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Hour 1: Trump and Xi Jinping's meeting. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
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  Speaker 1: on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, I got a lot to get to today. U.N. week, Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 2: the Iranian president yesterday, Chinese President Xi's visit to Washington.
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty interesting, that greeting. That fat slob Chris Christie,
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  Speaker 2: wait till you hear what he's up to. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Harvey Weinstein, who... Begged for mercy yesterday. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to that. We'll get to Taylor Swift. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Hochul and Blakeman and more coming up. It's 54 degrees outside. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: that summer, when it ends, it ends. It's 54 outside.
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  Speaker 2: I see overcoats outside. I see scarves. I see sweaters outside. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you look at the video of President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: he comes to greet the At the airport, he comes
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  Speaker 2: to greet Chinese President Xi, President Trump wearing a heavy
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  Speaker 2: overcoat and gloves. And that's many, many miles south of
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  Speaker 2: us in Washington, D.C. President Xi's visit to Washington, Andrews
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  Speaker 2: Air Force Base, now called Joint Base Andrews. It's very, very,
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  Speaker 2: very unusual for a president to actually come to the
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  Speaker 2: airplane and wait at the bottom of the steps to
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  Speaker 2: greet somebody. That is highly unusual. Last time it happened
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  Speaker 2: was 1962. John F. Kennedy did it for the British
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister. Now, actually, Barack Obama did it for the Pope.
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  Speaker 2: But for a world leader, that is the ultimate sign
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  Speaker 2: of respect. Now, there are a lot of people that
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  Speaker 2: are mad about that. They don't think President Trump should
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  Speaker 2: be showing that kind of courtesy, that kind of respect.
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  Speaker 2: to Xi, who is our enemy, our enemy, but that's
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  Speaker 2: the Trump way. No matter how much you hate somebody,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how much of a dispute you're in, you
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  Speaker 2: try to talk to the guy, you try to be
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  Speaker 2: nice to the guy. He does it with Mamdani, and
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  Speaker 2: he does it with President Xi. Many are critical of it,
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  Speaker 2: but he does it hoping to make an agreement, hoping
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  Speaker 2: to get something out of him. Now, the problem with Xi,
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  Speaker 2: or the Iranians, or the Russians, you can make all
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  Speaker 2: the agreements you want, no matter what the agreement you make,
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to stick to it. Iran never does.
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  Speaker 2: China never does. Russia never does. So it's like thinking
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  Speaker 2: socialism is going to work. A billion times these agreements
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  Speaker 2: with Chinese, Iranians, Russians never work. They'll never stick to them.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know what the point is, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a huge day of activities with President Xi. It's President
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  Speaker 2: Xi Day there. I'm looking at the schedule. It just
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  Speaker 2: goes on and on. At 10 o'clock, there's a gift
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  Speaker 2: exchanging ceremony. I've seen this President Xi. What the hell
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  Speaker 2: would you give this guy? But the President, he'll give
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  Speaker 2: Trump a gift. Trump will give him probably a box
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  Speaker 2: of Trump steaks or something like that. Some Trump neckties
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. One of those Trump hats or
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  Speaker 2: maybe even the Trump golf shirt. And then they go
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  Speaker 2: to all sorts of meetings throughout the day. Then tonight
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  Speaker 2: there's a big state dinner. All the tech CEOs, the
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  Speaker 2: Zuckerberg types, Apple CEO and All the AI CEOs have
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  Speaker 2: been invited to this state dinner with President Xi and
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  Speaker 2: Madam Ping. And that'll be tonight. So that'll take up
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  Speaker 2: most of the day here in New York. Big day.
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  Speaker 2: At the UN, it's Netanyahu Day. Benjamin Netanyahu will speak.
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  Speaker 2: He stayed in New York last night without incident as
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  Speaker 2: far as crazy protesters or anything like that. But he
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  Speaker 2: will speak today. It should be a fiery and dramatic speech.
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  Speaker 2: as he takes on the UN, as he takes on
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  Speaker 2: all the people that are trying to wipe out Israel,
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  Speaker 2: as he takes on Mamdani and all the anti-Semites all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. So this will be some speech today. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: it was the Iranian president who tried to tell us
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  Speaker 2: all off.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, the United States president described us as terrorists.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: We have been the victims of terrorism.
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  Speaker 2: No, you haven't. You've been the world sponsor of terrorism.
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  Speaker 2: You've sponsored the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, every terrorist organization in
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 3: Palestine remains an open wound on the conscience of the
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  Speaker 3: international community and Gaza remains.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knows what the hell this guy is saying, but
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  Speaker 2: he looked terrified. He looked panicked. This guy's got to
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  Speaker 2: worry that when he gets back to Iran, they don't
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  Speaker 2: kill him and execute him. One wrong word, one wrong move,
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  Speaker 2: and he's executed. He's the president of Iran, but you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't want to be his life insurance company. But he
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  Speaker 2: went on and on.
