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Inspector General of the Department of Labor Anthony D'Esposito & Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling | 06-05-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: So we have a lot of great guests on this show,
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  Speaker 2: and we do love everybody. I tell everybody how much
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  Speaker 2: I love them, but I'm not gonna lie. There was
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  Speaker 2: certain times on this show where it's really exciting, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the case right now, my dear brand. The former
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Anthony Esposito, who has been doing a tremendous job,
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  Speaker 2: tremendous job as the General Inspector of the Labor Department,
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  Speaker 2: had an opportunity to go back and run again against
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  Speaker 2: Laura Gillum. Decided not to do it, so Driscoll hopefully
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  Speaker 2: can beat her. Hopefully, Ganine, we love you. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but Anthony's going to stay in his position for President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm happy he's doing. And with them, this is
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  Speaker 2: a real treat is the Secretary of Labor, Keep Sundling,
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  Speaker 2: who has literally devoted his last eight years of his
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  Speaker 2: life and he's only forty three to Trump's Labor department.
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  Speaker 2: Even stuck around for a while there with Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 2: So these are two great Americans and the two tourific guys.
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  Speaker 2: And it's great to have you here this morning. Thank you, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for having me. See, let's get to you, pros Keep.
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  Speaker 2: You were forty three years old. You've been doing this
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  Speaker 2: now since since suppose the Trump administration? How does this
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  Speaker 2: all start for you?
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  Speaker 3: I was a labor and employment lawyer in Bukertown, Florida,
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  Speaker 3: a place you're very familiar.
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  Speaker 2: Well, lived there for sixteen years, just west of Yamato
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  Speaker 2: in four forty one in Stonia. I'm still a legend
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  Speaker 2: there just seeing you.
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  Speaker 3: Are you are and I had a great life down there,
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  Speaker 3: just like you did. And then when President Trump won,
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  Speaker 3: it was an a once in a generational opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: leave beautiful Palm Beach County and move from one swamp
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  Speaker 3: to another.
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  Speaker 2: But how does that happen? Did you know President Trump did?
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  Speaker 2: How did that whole thing start? And how do you
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  Speaker 2: get the President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, when the new administration starts, they are
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  Speaker 3: looking for private sector people. And that's why the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration is so great. He didn't take government bureaucrats, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't take the typical swamp people, and he got people
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  Speaker 3: who are actually dealing and practicing in the same areas
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  Speaker 3: to go run these agencies. And you know what a
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  Speaker 3: concept that is. And that's why the Trump administration, both
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  Speaker 3: of them have been so successful because they take people
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  Speaker 3: from out of the DC, they take people with real
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  Speaker 3: life experience, and they put them in these roles. So
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  Speaker 3: that's how I was able to get in when they
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  Speaker 3: were looking for people who actually knew labor and employment,
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  Speaker 3: and I was able to move up to DC and
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  Speaker 3: since then it's just been a complete wild ride. But
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  Speaker 3: the easiest thing for me is just being able to
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  Speaker 3: work for the president because he is the most dedicated
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  Speaker 3: president in the history of this country to the American worker.
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  Speaker 3: And we've never seen such support for American workers and
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  Speaker 3: businesses than we have under President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: No question about it. In just the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: days on this show I've had, Brooke Rollins was on,
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  Speaker 2: She's with the President today in Wisconsin. They go to
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  Speaker 2: these farms, say, milk cows. It's weird. Actually, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but that's something we do in are We don't do
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  Speaker 2: much of that in Boca. And you know all these
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  Speaker 2: the Small Business Administration girl, Kelly Lepler, she was here
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days ago. So the whole team is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And you're all young and good looking like you went
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  Speaker 2: and the Yeah, having fun with this because you were
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  Speaker 2: a great cop, great coperal a long time and you
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  Speaker 2: told me during the break it's kind of like cops
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  Speaker 2: and robbers again. Here you are out there finding bad people,
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  Speaker 2: uncovering fraud billions and billions of dollars. So you're really
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  Speaker 2: enjoying this work, aren't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what's great about it is And Keith
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  Speaker 4: will tell you that the Inspector General for the Labor
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  Speaker 4: Department has one of the broadest jurisdictions of any inspector
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  Speaker 4: general in the federal government. And I have agents throughout
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  Speaker 4: the nation who are doing excellent work. And depending on
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  Speaker 4: where our offices are, they're right in the mix with
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  Speaker 4: gun cases and drug trafficking, human trafficking, child trafficking, and
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  Speaker 4: now you know, obviously we're focusing on the fraud that
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  Speaker 4: we always have. And you look at states like New
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  Speaker 4: York with Katy Hulkel, places like California with Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 4: who's by far and away the king of fraud, and
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  Speaker 4: I would say Kathy Hulkl is the Queen of fraud.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, the nation loses almost a trillion dollars
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  Speaker 4: a year to fraud. And the fact is, is that
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  Speaker 4: what a unique concept. President Trump and Vice President j D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance said, well, let's tackle it. And they've literally taken
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  Speaker 4: a entire government approach where they've given everyone the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: and the resources that they need. And they've flat out
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  Speaker 4: told the US Attorney's Office, when our investigators present cases
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  Speaker 4: to you about fraud, we don't care how much it is.
