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Hour 1: Strait of Hormuz's future. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent tenor
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Speaker 1: well it's Monday. There's a lot going on. We'll get
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Speaker 1: you caught up on everything. We'll get the latest Don Iran.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to Eric Swalwell, it's over for him. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to a mom Donnie in a silly grocery store.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to Bruce Blakeman, next Governor of New York.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to Artemis, the space craft and the astronauts.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to the Masters and a whole lot more.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to Kamala Harris became the laughing stock of
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Speaker 1: the Internet on Saturday. We'll explain why. So as we
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Speaker 1: speak right now, blockade is beginning. President Trump has decided
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Speaker 1: to put up a blockade on the straits of Hormouse.
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Speaker 1: Now most people just casual watches of the news. You know,
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Speaker 1: they watched the evening news and they quickly read the paper.
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Speaker 1: You're a victim of fake news. You've been given a
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Speaker 1: false impressure. And if you watch the Sunday shows, they
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Speaker 1: really go out of their way to just totally mislead
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Speaker 1: the public. Couple of things you got to know. Fact,
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Speaker 1: we get no oil out of the straits of Hormoose.
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Speaker 1: We don't need it for anything. It could be closed
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Speaker 1: forever and it doesn't affect the United States. If it's closed,
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Speaker 1: if it's blockaded, if it's closed, it completely screws up Iran.
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Speaker 1: It's their only source of revenue. Oil. That's all they do.
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Speaker 1: They sell oil, and if the Straits of Hormose are blocked,
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Speaker 1: they can't sell any oil and they've got zero revenue
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Speaker 1: coming in. It also screws up China. They are heavily
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Speaker 1: dependent on Iranian oil, so it really messes up China.
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Speaker 1: That's one reason we're not rushing to get it open.
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Speaker 1: Now here's another fact. We can open the Straits of
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Speaker 1: Hormoose at any time, anytime we feel like it. It's
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Speaker 1: an easy thing to do militarily. We've got the plan
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Speaker 1: on how to open it. Admiral Cooper Scentcom could execute
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Speaker 1: that in a second soon as he gets the go ahead,
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Speaker 1: could totally open the Straits of Hormose. We're not going
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Speaker 1: to do that for a while because the longer it's closed,
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Speaker 1: the more it hurts China. It completely takes all revenue
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Speaker 1: away from Iran. And also it helps the United States.
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Speaker 1: Not only don't we need that oil. But if the
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Speaker 1: Straits of Hormoose are closed, it actually helps us. We
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Speaker 1: make more money because if it's closed Europe, India, many
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Speaker 1: countries that are totally dependent on that oil now have
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Speaker 1: to buy from the United States. We are actually oil
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Speaker 1: rich right now. We've got more oil than we need.
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Speaker 1: We're an exporter of oil now. In fact, right now
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Speaker 1: we're the biggest exporter of oil in the world. So
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Speaker 1: as long as the Straits of Hormose are closed, a
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Speaker 1: lot of these countries who used to buy that oil
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Speaker 1: now have to buy it from us. And they're also
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Speaker 1: thinking that after a while, they're going to start to realize,
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Speaker 1: you know what, this is a better supplier Straits of
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Speaker 1: Hormose Iranian oil. There's always a risk something could go
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Speaker 1: wrong in other wars. We're safe for buying US oil.
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Speaker 1: So this is benefiting us greatly. The blockade will go
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Speaker 1: into place, they have to clear the mines out and
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Speaker 1: all of that. We've got all kinds of it used
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Speaker 1: to be a big thing worrying about mines and the
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Speaker 1: shipping lane, but we've got all kinds of technology now,
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Speaker 1: all kinds of new mind detectors. We didn't have before.
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Speaker 1: We've got underwater drones, all sorts of stuff that we
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Speaker 1: didn't have before, we weren't able to use. Here's President Trump.
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Speaker 2: They probably have a couple of mines in the water.
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Speaker 2: We have mine sweepers out there. We're sweeping these straight.
