Speaker 1: This is the seventy seven w ABC Mini cast.
Speaker 2: I had invited a guest and she had accepted. She said, yes,
Speaker 2: I will be with you at the studio, and then
Speaker 2: she canceled.
Speaker 1: That's what socialists do. They're afraid, they're afraid of the facts.
Speaker 2: They're afraid to discuss topics because they think that we're
Speaker 2: going to attack them or they're gonna feel bad. Dadialisa
Speaker 2: Avi las Chavier, Chevalier, Chevelier, Okay, I want to start
Speaker 2: with something that happened, and the fact that she canceled
Speaker 2: on me was a.
Speaker 1: Slap in the face.
Speaker 2: Dadiyalisa agreed to come on this program. We announced the interview,
Speaker 2: she confirmed, then.
Speaker 1: She backed out. Then she backed out.
Speaker 2: I'm going to read to you some of the texas
Speaker 2: that her assistant actually text me, And to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I'm disappointed because I couldn't believe that she
Speaker 2: would let me down or let us down, because it
Speaker 2: wasn't a letdown for me, it was a letdown for
Speaker 2: our entire listener, for all of the listeners here on WABC.
Speaker 2: And she responded, actually she didn't respond. Natahlia Dadi. Alisa's
Speaker 2: assistant responded, I am truly so sorry.
Speaker 1: It is completely on me as well.
Speaker 2: I had so many emails come in after the win
Speaker 2: that I didn't realize she had all the critical commitments
Speaker 2: that day.
Speaker 1: Meantime, we spoke to them three weeks ago. Three weeks
Speaker 1: ago they.
Speaker 2: Committed to come on the show, and we promoted it.
Speaker 2: We told you she was coming on, and I was
Speaker 2: excited because I wasn't inviting her to attack her, to
Speaker 2: antagonize her, to make her feel bad. I invited her
Speaker 2: to the show so that she can speak to the
Speaker 2: people about her socialist ideology, what she was going to
Speaker 2: do for New York and for her constituents. She continues
Speaker 2: to say, I take full responsibility. It's fully my fault,
Speaker 2: and I really apologize for the inconvenience. This is her assistant.
Speaker 2: I've got to give her credit because you know what,
Speaker 2: she took one for her boss, or for suppose I
Speaker 2: believe she'll be her boss, because he hasn't won the
Speaker 2: elections yet. Things could happen between now and then, and
Speaker 2: if New Yorkers in that district in Harlem, Inwood Washington
Speaker 2: Heights and the Bronx wake up and decide to come
Speaker 2: out and vote for the general elections, maybe we'll get
Speaker 2: a Republican congressman coming in because there are a few
Speaker 2: candidates that are going to run against her in the primary,
Speaker 2: so she's not a.
Speaker 1: Shoe in, so you know.
Speaker 2: Then she continues, it was never my intention to disrespect
Speaker 2: you or dismiss you. It's really important to me and
Speaker 2: to dad Yalisa to engage with the people on issues
Speaker 2: that matter.
Speaker 1: And I hope my mistake doesn't tarnish your view of her.
Speaker 2: He's saying to me that she doesn't want what happened
Speaker 2: to tarnish my view of dad Yalisa. You know what,
Speaker 2: it did tarnish my view of Dadiya Lisa, right, because
Speaker 2: when you give your word.
Speaker 1: To someone, you keep it. There's no excuses.
Speaker 2: That's why this program, this show is called no excuses,
Speaker 2: because people that fail always have an excuse for a
Speaker 2: reason as.
Speaker 1: To why they have failed.
Speaker 2: So I wrote to her and I said the show
Speaker 2: is called no Excuses, and she says, fully heard, making
Speaker 2: no excuses for my actions. Take full responsibility for this.
Speaker 2: It is my mistake as her staffer. You know, I
Speaker 2: gotta give her credit, not Dahlia. You know what, you're
Speaker 2: trying to take the blow you know, you're trying to
Speaker 2: assume the responsibility, but it's surely not yours.
Speaker 1: It's your bosses.
Speaker 2: She knows that we needed to speak about issues that
Speaker 2: maybe made her uncomfortable. And by the way, she never
Speaker 2: went to the Dominican Day parade, never went to the
Speaker 2: Dominican Day celebrations, never went to any of the activities
Speaker 2: of the community that elected her in the primaries. Okay,
Speaker 2: after she beat Adriana wespayatte and I've.
Speaker 1: Always said this and I'm saying it today.
Speaker 2: She did not beat uspayat Espayat beat himself.
Speaker 1: He is responsible for his loss.
Speaker 2: People lose because of their conduct, because of what.
Speaker 1: They did or didn't do for their community.
Speaker 2: People remember what happens before in elections. They don't wait
Speaker 2: to see what happens during an election to decide who
Speaker 2: they're going.
Speaker 1: To vote for.
Speaker 2: They look at what did you do in the past
Speaker 2: two years to deserve my vote? And the people spoke
Speaker 2: loud and clear. He didn't deserve their vote and they
Speaker 2: didn't vote for him, and he lost. She didn't win.
Speaker 2: But listen New York Harlem Inward Washington Knights in the Bronx,
Speaker 2: the district that Adriana Wespajat represented has an opportunity to
Speaker 2: say no to socialism. The GOP needs to look at
Speaker 2: the candidates that are running and they need to back
Speaker 2: one of these candidates up. Support them. We still have
Speaker 2: another two and a half months maybe to go before
Speaker 2: the primary elections. Let's not allow for Dadrialisa to just
Speaker 2: win automatically.
Speaker 1: Let's give her a battle.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're running for Congress, you're asking people
Speaker 2: to trust you with one of the most important jobs
Speaker 2: in government. You have to answer questions, you have to
Speaker 2: defend your position, Dosa. You have to be willing to
Speaker 2: sit across from people who might disagree with you.
Speaker 1: That's called leadership. But let's let's let me make something
Speaker 1: very clear.
Speaker 2: The door is still open, Dad Yalisa, the door for
Speaker 2: no excuses on WABC is still open for you to
Speaker 2: come on. You backed out once, but the invitation still stands.
Speaker 1: So if you can find the courage and yes, grow
Speaker 1: a pair of balls, come sit across me. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna ambush you. There's no tricks, just.
Speaker 2: A microphone, your record, my questions, and real conversation.
Speaker 1: The door is open.
Speaker 2: The question is are you willing to walk through it,
Speaker 2: and let's remember something else.
Speaker 1: Nobody is entitled to a congressional seat.
Speaker 2: Nobody is a shoeing because politicians say so, nobody is
Speaker 2: a shoeing because they have endorsements. And nobody is a
Speaker 2: shoeing because they're connected to Mayor mon Dami