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  Speaker 4: We want people prosecuted, We want people put in handcuffs,
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  Speaker 4: and we want them put in jail. And the fact is, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's back to my roots. And I think that the
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  Speaker 4: agents and the people in the President's Task Force team,
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  Speaker 4: they love having a guy who actually did the work,
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  Speaker 4: who worked in the streets of New York City, who
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  Speaker 4: worked in Brownsville, Brooklyn. A shout out to the seven
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  Speaker 4: to three Precinct where I was a cop and a detective.
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  Speaker 4: They love that there's an investigator that act atually can
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  Speaker 4: look at these cases and say, well, I think we
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  Speaker 4: should do this, or maybe we should do that, or
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  Speaker 4: you know, wants to go out there and rally the troops.
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  Speaker 2: And we're making a difference.
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  Speaker 4: We're putting handcuffs on people, we're putting people in jail,
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  Speaker 4: We're traveling around the country doing takedowns. And President Trump
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  Speaker 4: and Vice President Vance are committed to this effort. And
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to make a lasting change in
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  Speaker 4: this nationally.
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  Speaker 2: What's important. I love it too. And you're a tough guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're a sweetheart, you're one of my best friends,
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  Speaker 2: but you're a tough guy and you've gred at this job.
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  Speaker 2: So it is not just you guys, right. I had
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  Speaker 2: doctor Rogs in this studio less than two weeks ago
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  Speaker 2: and talking about New York and Kathy Holkel. He's uncovered
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fraud with Medicare and Medicaid here in
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  Speaker 2: New York. Lee Eldon. I'll be introducing Lee Eldon tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night at a big dinner for Mike Lawler up in
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  Speaker 2: Rockland County. He was the only who started all this
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  Speaker 2: at the EP eight billions of dollars, even going back
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  Speaker 2: to that Laos Stacy Abrams, you know, and J. D.
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  Speaker 2: Bance you said, is working on this too. So you
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  Speaker 2: have all these different people and all these different agencies
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  Speaker 2: right uncovering fraud all over the country, and like you said,
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  Speaker 2: it's in the billions, end up on the trillions. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how was that not something that they're democrats Keith, that
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats didn't look into before? And why do they
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  Speaker 2: seem to be, I don't know, kind of quiet about
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  Speaker 2: it now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they turned a blind eye to fraud, and
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  Speaker 3: they allowed this money to go out without the controls
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  Speaker 3: and checks, and this is your tax payer dollars. Every
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  Speaker 3: cent that went out that was stolen was a theft
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  Speaker 3: on you, whereas Anthony says, it's also a tax on
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  Speaker 3: the Americans. But you know, from the Department of Labor's perspective,
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  Speaker 3: our role is related to the unemployment insurance system. That's
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  Speaker 3: why we have such a big role in the Vice
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  Speaker 3: President's task Force. And during the pandemic, you know, this
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  Speaker 3: is a program that's really just supposed to help workers
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  Speaker 3: get back on their feet temporarily because Trump administration is
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  Speaker 3: putting people in high paying, high skill jobs, the unemployment
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  Speaker 3: insurance system during the pandemic, when a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: were hurting. You know, a lot of people were laid
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  Speaker 3: off just supposed to be ten during that time. Nine
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  Speaker 3: hundred billion dollars went out to help Americans during that
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  Speaker 3: tough time. But we found out later that one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty five billion of that was stolen fraud.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, yep, and.
