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Deadline at Columbia University eight a m. This morning. You better be cleaned
up off this lawn. You betterget out of here. And they're still
there. No repercussions at all.Alexandria Cassio cortess I was all peaceful.
However, all the Jews have leftthe campus and they're having to go home,
but because it's not safe for themto be there hiding out like it's

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a Corey tim Boone book. It'sreally sad what's happening at Columbia University.
But the deadline has passed and theyare still there, protesting, camping out
on the Columbia University campus. Buthey, nothing to see here now,
this is all about free speech.Now, the Jewish kids have all gone
home, literally off campus. They'vebeen told it's not safe. One professor

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was told that you're not welcomed hereanymore because you're not safe and it's going
to be a problem. So they'vehad to evacuate the Jews from the Columbia
University campus. And hey, allyou protesters that are making this unsafe here,
well, okay, you missed onedeadline, but you do it again,
We're going to really get you thistime. All right, good to
have you here on the radio show. Jimmy is my name, Happy Day

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to all of you. Hump Day. Every Wednesday, it was possible checking
with Steve Laffey, author, afilmmaker, a candidate, former candidate for
president. I mean, he's abig time fellow, and he's been vacationing
or on holiday as they say inEurope. And last week, if you
remember, he was about to downsome fish and chips in Ireland, had

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just watched people kiss the blarning Stone. And now, my friend, what
no, I don't think he kissedthe barning Stone. He's in Ireland,
Scotland. He's been all through there, and today's in Paris, checking in
live from Paris or good buddy,Steve Laffey, Steve, wee wee,
how are you, sir? Goodmorning? I am so great. Kelly

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and I are trapping. We arein Paris, and the first story to
talk about is that there is noRon of Reagan here with the air traffic
controllers. They are set to striketomorrow. They just do this all the
time. And I don't know whetherwe're leaving on Jeff Blue or not,
or we're just hanging out in Parisuntil they you know, it's not a
bad place to be trapped in,but the strikes are coming. In fact,

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they are setting strikes that some ofthe bus people are going to strike
just during the Olympics. You cansee if you're coming for the Olympics here,
it's going to be really nice ifyou have a room and you can
and they actually have it. Butbecause the stadiums are being set up,
it's easy to get around. Ifyou want to walk a lot, you
can't. The traffic is bad.But Jimmy, yesterday I was at one

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of the big monuments there and sowe couldn't get in even though I had
passed again, I paid like fiftybucks to get your guide to get into
this Champion, I mean whatever it'scalled. You know, this big beautiful
monument and it's closed and it's sizeableclosed today because so I asked the police
and I said, well, whyis his closed? And so the policeman

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he's looking just imagine a French policeman'slooking at me and goes, hmm,
what's the right wood. He doesn'tknow the English word for what he wants
to say, and I say strike. He goes, yes, strike.
So we couldn't go in because themunicipal workers or whatever was running the day
it took a one day strike.They do this all the time. They're
doing it for the airline was supposedto be on tomorrow, although they have
been cancers my flight, they havecancer seven some of the flights flying up

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to much just because because there's norunner Raagan that will fire them. They're
going to keep doing this. AndI think if you come to me,
you're going to watch strikes on buses, strikes here. It's really quite unbelievable
to watch. Although it is avery beautiful city and the people of Paris
are extraordinarily friendly. I've been herea number times, my wife's been here
once, and I will tell youthat all the talk about French peoplebeed unpleasant

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to Americans when I was here inthe nineties, twenty nine years ago,
I never saw it. I've beenhere for a couple of days after we
came out of Amsterdam, which isa beautiful place too, and I haven't
seen anything but extraordinarily friendly people,striking up conversations, talking, having fun,
and so it's a great, greattriple but ready to come home.
Yeah, that's good because Francis oneof the places I haven't been in Europe,

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and I've always heard that that thatstereotype that they're kind of rude and
stuffy there. But you are counteractingthat and you say, hey, it's
worth a travel brochure. If youhaven't been to Gaye, pri you should
go to Paris because they are veryfriendly and not anti American. No that
the average versus street loves Americans.Hey, I just came off Churchill,
you know church Churchill Blaulevard. Theylove it. They have all these things

