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Hour 3: Covering 9/11 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: For 25 years, they were hidden. For 25 years, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't know, although we could guess and assume how dangerous
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  Speaker 1: the air was in the remnants of 9-11, in the
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  Speaker 1: remnants of the falling of the two towers. Now we know. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: we know. The information that was stored in 68 boxes
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  Speaker 1: in his city office is For a while, they said
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  Speaker 1: it was missing. They just kept lying to us, administration
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  Speaker 1: after administration after administration. And now we find out, thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Mayor Zorin Mamdani, who released the files, released 170,000
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  Speaker 1: pages of it, and that's not nearly all of it.
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  Speaker 1: More is going to be released. I guess right now
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  Speaker 1: it's being redacted, and I wish they would not redact
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  Speaker 1: a line of it. But now we know that up
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  Speaker 1: to three weeks after the fall of the towers, when
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  Speaker 1: you had men and women on the pile looking for
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  Speaker 1: bodies and trying to rebuild for months afterwards, there was
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  Speaker 1: toxic air filled with asbestos and other poisons. And then
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  Speaker 1: 10 months later, we find out that blocks away, asbestos
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  Speaker 1: and poisons were still in the air. And all that time,
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  Speaker 1: you had men and women on the pile, citizens, FDNY, NYPD,
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  Speaker 1: people from across the country just trying to help, breathing
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  Speaker 1: in poison day after day after day for hours on end,
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  Speaker 1: breathing in poison. And the city knew and the city
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  Speaker 1: did nothing. And so finally, there are some unions that
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  Speaker 1: are speaking out about this. One union came out now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's going to be others to follow. But
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  Speaker 1: he was wonderful. I'm glad he was the first one
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  Speaker 1: out of the box. FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Brasi. Jim
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  Speaker 1: Brasi is the president of the United Firefighters Officers Association.
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  Speaker 2: They went through great lengths to making sure you did
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  Speaker 2: not know the totality of the situation and what they
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  Speaker 2: knew when they made the choice to sacrifice its residents
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  Speaker 2: and its first responders.
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  Speaker 1: For what they believed was the greater good.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And that is the atrocity that happened after 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Using the word atrocity is exactly what he should
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  Speaker 1: be used. You know how many people died because of
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  Speaker 1: their lies? You know how many people died because of
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  Speaker 1: information that was hidden from them? Thousands. There's people that
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  Speaker 1: are sick still. There's people that are dying still.
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  Speaker 2: It is appalling that they did this to us, despite
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  Speaker 2: our willingness to knowingly go into that.
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  Speaker 4: Environment repeatedly for long-term exposures, long after the acute exposure
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  Speaker 4: of that day, to give dignity to the people that
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  Speaker 4: were lost, to give the greatest possible effort towards a recovery,
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  Speaker 4: and then hopes to put New York back on its
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  Speaker 4: firm footing that it was on the days before 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: And before anybody argues, well, it wouldn't have mattered. The
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  Speaker 1: poisons were still going to be on the air. It
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered. No, they could have had gear on.
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  Speaker 1: And as Chief Brosny explains, there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: they could have done if they just had the information.
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  Speaker 2: Had they been more transparent about those toxins, we probably
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  Speaker 2: would have stalled recovery, got better decon, set up better facilities,
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  Speaker 2: set up better work rotations so that we could have
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  Speaker 2: limited the exposure.
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  Speaker 1: There has to be a further investigation. All the documents
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  Speaker 1: must be released. This should be a federal investigation, not
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  Speaker 1: a local investigation, because there's too many people who are
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  Speaker 1: going to cover their own butts in this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: and cover up for friends. This has got to be
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  Speaker 1: a federal investigation, and I hope Donald Trump gets involved.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly hope the Justice Department gets involved, because people
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  Speaker 1: deserve Curtis to be in jail.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I know there are many out there probably saying, hey, look,
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  Speaker 5: United Firefighters Association, that's the members, and UFO, those are
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  Speaker 5: the officers, are probably doing this to curry favor with
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  Speaker 5: Joran Mondami. You couldn't be more hopelessly wrong. Having known
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  Speaker 5: these men, having met with them, trying to get their
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  Speaker 5: endorsement in the mayoral elections twice, I can assure you
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  Speaker 5: there were no Mondami supporters in those meetings.
