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Ahead on American Sunrise Early Edition, our expanding war on the drug cartels is looking like a two front war now as President Trump warns the president of Colombia to stop messing around. This weekend's no Kings rally may have seemed incoherent, but they did serve as a warning that Trump supporters better be ready to match that energy in next month's elections and the midterms next year. And now that the no Kings thing is over, can the Democrats get serious about reopening the government finally? Either way, it looks like this thing will be dragging on for a few more days, at least in the Middle east after Hamas attacks Israeli troops, the IDF pounds targets in Gaza. But it does appear the ceasefire is generally still holding this morning. And it sounds like the plot of a heist movie. Brazen thieves break into Louvre in broad daylight and speed off with irreplaceable jewels once belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte. But unlike the movies, this may not have a happy ending. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now.
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Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY edition, the show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage.
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American Sunrise EARLY EDITION with your host Jake Novak starts now.
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Hey, welcome to this Monday here on AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY edition. A lot of breaking news just in the last few hours. If you're watching this program because you're stuck waiting for a delayed flight because of the Amazon Web Services outage, you have my sympathies, although apparently that's getting better. A huge cloud services outage overnight for Amazon affecting a lot of airlines of other companies again seems to be getting better, but you might be delayed this morning. Also, President Trump had to enter Air Force One yesterday through the back stairs because they found a hunting perch of some kind and basically a sight line for a shot at him. They're still investigating this. So a lot to talk about this morning. Let's get into it, though. I think there's some general international, national stories that we really need to cover as well as we check on those developing stories as well. Joining us now is Daily Signal senior editor Tyler o'. Neill. And, Tyler, the no Kings protests. Look, I actually was in the city, New York City. I saw some of them. Some of it is a joke. A lot of them didn't really seem to know what they were doing or talking about. A lot of the protesters. But here's what isn't a joke. The hatred of President Trump from the folks on the left and from the Democratic Party in general is still strong enough that they can get a lot of people to show up. Now, a lot of them, it was funny. I was on a subway with some of them on the way. They weren't saying it's like they were going to a job, so they're kind of, like, assigned to do it. But again, that's not a joke. And so they need to be considered by Republicans this year and next year in these elections coming up, just hating on Trump is enough to get people to come out and show up. It's sad because I don't think these people actually understand what they're standing for. They didn't seem to be coherent. But, Tyler, you know, the Republicans can't laugh this off completely.
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Tyler O'Neill
Yeah, I think these protests were very large. What we've seen is the. The left is in, you know, almost a terrified mode at this point, because right now, what's happening in Virginia with these. With the J. Jones tax and the way that that's drawing attention to the violence on the left, they're. They're starting to really get scared about losing that race. And we saw them pull out none other than Barack Obama. You know, they're really pulling out the stops, trying to get Abigail Spanberger across the finish line so they can eke out a win despite what's happening. And, of course, you. We saw a lot of energy at those no Kings protests, but we also saw some really disturbing signs. One of my colleagues, when it interviewed people at the protest in D.C. and one of the ladies that she interviewed expressed, you know, essentially joy that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, comparing Charlie Kirk to Adolf Hitler, saying, you know, I'm very glad that Hitler is dead. And this sort of rhetoric continues to come up over and over. Again, from different parts of the left. Now, we're not hearing, you know, we're not hearing a lot of elected officials say that, but we did hear from J. Jones, you know, these horrible texts where he's defending political violence as a means of convincing those evil Republicans to no longer hold the positions that they hold. So we have to be careful here. We're not just seeing, you know, most of the protesters over the weekend were peaceful and were expressing their opinions, but this is also part of the left's infrastructure pushing to get more people out. I mean, as. As I covered, the National Education association and the American Federation of Teachers, the largest teachers unions in the country, were promoting these protests. And I heard claims that I have not yet been able to verify that these unions were funding the protests. And I find that very easy to believe given how many left activist things the NEA and the AFT have funded. They're big funders of the campaign I described as the woke to puss, which sent far left woke activist ideas into the Biden administration and policy performers, you know, staff to perform them in the federal government. So, you know, what we're seeing, the left is standing in the wings. They're afraid recently of what's going to happen next month.
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Jake Novak
But.
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Tyler O'Neill
But they're also, you know, there is this growing hatred on the left, and I think it's really incumbent on the Democratic Party to call it out and to put daylight between them and people who would celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.