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  Speaker 3: Peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress. For
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  Speaker 3: our sick people is cure and treatment. For the agricultural
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  Speaker 3: sector is food security. For industries, advancement and progress and
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  Speaker 3: supply of electrical energy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the Iranian method. You just out and
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  Speaker 2: out lie. We have nuclear for peaceful commercial purposes. Well, see,
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  Speaker 2: the problem is that sort of uranium, you would enrich
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  Speaker 2: it to 20% to use for commercial and peaceful purposes.
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  Speaker 2: It's enriched to 20%. 90% is nuclear weapon. Well, they
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  Speaker 2: kept enriching more and more. They had it up to 60%. 60%,
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  Speaker 2: which meant they were two weeks away from 90%. and
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  Speaker 2: having a nuclear weapon. That's when we attacked, when they
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  Speaker 2: hit 60% and climbing. That meant only two weeks till
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  Speaker 2: they had a nuclear weapon. So that's what they did,
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  Speaker 2: just lie and lie and lie.
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  Speaker 3: They came into surrounding territories and targeted our universities, our
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  Speaker 3: healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructures, all of
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  Speaker 3: it against international law.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's just terrible. Our old friend Mike Wallace would say,
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  Speaker 2: That story does not have the added benefit of being true,
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  Speaker 2: but quite a story. So he just went on and
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  Speaker 2: on and lying and lying. The U.S. representative got up
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  Speaker 2: and walked out in the middle of this.
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  Speaker 3: Those who are ill, innocent people, the poor, the least
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  Speaker 3: privileged in our society are the targets of these sanctions.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what the United States seeks to do.
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  Speaker 2: So he went on and on. Nobody was buying it.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, the president speaking, lashing out at Iran in
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  Speaker 2: his speech. And this is unheard of. Four times during
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  Speaker 2: the president's speech got applause from the U.N. General Assembly.
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  Speaker 2: Never happens. They actually burst out in applause four times
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  Speaker 2: during his speech. This guy, they just looked at him
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  Speaker 2: half asleep, all comatose listening to the speech. So he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if he's alive a week from now. President Xi,
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  Speaker 2: when he landed, as they say, the president was there
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  Speaker 2: to greet him. President Xi came down the stairs and
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  Speaker 2: they stood there. And there were a lot of military there,
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  Speaker 2: so they saluted the military. And then President Trump pulled
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  Speaker 2: this trick he pulled on Putin. Just as they're standing there,
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  Speaker 2: a military flyover, our most ferocious warplanes fly over, making
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievable amount of noise. F-16s, B-52s, stealth bombers, they
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  Speaker 2: just do a flyover right over their heads. It's quite
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  Speaker 2: an intimidating and frightening moment. Remember when it happened with
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  Speaker 2: Putin and he ducked? He didn't know what the hell
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  Speaker 2: was going on. Well, when they did it to Sheik
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  Speaker 2: He didn't flinch. He didn't bat an eye.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because they warned him. This trick only works once. The
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  Speaker 2: Chinese warned him that Trump might pull this stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: he was ready for it and just stood there frozen.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't move. Didn't flinch. Didn't even blink. That's pretty interesting. So, hey,
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  Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein. That was rough. That was rough. Apparently he
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  Speaker 2: was going to get sentenced yesterday in another rape case.
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  Speaker 2: Which rape was this?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We can't keep track of all of them. But apparently
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  Speaker 2: he begged for mercy in the courtroom. He groveled for mercy,
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  Speaker 2: it says, during his sentencing. Begging for mercy. The prosecutor
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  Speaker 2: would hear none of it. The judge would hear none
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  Speaker 2: of it. And apparently they found a little scheme where
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  Speaker 2: he paid a podcaster $ 1. 75 million, almost $ 2 million, to
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  Speaker 2: instill fear in his victims. Weinstein looked decrepit. He's only 74,
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  Speaker 2: but he looked 94. He had just remained frozen as
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  Speaker 2: they sentenced him to 15 years behind bars. He's already
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  Speaker 2: behind bars for years, but the judge really went after him,
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  Speaker 2: calling him a sexual predator, took advantage of his insatiable
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  Speaker 2: appetite for sexual dominance. I have no remorse for, oh,
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  Speaker 2: Weinstein said, I have no remorse for Miriam Haley who
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  Speaker 2: was rolled into court in a wheelchair. I guess Weinstein
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  Speaker 2: came in in a wheelchair, but he had no remorse
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  Speaker 2: for the victims. Turned out he had hired private investigators
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  Speaker 2: to track her after she came forward to look for
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  Speaker 2: dirt on her. Well, that's not unusual. You hire any
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  Speaker 2: top criminal lawyer, first thing they do is put a
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  Speaker 2: lot of private eyes on the case, investigate the accuser,
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  Speaker 2: see if they can find any dirt to discredit her.