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Speaker 2: In addition to that one negotiating. Whether we make a
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Speaker 2: deal or not, it makes no difference to me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we were clearing the minds out. We've had
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Speaker 1: US warships going through the straits of horn Moose all
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Speaker 1: weekend just checking it out. Everything will be fine there. Again,
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Speaker 1: keeping it blockaded helps us. We make more money that way,
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Speaker 1: and it completely completely screws up all revenue coming into
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Speaker 1: Iran and messes up China. That's another reason. They'll stall
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Speaker 1: as long as they can.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: As far as the talks, well, they'll continue. They were
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Speaker 1: twenty one hours over the weekend. Can you imagine sitting
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Speaker 1: in a hotel in Pakistan talking to Iranian negotiators for
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Speaker 1: twenty one hours? Now? Does anybody in the world want
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Speaker 1: to do that? If you're Steve Wikoff, you're living in
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Speaker 1: New York, having the time of your life, having fun,
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Speaker 1: building buildings, enjoying New York. Who would give that up
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Speaker 1: to go sit in a hotel conference room in Pakistan
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Speaker 1: at a table for twenty and one hours talking to
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Speaker 1: Iranian negotiators with interpreters. But they did it. JD. Vance
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Speaker 1: led the negotiations. It didn't go well. The nukes were
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Speaker 1: the big topic.
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Speaker 3: The enrichment facilities that they had before they've been destroyed.
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Speaker 3: But the civil question is do we see a fundamental
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Speaker 3: commitment of will for the Iranians not to develop a
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Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, not just now, not just two years from now,
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Speaker 3: but for the long term. We haven't seen that yet.
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Speaker 1: We hope that we will. Now when it comes to
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Speaker 1: negotiating with Iran, everybody will tell you, whether it's Obama
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Speaker 1: or Biden or Pillary or anybody, that they're the worst
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Speaker 1: negotiators in the world. They're absolutely totally untrustworthy. Even if
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Speaker 1: they were a degree, they're lying about everything. They're always lying.
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Speaker 1: So obviously in any negotiation there's ups and downs and
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Speaker 1: there's bumps, but with somebody like Iran, it's going to
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Speaker 1: be more ups and downs and a bumpier road than ever.
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Speaker 1: So the fact that the talks blew up and fell
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Speaker 1: through after day one is to be expected. There was
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Speaker 1: no agreement.
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Speaker 3: We've been at it now for twenty one hours and
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Speaker 3: we've had a number of substant discussions with the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: That's the good news.
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Speaker 3: The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll blockade the whole thing and then we'll see
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Speaker 1: what happens. Where are they actually, they're in Pakistan Star
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Speaker 1: Serena hotel where they're having the peace talks. It's a
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Speaker 1: huge hotel. It's kind of a resort. It's got fifteen acres,
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Speaker 1: it's got four hundred rooms, it's got multiple banquet rooms,
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Speaker 1: huge banquet rooms, conference rooms, office complex. These two delegations,
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Speaker 1: by the way, are people. Our team and their team,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty people. So it's not a little room.
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Speaker 1: It's a big room. There's one hundred and fifty people
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Speaker 1: sitting in this room doing this negotiation. But everything will
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Speaker 1: be fine. The Pope shooting off his mouth, Pope Leo,
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Speaker 1: who is a real left wing, woke pope speaking out
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Speaker 1: pretty much defending a Ran going after the US on
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Speaker 1: this President Trump firing back at him.
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Speaker 4: We don't like it.
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Speaker 2: We don't like a pope that's gonna say that it's
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Speaker 2: okay to have a nuclear weapon. We don't want a
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Speaker 2: pope that says crime is okay in our cities.
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Speaker 4: I don't like it.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of poblo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now you you can't attack the pope. Is it's
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Speaker 1: going to hurt him, No, it's not going to hurt him.
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Speaker 1: He did this before with the last pope. Remember they
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Speaker 1: got no huge war awards and Trump only went up.
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Speaker 1: I think it was during the South Carolina primary, attacked
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Speaker 1: the pope that said he's finished. He won that primary easily,
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Speaker 1: had this pope again. We love the pope, but this
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Speaker 1: guy's way to the left, the real woke and it
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Speaker 1: was really inappropriate for the Pope to say what he said,
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Speaker 1: taking a side like that, and a lot of people
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Speaker 1: criticizing this pope because over the last six months, as
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Speaker 1: Iran was executing people in the street, slaughtering, killing, executing
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Speaker 1: thirty thousand protesters, this pope never said a word and
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Speaker 1: the demonstrators that survived ended up in the hospital. Iran
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Speaker 1: sent the Republican guard into the hospital to shoot them
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Speaker 1: in their hospital beds. Pope never said a word. So
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Speaker 1: you know the hypocrisy left wingers are famous for. But
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Speaker 1: President Trump not afraid to lash out of him.
