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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR. Here's Larry Mente with

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Speaker 1: more of the wr Saturday Morning show Pole Show.

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Speaker 2: The war in Iran is not popular with most Americans,

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Speaker 2: So what are the ramifications for President Donald Trump and

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Speaker 2: the Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. Here's political analyst

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Speaker 2: JC Polanco. Jc. I don't think Donald Trump knew there'd

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Speaker 2: be this public blowback that there's been in the polls

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Speaker 2: so far, and I think that's one of the reasons

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Speaker 2: he wants to get out of there in the next

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks. What will the political fallout be? And

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Speaker 2: by the way, good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, so happy to be with you today. Well,

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Speaker 1: listen to the political fallout. We're seeing it in every

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Speaker 1: poll that's coming out. And it was a self inflicted

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Speaker 1: wound of what could have been different. Look, the messaging

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Speaker 1: was off from the very beginning the press conference. That

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Speaker 1: the President had a couple of nights ago to talk

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Speaker 1: to the country should have happened a long time. I

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Speaker 1: think that his key players, from Secretary Rubio to Secretary

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Speaker 1: Access to him and JD. Vans and the like, should

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Speaker 1: have been more direct, should have had one cohesive message

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Speaker 1: as to why we're there. We were getting messages that

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Speaker 1: we were there because Netanyahu was going to launch an

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Speaker 1: offensive and Evan was going to be upset and was

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Speaker 1: going to target our folks, which is what we got

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Speaker 1: from Secretary Rubio. Then we got something else from Secretary

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Speaker 1: Hexcess and that mixed messaging. The public does not like.

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Speaker 1: We see that in the polls. In addition, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: just messaging. We're feeling it in our pockets. The straight

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Speaker 1: up for mooth is an issue. We're seeing the increase

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Speaker 1: in the price of gasoline when we go to the

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Speaker 1: gas stations. This is this is affecting Americans directly, and

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Speaker 1: the uncertainty the market hates, as you know, Larry, that uncertainty.

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Speaker 1: I think that the polls would have at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day been very different had there been one

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Speaker 1: message and there wasn't this coyness going on behind the messaging. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that you'll have an American in this

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Speaker 1: country and abroad who won't be happy to see that

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Speaker 1: this terrorist nation is going to have new leadership and

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Speaker 1: it's no longer in existence. The problem is, Larry, is

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Speaker 1: a new leadership. What is happening here at the end

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be more of the same. These

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Speaker 1: are some of the questions that you're going to see, uh,

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Speaker 1: continue happening, and it's gonna hurt the president. The president

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Speaker 1: should just say flat out, we're gonna have regime change,

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna have these terrorists in charge. And I

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Speaker 1: think you have a much better poll result, but the

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Speaker 1: Republics are going to pay the price for the messaging

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Speaker 1: in November. It's unfortunate, but we're seeing it. We're seeing

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Speaker 1: it in the polling data. As it is, there's no

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Speaker 1: question about it, which is why I think you had

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Speaker 1: so much going on yesterday. You had Secretary Hexsets firing

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Speaker 1: General leftter general left to general. You have the president

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Speaker 1: firing the ag yesterday because he knows these poll numbers

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Speaker 1: are terrible and he wants to distract from the polls.

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Speaker 1: So I think this weekend he has to just refocus

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Speaker 1: on the messaging and ensuring Americans that we're not just

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Speaker 1: going to have another terrorist nation at the end of this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with everything you say. The messaging. Messaging

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Speaker 2: has been horrible, and I think the timing of this

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Speaker 2: was because he felt like he had to do it

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Speaker 2: right now, because of the midterm elections. He didn't want

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Speaker 2: to have this going on in the fall, and he

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Speaker 2: wanted to be able to get in there and wrap

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Speaker 2: it up quickly. Let's just say everything goes amazingly Well,

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Speaker 2: let's say we take out the regime. Let's say we

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Speaker 2: don't even have to pay for restitution that that is

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Speaker 2: all going to be Saudi Arabia and the Arab nations

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Speaker 2: that are going to play pay for that, and rebuild Iran,

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Speaker 2: and we eliminate that regime, and we eliminate this cancer

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Speaker 2: in the world and the mothership of all terrorism. And

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Speaker 2: then gas prices go back down, inflation is down. Things

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Speaker 2: are much better, maybe even wonderful come September, which is

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Speaker 2: what I think the administration is hoping for. Is that

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Speaker 2: too little, too late or will that make amends?

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Speaker 1: Well, you've got to remember, Larry, that the party in

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Speaker 1: charge of the White House, well ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 1: the time loose seats in the midterm elections by default.

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Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. Right, It's not as if

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Speaker 1: he things could have been great and he still would

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Speaker 1: have kept the majority in the midterms. What you're describing

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Speaker 1: would be the ideal situation for Republicans, But Let's remember

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Speaker 1: how does he do it? How does the president go

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Speaker 1: ahead and get the things done that you mentioned? Is

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Speaker 1: the president goes on TV and says I'm going to

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Speaker 1: bomb the civilian electrical plants. That's not going to bode

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Speaker 1: row with independence. It's just not Larry. He cannot go

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Speaker 1: and say that he's going to do the kind of

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Speaker 1: things we've seen Putin do in Ukraine. That's going to

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Speaker 1: hurt him. So it's how he does it. So ideally,

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Speaker 1: if everything he describe works, I think that the blow

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Speaker 1: is going to be lessened. I'm looking at I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at Mike Lawler in Rockland and Westchester. That's what I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at. You. You have about a little over a

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Speaker 1: dozen of Mike Lawlers around the country that determine the majorities.

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Speaker 1: And if the Republicans are to keep the majority, the

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Speaker 1: Mike Lawlers in the country have to win. And what

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Speaker 1: do I mean? I mean buplicing congress members who run

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Speaker 1: in Harris districts. How is Mike Lauda going to do

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Speaker 1: this November? How's this polling data? That's what's key? Uh.

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Speaker 1: Can of Republican like Mike Lawler, Michae Lawler win in

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Speaker 1: a Harris District in this midterm election and does a

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Speaker 1: polling show that, and I think that will determine how

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Speaker 1: big the majority will be for Democrats. The Democrats are

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Speaker 1: counting the number of seats are going to win in November,

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Speaker 1: and they're already measuring the drapes for Speaker Jeffreyes. The

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Speaker 1: question is by what margin they are They're just measuring

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Speaker 1: by what margin are they going to win? How is

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Speaker 1: Mike Laughter doing? And Mike Lawler needs the President to

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Speaker 1: stop saying that he's going to bomb electrical civilian electrical plans.

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Speaker 1: That's not going to do well for Mike. Mike, Mikeloler

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Speaker 1: will do well with a new regime that I ran,

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Speaker 1: Mike looland will do well if the country sees everything

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Speaker 1: you just said. Everything you just said, Mike Lawler will

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Speaker 1: do well. But if if the President is going to

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Speaker 1: talk about things like he did a couple of nights ago,

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Speaker 1: he's going to do to civilian plans, that's not going

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Speaker 1: to vote well for Independence and some of the Democrats

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Speaker 1: that these Republicans are going to need in November in

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Speaker 1: order to vote for them and keep the majority. So

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Speaker 1: you'll keep your eye on the Micrologo District. J C.

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Speaker 2: Polanco, political analyst and University of Mount Saint Vincent Assistant

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Speaker 2: professor and attorney.

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