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Hour 1: Why limit NYPD officers? · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Filling in for Mark,
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  Speaker 1: here's Ken Rosato.
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  Speaker 2: And a very happy Thursday, good to be with you. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Mark is off on a nice long weekend for Leoparday Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully he's enjoying himself. Nice to be here. Ken Rosato,
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  Speaker 2: former New York City TV News anchor. The guy used
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  Speaker 2: to be on Channel 7 and Channel 5, I was
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  Speaker 2: on Channel 55. Gosh, it's almost, there wasn't a channel
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't on at some point. My gosh, find a channel.
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  Speaker 2: You could say, oh, there's the ghost of Ken Rosato there.
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  Speaker 2: But it's so nice to be here on iHeartRadio, 710WOR,
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  Speaker 2: the voice of New York. It is always exciting walking
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  Speaker 2: in the building. And here at iHeart, in the lobby,
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  Speaker 2: they have been talking about redoing the lobby for years.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been saying how exciting that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the couple of years that I've been working here,
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  Speaker 2: part-time filling in for Mark. I've been talking to the
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  Speaker 2: guys and the ladies at the front desk and they've
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  Speaker 2: been saying, yeah, they're going to do this lobby eventually. Well,
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  Speaker 2: last week I came to the building for the first
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  Speaker 2: time since they actually started doing the lobby. And you
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  Speaker 2: have to walk about six and a half miles downtown.
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  Speaker 2: You make a left, two rights. You ask two police.
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  Speaker 2: They take you up a flight of steps. You go
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  Speaker 2: left to the right. Then you got to show four
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  Speaker 2: forms of ID, give a blood test, and then you
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  Speaker 2: get to the second floor. Oh, and then when you
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  Speaker 2: get to the second floor, you take an elevator and
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  Speaker 2: then you got to get here. I sound like Jackie
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  Speaker 2: Mason now. But it is going to be great when
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  Speaker 2: it's done. But let's see, Izzy's at the controls here. Izzy,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think it'll take about, they said a year.
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  Speaker 2: So my guess is it's going to be about 14,
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  Speaker 2: 15 years, right? Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So basically when I am on my third retirement, then
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about the lobby looking great. And then you
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  Speaker 2: know what they're going to do? They're going to plan
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  Speaker 2: on redoing the lobby again. That's what they're going to
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  Speaker 2: do at that point. They say the lobby's 15 years
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  Speaker 2: old now. We got to do it again. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing for Labor Day weekend? And have
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  Speaker 2: you gotten out of town yet? So I know a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people years ago, I remember when I did
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  Speaker 2: the morning show at Channel 7, we used to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that the Friday of Labor Day weekend
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  Speaker 2: used to be the escape time. First, it was 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Then eventually over the years, because I started doing that
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  Speaker 2: show in 2003. So by like 2007, 2008, we noticed
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  Speaker 2: that Friday at noon was escape time. Then by about 2015, 2017,
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  Speaker 2: we noticed that no, no, no, Thursday at 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: That's when people, they all took Friday off and they
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  Speaker 2: got out of Dodge Thursday afternoon. Now we're seeing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are getting off half day on Thursday
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting out now so that The AAA is
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  Speaker 2: recommending if you are intending on driving out of town,
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  Speaker 2: the best time to go is right now, between now
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  Speaker 2: and like 11 this morning. And then at 11, it
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  Speaker 2: starts to get busy till about 2. Then you get
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  Speaker 2: a little lull from 2 to 5. Then it gets
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  Speaker 2: crazy again after 5. But you're almost better off just
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  Speaker 2: waiting till tonight or leaving right now. Just make sure
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  Speaker 2: you keep 710WOR on in the car. That's all we ask.
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  Speaker 2: But it's going to be crazy. We'd love to know.
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  Speaker 2: Give us a call, 800-321-0710. Are you just going to
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  Speaker 2: stay put or are you heading out of town? If
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  Speaker 2: you're heading down the shore or out to the east
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  Speaker 2: end of Long Island or maybe up to Connecticut, the
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  Speaker 2: beautiful Connecticut shoreline is beautiful too. We have such beautiful
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  Speaker 2: stuff in our area, beautiful places to go, all within
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  Speaker 2: an hour or two of no matter where you live. 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: Just got some news in here. The New York Post
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  Speaker 2: is reporting that the FBI said that they are investigating
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  Speaker 2: a report that tens of millions of driver's licenses belonging
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  Speaker 2: to people in the U.S. and Canada, not Canada, where's Canada?
