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Andrew Giuliani | Executive Director of the White House Task Force for the FIFA World Cup 2026 | 05-26-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So this starts our run on this Tuesday morning of
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  Speaker 4: three really good sports guys in a row.
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  Speaker 3: That's not all they do.
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  Speaker 4: Andrew Giuliani, of course, is guy ran for governor and
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  Speaker 4: did a great job. Michael Rappaport is a great comedian
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  Speaker 4: and actor, but Aco is a sports guy. We'll get
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  Speaker 4: to all three on the well the Knicks, but we
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  Speaker 4: start with Andrew Giuliani. And I don't think you folks
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  Speaker 4: know how close Andrew and I are. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's on the radio show quite a bit, and people
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  Speaker 4: seem to think they've got an idea, but we're really close.
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  Speaker 4: And when his dad, Rudy fell sick a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: texted Andrew right away and he got right back to
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  Speaker 4: me right away. And that was a very very difficult time.
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  Speaker 4: We know, the priest in fact, at one point gave
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  Speaker 4: Rudy his last rights, and thank god he's doing okay now.
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  Speaker 4: But Andrew, want to start right here with America's mayor,
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  Speaker 4: your father, who you love so much. That was a
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  Speaker 4: very scary time for you, the family, and quite frankly
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  Speaker 4: all of New York.
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  Speaker 5: You said, and thank you for reaching out immediately and
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  Speaker 5: for so many New Yorkers. I can tell you I
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  Speaker 5: still have I don't know a couple thousand text messages
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  Speaker 5: that I still need to get through because it was
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  Speaker 5: amazing and it was just so beautiful to see just
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  Speaker 5: how many lives that he's affected. But you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean he I got down to the Florida to
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  Speaker 5: the hospital in Florida on a Sunday night, and he
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  Speaker 5: had just received his last rites. He was unconscious, he
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  Speaker 5: was on a ventilator. But as Rudy Giuliani does, and
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  Speaker 5: as New Yorkers do, he battled back. And now I
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  Speaker 5: would say he's ninety five percent. The guy is traveling
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  Speaker 5: around again. He's feeling good. I could tell he was
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  Speaker 5: getting better the next day when Monday night he looked
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  Speaker 5: at me and he told me, you need to get
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  Speaker 5: your ass back to DC. And I told him that
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  Speaker 5: if you get yourself out of the ICU tonight tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 5: I'll take the first flight back to d C. I
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  Speaker 5: think I took the third flight back to d C,
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  Speaker 5: so I might not have been completely honest, but I
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  Speaker 5: got my ass back to DC wanted and working on
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  Speaker 5: this incredible project. But as a son, as you know said,
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  Speaker 5: I'm so proud of him to just see the resilience
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  Speaker 5: that he's shown our country, not just throughout his life,
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  Speaker 5: but especially over the last five years. I'm such a
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  Speaker 5: proud son.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: One more on your dad. We all know, of course
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  Speaker 4: he was the greatest mayor ever. I say he's the
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  Speaker 4: greatest mayor of any city ever and a dear mutual
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  Speaker 4: friend President Trumpeguiz. But if you ever had a doubt, right,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you're kind of battling back and forth
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  Speaker 4: about how good your dad, Rudy was in that position,
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  Speaker 4: take a look at the jerk off we've got his
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  Speaker 4: mayor right now, and it becomes clearly obvious how good
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  Speaker 4: your dad was, right.
