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Speaker 1: That made it easier to confirm him. But you got

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Speaker 1: The problem was Rand Paul is on the committee and

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Speaker 2: I owned the word apologize. Haven't heard the word regret.

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Speaker 2: Not your cood or goodn't. So you're you're jolly well fine.

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Speaker 2: you to know that you supported the felonious violent attack

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Speaker 3: Sometimes this political theater, sometimes it's true differences. But what

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, this Department of Homeland Security that also includes

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Rand Paul was not going to vote for

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Speaker 1: like an eight precincts. There are areas that still remain dangerous.

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Speaker 1: In the Bronx, there's certain you know, I think parts

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Speaker 1: of Queen's, parts of Brooklyn, there's still some dangerous areas.

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Speaker 1: But the middle of Manhattan it's just as safe as ever.

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Speaker 1: It's really fine. But in the Bronx they got the

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Speaker 1: police Commissioner Tish on the stand and but they got

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Speaker 1: a right to complain. But it's not her fault. When

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Speaker 1: you got a shortage of cops. It's supposed to have

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Speaker 1: forty thousand, we got like thirty four thousand. You got

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Speaker 1: a skimp in some places. And it's not about discrimination,

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Speaker 1: but obviously you got to protect your business district you're

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Speaker 1: It's where everybody works. But she was on the hot

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Speaker 4: Shootings are down city wide. In the Bronx, they're up

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Speaker 4: thirty five points. I understand that a nice little So

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Speaker 4: it's safe to say that the progress related to shootings

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Speaker 2: Last year there were over one hundred viewer people shot

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Speaker 4: We've made progress last year, but it seems like we're

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Speaker 4: going backward. The numbers related to shooting victims and shooting

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Speaker 4: incidents and murder going up this year compared to last year.

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Speaker 4: That ye, those numbers that we cannot ignore. A record

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Speaker 4: break ser for gun violence, and I will.

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Speaker 2: Not have the work of the members of the New

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Speaker 2: York City Police Department mischaracterized.

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Speaker 1: Again, it's not her fault. There's a shortage of cops,

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Speaker 1: and mom, Donnie's going to keep that shortage going. We

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Speaker 1: need about forty thousand. I think we're at thirty four thousand,

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Speaker 1: and he's not going to hire a new Now. The

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Speaker 1: enough pace. Hey, you know, there's a big problem going

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Speaker 1: People don't drink as much as they used to. Can

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Speaker 1: you believe this? Yeah, restaurants are struggling. Americans are drinking less.

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Speaker 1: A lot of Americans just started drinking a lot less.

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Speaker 1: And the problem is younger generations, you know, under thirty five,

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Speaker 1: they're really not interested in alcohol. They don't drink much.

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Speaker 1: They can't stand wine, they don't drink it. You know,

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Speaker 1: But it's really affecting restaurants because that was a big

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Speaker 1: from food, only thirty percent from alcohol. A new gallopole

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Speaker 1: finds that in the US, how many adults drink fifty

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Speaker 1: four percent. That's a very low number, only fifty four percent.

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Speaker 1: So it's hurting restaurants. Also, it's killing happy hour. There's

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Speaker 1: People aren't drinking. The reasons well, increased awareness of health risks,

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Speaker 1: a generational shift. Younger people just aren't drinking. They aren't interested.

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Speaker 1: And about six percent of America now uses those injections,

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Speaker 1: those those zepic type things, And apparently with that you

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Speaker 1: drink a lot less, not just eat less, drink less.

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Speaker 1: Alcohol sales are slumping in every category. The restaurant industry

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Speaker 1: Casual find signing thirty one percent of operations reporting severe

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Speaker 1: declines in alcohol sales in twenty twenty six. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's in the liquor stores. You can imagine the

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Speaker 1: problems they're having. Anyway, we'll take some calls next. Eight

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Speaker 1: hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten