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Mark interviews streaming host Bill O'Reilly. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now much more mark mark simone now nine till noon
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  Speaker 1: weekdays on 710 wor well bill.
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  Speaker 2: O'reilly america's number one tv anchor for decades you know
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  Speaker 2: he's the best-selling non-fiction author on earth his latest book
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  Speaker 2: is wonderful it is a amazing book called confronting america
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  Speaker 2: takes you through america over the last few decades and
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  Speaker 2: uh You've got to read this book. It's available right now.
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  Speaker 2: You can pre-order. It's about to come out. You can
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  Speaker 2: pre-order Confronting America at Amazon or wherever. Or go to BillOReilly.com.
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  Speaker 2: You can get the book, the TV show, the column.
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  Speaker 2: Watch his YouTube channel. Great stuff there. His podcast. We'll
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  Speaker 2: do it live. Everything's at BillOReilly.com. Bill O'Reilly, how are
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  Speaker 2: you doing?
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  Speaker 1: This is my last media appearance other than the No
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  Speaker 1: Spin News. before two weeks of vacation. Two weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm an old guy.
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  Speaker 2: Leaving the country?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm an old guy. Old guys, no. I'm staying
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  Speaker 1: in eastern Long Island, probably the most beautiful place in
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  Speaker 1: the summer in the country.
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  Speaker 2: It is beautiful out there. But it takes you two
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  Speaker 2: hours to go 12 feet there with all the traffic.
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  Speaker 1: But otherwise it's... Unless you drive at night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the key. You've got to stay up late,
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  Speaker 1: get in the car about 9 p.m., and then you'll cruise.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but everything's closed by 9.30 out there. Yeah, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: A social guy. You know me. Nobody wants to hang
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, tonight you've got a few primaries. What's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen tonight? What's going to happen in the midterms? How
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  Speaker 2: does it look to you?
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  Speaker 1: It's impossible because of Iran and affordability. So the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration believes that if they can strangle Iran's economy, they'll
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  Speaker 1: fold soon, and then prices will drop dramatically in the
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  Speaker 1: USA and around the world, and that will help build
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  Speaker 1: momentum for the Republicans. And the Democratic Party, they're just
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  Speaker 1: going to continue slashing Trump and anybody associated with Trump,
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  Speaker 1: as we saw with the Natalie Harp situation. So if
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  Speaker 1: I had a bet right now, I'd say the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are probably in a lead of about two to three points,
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  Speaker 1: but that could evaporate quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the problem is the economy is in great shape
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  Speaker 2: right now by all metrics that you would use. Inflation
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  Speaker 2: is not bad. It's not out of control. But the
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  Speaker 2: media day and night is convincing everybody that we're in
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  Speaker 2: a terrible economic crisis. How do you battle that? How
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  Speaker 2: do you fight that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, if I'm... President Trump, I bring a chart wherever
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  Speaker 1: I go, pointing out that the economy is strong, historically speaking.
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  Speaker 1: The problem you have is that you have a two-tiered
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  Speaker 1: situation in America. You have people who are successful and
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  Speaker 1: know how to handle their money, invest their money. They're thrifty.
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  Speaker 1: They pay attention. And then you have a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people, maybe half the country, that just wastes their
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  Speaker 1: money and doesn't really, they don't understand what economics are.
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  Speaker 1: So if they get hit by $ 3, $ 4 gasoline, they're hurting.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where the Democratic Party always goes to the underdog,
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  Speaker 1: economic underdog, always. And you're getting hosed and you're this
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  Speaker 1: and you're that. That's a powerful message. And the craziness
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  Speaker 1: of it is, that there are Americans who believe the
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  Speaker 1: government can fix it. The government can't fix it. So
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  Speaker 1: when you hear affordability, um, by the Democrats, you go, how, how,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to do? And then you never
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  Speaker 1: get an answer. You get, well, Trump's the devil. Okay. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't do wage price controls here. I would
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  Speaker 1: absolutely come down if our president on the, health insurance
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  Speaker 1: companies and auto insurance and all that. I'd make life
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  Speaker 1: real difficult for them because they're profiteering. And so are
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  Speaker 1: the American oil companies. They're profiteering on all this, uh,
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  Speaker 1: chaos in the world. And I think that, um, they
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  Speaker 1: can pull back a little.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So when you said the government can't fix it,
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  Speaker 2: they can't, but, uh, they'll just yell tax, the rich tax,
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  Speaker 2: the rich, and then the media.
