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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent tenor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, finally it's Friday. It's gonna be a great day
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  Speaker 2: to day. You got opening day Yankee Stadium. Weather will
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  Speaker 2: be fine. Doesn't look so great right now, but the cloudiness,
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  Speaker 2: the drizzle go away, its sun will come out. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be a great opening day to day. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Pam Bondy and exactly what happened there. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, no kings, We'll get to NATO, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Iran, we'll get to sixty minutes. Looks like there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a massacre there coming. And we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Tiger Woods and a whole lot more coming up. The
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  Speaker 2: job numbers came out this morning. You won't hear about
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  Speaker 2: it very much because they were great. They were not
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  Speaker 2: just great, they were spectacular. Remember there was a month
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  Speaker 2: not long ago where the job numbers were below what
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  Speaker 2: was expected. It was the lead story everywhere every network News,
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  Speaker 2: New York Times, it was lead story. Job numbers were
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  Speaker 2: lower than expected. Well, we've more than made up for that.
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  Speaker 2: The job numbers were expected to be sixty thousand. It
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  Speaker 2: was one hundred and seventy eight thousand. It was fabulous
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  Speaker 2: job numbers, way above what was expected. We're now at
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  Speaker 2: full employment four point three percent. So you won't hear
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  Speaker 2: about this. It will not be the lead story on
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  Speaker 2: the NBC Nightly News. As we told you back then,
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  Speaker 2: I remember when the job numbers are a little low,
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  Speaker 2: lead story on the nightly news, main story, everywhere, lead story.
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  Speaker 2: Now you will not hear about this anywhere all day long.
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  Speaker 2: You'll just keep it very quiet. So we're learning more
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  Speaker 2: about Pam Bondy. She's out. Who's going to replace her? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General. And actually,
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  Speaker 2: for the last few months he's really been running things.
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  Speaker 2: He's really been the guy running things. So nothing much
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  Speaker 2: will change over there. There's been a lot of talk
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  Speaker 2: of Leezelden. He's become very very very well regarded in
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  Speaker 2: the inner circle of the Trump White House. So it
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  Speaker 2: could be Lee Zelden. You can be sure. Janine Piro
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  Speaker 2: is on the phone constantly calling. There are people pushing
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  Speaker 2: for her. There are people. Now you're going to hear
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  Speaker 2: some senator's names, Eric Schmidt, you've heard the name is
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  Speaker 2: Mike Lee, a couple of other senators. There a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are saying that should be the pick. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the reason for that there's people in the Senate that
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  Speaker 2: the Senate would like to get rid of. You just
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  Speaker 2: want to get him out of the Senate, so they're
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  Speaker 2: pushing those names. Don't take that very seriously. There's Elena Habba,
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  Speaker 2: but you know the problem is she's a little too
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  Speaker 2: Pam bondi ish. Now, there were problems with Pam Bondie
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  Speaker 2: running things. The list is at the top of the
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  Speaker 2: list Epstein Files disaster. She made a total mess out
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  Speaker 2: of that, just a complete mess out of the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody can fire out why it all started with this
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  Speaker 2: supposed client list. Now, Epstein never had any kind of
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  Speaker 2: a sex business. There were no clients for any sex
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  Speaker 2: nothing like that. Epstein there were always a lot of
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  Speaker 2: women around, and if you were one of his friends
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  Speaker 2: and he came to his parties or his house, he
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  Speaker 2: always had plenty of women to introduce you to. They
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  Speaker 2: were older women, they were in their twenties, thirties, forties, fifties.
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  Speaker 2: There were some underage women, but that's what Epstein personally liked.
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  Speaker 2: He liked these underage women and maybe a friend or
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  Speaker 2: two of his A lot of people think Prince Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: But that was just a private thing. It had nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with clients. There was no lists. So it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing for the public or you know, some fringe
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  Speaker 2: groups online to start rumoring about a client list a
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  Speaker 2: client list. But when you're in the Attorney General of
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  Speaker 2: the United States, you should know what the hell you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about. And she had the files that Biden Justice
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  Speaker 2: Department had the files for four years. They went through it,
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  Speaker 2: they read those files a million times. There was nothing
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  Speaker 2: in there. Trump, there was nothing in there about a
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  Speaker 2: client list. She should have known that. Yet way back
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  Speaker 2: then she made things one hundred times worse by shooting
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  Speaker 2: her mouth off claiming there was a client list.
