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This is Sid and

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Friends in the Morning from

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my friend 77 WABC. Alright

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822 on your Monday morning, been a great

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show already. Curtis Lee, where Rich Lowry would

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put this time aside every Monday

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for the man himself, Mr. Red Apple

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Media, amongst other things. Red Apple, everything,

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the host of course, 5pm every weekday

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afternoon, Kat and Cosby, 8am every Sunday

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morning, the Kat round table, most importantly,

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my dear, dear friend, the great John

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Katz and Matides. John, lots of places

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to go. Let's start with this. So

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I'm having this back and forth with

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Curtis this morning. I have no desire

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to run for office. I was listening, but

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listen, it will make a great debate. Right,

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so you said let's do it. Look at

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the popularity, Dominic and Anthony Wienau got. That's

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true, you're right. I mean they're really popular.

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I mean Anthony says maybe you

0:58

should be a two hour show. No,

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people don't listen to that. I gotta give them extra aspirin.

1:03

I don't want to need them to get a heart attack.

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They do yell quite a bit, which is exciting.

1:08

It's entertaining. Look, they both are emotional about the

1:10

way they feel and that's the way, hey, that's

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the way politics is supposed to be. And that's

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what we do between 5 o'clock and 6 o'clock.

1:17

You know we're beating, we're beating

1:19

Hannity three to one. Oh you're killing him,

1:21

killing him. It's a much better

1:24

show. But listen, we have a

1:26

lot of guests, we have Democrats, we have Republicans, you

1:28

know what we do. We argue

1:30

between 5 and 6 and

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then we hug each other. Right, that's it. Nobody

1:35

cares. I feel the same way, yeah.

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But the issue with me and Curtis becomes is

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that unlike Wienau and Dominic or some of your

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guests at 5 o'clock, I feel like Curtis and

1:43

I are in agreement with just about everything, just

1:45

about everything. Well maybe I'll jump in the middle

1:47

and moderate. I think you'll get us going. Either

1:50

we got Dominic to moderate. We'll see. We'll

1:52

make it up. It'll be fun.

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But when you ran for mayor, on a serious note, I would never

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do it. When you ran for mayor in 2000, I was like, I'm going to

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get you. Wasn't it hard,

2:02

John, they start to picket your personal life and

2:04

they throw everything out there in front of the

2:06

public? They went back to some

2:08

of my high school friends to look

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for things that I didn't disclose. They

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do. They check everything. They get

2:15

nasty. Sid, I don't want to say anything. You

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can't run from there. You sound like Danielle. I'm

2:19

not running from there. Trust me. I'm

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not your lawyer. I'm just an amateur lawyer. Sid, you

2:24

can't run from there. I'm not your lawyer. I'm just

2:26

an amateur lawyer. I'm not your lawyer. I'm just an

2:28

amateur lawyer. You can't run from

2:30

there. Not a good idea, right? It's not going

2:32

to happen. Listen, we'll have a lot of fun. Let's debate

2:34

it. Right. Well, a lot. I

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could debate this right now. We'll take an hour away from Mark.

2:39

He'll be mad at you and do

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a special debate because we're allowed to do

2:44

special debates. He may not get mad at

2:46

me because it's not Andrew Cuomo. It's me.

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But one of the things that was mentioned in the

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city this weekend that will not be a debate between

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me and Curtis, I promise you that, because we agree

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on this, on Stuart Varney's show, which

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you're going on this morning at 11 o'clock, John

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and Stuart Varney. Varney had the actor

3:02

Chas Parmenterion, a good friend of ours,

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Hugh Undy. And he

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told Chas that Mayor Eric Adams said

3:08

a couple days ago that this is

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the best New York we've seen in

3:13

12 years. And

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he said, Chas. He said it on my show. He

3:17

did on your show too? Yeah.