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  Speaker 1: But it's such a cliche and it's so stupid. You
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  Speaker 1: just look at people, tax the rich. The rich are
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  Speaker 1: tapped out. They're tapped out. Okay, you can't be imposing 60%, 70%
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  Speaker 1: taxes on individuals and corporations. We're up in the mid-50s now,
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  Speaker 1: if you live in New York. We're in the mid-50s.
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  Speaker 1: They're taking more of your money than you have. So
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  Speaker 1: are you going to continue this? I mean, this is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: This is what communism is. Socialism is. But the poor,
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  Speaker 1: that's not their concern. Their concern is living week by week. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: These crazy socialists, these crazy, out-of-control, unbelievable left-wing kooks. Did
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump cause this? I mean, listen, we love him
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  Speaker 2: and he's effective and he gets things, but the over-the-top
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  Speaker 2: abrasive personality, did it drive the left so nuts that
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  Speaker 2: They think they've got to do this to counter him?
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you look back on Romney and McCain and Bush,
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  Speaker 1: even Ronald Reagan, they were attacked by the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: But it were routine attacks. There wasn't this kind of vitriol,
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  Speaker 1: this kind of personal stuff. I believe, and I could
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  Speaker 1: be wrong, I hope I'm wrong, there is a segment
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  Speaker 1: of the American population that would like to see Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump dead. That's how much they hate him. So the
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  Speaker 1: level of hatred has risen from a Romney, where it
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  Speaker 1: was fairly low, Obama just outclassed him, to we really
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  Speaker 1: hate Trump and we want the worst for not only him,
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  Speaker 1: but anybody associated with him. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in that category, and that gets to be pretty dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: But it was always that way for Trump, long before
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  Speaker 2: he got into politics. And you saw this. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the business world, half the people hated him. They couldn't
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  Speaker 2: stomach him. And the other half loved him. But he's
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  Speaker 2: just used to that. And he'll never do anything to adjust.
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  Speaker 2: And is there anything he could do to fix this?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he could modify a little bit his presentation. And
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  Speaker 1: he does. On occasion, you see him pull back and...
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  Speaker 1: have Dayton to whatever. And he didn't like this guy,
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  Speaker 1: but now he likes him. You've seen it. Yeah. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but it's all personal Donald Trump. So politics is personal.
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  Speaker 1: And if you attack him, if you're unfair to him
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  Speaker 1: and he perceives you as an enemy, then he's gonna,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just like the schoolyard, he's going to escalate it.
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  Speaker 1: The rev, uh, the rhetoric. And, uh, there are occasions
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  Speaker 1: when he will actually go after people, uh, like Comey.
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  Speaker 1: And I support that because I think Comey deserves to
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  Speaker 1: be scrutinized in a court of law. I think what
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  Speaker 1: Comey did manipulating the elections, uh, is a crime. And
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  Speaker 1: why would you ignore that crime? That's a, that's a
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  Speaker 1: serious situation. Now I could be wrong. Comey's entitled to
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  Speaker 1: due process, but boy, the evidence, uh, on the surface
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, um, You're the great historian. These socialists, these democratic socialists,
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  Speaker 2: they all tend to be wealthy guys. They've got six houses.
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  Speaker 2: They live like... Is that normal for a socialist movement historically?
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere. Really? Everywhere. You know, I can't trace down any
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  Speaker 1: communist socialist leader that lived with the folks. They're not
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  Speaker 1: living with the folks. They're living high on a hill.
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  Speaker 1: And they get everything they want. And it's always been
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  Speaker 1: that way. And they justify it by saying, well, we
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  Speaker 1: need an elite government cadre to guide the people. People
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  Speaker 1: need to be guided. They're like sheep. And they believe this.
