Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Hour 2:Trump’s health; MSNOW’s Scarborough tries to advise Trump; are Democrats turning away from radical leftist ideas; political expert Ed Rollins
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simone show.
- 0:05Speaker 2: R pay a beautiful day to day. It's gonna be
- 0:10Speaker 2: like this all week. Remember it's Tuesday, it's not Monday.
- 0:13Speaker 2: It's Tuesday. Everybody's back to work. President Trump is as
- 0:17Speaker 2: we speak, at Walter Reed Hospital getting his annual physical
- 0:23Speaker 2: and they'll release the results. I guess later today, probably today,
- 0:28Speaker 2: And you know when it's Trump physical, they always release
- 0:31Speaker 2: the results. The healthiest president ever in history, unbelievably healthy,
- 0:34Speaker 2: the greatest, the body of a twenty. But they do
- 0:40Speaker 2: put out the actual lab reports, you know, blood pressure, cholesterol,
- 0:45Speaker 2: They put out the actual numbers so you can look
- 0:47Speaker 2: at that. And he is in great shape, always in
- 0:49Speaker 2: pretty good shape, strong like a bull. His father was
- 0:53Speaker 2: the same way. Good genes and it's not gonna be
- 0:58Speaker 2: that Well, how long is it like an hour? Two hours?
- 1:02Speaker 2: When you go to Walter Reed, they do a lot
- 1:03Speaker 2: of real testing. Well you know all that equipment. It's
- 1:06Speaker 2: a really great hospital and they have a special presidential wing.
- 1:10Speaker 2: He doesn't go into the regular Walter Read there's special
- 1:13Speaker 2: Presidential wing. And the rooms and everything are beautiful. They
- 1:18Speaker 2: look like the finest suite in the Ritz Carlton. They
- 1:20Speaker 2: look amazing. But I'm looking at his schedule for today.
- 1:24Speaker 2: He has a policy meeting at the White House at
- 1:26Speaker 2: one thirty, so I guess he'll be out of there
- 1:29Speaker 2: pretty soon. We'll be back in action. Schedule today one thirty,
- 1:33Speaker 2: a policy meeting, two thirty, another policy meeting five point thirty.
- 1:37Speaker 2: There's a policy meeting seven o'clock. There's a Rose Garden
- 1:42Speaker 2: club dinner. They do those now in the warm weather.
- 1:46Speaker 2: They have these beautiful dinners out in the Rose Garden.
- 1:48Speaker 2: You know, it was the rose garden had some roses.
- 1:51Speaker 2: It was a big grass field with a couple of
- 1:53Speaker 2: roses around it, and then he decided to transform it
- 1:57Speaker 2: into the most beautiful majestic place, just like a mar
- 2:00Speaker 2: a lago. He put in this beautiful They call it
- 2:02Speaker 2: a deck, a patio. They say he paved it over.
- 2:05Speaker 2: It's not pavement. It's like the finest tile. It's beautifully done.
- 2:10Speaker 2: If you look at the detail in it, even the drains.
- 2:13Speaker 2: He put drains all around it so that you never
- 2:16Speaker 2: have a problem with the water there. It always drains immediately.
- 2:19Speaker 2: But if you look at the drains, the vents in
- 2:22Speaker 2: the drain or shaped like the American flag, it's really
- 2:25Speaker 2: well done. And the old Roast Garden it was just
- 2:28Speaker 2: a grass field, kind of muddy, kind of wet, and
- 2:30Speaker 2: they throw some folding chairs on it. This new Rose Garden,
- 2:33Speaker 2: it's the most beautiful tile, it's majestic, and they put
- 2:37Speaker 2: the most beautiful outdoor furniture you've ever seen, the most
- 2:39Speaker 2: beautiful chairs and tables and umbrellas, and it's magnificent.
- 2:44Speaker 3: Now.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Of course, the left wing yelling and screaming that he
- 2:46Speaker 2: ruined the Rose Garden put it back to a muddy
- 2:48Speaker 2: grass field. It looked horrible before. It looks majestic now
- 2:53Speaker 2: it looks very presidential. And they do these dinners many
- 2:57Speaker 2: many nights when the weather's nice. But sometimes it's members
- 3:02Speaker 2: of Congress, sometimes it's different groups. But it's absolutely beautiful
- 3:05Speaker 2: and it's outdoors. Remember Washington, DC doesn't have skyscrapers, so
- 3:10Speaker 2: you can see the sky, you can see the stars
- 3:12Speaker 2: for miles. Absolutely beautiful out there. So a Rose Garden
- 3:16Speaker 2: Club dinner later tonight, and I think you'll probably not
- 3:22Speaker 2: hear anything about Iran the rest of the day. You'll
- 3:24Speaker 2: hear some more tomorrow. But they're working on it. They're
- 3:28Speaker 2: picking up the nuclear material and getting it out of
- 3:31Speaker 2: there hey before he left for Memorial Day weekend. Well
- 3:34Speaker 2: actually he didn't leave, he returned to the White House.
- 3:37Speaker 2: But Friday morning they swore in Kevin Walsh. He is
- 3:41Speaker 2: the new FED chairman. He's everybody's choice. It's who everybody wanted.
- 3:46Speaker 2: It came down to Scott Bessett would be the best,
- 3:49Speaker 2: but they couldn't lose him as Treasury Secretary. Next would
- 3:53Speaker 2: be Kevin Hassett, but again he's at the White House
- 3:56Speaker 2: Economic Advisor. They can't lose him from that job. But
- 3:59Speaker 2: in that group was worshed. That was the other one
- 4:01Speaker 2: everybody wanted. Great choice for FED chairman. He was sworn
- 4:04Speaker 2: in on Friday.
- 4:05Speaker 4: Thankfully, Unlike some of his predecessors, Kevin understands that when
- 4:09Speaker 4: the economy is booming it is, that's a good thing.
