Episode 4540： The Funeral For Bernie Kerik
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Summary
This episode is brought to you by LaCie, a Catholic radio station in New York City. It's the day after the mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral where the bodies of two men were laid to rest. Their names have not been publicly released, but we know that one of them was Bernie Carrick.
Transcript
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Here comes an additional honor guard down right now.
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A lot of people have not been asked me to do something that's still a diamond or anything,
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We're looking at this risk of the fact and that's what you look at.
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Can we go to, and let's keep the shot, can we go to David Zier?
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David Zier is on the riser across the street with our continual coverage of this.
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Okay, as soon as we get David Zier up, we'll get a report from David Zier.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
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The grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lord, God, the Father, and the fellowship
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of the Holy Spirit be with you all, and with you as a spirit.
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The waters of the sacrament of baptism, earth, die with Christ, and rose with him to be life.
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They're asking you to call into the phone number?
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I'm going to be found in your head rolls on page 430.
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Just heard the prayers of Cardinal Dolan as the bodies received at St. Patrick's Cathedral
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at the entrance. Traditional Catholic service. Prayers are said over the remains. Surrounded
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by family and other close friends and colleagues. Of course, Bernie Carrick had a tremendous list
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of friends. Last night, they had a Christian wake at St. John's Basilica in Patterson, New
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Jersey. Amazing graces. To him, they're playing to receive the body. Let's listen.
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Say thou at the grave. I once was lost, but now I was blind, but now I see.
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It was grace that taught my heart to hear. A grace like he's relieved. A majesty that
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has opened. The heart I first believed. The heart I first believed. The heart I first believed.
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The heart I first believed. The heart I first believed. The heart I first believed. The
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heart I first believed. The heart I first believed. The heart I first believed. The heart I
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David obviously you know so much about this time
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God's grace that taught my urge to fear, and grace my fears relieved.
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How precious did that grace appear, may I first believed.
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The Lord has promised good to me, His word my hope secures.
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He will my shield and passion be, as long as life endures.
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Through many dangers, tires and snares, I have already come.
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Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
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When we've been there 10,000 years, Christ shining as the sun.
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Can you put in perspective what we've seen this morning?
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The funeral of Bernie Carrick as New York's finest continue to fall in.
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It'll be an overflow capacity crowd at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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David Ziri, you've been out there from this morning.
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Of course, David, you've gone through many of these evolutions with New York's finest in the fire department around 9-11, sir.
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Yes, Steve, a very moving scene here as there's a remembrance of 30 years of Bernie Carrick's service
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to the police department, Department of Corrections, and serving as the 40th police commissioner here.
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Crowds have gathered up and down 5th Avenue outside the historic and awe-inspiring St. Patrick's Cathedral here.
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They filed inside after Bernie's casket was removed from the hearse and brought inside.
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Big procession, probably about a quarter mile long with the vehicles and attendees.
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Mayor Giuliani, Andrew, Mayor Adams, Kash Patel were all gathering in front of the cathedral before the procession pulled up here.
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And I bet you there's more media down at the P. Diddy trial right now than there are up here.
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And New Yorkers are missing Bernie Carrick, Steve.
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Whether they know it or not, and the amount of lives he saved, lowering violent felonies over 50% between Bill Bratton and Howard Safer and him as third in line as the police commissioner under Rudy Giuliani.
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They need him again here as rapes are at 28% up this year, felony assaults, 20-year highs again.
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So they brag about the murder rates going down and everything.
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But, you know, we need somebody as tough as nails like Bernie.
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And I spoke to a guy named Kevin M., who didn't want to be named with his last name served with Bernie, under Bernie, at the Department of Corrections in 1995.
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And when he showed up, everyone thought it was Jean-Claude Van Damme because he was tough as nails.
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But he cleaned up Rikers Island, Steve, and even 60 Minutes acknowledged that, getting dangerous weapons away from inmates.
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And he had respect, and they loved his management style, Kevin M. told me.