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  Speaker 5: You know. I remember you used to say this around
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  Speaker 5: when Deblasio was mayor. But people would go up to
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  Speaker 5: him and say, you know, you're a lot better than Deblasio,
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  Speaker 5: And he would say, well, is that a compliment or
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  Speaker 5: is that a criticism right there, because anybody would be
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  Speaker 5: better than Deblasia think you're absolutely right. I think when
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  Speaker 5: you look at and obviously the body of work that
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  Speaker 5: he did, and I think one of the amazing things
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  Speaker 5: I was talking about this the other day, was creating
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  Speaker 5: an accountability mechanism, creating CompStat, Creating a numeric system where
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  Speaker 5: New Yorkers could actually go and a track how how
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  Speaker 5: a mayor was doing. I think was really really key,
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  Speaker 5: because then we'll be able to tell once once violent
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  Speaker 5: crime starts to go up, you'll be able to hold
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  Speaker 5: a mayor accountable based off of the actual numbers in
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  Speaker 5: a neighborhood. New Yorkers can go and look at that. Certainly,
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  Speaker 5: Yet look, you can manipulate those numbers as a as
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  Speaker 5: a department or or or certainly as a politician. But
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  Speaker 5: it starts to become tougher and tougher once people start
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  Speaker 5: seeing their quality of life, you know, rapidly devolve, and
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  Speaker 5: then the numbers are there to back it up.
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  Speaker 3: One more on Mayo, you ran for governor.
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  Speaker 4: You did an amazing job, came in second to Lee
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  Speaker 4: Zelden to represent the Republicans. You would have beaten hulkl
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  Speaker 4: But that's that's all new. I'm sure you'll be governor
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  Speaker 4: of Florida one day. I'm betting on that. And your
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  Speaker 4: dad was the mayor and every day, Andrew, I'm not exaggerating.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know this.
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  Speaker 4: Every day, somebody else, whether it's Laura Trump or Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 4: says to me, you should really consider running in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty nine. And you know, look, I've got this great
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  Speaker 4: radio gig. I'm about to sign an extension hopefully and
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  Speaker 4: make a lot of money the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: But New Yorkers are so desperate at this point for
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  Speaker 4: somebody with a little bit of balls to step up
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  Speaker 4: and do something that I swear to you Andrew every day.
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  Speaker 4: Now Danielle will kill me. She's not kidding. So the
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  Speaker 4: voice me, which I'm not gonna go through that. But
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  Speaker 4: should I consider that or is that completely crazy?
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  Speaker 5: I think you absolutely have to. I mean, look, you
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  Speaker 5: love our city, you have an incredible voice, and I
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  Speaker 5: think that you know, as somebody who you know in
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  Speaker 5: his life was a Democrat now now is a Republican,
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  Speaker 5: but as somebody who basically has looked and said, hey,
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  Speaker 5: this is a this is a party that has that
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  Speaker 5: had left me, I think you could probably speak to
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  Speaker 5: New Yorkers in a pretty unique way. So I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I think you absolutely have to have to look at
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  Speaker 5: it and see see what you can do to save
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  Speaker 5: our city.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Anning Andrew Giuliani to the list. It's a very
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  Speaker 4: impressive list already, I gotta tell you. But I haven't
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  Speaker 4: talked to Trump about it yet. And I had the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to see Trump on Friday. He was up in
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  Speaker 4: Rockland County. He was there Andrew Giuliani to endorse Mike Wawler.
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  Speaker 4: It was a great rally. Trump spoken, Mike spoken, Bruce Blateman,
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  Speaker 4: Howard Lutnick, and I don't know if you saw, but
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  Speaker 4: you know, he didn't know I was there because on
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  Speaker 4: the right side and the front row on the right
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  Speaker 4: side was all those dignitaries. I was in the front
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  Speaker 4: row too, but all the way on the left side,
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  Speaker 4: he never saw me. You know I was there. But
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  Speaker 4: as he was exiting the runway walking off the stage,
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  Speaker 4: he saw me. His face lit up and he actually
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  Speaker 4: gave me the finger motion to come see him. So
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  Speaker 4: here I am jumping over the you know, the barricade.
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  Speaker 4: Secret Service came out me. Trump is like, leave them,
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  Speaker 4: leave them, and I spend a good thirty second shaking
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  Speaker 4: hands and whispering in Trump's ear.
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  Speaker 3: He whispered in mind.
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  Speaker 4: The video was everywhere Anybody's seen it since then, just
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  Speaker 4: another time where President Trump went out of his way
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  Speaker 4: to make sure he set a low to me. And
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  Speaker 4: every time, Andrew, it's special every time.