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  Speaker 6: None!
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  Speaker 2: None!
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  Speaker 5: Eddie Brown was the treasurer, one of my greatest guardian angels.
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  Speaker 5: He saved my life in New Orleans. I would have
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  Speaker 5: been shot in the head and dead. He knew everybody.
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  Speaker 5: He introduced me to everybody. These people are not supporters.
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  Speaker 5: But they're so enraged. Yesterday at their annual commemoration in
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  Speaker 5: Staten Island, they had this sign out that says 343
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  Speaker 5: plus still counting. Because... They've had 12,000 firefighters diagnosed with
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  Speaker 5: at least one illness and double the number who've died
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  Speaker 5: since that day when the buildings collapsed. So more than
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  Speaker 5: any other union, they are so attached to everything that
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  Speaker 5: occurred and continues to occur. And unfortunately for Rudy Giuliani,
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  Speaker 5: his response... was not good at all. Finally, a member
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  Speaker 5: of his staff went on social networking and blamed the
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  Speaker 5: federal EPA, which was run by Christine Whitman at the time,
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  Speaker 5: the former governor of New Jersey appointed by Bush 43,
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  Speaker 5: who said the air was clean. You could go into
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  Speaker 5: the area, whether you were working there, going to school there,
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  Speaker 5: living there, which many people also got sick as a
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  Speaker 5: result of her order. She has since apologized. But that
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  Speaker 5: doesn't exempt the city. The city has its own Department
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  Speaker 5: of Environmental Protection. And the Giuliani spokesperson did not address that.
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  Speaker 5: Michael Bloomberg, who's also implicated in this because he didn't
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  Speaker 5: release any of these details. His response, I mean, is
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  Speaker 5: mind boggling. And here's the guy who's going to host
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  Speaker 5: the commemoration as he does every year. He has personally
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  Speaker 5: funded the museum. and all the outreach that's been done
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  Speaker 5: to try to inform not just tourists, but everyone of
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  Speaker 5: what took place on that horrible day. And it seemed like,
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  Speaker 5: maybe you can quote his post, but it didn't at
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  Speaker 5: all make reference to the 170,000 documents. It seemed to
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  Speaker 5: talk about just the rebuilding of lower Manhattan in the
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  Speaker 5: aftermath of the attack.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's what he said. He bragged. He bragged about
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  Speaker 1: what he did on that day. His timing was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: He was so tone deaf in all of this. But
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  Speaker 1: let's remember, and look, please, please don't leave a talkback
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  Speaker 1: talking about politics. There's no politics in this. There's none.
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  Speaker 1: No politics. We're talking about Republican and Democratic administrations, all
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  Speaker 1: that hid the information. They were all complicit. And listen,
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  Speaker 1: I am not, a fan of Zoran Mamdani. I will
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  Speaker 1: go back to criticizing him next week. I don't like
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  Speaker 1: anything he's done. I think he's failed and failed and
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  Speaker 1: failed and failed and failed. But I can give him
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  Speaker 1: credit for this. And I don't want, I'm just getting
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  Speaker 1: tired of the talkbacks going, oh, well, he just did
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  Speaker 1: this to save his own butt. Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: But the greater good is better than any self-interest. The
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  Speaker 1: greater good is so great when we finally got this
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  Speaker 1: information that to me, nothing else matters. And certainly it
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  Speaker 1: should to you. And I know it does to the
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  Speaker 1: first responders. And I know it does. They are so angry.