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  Speaker 3: The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that really happened.
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  Speaker 4: It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
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  Speaker 4: been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm
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  Speaker 4: reviewing JFKs MLK files. That's all in the process of
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  Speaker 4: being reviewed because that was done at the directive of
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  Speaker 4: the president from all of these agencies.
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  Speaker 3: So have you seen anything there? You said, Oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: not yet. Okay, Well, we'll check back with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. That's one of the main reasons she's being fired.
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  Speaker 2: There's no such thing as a client list for her
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  Speaker 2: to say it was sitting on her desk. Obviously she
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what the hell she was talking about, which
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  Speaker 2: is fine, but don't shoot your mouth off on television.
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  Speaker 2: And if you hadn't reviewed anything, don't be talking about
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  Speaker 2: it on TV. So that's one reason. The other reason
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  Speaker 2: is the failed prosecutions. Trump thought there was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good case against Letitia James, so did all most of
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  Speaker 2: our great legal scholars and James call me. Those things
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  Speaker 2: went nowhere. You could say, well, it's not her fault.
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  Speaker 2: The grand jury wouldn't indict. But it's all about what
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  Speaker 2: you present, and it's all about what you come up with.
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  Speaker 2: There was plenty of stuff on Letitia James and call
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  Speaker 2: me and all this. But so that's another reason. So
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of reasons, and she just had
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  Speaker 2: to go. And she sort of knew that a few
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  Speaker 2: couple months ago that she knew they weren't happy with her,
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  Speaker 2: and she did a lot of stuff to try to
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  Speaker 2: appease the president and winning back, and she thought maybe
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  Speaker 2: she had succeeded at that, but the President on Monday
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  Speaker 2: started talking to people about getting rid of her. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, they went to the Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 2: sit in on the oral arguments. The President went there
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  Speaker 2: and Pam Bondi went with him, and they rode together,
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  Speaker 2: and the limo are two mile ride. It's not that
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  Speaker 2: long a ride, short ride, but they rode to the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court and then sat in the here and then
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  Speaker 2: came back. Now, apparently he told her, apparently he fired
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  Speaker 2: her during the Lemo ride. Going there. You think you'd
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  Speaker 2: wait till you were leaving her, not while you're sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the car. And if you ever seen that the Beast,
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  Speaker 2: the Presidential Lemo, you know, when you're inside that thing,
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  Speaker 2: it's really tight in there. There's no space in there
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  Speaker 2: because the reason the Beast is bulletproof and bomb proof.
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  Speaker 2: The walls, the windows, the doors are like a foot thick.
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  Speaker 2: They're so thick on both sides that they take away
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  Speaker 2: like two feet of the interior. So you're really crammed
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  Speaker 2: together in there. And he told her his exact words,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's time, told her she was out. They
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  Speaker 2: went to the Supreme Court, they sat through the oral arguments,
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  Speaker 2: apparently on the way out after the A couple hours later,
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  Speaker 2: after the oral argument, she asked him could she just
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  Speaker 2: stay till the summer. Could she leave in the summer.
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  Speaker 2: She just wanted a couple more months, and he said, no,
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  Speaker 2: you can't do that. She had to go right away.
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  Speaker 2: She'll stay another couple weeks. Need her for transitional stuff.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is they've told her they will get
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  Speaker 2: her a very very good job in the private sector
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  Speaker 2: in Florida, very high paying job at a law firm.
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  Speaker 2: She'll make herself a lot of money. I'll make sure
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  Speaker 2: that happens. Now, who's going to replace her? Well, names
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  Speaker 2: are being floated. People are pushing for Ron DeSantis. He'd
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  Speaker 2: probably be good at that because in real life he's
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  Speaker 2: a vicious guy behind the scenes. Great governor, done a
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal job as governor of Florida, probably the best governor
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  Speaker 2: in America, but behind the scenes, a nasty, vicious guy.