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in the war. They still keepthem up there. You know, they
have American names for streets because theyknow we helped them out. And it's
quite I mean, the city itselfis one of the most is one of
the most beautiful cities. And infact we were We came into France another
way through Lahare, which is thenorthern port. And I will tell you
that unlike America, this is thecraziness of America. There are the best

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waterways in the world, and yetbecause of the Jones Act not to get
into it, we don't ship stuffaround by water, which is ninety percent
cheaper than any other way to sendstuff around. We don't do it.
But grants they do. You cansee these barges operating in the tugboats and
if you look at the hobb wewere. We went to Money's Gardens,
which is, you know, fascinatingthing. I mean, really beautifully beautiful

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place to go. But yeah,the people there extraordinarily friendly. So I've
never I've never witnessed in all thatI've been to a lot of places in
Europe, but I've never witnessed anyAntonio Marraa. I just had a great
lunch sitting next to chat with twoladies from Denmark. Now they did not
understand Marjorie Green as far as theelected professional, but they but they were
family conservative ladies and loved America.You know what's fascinating is when I go

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to Africa, they they know who, let's say, Marjorie Taylor Green is,
or they know who Alexandria Cassio Cortesis. They know American politics.
And you find ladies in Denmark thatknow kind of the deep, deep,
deep bowels of American political system.I'm guessing most members of most Americans couldn't

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name a member of the Denmark Parliamentor the parliament. I just don't know
who they are, but they knowUS. They watch this stuff and they
follow it. My goods in Africaprobably more educated than most voters in America.
And I would say, you're right. These ladies were more educated than
American voters that I met, thatI met at the campaign, extraordinarily up
on what's going on in America.Yeah, that's fascinating and yet a very

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sad commentary. It is. Nowyou said that they just kind of randomly,
you send me a headline. Seventypercent of the flights have canceled.
French airports are set for a severetravel disruption amid workers strike. You know,
that's headlines. But you say theunions are just strike when they kind
of it's not headlines there, it'sit's a regular headline. It's not an

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unusual headline. Strikes just happen everyday. They decide, hey, we're
striking today. This is part ofthe French life. Yes, that's right,
and they do it when they want, they do it for as long
as they want. Even though Ilooked into this before ecologie, but even
though laws in them past that youcan no longer say hey, we're striking
from August first to September first.Now there is one union that's already said

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this here. These are the guyswho take the buses around. If you're
going to come here for the Olympics. They've said we're striking. We're pretty
much going to strike between like theysaid, I'm like July fifteenth to September
first, like during the Olympics.And it's like, really, like you
just say it. And here's theother thing when you read the articles,
doesn't say why, doesn't say likewe need a raise. They just say

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we're kind of ticked off, we'regoing to strike. And they all do
it. I mean, he saidAmerica. Someone says, you know,
I need higher wages, I wantmore health benefits. I don't. In
the articles, they don't set outand like tomorrow, I have no article
that says the article essentially says why. I have no idea why they're picking
the day tomorrow to close down theimports if they can't, well, I

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don't know what. They don't knowwhy we're shutting down. What do you
want? I don't know what Iwant, But I'm not going to work
until I know what i want,and then I'm going to come back to
work and tell you what I want. It's as I got to get to
Paris. I've never I've never beenbeen to all sorts of places in Europe,
but I've never been to France andnever been to Paris. I have
to do that. Now, didyou get to see the Eiffel Tower.

