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Hour 2: UK attack. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now, much more Mark.
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Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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Speaker 1: On 710WOR. Thank you, Shadow Stevens. We have another two
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Speaker 1: every day. Nine to noon every day. A lot to
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Speaker 1: get to this hour. President Trump meeting with the AI
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Speaker 1: leaders this afternoon. having lunch with these guys and then
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Speaker 1: a big meeting. They'll discuss the future of AI. The president,
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Speaker 1: talking to reporters all day yesterday, he had that terrible attack,
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Speaker 1: terrorist attack on one of our bases, military base we
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Speaker 1: have in the UK. It was stopped. It was foiled
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Speaker 1: in the UK. That's good.
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Speaker 3: The arrest in the UK was fantastic. Working with Britain,
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Speaker 3: it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation.
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Speaker 3: They were looking to do big damage to our port.
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Speaker 3: And working with the British worked out great. We worked
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Speaker 3: with a lot of them. We had them under view
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Speaker 3: for a long time, and we got them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, since 9-11, we have foiled a lot of terrorist attacks.
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Speaker 1: Even here in New York City, the Ray Kelly years,
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Speaker 1: he had quite a terrorist task force. I think he
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Speaker 1: stopped some amazing number, like 15 terrorist plots were were foiled.
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Speaker 1: But the UK, that was a big one. They were
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Speaker 1: going to go after our military base.
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Speaker 4: I will tell you, I would have said, don't let
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Speaker 4: them have bail. Cashless bail. Is it cashless bail, I guess?
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Speaker 4: That was one of the problems that we had, which
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Speaker 4: started the whole mess of crime.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the problem. They let the terrorists go in
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Speaker 1: the UK. Cashless bail. Thank you, Andrew Cuomo, for this
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Speaker 1: no bail, no jail. Absolutely ridiculous stuff. Kathy Hochul, continuing it. Mom,
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Speaker 1: Donnie loving it. Let all the criminals loose. The crazy
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Speaker 1: DA Alvin brag. Uh, Hey, don't forget in a few days, actually,
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Speaker 1: I think it's like 35 days away in the midterms.
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Speaker 1: You'll want to make sure Bruce Blakeman is governor, but
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Speaker 1: you can also get rid of this awful Letitia James
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Speaker 1: and you can get a real prosecutor in there who
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Speaker 1: go after actual criminals, not just Donald Trump. Hey, speaking
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Speaker 1: of which the, uh, Remember that bug-eyed weirdo, Jack Smith,
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Speaker 1: that special prosecutor? Absolute weirdo, nut job, the guy with
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Speaker 1: the cape. He's testifying all day today in front of
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Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary Committee. They're going to be grilling him
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Speaker 1: all day. You thought he was bug-eyed before? Wait till
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Speaker 1: you see him in these hearings with his eyes bulging out.
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Speaker 1: He is one weird, crazy guy. You know, when they
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Speaker 1: wanted to go after Donald Trump. Think about what Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump overcame. He was in the middle of four trials.
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Speaker 1: He was being tried, criminal charges, in four places. Remember,
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Speaker 1: there was Georgia, there was here in New York, Washington,
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Speaker 1: all these trials. You remember they tried to remove him
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Speaker 1: from the ballot. They got his name yanked off the
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Speaker 1: ballot in different states. So there were four different trials
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Speaker 1: trying to put him in jail. His name yanked off
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Speaker 1: the ballot. He was debanked, the bank's Every bank canceled him,
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Speaker 1: threw him out. He couldn't even write a check. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this guy went from that to president of the United States.
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Speaker 1: It's an incredibly inspiring story of overcoming difficulties and succeeding.
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Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing. In fact, there's a new book
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Speaker 1: about it by Victor Davis Hanson, already number one on
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Speaker 1: the New York Times bestseller list. And that's basically what
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Speaker 1: the book is about. How a guy did that went
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Speaker 1: from that kind of a mess to to overcoming it
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Speaker 1: and becoming president of the United States, an incredible book.
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Speaker 1: But this Jack Smith, we'll see what they grill him with.