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  Speaker 1: The ones that I used to go down with buses
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  Speaker 1: on to Washington to fight for the James Zadroga Act,
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  Speaker 1: to give them funding, to give them medical care as
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  Speaker 1: they're dying? They're angry. Of course they're angry. They don't
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  Speaker 1: know if they're next. There's many people alive today that
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  Speaker 1: were there at the towers, at the rubble, who don't
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  Speaker 1: know if they're next. No, no, no. There has to
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  Speaker 1: be a reckoning on this.
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  Speaker 5: So, Larry, four administrations have been faulted for hiding the records,
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  Speaker 5: including the number one supporter of Zoran Mandami, Bill de Blasio.
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  Speaker 5: So he didn't just go at his critics or his enemies. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: Adams did not support him. Bloomberg actually supported Cuomo with money.
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  Speaker 5: And we know Rudy has no love for Mondami. But
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  Speaker 5: de Blasio couldn't be more of a booster or a supporter.
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  Speaker 5: So this report implicates all four administrations for hiding the
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  Speaker 5: information and not being transparent. So there had to be
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  Speaker 5: a calculated effort made. To keep these boxes out of sight,
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  Speaker 5: out of mind with all the materials that we have
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  Speaker 5: a right to see. Transparency. And you will have a portal.
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  Speaker 5: And just like when we had the files, the obscene files.
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  Speaker 5: And remember, they started posting them. There's going to be
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  Speaker 5: a lot of files here. And you can all look
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  Speaker 5: at it yourself and come to your own conclusions. But
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  Speaker 5: at least it's out in the open now and not
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  Speaker 5: being hidden.
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  Speaker 1: But think about why they didn't release this. Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's for money. It's because they didn't want to have
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  Speaker 1: to pay the money. And that's it. That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: And that is what is so sinister, what's so despicable
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  Speaker 1: about this. The human lives didn't matter. People could work
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  Speaker 1: on the pile, doesn't matter. People could continue to die,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. As a matter of fact, they probably got
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  Speaker 1: even more frightened when people were dying that oh no
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be held responsible for this remember for
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  Speaker 1: a while they pretended they didn't know where the the
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  Speaker 1: files were yes they just lost them yeah and they
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  Speaker 1: were never lost no that was a lie as well
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  Speaker 1: let me let.
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  Speaker 5: Me clarify they were in the city bureau of the
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  Speaker 5: environmental protection uh organization that is a city agency Packed
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  Speaker 5: in boxes. People knew where they were. This administration, Zohar Mandami,
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  Speaker 5: found them three months ago and started going through them.
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  Speaker 5: And now they're posting them. So maybe you say he
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  Speaker 5: should have released them then. OK, but everything's political. That's
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  Speaker 5: why I don't trust any politicians. You heard me say
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  Speaker 5: that again and again. Friend or foe, I don't trust any.
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  Speaker 1: All I care is they were released. That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. That's all I care about. When
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  Speaker 1: we come back, a bald eagle has been spotted in
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  Speaker 1: the city.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, man. A bald eagle? First the otters in the
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  Speaker 5: Bronx River, now a bald eagle in the Bronx? Is
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  Speaker 5: it wearing a bulletproof vest? And the week of 9-11.
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  Speaker 5: We will tell you where and in advance everything we're
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  Speaker 5: going to be talking about tomorrow because that's what we're
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  Speaker 5: dedicating this to, plus a chance to see Andrea Bocelli next.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Natalie just had a wonderful observation saying that a
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  Speaker 1: bald eagle has shown up in New York City on
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  Speaker 1: the precipice of the 9-11 remembrance, the 25th remembrance. That
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  Speaker 1: is incredible. You're right, and it's still here. And it's
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  Speaker 1: being seen all around the Bronx.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 1: Looking majestic.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And we better get a bulletproof vest on that eagle.
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  Speaker 5: Are you kidding? Are you kidding with the gang wars
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  Speaker 5: that are going on there now? I could easily see
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  Speaker 5: some guy say, watch me cap an eagle out of
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  Speaker 5: the sky.
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  Speaker 1: Well, while it lives, people think it's pretty special.