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  Speaker 3: Because of the lack of controls and the lack of
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  Speaker 3: checks and they really are gregious. Part if you break
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  Speaker 3: down some of that one hundred and thirty five billion,
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  Speaker 3: some great stats for you and your listeners. Nearly twenty
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  Speaker 3: nine billion of that went to the same Social Security
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  Speaker 3: numbers in multiple states.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, it's better. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred and thirty nine million to dead people, dead people, right,
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  Speaker 3: sixteen billion to suspicious emails, just made up emails. Two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and sixty seven million to federal prisoners, and my favorite,
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  Speaker 3: one point two billion to people under fourteen. And this
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  Speaker 3: is a program for people who lost their job. Come on,
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  Speaker 3: and here's some of it. Gets even better. Hold on,
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  Speaker 3: sixty nine million to people with birth dates more than
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  Speaker 3: fifteen years in the future. Somebody who was born in
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  Speaker 3: the year twenty one to fifty four. Yeah, right, got
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  Speaker 3: unemployed an insurance twenty one fifty four.
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  Speaker 2: So if you guys are upgraded at math.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and it's some more math for you too.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty nine million went to twenty four thousand people over
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  Speaker 3: the age of one hundred and fifteen years old, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the oldest person in America. I keep googling
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  Speaker 3: it because it changed. I think it's either one fourteen
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  Speaker 3: or one fifteen. But that's one person.
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  Speaker 2: One person.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about twenty five thousand people over one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifteen. And it just turned into a joke. It
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  Speaker 3: turned into an easy way to steal our American tax
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  Speaker 3: payer money. And I'll let Anthony talk about how criminal
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  Speaker 3: this got, not just in the US but overseas. But
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  Speaker 3: that's what this task force is about. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: the partnership between my office and Anthony's office is so strong,
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  Speaker 3: because we're working together. On my side, we're putting controls
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  Speaker 3: and checks in so this never happens again. And on
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  Speaker 3: Anthony's side, he's going to put these people in jail.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. This is the voice you just heard. Hell,
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  Speaker 2: he's terrific. Is the Secretary of Labor, Keith Sondling. Anthony,
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  Speaker 2: of course is Anthony dis Posito, your friend from Nysau
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  Speaker 2: County might friend the lovely Emily Austin sens God, she's
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  Speaker 2: listening right now on the wad of the airport. We're
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  Speaker 2: visiting the O hell later, Oh are yeah. Oh that's
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  Speaker 2: very nice.
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  Speaker 4: Keith's first time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. That is awesome. So tell me then
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  Speaker 2: you two guys are working together, like he said, he's
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  Speaker 2: uncovering this and then you're tuning these people up. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't cops hate that term, but is there any
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  Speaker 2: way above and beyond putting people in jail? And if
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  Speaker 2: this sounds ignorant, I'm sorry, but is there any way
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  Speaker 2: need to recover some of those yeahs, And that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're working on.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we were able to find and uncover nearly
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  Speaker 4: a billion dollars still left on prepaid debit, not uncover recover, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: And then so what the thing now is with the
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  Speaker 4: leadership of Todd Blanche, our Attorney General, and the work
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  Speaker 4: of Colin MacDonald, who's the Assistant Attorney General who's really
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be focused on fraud, we're now seeing uh,
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  Speaker 4: prosecutors and US attorneys where not only are we putting
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  Speaker 4: people in jail, but we're requiring restitution. So if you stole,
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  Speaker 4: you know, one hundred thousand dollars, you owe the government
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  Speaker 4: back one hundred thousand dollars. And if you stole three
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  Speaker 4: million dollars, well you owe the government back three million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's what the American people want to see,
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  Speaker 4: right they look at this person stole five million dollars
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  Speaker 4: of doing six months in jail, it, you know, is
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  Speaker 4: the is it really? You know, it could be worth
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  Speaker 4: but when you have to pay it back, I think,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what's sending the message. And I think that
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  Speaker 4: that's what's key about this task force, and that's what's
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  Speaker 4: key about President Trump is that he looks at it
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  Speaker 4: with common sense and he says, if you stole the money,
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  Speaker 4: we should be giving.
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  Speaker 2: The money back to the American people jail, and you
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  Speaker 2: should go to jail. I was watching I was on
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  Speaker 2: Katie again last night and this guy, Chris Hahn was on.