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Speaker 2: He's a very liberal and he's a man that doesn't
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Speaker 2: believe in stopping grime. He's a man that doesn't think
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Speaker 2: that we should be going with a country that once
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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapons so they can blow up the world.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of Bubblio.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's very very I'm Donnie like. He defends the criminals,
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Speaker 1: not the uh, you know, not the police. Hey, over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. It ended over the weekend, but started on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: Al Sharpton had his convention, and in his convention, believe
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Speaker 1: it or not, if you're a Democrat and you want
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Speaker 1: to run in twenty twenty eight, you have to show
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Speaker 1: up and kiss the Al Sharpton ring. And one by
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Speaker 1: one they all did it. There was Bootage Edge and
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Speaker 1: he did very well there because remember it's an Al
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Speaker 1: Sharpton convention, not much substance there. It's left wing cooks
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Speaker 1: and the Pete Boodhage Edge spews out those left wing
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Speaker 1: bumper stickers and they loved it. So you had Josh Pierrot,
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Speaker 1: who is out of all these people, probably the most
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Speaker 1: common sense of them, probably the smartest of the bunch.
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Speaker 1: He's Jewish, that's a problem for these Democrats. They don't
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Speaker 1: want He's pretty good as governor of Pennsylvania. Then he
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Speaker 1: had Mark Kelly, who strange looking guy, who you know,
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Speaker 1: the angry looking guy. But Democrats love that strange angry
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Speaker 1: Oh that's big with Democrats. Some people think the way
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Speaker 1: he handled himself there it looked like he was thinking
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Speaker 1: of running in twenty twenty eight. Problem with him, He
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Speaker 1: was under serious consideration to be Kamala's running mate, and
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Speaker 1: from what I hear, he had some vetting problems. The
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Speaker 1: vetting process. There were some things that eliminated him. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know what those are, but you've got that
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Speaker 1: to worry about. The other problem is, because of all
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Speaker 1: the recent Democratic talk, Mark Kelly is now officially, according
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Speaker 1: to Democratic definition, a war criminal because he always brags
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Speaker 1: about being a fighter pilot. He flew combat missions in Iraq,
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Speaker 1: and well what he did in Iraq was take out
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Speaker 1: bridges and take out power plants. That's what he did
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Speaker 1: on those combat missions. So by his own definition, he's
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Speaker 1: a war criminals. You're gonna have to worry about that.
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Speaker 1: But Kamala Harris made the strangest speech a because she
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Speaker 1: was apparently drunk everybody agreed. She appeared to be totally drunk,
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Speaker 1: and there's nothing worse than a drunk trying to be funny.
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Speaker 1: She tried to imitate Donald Trump. She got ridiculed all
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Speaker 1: over the internet. It's considered to be the single worst
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Speaker 1: impersonation ever of Donald Trump. Let me see if I
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Speaker 1: can play it here. It is horror, just horrible. Her
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump impression is when he talks about America.
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Speaker 2: First it's to withdraw from these relationships and these connections,
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Speaker 2: and then he kind of read acts like a mob boss.
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Speaker 3: So then he's kind of like, you know, you take it.
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Speaker 5: Eastern Europe and I'll take the Western atmosphere, and then
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Speaker 5: you over you get Asian.
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Speaker 1: And we'll just divide it up right instead of understanding
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Speaker 1: his Now that's supposed to be an impression of Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: It will go down on the record as a single
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Speaker 1: worst impersonation ever. Hey, Eric Swallwell, one minute he's running
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Speaker 1: for governor California. Next minute, everybody in the staff, campaign management,
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Speaker 1: everybody quits. He was staying with this big billionaire donor
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Speaker 1: who gave him a million bucks. In fact, that video
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Speaker 1: he did done from the billionaire's house. His response these
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Speaker 1: allegations of sexual assault are flat false. They are absolutely false.
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Speaker 3: They did not happen, They have never happened, and I
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Speaker 3: will fight them with everything that I have.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds good. Let me give you a quick update.