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  Speaker 7: It's like a top 10 moment for me because I've
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  Speaker 7: just never seen anything like that close that was so majestic.
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  Speaker 7: It seems like it could just, you know, spread its
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  Speaker 7: wings and just go after anything, you know, in the area.
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  Speaker 7: So it was a little, it was a little weird
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  Speaker 7: at first, but you know, it seemed to be just
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  Speaker 7: hanging out.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the picture of it? No, it is majestic.
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  Speaker 1: It's big and it's majestic.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I'm worried about.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it came right out of a painting. It
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  Speaker 1: is just beautiful. And by the way, They said this
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  Speaker 1: isn't the first one. They've been flying around the river
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  Speaker 1: up there, and they also said that because this is happening,
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  Speaker 1: and remember the otter that we saw a couple months ago? Yep,
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  Speaker 1: Bronx River. Yeah, the Bronx River. That because of that,
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  Speaker 1: it shows that things are getting cleaner, and the air
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  Speaker 1: is getting cleaner, and the water is getting cleaner, and
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  Speaker 1: now animals are starting to come back.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, man. Better get out of the Bronx, bald eagle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Get out of the Bronx quick.
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  Speaker 8: Curtis, I know you said you didn't see him, because
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  Speaker 8: he looks like out of Central Casting for a bald eagle.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing?
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  Speaker 5: He can protect himself.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a movie eagle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: A Hollywood eagle. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 5: It's AI eagle. I'll redirect that eagle to a safer location.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, just enjoy the wonder of it for a second
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  Speaker 1: before saying it's going to be shot.
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  Speaker 9: I have to say that the Girl Scout cookies, I
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  Speaker 9: think they changed the recipe.
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  Speaker 10: They just don't taste the same to me.
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  Speaker 3: Either that or I got old and my.
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  Speaker 5: Taste buds have changed.
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  Speaker 11: Something's different to me.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, I still buy them, of.
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  Speaker 3: Course, but they're just not the same.
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  Speaker 7: Does anybody else feel that way?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do, but I'm afraid to say something like
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  Speaker 1: that because I don't want the Girl Scouts coming after me.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you, I think they taste the same.
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  Speaker 11: I really do.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe a smidge smaller. Oh, the thin mints taste exactly
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  Speaker 5: the same.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, too. That's true.
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  Speaker 4: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Not all of them taste as good as
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  Speaker 1: they used to. I'll agree with you on that.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead. Say more. Say more. Come on, Larry. Say
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  Speaker 5: what you really mean.
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  Speaker 1: First he had the Taylor Swift people.
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  Speaker 5: Now he's going to have all three girls count the
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  Speaker 5: world after him.
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  Speaker 1: Go for it, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: Another great 9-11 movie is a documentary called The Man
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  Speaker 3: in the Red Bandana. This follows what Wells Crother from Nyack,
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  Speaker 3: New York, did to save at least six lives before
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  Speaker 3: dying himself. And he was recently given the Presidential Medal
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  Speaker 3: of Freedom. It's certainly worth a look.
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  Speaker 1: Recently, just two days ago.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the other day the president went on and recognized
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  Speaker 5: his valor. in front of many of his peers and colleagues.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Why isn't anyone talking about the Charlie Kirk statue
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  Speaker 1: being unveiled in the middle of Times Square today? It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: We'll talk about it towards the end of the program.
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  Speaker 5: I've got a lot to say about that.
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  Speaker 6: How ironic that Zorin Madami, who Trump was vowed to
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  Speaker 6: use as a poster child for inner-city communistic decay, and
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  Speaker 6: who all the 9-11 victims want to prevent from attending
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  Speaker 6: the ceremonies has turned the table on former Republican leadership
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  Speaker 6: such as Bush and Whitman and former heroes such as
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  Speaker 6: Giuliani by uncovering this entire scheme.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't do anything. They did this to themselves.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 1: obscene that they hid this. And I don't care who
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  Speaker 1: was the one that exposed it. I don't care. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the perfect person to expose it, I understand, but
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  Speaker 1: I give him credit for doing so, no matter the reasons. Agreed?