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  Speaker 2: So people are pushing him, but he will not get
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  Speaker 2: it because two reasons. Trump knows that he's a vicious
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  Speaker 2: guy in real life, and everybody's ever worked with him
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  Speaker 2: or known him will be calling Trump's saying, don't give
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  Speaker 2: him the job. I know some people don't like to
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  Speaker 2: hear this because he's such a great governor, but behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes he is so vicious, so rude, so nasty
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  Speaker 2: to everybody he encounters privately, that everybody will rush to
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  Speaker 2: stop that. And the other reason Trump won't appoint him.
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  Speaker 2: He needs him to be governor of Florida because Trump
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  Speaker 2: does a lot of stuff in Florida, from mar A
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  Speaker 2: Lago to all of his price. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of property in Florida that he needs a governor that's
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  Speaker 2: going to help him out, so he will not remove
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  Speaker 2: him as governor. But the other thing is he likes
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  Speaker 2: Todd Blanche, and Todd Blanche has been running things for
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of months. Very happy with Todd Blanche Blanche.
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  Speaker 2: So there may be no hurry. There may be no hurry,
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  Speaker 2: And whoever he appoints going to need confirmation, and those
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in Congress will hold it up forever and ever,
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  Speaker 2: and that could take forever. But that's fine. He's happy
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  Speaker 2: Todd Blanche is acting Attorney General and he can stay
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  Speaker 2: that way. He'll be happy to keep it that way
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. In the middle of about eleven days,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's April fourteenth, supposed to be a hearing
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  Speaker 2: Congressional Committee and Pam Bondi scheduled to testify on her
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  Speaker 2: handling of the Epstein files. So the Justice Department is saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: she's out, so let's have Todd Blanche come testify. The
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  Speaker 2: Congressional Committee saying absolutely not. It's Epstein's Bondie that we
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about the Epstein files, which it's got
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  Speaker 2: to be her, so she'll still have to do that hearing.
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  Speaker 2: But once you're out, it's really kind of a meaningless
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  Speaker 2: so I don't think anything will happen in that hearing. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the No King's rally. These crazy Democrats now protesting things
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  Speaker 2: that don't even exist, protesting things in their imagination. But
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  Speaker 2: the No King's Rally. President Trump was asked about it.
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  Speaker 2: Did they call me king? Now? Do you believe it?
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  Speaker 2: No King?
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  Speaker 1: I'm such a king. I can't get a ball room approved.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing. I'm a king. If I was a king,
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  Speaker 1: we'd be doing a lot more. I'm doing a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but I could be doing a lot more if I
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  Speaker 1: was a king.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty good. Iran. Here's the latest. We took out
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  Speaker 2: their most important, finest, the most expensive, brand new bridge
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  Speaker 2: they built. Yesterday we took out it's the tallest bridge
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  Speaker 2: in Iran. It's a very important structure. It connects to
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  Speaker 2: Tehran and Karaj. It was blown to bits, very very
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  Speaker 2: very key infrastructure figure of Iran. We blew it up
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  Speaker 2: and demolished it. Now this war has come down to
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  Speaker 2: just one thing, will the will of the Iranians to resist,
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  Speaker 2: and they believe we don't have the will to keep
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  Speaker 2: going and finish the job. So that's their strategy that
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  Speaker 2: we just don't have the will to finish this, that
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  Speaker 2: will give up and go away at some point. And
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  Speaker 2: you got to admire the crazy nutjob Iranian leaders, the
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  Speaker 2: will they have. They'll just let the whole place get
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  Speaker 2: blown up. So we're going to escalate slowly. We've been
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  Speaker 2: a massive amount of bombing rains, quantity has been there,
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  Speaker 2: so now they'll go for quality. They'll start taking out
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  Speaker 2: more each day, more and more and more important infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully that'll break the will of the Iranians. But it's
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  Speaker 2: going to get to a point where there's just not
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  Speaker 2: much left to go after and we'll see that. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to hear all the left wing fake news crowds say, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way to finish it without ground troops. Well,
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  Speaker 2: actually there is. You could. You can finish a war
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  Speaker 2: without ground troops. Take a look at Japan World War two.
