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This hour of programming on WOAR issponsored by Black Mountain Capitol now former Westchester
County executive Rob as on seven TAR. All right, I guess it's time
to start off. I love tryingto figure out what song Bruce is gonna
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fire up to begin this show everySaturday, and then he went with the
Stones. That was pretty good,little after four o'clock here on a wet,
windy, yucky day. Of course, it is every Saturday when the
show is on its raining. Whatis going on here as we start spring
this is this is a crazy weekcoming up on Monday, and we're gonna
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get into that just a moment.We're gonna actually have two Arthur's today.
We're gonna have Arthur Idalla, whois a great criminal defense attorney. He's
gonna come up in just a secondabout what Donald Trump is going through next
week, especially Monday, and thenwe're gonna take a stroll down Memory Lane
and Arthur Avenue with Charlie Depollo,who is the owner of Domini's Restaurant.
I was there with my wife acouple weeks ago. Such a great place,
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you know, and it's like Igrew up going there too, and
when I was at Fordham and justa really fun place and like kind of
forget about it sometimes, but Iprefer that so much more to little Italy
in downtown, which is such atourist trap. But anyway, it's good
to have you with us. Andof course we're here till five o'clock every
Saturday, four to five, andit's your chance. If you'd like to
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participate, you just have to pickup the phone one hundred three to two,
one zero seven ten. You needto get you need to avoid getting
gonged by Brusto, so that meansyou got to stay on topic. But
you're more than welcome to call inone hundred three to two, one zero
seven ten. All right, SoMonday is the deadline. You can just
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see Letitia James, the Attorney General. She's like a vulture. She's flying
around. She sees a wounded DonaldTrump in the street and she can't wait
to swoop in and stick her clawsand big beak right in his body.
And she's looking on Monday to dothat. If he doesn't come up with
the cash or a bond to satisfythis kangaroo court and this judgment against him
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in this civil fraud trial, whichis just total insanity. But think about
that, you know, a victimlesscrime. Letitia James ran on getting Trump
on something, anything, I'll figureit out. Just elect me, and
of course all the crazy leftists inthis city and stay, oh god,
I can't wait. Get Donald Trump. And they so she did, which
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is totally unethical, illegal what she'sdoing clearly. I mean, she said,
I'm going to get him on something, and she found something twisted and
turn and then they get this stupid, hack, ridiculous Democratic Party machine judge
who smiles for the camera, enjoyedevery second of it, and he writes
the script for the ending here atleast as Letitia James and every Democrat wants
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it of trying to put the nailin Donald Trump's at least financial coffin.
But think about what they're doing hereand what they're doing through the Department of
Justice in all these trials against DonaldTrump. They've made him spend fifty million
dollars so far on attorney's fees todefend himself and in many cases to defend
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you and me and our beliefs,because that's kind of what they're going at.
And there's this one picture of LetitiaJames in the courtroom. Now,
when does an attorney general, theattorney general of the state, go into
the courtroom for days upon days ona case this insignificant? Why did you
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go to courtroom? Ever? Really? But of course she was there because
the cameras were there, and itjust proved this is all political. But
there's that photo of her in thefront row looking at Donald Trump, staring
at him with this you know what, eating grin like I'm going to get
you. And she wasn't just lookingat him, she was looking at you.
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She's looking at me. She's lookingat everybody who dares dares to not
tow their line. That's what thisis all about. So let's get into
the the you know, the litigation. Here, the opportunities for Trump to
kind of get out of this ifhe if he can, or what the
next step is, because Monday,the clock is ticking. Monday is the
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deadline. He's got to come upwith us. So let me bring in
Arthur Idalla, who is a greatcriminal defense attorney from Idalla, Bertona and
Cammons. I get that right,Arthur, Well, that's my wife's made
a name. Burtuna, Oh,Burtuna yeah, otherwise I'm in big trouble.
I can't even read my own writing. Of course it's Burtuna, So
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Arthur's glad to have. I'm reallyhappy that you're here because you're a smart
guy and and we all want toknow, take me back to the law
that she used in order to getDonald Trump the way she got him.
So I'm just gonna say that there'stwo tiny little things you said that that
I will respectfully since you're you know, you're the governor to be or I
don't know, you know, you'reyou're I don't know what your site are
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said. Maybe you're running for president, Robin you're a quipped so I don't
know how that's gonna wind up.But number one, you said to Leticia
James is in the court room foran insignificant case. You know it's unfortunately
for all the wrong reason. Yeah, it's a very significant case. And
number two you said, you said, this is the end that every Democrat
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is rooting for. And I maybetravel in different circles than you do.
There are many, many, manyDemocratic stalwarts who are very upset about this.
Maybe they're not on Rob Asserino's radioshow saying it like I am,
but they really are, and theyunderstand that this first and foremost you're not
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supposed to run for any prosecutorial office. On the platform is I'm going to
get this guy or this woman likeelect me and I will bring this human
being down to their knees and justtake them out. So that's what she
did running for it. That's wrong. It's absolutely wrong. And anyone who's
being honest, they voted for heroverwhelming us. Well look, listen,
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as honest as we could be here. When Donald Trump became president, he
didn't really do New York any favors. On April fifteenth, when I pay
my taxes and I can't write offall of my mortgage and my state and
I'll only you know, I don'texactly want to embrace him and give him
a big hug and say thank you. But you know, besides that,
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you know better than I do thatthis state, or at least this part
of the state where Letitia James getsher base from, which is the Five
Boroughs, you know, leans veryheavily democratic, and that's why it's so
impossible for him to get a fairtrial in the Five Boroughs with eg and
Carroll, with the case with theother ridiculous case with Alvin Bragg in the
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Manhattan Die's office. But the sadness, the sad part of what's going on
with Donald Trump, for me,has less to do about Donald Trump as
it does as a lawyer who's inthe system, who grew up in the
system. With the bastardization of thesystem, this case and the amount of
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money involved and the bond that's supposedto be put up and the sanctions is
just so beyond the pale. It'sso unlike anything anyone has ever seen before.
And it's only because it's Donald Trump. And it's very upsetting to me.
I know it's upsetting to you.But you know, some people are
upsetting, upset because it's Donald Trump, and I understand that and I respect
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that. That's not why I'm upset. I'm upset because they're messing with the
whole system. And if we losethe system, if we lose the integrity
of our it's not just the criminaljustice system, it's the civil system that
as well, because that's the LuditiaJames system. If we lose faith,
then we're done. Then we're justlike every other BS country around the world.
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Well, we've become that. SoArthur Idalla esquire, you tell me
Monday, what happens. Donald Trumpgoes in there. Let's say he doesn't.
Let's say he doesn't come up withthe ridiculous almost half billion dollar ponder
cash. What happens. Well,as you know, Rob, you know,
it's not like you and I whoown a home and the deed is
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in our name and they just comeafter us. All of his assets,
all of his properties are in theselike complex LLCs and the corporate structures that
are designed to shield Donald Trump andany of the other stakeholders from liability,
whether it's somebody falls in the placeor dies in the place or anything like
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that. So it's not so simplethat she walks into some clerk's office and
says change the name on the deedfrom Trump LLC to Latisha James. But
she will start a process. It'sa different process to at the very least
put leans and what we call listpendance on the property, so that at
the very least it ties him up. In other words, he can't refinance
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things. Money that he would bethat would be new to him to come
out would be would be halted.So I mean, he does have a
couple of lifelines. Well, firstand foremost, he's saying he's going to
be able to come up with thecash. He did that big Truth Social
merger on Friday, which means Imean, apparently he's worth more three billion
dollars more now than before, buthe's not allowed to sell the stocks,
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so it's not liquid. But somebodyyou know who's very, very very wealthy
may take a risk on him.So hopefully he can just make it nice
and easy and do it that way. Otherwise he's got to go to the
Ampellate Division First of Department, whichis the controlling intermediary appellate court, and
ask them to allow him to appealby putting up a bond. Maybe I
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think he said his lawyer said inwriting they can do one hundred million dollars,
which is still an insane amount ofmoney, but not five hundred million
dollars. So if he goes inon Monday and post, well, let's
see he doesn't post the bond,she can start going through this process until
he does, or can judge angerOn then slap him with anything else.
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No, I think at this pointAngeron can only help him. I don't
think if he chose to. Idon't think he can hurt him. He
could either give him more time,or he could grant him a lower bond,
or they got to go over angerOn ten and gore. And I
think is how you say his nameand go to the intermediary appellate court and
f for relief. I'm hopeful,I'm cautiously optimistic someone is going to,
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you know, wrap their brain aroundthis and say, Okay, this is
a little ridiculous. And even thougheveryone here and involved here may dislike this
human being and don't want to,we don't want them any Presidents, you
know, we still have a system, and we still have to abide by
it, and we still have toobey the laws and precedents. What have
we done in the past, Whathave we done with other human beings,
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other individuals in the past, andwe have to follow that past. Okay,
let me ask you about the EighthAmendment. Excessive bail shall not be
required, nor excessive fines imposed,nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. All
of those happened to Donald Trump.So tell me, does this not merge
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into some way a federal case wherehe can say, hey, look,
I'm getting screwed here under the EighthAmendment, clearly. But when I mean,
does he have to go and exhaustall his avenues in the state first,
or concurrently, can he run toa federal court? Know, I
believe you are correct that he hasto exhaust the state remedies first. And
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as as you know, the EighthAmendment is typically invoked for criminal matters,
not civil matters. So this isit about bail. It's about bond,
and it's really geared towards I'm notsaying that with Trump's case. It's geared
so if someone loses the case,they don't exhaust all of their finances.
