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Peter King | Former Congressman Speaks on Newly Released 9/11 Air-Quality Records · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: These are documents that show what the city knew about
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  Speaker 1: the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it,
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  Speaker 1: and how they acted to limit liability.
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  Speaker 2: Rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that
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  Speaker 2: that would cause to its citizens and to the people
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  Speaker 2: that were down there, they instead covered it up to
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  Speaker 2: get back to business as usual.
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  Speaker 1: Why those guys decided to unveil all of this... three
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  Speaker 1: days before the 25-year commemoration of 9-11, if you think
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  Speaker 1: that was an accident or, in Mamdani's case, just good timing,
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  Speaker 1: then you're stupid. You're not even naive, you're stupid. He
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  Speaker 1: has spent the last couple of days punking every New Yorker,
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  Speaker 1: doing everything he can to really make a joke about Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to a couple of days ago, which I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about, ad nauseum, that ceremony where he handed that
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  Speaker 1: ceremonial pen to an Al-Qaeda attorney who represented the brother-in-law
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  Speaker 1: of one of the people, one of these animals, who
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  Speaker 1: hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and killed Americans. This attorney.
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  Speaker 1: And he made sure that he embarrassed the police commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Tisch, along the way. And many have contacted me
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  Speaker 1: knowing I love Jesse. Many saying that was Jesse's opportunity
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  Speaker 1: right there to throw that pen on the floor and say,
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  Speaker 1: F you, I'm leaving. She didn't do that because she
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  Speaker 1: really does love the cops in New York. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: she was in shock. I don't know. But that whole
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  Speaker 1: ceremony was a punk job. Gave all of us the
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  Speaker 1: middle finger. All of us. Now you got this. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you think we didn't know, dummy, that the air wasn't
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  Speaker 1: safe down there? We went through this with Christine Todd Whitman.
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  Speaker 1: We knew that. You could have 8 million boxes, say
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  Speaker 1: 68 boxes, 170,000 documents. We knew that. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that these brave men and women would not have gone
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  Speaker 1: down there in an effort to retrieve bodies or save
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  Speaker 1: lives even knowing that? Of course they would have. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you looking to hurt now? What's the idea
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  Speaker 1: doing this three days before? And he's still, despite over 100,000
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  Speaker 1: signatures on Giovanni Galante's petition, rallies all across the city yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: This punk-ass bitch mayor is still going on Friday. He
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  Speaker 1: has spent the entire week literally crapping on 9-11. And
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  Speaker 1: you morons out there, you morons who love him, Democrat politicians,
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  Speaker 1: DSA politicians, A large part of the media, all you
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  Speaker 1: do is giggle with the guy. Marsha Kramer, Katie Honan,
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  Speaker 1: that's all you do. Melissa Russo, you giggle with the guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he's making a mockery of people who went to
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  Speaker 1: work that day and died. I've given you three different
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  Speaker 1: events this week making a mockery. Is there any other way,
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  Speaker 1: the great Congressman Peter King, is there any other way
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  Speaker 1: to look at this than how I just explained it.
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  Speaker 3: No, Sid, first of all, you're 100% right on this.
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  Speaker 3: Mandami is showing, I think you've shown him already, but
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  Speaker 3: certainly this week he's shown his true colors on this.
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  Speaker 3: To him, 9-11 is at best a political event. He
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  Speaker 3: feels none of the anguish and sorrow that every other
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  Speaker 3: New Yorker felt that day, and so many have continued
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  Speaker 3: to feel that way, the families, what they went through.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just a tragic event, not just something that happened.
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  Speaker 3: It was something that went right to the heart and
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  Speaker 3: soul of the United States, and particularly to New York.
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  Speaker 3: And he doesn't appreciate that at all. He doesn't care
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  Speaker 3: about it. And again, to me, the fact that he had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the attorney for Al Qaeda operatives there standing
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  Speaker 3: with him, made him his chief counsel and handed him
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  Speaker 3: the pen. The fact that he made these so-called all
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  Speaker 3: these disclosures yesterday on the eve of 9-11, to me,
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  Speaker 3: it just shows that to me, you should do nothing
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  Speaker 3: to detract. from 9-11 families. It's sacred ground. It's a
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  Speaker 3: sacred day. It's something to be remembered and in many
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  Speaker 3: ways admired forever, considering the courage and bravery that was
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  Speaker 3: shown that day and in the weeks and months afterwards. So, no,
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  Speaker 3: to me, he does not deserve to be mayor. He
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  Speaker 3: was elected, unfortunately, but he was. But he certainly does
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  Speaker 3: not deserve to be there, should not be there on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: He is going to be there. But I also hope, though,
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  Speaker 3: that there are no demonstrations against him, not that I
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  Speaker 3: care about him, But I don't want anything to detract
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  Speaker 3: at all from the memory of those who died that
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  Speaker 3: day or interfere with the consolation that should be there
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  Speaker 3: for the families that day as they gather together.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. By the way, Scott Lobato just
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  Speaker 1: confirmed that Beto Bo Sala, who I like a lot,
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  Speaker 1: like the guy, did not, did not invite Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 1: to Staten Island. on Friday night. He just kind of infiltrated,
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  Speaker 1: made his way in there. So good job, Vito Pacella.
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  Speaker 1: Good job out of you. But this last story about
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  Speaker 1: the boxes of information, about the toxic air and the 170,000 documents,
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  Speaker 1: I know you listen all day. You heard Chief Sean Shell.
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  Speaker 1: You heard Scott Lobato. You've heard all these folks. We're
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  Speaker 1: all trying to figure out the timing. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they just found the box literally three days before 9-11 commemoration.
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  Speaker 1: And what are they trying to get done here? They're
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  Speaker 1: looking for somebody to blame. I mean, can you figure
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  Speaker 1: any of this out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what they're doing, if they can smear
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  Speaker 3: the memory and the achievements of Giuliani and Pataki and
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  Speaker 3: Vanessa and Carrick that day, what they did, then they
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  Speaker 3: can sort of cloud over all of 9-11 and what
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  Speaker 3: it stood for, what the resistance was, what the fighting
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  Speaker 3: back was all about. As far as all those documents, listen,
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  Speaker 3: there were mistakes made to me. There were mistakes made
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  Speaker 3: after Pearl Harbor. There's been mistakes made after every disaster.
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  Speaker 3: You do the best you can. You go forward. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure Churchill made mistakes during the siege of London, the
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  Speaker 3: attack on London. The fact is that at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the week, it came out stronger than ever. America survived.
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  Speaker 3: America came back. New York came back. And I would
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  Speaker 3: say the only criticism I would make, and it's really
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  Speaker 3: a veiled criticism, is that the months and years afterwards,
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  Speaker 3: they maybe should have put more out there to urge
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  Speaker 3: people to get checked, get health care, get your physicals,
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  Speaker 3: get your examinations. But you're right. As far as those
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  Speaker 3: days afterwards, first of all, they didn't have enough emergency
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  Speaker 3: equipment as far as masks and respirators and everything. And
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  Speaker 3: what they did have, most of those guys wouldn't wear them.
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  Speaker 3: They just went down in there. They didn't care. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it would be like telling people not to charge into
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  Speaker 3: battle to rescue prisoners because they may get shot or
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  Speaker 3: to rescue hostages. That's their job, and that's the way
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  Speaker 3: they looked at it. You had firefighters down there, retired firefighters,
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  Speaker 3: volunteers down there for weeks and months afterwards. He had
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  Speaker 3: retired cops down there. I mean, I know so many
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  Speaker 3: cops who went down there, so many who are sick today,
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  Speaker 3: quite frankly. But the fact is they did it, and
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  Speaker 3: they would do it again. So what he's doing is
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  Speaker 3: saying rather than, hey, we did a great thing, we
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  Speaker 3: made some technical mistakes along the way, but did he
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  Speaker 3: really think that they were holding back information so people
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  Speaker 3: would die, people would get sick? No, they're trying to
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  Speaker 3: make the best of a horrible, horrible, unprecedented situation. And
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  Speaker 3: in the end, we survived, survived stronger than ever. And
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  Speaker 3: that should be the story.
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  Speaker 1: That is the story. Peter, you've worked very, very closely
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  Speaker 1: with Jon Stewart. I've given you credit a billion times
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  Speaker 1: on this show. I've been doing it for the last
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  Speaker 1: literally two months because you deserve it. And he did, too.
