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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show. Here's Larry Minty. Hello and welcome to Saturday Morning.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on today's show, New York Congressman Mike Lawler

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Speaker 2: explains why he confronted Congressman and House Minority Leader Hakim

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Speaker 2: Jefferies outside his office. You are my new hero. I

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Speaker 2: loved that you took the Continuing Resolution right to the

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Speaker 2: office of Hakeem Jeffries. And I know the Democrats are saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: that was self aggrandizing. I don't think that's what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: I think you wanted to show the world that all

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Speaker 2: it takes is for the Democrats to sign on and

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Speaker 2: the government opens back up.

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Speaker 3: Am I right, no question. I was showing two things.

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Speaker 3: Number One, there's the clean CR on the table. We

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Speaker 3: already passed it through the House. Leader Jeffries voted no

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Speaker 3: on that measure. He voted to shut the government down,

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Speaker 3: and that it could easily be passed by Chuck Schumer

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Speaker 3: and Senate Democrats along with the Republicans to open up

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Speaker 3: the government. And number two, since they continue to raise

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Speaker 3: the issue of the affordable care tax subsidies, I'm already

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Speaker 3: signed on to legislation to extend it by a year.

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Speaker 3: Join me, join me on this bill. There's fourteen Republicans

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Speaker 3: eleven Democrats that are already signed on. Let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Let's extend it by a year, give people more certainty,

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Speaker 3: and give us time to actually fix the fundamental problem,

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Speaker 3: which is Obamacare. Because if you know, since Obamacare took effect,

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Speaker 3: healthcare premiums have risen by over sixty percent nationwide. It

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Speaker 3: didn't solve the problem it says it was intended to solve,

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Speaker 3: which was affordability. So Democrats are saying the only way

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Speaker 3: it's affordable is with these tax subsidies. If that's the case,

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Speaker 3: then there's something fundamentally wrong with the system, is there not?

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Speaker 3: And so my point is, look great, let's buy a year.

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Speaker 3: I'm already on this bipartisan bill. And he refused. He

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Speaker 3: wouldn't do it. And he wouldn't do it because this

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Speaker 3: isn't about healthcare. This is about Democrats shutting the government

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Speaker 3: down so they can show their far left base that

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Speaker 3: they're standing up to Trump. That's it, that's all this

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Speaker 3: is about. That's why the government is shut down. That's

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Speaker 3: why our military is not going to get paid next week.

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Speaker 3: That's why women and children who rely on Snap and

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Speaker 3: Wick are not going to get the benefits that they need.

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Speaker 3: It's why border patrol agents are not going to be paid.

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Speaker 3: It is also they can put on a show and

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Speaker 3: show their far left base that they're standing up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you keep saying they, and I agree with you,

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Speaker 2: but I believe it's really one man. I think it's

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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer. I think he got scared back in March

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Speaker 2: when he signed on to the Continuing Resolution and AOC

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Speaker 2: and the left came after him. His poll numbers drop.

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Speaker 2: That's when all of the discussion started to happen about

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Speaker 2: AOC taking them on. I think that's heard him. I

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Speaker 2: think this is Chuck Schumer getting everybody else to follow

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Speaker 2: him so that they won't face the same backlash.

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Speaker 3: It is certainly the Schumer shut down, and I've called

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Speaker 3: it pet many times, but the realitience it's both of them.

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Speaker 3: They're both petrified. You have you know, I mean, Hakeem

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Speaker 3: couldn't even answer the question about whether or not he

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Speaker 3: endorses zoorron Mandani because they're betwixt and between. He knows

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Speaker 3: he's a disaster for New York, but he can't say

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Speaker 3: it and he can't say it because you know, you

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Speaker 3: have the potential of, you know, a a primary from

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Speaker 3: a New York City councilman who's close to Zorron Mandani uh.

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Speaker 3: And then of course you have AOC lurking against Schumer.

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Speaker 3: And that's what's driving this. And Schumer took a lot

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Speaker 3: of heat, as you pointed out, back in March, Jefferies, remember,

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Speaker 3: voted no and had his conference vote no back in March,

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Speaker 3: and they were yelling at Schumer, you got to fight,

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Speaker 3: you gotta fight. And Schumer did the right thing. Then

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Speaker 3: he kept the government open, passed the clean cr you know,

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Speaker 3: and the hypocrisy here is what I was calling out.

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Speaker 3: They previously said we need to keep the government funded

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Speaker 3: and open. Thirteen times under Joe Biden voted to keep

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Speaker 3: the government open with clean crs. I voted every single

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Speaker 3: time to do it. Why because shutting down the government

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Speaker 3: is idiotic and it doesn't serve the American people. And

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Speaker 3: so I pushed back when Republicans have tried to do it,

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Speaker 3: and I'm pushing back now when Democrats are doing it.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Zura, mom, Donnie, Let's talk about him for

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Speaker 2: a second, because he put out a which I thought

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Speaker 2: was a disqualifying statement. On the anniversary of October seventh,

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Speaker 2: and a new poll was out by Quinnipiac that shows

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Speaker 2: he stayed exactly the same. Curtis Lee, what has stayed

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Speaker 2: exactly the same. Andrew Cuomo has gained ten points. I

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Speaker 2: know this is a tough thing to ask for. I

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Speaker 2: love the guy, I know him, and but is it

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Speaker 2: time for Curtis Lee to of endorse Cuomo and back

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Speaker 2: out of this thing?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think ultimately the only way we're going to

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Speaker 3: defeat Zron Mondani is if it's a one on one race,

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Speaker 3: and I think between Andrew and Curtis, they have to

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Speaker 3: look at the polling, they have to look in their

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Speaker 3: hearts and do what is right by the city. And

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Speaker 3: if the pathway is not there for either one of them,

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Speaker 3: they need to get out of the way.

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Speaker 1: This is.

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Speaker 3: There's too much at stake here. This is not a joke.

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Speaker 3: This is not about party politics. This is about ensuring

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Speaker 3: that Zooran Mondani and a baud socialist who espouses some

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Speaker 3: of the most insane policies, including defunding the police, shutting

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Speaker 3: down prisons, legalizing prostitution, freezing the rent, pre busting government

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Speaker 3: run grocery stores, raising taxes by nine billion dollars on

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Speaker 3: an annual basis. These policies will destroy New York City,

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Speaker 3: it will cripple New York State, and it'll be disaster

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Speaker 3: for the country. And so to me, this is about country,

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Speaker 3: this is about the state and the city that we love.

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Speaker 3: It's not about party politics. And so they're going to

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Speaker 3: have to really look and make a determination and do

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Speaker 3: what is right by the people. If there's not a pathway,

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Speaker 3: then you need to get out.

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Speaker 2: Representative Mike Lawler my new hero for what he did

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Speaker 2: this week representing New York seventeenth District. Sarah, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much and look forward to talking to you again.

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Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate it.

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