- 4:13Speaker 4: We'd have to go crazy, just let it boom. We
- 4:16Speaker 4: wanted to boom.
- 4:17Speaker 2: He'll do a good job, I know. Kevin Walsh is
- 4:19Speaker 2: a great, great guy.
- 4:21Speaker 5: When we pursue those aims the way. When we pursue
- 4:24Speaker 5: those aims with wisdom and clarity, independence and resolve, inflation
- 4:30Speaker 5: can be lower, growth stronger, real take home pay higher,
- 4:36Speaker 5: and America can be more prosperous again.
- 4:39Speaker 2: A very fine guy. Not the most exciting guy, but
- 4:41Speaker 2: a very fine guy. You know. The president and the
- 4:46Speaker 2: first term, they took a cell phone away. In the
- 4:48Speaker 2: first term, they gave him the official presidential cell phone,
- 4:53Speaker 2: which has got nothing in it. It's a very secure,
- 4:55Speaker 2: safe phone. It has no apps, there's nothing in it.
- 4:59Speaker 2: You can't hack into it. It's but this time around
- 5:02Speaker 2: he kept his own cell phone. He's got his own
- 5:04Speaker 2: real iPhone and he gives a cell number to millions
- 5:09Speaker 2: of people and they're always calling him. Joe Scarborough reveals
- 5:12Speaker 2: this Morning Joe Scarborough Morning. Joe reveals that he called
- 5:16Speaker 2: him to discuss Iran with him. And one thing about
- 5:19Speaker 2: President Trump, he's a very nice guy in real life.
- 5:23Speaker 2: He's nice to you know. He sometimes he's attacking people
- 5:26Speaker 2: and says all kinds of vicious but he's a really
- 5:28Speaker 2: nice guy, even if you're Joe Scarborough his worst enemy.
- 5:31Speaker 2: If Joe Scarborough calls, he takes the call, he talks
- 5:34Speaker 2: to him for ten minutes, pretends he's listening to the advice.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Scarborough says he gave all kinds of advice on Iran.
- 5:40Speaker 2: He advised him stop listening to Lindsey Graham, stop listening
- 5:43Speaker 2: to this guy. Don't here's what you need to know.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Here's what now. Knowing the president, I'm sure he had
- 5:50Speaker 2: the Yankee game on and was watching that. He probably
- 5:55Speaker 2: hit mute and let Scarborough talk, and then when he
- 5:58Speaker 2: ever heard Scarborough pause, he unmute and go yeah, yeah,
- 6:02Speaker 2: it's interesting. What else? And then he'd hit mute again
- 6:04Speaker 2: and keep watching the Yankee game. But I don't know
- 6:06Speaker 2: why Scarborough brags about this on his show, that he's
- 6:09Speaker 2: talking and he's calling Trump and discussing things with him
- 6:12Speaker 2: that's not good for his or his audience would hate that,
- 6:15Speaker 2: but he gives a cell number. It all kinds of
- 6:17Speaker 2: mom dommy calls now and then you know that Hokeel
- 6:20Speaker 2: calls them all the time. I don't know why. What's
- 6:23Speaker 2: he going to do for her? He can't stand her.
- 6:25Speaker 2: But it's interesting. He's really good at that, at buttering
- 6:29Speaker 2: these people up. Even if he hates you, he can
- 6:30Speaker 2: butter you up like crazy. You're the best, You're the best.
- 6:33Speaker 2: I'm hearing great things about you. I love you and
- 6:36Speaker 2: they believe it. They all fall for it. But even
- 6:39Speaker 2: admitted Hochel calls all the time.
- 6:41Speaker 6: She calls me up a lot.
- 6:42Speaker 4: I immediately know it's her because I do have friends
- 6:45Speaker 4: in Buffalo, but they haven't called me too much. Lightly
- 6:48Speaker 4: says Buffalo and said Hi, mister President's Kathy, Hi, Hi,
- 6:53Speaker 4: could you help me here? Could you help me there?
- 6:55Speaker 4: And we're having a little problem getting this and we're
- 6:58Speaker 4: trying to get that. Could you give me a little hand?
- 7:00Speaker 4: And I say, Kathy, you're always killing me. What the
- 7:02Speaker 4: hell would I give you a Well, I just thought
- 7:03Speaker 4: i'd try. Okay, thank you very much.
- 7:07Speaker 2: But he's very good at that. When she's on the phone, Hey,
- 7:09Speaker 2: anything you need, you call me anytime, anything you need? Okay, goodbye.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Then he turns everybody you believe this city. But she
- 7:16Speaker 2: keeps calling. I guess it feels good to keep calling him.
- 7:21Speaker 2: So hokeel getting nothing done. Bruce Blakeman will be the
- 7:25Speaker 2: next governor. Fate will take care of this. Bruce Blakeman
- 7:30Speaker 2: will do a great, great job. And it's just it's
- 7:36Speaker 2: gonna be a tough Racey're going to hit him with everything. Now.
- 7:40Speaker 2: You could see Democrats actually get wiped out in November.
- 7:43Speaker 2: It's not looking good for them everywhere. It's you know
- 7:46Speaker 2: this always turns a corner there, radical, radical, radical, way
- 7:51Speaker 2: too far to the left, kind of all these crazy positions.
- 7:54Speaker 2: At some point it turns a corner. Some people feel
- 7:57Speaker 2: that it's starting to turn that corner. Now there's these
- 8:00Speaker 2: crazy guys billionaires. The left claims they hate billionaires, but
- 8:04Speaker 2: they love billionaires. They love them. The billionaires are who
- 8:08Speaker 2: runs them, George Soros, those type of billionaires. So they
- 8:13Speaker 2: got two big ones. They got the Soros, and the
- 8:16Speaker 2: other guy is in Singapore. This is Neville Roy Singham.