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That's so, of course the mostnotable monument. They're the Eiffel Tower,
Sir, this is another story.So we get tickets a month ago for
the Eiffel Tower. I've been tobefore. Kelly, my wife, has
never been to Paris, hasn't beenthere. We get to go. We
meet at four o'clock. Four o'clock, we meet a Guyde's going to because
we get a special ticket to goall the way to the very very top,
which is very very high. It'sthe tallest building world in eighteen eighty

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seven and it's for a long longtime it's tallest structure. But now when
you buy this ticket, you getto one that's in English, because I
don't speak French, so it's goingto be in English. Now it's more
expensive to get a tour in French, even though because most people in the
world that come to they speak English. Imber that Median guy and other people
in different countries. When we twoFrench people in their kids only speak French,

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I guess, or maybe they're attending. They proceed to disrupt the whole
thing, screaming this poor, Imean beautiful young lady named that Presley,
and she's actually from Tennessee and she'sprobably twenty four years old, and she
keeps her composure. They scream ather the whole way. Now, if
this had been in America and youand I had been there, it would
have been over quickly. I'm ina foreign country. I don't really don't

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know what they're saying, but shetells me later that they're basically insulting her,
and they're yelling at everybody because itshould be done in French because they're
French. But the ticket said it'sgoing to be in English. They bought
it English speaking tours. But theynever stopped until finally they're about to call
the police, and then we haveto break. We go to different places.
They don't have to be at forthe tour, over the ladies explaining

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when it was built and what thecolor it is. So this is the
kind of stuff you see in Francewhere there are people who are like no,
no, only in French, youknow, or if you met him
on the street, they wouldn't speakback to in English even though they spoke
it right. You see this sometimesif you cook to Quebec. I happened
to be in Montreal a long timeago. People clearly spoke English, wouldn't
speak back to me and my buddyyears ago because they just did want to

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speak English to some American. Butthis happened yesterday, and it was if
I didn't take the whole thing.It's almost like a laugh, except for
the poor lady, you know,has to put up with this nonsense.
But just screaming over this lady tryingto explain when the ACTU title is bilt
walking over to it, screaming thewhole way, and they have a ticket
that says it's going to be inEnglish, and they don't see that it's
fast taking maybe the air traffic controls, you know. I think it's fascinating.

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You're in France, in Paris takinga tour of the Eiffel Tower and
a girl from Tennessee named Presley asan Elvis. Presley is giving you and
she's your tour guide. I thinkthat's fantastic. I'm glad the American school
speaks French was educated at the AmericanUniversity here and does this part time.
Is she does something else to putherself through school wood, Yeah, real

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quick, Steve Laffie, They've evacuated. The Jewish kids have all left Columbia
University. I'm sure they'll lose leaveNew York University soon. The rabbi said
it's not safe to be there,I mean, and the president of Columbia
says, hey, it's okay,you two kids, go hide it home
and well, you'll be safe there, but you can watch your classes online.

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Your quick take, I'm not sureif you're following you day by day,
hour by Columbia University. Give meyour thoughts. I am deeply saddened
and angered that I'm not a positionto actually help these people because the Jewish
people, because these people who areprotesting need to be expelled, need to
be arrested, need to taken outin handcuffs, need to be tear gassed.

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I'm not joking at all. ThesePalestinian people everywhere in the world are
bad, and I've said it onyour show many times. They are not
really humans. They don't do anythinggood. They have no money. By
the way, the Jewish people havethe money, and they're stopping to get
these universities. And that still doesn'tstop the people who are in Columbia or
Harvard or any of these places.And I'm a Harvard grad a business school,

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and I'm embarrassed by this, butI'm angered because this anti Semitism that's
rising our country is among very fewpeople, and they need to be shipped
out of the country immediately if they'renot US citizens, and if they are,
they at least need to be expelledand arrested and it would end I
mean arrested, put in jail withcommon thugs, and given long sentences.

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The people who did this On Januarysixth, some people got twenty years.
These people are just being like allowedto sit on Columbia's property. No,
the basic thing, as soon asyou catch one of them, you expel
them. If they're not students,you arrest them. If they are students,
you arrest them. They should bedoing one hundred two hundred of these
people a day and expelling them andthen let the chips fall with the may

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But again, there is an evilstreak among the communists that run the universities.
And I don't want to say progressiveanymore. They are communists. They
hate our country, and they likethe fact that people hate Jews. They
like it the presidence of these universities, and yet Jewish people who have finally
figured it out. I told manyof my Jewish friends in two thousand and

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two thousand six never to give moneythese university. They were always anti Semitic.
And now you see the rise ofthis anti semitism, which is repugnant.
It's awful, and you see theuniversity president is doing nothing about it.
And hopefully enough pressure can we puton to get these people resign and
get people people like me to runa university, people who wouldn't put up
with it, and things would change. Yeah, it's just a sad commentary

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when you think of it. TheJewish people you go hide again, that's
kind of reminiscent of the nineteen forties. You go hide, Yes, and
well, you could watch your classonline, aren't we good to you?
You get to use your iPad andyour iPhone and your Dell computer and you
watch your class online. You Jewsand the rest everybody else can go in
person. It's a sad day inAmerica. In a sad day at Columbia
University. The president there ought tobe expelled from her duties at Columbia University.

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Steve Laffey, safe travels home,I hope, well maybe I don't
know. Maybe you're going to geta flat there. I think that's what
they call them. If you getstuck there for a few days. Maybe
you and Kelly can have a freeday lay. Yes, yeah, rude
a Laffy I like that. Bonzoormego. I know, sorry, I
combine two of them. I'm notgood at about foreign languages. Steve Laffy
dot com. Appreciate you, myfriend. God, let's just save travel

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Steve Laffy dot com. L AF f e y Steve Laffye dot com.
Yeah, yeah, bonzore we we. I think that's all the French.
I know. I'm trying to thinkof other French words on the flyoff.
Somebody probably texts me and give meFrench words. But I've never been
to Paris. If you ever,I've never been there. I've never been
there. I do love London.A matter of fact, I've got a

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trip coming up down the road toAfrica again. And I used to pre
COVID. I used to always tryto stop in Europe for a day,
just it's easy to acclimate. Ratherthan flying twenty four to thirty six straight
hours, you stop in Europe fora day or so, you relax,
get on the time zone. Thenyou just have an eight hour nine hour

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flight south onto the African continent.I still do that on occasion. I
think last year I stopped in Brusselsfor a day or two. I take
it back last yes, last Itook my son and some of his friends
went over with us for their springbreak their senior year. We stopped in
London for two days because my sonhad seen London but the other kids had

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not, so we toured London fora couple of days. But I used
to do that a lot, butFrance is one of those places I do
because for the my goal when Ido this travel, I'm heading to Rwanda.
I'm heading to Africa. And there'stwo flights that head directly there from
Europe, and one is going tobe from Amsterdam and one is going to
be from Brussels. And if youend up in London like I did,

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then you have to take the earlymorning flight out of Heathrow over to Brussels
and catch the Brussels flight down toor to Amsterdam, and Paris doesn't have
any YAP, so I one dayI'll get to Paris. I've got to
do that. Maybe in the nextI'm going to put that on my list
of the next twelve to twenty fourmonths of going to Paris. All right,
it's on the list. I justadded it mentally, and I'll get
it written down and try to dosome of my routing. You figure,

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you're going all the way to Africa, you might as well stop a day
or so. And I know ittakes longer than a day or so,
but I'm already in routy. Hegets me on the time zone. All
right, good to have you hereon the radio show. The White House
issued a statement yesterday on these antiSemitic Jew hating protests at Columbia, and
boy, that's a strong one.Andrew Bates, white House prep Deputy Press
Secretary, said, you all rememberthat President Biden made the decision to run

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for president because of the anti Semiticbile that was chanted in Charlottesville, and
that's something he will continue to do. He's aware of the protest. I
don't even know did anybody know thatJoe Biden decided to run for president because
of the anti Semitic stuff that wassupposedly said at Charlottesville. I didn't know
that was the reason he ran.I thought he ran. No, I

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didn't know. I mean, I'msure he had a reason to run,
But that's the first that I heardthat his motivator of coming out of retirement
was Charlottesville. I had no clue. I learned that yesterday by Andrew Bates.
Did they condemn the protest or therhetoric, or they evacuates of the
Jews from Columbia University? Now theyjust said the president is aware of the

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protest. I'll be back News Talksix hundred k. Col