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They'll spend all the money so thatif they go to appeal and they lose
the appeal, the person who wona trial doesn't have any There's no more
money they are left for them tocollect. Well, what about what if
he says, wait a minute,what where does my right to appeal come
down to my right to be ableto pay it. You're taking all of
my money, you're taking my asses. I don't have the money to appeal
because you just wipe me out.That that is the argument that he would
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be making to the Appella Division tothe interest, so he'd be going over
the trial court's head. And that'sexactly what he's been saying, like,
this guy is so afraid of youfind of judges, because that's what it
is, five judges in the impelleddivision of any five of you reviewing his
decisions. He's so afraid he's notgiving me the opportunity to appeal. And
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I'll just give you a good,good example of someone who did do that.
The judge down in Georgia. Youknow, my affirm is representing Rudy
Giuliani in the Georgia case. Hemade the ruling that Sanny Willis can stay
on the case. But we hadto ask him can we appeal? And
he said yes. I mean,think about how crazy will be if he's
like, no, you can't appealmy ruling. Like I'm the Almighty and
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I'm perfect. So he did theright thing and he said, yes,
you could go appeal. Still goingto be moving forward with the trial at
a swift pace, but I'm allowingyou to appeal. Here. Judge and
gore On in the civil case hasset this bond so high that you're right,
he could be preventing this fundamental rightfor a pellet review. And that's
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why I'm hopeful that someone in thiswhole mix is going to have common sense
prevail. And look at president,Look how are other people treated. You
know, it's supposed to be equalprotection under the laws. Not if you're
a Republican leading presidential candidate, youget treated one way, and you know,
if you're not, you get treatedin another way. Rob Astorino here
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on seven to ten w Arthur Idller, who's a great criminal defense attorney,
and of course you just heard he'srepresenting Rudy Giuliani in the whole election interference
case down in that kangaroo court inFulton County, Georgia. So let me
go to that for a second whileI have you, not necessarily about Rudy,
but about this whole case down there. So we just watched, you
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know, I'll call her Fanny becauseshe is a Fanny. Fanny Willis.
She obviously, at the very leasthad had an appearance of impropriety of unethical
behavior, which I thought would bethe standard where at least she should should
step down or the judge should havethrown her off, if not potentially outright
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lying committing perjury. You know,he kind of he kind of slapped her
and then let her stay on,which to me seemed ridiculous, sort of
like James Comy, you know,with the whole Hillary Clinton. She was
horrible. She did a bad thing. She definitely broke the law, but
I'm not going to charge her.What about Fulton County? How is that
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now? Moving forward? For allof these cases, Well, basically,
you know, I felt bad.I mean, the judges a relatively young
man. He's thirty four years old. He worked directly for Fanny Willison in
the DA's office when not when shewas the DA, but when she was
like a bureau chief or something.He had a reprimand her a couple of
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times when she was on the standbecause she was so off the wall.
But here's where he disappointed us,because he's been a pretty good judge so
far. Where he disappointed us ishe basically says, yeah, I think
she but right, but it doesn'trise lot rise to the level where I
have to throw her off the case. And one of the underlying elements,
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even though it's not a technical legalelement, is that Trump and Julianni everyone
else were like lying about the electionbeing stolen. Lying where about electorates.
So now you have a prosecutor whohas basically been determined by the judge that
she lied to him under oath,which is a crime, by the way.
And uh, now you know she'sgoing to continue to prosecute people for
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lying. It's you know, it'slike a judge walking into a courtroom.
I prosecutor walking in the courtroom.She's going to joint to prosecute someone for
possession of marijuana. It's like,come on, man, is this the
United States of America. So youknow, I I'm disappointed with his ruling.
It is going to be appealed.And you know it's that Look,
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that case scares me, rob becauseit's you know, there's a mandatory minimum
jail sentence in that case. Yeah, and I will tell you first on
your show before he even speak onmy own radio show. Is my fear
is that somehow or another, DonaldTrump is not going to be prosecuted on
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that case, probably because he's alreadytied up in the Manhattan case or some
other case. And that was theelection time, and he gets elected,
he's the president of the United States, and then Rudy becomes public enemy number
one down there, and you know, you know what the pressure is as
a lawyer to try Rudy Giuliani's case, America's mayor, the man who saved
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New York twice, first from thecrime wave and then on nine to eleven.
And if he gets convicted, it'sa mandatory minimum of five years in
jail. And a lot of peopleare like, oh, he's not going
to judge. There's no judge that'sgoing to send them to jail. Well,
you're ignorant when you say that,because it's the law in Georgia.
If you get convicted of the topperrico counts, if the judge you was
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your father, your uncle, youraunt, you have to be sentenced to
five years at prison in Georgia.Well that's terrifying obviously for him, but
but for his lawyers, Yeah,that's terrifying for us as well. Yeah,
it should be. And that's wherethe Republican governor camp needs to set
this all right now, I understandhe wants to let this play out,
okay, but if something like thathappens, he better step in and issue
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pardons and stop this nonsense. Andby the way, they should. Well
that's what I you know, that'sthat's the only thing I have, and
you know, I will tell you, Mayor Julianni. He has a pretty
good attitude. He's got a prettypositive attitude. I hope he knows something
that I don't like. He's beengiven an assurance that that's what will happen,
that if you know, President Trumpbecomes President Trump again and now he's
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the leader by far of the countryand of the Republican Party. That Trump
picks up the phone and calls thegovernor at Georgia and says, okay,
all right, yeah, he gotit. Fine, you went through the
charade. Now I want you toparty by boy Rudy, and you know,
make sure he's not spending a secondin prison, let alone five years.
Yeah, let's hope. So,Arthur I DAWs, So just your
closing thoughts on this case. Herein New York, there's another one happening.
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That's Judge Marshand and this is theSormi Daniels case, which is ridiculous
again because the former DA in Manhattanside Van said no thank you, The
Justice Department for Biden said no thankyou, and the Federal Elections Commission said
this isn't a crime. And yetof course they find a way, Alvin
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Bragg, that moron finds a way. And so now, as a prosecutor,
they dump one hundred thousand pages orsomething like that last minute on the
defense Trump's attorneys. You're on thatside. How often does that happen where
the prosecution, you know, willwill just dump a whole bunch of stuff
to you right before the before thetrial. And obviously how unfair is that.
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Well, in federal court it happensall the time. I mean,
I mean it's that those are therules of evidence in federal court, Like
you know, basically on the eveof trial, they give you all the
FBI reports and past testimony. Sothat's very typical in federal court. In
state court, it's not typical atall. But they're kind of laying the
blame on the fence because the onehundred thousand documents are from the federal press
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prosecutors on the Michael Cohen case.And that's one of the things that judge
wants to know is well, whenwas it requested by the DA's office,
When was it requested by the defense? When was it turned over from the
US Attorney's office. But let mejust say in closing, rob you know,
I'm not a Republican, I'm nota Democrat. I am I'm down
the middle. I've been referred toas the horrible word of moderates. I
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look at issues and I look atpeople. I don't look at labels.
And as someone here who have I'vepracticed in that. I've been in that
courtroom since I'm like six years old, watching my dad. I interned in
the Manhattan Day's office. I've triedmajor case. I showed the hobby ye
steam in the mid Manhattan's office.I tried to eight Marshfeld in the Manhattan
Day's Office. I've never seen acase like this because there's never been a
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case like this where they're using federallaw to indict someone in a state,
in a state prosecution never happened before, ever, ever, Ever, it's
for the first time, so thefirst time any president has ever been indicted.
Being he's being indicted on a crimethat's never been created before. It
is beyond insane in the membrane.But and that's that's what I'm upset about.
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As you know, for me,it's not about Donald Trump. It's
about the integrity of our justice system, civil and criminal, and if we
become a country where well, youknow what, the New York Post says,
this is a good guy and that'sa bad guy. So for the
bad guy, we're going to ripup the laws, and for the good
guy, we're going to make surehe or she's protected with the laws.
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Then then we're done. Like we'redone. But he might as well be
Turkey or Guatemala or somewhere else.Now I think there are actually more protections
in Turkey and Guatemala for the oppositeparty, there are here Arthur Idala from
Idalla, Missus, Burtuna and Cammons. There you go. All right,
Hey, thanks Arthur, I appreciateit. Pleasure and honors all Mike,
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Thanks Rob, having a great day, all right. Arthur Idala, great
criminal defense attorney. He's got thechops and he knows exactly what he's talking
about. And so we'll take yourcalls one eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten. One eight hundred threetwo one zero seven ten if you want
to chime in about some of thisTrump stuff which is going to be clashing
on Monday in a couple ways,I'll take your calls, get your thoughts,
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and then a little later on we'regoing to take a walk down Arthur
Avenue with the owner of Domini's Restaurant. Uh, just a great place and
a couple other things. I gotto get off my chest. So we're
here till five. We still gotthirty two minutes to go, so don't
you go away. In fact,call right now one hundred three to two
one zero seven ten a rav Astarinosshow on seven ten. Oh all right,
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One aede hundred three two one zeroseven ten one eight hundred three two
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whenever you want, All right,one at hundred three two one zero seven
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ten. I just picture this fora second. You know, all these
Democrats and all these folks who areanti Trump, you know, with the
Trump arrangement syndrome which is starting tocome back. You know, you got
to put the thermometer in everyone's mouthbecause you could already, because he's the
nominee or will be, the hyperventilationmachine has already cranking out ridiculousness and it
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will be every single day between nowand November, because Joe Biden's got nothing
to run on, clearly, soit's got to be attacked the other guy.
And Trump is steadily moving up inthe polls to the point now where
in a lot of these head toheads nationally he's at or over fifty.
He's beating Joe Biden fifty fifty onefifty two to Biden in the forties.
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That's like beyond dangerous territory if you'reJoe Biden, and in these Michigans and
Wisconsins and Arizonas and Pennsylvania, allof these battleground states where it's really just
gonna come down to six or sevenstates, you know, like back when
George Bush was running twenty years agoor so, we had like anywhere between
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twelve and twenty let's say, battlegroundstates, so they were campaigning everywhere.
Now it's literally down to five,six, seven, maybe eight states at
most where the whole kit and kaboodleis going to be decided. So they're
gonna spend a lot of time inthere. But all of these issues are
with Donald Trump. The immigration stuff, now, all the car stuff,
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with these ev mandates and just gonnaput people out of work. Nobody want.
I don't want an electric car,and by the way, if I
do, I will get one.You're not gonna tell me I have to.
And that's the issue, and they'redoing it and it's really ticking people
off. And then you got thecrime issue. You got this law fair
that they're doing against Trump, andpeople see it for what it is.
The economy and inflation. So nothingis going well for Joe Biden. Nothing
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and he's a buffoon. And thenyou got Donald Trump, who's abrasive.
People didn't like what he said,but they look back and say, but
what he did was pretty good.I can deal with that, I think
for four years. Just get meout of this craziness. One hundred and
three two, one zero seven ten. Let's start in Jersey. Hey,
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Jeff, you're on the Rob AstorinoShow. Hey, Rob, you had
a guest on before, and youbrought up the issue of the Eighth Amendment
excess of fines. And if youlook at that three hundred and fifty million
as a fine, Trump will wineasily because there's tons of Supreme Court precedent
that if the fine, the penalty, if you will, exceeds the damages,
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that it violates the Eighth Amendment.The problem is that New York is
arguing that it's not a fine,but it's a disgorgement of ill gotten games,
which basically means giving up any gainsthat he shouldn't have had, and
the gains that he shouldn't have hadthat New York is arguing is that he
got a lower interest rate because hefalsified his financial statement. Right, And
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that's a good point. But sothey're twisting the English language because a fine
is a fine, and we knowit, and that's exactly how they're going
to try to skate free from thisand not get slapped down. But I
think there's you know, in theminds and eyes of any normal person and
clearly. I mean, you couldhave a quarter of a brain and you
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could figure this one out. Hewas fine. Yeah, Okay, Yeah,
I would totally agree that this isa fine not a disgorgement. If
you don't have victims, in myopinion, you don't have field gotten gains.
Correct, somebody if you're claiming thatRob Astererino may off with two hundred
million dollars in he've gotten gained,somebody was hurt by that. So who's
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the somebody, right, Jeff?I appreciate you coming on. Thanks calling
any Saturday, one hundred and threeto two, one zero seven ten.
Kathy, How are you from NorthCarolina? You were on last week?
It was good to talk to you. How are you? Very good?
Thank you for taking calls. Ilove that. Three things, well,
just quickie things which I've never interestedabout this kangaroo court that just went on.
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Why was there no jury? Like, was that really a mistake that
was part of the law? Unfortunatelynon jury for that, which is an
argument the bond. That's an argumentthat that Trump is making in there that
they should that this law itself isunconstitutional. This law itself is wrong and
should be challenged. But it iswhat it is, but they wanted everybody
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was spinning it that it was hisignorant, you know, female lawyer's fault,
and that was a spin and Ijust wanted to make sure to make
that clear that it wasn't her quoteunquote fault. Also, bond when it
whenever you just to call something abond, it usually means you're putting a
percentage of the full amount. Sowhy is it the full amount instead of
like ten percent of four hundred millions? And that's the other thing I get.
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And they're also charging interest every day. It's racking up, and so
it's like it's hard to catch upwith what he's got to pay, and
it becomes by the day harder andharder. And speaking of the interest,
that was the lowest blow I feltwas Latitia James putting it on social media
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just mocking, which I get thatTrump mocks, but she is a elected
official who's supposed to rise above this. She put on whatever it was on
Instagram the amount of the interest everyday, just mocking him. I don't
know if she's still doing it notor not, but that was just that
was just unbelievable. And speaking ofInstagram, I want to remind you you
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need to get blue checked. Iwant to tell you, yeah, that's
true. You somebody else reminded meof that. Thank you, Kathy.
One hundred and three two one zeroseven ten. Kathy was talking about my
Instagram, Twitter X and Facebook atrob Ascarino, so you can always follow
me al in Westchester. How areyou al? Good, rob On?
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Nice speaking to you. I rememberwhen you were the county executive up here
in Westchester. You were you dida good job, and you were always
for law and order. Thank you, thank you. I just want to
say quickly, financially, you knowthis is in the short term is a
real tragedy with President Trump. ButI hope as we move down the road,
the financial judgment gets dismissed or lowered, and I think in the long
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term, luckily for us as Americans. I do agree with you. I
do believe President Trump will be reelected again. I believe it will be
a narrow victory through the electoral college, and it will be the fourth time
in history when we seen a presidentelected through the electoral College. I appreciate
the call out, thanks so much. One one hundred and three to two
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one zero seven ten. Let mejust I'll just throw something out there,
Okay. So Letitia James filed withthe Westchester County Clerk basically the intention of
going after two properties. One isthe Seven Springs Estate, which actually the
property is I think it's like twohundred acres and it actually is in three
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different towns. It's in the townof Bedford, it's in the town of
north Castle, and it's in thetown of Newcastle. Now what is Newcastle?
Newcastle is Well, let's say,what's in Newcastle? Chappaquah. Now,
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why would that be an interesting pieceof property for her to go after?
Who lives in Chapaqua? Let methink, hm, oh yeah,
that's right. Hillary Clinton lives inChappaqua. I wonder if Letitia James maybe
gave a little call and said,don't you worry, I'm gonna get him,
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and I'm gonna go after the oneright near you. And the other
one is in Briarcliffe, which isthe Trump National Golf Course, a great
place. In fact, that's whereI played golf with Donald Trump. We
had a great time. I forgetthe year is going back like probably twenty
twelve or something. I forget whenit was, but he and I played
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golf together. It was. Itwas as fun as you would imagine playing
with him, because I was almostlike sitting in the golf cart with him,
like I was playing with a caricatureof Donald Trump. Because every hole
we went to, rub is thisnot the most beautiful hole ever? And
I swear like we had a chocolatechip cookie and He's like, is that
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not the best chocolate chip cookie?The whole time? And it was.
It was a fun time playing withhim. I have a great picture of
he and I playing golf, butlook, this is them. Imagine just
for a second, okay, thatyou're a Trump hater and you think that
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what Letitia James, what they're doingin Georgia and Fulton County, what the
Department of Justice under Biden is doingto Donald Trump and not doing to Biden.
Just imagine for one second, okay, that Donald Trump gets re elected.
Now let me ask you this.When he gets reelected, do you
want it to be the scene ofMichael Corleone's son's baptism where Donald Trump is
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going to have all his people goout and metaphorically with that gun. Do
you want to be one of thosepeople? Do you want Democrats to be
those people that take the bullets becausethey tried to do it to him,
So now it's his turn or ourturn, Republicans, to do it to
you. Is that really the placeyou want to live in. It's not
the place I want to live in. I want to know that if I
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do something wrong, or someone Iknow does something wrong, they will be
treated as everyone else should be treated. And nobody, nobody can tell me
without crossing their fingers behind their back, that they think Donald Trump is being
treated fairly. He is not.And take Donald Trump out of it.
Put Joe Blow, put Hillary Clinton. When they were yelling lock her up,
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I wasn't yelling at by the way, I thought that was stupid.
I didn't like that, even thoughshe got away with it, and the
FBI director said she got away withit and didn't prosecute her. We knew
then it was two standards. ButI wasn't yelling that, and nobody should
have yelled at. I didn't likewhen they did that. But when Donald
Trump got in office, did helock her up? Did he have Jeff
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Sessions, the Attorney General, goafter her? Did he do that?
No, he didn't. He didn't, And yet they're doing it to him.
This is scary stuff. It's dangerousstuff, and it should not happen.
Let me sneak another call or twohere, and then I want to
go down memory Lane on Arthur Avenueone eight hundred three two one zero seven
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ten. Maria is in Tarrytown.Hi, Maria, rob I'm calling because
I wanted to make an analogy ofwhat's happening to Trump in terms of Ford,
that woman, Blousie Ford, tooksix years to show that she was
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lying. I mean, and youcould see at least justice happens. I
mean, how long is it goingto take to show that Trump was innocent?
No, I think my point,that's a good point. That's a
really good point. And by theway, Blasi Ford was out in the
public the other day. I thinkshe was on the View maybe, And
did you see this, how ridiculousshe said? If you remember the whole
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thing with Brett Kavanaugh and his hearings, she was the woman who claimed,
way back when, when they werein high school or college or something,
that he sexually assaulted her. Idon't even remember what it was because it
was so stupid, with zero evidence. She couldn't prove anything, She didn't
remember anything, about it, andyet they put her out here on a
pedestal. She said the other daythat when she was going out to that
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Senate hearing, she had no ideashe was going to be on TV?
Are you kidding me? That shouldtell you all about that witness. Everyone
in the world is talking about this. They're making her and they made it
into a circus. And then shedidn't know she was going to be on
TV. Then, okay, allright, is a total insanity. All
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Right, I gotta take a breakhere. We have one more call.
Do you want to sneak into thehere or what you want to take that?
Who is that? Let's see whowe got on there? All right?
Mystery caller from New Jersey? Ray, how are you good? Rob?
I was just wondering, how comeDonald Trump is being held responsible for
these lawsuits when he has hired companiesand attorneys and accountants to purchase these properties.
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Why aren't why aren't those people beingheld accountable? Excellent point, because
he's not the one person in theentire world that the Democrats want to take
down. And that's a great validpoint, and that was his point.
All these accountants, all these lawyers, everybody, these bank attorneys, these
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insurance broke. Everybody looked at thedeals inside out, and everybody signed off
on it, even with the clausebasically buyer beware. But my valuations.
Your evaluations differ. Sometimes you're tryingto sell a house, folks. You
sell your house, don't you wantas much as you can get and the
person trying to buy it from youdon't. They want to get it for
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less. That's what's negotiations. That'swhat it's all about. And so is
that illegal If you sell your housefor let's say, five percent over market
value, that's called supply and demand. Is that now going to be illegal?
Because that's basically what he did.He was able to get properties at
either a better value or lower valuewhatever, everyone agreed on it, and
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he paid it all off. Everypart of that contract was satisfied. That's
why this is so insane. Anyway, Charlie, you're on the air,
So Charlie, Okay, Bruce justtold me, my hey, that Charlie
is standing by. There's a newcall. All I gotta take a break
because Charlie Depolo is standing by andwe're going to talk about Arthur Avenue.
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That great section of the Bronx thatyou may not have been to in a
while. It's time to go there. It's just it's so authentic. I'm
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want. So Sheila and I acouple of weeks ago we took a stroll
down Arthur Avenue in the Bronx,where we hadn't been in a little while.
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I went to Fordham, so youknow, I went to Arthur Avenue
many times when I was a student, and you know, I've been back
and forth every now and then andalways love walking around. It's just to
me, it's like it's the Bronx. It's just it's very New York,
and to me, it's more authenticthan going to Little Italy downtown, which
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is just a complete overpriced tourist trap. And I mean it's I guess it's
fun to be down there at times, but for me, especially if you're
in like Westchester or the Northern Suburbs, or in the Bronx, or even
in Manhattan, it's a quicker ridealmost probably to go to Arthur Revenue than
all the way downtown. Dealing withthat nonsense, but anyway, we were
down at Dominic's Restaurant and Charlie Depolo, who was a friend and and you
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know, just a great guy.He's one of those guys you walk in
and he'll greet you, he'll talkto you. It's like, I can't
wait to come back. So,Charlie, how are you, Bobby,
I'm doing good. Is it toomuch noise in the background here? Is
okay? No, I'm glad.That means there's people there, I hope
so, and yeah, yeah,that's great. You know. So we
went down there a couple weeks agoand Brajole, Right, I love bragole
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and I can't find at many Italianrestaurants, Brajole. So I open up
your menu and it was a Sundayand it's a Sunday only thing. I
think, right, it's said Brajole. So I'm okay, Charlie. Should
I get it? You're like,tried, It's good. It came out.
I thought it was a meat loaf. I thought I ordered meat loaf.
I say that because this was thebiggest piece of brazole sliced that it
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took me three days to eat it. And it was so I'm not going
to say it wasn't expensive. Itwas priced the right way. So all
I want to say, Charlie isyou have a good restaurant and I enjoyed
the brajole. I appreciate that,Bob. You know, I appreciate you
coming. I appreciate advertising a littlebit talking about Dominance because we try to
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do the best we can't for allthe customers that come in. Budge is
an authentic dish. We only serveon Sundays with the homemade lasagna. I'm
not going to give you a menurundown, but I don't wear old school
comfort food. People who do hearme talk now, they'll know it.
And we try to make everybody feelcomfort comfortable when they come into dominate.
They do you well, you do. And so tell me about Arthur revenue
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right now, because it's had likea transformation. I think in some ways,
maybe good, maybe bad. Idon't know what you've seen a lot
over the decades of Arthur Avenue.Where well, I've been I've been here.
I've been here a long I've beenhere a long time. Yo.
I'm sorry, Bob, no goodsee that they're calling up already. I've
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been here a long time. Ithas gone to a little bit of a
change, but not for change,for the worse. I think the change
for the better. More restaurants haveopened up and holiday time it's it's phenomenal
right now, getting ready for PalmSunday. People are down shopping as a
loudy, rainy day today, butstill people were down here shopping next week
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with Easter coming. Good Friday,we do Dominant will do a couple of
specials. I'm sure other restaurants willdo specials, and we all work together
to try to keep the neighborhood goingforward to great Italian neighborhood. It is
actually it's changed. For there's alot of Albanians there too, right there,
owning some restaurants and which is fine. You know a lot of turnover.
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There are a lot of Albanians,and the Albanians are a lot like
Italians and the same cloudies and traditionswe have, so they follow things and
we work together. What's out good? All? I got to ask you
this, who makes a better meatball? Italians or Albanians? Be honest?
Come on, well you know I'mgonna know what I'm gonna done. Put
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me on the spot. You know, we make the best meatbills and dom
the market across the street. SoI always remembered as a kid and at
Fordham whatever, walking into that marketand it's dunk like like chickens. It's
like dead chickens. I don't knowsomething chicken it was, but it was.
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It was actually like an experience.Now it's like all like cigar bars
and espresso and all it. Everything'schanged. Well, that that's true.
It has changed in that God,the market has changed. They went to
a change. A lot of theold time food market people in the front
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had left. They changed. Itsa coffee shop up there. They do
pizzas up there. They do differentthings. Nothing bad. I mean off
for the good. That's all Ican say. It's off for the good.
People shop they come in, theysaid that they're bar. They have
a long one of wine, theyhave coffee, dessert. I think that's
all for the better of artor revenue. People more things to feel comfortable about,
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you know. I think it's allfor the good. Now at the
revenue is going forward, not backwards. Forward. We always want to go
forward. I always think positive.Charlie Depolo, owner of Dominick's Restaurant in
the Bronx here on seven to tenw R The rob Asta Reno Show let
me ask you this, because peopleare concerned and rightfully so, about crime,
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about the complete open border and themess that is happening there, which
is now here with you know,over one hundred and seventy thousand illegal aliens
in the area. Obviously, thevast majority are good people. They just
should not be here. But thereare some bad people clearly in that.
If things are not going well,people don't feel right, they don't inflation
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are they Are they concerned walking aroundthe neighborhood. I think. I think
there's customers coming from different areas,they come from Westchester, Jersey, Long
Island and what they hear on whatthey see on the news and what they
hear. Absolutely everybody's concerned. Ithink everybody on their revenue is concerned too.
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I mean, that's that's something Ireally can't talk about politically, but
obviously I think we're all concerned.I think it's it's got to it's got
to stop somewhere. You know,it's got to change. But you can't
keep it open like this because it'sgoing to interfere with everything we do.
Of course it does. You know, if there's crime and people don't go
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out, they don't eat in yourrestaurant, they don't pay bills. You
don't pay your bills, and allof a sudden, people are out of
work and you're closing up. Andthat happens everywhere. So crime is a
big issue, and it's not apolitical issue. It's unfortunately though, the
politicians who are there are not doinganything about it. So that's why it
becomes a political issue. But thisis a societal issue, and they better
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fix this quick otherwise you know,New York City is going to pay the
price. And you've been through this, right, tell us about So what
was it like in the seventies whenit was awful crime, especially in the
Bronx, but also the city economicallywas a mess. It was just it
was a bad period of time,and the seventies it went to a bad
time. I think now it's worsethan the seventies. And I think,
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like I said, the politicians,they got to wake up. I mean,
they got to do something to stopthis. They can't can't give everything
away, can't make it easy forthese people. I have people who work
for me that I aaunch it andthey did it the right way to become
a citizen in the United States,and I think that's what they have to
go back to. This open borderthing is not the way to go.
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And we only put in our families, your family and everybody's family and risk
of the illegals and the terrorists thatget through the border. That's not a
good thing. Bumba. One lastquestion, so you don't have to be
like, you don't have to saywho. But you know, back in
the back in the day, I'msure you know you had mafia, the
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big mafia dons and the families hangingaround Arthur Avenue and all these other places.
Any of them ever, you know, do a little business near you.
Uh, I don't don't. Idon't understand that question. No,
no, no, Like you know, did they sit in your restaurant?
Now you're you weren't part of it, but they were just like sitting in
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your restaurant doing like mafia business.They got to eat. Well, you
know, it's a it was agood thing. I mean, you know,
it's it's different. It's just differenttoday all together. Different. Yeah,
and I think you know, Idon't know how to answer that question.
Basically, it was just different atthe time and today they have to
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do something. I mean, obviouslywhat they I don't understand if people don't
see what's going on, because it'shurting all of us in the pocket.
Yep. I mean that's the numberone. I can't see what they don't
see. It's it's the fault ofthe politicians. Charlie Depollo, owner of
Domini's Restaurant, go there to It'ssupposed to clear up by six o'clock,
so it should be a nice nightto walk around Arthur Avenue, go to
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see Charlie or anybody else. Dominic'sRestaurant, great place, Charlie. Best
of luck to you, Bob,thanks so much, great having nice talking
to you. Thank you. Yougot it all right, folks. So
yeah, it's supposed to clear up, thankfully, because I'm sick of this
rain. I hope you have abeautiful palm Sunday tomorrow. This is when
Jesus, you know, triumphantly walkedinto Jerusalem. Of course before he had
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been a horrible week. And we'llbe back here next Saturday, the day
before Easter, so stay with us, and of course you can always call
us during the show, and youcan always send me some comments via Facebook,
Twitter or Instagram at rob Asta Reno. That's it for me. I
think doctor Gil Liederman two and twochoices, two and two choices. That's
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next on seven ten WR have agreat weekend
This hour of programming on WOAR issponsored by Black Mountain Capitol now former Westchester
County executive Rob as on seven TAR. All right, I guess it's time
to start off. I love tryingto figure out what song Bruce is gonna
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fire up to begin this show everySaturday, and then he went with the
Stones. That was pretty good,little after four o'clock here on a wet,
windy, yucky day. Of course, it is every Saturday when the
show is on its raining. Whatis going on here as we start spring
this is this is a crazy weekcoming up on Monday, and we're gonna
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get into that just a moment.We're gonna actually have two Arthur's today.
We're gonna have Arthur Idalla, whois a great criminal defense attorney. He's
gonna come up in just a secondabout what Donald Trump is going through next
week, especially Monday, and thenwe're gonna take a stroll down Memory Lane
and Arthur Avenue with Charlie Depollo,who is the owner of Domini's Restaurant.
I was there with my wife acouple weeks ago. Such a great place,
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you know, and it's like Igrew up going there too, and
when I was at Fordham and justa really fun place and like kind of
forget about it sometimes, but Iprefer that so much more to little Italy
in downtown, which is such atourist trap. But anyway, it's good
to have you with us. Andof course we're here till five o'clock every
Saturday, four to five, andit's your chance. If you'd like to
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participate, you just have to pickup the phone one hundred three to two,
one zero seven ten. You needto get you need to avoid getting
gonged by Brusto, so that meansyou got to stay on topic. But
you're more than welcome to call inone hundred three to two, one zero
seven ten. All right, SoMonday is the deadline. You can just
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see Letitia James, the Attorney General. She's like a vulture. She's flying
around. She sees a wounded DonaldTrump in the street and she can't wait
to swoop in and stick her clawsand big beak right in his body.
And she's looking on Monday to dothat. If he doesn't come up with
the cash or a bond to satisfythis kangaroo court and this judgment against him
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in this civil fraud trial, whichis just total insanity. But think about
that, you know, a victimlesscrime. Letitia James ran on getting Trump
on something, anything, I'll figureit out. Just elect me, and
of course all the crazy leftists inthis city and stay, oh god,
I can't wait. Get Donald Trump. And they so she did, which
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is totally unethical, illegal what she'sdoing clearly. I mean, she said,
I'm going to get him on something, and she found something twisted and
turn and then they get this stupid, hack, ridiculous Democratic Party machine judge
who smiles for the camera, enjoyedevery second of it, and he writes
the script for the ending here atleast as Letitia James and every Democrat wants
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it of trying to put the nailin Donald Trump's at least financial coffin.
But think about what they're doing hereand what they're doing through the Department of
Justice in all these trials against DonaldTrump. They've made him spend fifty million
dollars so far on attorney's fees todefend himself and in many cases to defend
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you and me and our beliefs,because that's kind of what they're going at.
And there's this one picture of LetitiaJames in the courtroom. Now,
when does an attorney general, theattorney general of the state, go into
the courtroom for days upon days ona case this insignificant? Why did you
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go to courtroom? Ever? Really? But of course she was there because
the cameras were there, and itjust proved this is all political. But
there's that photo of her in thefront row looking at Donald Trump, staring
at him with this you know what, eating grin like I'm going to get
you. And she wasn't just lookingat him, she was looking at you.
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She's looking at me. She's lookingat everybody who dares dares to not
tow their line. That's what thisis all about. So let's get into
the the you know, the litigation. Here, the opportunities for Trump to
kind of get out of this ifhe if he can, or what the
next step is, because Monday,the clock is ticking. Monday is the
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deadline. He's got to come upwith us. So let me bring in
Arthur Idalla, who is a greatcriminal defense attorney from Idalla, Bertona and
Cammons. I get that right,Arthur, Well, that's my wife's made
a name. Burtuna, Oh,Burtuna yeah, otherwise I'm in big trouble.
I can't even read my own writing. Of course it's Burtuna, So
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Arthur's glad to have. I'm reallyhappy that you're here because you're a smart
guy and and we all want toknow, take me back to the law
that she used in order to getDonald Trump the way she got him.
So I'm just gonna say that there'stwo tiny little things you said that that
I will respectfully since you're you know, you're the governor to be or I
don't know, you know, you'reyou're I don't know what your site are
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said. Maybe you're running for president, Robin you're a quipped so I don't
know how that's gonna wind up.But number one, you said to Leticia
James is in the court room foran insignificant case. You know it's unfortunately
for all the wrong reason. Yeah, it's a very significant case. And
number two you said, you said, this is the end that every Democrat
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is rooting for. And I maybetravel in different circles than you do.
There are many, many, manyDemocratic stalwarts who are very upset about this.
Maybe they're not on Rob Asserino's radioshow saying it like I am,
but they really are, and theyunderstand that this first and foremost you're not
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supposed to run for any prosecutorial office. On the platform is I'm going to
get this guy or this woman likeelect me and I will bring this human
being down to their knees and justtake them out. So that's what she
did running for it. That's wrong. It's absolutely wrong. And anyone who's
being honest, they voted for heroverwhelming us. Well look, listen,
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as honest as we could be here. When Donald Trump became president, he
didn't really do New York any favors. On April fifteenth, when I pay
my taxes and I can't write offall of my mortgage and my state and
I'll only you know, I don'texactly want to embrace him and give him
a big hug and say thank you. But you know, besides that,
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you know better than I do thatthis state, or at least this part
of the state where Letitia James getsher base from, which is the Five
Boroughs, you know, leans veryheavily democratic, and that's why it's so
impossible for him to get a fairtrial in the Five Boroughs with eg and
Carroll, with the case with theother ridiculous case with Alvin Bragg in the
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Manhattan Die's office. But the sadness, the sad part of what's going on
with Donald Trump, for me,has less to do about Donald Trump as
it does as a lawyer who's inthe system, who grew up in the
system. With the bastardization of thesystem, this case and the amount of
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money involved and the bond that's supposedto be put up and the sanctions is
just so beyond the pale. It'sso unlike anything anyone has ever seen before.
And it's only because it's Donald Trump. And it's very upsetting to me.
I know it's upsetting to you.But you know, some people are
upsetting, upset because it's Donald Trump, and I understand that and I respect
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that. That's not why I'm upset. I'm upset because they're messing with the
whole system. And if we losethe system, if we lose the integrity
of our it's not just the criminaljustice system, it's the civil system that
as well, because that's the LuditiaJames system. If we lose faith,
then we're done. Then we're justlike every other BS country around the world.
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Well, we've become that. SoArthur Idalla esquire, you tell me
Monday, what happens. Donald Trumpgoes in there. Let's say he doesn't.
Let's say he doesn't come up withthe ridiculous almost half billion dollar ponder
cash. What happens. Well,as you know, Rob, you know,
it's not like you and I whoown a home and the deed is
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in our name and they just comeafter us. All of his assets,
all of his properties are in theselike complex LLCs and the corporate structures that
are designed to shield Donald Trump andany of the other stakeholders from liability,
whether it's somebody falls in the placeor dies in the place or anything like
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that. So it's not so simplethat she walks into some clerk's office and
says change the name on the deedfrom Trump LLC to Latisha James. But
she will start a process. It'sa different process to at the very least
put leans and what we call listpendance on the property, so that at
the very least it ties him up. In other words, he can't refinance
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things. Money that he would bethat would be new to him to come
out would be would be halted.So I mean, he does have a
couple of lifelines. Well, firstand foremost, he's saying he's going to
be able to come up with thecash. He did that big Truth Social
merger on Friday, which means Imean, apparently he's worth more three billion
dollars more now than before, buthe's not allowed to sell the stocks,
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so it's not liquid. But somebodyyou know who's very, very very wealthy
may take a risk on him.So hopefully he can just make it nice
and easy and do it that way. Otherwise he's got to go to the
Ampellate Division First of Department, whichis the controlling intermediary appellate court, and
ask them to allow him to appealby putting up a bond. Maybe I
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think he said his lawyer said inwriting they can do one hundred million dollars,
which is still an insane amount ofmoney, but not five hundred million
dollars. So if he goes inon Monday and post, well, let's
see he doesn't post the bond,she can start going through this process until
he does, or can judge angerOn then slap him with anything else.
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No, I think at this pointAngeron can only help him. I don't
think if he chose to. Idon't think he can hurt him. He
could either give him more time,or he could grant him a lower bond,
or they got to go over angerOn ten and gore. And I
think is how you say his nameand go to the intermediary appellate court and
f for relief. I'm hopeful,I'm cautiously optimistic someone is going to,
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you know, wrap their brain aroundthis and say, Okay, this is
a little ridiculous. And even thougheveryone here and involved here may dislike this
human being and don't want to,we don't want them any Presidents, you
know, we still have a system, and we still have to abide by
it, and we still have toobey the laws and precedents. What have
we done in the past, Whathave we done with other human beings,
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other individuals in the past, andwe have to follow that past. Okay,
let me ask you about the EighthAmendment. Excessive bail shall not be
required, nor excessive fines imposed,nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. All
of those happened to Donald Trump.So tell me, does this not merge
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into some way a federal case wherehe can say, hey, look,
I'm getting screwed here under the EighthAmendment, clearly. But when I mean,
does he have to go and exhaustall his avenues in the state first,
or concurrently, can he run toa federal court? Know, I
believe you are correct that he hasto exhaust the state remedies first. And
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as as you know, the EighthAmendment is typically invoked for criminal matters,
not civil matters. So this isit about bail. It's about bond,
and it's really geared towards I'm notsaying that with Trump's case. It's geared
so if someone loses the case,they don't exhaust all of their finances.