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  Speaker 5: Totally agreed. And putting it up on a portal so
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  Speaker 5: we can all see it for ourselves. Not telling us
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  Speaker 5: what's in it, like sometimes people do. We'll release it
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  Speaker 5: in months, but it's up in a portal now with
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  Speaker 5: more to come. Well, How about we start giving away
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  Speaker 5: some tickets right now?
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  Speaker 10: the parents. They'll return to classes with no AI in
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  Speaker 10: President Trump will give the closing remarks tonight at the
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  Speaker 10: Republican National Committee's first midterm convention. Last night, he gave
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  Speaker 10: the keynote address and which he urged Republicans to pretend
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  Speaker 10: Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill isn't talking when it comes to
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  Speaker 10: allegations about her second-in-command.
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  Speaker 8: Cheryl took questions from reporters Wednesday over accusations her lieutenant
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  Speaker 8: governor acted inappropriately with women and is also being investigated
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  Speaker 8: for possible ethics violations.
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  Speaker 10: I want to make sure every single person who works
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  Speaker 10: safe and supported.
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  Speaker 8: Dale Caldwell denies the allegations. In a letter obtained by
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  Speaker 8: the New Jersey Business News, Caldwell wrote, I have never
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  Speaker 8: asked anyone out on a date, hit on, or pursued
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  Speaker 8: anyone romantically while conducting official business as lieutenant governor and
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  Speaker 8: secretary of state. Cheryl's office is investigating the matter. I'm
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  Speaker 8: Scott Pringle, WOR News.
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  Speaker 10: A federal appeals court is considering a case which could
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  Speaker 10: through the mail. At issue is whether the drug should
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  Speaker 10: be shipped into Louisiana given the state's ban on abortion.
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  Speaker 9: If you were sweating it out this summer, you weren't alone.
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  Speaker 9: NOAA reports this was the warmest summer ever measured in
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  Speaker 5: early August. I'm Rory O'Neill.
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  Speaker 1: reporter in New York City who covered the horrors of 9-11-2001,
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  Speaker 1: honored to be joined by Tim Scheld. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: know the name, you're certainly going to know the voice.
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  Speaker 1: He is a longtime New York radio news reporter and
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  Speaker 1: alum of WOR, but he's Pretty well known for his
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  Speaker 1: work at NewsRadio 88. He was the news director there
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  Speaker 1: for two decades. He's been a journalist for five decades.
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  Speaker 1: He's covered every big story in this city. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, he does have a book out. That's
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  Speaker 1: not what we're talking about today, but it's worth mentioning.
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  Speaker 1: My Front Row Seat, A Newsman's Journey. And I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine September 11th, 2001 plays heavy in that book, Tim.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we want to talk to you about today.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us. Hey, Larry, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That was sweet of you to say.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, honestly, September 11th, well, first of all,
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  Speaker 13: it's a day that none of us will ever forget.
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  Speaker 13: And not forget just for, you know, what we saw
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  Speaker 13: or felt, but just how it felt. It feels so
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  Speaker 13: heavy even today as we look at the 25th anniversary.
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  Speaker 13: And yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 13: It's overwhelming how many stories there are and how many
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  Speaker 13: we don't even still know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 13: Was looking at a Facebook feed just a little while
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  Speaker 13: ago and saw a story of a guy that was
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  Speaker 13: caught in the debris but lived, and I had never
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  Speaker 13: even heard his story. It's just amazing what we went
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  Speaker 13: through as a city, as a community, at a day when,
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  Speaker 13: you know, war was waged on.
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  Speaker 1: Us, you know?
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  Speaker 5: Now, Tim, this is Curtis Sliwa. On that day, I
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  Speaker 5: was broadcasting. There was no internet. There was no feed.
