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Anthony Cumia And Peter King | Mamdani At The 9/11 Ceremony · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Joining us right now, Anthony Cumia, my fellow weekend star
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  Speaker 1: here on WABC. Thank you for waking up early and
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  Speaker 1: joining us here on The Takeover. I got to ask you,
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  Speaker 1: coming into the weekend, what was your biggest thought as
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  Speaker 1: far as what the big stories were and what's on
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  Speaker 1: your mind this morning? Hey, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing? It's our third weekend warrior.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I certainly hope everybody's having a good Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 3: How do you get three?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he meant... Yeah, because John has a weekend show, too.
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  Speaker 1: All four of us.
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  Speaker 2: I apologize. Oh, boy, am I in trouble tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You're in trouble. It was nice knowing you, Michael.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, you know, this could be the morning show
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  Speaker 3: in Boston.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Jake Novak, why would you make a
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  Speaker 2: comment like that? Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, obviously with the 25th anniversary of 9-11
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  Speaker 4: coming up, that's been weighing on my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think it would hit me as hard as
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  Speaker 4: it has over this past couple of days and going
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  Speaker 4: into this Friday. And it's just topped off with the
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  Speaker 4: anger I have toward Zoran Mamdani and his ilk. That
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  Speaker 4: pen episode, giving a pen to a defender of terrorists
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  Speaker 4: and terrorism from a 9-11 executive order he was signing.
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  Speaker 4: It's calculated. I'm not going to sit here and give
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  Speaker 4: him the benefit of the doubt one more second. He's
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  Speaker 4: proven himself to be a piece of garbage and has
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  Speaker 4: no empathy, sympathy, or anything really for the survivors, the
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  Speaker 4: families of 9-11 victims.
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  Speaker 2: So that's been weighing on me.
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  Speaker 4: I know going into Friday has been tough for A
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  Speaker 4: lot of people on last night's show, I spoke to
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  Speaker 4: a gentleman that was a survivor from one of the buildings,
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  Speaker 4: and he's from the same school of thought, and he
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  Speaker 4: was there. He got out, obviously, but the people looking
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  Speaker 4: and listening to Zoran Mamdani, it's just infuriating, and there
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  Speaker 4: was nothing in my wildest dreams or nightmares that would
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  Speaker 4: have led me to believe this story. is where new
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  Speaker 4: york would be twenty five years later unit.
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  Speaker 1: To give everyone of the more the details about what
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  Speaker 1: anthony was talking about so you know the mayor mom
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  Speaker 1: donnie on friday having one of those basically ceremonial moments
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  Speaker 1: at city hall sitting at his desk signing proclamations saying
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  Speaker 1: nine eleven is a day that we're gonna remember you
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  Speaker 1: know meet not not a bill or a new law
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  Speaker 1: or anything else like that as as it happens that
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  Speaker 1: these events The pen that the mayor or president or
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  Speaker 1: governor uses to sign these documents is handed over usually
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  Speaker 1: to someone who is very emotionally connected to the proclamation
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  Speaker 1: or the bill or something like that. So, for example,
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  Speaker 1: when they had Amber Alert, when that law was passed,
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  Speaker 1: they handed the pen over to the family of Amber's family,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. He hands the pen over. To
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  Speaker 1: Ramzi Qasem, who is his chief counsel, who has a
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  Speaker 1: history of defending al-Qaeda terrorists. This is not someone who
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  Speaker 1: had an emotional connection in a good way or in
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  Speaker 1: a sympathetic way to 9-11. This is literally going out
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  Speaker 1: of his way, and they said it was being tone-deaf. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this was tone-deaf. I think this was
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  Speaker 1: a deliberate attempt to stick it.
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  Speaker 2: He literally should have taken that pen and handed it
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  Speaker 2: off to Macklemore with his anti-Israel, his pro-Palestinian MetLife statements.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's how stupid Moron Mamdani is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was stupid. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: deliberate maliciousness.
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  Speaker 3: I really do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the fact that he handed it to Commissioner
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  Speaker 4: Tisch and had her hand it to him, And her
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  Speaker 4: face in that video, man, she did not look happy
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  Speaker 4: about it. And all I could think of was the
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  Speaker 4: scene from Casino Night. Where Pesci goes, oh, is this
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  Speaker 4: your pen?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: You can tell my friend to go F himself with
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  Speaker 4: the pen.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that scene gets brutal. By the way, that's a
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  Speaker 2: great imitation.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, man. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like a minor bird.
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  Speaker 4: I just repeated everything as a kid watching TV, and
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  Speaker 4: I guess it paid off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not like there's a dearth of people
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  Speaker 1: here in New York City that could have been given that.
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  Speaker 1: He could have given that.