- 8:20Speaker 2: He's the other Soros. Now he spends hundreds of millions
- 8:24Speaker 2: financing all this crap, all the most radical democratic crap
- 8:28Speaker 2: in this country. And Democrats now have a good thing going.
- 8:31Speaker 2: They got Soros, who's very very old the sun is
- 8:35Speaker 2: trying to take over as the crazy financier of all
- 8:38Speaker 2: the left wing kook stuff. But now that they got
- 8:41Speaker 2: this Singam, they're kind of pitting the two guys against
- 8:44Speaker 2: each other, you know, starting a competition who can spend
- 8:46Speaker 2: the most. So Soros Singam is given tons and tons
- 8:51Speaker 2: and tons of money funding every left wing kook movement.
- 8:55Speaker 2: Hassan Piker, the radical anti Semite, big part of the
- 9:00Speaker 2: left wing, has actually said publicly. He was talking about
- 9:02Speaker 2: it on the air. He admits a Singham. He's the
- 9:04Speaker 2: financier of these political movements, pumping tens of millions into this.
- 9:09Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, Soros announces he's giving another
- 9:12Speaker 2: thirty million to UH Now. He claimed it's the group's
- 9:16Speaker 2: fighting anti Semitism and other bigotry. But meantime it all
- 9:21Speaker 2: ends up in the wrong hands and doesn't do anything.
- 9:24Speaker 2: So you got these two guys competing like crazy. Hey,
- 9:28Speaker 2: everybody's worried about AI. You know what these college commencement speeches.
- 9:32Speaker 2: Anytime a speaker talked about AI or the future with
- 9:36Speaker 2: AI that the college kids all booed. It was fascinating.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Whenever they heard AI, they would boo like crazy, and
- 9:43Speaker 2: even the speaker would looked a little shocked. He couldn't believe,
- 9:47Speaker 2: couldn't believe how much they these college kids hate AI.
- 9:49Speaker 2: You would think a group grown up with this would
- 9:52Speaker 2: hate it, but they don't, except for one. Apple co
- 9:57Speaker 2: founder Steve Wozniak actually got applaw. I guess he just
- 10:01Speaker 2: said it the right way. Oh no, actually, no, wait
- 10:03Speaker 2: a minute, I got it wrong. He was against AI.
- 10:05Speaker 2: That's why he got applause. He started talking about AI,
- 10:08Speaker 2: but basically he said, you don't need it. You got
- 10:11Speaker 2: you have your own AI. It's called actual intelligence. Forget
- 10:15Speaker 2: the AI, use actual intelligence. So they were cheering him
- 10:19Speaker 2: like crazy. Uh so these college kids hate AI. Now
- 10:24Speaker 2: you got Pope Leo, who for some reason issued a
- 10:28Speaker 2: dire warning about the threat of artificial intelligence. It's kind
- 10:33Speaker 2: of an unusual stand for a pope. What does this
- 10:35Speaker 2: have to do with a pope with the But he
- 10:38Speaker 2: really went after AI. It's the worst thing. It's worse
- 10:40Speaker 2: than the bigger threat than the Tower of Babel. I
- 10:43Speaker 2: mean this, I mean this is a very very left
- 10:47Speaker 2: wing pope. I don't know what all that means, but
- 10:49Speaker 2: he's really coming out against AI. But a very very
- 10:54Speaker 2: left wing pope. You know, he issued the first papal
- 10:57Speaker 2: apology for the Vatican's role in legiting slavery. Well, first
- 11:03Speaker 2: of all, slavery was terrible, but it existed all over
- 11:06Speaker 2: the world back then. It wasn't the US, it was everywhere.
- 11:09Speaker 2: It was just common. That was the way it was
- 11:12Speaker 2: done back then. So thank god it's gone and it's over.
- 11:15Speaker 2: But the pope apologizing for it absolutely ridiculous. Now, I
- 11:19Speaker 2: guess one of the reasons college kids would hate AI.
- 11:23Speaker 2: I guess they think because you would leave in college
- 11:25Speaker 2: supposedly you want to go to work and get a
- 11:27Speaker 2: job and have a career. And they're worried that AI
- 11:29Speaker 2: is going to replace all of them. And I mean,
- 11:33Speaker 2: let's be honest, there's some truth that a lot of
- 11:34Speaker 2: jobs are going to go because of AI. Jamie Diamond,
- 11:37Speaker 2: the greatest CEO of all JP Morgan, actually said we're
- 11:42Speaker 2: hiring from now on, We're hiring mostly AI brainiacs, not bankers,
- 11:46Speaker 2: a lot less bankers, more AI brainiacs. But Jamie Diamond
- 11:52Speaker 2: did say we're not going to fire people over AI. Well,
- 11:55Speaker 2: simply let natural attrition do the job. He said, about
- 12:00Speaker 2: thirty thousand workers quit or retire every year. They'll just
- 12:04Speaker 2: won't replace them, so they'll do it that way. You know,
- 12:06Speaker 2: they have about three hundred thousand employees JP Morgan, Chase
- 12:10Speaker 2: three hundred thousand, so ten percent a year quit or retire.
- 12:14Speaker 2: They just won't replace them, so it'll be a lot
- 12:16Speaker 2: of AI. Now you got to remember this has happened
- 12:20Speaker 2: before the Industrial Revolution put an enormous chunk of people
- 12:23Speaker 2: out of work, and eventually they found other jobs of
- 12:27Speaker 2: the careers. There's a transition time before they do that.