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  Speaker 2: It must be near Canada, that these driver's licenses were
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  Speaker 2: being sold on the dark web. So there are places
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  Speaker 2: on the Internet where creepy people who want to commit
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  Speaker 2: nefarious acts go to get data about you, about your
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  Speaker 2: driver's license, etc. And apparently this may be connected to Russia.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI is looking into it. But if the data
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  Speaker 2: breach is confirmed, it could be one of the largest
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  Speaker 2: ever exposures of government-issued identity documents in North America. And
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  Speaker 2: this will create the risk of identity theft and fraud
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  Speaker 2: for tens of millions of people. This is a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: So apparently the service is called Nexus. And it claims
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  Speaker 2: to have tens of millions of licenses for people in
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. and Canada and millions of other ID cards
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  Speaker 2: and travel documents and hundreds of thousands of medical records.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is, how did they get it? And
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  Speaker 2: one cybersecurity company suggests that the systems were hacked. It
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  Speaker 2: could have been by Russia. It could have been by
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  Speaker 2: other governments, maybe Iran. Who knows? China. But that our systems,
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  Speaker 2: our government, they're saying that the government computers were hacked.
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  Speaker 2: So this isn't about the selling of fake driver's licenses.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about your real driver's license data potentially being
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  Speaker 2: caught here and sold on the dark web. So you
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  Speaker 2: can bet this is going to be big news in
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  Speaker 2: the next few days. A lot of people are going
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  Speaker 2: to be talking about that. I'm sure the FBI will
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  Speaker 2: be doing a lot of investigating.
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  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: It almost feels like every one of us at some
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  Speaker 2: point have had our data breached, right? I mean, because
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  Speaker 2: I did a search not long ago and I found like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: your data is on the dark web in 7,226 locations.
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  Speaker 2: You know, especially being a public figure, somebody who's on
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  Speaker 2: the air, who's been on the air in New York
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  Speaker 2: for decades. People have tried... I can't even tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when I was a news director at Channel 55,
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  Speaker 2: going back to 19, had to be in the 80s. No,
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  Speaker 2: it was in the 90s. It was in the early 90s.
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  Speaker 2: I had just become news director there. And I was
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  Speaker 2: the main anchor at night, the 10 o'clock news. And
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  Speaker 2: some lady had called the station insisting that I was
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  Speaker 2: her ex-husband, a deadbeat husband, and that I owed her
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  Speaker 2: child support. And they put her through to me. I
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  Speaker 2: pick up the phone and she said, you SOB, blah, blah, blah,
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  Speaker 2: you owe us money. And I said, well, who are you?
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  Speaker 2: She says, and mind you, let me tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: I used a different name on the air. I won't
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  Speaker 2: say what name, but I used a different name on
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  Speaker 2: the air at the time. And she was insisting, she
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  Speaker 2: basically was extorting me. She said, I'm going to call
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  Speaker 2: the bosses and tell them that you skipped Dodge and
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  Speaker 2: you owe us money. And you're now working as a
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  Speaker 2: TV news anchor there and you're not paying your child
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  Speaker 2: support And I'm going to get you in trouble unless
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  Speaker 2: you pay us X amount a month. Well, so it
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  Speaker 2: was extortion. So she did. I threatened her. I not
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  Speaker 2: threatened her, but I dared her, I should say. And
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  Speaker 2: she went ahead and called the bosses and the bosses
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  Speaker 2: called me into the office and they said, is this true?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, no, it is not. I took the
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  Speaker 2: call earlier, but of course I was a relatively new
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  Speaker 2: employee and I felt like I was under the gun.
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  Speaker 2: This is again, back in the early nineties, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have the data that we have access to today. So
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  Speaker 2: I said, uh, as while I was in the boss's office,
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  Speaker 2: she called again and they put her on speakerphone and
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  Speaker 2: I put up my fingers have to say, watch this.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, uh, whatever her name was, Joan, let's
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  Speaker 2: just say it's Joan. I said, Hey, Joan, if I
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  Speaker 2: was your husband and I owe you child support, what's
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  Speaker 2: my real last name? And she, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: What's your real last name? It's X, Y, and Z.
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  Speaker 2: She said the name that I was using on the air.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, oh, that's my real last name? You're
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  Speaker 2: sure about that? And that's when the bosses smiled and said, lady,
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  Speaker 2: don't call back or we'll call the cops and hung
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  Speaker 2: up on her. But that happens. People try to take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of people all the time. And you have to
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  Speaker 2: be careful what you put out on Instagram and TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: You put your date of birth. You put your kids' names.