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  Speaker 3: Pen, too.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to have our gala here. at WABC, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be honoring the first responders, honoring Governor Pataki.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in one second, Mayor Mamdani could have had
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  Speaker 1: three or four of the first responders from 9-11 standing
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  Speaker 1: behind him and giving the pass to them. It's not like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I had no one else to give it to. This
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  Speaker 1: was a deliberate sticking it to, I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: almost like, it was basically kind of like a secret code. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you and I think about 9-11 and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. You know, according to Zohra Mamdani, the
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  Speaker 1: only real victim of 9-11 was his make-believe aunt, who
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  Speaker 1: he says was afraid to wear her job on the subway.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out it wasn't his aunt, and it's probably not true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, these people think everything that they say goes away.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's not the 40s and 50s where if
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  Speaker 4: a copy of the newspaper disappears, no one knows what
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  Speaker 4: anyone said or did. We have video. We have audio.
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  Speaker 4: of Zoran Mamdani speaking years ago. And he really comes
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  Speaker 4: off as being very unsympathetic to the victims of 9-11,
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  Speaker 4: their families, everyone else involved. And that didn't go away.
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  Speaker 4: No one changes their mind like that. Oh, I was
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  Speaker 4: thinking differently. Oh, I had a different mindset. Bull. It's
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  Speaker 4: all the same vindictiveness. He has a hatred for, toward
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  Speaker 4: america i believe that i believe he hates america he
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  Speaker 4: wasn't born here he has no idea what it's like
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  Speaker 4: to grow up in this country and he has no
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  Speaker 4: idea what it was like to be an american on
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  Speaker 4: nine eleven two thousand one and watching our country being
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  Speaker 4: attacked in real time uh... and and it's despicable that
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  Speaker 4: he on the twenty fifth anniversary is now the mayor
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  Speaker 4: of new york city.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in peter king former congressman peter king to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this someone very intimately involved with the nine
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  Speaker 1: eleven situation what was what are your thoughts uh... uh...
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  Speaker 1: congressman king about this because this idea that some of
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  Speaker 1: our calling it stupidity and tell that i think this
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  Speaker 1: was a deliberate malicious uh... act by the mayor i really.
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  Speaker 3: Do yeah i think we have to set the first
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  Speaker 3: ones it's not to be with you guys today especially
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  Speaker 3: in this week and also proud to be a part
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  Speaker 3: of any cool you should rosenberg so that's.
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  Speaker 1: Right we're taking over that's it said Anyway, as far
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  Speaker 1: as Mandami, to me, what he did is absolutely disgraceful.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we have to stop thinking this guy
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  Speaker 3: is making mistakes or he's screwing up. He's not. He's
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  Speaker 3: very smart. He knows exactly what he's doing. You don't
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  Speaker 3: hand a pen to a terrorist lawyer when you're signing
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  Speaker 3: a commemoration for 9-11 unless you have a real motive
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  Speaker 3: of all the people he could have given it to,
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  Speaker 3: of all the people in New York City, of all
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  Speaker 3: the thousands of victims and their families. He gave it
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  Speaker 3: to the lawyer for the terrorists. He knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: And this isn't by itself. You go back into what
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  Speaker 3: he said in the past, whether it's into FADA, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's posing for pictures with the unindicted co-conspirator from the
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  Speaker 3: first 9-11 hijacking. This guy is bad, and he knows
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  Speaker 3: what he's doing, and that makes him more dangerous. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just important, I think, that we focus on that
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  Speaker 3: and not say that somehow he's getting in on a
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  Speaker 3: quirk or somehow he's making mistakes. No, this guy knows
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  Speaker 3: what he's doing. He has an agenda, and we've got
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  Speaker 3: to stay on it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there really was about a thousand people that
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  Speaker 2: he could have turned that pen over to. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: It could have been to you, Congressman. It could have
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  Speaker 2: been to Governor Pataki. It could have been to Secretary Lutnick,
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  Speaker 2: who lost more family and friends working for him in
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  Speaker 2: the building than I think anybody else. There are so many.
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  Speaker 2: He could have just picked... Any one family who was
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  Speaker 2: affected by 9-11, who had lost a loved one and
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  Speaker 2: turned it over to him. In fact, what he could
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  Speaker 2: have done is just, I don't know, maybe made commemorative
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  Speaker 2: pens and handed one out to every single family member who...
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  Speaker 2: Lost somebody. I mean, I remember, as I'm sure every
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  Speaker 2: single one of you do, where I was exactly at
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  Speaker 2: the moment of the first strike and then the second strike.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember the horror, horror as I was walking
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  Speaker 2: from downtown to uptown because there was no movement going
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  Speaker 2: on anywhere. other than people walking with soot all over them.
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  Speaker 2: I remember having a bottle of water, and I remember
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  Speaker 2: there was this guy who was walking next to me,
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  Speaker 2: and he was literally covered with soot. I remember giving
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  Speaker 2: him the water to wash the soot away from his eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody asked if you were Republican, Democrat, or Independent. We
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  Speaker 2: were all New Yorkers. We were all Americans who just
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  Speaker 2: experienced the single worst moment of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I want to get Congressman King and
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  Speaker 1: Anthony to weigh in on this also. And here's something that,
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  Speaker 1: if you listen to the Mamdani's of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: I think this was one of the reasons why he
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  Speaker 1: handed the pen to this Ramzi Qasem, is because for
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  Speaker 1: people like them, this was, 9-11 is a sad event, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but the real problem is that it led to some
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  Speaker 1: kind of Islamophobic wave in this country. And that is
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  Speaker 1: patently false. There were no mass attacks on Muslim Americans
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  Speaker 1: after 9-11. They were one or two incidents involving individuals.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe his baloney story about his aunt or
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  Speaker 1: whatever relative it was, who apparently wasn't even living in
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  Speaker 1: the city at the time, being afraid to ride the subway.
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  Speaker 1: You know, bunk. It's just not true.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. That's not fair to say. It's
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  Speaker 2: not fair to say. There was Islamophobia after 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: But not mass attacks.
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  Speaker 2: No, but there was Islamophobia. Many Muslims were extremely nervous
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  Speaker 2: about being in public and so on. How I know,
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  Speaker 2: I was running 285 yellow cabs in New York. Those
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  Speaker 2: who were of the Sikh... Who are not Muslim.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They were very concerned because of the appearances of the Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: People would mistake them.
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  Speaker 2: And they were... Nobody came to work. They were afraid
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  Speaker 2: to drive. And some were actually assaulted. So I understand it,
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  Speaker 2: but not on the mass scale that Mamdani is trying
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  Speaker 2: to put there.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 2: There's always going to be some form of Islamophobia. No
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  Speaker 2: different than there's anti-Semitism. You have stupid people, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what they are. Nevertheless, the way that Mamdani is putting
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  Speaker 2: it out there is completely an over-exaggeration.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the old Norm Macdonald joke. Anthony Acumene, you know
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Peter. I disagree. There was no Islamophobia. Those
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  Speaker 3: Sikhs may have been nervous, but the fact is there
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  Speaker 3: were more Jews attacked. Even at the height of what
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  Speaker 3: people say is Islamophobia, there was far more anti-Semitic acts everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: And the only bias and prejudice that I saw was
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  Speaker 3: right here on Long Island. It was a massive interfaith movement.
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  Speaker 3: rally that was held to bring everyone together. We had
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  Speaker 3: the bishops there, we had rabbis there, we had Protestant
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  Speaker 3: ministers there, and we had imams. And that day, when
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  Speaker 3: everyone was calling for peace and unity, the imams and
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  Speaker 3: the interfaith coordinator for the leading mosque on Long Island said,
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  Speaker 3: there's no evidence the Muslims were involved, this could have
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  Speaker 3: been Jews, and it could have been the CIA. They
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  Speaker 3: were the ones that set that in motion. Considering what happened,
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  Speaker 3: I would say it's Again, the anti-Semitism on good days
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  Speaker 3: is worse than anything ever happened.
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  Speaker 2: That is true. I wasn't making the comparison.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I also thought that 9-11, and
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to get everyone's thoughts on this, 9-11 also
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  Speaker 1: showed how far this country had come from the days
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  Speaker 1: of World War II. Because during World War II, there
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  Speaker 1: were incidents of anti-Asian violence. We did have the internment
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  Speaker 1: camps for the Japanese in California. And so for 70
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  Speaker 1: years later, actually 60 years later for the country to respond,
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  Speaker 1: nothing like that ever again was a sign of tremendous,
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  Speaker 1: tremendous modernization and decency in the way that Americans think
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  Speaker 1: and act. And for that to be misconstrued, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so often... the Islamist narrative about whether it's Israel or
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  Speaker 1: the United States is exactly the opposite of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So when they say genocide on the Palestinians, actually the
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  Speaker 1: Palestinians are the fastest growing group in the region. It's
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  Speaker 1: the exact opposite of genocide. When they say that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's incredible. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: One thing I noticed is we got a really fast
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  Speaker 4: education on the difference between Sikhs and Muslims.
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  Speaker 3: We did.
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  Speaker 4: Because those poor Sikhs just try to work and get
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  Speaker 4: out there and drive cabs and... whatever else, uh, we're
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  Speaker 4: catching hell.
