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Speaker 1: Happy New Year from all of us at Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 1: It is twenty twenty six. Where did twenty twenty five go?

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Speaker 1: It's like unbelievable. Just went by like light speed. And

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Speaker 1: I want to bring in our first guest with us

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Speaker 1: from the Warrior Ranch Foundation. But I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: say that this is a very crucial year. If the

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Speaker 1: Dems take back the House, it's going to be chaos

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Speaker 1: hundred percent convinced of that. I'm in commercial real estate

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Speaker 1: and building for almost forty years, and I've been all

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Speaker 1: over the country with Real America's Voice News of Reinvestment

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Speaker 1: in America. Just like Trump's first term, in the second

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's in time for the midterms.

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Speaker 1: Early voting starts in ten months, but we're going to

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Speaker 1: get to that a little bit later in the show.

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Speaker 1: I want to bring on our first guest, Daniel Altebrando.

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Speaker 1: She's the media specialist Warrior Ranch Foundation, and Eileen Shanahan,

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Speaker 1: founded and president of Warrior Ranch Foundation. Welcome to the show, ladies.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Happy New Year. So you're right here

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Speaker 1: on Long Island. I'm on Long Island. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: It's really great. I've followed your organization over the years.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about what the Warrior Ranch Foundation is, what's

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Speaker 1: your mission statement and what's going on?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Well, again, once again, thank you for having us. Throughhorse

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Speaker 2: Interaction Therapy, Warrior Ranch Foundation provides a safe haven of

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Speaker 2: health and willing for veterans, first responders and horses in need.

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Speaker 2: And it's been working. We to date, we have served

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Speaker 2: over five hundred veterans and first responders right here on

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's incredible. What was the inspiration Eileen, you other

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Speaker 2: David, It's really simple. I love my country and I

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Speaker 2: love horses. I come from a family of military. I myself,

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Speaker 2: I'm a civilian, but I have Marines, Navy, Army, firefighters,

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Speaker 2: have been rescuing horses and dogs for many years, and Warrior,

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Speaker 2: I've always been taught to give back to the country.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I have a similar past. I was in

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Speaker 1: closest friends in nine to eleven, and I remain active

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Speaker 1: and I started a veterans group. We'd go to Ward

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Speaker 1: Tell us, Danielle, why don't you tell us a little

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Speaker 5: Really, the fascinating thing about it, excuse me, is that

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Speaker 5: takes place. But not only that, And Aileen's created a

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Speaker 1: How many people are involved with the organization. How is

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Speaker 1: And is it national?

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Speaker 2: And it has grown because of the support of the community.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely will, and I know there's a lot

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Speaker 2: And that's what we invoke on our participants. It's like,

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Speaker 2: That's the saying that we use with the horses, and

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you're aware of it's a twofold mission.

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Speaker 2: We rescue horses too, so that is enticing for our

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Speaker 1: Well, that's great, Danielle. We have less than a minute.

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Speaker 1: Where can people get involved? Follow you go online? Socials

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Speaker 5: You can also see we put together a documentary that

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Speaker 2: It addresses pts. It helps people to understand.

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Speaker 5: It helps you to understand about the horse and to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you on Insta or Facebook?

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Speaker 1: Wonderful Warrior films Yeah, and Warrior films right, all right? Everybody.

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Speaker 1: Warriorfilms dot org.

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Speaker 2: Or Warrior Ranch Foundation dot Org is the foundation, but

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Speaker 2: Warrior Films did the documentary and that is on our

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Speaker 1: Everybody, go check it out right now, Eileen and Danielle.

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Speaker 1: I want to wish you a very happy New Year

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Speaker 1: and we'll have you back. Maybe we'll come out and

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Speaker 1: check it, maybe bring some camerace or something.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to hold you to that. David. I'm

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Speaker 2: holding you to it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much having you Yes, you too, you too, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I want to bring you a message from Birch Gold

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Speaker 1: now and when we come back, I have a great

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Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. As countries have walked away in.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody, Happy new year. I'm David Zier. You're

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Speaker 1: watching Breaking Point. It's going to be a great year,

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Speaker 1: And I want to bring on a new friend, Patriot.