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Speaker 1: It was a ridiculous case, absolutely ridiculous case. They claim
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Speaker 1: that he had all kinds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
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Speaker 1: First of all, every president leaves with classified documents. It's
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Speaker 1: perfectly normal. Biden, when they checked his house, he had 7,000,
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Speaker 1: 8,000 classified documents. It's perfectly normal. Hey, by the way,
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Speaker 1: in the end, remember, Jack Smith raided Mar-a-Lago with hundreds
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Speaker 1: of agents with machine guns. You remember they had actually
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Speaker 1: gotten authorization to use deadly force if they have to.
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Speaker 1: This was that very dirty attorney general, Merrick Garland, who
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Speaker 1: signed off on this. He gave them authorization to use
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Speaker 1: deadly force in Mar-a-Lago if they needed to. Now, what
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Speaker 1: the hell would you need that for? It's a bunch
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Speaker 1: of old ladies. Have you ever been to Mar-a-Lago? It's
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Speaker 1: a million old yentas. How are you? You don't need
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Speaker 1: deadly force. You need earplugs with that crowd. That's all
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Speaker 1: you need. But he raided every inch. Remember, they went
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Speaker 1: through everything in Mar-a-Lago, every inch of Mar-a-Lago. They checked everything.
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Speaker 1: They even went through Melania Trump's underwear drawer. This is true.
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Speaker 1: Just like Polly Walnuts and the Sopranos. They went through
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Speaker 1: the underwear drawer. They went through Barron's room. In the end,
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Speaker 1: you know what they found? 35 classified documents. That's all
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Speaker 1: they found, 35 of them. And they weren't anything serious.
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Speaker 1: They were just, you know, outdated, mild stuff. But that's
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Speaker 1: all they found is 35 classified documents. If you put
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Speaker 1: them in a folder, the folder's one inch thick. So
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Speaker 1: it's one inch of one box. So they kept putting
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Speaker 1: out those pictures of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of boxes.
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Speaker 1: There were no classified documents in any of those boxes.
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Speaker 1: I hope this gets cleared up in today's hearings with
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Speaker 1: Jack Smith. Now, I don't know if they can prosecute
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Speaker 1: this guy. They really should. You know, when they wanted
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Speaker 1: to go after Donald Trump and they needed a special counsel, well,
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Speaker 1: in Washington, you probably had 1,800 people perfectly qualified. But
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Speaker 1: they went halfway around the world to bring in this guy,
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Speaker 1: Jack Smith, because he's an old hitman for the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: He's done this before, where he targets a political opponent,
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Speaker 1: a Republican. Makes up all kinds of charges. He did
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Speaker 1: that to that Virginia governor, McDonald. Convicted him of like
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Speaker 1: eight things. Every one of them tossed out by the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court, who reprimanded Jack Smith saying he had just
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Speaker 1: fabricated all this nonsense for political purposes. So that's his history.
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Speaker 1: When you watch the hearings later, you'll see that he
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Speaker 1: is a bug-eyed, weird, scary guy. I mean, if you
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Speaker 1: saw this guy coming down the street, you'd call 911.
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Speaker 1: He's such a bug-eyed weirdo of a guy. Hey, today
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Speaker 1: is postseason baseball begins today. The wild card game, Red Sox, Yankees,
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Speaker 1: actually tonight. So that's the end of summer. We're in
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Speaker 1: the postseason now. The Knicks basketball, they're at, what do
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Speaker 1: you call it? It's not spring training, fall training. They're
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Speaker 1: training camp, the Knicks. The basketball season begins like in
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Speaker 1: three weeks. Hockey preseason already gone. You're really into the fall.
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Speaker 1: It's really happening, I'm afraid. Hey, over there at ABC News,
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Speaker 1: they got Good Morning America. Now, apparently, they can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: They've been number one, Good Morning America, for years. Number
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Speaker 1: one morning show. That Gayle King show, CBS, always in
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Speaker 1: last place, always a disaster. The Today Show, you know,
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Speaker 1: used to be number one a billion years ago, but
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Speaker 1: it's always Good Morning America. They're number one. Until now.
