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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on seven tenor Hey, so interesting
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  Speaker 1: news Savannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie. You know, we just
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  Speaker 1: don't talk about it anymore. You don't hear much about
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  Speaker 1: it anymore. The Nancy Guthrie kidnapping. It's five weeks now,
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  Speaker 1: five weeks and it's hard to believe she survived five
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  Speaker 1: weeks without her medicine, heart medicine, blood pressure Medicine's got
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  Speaker 1: a pacemaker. It's just hard to imagine that she would
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  Speaker 1: still be okay. Now, the interesting news is Savannah Guthrie
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  Speaker 1: returned to New York yesterday. She left. Is it Arizona, Tucson? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she left, was back in New York. She went to
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  Speaker 1: the Today Show. She did not do the show, but
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  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe she was taping an interview there. But
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  Speaker 1: she visited the Today Show set and was in New
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  Speaker 1: York yesterday. The fact that she left and came back
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  Speaker 1: to New York indicates she's accepted that this search could
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  Speaker 1: be over. You know, there have been people that have
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  Speaker 1: disappeared before kidnapping or whatever it was, and just decades
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  Speaker 1: went by and nobody Jimmy Hoffa the most famous example.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the little kid Aton Pates here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: It was decades and decades and decades. Famous one in
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  Speaker 1: the thirties was Judge Crater, this notable judge in New
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  Speaker 1: York who disappeared one day. It was believed he was
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  Speaker 1: kidnapped and just vanished off the face of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: never to be seen again. So it's happened before. We
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  Speaker 1: may never get an answer to this. You know that
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  Speaker 1: glove they found out there on the side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: They finally got the DNA identified it. Somebody works at
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant across the street. I still don't get that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you think you would have found that glove
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  Speaker 1: and then immediately interviewed everybody in the area, everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant, everybody around that glove and somebody would say, O,
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  Speaker 1: that's my glove. But they've identified it as the restaurant worker.
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  Speaker 1: Now that who knows, maybe he could still be involved.
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  Speaker 1: And it's an unusual glove. It's hard to believe they
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  Speaker 1: just happened to find somebody else with that same glove.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a very very warm area, it's very hot there.
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  Speaker 1: Who would have such as it's like a big puffy
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  Speaker 1: ski glove. But they say there's still the task force
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  Speaker 1: is still there. The federal government still has a couple
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  Speaker 1: hundred people on the ground looking. There's not much they
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  Speaker 1: can do with this, but one thing they have been
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  Speaker 1: doing is checking cell phone data. Your cell phone has
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  Speaker 1: a GPS in it that's always being read, even if
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  Speaker 1: you turn it off, by the way, because as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you turn it back on, it uploads all that data.
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  Speaker 1: But they're checking. They've got a ring around Nancy Guffriy's
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  Speaker 1: house of a few miles and they're going through all
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  Speaker 1: the cell phone data what cell phones were in that neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: and then they expand out what cell phones were turned
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  Speaker 1: off and then turned on. They know the time of
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance, like two in the morning, so they'll check
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  Speaker 1: an hour before, an hour later, see who turned off
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  Speaker 1: their phone and then turned it on in the area.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. But it's tough to pour through
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  Speaker 1: all of that data. Hey, Tim Waaltz, the goofy Minnesota governor,
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  Speaker 1: he was in in Congress testifying so much fraud in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: something like nineteen billion went missing. They set up these
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  Speaker 1: food stamp programs, Medicaid programs, daycare programs, and the Somalis
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  Speaker 1: used it to defraud the government and steal nineteen billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Goofy Waltz on the witness stand, the committee's comber going
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  Speaker 1: after him.