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  Speaker 2: I know from here, he worked here for a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: He's so you're going to Hofstra later, I'm going to hopshow.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Hahn was one of my professors at hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah? Yeah. I mean when you meet
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  Speaker 2: him in person, he's a he's a nice guy, you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't dislike him. But he goes on TV he's a
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  Speaker 2: complete asshole. I mean, he just got I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: talk about it a little bal with a capital L.
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  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 2: He just a complete maniac. And he's talking about how,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this whole thing started in Minnesota with Nick Shirley,
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  Speaker 2: and how the Republicans you know, played this game and
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  Speaker 2: turned it into a big trauma and violent and the
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  Speaker 2: way they're doing it is not about the way to
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  Speaker 2: do it. Yeah, he's going on and on. So wait
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  Speaker 2: a second, Nick Shirley knocked on a couple of doors
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  Speaker 2: and nobody was there. I mean, what exactly did Nick
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  Speaker 2: Shirley do?
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  Speaker 4: That was so one reason Nick Shirley did what the
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  Speaker 4: mainstream media should have done, and that is to go
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  Speaker 4: to places like Minnesota and look at daycare centers that
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  Speaker 4: the actual sign instead of learning center was spelled leering center.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact is is that that money is supposed
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  Speaker 4: to go to our most vulnerable population, our elderly, are sick,
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  Speaker 4: special needs children, and the people in Minnesota. You know,
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  Speaker 4: and the Somalian refugees were literally, you know, bank robbers
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  Speaker 4: without masks. And the fact is is that we are
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  Speaker 4: now going to all of these different states, We're uncovering
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  Speaker 4: the fraud. And when he talks about violence, if you
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  Speaker 4: want to talk about violence, one of the things the
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  Speaker 4: task force is going to be focused on is the
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  Speaker 4: fact that the money that's coming from these fraud scams
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  Speaker 4: is actually funding the violent crime that we see in
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  Speaker 4: places like New York City the United States, but America.
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  Speaker 4: These purps are sitting in apartments, you know, and saying,
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  Speaker 4: all right, let's register one hundred people in our apartments
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  Speaker 4: for unemployment insurance fraud. And then they're using the money
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  Speaker 4: to traffic guns and drugs. And the fact is we
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  Speaker 4: we just did a case recently. We found millions of
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  Speaker 4: dollars being sent over to the Chinese Communist Party.
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  Speaker 3: That's the point I want, like, this is not just
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  Speaker 3: funding activity here in the US for criminals, but also
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  Speaker 3: it's going to our foreign adversaries overseas. So they're you know,
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  Speaker 3: scamming the unemployment insurance.
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  Speaker 2: You said foreign adversaries. The China's the rush is the
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  Speaker 2: North Korea is right erect okay.
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  Speaker 3: And they're going out there. They're they're hacking into our
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  Speaker 3: unemployment insurance system. They're all if they see, it's so
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  Speaker 3: easy for Americans to scam this, you know, criminal rings
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  Speaker 3: here in America. They're sophisticated. So they're also taking this
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  Speaker 3: money too. So now they're taking your American taxpayer dollars.
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  Speaker 3: It's going overseas against us. I mean, it's even worse
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  Speaker 3: anything you'd imagine. The Biden administration allowed it. The Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration is just saying not in this administration, we're never
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  Speaker 3: having this again. We're putting the controls in check for
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  Speaker 3: the long time to stop this crime. But also we're
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  Speaker 3: going to go after everyone. I think that's really important.
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  Speaker 3: But once the public, you know, you're seeing it through
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  Speaker 3: Nick Shirley's videos, but even in our space too, when
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  Speaker 3: you know, why are there of these guns in the
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  Speaker 3: street in New York City? Where do they get the
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  Speaker 3: money to buy that? Through your taxpayer dollars?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Basically, and who knows, you know, we could eventually uncover
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to look into it. You know, who's
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  Speaker 4: we know who's paying for these encampments on Columbia University
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  Speaker 4: and these Petrie dishes of fat throughout the United Yes
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  Speaker 4: it's sorrows, yes it's others, but.
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  Speaker 2: You've also got care. You've also got the Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 2: which Marco needs to designate a terror group tomorrow, not today,
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  Speaker 2: but tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Which of their dollars are using this type to fund
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  Speaker 4: these of.
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  Speaker 2: Them are So you guys are heroes, is what you are.
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  Speaker 3: And President's the hero who's been able to give us
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  Speaker 3: the chance to do this. And without President Trump wanting
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  Speaker 3: to make that change and empowering the Vice President to
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  Speaker 3: do this task force, it would have been status quo,
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  Speaker 3: business as usual. Our taxpayer dollar is being stolen, these
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  Speaker 3: gangs and drug lords taking all of our money.