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  Speaker 3: Yup. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There were people that were getting beaten up and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: and that was, uh, terrible, those poor people. Uh, but
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  Speaker 4: there were a certain, uh, people that were doing something
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  Speaker 4: and they got the crap beat out of them and
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  Speaker 4: shut down really fast. They were selling dramatic photos of
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  Speaker 4: the towers of people standing there, jumping off the towers,
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  Speaker 4: all the horrors of that day. And on certain streets
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  Speaker 4: around the city selling these photos. They got the crap
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  Speaker 4: beat out of them, and you never saw them come
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  Speaker 4: back on the streets again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you may also remember that there was a
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  Speaker 2: building that was sold that was supposed to become some
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  Speaker 2: sort of a Muslim center about a block or two
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  Speaker 2: away from downtown where obviously the first building stood.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman King, you know, we're in a situation now where,
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  Speaker 1: of course, look, we know it's a losing battle to
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  Speaker 1: try to stop Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul, who has
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  Speaker 1: now been included by people, including the the Port Authority
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  Speaker 1: Pension Fund group is retirement group is trying to stop
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  Speaker 1: her as well from showing up to the 9-11 anniversary
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  Speaker 1: marking solemn ceremonies coming up on Friday. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how is this going to go down? I've heard that
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be some booing. I've heard that the
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  Speaker 1: more dignified response is going to be people are going
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  Speaker 1: to turn their backs. They did that to Mayor de
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  Speaker 1: Blasio a couple of times. What do you expect to
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  Speaker 1: happen on that day when the mayor does indeed show
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  Speaker 1: up and the governor does indeed show up?
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  Speaker 3: I hope there's no scene. And that's what, from the start,
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  Speaker 3: I was not that enthused about telling Mandami not to
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  Speaker 3: be there, even though I do believe that now. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want anything to detract from the people who died
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  Speaker 3: that day, the families of the people who were down
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  Speaker 3: there because of the victims who were murdered. So I
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  Speaker 3: really think quietly ignore him. But I would hope there's
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  Speaker 3: no demonstrations. I would hope there's no booing. Not that
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  Speaker 3: I care about him. I don't want to see anything
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  Speaker 3: that detracts from the memory of those great people who
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  Speaker 3: were murdered that day and the anguish that their families
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  Speaker 3: go through for 25 years now. So turning it back,
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  Speaker 3: that would be fine, but nothing that really is going
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  Speaker 3: to detract attention. I don't want the eyes of the
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  Speaker 3: world focusing on anti-Mandami demonstrations or numbers at a time
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  Speaker 3: when we should be thinking, to me, all of it
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  Speaker 3: should count. All we should be focused on is those
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  Speaker 3: poor people who were murdered that day and what their
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  Speaker 3: families have gone through since.
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  Speaker 2: And Mamdani should be sensitive enough to exactly the point
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  Speaker 2: that you're making that he should not show up. If
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  Speaker 2: what you're going to be doing by your appearance at
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  Speaker 2: an event is going to cause this sort of eyeball
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  Speaker 2: and attention, well, maybe the smart move to do is
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  Speaker 2: not to show up at all.
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  Speaker 3: It's not an easy decision. He's going to be there
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  Speaker 3: because he thinks all eyes of the world will be
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  Speaker 3: on him. And to him, that's a price worth paying.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think we give up on the idea
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  Speaker 3: that he's going to do the right thing. To him,
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  Speaker 3: the right thing is to advance the cause of Islamism.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he's focused on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, whatever one should understand, too, is we can expect
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  Speaker 1: the mainstream media to report any kind of disrespect to
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani on Friday. whether it's a turn in the back,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's booing as anti-Muslim sentiment. And it's not that.
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  Speaker 1: This is because he has spoken out about, he has
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  Speaker 1: been in public with people who say the United States
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  Speaker 1: deserve this. I mean, I dare Hasan Piker and Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: and other people to look in person, not just on
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  Speaker 1: social media. To stand in front of a 9-11 victim
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  Speaker 1: family member and say, America, your country deserved this. You
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  Speaker 1: were a victim because of America, your own country.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't have the guts to do that. That is
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  Speaker 1: why he's going to be booed if he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be booed. That is why people will turn his back
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  Speaker 1: on him. It's not because he's a Muslim. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's missing a huge opportunity. If you weren't
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  Speaker 1: such a socialist and trying to really destroy this country,
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I believe he hates this country. His poll
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  Speaker 1: numbers would go up 40 points if a few months
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  Speaker 1: ago he had said, you know what? This is an
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: amazing country, an amazing city. Just 25 years after the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: 9-11 attacks, they elected a Muslim man to be mayor.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: What does that say about how great New York is?
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: If he had said that, if he had a political
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: consultant or someone who actually wanted him to succeed and
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: not destroy the city, his numbers would go up. All right,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: let's take a break right now. This is definitely a
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: topic we have to hit more this week. It's so,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: so important.