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And I have family who worked under him and expressed the same.
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So he was likable, he was caring, and he deeply cared about the people of New York.
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And his leadership being on site after 9-11 in the first 20 minutes, side by side with Rudy Giuliani, something that Rudy never forgot.
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So a very, very deep-moving procession and events today here in midtown Manhattan.
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No, David Zier is going to stick, and we're going to cover it.
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As we said, they made a decision, families, not to live stream the funeral itself.
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The Requiem Mass inside of St. Patrick's right now.
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We will be here for when the remains of Bernie Carrick come out with the Honor Guard,
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and then he'll head to his final resting place, which I think is in New Jersey, about an hour, hour and a half outside the city.
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David Zier, the reason this is so symbolic is that Bernie Carrick, as police commissioner, and Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the time,
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presided over so many funerals of the fire department and the police department that took place in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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The country, too, but, I mean, New York City, it ripped to the heart of it, and particularly day after day after day.
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I remember there was a very famous photo from the New York Times that had it like an overhead crane shot,
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and it was a mother and a couple of small, I think her daughter, and these children couldn't have been three, four years old,
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very properly dressed for their funeral, going in and back of the flag-draped casket of the children's father and her husband.
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Take us back to that time because Bernie Carrick laid to rest in really a commissioner's ceremony,
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which is quite, you know, it's like a high requiem mass as far as the civil part of this,
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the turnout of the, we'll show it to you later, but the guard of honor of the motorcycles,
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and like David Zier said, almost a quarter of a mile in length.
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But take us back to that time when Bernie and Rudy were presiding every day,
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it seemed like for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks over the honored dead of NYPD and the fire department.
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Yes, and you have to remember also all of the police who died in the line of duty during Giuliani's administration
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and under Carrick's tenure as well as police commissioner,
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but 9-11, we have 7,000 dead so far, including the first responders who came through the pile.
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70,000 are sick with mesothelioma and COPD showing up 25 years later.
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We lost about 475 people, 343 firefighters lost their job, I believe about 40, Port Authority,
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and then on top of that, the police officers who died here.
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It was an endless stream, and I had family members, you know, buried in processions in New York City
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It was an incredible time, and it was leadership that maybe people around the rest of the country didn't really get,
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but everybody lost somebody here in New York, whether you were there or whether you heard about it,
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or you lost a family member or you lost a best friend.
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And, you know, it was more than 6 degrees, or it was less than 6 degrees of separation for New Yorkers on that time.
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And I couldn't think of anybody better than to have Bernie Kerrick at the helm with Rudy during 9-11.
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And, you know, imagine it was someone else, you know, who wasn't as effective as those two in power here.
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And the crime rate here in New York City, property crimes tumbled 65% in the 90s in New York.
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Felonies, violent crime tumbled 56% in the 90s.
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And they deeply cared about the funerals, you know, as opposed to say, not to get too political,
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but de Blasio, who was late to everything, he was late to funerals.
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You know, other mayors didn't go to police funerals.
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And Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerrick are historic figures for all of New Yorkers.
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And when I saw the procession coming up Fifth Avenue today, it reminded me, again, of that time here
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when there was pride in New York, there was pride in the NYPD, Bernie Kerrick overseeing 40,000, 41,000 officers.
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Now you're under 30,000 guys leaving the force before they're even vested.
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They're trying hard here, but it's not good enough.
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And Bernie also cared about the mentally ill, and he cared about the homeless.
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And he also cared about, you know, getting when prisoners left the jail to get them assimilated back into their private lives in the community.
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But, you know, a lot of people are walking to Starbucks and don't really know what's going on also in Manhattan.
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Good to hear your voice, and thanks for the coverage here.
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When you—you know, the demise of Christianity is being spread, but when you see the looks on the face of these police coming in
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and that congregation worshiping, you know, New Yorkers are perceived as tough and whatever,
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But what's your sense when the faithful get together in that church?
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Do you see hope and promise, and you see that faith still burrowed deep in the American spirit?
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In a way, it's a celebration of the Brotherhood being in the NYPD and all the emergency operations people in New York City,
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the counterterrorism units here, a 30-, 40-year history of terror in New York,
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the crime rates of the past going down from 3,000 murders to 2,000 murders a year to under 300 under Giuliani.
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You know, these guys want to know that the people and the administration here in New York City
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and the New York City Council have their backs.
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So getting together for something like this is probably a reminder.
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Hopefully, you know, it reinforces their, you know, commitment to the job.
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And, you know, there's not much of that going on in New York City these days.
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Well, you know, also, David, I mean, right now what's happening at Columbia University
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and down at NYU in Washington Square Park where you have these radical jihadists on this Palestine situation
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and you have these cultured, these leftist Marxist, neo-Marxist professors and students coming together.
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You know, the threat, we just had an issue out in Colorado.
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You've had an issue down here in assassination down here in Washington, D.C.
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And, of course, Bernie and Bernie Carrick and Rudy Giuliani ran the department and ran their division
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and particularly the counterintelligence part of the NYPD.
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There was not, after 9-11, for years, there was not, they thwarted every radical Islamic attack in New York City,
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which people should know, I think there were 14, that tried to take place in the next couple of years.
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And that's what brought, that team of Bernie Carrick and Mayor Giuliani and then Mayor Bloomberg afterwards.
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And, of course, Mayor Bloomberg brought in his own, I think Ray Kelly replaced Bernie as police commissioner eventually.
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That team of officials really kept New York safe, much safer than it feels like today.
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I mean, if you had that team now, you wouldn't have this crap that's going on up in Columbia and down at NYU in Washington Square Park.
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Yes, a lot of these students don't know the 40-year radical Islamic history in New York from El Saeed Noser,
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murdering Mayor Kahana in the Mariette Eastside Hotel to the Al-Faruq Mosque in Brooklyn,
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the Al-Sahadi spice market recruiting the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
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And then you had the Empire State shooter and your plans to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge,
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the Midtown Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, the St. Regis Hotel, FBI headquarters, the GW Bridge,
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caught mixing the explosives even after the first World Trade Center attack.
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And thank God for the leadership of Bernie Carrick and Rudy Giuliani
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and the counterterrorism professionals in New York City.
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And then you had mounted policemen Wayne Rattigan in Times Square,
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who, when the lone wolf, so-called lone wolf from ISIS,
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put the fuse in the propane tank in the back of his Pathfinder,
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thank God he put the fuse in backwards, and it didn't go off.
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But Wayne Rattigan broke that up, and you could have had hundreds dead in the middle of Times Square.
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And after 9-11, you had the Chelsea pressure cooker bomber attacks,
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you had the guy trying to light himself up on the subway,
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you had a $23 million laundering ring in Jersey City of Al-Qaeda-type operatives.
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And it didn't end with, you know, Mahmoud Abu Halima and Mohammed Salomeh and the blind sheikh,
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and the NYU students, where their parents are paying $100,000 a year,
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is, you know, if they had a heart and soul, they would care about the New Yorkers,
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and they wouldn't be spewing the garbage that they are.
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And it's a very sad statement on where we're at.
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David Zier, we're going to bounce back to our coverage in the studio.
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In fact, if we can get a clip of the Honor Guard coming up,
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David, we'll come back to you momentarily at the end of the Requiem Mass
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when the remains of the honored Bernie Carrick,
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and a, I might say, a foundational member of the MAGA movement,
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been with President Trump and supported President Trump for many, many years,
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just in New York City, but also as an active candidate.
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Bernie was with us, with Mayor Giuliani, very early on.
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We'll come back to St. Patrick's in a few moments.
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Dave Bratt, these events, and that's why you've got to cover them,
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that the funeral of Bernie Carrick is so important for Bernie Carrick,
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but it's also about the aspect of, like you said, remembrance,
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the Christian faith, Catholicism, what ties us together as Christians,
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what ties us together in the Judeo-Christian West and that kind of fabric.
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You see in a busy Manhattan, that day you've probably got 2,000 people in that church.
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The entire city in Midtown Manhattan stops, and like you said,
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that could be, this is one of the things that helps tie the community together
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Yeah, I think it's a beautiful day, and we talked yesterday about the truth, the beautiful, the good.
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That's the foundation of the Catholic Church going way back in history, a couple thousand years.
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And so we need to bring that forward for the kids, for the next generation, for all of us.
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These events where the community gets together to honor people, this is iconic, right?
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Bernie Giuliani, New York City, it is the iconic American city,
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The Archbishop of New York, Dolan, is a major figure on the world historic scene,
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Tucker's Protestant, and he's, you know, very civilized, nice interview, going deep in the content.
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And the problem in our culture right now, it's minus a culture, right?
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When you look at that shot of St. Patrick's, that's high culture.
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And you see that Irish Highlands pipe and drum band come in.
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I mean, if that doesn't send chills up your spine, you don't know music yet.
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And then you throw in the beautiful voice and the choirs and the organ and the mystery of it all.
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And, you know, the major thing I want to emphasize to everybody is we need this in our public schools, right?
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Everybody needs to work to get this culture back in the schools for 13 years,
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from kindergarten all the way through to high school and then in the universities.
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It's an abomination that we don't focus on the truth, the beautiful, and the good.
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It's Friday, 6th June, in the year of our Lord, 2025.
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We had had scheduled today an entire wall-to-wall coverage of the funeral of Bernie Carrick,
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given that he was a colleague and a friend but also a major part of the MAGA movement
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and a major part of the history of just not New York City but the entire country,
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A decision was made sometime that the actual live streaming from St. Patrick's would not happen,
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If we get the footage, the Honor Guard coming in down Fifth Avenue was a quarter of a mile long
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with the motorcycle police and then the Honor Guard itself with all the flags and all that.
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So as soon as we get that ready, let's go ahead and see.
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Yeah, let's – I want to get the – let's go ahead and take that down,
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I'm going to direct today, too, besides produce.
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Let's take our time and get – there was very moving,
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a quarter of a mile Guard of Honor for Bernie Carrick today.
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The motorcycle police come out, and then, of course, the Hearst with a Honor Guard around it,
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And this is what's called a commissioner's funeral, so it's very, very special.
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Who do we owe thanks to for arranging this huge event?
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Well, it's Mayor Adams' office, but it is – Maria Ryan was the one with Rudy that actually made sure that the family knew that,
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hey, as a police – this is called a commissioner's funeral.
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If you're a commissioner of the police department in New York, you rate this level –
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it would be like a state funeral at the federal level, right?
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Yeah, where someone's body gets laid to rest or gets laid up at the Capitol,
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so you can go by and see it, and then it has all the special customs and traditions associated with it.
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So Bernie's getting the full honors of the New York Police Department.
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He's also a veteran of many years and just a great guy.
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People knew Bernie on here on the show for many, many years.
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Then he got a contributorship over at Newsmax, spent time at Newsmax.
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I think Newsmax also is picking up some of the coverage today.
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And look, the reality of the media business today, you know what it is.
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They're going to be down at the PDD trial and not covering this.
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And also, you know, Bernie was such a major part of the MAGA movement with Rudy Giuliani,
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and Bernie was there the entire time for – particularly on the steal.
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Bernie Carrick, in that month, people should know, from the day that the steal happened in November,
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every day Bernie Carrick was a major player with Rudy Giuliani trying to get to the bottom.
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I mean, and Bernie was one of the organizers of actually trying to get to the bottom of the steal.
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So behind the scenes, his work – I had known Bernie for a long time,
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but every day as the people that watched the show at that time understood we were probably the leading platform
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And I was spending, you know, hours and hours between the show with Bernie Carrick actually in this city in Washington, D.C.
