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

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone on sevent tenor well, hey, the final day
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  Speaker 1: of winter today, Winter is over. Today's the last day.
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  Speaker 1: Spring begins tomorrow. That is great news. So we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about this last hour. They're trying to confirm Mark Wayne
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  Speaker 1: Mullen to replace Christy Nome at DHS. And he had
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  Speaker 1: to go through the committee hearings and he got through it.
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  Speaker 1: He got through it by one vote. One Democrat voted
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  Speaker 1: for him. Now, normally, if you're appointed by Trump, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to go through hell in a confirmation hearing, and
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to confirm you. They're going to all
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  Speaker 1: hate you just because you're appointed by Trump. But the
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  Speaker 1: reason they picked Mark Wayne Mullen, he's in the Senate
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  Speaker 1: for years, he's in the House for years, and he
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  Speaker 1: was very good at making friends with everybody, Republicans and Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: He just would have lunch with everybody, go to the
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  Speaker 1: gym with everybody. So we've got a lot of friends there.
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  Speaker 1: That made it easier to confirm him. But you got
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  Speaker 1: to get through the committee first. The committee has to
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  Speaker 1: approve your nomination. Then it goes for the full vote. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: he should be okay in the full vote. The committee.
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  Speaker 1: The problem was Rand Paul is on the committee and
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  Speaker 1: they are not friends. Now, Rand Paul, you'll recall a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, somebody I don't remember what the
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  Speaker 1: reason was or what happened, but Rand Paul, a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: comes into his house and punches him and beats him
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  Speaker 1: up and breaks his ribs and Ran Paul ends up
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital. Now, we don't forget what the dispute
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  Speaker 1: was about. This was a neighbor is in Kentucky, and
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  Speaker 1: at the time, I guess Mark Wayne Mullen listen, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people I like Rand Paul, A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people find him annoying in all kinds of ways. But
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  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen when he heard somebody beat up Rand
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  Speaker 1: Paul today, I can understand it. So and Paul not
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  Speaker 1: happy about it, and he just glared at Mark Wayne Mullin,
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  Speaker 1: gave him a hard time in the hearings and just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stop attacking him.
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  Speaker 2: I owned the word apologize. Haven't heard the word regret.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't heard I misspoke and it was heated, and I
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  Speaker 2: made a mistake, actually any of those words.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry. Actually it wasn't heated, and I'm not apologizing for point.
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  Speaker 2: Not your cood or goodn't. So you're you're jolly well fine.
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  Speaker 2: And you went to American public and the people up
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  Speaker 2: here to vote that may or may not vote for
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  Speaker 2: you to know that you supported the felonious violent attack
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  Speaker 2: on me from behind.
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  Speaker 3: I did not say I supported it. I said I
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  Speaker 3: understood it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's not alone. There are people that
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  Speaker 1: find ran Paul quite annoying, so they Paul was not
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  Speaker 1: going to be happy with him. But here's more from
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  Speaker 1: the hearings.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes this political theater, sometimes it's true differences. But what
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  Speaker 3: we do know is that we're playing with fire. We
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  Speaker 3: have two hundred and eighty thousand agents employees right now
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  Speaker 3: on day thirty without pay, and they're still showing up
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  Speaker 3: every single day to do their job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, this Department of Homeland Security that also includes
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  Speaker 1: the Secret Service, that includes TSA, that's how all the
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  Speaker 1: airports could get screwed up, includes the Coast Guard, but
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  Speaker 1: just the airports, the TSA. You got to settle this.
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  Speaker 3: I won't back down from a challenge, and I'll also
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  Speaker 3: admit when I'm wrong. I'm not perfect. I don't claim
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  Speaker 3: to be perfect. I make mistakes just like anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: But mistakes, if you own them, you can learn from
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  Speaker 3: them and you can move ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Rand Paul was not going to vote for
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  Speaker 1: this guy. Rand Paul was just that. You could see
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  Speaker 1: the steam coming out of his ears as glasses were
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  Speaker 1: fogging up. He was really mad.
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  Speaker 2: He told the media that I was a freaking snake
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  Speaker 2: and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted,
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  Speaker 2: and I was shocked they would justify and celebrate this
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  Speaker 2: violin assault that caused me so much pain in my family,
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  Speaker 2: so much pain. I just wonder if someone who applauds
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  Speaker 2: violence against their political opponents is the right person to
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  Speaker 2: lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to
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  Speaker 2: the proper use of force.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I understand his anger, but get over it.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a personal disagreement when one of your
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  Speaker 2: colleagues says they could completely understand why six of your
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  Speaker 2: ribs were broken, your lung was damaged. I had part
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  Speaker 2: of my lung removed. I had an infection almost had
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  Speaker 2: you know, I had an infection that had a twenty
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  Speaker 2: five percent death rate. So I mean no, I went
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  Speaker 2: through hell, and anybody who thinks that that's something that's
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  Speaker 2: commendable is an unfit person to lead law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, it was a terrible thing. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: agrees it was a terrible, awful thing. Nobody's for anything
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  Speaker 1: like that happening to anybody. But I think he was
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  Speaker 1: kind of making a joke about you know, It's like
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  Speaker 1: what was with a comedian that somebody was murdered and
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  Speaker 1: they said, yeah, there's two thousand suspects. There's just I
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  Speaker 1: mean a lot of people don't like Rampay. It was joke,
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  Speaker 1: it was I I can understand him not getting over it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're President Trump and you got through Butler, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when that bullet took part of his ear off,
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  Speaker 1: he looked pretty brave. You know, he's pumping his fist
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  Speaker 1: and he was playing golf the next morning. He was
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  Speaker 1: pretty brave. But you gotta you gotta think as brave
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  Speaker 1: as he was in front of you. It really got
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  Speaker 1: to him. You know, you got you to think it. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of nightmares probably after that. And
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  Speaker 1: then weeks later, there's a guy with a big rifle
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  Speaker 1: on your golf course trying to shoot you. Luckily, a
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  Speaker 1: secret service got him. That's two assassination attempts. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: think that really haunts you. I mean, as tough as
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  Speaker 1: you can, brave, as you can appear to be in
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  Speaker 1: front of everybody alone when the lights are out and
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, you must really get to you
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  Speaker 1: what could happen to you? And intelligence reports are showing
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  Speaker 1: that Iran at she was behind these assassins. I have
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  Speaker 1: a feeling this will come out at some point soon
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  Speaker 1: that Iran was behind the assassinations. They said they were
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  Speaker 1: going to attempt to assassinate Trump, and these two assassins
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  Speaker 1: young like in eighteen nineteen twenty. They're the only young
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  Speaker 1: guys that have no social media presence whatsoever of any kind.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to wonder where the hell they came from.
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  Speaker 1: But what's going on in Iran right now? You gotta
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  Speaker 1: think that was a factor. That was a big factor
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  Speaker 1: because if Iran and they said they were going to
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  Speaker 1: try to assassinate President Trump, and if Iran launched an
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  Speaker 1: assassination against a US president, you gotta believe that something
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  Speaker 1: like that had to get approved at the very top
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  Speaker 1: by the Ayatola himself, that he would have had to
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  Speaker 1: give the go ahead, and all the top, top top
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  Speaker 1: two or three or four Iranian leaders had to sign
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  Speaker 1: off on it. So you gotta think that's a factor
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  Speaker 1: in this blowing them up that I mean, they tried
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  Speaker 1: to kill them and one of their bullets hit them.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta think this was a big factor in all
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  Speaker 1: of this. Hey, so crazy, mom, Donnie is the latest thing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a big problem in New York. Remember you
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  Speaker 1: go back ten years or so to Blasio. What was
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  Speaker 1: he talking about how dangerous the streets were because of
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  Speaker 1: the cars. You know, people getting hit by cars. Remember
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  Speaker 1: what was that Operations Safety something whatever. They were trying
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  Speaker 1: to cut down on accident's cars hitting people. They made
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  Speaker 1: a big, big deal out of this. This is years ago,
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  Speaker 1: well over the last ten years. Cars are the least
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  Speaker 1: your worries. It's these e bikes, these east scooters, these
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  Speaker 1: e things, these delivery guys just going every which way
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  Speaker 1: and they don't seem to know anything about traffic lights
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  Speaker 1: or they can't tell what's the sidewalk, what's the street.
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  Speaker 1: They're riding all over the place. In fact, the cars
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  Speaker 1: are no problem at all, but most people terrified across
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  Speaker 1: the street because of these e bikes. It's a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: So they started to crack down during the Adams years.