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Speaker 1: This old binstaff, the management, the campaign, manage, everybody quit,
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Speaker 1: walked out the billionaire with that. He recorded that in
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Speaker 1: his house. The billionaire just threw him out of his
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Speaker 1: house and is demanding his million dollars back. In Congress,
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Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats are calling for his expulsion. He most
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Speaker 1: likely will be expelled from the House to probably give
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Speaker 1: him a chance to resign. First, Swawell will have to
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Speaker 1: drop out. He suspended his campaign, but he will have
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Speaker 1: to leave the race. All of these attacks, rape, sexual harassment,
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Speaker 1: inappropriate behavior, all the different women, all these attacks all
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Speaker 1: came at once. One minute, he's doing great in the race.
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Speaker 1: Next minute all this hit the fan. Now, how did
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Speaker 1: all this happen, all these women, everything all at once. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's believed it was packaged and coordinated, with a lot
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Speaker 1: of money behind it, some zillionaires. It's believed he came
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Speaker 1: from the Democratic side, not from the Republican side. Republicans
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Speaker 1: didn't really fear him. Democrats wanted him out, wanted him gone,
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Speaker 1: they wanted to get rid of him. So somebody put
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Speaker 1: this all together and unleashed it all at once, at
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Speaker 1: exactly the right moment. Now, who could have done such
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Speaker 1: a thing, Well, could be a cabal of Democratic donors.
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Speaker 1: But remember also in that race, he was running against
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Speaker 1: the billionaire Tom Stier, that left wing climate change kook,
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Speaker 1: Tom Sutton Styre. And Stier is not a good talker,
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Speaker 1: He's a horrible campaigner. He couldn't catch up to Swalwell.
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Speaker 1: Swawel always had a big lead. So I'm just saying
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Speaker 1: it's possible it was Tom Steyer, the billionaire who helped
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Speaker 1: organize this hit job. And I'm not saying that Swalweal
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Speaker 1: is not guilty of all this stuff. I'm sure he is,
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Speaker 1: but uh, it could have been. It could have been
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Speaker 1: the Styre somebody else. Now, with Swawell leaving the race,
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Speaker 1: does that mean Tom Steyer moves up? Not really, because
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Speaker 1: he may have billions of dollars. Remember he used to
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Speaker 1: run those TV ads about climate change. He can run
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Speaker 1: all the ads he wants, he can, But the more
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Speaker 1: people get a look at him and listen to him,
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Speaker 1: the more uncomfortable to get with him. He's just an uncomfortable,
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Speaker 1: awkward sort of a guy, and he's just got that
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Speaker 1: one issue, that climate change stuff. So he's not much
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Speaker 1: of a candidate. There's a couple others they think will
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Speaker 1: rise up, the San Diego mayor and a few others.
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Speaker 1: This is what in California. It's called a jungle primary.
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Speaker 1: It's not separate Democrat Republican. Everybody just runs in one
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Speaker 1: big primary. It's an absolute mess. And Steve Hilton is
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Speaker 1: the Republican candidate. Some people think he's got a really
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Speaker 1: good shot, only because if it ends up being Tom Steyer,
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Speaker 1: who can't talk, Hilton is a great talker. The only
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Speaker 1: problem is California is now two thirds of it is democratic.
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Speaker 1: It's hard for Republican to win. Used to be a
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Speaker 1: balanced state. They used to elect Republicans all the time.
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Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, he used to always often elect Republicans.
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Speaker 1: Not the case anymore. It's been a one party state
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Speaker 1: for years. So obviously Hilton had have a very tough time,
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Speaker 1: but he's got a better shot than most Republicans. So
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Speaker 1: they will call for Swalwell to leave Congress. Even everybody,
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Speaker 1: the major major major major Democrats have all turned on
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Speaker 1: him now, and even Leader Hakim Jeffries has called on
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Speaker 1: him to drop out, and he's calling for a Senate investigation.
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Speaker 1: Even his big supporter Adam Schiff pulled his support. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of other stuff with him. He was running
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Speaker 1: for governor California. Turns out that people investigating him were
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Speaker 1: able to show he doesn't even live in California. He
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a residence there. He got some good friends
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Speaker 1: who owned a little house to claim that they had
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Speaker 1: rented a room to him, But that looks like it
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Speaker 1: wasn't true. So he's finished. That's it. You won't see
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Speaker 1: him anymore. Hey, Well, take some calls in a minute.