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  Speaker 5: When those towers went down, pretty much all TV channels
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  Speaker 5: were off the air. People were dependent on radio as
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  Speaker 5: they've been enduring natural emergencies and blackouts. But I remember
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  Speaker 5: all the misinformation, the rumors about that Flight 93 and
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  Speaker 5: where it was headed, and it crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 5: But it was targeting... the Capitol building. So they would
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  Speaker 5: have hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the
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  Speaker 5: Capitol building. How, as a journalist, did you handle all
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  Speaker 5: those conspiracies when there was really no way to know
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  Speaker 5: what was going on?
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, Curtis, it's good to hear your voice. Good
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you.
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  Speaker 13: I have to tell you, I do remember, and it
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  Speaker 13: was less rumors and misinformation and more like things were
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  Speaker 13: coming out. So for example, they evacuated the Capitol. They
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  Speaker 13: evacuated areas around the White House because they had heard
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  Speaker 13: a plane was still in the air that they were
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  Speaker 13: not in contact with. That was Flight 93. Didn't really
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  Speaker 13: know the details about it. All we knew is that
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  Speaker 13: they were evacuating places. And those little bits of information
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  Speaker 13: were being delivered because there were journalists in the Capitol
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  Speaker 13: that were evacuated. So That information made it on the
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  Speaker 13: air on radio and TV as we were doing seat-of-the-pants radio.
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  Speaker 13: I remember, and I was just at the museum last
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  Speaker 13: week with my son, and this reminded me, on the
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  Speaker 13: Today Show, they didn't even know the plane had hit
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  Speaker 13: the Pentagon yet, but they were told by the producer,
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  Speaker 13: go to Jim Miklaszewski, the Pentagon reporter. He's got something
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  Speaker 13: to report. And Mick comes on the air and says,
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  Speaker 13: we just felt something. It was live action footage. horror,
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  Speaker 13: terror unfolding, you know, before our eyes. And it was
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  Speaker 13: an amazing day. And look, the first responders are the
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  Speaker 13: real heroes there and the people who weren't even uniformed,
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  Speaker 13: civilians that went into the building in a.
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  Speaker 1: Selfless act, but also the broadcasters that day.
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  Speaker 13: I do believe that the people who ran to the
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  Speaker 13: trouble to bring that information were heroes in their own
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  Speaker 13: right as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stay on that day for a second, because you're
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  Speaker 1: overseeing news coverage, and as you just pointed out, information
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  Speaker 1: is coming at you fast and furious that you have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with and you have to respond to. Take
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  Speaker 1: us through the day, if you can. So, Larry, at
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  Speaker 1: that point, I was a national radio correspondent. Curtis probably
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  Speaker 1: remembers it, ABC News. So I was a reporter that day,
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  Speaker 1: and my day was.
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  Speaker 13: Everybody in New York knew probably forgets now, it was
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  Speaker 13: primary day. It was election day. So as a reporter,
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  Speaker 13: I was sleeping in and I was running into the
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  Speaker 13: city late. So that probably saved me from being in
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  Speaker 13: the midst of the horror that quickly. But when I
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  Speaker 13: heard the plane hit the tower, I knew that something
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  Speaker 13: was going on and I knew I had to get
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  Speaker 13: in the city. And my morning was spent struggling to
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  Speaker 13: try and find a way to get into Manhattan when
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  Speaker 13: it was closed down.
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  Speaker 1: Every highway was shut down. You couldn't get on by water.
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  Speaker 13: And I ended up, um, uh, finding some sort of
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  Speaker 13: strategy with my wife and getting her to get me
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  Speaker 13: a bicycle and a helmet and, uh, meeting up here
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  Speaker 13: near Rockland County and taking the Tappan Zee bridge and
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  Speaker 13: getting to the Bronx and riding a bicycle into Manhattan, uh,
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  Speaker 13: to be there.
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  Speaker 1: And you're right. Managing that kind of chaos, um, is, um,
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  Speaker 1: there's no, there's no game plan.
