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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wo R now the wo

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Speaker 1: R Saturday Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minty.

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Speaker 1: Coming up this week on Saturday Morning. The Democrats in

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Speaker 1: New York City are trying to steal a congressional seat

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Speaker 1: from the Republicans through forced redistricting, and they got a

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Speaker 1: judge to agree with them. We'll talk to the city's

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Speaker 1: only Republican congress member, Nicole mell Otakis, about the fight

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Speaker 1: to keep her seat. Did you see this coming? Did

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Speaker 1: you did you believe that this was the way the

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Speaker 1: early ruling was going to go?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I mean, look, this is a completely meritless lawsuit.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with that they shut under a law that

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Speaker 2: doesn't even apply to congressional districts or legislative districts. And

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Speaker 2: the fact that they're trying to clean somehow this district

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Speaker 2: disenfranchises minorities when I'm the first minority to actually represent

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Speaker 2: the district is super ludicrous. However, you know, when it

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Speaker 2: wasn't tossed out as we really thought it should have been,

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Speaker 2: we were obviously concerned. But if you look at the judge,

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Speaker 2: the judge was the former council in Chief of staff

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Speaker 2: to Governor Cathy hulkl So it makes sense that this

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Speaker 2: round would be tough for us in court. I do

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Speaker 2: believe at the end of the day we will prevail

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Speaker 2: and protect the voices of the people of Staten Island

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Speaker 2: in Brooklyn, because remember, this district was represented by a Democrat,

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Speaker 2: and it was the people who voted to fire that

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Speaker 2: Democrat in twenty twenty. And so here we have this

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Speaker 2: Washington law firm trying to come in here and say,

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Speaker 2: we don't care what the people of Staten Island in

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Speaker 2: Brooklyn said. We're going to make it so you can

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Speaker 2: never elect another Republican again, and you'll be stuck with

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Speaker 2: a Democrat forever. We'll never have bipartisan representation in our city.

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Speaker 2: But the bottom line here is this is meritless. It

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Speaker 2: should have been thrown out. We're not surprised the judge

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Speaker 2: listened to the case and how he ruled yesterday. But

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Speaker 2: we do believe at the end of the day we

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Speaker 2: will prevail. We may have to take us all the

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Speaker 2: way to the US Supreme Court, but there's no way

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Speaker 2: that this can stand and that the people of this

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Speaker 2: district can just have this seat taken from them and

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Speaker 2: their voices eliminated. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's why I started off by asking you if you

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Speaker 1: saw this coming, because obviously in the lower courts here

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Speaker 1: that are all run by Democrats and far left wing Democrats,

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Speaker 1: they're going to rule against you. But I do believe

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Speaker 1: you're absolutely correct. It is meritless, and as it goes

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Speaker 1: up into more sane courts, you're going to end up

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Speaker 1: winning in this. So let's put that aside for a second,

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Speaker 1: because I do think it's meritless and it's not worth

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Speaker 1: talking about, and I think that you're going to be

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Speaker 1: just fine as it goes along. Let's instead talk about

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Speaker 1: ice because I'm really concerned as we watch what's going

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Speaker 1: on in Congress, and we watch what's going on in

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Speaker 1: the Senate and across the country. Actually not just across

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Speaker 1: the country in Minneapolis, it seems like it's across the country,

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Speaker 1: but because all the attention and media is in many

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Speaker 1: applis it seems like it's nationwide. This attack on ice

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Speaker 1: on the streets, this attack on ice in Congress, this

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Speaker 1: push to defund ice. Where is this going?

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Speaker 2: Well? Well, first of all, look what the perception the images,

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Speaker 2: they're not great. But what I'm going to say and

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Speaker 2: what I want people to understand is the reason why

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Speaker 2: ICE needs to go into these communities and conduct raids

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Speaker 2: is because these local municipalities are not turning over criminals.

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Speaker 2: And I'll give you perfect example this weekend in Minneapolis.

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Speaker 2: What happened. Who were they in there to get? They

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Speaker 2: actually ended up getting two murderers. One of them had

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Speaker 2: a final order for removal going back to twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 2: the other one to twenty fifteen. These were convicted murderers.

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Speaker 2: They also got a guy who's convicted of sodomizing a

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Speaker 2: twelve year old girl. And they had another guy who

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Speaker 2: was who was convicted of twenty four crimes. And these

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Speaker 2: were among many other criminals. Okay, and you can go

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Speaker 2: to their website and they lay it out for you

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Speaker 2: exactly who they go in there and they get The

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Speaker 2: issue is that when you don't have these local municipalities

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Speaker 2: just simply turning these people over when they're released from jail,

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Speaker 2: it creates this scenario where this law federal law enforcement

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Speaker 2: and it makes it much more dangerous for the law

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Speaker 2: enforcement officer, makes it much more dangerous for the public,

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Speaker 2: and it's unnecessary. Quite frankly, if they cooperate. Now with

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Speaker 2: this funding, that's going to happen. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: the same thing happens here in New York. Then they

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Speaker 2: turned seven thousand criminals back onto the streets instead of

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Speaker 2: turning them over to ICE. And these are these are

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Speaker 2: horrible people like these are real hardened criminals that committed

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Speaker 2: all sorts of horrific crimes. And for some reason, the

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Speaker 2: Democrats that run these cities want to just put them

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Speaker 2: our country. And I can't understand why with this funding issue.

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Speaker 2: ICE has the funding that they need because in the

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Speaker 2: Reconciliation Bill, we gave them the funding that was necessary.

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Speaker 2: What would happen with the Department of Homeland Security should

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Speaker 2: the Democrats choose not to help us fund the Department

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Speaker 2: of Homeland Security PSA agents, the people that go and

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Speaker 2: screen you and make sure there's no terrorists going on

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Speaker 2: your airplane, they're gonna get the hit. The Coast Guard

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Speaker 2: that protects our shorelines, that make sure you know that

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Speaker 2: the contraband and human traffic and all this stuff coming

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Speaker 2: in through our waters, that's gonna get the hit. You're

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Speaker 2: gonna have other agencies that deal with, you know, drugs

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Speaker 2: and law enforcement, cybersecurity, counter terrorism, that's where you're gonna

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Speaker 2: see the impact. And so it's really nonsensical. It's just

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Speaker 2: it's just a political rhetoric that the Democrats are playing.

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Speaker 2: Here all gonna defund ice. We're not gonna fund the

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Speaker 2: homeland security, but these are the other parts of homeland

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Speaker 2: security that are really truly going to be affected.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you as all political, but it's evil.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a line to be drawn, isn't there.

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Speaker 1: There should be a line in politics that you don't cross.

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Speaker 1: And when you are supporting criminals and going up against

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Speaker 1: law enforcement and people who are trying to make the

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Speaker 1: when you make yourself more important than the public.

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Speaker 2: But I think they actually believe this. It's political to

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Speaker 2: a degree, but I think they actually do believe in

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Speaker 2: their anti law enforcement. They're pro criminal, this is their policy.

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Speaker 2: These are the same people that ran the protests in

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Speaker 2: the streets to defund the NYPD in twenty twenty. These

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Speaker 2: are the same people who are constantly supporting laws that

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Speaker 2: make it harder to put criminals behind bars. Look what

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Speaker 2: Virginia Democrats did the very first thing they did when

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Speaker 2: they took power the other day was to eliminate minimum

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Speaker 2: sentencing for like murderers and rapists. It's crazy. So, I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is what they do. Are else these they support?

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Speaker 2: And people need to recognize that because we could very

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Speaker 2: well end up back we were two years ago where

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Speaker 2: we had terrorists coming into our boarder. Remember hundreds of

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Speaker 2: terrorists caught at our southern border, millions of gadaways. We

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Speaker 2: don't know who they are, where they are, what their

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Speaker 2: intentions are. You know, this administration is doing their best

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Speaker 2: effort to try to find those individuals. You have criminal

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Speaker 2: gangs that were wreaking havoc on our streets, drug traffickers,

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Speaker 2: poisoning Americans. You know, we can easily go back to that.

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Speaker 2: This past year, by the way, crime has dipped significantly

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Speaker 2: double digits across most ports.

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Speaker 1: And it's because of ice. It's because of ice. And

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Speaker 1: you're right, Republicans have to win these midterms. The countries

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Speaker 1: at stake here. Thanks so much, Nicole malatakas US representative

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Speaker 1: from New York's eleventh congressional district. Thanks a lot, Nicole,

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Speaker 1: good luck in court. Thank you this has been a

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Speaker 1: podcast from doubleor