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Speaker 1: I met him at New Media Week at the Pentagon.

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Speaker 1: He's been around for a long time, worked with special operators,

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Speaker 1: Todd Wood El Toddwood from CDM DOT Press.

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Speaker 4: How are you, sir, A great to be back, love

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's my honor to have you back on.

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Speaker 1: So that leads to another question because I felt like,

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Speaker 7: And yes, I hope there's accountability for those people, and

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Speaker 7: Serving extremely You know, when I was at the Air

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Speaker 7: The Navy has some serious issues and we have to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and Trump signed the Defense Acquisition Executive or

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Speaker 4: These going to be critical, They are going to be critical.

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Speaker 1: right back with more. Don't change your channel. A Happy

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Speaker 1: new Year to everybody across America. This is David Zer.

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Speaker 1: You're watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. I'm

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Speaker 1: very excited about twenty twenty six. I'm not so sure

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Speaker 1: a lot of good things are going to happen with

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Speaker 1: the economy, and maybe New York will get a new governor.

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Speaker 1: And here to discuss that is Gubernatorio, candidate for New

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Speaker 1: York State governor and the current NASA County Executive, Bruce Blakeman.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Happy new Year, David, thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Bruce. So great to have you on.

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Speaker 1: I was at the White House a week and a

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Speaker 1: half ago or so when I found out that a

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Speaker 1: lease was dropping out, and I know you know you

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Speaker 1: were buying ad time at that time. Are you relatively

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Speaker 1: confident that you were going to be the candidate for governor?

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Speaker 8: Well, I always felt very confident that I would be

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Speaker 8: the Republican and Conservative Party candidate for governor. And I'm

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Speaker 8: also very confident that I will be the next governor

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Speaker 8: of the State of New York because New York State

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Speaker 8: is in the.

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Speaker 3: State of shambles.

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Speaker 8: Governor Hulkell has been a miserable failure for people of

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Speaker 8: the states.

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Speaker 3: So we have a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 8: I've got a great track record with respect to managing

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Speaker 8: a large government organization and doing it efficiently and making

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Speaker 8: communities safe. My county is the safest county in America,

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Speaker 8: and I'm on the border of New York City, so

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Speaker 8: i know how to get it done. And I will

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Speaker 8: manage New York State in a way that people will

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Speaker 8: be proud to be New Yorkers again and they'll be

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Speaker 8: happy once again.

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Speaker 3: Right now they're miserable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nasa County is a great place to live.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm in Suffolk County, which isn't so bad here on

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Speaker 1: Long Island to Red Counties, but you know, Nassau County

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Speaker 1: has great parks, You've got great services, You've got great townships,

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Speaker 1: Oyster Bay, and there's so many things to do for

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Speaker 1: and marinas and beaches, I mean, it's a really wonderful

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Speaker 1: place to grow up. But this is a statewide race.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of work to do, not that much

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Speaker 1: time to do it in right, So it's right around

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Speaker 1: the corner here. Ten months, eleven months goes by really fast.

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Speaker 1: How are you going to approach this race?

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Speaker 8: Well, I'm operating on all cylinders right now, pedal to

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Speaker 8: the metal. I've been all around the state in the

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Speaker 8: last few weeks, and I have a trip to Buffalo Saturday,

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Speaker 8: and I'm going to be working really, really hard and

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Speaker 8: making sure that I get my message across to the

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Speaker 8: people in the state of New York. I just got

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Speaker 8: back from Florida, not to play golf down there, not

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Speaker 8: to lay out by the pool. I was there working

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Speaker 8: all the time raising money because to run in a

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Speaker 8: race like New York race for governor against Kathy Hochel,

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Speaker 8: and the amount of money that she's been able to

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Speaker 8: amass from people that she is rewarded with contracts in

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Speaker 8: this state is just over the top. I have to

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Speaker 8: raise that money too, and I'm going to raise it

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Speaker 8: to make sure that we get our message across and

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Speaker 8: that we're able to tell people the real story about

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Speaker 8: what's going on in New York the fact that hundreds

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Speaker 8: of thousands of people are leaving. We're the most over

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Speaker 8: taxed state in America. We're the most overregulated state in America.