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  Speaker 13: You've got to really sort of go by instinct and, uh,
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  Speaker 13: What was really troubling is that we lost contact with
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  Speaker 13: a lot of our colleagues and friends when the towers
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  Speaker 13: came down. And no one knew the fate of many people.
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  Speaker 13: At WCBS, there was a well-known reporter, Mary Gay Taylor,
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  Speaker 13: and the towers came down. She was saved because somebody
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  Speaker 13: grabbed her and threw her underneath a vehicle that saved
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  Speaker 13: the two of them from getting hit by the debris.
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  Speaker 1: But nobody had heard from her for quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: And then about an hour later, they heard her voice
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  Speaker 1: and everybody was relieved. But that is a story that's.
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  Speaker 13: Told 10,000 times over by people who were looking for
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  Speaker 13: loved ones when they saw that horror happen on TV.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Tim, journalists get vilified often. But on that day,
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  Speaker 5: we were so dependent on you and others to get
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  Speaker 5: us the information that we couldn't get for ourselves. what's
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  Speaker 5: the lesson to be learned about the role that journalists
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  Speaker 5: play in our day-to-day lives from that event?
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  Speaker 13: Well, I love the question, Curtis, and thank you. And
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  Speaker 13: I think that, you know, you know, the answer is that,
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  Speaker 13: you know, facts matter. Uh, and so you report what's
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  Speaker 13: in front of you and that'll never change. And I mean,
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  Speaker 13: that day obviously taught us that, um, you know, you
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  Speaker 13: really can, can report on what you see in front
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  Speaker 13: of you. And this idea of, uh, you know, rumors
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  Speaker 13: and misinformation, that stuff needs.
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  Speaker 1: To be vetted. You can't report on things like that.
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  Speaker 13: And now there's so much information, like a fire hose
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  Speaker 13: of information, you know, headed our way. We've got to
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  Speaker 13: really teach the next generation of news consumers and journalists,
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  Speaker 13: for that matter, to think critically about the information in
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  Speaker 13: front of them before disseminating.
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  Speaker 1: Before you push share.
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  Speaker 13: On that, you know, on your Instagram post or on
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  Speaker 13: your feed, you really need to be confident that that
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  Speaker 13: information that you're sharing um, is accurate. And it's, that's,
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  Speaker 13: that's the real lesson that, that, that we all need to,
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  Speaker 13: to take from that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, very well said Tim Shelled, longtime New York radio
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  Speaker 1: news reporter, W O R L M alum news radio, 88.
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  Speaker 1: He ran the newsroom there for two decades and his
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  Speaker 1: book is my front row seat, a newsman's journey. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for sharing all that with us, Tim.
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  Speaker 2: We will.
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  Speaker 5: Larry was so much, uh, taking place leading to the
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  Speaker 5: commemoration tomorrow of 9-11. Today at 2.33, if you're in
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  Speaker 5: Times Square, will be the unveiling of a bronze statue
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  Speaker 5: in honor of Charlie Kirk, who on this day was
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  Speaker 5: assassinated a year ago by an artist named Fornari, who said, look,
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of stuff I didn't agree with him on,
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  Speaker 5: but his stand about freedom of expression and and freedom
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  Speaker 5: of creation. There are no boundaries, no borders. That's where
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  Speaker 5: we kind of stand together. That's what motivated me to
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  Speaker 5: do this statue. He did it out of his own pocket,
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  Speaker 5: this bronze statue, and emblazoned on the shirt that the
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  Speaker 5: bronze Charlie Kirk is wearing is the word freedom, because
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  Speaker 5: he stood for freedom of speech. He took on all
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  Speaker 5: adversaries rhetorically, and they were some of the great debates.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, he had debated Hassan Piker, and was going
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  Speaker 5: to debate him again at Dartmouth on September 29th last year.
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  Speaker 5: So he was an advocate of free speech, and then
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  Speaker 5: he was cut down. But my relationship with him was
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  Speaker 5: not a good one. On July 5th of last year,
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  Speaker 5: when I was running for mayor, he was the first
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  Speaker 5: person to come out and say I should drop out.