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  Speaker 1: They started to give these guys tickets. Not enough they
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  Speaker 1: should you know, they're always looking for more revenue. Just
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  Speaker 1: go after these e bikes. Just ticket them every time
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  Speaker 1: they go through a red light, every time they're on
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk, every time they're going too fast. Just ticket
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  Speaker 1: them and believe it or not, a e bike ticket
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  Speaker 1: was criminal. Well, mom, Donnie just changed all of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's now no longer criminal. It's now civil. Now you
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  Speaker 1: might say, well, okay for a traffic thing, that should
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  Speaker 1: be so now, brumm Is a lot of these e
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  Speaker 1: bike riders are not really citizens. Nobody can really find them.
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  Speaker 1: And if you just give them civil means they just
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  Speaker 1: get a ticket, and if they don't answer it, nobody
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  Speaker 1: can do much of anything to them. They're kind of
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  Speaker 1: off the books. There's no way to touch them. Criminal
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  Speaker 1: means you I got to go to court, You've got
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  Speaker 1: to appear in court and answer the thing. So by
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  Speaker 1: dropping the criminal part of it, now it's only civil.
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  Speaker 1: If they can get all the tickets in world, they
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  Speaker 1: can just throw them away, don't have to do a
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  Speaker 1: thing about it, and really nothing can happen to him.
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  Speaker 1: If it had remained criminal as it was, they would
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  Speaker 1: have to show up in court. If they didn't, they
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  Speaker 1: could be arrested. So it's another awful crazy thing from
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  Speaker 1: mom Donnie. He I mean, the good news is everybody
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  Speaker 1: thought he'd just destroyed the whole city. He's doing it
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  Speaker 1: like little nickel and dimes stuff here and there. It
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  Speaker 1: could be worse, It could be worse. Now. Police Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Tish was all for criminal tickets of these e bikes.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, remember last year she wrote a big op
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  Speaker 1: ed in the Post and support of it. She and
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  Speaker 1: Adams were behind this big blitz. This is her editorial
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  Speaker 1: she wrote back then. When vehicle drivers failed to respond
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  Speaker 1: to a traffic summons, their license can be suspended. E
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  Speaker 1: bikes do not require any license, so their operators can
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  Speaker 1: simply ignore a traffic summons with virtually no repercussions. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's the other thing. If he's really concerned about rev
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  Speaker 1: and you make every E bike, every E scooter, every
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  Speaker 1: e everything have to have a license, put a license
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  Speaker 1: on it. You charge money for the license, a yearly fee.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just like you driving. You know your license
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  Speaker 1: in your car. You pay every year for that. So
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  Speaker 1: every e bike and scooter has to have a license
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  Speaker 1: charge whatever one hundred and fifty a year. Also, that way,
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  Speaker 1: when they get a ticket, you can trace them down. Also,
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  Speaker 1: if there's a horrible hit and run by one of
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  Speaker 1: those e bikes, you could go to the surveillance video,
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  Speaker 1: which if you do it, now, what are you going
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  Speaker 1: to find? Nothing? You just see a bike and you
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  Speaker 1: see a guy with a helmet on. Can't really identify him.
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  Speaker 1: But if there was a visible license on the back
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  Speaker 1: of that bike, then you could. Then you could identify him.
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  Speaker 1: So but apparently with mom Donnie, you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: get that. You're not going to get that. Hey, how
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  Speaker 1: bad is the crime in New York? Now, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to all your people way out there in the suburbs
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  Speaker 1: or and we've got listeners all over the country and
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  Speaker 1: other cities. Sometimes you talk to them and they'll get
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  Speaker 1: I would never go to New It's so dangerous, right,
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  Speaker 1: I watched the news. It's a shooting, is stabbing. It's
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  Speaker 1: so dangerous, And it's not dangerous. Uh, in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of Manhattan, it's not dangerous. Would you guys in the
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  Speaker 1: control room agree, it's not right here. We're in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of Midtown Manhattan. If you haven't been to New
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  Speaker 1: York since the Giuliani days and you suddenly flew here
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  Speaker 1: and walked around right out there by Rockefeller Center and
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  Speaker 1: down there, it's fine. It's just fine. Everything looks it
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  Speaker 1: looks exactly the same. So when you're seeing all this
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  Speaker 1: crime and there's some people getting pushed and shoved in
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  Speaker 1: the subway and stabbing and shooting, it's unfortunately it's all
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  Speaker 1: like an eight precincts. There are areas that still remain dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: In the Bronx, there's certain you know, I think parts
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  Speaker 1: of Queen's, parts of Brooklyn, there's still some dangerous areas.
