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Trump meeting with Mamdani AGAIN, will the 'lovefest' last · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: President Trump today scheduled to meet with New York City
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Zoran Mamdani. The meeting will take place at Gracie Mansion,
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  Speaker 1: and it will be the first time the two are
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  Speaker 1: meeting at the mayor's official residence. Trump and Mamdani have
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  Speaker 1: met twice before at the White House, and despite public
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  Speaker 1: jabs at one another, they've maintained an oddly cordial relationship.
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  Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the mayor said this meeting will, quote,
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  Speaker 1: focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 1: Infrastructure could be one of the topics since Mamdani has
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  Speaker 1: previously pitched a project to the president to build thousands
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  Speaker 1: of apartments over the trains at Sunnyside Yard, which would
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  Speaker 1: require billions of dollars. in federal grants. So let's bring
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  Speaker 1: in MSNOW senior White House reporter, Vaughn Hilliard. Vaughn, not
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  Speaker 1: in the White House, obviously, at the moment because you
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  Speaker 1: can't be there, but thanks for being with us outside
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  Speaker 1: the White House. What are you expecting from this meeting
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  Speaker 1: with Mamdani? It's kind of odd how well Mamdani seems
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  Speaker 1: to get Donald Trump. Go for the builder in the president,
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  Speaker 1: and you seem to be able to get a good
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  Speaker 1: relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: He's somebody that has somehow found his way in that
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  Speaker 3: relationship in which Donald Trump expects overtures to be sought,
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  Speaker 3: and in return to curry some favor by essentially giving
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  Speaker 3: him some sort of head nod to ways in which
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  Speaker 3: they can cooperate together in an environment in which the
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  Speaker 3: president does just about everything but cooperate with anybody that
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  Speaker 3: attempts to politically undermine him. And so this meeting, by coming,
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  Speaker 3: going directly to Zohra Mamdani, of course, it's significant for
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  Speaker 3: the New York City mayor, who has effectively made the
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  Speaker 3: pitch over the course of the last year that he
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  Speaker 3: can actually bring results as a democratic socialist to the
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  Speaker 3: front lines of his residence. But this is, of course, also, Cady,
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  Speaker 3: going to be the first meeting of his trip to
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  Speaker 3: New York City, where he is set to meet with
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  Speaker 3: multiple foreign leaders here at the U.N. General Assembly.
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  Speaker 2: We should note that also, right, at least for now,
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  Speaker 2: not clear where we're going to look at this meeting
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  Speaker 2: because the travel pool, the network pool for the trip, CNN, CNN,
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  Speaker 2: like us here at MSNOW, currently banned from the White House.
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  Speaker 2: The two networks plus Politico, the other subject of the
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  Speaker 2: recipient of the ban, filed a lawsuit this morning to
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  Speaker 2: change that. We will see how it's covered later today. MSNOW,
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  Speaker 2: senior White House reporter Vaughn Hilliard.
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  Speaker 4: Vaughn.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And Maldoni certainly has gotten the
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  Speaker 2: best of Trump so far, at least in the PR
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  Speaker 2: meeting game of their earlier meetings. We'll see how today goes. Ben,
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  Speaker 2: I want to turn to your new piece at 7.4
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  Speaker 2: about a school in France that's refocusing on security amid
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  Speaker 2: Russia's testing NATO limits and threats to draw down American
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  Speaker 2: troops in Europe. And the context here is so important.
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  Speaker 2: We have seen Russia There's many belief that in the
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  Speaker 2: next year or two may make a lunge, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: in a Baltic state or something else in Europe. But
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  Speaker 2: already they're ramping up these sort of hybrid attacks in
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  Speaker 2: Europe right now. Security on their mind. And they feel
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  Speaker 2: like they maybe can't count on the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, you know, you're seeing these institutions. Sciences
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  Speaker 4: Po is the sort of key. It's like the Harvard
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  Speaker 4: Kennedy School of France. its students now want to study
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  Speaker 4: defense intelligence. It's shifting a lot of its resources there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the question is whether they can move fast enough.
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  Speaker 4: And I think if you want to see, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the sort of absence of the U.S., it is kind
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  Speaker 4: of amazing that the meeting in New York during the U.N.
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  Speaker 4: that we're talking about with Donald Trump is with Mamdani
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  Speaker 4: because expectations, I think, are so low for the meetings
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  Speaker 4: with Zelensky, with Xi, for the notion that the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: is going to kind of shape what's happening in the
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  Speaker 4: world right now.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, it's fascinating. You talk about that meeting between the
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  Speaker 5: president and the mayor. Sort through for me. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if you've written about this lately, but sort through
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  Speaker 5: the difference between Democrats' reaction to Mayor Mom Donnie meeting
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  Speaker 5: with Donald Trump and Hakeem Jeffries meeting with somebody who
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  Speaker 5: doesn't work in the White House but is a peace envoy.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a bit confused there. Maybe you can explain it
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  Speaker 5: to me.
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  Speaker 4: That is a good question, Joe. The Democrats were very
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  Speaker 4: unhappy when to see Hakeem start, I think, basically trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out how he as majority leader would set
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  Speaker 4: up a back channel to the administration when what they want,
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  Speaker 4: you know, their federal representatives in Washington to do is
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  Speaker 4: to fight Trump. I mean, I think Mamdani, I think
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  Speaker 4: New Yorkers basically wanted Mamdani to not have Trump send
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  Speaker 4: ICE to the city. And the New York mayor, you know,
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  Speaker 4: unlike the Speaker of the House, there's no position of
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  Speaker 4: strength there. And I think Mamdani has won a lot
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  Speaker 4: of plaudits for keeping Trump out of New York's hair, essentially.
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  Speaker 4: I do wonder, I mean, Trump must be getting bored
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  Speaker 4: of this narrative. If I was Mamdani, I'd be a
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  Speaker 4: little nervous today that Trump's going to kind of come
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  Speaker 4: in with a plot twist, get some attention with a
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  Speaker 4: big fight with Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly comes amid as the DHS has ramped up
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  Speaker 2: deportation efforts in New York City. So that's one potential reason.
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  Speaker 2: flashpoint for that meeting. Ben, before you go, tell us
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about this next, the event you're hosting
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow called The Next Three Billion, taking place at Hudson Yards. Sam,
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  Speaker 2: before putting it on, what should we expect?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an event focused on development, focused on Africa. Actually,
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  Speaker 4: we're having, we have the Kenyan president, Ruto, will be there,
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  Speaker 4: who today signed an op-ed with the Brazilians, the Europeans,
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  Speaker 4: the Canadians, trying to, again, trying to figure out, is
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  Speaker 4: there some way for middle powers, as they call them,
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  Speaker 4: to take a bigger role in what is sort of
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  Speaker 4: a power vacuum right now in global politics?
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  Speaker 2: Semaphore is the next three billion event. Sixth place tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: in New York City, Joe. And this is the kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing, Editor-in-Chief of Semaphore, Ben Smith, thank you. And Joe,
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  Speaker 2: this is the kind of thing that happens along the
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  Speaker 2: sidelines of the UN this week. These sort of world
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  Speaker 2: leaders come in. They meet with each other, of course,
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  Speaker 2: in the United Nations, but they also make appearances, have
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  Speaker 2: little informal greetings with each other, but also speak at
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  Speaker 2: events like this, like Ben's at Semaphore yesterday. That's all
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  Speaker 2: good news. The bad news is it's literally impossible to
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  Speaker 2: get around town this week. Traffic's nuts.
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  Speaker 5: Well, absolutely, absolutely impossible. I tried to call somebody that
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  Speaker 5: lived two blocks from the U.N. last night and the
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  Speaker 5: cell service was scrambled. Couldn't couldn't do it. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it just gets absolutely locked down and crazy there. But,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that Mom Donnie Trump thing, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 5: you get a sense that Donald Trump at times would
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  Speaker 5: think maybe it would be better to be mayor of
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  Speaker 5: New York City. to run Gotham and have the headaches
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  Speaker 5: of running the country. He seems pretty bored right now
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  Speaker 5: with his job in Washington, D.C. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe the plot twist comes. Maybe Donald Trump wakes up
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  Speaker 5: and says it was all a dream and lashes out
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  Speaker 5: at New York City's mayor this afternoon. I'm not so sure,
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  Speaker 5: but we'll see.
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