bernie, baby.
1:33:19
Speaker 4: You want Bernie McGurk in the studio? What did you
1:33:23
Speaker 4: find more of on the beach today? Fingers or syringes? Oh, no, no.
1:33:28
Speaker 17: Wait a minute.
1:33:29
Speaker 22: Wait a minute.
1:33:30
Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
1:33:30
Speaker 17: First of all, the beaches are free right now. You
1:33:33
Speaker 17: know that? You can go walk on the boardwalk at
1:33:36
Speaker 17: Jones Beach, Robert Moses, get the fresh ocean air. You
1:33:39
Speaker 17: don't have to pay anything. No fees. Hold on.
1:33:42
Speaker 4: Hold on a second. I don't pay anything either because
1:33:44
Speaker 4: you know why? I live on Bell Harbor. I'm exactly
1:33:47
Speaker 4: one block from the beach. So not only do I
1:33:49
Speaker 4: have to pay, but I deal with zero visitors. It's
1:33:53
Speaker 4: my own beach on my own block. How about that?
1:33:56
Speaker 17: Listen to me. We're talking to all New Yorkers right now.
1:34:00
Speaker 17: So all New Yorkers, especially those that can get to
1:34:03
Speaker 17: the island beaches that Robert Moses built, unbelievable. You know,
1:34:08
Speaker 17: we see more people. I still say we. I can't
1:34:10
Speaker 17: help it. at Robert Moses and Jones Beach than Yosemite
1:34:15
Speaker 17: and Yellowstone combined.
1:34:17
Speaker 4: Is that true?
1:34:18
Speaker 17: Yes, that's true. And, you know, I just want to
1:34:21
Speaker 17: say we did so much because of Pataki, and now
1:34:24
Speaker 17: New York can bounce back because of Bruce Blakeman. You know,
1:34:28
Speaker 17: last night I was with him, and there were some
1:34:30
Speaker 17: people in the room, big families, big supporters, construction industry people.
1:34:36
Speaker 17: They were wowed by him. He spoke about 25 minutes,
1:34:42
Speaker 17: and he was brilliant. And he talked about everything from
1:34:45
Speaker 17: eliminating congestion pricing. I mean, you're listeners that are lucky
1:34:50
Speaker 17: enough to travel in by car, but think of the
1:34:53
Speaker 17: people now take the train. They wanted to take their
1:34:55
Speaker 17: kids to school in the car. They wanted to drop
1:34:58
Speaker 17: the children off at school and then head into the city.
1:35:00
Speaker 17: And they have to pay $ 9 if they're at 60th Street.
1:35:05
Speaker 17: Or below? I mean, come on.
1:35:07
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
1:35:07
Speaker 17: It's crazy. I know.
1:35:09
Speaker 4: He is great.
1:35:10
Speaker 17: He's going to eliminate that.
1:35:11
Speaker 4: He is great, and he's a great speaker. Look, he's
1:35:14
Speaker 4: best friends with Trump. They're campaigning together in Syracuse today,
1:35:18
Speaker 4: and clearly he's learned a lot from President Trump because
1:35:21
Speaker 4: he's very similar in his approach. But I'll ask you this.
1:35:25
Speaker 17: Look.
1:35:26
Speaker 4: You know, somebody said Elise Stefanik would have been better
1:35:29
Speaker 4: off running for governor. She cowardly quit. And I use
1:35:32
Speaker 4: the word cowardly. I'm very disappointed with her. But she
1:35:35
Speaker 4: would have been better off because it's woman versus woman.
1:35:38
Speaker 17: That's silly.
1:35:39
Speaker 4: Of course. So Bruce can't be as vicious as he
1:35:41
Speaker 4: wants to be. But I'll ask you this. Why would
1:35:44
Speaker 4: a woman who actually cares about gender? I think it's nonsense.
1:35:48
Speaker 4: I'm sick of hearing about breaking glass ceilings, black people, women.
1:35:52
Speaker 4: Why would a woman vote for Bruce Blinken?
1:35:54
Speaker 17: You're getting exhausted. I agree with you. I agree with you.
1:35:57
Speaker 17: Women vote for the best candidate. It is insulting to
1:36:01
Speaker 17: think that a woman votes for a woman. Just as...
1:36:04
Speaker 17: You mentioned the current attorney general being black. Guess what?
1:36:09
Speaker 17: There are so many black mothers. I, Riverbank State Park
1:36:14
Speaker 17: in the heart of Harlem, I visited there often. It
1:36:17
Speaker 17: was under my stewardship. Those moms want safety. They put
1:36:22
Speaker 17: their kids at Riverbank State Park. They don't want them
1:36:24
Speaker 17: exposed to drugs. They don't want them exposed to crime.
1:36:28
Speaker 17: They welcome more law enforcement. I bet you they're going
1:36:31
Speaker 17: to vote Blakeman. And they're going to vote for the
1:36:34
Speaker 17: new Attorney General, Saritha, by the way. I'm going to
1:36:37
Speaker 17: send her some money today. She was great.
1:36:39
Speaker 4: Wow, awesome. That's great.
1:36:40
Speaker 17: Let me tell you, don't put black women in the
1:36:44
Speaker 17: category of the current Attorney General. Because the ones who
1:36:49
Speaker 17: live in the tough neighborhoods, the Bronx, you know, certain
1:36:53
Speaker 17: parts of Brooklyn, certain parts of Manhattan, they want law enforcement.
1:36:57
Speaker 17: They love cops. They don't hate cops. They want more.
1:37:01
Speaker 17: They want more protection. That's why they send their kids
1:37:03
Speaker 17: to Riverbank State Park. We have the state park police there.
1:37:06
Speaker 17: It's safe haven for these kids. So I think the
1:37:10
Speaker 17: vote's going to come out, the smart vote. We have
1:37:13
Speaker 17: a lot of really good thinking people out there. Doesn't
1:37:19
Speaker 17: matter what sex you are. Doesn't matter what race you are.
1:37:21
Speaker 17: Everybody wants to be safe. Everybody wants lower taxes. Bruce
1:37:27
Speaker 17: Blakeman can deliver that. And if he had an attorney
1:37:29
Speaker 17: general with him, The sky's the limit.
1:37:32
Speaker 13: Agreed.
1:37:32
Speaker 17: This state's going to change. If those two get in,
1:37:35
Speaker 17: Blakeman's got to get in. I mean, come on, voters.
1:37:39
Speaker 17: And here's the deal. The polls are looking good, but
1:37:43
Speaker 17: it's all about voter turnout. And I've been speaking with
1:37:45
Speaker 17: people on the inside of these polls, et cetera, et cetera.
1:37:49
Speaker 17: Here's what the polls do not show. If you get
1:37:52
Speaker 17: out and vote, early voting starts this month. It starts
1:37:57
Speaker 17: a week from tomorrow, October 24.
1:37:58
Speaker 20: Go vote.
1:38:00
Speaker 17: Take a neighbor to vote. Get out the vote. Don't
1:38:03
Speaker 17: sit on your butt and say you want change. If
1:38:06
Speaker 17: we get out the vote, Blakeman's going to win. It's
1:38:09
Speaker 17: that simple. But you've got to get out and vote. And,
1:38:13
Speaker 17: you know, I know he's very good friends with the president.
1:38:16
Speaker 17: But guess what? Blakeman's not controlled by anybody. And for
1:38:18
Speaker 17: those people that think, oh, you know, if you're not
1:38:20
Speaker 17: a Trump fan, oh, Blakeman. Let me tell you, Blakeman
1:38:24
Speaker 17: is his own man. And if you heard him last night,
1:38:27
Speaker 17: of course he respects the president. They're friends. But Blake
1:38:30
Speaker 17: is always going to be for New York. He is
1:38:32
Speaker 17: not going to yield to any advice he doesn't think
1:38:36
Speaker 17: is right for New Yorkers. I know him. I've watched
1:38:39
Speaker 17: him in Nassau County.
1:38:40
Speaker 4: No, listen, you're 100% right. He won the last two.
1:38:43
Speaker 4: He was on me, by the way, this morning at 6.30
1:38:45
Speaker 4: on the way to Syracuse. But he won the last
1:38:48
Speaker 4: two Nassau County elections. And, of course, we all know
1:38:51
Speaker 4: Nassau County is mostly Democrat. Why? Because even though he
1:38:55
Speaker 4: is close with Trump, he garners the votes of Democrats
1:39:00
Speaker 4: and Independents because he's a common sense guy. But, you know,
1:39:03
Speaker 4: talk about common sense. Put it that. You've been around
1:39:05
Speaker 4: this game a couple of years. You were there with
1:39:07
Speaker 4: Governor Pataki, what the hell is going on? How do
1:39:11
Speaker 4: people like Mamdani win? El-Sayed is beating Mike Rogers right
1:39:16
Speaker 4: now in Michigan. What has gone on in this country?
1:39:19
Speaker 17: Mamdani winning was a stunner. And you know why? Because
1:39:24
Speaker 17: everybody thought Cuomo would win it, and they sat on
1:39:26
Speaker 17: their butts, and they didn't get out. And shame on
1:39:29
Speaker 17: the Jewish voters that voted for Mamdani. I don't get that.
1:39:34
Speaker 17: I was with some... Terrific, successful Jewish leaders last night.
1:39:38
Speaker 17: They don't get it.
1:39:39
Speaker 13: All right.
1:39:39
Speaker 17: If you're a Jewish voter, for gosh sakes, you've got
1:39:42
Speaker 17: to be against Mondami. You've got to be. You've got
1:39:46
Speaker 17: to be pro-Israel. How can you not be? The strongest
1:39:50
Speaker 17: little country, our best ally. I mean, it's ridiculous.
1:39:53
Speaker 4: No, I agree. But while you can blame the Jewish voters,
1:39:56
Speaker 4: that's not why he won. He got maybe 20, 25 percent,
1:39:58
Speaker 4: which is way too many. You shouldn't get one Jewish vote.
1:40:01
Speaker 4: The truth is a part of the blame as to
1:40:04
Speaker 4: why he did win. Forget about the people who voted
1:40:06
Speaker 4: for Cuomo. It was Cuomo. He didn't do a very
1:40:08
Speaker 4: good job. He'll be the first to admit it.
1:40:10
Speaker 17: No, he took it for granted.
1:40:11
Speaker 13: Yes.
1:40:12
Speaker 17: I agree with you. He took it for granted because
1:40:15
Speaker 17: nobody thought Manoni could win.
1:40:17
Speaker 4: And then you had this idiot Curtis Sliwa in the race.
1:40:19
Speaker 4: All he was doing there was to make sure Cuomo
1:40:22
Speaker 4: didn't win. Turns out he's good buddies with Mamdani now.
1:40:25
Speaker 4: How about that?
1:40:26
Speaker 17: Well, it's not good. It's not a good scene, but
1:40:28
Speaker 17: it can be corrected. It's got to start at the top. Okay?
1:40:32
Speaker 17: Bruce Blakeman's got to win because he is still the
1:40:34
Speaker 17: governor of the state. You know, the mayor of the
1:40:36
Speaker 17: city is the mayor of the greatest city in the world.
1:40:39
Speaker 17: But guess what? Albany's in charge of a lot. Albany
1:40:42
Speaker 17: has a lot of power, a lot of what to
1:40:45
Speaker 17: say about money going into Manhattan. So if Bruce Blakeman wins,
1:40:49
Speaker 17: he can do what's right. I know he will.
1:40:52
Speaker 22: No, I know he won't.
1:40:52
Speaker 17: And then the next mayor, we need to... What about
1:40:55
Speaker 17: the police commissioner running? I mean, come on. She's great.
1:40:59
Speaker 4: I think she will run. I think she'll run as
1:41:01
Speaker 4: an independent. That's my guess.
1:41:04
Speaker 22: Hopefully.
1:41:04
Speaker 17: Right.
1:41:05
Speaker 4: You'll have Mamdani as a Democrat, her as an independent
1:41:08
Speaker 4: and me as a Republican. But I think she I
1:41:10
Speaker 4: think she can win. But we'll see. You know, look,
1:41:13
Speaker 4: Jessica is she's in a tough spot right now. She's
1:41:17
Speaker 4: not going to walk away from this job because she
1:41:19
Speaker 4: loves New Yorkers, not just Jewish New Yorkers. especially Jewish
1:41:23
Speaker 4: New Yorkers, and she knows if she leaves, we're all
1:41:26
Speaker 4: going to be in even bigger trouble than we are now.
1:41:29
Speaker 4: So even though she knows that Mamdani's an animal, she
1:41:32
Speaker 4: knows that, okay? She's not stupid. She's not leaving anytime soon.
1:41:35
Speaker 17: Yeah, well, that makes sense. You always make sense, Sid.
1:41:40
Speaker 17: When I heard Lou's voice on the phone, I went,
1:41:43
Speaker 17: come on.
1:41:44
Speaker 22: The Lou?
1:41:45
Speaker 17: I haven't spoken to you guys since the Imus days,
1:41:48
Speaker 17: and it's so great. I am so happy for you
1:41:51
Speaker 17: and the team you put together. Your show is great.
1:41:54
Speaker 4: Thank you.
1:41:55
Speaker 17: I'm really excited about it. I really, really am.
1:41:57
Speaker 4: Now, listen, I went to this event last Friday in
1:41:59
Speaker 4: New York City at the Pierre Hotel, and much like
1:42:01
Speaker 4: last night, I was there when John and Margot were
1:42:04
Speaker 4: honored by the DEA. They were honored last week by
1:42:07
Speaker 4: the Franciscans. It was a wonderful night. And when I
1:42:09
Speaker 4: heard the guy up on stage say Bernadette Castro, I
1:42:13
Speaker 4: made a beeline to the back of the room. You
1:42:15
Speaker 4: were in the bathroom at the time. But I came
1:42:17
Speaker 4: back five minutes later, and there was my beautiful friend Bernadette.
1:42:21
Speaker 4: I was so excited to see you.
1:42:23
Speaker 17: I was so excited to see you, Sid, because honestly,
1:42:25
Speaker 17: I've been wanting to reach out to you. I'm a
1:42:27
Speaker 17: fan of the show. I think it's great. John Katsimatidis,
1:42:31
Speaker 17: God bless him for giving you Morning Drive. It's fabulous.
1:42:34
Speaker 17: And you're doing a great job. And, you know, the
1:42:37
Speaker 17: guests you have on are great. It's all good. And
1:42:40
Speaker 17: tonight I'm having dinner with Cindy Adams.
1:42:43
Speaker 13: Oh, you are?
1:42:44
Speaker 4: Yes.
1:42:44
Speaker 17: Oh, we love that. She is a piece of work.
1:42:47
Speaker 17: She's broken the 90-year-old. I won't say how old she is.
1:42:51
Speaker 17: But she speaks her mind. The F word flies like
1:42:54
Speaker 17: every other sentence. The last time I took her to dinner,
1:42:58
Speaker 17: I said to her, we were sitting alone, Cindy, I'm
1:43:01
Speaker 17: thinking about writing a book. You know what she said
1:43:03
Speaker 17: to me? Yeah. Look out at this restaurant. Who's going
1:43:06
Speaker 17: to buy your effing book? Tell me one person that's
1:43:09
Speaker 17: going to buy your effing book.
1:43:11
Speaker 4: Oh, that's funny. I could see her saying it, too.
1:43:13
Speaker 17: Oh, absolutely. So I'm looking forward to it tonight.
1:43:16
Speaker 4: By the way, are you going to write that book?
1:43:18
Speaker 4: I disagree with Cindy. I think you'll do very well.
1:43:19
Speaker 4: I don't know.
1:43:20
Speaker 17: We're going to see. We're going to see. But she
1:43:22
Speaker 17: does make a little bit of sense. But anyway, it's
1:43:25
Speaker 17: just a breath of fresh air having you on in
1:43:28
Speaker 17: the morning. And it's great that you're going to Bernard
1:43:31
Speaker 17: McGurk's daughter's wedding. He was such a great part of
1:43:34
Speaker 17: the show, too. Yeah. And left us way too soon.
1:43:37
Speaker 22: Yeah.
1:43:38
Speaker 17: You know, there's so much good going on. But right
1:43:41
Speaker 17: now we've got like under a month to get Blakeman elected.
1:43:45
Speaker 17: And I just can't tell your listeners enough to please
1:43:50
Speaker 17: vote early and take people to the polls. Older people
1:43:54
Speaker 17: that don't really want to go, they don't know where
1:43:56
Speaker 17: to go. If you just do that, it would be
1:43:59
Speaker 17: a huge help. And if you can send them a
1:44:01
Speaker 17: little bit of money, any money helps because he's got
1:44:04
Speaker 17: to keep television advertising up. He said last night he
1:44:07
Speaker 17: even has to take ads in streaming. Some people are
1:44:11
Speaker 17: not watching network shows. The cost of advertising for these
1:44:16
Speaker 17: candidates is crazy.
1:44:17
Speaker 22: Crazy.
1:44:18
Speaker 4: Huge.
1:44:18
Speaker 22: Huge.
1:44:19
Speaker 4: No, multi-million dollar races. I hope that Trump and J.D.
1:44:22
Speaker 4: Vance actually take care of our friend Bruce, too. We'll
1:44:24
Speaker 4: get to that later. But you're right. Send him some money.
1:44:27
Speaker 4: Send Sarita some money. Send Joe Hernandez running for comptroller
1:44:31
Speaker 4: against Napoli. Send him some money. Let's get some Republicans
1:44:34
Speaker 4: back in office. And on the way out here, Bernadette,
1:44:36
Speaker 4: let's make a deal here. KT's on every week. And
1:44:39
Speaker 4: you just mentioned my guest list. Thank you for that.
1:44:42
Speaker 4: Let's get Bernadette Castro on this show every week. What
1:44:44
Speaker 4: do you say?
1:44:45
Speaker 17: What? That would be so great.