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  Speaker 5: And remember, he had a national following with Turning Point,
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  Speaker 5: well-respected amongst conservatives. And that led to almost every day,
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  Speaker 5: somebody coming forward, you need to drop out. That's when
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  Speaker 5: Cuomo had lost to Zorhan Mandami in the primary. And
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  Speaker 5: Eric Adams had sort of a resurrection. And he was saying, oh,
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  Speaker 5: everybody needs to back Eric Adams. Now, I didn't know him.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't know me. But when he was shot and killed,
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  Speaker 5: I was in the green room at Fox News Channel
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  Speaker 5: watching it on TV because I was going to come
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  Speaker 5: on at 3 o'clock that show and once again answer, no,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not dropping out. I was the only reporter. who
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  Speaker 5: came out to his commemoration. It took place within 48 hours.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of younger people were there from turning point.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of people said, wow, you're here. I said,
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  Speaker 5: put aside the fact that I was angry that he
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  Speaker 5: started this tsunami at a national level. But he was
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  Speaker 5: an advocate of free speech. And I've always believed, the
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  Speaker 5: way I was raised by my father, the antidote to
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  Speaker 5: hate speech is more free speech.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what he advocated. And he was killed for it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And he was martyred for that because they were so misunderstood.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the problems is that Charlie Kirk was brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk would have gone on, who the hell knows
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  Speaker 1: what he would have been. He was only 31 years old.
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  Speaker 1: He might have been a president. I mean, he had
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  Speaker 1: a following unlike... any conservative, probably, well, since Trump and
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  Speaker 1: since Reagan. I mean, people that followed him loved him.
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  Speaker 1: And you said he was an advocate of free speech.
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  Speaker 1: He went beyond most of us when it came to
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  Speaker 1: free speech. He wanted to hear from people that disagreed
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  Speaker 1: with him. He would pick them out in a crowd, said, you,
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  Speaker 1: come down here. And he was kind. And there's been
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  Speaker 1: so much of an aberration about his legacy, how he
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  Speaker 1: was mean, how he was hateful. Never. Please, please educate
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  Speaker 1: yourself and watch his videos and watch him on the
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  Speaker 1: college campuses. He was a follower of Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 1: a follower of God. He was a Christian and he
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  Speaker 1: lived by Christian ways and he was killed by it.
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  Speaker 1: He was a conservative martyr. And in those who called
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  Speaker 1: and said, we should have talked more about him today.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. We should. But let's just remember him.
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  Speaker 5: Well said, Larry. Well said. And in its aftermath, a
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  Speaker 5: turning point. Remember the breakup between Tucker Carlson and Shapiro
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  Speaker 5: and Candace Owens. What a mess. This is what happens
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  Speaker 5: when you're leaderless for such an incredible portion of our
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  Speaker 5: country's history. Now, we talked about the bald eagle sighting
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  Speaker 5: in the Bronx. The talk back in the morning and
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  Speaker 5: winner of the Curtis Lee and Larry Menti in the
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  Speaker 5: morning T-shirt said there has been another eagle visit during
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  Speaker 5: the week we remember September 11th.
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  Speaker 12: As Curtis was discussing the bald eagle that was spotted
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  Speaker 12: in the Bronx, the local news station on Long Island
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  Speaker 12: was reporting on another bald eagle sighting that was spotted
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  Speaker 12: in Malvern on Long Island.
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  Speaker 5: It's probably a mate. I would suggest the bald eagle
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  Speaker 5: in the Bronx cross the Long Island Sound and go
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  Speaker 5: right to Long Island before you get shot out of
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  Speaker 5: the sky by gangbangers. And remember, the Talkback of the
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  Speaker 1: We hope you'll join us tomorrow as we commemorate what
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  Speaker 1: happened on September 11th, 25 years ago. You won't miss
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  Speaker 1: But for right now, let's get the news at 9 o'clock.