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Speaker 8: And that's why people are leaving in droves and businesses

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Speaker 8: are leaving our state.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Kathy Local has got a war chest right,

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Speaker 1: probably approaching eighteen million dollars or something like that, and

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Speaker 1: the machine. Right, You've got so much going on in

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Speaker 1: New York State here. But New York has a lot

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Speaker 1: of problems.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 1: Mooney at Moody Analytics two months ago said that New

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Speaker 1: York State is currently doing as poorly as twenty two

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Speaker 1: other states in the country that are considered recessionary, and

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Speaker 1: it could get worse. You know, AI jobs are going

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Speaker 1: to come, maybe there'll be less employment for startup jobs

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Speaker 1: and other financial sector like Wall Street jobs have been

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Speaker 1: hemorrhaging in New York City. What's the solution to bring

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Speaker 1: back the economy in New York State.

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, one of the big issues, and maybe

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Speaker 8: the biggest issue right now, is affordability. And there's two

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Speaker 8: ways to approach it. You can approach affordability with big

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Speaker 8: government programs that give handouts to people, and they don't

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Speaker 8: make them any more prosperous. They don't create a future

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Speaker 8: for their families. Or you can create economic development and

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Speaker 8: job prosperity. And that's what I want to do. I've

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Speaker 8: done it here in Nasau County. I can do it statewide.

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Speaker 8: Nasau County is larger than eight to ten states in

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Speaker 8: the United States. Our gross domestic product is larger than

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Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty six nations in the United Nations.

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Speaker 8: I know how to run a big organization to do

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Speaker 8: it efficiently. I haven't raised taxes in four years, and

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Speaker 8: I know that the tax burden makes our state less affordable.

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Speaker 8: So we have to reduce the tax burden. We've got

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Speaker 8: to invite businesses into our state. We've got to cut regulations.

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Speaker 8: We've got to produce cheap energy. Those are the things

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Speaker 8: that will produce a more affordable state and a more

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Speaker 8: prosperous state for all of our families that live here,

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Speaker 8: so they don't live paycheck to paycheck, so people can

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Speaker 8: live a comfortable life and not only be able to

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Speaker 8: pay for the necessities of life, but also some of

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Speaker 8: the luxuries in life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very big AI facilities proposed upstate New York. They're

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Speaker 1: going to need almost ten thousand megawatts of power alone.

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Speaker 1: And Governor Jolka wants to end natural gas for construction

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Speaker 1: for any buildings under eight stories. And Indian Point is

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Speaker 1: offline our nuclear power plant here in New York. Where

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Speaker 1: is she expecting to get all this energy from and

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Speaker 1: what will you do to create that energy?

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Speaker 8: Well, it's not from ocean wind farms, which is probably

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Speaker 8: the most expensive form of energy there is. It's amazingly inefficient.

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Speaker 8: It's a pipe dream, it's a green energy scam, and

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Speaker 8: I will end that on day one. What we need

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Speaker 8: to do is we need to start opening up other

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Speaker 8: sources of energy, such as fracking on the southern tier

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Speaker 8: of New York. You know what's really amazing, David, is

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Speaker 8: as I drive along the Southern Tier and I go

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Speaker 8: over the border, just over the border in Pennsylvania, people

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Speaker 8: are driving around in brand new Cadillacs. On the New

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Speaker 8: York side of the border, they're in rusted out, twenty

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Speaker 8: five year old pickup trucks. We need to create prosperity

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Speaker 8: for New Yorkers, and that means cheap energy, That means

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Speaker 8: being able to exploit the natural resources that we have

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Speaker 8: and make sure that we have different alternative energy sources

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Speaker 8: clean coal, natural gas, fuscle fuels, and I have no

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Speaker 8: problem mixing that in with wind turbine energy, not in

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Speaker 8: the ocean, but in other places. I have no problem

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Speaker 8: looking at some of the new technology with the many

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Speaker 8: nuclear facilities that they have now they're exploring throughout the

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Speaker 8: United States and they're considering in many areas. Think about

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Speaker 8: an aircraft carrier, how much energy that needs. They have

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Speaker 8: small nuclear reactors on them, and they are completely safe

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Speaker 8: and they wouldn't expose communities to any great danger.

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Speaker 3: They could be.

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Speaker 8: Situated in places that were rural, but they could produce

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Speaker 8: a tremendous amount of energy. Yeah, we have to be

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Speaker 8: open to all forms of energy sources because with AI

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Speaker 8: we're going to need that. And by the way, hucals

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Speaker 8: planned to go all electric by two thousand and thirty

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Speaker 8: is just a pipe dream.

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Speaker 3: It's never going to happen, and it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and natural gas meets the Clean Energy Standard for

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Speaker 1: twenty fifty and beyond. And these SMRs, these nuclear reactors,

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Speaker 1: you're right on. They're from one to thirty megawatch, where

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Speaker 1: your average nuclear path plants from three hundred to nine

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Speaker 1: hundred megawatch. These things are the answer going forward. We're

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Speaker 1: only four or five years out from that. I think

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Speaker 1: New York should make some plans for that, especially for industry.

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Speaker 1: I have one more question. I'll give you the floor.

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Speaker 1: We have about two and a half minutes left the

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Speaker 1: green light law. Right, my daughter had to give five

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Speaker 1: forms of ID to get her permit. You could just

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Speaker 1: walk online in New York State now with no proof

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Speaker 1: that you're a citizen and get a driver's license. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: federal court struck down DOJ challenge to the green light law.

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Speaker 1: What can we do to fix that?

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Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you what happened here in my county.

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Speaker 8: We had a situation where there was a larceny, a

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Speaker 8: very large larceny at a jewelry store. We did a

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Speaker 8: very thorough investigation, and because of our relationship with international

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Speaker 8: law enforcement, you know, I have the tenth largest municipal

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Speaker 8: police department in the United States, we were able to

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Speaker 8: zero in on the perpetrator and we eventually arrested the perpetrator.

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Speaker 8: Think about this. He was of Romanian nationality carrying an

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Speaker 8: Irish passport who came to the United States, through the

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Speaker 8: southern border into Arizona, made his way to New York

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Speaker 8: and guess what we found on him the New York

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Speaker 8: State drivers New York State issued driver's license without a

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Speaker 8: background check, without fingerprints, and all New York State would

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Speaker 8: have had to done is do a background check, a

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Speaker 8: warrant check. There were warrants out for this guy in

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Speaker 8: seven or eight different nations. He was part of an

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Speaker 8: international theft ring. We need to get serious about making

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Speaker 8: sure that the government identification that we give out is

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Speaker 8: given to people who have been thoroughly vetted.

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Speaker 3: So I'm telling you right now as governor, I won't.

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Speaker 8: Tolerate issuing willy nilly government ID to people who aren't

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Speaker 8: properly vetted and don't have legal status in this country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Governor Hokeel, this isn't a Republican Democrat issue for

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Speaker 1: New Yorkers anymore. We need help here in New York.

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Speaker 1: We're hamorrhaging the good people, the small business owners toanessos

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Speaker 1: and we've got a really left New York State legislature.

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Speaker 1: Tell Reviewer is where they can follow you. And I

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Speaker 1: wanted to wish you a happy New Year, and thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for coming on the show. I'm very grateful.

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Speaker 3: Lakeman for New York dot Com. That's it. You'll see

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Speaker 3: my website.

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Speaker 8: Please come on visit us if you can donate, we

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Speaker 8: would love to get you involved emotionally in our campaign financially.

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Speaker 8: In our campaign, we will save New York. To date,

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Speaker 8: we will put New Yorkers first. We will make New

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Speaker 8: Yorkers happy again, and we will espouse American values that

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Speaker 8: built the greatest economy in the world. And we will

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Speaker 8: not let people like Mandami and Hokl destroy capitalism in

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Speaker 8: the great state.

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Speaker 3: Of New York.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's really well said, Bruce. Happy New Year

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Speaker 1: again to you and your family, and we'll catch up soon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much, everybody. Well be right back.

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Speaker 1: Where does the time go? Happy New Year, everybody. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe that year flew by. Twenty twenty five an

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Speaker 1: exciting year. The country is on the rebound and on

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Speaker 1: the mend. And last week I pressed the Democrats and

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Speaker 1: the House Ways and Means Committee at Capitol Hill about

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Speaker 1: you know, this is really about interest rates. You don't

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Speaker 1: need all these subsidies, right if you can get interest

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Speaker 1: rates down to three and four percent again, somehow. But

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the midterms. I have the

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Speaker 1: editor in chief of the Washington Examiner, and my honor

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Speaker 1: that he's here with us. You go, Gordon, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show.

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Speaker 9: Thanks very much for having me. Glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thank you again. And this's so much going on.

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Speaker 1: The GOP only has a seven point lead right in Congress,

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Speaker 1: a seven seat lead. They could lose it very easily. Right,

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Speaker 1: there's some vacancy. The Democrats aren't veiled this American Affordability

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Speaker 1: Act last week. I was on Capitol Hill for it

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Speaker 1: and I got to ask them questions some things. I

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Speaker 1: think they're centering themselves a little bit because they don't

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Speaker 1: want to sound like, you know, crazies, and so they

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Speaker 1: can win the House back right, tell us about the

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Speaker 1: American Affordability Act.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, the Democrats have clearly decided affordability is there

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Speaker 9: is there is their theme because they are reading they've

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Speaker 9: read the polls, and they see how it works. It

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Speaker 9: keeps on coming top of voter priorities. And the odd

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Speaker 9: thing is sometimes it'll be inflation is top, and then

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Speaker 9: the economy is second, and sometimes the economy is top

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Speaker 9: and inflation is second. But it's really all the same

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Speaker 9: thing if you appeal and the Democrats are recognizing this

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Speaker 9: to people's pocketbooks. If they feel that things are getting

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Speaker 9: better for them, then they're going to be happy. If

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Speaker 9: they don't feel it's getting better for them, they're not

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Speaker 9: going to be as happy. Now it's kind of a

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Speaker 9: race against time for President Trump on this. I agree.

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Speaker 9: He came into office and inflation was at three percent.

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Speaker 9: It had been at an appalling nine point one percent

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Speaker 9: under Joe Biden back in twenty twenty two. And the

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Speaker 9: problem for President Trump is that when the rate of

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Speaker 9: inflation comes down, it doesn't mean the prices come down.

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Speaker 9: It just means the rate of price increases slows down.

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Speaker 9: So last month there was inflation was two point seven percent,

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Speaker 9: but there was the numbers were slightly iffy because of

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Speaker 9: the shutdown and some of it. We don't know what's

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Speaker 9: going to happen, but it's real wages, real incomes have

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Speaker 9: been increasing faster than inflation. And the thing that is

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Speaker 9: going to help President Trump if it happens, is that

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Speaker 9: that faster pace of wage and income growth exceeds inflation

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Speaker 9: and people start to feel things getting better. And there

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Speaker 9: was good news today in that the GDP, the economy

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Speaker 9: was revealed as a growing at four point three percent,

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Speaker 9: which is a pretty pretty good clique. It's really good

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Speaker 9: stuff for President Trump if it can be sustained. And

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Speaker 9: that's the big question. I think that as much deregulation

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Speaker 9: as Trump can manage, you know, in the meantime to

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Speaker 9: speed up the economy. But here's one thing that I

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Speaker 9: think that President Trump has not got rights so far,

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Speaker 9: and that is his mixed messages on affordability. He's called

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Speaker 9: it a hoax too many times, and you can't and

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Speaker 9: this is the problem that but I mean, Biden tried

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Speaker 9: that it wasn't really just everybody was feeling it. You

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Speaker 9: can't actually keep telling people that they're not suffering when

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Speaker 9: they're feeling they are suffering. President has actually addressed in affordability,

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Speaker 9: but I think that he would do himself a big

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Speaker 9: favor by dropping the idea that this is somehow, somehow.