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  Speaker 1: He did a good job with you. But he also
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  Speaker 1: takes every opportunity to crush Trump, crush the country. And
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  Speaker 1: there he was standing side by side with the mayor yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought he looked foolish. Were you disappointed that
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  Speaker 1: Jon Stewart took part in this press conference yesterday? I was.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if they had a clinical presentation saying, here's
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  Speaker 3: what we should have done, here's what we didn't do,
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  Speaker 3: here's what we've learned, let's go forward, and we have
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  Speaker 3: now the health care plan in place, program in place,
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  Speaker 3: go out there, get checked out, get examined, and if
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  Speaker 3: something like this happens again, we will be better prepared.
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  Speaker 3: But on that day, even if the air was toxic
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  Speaker 3: and was afterwards, Nobody was anticipating the impact it was
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  Speaker 3: going to have. And again, so yeah, I mean, John Stewart,
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  Speaker 3: to me, and I did work closely with him on this. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I also worked with others on it. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: went to Vito Pacella. He was one of the original
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  Speaker 3: signers of the legislation that had this program go forward. And,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, I agree totally. There's no way in
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  Speaker 3: the world Vito Pacella, whatever the difference between you and him,
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  Speaker 3: there's no way in the world he ever would have
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  Speaker 3: invited Mandami.
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  Speaker 1: No, listen, I like Vito, and I like Griffin. I
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  Speaker 1: know him. You know, Frank Morano was older, more prepared,
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  Speaker 1: and he's done a great job. I think Griffin has
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  Speaker 1: a future in politics. I love Vito. He just refuses
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  Speaker 1: to talk to anybody who did not endorse his son.
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  Speaker 1: But I like the guy. I think he's a terrific
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  Speaker 1: borough president. I think he's a great American. And I
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  Speaker 1: was happy to hear that he didn't do that. I
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  Speaker 1: have no issue with Vito. He's got an issue with me.
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  Speaker 3: When you try and talk to Vito, listen, I was
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  Speaker 3: and I'm a very close friend of Vito. I did
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  Speaker 3: support his son. I campaigned for Vito when he ran
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  Speaker 3: for borough president. I was his strongest supporter when he
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  Speaker 3: was in Congress. So, you know, these things can happen. And,
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  Speaker 3: as you know, you and I didn't talk for eight
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  Speaker 3: or nine months. They were the best nine months of
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  Speaker 3: my life, by the way. Let me just tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I got my blood pressure went down. Everything went great,
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  Speaker 3: you know. Oh, my God. He was talking to me.
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  Speaker 2: No. W.
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  Speaker 3: Vito is a good guy. He's one of the good
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  Speaker 3: guys in politics, and he's a loyal friend. He is.
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  Speaker 1: There's no question about that. I like the guy, too. So,
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  Speaker 1: Friday is fast approaching. Here we are just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days away. We went over all the horrible things
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  Speaker 1: the mayor has done. There's a bunch of them. And
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be there on Friday, despite the best
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  Speaker 1: efforts of a lot of New Yorkers. families of the
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  Speaker 1: victims who were murdered that day. He's going to be
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  Speaker 1: there on Friday. And you said you don't want any
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  Speaker 1: wrong demonstrations. And I'm with you. You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: take away from the families, but something that your good buddy,
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  Speaker 1: who's running for governor, Bruce Blateman, said on this show first, first,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's been aired a million times since, was
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  Speaker 1: what the families should do. And he's a family member.
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  Speaker 1: His nephew was murdered, right? His sister Linda's son, Tommy,
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  Speaker 1: was murdered. He said that the families should turn their
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  Speaker 1: backs on Mom Donnie like the cops did years ago
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  Speaker 1: with Bill de Blasio. What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 3: That's a silent protest. That's not going to– it should
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  Speaker 3: not offend anyone. Do it. It sends a message. And
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  Speaker 3: then go back to the ceremony. No, I totally agree
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  Speaker 3: with what Bruce is saying. If they can do it
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  Speaker 3: in a way that is not loud or boisterous or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that, yes. But, again, I am thinking of
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  Speaker 3: the families, people like Rosemary Cain, the Haskells, Jimmy Boyle's family,
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  Speaker 3: all these friends of mine who were killed that day.
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  Speaker 3: To me, that is the emphasis. But, again, turning it
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  Speaker 3: back is a silent protest. Anything more than that somehow
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  Speaker 3: makes him a victim that day of all people. So
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  Speaker 3: Bruce is right. Bruce, again, he feels it very strongly
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  Speaker 3: because of his nephew. And also his brother Brad, the
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  Speaker 3: two of them really were deeply hurt by the murder
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  Speaker 3: of their nephew, who was a very brave court officer.
