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Speaker 1: Charles Feldman, UIs correspondent with US. Now, Charles, Hey, how

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Speaker 1: you doing. Yeah, I'm very well. You ever heard of

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Speaker 1: Guan Chile before?

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Speaker 2: I can't say that I have, but I've probably eaten

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Speaker 2: it without knowing.

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Speaker 1: It's probably a lot of things with eaten without knowing

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Speaker 1: what we're doing. Charles, listen to what's going on with

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Speaker 1: Trump and the seditious stuff. Is he being serious?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Wow, Well, I tell you, if he is, it

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Speaker 2: is one of the most extraordinary things ever from a

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Speaker 2: president of the United States. I mean, thank you, how

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Speaker 2: extraordinary this is. At a news conference or the press

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Speaker 2: briefing that they have every day at the White House,

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Speaker 2: a reporter actually had to ask the president's press secretary

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Speaker 2: if President Trump was serious about having Democratic Congress people

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Speaker 2: executed for sedition, and the press secretary said, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: you know, he was referring to, you know, the fact

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Speaker 2: that his orders are law lawful, and if they were,

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Speaker 2: you know, defying lawful order, that would be seditioned. But

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Speaker 2: that actually is not what President Trump said on his

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Speaker 2: social media. Is he serious? You know a lot of

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Speaker 2: people over these past few years, they've always said, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, he's not serious about this, he's not serious

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Speaker 2: about that. And you know what, it's turned out that

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Speaker 2: on many of those things he was serious.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well, this is the difficulty with him. It's

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Speaker 1: very hard to know, isn't it? From thing? And yet

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Speaker 1: we find ourselves distracted by He's got a meeting with

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Speaker 1: Zoran Mandamin. Is it tomorrow in the Oval Office?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, Friday in the Oval Office, And it was

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Speaker 2: at the request apparently of the mayor elect of New

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Speaker 2: York City. And they are not exactly friendly toward one another.

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Speaker 2: Trump did not support him during the mayoral race, and

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Speaker 2: Trump consistently refers to him incorrectly as a communist. He's not.

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Speaker 2: He is a self proclaimed social Democrat, which which is

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Speaker 2: sort of unusual in the United States anyway in terms

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Speaker 2: of political affiliation. But you know what, what Mondonie is

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Speaker 2: doing is smart by wanting to meet with the President Trump,

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Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, all cities sooner

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Speaker 2: or later need federal assistance, new York City among them.

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Speaker 2: And why antagonize somebody who at some point is going

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Speaker 2: to have to sign some checks.

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Speaker 1: How do you think it's going to go down there?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could, because these guys are the polar

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Speaker 1: opposite of each other. Right, so does it actually is

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Speaker 1: it in the best both of their best interests to

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Speaker 1: get on with each other or to create a scene

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Speaker 1: in there?

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Speaker 2: Now? I think that my guess is it's going to

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Speaker 2: go surprisingly well. You know, President Trump is a transactional politician.

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Speaker 2: If he thinks that by doing something it's going to

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Speaker 2: be the result is going to be favorable to him,

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Speaker 2: he will act accordingly. And you know, keep in mind

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Speaker 2: that Mandami got a pretty big vote popular vote in

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Speaker 2: New York City and pulled off quite a feat. He

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Speaker 2: was somebody that didn't have any name recognition, he didn't

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Speaker 2: have a lot of money to begin with, and yet

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Speaker 2: he managed to defeat people who were considered very seasoned politicians.

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Speaker 2: Trump is not a fool. He's going to look at

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Speaker 2: that as somebody who managed to pull off something that

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Speaker 2: was quite spectacular. And you know, Trump is at hard

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Speaker 2: in New Yorker, and I think he's going to want

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Speaker 2: to present himself as somebody who does have New York's

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Speaker 2: interests at heart.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Cheles, thank you very much for talking us through.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Charles Feldman, us correspondent For more from hither,

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