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Speaker 1: So I'm worried that I know things are going to

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Speaker 1: take off in nineteen trillion in reinvestment. I know he's

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Speaker 1: doing great things. No tax on tips, over time, social Security,

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Speaker 1: all these things are going to happen, Is it in

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Speaker 1: time for early voting in September? You know, and the

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Speaker 1: Dems are going to be obstinate because they know this

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Speaker 1: American Affordability Act with middle class tax incentives and first

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Speaker 1: time buyer incentives is going to be their platform for

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Speaker 1: the fall. Is there is there a chance that we

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Speaker 1: get some traction or Trump gets some traction in the

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Speaker 1: next two quarters to convince the people, because you can't

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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, look, I think that there will be some traction.

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Speaker 9: But you know, I think that Republicans and Conservatives need

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Speaker 9: to recognize that the historically they're facing some serious headwinds.

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Speaker 9: You know, the average numbers of peace that gets that

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Speaker 9: flip is you know, like over the course of the

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Speaker 9: past fifty years is you know, something like thirty seats

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Speaker 9: that the Republicans don't have that kind of margin. But

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Speaker 9: you know that the the the losses, if there are losses,

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Speaker 9: might be limited. But it's I think I think one

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Speaker 9: shouldn't be kind of you know, like saying everything's everything's grand.

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Speaker 9: It's it's not grand. I got a feeling that this,

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Speaker 9: you know, twenty twenty six does not currently look like

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Speaker 9: a great year for the Republicans, and one does have

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Speaker 9: to hope that the that the economy kicks in faster,

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Speaker 9: that the four point three percent growth that we've seen

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Speaker 9: just in the last month kicks in and people start

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Speaker 9: to say, oh, yes, we remember what it was like

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Speaker 9: with great growth in the Trump in Trump's first term

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Speaker 9: of office. We also remember what it was like, how

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Speaker 9: bad it was under Biden. We know that the Democrats

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Speaker 9: talk a good game maybe, but actually they deliver rising prices.

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Speaker 9: And here's another thing, if I mean just sure about

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Speaker 9: the Democrats, is that their solution on affordability is to

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Speaker 9: subsidize and spend more, in other words, inject more money

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Speaker 9: into the economy, for example with the Obamacare subsidies. What

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Speaker 9: they're doing there is a stimulating demand without allowing an

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Speaker 9: increase in supply that pushes prices high. And it's ironic

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Speaker 9: that because people feel that the economy is not working

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Speaker 9: for them. And that's because basically of high spending left

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Speaker 9: wing policies, more and more of them are turning towards socialism.

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Speaker 9: When you see that with the incoming mayor of New York.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the inflation Reduction Act is you know, just

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Speaker 1: like what the American Affordability Act is, right, it's more subsidies,

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Speaker 1: low income housing, all kinds of stuff. But what I

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Speaker 1: think is going to happen this year. I have about

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Speaker 1: forty years in commercial real estate building, and I think

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Speaker 1: that and it's logical, right, and everybody knows it when

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Speaker 1: they think about it. People who are locked in at

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Speaker 1: two and three percent on their mortgages, who have not

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Speaker 1: sold and there's been an inventory crisis, are going to

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Speaker 1: start to put their houses on the market this year

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Speaker 1: and move up maybe some upward mobility because mortgages will

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Speaker 1: be more attainable, which will open up housing inventory for

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Speaker 1: some younger people. And if you can get a mortgage

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Speaker 1: at four and a half percent, five percent by July August,

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Speaker 1: will that be realized? Her early vote against September. And

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say the same thing again. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, is it too much? Is it

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Speaker 1: too little? Too late? Right?