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Speaker 1: The Today Show beat them for the season. The Today
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Speaker 1: Show beat them. This has got everybody upset over at ABC.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, America. Lost to the Today Show. Now, you've
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Speaker 1: got to put a big asterisk on this because, remember,
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Speaker 1: on the Today Show, this was a whole year of
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Speaker 1: the Savannah Guthrie stuff, you know, where their mother vanished.
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Speaker 1: So that brought a lot of attention to the Today Show.
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Speaker 1: That was a big help. Also, remember, NBC had the
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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics. They had the Super Bowl. That all gave
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Speaker 1: a bounce, ratings bounce, to the Today Show. But they're
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Speaker 1: very upset at ABC over this Good Morning America, and
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Speaker 1: they're thinking about, they're even talking about some changes. Because
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Speaker 1: it was the first time they lost to the Today
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Speaker 1: Show in 15 years. And they point out that the anchors,
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Speaker 1: they got three big anchors, Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan, and
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Speaker 1: George Stephanopoulos, or actually George Slopidopoulos. Now, They're never in
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Speaker 1: the same place. They're never all there for the show.
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Speaker 1: It's one or the other. They're never together on the set.
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Speaker 1: You got three big anchors who, by the way, are
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Speaker 1: getting 15 million each. And they're not there. Like if
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Speaker 1: one's there, the other one's not there. They're never all there.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 1: Well, it turns out behind the scenes, they hate each other.
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Speaker 1: They can't be in the same room. Now, you know,
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Speaker 1: the most important thing on one of these morning shows
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Speaker 1: are the anchors and the chemistry with the anchors. Well,
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Speaker 1: these three hate each other's guts. They'll almost never be
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Speaker 1: on the set together. They'll almost never be in the
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Speaker 1: same studio at the same time. Apparently, Robin Roberts jealous
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Speaker 1: of Michael Strahan. Robin and George Slopidopoulos detest each other.
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Speaker 1: They can't stand each other. So they're thinking of making
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Speaker 1: some changes also. These shows don't make the money they
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Speaker 1: used to make. They can't keep paying these people $ 15
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Speaker 1: million a year, especially when they're not winning anymore. So
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Speaker 1: expect to see some changes at Good Morning America. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand the Sunday show. You ever see the Sunday
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Speaker 1: show on ABC? This week with George Stephanopoulos. Then they
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Speaker 1: cut to that old hag Martha Raddatz, or they cut
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Speaker 1: to that Trump hater. What's his name? What's his name?
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Karl. It's those two rotating every week. How is
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Speaker 1: it this week with George Stephanopoulos? He's only on once
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Speaker 1: a year. Maybe twice a year he comes on. It's
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Speaker 1: always this. Jonathan Karl or Martha Redditz, how do they
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Speaker 1: keep his name on this show? Apparently, over at ABC,
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Speaker 1: how does he even keep his job? They got no
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Speaker 1: ratings on Sunday. How does he even keep this job? Well, apparently,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not, at Disney, ABC, they think, they
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Speaker 1: still actually think, he's a very powerful, very connected Washington insider.
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Speaker 1: With who? With who? His connection to Bill Clinton, who's
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Speaker 1: in a nursing home now. I mean, all the people
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Speaker 1: he's connected with are way out of power. Who, Rahm Emanuel?
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Speaker 1: Who is he connected to? I don't know, but he's
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Speaker 1: got Disney, ABC fooled. Hey, the Russia-Ukraine war, it's going
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Speaker 1: so badly for Russia. You know, they can't get soldiers.
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Speaker 1: They have to send troops to the war. Normally, it's
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Speaker 1: Russian troops. Well, there's no such thing anymore. They've all
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Speaker 1: been wiped out. Now, listen to these numbers. In the
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Speaker 1: Russia-Ukraine war, Moscow has had 1.5 million casualties. That's 1.5
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Speaker 1: million of their soldiers wiped out on the battlefield casualties.
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Speaker 1: They've had 500,000 deaths, half a million deaths. You know,
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Speaker 1: the U.S. in all of World War II, we only
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Speaker 1: lost 400,000. 500,000 deaths, 1.5 million casualties. Do you know
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Speaker 1: that Russia suffers 40,000 casualties every month? And they just
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Speaker 1: can't cover their losses. So they have no troops to
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Speaker 1: send from Russia. So what they're doing is they're recruiting foreigners.