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  Speaker 2: We were able to finish that and get a surrender
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  Speaker 2: without sending in any ground troops. It's been done many,
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  Speaker 2: many times NATO. There are some people wondering about these
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  Speaker 2: NATO countries and these NATO leaders. It's as if they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get the US to pull out. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they have done things that are just absolutely preposterous. And
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  Speaker 2: NATO partner's supposed to help you when you need help
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  Speaker 2: join the fight. Well not only didn't they do that,
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  Speaker 2: but even the most bare minimum things like let us
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  Speaker 2: use the air base in Italy, no, let us use
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  Speaker 2: your airspace no. So even the most untiniest, little bare
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  Speaker 2: minimum things NATO has refused. So it's if as if
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to get us to leave. And you've seen
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  Speaker 2: in this Iran battle, Israel right there side by side
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  Speaker 2: with US, and Saudi Arabia right there side by side
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  Speaker 2: with us. We're getting help from Kuwait, We're getting help
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  Speaker 2: from Cutter. Nothing from NATO, not even bare minimum, little
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  Speaker 2: tiny things, nothing from NATO. So it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: no brainer then just to pull out of NATO. Here's
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 5: When we need them to allow us to use their
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  Speaker 5: military bases, their answer is no. Then why are we
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  Speaker 5: in NATO? You have to ask that question. Why do
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  Speaker 5: we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions
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  Speaker 5: of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars and all
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  Speaker 5: these American forces stationed in the region. If we can
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  Speaker 5: only use we can in our time of need. We're
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  Speaker 5: not going to be allowed to use those bases. So
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  Speaker 5: I think there's no doubt. Unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded,
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  Speaker 5: we are going to have to re examine that relationship.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to have to re examine the value of
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  Speaker 5: NATO and that alliance for our country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if we're spending all, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: the financing of NATO, it's all us. It's mostly US
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  Speaker 2: financing it troops, ground troops. You know, left wing claims
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  Speaker 2: they don't want any ground troops. We've got ground troops
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  Speaker 2: all over Europe and we can't count on NATO even
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  Speaker 2: for the tiniest little thing. Probably is time to get out. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: here's some good news. You know, Barry Weiss is taken
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  Speaker 2: over at CBS and trying to clean it up, trying
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  Speaker 2: to get it back somewhere towards the middle instead of
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  Speaker 2: far left partisan. And word is she's going to shake
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  Speaker 2: up sixty Minutes, reshuffle producers, all this stuff, and the
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  Speaker 2: top talent should get rid of these people. You got Leslie,
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  Speaker 2: she's eighty four. Wow. Bill Whittaker, seventy four. Scott Pelley,
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  Speaker 2: who's the nastiest guy on the air, A nice guy
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  Speaker 2: in real life, but on the air, vicious, nasty, over
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  Speaker 2: the top, crazy partisan. Do you remember that commencement address
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  Speaker 2: he made? It was a commencement speech where he went
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  Speaker 2: over the top anti Trump partisan. It's totally inappropriate for
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  Speaker 2: a college commencement speech, but also extremely inappropriate for somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's supposed to be a neutral, unbiased news anchor. So
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  Speaker 2: just for that speech, they should throw him the hell
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  Speaker 2: out of there. But she says she wants to make
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  Speaker 2: the show a tougher, harder hitting, investigative reporting, breaking news,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. It's a good idea. It's also cheaper,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the old sixty minutes where they do these
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  Speaker 2: amazing stories. You know, they'd send to Mike Wallace to
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  Speaker 2: Tibet to talk with the dolly somebody with a lama.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that costs a fortune. You got to send
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  Speaker 2: the whole crew for a month to Tibet. Then they'd
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  Speaker 2: do another story on somebody in England. They'd send the
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  Speaker 2: whole crew to England. Cost a fortune to do that show.
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  Speaker 2: But back then, sixty minutes with the number one biggest
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  Speaker 2: show in television with fifty sixty seventy five million viewers
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  Speaker 2: in a week, you could have spent that kind of money.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's like two million, one million. There is hardly
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  Speaker 2: anybody watching. You can't afford to tell those kind of stories.
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  Speaker 2: So breaking news you just sit there at the anchor
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  Speaker 2: desk and just read it. It's a much much cheaper idea. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 2: zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 2: one zero seven ten