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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from dou Wor. Here again is

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Speaker 1: Larry Menti with the WOR Saturday Morning show, Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: Zora and Mamdani made the bold threat on the debate

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Speaker 1: stage that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net

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Speaker 1: Yahoo if he dared step foot in New York City.

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Speaker 1: A New York City councilwoman, Ina Wernikov is testing that

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Speaker 1: threat by inviting the prime minister to come to town.

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Speaker 1: Here's the councilwoman. It's great to talk to you. This

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Speaker 1: is the first time we've had you on the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad to finally meet you over the air.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about your idea when it comes to

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Speaker 1: net Yahoo.

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Speaker 2: Look, this radical Marxist Zora Mamdanison to be mayor of

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Speaker 2: New York City. He's very soon going to realize that

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Speaker 2: money for free buses doesn't grow on trees and that

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Speaker 2: he can't just arrest foreign diplomats. And I decided to

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Speaker 2: invite Bib Natanyahu. He is the sitting Prime Minister of Israel.

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Speaker 2: No matter whether people like him or not or like

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Speaker 2: his policies, he is elected democratically elected to be the

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Speaker 2: prime minister, and the mayor of New York City has

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Speaker 2: no authority or jurisdiction to arrest a sitting prime minister.

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Speaker 2: And so I wanted to give Zorn Mamdani a little

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Speaker 2: gift and invite Bib on his first day in office

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Speaker 2: and to show him that, you know, he can't just

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Speaker 2: do anything he feels like. And I think that, you know,

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Speaker 2: when Bib does come, we will see that a lot

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Speaker 2: of the things that Mamdani wants to do he just can't.

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Speaker 2: And we thought that with his free buses idea. Now

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Speaker 2: we're going to see it with Bibi Nataniaho and we're

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Speaker 2: going to see it with a lot of things. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited.

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Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to be exposed this early, but

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Speaker 1: he was with the free buses when Kathy Hochel said,

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Speaker 1: uh no, we can't do that. I wish he would

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Speaker 1: have said that during the campaign so we could have

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Speaker 1: been warned and it shown all the false promises. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about that in a second, though. I want to

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Speaker 1: get back to your invitation. Have you sent it and

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Speaker 1: if you haven't sent it yet, how do you plan

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Speaker 1: on sending it?

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Speaker 2: I absolutely sent it. It was sent and it was received,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not going to comment on whether or not

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Speaker 2: it was responded to, but I can tell you that

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Speaker 2: I am very optimistic that in the very near future

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Speaker 2: we will see bb in New York City. He will

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Speaker 2: be welcomed here with open arms. The Jewish community is

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Speaker 2: very excited to have him here. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: a very great showing of support for the Jewish community.

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Speaker 2: And you know, symbolically, the Jewish community and Israel and

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Speaker 2: America stands with Israel. New York City stands with Israel,

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Speaker 2: and no radicals is going to no radical is going

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Speaker 2: to change that.

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Speaker 1: You know. I respect you saying you didn't want to

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Speaker 1: share if you've gotten a response yet, but I don't

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Speaker 1: understand the reasoning. Why would you do that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think, look, I think we're going to see

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Speaker 2: the Time Minister here in New York. I can't tell

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Speaker 2: you once, but I think it's gonna happen. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be great.

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Speaker 1: That's great. So I'm gonna drop it from there. But

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Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that that means you've got some

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Speaker 1: kind of response, and that's that is wonderful. How do

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Speaker 1: you see this if it were to happen play out.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think he's gonna come to New York. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna welcome him. He's gonna meet with the Jewish community,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna meet with other leaders. Mayor Eric Adams is

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Speaker 2: actually planning to go to Israel this weekend, so he's

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Speaker 2: gonna be there. He's still the sitting mayor. And I

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Speaker 2: think that this radical minority is not gonna matter, and

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Speaker 2: we're gonna it's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: This is brilliant on your part. And let me tell

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Speaker 1: you why. I think you already know this, But let

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Speaker 1: me tell everybody that's listening as well. This is brilliant

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Speaker 1: on your part because it's going to expose him. It

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Speaker 1: will absolutely expose him. I think people forget about the

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Speaker 1: anti Semitic comments. Obviously did because they voted him into office.

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Speaker 1: People forget how dangerous he is when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the Youlish community. You're putting this right in his face.

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Speaker 1: He has to react somehow, and his.

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Speaker 2: Reaction he I think he already was exposed. He already reacted.

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Speaker 2: A reporter asked him, I think it was yesterday. We

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Speaker 2: actually posted it last night. They asked him about you

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Speaker 2: know a council member inviting him inviting the Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: to his inauguration, and his response was any foreign leaders

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Speaker 2: free to travel. So what happened to his campaign promise?

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Speaker 2: He has done this right, This was one of his

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Speaker 2: campaign promises. And don't think that it wasn't important to

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Speaker 2: his constituents who voted for him, because right as soon

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Speaker 2: as he got elected, he got a memo from the

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Speaker 2: DSA listing all the demands from the DSi And guess

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Speaker 2: what majority of those demands have to do with Israel?

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Speaker 2: What is the city mayor of New York City has

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Speaker 2: to do with Israel? You know this is he's gonna

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Speaker 2: be the mayor of New York City. He has to

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Speaker 2: govern the city. He has to think about policing, he

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Speaker 2: has to think about local issues. But he is so

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Speaker 2: hyper focused on Israel. And I think I think it's

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Speaker 2: going to really you know, we're going to see how

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Speaker 2: that's going to turn out for him. But I think

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Speaker 2: it's going to be embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: I think he's embarrassed already in one by one, everything

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Speaker 1: that he was promised is being knocked away. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think it was going to be this early. But free buses,

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Speaker 1: he can't do. He can't arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. All of

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Speaker 1: these things he said to get votes, he can't do,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to find out more of them as

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Speaker 1: we go along. Free childcare, all the free things he

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Speaker 1: be able to do. And I think I actually think

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Speaker 1: that's great for the city that he's not able to.

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Speaker 2: Do it in Yeah, And I mean that's also why,

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Speaker 2: you know, besides the fact that of course we want

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Speaker 2: to welcome the Prime Minister here, but that's also why

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Speaker 2: I did this, just to show that he you know,

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Speaker 2: kind of to calm the tensions. People have a lot

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Speaker 2: of anxiety about this guy becoming mayor of New York City,

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Speaker 2: especially the Jewish community. But I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: people who didn't vote for him and ran to the

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Speaker 2: poor to vote the other way. And I think this

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Speaker 2: is going to be a great testament to the fact

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Speaker 2: that he cannot accomplish at least half of the things

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Speaker 2: that he's promised. You know, he can't disproportionately tax white neighborhoods.

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Speaker 2: He can't completely defund and dismantle the police, he can't

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Speaker 2: completely control go through stores. You know, we don't want

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Speaker 2: this government overreach here. We don't want socialism here, and

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of pushback, and so

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Speaker 2: I'm actually very excited that he's not going to be

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Speaker 2: able to fulfill his agenda. And I'm excited to be

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Speaker 2: part of that pushback and I am not going to stop.

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Speaker 1: Good for you. You've already exposed him as a liar. You've

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Speaker 1: already been successful. The fact that he had to admit

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Speaker 1: that he can't arrest him. That's that's two things that

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Speaker 1: have come up, the free buses and arresting Benjamin Netnyahu.

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Speaker 1: We're already learning he can't do them. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: for a long list because I think everything he said

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Speaker 1: he was going to do will be horrible for the city.

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Speaker 1: So wonderful job. You're a hero. Thanks so much, counselwoman

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Speaker 1: for talking to us. Would love to have you back.

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Speaker 1: New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikoff. This has been a

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Speaker 1: podcast from wor