On today's show, President Trump sits down with the Prime Minister of Turkey, Binali Yavut Turan Turan, and they discuss the possibility of charges against former FBI Director James Comey. We also have news on the 2nd quarter GDP revision, and Hillary Clinton weighs in on the recent shooting at an ICE facility.
00:00:32.900We'll give you some of the top sound bites and some of the most important things from all of this here coming up shortly.
00:00:39.800We've also got some news on the economy.
00:00:43.720James Comey in the headlines once again because of the possibility of charges against Comey.
00:00:52.280Before that five-year clock runs out on the statute of limitations, we've got more updates also on the ICE facility, that fatal shooting that happened yesterday.
00:01:05.100Hillary Clinton is weighing in on things, a whole range of things right now, which we will share with you so we can pull apart her preposterous arguments.
00:01:15.740And we've also got Washington Post yesterday reporting that marked classified material was found in the home of former Trump National Security Advisor Bolton.
00:01:26.860He's also formerly a Fox News contributor.
00:01:29.340I saw a lot of you have seen him on Fox.
00:01:30.700He's the guy with the mustache he'd seen over many years.
00:02:19.740Usually the revisions as you get to second and third become smaller and smaller.
00:02:23.220So 3.8% would be the best quarter going back to – and we have to go back a ways here – to 4.4%, and that was the third quarter of 23%.
00:02:32.580Now, it is important to point out that if you look at the first quarter final, down half a percent, there's a balance there.
00:02:40.120But the balance is moving in favor, and momentum is moving in favor for better growth.
00:02:45.460Clay, looking pretty good still on the economy, and Trump not getting much credit for it from the media for obvious reasons.
00:02:52.280But if somebody had told me at the start of his presidency, this is where the numbers would be, and this is how the markets, and also how rates, and inflation, and everything would look at this point, it's pretty darn good.
00:03:05.820I think the president should be happy, certainly, with the progress so far we've seen in year one.
00:03:11.580And we've got record, basically, high stock prices.
00:03:16.040You've got overall inflation continuing to come down.
00:03:19.900The much maligned impact of tariffs seem to be non-existent.
00:03:26.180All of the experts are now, Buck, as you watch, coming out and saying, hey, well, we haven't seen the pricing impact that we thought from the tariff situation.
00:03:36.320The overall interest rates are coming down.
00:03:39.340Jerome Powell is behind on being able to do that.
00:03:42.400But we just got the quarter point decline.
00:03:44.800There's a forecast of a couple of more declines on interest rates and then going into next year.
00:03:51.020So I would suspect that you're going to see 15- and 30-year mortgages continue to come down, which is going to help to free up.
00:03:58.940You were talking, I think we were talking about this off air, the degree to which the housing market has been just frozen to a large extent.
00:04:06.520Because, look, if you were fortunate enough to get one of those 2.5% or 3% mortgages, you don't want to move.
00:04:13.920And if you were unfortunate enough to buy and have a 7% mortgage, I'm telling you, you're going to start to see a lot of movement as those mortgage rates get down to 4.5%, 5%.
00:04:25.520And there starts to be less of a major difference in potentially moving, selling homes.
00:04:32.000I think when the housing market just kind of gets unlocked and it starts to move freely as a more liquid asset class, I think you're going to see a lot of rapid growth.
00:05:12.100And you have to grow the revenue that the growing economy is going to produce.
00:05:16.720And I think that's where Elon now is saying, hey, AI is going to potentially be so transformative in what it provides to the overall economy that we're just going to have to grow our way to get past the ballooning national deficits.
00:07:14.760The FBI has released a couple of more data points on that guy.
00:07:18.180We try to avoid naming these guys, so I'm not going to do that.
00:07:20.960But he downloaded the list of DHS facilities.
00:07:25.260This is, according to Libs of TikTok, repeated searches on the Charlie Kirk shooting, tracked ICE agent movements through apps,
00:07:34.500and had a handwritten note saying, quote, hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror.
00:07:41.080So, anyone out there who is trying to argue that this is anything other than yet another left-wing shooter motivated by left-wing political arguments is being dishonest to you.