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They'll spend all the money so thatif they go to appeal and they lose
the appeal, the person who wona trial doesn't have any There's no more
money they are left for them tocollect. Well, what about what if
he says, wait a minute,what where does my right to appeal come
down to my right to be ableto pay it. You're taking all of
my money, you're taking my asses. I don't have the money to appeal
because you just wipe me out.That that is the argument that he would
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be making to the Appella Division tothe interest, so he'd be going over
the trial court's head. And that'sexactly what he's been saying, like,
this guy is so afraid of youfind of judges, because that's what it
is, five judges in the impelleddivision of any five of you reviewing his
decisions. He's so afraid he's notgiving me the opportunity to appeal. And
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I'll just give you a good,good example of someone who did do that.
The judge down in Georgia. Youknow, my affirm is representing Rudy
Giuliani in the Georgia case. Hemade the ruling that Sanny Willis can stay
on the case. But we hadto ask him can we appeal? And
he said yes. I mean,think about how crazy will be if he's
like, no, you can't appealmy ruling. Like I'm the Almighty and
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I'm perfect. So he did theright thing and he said, yes,
you could go appeal. Still goingto be moving forward with the trial at
a swift pace, but I'm allowingyou to appeal. Here. Judge and
gore On in the civil case hasset this bond so high that you're right,
he could be preventing this fundamental rightfor a pellet review. And that's
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why I'm hopeful that someone in thiswhole mix is going to have common sense
prevail. And look at president,Look how are other people treated. You
know, it's supposed to be equalprotection under the laws. Not if you're
a Republican leading presidential candidate, youget treated one way, and you know,
if you're not, you get treatedin another way. Rob Astorino here
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on seven to ten w Arthur Idller, who's a great criminal defense attorney,
and of course you just heard he'srepresenting Rudy Giuliani in the whole election interference
case down in that kangaroo court inFulton County, Georgia. So let me
go to that for a second whileI have you, not necessarily about Rudy,
but about this whole case down there. So we just watched, you
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know, I'll call her Fanny becauseshe is a Fanny. Fanny Willis.
She obviously, at the very leasthad had an appearance of impropriety of unethical
behavior, which I thought would bethe standard where at least she should should
step down or the judge should havethrown her off, if not potentially outright
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lying committing perjury. You know,he kind of he kind of slapped her
and then let her stay on,which to me seemed ridiculous, sort of
like James Comy, you know,with the whole Hillary Clinton. She was
horrible. She did a bad thing. She definitely broke the law, but
I'm not going to charge her.What about Fulton County? How is that
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now? Moving forward? For allof these cases, Well, basically,
you know, I felt bad.I mean, the judges a relatively young
man. He's thirty four years old. He worked directly for Fanny Willison in
the DA's office when not when shewas the DA, but when she was
like a bureau chief or something.He had a reprimand her a couple of
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times when she was on the standbecause she was so off the wall.
But here's where he disappointed us,because he's been a pretty good judge so
far. Where he disappointed us ishe basically says, yeah, I think
she but right, but it doesn'trise lot rise to the level where I
have to throw her off the case. And one of the underlying elements,
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even though it's not a technical legalelement, is that Trump and Julianni everyone
else were like lying about the electionbeing stolen. Lying where about electorates.
So now you have a prosecutor whohas basically been determined by the judge that
she lied to him under oath,which is a crime, by the way.
And uh, now you know she'sgoing to continue to prosecute people for
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lying. It's you know, it'slike a judge walking into a courtroom.
I prosecutor walking in the courtroom.She's going to joint to prosecute someone for
possession of marijuana. It's like,come on, man, is this the
United States of America. So youknow, I I'm disappointed with his ruling.
It is going to be appealed.And you know it's that Look,
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that case scares me, rob becauseit's you know, there's a mandatory minimum
jail sentence in that case. Yeah, and I will tell you first on
your show before he even speak onmy own radio show. Is my fear
is that somehow or another, DonaldTrump is not going to be prosecuted on
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that case, probably because he's alreadytied up in the Manhattan case or some
other case. And that was theelection time, and he gets elected,
he's the president of the United States, and then Rudy becomes public enemy number
one down there, and you know, you know what the pressure is as
a lawyer to try Rudy Giuliani's case, America's mayor, the man who saved
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New York twice, first from thecrime wave and then on nine to eleven.
And if he gets convicted, it'sa mandatory minimum of five years in
jail. And a lot of peopleare like, oh, he's not going
to judge. There's no judge that'sgoing to send them to jail. Well,
you're ignorant when you say that,because it's the law in Georgia.
If you get convicted of the topperrico counts, if the judge you was
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your father, your uncle, youraunt, you have to be sentenced to
five years at prison in Georgia.Well that's terrifying obviously for him, but
but for his lawyers, Yeah,that's terrifying for us as well. Yeah,
it should be. And that's wherethe Republican governor camp needs to set
this all right now, I understandhe wants to let this play out,
okay, but if something like thathappens, he better step in and issue
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pardons and stop this nonsense. Andby the way, they should. Well
that's what I you know, that'sthat's the only thing I have, and
you know, I will tell you, Mayor Julianni. He has a pretty
good attitude. He's got a prettypositive attitude. I hope he knows something
that I don't like. He's beengiven an assurance that that's what will happen,
that if you know, President Trumpbecomes President Trump again and now he's
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the leader by far of the countryand of the Republican Party. That Trump
picks up the phone and calls thegovernor at Georgia and says, okay,
all right, yeah, he gotit. Fine, you went through the
charade. Now I want you toparty by boy Rudy, and you know,
make sure he's not spending a secondin prison, let alone five years.
Yeah, let's hope. So,Arthur I DAWs, So just your
closing thoughts on this case. Herein New York, there's another one happening.
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That's Judge Marshand and this is theSormi Daniels case, which is ridiculous
again because the former DA in Manhattanside Van said no thank you, The
Justice Department for Biden said no thankyou, and the Federal Elections Commission said
this isn't a crime. And yetof course they find a way, Alvin
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Bragg, that moron finds a way. And so now, as a prosecutor,
they dump one hundred thousand pages orsomething like that last minute on the
defense Trump's attorneys. You're on thatside. How often does that happen where
the prosecution, you know, willwill just dump a whole bunch of stuff
to you right before the before thetrial. And obviously how unfair is that.
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Well, in federal court it happensall the time. I mean,
I mean it's that those are therules of evidence in federal court, Like
you know, basically on the eveof trial, they give you all the
FBI reports and past testimony. Sothat's very typical in federal court. In
state court, it's not typical atall. But they're kind of laying the
blame on the fence because the onehundred thousand documents are from the federal press
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prosecutors on the Michael Cohen case.And that's one of the things that judge
wants to know is well, whenwas it requested by the DA's office,
When was it requested by the defense? When was it turned over from the
US Attorney's office. But let mejust say in closing, rob you know,
I'm not a Republican, I'm nota Democrat. I am I'm down
the middle. I've been referred toas the horrible word of moderates. I
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look at issues and I look atpeople. I don't look at labels.
And as someone here who have I'vepracticed in that. I've been in that
courtroom since I'm like six years old, watching my dad. I interned in
the Manhattan Day's office. I've triedmajor case. I showed the hobby ye
steam in the mid Manhattan's office.I tried to eight Marshfeld in the Manhattan
Day's Office. I've never seen acase like this because there's never been a
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case like this where they're using federallaw to indict someone in a state,
in a state prosecution never happened before, ever, ever, Ever, it's
for the first time, so thefirst time any president has ever been indicted.
Being he's being indicted on a crimethat's never been created before. It
is beyond insane in the membrane.But and that's that's what I'm upset about.
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As you know, for me,it's not about Donald Trump. It's
about the integrity of our justice system, civil and criminal, and if we
become a country where well, youknow what, the New York Post says,
this is a good guy and that'sa bad guy. So for the
bad guy, we're going to ripup the laws, and for the good
guy, we're going to make surehe or she's protected with the laws.
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Then then we're done. Like we'redone. But he might as well be
Turkey or Guatemala or somewhere else.Now I think there are actually more protections
in Turkey and Guatemala for the oppositeparty, there are here Arthur Idala from
Idalla, Missus, Burtuna and Cammons. There you go. All right,
Hey, thanks Arthur, I appreciateit. Pleasure and honors all Mike,
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Thanks Rob, having a great day, all right. Arthur Idala, great
criminal defense attorney. He's got thechops and he knows exactly what he's talking
about. And so we'll take yourcalls one eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten. One eight hundred threetwo one zero seven ten if you want
to chime in about some of thisTrump stuff which is going to be clashing
on Monday in a couple ways,I'll take your calls, get your thoughts,
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and then a little later on we'regoing to take a walk down Arthur
Avenue with the owner of Domini's Restaurant. Uh, just a great place and
a couple other things. I gotto get off my chest. So we're
here till five. We still gotthirty two minutes to go, so don't
you go away. In fact,call right now one hundred three to two
one zero seven ten a rav Astarinosshow on seven ten. Oh all right,
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One aede hundred three two one zeroseven ten one eight hundred three two
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whenever you want, All right,one at hundred three two one zero seven
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ten. I just picture this fora second. You know, all these
Democrats and all these folks who areanti Trump, you know, with the
Trump arrangement syndrome which is starting tocome back. You know, you got
to put the thermometer in everyone's mouthbecause you could already, because he's the
nominee or will be, the hyperventilationmachine has already cranking out ridiculousness and it
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will be every single day between nowand November, because Joe Biden's got nothing
to run on, clearly, soit's got to be attacked the other guy.
And Trump is steadily moving up inthe polls to the point now where
in a lot of these head toheads nationally he's at or over fifty.
He's beating Joe Biden fifty fifty onefifty two to Biden in the forties.