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
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Speaker 1: the number. Eight hundred three to two one zero seven
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Speaker 1: ten in Mark on Demand. He's ending a preset for
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Speaker 1: his podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark
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Speaker 1: Simone on WR Let's take some calls. Eight hundred three
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Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten is the number. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Lynn in New Jersey. Lynn, how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Hey, Mark, how are you? Just a quick question. I'm
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Speaker 5: wondering why we didn't follow Mondami's suggestion, and rather than
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Speaker 5: send vance to negotiate with the Iranians, why didn't we
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Speaker 5: send social workers?
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Speaker 1: Oh, there you go, that's a good thing. The social
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Speaker 1: worker she's referring to. Instead of a police showing up
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Speaker 1: in a domestic violence call, we'll send social workers. Now,
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Speaker 1: the problem with mom Donnie, he's so young, and he
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Speaker 1: doesn't know his history. And in fact, you know, the
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Speaker 1: guy's a great talker. Boy, he's powerful speaker, but doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem to do any homeworker study anything. You know, how
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Speaker 1: shocked he was that we're going to have this budget
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Speaker 1: deficit of seven billion, while he couldn't believe it. Once
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Speaker 1: you go back about a year we announced we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have it. Eric Adams made a whole speech announcing it.
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Speaker 1: So apparently Mo'm donnie does no homework. Also, the social
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Speaker 1: workers answering domestic violence calls, which are the most dangerous
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Speaker 1: calls to police officers respond to. We've tried this program
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Speaker 1: three times in the past. It doesn't work. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the social workers get nimed, shot killed. So he doesn't
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Speaker 1: do any homework. So let's go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill,
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Speaker 1: how you doing Mark, Oh, it's happy hour, it's Bill.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know I've got to stop draping.
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Speaker 1: Amish Foster Brooks.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Uh, I'm you know this Italian drink called grapa. Yes,
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Speaker 6: uh you know, I mean it's poison. On Saturday, I finally.
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Speaker 1: Found a drink you don't like. You had some grappa
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Speaker 1: and you didn't like it.
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Speaker 6: Okay, it's two. I was two shots and away on
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Speaker 6: Saturday of getting a butt tattoo of Joe PESHI.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know that happened. I don't think your
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Speaker 1: butt's going to have a lot of viewers. I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: worry about the tattoo. Who's going to see it? Even
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Speaker 1: you can't see it?
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Speaker 4: Well, thanks for the compliment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're welcome anytime. Thanks for calling. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing. Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know this accusation that he was you know,
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Speaker 5: raping his staff didn't happen yesterday. They knew about it
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Speaker 5: seven years ago when he was going after the president
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Speaker 5: President Trump, you know, impeaching him every other week. So
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Speaker 5: you have to wonder, like why he fell into disfavor
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Speaker 5: all of a Sudden.
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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. They all knew about his shenanigans, or
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Speaker 1: they were hearing about it all the time, and they
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Speaker 1: kept it quiet. As I say, somebody put this all together,
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Speaker 1: packaged it up, and they wanted him gone, and somebody
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Speaker 1: unleashed this all at once. There's a billionaire running against
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Speaker 1: some Tom's tyre. Anytime you see a rough, tough billionaire
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Speaker 1: like that, he's chief suspect. But somebody like that put
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Speaker 1: this together. Absolutely right, Mike, they knew about it. Here's
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Speaker 1: the former Speaker of the House.
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Speaker 7: And remember in Congress knows not to not to let
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Speaker 7: any young staffer get around Swallow or Matt Gates. It's
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Speaker 7: not a secret there. There's a reason why you didn't
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Speaker 7: want those two people around.
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Speaker 1: They all knew it even back then. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: Jay in New Jersey. Jay, how you doing? Mark?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 8: But why don't they kick out Swallwell, you know, like
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Speaker 8: George Santos, you think they's far worse. You know, George
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Speaker 8: Santo's only lie. And you know this lady that stole
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Speaker 8: a tucks from the Florida she's still there too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I like to hear Santos is a he's
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Speaker 1: a cute guy, but he was stealing money from donors
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Speaker 1: and there were financial, you know, crimes that took place.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, you had to get rid of him. Let's
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Speaker 1: go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Mark, Good morning Barra.
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Speaker 5: Mark.
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Speaker 9: This is to all our friends in the Blue States
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Speaker 9: who are complaining about a gas increase of fifty cents
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Speaker 9: of seventy five cents, mainly in the Blue The Blue
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Speaker 9: robber states, Well, I talked to my man yesterday in Italy,
20:19
Speaker 9: and as you pointed out.