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  Speaker 5: Oh well he look the guy is There is nobody
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  Speaker 5: I met that's more charismatic than Donald Trump. That really
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  Speaker 5: really look, you guys have a fantastic relationship. It's so
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  Speaker 5: fun to see it, to see it, butting and are
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  Speaker 5: they special opportunities when you get to see him in
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  Speaker 5: his element speaking like that, and you get to see
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  Speaker 5: all the people, I mean, Jackson Dart out there introducing him.
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  Speaker 5: How cool it is to see somebody who's a twenty
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  Speaker 5: three year old, young budding star in New York who
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  Speaker 5: understands how important it is to introduce the president of
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  Speaker 5: the United States, especially this president to his home state.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to call it New York his home state.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to call it New Jersey, New York
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  Speaker 5: his home state. He introduced the President of United States
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  Speaker 5: to his home state. What an amazing opportunity for all
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  Speaker 5: of us to get the opportunity to be around him.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it really really is amazing and it's wonderful
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  Speaker 5: to see from my perspective of the great relationship.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have, which you played a major part in
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  Speaker 4: man a major part, inviting me early on when he
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  Speaker 4: was campaigning years ago, inviting me tomorrow lago, inviting me
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  Speaker 4: to the golf course for that epic lunch where he
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  Speaker 4: and I spoke pretty much just the two of us
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  Speaker 4: for about forty five minutes, putting him on the cell
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  Speaker 4: phone on the golf course years ago. Andrew, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you've been such an integral part of this relationship between
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  Speaker 4: me and Trump. But you mentioned Jackson Dart. Here's another
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  Speaker 4: story when he got to because you, like me, are
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  Speaker 4: a die hard New York Football Giant fan, diehard fan.
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  Speaker 3: Here's start. He looked great.
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  Speaker 4: I was standing ten feet from him, And as soon
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  Speaker 4: as the rally is over, you got Abdul Carter. Abdul Carter,
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  Speaker 4: who the Giants took in the first round out of
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  Speaker 4: Penn State two years ago. He was so good. WHI
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  Speaker 4: drafted an the linebacker this year. But Abdul Carter comes
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  Speaker 4: out and he just avi viserrates Jackson Dought. Then you
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  Speaker 4: got that racist writer from the New York Daily News,
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  Speaker 4: Leonard Green, who writes a story on Sunday that Jackson
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  Speaker 4: Dowt gets a fifteen yard penalty for hanging out with
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  Speaker 4: President Trump. I mean, we are in the stage now
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  Speaker 4: in America. You're not allowed You're not allowed to like
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  Speaker 4: President Trump. You've got giant teammates and writers in New
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  Speaker 4: York giving Jackson Daught a hard time.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell is that all about?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's Trump arrangement sysrom right, That's what it comes
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  Speaker 5: down to. The President named it perfectly. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 5: People take their rationality, take just the idea of, hey,
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  Speaker 5: the opportunity to introduce a president of the United States,
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  Speaker 5: to be able to do that in your home state,
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  Speaker 5: regardless of what your politics are, and then to go
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  Speaker 5: and criticize him for doing that. I mean, look, I
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  Speaker 5: think to me, it just shows just how irrational people are,
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  Speaker 5: especially a president like this who's done so much to
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  Speaker 5: improve the world, who's done so much to improve the
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  Speaker 5: United States of America. And going back to you said
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  Speaker 5: here on this and this is the person that Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump is. I think the fact that you guys were
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  Speaker 5: able to get close during the campaign, maybe at a
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  Speaker 5: point when people weren't getting close to Donald Trump because
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  Speaker 5: they were they were keeping him at arm's length. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: the fact that you ultimately we were getting close to
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  Speaker 5: him at a time when other people were. I think
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  Speaker 5: he remembers that, and I think he holds that very
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  Speaker 5: very highly and very very close. His loyalty is very
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  Speaker 5: important to this is.
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  Speaker 4: A great Andrew Giuliani, who, of course President Trump put
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  Speaker 4: in charge of FIFA.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big deal. We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're right because his most audence supporters now
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  Speaker 4: are the same people you remember, Andrew that were telling
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  Speaker 4: me on the air on the air, I like his policies,
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  Speaker 4: but he can't win. He's not gonna beat the Santas,
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  Speaker 4: he's not gonna beat Haley. And you remember I was like, people,
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  Speaker 4: shut up, they're not gonna come close. Remember I gave
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  Speaker 4: them no chance of even competing. And who was right
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  Speaker 4: in the end?
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  Speaker 3: Us?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I think I think we. I
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  Speaker 5: think we called that one right there, Sid And obviously
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  Speaker 5: anybody who would rule out rule out Donald Trump. It's
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  Speaker 5: it's like, you know, it's like ruling out Tiger Woods
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  Speaker 5: over a key putt in his prime, Right, You're not
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  Speaker 5: gonna You're not gonna rule that. He's gonna make that.
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  Speaker 5: But it's the same thing with with Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 5: If you put him on the ballot against somebody, he's
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  Speaker 5: gonna he's gonna win. And that's uh, and that's uh.
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  Speaker 5: That's really the magic of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: One more sports issue beyond soccer or a sports story.
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  Speaker 4: I should say, you're just a great New York sports kid, Andrew.
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  Speaker 4: Remember you were seven years old rooting for the New
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  Speaker 4: York Yankees, and let's go to the Knicks. I know
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  Speaker 4: you're a giant fan, a Yankee fan and Nick fan.
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  Speaker 4: First time in twenty seven years.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how old you are.
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  Speaker 4: The last time the Knicks actually made the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't great. They lost in five to San Antonio.
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  Speaker 4: They may very well be taking on San Antonio again.
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  Speaker 4: There's a big game five in Oklahoma City later on tonight.
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  Speaker 4: But the way this team has played eleven consecutive wins,
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  Speaker 4: just blowing the doors up Atlanta, Philadelphia, Cleveland, not even competitive.
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  Speaker 4: James Harden going on and on how the Cavaliers are
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  Speaker 4: the better team. I mean when Alonzo Morning used to
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  Speaker 4: say that, he said it every time the Knicks beat them.
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  Speaker 4: Those games came down to like an Alan Houston, Florida
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  Speaker 4: at the buzz or you can make that argument Cleveland's
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  Speaker 4: losing by thirty five points every night. What in God's
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  Speaker 4: name is James Harden talking about? But more importantly, how
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  Speaker 4: about our New York nickobockles, I've never.
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  Speaker 5: Seen anything like it. To have three closeout games on
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  Speaker 5: the road of thirty points or more. I mean, it
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  Speaker 5: really really is amazing. And whoever they play, whether it's
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  Speaker 5: Oklahoma City or obviously when Byana led San Antonio, they're
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  Speaker 5: gonna be tough. But these Knicks, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 5: The way that they play, the fact that they get
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  Speaker 5: to one hundred and thirty points last night without anybody
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  Speaker 5: scoring twenty points, it shows how many different ways they
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  Speaker 5: can attack you. They really really are playing great team basketball.
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  Speaker 5: I guess a couple other little things about that. I
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  Speaker 5: certainly remember that ninety eight finals run, the Larry Johnson
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  Speaker 5: four point play and the Spree Well Nicks and all
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  Speaker 5: that stuff. The last Finals game I went to, though,
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  Speaker 5: actually was the same day as the opening day of
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  Speaker 5: the World Cup in nineteen ninety four, when OJ was
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  Speaker 5: driving down the freeway here in Las that's right, that's right,
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  Speaker 5: game five, And I certain I remember that. I remember
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  Speaker 5: people going outside out to the bowl to be able
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  Speaker 5: to watch the TVs where the concession stands were, and
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  Speaker 5: how the how the stadium was seemed like it was
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  Speaker 5: half empty there. I mean truly truly amazing. Well, now
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  Speaker 5: that the World Cup and the Knicks are back in
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  Speaker 5: the finals over here, as somebody who's running the World
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  Speaker 5: Cup for the president, let's hope we don't have, you know,
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  Speaker 5: some major football star that's driving down the fort the
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  Speaker 5: four five freeway here come come.