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Speaker 1: They're paying them $ 26, 000 to become cannon fodder in the
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Speaker 1: Ukraine war. And where do you find people who want
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Speaker 1: to do this? Well, they go all over the world.
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Speaker 1: They got a team of influencers, social media types. They're
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Speaker 1: on Facebook, TikTok, Telegram, preying on poor countries with poor,
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Speaker 1: vulnerable people. who are either ideologically crazy or they just
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Speaker 1: desperately need money. So that's what Russia's doing now to
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Speaker 1: get soldiers. Now, the problem is when you've got this
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Speaker 1: ragtag bunch of mercenaries you're paying, they don't fight very
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Speaker 1: well together. And that's the other problem. We were so
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Speaker 1: stunned when this war began. We've always thought Russia was
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Speaker 1: an incredible military superpower. We find out they barely have
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Speaker 1: any equipment. Their equipment is primitive. They don't even have
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Speaker 1: night vision equipment. They don't fight in formation on a battlefield.
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Speaker 1: They don't have field commanders. They got a lot of
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Speaker 1: troops and a general. They don't have a lieutenant, a sergeant,
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Speaker 1: a colonel. They don't have any of that. So that's
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Speaker 1: why they lost so many generals, because if something goes
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Speaker 1: wrong in the battlefield, the general himself has to get
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Speaker 1: out of the tank and ends up getting killed. So
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Speaker 1: they say they're close in these negotiations, especially after UN week.
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Speaker 1: But we'll see how long Russia can last. Hey, this Mamdani,
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Speaker 1: this is quite an interesting scheme he's got. You remember
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Speaker 1: he went after Ken Griffin, the big CEO, stood outside
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Speaker 1: of his $ 250 million apartment and tried to humiliate him? Well,
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Speaker 1: apparently Mamdani wants to do this with all the big
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Speaker 1: New York CEOs. He got together his social media team,
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Speaker 1: his influencer army, he calls them. He's got 200 of them.
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Speaker 1: And they're about to launch a smear campaign on all
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Speaker 1: the New York CEOs. They're going to bash all the
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Speaker 1: top CEOs. They're targeting certain ones specifically. Pfizer CEO, Albert Borta,
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Speaker 1: not the greatest guy, but they're going to go after him.
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Speaker 1: They're going to go after Jeff Blau, who's the CEO
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Speaker 1: of Related Companies. These are the people building Hudson Yards
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Speaker 1: and all this stuff. They're targeting the big CEOs. Now,
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Speaker 1: this will be interesting. If they really start to smear
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Speaker 1: them and go after them, hopefully, All of these CEOs
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Speaker 1: who could put together billions of dollars in a second
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Speaker 1: will counterattack, will launch an unbelievable media campaign against Mamdani.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's what Mamdani's counting on, thinking it'll help him
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Speaker 1: with his crazy base. But this is the most dangerous
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Speaker 1: thing Mamdani has ever attempted. Now, there's a thing called
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Speaker 1: the Partnership of New York. It's a bunch of business leaders.
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Speaker 1: Remember that awful Kathy Wild ran this thing? They got
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Speaker 1: a new person running it. They threw her the hell out.
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Speaker 1: And they got former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, who's
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Speaker 1: inexperienced at this. One thing about that, Kathy Welch, she
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Speaker 1: knew her way around. She knew how to play the system.
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Speaker 1: But this guy's new. Apparently, he's a major target they're
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Speaker 1: going to go after. So this could be the most
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Speaker 1: dangerous thing Mamdani has ever attempted. Because most of these
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Speaker 1: CEOs are very careful with him. They don't like him,
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Speaker 1: but they... publicly you know they're very careful they uh
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Speaker 1: they know they might need them you know if you're
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Speaker 1: building stuff or running a big business you need uh
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Speaker 1: okays for things and permits and all but but uh
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Speaker 1: this is this is dangerous for mom donna he might
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Speaker 1: uh you know wake up that sleeping tiger and uh
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Speaker 1: it could it could wipe him out in the end
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Speaker 1: we hope uh anyway we'll take some calls next 800-321-0710
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Speaker 1: is the number 800.
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Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Let's take some calls.
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Speaker 1: 800-321-0710 is the number. If you're a new caller, we'd
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Speaker 1: love to hear from you.
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Speaker 5: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to George in Port Jefferson. George, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing?
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Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Mark. Isn't it ironic that Jack Smith
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Speaker 6: came from the court of the International Criminal Court, which
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Speaker 6: has been debunked? It's really ironic.
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Speaker 1: Well, you can't even debunk it. It was never a
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Speaker 1: real court. It's just a fake, made-up, pretend court.
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Speaker 6: There's something I know about. He went to school. He
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Speaker 6: grew up in Syracuse University, and he's admitted to practice
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Speaker 6: law in New York State. up in the third department.
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Speaker 6: I am very shocked that nobody's taken... People could take
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Speaker 6: grievances against him to try to suspend him.
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Speaker 1: You can't do that. You can't do that in New York.
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Speaker 1: The New York bar is the most left-wing, biased, crazy.
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Speaker 6: No, no, no. Mark, please. This is up... It's the
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Speaker 6: bar that he was admitted to. That's up in... He
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Speaker 6: was born in... He's admitted in the third department. If
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Speaker 6: it was in the first department, you'd be right.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 6: But I cannot believe... Somebody should try to go after him.
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Speaker 1: Well, you started. George, thanks for calling. Let's go to...
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jan in Asbury. Jan?
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Speaker 2: Mark, can you hear me?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You mean Asbury Park? Is that what you mean?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm across from the Stone Pony.
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Speaker 1: Oh, God, the noise. The Stone Pony. The mess that
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Speaker 1: comes out of there every night.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm just saying, it's a big mess there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if you had a choice between across the street,
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Speaker 1: you could either have a data center or the Stone Pony,
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Speaker 1: which would you choose? Which would make less noise?
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Speaker 5: Data center.
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Speaker 2: I'd want a data center. Anyway, you're so healing. You're
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Speaker 2: such a medicine. I just, you know, because you know stuff.
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Speaker 2: And you know the good guys and the bad guys.
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Speaker 2: You're smart. You know what's going on.
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Speaker 5: Uh-oh.
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Speaker 1: I hear a butt coming.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: On the set of some of these conservatives, so to speak,
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Speaker 2: or people that were like right wing that you think
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Speaker 2: newscasters and stuff that are like, oh, yeah, Trump now.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: But before, you know, he lost the election. They were
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Speaker 2: all dishing him like they were. They were not like
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Speaker 2: being so pro Trump. And this is the right I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about. And I'm seeing them start to do that again.
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Speaker 2: And I think they're just so stupid. They're like putting
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Speaker 2: their own opinions on how to do the war, how
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Speaker 2: to do that. You know, they don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 2: And they're starting to turn against them again. I won't
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Speaker 2: say the names.
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Speaker 1: Oh, say the names. Say whoever you want. What names?
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Speaker 1: Who are you talking about?
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Speaker 2: Well, one guy's a Newsmax. Rob Schmidt, of all people. Like,
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Speaker 2: was kind of dissing Trump yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what about Rob Schmidt? Newsmax is very good. I
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Speaker 1: like that Greg Kelly show. Rob Schmidt, he's pretty in
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Speaker 1: the middle. You know, he goes both ways. That's the
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Speaker 1: way he should be. He shouldn't be.
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Speaker 2: But they're like, I don't think they should be that.
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Speaker 2: They need to be more patient. That gets me mad.
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Speaker 2: How about Karl Rove? I knew he was a bad guy.
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Speaker 5: He's not a bad guy.
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Speaker 1: He's just a Bush guy. He loves Bush. You've got
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Speaker 1: to remember.
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Speaker 2: Okay, but he's voting for Tallarico.
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Speaker 1: All right, but you've got to remember. Well, thanks for calling, though.
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Speaker 1: You've got to remember, for a guy like Karl Rove,
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Speaker 1: he was a Bush guy. That was his whole world,
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Speaker 1: the Bush world. And remember, when Trump came along, it
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Speaker 1: was Jeb Bush. It was his turn to continue the
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Speaker 1: Bush dynasty. Jeb Bush was going to be the president.
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Speaker 1: This Donald Trump came out of nowhere. and wiped out
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Speaker 1: the whole Bush dynasty. He annihilated Jeb Bush in those debates,
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Speaker 1: just wiped the floor with him. And that was the
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Speaker 1: end of the Bush dynasty. So for Karl Rove, it
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Speaker 1: had to be very upsetting. Karl Rove was on his
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Speaker 1: way back to being in the White House, back to
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Speaker 1: being the most powerful guy in the White House, chief
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Speaker 1: of staff to the president. And then Trump wiped it out.
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Speaker 1: So if you're Karl Rove, you got to be really
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Speaker 1: mad at Trump. at Donald Trump. You know, it's the same,
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Speaker 1: like Hillary Clinton. This was her destiny to be president.
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Speaker 1: She just, always, always assumed she'd be the president. And
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the total rookie, Donald Trump, shows
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Speaker 1: up and just wipes her out, completely destroys her. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: let's go to, is it Robert on line one? Robert,
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Speaker 1: how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Hey, how are you, Mark?
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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 5: Was that a rumor? Was that a rumor about us
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Speaker 5: knocking out that Chinese satellite that was feeding information about Ukraine?
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Speaker 1: No, that happened. No, we shot down a Chinese satellite,
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Speaker 1: spy satellite, that was doing something for Iran. Wasn't it
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Speaker 1: helping Iran?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it was. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 1: It was Iran.
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Speaker 5: I just want to see if that was a rumor
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Speaker 5: or if that had any validity.
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Speaker 1: No, that's absolutely true. There was a Chinese spy satellite
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Speaker 1: giving secret information to Iran that We blew it out
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Speaker 1: of the sky, out of outer space. We just blew
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Speaker 1: up the satellite.
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Speaker 5: Another incredible achievement by Donald J. Trump. I thank you, sir.
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Speaker 1: All right. Thanks for calling. Yeah, you know, you got
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Speaker 1: to give this Pete Hegseth credit. I know he looks
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Speaker 1: a little goofy and he doesn't look like a top military,
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Speaker 1: you know, crusty sort of an old military guy. But
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Speaker 1: since he's been in there, you know, that bombing raid
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Speaker 1: to take out Iran's nuclear plants, you know, where those
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Speaker 1: planes had to stay in the air for like 38 hours.
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Speaker 1: That was an incredible accomplishment. You remember when they captured
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Speaker 1: Maduro in his bedroom, the leader of the country? They
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Speaker 1: actually seized him out of his bedroom in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night. That was an incredible military operation. Knocking
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Speaker 1: out that Chinese spy satellite just as it was spying
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Speaker 1: on him. Incredible stuff. So you might think this exit
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Speaker 1: looks a little goofy, but he has accomplished some of
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Speaker 1: the greatest military operations imaginable. Anyway, let's go to, oh,
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Speaker 1: did she hang up? Pam in Mississippi, what happened to you?
21:38
Speaker 1: It might be our phones. Anyway, we'll take some calls
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Speaker 1: a little later on. Hey, and coming up a little
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Speaker 1: later on, we'll get to the Tonight Show. Johnny Carson.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's the 72nd anniversary. The Tonight Show was
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Speaker 1: created this week, 72 years ago. But we'll take a
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Speaker 1: look at it in the next hour. This will be
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting. So if you're a big Carson late night
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Speaker 1: Tonight Show fan, Well, don't go away because we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about that in the next hour. And the
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Speaker 1: brilliant columnist, Michael Goodwin, the best columnist in America. Normally
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Speaker 1: he's with us on Mondays, but he had to move
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Speaker 1: to Tuesday. So we'll talk to him next on 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Mark Simone.
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Speaker 5: Mr.
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Speaker 1: New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 till
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Speaker 1: noon on 710WOR. Well, with us right now, the best
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Speaker 1: columnist in America, Michael Goodwin. You can read his column
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Speaker 1: every Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post.
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Speaker 1: And all of his columns are up on the New
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Speaker 1: York Post website. And he's with us now. Michael Goodwin,
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Speaker 1: how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Okay, good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I love this column about Kathy Hochul, big sister
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Speaker 1: to Mom Donnie. What exactly is she trying to accomplish
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Speaker 1: with this Mom Donnie relationship she has?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the big sis. Yeah. Look, it's a simple attempt
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Speaker 5: to curry favor with his voters. And he's a representative
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Speaker 5: of a whole generation of voters. That's the way she
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Speaker 5: looks at it. And, of course, she's not popular among them,
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Speaker 5: except to the extent that she does what he wants.
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Speaker 5: And then he says nice things about her and appears
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Speaker 5: at her and smiles. And I think that's what she's
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Speaker 5: looking for. She's looking for help in the election. She's
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Speaker 5: obviously somewhat concerned about Bruce Blinken's campaign. And right now,
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Speaker 5: I think she's acting like all she has to do
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Speaker 5: is keep Mamdani happy. And then everything will fall in
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Speaker 5: place next month in the November election.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, what is she getting wrong? It's not that simple,
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Speaker 1: is it? That Mamdani crowd might just see right through her,
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Speaker 1: won't they?
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Speaker 5: Well, that's it. I mean, they don't want the half-in,
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Speaker 5: half-out Democrats. They made that clear with their insurgency attacks
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Speaker 5: against the party. And to them, Hochul is that party.
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Speaker 5: She's that party's chief executive in New York. I believe
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Speaker 5: they are right about that. That is where her instincts are.
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Speaker 5: But they have converted her, converted her at least 50%
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Speaker 5: to go with him, that be a tear tax. All
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Speaker 5: the billions of dollars that she funneled to the Mamdani
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Speaker 5: operation in the city. So she's doing whatever she can
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Speaker 5: to curry favor. And last week, she attacked Benjamin Netanyahu
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Speaker 5: for criticizing Mamdani. And I find it very interesting. She
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Speaker 5: never said whether she agrees with Mamdani that Israel is
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Speaker 5: a genocide state. But she attacked Netanyahu for attacking Mamdani
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Speaker 5: over that and other things he has said and done.
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Speaker 5: So it's another example of Hochul wanting to rescue Mamdani
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Speaker 5: without going full in on his side. I just think
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Speaker 5: this kind of half-in, half-out posture can't work. And I
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Speaker 5: hope it doesn't work because I think it's very bad
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Speaker 5: for the state and the city. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So Bruce Blakeman, we love him. He's a great candidate.
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Speaker 1: He'd be a phenomenal governor. What can he do? He's
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Speaker 1: only got like 35 days till this election. She's only
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Speaker 1: agreed to one debate. What can he do to really
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Speaker 1: go after her? Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I don't think the debate is going to be... deciding
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Speaker 5: factor here. I think he's got to continue to wrap
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Speaker 5: up and increase his linkage of Hochul and Mamdani. He's
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Speaker 5: done some of that, but I think he's done it
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Speaker 5: primarily upstate, where Mamdani is very unpopular. And so that
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Speaker 5: should help drive out, turn out the Republican votes, the
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Speaker 5: anti-Hochul votes. But the real key to this is in
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Speaker 5: New York City, the five boroughs, I should say the
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Speaker 5: four boroughs, not including Staten Island, always provide the Democratic
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Speaker 5: margin and have for the last 20 years. George Pataki
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Speaker 5: in 2002 was the last Republican to win a statewide race.
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Speaker 5: And so it's always because of the margin in it. Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan,
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Speaker 5: and the Bronx. That's where the Democrats run up the score.
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Speaker 5: So Blakeman has to get more turnout and more votes
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Speaker 5: in New York City if he has any hope. And
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Speaker 5: I think, as I have written, Mark, a million people
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Speaker 5: voted against Mamdani. If Blakeman could get even half of
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Speaker 5: those to vote for him.
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Speaker 5: Then he would, I think, be in a very good
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Speaker 5: position overall.