00:07:54.800And, again, that is the absolute latest in terms of the FBI investigation that they have reported.
00:09:45.460Another left-wing violent incident that has been getting some attention this morning, Buck, that ties into what the president was just saying.
00:09:54.620A man's been arrested, charged after allegedly making social media threats against a Charlie Kirk vigil at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
00:10:03.800This man allegedly suggested on social media he planned to use his truck to drive through and disrupt the Charlie Kirk vigil.
00:10:14.920I mean, this is everywhere, and it's happening in every state.
00:10:18.800And again, the gunman who opened fire yesterday at the Dallas ICE facility has left a written record that he wanted to provide real terror for ICE agents and that he, again, I mean, this is just not...
00:10:38.800We didn't even mention this, either, because there's so much of this stuff.
00:10:41.560A guy shot up an ABC news affiliate...
00:11:12.560You stack these things up, how much more of this has to happen that's all clearly politically aligned with Democrats, with the left, with the commies?
00:11:22.500Because there's no argument, there's no debate anymore.
00:11:26.580You know, I saw Megyn Kelly Clay was at, what was it, Virginia Tech, I think it was, speaking, you know, as part of Turning Point now, reaching out and having people go to campuses to continue Charlie's work.
00:11:38.100And some kid did the whole, the violence comes from the right, the violence comes from the right.
00:12:07.700They used to say J6 is worse than 9-11.
00:12:09.600Worse than 9-11, worse than Pearl Harbor, the worst thing that's happened in the country since the Civil War.
00:12:15.320That's legitimately what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris argued about January 6th.
00:12:19.240I mean, that was their direct talking point.
00:12:21.240Worst thing that's happened in the country since the Civil War.
00:12:23.500I'm worried, Clay, that people are going to recognize more and more that even if Democrats wanted to put this genie back in the bottle, so to speak,
00:12:34.180even if they wanted to close up Pandora's box with all the lies they have told about the fascist Republicans who are destroying democracy and all this stuff,
00:12:45.640I don't even think that they could do this.
00:12:47.360I don't think they could turn it off now is my point.
00:12:49.540I think they have unleashed this long enough on the American people that we are going to have to continue to suffer through what are just waves of domestic terrorism, plain and simple,
00:13:00.600by people who think, because the New York Times and CNN and Joe Biden and Kamala told them, they think they're fighting fascism.
00:13:27.280And the fact that they've done it for 10 years, by the way, I don't believe that any of the Democrat leadership actually believes that argument, right?
00:13:36.440Because if they did, when Donald Trump got hit in the ear and when another guy tried to kill him, they wouldn't have said, well, we condemn that violence, right?
00:13:45.540If you truly thought Trump was Hitler, you should be honest and say, well, I wish they hadn't missed.
00:13:50.060They never say that because they know it would play so poorly in the larger public, but with their deranged lunatic base, I don't know what percentage of them, but enough of them to kill Charlie Kirk and enough of them to kill at the Dallas ice facility and enough of them to go to Brett Kavanaugh's house and enough of them to show up at the softball baseball team practice and start firing away.
00:14:15.840There is a deranged lunatic fringe of the left that is acting on what they believe that is true coming from the Democrat base, their arguments and buck.
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00:18:09.100There is a lot of discussion, though, a lot of reporting that is indicating that someone thinks high up the chain,
00:18:17.560there will be charges brought against James Comey, the former FBI director, for lying under oath.
00:18:25.640And this may or may not happen, but there has certainly been a lot of chatter about it,
00:18:31.120and there's a lot of reporting suggesting that it is likely to happen.
00:18:36.300And so, Clay, I thought that we should remind everybody, because I really always want to make sure that any time someone has the possibility of their freedom being taken away,
00:18:50.940even for a day, never mind for months or even years,
00:18:54.420I always want to make sure that the person is guilty of the crime and that it is a reasonable punishment for the crime that they have committed.
00:19:05.620You know, because if we start getting into Third World Banana Republic stuff of people,
00:19:10.520oh, you mean like what they did to Trump?
00:21:53.020I mean, when you listen to what this guy did to General Flynn, they used the Logan Act as a pretext to send FBI agents to the incoming National Security Advisor's office to just have a conversation.
00:22:06.340He thought they were probably just, you know, welcoming him to the new administration.
00:22:11.960And then they claim, with no proof other than their word against his, that he lied about non-illegal activity that he was completely justified in doing.
00:22:20.840And they only did this because they unmasked phone calls abusing Pfizer in the process.
00:22:24.920This is also where the statute of limitations play in.
00:22:29.780And I know we've talked about this statute of limitations issue on a lot of these cases.
00:22:35.020And I know people roll their eyes and they try to say, well, it's an ongoing conspiracy and all these things.
00:22:41.520Because the Comey charges, based on my reading, statute of limitations related, Buck, must happen almost immediately.
00:22:51.240In other words, they're going to be able to argue, hey, that statute of limitations has told we are no longer able to be charged under these auspices.
00:23:01.580And, given that we know many federal district court judges, the people who will likely be assigned these cases, are not going to be favorably disposed to the Trump administration.
00:23:13.840You've got to have everything lined up when you bring these charges and you've got to get it done well.
00:23:19.140And we haven't even talked about this, Buck, but I think we probably should have.
00:23:21.940There are tons, I think it's like seven or eight different individuals, that the D.C. grand jury has refused to indict for blatant crimes during the Trump crime surge to try to bring down crime in D.C.
00:23:40.000The grand jury has just said, for instance, the guy who threw the sandwich at the cop, it's on video, it's blatant, he did it.
00:23:48.940They just said, yeah, we're not indicting for this.
00:23:51.940So, the politics of D.C. when it comes to getting people indicted, even when you have evidence on video of crimes being committed, some of the grand jury members are just like, nah, I kind of agree with what they did.
00:24:06.720I'm not going to agree to charges here.
00:24:21.940He's slithered from one administration to another within the bureaucracy and somehow always ended up, you know, elevating himself.
00:24:32.460And he's the guy who, over the objections of fellow prosecutors, wanted Martha Stewart to go to prison just because he wanted to make a name for himself.
00:24:44.600Martha Stewart, worth reminding everybody, serve time in prison.
00:27:19.100But if, if I am, then thousands, tens of thousands of people in DC are.
00:27:22.920So, uh, it's, I want to ever be reminded that Comey's a bad guy and Trump isn't exaggerating when he says this is a bad individual who is a narcissistic freak and wanted to really harm people and abuse his power to do so.
00:27:36.880And so if, if he lied under oath, he loves sending other people to prison for lying under oath about the most minute things.
00:27:42.740If he lied under oath, his ass should go to jail too.
00:34:14.840I want to run through a couple of things because I know we've got a lot of moms and a lot of grandmas out there.
00:34:20.480And everybody, when they get pregnant, by and large, is trying to do the best possible things they can for the baby that they are carrying.
00:34:29.660And there's a couple of things out there that I was going to point out.
00:34:32.160And how complicated and sometimes even to the detriment all of these strictures can be.
00:34:42.340In America, they say women shouldn't eat sushi, pregnant women.
00:34:46.120They say that women should not have alcohol at all.
00:34:49.260As I'm sure you're aware, in Japan, women continue to eat sushi throughout pregnancy.
00:35:32.920What would you tell a woman who just found out she's pregnant right now that is concerned about autism that she should do, in your opinion, to be the absolute healthiest?
00:35:45.000And obviously, one answer is she can talk to her doctor, but if this were your daughter and you were about to have a grandbaby, what would you tell her?
00:35:54.920The most important thing you can do when you're pregnant is actually to be calm and realistic about the numbers.
00:36:05.060Mortality rates, obviously, are very low because we're so good generally at taking care of crises or complications when they occur.
00:36:11.620And anxiety itself is a problem during pregnancy.
00:36:15.500So recognize that you're in pretty good shape and you're lucky to be born in an era where we have high-quality care.
00:36:22.520That stated, there are some unforced errors, rookie errors you want to avoid.
00:36:27.300Trusting that there's one product that's so safe that you can take it whenever you think you might have a small little thing not right is unwise because we just don't know.
00:36:36.740There's so many things happening during pregnancy with that miraculous process where these cells are growing at a fast rate, differentiating into organs.
00:36:47.140It's sort of a miracle that it ever works, but it almost always does work because we get out of the way.
00:36:51.800If I say the same thing to my kids is when I've got five grandkids now when we're coming, just get out of the way of biology and let it run itself.
00:37:00.240A low-grade temperature is a healthy thing usually because it'll kill the virus that's bothering you, but it doesn't hurt your own cells.
00:37:08.660Don't trust external substances of any kind.
00:37:10.840I don't think alcohol is a good thing to do when you're pregnant, and you shouldn't have to drink alcohol to be able to get through your day.
00:37:16.940So, yes, you know, if you're going to toast someone, that's different, but it should not be part of the norm.
00:37:56.040So it's not genetics, and I don't buy the canard that this is all about measurement because I just turned 65.
00:38:03.480I'm running the agency that I'm a member of now, Medicare, right?
00:38:06.360There aren't any people my age that I know of who have autism.
00:38:10.460Bobby Kennedy, Secretary Kennedy, reminds all of us that he in his whole life never met anyone his age who has autism.
00:38:18.900I'm sure they're out there, but they're not very common.
00:38:21.460Whereas you go to school today, you take your kids to school, you talk to the other parents, many of those parents have kids with autistic children.
00:38:40.220And these are two clues of how to deal with it.
00:38:42.260Dr. Oz, I wanted to follow up on this.
00:38:45.500Is it your – and now I'm asking more for your analysis and maybe even a bit of your gut instinct on this, having practiced medicine for decades
00:38:53.380and now having access to the data on these things at a very high level on the policy side.
00:38:59.680When you're talking about that, we just established that really deeply troubling rise of autism.
00:39:06.640Do you think it is most likely to be a multi-factor problem that has caused the increase, as in several things together or just several things in general?
00:39:19.500Or do you think that it might be a really one primary culprit that will be found?
00:39:24.780It's just a question of whittling down the data and pursuing the science and finally getting us to what's really at the heart of this crisis.
00:39:32.560I believe it's multifactorial, but they may work through common mechanisms.
00:39:37.960For example, I brought up the reality that folate levels are low in the brain.
00:39:41.960Folate comes from foliage, leafy greens.
00:39:44.740So this vitamin B9 is a critical element in brain development.
00:39:48.840It's possible that several of the things we're worried about all work to inhibit the ability of the fragile child's brain to take up enough of this critical ingredient so the brain forms normally.
00:40:00.960It could happen because antibodies are made because the kid's allergic to everything from a food that they're being given to a substance in their body to a toxin in their environment, mold and chemicals, all kinds of things.
00:40:15.260We don't know how they work in the body, but they probably work through several common pathways.
00:40:19.680What I do have confidence in, since I've been looking at this together with the rest of the team, and Jay Bhattacharya, Marty McCary, who are head of the NIH and FDA, we're all razor focused on this, in part because the secretary insists it and the president demands it.
00:40:33.080We are seeing signals of lots of things.
00:40:35.680We didn't want to talk about all of them, but we're seeing things that all could be concerning.
00:40:39.480We just want to sort of whittle it down and get to the ones that are legitimate, the things we might be able to do differently in our lives.
00:40:46.360But certainly you want to start being transparent with the American people because trust is built brick by brick by a shining light on all the things you know.
00:40:55.580If I know things you don't know, there's no reason why you would trust me to do more and better with it than you would.
00:41:00.960And this is why I think parents in particular who love their kids more than anybody should be armed with the best data the government has as we get it.
00:41:09.700And, of course, yes, it scares people.
00:41:21.280And so the last thing we want to do is hold back because there's a political rationale, which is, again, if you're a political person who's passionate about people, you tell them what you know.
00:42:46.280All the things you identify because you're a curious person.
00:42:49.400And by the way, to me, the Maha movement is about being curious.
00:42:52.100And 80% of statements are questions in disguise.
00:42:54.540You're actually a curious human being.
00:42:56.240The questions you're asking are the ones that we have got to be brave enough to answer and share if we're courageous with people around us.
00:43:22.360Peanut allergy is unheard of when I was a kid.
00:43:25.240We have an epidemic of all types of allergies, which, again, is reflective of the fact that we're traumatizing the fragile immune system of the child.
00:43:33.380Who's just trying to figure out what the world is about and differentiate what's friendly and what's faux.
00:44:21.920Behind that are a whole bunch of other conditions, celiac disease, bowel problems.
00:44:25.960Of course, all kinds of pathologies like autism spectrum, ADHD.
00:44:30.600If you can go down the laundry list of issues that plague our youth, and many of them come back to an immune system that can't function correctly, it's a fragile system.
00:44:57.760Although, Buck, I do think, and we'll talk about this some more during the course of the program, this is something that motivates a huge majority, I think, of our listeners out there.
00:45:07.820There's a sense that we are making choices, not only on our own self, but on behalf of our kids, that are actually creating worse outcomes.
00:45:16.920And I think that allergy and autistic thing, whatever you think, obviously, they have skyrocketed.
00:45:26.500In the meantime, I want to tell you about our friends that are over in Israel that are fighting so many difficult battles every single day.
00:45:35.240It's been another very trying week in Israel.
00:45:37.600Renewed drone attacks on innocent civilians.
00:45:39.780The attacks don't get the headlines they once did, but a lot's happened since October 7th.
00:45:44.940Hostages still being held, and we've got a movement of support for the people of Israel coming.
00:45:53.120It's organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
00:45:56.920On Sunday, October 5th, millions of people across America will plant an Israeli flag in honor and solidarity with the victims of the terror attack of October 7th,
00:46:07.440when 1,200 innocent Israelis were killed.
00:46:10.340You can be a part of the movement, too.
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00:47:58.040So let's go over some background information again with Democrats start off with an 860,000 voter advantage in the Garden State.
00:48:06.480Now, you may say, Ryan, that's a lot of voters.
00:48:08.760Yes, but it is down significantly from November 2021, the last time Jack Chittarelli ran for governor.
00:48:15.380Republicans in the last four years, since the last governor's election, have gained 162,000 new voters,
00:48:21.740while Democrats have lost 47,000 voters in an election that Chittarelli lost by only 84,000 votes.
00:48:28.240If you look at the polls, first time for the polls, there were seven polls recently.
00:48:33.140Overall, Mickey Sherrill, the Democratic nominee, has led in five of them, averaging a lead of 5.5 points.
00:48:39.900But the last two polls by accredited pollsters that have come out said that Chittarelli is either tied or winning.
00:48:45.660A national research poll, which was funded by his campaign, so it's an internal campaign number,
00:48:49.980has him leading by a point and is up by 21 points.
00:48:53.160Normally, internal polling, obviously, they slant things towards their candidate.
00:48:56.920But Emerson, which has been on a rollercoaster streak of good polling lately,
00:49:02.260they came out with a poll just today, finding the race tied.
00:49:05.640And they also said that Chittarelli is leading by 26 points among independents, so there's consistency there.
00:49:12.340It's not all good news because the group of undecided voters overwhelmingly lean Democrat, a lot of minorities, a lot of women.
00:49:20.820The problem for Mickey Sherrill is this.
00:49:23.340Minority voters in urban New Jersey do not like her.
00:49:26.660They voted overwhelmingly against her in the last – and in the primary, she comes from a small town where the median income is well over $150,000 a year.
00:49:36.800And she had a disastrous interview on The Breakfast Club where she couldn't describe how she made $7 million in profit selling stocks,
00:49:44.300which she was fined for because she was selling while she was on the House appropriations for military contracts.
00:49:54.240They've spent an additional $1.5 million on this race, $25 million in total.
00:50:00.720Internals are showing that she is not in a strong place, and that's where they're putting all their hands on deck.
00:50:05.360A couple of things, Ryan, and I know some of you from New Jersey are going to know this, but I actually think it got snowed under.
00:50:15.020Trump lost New Jersey by about five points.
00:50:17.920He lost Virginia by about five points.
00:50:20.120That's where both of the governor's races that are going to be happening in about six weeks are taking place.
00:50:25.340Ryan, the Trump team believes that if they had had Kamala Harris money, that is, they could have just sprayed money everywhere like Kamala did,
00:51:15.540She is talking about it consistently, and is what her ads are focusing on.
00:51:19.120And inversely, in New Jersey, the Democrat, Mickey Sherrill, is making this entire election about Trump.
00:51:25.040Just today, there was a news-breaking story a little while ago that she was not allowed to walk in the U.S. Naval Academy commencement speech
00:51:31.720because she cheated 130 times in her class.
00:51:41.240Let me rephrase that, Ryan, because I think it was a little bit – I think she was part of a group of 130 people that was accused of cheating on tests that were not allowed to walk.
00:52:03.420So she had made this election about Trump.
00:52:05.100She blamed Jack Cittarelli for this story coming out, saying he's part of the Trump cabal to release information.
00:52:11.820Jack Cittarelli is focused specifically on affordability and electricity costs.
00:52:17.020Electricity costs are the number one issue in both Virginia and New Jersey's election, incidentally enough.
00:52:24.080Electricity costs are skyrocketing in both places.
00:52:26.680The difference between New Jersey and Virginia is the elasticity of the electorate.
00:52:31.180So Virginia's electorate, because it is much blacker and blacks in America have a lower level of – they move far less than Hispanics or whites do.
00:52:41.620It is a less – there's less elasticity for the Republicans to make big, big gains.
00:52:45.840The question is do they show up at all?
00:52:47.900There's also a lot of, you know, quote-unquote, awfals, which is like angry white female liberals.
00:52:52.880There's a lot more in Virginia, and there's a lot of people angry over the Elon cuts to federal jobs.
00:52:58.360New Jersey doesn't have that problem, and Cittarelli has been more centralized on the affordability question and on the tax question.
00:53:06.060Cheryl had an absolutely abominable debate performance where she would not commit to not raising taxes in the middle class,
00:53:12.600and she would not explain once again how she made $7 million on a stock trade.
00:54:28.120So it is the number one issue in both New Jersey and Virginia.
00:54:30.960And AI centers or data centers are the main culprit.
00:54:34.320Data centers take about 25 percent of Virginia's electricity.
00:54:38.000One in four, they've added about 20 million homes using power through data centers.
00:54:43.060In New Jersey, data centers are responsible for 70 percent of the increased prices in electricity.
00:54:48.660Jack Turrelli is talking about having tax cuts for the middle class
00:54:52.840and about trying to have more alternative, not alternative in a form of solar,
00:54:57.780but really looking at increasing natural gas subsidies or anything he can just sit there
00:55:02.500and try to get prices lower through using taxes in the state.
00:55:06.180Like, Abigail Spanberger over in Virginia, she's actually the only candidate running statewide
00:55:11.740who has pointed to data centers and saying we need to figure out how to deal with this increase
00:55:16.420in the cost of electricity through data centers.
00:55:18.360And she's the one who's pointed the finger.
00:55:20.420Winston Sears really hasn't spoke about data centers or electricity prices nearly as much,
00:55:25.380focusing much more on national issues to try to really drive out lower propensity voters.
00:55:30.380And I have a number on that. Virginia does not have the does not have party registration like New Jersey does.
00:55:37.440So you're not a registered Republican or Democrat.
00:55:39.740But among modeling companies, companies that model whether you're likely to be a Republican or a Democrat,
00:55:45.160Republicans have done a much better job at turning out people who have either never voted
00:55:49.420and are likely Republicans are only voted once in the last four elections than Democrats have.
00:55:54.480So if that's her game plan by bringing out low propensity voters, it's showing a little bit of traction.
00:55:59.780But Democrats outside of Richmond and in the northern part of the state and in the northern part of the state,
00:56:03.640outside of D.C., are really turning out like gangbusters, especially in the Richmond suburbs.