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Jake Novak
Well, I think they're doing the opposite of that, Tyler. I think they're stoking it. I think that there are plenty of leaders in the Democratic Party who are just doing politics as usual. But when you talk, you know, you give us the anecdote of someone who's comparing Charlie Kirk to Hitler and is happy that he was murdered. That's the impact. They're looking at this and saying, these people are mentally ill. These people can be made to believe and to fear almost anything. And that's just too tempting. That's just too tempting for Randy Weingarten at the teachers union. It's just too tempting for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, even though if they were smarter, they'd realize a group like that, that's. That unhinged can turn on you in a second. And it's just amazing to me. But they're stoking those flames. And that is really. That I agree with you. That is really the scary thing. I'm happy that there wasn't. I didn't expect any violence from these events over the weekend. That's because they weren't marching on an ICE facility or marching on the White House or something like that. But they could have easily. Some of them could have easily been motivated to do that. That's the scary part. Well, we have foreign and domestic wars to talk about. This one is kind of a. It's basically a mix. It's a foreign engagement, but it's also a domestic one because we have another front in our expanding drug war. President Trump calling out Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia, calling him a drug dealer. You know, look, Colombia has been controlled by the drug cartels for a long time. So has Venezuela. So for a large part is also. This is also true of Mexico. I have to say, though, this is something that talk about the Democrats and not. And being unhinged. There are some Democrats who are pushing back against actions against these very sophisticated and. And weaponized drug cartels. That's not gonna poll very well. The drugs they're pouring into this country are killing so many people. This is a winner issue for President Trump. But I don't care. Listen, he's not running again. I don't care about his popularity polls. This is a fantastic thing to get the flow of drugs at least slowed into this country.
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Tyler O'Neill
Well, I think it's really important. You know, this reminds me of Trump's law and order push overall, where we have these threats to American public safety and peace, and President Trump is finally doing something about them. And in the case of Colombia, you know, this is a country that had been getting better, but they still have this big problem with these drug cartels and sending so many drugs to the United States. And it's recently gotten worse in the past year or so. So it's really important, I think, what we're seeing President Trump doing. He's not declaring war on Colombia. He's saying, look, Petro, you need to get your ducks in a row and you need to act more against the cartels. And that's a hard thing for a Colombian president to do. But I think President Trump is using both a carrot and a stick here. He is saying, look, Petro, you better. You better do this, because we're the most powerful guy on the block. But he's also suggesting, I think he might be carrying a little bit of water for Petro to give Petro the slack to go after some of these drug cartels, and then when they respond, respond negatively to him. He can say, look, the President of the United States is on my back about this, if you have concerns about that, you know, it's not just me enforcing this. He's coming in, too. So I think President Trump may be doing Petro a favor to some degree here, even though it looks like he's just going against him.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And let me preemptively warn all the uber libertarians out there about this. Read the Monroe Doctrine, okay? This is not just a case of the United States meddling in a foreign country. The foreign countries who are the enemies of the United States have been doing this already in Colombia, in Venezuela, in Mexico, China, and also Iran via Hezbollah have been using those countries to not only basically help them create other avenues in their drug cartel, in their drug industries, illegal industries, but also using them to house terrorists. This is an absolute violation of the Monroe Doctrine in an incredibly insidious and awful way. And the United States pushing back on it is not the breaking of some kind of libertarian prime directive. Finally, Tyler. I made a big deal last week about Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO. Big. He was. He is the most sanctimonious big tech CEO I've ever had to deal with in all the years I was doing financial news. It was so frustrating dealing with him. He's just always had some high horse to ride in on. And so when he said a couple of weeks ago that he thought President Trump was right and that they needed to bring in National Guard troops to San Francisco, I thought, well, maybe he's learning. Of course, now he's backtracking. He's apologizing. He got the cold shoulder. People turned their backs on him in San Francisco after all the things that he did, and now he's backtracking. There is just no common sense on the other side of the aisle. I mean, you can't say, I want San Francisco to be safe for people to walk down the street without being canceled by. By the media elites and the big tech elites. I mean, there is no common sense.
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Tyler O'Neill
Yeah, this is more of the tolerant left in action. I mean, what we saw from Benioff here is the acknowledgment that they need more police, they need more public safety, and this is something Americans feel across the country. But when he says it, he immediately faces backlash. And then now he's. He's backtracking. But this is. This is a very small, simple step that he's saying, look, we needed more police. Maybe if the National Guard can bring some more peace and public safety to this city, that would be positive for the city. And he's saying that after we saw positive results in Washington, D.C. and in other cities. And President Trump is bringing in the National Guard to protect federal law enforcement who are facing increased attacks across the country. So this is a very, this is something that's very much in the National Guard's purview. And sure, National Guard are not meant to act like police. And to that degree, Benioff wasn't exactly 100% correct. But let's, let's look at the big picture here. This is a guy who is starting to see something positive out of this administration. And his allies on the left can't, can't stomach that. And so they had to go after him for it. And now, of course, he's decided rather than taking a stand for what he at least believed at the time, he has to pull himself back.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, it's, it's a chilling effect for anyone else who's going to have the, the guts to say anything with common sense. Tyler o', Neill, thank you so much for joining us. Have a great week.
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Tyler O'Neill
Yeah, you too.