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  Speaker 2: You put your dog's name. You put your address. Show
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  Speaker 2: the new house with your address on the house in
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  Speaker 2: the background. You show the same location you hang out
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  Speaker 2: at work all the time. People will put two and
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  Speaker 2: two together. And if they want to come after you
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  Speaker 2: and steal your identity, it's relatively easy to do so.
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  Speaker 2: Especially younger people. I have friends who have kids who
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  Speaker 2: post everything on their social media sites. And they talk
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  Speaker 2: about everything. And that just makes it that much easier
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  Speaker 2: for somebody to hack you and to steal your identity.
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  Speaker 2: So don't let it happen. Don't make it that easy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know a friend of mine who... He
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  Speaker 2: has the wrong birth date on his Facebook page on purpose.
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  Speaker 2: But every year people wish him like 800 happy birthdays.
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  Speaker 2: His name is Julian. He probably listens. So I used
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  Speaker 2: to work with him at Channel 7. He knows that
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about him now. Clearly, I said his name.
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  Speaker 2: But he puts a fake birth date. And he says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind getting two onslaughts of happy birthdays a year.
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  Speaker 2: One from the fake birthday that I post on Facebook
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  Speaker 2: and one from the real one. But he does it
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  Speaker 2: on purpose so that if anybody is trying to steal
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  Speaker 2: his identity, that they will have the wrong date of
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  Speaker 2: birth and therefore they won't have that little extra bit
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  Speaker 2: of information to try to hack into his information.
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  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710. It is Ken Rosato in on the Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend starting a little early on a Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Crime in New York is just out of control. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I said it. Crime in New York out of control.
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  Speaker 2: control i'm not talking about crime nationwide it's actually down
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  Speaker 2: nationwide but ken we just got statistics that show crime
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  Speaker 2: is down in new york the only crime that's down
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  Speaker 2: in new york is murders and murders are down about
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  Speaker 2: 20 percent okay uh but the rest of the crimes
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  Speaker 2: rapes are up but ken it's because they're analyzing what
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  Speaker 2: is a rape differently rapes are up period you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: all the numbers, no matter how you tear it apart,
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  Speaker 2: rapes are up. And that's disgusting and horrible. And I
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  Speaker 2: have some theories as to why rapes are up. But
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  Speaker 2: rapes are up. And then you have all other felonies up.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have misdemeanors no longer prosecuted. Prosecuted. Because
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  Speaker 2: you have the likes of an Alvin Bragg who refuses
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  Speaker 2: to prosecute crime. When he came into office, he said
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  Speaker 2: that was his way of balancing, leveling the playing field.
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  Speaker 2: So when people commit crimes, we're no longer going to prosecute.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Remember, crimes are often committed in areas where people have
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  Speaker 2: nowhere to turn, in poor neighborhoods, etc. So when you
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  Speaker 2: say you're not going to prosecute people in those neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 2: you're subjecting the people who are living in the neighborhoods
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  Speaker 2: with more crime. But the way he's selling it is
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go after so many people in
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  Speaker 2: certain neighborhoods who are disadvantaged. Yeah, but now you're subjecting
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  Speaker 2: to the hardworking people in those neighborhoods to being having
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  Speaker 2: to live around criminals. And that's what the likes of
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  Speaker 2: the liberals like Alvin Bragg. That's the way they view life,
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  Speaker 2: that there are victims and victimizers and that the people
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  Speaker 2: who've been in power up to this point are victimizers.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody else is a victim. And even if they
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  Speaker 2: commit crimes, it's okay because as a victim, you're given
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  Speaker 2: a pass. And so you have crime out of control.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't– when you look at felonies and rapes
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  Speaker 2: around the country decreasing, but in New York, rapes went
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  Speaker 2: up and felonies are flat year to year. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to scratch your head. Yeah, murder's down, but you know
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  Speaker 2: why murder's down? Murder's down because 2,500, 3,000 people have
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  Speaker 2: been deported– from New York who were illegal migrants who
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  Speaker 2: were gone after by ICE, many of whom were murderers.
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  Speaker 2: They were murderers in their home countries and some of
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  Speaker 2: them committed murder here. Now you get rid of the handful,
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  Speaker 2: you talk to police, they'll tell you there's only a
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  Speaker 2: handful of people who are murderers in any society. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if there were a million murderers, you'd have tens of
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  Speaker 2: millions of murderers each year and we don't have that,
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  Speaker 2: thank God. But because there's only a handful of murderers
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  Speaker 2: and ICE got rid of many of them, You have
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  Speaker 2: murders down. But of course, New York City and New
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  Speaker 2: York State being sanctuary locales will never give credit to
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  Speaker 2: the likes of ICE for that. But it's pretty obvious.
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  Speaker 2: The minute ICE came in and started deporting these people, boom,
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  Speaker 2: or arresting them, all of a sudden murders are down. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to scratch your head. And then
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  Speaker 2: you say, you say, well, Ken, then why are felonies,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera, why are they flat? Well, because ICE doesn't
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  Speaker 2: handle felonies. ICE doesn't arrest you for, I mean, let
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  Speaker 2: me clarify that. We don't, ICE doesn't handle, Non-murderers, the
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  Speaker 2: big crimes.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because New York City makes it practically impossible for ICE
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  Speaker 2: to do their jobs because you have the likes of
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  Speaker 2: a Mayor Mamdani and a Kathy Hochul running the city
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  Speaker 2: and the state. Now, for Kathy Hochul to come in
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  Speaker 2: and say that all the police in New York State
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  Speaker 2: are no longer allowed to help out ICE agents in
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  Speaker 2: any capacity, unless, let me make it clear, she says,
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  Speaker 2: unless they're actually in the middle of committing a real crime. Well,
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  Speaker 2: who are you to say what's a real crime? If
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  Speaker 2: they're committing a federal crime, they're committing a real crime.
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  Speaker 2: Being here illegally, Kathy, Kathy Hochul, that's a crime. You
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  Speaker 2: may not acknowledge that, but it's a crime. If you
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  Speaker 2: don't like it, it's very easy. Change federal law. You can.
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  Speaker 2: We have Congress members in New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: Change federal law. Very easy. Just go in there and
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  Speaker 2: change it. But no. So now you have, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of folks upset that you have the sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: cities and states that coddle illegal migrants. And when they are,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, when they're being dealt with in local courts,
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  Speaker 2: they're set free instead of being released to ICE agents
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  Speaker 2: to be deported. Now, Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I don't know if you saw, he
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  Speaker 2: had a little scare with his jet coming into Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was yesterday. His jet was coming in
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  Speaker 2: from the Midwest, I believe, and one of its two
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  Speaker 2: engines died. So they did an emergency. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: pilots are trained to do a one-engine landing all the time.
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  Speaker 2: But it's easy for us to talk about while we're
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  Speaker 2: safely on the ground. He was midair. But they did
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  Speaker 2: a safe landing. Great piloting. Landed safely in Washington. They
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  Speaker 2: got to check the jet to see what was up.
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  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, getting back to it, Homeland Security Secretary Mark
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Mullen said on Tuesday that the White House is
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  Speaker 2: looking into legal ways to withhold federal funding from sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: states and cities that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: And if you think about it, there are ways to
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  Speaker 2: do it. It's one thing if you don't want to cooperate.
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  Speaker 2: When you start creating laws saying that local police cannot
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  Speaker 2: have any interaction with ICE agents, now you're sort of
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  Speaker 2: going into that gray area where you're crossing the line
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  Speaker 2: and you are now impeding the exercise of law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: for federal officers. You are now potentially subjecting yourself to
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  Speaker 2: arrest if you're a local official. And you're getting in
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  Speaker 2: the way. And this is getting in the way of
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement from the federal level. So now they're looking
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  Speaker 2: at ways of, at the very least, cutting resources to
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  Speaker 2: states and cities and then potentially passing laws. Laws could
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  Speaker 2: be passed. Congress can pass laws that force local municipalities. No,
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  Speaker 2: they can't. There are all sorts of laws. They give
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  Speaker 2: states independence with police. Yes, there are. But there are
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  Speaker 2: ways around it. There are certain laws that can be enacted.
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  Speaker 2: that say that if police, basically federal police should have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to automatically deputize local police. And in many
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  Speaker 2: states it's permitted. In fact, the majority of states do that.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever there's, state of Florida, perfect example, a case where
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  Speaker 2: you have a large number of illegal migrants running around
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  Speaker 2: and the federal police, in this case ICE agents, and yes,
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  Speaker 2: they are federal police for those liberals who don't believe
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  Speaker 2: they are. When ICE agents need the help of the
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  Speaker 2: local police, They can go and deputize the local police.