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  Speaker 1: He was. And you mentioned Rosemary Cain. I told you
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  Speaker 1: I went to that dinner in Massapequa, God, 20-plus years
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  Speaker 1: ago for Billy Baldwin. I was friends with Billy Baldwin
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  Speaker 1: at the time. What a douchebag he turned out to be.
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  Speaker 1: And the mascot for Michael Caine was at my seat,
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  Speaker 1: me and Danielle. And for years, I didn't know who
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  Speaker 1: he was. I just knew he was some brave firefighter
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  Speaker 1: that died that day. And then it all made sense now.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been made familiar with Rosemary and all the
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  Speaker 1: people that you know and So many of us knew
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  Speaker 1: so many people who died that day. You know, talking
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  Speaker 1: about Bruce Blakeman, he was on yesterday in the latest poll,
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  Speaker 1: and it's McLaughlin. Nobody better than the McLaughlins, you know that.
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  Speaker 3: The best.
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  Speaker 1: The best. Has Bruce now down to 3.9%. He was
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  Speaker 1: down 26 points when he started this mission. 3.9%. Say
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  Speaker 1: what you want. This guy has made some incredible headway.
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  Speaker 3: It's tremendous, and it's just a guy who will not quit,
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  Speaker 3: who keeps fighting and is able to resonate and connect
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  Speaker 3: with so many people around the state who feel forgotten,
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  Speaker 3: who feel neglected, working-class people, really blue-collar workers, cops, firemen,
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  Speaker 3: construction workers. School teachers, people are out there doing their
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  Speaker 3: job day in and day out, and they're not being
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  Speaker 3: met with welcome wagons like illegal immigrants are. There's none
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  Speaker 3: of that. And Bruce represents them, and he's shown what
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  Speaker 3: he did in Nassau County. Again, not one tax increase
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  Speaker 3: in four years, hiring so many more cops, sheriffs. probation officers,
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  Speaker 3: keeping the crime rate down, great police department, great police commissioner,
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  Speaker 3: Pat Ryder. And by the way, Pat Ryder is going
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  Speaker 3: to be the main speaker on Friday. I'll be at
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  Speaker 3: the Seaford High School commemoration, which is the largest on
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  Speaker 3: Long Island. They've got hundreds and hundreds of people. It's
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  Speaker 3: coordinated by Kenny Haskell and his sister. And Pat Ryder
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  Speaker 3: is the main speaker that night.
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  Speaker 1: They're great people, too. You know, talking about Long Island,
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  Speaker 1: here I am at the American Airlines Center, home of
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks, Cooper Plague, getting ready for these big
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  Speaker 1: speeches tonight and tomorrow. President Trump will speak at both,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to be seeing President Trump tomorrow. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be on this show coming up on Friday. But this
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  Speaker 1: is all about us, Republicans, retaining the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: And they're on Long Island, Peter. We talk about this
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  Speaker 1: a lot, you and I, but now it's here with this,
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  Speaker 1: at least with this... Convention the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: There are some major races. Driscoll has a chance to
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  Speaker 1: turn that seat, which is right now occupied by Democrat
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  Speaker 1: Laura Gillum. Our guy Michael Petri has a chance to
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  Speaker 1: turn that seat. which is right now occupied by Democrat
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  Speaker 1: Tom Suozzi. So there's a lot of very important races
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  Speaker 1: around the country that can reshape the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler, too. But you've got two spots on Long
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  Speaker 1: Island that can turn blue seats red. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about those?
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  Speaker 3: I feel Michael Petri has a real good chance against Suozzi.
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  Speaker 3: I live in Janine Driscoll's district. She's an incredible campaigner.
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  Speaker 3: She really is like an ideal candidate. If you're out
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  Speaker 3: there doing a poll trying to profile who would be
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  Speaker 3: the strongest candidate, it's someone like Janine. I mean, she's
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  Speaker 3: got the family. She's got a son in the NYPD.
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  Speaker 3: She's been an elected official. She's conscientious. She's very articulate.