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Jake Novak
Coming up, more on that brazen jewel heist in Paris. And there's some bad news about how this may end up that really has me beside myself, folks. I'll explain why. And later, the banking scare that hit Wall street again last week should serve as a lesson to people like Letitia James and everyone who thinks she shouldn't be prosecuted. I'll explain. American Sunrise Early Edition will be right.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
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Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Benghazi is a Rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Jake Novak
What. What difference at this point does it make?
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Leon Neyfak
Yes, that's right. Lock her up.
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Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jake Novak
It's a dark morning there in Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome back to American Sunrise early edition. It's a Monday. I know that. It's a little rough sometimes on a Monday special. Welcome to those of you on the getter and the rumble platforms. I X Substack. There are a lot of places to watch this program and also comment, and I like to read your comments. Here's how it went down to the Louvre. The thieves used a truck with a ladder, like a fire truck, pulled up next to the, you know, very famous museum. I think it's like the number one tourist attraction in the world. I just did a story here on this program over the summer about how they they trying to keep the Louvre open 247 so they can accommodate all the visitors. Well, they don't want to accommodate these visitors. Look at this. They pulled up next to the museum with the retractable ladder, broke into a window, cut open display cases, and stole, among other things, some of the crown jewels that belong to the Emperor Napoleon, Empress Josephine. And we're bringing in Emily Finn right now. Listen, Emily, the first thing we have to do is establish your alibi in this whole thing because you're always traveling. You're always traveling over to Europe for shortcoming back and forth. I mean, can you tell me where you were yesterday morning?
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Emily Finn
I mean, right here in West Palm Beach. Jake, I promise you, I do have an alibi that checks out on this one. I was not in Paris, part of this heist. But, man, this is really hard to believe. I mean, like you said, this is one of the top tourist attractions in the world. And I think it's a reflection of Paris and of the crime that's going on in that city. It's awful to see.
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Jake Novak
Well, I have something even more awful to say, all joking aside, and I'm checking to see your Earrings this morning.
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Gerard Felitti
See?
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Jake Novak
But anyway.
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Emily Finn
But all kidding aside, he's from the museum.
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Tyler O'Neill
Oops.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And not from the gift shop. Look, I. All kidding aside, the reason why I want to make a little bit of laughter this, because I'm actually very, very upset. I'm kind of a big Napoleon history buff. One of the few people, is actually quite a fan of a lot of the things he did. I could do a whole program about that. Maybe I will one day. But a number of experts have been quoted, experts in criminology, experts in this kind of thing. And they're saying that there's a really good chance that the thieves will actually just melt down the jewelry and sell it for the raw price on the markets. Are you kidding me?
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Emily Finn
I know.
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Jake Novak
They're gonna destroy this history. I'll never be able to see these things. I mean, look, at the end of the day, it is just things. I get it. But that is really. That would be such a major crime. They've gotta find these jewels before someone does this. But, you know, they may be running out of time already.
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Emily Finn
Yeah. Jake, I assure you I was not part of this heist. But I will join the search to track down where these jewels are, because I agree with you. You know, how much I love to travel and seeing history and seeing things that have significant value like this is just. It's a really beautiful thing. And so other people should be able to experience this and be able to go back to the museum and see all the things that were. That were stolen. So I hope that this is able to get tracked down and replaced.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I don't think there's anything political necessarily connected to this, although it's possible. You know, you never know, especially with the massive illegal migration. Well, actually, they made it legal in Europe, so who knows? But this is. You know, this is the same feeling I had when the Taliban. About 20 years ago, the Taliban blew up some ancient, ancient idols that were basically carved on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan. They just blew them up. No one will be able to see those things again because they weren't to their guy. It was just. Again, this is a similar thing. I really hope they find these jewels. And I'm glad that for America and the FBI and for interpolation, we have cleared Emily Finn of this crime. You can now scratch her off. You can focus on better suspects right now. Look, we've helped. We've helped the whole process, Emily, so.
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Emily Finn
That is so funny. I'm joining the search, Jake.
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Jake Novak
Okay. All right, I'm going to deputize you. All right, Emily Finn, thank you for joining us. We'll see you in the 8 to 10am hours on American Sunrise. Thank you.
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Emily Finn
Thanks, Jake.
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Jake Novak
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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iHeart Advertising Announcer
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
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Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
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Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Jake Novak
What difference at this point does it make?
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Leon Neyfak
Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
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Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jake Novak
We call this the Statue of Liberty selfie shot. Just imagine the Statue of Libert. A phone there instead of the torch in her arm. I love this shot. Little sunnier this morning. No, a couple of weeks ago we did this and there was a bird that was photobombing it. It was so funny. It's an amazing shot. Let's take a look at where we're gonna open this morning on Wall street, and it looks like modestly higher on just about all, you know, on the indices, nothing more than a third of a percent. And that's for the NASDAQ. Gold continues its march higher, 1.3%. It was down a little bit on Friday. Down for the first time in days, but still. Look at that. 42.70 per ounce. And crude oil, no, that's not a mirage. 56, right? A 56 handle. Now per barrel on crude oil, we are really, really falling. And if you don't already have sub $3 a gallon gas in your town, I hope you get it soon. I know if you live in California or some other parts of the country, you're not going to get that. Now let's take a look at bitcoin. Bitcoin's been struggling and it's still there. 110. Now it was at 111 last time we checked on Friday. Now it's at 110. But it's gaining because it had a bad weekend. It was well below 110 for a while there. As you can see up almost 2,000 bucks this morning. All right. Now, I talked to you last week about that regional bank scare that hit Wall Street. The first happened in 2023, and we had several days of losses. Yet last week, just one day of losses on Thursday. Most of it was centered around Zion's bank when it announced that it had $60 million worth of loans that are probably never going to get paid back. A pretty big number for a bank that size. But now we know a little bit more about those bad loans. This wasn't just a case of people who took out loans. Then they lost their job or they had a medical emergency. A lot of these bad loans were gamed from the start by the borrowers. People who were very sophisticated, knew where the bank's vulnerabilities were, knew where they could lie about their collateral. And that's really the bulk of those bad loans. Are you listening? Letitia James and her supporters, people who know how to game the system, like her. Several mortgages with fraudulent data, fraudulent designations for tax purposes, et cetera, et cetera. When those people end up having a financial problem, or if they have just been gaming it from the beginning, the banks get dinged. So if you're one of those people who thinks like, oh, they shouldn't. They shouldn't go after her, this is a big problem in the country. This is not just a small crime. This is going on. And it could really hurt your 401k, because it did on Thursday. I can tell you that right now. So something to remember about this banking crisis and the people who manipulate and game the system with loans. We now know. Speaking of mortgages, we now know, again, the best and worst months to buy or sell a home in America. And last year's data is now finally finalized. Takes a long time for people to get through all these numbers. And again, this is probably not going to surprise you. January is the best month to buy a home. That's when prices for sold homes are significantly less than they are at other parts of the year, about $20,000 less on average. So January, if you're buying, is when you want to buy. May is when you want to sell, if you want. If you're selling, that's when the prices are the highest. Of course, your results may vary. These things can change. But January, if you're interested in bargains, is when you want to do it. If you have kids and you're okay with either pulling them out of school or maybe finding another, you know, that's really where you end up getting a nice bargain. May is when everyone wants to start thinking about the next school year. That's if you have a family. If you don't have kids, you have a lot more freedom. So check out January if you're a buyer. There used to be an old vaudeville song. Believe me, I'm not old enough to remember vaudeville, but I know about this. And the song was called Secondhand Rose. It was about a woman who seemed to be fancy, but she admitted everything that she owned was basically secondhand. She bought it at a thrift shop, stuff like that. Well, now the luxury sector in America and all over the world can actually sing a song called Second Hand Woes. You know, you knew this was going to happen with all the apps and websites out there. Eventually there would be a very robust secondhand luxury market out there. And for the big luxury companies like the Rolex watch folks, Coach bags, Chanel bags, all those kind of stuff, very high end perfume, they have been competing against themselves now more than anyone else for the last couple of years or so because there are some really great websites to find some of these luxury items secondhand. And so this is being a, this is a big, big hit to the big luxury brands. This is kind of funny for me. Look, if you're going to charge me a massive amount of money for a watch, you better be ready for someone to undercut you by selling it one or two years used. That's the way it goes, folks. And the Internet's making it easier. All right, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is moving America. Sponsored by Artillery T Company. Artillery Table teeco.com use promo code LIBERTY for 20% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural, whole leaf. The tea bags are chemical free and each tea bag can be used twice. Artillery Tea company is family and veteran owned and operated and a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities. Artilleryteeco.com promo code Liberty for 20% off your order. Hey everybody. That aluminum plant fire in Oswego, New York late last month or early this month, I think it was just like the 1st of October. It's now not just a problem for Ford. I told you a couple of times over the last few weeks how Ford. First they think it's going to cost them a billion dollars. Now they've had to halt production on five of their models. That's going to end up costing them more than a billion dollars. I can tell you that right now. Well now of course it's spreading because these companies all use a lot of the same suppliers. So it has now spread to Jeep and Jeep is now holding up production on the Wagoneer and the Grand Wagoneer in their Warren, Michigan plant. This is very, very disturbing. And I have to think that the folks who owe 20, 15 years ago who warned Detroit not to rely too much on aluminum, they didn't believe that aluminum was as safe in an impact and in a crash. They must be laughing about this, telling them, hey, if you had only stuck with good old steel and not move so much to aluminum, you wouldn't be having this problem. We'll see how quickly these companies can get back going. But this is yet another supply chain disaster for these companies right now. It's going to spread to more. We know it's Ford now. We know it's cheap. I can't imagine it's going to end there. Good luck to the folks in upstate New York trying to get that factory back going. Hey, good news, however, there is some good news, however, for Detroit President Trump on Friday. You may have missed this. He signed a new order to help ease the tariff pain for American automakers. Now, a lot of American automakers who assemble their cars, make their cars here still rely on a number of foreign parts. And those foreign parts were getting tariffs and costing Detroit automakers a lot of money. So what President Trump is doing right now, he's not rescinding the tariffs, he's not making any special cases for them tariff wise, but he's allowing them to get a tax credit depending on their costs based on those foreign imported parts that they're using for a mostly US assemble and mostly a made US made car. So that's what happened on Friday. That was really good news for the automakers. They're dealing with some bad news at the same time, but it's not all bad thanks to that order signed by President Trump.
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Gerard Felitti
Okay.
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Jake Novak
It's not confirmed yet, but there are more reports out this morning that just about the cheapest car you can buy in America, the Nissan Versa, will not be back in 2026. Now, the 2025 model, which was just recently introduced there, you see it, it starts at just $18,330. This is one. It's a, it's a very small car. I was just talking about safety and impacts. That car would make me nervous. I wouldn't put my daughter in one of those cars. But hey, if you live in a city and you're just doing 20 mile an hour driving and maybe it makes sense. I guess it does. You get all the good parking spaces that I can't fit into so good for you. But the Nissan Versa looks like this will be the last year that they make it or at least sell it here in the United States. I want to tell you about somebody named Harry Pierce right now. He was a really great lawyer, former vice chairman of General Motors. First, he was outside counsel for them, and he was such a good lawyer for them, they hired him and made him the vice chairman of General Motors. Here's what he's most famous for. You might remember this story from 1992 when Dateline NBC, which was a brand new program at the time trying to compete with 60 Minutes in 2020, did a big expose about how because GM trucks had their fuel tanks on the side of those vehicles, they were dangerous with side impacts. And they had all this incredible video of cars just crashing into the side of these trucks and then bursting into massive flames. Well, Harry Pierce looked at that and he smelled a rat and he was right. It turned out that DATELINE had rigged those stories, rigged those videos. They had put extra explosive material all around the cars and the trucks. It's amazing that DATELINE NBC wasn't pulled off the air immediately. They somehow survived it. They ended up having to pay a big price for this, but they kept going anyway. Harry Pierce was the guy who exposed it, worked very hard to do so. He passed away at the age of 83 over the weekend. But he is a legend in Detroit for making sure that news organizations like the mainstream media don't get away with this stuff anymore. And he's actually had a pretty big impact. They've kind of stopped with this. I haven't seen that kind of level of fraud, fraud, fraudulent video in a long time. I guess they just do it for their political commentary. They made up for it. That's where they put all their fraud. But anyway, Harry Peace. Harry Pierce, a big hero for Detroit and for Chevy trucks. Okay, coming up, some news on how the people who attacked an ice facility in Texas earlier this year are going to be prosecuted. And they will be prosecuted. American Sunrise, Early Edition will be right back.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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Leon Neyfak
Bad face, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
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Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Jake Novak
What difference at this point does it make?
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Leon Neyfak
Yes, that's right. Lock her up.
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Jake Novak
Welcome back to American Sunrise Early Edition. President Trump is now expanding our drug war to another country, or at least threatening to. He's warning Colombia's president that they need to get serious. This weekend's no Kings rallies may have seemed incoherent, but they do serve as a warning that Trump supporters better be ready to match that energy in next month's elections and the midterms next year. And now that the no Kings thing is done, can the Democrats get serious about reopening the government, please? Either way, it looks like this will be dragging on for a few more days at least. And in the Middle east, after Hamas attacks, Israeli troops, the idf, pounds, targets in Gaza. But it does look like that's all over with now, and the ceasefire is generally still holding. American Sunrise Early Edition starts now. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY Edition. I'm Jake Novak. It's a Monday, and I am sorry that I didn't get you to start your week in a slow, calm, soft gentleman. We've got a lot of things going on. We've got drug wars, we have massive rallies. We've got all kinds of stuff. Let's get some help getting through it. That's the best I can offer you. Explaining it and Also getting some expert opinions. Joining us now from the Lawfare Project is Gerard Felitti and Gerard, federal prosecutors. I want to talk about this because we talked about Antifa together. We've talked about these attacks on ice. We also talked about the Charlie Kirk assassination. And now we're starting to see some movement in prosecutions. Federal prosecutors in Texas have for the first time filed federal charges against antifa terrorism charges. Now, this is in connection to that shooting attack. There's been so many of them. So I don't blame the viewers if you can't remember, but if you might remember, July 4th in Texas this year, the ICE facility in Prairie Land, Texas was shot at. GERARD this seems significant. We really might now get, I don't know if you call it a national task force or a force or focus on going after Antifa and these people because they are very organized and the Democrats pretend they don't even exist.
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Gerard Felitti
GERARD and that's really the tragedy of it. The Democrats are putting their heads to the sand. But this is why we are at the point where we are now. This is why we need the National Guard deployed on city streets. This is why the feds are so active in enforcement, because progressive mayors, progressive governors have allowed antifa and groups like them to monopolize the conversation, commit all sorts of acts of violence without any consequences. These people should have been prosecuted at the local and state level years ago, but they never were. They escalated, they're committing terrorist attacks and now we finally have the federal government going after them, which is the only way that we will get them to stop.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, and you know, again, you made that point about the local. Not only are local police and local leaders not going after them, they seem to be cultivating and using them, realizing that they could be a tool, a group of people who are willing to get off of their phones and their laptops and go out on the streets and terrorize people instead of saying, hey, we need to stop this. Their first thought seems to be how can we use these people? And I mean, honestly, this is where the federal government has to come in and protect the local populations, where their local leaders won't do it. Speaking of local leaders, Gerard Zoran Mamdani seems like he is a shoo in to become the next mayor of New York. There are a number of things that people can look at to see where he might go in the first few months where he might do things that could really permanently damage the city. Some people, you know, again, he's got some big ideas like, oh, he's Gonna freeze the rent, and he's gonna basically open all the doors of Rikers Island. That will take some. That will take a while to do. There'll be some pushback. But are there some legal avenues that can be used to indemnify the city from what this guy might try to do to it if he follows, for example, the mayor of London and some of the other mayors of major cities who are also clearly Islamist sympathizers and scary people, frankly.
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Gerard Felitti
Well, I think this is the problem. This is where it's tough for the federal government, because on the one hand, the Trump administration probably does not want to interfere or appear interfering in a local election. But on the other hand, you have very legitimate concerns about Zohran Mamdani, specifically. I mean, last Friday, he was photographed with an imam of a mosque who was linked to the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade center, the same mosque that has been putting out radical ideas. This isn't just about Marxist ideas. This is also the intersection with radical Islamism. So we really need to know who is funding Mamdani, who are these supporters who are coming out for him? That gives you a better indication of what direction he's going to. But there will always be the prospect for legal challenges. When you have changes in an administration and someone new comes in. Look at Donald Trump, look at any president, when they have executive orders, when they commit action, stakeholders, people who are affected by them usually come forward and assert constitutional challenges. So there are a lot that we will see in terms of defending our legal rights. But it's still very scary that this man is on the precipice of becoming the next mayor of America's Golden City.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. Listen, Gerard, you're the lawyer, and I'm not. And so it's not a risk for me to say what I'm going to say. So I'll ask you, just as a question, does it make sense to consider looking at Mamdanu? We know that there's been at least $13,000 worth of campaign finance fraud in the campaign. We also know that he said enough things that are supportive enough of Hamas and some other terror groups and terrorist leaders that you could make the argument that he should be denaturalized and deported. Is it worth looking at that and thinking to ourselves, maybe this should happen and let his lawyers fight it out for years in the courts and everyone will go crazy about it, but maybe it's worth it to stop this guy from getting into office. What do you think about that? Again, you're the lawyer. I'm not. So I'm not taking a risk by saying it, but I realize that when I ask you this question.
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Gerard Felitti
Well, it's not a risk to say that what you're suggesting is certainly within the realm of possibility that the law expressly permits something like this, a denaturalization proceeding, an expulsion proceeding. And we certainly have the option of investigating his campaign finances, especially when you see that he's gotten at least $100,000 in care, which is an unindicted co conspirator linked to Hamas and the Holy Land foundation trial from years ago. So there's a lot of questions that need to be asked, and there are avenues here for the government to act. Ultimately, it's not so much a legal issue. There are lots of things that can be done. The question is political. Does the doj, does the government have the political capital and willingness to do it?
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And I mean, also I think that there's, and I think I get this a lot from our viewers as well, and I understand where they're coming from. There's also another uphill battle here. If the people of New York are not willing to stand up and nominate a better candidate and vote against this guy, then how far should the federal government go and how far should the Justice Department specifically go to save them from their own fate? I mean, again, it bothers me because there are plenty of people in New York who are working very hard to stop this guy, but not hard enough, or in this case, not enough of people joining in. It's one thing to save people from the violence of antifa, from gunshots, from firebombings, but as bad as this guy is going to be, I don't know if we can justify what we're talking about here, because again, if the voters aren't gonna stand up, why should the feds? You know what I mean, Gerard?