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  Speaker 4: And that's one of the reasons just to why we
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  Speaker 4: have to work so hard and fight so hard in
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  Speaker 4: places like California and New York to try to take our.
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  Speaker 2: California's great, they got autism centers and there's nobody in
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  Speaker 2: the building. Nobody in the building.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about New York here. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: you look at the fraud numbers and the unemployment insurance system,
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  Speaker 3: you won't be surprised that New York has the highest
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  Speaker 3: in the country. Of course, not seventeen percent of all
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  Speaker 3: the unemployment insurance that goes out in New York State fraud, fraud,
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  Speaker 3: seventeen percent.
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  Speaker 2: That's Kathy Hoche for you. Okay, sixty seconds, because I
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  Speaker 2: mean told you guys have a lot to do today.
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  Speaker 2: You've got News Max, You've got Steve Varney, You've got
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  Speaker 2: and you've got a big thing coming up with did
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  Speaker 2: you tell me nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna head down and meet with some of
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  Speaker 4: the brave firefighters from the UFA and the UFOWA. We're
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  Speaker 4: visiting one of the firehouses downtown and then we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: take a walk over to the nine to eleven Memorials,
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  Speaker 4: pay our respects, and on the way home, you know,
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  Speaker 4: before before we start shoppings.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna head over to the ojal Oh. That's awesome,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the firehouse right around the corner. He literally
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  Speaker 2: go on Lexington Avenue and make a left. That was
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  Speaker 2: one of the stops that President Trump made when he
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  Speaker 2: was here with that ridiculous court case, with that lowlife
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  Speaker 2: Alvian Bragg every day. Part of the reason why Trump
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  Speaker 2: one morning was a genius. You know, you'd go to
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  Speaker 2: a barbershop in the Bronx. You go all over New
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  Speaker 2: York and have these big rallies. The Fightal House right
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  Speaker 2: around the corner is where he did his first responder
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  Speaker 2: rally here in New York, and I was there standing up.
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  Speaker 4: I came up in conversation. Last night we had We
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  Speaker 4: had dinner with our next Governor, Bruce Blakeman and Chairman Cairo.
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  Speaker 2: Great night.
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  Speaker 4: We got Keith, some good Italians. Well, you went to
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  Speaker 4: we went to We did Versario for lunch. We went
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  Speaker 4: to King Emberto for lunch, and then we went to
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  Speaker 4: il Vllagio for dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice Blake.
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  Speaker 3: He has a full Long Island experience. And for me,
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  Speaker 3: my parents were born and raised in the Bronx. I
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  Speaker 3: was born in Manhattan. It's just great to be back
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  Speaker 3: here and great talking about President's host policy. He's the
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  Speaker 3: best president for American workers in New York City and
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  Speaker 3: Long Island and everywhere else. Is learning that quickly in
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  Speaker 3: these trips.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. Well, it's great to meet you, Keith. You're a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful guy, and thank you for your service the last
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  Speaker 2: eight years for President Trump and forty three years. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, your future is so bright. So thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much, and you you know I love you.
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  Speaker 4: And Keith asked yesterday, I how did you and sid
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  Speaker 4: It get so close? I said, well, you know, we're
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  Speaker 4: like brothers form another mother. But really is when he
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  Speaker 4: was my guest at the State of the Union and
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  Speaker 4: got thrown out, that's a true story.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I got thrown out, right.
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  Speaker 3: I heard the whole story last night.
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  Speaker 2: Very little pressed, but I got thrown out. And then
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  Speaker 2: we went to the Orange c together and we slept together.
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  Speaker 2: It's just gay, but right, it's out there now. Rosenberg
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  Speaker 2: banked the Esposito of Milwaukee. It was a long night.
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  Speaker 2: We did go to Bumpitscroll first. He loves that place.
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  Speaker 2: All right. You guys are bouth amazing. You all love
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  Speaker 2: the pieces. Anthony d Esposito, Keith, you're doing a tremendous job. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 2: keep up the good work, my guys. Thank you so much.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: All right, Keith Sandling right there, the Labor Secretary and
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  Speaker 2: my man, the General Inspector, Anthony d Esposito, two great Americans, really,
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  Speaker 2: two terrific guys.
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