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Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah, Look, you know that's the whatever the sixty

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Speaker 9: four million dollar question. It every little bit helps if

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Speaker 9: interest rates come down, as you say, all of those

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Speaker 9: people who've wanted to, you know, to buy their first

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Speaker 9: able to make it, are going to feel better about it.

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Speaker 9: And the truth is that the Trump and Republican policies

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Speaker 9: are just so much better for this. I mean, one

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Speaker 9: of the things that we have been advocating at the

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Speaker 9: Washington Examiner is the reform of the Knieper and permitting

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Speaker 9: so that people can build more, that more houses can

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Speaker 9: be built without them being tripped up by environmental activists

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Speaker 9: and sued and hobbled into just getting bogged down. The

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Speaker 9: reason that there's high housing prices is not just because

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Speaker 9: of interest rates. It's also because there's not enough houses

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Speaker 9: being built. There's all sorts of ways to which we

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Speaker 9: should go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, but a lot of the costs are state

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Speaker 1: in local and county taxes ten thousand a year, five

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Speaker 1: thousand for homeowners insurance whenever you wake up your fifteen

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars before even pay your mortgage. And a lot

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Speaker 1: of the these permits are home rule issues for the

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Speaker 1: local townships. So how is how is the federal government

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Speaker 1: going to address that? We have two minutes. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you the last word.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know, I look that there's a lot

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Speaker 9: as you say, which is local, but there's also you know,

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Speaker 9: there's also neeper and you know, which is in the

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Speaker 9: sort of environmental protection which and you know, obviously there

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Speaker 9: has to be a will on the part of the

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Speaker 9: of the local government. But you know, it's we need

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Speaker 9: we need low interest rates, we need less government spending,

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Speaker 9: we need more house building. You know, people have to

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Speaker 9: feel that the economy works for them. And I think

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Speaker 9: that that's one of the real grave dangers that has

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Speaker 9: been posed, is that you know, people in my age group,

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Speaker 9: baby boomers, you know, bought their houses on low interest rates.

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Speaker 9: They're not moving and we need it. It needs to

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Speaker 9: be opened up so young people can participate in this

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Speaker 9: in the me they can feel it's working for them

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Speaker 9: and it stops them from turning to the kind of

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Speaker 1: Do I saw the thirteen last polls in Real Clear

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Speaker 1: Politics aggregate has the Democrats winning by four in September.

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Speaker 1: Do you see the possibility of the GOP pulling it out?

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Speaker 1: They lost forty one seats in twenty eighteen, but they

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Speaker 9: I looks a possibility which is one of the reasons

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Speaker 9: why politics is so interesting. It's like sport. You actually

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Speaker 9: don't know what the result's going to be, but you

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Speaker 9: have to say that it's I would say it's more

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Speaker 9: likely that they will lose the House than that they

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Speaker 9: will retain it. I'm sorry to be the harbinger, but

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Speaker 9: you know that's what I would bet if I were

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Speaker 9: betting my last dollar.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, I love the Examiner. Tell reviewers where they

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Speaker 1: can follow the Washington Examiner. And you've got great writers

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Speaker 1: and your ascension has been something to watch, so I

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Speaker 9: Thank you very much. Indeed, ya viewers. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: Well, Hugo, I want to wish you a happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: When we have more time, I'd love to talk about

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Speaker 1: other issues with you. Sorry, I have a heart out,

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Speaker 1: but grateful you came on. Thank you for the information.

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Speaker 9: Thanks very much, and happy to ya to you.

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Speaker 1: Yes you too, sir. Thank you everybody for watching Break

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Speaker 1: a Point. It's going to be a great year right.

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Speaker 1: The economy is on the rebound, growing at four point

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Speaker 1: three percent. You just heard it from Hugo Gordon of

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Speaker 1: the Washington Examiner. Thanks for watching, I'll see you next

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