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Gerard Felitti
Well, if this is a person who is under the influence of or supports foreign terrorist organizations, that that's a different matter than electoral politics. That's a danger, that's a threat to our national security, and the government should address it. But in terms of electoral politics, as you said in the earlier segment, it's people need to get out the vote. And that's the problem in New York City. You have the antifa types, all the no Kings protesters, those are the Democratic base, all the people who turn out in cities across the country, those are the people who vote for Zoran Mamdani. And unless other Democrats like Andrew Cuomo or Republicans like Curtis Leroy, and by the way I don't know what he's still doing in this race because he has no chance of winning and is only serving as a spoiler to make sure Mamdani is elected. Until you get out the vote, people like Mamdani will continue winning. So you need to energize your voters. You need to get out there because if you don't, then the antifa types, the no kings types, they are the ones who are also voting. So we need to mobilize people to vote.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And we also need to change the primary process. You know, Even Nate Silver's538 website several years ago wrote a piece admitting that the way big cities do the primary process is absolutely vote rigging. Because the only people who can come out on a Tuesday, on a random Tuesday in the summer or other parts of the year are the unions and their organized people who actually not only do they get the day off to vote and to go help bring out the vote, but they get paid to do it by the union and sometimes at their municipal unions, by the taxpayers. And they talked about how that is absolutely vote rigging and voter suppression. Average, normal, ordinary people don't often have. It's not as easy for them to vote in primaries as you think. And this is an example of how the left suppresses the vote of the more moderate, or in the case of New York, just moderate, but also the right wing in some red cities, sorry, blue cities and red states. Finally, Gerard, you've written something new about the efforts by James Comey's lawyers to get his case dismissed. Can you tell us about that and where that's going?
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Gerard Felitti
Well, I think what we're going to see here is Comey's lawyers are making a play to dismiss the indictment as being politicized. There are certain constitutional challenges to the indictment itself. They're also going to be making claims that the grand jury process was flawed and that he could not have been Prosecuted because the U.S. attorney had not been actually appointed yet or had the legal backing to be able to get the indictment. So we're going to see a very aggressive mood by Comey to dismiss the indictment, whether or not it ultimately works. This is playing towards jury nullification. So essentially he gets two bites at the apple. If he wins, the indictment gets dismissed, he's done. If he doesn't win the motions to dismiss, then he's poisoning the jury against the prosecutor to basically nullify any verdict that might come back against him.
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Jake Novak
Do they even need to bother with that in Northern Virginia? I mean, I'm so concerned that the jury there that they're going to seat is going to be a bunch of federal workers, the spouses of federal workers, people who won't even consider the facts of this case. And we'll just think about this as an example of the Trump administration coming after the entrenched bureaucracy. I mean, I don't like the odds of a conviction in this case because of the jury pool. I can't believe they're not going to try to change the venue. Any thoughts on that?
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Gerard Felitti
Well, I'm not as concerned about the jury pool. I think that, yes, it seems to be more biased, Northern Virginia and the D.C. suburbs in one direction and that's the in favor of Comey. But on the other hand, jurors usually do want to do the right thing. And if they have a clear and convincing evidence that laid out for them that they can come to the conclusion that yes, Comey lied and here is what he lied about and here are the people involved in that lie. If the prosecutors can make that case, then it's very hard even for a left wing, left leaning jury to dismiss that as mere politics and he can be convicted. So I think jurors are smart people. They want to do the right thing. And if the case is laid out clearly, he could very well be convicted.
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Jake Novak
All right, Gerard Felitti from the Lawfare Project, I hope all you heard that smart lawyers never trash the jury pool beforehand. He was very smart there. Thanks for joining us. Have a great week.
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Gerard Felitti
Gerard, always a pleasure. Thank you.
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Jake Novak
Okay, coming up, we may have more evidence now that so many big cities have indeed been lying about their crime stats. Now why does this matter? It matters for more than just winning or losing elections. This is actually a great crime against humanity. And I will explain why. David Brody's gonna help me when American Sunrise early EDITION comes right back.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
- [48:50]
Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
- [49:01]
Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
- [49:06]
Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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I'm Leon Neyfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Jake Novak
What difference at this point does it make?
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Leon Neyfak
Yeah, that's right, lock her up.
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Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your PODC.
