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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Batya Ungar-Sargon | Journalist and Author | 12-08-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

News, Comedy, News Commentary, Politics

4.2752 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Journalist & author Batya Ungar-Sargon joins Sid to discuss her new weekend anchor role on News Nation, her experiences in political commentary, and her perspectives on American citizenship and immigration. Sid and Batya touch on topics like media bias, the responsibilities of being American, and recent controversies involving public figures and fraud allegations. Batya highlights her passion for America and her disdain for those who criticize the country despite benefiting from its opportunities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.4

Tonight, making my way to Washington, D.C.

1:08.2

I will be sworn into the Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, Bacha Ungersar.

1:09.4

Well, I love her.

3:07.5

She's great on Fox News, great on Twitter, tremendous writer. Let me get her on, and she's on hopeful like 20 minutes. Baja, good morning, sweetheart. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. Thank you. How are you? I'm not allowed to go on Fox News anymore. They won't have me because I have my own show on News Nation now. Oh, I didn't know that. You're on News. I actually made my debut with my buddy Connell McShane on News Nation about three weeks ago. Connell is amazing. He's great. He used to do the news when we were on the IMS in the morning program years ago. So you've got your, is it a daily show, weekly show? What's going on there? It's a weekend show. I'm a weekend anchor. It's called Batya exclamation point. Love that. Love it. And it airs Saturday afternoon and Saturday night for the showmer Shabbas crowd. I was going to say, well, you must tape a Saturday afternoon show. We tape it on Friday. Got it, because you are an observant Jew. You actually... I am indeed. I am indeed. You should be on the Holocaust Council, not me. I eat Bill Panajan on Friday nights. You know what I'm saying? But... By the way, congratulations on that, Sid. It's so exciting. It is. It's great. I can't wait to be there later on tonight. And I will see you in Washington, D.C. next week at both J.D. Bans and President Trump's Hanukkah parties. My first time at the White House. I'm very excited. You know what? I'm going to be there tomorrow, too, for my first time. I'm going to see Monica Crowley, so I've never been there either. And I'll be there three times in the next two weeks, but it is exciting, yes. And good for you, Bacha. You deserve it. You're great. So News Nation, what times again on the weekend? So it airs on Saturday at 4 p.m. And you can catch a lot of the clips either on my socials or on News Nation's YouTube. And by Monday, they usually post the whole show to YouTube. So if you don't have a News Nation, you can watch it there, but get News Nation and watch it on Saturday, because obviously the ratings help us. Yeah, absolutely. Bill O'Reilly, who's on this show every Thursday.

3:25.4

I'm very close with Bill. He's on with Chris Cuomo and Stephen A. Smith, and they do great. Connell's there. You're there. So congratulations. Thank you. While you're doing big things, you know, I used to love this guy. I used to love him. American Gigolo. I love them and pretty woman.

3:28.3

But is it bare to say, Batch, I know it's early Monday morning to get this vulgar,

3:34.1

but is it not fair to say that Richard Gere has become the biggest douchebag in America?

3:37.2

Yeah, I don't even know if he's in America anymore.

3:40.3

My research indicates he has moved to Spain, so.

3:41.9

That's true. He has moved. You're right. He has moved. Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. He sucks. You know, it's so funny because I've done this

3:47.4

a few times now where I've started a segment on my show. The first time I did it was, you know, I said,

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