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  Speaker 3: June twelfth this year. That would not be good. That
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  Speaker 3: would not be good. You're right.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll say one really cool moment as a New
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  Speaker 5: Yorker and as a father last night, you know, my
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  Speaker 5: daughter was about to go to sleep and I just
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  Speaker 5: had her on the couch with me, and I was
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  Speaker 5: telling her the last time that that the Knicks made
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  Speaker 5: the finals, Daddy was a you know, it was a
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  Speaker 5: young boy here. And she fell sleep on my chest
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  Speaker 5: while uh, while the Knicks ended up closing the game out,
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  Speaker 5: and it just I think it's just, uh, it's one
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  Speaker 5: of those moments that New Yorkers really really share that
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  Speaker 5: sports can can really do where you can connect generations
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  Speaker 5: in a way, uh that that other things just can't.
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  Speaker 5: It's why sports is such an important part of our
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  Speaker 5: civic life. And to the point that you were making before,
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  Speaker 5: it's why, it's why politics really should take a back
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  Speaker 5: door when you're talking to sports, when we can just
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  Speaker 5: all sit down, go root for the orange and blue
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  Speaker 5: of the Knicks there, And that's what it really should
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  Speaker 5: be about, more than anything else. It's such an important
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  Speaker 5: part of our civic life. And and and congrats to
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  Speaker 5: the next I hope they go win win their next
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  Speaker 5: four games, and and uh and hopefully comes to the
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  Speaker 5: White House here to come see President Trump.
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  Speaker 4: And your dad is always quick to boast the great
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  Speaker 4: Mayor Rudy Giuliani when he was in charge of New
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  Speaker 4: York right with teams won five championships, five with the Yankees,
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  Speaker 4: the Giants, and yes, the New York Rangers, even winning
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  Speaker 4: a Stanley Cup. All when you father ran this city.
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  Speaker 4: Five championships for Rudy Giuliani. I'd hate to see one
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  Speaker 4: from I'm Donnie, but I get with the Knicks. I'll
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  Speaker 4: take it. Let's get to the other one for Trump.
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  Speaker 4: We'll call it one right one for Trump.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when Trump was on with me about three
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, I asked him about the Knicks. I said,
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  Speaker 4: mister President, I've got a lot of pictures of you
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  Speaker 4: sitting courtside at the Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: I said, are you still a Nick fan? This is right?
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  Speaker 4: The beat Philadelphia And he said, oh yeah, he goes h.
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  Speaker 4: I like James Dolan a lot. I like him a lot.
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  Speaker 4: He goes hey, beat that Philadelphia team. He mentioned Joeline bed.
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  Speaker 4: He almost follow up my chair and he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I like James Dolan. I still love the Knicks. So
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: we'll make it the president Trump. Nick went about three
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  Speaker 4: minutes ago, let's get to the World Cup again. You
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: said it. It starts on June the eleventh. Ruder around
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  Speaker 4: the corner.
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  Speaker 3: This he bowler.
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  Speaker 4: Breakout is a big deal. I had a couple of
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: guests on last week talking about it, and it seems
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  Speaker 4: like the Congo team they're in big trouble. They got
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: a bunch of people in that country that are infected,
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  Speaker 4: that are sick, that are dying. So unless you said this,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: unless they actually isolate the Congo team, but twenty one
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  Speaker 4: days no soccer for the Congo.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. And we've been talking with the CDC multiple times
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  Speaker 5: a day about this, and they're doing their contact tracing
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  Speaker 5: on the team. I think the one good news here,
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: and obviously this is evolving as we continue to gain
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: situational awareness. The one piece of good news here is
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: the team has been playing a European schedule, so they
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: have not been back in the Democratic Republic of the
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  Speaker 5: Congo for over twenty one days. So they're isolating now
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: in Europe. They'll stay in Europe. One of the things
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  Speaker 5: that we made very very clear last week to the
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  Speaker 5: very top of FIFA and to the health minister in
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  Speaker 5: the Democratic Republic of Congo was do not have the
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: team come back to Congo. They were supposed to do
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  Speaker 5: a farewealth to where obviously first time the country qualified
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  Speaker 5: for the World Cup and over fifty years that people
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: were excited. But we told them, hey, look, if they
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: go back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, they
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: are not coming to the United States of America and
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: we'll play the tournament with forty seven teams. We are
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: not risking any kind of an outbreak. So the team
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: right now, they are in their own bubble, they are
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: practicing in Europe. All appears to be well with them.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: We're monitoring make sure that everybody is asymptomatic, that there
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: are no issues at all, right there. But the other
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: thing that we told them very very clearly was they
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: could not reintroduce people or introduce people that had been
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last twenty
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: one days into that bubble. If they were to do that,
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  Speaker 5: if they were to introduce team officials or any other
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: potential players that have been into Congo within the last
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: twenty one days and then they were to be symptomatic,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: then they'd be risking the entire team coming to the
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: United States of America. So obviously we're taking this very
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: very seriously. There have been no cases in the United
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: States of America. We want to keep it that way,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: and we're going to make sure that we continue to
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: lean into this to make sure that Americans and all
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: of our friends that are coming to visit us, not
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: just for the World Cup but for America's two hundred
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: and fiftieth birthday are safe and have a great experience.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: And I want to get you on one more time before
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: the eleventh talk about the birthday, talk about you know,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: the actual football, talk about this American team.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of guys.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: At soccer soccer, right, Diego Luna didn't make the team.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: People are upset.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: We'll get to all that when you come back on
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: next week. But on the way out, I know he's
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: got Iran to worry about. He's got the mid terms,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: he's got the Democrats, and again, just watching President troops
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: George Trump, I should say, speak right in front of
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: me for over an hour just a couple of days ago.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: He's got a lot on his plate. But has there
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: been a decent amount of talk between you and him
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: leading up to this first day of soccer?
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean, look, he is intently focused on this.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Look he understands more than anything what an opportunity it
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: is for America to be able to show off American
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: greatness to the rest of the world than this World Cup.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, you'll have over two billion people watching the
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: final alone, thinking about over ten billion people watching throughout
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: the tournament. Ten ten billion views, i should say, on
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: television alone. Forget about the social media impact throughout the
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: lengths of this tournament, So you have most of the
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: world watching. It's an unbelievable opportunity I think, to be
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: able to really show the world what the United States
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: is about. I've got to tell you some of the
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: numbers that we're seeing here. Just on some of the
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: travel surveys over the last year since President Trump has
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: been back in office, something like eighty percent of those
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: that travel to the United States for the first time
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: have a more positive view of the United States than
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: they did before they came to the US. What does
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: that tell you, sid It tells me two things. First off,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: President Trump is absolutely right we are in the Golden
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Age of America. And the second thing is the media
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: might not always be the most honest people in the world.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: If they're telling these fantastic lies about the United States,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: what better way to show it off than to be
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: able to invite them here for this World Cup. And
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: who's better to host this World Cup than the forty
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: fifth and forty seventh President and our good friend Donald J.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Trump perfectly said, can't wait to get your back again
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: again before June eleventh. This was a magnificent conversation, Andrew Giuliani.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: It always is with you. You're amazing. I love your pal.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: So I know you're traveling a lot today, You're flying
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: to about ten different places. Have a saved trip, and
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I look forward to talking to you again. A couple
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: of times before we actually start the event on June
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: the eleventh. Andrew Giuliani, great job, I love you, Thanks Pal.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Thanks Knickerbockers, O Nickerbockers.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: There he is Andrew Giuliani in charge of probably the
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: biggest event ever. This is gonna be the biggest event ever.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: That's the confidence President Trump has and Andrew Giuliani. I
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: share it as well.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Quick break.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: We'll come back with Michael Rappaport and Joe Boningo on
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: the Tuesday edition of Sid and Friends in the Morning.
• 20:43
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