- 12:29Speaker 2: It can be five years, ten years. And the same
- 12:32Speaker 2: thing happened in the beginning of the century when the
- 12:35Speaker 2: Internet and the digital stuff came in a lot of
- 12:38Speaker 2: people were suddenly out of work as a result. It
- 12:40Speaker 2: takes time, but eventually you adjust. Now, every time something
- 12:45Speaker 2: new is invented, everybody fears it. They fear AI. They
- 12:49Speaker 2: feared the internet back then. Remember when electricity was invented,
- 12:53Speaker 2: people were afraid of it. It was the same thing
- 12:55Speaker 2: as AI. Believe it or not. When electricity was invented,
- 12:58Speaker 2: they thought it was evil, terrible, it was going to
- 13:00Speaker 2: kill us all destroy us. That's why Mary Shelley at
- 13:04Speaker 2: the time wrote the book Frankenstein about the evils how
- 13:08Speaker 2: dangerous electricity might be. It created a monster or something
- 13:11Speaker 2: like that. So people always get afraid and terrified. But
- 13:17Speaker 2: come back in ten years you might see a whole
- 13:19Speaker 2: different picture. Hey, which city is becoming very hot right now? Nashville,
- 13:25Speaker 2: that's already hot. Austin already became hot, believe it or not. Hartford, Connecticut,
- 13:32Speaker 2: you know, it's been a terrible city for years. People
- 13:35Speaker 2: have been fleeing Hartford for seventy five years, filled with crime.
- 13:38Speaker 2: A lot of these you think Connecticut all these beautiful places,
- 13:41Speaker 2: Bridgeport's bad Waterbury's, Hartford's been horrible, but it's changing. People
- 13:47Speaker 2: are starting to move into Hartford. A lot of the
- 13:49Speaker 2: homes are now going for above asking price. Prices are rising,
- 13:55Speaker 2: average home price way up. Hartford all of a sudden,
- 13:59Speaker 2: taken off. Keep an eye on Hartford. You nowhere else. Buffalo, Yeah, Buffalo.
- 14:06Speaker 2: I mean it's the worst weather in the world. You
- 14:08Speaker 2: can get eight feet of snow. New York City is
- 14:12Speaker 2: doing very well. Believe it or not. New York City
- 14:13Speaker 2: is rising. Don't believe anything you hear. New York City
- 14:17Speaker 2: real estate is booming. Apartment sales are high as ever
- 14:22Speaker 2: and going They're higher than last year. Rentals are totally
- 14:27Speaker 2: sold up. You can't even get a rental anymore. People
- 14:30Speaker 2: are moving into New York like crazy, and rentals are important.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Those are people coming in for the first time renting,
- 14:36Speaker 2: and then usually many of those renters start to buy
- 14:38Speaker 2: a year or two later, so those are often the
- 14:41Speaker 2: future buyers. Commercial real estate in New York this is
- 14:46Speaker 2: a real indicator. Now listen to this. Commercial real estate
- 14:49Speaker 2: in New York, fifteen million square feet were re leased
- 14:52Speaker 2: already this year. That's up fifteen percent from last year.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Commercial real estate up fifteen percent from last year. Now
- 15:01Speaker 2: I know you keep hearing, Oh well JP Morgan. Oh
- 15:03Speaker 2: they're opening in Texas, they're moving people to Tampa. Yeah,
- 15:06Speaker 2: that's true. But you got to remember they always did that,
- 15:10Speaker 2: all these big companies like JP Morgan, they always had
- 15:13Speaker 2: a footprint in Texas, a foot the back office stuff.
- 15:16Speaker 2: They put it down there because it's cheaper. But New
- 15:18Speaker 2: York is booming. Hottest neighborhood right now, Upper west Side, Brooklyn,
- 15:24Speaker 2: parts of Brooklyn, and the hottest the flat Iron District.
- 15:28Speaker 2: It's booming. They used to call it Park Avenue South.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Now it's the Flatiron District. That's where all the most
- 15:33Speaker 2: expensive new apartments, restaurants, everything opening down there. Hey, well,
- 15:37Speaker 2: take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero
- 15:41Speaker 2: seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one
- 15:45Speaker 2: zero seven ten. Well, let's take some calls. Let's go
- 15:50Speaker 2: to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you.
- 15:52Speaker 7: Doing, Good morning, Mark, welcome back.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Thanks.
- 15:57Speaker 7: You have to guess that the President's visit to Walter
- 15:59Speaker 7: Reed for his annual physical is going to be unlike mine,
- 16:02Speaker 7: where he goes and sits in the waiting room for
- 16:04Speaker 7: an hour because every because the other ten people they
- 16:07Speaker 7: have the same ten o'clock appointment, and there are a
- 16:09Speaker 7: bunch of old forts coughing, and none of whom can
- 16:12Speaker 7: hear their name when they're called.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Well, that's Florida. Uh, let's be honest. You don't have
- 16:18Speaker 2: the greatest doctors in Florida.
- 16:20Speaker 7: Do you. You know it's they're all corporate now. They're
- 16:23Speaker 7: all work they will work for the Cleveland Clinic or
- 16:26Speaker 7: some associations. Very few private practitioners anymore.
- 16:29Speaker 2: They're all yeah, but you got to remember something like
- 16:32Speaker 2: New York, he got the greatest doctors in the world.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Florida they're not so great. But then they say, oh,
- 16:36Speaker 2: but the Cleveland Clinic just opened here. Oh, they don't
- 16:39Speaker 2: realize the Cleveland Clinic opens down there by hiring a
- 16:43Speaker 2: bunch of the same local doctors. They don't bring it.
- 16:45Speaker 7: That's what they do. Yeah, that's exactly what they do.
- 16:48Speaker 7: And it's not the Cleveland Clinic and clinic in Cleveland.
- 16:50Speaker 2: You know, they're not sending the top doctors down there.
- 16:54Speaker 2: They're opening down there with their name and hiring the
- 16:56Speaker 2: same local doctors so precisely.
- 17:00Speaker 7: And it's a strange that there's nobody no doctors with
- 17:02Speaker 7: you know, when you know, with a Wits or a
- 17:04Speaker 7: Berg at the after the end of their name. That
- 17:06Speaker 7: takes some adjusting to get used to. Oh you don't
- 17:08Speaker 7: have that, No, not where I am. Maybe down in
- 17:11Speaker 7: Palm Beach or Miami. You know, there's there's more Jewish doctors,
- 17:15Speaker 7: but where I am in Port Saint Lucy, it's very rare.
- 17:18Speaker 2: Oh that doesn't sound good, all right, Well, no, thanks
- 17:21Speaker 2: for calling. Well that's that's why people move to Florida,
- 17:24Speaker 2: but when they really need a real doctor, they fly
- 17:26Speaker 2: back to New York for it. Let's go to Rich
- 17:28Speaker 2: in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Hey, thanks Mark, I hope you had a good weekend.
- 17:34Speaker 3: You know, all these Congress people and the Senate people
- 17:36Speaker 3: that have been suckling at the teat of the US
- 17:39Speaker 3: tax player for decades and decades and will continue to
- 17:41Speaker 3: do so for decades, you have to retire, or all
- 17:44Speaker 3: the people complaining about all the stuff that Trump is
- 17:46Speaker 3: doing to the White House and the ball in the
- 17:48Speaker 3: Rose Garden that he's paying for through private donations. That
- 17:52Speaker 3: doesn't cost us a penny to anybody. It's all free money.
- 17:56Speaker 3: And they got nothing to do but claim complain about it.
- 17:58Speaker 3: But at the same time they're going to sell called
- 18:00Speaker 3: off keep for the rest of the loves.
- 18:01Speaker 2: Yeah, but apparently there will be some tax payer money
- 18:03Speaker 2: in it. But the ballroom is just one part. The
- 18:06Speaker 2: other the ballroom is one floor and then they're going
- 18:09Speaker 2: six floors down to put in a real serious security stuff,
- 18:12Speaker 2: bunker and all of that stuff. So it's a good point.
- 18:17Speaker 2: There's a bunker security facility under the White House now
- 18:20Speaker 2: apparently it's very outdated, not up to speed, not state
- 18:24Speaker 2: of the art. So under this ballroom they would build
- 18:26Speaker 2: an ad That's why the price rose too. By the way,
- 18:29Speaker 2: they're going to put an absolute state of the art
- 18:30Speaker 2: security bunker situation, all that stuff down there, much better
- 18:34Speaker 2: than what they have now. Let's go to Maria in Terrytown. Maria,
- 18:38Speaker 2: how you doing, hey, Mark.
- 18:41Speaker 8: A popular topic on the internet this weekend was that
- 18:45Speaker 8: Biden hired eighty seven thousand IRS agents who couldn't find
- 18:50Speaker 8: the Somali fraud. Meanwhile, you have Mike Shirley Nick Shirley
- 18:55Speaker 8: finding it right.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Away, very good point. Excellent point that, Yeah, I think
- 19:00Speaker 2: they got rid of those eighty seven thousand agents. I
- 19:02Speaker 2: think Trump let them all go. Biden hired eighty seven
- 19:06Speaker 2: thousand armed with guns, higher s agents to go after people,
- 19:12Speaker 2: and they were basically targeting Republicans Conservatives. You're right, they
- 19:16Speaker 2: didn't find the Somali fraud. This twelve year old Nick
- 19:20Speaker 2: Shirley with a camera with his iPhone found like a
- 19:23Speaker 2: trillion dollars with a fraud already in Minnesota, now in California.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Apparently Ohio is next to going to find it all
- 19:31Speaker 2: over the place. This fraud is massive. What tells her name?
- 19:35Speaker 2: Elon Omar from Minnesota. Looks like she was adjacent to
- 19:40Speaker 2: all this fraud and according to Marco Rubio, they are
- 19:44Speaker 2: close to deporting her immigration violations. Apparently they'll get her
- 19:50Speaker 2: and most likely get rid of her the porter once
- 19:53Speaker 2: and for all. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn.
- 19:56Speaker 6: Vincent, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Good morning Mara.
- 20:00Speaker 6: They should also check the Tri state area because the
- 20:03Speaker 6: medicaid fraud is massive in the Tri State area. Anybody
- 20:08Speaker 6: who likes to fly a lot and who has to
- 20:11Speaker 6: check flight arrivals in departure times should love AI because
- 20:16Speaker 6: last week I had a check on the arrival time
- 20:19Speaker 6: of somebody coming into the state, and I called up
- 20:23Speaker 6: this major carrier and the first thing when the phone
- 20:27Speaker 6: immediately got answered and the voice said, this is your
- 20:31Speaker 6: blank blank AI assistant, How can I help you? And
- 20:35Speaker 6: I just said arrivals, they said, and the voice said, yeah.
- 20:39Speaker 6: I voice said day and time and flight number. I'd
- 20:43Speaker 6: put it in immediately. Oh, that flight is in the air,
- 20:46Speaker 6: it'll be here in four minutes. Much better than speaking
- 20:50Speaker 6: to a human being.
- 20:51Speaker 2: Well, but sometimes AI get things very wrong. You know,
- 20:54Speaker 2: if your Google or AI somebody you go.
- 20:57Speaker 6: I'm not talking about I'm not talking about Googling. I'm
- 21:00Speaker 6: talking about I called up an eight of ane hundred
- 21:04Speaker 6: number of the carrier, and the AI answered, and it's
- 21:08Speaker 6: a very simple thing. They're listening to your voice commands
- 21:13Speaker 6: and everything was okay as far as I was concerned.
- 21:16Speaker 6: They got it right, Mark.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Instead of that, why don't you get I'm looking for
- 21:22Speaker 2: it on my phone. There's a great app. I think
- 21:24Speaker 2: it's called flight Tracker. You can look at every flight
- 21:26Speaker 2: where it is exactly. You can bring it up on it.