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They had a – we had a war room at the time set up in – at the Willard Hotel.
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And, in fact, it's where all those guys got COVID, right?
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Actually, I caught COVID, too, during that time.
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Bernie – and then in the interim, when President Trump went to Mar-a-Lago,
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Bernie Carrick was instrumental in Georgia, instrumental in Arizona,
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instrumental in that big fight we had in 2021 to actually prove that President Trump had actually won the election
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Things that should be under investigation today, I'm hearing different aspects of that.
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But Bernie Carrick, not just at 9-11 but here in the MAGA movement, was an absolute stalwart.
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And Bernie's the guy that you could call not just for security and not just understanding situations.
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He knew so much about radical jihad and just police work.
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It hasn't been publicly said, but I can say it now.
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Now, we were trying to – Jared and Peter Navarro, myself and others kind of working on this committee
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to make sure there's prison reform in Bureau of Prisons.
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Bernie's someone we wanted for a very high-level position at the Bureau of Prisons,
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but he was pretty upfront about his health and didn't think – he would be an advisor or consultant,
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but didn't think that he had the – really the – wasn't feeling good, right?
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Obviously, later, that came into really a collapse, which I think shocked his friends, myself included,
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and Eric Prince and other people who know him very well, how quickly this situation occurred,
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where he kind of deteriorated over four or five weeks leading to his death.
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But Bernie was in the hunt to actually be at one of the senior levels of Bureau of Prisons,
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and the reason it made sense, Bernie made his bones as the head of corrections for New York City
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when Rikers Islands and the New York City jails were out of control, the murders, the deaths, the drug dealing.
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And Bernie Carrick, like David Zier said in somebody we interviewed today, a guy over the corrections,
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Bernie Carrick came in, and they thought it was Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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I mean, this guy is a guy that looks like he could take on anybody.
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And he went over in a very tough situation and said, hey, we're going to clean this place up, and he cleaned it up,
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and that's why he would have been perfect for the type of reforms.
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President Trump is the greatest prison reform with the First Step Act, and, you know, Jared's very involved.
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Peter's very involved. I'm very involved, and we wanted Bernie very involved too.
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But as God, you know, in God's time, it wasn't the time for Bernie Carrick.
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I think that he's only 69 years old, and for those who knew Bernie, he was a barrel-chested – I mean, this was a man's man.
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This guy is a warrior, right? He's the kind of guy that you walked into – he'd walk into, and he had a presence,
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just a commanding physical presence that you would know that the good guys had arrived.
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And, of course, he escorted Rudy and all the different fiascos of – and Bernie – Rudy said the other day,
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when Rudy was booked and everything like that, it was all – you know, Bernie Carrick did it.
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Bernie Carrick and Eric Prince, and Eric's up there today as we answer the coverage here.
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Those are the two guys – I had that press conference, I remember that press avail before going into Danbury,
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and those two guys were right with me, and we got into the SUV, and we went to the prison.
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And when I checked into prison, I walk in with Bernie Carrick and Eric Prince,
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you know, the world's top mercenary, and Bernie Carrick, the world's biggest hammer.
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And, you know, the prison officials were not thrilled.
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I got a little stink eye on that one, and Bernie Carrick was a – but in prepping me to go to prison,
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because he had gone to prison also, he walked me through all the details, exactly how you've got to structure your day.
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Everything he told me were things I could apply as soon as I went in there.
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Also, about the presence you have to have, how you have to – you know, these are dangerous places,
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He's a mentor to so many of us and a wingman to Rudy Giuliani.
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Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break.
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People know every June 6th we do have Patrick K. O'Donnell here.
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Obviously, there's a couple of three things in the news also that we're going to get to.
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Some false reporting, I think, overnight from Politico said President Trump was going to take some phone call from Elon Musk.
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As soon as the Requiem Mass is over, we'll return to St. Patrick's Cathedral for the exit ceremony in commemoration of Bernie Carrick.