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  Speaker 1: But the middle of Manhattan it's just as safe as ever.
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  Speaker 1: It's really fine. But in the Bronx they got the
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  Speaker 1: police Commissioner Tish on the stand and but they got
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  Speaker 1: a right to complain. But it's not her fault. When
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  Speaker 1: you got a shortage of cops. It's supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: forty thousand, we got like thirty four thousand. You got
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  Speaker 1: a skimp in some places. And it's not about discrimination,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously you got to protect your business district you're
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  Speaker 1: and this is where all the revenue of Manhattan happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's where everybody works. But she was on the hot
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  Speaker 1: seat yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Shootings are down city wide. In the Bronx, they're up
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  Speaker 4: thirty five points. I understand that a nice little So
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  Speaker 4: it's safe to say that the progress related to shootings
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  Speaker 4: hasn't reached the Bronx.
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  Speaker 2: Last year there were over one hundred viewer people shot
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  Speaker 2: in the burrow of the Bronx then the previous year.
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  Speaker 4: We've made progress last year, but it seems like we're
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  Speaker 4: going backward. The numbers related to shooting victims and shooting
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  Speaker 4: incidents and murder going up this year compared to last year.
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  Speaker 4: That ye, those numbers that we cannot ignore. A record
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  Speaker 4: break ser for gun violence, and I will.
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  Speaker 2: Not have the work of the members of the New
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  Speaker 2: York City Police Department mischaracterized.
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  Speaker 1: Again, it's not her fault. There's a shortage of cops,
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  Speaker 1: and mom, Donnie's going to keep that shortage going. We
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  Speaker 1: need about forty thousand. I think we're at thirty four thousand,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not going to hire a new Now. The
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  Speaker 1: other thing, when you don't hire new cops, got number
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  Speaker 1: of shrinks because we lose about three thousand a year
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  Speaker 1: just through retirement attrition. That's why you got to keep
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  Speaker 1: adding cops. And we're not doing it at a fast
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  Speaker 1: enough pace. Hey, you know, there's a big problem going
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  Speaker 1: on in the restaurant, in the bar world, the nightclub world.
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  Speaker 1: People don't drink as much as they used to. Can
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  Speaker 1: you believe this? Yeah, restaurants are struggling. Americans are drinking less.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of Americans just started drinking a lot less.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem is younger generations, you know, under thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: they're really not interested in alcohol. They don't drink much.
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  Speaker 1: They can't stand wine, they don't drink it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the top vineyards in America, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them have had to close because business is down.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really affecting restaurants because that was a big
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  Speaker 1: part of their revenue. In fact, in a restaurant, your
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  Speaker 1: food alcohol, it was about a fifty to fifty split
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  Speaker 1: in revenue. But now it's different. Seventy percent is coming
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  Speaker 1: from food, only thirty percent from alcohol. A new gallopole
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  Speaker 1: finds that in the US, how many adults drink fifty
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  Speaker 1: four percent. That's a very low number, only fifty four percent.
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  Speaker 1: So it's hurting restaurants. Also, it's killing happy hour. There's
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  Speaker 1: not as big a happy hour crowd anymore Friday nights
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  Speaker 1: and whatever the big bar see, and that's kind of empty. Now.
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  Speaker 1: People aren't drinking. The reasons well, increased awareness of health risks,
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  Speaker 1: a generational shift. Younger people just aren't drinking. They aren't interested.
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  Speaker 1: And about six percent of America now uses those injections,
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  Speaker 1: those those zepic type things, And apparently with that you
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  Speaker 1: drink a lot less, not just eat less, drink less.
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  Speaker 1: Alcohol sales are slumping in every category. The restaurant industry
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  Speaker 1: Casual find signing thirty one percent of operations reporting severe
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  Speaker 1: declines in alcohol sales in twenty twenty six. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's in the liquor stores. You can imagine the
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  Speaker 1: problems they're having. Anyway, we'll take some calls next. Eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten