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Speaker 1: Did Mom Donnie lie about his aunt?

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Speaker 2: You might know the story by now that Zoron Mamdanni,

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Speaker 2: who is the candidate for mayor in New York.

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Speaker 1: And I don't discuss New York.

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Speaker 2: Politics if only because, hey, if you want to burn

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Speaker 2: it all down in your city, I can't stop you.

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Speaker 2: I cannot stop you. You you can, you can, you

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Speaker 2: can do that. The people are in in New York

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Speaker 2: are fools if they vote for this communist But the

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Speaker 2: people of New York are fools.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's just factual.

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Speaker 2: And I have told my wife that if indeed Mam

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Speaker 2: Donnie wins, we are going to plan a long weekend.

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Speaker 1: It will be our last trip. We will. We have

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Speaker 1: four or five museums we know we want to get too.

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Speaker 2: We have four or five places that we know we

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Speaker 2: want to eat at and get that done.

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Speaker 1: Russen Daughters is on the list, of course.

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Speaker 2: One of my favorite places is Tavola's, which is basically

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Speaker 2: at the bottom of Hell's Kitchen.

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Speaker 1: The lamb and wild boar meatballs are out of control.

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Speaker 1: They're unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: And I love that room at Tavola.

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Speaker 1: Don't like it, love it.

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Speaker 2: If I ever opened a restaurant of that style, I

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Speaker 2: would pattern it after it. I just adore the room

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Speaker 2: so greatly I can't take it.

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Speaker 1: But I'm also I really like Hell's Kitchen. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why that is, but I just I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Something about it makes me, makes me more than the

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Speaker 2: village or anything else. It's it just it works for

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it'll be over. There's no there's no existing

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Speaker 1: in in that, not at all. In mom Donnie's New York,

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Speaker 1: no chance.

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Speaker 2: So the story here is that Zora Mamdani endorsed by

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Speaker 2: Alexandria Costu Cortez, endorsed by Bernie Sanders, he tells this story.

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Speaker 1: I want to use this more day. Sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: And the story he tells is about an aunt and Islamophobia.

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Speaker 3: I want to use this moment to speak to the

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Speaker 3: Muslims of New York City. I want to speak to

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Speaker 3: the memory of my aunt.

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Speaker 4: Who stopped taking the subway after September eleventh because she

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Speaker 4: did not feel safe in her Hidjab.

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Speaker 2: September eleventh is not about Islamophobia. This is a gross

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Speaker 2: statement from Zaron Mamdani. I would not doubt that there

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Speaker 2: were Muslims who after September eleventh said ooh.

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Speaker 1: I'm concerned.

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Speaker 2: But if you take a look across America post September eleventh,

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Speaker 2: you did not see every mosque in America burned to

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Speaker 2: the ground.

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Speaker 1: You didn't see that. You didn't you didn't.

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Speaker 2: See a spate, a wave of Muslims being attacked on

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Speaker 1: That also didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: But in no rational way should anybody think for a

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Speaker 2: moment meant that September eleventh is for you, Zora, mom,

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Speaker 2: Dannie or anybody else to say, oh, my islamaphobia. First,

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Speaker 2: for the sake of clarity, islama phobia isn't real.

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Speaker 1: As with any.

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Speaker 2: Phobia, You're talking about an irrational fear that does not exist,

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Speaker 2: that is not real, that is not true. Islamists, practitioners

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Speaker 2: of and supporters of Shariah are everybody's fear anybody who

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Speaker 2: wants to live a free life. No one can coexist

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Speaker 2: with Islamists, no one. Christians cannot do it. Jews cannot

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Speaker 2: do it, Muslims cannot do it. No one can coexist

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Speaker 2: with people who say submit or die where this, or

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Speaker 2: die live in fear or die. No one, no society

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Speaker 2: has ever been able to do it. This speaking of

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Speaker 2: your aunt and saying Islamophobia is nonsense. It's nonsense, trash.

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Speaker 2: It should be dismissed out of hand. Two things came

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Speaker 2: from the reaction to this. First was a series of

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Speaker 2: people who said, are you telling me that white people

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Speaker 2: never heard of everyone an extended family? Who are women

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Speaker 2: being called auntie? Auntie is a term auntie gets used.

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Speaker 2: It's a catch all. It's a catch all term. I

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Speaker 2: am fully aware of this. I understand what it is.

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Speaker 2: But he didn't say auntie. He said his aunt. He

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Speaker 2: was specific, he was clear. This was his story, ladies

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Speaker 2: and gentlemen. Turns out he didn't even get that part

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Speaker 2: of the story right. It wasn't an ant. It was

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Speaker 2: some distant cousin.

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Speaker 1: Of his father's, That's who it was.

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Speaker 2: He got the story wrong, this story that made him

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Speaker 2: so emotional.

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Speaker 1: He got wrong.

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Speaker 2: I once told a story about my father rest his soul,

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Speaker 2: about how when he had a business that went south,

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Speaker 2: he took a job. We lived in New Jersey and

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Speaker 2: he took a job going into the city, and I

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Speaker 2: think he was like, I think it was like mortgage

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Speaker 1: I was young, and what I remember was my father was.

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Speaker 2: A big guy, big round face, big guy, and he he.

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Speaker 1: Put on a tie.

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Speaker 2: I was young, and I knew exactly how uncomfortable he was.

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Speaker 2: It is why, except for very special occasions, I do.

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Speaker 1: Not wear a tie. Nope. I saw that, and I

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Speaker 1: was giving this speech.

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Speaker 2: I think it was at like a rotary club event,

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Speaker 2: a few hundred people, and I was telling this story

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Speaker 2: that my father was going to fight through it. He

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Speaker 2: lost the business, he was going to make sure his

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Speaker 2: family got fed, and he was going to find another way,

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Speaker 2: and he would head into the city from New Jersey

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Speaker 2: into Manhattan. And I had said at the time that

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Speaker 2: he I don't think the car had air conditioning, and

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Speaker 2: he would take this red Chevelle and drive into the city.

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Speaker 2: And I always felt terrible afterwards after I'd watched it.

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Speaker 1: I got the car wrong. I meant Chavette. It'd be

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Speaker 1: cooler if he had a Chevelle.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes when you're telling a story, you make a mistake

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Speaker 2: you don't mean to. But there's a big difference between chevelle, chevette,

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Speaker 2: an aunt, cousin, father distant when it's a story bringing

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Speaker 2: you to tears.

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Speaker 1: Mom.

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Speaker 2: Donnie was then asked about this, and he is outraged

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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen that you're focused on this how many

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Speaker 2: recent in a recent address your aunt.

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Speaker 1: This might not hear well first night.

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Speaker 2: It's all about blood relatives.

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Speaker 1: The thing I was speaking about my aunt, I was.

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Speaker 4: Speaking about Santa Fui, my father's cousin, sadly.

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Speaker 1: Passed away a few years ago.

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Speaker 4: And for the takeaway for my more than ten minute

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Speaker 4: address about Islamophobia in this race and in the city

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Speaker 4: to be, the question of my aunt tells you everything

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Speaker 4: about Andrew Cuomo and his inability to reckon with a

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Speaker 4: crisis of his.

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Speaker 1: With all due respect, this has nothing to do with

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Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo. This has to do with you.

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Speaker 2: You're now not talking about your aunt. You're talking about

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Speaker 2: your father's cousin. Or are you're talking about both or

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Speaker 2: are you talking about neither. I don't know how I'm

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Speaker 2: supposed to believe anything that you said. But September eleventh

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Speaker 2: was not about Islamophobia. It was about being attacked for

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Speaker 2: who we are and how we live.

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Speaker 1: You want to argue chickens come home to roost.

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Speaker 2: You leave that stuff with Barack Obama's pastor don't bring

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Speaker 2: that to our door. Don't bring that to New York City,

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Speaker 2: or at least that's the way I would think that

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Speaker 2: New Yorkers would think about this. But I guess not.

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Speaker 2: We've gotten far enough away from September eleventh, two thousand

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Speaker 2: and one, twenty four years ago that now it's okay

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Speaker 2: to totally dismiss what it is Islamis did to all

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Speaker 2: of us and say, look how much you hate me

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Speaker 2: because of your Islama phobia. There is no Islama phobia.

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Speaker 2: Mister mom Donnie, You're a spoiled elitist communist.

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Speaker 1: You're not good enough.

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Speaker 2: Now I would argue that Andrew Cuomo isn't good enough either,

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Speaker 2: But sometimes I take the lesser to evils, which is

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Speaker 2: almost insane to say, because Cuomo kills Grandma. Sadly, I

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Speaker 2: don't think Curtis Sliwa can grab enough boats the Republican

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Speaker 2: to make this happen. It's stunning to witness this casual lying.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we should be a part of it.

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Speaker 2: Islamophobia is not real. A concern about Islamist is absolutely important.

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Speaker 2: Islamis cannot coexist with Western civilization, so it's us or

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Speaker 2: it's them. But the idea that in New York you

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Speaker 2: have Muslims scared to walk down the streets. I've seen

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Speaker 2: of what's happening with the so called protesters. They're the

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Speaker 2: ones trying to intimidate others. And it's certainly not all

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Speaker 2: because that's insane.

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Speaker 3: Mom.

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Speaker 2: Donnie is the worst of the race baters, No, not

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Speaker 2: the worst. He is in league with all the casual

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Speaker 2: race baiters, all the people who want to divide by class.

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Speaker 2: It's Marxism one oh one kids, and yes, I think New.

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Speaker 1: Yorkers are absolutely going to fall for it. This is

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today