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Speaker 1: When you say you're a man in Italy, I hate
20:22
Speaker 1: to ask, what does that mean?
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Speaker 9: What does he do? He's my buddy, man, He's my buddy.
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Speaker 9: So anyway, he was talking about the gas prices and
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Speaker 9: as you pointed out, Europe is totally dependent on it. Well,
20:36
Speaker 9: we complained about a fifty cents increase and every day
20:39
Speaker 9: and that varies from state to state. Well, in Italy,
20:43
Speaker 9: it does it throughout the whole country, even though they
20:45
Speaker 9: have different provinces. You can't raise the gas over a
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Speaker 9: certain price, and you can't lower it. Maybe there's a
20:53
Speaker 9: couple of pennies difference between one gas station another. That's
20:57
Speaker 9: all they are paying, and they go by leaders one
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Speaker 9: euro eighty one cents per leader, which is seven euros
21:08
Speaker 9: and twenty four cents per gallon. In fact, when I
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Speaker 9: gas up when I'm in Italy, the gas the gas
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Speaker 9: pompos caused second Gardenos. It's so smart because only leaders
21:21
Speaker 9: are coming out of there, not gallons. But for all
21:24
Speaker 9: of you people in the country are complaining about this
21:27
Speaker 9: temporary spike, think of that seven euros and twenty four cents,
21:33
Speaker 9: and right now the euros worth more than the dollar.
21:36
Speaker 9: And as far as Pope Leo goes, Pope Francis, before
21:40
Speaker 9: he left office, before he croaked, he made sure he
21:44
Speaker 9: installed eighty left wing cardinals, new cardinals from his pool.
21:52
Speaker 9: They're all leftists like him. Pope Leo was one of
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Speaker 9: them because he knew when he croaked he wanted a
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Speaker 9: leftist into Papercy just like him. So that's where all
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Speaker 9: of this.
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Speaker 1: That's not good, Vincent, great call, thanks for calling. We
22:07
Speaker 1: got one of those left wings, not a cardinal yet,
22:09
Speaker 1: but we got one of those left wing archbishops here
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Speaker 1: in New York. We're running things now. Yeah, you may,
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Speaker 1: I realize all around the world everybody's paying eight dollars
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Speaker 1: a gallon for gas. They've been doing it all along.
22:20
Speaker 1: They're used to it. Now, we don't have to We
22:22
Speaker 1: don't have to raise gas prices here. We produce all
22:24
Speaker 1: our own gas. We don't have to go by the
22:26
Speaker 1: world price. You could order the oil companies to put
22:29
Speaker 1: the gas price back down, and they could do it
22:31
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't affect them. But if you do that,
22:34
Speaker 1: they'll just start producing less and that will drive up
22:37
Speaker 1: the price. So that's the little game. Hey, when we
22:39
Speaker 1: come back, Michael Goodwin, the greatest columnist in America. We'll
22:43
Speaker 1: talk to him next on seven ten WR.
22:47
Speaker 3: Now more, Mark Amone on sevent WR.