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  Speaker 1: So there's got to be these people who are the guiders.
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  Speaker 1: And they are entitled to special privileges, special wealth. See
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  Speaker 1: it in China. China's a very good example. The oligarchs
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  Speaker 1: in China live... well. And when I asked about it,
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  Speaker 1: they said, well, we need to have guidance. And these
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  Speaker 1: people guide, so they're entitled to their extra compensation. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think on a totalitarian regime level, if
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  Speaker 1: there were anybody, maybe Gandhi, but he wasn't a totalitarian.
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  Speaker 1: He was a nonviolent guy. But nobody, they just sop
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  Speaker 1: up Look at Putin. He's the richest man in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Putin is the richest man in the world because he
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  Speaker 1: takes a cut of all of the Russian economy. Everything
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  Speaker 1: you do, you've got to kick back a little bit
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  Speaker 1: to Putin. Can you imagine that? But that's what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: So this socialism is a great situation. if you're the leader.
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  Speaker 2: For them, it is a great system.
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  Speaker 1: If you're the top 2% and you have the authority
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  Speaker 1: to do what you want, it's a pretty good system
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  Speaker 1: for you because there's no elections, there's no balance on you.
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  Speaker 1: So you're not going to be demanded to show up
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  Speaker 1: in front of a Senate hearing. There's no Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: to investigate you. So you just cruise and take what
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  Speaker 1: you want. And that's the attractiveness of communism at the
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  Speaker 1: higher level.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Bill O'Reilly, I also love the podcast. We'll do
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  Speaker 2: it live. Some great episodes. You should go back and
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  Speaker 2: watch the other episodes. You'll love them. We'll do it live,
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  Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly's podcast, YouTube or wherever you get it. Who
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  Speaker 2: do you have on this week?
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  Speaker 1: We are taking a little hiatus. I got to give
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  Speaker 1: my staff a break. And me too. So for two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be floating around. And then we come back. I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping Monica Crowley, Stephen A. Smith, all these people said
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  Speaker 1: they were going to do it. So we should have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good lineup beginning in the middle of September.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun. And the book, of course, comes out September 15th.
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  Speaker 1: And you're one of the few people who got an
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  Speaker 1: advance copy of it. It's not boring, right?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's quite a book. It is really a great book,
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  Speaker 2: Confronting America. And it must have been the toughest book
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  Speaker 2: to write because it's a lot of your personal journeys
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's eyewitness history. And what you read is what
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  Speaker 1: I saw. And with 90 countries under my belt and
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  Speaker 1: every state in the Union, every major city in the USA,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot. in his business for more than
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  Speaker 1: 50 years. And so I bring all that in and
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  Speaker 1: no anonymous sources, Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I name everybody. So, and some of those people aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to be happy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But, uh, there's a lot of stuff in there.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to want to read this book. It's Bill
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  Speaker 2: O'Reilly's latest book confronting America. Go pre-order it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Confronting America, uh, wherever you get your books or just
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  Speaker 2: go to bill O'Reilly.com. You can get the books there.
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  Speaker 2: The podcast, watch the previous episodes. You'll love them. And
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  Speaker 2: everything's at BillOReilly.com. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. As the song goes, I'll see you in September.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on. I'll see you in September.
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  Speaker 2: Take care. Yeah, the next couple weeks, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of people away. Everybody's going to be gone.
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  Speaker 2: All these hosts will be long gone. Hey, don't forget,
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  Speaker 2: coming up at noon... Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. That's
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  Speaker 2: a very good show. Every day, 12 noon. Then at
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  Speaker 2: 3 o'clock, you've got Sean Hannity, the most listened to
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  Speaker 2: radio show in America. You've got Jesse Kelly at 6.
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  Speaker 2: I love listening to Jimmy Fail, a very funny show.
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  Speaker 2: Every night, 9 to midnight. Don't forget, I'm here every
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  Speaker 2: day now. Three hours, 9 a.m. I start at 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Three hours. It's 9 to noon. And then Curtis and Larry,
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  Speaker 2: 6 to 9 on 710WOR.