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul says that I don't want, with her buck teeth,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want us to be spending local money, taxpayer money,
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  Speaker 2: to help the feds. That's their deal. Okay. But think
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  Speaker 2: about it this way, Kathy Hochul. The feds are not
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  Speaker 2: coming in and taking your local police to another state
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  Speaker 2: to help them do their job. They are arresting criminals
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  Speaker 2: in your state. criminals who may have broken the law,
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  Speaker 2: broken federal law in New York State. So therefore, they're
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  Speaker 2: not asking for you to be spending money to help
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  Speaker 2: them do federal jobs in other states. They're asking you
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  Speaker 2: to cooperate so that they can arrest people who are
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  Speaker 2: here illegally who have committed other crimes as well. And
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul is making it practically impossible. And that's where
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  Speaker 2: I say the feds have got to step up. When
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  Speaker 2: you get one governor or mayor in cuffs, and an
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  Speaker 2: orange jumpsuit on camera, and you see them arrested like that,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: you will see how fast they stop their bravado. Especially,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I think of a J.D. Pritzker in Illinois, all 800
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: pounds of them. You'll see their bravado about being a
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: sanctuary state stop very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: This is Ken Rosato in for Mark on Thursday of
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend, 710 WOR. We're going to take.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Let's see. We're going to do in the next segment.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I always get confused. This is the 9 a.m. segment.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: So the next segment, we will talk more about the
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: And we're also going to talk about stuff happening with
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Mayor Mamdani and his influencers. And then after that, we
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: will take your calls at 710-WOR. It's the Mark Simone Show.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac Studios. Guest hosting for Mark today.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosado. Good to be with you. I just
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: want to go over some numbers here. We got access
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to a poll. You know Mark Penn, he's the big pollster.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: And it's the Harvard Caps Harris poll, I believe, that
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: he is in charge of. And for August, this is
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the last few days of August. We just got the
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: numbers out. Let me just quickly look.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: So things are not looking as bad for Republicans and
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: for President Trump as you would think. They're not skyrocketing
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: here by any means. But it says midterms horse race
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: remains tight, 51-49, with Democrats holding a two-point lead.
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  Speaker 5: But.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: When you look at likely midterm voters, the lead flips.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: It becomes a two-point Republican lead. And that's really what
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: you want, the likely voters, not the people who are registered.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: There are lots of people registered to vote who haven't
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: voted in years. Mark talks about this all the time.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: You want to know the people who do actually vote.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: And I believe to be a likely voter, you had
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: to have voted in the last two elections or something
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: and that you have conviction to vote again. So again,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: among likely voters, it's 51-49 Republicans. In the lead and
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: less than half of voters say they've made a decision
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: on the midterm vote with 69 percent saying this is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: overall 69 percent saying they will vote. And half of
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Americans believe the Democratic Party is being taken over by
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: the far left. That's significant. And that may be holding
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: them back from what should be. If you're a Democrat,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you should look at the midterms and say this should
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: be a sweep for us. And I think that's holding
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: people back. from just saying, yeah, I'll vote Democrat. It's
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: almost like, even if they're not thoroughly happy with Republicans,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: the devil that you know is better than the devil
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: that you don't. And that's sort of what's happening right now. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Ken Rosato in on the Mark Simone show today. Uh,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: what do you think about the Lindsay Clancy murder trial
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: in Massachusetts? I heard, Larry talking, of course, with Curtis
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: today about this, and they had a lot of good
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: conversation about it. I appreciate how carefully they're studying this trial.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I caught a lot of it yesterday. And of course,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: you have the jury deadlocked. Not once, but twice, Judge
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Sullivan issued what they call a Dewey-Rodriguez charge, a Dewey-Rodriguez charge,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: which basically is the last shot. It says to the
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: 12-person jury that you're never going to have another jury
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that's going to be more knowledgeable of this than you.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: So take your time and in good conscience, really discuss
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: this and try your best. But they may still come
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: back sometime today or tomorrow and say, we're deadlocked.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Because it could be that there are one or two
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: people who are just locked in and will not change
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: their decision. And remember, it has to be a unanimous decision.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: We're talking about potential first degree murder charges here. So
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: the judge may declare a mistrial, in which case it
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: is likely that they will recharge her and start from scratch.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: That's what the prosecutor has suggested. And I think that's
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: likely what would happen. You have a Pretty heinous crime
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: here in the murder of three kids. And then you
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: have the other side where you're talking about a woman
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: with postpartum issues. And a lot of people saying, Ken,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: you'll never understand what it's like. And you're right. I
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: never will. And I'm sure she went through a lot
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: of emotional issues. But a lot of women who go
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: through severe postpartum issues don't kill their kids and don't
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: kill anyone. And, you know, they may go through the issues,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the challenges, and they're severe and they're real. They're legitimate.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: But you got to get to a point where you
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: don't kill people. You have to figure it out. And
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I know easier said than done, right? Easy for me.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I've never been in that circumstance. But you just can't
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: justify that because then you know what you'll have? If
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: this ends up being the argument, you will have people
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: who are postpartum using the excuse of postpartum for a
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: lot of things down the line, just like they tried
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to use reason of insanity for a lot of murders
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: in trials. Hard to prove reason of insanity. But nonetheless,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: how many people have gotten away with murder over the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: years because of that excuse? whether it was legit or not.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: But you have to think about that. 800-321-0710. Cool story,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: really fast here I want to share. I read in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the post, there's a group of people called the Bajau, B-A-J-A-U.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: They're known as the Sea Nomads, and they're indigenous to
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: an area in Southeast Asia. And apparently they spend up
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to five hours underwater. every day now they don't spend
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: five hours at a time underwater but they're in the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: water for like five hours a day much of that
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: time is diving they could spend up to about five
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: minutes holding their breath i think about holding my breath
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: for thirty seconds and i i feel like uh... and
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: claustrophobic or whatever uh... but they can do it for
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: five minutes and they have no problem so now they've
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: been studied turns out they have larger spleens spleens are
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: responsible for storing and releasing red blood cells, and red
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: blood cells carry oxygen through your body. So if you
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: have a big spleen, then you have an extra store
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: of red blood cells, and if you go diving and
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: hold your breath, your spleen could release extra oxygen through
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: your body. So it makes sense. But the question is,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Is it
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: that these people with big spleens just automatically found it
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: easy to go diving and holding their breath five minutes,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: or was it the act of having to dive for
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: your food that eventually led to people who didn't have
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: big spleens dying off and the survival of the fittest,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the people with the big spleens survived. I'm always curious
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: with stuff like that. All right, we'll take your calls
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: next at 800-321-0710. Now, 9 till noon weekdays, The Mark
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Simone Show on 710WOR.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Guest hosting for Mark today, here's Ken Rosato.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Had a very good Thursday morning. I'm so used to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: saying Friday morning because I usually fill in for Mark
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: on a Friday, but he's taken an extra long weekend
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: and well-deserved for Labor Day, so I hope you're enjoying yourself, Mark.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Ken Rosano in Thursday morning. We go to George on
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the phones. George, good morning to you from Long Island.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, hi. Hi, how are you? Never underestimate the mayor.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: He's very slick, and he's smart. When he talked about
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Netanyahu arresting him, he knew from day one. I know
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: about a lawyer, but I was a court clerk. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: know a little about it. He knew from day one
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: that could not happen. There's a corporation council, a lot
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: of smart lawyers have been told of that. But he
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: does that to gin up his base, and then he
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: pushed back on it when he said, no, I can't.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: And he did the same thing about getting people to
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: go out and demonstrate, telling his followers to go out
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: and demonstrate when he comes here, the prime minister of Israel.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: But there's a thing called a law, reckless endangerment. It's
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: like yelling fire in a movie. If you take an
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: action when you know really should have known, you can
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: cause harm to people. Like if somebody, people got hurt,
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: if there was a riot or something, he'd be held responsible.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Now he's cut back on that. So he's a pretty
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: slick guy.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Now that he is with that fake smile and the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: fake accent, you notice you go online, you'll hear Mamdani
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: speaking to various groups of people in their own accent.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: And you have to wonder, it's almost like the Manchurian Candidate.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: You have to wonder if he was being prepped for
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: this for years. It kind of creeps me out. He
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: speaks to a group of Latinos, and he has a
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: perfect— he could speak some words in Spanish very well, I
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: might say, because I have a master's in Spanish. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: speak it. And then he'll speak to a group of
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: people who are from, say, India, and he has an
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Indian accent. He puts on different accents. He's like a chameleon.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: He blends in and wants to be whomever to whomever.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: And you have to wonder what the ulterior motive is.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: He's trying to make you comfortable enough with him— that
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you see through the communism that is in his heart,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and you see this nice, warm guy with a big
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: smile who's just like me, and he's a nice guy.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: So you've got to be careful of people like that, George.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. We go to Ralph in Manhattan. Good morning, Ralph.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you again, Mamdani is a good, he's a
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: pretty darn good actor. He's an amateur, but yet he's
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: a pretty darn good actor. He can convince a lot
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: of people. You know, Kathy Hochul was never, she was
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: always middle of the road. She was never this far left.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: But she's fitting in with the party. And she's doing
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: things that are against the grain when it comes to her.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: If you know anything about her career beforehand, when she
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: was second fiddle, To our friend Cuomo. She was nothing. Ken,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: she was nothing like she is now. But of course,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: to win in 2026 and to go forward, and I
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: think she will win, unfortunately. I hate to be a naysayer,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: but I think she will win. To win, you have
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: to take up that mantle, the left-wing mantle, and you
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: have no choice. I mean, that's the way the direction
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: is going right now.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: And you know, the thing is, years ago, Ralph, you
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: got north of, say, even into Westchester County. And then
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: you'd have more purple votes in Westchester. And you got
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: into Rockland County and above. And then you started getting
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: into a red part. Once you got out of, say,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Albany and Syracuse and, say, Buffalo, those areas always tended
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: to be Democrat. But the vast majority of New York
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: State tended to be hardcore Republican. The problem is the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Republicans throughout much of the state... are sort of wishy-washy
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: middle-of-the-road not hardcore not convicted older don't get out and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: vote they're there but they just are never motivated to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: vote and and as a result of democrats just keep
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: getting elected and and here's what you get because they
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: stay out of politics they don't want to be confrontational
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: you ask them questions there's a good guy she's not
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: so bad really Because they're not paying attention, so in
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: their minds, everything is just fine, just Jim Dandy, and
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: this is the problem.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're so right. The ICE agent, that's a
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: dirty business. I don't mean it in a derogatory way.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: You're going to step on toes. You're going to intrude
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: on people. But I'll tell you something. We have to
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: be so stringent about it. If somebody is here illegally,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: he or she should go back to where they came from.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: And it sounds very harsh. But if you don't do
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: it that way, if you just say that guy's OK,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: we'll let him be. But that guy we're going to
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: go after, that's not going to work. We have to
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: be across the board, very stringent on the matter. I
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: believe that.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Ralph, it's because of the last administration letting everybody in.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Now we don't know who's good and who's bad. So
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: you have to assume everybody's bad. That's the thing. But Ken,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you can't do that. Well, how else do you find
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: the bad people? This is the problem. Had they vetted
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: people properly? Had they made them go through the proper
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: channels and come in like we're supposed to? we wouldn't
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: have this issue but it's because the by demonstration quite
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: intentionally flooded the zone this is the problem we have
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: today and that and that they this is the problem
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: so it don't get mad at president trump get mad
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: at president biden had this not to happen at the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: floodgates not been open we would have been able to
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: vet people properly Let them get through the process. I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: was on Instagram before we came on the air, and
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I was talking about the fact that we let two
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to three million people into this country legally every year.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Do you know how many people the entire world lets
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: into their various borders every year? If you were to
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: add together every country's admission numbers on the planet outside
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: of the United States, we still let more people in
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: last year legally than they did. Think about that. Hundreds
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: of countries added together. So, you know, if I hear
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: people say our immigration system is broken, one more time
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to scream. It's not broken. You just don't
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: want to hear you don't like the laws the way
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: they're written doesn't mean it's broken it means that you're
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: a moron i'm sorry but there it is yeah you.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: You cannot you cannot have a sovereign nation No nation
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: could ever allow anyone, everyone in willy-nilly, and call themselves
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: a sovereign nation. So I think the cat's out of
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: the bag, meaning that the door was ajar too long.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I don't think we could go back, but maybe we
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: can rectify some of this at least, Ken. I hope so, anyway.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I hope so, too. We've got 3 million people who
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: have either self-deported or been deported so far. Yes, sadly,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of good people were also deported. Hopefully, they
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: apply to come back. I would love to see them
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: come back legally and be my fellow American citizen. I
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: would be there at their swearing-in ceremony and hug them.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not against immigration. I'm sure you're not against immigration.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I'm against breaking into my house illegally. I have a
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: problem with that. Ralph, you're a great caller. I appreciate you, man.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Joe in Staten Island, good morning.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Good morning. I want you to talk about the Clancy case.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: I'm just curious. She said she heard voices telling her
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: what to do. After she did what she did, she
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: no longer heard the voices. She no longer, she didn't.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: That was it. It cured her. After she murdered her children.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: And let me tell you something, Ken. I have four kids.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: So I didn't ever think of killing any of my children.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: And maybe you go through a depression. You feel tied down.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: You feel tired. But murder doesn't enter into your mind
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: at all. I don't understand at all people feeling a
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: sympathy for her and not the three sweet children that
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: she had.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you. But again, I don't have
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: kids and I'm not a woman. So I've never been
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: through the feeling of postpartum depression. And this is not.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: depression this is i forget what is the condition called
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: that's postpartum psychosis thank you so much i appreciate.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: It right now she's good yeah.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: That is look this is this is something that uh
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: i just killing people whether they're your own kids or
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: not is never justifiable unless your life is in danger
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: sorry and i understand people can be psychotic they can
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: be mentally unstable But I'm sure there are a lot
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: of women through history who had postpartum depression or psychosis
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: who didn't kill anyone.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: I think it's the trick of the lawyer. He's a
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: very sharp lawyer. And they're using this as the tool.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: You're not wrong.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: And the only time she sobs... It's when they show
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: her her children and what she did. I just don't
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: buy it. I just don't buy it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Do you like the way, if I may just step in,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: only because we're running out of time here, we have
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: commercials coming up, but do you notice that the lawyer
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: made the comment that she's like the greatest mother ever
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: and she loved her kids? Okay, the greatest mother ever,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I think that's pushing it a little too far. Maybe
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: she was a good mother when the kids were alive,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: but she did admit that she killed them. So that's
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: something we can't forget. I appreciate the phone call. You're
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: very kind to do so. And we invite more calls.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: We're going to come back right after this break with
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: more calls at 800-321-0710.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: It is Ken Rosato for the great Mark Simone at 710WOR.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays on 710WOR. Guest hosting for
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Mark today. Here's Ken Rosato.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: And good to be with you. Go back to our phones.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: 800-321-0710.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710 to Max in Manhattan. Good morning, Max.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Ken. Thank you for taking my call. This
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: has to do with Syed. Abdul Syed, remember when he
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: was having that discussion with Jesse Waters? And he's talking
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: about promoting gender surgery. You have to remember, this guy's
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: from Egypt. If he would have went for office in
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Egypt and he made that statement, they would have killed him.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: The populace would have killed him in 24 hours.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Because if you're Muslim, men have to be circumcised. That's
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: part of the religion.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Well idea of the point that it would be no
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: problem but he's talking about the application intended for you
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: you know the penis and testicles and the breast of women.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: But he was if i may i just want to
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: step in just a bit i'm reinforcing what you're saying
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  Speaker 2: max and what i'm saying is he was making it
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  Speaker 2: sound like well like if you have circumcision it's the
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: same thing as no it's not the same thing circumcision
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  Speaker 2: is part of a religious ritual it goes back in
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  Speaker 2: judaism and islam is on fifteen hundred years judaism three
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  Speaker 2: thousand years It's part of the religion, and we adopt
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  Speaker 2: it for many people in the United States as well.
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  Speaker 2: But he made it sound like if you accept that,
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  Speaker 2: then it's okay. I mean, obviously, making a ridiculous point,
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  Speaker 2: he was.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Can I add something else here? Please. Okay. He made
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  Speaker 4: the accusation that Christendom or the United States was always
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  Speaker 4: in Muslim lands, taking it over. I disagree. If you
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  Speaker 4: look at Constantinople, that was originally Christian.
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  Speaker 2: It was Orthodox.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: He's wrong. Islam didn't come about until the 5th century.
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  Speaker 2: You had Christianity for 2,000 years, Islam 1,500 years, Judaism
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  Speaker 2: almost 3,000 years. So for him to make that comment
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: is ridiculous. Those are the same people who say that
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Jesus was a Muslim. How could he be a Muslim?
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  Speaker 2: When Islam didn't come about until 500 years after he
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  Speaker 2: died and rose. So it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Look at Egypt. Egypt was originally about 90% Christian.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Coptic Orthodox. Correct. Correct. In fact, almost all the lands
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: that are currently Muslim at some point were Orthodox Christian.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: And at one point it was all Christian. That's all
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  Speaker 2: it was called before the East and the Western churches split. Max,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. Thank you very much, sir. It
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  Speaker 2: is now coming up on 10 o'clock. We will take
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  Speaker 2: Mark on WOR.