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This is Let the Record Show. Now, here are your hosts,
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Judge Richard Weinberg, essayist and commentator Eric Levine, and Suffolk
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County Republican Committee Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show. I'm Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party. Jesse is the Vice Chair
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of the New York State Republican Party, as well as
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being the Chair of the Suffolk County Party in in
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Long Island, New York. With us is our good friend, co-host,
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esteemed colleague, noted attorney, commentator, essayist, Eric Levine, and I,
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Judge Richard Weinberg. Welcome back to our show. So the
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other night, gentlemen, we had what may be one of
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the most important gubernatorial debates in the history of the
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state of New York. And I don't say that with
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hyperbole or any sense of exaggeration. I believe it's true.
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New York is at a crisis point. Is New York
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going to survive and flourish, or is it going to
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become another California? That is something that's on the cusp
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of being a failed state. Failed policies, left-wing democratic policies
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in the state of California have ruined that economy. Things
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are so bad, they're chasing out all the productive people,
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the taxpayers, the job creators, the solid citizens who make
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the state of California great. And now they want to
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impose a wealth tax on the citizens. And they want
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to chase the people down who leave because they're sick
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and tired of being taxed to death and getting nothing
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for it in terms of public safety, law and order,
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good environment, and a workable government. Now, why do I
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talk about California? Because don't assume that the state of
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New York is immune from that phenomena of bad Democratic
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Party politics and policies. The state legislature.
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And.
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The Assembly is totally controlled by the Democrats. The State
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Senate is controlled by the Democrats. But thankfully, because of
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the great work of people like Jesse Garcia and Bob Bort,
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the leader, the minority leader, and George Borrello, who runs
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the campaigns, they've been able to have one vote more
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they need to stop a supermajority in the State Senate.
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Without a supermajority, you can't override a governor's veto. Kathy
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Hochul has shown herself time and time again to be
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weak and under the control and influence of the radical left.
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She has not fought back effectively. She's rolled over. She
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promised there wouldn't be a congestion pricing. After the election
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a couple of years ago, in came congestion pricing. She
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talks about public safety, but she's behind the no bail laws,
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the raise the age laws, the early parole issues. No
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public safety with Kathleen. Energy, she imposes all kinds of
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stringent requirements so we don't have energy independence. You go
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across the border to Pennsylvania, they have energy independence, less taxes,
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they're doing better, and you have a choice of energy.
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If you run out of energy, then how is society
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supposed to function? She's opposed and delayed AI, artificial intelligence,
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or super intelligence, as President Trump calls it, It's absolutely
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essential to make the whole system work. If that doesn't
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take a place in a timely manner, the Chinese will
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control it. So issue after issue after issue, Kathy Hochul
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and Daniel Kretzer are wrong. So what happened on Tuesday,
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in my humble opinion, and I helped work on the
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coverage for four hours on the Tuesday night, I think
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Kathy Hochul was cleaned. Absolutely and totally. Her clock was
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cleaned by Bruce Blakeman. He was smart on all the issues.
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He was common sense. He looked like a governor. He
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sounded like a governor. His policies were intelligent, common sense,
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and paved the way for the future of the state
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of New York. If Kathy Hoch was reelected, this state
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is in serious trouble because we really are on the
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cusp of being California, which is a disaster in the making. Mr. Chairman,
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your thoughts.
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My thoughts, I agree with you completely. But before we
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get to the complete and utter destruction of Kathy Hochul
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by the hands of Bruce Blakeman, the Republican conservative and
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affordability candidate for governor, I just want to say for
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the statewide slate, Joe Hernandez for Comptroller, Saritha Kamar-Naredi for
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Attorney General, and Bruce Blakeman, it was a banner three weeks.
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It was truly a banner three weeks in the debates
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that they had. Joe Hernandez laid out a great plan
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on how to use public investments and get more returns
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for pensions and investments from the comptroller's office in his
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debate against DiNapoli. And Sharitha, comments are ready, absolutely came
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off as the rock star that she is when she
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debated Attorney General Letitia James. She basically, and it's something
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that's gone viral. We've seen it online. We've seen it
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in our inboxes. We've seen it even in the mainstream coverage,
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how she was, Saritha was able to completely show the
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lawfare that goes on and the partisanship that goes on
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in a prosecutor's office, as opposed to the experience she has.
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And of course it all culminated earlier this week. when
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Bruce Blakeman certainly drew the complete and contrast of two
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New Yorks, a New York led by himself and one
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in which we live in now, where Kathy Hochul had
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to defend her failed record on higher taxes, skyrocketing utility bills,
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reckless spending, and so forth on crimes policies. You know,
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Hochul represented and came off to the voters in that
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debate platform that she represents more of the same failed policies,
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that she's a captured hostage of the socialist Democrats that
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have now run this state. And she is nothing more
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interested in holding on to power, influence, and her position,
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as opposed to making life better for the people, law-abiding
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citizens here in the state of New York. You know,
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more importantly, Bruce Blakeman outlined New York, where we end
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the sanctuary state policies immediately from day one through executive order.
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He laid out a policy where the first $ 50, 000 of
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state income tax would not be taxed, giving our residents
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and our taxpayers and middle-class families and small business owners
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the tax relief they truly need and the ability for
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him to slash utility rates and home heating oil and
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electric rates by almost 70%, the same 70% that Kathy
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Hochul has increased 48 times during her tenure this year.
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You know, two years ago, four years ago, excuse me,
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in 2022, Lee Zeldin was fighting for this spot, came
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within a whisker of defeating Kathy Hochul. At that point,
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she was nothing more than just an accidental governor with
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no record, and she was anybody up from the Democrats
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better than Cuomo, an embattled and corrupt Democrat. elected official
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that was chased out of office. Now, after five years
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of a record that's disastrous for middle-class families, disastrous for
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this empire state, and has actually collapsed this empire state,
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it is coming home to roost. Well, we were discussing
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offline that there are common sense Democrats, there are common
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sense unaffiliated voters, there are just residents in general that
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have had enough. They're at the choking point of where
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they're going to be able to decide to stay here,
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or do what everyone else has done in New York,
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and that's vote by their feet and leave this state.
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Bruce Blankman came out the ultimate winner, without question on that.
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And the best thing about it, and I said this
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in a publication leading up to it, is that we
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can see it now in our phones, through text messages,
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on our social media, in our mail, in our inboxes.
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His debate performance and his victory has gone viral. And
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what's going to do? What is that going to do?
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That's going to tip those unaffiliated, undecided voters throughout the
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state of New York that were not really sure which
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way they wanted to go. Maybe didn't want to go
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with the Republican or conservative candidate. Maybe we're going to
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just stay home. Tipped them their way. They're now leaning towards,
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and if not leaning, absolutely voting for Bruce Blinken. That's
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going to make up a gap that's about 3% right
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now statewide. For those that were still maybe leaning a
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little bit right, I mean, excuse me, a little bit
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leaning left or not voting, Now, all of a sudden,
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they do have a viable candidate. It doesn't have to
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be the same old failed Democratic policies. This is a man,
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Bruce Blakeman, that has a record of accomplishments, that has
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cut our taxes, has reduced spending, has gotten bond ratings
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that have made the investments in his county a lot
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cheaper for taxpayers. And certainly, USA Today has identified that
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Nashville County is the safest county in the country right now.
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That was a clear victory for Bruce Blakeman. It is
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one that now we are advancing forward. And with that
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victory also comes much needed late money because you have
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everyone and everywhere who wants to hedge their bets because
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maybe they thought that Hoka was a safe bet, but
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now they realize she's not a safe bet. That they perhaps,
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and they see, and they've seen a reaction that the
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residents have given the voters have given Bruce Blakeman on
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this race. For us, this was a big night for us.
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You know, I'm proud that we are, you know, the
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tip of the spear for the Bruce Blakeman campaign here
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in Suffolk County and Long Island. And that's one that's
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resonating all over, all over the state. We are tied.
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Bruce Blakeman is not tied or at least ahead in her,
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in Kathy Hochul's home county of Erie County. That's unbelievable.
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We have not won Erie County since George Pataki's last
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term as governor. That's the coalition that's going to be built.
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Jesse, in that regard, Nick Langworthy, who's a congressman from
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Buffalo and a former state chairman, who you know well.
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Great man.
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Great man, was in the studio with us last night
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in Katzenclosby, and he was talking about that. She is
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so deep underwater up in Buffalo and Erie County. That's
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an amazing situation.
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That's going to carry on to Monroe, who's been flipping
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back and forth in recent years. You know, they say
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that the political environment is not with Republicans this year.
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And I can share with you one other thing. It
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may not be with us, but I've read in a
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couple of places, the Newsweek has identified that they expect
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a national blue wave, except here in New York. Why?
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Because of Bruce Blakeman and because of the failed record
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of Kathy Hochul. That's what's key there. Here, what we
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have is five years of a record. that Kathy Hochul
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has laid out and the people are rejecting. So I
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see that there's a lot of inroads being made now
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in this coalition building. And again, we've discussed it. You know,
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Bruce Blakeman is a proud member of the Jewish faith.
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I don't understand how, you know, we had Lee Zeldin, again,
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someone who cultivated coalitions, including members of the Jewish faith
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and such. But maybe perhaps they did not have the
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one thing that Bruce Blakeman has. He doesn't have the
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fact that we have Mondami in the city of New
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York as its mayor and someone who basically wants to
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eliminate the members of the Jewish faith. How any Democrat,
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either here in the state of New York or across
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the country, can vote, can any member of the Jewish
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faith vote Democrat in these elections? I am shocked. But
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I also think that Bruce Blakeman, again, made the case
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in these last 15 days that he is viable. He
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is going to be effective, and he is the right
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choice to lead New York down a new path.
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Well said, Jesse. Eric?
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Look, Kathy Hochul had one answer to everything. She reminded
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me of one of these child toys. You pull a string,
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and it just says the same thing over and over again. Kathy,
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why are prices high?
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Trump.
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Kathy, why is the sun rising?
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Trump.
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Kathy, who does your hair? Trump. All she could say
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to Trump was the answer to every question. The problem is...
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she may be the beneficiary of her failures. Her policies
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have been so awful and so destructive to the state
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of New York and its residents that people have been leaving.
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New York State has led the country year after year
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in out-migration. Those are Blakeman voters. The only question for
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Blakeman is, has she failed so utterly that it guarantees
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her victory because so many people have left? That's really
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the question. Now, one of the things I was a
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little surprised it did not come up at the debate
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at all was the issue of education. That topic was
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never even broached because under Kathy Hochul, charter schools, school choice,
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they don't exist. The teachers union just run the state
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and it keeps kids primarily in minority communities in failed schools.
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They don't have an opportunity. That would have been a
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great opportunity, a great topic for Bruce Blakeman to address.
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as how he would improve our educational system.
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Well, the question, unfortunately, the question was imposed. I only
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had an hour because Hochul keeps ducking, having debates. She's
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afraid of debating.
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Exactly.
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And on one of the things for which Kathy Hochul
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attempted to take credit, she didn't credit Trump, but it
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was the diminution in crime. But the one crime rate
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that she did not talk about was hate crimes against Jews.
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Jews represent 10% of the population in New York. But
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they were victims of 60% of the hate crimes.
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And why?
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Because of the mayor that she endorsed. She endorsed Zoran Mamdani.
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And she's never criticized or condemned his anti-Semitism. She never
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went to Columbia University or to NYU or to Cornell
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to condemn the anti-Semitism that has exploded in college campuses
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across our state. It took people like Mike Johnson and
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Virginia Fox and Mike Lawler to show up and say,
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two Baptists and a Catholic, to show up and say
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this garbage has to stop. Kathy Hochul never did that.
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So even where she, her best success is that she
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has failed because she's forced people out of the state.
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And whether or not she's going to be able, Bruce
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Baikman's going to be able to attract enough of his voters,
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that's really the open question. I certainly hope that he can.
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Well, we're going to have to take a break, but
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I'll tell everyone who's listening, There's a pathology, there's an
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anti-Trump pathology. And I think it's a serious mental illness
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because you have to give Trump credit for his successes.
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You can criticize him when he's wrong, but just because
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you say Trump doesn't mean that you have to vote.
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And you don't like him, you have to vote for
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a failed governor to take us down the road of.
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Well, if Kathy Hochul's logic applies and it doesn't, that
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if a vote for Blakeman is a vote for Trump,
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that means a vote for her is a vote for Mamdani.
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Because unlike Bruce Blakeman, who can distinguish himself on a
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number of issues from President Trump, she is owned lock, stock,
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and barrel by Mayor Mamdani. She will dance to his tune.
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And it's only going to get worse.
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One thing before we break, if I could, and I
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know we're up against a hard break. What Kathy Hochul
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is actually saying is what every Democrat is actually saying.
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They're saying no to tax relief on tips over time
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that a laborer or an organized laborer individual earns on
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a day, on a weekly basis, they're saying no to
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no tax on social security. And they're saying no to
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the largest single taxing tax, a tax cut in the
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history of the United States. That's when, when Kathy Hochul
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attacks Trump, she's attacking no tax on tips, no tax
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on overtime, no tax on social security and the implementation
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of the largest tax cut in the history of our country.
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That's very well said. And let's be clear, New York
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City and New York State are facing financial deficits. The
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Mondami-Hockel solution, no matter what they say... before an election,
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will be, they will seek to raise taxes. There's a
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lot of noise in the system about raising the real
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property taxes. There's noise in the system about taking the
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exemption for estate taxes down to $ 750, 000, which means if
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you own a home.
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Well, if you do that... Everybody's going to flee. Then
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everyone will leave. Of course. Then everyone will leave.
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You can't raise income taxes. You can't screw people on
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estate taxes. They're hard-earned money, which I want to pass
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on to the children just to the climate, they are
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insane about this. They're talking about even making statewide, remember statewide,
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the whole issue of pied-a-terre taxes, which means there's a
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legislation already introduced by Democratic members of the assembly, which
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would make it a pied-a-terre tax, a statewide situation, not
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just in New York City, which means if you own
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a home in Suffolk County or Erie County, and you
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also have a place in Florida, they're going to jam
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you up with the so-called pieta tear tax that you're
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really not there. It's a ridiculous thing. And that's on
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their agenda. They don't know how to be economically efficient
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and cut unnecessary programs and police against fraud and abuse.
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I will say I'm getting a little tired of being
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told that they keep cutting my taxes and every year
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my taxes go up. I'm just not sure where, where
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this is all coming from.
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Anyway, we have one minute to go in this. So
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I want to make a, a very strong point, and
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then we have to take the break. Bruce Blakeman is
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running on three lines, the Republican line, the conservative line.
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Kathy Hoch is running on a Democratic line, Working Families
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Party line. If you want to vote for common sense
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and the future of New York State and for the
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future of your children and your grandchildren, you don't want
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to vote for Blakeman, but you have some sort of
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psychological resistance for pulling down the Republican or conservative line,
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then vote for Blakeman on the affordable, vote affordable party line.
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That's all. If you want to talk about affordability, then
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you have to be voting for Blakeman. If you want
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to just have the myth that somehow the Democrats are
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going to make things more affordable, when they're the proximal
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cause of all the increases in health care, in housing,
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it's absolutely an energy. It's all on them, not on
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the Republicans. You've got to vote for Bruce Blakeman. and
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vote for him on the affordable party line. That's all.
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This is Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse Garcia
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of the Republican Party, noted attorney, commentary essayist, Eric Levine.
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I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. Please stay with us. We'll be
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back in about a few moments with our second segment
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with more important and interesting conversation. Stay tuned, please.
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Let the Record Show is on the air. This is
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Let the Record Show, using common sense. Now, here are
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your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg. Essayist and commentator, Eric Levine.