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That's like beyond dangerous territory if you'reJoe Biden, and in these Michigans and
Wisconsins and Arizonas and Pennsylvania, allof these battleground states where it's really just
gonna come down to six or sevenstates, you know, like back when
George Bush was running twenty years agoor so, we had like anywhere between
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twelve and twenty let's say, battlegroundstates, so they were campaigning everywhere.
Now it's literally down to five,six, seven, maybe eight states at
most where the whole kit and kaboodleis going to be decided. So they're
gonna spend a lot of time inthere. But all of these issues are
with Donald Trump. The immigration stuff, now, all the car stuff,
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with these ev mandates and just gonnaput people out of work. Nobody want.
I don't want an electric car,and by the way, if I
do, I will get one.You're not gonna tell me I have to.
And that's the issue, and they'redoing it and it's really ticking people
off. And then you got thecrime issue. You got this law fair
that they're doing against Trump, andpeople see it for what it is.
The economy and inflation. So nothingis going well for Joe Biden. Nothing
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and he's a buffoon. And thenyou got Donald Trump, who's abrasive.
People didn't like what he said,but they look back and say, but
what he did was pretty good.I can deal with that, I think
for four years. Just get meout of this craziness. One hundred and
three two, one zero seven ten. Let's start in Jersey. Hey,
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Jeff, you're on the Rob AstorinoShow. Hey, Rob, you had
a guest on before, and youbrought up the issue of the Eighth Amendment
excess of fines. And if youlook at that three hundred and fifty million
as a fine, Trump will wineasily because there's tons of Supreme Court precedent
that if the fine, the penalty, if you will, exceeds the damages,
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that it violates the Eighth Amendment.The problem is that New York is
arguing that it's not a fine,but it's a disgorgement of ill gotten games,
which basically means giving up any gainsthat he shouldn't have had, and
the gains that he shouldn't have hadthat New York is arguing is that he
got a lower interest rate because hefalsified his financial statement. Right, And
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that's a good point. But sothey're twisting the English language because a fine
is a fine, and we knowit, and that's exactly how they're going
to try to skate free from thisand not get slapped down. But I
think there's you know, in theminds and eyes of any normal person and
clearly. I mean, you couldhave a quarter of a brain and you
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could figure this one out. Hewas fine. Yeah, Okay, Yeah,
I would totally agree that this isa fine not a disgorgement. If
you don't have victims, in myopinion, you don't have field gotten gains.
Correct, somebody if you're claiming thatRob Astererino may off with two hundred
million dollars in he've gotten gained,somebody was hurt by that. So who's
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the somebody, right, Jeff?I appreciate you coming on. Thanks calling
any Saturday, one hundred and threeto two, one zero seven ten.
Kathy, How are you from NorthCarolina? You were on last week?
It was good to talk to you. How are you? Very good?
Thank you for taking calls. Ilove that. Three things, well,
just quickie things which I've never interestedabout this kangaroo court that just went on.
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Why was there no jury? Like, was that really a mistake that
was part of the law? Unfortunatelynon jury for that, which is an
argument the bond. That's an argumentthat that Trump is making in there that
they should that this law itself isunconstitutional. This law itself is wrong and
should be challenged. But it iswhat it is, but they wanted everybody
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was spinning it that it was hisignorant, you know, female lawyer's fault,
and that was a spin and Ijust wanted to make sure to make
that clear that it wasn't her quoteunquote fault. Also, bond when it
whenever you just to call something abond, it usually means you're putting a
percentage of the full amount. Sowhy is it the full amount instead of
like ten percent of four hundred millions? And that's the other thing I get.
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And they're also charging interest every day. It's racking up, and so
it's like it's hard to catch upwith what he's got to pay, and
it becomes by the day harder andharder. And speaking of the interest,
that was the lowest blow I feltwas Latitia James putting it on social media
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just mocking, which I get thatTrump mocks, but she is a elected
official who's supposed to rise above this. She put on whatever it was on
Instagram the amount of the interest everyday, just mocking him. I don't
know if she's still doing it notor not, but that was just that
was just unbelievable. And speaking ofInstagram, I want to remind you you
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need to get blue checked. Iwant to tell you, yeah, that's
true. You somebody else reminded meof that. Thank you, Kathy.
One hundred and three two one zeroseven ten. Kathy was talking about my
Instagram, Twitter X and Facebook atrob Ascarino, so you can always follow
me al in Westchester. How areyou al? Good, rob On?
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Nice speaking to you. I rememberwhen you were the county executive up here
in Westchester. You were you dida good job, and you were always
for law and order. Thank you, thank you. I just want to
say quickly, financially, you knowthis is in the short term is a
real tragedy with President Trump. ButI hope as we move down the road,
the financial judgment gets dismissed or lowered, and I think in the long
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term, luckily for us as Americans. I do agree with you. I
do believe President Trump will be reelected again. I believe it will be
a narrow victory through the electoral college, and it will be the fourth time
in history when we seen a presidentelected through the electoral College. I appreciate
the call out, thanks so much. One one hundred and three to two
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one zero seven ten. Let mejust I'll just throw something out there,
Okay. So Letitia James filed withthe Westchester County Clerk basically the intention of
going after two properties. One isthe Seven Springs Estate, which actually the
property is I think it's like twohundred acres and it actually is in three
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different towns. It's in the townof Bedford, it's in the town of
north Castle, and it's in thetown of Newcastle. Now what is Newcastle?
Newcastle is Well, let's say,what's in Newcastle? Chappaquah. Now,
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why would that be an interesting pieceof property for her to go after?
Who lives in Chapaqua? Let methink, hm, oh yeah,
that's right. Hillary Clinton lives inChappaqua. I wonder if Letitia James maybe
gave a little call and said,don't you worry, I'm gonna get him,
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and I'm gonna go after the oneright near you. And the other
one is in Briarcliffe, which isthe Trump National Golf Course, a great
place. In fact, that's whereI played golf with Donald Trump. We
had a great time. I forgetthe year is going back like probably twenty
twelve or something. I forget whenit was, but he and I played
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golf together. It was. Itwas as fun as you would imagine playing
with him, because I was almostlike sitting in the golf cart with him,
like I was playing with a caricatureof Donald Trump. Because every hole
we went to, rub is thisnot the most beautiful hole ever? And
I swear like we had a chocolatechip cookie and He's like, is that
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not the best chocolate chip cookie?The whole time? And it was.
It was a fun time playing withhim. I have a great picture of
he and I playing golf, butlook, this is them. Imagine just
for a second, okay, thatyou're a Trump hater and you think that
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what Letitia James, what they're doingin Georgia and Fulton County, what the
Department of Justice under Biden is doingto Donald Trump and not doing to Biden.
Just imagine for one second, okay, that Donald Trump gets re elected.
Now let me ask you this.When he gets reelected, do you
want it to be the scene ofMichael Corleone's son's baptism where Donald Trump is
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going to have all his people goout and metaphorically with that gun. Do
you want to be one of thosepeople? Do you want Democrats to be
those people that take the bullets becausethey tried to do it to him,
So now it's his turn or ourturn, Republicans, to do it to
you. Is that really the placeyou want to live in. It's not
the place I want to live in. I want to know that if I
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do something wrong, or someone Iknow does something wrong, they will be
treated as everyone else should be treated. And nobody, nobody can tell me
without crossing their fingers behind their back, that they think Donald Trump is being
treated fairly. He is not.And take Donald Trump out of it.
Put Joe Blow, put Hillary Clinton. When they were yelling lock her up,
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I wasn't yelling at by the way, I thought that was stupid.
I didn't like that, even thoughshe got away with it, and the
FBI director said she got away withit and didn't prosecute her. We knew
then it was two standards. ButI wasn't yelling that, and nobody should
have yelled at. I didn't likewhen they did that. But when Donald
Trump got in office, did helock her up? Did he have Jeff
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Sessions, the Attorney General, goafter her? Did he do that?
No, he didn't. He didn't, And yet they're doing it to him.
This is scary stuff. It's dangerousstuff, and it should not happen.
Let me sneak another call or twohere, and then I want to
go down memory Lane on Arthur Avenueone eight hundred three two one zero seven
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ten. Maria is in Tarrytown.Hi, Maria, rob I'm calling because
I wanted to make an analogy ofwhat's happening to Trump in terms of Ford,
that woman, Blousie Ford, tooksix years to show that she was
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lying. I mean, and youcould see at least justice happens. I
mean, how long is it goingto take to show that Trump was innocent?
No, I think my point,that's a good point. That's a
really good point. And by theway, Blasi Ford was out in the
public the other day. I thinkshe was on the View maybe, And
did you see this, how ridiculousshe said? If you remember the whole
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thing with Brett Kavanaugh and his hearings, she was the woman who claimed,
way back when, when they werein high school or college or something,
that he sexually assaulted her. Idon't even remember what it was because it
was so stupid, with zero evidence. She couldn't prove anything, She didn't
remember anything, about it, andyet they put her out here on a
pedestal. She said the other daythat when she was going out to that
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Senate hearing, she had no ideashe was going to be on TV?
Are you kidding me? That shouldtell you all about that witness. Everyone
in the world is talking about this. They're making her and they made it
into a circus. And then shedidn't know she was going to be on
TV. Then, okay, allright, is a total insanity. All
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Right, I gotta take a breakhere. We have one more call.
Do you want to sneak into thehere or what you want to take that?
Who is that? Let's see whowe got on there? All right?
Mystery caller from New Jersey? Ray, how are you good? Rob?
I was just wondering, how comeDonald Trump is being held responsible for
these lawsuits when he has hired companiesand attorneys and accountants to purchase these properties.
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Why aren't why aren't those people beingheld accountable? Excellent point, because
he's not the one person in theentire world that the Democrats want to take
down. And that's a great validpoint, and that was his point.
All these accountants, all these lawyers, everybody, these bank attorneys, these
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insurance broke. Everybody looked at thedeals inside out, and everybody signed off
on it, even with the clausebasically buyer beware. But my valuations.
Your evaluations differ. Sometimes you're tryingto sell a house, folks. You
sell your house, don't you wantas much as you can get and the
person trying to buy it from youdon't. They want to get it for
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less. That's what's negotiations. That'swhat it's all about. And so is
that illegal If you sell your housefor let's say, five percent over market
value, that's called supply and demand. Is that now going to be illegal?
Because that's basically what he did.He was able to get properties at
either a better value or lower valuewhatever, everyone agreed on it, and
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he paid it all off. Everypart of that contract was satisfied. That's
why this is so insane. Anyway, Charlie, you're on the air,
So Charlie, Okay, Bruce justtold me, my hey, that Charlie
is standing by. There's a newcall. All I gotta take a break
because Charlie Depolo is standing by andwe're going to talk about Arthur Avenue.
(38:04):
That great section of the Bronx thatyou may not have been to in a
while. It's time to go there. It's just it's so authentic. I'm
rob Astorino here on seven ten WRthe rob Astorno Show for the next fifteen
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want. So Sheila and I acouple of weeks ago we took a stroll
down Arthur Avenue in the Bronx,where we hadn't been in a little while.
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I went to Fordham, so youknow, I went to Arthur Avenue
many times when I was a student, and you know, I've been back
and forth every now and then andalways love walking around. It's just to
me, it's like it's the Bronx. It's just it's very New York,
and to me, it's more authenticthan going to Little Italy downtown, which
(39:59):
is just a complete overpriced tourist trap. And I mean it's I guess it's
fun to be down there at times, but for me, especially if you're
in like Westchester or the Northern Suburbs, or in the Bronx, or even
in Manhattan, it's a quicker ridealmost probably to go to Arthur Revenue than
all the way downtown. Dealing withthat nonsense, but anyway, we were
down at Dominic's Restaurant and Charlie Depolo, who was a friend and and you
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know, just a great guy.He's one of those guys you walk in
and he'll greet you, he'll talkto you. It's like, I can't
wait to come back. So,Charlie, how are you, Bobby,
I'm doing good. Is it toomuch noise in the background here? Is
okay? No, I'm glad.That means there's people there, I hope
so, and yeah, yeah,that's great. You know. So we
went down there a couple weeks agoand Brajole, Right, I love bragole
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and I can't find at many Italianrestaurants, Brajole. So I open up
your menu and it was a Sundayand it's a Sunday only thing. I
think, right, it's said Brajole. So I'm okay, Charlie. Should
I get it? You're like,tried, It's good. It came out.
I thought it was a meat loaf. I thought I ordered meat loaf.
I say that because this was thebiggest piece of brazole sliced that it
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took me three days to eat it. And it was so I'm not going
to say it wasn't expensive. Itwas priced the right way. So all
I want to say, Charlie isyou have a good restaurant and I enjoyed
the brajole. I appreciate that,Bob. You know, I appreciate you
coming. I appreciate advertising a littlebit talking about Dominance because we try to
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do the best we can't for allthe customers that come in. Budge is
an authentic dish. We only serveon Sundays with the homemade lasagna. I'm
not going to give you a menurundown, but I don't wear old school
comfort food. People who do hearme talk now, they'll know it.
And we try to make everybody feelcomfort comfortable when they come into dominate.
They do you well, you do. And so tell me about Arthur revenue
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right now, because it's had likea transformation. I think in some ways,
maybe good, maybe bad. Idon't know what you've seen a lot
over the decades of Arthur Avenue.Where well, I've been I've been here.
I've been here a long I've beenhere a long time. Yo.
I'm sorry, Bob, no goodsee that they're calling up already. I've
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been here a long time. Ithas gone to a little bit of a
change, but not for change,for the worse. I think the change
for the better. More restaurants haveopened up and holiday time it's it's phenomenal
right now, getting ready for PalmSunday. People are down shopping as a
loudy, rainy day today, butstill people were down here shopping next week
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with Easter coming. Good Friday,we do Dominant will do a couple of
specials. I'm sure other restaurants willdo specials, and we all work together
to try to keep the neighborhood goingforward to great Italian neighborhood. It is
actually it's changed. For there's alot of Albanians there too, right there,
owning some restaurants and which is fine. You know a lot of turnover.
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There are a lot of Albanians,and the Albanians are a lot like
Italians and the same cloudies and traditionswe have, so they follow things and
we work together. What's out good? All? I got to ask you
this, who makes a better meatball? Italians or Albanians? Be honest?
Come on, well you know I'mgonna know what I'm gonna done. Put
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me on the spot. You know, we make the best meatbills and dom
the market across the street. SoI always remembered as a kid and at
Fordham whatever, walking into that marketand it's dunk like like chickens. It's
like dead chickens. I don't knowsomething chicken it was, but it was.
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It was actually like an experience.Now it's like all like cigar bars
and espresso and all it. Everything'schanged. Well, that that's true.
It has changed in that God,the market has changed. They went to
a change. A lot of theold time food market people in the front
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had left. They changed. Itsa coffee shop up there. They do
pizzas up there. They do differentthings. Nothing bad. I mean off
for the good. That's all Ican say. It's off for the good.
People shop they come in, theysaid that they're bar. They have
a long one of wine, theyhave coffee, dessert. I think that's
all for the better of artor revenue. People more things to feel comfortable about,
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you know. I think it's allfor the good. Now at the
revenue is going forward, not backwards. Forward. We always want to go
forward. I always think positive.Charlie Depolo, owner of Dominick's Restaurant in
the Bronx here on seven to tenw R The rob Asta Reno Show let
me ask you this, because peopleare concerned and rightfully so, about crime,
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about the complete open border and themess that is happening there, which
is now here with you know,over one hundred and seventy thousand illegal aliens
in the area. Obviously, thevast majority are good people. They just
should not be here. But thereare some bad people clearly in that.
If things are not going well,people don't feel right, they don't inflation
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are they Are they concerned walking aroundthe neighborhood. I think. I think
there's customers coming from different areas,they come from Westchester, Jersey, Long
Island and what they hear on whatthey see on the news and what they
hear. Absolutely everybody's concerned. Ithink everybody on their revenue is concerned too.
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I mean, that's that's something Ireally can't talk about politically, but
obviously I think we're all concerned.I think it's it's got to it's got
to stop somewhere. You know,it's got to change. But you can't
keep it open like this because it'sgoing to interfere with everything we do.
Of course it does. You know, if there's crime and people don't go
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out, they don't eat in yourrestaurant, they don't pay bills. You
don't pay your bills, and allof a sudden, people are out of
work and you're closing up. Andthat happens everywhere. So crime is a
big issue, and it's not apolitical issue. It's unfortunately though, the
politicians who are there are not doinganything about it. So that's why it
becomes a political issue. But thisis a societal issue, and they better
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fix this quick otherwise you know,New York City is going to pay the
price. And you've been through this, right, tell us about So what
was it like in the seventies whenit was awful crime, especially in the
Bronx, but also the city economicallywas a mess. It was just it
was a bad period of time,and the seventies it went to a bad
time. I think now it's worsethan the seventies. And I think,
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like I said, the politicians,they got to wake up. I mean,
they got to do something to stopthis. They can't can't give everything
away, can't make it easy forthese people. I have people who work
for me that I aaunch it andthey did it the right way to become
a citizen in the United States,and I think that's what they have to
go back to. This open borderthing is not the way to go.
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And we only put in our families, your family and everybody's family and risk
of the illegals and the terrorists thatget through the border. That's not a
good thing. Bumba. One lastquestion, so you don't have to be
like, you don't have to saywho. But you know, back in
the back in the day, I'msure you know you had mafia, the
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big mafia dons and the families hangingaround Arthur Avenue and all these other places.
Any of them ever, you know, do a little business near you.
Uh, I don't don't. Idon't understand that question. No,
no, no, Like you know, did they sit in your restaurant?
Now you're you weren't part of it, but they were just like sitting in
(47:51):
your restaurant doing like mafia business.They got to eat. Well, you
know, it's a it was agood thing. I mean, you know,
it's it's different. It's just differenttoday all together. Different. Yeah,
and I think you know, Idon't know how to answer that question.
Basically, it was just different atthe time and today they have to
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do something. I mean, obviouslywhat they I don't understand if people don't
see what's going on, because it'shurting all of us in the pocket.
Yep. I mean that's the numberone. I can't see what they don't
see. It's it's the fault ofthe politicians. Charlie Depollo, owner of
Domini's Restaurant, go there to It'ssupposed to clear up by six o'clock,
so it should be a nice nightto walk around Arthur Avenue, go to
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see Charlie or anybody else. Dominic'sRestaurant, great place, Charlie. Best
of luck to you, Bob,thanks so much, great having nice talking
to you. Thank you. Yougot it all right, folks. So
yeah, it's supposed to clear up, thankfully, because I'm sick of this
rain. I hope you have abeautiful palm Sunday tomorrow. This is when
Jesus, you know, triumphantly walkedinto Jerusalem. Of course before he had
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been a horrible week. And we'llbe back here next Saturday, the day
before Easter, so stay with us, and of course you can always call
us during the show, and youcan always send me some comments via Facebook,
Twitter or Instagram at rob Asta Reno. That's it for me. I
think doctor Gil Liederman two and twochoices, two and two choices. That's
(49:21):
next on seven ten WR have agreat weekend
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