00:56:09.080Let's go to the New York City mayor's race, because a lot of our W.O.R. listeners are plugged in on this.
00:56:17.260Ryan, we still haven't gotten any movement from from anyone to drop out, whether it's Eric Adams, Curtis Lewa, Andrew Cuomo.
00:56:26.120And as I'm looking right now at Polymarket, they have an 87 percent chance that Mom Donnie is elected mayor.
00:56:34.440Is there any reason right now in your mind to expect any kind of movement there?
00:56:40.480Or if you kind of resign yourself to Mom Donnie is going to be the next New York City mayor?
00:56:45.340Mom Donnie is going to be the next city mayor, unless Eric Adams and Curtis Lewa drop out.
00:56:50.320I mean, and we've had more polling out of New York City than either Virginia or New Jersey at this point.
00:56:55.720Pollsters love polling New York. It's an interesting race.
00:56:58.360The problem is in this fractured field, it needs to be a head-on-head competition.
00:57:01.700And all pollsters agree a head-to-head competition between Cuomo and Mandami shows a competitive race, and we don't know who would win.
00:57:10.200But Cuomo has run one of the most god-awful campaigns I could imagine.
00:57:14.660He's made no concessions to Republicans to try to win them over whatsoever.
00:57:18.840And Eric Adams is still hanging around around 7 or 8 percent, mostly among Jewish and black voters who would otherwise be voting for Cuomo.
00:57:25.760So it's really been some of the worst campaigning I've ever seen, especially from Cuomo.
00:57:32.220And Curtis Lewa has had essentially no campaign, aside from going to the same five places over and over and over again.
00:57:37.700He's polling somewhere in the low to mid-teens, and it's really kind of fizzled out.
00:57:42.960Okay, do you buy, Buck and I have kind of debated this, that Momdani could have an impact in the 2026 midterms if he is the face of the Democrat Party?
00:57:54.700Or do you think he's really not that well-known outside of New York City?
00:58:03.340I mean, born American citizen, so he's not eligible to run, for instance, for president, thankfully, sadly, given how much support he has among Democrats.
00:58:13.480Does he have national residence next year, in your mind, if he wins in New York City or not?
00:58:20.680I mean, there's a reason why Fox News is the only one who covers his speeches live.
00:58:25.200And they don't do it for any New York City politician.
00:58:27.300I mean, Republicans desperately want to make him the face, which is why Hakeem Jeffries still won't endorse him, despite Kathy Hochul endorsing him.
00:58:34.980And it'll be a big question going into 2026 if they sit there and try to play.
00:58:39.120Spoiler, Momdani made a comment saying, I'm not promising to re-endorse Kathy Hochul or any other Democrat.
00:58:47.080And I spoke to some Democratic consultants who are very, very smart.
00:58:50.280And the question, they said this, it is not a question of if, like an AOC or Mondani type of person will be the Democratic nominee in 2028.
00:59:11.760He does have some ability, political ability that I do notice.
00:59:15.880But his policies are absolutely insane, especially around policing, and it's going to, especially in the Northeast, it's going to be very problematic for Democrats.
00:59:25.500So is it your view that he will be as insane as we are worried he will be if he becomes the mayor of New York?
00:59:33.000Like, will he actually do these policies, or is this just to get the sizzle going, but he'll have to deal with the reality of trying to govern 8.5 million people?
00:59:41.640Well, he has limitations because the governor has a lot of control over New York City.
00:59:46.600So it's not like he's the president or the king of the city.
00:59:50.460There are certain things that he can do that I expect him to do on day one.
00:59:53.940He also has a problem with the federal government is going to be breathing down his neck on certain issues, like the idea that he's going to be able to kick ICE agents out of the city is just not realistic whatsoever.
01:00:02.940On certain things, he's going to be pretty horrific.
01:00:04.780On other things, he can't fulfill half of those promises because he doesn't have the ability or the wherewithal to do so.
01:00:11.980So, I mean, I think that he's going to be a worse mayor than Bill de Blasio, but, I mean, that's what's happening right now in New York.