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  Speaker 2: But we've uncovered in Minnesota is not a paperwork error
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  Speaker 2: or a few bad actors slipping thro the cracks. It
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  Speaker 2: is sustained failure of leadership. Governor Walton, Attorney General Ellison
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  Speaker 2: were warned repeatedly. Auditors raised red flags, employees sounded alarms
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  Speaker 2: invoices didn't make sense, and still the money kept flowing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now Walts can never ever explain his way out
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  Speaker 1: of this. They were warned, they were told there's no
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  Speaker 1: way to explain his way out of it. Everybody was
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  Speaker 1: told about the fraud. So it's like Casino. Remember de
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  Speaker 1: Niro fires the dumb kid on the slot machines, and
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  Speaker 1: then when people try to get his job back, he goes, Look,
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  Speaker 1: he's either he should have known Aboudy, he's either too
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  Speaker 1: stupid or he was in on it. So it's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with Walt's. He was not good on the
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  Speaker 1: witness stand.
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  Speaker 3: And do you have any idea what percentage of the
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  Speaker 3: native born Minnesota's all races live in poverty in her
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  Speaker 3: state right now, I don't have specifically, Okay, I'll share
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  Speaker 3: it with it's eight percent. For the smaller community, it's
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  Speaker 3: fifty two percent. How about receiving food stamps? Don't or right,
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  Speaker 3: I'll run it down with you at seven percent and
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  Speaker 3: then in the compared to fifty four percent in the
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  Speaker 3: smaller community, and then don't have it, don't have at
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  Speaker 3: least a high school diploma. For all Minnesota, it's five percent.
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  Speaker 3: Smaller community's thirty nine percent. One family member at least
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  Speaker 3: on Medicaid it's eighteen percent for Minnesota, seventy three percent
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  Speaker 3: for the Smiley community, and receiving welfare of some form
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  Speaker 3: it's twenty one percent. And that's eighty one percent for
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  Speaker 3: the Somali community.
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  Speaker 1: So, but that was the most of his answer. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I have no idea. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. We have it under Representative Donald.
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  Speaker 4: We have it under sworn testimony in the Oversight Committee
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  Speaker 4: that your former chief of staff was notified directly by
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  Speaker 4: these various commissioners about the fraud in Minnesota. That could
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  Speaker 4: be correct. So are you saying that's your chief of
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  Speaker 4: staff didn't notify you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying I don't recall whether he did at that
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  Speaker 1: time or not. Don't recall. I don't recall. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he looks pretty stupid. He
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  Speaker 1: looks stupid enough that he could have actually been that
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  Speaker 1: stupid in this case. But I don't know these answers,
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall. I don't recall. That's usually a guilty person.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe he was in on it. You know. One
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  Speaker 1: of the congressmen actually brought this up to him, said
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  Speaker 1: it right to his face, about how he got chosen
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  Speaker 1: as the vice presidential candidate when and Obama later admitted this.
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  Speaker 1: He brought this up to Walt's Obama later admitted, or
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  Speaker 1: somebody in the inner circle admitted when Obama got the nomination,
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  Speaker 1: he wanted a vice president who was not as smart
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  Speaker 1: as he was, not as charismatic, not as articulate. So
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  Speaker 1: that's why they went with Joe Biden. And then of
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  Speaker 1: course when Joe Biden was the nominee, same thing. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta find somebody dumber than me, and that's how they
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  Speaker 1: got Kamala Harris. And the congressman said it right to Walts. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris did the same thing with you needed somebody
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  Speaker 1: dumber than her, and that you know, as you keep
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  Speaker 1: going down and down, it's hard to find It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to find somebody dumber than Kamala Harris. But she picked you.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll give Walt's credit. He smile. He goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he handled it well, but Waltz, don't be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if you see Walt's ending up in some real serious
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  Speaker 1: criminal legal trouble trying to explain his way out of this. Hey.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they're coming to New York to look
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  Speaker 1: at this stuff too. Medicaid fraud in New York. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a problem for New York. Medicaid fraud
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  Speaker 1: in New York. They're talking about hundreds of millions so far,
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  Speaker 1: but they may uncover more. Doctor Oz and others leading
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  Speaker 1: the investigation here in New York. Hey, Bruce Blakeman, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest county executive in America, Nassau County. Of course, he's
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  Speaker 1: running for governor. There's a polling coming out now showing
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  Speaker 1: him rising. You know, Blakeman, I think is a very
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  Speaker 1: very very very good chance. If I had to bet,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say he'll be the governor next year, which would
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  Speaker 1: be the greatest thing for New York. Nobody would be
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  Speaker 1: better perfect counter to Mom, Donnie. He would clean up
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  Speaker 1: our tax situation, property to all that stuff. But the
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  Speaker 1: first polls you'll always see, well, Blakeman's twenty points behind. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's every Republican when they start, it always starts that way.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not that long. Now, it's only a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks and he's already rising in the polls. He's
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  Speaker 1: already climbing, so he's on track to do very, very well.