1:44:47
Speaker 4: You're in.
1:44:47
Speaker 17: I would be so honored.
1:44:49
Speaker 4: You're in.
1:44:49
Speaker 22: Wow.
1:44:50
Speaker 4: All right. We'd be honored.
1:44:51
Speaker 17: If you're in, I'm in.
1:44:52
Speaker 4: I'm in. Lou, what do you think, Lou? What do
1:44:54
Speaker 4: you think?
1:44:54
Speaker 7: I am so happy to hear Bernadette again.
1:44:56
Speaker 4: Isn't it great?
1:44:57
Speaker 7: Isn't it fantastic?
1:44:58
Speaker 17: Oh, Lou.
1:44:58
Speaker 7: It's so good.
1:44:59
Speaker 17: Oh, Lou, good to hear you, too. I'm so happy.
1:45:01
Speaker 17: The team is great, as always.
1:45:03
Speaker 4: Well, you're back on the team. The I-Man may be gone,
1:45:05
Speaker 4: and Bernie may be gone, but their spirit lives on
1:45:08
Speaker 4: this show every day, and Bernadette, you're back, so thank
1:45:10
Speaker 4: you so much.
1:45:10
Speaker 22: Oh, thanks, Ted.
1:45:12
Speaker 17: So great to hear you. Well, you have a great...
1:45:14
Speaker 17: Great time. You're going to Syracuse, are you?
1:45:16
Speaker 4: I'm not sure yet. I'm still, because I'm going to be,
1:45:19
Speaker 4: Wednesday I've been invited by Marco Rubio to go to
1:45:22
Speaker 4: the State Department.
1:45:22
Speaker 17: I love Marco Rubio.
1:45:23
Speaker 4: I love him, too.
1:45:24
Speaker 17: I mean, he's my guy for president.
1:45:26
Speaker 4: Me, too.
1:45:27
Speaker 17: I mean, I know I shouldn't be saying that.
1:45:28
Speaker 4: No, no, say it. Me, too. I like Ted Cruz.
1:45:31
Speaker 4: He was on this show two days ago. I like
1:45:33
Speaker 4: him a lot. I'm not enthralled with J.D. Vance. I
1:45:36
Speaker 4: love Marco. So I'm going to go see Marco and
1:45:38
Speaker 4: Howard Lutnick at the State Department on Wednesday, then probably
1:45:40
Speaker 4: see President Trump.
1:45:42
Speaker 17: Well, I will tell you, Marco Rubio would do for
1:45:44
Speaker 17: this country. I mean, he is amazing. He's got everything
1:45:48
Speaker 17: going for him. He's smart. He can handle the press
1:45:52
Speaker 17: in a gracious way, but he gets his point across.
1:45:55
Speaker 17: He speaks fluent Spanish. He's lived with socialism in Cuba.
1:46:00
Speaker 17: He gets it. And yet he's just a great guy.
1:46:04
Speaker 17: What a great president he would make.
1:46:05
Speaker 4: Yes, he would make a great president. Bernadette, we love you.
1:46:08
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the show. We're so happy to have you.
1:46:10
Speaker 17: Thank you so much, Sid. You take care.
1:46:11
Speaker 4: Give my best to Cindy Adams. Bernadette Castro right there,
1:46:14
Speaker 4: here on Sid and Friends in the morning. And we've
1:46:17
Speaker 4: added another brilliant, amazing, great New York lady to our already...
1:46:24
Speaker 4: Top of the line guest list. Bernadette, great job. We'll
1:46:26
Speaker 4: take a short break. Coming up next, the best defense
1:46:29
Speaker 4: attorney anywhere in the world. Also a friend of mine
1:46:32
Speaker 4: for 49 years. Fresh off our dinner in Little Italy
1:46:36
Speaker 4: at beautiful Il Cortile a couple of nights ago.
1:46:39
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:46:42
Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
1:46:44
Speaker 4: Fresh up his appearance on Jesse Weber on News Nation.
1:46:49
Speaker 4: My main man, the best defense attorney in the world today,
1:46:52
Speaker 4: Joseph Takapina. Tak, I doubt you caught that last night
1:46:56
Speaker 4: because you're busy. You're doing stuff all day and all
1:46:58
Speaker 4: night long. But for what it's worth, our girl, Saritha,
1:47:02
Speaker 4: beat the living daylights out of Letitia James last night.
1:47:06
Speaker 4: And we can only hope that in 24 days, she
1:47:09
Speaker 4: replaces Letitia as the attorney general. Joseph Takapina, we can
1:47:13
Speaker 4: only hope.
1:47:15
Speaker 12: Yeah.
1:47:15
Speaker 13: I mean, listen, I didn't see it, but I really
1:47:17
Speaker 13: I read a thorough breakdown of it. And I think
1:47:20
Speaker 13: she was phenomenal. I really do. You know, called her
1:47:24
Speaker 13: a political hack. She clearly is. You know, talked about
1:47:28
Speaker 13: the laws were broken and James broke them. You know,
1:47:31
Speaker 13: she was the largest champion for having this. catch-and-release system,
1:47:35
Speaker 13: which New York is suffering from. She brought up some
1:47:37
Speaker 13: great points. Letitia James is qualified to be Attorney General as,
1:47:41
Speaker 13: you know, the guy who makes my espresso in the
1:47:43
Speaker 13: morning at the cafe. I swear to God. And she
1:47:48
Speaker 13: just keeps making the stupidest mistakes. And how she accepted
1:47:53
Speaker 13: an appointment for the Cornell 7 case is out. I
1:47:56
Speaker 13: just don't understand it. I just don't understand it.
1:47:58
Speaker 4: I don't either. Well, that's Kathy Hochul. That's Hochul's choice.
1:48:02
Speaker 13: I know it's Hochul's choice, but she also has to understand,
1:48:05
Speaker 13: you know, Hochul's a moron. Okay, a moron. I know
1:48:07
Speaker 13: you guys have breakfast together and stuff like that. But
1:48:09
Speaker 13: she's a moron.
1:48:11
Speaker 4: She's a moron.
1:48:12
Speaker 22: I mean, you cannot.
1:48:13
Speaker 13: Escape the worst prosecutor. First of all, she's not a
1:48:17
Speaker 13: criminal prosecutor. She's never prosecuted a rape case. in her life. OK,
1:48:21
Speaker 13: let's start out with that. Then let's go to the
1:48:23
Speaker 13: more important things. She's already come out on which side
1:48:25
Speaker 13: of the fence she finds credible. Before being appointed, she
1:48:29
Speaker 13: actually said that she stands with The victim.
1:48:32
Speaker 20: Right.
1:48:33
Speaker 13: Not the alleged victim, but the victim.
1:48:34
Speaker 4: On Facebook, and just so you know, I want to
1:48:36
Speaker 4: repeat this because it's important, because I'm not standing with anybody,
1:48:40
Speaker 4: but what I did say was, and Joseph agrees, what
1:48:44
Speaker 4: these boys did was morally reprehensible. You know, she, no girl.
1:48:50
Speaker 4: I don't care how messed up she is, wants to
1:48:52
Speaker 4: have sex with seven guys. Okay, no, girl. Maybe she
1:48:55
Speaker 4: agreed to one or two. I don't know. So at
1:48:56
Speaker 4: the very least, what these boys did was grotesque. That
1:49:01
Speaker 4: doesn't mean, I know Joe agrees, that doesn't mean they're
1:49:05
Speaker 4: criminally guilty, which, as you said, Letitia James already said
1:49:10
Speaker 4: on social media before she officially was appointed with this.
1:49:15
Speaker 13: Case, yes? She said that they're– yes, she said they're
1:49:19
Speaker 13: guilty because she stands with the quote-unquote victim. It's appalling
1:49:23
Speaker 13: what happened to her. I mean, if it happened to her,
1:49:26
Speaker 13: that means there was an act. There was a crime,
1:49:30
Speaker 13: that she is the victim. Now, two days later, she
1:49:32
Speaker 13: gets up on her podium and says– You know, we're
1:49:36
Speaker 13: going to do a fair investigation and let the evidence
1:49:38
Speaker 13: take us where it takes us and where it leads us. Well,
1:49:40
Speaker 13: wait a minute. You just said that the girl's telling
1:49:43
Speaker 13: the truth. You just said that the boys are rapists.
1:49:45
Speaker 13: So now you're going to do a fair investigation. This
1:49:47
Speaker 13: is what she did with Trump. It's exactly what she
1:49:49
Speaker 13: did with Trump. I mean, first came out in her
1:49:51
Speaker 13: campaign to get elected by saying she's going to go
1:49:53
Speaker 13: after Trump. She's going to prosecute Trump. I then, as
1:49:57
Speaker 13: his lawyer, was simply asking the question repeatedly, really? I'd
1:50:00
Speaker 13: love to debate her on that because I want to
1:50:02
Speaker 13: ask her a question. How did she know she was
1:50:03
Speaker 13: going to prosecute Trump? She was a private citizen that
1:50:06
Speaker 13: did not have access to evidence, did not have subpoena power,
1:50:09
Speaker 13: did not have anything but a campaign promise. OK, so
1:50:12
Speaker 13: that's all that was. That was political. This is now
1:50:15
Speaker 13: doing the same thing. I mean, she's still with this woman.
1:50:17
Speaker 13: But let me say this to you. You know, fraternity
1:50:20
Speaker 13: nonsense and frat house behavior does not necessarily equate to
1:50:24
Speaker 13: criminal activity.
1:50:25
Speaker 20: Right.
1:50:25
Speaker 13: So we have to be careful. Right. We could all
1:50:28
Speaker 13: be appalled by it, but a lot of frat houses
1:50:30
Speaker 13: are appalling. But, you know, I got to tell you,
1:50:32
Speaker 13: we can't jump to the conclusion that it was simply
1:50:35
Speaker 13: because it was disgusting, despicable, things we would never consider doing,
1:50:38
Speaker 13: things we'd be embarrassed if our kids did, does not
1:50:41
Speaker 13: make it a crime.
1:50:42
Speaker 4: No, I understand that. But, but, but, like you said
1:50:44
Speaker 4: on that TV show, and you were great there, too,
1:50:45
Speaker 4: as you are here every week. That word consensual, come on,
1:50:49
Speaker 4: college kids don't throw that word around unless they started
1:50:52
Speaker 4: to figure out, oh, my God, we're in trouble. We
1:50:54
Speaker 4: better say it was consensual. Also, you had the Snapchat,
1:50:58
Speaker 4: you know, the discussions back and forth. Head on in there, pre-sex.
1:51:02
Speaker 4: So you're right, you're right. We got to get to
1:51:05
Speaker 4: the bottom of this. We got to get all the facts.
1:51:07
Speaker 4: But at least early on, there's a lot of very
1:51:10
Speaker 4: damaging stuff that points to the boys.
1:51:13
Speaker 13: Yeah, there is. I mean, there was some, some, those
1:51:15
Speaker 13: conversations are brutal, right? I mean, especially the ones that say,
1:51:19
Speaker 13: you know, come on up, the door's still open, you know,
1:51:22
Speaker 13: all that stuff. I think that's bad stuff, bad stuff,
1:51:25
Speaker 13: but it's gross. But, but against it, you know, there's, there's,
1:51:30
Speaker 13: a lot of facts that have to be unpackaged here.
1:51:32
Speaker 13: There really are.
1:51:33
Speaker 4: Of course.
1:51:34
Speaker 13: And those messages are fat boy nonsense, and it's wrong,
1:51:39
Speaker 13: and it's disgusting, and it's despicable. Now, again, if she was, quote-unquote,
1:51:43
Speaker 13: the standard of the law is physically helpless. If she
1:51:45
Speaker 13: was physically helpless, okay, anyone at that point who engages
1:51:49
Speaker 13: with her sexually is committing rape. Okay, whether they know
1:51:52
Speaker 13: it or not, and that's why.
1:51:53
Speaker 4: No, but when you say when she... All those two
1:51:55
Speaker 4: words you used exactly, physically what? Helpless?
1:51:58
Speaker 22: Okay, so.
1:51:59
Speaker 13: There's two standards in New York law, mental incapacitated and
1:52:02
Speaker 13: physically helpless.
1:52:02
Speaker 4: So physically helpless. So if she's unconscious.
1:52:06
Speaker 13: Otherwise, or otherwise physically.
1:52:08
Speaker 4: Okay, fine. So, but physically helpless, unconscious is that... Can
1:52:12
Speaker 4: you be conscious and talking and still be considered physically helpless?
1:52:19
Speaker 13: You know, then we're going to mentally incapacitated, right? So
1:52:23
Speaker 13: that's another thing. That's when you're just, you can't even...
1:52:27
Speaker 13: You don't have the ability to consent. So you can
1:52:29
Speaker 13: be able to speak but not able to consent because
1:52:33
Speaker 13: you are so inebriated, intoxicated, drugged up, whatever it is.
1:52:38
Speaker 13: There's the mental incapacitated standard in New York law along
1:52:42
Speaker 13: with physically helpless. One of those two things happen. You
1:52:45
Speaker 13: cannot have sex with a girl legally or a man, okay, whatever,
1:52:49
Speaker 13: legally because it's rape. And that's what we have to
1:52:52
Speaker 13: talk about here. That's what we have to find out now.
1:52:54
Speaker 13: So passing out after drinking doesn't give anyone permission to
1:52:58
Speaker 13: have sex. I think we've established that. And so there's
1:53:04
Speaker 13: this whole thing that we have to really unpackage here
1:53:06
Speaker 13: because I saw a lot of her text messages in
1:53:09
Speaker 13: this conversation that was just released.
1:53:13
Speaker 22: And they're not helpful. To her.
1:53:15
Speaker 13: They just are not.
1:53:15
Speaker 4: They're not?
1:53:16
Speaker 20: No.
1:53:17
Speaker 4: Because I saw messages where she said, I exposed you.
1:53:20
Speaker 4: You're a liar. I never said that. I never agreed
1:53:23
Speaker 4: to that.
1:53:24
Speaker 13: So, look, there were text messages on October 21st to
1:53:27
Speaker 13: this guy, Jonathan Newell, one of the guys, right? And
1:53:30
Speaker 13: it included reassurances that the encounter and statements were uh, was,
1:53:35
Speaker 13: was what she enjoyed. She said, yeah, my body, my, my,
1:53:39
Speaker 13: my choice.
1:53:40
Speaker 4: Right.
1:53:40
Speaker 13: And, and she told me, Oh yeah, there was some
1:53:42
Speaker 13: devastating statements. Very good statements for the defense. Okay. She
1:53:45
Speaker 13: enjoyed being with him. She talked about, I don't know
1:53:50
Speaker 13: how to say this on your show. Just say it.
1:53:53
Speaker 13: Sucking ketamine on the body part of the body.
1:53:55
Speaker 4: What's so bad about that, by the way? That's okay.
1:53:57
Speaker 13: It was amazing. Right. Don't get me in trouble. So, yes,
1:54:03
Speaker 13: but she said those things. The defense argument, those statements
1:54:06
Speaker 13: close in time to the events may conflict with her
1:54:08
Speaker 13: later allegations. And if authenticated and admitted, that's some powerful cross-examination.
1:54:13
Speaker 13: You know, I was.
1:54:14
Speaker 4: Going to ask you.
1:54:15
Speaker 17: Right.
1:54:16
Speaker 4: I mean, you're the best defense attorney in the world. But,
1:54:18
Speaker 4: of course, you started, like most defense attorneys, as a prosecutor.
1:54:21
Speaker 4: You all did. You, Artie, my wife. But just a
1:54:25
Speaker 4: little hypothetical here, just a make-believe world. If this girl
1:54:28
Speaker 4: wanted you to be her attorney, would you do it?
1:54:31
Speaker 4: And do you think you could win the case?
1:54:33
Speaker 13: Here's how I would do it. I would do it
1:54:35
Speaker 13: after I sat down with her and asked her a
1:54:36
Speaker 13: lot of very tough questions. Okay, a lot of very
1:54:39
Speaker 13: tough questions. And I'm sorry. I am not in the
1:54:41
Speaker 13: camp that if someone makes an allegation, a female in particular,
1:54:45
Speaker 13: against a male of sexual abuse and or rape, I'm
1:54:48
Speaker 13: not in the camp that it must be true because
1:54:50
Speaker 13: they said it. And anyone who says that is so
1:54:53
Speaker 13: repulsively unintelligent. I know it's politically correct to just say, oh,
1:54:57
Speaker 13: if the woman said it, why would she be making
1:54:58
Speaker 13: it up? I have many cases. Where women have made
1:55:01
Speaker 13: it up.
1:55:02
Speaker 4: Oh, let me give you one right now. E. Jean Carroll.
1:55:04
Speaker 4: How about that one?
1:55:05
Speaker 13: We won the rape case there because she made it up. OK,
1:55:09
Speaker 13: no question about that. We you know, I had the
1:55:11
Speaker 13: rape cops case. OK, that was an acquittal. OK, and
1:55:16
Speaker 13: you know, so the allegations of and believe me, in
1:55:19
Speaker 13: both those cases. I mean, I was, like, being attacked.
1:55:23
Speaker 4: I had death threats. I told you. I would get attacked.
1:55:26
Speaker 4: I would get messages, what's up with your scumbag friend
1:55:29
Speaker 4: representing orange guy over a poor girl who got raped
1:55:33
Speaker 4: at a, he didn't even do it in a hotel,
1:55:34
Speaker 4: he did it in a damn fitting room.
1:55:37
Speaker 13: In the locker room, Birdo could be on the fifth
1:55:38
Speaker 13: floor in the middle of the day, 26, 27, 28, 29,
1:55:42
Speaker 13: 30 years ago. We couldn't tell. We don't remember. We
1:55:45
Speaker 13: never went to the police. We don't know what time
1:55:47
Speaker 13: of year it was. We could check our schedules. There
1:55:49
Speaker 13: was nothing.