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Jake Novak
It's a live look. That's not a live book. That's Jupiter, Florida. But that's the way I'm imagining it looks right now. So beautiful there. Welcome back to everyone to American Sunrise early Edition, especially those of you who are up and commenting. A lot of commenters this morning on Getter and Rumble, also on X and Substack. Thank you so much. My friend and former co worker Charlie Gasparino is at the New York Post, among other places. He has a new piece out about how the Department of Justice now has some solid evidence that, yes, indeed, as many of us had suspected, major cities across the country, blue cities are lying about their crime statistics. Now, before you just write this off as politics as usual, a little bit of pr, a little bit of window dressing, I'm telling you right now that this is actually a crime against humanity, and I use that term advisedly. It's one thing to not crack down on crime, to try to come up with a bad solution. It doesn't work. All that kind of stuff, we've seen plenty of that in American history. But to deny that it's happening in general, that's the real disenfranchisement. You know, all these people who say voter ID is disenfranchising people, which is a complete lie and a joke. This is disenfranchising the very lives of the people in the cities. And I bring in David Brody here. And, David, you know, you also grew up in New York. I didn't grow up here. I got here on high school time. So a little bit. But, you know, the thing about New York is one of the things that changed in the 1980s, which is when I came to New York. I came to New York, you know, around high school time, 1981, was that crime became completely bipartisan fighting it became completely bipartisan. Before that, David, you had politicians in New York who basically said, this is not worth my. My work because the people in New York aren't responsible enough for me to actually try to save them. That was why they lied about the Kitty Genovese story and said no one tried to help her. Yes, they did. The truth is, people did try to save her life. And the politicians in the New York Times wrote a lie about that story that still holds in America in a lot of people's minds. So, David, lying about this, to me is really. It's really one of the most insidious government crimes against people that I can think of.
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Leon Neyfak
That's a great point. And not to mention, it hurts Democrats politically because they're really not going after solving the problem. And, you know, they can do smoke and mirrors all they want, but it's not helping them at the ballot box. You know, I lived through New York in the 70s, son of Sam and this sordid Times Square and what that was like. And then I lived through the Giuliani years as well there in the city. And you just, you know, the difference, it's palpable. You feel it. So when voters are telling you, look, we don't feel safe. Believe them. Don't believe the statistics that Democrats are feeding you. You know, but Democrats have a history of doing this, Jake. We know this. And let's be clear. Republicans and Democrats like to spin statistics all day long. But with the Democrats, I mean, it's really, really blatant. I mean, remember when Biden said he inherited inflation at 9%? What is he talking about? What did you. It was 1.4%. And the way they spun that is like. Well, the actual. The White House at the time under Biden said, well, it was the factors, you know, Covid and other things that were leading to the 9%. Those are what we mean, the factors. Give me a break. That's spin, okay? He literally said, I inherited inflation at 9% on immigration. They do the same thing. I mean, they go around. The Biden White House said they arrested more people. ICE arrested more people under the Biden administration. Than the Trump administration. They're peddling this line. What they fail to tell you is that after the arrest, they went ahead and put them into the interior of the country. You know, so, you know, it's this type of stuff that goes on and on. What about Planned Parenthood? I mean, that's a good example. I mean, liberals love to talk about Planned Parenthood. Remember Planned Parenthood, they say, the liberals say is, you know, it's about health services for women and mammograms. That's the key thing. They used to say mammograms all the time for Planned Parenthood in terms of what the liberals would say. And then Cecile Richards, the Planned Parenthood president at the time, admitted, no, we actually don't do mammograms. So look, I mean, this stuff goes on all day long. Those are just three examples in about less than 60 seconds. But we don't have much time to really go through the entire list.
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Jake.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I mean, it just feels like now, and I talked about this in the last segment also, that when the Democrats and people on the left see people in power, on the left see crime and violence in a town, especially if it's from a groups of people, whether it's illegal aliens or antifa, their first response is, how can we use this? I mean, it's like Sauron in a build me an army worthy of Mordor. I mean, what are you doing? I mean, I miss the times back in the 80s when the Democrats used to say, you know what? We'll actually be better at fighting crime if you give us a chance. And at this point, it doesn't matter necessarily if that was true or not, but they actually wanted to be portrayed as being tougher on crime and that was something that they felt could help them win elections. Now they're not even bothering, and that should be really frightening for everyone.
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Leon Neyfak
Well, it started, if you think about it, at least in the modern era with Obama when he started to embrace far left principles. He positioned himself as a moderate. That was a big old lie, right? It was rules for radicals. We know about what his, his history was and he embraced it. He didn't do it as overtly as Biden. I mean, Biden literally, that was part two of this. Biden literally made a choice. I always call it a deal with the devil. He said, look, the only way I'm going to get elected is I've got to embrace the far left of my party. And he did it, and the policies followed and it exposed the Democrats for everything. That they are today.
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Jake Novak
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show? Anyway, stick around for the next two hours on American Sunrise. American Sunrise early Edition will be back tomorrow at 7am I'll be taking attendance. Okay. It's all right if you watch it on tape, but anyway, hope to see you tomorrow. Stick around.
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This is Jim.
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Tyler O'Neill
Hello.
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Jake Novak
Jim started advertising with iHeartRadio way back.
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Gerard Felitti
In April, and now I have customers out the door.
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Jake Novak
And this is Sarah.
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Leon Neyfak
Hi.
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Jake Novak
She started putting a portion of her marketing dollars in podcasting back in June.
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Emily Finn
Business is booming.
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Jake Novak
That's why I'm working on a Saturday.
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