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  Speaker 1: We're turning on the news about that outdoor drinking in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to try to restaurants want the outdoor tables back,
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  Speaker 1: the outdoor dining, and now they want the bars want
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  Speaker 1: the outdoor drinking, and they're talking about that for a
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  Speaker 1: FIFA the World Cup coming here. That's all we need,
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  Speaker 1: soccer and drinking. Perfect. But it sounds exciting to have
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  Speaker 1: FIFA the World Cup come to you. Wait till it's here,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be very upset it's here. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to see traffic jams and roads closed and oh, you
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  Speaker 1: know all kinds of stuff. Hey, the Epstein files, you
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  Speaker 1: know the you know who Reid Hoffman is the big
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  Speaker 1: tech zillionaire founder, a co founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.
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  Speaker 1: He's also a bad, bad guy, major major Democratic donor.
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  Speaker 1: He's like a Soros type figure who funds all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of democratic crap lawsuits against Trump, the silly crazy woman
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  Speaker 1: that accused him of sexual assault. This is Reid Hoffman
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  Speaker 1: funding these lawsuits, funding all kinds of stuff, real left wing,
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  Speaker 1: nasty democratic donor. Well, he's all through these Epstein files.
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  Speaker 1: And he stayed at Jeffrey Epstein's private island. This is
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman. It's not like Howard Lutnik where he stopped
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  Speaker 1: by for lunch with fourteen people. This is Reid Hoffman.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein sent the plane to pick him up, brought brought
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  Speaker 1: Hoffman to Epstein Island, and he spent the night. Same
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  Speaker 1: thing with the Upper east Side townhouse. Reid Hoffman and
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  Speaker 1: spending the night, Now that's a little suspicious. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these people that knew Epstein that came for lunch,
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  Speaker 1: came for dinner, maybe came to a party, spent a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours, but spend the night. That's a tiny, tiny,
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  Speaker 1: tiny group that spent the night in Epstein's house. But
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman, the big Democratic donor. Now where is he
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  Speaker 1: on the witness stand? Why don't they get him on
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  Speaker 1: the witness stand. There's a lot of emails back and
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  Speaker 1: forth read Hoffman and Epstein. In fact, one of them
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  Speaker 1: he sent a gift. He sent some ice cream. How
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  Speaker 1: do you send ice cream to somebody? I guess there's
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  Speaker 1: a way to do it. But he sent him a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ice cream. And he said, this is either
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  Speaker 1: for yourself or the girls. The girls, not the women,
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  Speaker 1: the girls, he said Hoffman, it says, kept in contact
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein for many years, even after Epstein had been
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  Speaker 1: convicted for prostitution with miners. People are now looking at
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  Speaker 1: this relationship. Hopefully they'll get him in front of the committee.
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  Speaker 1: And again he sent, actually sent two gifts. He sent
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  Speaker 1: a surfer statue for the island and then a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ice cream. And as he said, either for you
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  Speaker 1: or for the girls. Hey, yesterday Cardinal Dolan, Timothy Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: who's staying in New York. He's got an apartment here
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  Speaker 1: in New York. He'll be living here. He'll be doing
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  Speaker 1: some stuff in some parishes. Also, good for the NYPD.