1:55:49
Speaker 4: Although it is funny. You just said something that's very ironic.
1:55:53
Speaker 4: You said never went to the police. And in this
1:55:56
Speaker 4: case with the Cornell girl, she didn't either. Now, look,
1:55:58
Speaker 4: we know girls are embarrassed. I get that. I get it.
1:56:02
Speaker 4: I'm never going to hold it against if she really
1:56:04
Speaker 4: is a victim. Never going to hold against them that
1:56:06
Speaker 4: they're embarrassed. But in both those cases, this girl also
1:56:09
Speaker 4: did not go. She went to the school first.
1:56:12
Speaker 13: Well, the school has its own police department. So I
1:56:15
Speaker 13: thought about that. And I was thinking, geez, you know,
1:56:17
Speaker 13: you get raped. You don't go to civil court. You
1:56:18
Speaker 13: go to the police department.
1:56:20
Speaker 22: Right.
1:56:20
Speaker 13: And that's something I pointed out to the E.G. Callender.
1:56:23
Speaker 13: I said, you know, there's a right down the block,
1:56:24
Speaker 13: Miss Carroll, one block from this courthouse. There's a police station.
1:56:27
Speaker 13: You plan on going there soon? Because, you know, if
1:56:30
Speaker 13: this happens, you have a duty to protect society.
1:56:32
Speaker 20: Right.
1:56:32
Speaker 13: You should go to the police.
1:56:34
Speaker 17: Of course.
1:56:34
Speaker 20: No.
1:56:34
Speaker 13: But you want the money and went and went the
1:56:36
Speaker 13: civil route.
1:56:37
Speaker 22: Same thing.
1:56:38
Speaker 13: You know, you could argue here. Because she's filing a
1:56:41
Speaker 13: civil lawsuit for money, right? But it's not quite as
1:56:45
Speaker 13: clear cut because Cornell has its own police department. So
1:56:48
Speaker 13: she went to the Cornell Police Department. And, you know,
1:56:50
Speaker 13: they are police. So she did report it to law enforcement. However,
1:56:54
Speaker 13: you know, Mickey Mouse is that law enforcement.
1:56:56
Speaker 20: Right.
1:56:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were law enforcement. Yeah. You know, I want
1:56:59
Speaker 4: to bring you to this icing today. Then we'll let
1:57:02
Speaker 4: you run. So, look, I'm all for cops investigating cops.
1:57:07
Speaker 4: No one's got more awards from cops, maybe you, but
1:57:09
Speaker 4: I don't think so, than me. And I was, again,
1:57:12
Speaker 4: back at Bussos on the Bay last night being honored
1:57:14
Speaker 4: by the DEA and Scott Monroe.
1:57:15
Speaker 13: Rick Torelli was there with you, by the way.
1:57:18
Speaker 4: Yes! Yes, he kept bringing up your name a hundred times. Takapino,
1:57:22
Speaker 4: Rick Torelli, very nice guy. You know I love the cops.
1:57:25
Speaker 4: But listen, once in a while they screw up a
1:57:27
Speaker 4: little bit, you know. So, if it turns out, yeah,
1:57:30
Speaker 4: if it turns out that this shooting... Marble Hill yesterday,
1:57:34
Speaker 4: the ICE agent shot a guy who had a five-year-old
1:57:37
Speaker 4: in the car. That's never good. Okay? If it turns
1:57:40
Speaker 4: out that it was an overreaction, trust me, Mark Wayne, Mullen,
1:57:44
Speaker 4: the police, they're going to find out. But regardless of that,
1:57:48
Speaker 4: let's put that to the side. In fact, there's a
1:57:49
Speaker 4: guy that didn't die. The little kid didn't get shot.
1:57:52
Speaker 4: Why would the mayor... Go out there. Tell everybody he lied.
1:57:57
Speaker 4: I called Trump and Mullen spoke for two hours. Do
1:58:00
Speaker 4: you think that President Trump and Mark Wayne Mullen spoke
1:58:03
Speaker 4: to this idiot for two hours last night? I don't
1:58:06
Speaker 4: think so. I think it was a pretty quick conversation.
1:58:08
Speaker 4: But why would this make... regardless of what ICE did
1:58:12
Speaker 4: or didn't do, Why would he call the President of
1:58:15
Speaker 4: the United States to have a guy who's got gang relations, alleged,
1:58:21
Speaker 4: a guy that this is not alleged, has a long
1:58:23
Speaker 4: rap sheet, including two arrests in New York. Why would
1:58:26
Speaker 4: the mayor want that guy back on the streets, regardless
1:58:30
Speaker 4: of what ICE did?
1:58:32
Speaker 13: He's a Trinitario member, okay? Suspected anyway, Trinitario member. He
1:58:36
Speaker 13: is a gang member for sure, right? So he is
1:58:41
Speaker 13: someone who was a legal immigrant gang member with a
1:58:44
Speaker 13: horrific record. It doesn't mean we get to shoot you.
1:58:49
Speaker 22: Right.
1:58:49
Speaker 13: However, however, you know, on the other hand, you have
1:58:53
Speaker 13: to understand it's not like some old lady walking down
1:58:56
Speaker 13: the street was shot by an ICE agent. OK, so
1:58:59
Speaker 13: we have to put in perspective what drives me crazy
1:59:01
Speaker 13: about this mayor. There's a lot, a lot that drives
1:59:04
Speaker 13: me crazy. The fact that we're driving every billionaire, you know,
1:59:08
Speaker 13: major taxpayer business. out of New York City in droves
1:59:11
Speaker 13: is scaring me. I think our city is the greatest
1:59:13
Speaker 13: city in the world. I love it more than any
1:59:15
Speaker 13: city in the world. I've been all over the world
1:59:17
Speaker 13: and there's nothing like New York, but you feel the
1:59:20
Speaker 13: core corroding a little bit here because the people like,
1:59:23
Speaker 13: I'll go back to Griffin, right? I mean, the guy
1:59:26
Speaker 13: was the largest taxpayer in New York City and then
1:59:29
Speaker 13: not to mention his 600 billion, 600 million in philanthropic donations, okay?
1:59:34
Speaker 13: And he's got, like he got pushed out of New
1:59:37
Speaker 13: York by this guy who stood in front of his
1:59:38
Speaker 13: house He should be kissing his feet. OK, so it's
1:59:43
Speaker 13: more the same with Mondami. I digress on that.
1:59:45
Speaker 23: I'm sorry.
1:59:45
Speaker 13: But but it just he drives me crazy when I
1:59:48
Speaker 13: see the city looking like it did under, you know,
1:59:51
Speaker 13: the Lincoln days.
1:59:52
Speaker 4: A little bit.
1:59:52
Speaker 13: You know, it makes me worried because we have the
1:59:55
Speaker 13: greatest city in the world. That's as vibrant as ever been.
1:59:58
Speaker 13: It's now going in the wrong direction. And then when
2:00:00
Speaker 13: you have the mayor of the city again attacking the police,
2:00:05
Speaker 13: defending a gang member. It really, really is troubling. I mean,
2:00:10
Speaker 13: this is the same mayor who went a cop and
2:00:12
Speaker 13: a perp at a shootout, and both were shot. He
2:00:16
Speaker 13: went to the hospital. To visit the perp.
2:00:18
Speaker 4: That's right. I actually told that story last night.
2:00:20
Speaker 13: I mean, that to me was the most appalling thing
2:00:22
Speaker 13: I've ever seen. You stand behind your police. They go
2:00:25
Speaker 13: out there every day, not knowing if they're going to
2:00:27
Speaker 13: come home every single day.
2:00:28
Speaker 22: Okay?
2:00:30
Speaker 13: And we have to support and stand behind them. We
2:00:31
Speaker 13: have to say thank you to those guys and women
2:00:34
Speaker 13: of the police force. We have to. And when he
2:00:36
Speaker 13: does something like that, how do you think the police feel? Wait,
2:00:39
Speaker 13: I got into a shootout with a guy who was
2:00:41
Speaker 13: a criminal who tried to kill a member of law enforcement.
2:00:44
Speaker 22: And.
2:00:45
Speaker 13: The mayor went to go to his hospital bed and
2:00:47
Speaker 13: didn't come to my hospital bed. I mean, you know,
2:00:49
Speaker 13: you want to, if you're a cop, you want to just,
2:00:51
Speaker 13: you know, go to the donut shop, keep your head down,
2:00:53
Speaker 13: get your shift done and go home.
2:00:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. You're right. No, I actually, uh, wrap
2:00:58
Speaker 4: this up. But, um, when they honored me last night, I,
2:01:00
Speaker 4: I went up there and I said, you guys didn't
2:01:04
Speaker 4: think I was going to speak and not mention mom Donnie.
2:01:06
Speaker 4: I said, I don't want to make this political because
2:01:08
Speaker 4: you're honoring me and John and Margo Katzmatidis. It was lovely.
2:01:12
Speaker 4: But I spent most of my very, very short speech
2:01:15
Speaker 4: talking about Mamdani, Hochul, how the politicians and even citizens
2:01:21
Speaker 4: in this city don't appreciate law enforcement. I said, how
2:01:24
Speaker 4: nice would it be if they got a couple more
2:01:27
Speaker 4: bucks and be your pensions were better. But see, the
2:01:30
Speaker 4: people in the street respected you and the politicians actually
2:01:36
Speaker 4: loved you. And I got a pretty nice round of
2:01:39
Speaker 4: applause because what you just said is true. This mayor
2:01:44
Speaker 4: doesn't like the cops, not even a little. He holds
2:01:47
Speaker 4: on to Jessica Tisch because the truth is she makes
2:01:50
Speaker 4: him look good. You know, he can boast about the
2:01:52
Speaker 4: crime numbers being down. He can also say, hey, I'm
2:01:56
Speaker 4: not an anti-Semite. My police commissioner is Jewish. He only
2:02:01
Speaker 4: holds on to Jessica Tisch because she checks a couple
2:02:04
Speaker 4: of boxes that work in his favor. Trust me, in
2:02:07
Speaker 4: this core, he can't stand her. She wears a Mogan
2:02:11
Speaker 4: David every day to work. He can't stand her, but
2:02:15
Speaker 4: he's a user. And she worked for him, okay? But
2:02:18
Speaker 4: the truth is, he hates the cops, and that was
2:02:21
Speaker 4: evident again last night.
2:02:23
Speaker 17: Yep.
2:02:24
Speaker 4: That's it. So, how much fun was it going to
2:02:27
Speaker 4: Little Italy with all of our high school friends a
2:02:28
Speaker 4: couple days ago?
2:02:29
Speaker 13: That was awesome. Thank you for giving me that last-minute call.
2:02:32
Speaker 23: It was awesome.
2:02:33
Speaker 13: And to see those guys, yeah, I mean, those were
2:02:35
Speaker 13: my boys. I mean, you know, each and every one
2:02:37
Speaker 13: of them. Barons and Scaglione, Camariano, Spagliano. I mean, it
2:02:41
Speaker 13: was really... It's a cool thing, brother.
2:02:44
Speaker 4: They were very excited to see you, too. You know,
2:02:46
Speaker 4: everybody in Pali, they're very proud of you, Joseph, as
2:02:49
Speaker 4: I am. And, of course, you and I have remained very,
2:02:51
Speaker 4: very close. We're brothers. We're brothers for the better part
2:02:54
Speaker 4: of five decades. But some of those guys are really
2:02:56
Speaker 4: excited to see you. And you look like a million
2:02:58
Speaker 4: bucks with those big, beautiful arms. I got to tell you,
2:03:00
Speaker 4: if I was gay, and I'm not, but if I was, oh,
2:03:03
Speaker 4: my God, what I would have done to you that night.
2:03:06
Speaker 13: So that when your hand was on my leg, that
2:03:08
Speaker 13: was accidental.
2:03:08
Speaker 17: Right?
2:03:11
Speaker 4: That was a little bit of foreplay, Joseph. That's all
2:03:13
Speaker 4: that was. I know you were great. You looked great.
2:03:16
Speaker 4: And today you were great as well. We love having
2:03:18
Speaker 4: you on every Friday, Joseph. Thank you so much.
2:03:19
Speaker 13: That's a highlight of my week, brother.
2:03:22
Speaker 17: Thank you.
2:03:22
Speaker 4: I know you mean that. I love you. Thank you
2:03:24
Speaker 4: so much.
2:03:25
Speaker 23: All right.
2:03:25
Speaker 4: Joseph Takapina, the best defense attorney anywhere in the world,
2:03:29
Speaker 4: and more importantly, my buddy of 49 years. We're not
2:03:32
Speaker 4: done yet. We've got about 45 minutes to go before
2:03:35
Speaker 4: I hand off the football to Brian Kilmeade.
2:03:38
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
2:03:42
Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
2:03:44
Speaker 4: Here's the, I'm going to stump Justin Ellick right now.
2:03:47
Speaker 4: I don't want to make Justin look any dumber than
2:03:49
Speaker 4: he really is, but he's going to tell me he's young,
2:03:51
Speaker 4: which is really stupid. That's never an excuse, okay? So
2:03:55
Speaker 4: I try to go into court and saying, I don't know,
2:03:57
Speaker 4: what's the word I'm looking for? Ignorance is no excuse, okay?
2:04:01
Speaker 4: Mark David Chapman, Justin, shot. John Lennon in the back.
2:04:07
Speaker 4: Murdered him. I believe the exact date was December 7th, 1980,
2:04:11
Speaker 4: on a Monday night in New York City. Mark David Chapman,
2:04:15
Speaker 4: who's now out, by the way, he had a book
2:04:19
Speaker 4: in his back pocket that earlier that night.
2:04:23
Speaker 6: Holden Caulfield.
2:04:26
Speaker 20: Wow.
2:04:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, I went to school.
2:04:27
Speaker 4: You just made me look really stupid.
2:04:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, I went to school. I did the reading material. Wow.
2:04:32
Speaker 6: That every American child has to do in school.
2:04:34
Speaker 17: You know what?
2:04:35
Speaker 4: I'm glad you did that. I'm glad.
2:04:36
Speaker 7: He did a twist on it.
2:04:37
Speaker 4: Yes, he did. Yeah, because old, arrogant bastards like me,
2:04:41
Speaker 4: you just punched me right in the balls.
2:04:42
Speaker 22: Good for you.
2:04:43
Speaker 4: Good job. Good job. All right.
2:04:46
Speaker 6: Sid Rosenberg won a million. Justin Ellick won.
2:04:48
Speaker 4: No, you win. Only that night, John Lennon actually signed
2:04:53
Speaker 4: Mark David Chapman's copy of Catcher in the Rye. And
2:04:56
Speaker 4: this guy, Alec, went as far as telling us the protagonist.
2:05:00
Speaker 4: Forget about the name of the book. He knew the
2:05:01
Speaker 4: protagonist was Holden Caulfield. Unbelievable.
2:05:06
Speaker 17: Shock.
2:05:06
Speaker 22: Yeah.
2:05:07
Speaker 6: Don't be a phony, bro.
2:05:08
Speaker 17: Yeah.
2:05:09
Speaker 4: Who wrote that book? Oh, man. Oh, man.
2:05:13
Speaker 6: What was his name?
2:05:14
Speaker 4: Come on. George Orwell, right?
2:05:16
Speaker 6: No, he wrote 1984.
2:05:18
Speaker 4: Oh, an animal farm, too.
2:05:19
Speaker 6: An animal farm.
2:05:19
Speaker 4: It wasn't George Orwell. No, no, no.
2:05:21
Speaker 6: It was, you know why? Because this guy actually went.
2:05:24
Speaker 4: This is so funny. I'll give you a hint. You
2:05:25
Speaker 4: want the hint?
2:05:26
Speaker 22: Yeah.
2:05:26
Speaker 4: The hint is vice president.
2:05:32
Speaker 7: Dan Quayle.
2:05:33
Speaker 4: The current vice president. I can't give you a better
2:05:36
Speaker 4: hint than that.
2:05:38
Speaker 2: Oh, um, uh, uh, J.D.? Yeah.
2:05:43
Speaker 4: Yeah. You're almost there.
2:05:44
Speaker 13: It ain't Vance.
2:05:44
Speaker 4: It ain't Vance.
2:05:45
Speaker 22: J.D. who?
2:05:47
Speaker 4: God, what was his name? Salinger.
2:05:49
Speaker 6: Oh, you know why? But you know why it's funny?
2:05:51
Speaker 2: No.
2:05:52
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure he went to.
2:05:53
Speaker 4: That's why it's funny here.
2:05:58
Speaker 7: Let's bring all the Lenins in here and laugh.
2:06:01
Speaker 6: He actually went to or signed his college.
2:06:04
Speaker 4: No, that is funny. No way. Yes.
2:06:07
Speaker 6: For one semester.
2:06:08
Speaker 4: You went to the same college as J.D. Salinger?
2:06:12
Speaker 9: Yes.
2:06:12
Speaker 6: He went there for one semester in the fall of 1938.
2:06:15
Speaker 4: Oh, my God. That is ironic.
2:06:17
Speaker 6: Isn't that funny?
2:06:18
Speaker 4: Yes. So, I guess you guys take claim to catch
2:06:21
Speaker 4: her on the ride. That's yours. That's fantastic. I wouldn't.
2:06:27
Speaker 7: How can he take claim?
2:06:28
Speaker 4: Bobby went to the same college as J.D. Schallinger. Come on.
2:06:32
Speaker 6: They should be taking claim to Justin Alec. That's what
2:06:33
Speaker 6: they should be doing.
2:06:34
Speaker 4: I guess.
2:06:34
Speaker 12: All right.
2:06:35
Speaker 7: I went to the same school as Charles Osgood.
2:06:37
Speaker 21: I'll take claim for the CBS Morning News.
2:06:39
Speaker 6: Right, but that's Fordham.
2:06:40
Speaker 4: You should take claim for the Brooklyn Dodgers because Vince
2:06:43
Speaker 4: Scully went there.
2:06:43
Speaker 7: There you go.
2:06:45
Speaker 6: A lot of people went to Fordham.
2:06:46
Speaker 11: Nobody in their mother knows what the heck her sinus
2:06:50
Speaker 11: college is.
2:06:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, give me this one. Give me a famous alumnus
2:06:55
Speaker 4: from Baruch College.
2:06:57
Speaker 12: You?
2:06:58
Speaker 20: Yeah.
2:06:58
Speaker 4: That's it. I think Jennifer Lopez went there for a week.
2:07:02
Speaker 4: There's like 10 Indian doctors. Mind you, I did not
2:07:06
Speaker 4: make the top 10 on the internet. I swear to God.
2:07:09
Speaker 4: They did not put me in the top 10. And
2:07:11
Speaker 4: Kingsborough Community College, those liberal hacks, those two hating Brooklyn bastards,
2:07:17
Speaker 4: they refused to allow me to speak, despite Jeff Black's
2:07:20
Speaker 4: best efforts, at their commencement address. They wouldn't let me
2:07:24
Speaker 4: do it. So Kingsborough and Baruch have both screwed me
2:07:29
Speaker 4: without lube. And it ain't fun. So I walked to
2:07:33
Speaker 4: the kitchen just now. I'm known for this.
2:07:35
Speaker 22: I've heard. Yeah.
2:07:36
Speaker 4: And I went to get my 18th supply this morning
2:07:40
Speaker 4: of what's become my favorite. You know, the reason why
2:07:42
Speaker 4: I've got M & M' s here, really, besides John loving them,
2:07:44
Speaker 4: John does love them, is me. I mean, early on
2:07:47
Speaker 4: in my stay here, I went to Margot Katz and Matiti's.
2:07:50
Speaker 4: I expressed my love for M & M' s. And she
2:07:52
Speaker 4: has since, I swear to God, every morning for the
2:07:55
Speaker 4: better part of six years, we've got M & M' s.
2:07:58
Speaker 7: The reason we have M & M' s.
2:07:59
Speaker 4: Yes it's because of me that's right because I love
2:08:02
Speaker 4: them but now you're really unbelievable what it's true but
2:08:08
Speaker 4: now I've moved on I'm having an affair with the
2:08:11
Speaker 4: M & M' s now I love you ready for this
2:08:14
Speaker 4: I don't want to know the Teddy Grahams but the
2:08:17
Speaker 4: chocolate ones And I must go back and forth to
2:08:20
Speaker 4: the kitchen about 20 times a morning because I need
2:08:22
Speaker 4: the sustenance, the energy. I walk into the kitchen just now.
2:08:26
Speaker 4: There's a young lady there who actually is the lady
2:08:29
Speaker 4: responsible for refilling with Joe Parisi. Yeah. She refills all
2:08:34
Speaker 4: the food. Jasmine. Sweetheart.
2:08:36
Speaker 7: Great.
2:08:37
Speaker 6: She's the best.
2:08:38
Speaker 4: She's the best. Lovely girl. I love her.
2:08:40
Speaker 6: Keeps everything stocked. She's on top.
2:08:42
Speaker 7: She came in here a couple of times. With little
2:08:45
Speaker 7: special deliveries for Justin.
2:08:46
Speaker 6: She knows what I like.
2:08:48
Speaker 7: I know you like these here. I stared and I went,
2:08:51
Speaker 7: what hotel am.
2:08:53
Speaker 4: I working in?
2:08:54
Speaker 6: I get room service.
2:08:56
Speaker 4: Yes, you do. But if you walk back there now,
2:09:00
Speaker 4: you may not recognize Jasmine right away because she's taking
2:09:05
Speaker 4: part in what Noam tells me about 300,000 people. Other
2:09:10
Speaker 4: New Yorkers are. Oh, no. Oh, yes. Oh, no, no.
2:09:14
Speaker 4: She's got some crazy green suit on with shoulder pads.
2:09:18
Speaker 4: Her eyes are a different color. I'm not sure if
2:09:20
Speaker 4: she's trying to be Hulu or horror from Star Trek.
2:09:25
Speaker 6: Oh, she's going to the, yeah.
2:09:27
Speaker 4: She's going to Comic-Con. She's dressed in some type of costume.
2:09:32
Speaker 4: Mind you, she looks cute. She's got the eye makeup.
2:09:34
Speaker 4: She's a cute girl.
2:09:35
Speaker 17: Good.
2:09:36
Speaker 4: But she looks ridiculous. And a gnome tells me, gnome,
2:09:43
Speaker 4: what are you? 300,000 people take part in Comic-Con. Is
2:09:47
Speaker 4: that right?
2:09:48
Speaker 19: Yeah, and I think it is after the U.S. Open,
2:09:53
Speaker 19: and there's maybe one or two other events ahead of it.
2:09:55
Speaker 19: It's the biggest event that New York City hosts.
2:09:58
Speaker 4: Come on.
2:09:59
Speaker 14: No, I think it is the U.S. Open, then the
2:10:03
Speaker 14: International Auto Show.
2:10:05
Speaker 19: Then the Tribeca Film Festival, and then after that is Comic-Con.
2:10:09
Speaker 14: Oh, my God.
2:10:10
Speaker 19: $ 300, 000, about $ 300, 000 before the weekend's out.
2:10:12
Speaker 4: And where is it again?
2:10:12
Speaker 14: Is it Jacob Javits? Just at the Javits Center, yeah.
2:10:14
Speaker 4: So all these adults walk around the Jacob Javits Center
2:10:19
Speaker 4: like they're sci-fi characters?
2:10:22
Speaker 19: You know, I'd have to drive through Midtown to get
2:10:25
Speaker 19: to the Lincoln Tunnel on my way home, and yesterday,
2:10:27
Speaker 19: it was unbelievable what was crossing the street, like 10th Avenue.
2:10:31
Speaker 19: You had to see the parade of people And some
2:10:35
Speaker 19: of the costumes are amazing.
2:10:36
Speaker 4: I know. They spend a lot of time on these.
2:10:38
Speaker 19: But then you see, like, a 700-pound guy in a
2:10:41
Speaker 19: Batman outfit. And that's almost as entertaining as some of
2:10:45
Speaker 19: the other ones.
2:10:46
Speaker 4: I think this year they broke the record. I think
2:10:48
Speaker 4: I saw this for Spider-Man outfits. Well, the movie's out.
2:10:51
Speaker 4: It just came out. I don't know.
2:10:53
Speaker 7: Wow.
2:10:54
Speaker 4: I don't know what kind of person. I'm sorry. I
2:10:56
Speaker 4: know I'm trying to sound more and more like I
2:10:58
Speaker 4: miss my old age, but what kind of person decides
2:11:01
Speaker 4: to wake up in the morning and dress... Do they
2:11:06
Speaker 4: actually think they are Batman or Superman? Yes. They do
2:11:10
Speaker 4: think they are, right? I think so.
2:11:11
Speaker 6: For the day, they do, yeah.
2:11:13
Speaker 4: Is it all one big excuse to just stick up
2:11:16
Speaker 4: your middle finger or get drunk? Or they just really
2:11:19
Speaker 4: enjoy being one of their heroes?
2:11:22
Speaker 1: Oh, no.
2:11:23
Speaker 7: You see the geeks together.
2:11:24
Speaker 4: You can't... They go nuts, right? They love it.
2:11:27
Speaker 21: They think the Klingon language is real.
2:11:30
Speaker 4: What is the Klingon language?
2:11:31
Speaker 7: It's one of the... beings in Star Trek.
2:11:34
Speaker 4: Is it Leonard Nimoy? Dr.
2:11:36
Speaker 22: Spock?
2:11:36
Speaker 4: Wasn't he a Klingon?
2:11:37
Speaker 7: No, he's a Vulcan.
2:11:38
Speaker 4: He's a Vulcan. That's right. I'm sorry I got it wrong.
2:11:40
Speaker 7: No, please.
2:11:43
Speaker 4: You don't deserve to walk across the streets of Manhattan
2:11:45
Speaker 4: these couple of days. Do we know what the most
2:11:47
Speaker 4: popular output is, Noam? Can we find out what the
2:11:49
Speaker 4: most popular one is?
2:11:50
Speaker 19: I can find out, but I can tell you when
2:11:52
Speaker 19: you walk into this thing, it's It's big. You know,
2:11:54
Speaker 19: they have panels. So, like, today they'll have a panel
2:11:57
Speaker 19: on Star Trek.
2:11:58
Speaker 4: No, stop it. I'll stop.
2:12:00
Speaker 19: Now, Star Trek has not been on the original show in, like,
2:12:03
Speaker 19: 75 years.
2:12:03
Speaker 22: Right.
2:12:04
Speaker 14: But they'll have a full panel.
2:12:05
Speaker 4: What do you mean a panel? I'm not following you. Well,
2:12:07
Speaker 4: so I think— There are people sitting around dressed as
2:12:09
Speaker 4: these characters, and they have, like, a legitimate discussion.
2:12:12
Speaker 19: It's in, you know, it's in the Javits Center, and
2:12:13
Speaker 19: they have these halls where you can go in, and
2:12:15
Speaker 19: they'll have people on stage. And if I'm not mistaken,
2:12:18
Speaker 19: William Shatner signed on.
2:12:19
Speaker 4: This year to be part of the panel. Oh, I'm
2:12:20
Speaker 4: begging you. Oh, it's great.
2:12:22
Speaker 14: So he'll lead this panel and they'll dissect episodes.
2:12:25
Speaker 4: He's 92 years old.
2:12:27
Speaker 14: People will raise their hand and they'll say, remember in
2:12:29
Speaker 14: episode two?
2:12:30
Speaker 4: Do they actually refer to him as Captain Kirk?
2:12:33
Speaker 14: I'm sure they do.
2:12:34
Speaker 7: They're going to pack the place for him.
2:12:36
Speaker 22: Of course.
2:12:36
Speaker 19: And there was a period of time, do you remember this,
2:12:38
Speaker 19: when William Shatner didn't want to have anything to do
2:12:40
Speaker 19: with Star Trek?
2:12:41
Speaker 4: He hated the whole thing. I think he was mad
2:12:43
Speaker 4: at Gene Roddenberry, I think. I don't know what happened.
2:12:45
Speaker 7: No, the cast couldn't stand him either.
2:12:48
Speaker 4: Bill, right?
2:12:49
Speaker 7: Bill Shatner is very tough.
2:12:50
Speaker 4: Very arrogant.
2:12:52
Speaker 7: He took a lot of the lines himself.
2:12:54
Speaker 4: Right, right, right.
2:12:55
Speaker 7: George Takei, I think, abhors him.
2:12:57
Speaker 4: George Takei? He's the guy who's... He's the gay guy
2:12:59
Speaker 4: on Howard Stern all the time.
2:13:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks for clarifying who it is.
2:13:05
Speaker 4: Han Solo. No, not Han Solo.
2:13:08
Speaker 7: That's Star Trek.
2:13:08
Speaker 21: William Shatner actually should do what he did in Saturday
2:13:11
Speaker 21: Night Live to them and yell at all of them
2:13:13
Speaker 21: for not having a life.
2:13:14
Speaker 6: Look at you.
2:13:15
Speaker 4: Well, do what he allegedly did to his wife in
2:13:17
Speaker 4: the pool. I don't know. That's still a pretty weird story. Yeah,
2:13:20
Speaker 4: it is. Everybody comes home and their wife is dead
2:13:23
Speaker 4: in the pool, right?
2:13:23
Speaker 7: I guess.
2:13:25
Speaker 4: Happens to everybody.
2:13:26
Speaker 7: Spock, I've got a body in the pool here. It
2:13:30
Speaker 7: looks like a life form that's not breathing.
2:13:33
Speaker 4: I don't know if he did it or not, but
2:13:34
Speaker 4: it just seems a little weird. Like Robert Blake, there
2:13:36
Speaker 4: was no, you could get around it, he shot her
2:13:37
Speaker 4: in the face.
2:13:40
Speaker 7: She did the crime.
2:13:41
Speaker 4: Yes, she did. All right, so it's a whole weekend.
2:13:45
Speaker 4: Is it today? So this thing started yesterday, I guess.
2:13:47
Speaker 19: Yeah, and so anything that's new that's coming out, like
2:13:50
Speaker 19: they'll get the entire cast of, you know, a new
2:13:52
Speaker 19: Netflix sci-fi thing. They'll show up at this thing. And
2:13:56
Speaker 19: they'll talk about their new show. But a lot of
2:13:57
Speaker 19: it's old stuff.
2:13:58
Speaker 4: Oh, come on. I mean, I listen to it.
2:14:00
Speaker 19: You have to see. I've covered this a couple times
2:14:03
Speaker 19: over the years. It's really, even if you don't have
2:14:07
Speaker 19: a ticket, just walk into the lobby.
2:14:08
Speaker 4: Just to watch it, right? Of the Jazz Center.
2:14:11
Speaker 14: Because you can't believe what you're seeing.
2:14:12
Speaker 4: I feel like, and this is unfair, that it's like
2:14:15
Speaker 4: a bunch of pedophiles and sickos. I don't know why.
2:14:17
Speaker 14: No, it's really not.
2:14:18
Speaker 4: Well, Brawny Fest is like that. Well, Bronny Fest is
2:14:21
Speaker 4: a little weird. I mean, this is weird, but Bronny
2:14:24
Speaker 4: Fest is weird.
2:14:25
Speaker 14: Bronny Fest is a whole different.
2:14:29
Speaker 3: Weird.
2:14:29
Speaker 4: Just when you thought the Rutgers football and Devils hockey
2:14:32
Speaker 4: wasn't weird enough, here's Joe Nolan. He says the Star
2:14:37
Speaker 4: Trek stuff at that is really cool.
2:14:41
Speaker 11: I mean, he just gets worse every day.
2:14:45
Speaker 21: Imagine if you saw Joe Nolan walking through dressed up.
2:14:49
Speaker 7: I mean, think about this.
2:14:50
Speaker 4: His life is Rutgers, the Jets, the Devils, and Star Trek.
2:14:56
Speaker 4: What a loser! Traffic right now, it's not good by
2:15:00
Speaker 4: the Alpha Centauri.
2:15:01
Speaker 14: We're backed up.
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Speaker 1: Podcast Network.
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Speaker 4: So while you went to college, what is the name
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Speaker 4: of that school?
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Speaker 6: Ursinus.
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Speaker 4: Ursinus with the author of Catcher in the Rye, J.D.
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Speaker 22: Salinger.
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Speaker 4: Yes. I guess no one went to Emerson College. And
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Speaker 4: no one went to Emerson College?
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Speaker 6: Who's that?
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Speaker 4: The Fonz! What? Henry Winkler! No way. That's what I
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Speaker 4: was told. I don't know.
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Speaker 6: That's a much bigger deal.
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Speaker 4: Did you go to college with Henry Winkler?
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Speaker 14: Well, I would be like 80 years old if I
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Speaker 14: went to school.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's true. Yeah.
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Speaker 14: But I did go to the school I went to.
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Speaker 4: He did? Yeah. That's pretty cool. Where was that much
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Speaker 4: in college?
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Speaker 14: Downtown Boston.
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Speaker 4: No kidding. He's got to be the most famous person
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Speaker 4: I want there, right?
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Speaker 14: Well, you mean after me or?
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Speaker 4: After you, yes. Do they recognize you? All kidding aside.
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Speaker 4: Because my schools don't recognize me. And I went to
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Speaker 4: four of them. None of them do. They hate me.
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Speaker 19: You know, they reached out to me for some sort
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Speaker 19: of Hall of Fame radio thing.
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Speaker 4: Come on.
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Speaker 14: I never got back.
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Speaker 4: Is that really true?
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Speaker 23: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's pretty cool. So you like the Fonz.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 22: All right.
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Speaker 14: There are other people, but they're not coming to mind.
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Speaker 4: I love Henry Winkler. He was great in Happy Days.
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Speaker 4: He was great doing Night Shift and a million other projects,
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Speaker 4: but he is a real tough liberal. I mean, he
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Speaker 4: is a liberal with a capital L. I don't know.
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Speaker 17: Hmm.
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Speaker 4: I know, but he writes children's books. He's been on
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Speaker 4: the show a bunch. He writes children's books.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I feel like he was here a few times, right?
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Speaker 4: He was, at least once with me and Bernie, at
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Speaker 4: least once, yeah.
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Speaker 6: He's still relevant in Hollywood, too.
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Speaker 4: He still is, right?
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Speaker 20: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: He's on some show.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 6: He was great in the Barry show on HBO.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's it called?
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Speaker 7: Barry.
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Speaker 4: Barry, that's right, yes. It's the true story about Barack Obama.
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Speaker 22: Barry.
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Speaker 14: I don't think that's right.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's not it? Okay, he looks just like him.
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Speaker 4: We're done. Another great week of shows on Sid and
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Speaker 4: Friends in the morning. The bad news is we're done today.
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Speaker 4: The good news is, as Gene would say, God willing,
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Speaker 4: we'll all be back on Monday. Big celebration tomorrow for
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Speaker 4: Lou and MJ Ruffino. Congratulations, Louis. We'll see you tomorrow. Also,
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Speaker 4: a very hearty congratulations to Carol McGurk. And my late partner,
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Speaker 4: who I know still listens every day from heaven, Bernie,
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Speaker 4: their beautiful daughter Melanie is getting married tomorrow. So congratulations
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Speaker 4: to the McGurk family on lovely Melanie getting married. And
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Speaker 4: then we'll watch the NFL in the rain on Sunday
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Speaker 4: and come back to work on Monday.
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Speaker 2: See you next time.
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Speaker 14: For a new episode so you never have to wonder.
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Speaker 4: What the heck is going on here?