- 21:28Speaker 6: Yeah, I had last year, I had that a friend
- 21:35Speaker 6: sent me that on the screen and I immediately got
- 21:39Speaker 6: rid of it. I immediately got rid of it out of
- 21:42Speaker 6: my phone. Well, because I don't want stuff like that
- 21:45Speaker 6: out of my phone.
- 21:46Speaker 2: Oh, it's tracking the flights, not you.
- 21:49Speaker 6: Well, anyway, that being said, I can't help but wonder
- 21:54Speaker 6: who's playing Who are the Iranians playing Trump or his
- 21:59Speaker 6: president Trump playing us? With these constant extensions of this
- 22:04Speaker 6: ceased fire agreement, the latest one is sixty day ceasefire.
- 22:10Speaker 6: We have the framework of a possible agreement, but it
- 22:14Speaker 6: doesn't include the nukes. As General Jack Keane said on
- 22:18Speaker 6: Larry Kudlow's show over the weekend, does anybody think, no
- 22:24Speaker 6: matter what deal is inked, that they're gonna live up
- 22:27Speaker 6: to it.
- 22:28Speaker 2: No?
- 22:29Speaker 6: Really, And I'll go as far as saying it was
- 22:33Speaker 6: bad enough that the Kebash wasn't put on this wharf
- 22:37Speaker 6: for Memorial Day. If this goes past Labor Day, and
- 22:42Speaker 6: this thoughts to affect people's heating bills, I don't care
- 22:45Speaker 6: how many primaries Trump.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Candidates, but give President Trump a chance.
- 22:51Speaker 9: All right, Well, let's see, we gotta go do the news.
- 22:54Speaker 9: But all right, all right, Trump's the master negotiator. It
- 22:57Speaker 9: goes up and down, but in the end he always
- 23:00Speaker 9: he's still win. Hey, when we come back, Bill O'Reilly's
- 23:02Speaker 9: not here, he's he's actually in Ireland. He'll be back
- 23:06Speaker 9: next week. But we'll talk to Ed Rollins. You want
- 23:08Speaker 9: to know how the midterms will go, how these primaries
- 23:11Speaker 9: will go, how the elections will go. He's the probably
- 23:14Speaker 9: the expert of the world on elections and primaries and midterms.
- 23:18Speaker 9: We'll talk to him next on seven to ten WR.
- 23:21Speaker 2: Mark Simon Show on seven ten WR. Well, let's talk
- 23:28Speaker 2: to the Dean himself, Ed Rollins. Nobody's run more campaigns,
- 23:32Speaker 2: or more successful campaigns, or worked with more presidents and politicians,
- 23:36Speaker 2: and it's great to happen with us. Ed Rollins, how
- 23:38Speaker 2: you doing.
- 23:39Speaker 1: Good morning, How are you. Today's a big day for Republicans,
- 23:43Speaker 1: big Texas Texas Senate race primary. The President just endorsed
- 23:49Speaker 1: a week ago, but probably will influence the race greatly.
- 23:53Speaker 1: Those consequences we should talk about.
- 23:55Speaker 2: And what do you think will happen today?
- 23:57Speaker 1: I think that Paxton will probabably wanted these attorney general law.
- 24:02Speaker 1: He came in second in the primary before to John
- 24:07Speaker 1: Cornham's a fourth term former leader Republicans very popular in Washington,
- 24:16Speaker 1: but I think the President's endorsement probably makes the difference there.
- 24:20Speaker 1: The consequences is, though, if Paxton wins, he's got a
- 24:23Speaker 1: lot more controversy in his background. His most expensive primary history,
- 24:27Speaker 1: over one hundred and sixty five million dollars has already
- 24:30Speaker 1: been spent, and it's very's in the primary. Probably another
- 24:33Speaker 1: three hundred million and four hundred million dollars we spent
- 24:36Speaker 1: by the time this thing is finished, maybe more. I
- 24:39Speaker 1: think the critical thing here is the White House political
- 24:44Speaker 1: team had better start counting votes because Corner is a
- 24:48Speaker 1: very popular guy. He was the deputy leader. And you
- 24:52Speaker 1: now have a couple of these senators who've President's gone
- 24:55Speaker 1: in and defeated, and obviously they still get to vote
- 25:00Speaker 1: till January third next year. Oh yeah, so you know,
- 25:05Speaker 1: the margins are close, and obviously the President's got a
- 25:08Speaker 1: lot of he wants done, including his billion dollar ballroom.
- 25:12Speaker 1: So my sense is this one's going to have consequences
- 25:15Speaker 1: either way.
- 25:17Speaker 2: So in that recent round of endorsements, the president was
- 25:19Speaker 2: thirty seven, and oh, did that surprise you that he
- 25:23Speaker 2: was so good at that.
- 25:26Speaker 1: He's good at picking Republicans in the primaries, and particularly
- 25:32Speaker 1: in places where independence don'll get to vote, which is
- 25:35Speaker 1: like the last last one or what was the publican only.
- 25:39Speaker 1: But there's but there's consequences. I think to a certain
- 25:42Speaker 1: extent that the combination of what's going on in the
- 25:46Speaker 1: Middle East and what's going on in the sense of
- 25:48Speaker 1: domestic politics, this slush run is advocating almost one point
- 25:55Speaker 1: eight billion dollars slush run and the billion dollars for
- 25:58Speaker 1: the for the ballroom.
- 26:00Speaker 6: Nobody wants.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Nobody anywhere outside of his inner camp wants either one
- 26:04Speaker 1: of those things. So I think to a certain extent,
- 26:06Speaker 1: they're gonna pay a price for them, and they may
- 26:08Speaker 1: not get the resources for them they send. The president
- 26:12Speaker 1: wants to send a sent on a message sending you
- 26:14Speaker 1: can easily send a message back, and that's not good
- 26:17Speaker 1: for the president rogres.