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  Speaker 1: They made him one of the NYPD Chaplains. They had
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  Speaker 1: an induction ceremony yesterday at one police plaza, and good
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  Speaker 1: for Mom Donnie, he came. He's been pretty bad with
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, not showing up for the installation of
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  Speaker 1: the new archbishop, but he came to Dolan ceremony and
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  Speaker 1: they even hugged. At one point, Dolan whispering in his ear.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knows what he whispered, but that's a Dolan thing.
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  Speaker 1: He's very he's the greatest guy. When he meets anybody,
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  Speaker 1: he'll hug you, he'll whisper in your ear. Very very
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  Speaker 1: cordial guy. And he appeared to be getting along fine
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  Speaker 1: with Mom Donnie yesterday. Hey, remember the supposed snowball fight.
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  Speaker 1: It was that awful attack on cops with the snowballs
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  Speaker 1: and the rocks. Well they've arrested a second person. This
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  Speaker 1: guy's eighteen, so the other one was twenty seven. I
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  Speaker 1: remember Mom Donnie said it looked like just kids. Well
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  Speaker 1: maybe eighteen you could call the kid, but not the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven year old. He's been arrested. Now. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is this crazy lunatic district attorney just lets them go.
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  Speaker 1: He did that with the twenty seven year old, just
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  Speaker 1: let him go, you know, slap on the wrist. That's
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  Speaker 1: why another reason you want Bruce Blakeman as governor. The
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  Speaker 1: governor actually has the power to remove these district attorneys,
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  Speaker 1: which would be a great thing. DeSantis did it in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: had one of those crazy, woke das letting everybody out.
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  Speaker 1: It removed him and put in a real DA. So
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman as governor could do stuff like that. Hey, Gail Well,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we were rid of her, but no, She's
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  Speaker 1: re signed with CBS after months of speculation she was
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  Speaker 1: gonna leave. They didn't want her. She was getting paid
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money for having terrible ratings and being
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  Speaker 1: a total disaster on the air. But she's resigned. Sources
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  Speaker 1: say at half price, cut her salary fifty percent just
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  Speaker 1: to keep her there. Now, Whole Foods, they're trying this out.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is paying like Wegman's Whole Foods. All these
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  Speaker 1: great they are wonderful. You can't believe the quality of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, the selection, it's just wonderful. You fill up
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  Speaker 1: your cart, it's great, you can't believe how excellent the products.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get to the point we want to pay.
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  Speaker 1: Now you look at This line's got forty seven people
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  Speaker 1: in it. This line's got thirty two people in it.
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  Speaker 1: And you run around playing this game trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out which line will move the fastest. Then you study
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  Speaker 1: each cash here, this one looks slow. This one's an
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  Speaker 1: old lady. But oh wait a minute, she's moving pretty fast.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this line will move. So then to fix this,
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  Speaker 1: they come up with this self checkout where you check
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  Speaker 1: out yourself, which is some people can't figure it out,
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  Speaker 1: and then it's good. You just scan the product, scans
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  Speaker 1: everything price right, and except then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you got bananas or apples or something. Now you've got
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how to put that in and weigh it,
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  Speaker 1: and it gets complicated. So Whole Foods is trying out
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  Speaker 1: a new thing where it's a smart cart, your shopping cart.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you put something in the cart, it'll scan
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  Speaker 1: it and do all that for you. So everything you
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  Speaker 1: put in the cart, it'll scan it. So by the
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  Speaker 1: time you get to the register, you're all scanned. It's
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  Speaker 1: all set. All you do is just it's just pay.
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  Speaker 1: But you would think they'd figure it out a way
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  Speaker 1: that you could pay in the cart, like right in
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  Speaker 1: the cart you could pay for it. So this doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound like a great system either. Hey, well, take some
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  Speaker 1: calls in a moment. Eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 1: seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: zero seven ten