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Speaker 1: You know, obviously the media, very slanted, very biased, they're
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Speaker 1: always painting it as the Republicans are in real trouble,
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Speaker 1: Democrats are going to coast. You think there's like an
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Speaker 1: undercurrent there that's really going to come out and back
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Speaker 1: Blakeman and other Republicans that the polls aren't measuring?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think the best sign that I've seen in
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Speaker 5: the polls for Blakeman is that he had a significant
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Speaker 5: lead in the most recent poll among independents. And again,
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Speaker 5: bear in mind to remember that there are more independents
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Speaker 5: in New York State than there are Republicans. There are
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Speaker 5: far more Democrats. Democrats outnumber Republicans about two to one,
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Speaker 5: I believe, in the state. But there are more and
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Speaker 5: there are Republicans. So he needs a big chunk of
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Speaker 5: independent voters to come out for him, and he needs,
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Speaker 5: of course, Republican voters to turn out in big numbers.
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Speaker 5: If he can do that, then I think he has
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Speaker 5: a shot. But I'm not sure. It's hard to measure
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Speaker 5: each group differently in one poll. So we haven't seen
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Speaker 5: the polls. In all these polls that have been done,
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Speaker 5: He's never, to my knowledge, had the lead. So I
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Speaker 5: think the last one had him at nine points behind.
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Speaker 5: I think he's got to close that gap to inspire
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Speaker 5: those potential voters for him to come out. Because if
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Speaker 5: people think the election is already over, they're not going
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Speaker 5: to vote. So he's running out of time to light
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Speaker 5: the spark. Hmm.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Michael Gooden, we haven't talked to you since UN week. Netanyahu,
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Speaker 1: powerful speech by Netanyahu, by Trump. What do you think?
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Speaker 1: Was anything accomplished with all of that?
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Speaker 5: You know, I think that speech, Mark, was, you know,
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Speaker 5: for the UN, of course, but it was primarily for
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Speaker 5: Israeli voters. You know, Netanyahu's got an election coming up
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Speaker 5: even before the American election. It's in, I think, two
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Speaker 5: two and a half weeks, the Israeli election. I don't
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Speaker 5: believe there's early voting or anything like that. I think
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Speaker 5: it's a single day. So it would be interesting. You know,
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Speaker 5: he's got kind of a coalition running against him, but
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Speaker 5: it's still very much in flux. And the winner, in
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Speaker 5: order to be the winner, has to get a majority
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Speaker 5: of the seats, the parliamentary seats, the Knesset seats. That's
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Speaker 5: how the prime minister becomes the prime minister, is if
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Speaker 5: your party can get a majority of the legislative seats.
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Speaker 5: That's the way it is in all these parliamentarian systems.
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Speaker 5: And he has a very narrow majority and has, by
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Speaker 5: stitching together several parties, he'll have to do that again
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Speaker 5: to keep the job.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. Love the columns. Any idea
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Speaker 1: what you're writing about tomorrow? Can you give us a
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Speaker 1: little preview?
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Speaker 5: Yes. The Post has a fascinating piece today on Mondani's
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Speaker 5: social media hit squad going to go after individual business
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Speaker 5: leaders in New York City. I think it's terrible. It's terrible.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it really will drive businesses out of the city.
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Speaker 5: It's unbelievable for a mayor to do something like this.
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Speaker 1: But he's also going to run a smear campaign against
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Speaker 1: the biggest, most powerful CEOs in New York. You think
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Speaker 1: he's making it?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't he realize what he's going to set? These guys
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Speaker 1: could come after him with billions of dollars. Has he
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Speaker 1: really thought about it? Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 5: I don't think he's worried about the politics of it
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Speaker 5: just yet. I think he's running to be the champion
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Speaker 5: of the far left. He's got three and a half
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Speaker 5: years to continue in the office. But I think if
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Speaker 5: he can get a few scouts this way, it'll make
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Speaker 5: him more popular among the rabid set that follows him now.
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Speaker 2: Hmm.
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Speaker 1: Oh, interesting.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to read that column tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: Again, how does Hochul react to this, right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting. Well, this is going to be a great
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Speaker 1: column tomorrow. You can read Michael Goodwin every Sunday, every
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Speaker 1: Wednesday in the New York Post. Michael Goodwin, thanks for
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