22:52
Speaker 1: Well, Michael Goodwin, the best columnist in America. You can
22:56
Speaker 1: read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday in the
22:58
Speaker 1: New York Post. If you go to New York Post website,
23:01
Speaker 1: all of his columns are up there. And he's with
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Speaker 1: us now. Michael Goodwin, how you doing, Good morning, Mark,
23:07
Speaker 1: Thank you great column yesterday. The headline is the New
23:11
Speaker 1: York Times hate filled agenda drags on And let's point
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Speaker 1: out you worked at the New York Times when it
23:18
Speaker 1: was the real New York Times. What the hell happened
23:20
Speaker 1: over there to that place.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like to say I did my undergraduate work there,
23:26
Speaker 4: but I got my BA and moved on. But look,
23:30
Speaker 4: it is this particular story. I mean, The Times has
23:34
Speaker 4: lost its way for a very long time, but this
23:38
Speaker 4: particular story I think is borderline dangerous because what it
23:44
Speaker 4: tries to do is paint Donald Trump as something of
23:49
Speaker 4: a stooge to Benjamin Netan Yahoo. That nating Yahoo came
23:56
Speaker 4: into the situation room with his staff, and the Resident's
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Speaker 4: national security team was there, and they just Times described
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Speaker 4: in great detail what it calls Netanyahu's hard sell to
24:11
Speaker 4: go to war with Israel against Iran. And you know, Mike,
24:16
Speaker 4: it's the situation room is supposedly secret, top secret, and
24:22
Speaker 4: yet there are lots of quotations in the articles from
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Speaker 4: the President's cabinet and even the President himself. So somebody
24:31
Speaker 4: in that room is leaking these secret deliberations. I don't
24:36
Speaker 4: know who. The Times doesn't say, but it quotes very
24:41
Speaker 4: has very long quotations which could only have come if
24:46
Speaker 4: they're accurate, from somebody in the room. I think a
24:49
Speaker 4: criminal investigation is warranted.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this New York Times, though, you know, for
24:55
Speaker 1: four years they're writing articles, but he doesn't listen. Trump
24:57
Speaker 1: won't listen. He doesn't listen the article is all he
25:01
Speaker 1: does is listen to them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. And look, it's part
25:07
Speaker 4: of this larger picture of the anti Semitism spreading blaming
25:13
Speaker 4: Israel for the war, when, as I point out, what
25:17
Speaker 4: the story doesn't talk about it at all, is how
25:20
Speaker 4: Trump has been on a decade long quest to stop
25:25
Speaker 4: Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. He has been entirely
25:29
Speaker 4: consistent about that from ten years ago until yesterday. He
25:34
Speaker 4: has always said, we cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.
25:38
Speaker 4: They are the world's single largest exporter of terrorism. So
25:43
Speaker 4: he's talked about Hamas Hezbela, and so none of those
25:47
Speaker 4: groups make an appearance in this time story, as though
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Speaker 4: Israel has no real legitimate reason to go to Iran
25:57
Speaker 4: go to war with Iran, and therefore non days he
26:01
Speaker 4: hasn't even less legitim memoriason, and so President Trump has
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Speaker 4: a hoodwinked by datag Yahoo. I mean, it's just it's
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Speaker 4: a scandalous idea to start with, but to paint it
26:14
Speaker 4: as a result of that meeting, and he just ignores
26:18
Speaker 4: the trail of history.
26:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, a slight correction. He's been saying for forty years
26:24
Speaker 1: that if he were president, he would go after a rent.
26:26
Speaker 1: In fact, the oldest interview where he said it was
26:28
Speaker 1: forty six years ago, so right.
26:31
Speaker 4: Right after the Iotolis came to Baler in nineteen seventy nine.
26:37
Speaker 4: But this issue of a nuclear weapon has it goes
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Speaker 4: to the top of the list, beyond anything else Iran
26:46
Speaker 4: has done. If it were to have a nuclear weapon,
26:50
Speaker 4: it has made it clear it would use it first
26:53
Speaker 4: on Israel and probably on the United States if it
26:56
Speaker 4: gets the missile system so it can deliver a nuclear
27:01
Speaker 4: warhead on the east coasts of the United States. That's
27:04
Speaker 4: what it says it will do.
27:07
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, for years, politicians, actually both sides, they've
27:11
Speaker 1: had these promises, a handful of promises they make every campaign.
27:15
Speaker 1: I'll end their dependence on foreign oil. Right, Trump did it.
27:19
Speaker 1: He wiped out this promise, they can't use it anymore.
27:22
Speaker 1: And the other one was I'll take care of he
27:24
Speaker 1: ran out disarmment. Well, now he took that one off
27:27
Speaker 1: the table. Is that why they're getting so mad? They're
27:29
Speaker 1: losing their campaign promises?
27:31
Speaker 9: Right?
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Speaker 4: And what would they do? I mean they when you
27:35
Speaker 4: listen to the New York Times and or the demograt Party,
27:38
Speaker 4: same thing. They have this full of criticism, but they
27:43
Speaker 4: never give you an alternative vision. How do you drive
27:47
Speaker 4: down gasoline prices if you won't drill for oil, if
27:52
Speaker 4: you won't make the United States energy independent as Trump
27:57
Speaker 4: has done, what would their answer be? All more electric cards?
28:01
Speaker 4: I guess. I mean the green climate stuff that has
28:06
Speaker 4: driven up the cost of energy everywhere. I mean, and
28:09
Speaker 4: they talk about inflation, they talk about New York being unaffordable.
28:15
Speaker 4: Whether green climate things are one of the reasons why
28:20
Speaker 4: New York has become unaffordable. Any state that has adopted
28:24
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff has gotten more expensive. So Democrats
28:29
Speaker 4: don't have a coherent alternative idea.
28:33
Speaker 1: Everybody read the Michael Goodwin's Calm from yesterday, very very
28:37
Speaker 1: good coming. But again, what happened in New York Times
28:39
Speaker 1: in the good old days, the Arthur Gelbs, the Max
28:43
Speaker 1: whatever his.
28:43
Speaker 4: Name was, Mike Frankel A Borrosenthal was the Dean of
28:47
Speaker 4: the Alls. At the same time, we're very straight line Americans.
28:55
Speaker 4: They were not partisans. They were American first. And that's
29:00
Speaker 4: what's changed. The New York Times is now run by
29:03
Speaker 4: progressive Democrats, and they all walk in lockstep with the
29:09
Speaker 4: Democratic Party if you just look at the headlines on
29:12
Speaker 4: any given day. So they'll talk about experts. Worry, who
29:17
Speaker 4: are the experts?
29:19
Speaker 9: Right?
29:20
Speaker 4: The Ivy League professors are the experts always. I mean,
29:25
Speaker 4: that's who the readership is aimed at. And that's the
29:30
Speaker 4: way they think that there's one way to look at
29:33
Speaker 4: the world, and it's our way.
29:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, although I should point out the Times traditionally, historically
29:40
Speaker 1: has always been anti israel an anti Jewish, going back
29:44
Speaker 1: to World War Two. Why is that?
29:48
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know it has again, I can
29:52
Speaker 4: only think that I know that there have been battles
29:57
Speaker 4: within over this. But they have taken this very kind
30:02
Speaker 4: of worldly view about, you know, the way to look
30:08
Speaker 4: at the global map, and it has always been a
30:11
Speaker 4: kind of Harvard or Ivy League idea of how the
30:17
Speaker 4: world works, what politics is really about. They've always looked
30:22
Speaker 4: looked down their nose at politics. They find that a grimy,
30:26
Speaker 4: dirty profession and so they don't really have respect for
30:31
Speaker 4: ideas that don't match their own.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it was did you hear President Trump the
30:38
Speaker 1: other day go after the New York Times. How it
30:40
Speaker 1: used to be the paper record, it used to be
30:41
Speaker 1: the Yeah.
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Speaker 9: It was it was.
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Speaker 4: I mean, as I say, I got my first training
30:47
Speaker 4: there and it was great. And I still look back
30:50
Speaker 4: on that New York Times as the real New York Times.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a great column. You can read Michael Goodwin's column.
30:58
Speaker 1: It's at the New York Post website. All of this
31:00
Speaker 1: columns are up there, and this column is every Sunday
31:03
Speaker 1: and every Wednesday in the New York Post. Michael Goodwin
31:06
Speaker 1: great is always. Thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Mark.
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Speaker 1: Nicky Hayley. You remember that named Nicki Haley. She was
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32:02
Speaker 1: Nobody could stand her. She was an awful woman behind
32:05
Speaker 1: the scenes, lying, scheming. Everybody that worked in the White
32:08
Speaker 1: House confirming worst person they ever worked with. Why did
32:14
Speaker 1: Trump give her a job? The lieutenant governor of South Carolina.
32:18
Speaker 1: He owed this guy a lot. He said to him,
32:20
Speaker 1: you can have any job, whatever job you want in
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32:26
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32:30
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32:32
Speaker 1: a job. I could dump her in. You an ambassador's
32:35
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32:38
Speaker 1: They finally had to get rid of eating from that
32:39
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32:42
Speaker 1: and everybody you talk to, every Cabinet member, everybody that
32:45
Speaker 1: worked there, they'll tell you a nightmare horror stories about
32:48
Speaker 1: Nicki Haley. When Trump got elected the second time, Remember,
32:53
Speaker 1: he quickly put out a statement saying Nicki Haley will
32:56
Speaker 1: have no role in this administration. So, because she's ostracized
33:01
Speaker 1: completely by everybody that ever knew her, she bashes Trump,
33:06
Speaker 1: and because she's bashing Trump, they love to talk to her.
33:08
Speaker 1: So the CNN Sunday Show there was Nicky Haley saying
33:12
Speaker 1: Trump is causing chaos, distractions, and they never point out
33:17
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33:23
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33:26
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