- 26:18Speaker 2: So but wait, wait a minute, I want the ballroom.
- 26:21Speaker 2: I like the ballroom.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Well, the good you can take some of your take,
- 26:26Speaker 1: some of your bonus. You're rich enough to have to
- 26:31Speaker 1: make a couple million dollar contribution to a billion dollar uh.
- 26:34Speaker 1: But it's certainly not it's certainly not something that's that
- 26:38Speaker 1: people see is necessary today.
- 26:40Speaker 2: And it's a very hard chronic, but you spend a
- 26:43Speaker 2: lot of time in the White House. The idea that
- 26:45Speaker 2: the big, large presidential gallows are held outside in the
- 26:49Speaker 2: lawn and a tent that's kind of cheese.
- 26:51Speaker 1: Well, well if they're not. You know, the bottom line
- 26:54Speaker 1: is is very few that are held outside. And that's
- 26:57Speaker 1: a decision, you know, it is what it is. There's
- 27:02Speaker 1: other other things that you wanted to have. There's a
- 27:05Speaker 1: pension building which is a couple blocks away, is every
- 27:08Speaker 1: bit as large as the new ballroom. And I think
- 27:10Speaker 1: the reality is, you know, spending a billion dollars plus
- 27:14Speaker 1: on a ballroom that the president promised he was going
- 27:16Speaker 1: to pay for himself and is not. Now am I
- 27:18Speaker 1: going to do?
- 27:19Speaker 8: That?
- 27:20Speaker 1: Is causing people who are out there struggling to make
- 27:24Speaker 1: against meet. It's going to be biggest, It's going to
- 27:27Speaker 1: a big issue in every every campaign, I promise you.
- 27:30Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 27:30Speaker 2: But it's the government. They waste a billion dollars every
- 27:32Speaker 2: second on something.
- 27:33Speaker 1: But I understand that. But the the premises you're not
- 27:35Speaker 1: supposed to be wasting money, premises you're supposed to go
- 27:38Speaker 1: in there and yeah and fix those things and not
- 27:41Speaker 1: not waste money. And obviously every every poll I've seen
- 27:44Speaker 1: that there's there's no support.
- 27:46Speaker 6: For this ballroom.
- 27:46Speaker 2: All right, let me try one other argument. If you're
- 27:49Speaker 2: going to build a ballroom, why not do it when
- 27:51Speaker 2: you're president happens to be an expert at building ballrooms,
- 27:54Speaker 2: He's done it all over the world.
- 27:56Speaker 1: You'll never have the realities. Well, if you want to
- 28:00Speaker 1: build hotels around the world and the price is also
- 28:03Speaker 1: an expert hearing that that's it's it's the worst environment
- 28:07Speaker 1: to try and do this. So I'm telling you is
- 28:11Speaker 1: don't underestimate. I mean, if you talk to anybody out
- 28:14Speaker 1: around the country that this is this is one of
- 28:16Speaker 1: the key issues and it would be a gigantic issue
- 28:18Speaker 1: in this campaign.
- 28:20Speaker 2: Let me ask you one more thing, spending You've spent
- 28:22Speaker 2: so much time in the White House. The Rose garden.
- 28:24Speaker 2: It's much better now with the beautiful patio than the grass.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Some people think that. Some people like the old rose,
- 28:32Speaker 1: so you know, I'm going to some people think so,
- 28:35Speaker 1: some people who think the changes to the White House
- 28:37Speaker 1: are great. Some people think it's all very tacky. So
- 28:40Speaker 1: but I think right now people would rather have their
- 28:42Speaker 1: money being spent on things that obviously, uh keep taxes lower.
- 28:46Speaker 1: And basically keep keep ordinary people more in line with
- 28:51Speaker 1: the President's focus on I think people getting tired of
- 28:54Speaker 1: the Middle East paddles they're talking about in the Cuba,
- 28:58Speaker 1: talk of getting in the Greenland, all that kind of stuff.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Focus on getting this thing fixed and get this economy
- 29:04Speaker 1: moving positively towards Americans is a much better issue. I
- 29:08Speaker 1: would hate to be I had to run campaigns all
- 29:11Speaker 1: over this country, uh, congressional and Senate, presidential, I would
- 29:15Speaker 1: hate to be out there defending these things. I think
- 29:17Speaker 1: it puts as fast as the president is the communicator,
- 29:20Speaker 1: it's going to why waste this time based basically, it's
- 29:24Speaker 1: not going to be there where the ball and was finished,
- 29:27Speaker 1: And there's certainly no demand by any of the candidates
- 29:30Speaker 1: U arguing that I need to put more billionaires in
- 29:35Speaker 1: the ballroom.
- 29:38Speaker 2: One more question. You've spent a million hours in the
- 29:40Speaker 2: Oval office. When you see it now with five million
- 29:42Speaker 2: paintings all over every inch of the wall and that gold, gold,
- 29:46Speaker 2: ornate gold, every it is a little too much, isn't it.
- 29:49Speaker 1: It's tacky. I mean I every time I watch it,
- 29:52Speaker 1: I get a writed of a holiday and a holiday
- 29:55Speaker 1: in and then that renders the holiday in but it's
- 29:57Speaker 1: just not it's you know, it's a very special place.
- 30:01Speaker 1: And I think, to a certain extent, this is what
- 30:03Speaker 1: the president I used to do. He obviously, I'm sure,
- 30:06Speaker 1: walks in every room he's ever in and it says
- 30:08Speaker 1: I could fix this, I could fix that. But there's
- 30:11Speaker 1: too many. It's every time I see it, there's a
- 30:14Speaker 1: new gold something or other somewhere, new trophy. And it's
- 30:18Speaker 1: a certain extent that's not it's a it's a very
- 30:22Speaker 1: special place and and historically it needs to be created.
- 30:26Speaker 2: As a special place. All right, Well you tell him.