3:19

He was on. He said, Chas, what are you

3:21

thinking, Chas? He was on either Thursday or Friday

3:24

at 5.30. You know,

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after a while, you know, it goes into, you

3:28

know, you don't remember if it's Thursday or Friday.

3:31

But look, it's

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better. But it's not getting

3:36

there. But it's

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not there yet. It's

3:40

better in a lot of respects, but it's not there yet.

3:42

And we've got to do what we have to do to save

3:45

this city. It's better than our city. It's

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better than it was under de Blasio's, what you're saying.

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Oh, definitely was. Okay. But

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it's definitely better under de Blasio. Under

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de Blasio, I can't believe. Look, I

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like Bill de Blasio. You know that

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as a person. But

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you know what I see in my eyes when I

4:03

think of Bill? The

4:06

people running into Macy's and Bill de

4:08

Blasio telling the cops don't do anything.

4:11

I remember that. That was wrong. Yeah. That

4:14

was wrong. Yeah. And I

4:16

just can't forget that. By the way, I

4:18

was almost late for this show this morning.

4:21

Going through the Midtown Tunnel,

4:24

there must have been a hundred cops

4:26

and a hundred state troopers pulling

4:28

over every car they

4:31

selected. What is that all about? I don't know.

4:34

I don't know, but something

4:37

is rotten in – wait, wait,

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wait. It used to be rotten in Denmark.

4:41

Denmark. Something is rotten in New

4:43

York. New York City. You know, talking about traveling

4:45

through the Midtown Tunnel and coming into the city,

4:48

you know they're about six weeks away

4:50

from the beginning of congestion pricing, the

4:52

MJI has decided. I mean, this is

4:55

so wrong. You

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know what I said to all the politicians? I

4:59

said to all of them, I said to them,

5:01

wait for New York to make a comeback first.

5:04

Why do you want to suck their blood before

5:07

it makes a comeback? It's like we

5:09

have one nail in the grave and

5:11

they want to put a second nail

5:14

in. Let New York make a recovery.

5:16

I mean, we can make a recovery.

5:18

If we get this city clean of

5:21

crime – and I said

5:23

that to every politician in Albany. I said

5:25

it to the governor. I said it to,

5:27

you know, our speaker of the

5:30

assembly. I said,

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there's 3,300 violent criminals. Eight

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and a half million New Yorkers in New York

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City. Who do you want –

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who do you want to serve? The eight and a half

5:41

million New Yorkers or the 3,300? Now

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some of them are mentally ill. Some

5:47

of them are repeat criminals. Put

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the 3,300 away forever. You

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know, it used to be Rockefeller, one strike,

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two strikes, three strikes, you're out.

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All right, make it five. Make it ten. Enough,

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enough. And I would say this. Get

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6:36

you heard this story that Chaz talked about

6:38

watching, and I've seen the same thing on

6:41

the train and on the streets. Somebody defecating

6:43

right there on the street in the middle

6:45

of the day. And you got these animals

6:47

on our campus universities. They're not part of

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the 3,300 people you're talking about,

6:52

but they're terrorists. It's

6:54

not right. And I've said it on and

6:56

again. I said it over the weekend

6:58

to a few senators I had on, on

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Sunday morning. I've said it

7:03

to Rick Scott made big news over on

7:06

Sunday. I can't miss it. And the fact

7:09

is that when I came to

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the United States six

7:15

months old, when I was six years old,

7:17

I swore allegiance to the United States of

7:19

America. If these are migrants,

7:21

if these are green

7:24

card holders, well,

7:27

they're never gonna become citizens. And

7:29

if they hate the United States the way

7:31

they do, get

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out of here. We don't want you.

7:36

If you hate the United States, go

7:38

F yourself. No, I agree, but

7:41

I feel like some of these politicians hate the

7:43

United States. I mean, I gotta tell you, John,

7:45

all I hear from our politicians, including Eric, is

7:47

you can't do nothing about it. You

7:50

can't do something about it. Well, he says he can. He

7:52

can't get the students out of Columbia. I

7:55

agree with Eric on a lot of things

7:57

that you do. You're a

7:59

friend. Yeah, but this particular he

8:01

lost me now though. So you lost me

8:03

He's gonna lose a lot more people if

8:06

he doesn't put his foot down, right? It's

8:08

time Look, the election is

8:10

only can you make an argument? But

8:14

I've been down to Columbia University and the

8:16

mayor hasn't can you make a logical argument

8:18

for that? No, I can't okay except Don't

8:21

forget The White

8:24

House has a gun in his head I

8:27

May ask you this Would

8:30

care you think Donald Trump would care he's been indicted

8:32

four times Do you think if they put a gun

8:34

to his head he would still do what's right? Yeah,

8:36

I think he would still do his right right

8:38

what they're doing with him the

8:40

rule of law is Broken

8:44

and in the thing with the

8:46

Supreme Court the Supreme Court doesn't

8:48

have an army Supreme

8:50

Court doesn't have a Navy the Supreme

8:52

Court doesn't even have the FBI on

8:54

their side because they report to the

8:57

Department of Justice that reports to the

9:00

politicized Department of

9:02

Justice and It's

9:04

a problem Your friends with

9:06

Trump. I mean when I say friends you've called him over

9:08

the years. He's even asked you for I

9:11

know for 40 years 45 years, you know, is he a friend? He's

9:17

an acquaintance a good acquaintance for 50 years

9:19

45 years But

9:21

you know what a friend is at five

9:24

o'clock If

9:26

you have nothing to do you call him up

9:28

and say let's have dinner That's a

9:30

friend. That's a friend. So I can't say Donald Trump

9:32

is a friend hasn't done that. Okay Yeah, no, I

9:34

mean, do you know anybody who went to dinner with

9:36

on the phone call? Not

9:40

really no, okay, that's what I know of no

9:42

you're right about that So it's not that personal

9:44

but but you feel badly what he's going through

9:47

right now. No, absolutely I think I

9:49

think he would look Bill Barr who

9:51

was the Attorney General in the United

9:53

States Hated Donald Trump. He

9:56

left. He hated Donald

9:58

Trump. You know what Bill Barr? did

10:00

last week. He endorsed Trump. He

10:02

endorsed Trump. He says it

10:04

is far better to have Donald

10:06

Trump as president than to

10:09

have the extreme socialist, the leftist

10:11

and the socialist in charge of

10:13

the United States because the United

10:15

States, if they stay in

10:18

charge of it, will never make

10:20

276 to 300th year of the United

10:22

States of America. And several other US

10:24

senators have said the same thing to

10:26

me. And I love the United States

10:28

of America. You love it. And we

10:30

worry not about ourselves. We'll be okay.

10:32

We're tough enough to be okay. We

10:34

worry about our kids and grandkids to

10:36

come. You said it perfectly. So on

10:38

the way out, it was great that

10:40

Bill Barr endorsed Donald Trump. What

10:42

would make me really happy is if everybody

10:45

at Cindy Adams birthday party last

10:47

week would endorse Donald Trump. Well,

10:49

that was some birthday party. You

10:51

know, she invited 50 of

10:55

her best friends. You know, the first

10:57

time we got a problem, the

10:59

party I gave Cindy last year, she already

11:01

invited 14 of either 12 or

11:05

14 of her best friend. Oh, oh,

11:07

you know what that is? Oh, and

11:10

after that, it was in Cindy's column.

11:13

I got the phone calls. I got

11:15

the blame knows everybody. Yeah. And I

11:17

got the blame. This

11:20

year, she had it at her apartment

11:22

and she invited 50 of her best

11:24

friends. That's nice. And when I tried

11:26

to put in one more number 51,

11:30

she said absolutely not to do the line

11:32

of 50. She drew the line at

11:34

50. That's it. She is one tough gal at the

11:36

age of 94. She is one tough gal.

11:39

Let me tell you something. She's got her mind 110%.

11:41

Oh, yeah. She,

11:44

her show on Sunday is

11:46

terrific. She tells stories from

11:49

yesteryear that, that

11:51

these stories, let me tell you something,

11:54

these stories we're going to keep in archives

11:56

because they're, they're, they're stories that nobody has

11:58

ever heard before. I'm I was talking

12:00

to somebody last week and we both

12:02

agreed that she's basically been

12:04

the voice. I mean back

12:06

in the 50s and 60s and 70s, she

12:09

was New York. She was the voice. So

12:11

she's been that for decade after decade. I

12:13

love her. I love Cindy Adams. So

12:15

Bill O'Reilly will be on your

12:17

show this afternoon. He's on every

12:19

Monday. He's on every Monday 545

12:21

and he is one

12:24

tough guy. He is one smart guy. He

12:26

thinks things out. I don't agree with

12:28

him on everything sometimes. Me too.

12:31

He thinks things out and he says it the way

12:33

he feels. He's one tough Irish guy. Yes.

12:35

You'll be on with Stuart Barney coming up

12:38

at 11 o'clock and I would imagine that

12:40

you came on this show last week. There

12:42

was a big story in the New York

12:44

Post. Very exciting news for your company, Red

12:46

Apple, that now you're getting into these smaller

12:49

nuclear reactors. That's part of your

12:51

business now. That is the future,

12:53

Sid. You think so? No windmills.

12:55

Solar cells, solar cells and

12:57

windmills, forget about it.

12:59

They'll do 2%, 4% but they can't run the

13:01

country. Whoever

13:06

thinks that solar cells and windmills are going

13:08

to run the country, I'll sell you the

13:11

Brooklyn Bridge at a good price. That's AOC.

13:14

No. It's not threatening

13:16

to anybody. It's the same nuclear

13:18

reactors in the nuclear submarines, save

13:20

for 60 years. You're

13:25

taking these nuclear reactors and

13:27

converting them to land modules.

13:31

That's true. You know how big they are.

13:33

They're not that big. Right. They

13:35

can run a whole city for 67 years. How

13:38

long do you think it'll be before

13:40

those actually are in place? The first

13:42

one is scheduled to be installed by

13:44

2031. You're talking about another seven

13:46

years. Are you guys basically the only company right

13:48

now that's going to build those domestically? There's a

13:50

few companies that are out there trying to do

13:53

it and there's a race to

13:55

the top and I'm sure

13:57

some of them will go broke. Sure,

14:00

I'll be against you. They better. Well,

14:02

you are the man. Thank you for this. What a great

14:04

conversation. We covered a million things and you're going to talk

14:06

to one of my favorite guys, General Petraeus, later on today.

14:08

We're going to have a dinner for General Petraeus tonight representing

14:11

and he's a straight arrow. I like

14:13

him. He's a real

14:15

good guy and he

14:18

loves to Grant's Tomb. So

14:20

it's in honor of Ulysses

14:22

S. Grant and Grant's Tomb and

14:25

I kind of do a board

14:27

meeting with the Guardian Angels before

14:29

that. How about that? Forty-five

14:31

years those Guardian Angels have done a great job

14:33

in this city and you've done great by Curtis

14:35

and how much I love Curtis. I'm happy about

14:37

that and I love you very much. So thank

14:39

you for this great job. I'll be listening at

14:41

five o'clock this afternoon. Thank you. Kick

14:44

it out of the park. That's right, guys.

14:46

John Katz, Matiides, folks, Katz and Cosby, 5

14:49

p.m. every weekday afternoon and I got

14:51

to tell you, if you miss that

14:53

Sunday show too, Katz Roundtable, 8 a.m.

14:55

every Sunday morning, you're doing yourself an

14:57

injustice. You got to go Katz Roundtable,

14:59

8 a.m. Sunday morning and

15:01

then watch Maria Bartiromo on TV

15:03

afterwards. That's how it works.