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And Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party, noted attorney, commentator, essayist Eric Levine,
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and I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. Welcome back to our second
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segment of today's show. So, the never-ending story of the
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Middle East. There's a war going on. It's on low
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gear now on certain levels, but in high gear in
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other levels. That's a war against the terrorist, despotic regime
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of Iran, who enabled terrorist organizations to attack not only Israel,
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but U.S. bases, other Arab countries have tried to close
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down navigation in the free seas, the international waterways, have
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tried everything desperately, to maintain power, killing, maiming and torturing
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their own people. So what's happening? Well, three weeks after
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the election, we need to focus on, we need to
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get back to decapitating the head of the snake, which
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is Iran. Absolutely essential. Because all the terrorist organizations feed
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off of Iran. And it's very essential. If we're ever
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going to have peace in the Middle East, Iran has
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to go. And that means the regime led by the
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Revolutionary Guard. They have to go. And the mullahs. They
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have to go. They have to have a free country
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where they're not oppressed by their own leadership and not
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tortured by their own leadership. And who is not in
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perpetual war against Winston's civilization and democratic values and freedom
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of speech and thought and religion.
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They have to go.
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And when they say death to Israel and death to America,
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they mean death to the world that's not under their
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Sharia law and under their obsession with domination by their
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religious death cult over everyone else. They have to be stopped. Now,
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recent developments are the Houthis, who, by the way, according
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to General Jack Keane, who we spoke to last night
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on Castle Crosby, the Houthis have a militia of about 250,000 men,
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and they're trying to get missile range into Israel and
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further into Europe from China. And China, in fact, is
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allegedly selling the parts to them to do this. This
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is a dangerous phenomenon. The Houthis have attacked Saudi Arabia, UAE,
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other countries that are part of the alliance against Iran.
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They do the bidding of Iran. But in their own regard,
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they're a clear and present danger. They have to be stopped. Hamas...
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So much for the so-called Board of Peace, so-called free elections.
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What kind of free election is it when Hamas is
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still in control of vast parts of the territories?
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Well, Abbas adjourned the elections to the end of 2027. Right.
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But they keep playing that game about elections, elections, elections.
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So you have the old PLO.
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He's now in the 23rd year of his four-year term.
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And it's insane. So you have that going on. And
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neither one of them is a partner for peace or
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stability or common sense or tolerance for the existence and
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state of Israel. They're dedicated to the destruction of Israel
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because Israel is a first-line defense for Western civilization. So
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the short answer is the Board of Peace, especially if
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it's controlled by Turkey, that's no Board of Peace. That's
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just another Islamist fundamentalist, but that one happens to be
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the Sunni-led as opposed to the Sharia-led. It makes no
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difference to Western civilization. They want all our heads off.
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So that's the Middle East today, and something needs to
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be done about it. Now, Trump, to his credit, is
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the first president to actually start doing something about it,
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as I've commented and other people on this show have commented.
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Trump had done a good job 80% of the way,
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and he stopped with a ridiculous memorandum of understanding. They regrouped.
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They rearmed. They're now trying to rebuild and reconstitute their
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nuclear program. organize themselves again to oppress opposition and to
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fight back. They have no intention of ever giving up power.
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They have to be taken out. Now, every day that
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goes by, they have another chance to build themselves up. Now,
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in the domestic politics, we have a clock. The Iranians
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don't have a clock. They have the long view. People
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have to understand. So you're paying a little bit more for...
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gasoline at the pump.
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So what?
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You really want to have a nuclear weapon in the
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hands of crazies who believe in world domination and that
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believe that they have salvation. All of the rest of
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us have death and destruction. I think not. So let's
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pay attention. It's really important. Eric.
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So these recent attack by the Houthis on Saudi Arabia, they've,
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they've actually, they've attacked the Saudi airport in Riyadh. They've
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attacked their oil facilities in, Of course, they attack civilian
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infrastructure and civilian sites. I don't hear anybody accusing them
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of genocide. But putting that aside for a moment, of course,
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the Houthis can't do this without Iranian support. They are
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an Iranian proxy. Now, the Saudis have been purchasing some
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of the most advanced, if not the most advanced military
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hardware in the world from the United States. They've spent
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more on American military hardware than the Israelis have. And yet,
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This country with F-35s is incapable of beating people that
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run around without shoes. It's actually to the point where
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the French have agreed to send in their military to
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help secure some sites. This will be the first time
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they've done that since 1979 when the Saudi regime was
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almost overthrown at the Grand Mosque seizure. We can talk
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about that another time. That's a whole show. So the
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French have actually sent the military. to help save Saudi Arabia. Now,
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everyone should understand it matters that the Saudi regime survives,
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because while MBS may not be the most wonderful guy
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on Earth, he's far superior to anything that would take
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his place. It'll either be radical Islamists in an Iran-dominated
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state or a completely failed state. So it's important that
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MBS and Saudi Arabia survive. So the Iranian strategy here
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in large part is, let's if we have the Houthis
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attack Saudi Arabia, we can perhaps come in and say, look,
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we can make the Houthis stop, and in exchange for
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us making the Houthis stop, we can reach a deal
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with you, Mr. President Donald Trump. Now, they had done
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that under the Biden administration. If you all remember, the
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Iranians were back in the Houthis, and the Saudis were
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back in the internationally recognized government of Yemen, and Biden
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came in and for whatever reason decided, well, we know why,
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he was appeasing the Iranians. See, we're going to give
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Yemen to the Iranians, Saudi Arabia, get out, and we're
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not going to give you any more weapons to defend
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yourselves and to fight in Yemen. And that was the deal.
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The Iranians said, we'll stop the Houthis, and you do
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deals with us. And Biden did, and of course, the
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Houthis continued to attack. But Trump is obviously different. I
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don't think this strategy is going to work. So the
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Saudis have, they came up with one plan. They said, oh,
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and then of course, so the Saudis, after Biden sold
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them out, We all remember that the Chinese acted as
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an interlocutor between the Iranians and the Saudis, and then
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that's when the Iranians and the Saudis reopened diplomatic relations,
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and that fell apart. So the Saudis now have come
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up with another particular military defense paradigm. We'll align ourselves
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with Turkey and Pakistan. Well, what has that done? Turkey
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and Pakistan have done absolutely zero. So now the Saudis
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are back to turning to the United States and Israel.
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The Israelis, it's my understanding, have been providing the Saudis
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with intelligence on the Houthis to be able to defend themselves.
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But I believe, and I think it's the U.S. strategy
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and the Israeli strategy, that attacking the Houthis is all
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well and good, but the better strategy is to attack
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the head of the snake, and that's to attack Iran.
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And that attack is absolutely coming. It's going to be
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a huge kinetic activity against Iran. I think the current
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plan is to attack after the elections. The Israelis have elections,
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I believe, on October 27th, and of course our elections
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are on November 3rd, but that timeline could move up
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depending upon the Iranians. The Israelis have a high degree
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of confidence that the Iranians are planning, through their proxies
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and perhaps directly by themselves, an attack on Israel, whether
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it's by Hamas or Hezbollah, or even there's some concern
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that the Palestinian Authority, which has 60,000 men under arms,
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that they may participate in some sort of military operation
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against the Israelis. So if the intelligence shows that the
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Iranians are going to attempt to preempt an American-Israeli and
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probably UAE strike and perhaps also maybe a Saudi strike,
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then we and the Israelis and these other countries will
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want to preempt the preemption. So the military operation against Iran,
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which I am convinced is coming, It can happen any
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day depending upon the developments in the Middle East. I
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think if it's just left to us and our own
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devices and our own timing, it'll come right after the election.
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But there's no more waiting around to see if this
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regime is going to make a deal, whether they're going
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to give up their nuclear program. whether they're going to
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give up their ballistic missile program, whether they're going to
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give up funding to, you know, the leading state sponsor
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of terrorism in the world. They're not giving up any
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of that. It's just not happening. So the only alternative,
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the only solution is regime change. And we were on
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the cusp of that. And we were on the cusp
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of that until we entered into this MOU, which really
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just really just screwed the whole thing up. But I
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think the president is resolute now in terms of dealing
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with this regime. He's been making statements that just telling them,
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just wait and see what's going to happen. And I
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really do think it's going to be a huge attack.
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I think it's going to be a joint attack. The
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question is whether or not the UAE joins and Saudi
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Arabia joins. But certainly, Israelis are going to be shoulder
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to shoulder with us. And I think the days of
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the Iranian regime are numbered.
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How come we never hear about Egypt and Jordan?
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Well, it's interesting. Well, Jordan, we do hear about Jordan.
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Jordan has actually been the recipient of a lot of
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these ballistic missiles. And one thing we don't want to
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do is destabilize Jordan. Jordan has made peace with Israel.
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It doesn't pose a threat to the Israelis. But the
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Jordanian population poses a threat to the Jordanian regime. So
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we don't want to put King Abdullah in a position where, remember,
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60% of his population is Palestinian and has a great
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deal of sympathies or antipathy towards the Israelis. So we
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want to be careful in an effort to get Jordan
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to join us. And they have. They've allowed the Israelis
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to use their airspace. They've used the Patriot missiles to
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help defend Israel. So I don't really have a bone
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to pick with the Jordanians. The Egyptians, on the other hand,
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largest standing army in Israel. the world. And when the
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Houthis are closing the Bab al-Mandeb, which is the entrance
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to the Red Sea, that has a direct impact on
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the Egyptians because the Suez Canal is their lifeblood of
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foreign currency. So I'm curious as to why the Egyptians
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are sitting this out. But I will also make this observation.
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People can draw their own conclusions. There are two borders
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to Gaza. Everyone talks about the Israelis and them sealing
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in and He's keeping the Palestinians inside Gaza. There's also
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an Egyptian border between Gaza and Sinai. That's Egypt. And
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the Egyptians, not only did they refuse to allow the
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Palestinians out, both the Israelis and President Biden asked the
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Egyptians to open that border so that civilians can be
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moved into the Sinai so that the Israelis, when they
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invaded Gaza, would only be attacking terrorists. The Egyptians said, no,
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they wouldn't open the border. They don't allow food to
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come in through that border. It all has to go
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in through the Israeli border. But the primary source of
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the weapons that were smuggled into Gaza over all these
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years has come through Egypt, has come through the Sinai.
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So the Egyptians, in many ways, are playing a double game.
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We really have to keep our eyes on them as
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to what it is their objectives are. But the Egyptians
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are not neutral in this, and they've not been particularly
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good actors. So the question remains, what is Egypt, what
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is their national security interest? How do they perceive it?
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And what are they going to do next? And I
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don't know the answer to that, because some of their
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activity has been pretty curious.
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Jesse?
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Before I move forward on that, I do want to
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point out on the greater issues of of Iran and
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dealing with that, because I don't know how much more
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I can contribute, but I do have questions I think
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that would benefit the listeners to hear from both of you.
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But I wanna point out to Justin Murphy. He's a
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candidate running for Senate against Cory Booker in the state
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of New Jersey. He had an amazing response to a
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question that went viral and really set the place, set
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a left-leaning debate audience on their hands. I mean, I'm sorry,
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in applause. When the question was posed to both candidates,
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if Donald Trump called you, President Donald Trump called you
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in the middle of the night and asked for your
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advice on how to deal with the Iran war. You know,
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very succinctly, Justin Murphy said, and I'm going to read
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this verbatim, finish the war in a positive manner. We
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can't wait halfway through and decide we don't want to
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do this anymore. Let me just stop it for a minute.
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That is what every president has done over the last
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47 years and accept that they've never actually taken the steps,
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the brave steps that President Trump has taken. The Iranian
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard is a radical terrorist organization that has
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deprived the Iranian people, the Persian people of their history
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and any kind of decent life. He concluded that four decades,
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which I think we'll agree is more close to five decades,
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is enough. The Iranian people have suffered enough. And I
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would say, Mr. President, put your cowboy hat Put on
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your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick
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some butt and get this done and done right. That
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is coming. I do believe that what we're seeing here
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is nothing more than trying to engage the president in
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what they perceive on a political platform as something that
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would affect the midterm elections that would embroil him in
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impeachment charge after impeachment charge after impeachment charge if the
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Democrats take back the House. I think the president is
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being very, very astute and playing three-dimensional chess where other
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presidents and other administrations have basically been paying checkers or
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have completely, as we've spoken about, Biden and Obama have
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completely surrendered to Iran and surrendered the Middle East to them.
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But my question is to this, the Houthis, and maybe
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you guys can educate myself and you can educate our listeners.
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First of all, my question is, I have two. One is,
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isn't these actions taken by the Houthis from Yemen actually
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waking up A sleeping giant that has, for its own reasons,
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been sitting on the sidelines, only tepidly joining in a
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coalition in the case of Saudi Arabia. It is making
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them a complete and full enemy of Yemen and Houthis.
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and we'll lead them maybe later down the line as
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a member of the Abraham Accords. That's my first question
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to both of you. My second question is, how do
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these Houdis have these strategic weapons that are so precision
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in nature? And I ask you both, because I can't
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add anything more to this discussion, but I think those
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questions would add more to our education to our listeners.
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Well, what I would add is, in addition to trying
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to impact the American elections, they're trying to impact the
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Israeli elections.
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They want Bibi to lose.
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So in answer to your first question about, you know,
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get the Saudis waking up a sleeping giant, the Saudis
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are awake. They're just inept and incompetent. If they could
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defend themselves, they would. They just don't know how. It's
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really quite remarkable. Comes back to originally, you know, so
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the French are sending military, you know, sending troops to
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help defend them because they can't defend themselves, literally against
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people who run around in shoes in terms of where
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they get their weapons. The Saudis, I mean, sorry, the Iranians,
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The Iranians are getting this to them. And the Chinese
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are very bad actors here. So something's going to have
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to be done about that. But the best way to
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deal with the Houthis is not to attack them directly.
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You go get the Iranians. If you cut off, if
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the Iranians are gone, the Houthis have, they're finished.
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All right. This is Let the Record Show with Chairman
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Jesse Garcia of the Republican Party, noted attorney, commentator, essayist
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Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. We're taking a break now.
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We'll be back in but a few moments for our
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final segment of today's show. Please stay with us.
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This is Let the Record Show. This is Let the
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Record Show. Now, here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg,
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essayist and commentator Eric Levine, and Suffolk County Republican Committee
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Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jessica
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O'Shea of the Republican Party. You know the attorney, commentator, essayist,
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Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. So we're less than
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three weeks out to the midterm elections, which I believe
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is the most important midterm election in my lifetime. The
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future of America.
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Until the next one.
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No, no, but this one is particularly important. You can't
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make light of this, Eric, because if the Democrats win,
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This country is in very serious trouble.
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It's a disaster.
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The future of America really is at stake. Why? The
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Democratic Party has become the creature of the far left
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and the Islamists. It's become a worthless and indeed dangerous
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instrument of the radical left and the Islamists. The Democratic
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Party agenda is just obstruction and impeachment. So the midterm
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elections are very important because you want to have effective government.
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You want to deal with making sure that China doesn't
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win the battle of the economies. If you want to
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make sure that we're protected both internally and from our
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foreign enemies, we cannot have a party in control that
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all it does is obstruct and impeach and attack based
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on personalities. They have no affirmative record to run on.
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Jesse has made that very, very clear. Eric has made
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that very, very clear. I've tried to say the same thing.
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There is no positive record that Democrats have given us.
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They've given us nothing but problems. Every big problem this
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country faces is a direct result of Democrat foolishness and
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aptitude and ideology. So I turn it over to you, Jesse,
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for your analysis. What's going to happen? What are your predictions?
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What do you see happening? And what's at stake here
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in the midterms?
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Right now, I think it's taking the midterms. Well, first,
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what I think is going to happen is that while
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the party that holds the White House always has a
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difficult challenge in the midterm elections, that's no surprise. This year,
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I think it's going to be a little bit, hopefully,
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it's going to be a little bit like 2022, where
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the Republicans were expecting huge gains, but they only had
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modest gains. I think we're going to see that, hopefully,
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based on the campaigns we're