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And then we've been informed that there's not going to be, we're going to try to have cameras at the actual burial itself.
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I think now more than ever, things are going to get a little choppy, right, not just politically, but a little choppy on the side.
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President Trump, Trump and Xi, dialed down the rhetoric and agreed to a new round of trade talks.
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Right there's a lead story in the Financial Times of London.
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Jack Posobiec had joined Dave Bratt, not myself, at the top of the hour to go through that.
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We're going to go to Caroline Rennes in a second.
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Yeah, I just wanted to close out after we're leaving that beautiful ceremony at St. Patrick's.
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You know, not everyone is the giant epic figure in history, right?
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Caroline Wren, we've had an ongoing dispute between Elon Musk and the president.
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We've been a strong advocate here that it's time now to review his security clearance and many other things.
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But this speaks to bigger issues about the Burligarchs versus the MAGA base.
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Well, I'm just so pleased to see that I've been saying this for many years, that Trump is just the least pay-to-play president of all time.
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And this movement was fueled by grassroots donors and the MAGA base.
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And so it's great that all these tech bros, you know, came out of nowhere, decided to donate millions to Trump's inauguration.
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He gave $288 million to Trump, hoping to get his EV tax credits, his H-1B foreign workers, and his preferred NASA nominee.
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And these tech bros that spent the last eight years trashing Trump, crawling, you know, to him after he won in November, donating billions to the inauguration.
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I mean, look, he really has not caved in for anything.
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Yeah, they got front seats at the inauguration, but they really haven't gotten much more.
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I mean, they pushed for the H-1B visas and got shut down.
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They pushed for their own antitrust nominees at the FTC and DOJ.
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They pushed, you know, to end these lawsuits, monopoly lawsuits at the DOJ with both Apple and with Meta.
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But Miriam Addison gave $100 million only to see Trump tell Netanyahu to go pound sand.
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That is because President Trump, his decisions are not made by the donor class.
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They are made by the base and where he believes that he should lead this country to.
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And so I'm really proud, actually, of President Trump, how he stood so firm and tall, while Elon just looks like, frankly, a child in this.
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Yeah, I want to go to this also, this NASA thing.
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You know, Mark Caputo, and if, Grace, you can get that out there already, Mark Caputo's got a great story over Axios about the NASA guy being removed.
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And there's all this thing about, oh, well, he was so great and was going to get us to the moon and stop trying to get us to the moon.
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But Sergio Gore, I think, is identified as the guy that President Trump requested this because this guy got in before the vetting.
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As you remember, Caroline, it was a little bit chaotic in Mar-a-Lago there for a while.
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They didn't really have Sergio and other people there to vet the people.
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This guy's donations all the way up until after Trump won were all to the most left-wing Democrats you could get.
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And people that argued, oh, he should be there.
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Well, hey, look, there's a lot of good people, a lot of quality people.
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But he said, look, I'm not going to be rewarding people that have been giving money to the very people that have been trying to put me in prison, the very people that have been shutting down MAGA.
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And I think I've got a list of what these donations are.
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The president requested it because he felt, Caroline, that some of these people early on before we had more formalized systems in place had slipped in there.
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And as he said, he told Elon, I'm just not going to tolerate people that are these left-wing Democrats that had a, oh, an epiphany after Trump won and stroked some sort of check for the inauguration.
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And they think that Trump's going to answer them.
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He is the least responsive to donors in history.
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People have asked for his, you know, support of sort of like military operations in Persia for the nuclear issue.
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As we turned him down in 17, that was kind of my duty back then on all the mandates and tax breaks and tax credits he wanted.
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Then that's when we first started getting into it.
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I said, look, you just got to get more money from your venture capitalist.
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Your returns are going to be lower and you're going to own less of the company.
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But some guy, some guy or gal making $32,000 a year is not going to underwrite something you're going to make billions off of and they don't have any participation in it.
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