- 30:28Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell him, but uh uh hey,
- 30:32Speaker 2: let me ask you this. There's some Democratic candidate. You've
- 30:34Speaker 2: got this guy Platiner in Maine, big Nazi tattoo right
- 30:38Speaker 2: on his chest, a history of saying the most disgusting
- 30:41Speaker 2: things of how what happened that they're now going with
- 30:44Speaker 2: candidates like this and they're all back in them.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Well, he's a big personality. It's it's a race has
- 30:51Speaker 1: become competitive. He's kind of an unknown guy and he's
- 30:57Speaker 1: he's now become a very popular candidate. And they to
- 31:00Speaker 1: a certain extent, you know, how do we get the
- 31:03Speaker 1: mayor of New York. You know he doesn't have it,
- 31:06Speaker 1: he doesn't have a tattoo on his chest, but it
- 31:08Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know, Socialists is across his forehead. And
- 31:14Speaker 1: you know, you and I a year ago had never
- 31:15Speaker 1: thought he had been elected. So there's a lot of
- 31:18Speaker 1: a lot of strange candidates out there that there's there's
- 31:21Speaker 1: a lot of disaffection for the establishment and the Republican establishments,
- 31:25Speaker 1: particularly so identified hard and this thing is going to
- 31:29Speaker 1: be a knockdown, drag out collection. I do think the
- 31:32Speaker 1: president has got tremendous resources money wise, and if they
- 31:35Speaker 1: spend it well, they may make it better than people
- 31:38Speaker 1: anticipate today. But that's certainly holding the House and now
- 31:41Speaker 1: the Senate being in play, uh is not what you
- 31:44Speaker 1: want the last two years of the administration.
- 31:47Speaker 2: Have you ever seen it like this bad way? Any
- 31:49Speaker 2: party is so far extremist to the Democrats, so far left?
- 31:53Speaker 2: Have you ever seen that before in any era?
- 31:56Speaker 3: Not?
- 31:57Speaker 2: Not myer?
- 31:58Speaker 1: And certainly I go back to the years, and I
- 32:01Speaker 1: studied history, and I've taught courses, so I pretty much
- 32:04Speaker 1: know the political world for a long time, from at
- 32:07Speaker 1: least the historical perspectives, and I think to a certain extent,
- 32:10Speaker 1: this presidence of a different personality. He's he's bigger than
- 32:13Speaker 1: my personality, you know. And I think to a certain extent,
- 32:16Speaker 1: some people life and some people don't. You know, the
- 32:19Speaker 1: got the worst polling numbers of any president in modern history,
- 32:22Speaker 1: and he's he's got someone has to count, you know,
- 32:25Speaker 1: the bottom line, and you're not gonna win here if
- 32:28Speaker 1: not just Republicans, and they're starting to be a little
- 32:31Speaker 1: anger there. But the independence a plurality of voters today
- 32:35Speaker 1: and independence were a big part of his his nomination
- 32:38Speaker 1: and his win. And I think to a certain extent
- 32:40Speaker 1: they got to get those independence back.
- 32:43Speaker 2: Well Ed Roland's great stuff. Always great talking to you.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Keep up the good work and we'll talk again soon.
- 32:48Speaker 1: And how much you're going to send you to the uh, well,
- 32:53Speaker 1: I have to stay neutral on this, Okay, they stay neutral.
- 32:59Speaker 1: All you gonna invited no matter what.
- 33:02Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us. Take care, it's great, Ed Rollins. Hey,
- 33:07Speaker 2: don't forget at noon today, Buck and Clay, everybody's back.
- 33:10Speaker 2: It's remember it's it's it's not Monday, it's Tuesday. Today's Tuesday.
- 33:14Speaker 2: But everybody's back today. Sean Hannity that most listened to
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- 33:21Speaker 2: and you know Curtis is now here. You can hear
- 33:23Speaker 2: Curtis Leewa every morning six to ten right here on
- 33:28Speaker 2: seven ten w o R. Hello. It's gonna be a
- 33:34Speaker 2: beautiful week. It's gonna be sunny like eighty today. It's
- 33:36Speaker 2: gonna be like this all week and through the weekend
- 33:39Speaker 2: unless the weather forecast changes. But right now for the
- 33:42Speaker 2: next six seven days, absolutely beautiful, perfect weather. I guess
- 33:46Speaker 2: that makes up for Memorial Day weekend. So hey, Don Junior,
- 33:52Speaker 2: Donald Trump Junior got married over the weekend to Bettina Anderson.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Tiny ceremony. It's just forty people, mostly family, you know, brother, sister,
- 34:02Speaker 2: of siblings, they're kids. But right there, that's forty people.
- 34:06Speaker 2: But President Trump did not attend the wedding. He was
- 34:12Speaker 2: in New York on Friday, Rockland County speaking and then
- 34:15Speaker 2: today had to go back to He was supposed to
- 34:17Speaker 2: go to Bedminster for the weekend, but that changed because
- 34:21Speaker 2: of the Iran situation, although I think it also changed
- 34:25Speaker 2: because they saw the weather forecasting was pouring rain all weekend.
- 34:28Speaker 2: There could be no golf. So with no golf, what's
- 34:31Speaker 2: the point of Bedminster. I think that's the other reason
- 34:33Speaker 2: he went back. But I love he was well. I
- 34:35Speaker 2: guess because of Ran he couldn't go to Don Junior's wedding. Yeah,
- 34:40Speaker 2: but from what I hear, nobody is too thrilled with
- 34:43Speaker 2: this wife he's marrying. But Tina Anderson, I mean, he's
- 34:48Speaker 2: even in Palm Beach, kind of a questionable character. They're
- 34:50Speaker 2: not exactly thrilled that he's marrying her. That might be
- 34:53Speaker 2: another reason he didn't get to the wedding. Anyway, we're
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