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  Speaker 3: She gets out there. And she's a combination of being
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  Speaker 3: a very regular person but also smarter than most of
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  Speaker 3: the rest of us. I mean, she's argued cases before
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. Court of Appeals, and yet she's also raising
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  Speaker 3: a family. And also, she has a firsthand knowledge of
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  Speaker 3: what Mandami can do. She lives in the area of
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  Speaker 3: Florida Park, which is right on the city line, right
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  Speaker 3: at the border. So she just looks across, you know,
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  Speaker 3: almost like over her backyard, and she sees the damage
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  Speaker 3: that can be done. That's where all the illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 3: piled up just several years ago, on that side of
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  Speaker 3: the border. She knows how, really, that's almost like a
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  Speaker 3: border patrol unit that's going to protect her. She knows
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  Speaker 3: it firsthand, and she resonates with people. In fact, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be with her this... Saturday in Belmore, there's a street
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  Speaker 3: block event, street party, block party. It's organized actually by
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  Speaker 3: Melissa's husband, Lance, also Melissa. Melissa, Janine's going to be there,
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  Speaker 3: and she'll be meeting all the people. I'll use that
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  Speaker 3: as an example. She's there in the real neighborhoods, in
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  Speaker 3: the real communities, doing what has to be done. She'll
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  Speaker 3: be a great member of Congress, and I'm 1,000 percent
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  Speaker 3: behind her.
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  Speaker 1: You know, on the way out, Peter, you lost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people in Nassau County. Somebody said earlier, Lobato
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  Speaker 1: said Staten Island lost the most. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I think my neighborhood lost the most. But I'm not
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  Speaker 1: in a competition with Nassau or Staten Island. But I
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  Speaker 1: do think the Rockaways took the biggest beating. And, you know,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: you've been to Harbor Lights many, many times. I just
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  Speaker 1: had Bruce Blakeman there and Joe Cairo not that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: The plane crashed. I was there two months after 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a tribute park, which is in and around
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  Speaker 1: 116th Street.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Joanna, we all know her very well. And
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  Speaker 1: it is really beautiful. And, you know, you love that area.
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  Speaker 1: You love my area, Bell Harbor and the ponds at Rockaway,
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  Speaker 1: American flags every block, just like yours. So are you
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  Speaker 1: going to be just on Long Island on Friday or
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  Speaker 1: try to make your way to other patriotic spots?
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  Speaker 3: I'll be primarily on Long Island. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 3: at the– I've almost always gone to the 9-11 one
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  Speaker 3: in Manhattan, Ground Zero. This year, though, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be staying local on this. Frank Haskell, who is a
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  Speaker 3: cousin of the Haskells, He has built and arranged an
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  Speaker 3: incredible memorial in John Burns Park in Massapequa. They have
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  Speaker 3: a large, large commemoration event on the morning of 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be there. I'll be speaking at that.
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  Speaker 3: There will be so many families and people I've come
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  Speaker 3: to know over the years. Then Rosemary and I always
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  Speaker 3: go to Holyrood Cemetery where Jimmy Boyle's son is buried.
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  Speaker 3: That evening, I'll be in Seaford speaking at the high school. Again,
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  Speaker 3: Pat Ryder is the main speaker. Frank Haskell, his sister Dawn,
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  Speaker 3: and people in the Seaford school system, Tom Condon and others,
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  Speaker 3: they were in that event. As far as I know,
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  Speaker 3: it's the largest nongovernmental event on Long Island on 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: The crowds go far and wide. There are helicopters, bands, everything.
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  Speaker 3: And they lost so many people on that day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, listen, you've been just an unbelievable, seriously, a rock.
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  Speaker 1: since 9-11, all the money you've raised for the families
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  Speaker 1: and all the work you did in Congress and reminding
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  Speaker 1: people time and time again that while Iran is a
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: problem and China's a problem and Russia's a problem, don't
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  Speaker 1: lose sight of the Al-Qaeda's and the ISIS and all
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  Speaker 1: these other organizations that still want to destroy America. Specifically today,
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  Speaker 1: I know it was the best eight months of your life, Pete,
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  Speaker 1: but specifically today, two days before 9-11, I know I
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  Speaker 1: speak on behalf of all New Yorkers and Americans when
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  Speaker 1: I say Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Peter King right there. I love
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  Speaker 1: that man. Former congressman, his lovely wife, Rosemary, too. And
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: he really has sacrificed and worked his ass off for
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: decades to make sure that these victims' families are taken
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  Speaker 1: care of.
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