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  Speaker 2: That's not nice, but that happens in every major criminal case.
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  Speaker 2: But the judge really went after him. Alvin Bragg, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he was a press conference, how glad he was to
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  Speaker 2: put this guy, you know, nobody said to him, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time you put anybody in jail.
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  Speaker 2: How come you don't put criminals in jail? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this guy's a bad guy, Harvey Weinstein, but why don't
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  Speaker 2: you put some other criminals in jail? He's so busy
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  Speaker 2: letting everybody out. Remember, he wrote that memo the first
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  Speaker 2: day in office, we will not seek carceral sentences. In
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  Speaker 2: other words, don't put anybody in jail. Don't guy, at
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  Speaker 2: least this guy he puts in jail, but it's the
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  Speaker 2: only case. Gloria Allred, remember her from 20 years ago?
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  Speaker 2: 30 years ago, remember her? Gloria Allred, tabloid attorney. There
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  Speaker 2: she was all over this thing.
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  Speaker 5: He says, although you no longer pose a physical threat,
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  Speaker 5: you are a sexual predator. So I think that's among
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  Speaker 5: the most important things that the judge said.
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  Speaker 2: How much quieter slowed down that Laurie Allred. Remember, she
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  Speaker 2: used to be yelling and screaming all the time. Well,
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  Speaker 2: so I knew Harvey Weinstein. He was an aggravating guy
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  Speaker 2: to be around. I mean, just you'd run into this guy.
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  Speaker 2: You'd see him at a party or something. You start
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  Speaker 2: talking to him. Next thing he's screaming at you about
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  Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton is great. I mean, I always tell people,
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  Speaker 2: don't talk about politics. And I would never talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: He'd bring it up, start yelling at me about how
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  Speaker 2: great the Clintons were. Hey, by the way, I saw
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  Speaker 2: Bill Clinton yesterday. He didn't look so good. Very, very frail.
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  Speaker 2: Walking very slow with some guys helping him. It didn't
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  Speaker 2: look good. Now, the reason he's here, anytime they have
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  Speaker 2: this UN week, the Clintons run their Clinton Global Initiative
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  Speaker 2: at the New York Hilton. And they charge... starstruck donors,
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  Speaker 2: a fortune to come to this. It's basically a money-making
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  Speaker 2: operation for the Clintons. They take in millions with this
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  Speaker 2: Clinton Global Initiative, and they claim that they're doing humanitarian
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  Speaker 2: work all over the world. But if you dig into
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  Speaker 2: the finances and look through their tax forms, most of
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  Speaker 2: the money does not get to this humanitarian work. It's
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  Speaker 2: a way to make a lot of money. Now, they
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  Speaker 2: need celebrities. There are notables. Because these big, big money
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  Speaker 2: donors are more starstruck than anybody. You can get them
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  Speaker 2: to pay half a million to come to your thing.
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  Speaker 2: If they can take pictures with famous people. But I
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  Speaker 2: think they're having trouble getting famous people or big notable
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  Speaker 2: political figures to this event anymore. Because the big speaker
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  Speaker 2: yesterday was Prince Harry. They flew in Prince Harry. Or
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  Speaker 2: whatever he is. I don't know if he's even a
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  Speaker 2: prince anymore. He's a guy with nothing to do. Prince Harry.
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  Speaker 2: Prince Harry. Managed to fit this into his busy schedule
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  Speaker 2: and come over here. And there he was, made a
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  Speaker 2: little speech, took pictures with everybody. I'm sure they paid
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  Speaker 2: him a nice bit of money to come do that. So, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know who wants to run 2028? Well, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he's capable of running. He wants to walk, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It's Chris Christie. Yeah, that big fat slob is back.
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  Speaker 2: He's back. 2028?
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  Speaker 6: 2028?
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  Speaker 2: Boy, this is a dumb time to run. This is
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  Speaker 2: the one time the Republicans have a hell of a bench.
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  Speaker 2: They got J.D. Vance. They got Marco Rubio. They got
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  Speaker 2: Scott Besant. They got a big bench. This is a
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  Speaker 2: tough field to run against, especially if you're a New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey governor who left in disgrace, who hasn't worked in
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  Speaker 2: 10 years or whatever. It's kind of a tough, this
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  Speaker 2: will be tough. But there's Chris Christie, and he's pretty
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  Speaker 2: open about wanting to run.
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  Speaker 7: Am I looking at it? Look, anybody who comes up
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  Speaker 7: here Anybody who comes up here and has ever run
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  Speaker 7: for president and not won and told you they're not
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  Speaker 7: looking at it again is lying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there he was in New Hampshire. Now, a guy
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  Speaker 2: like Chris Christie, Mr. New Jersey, never goes to New
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  Speaker 2: Hampshire unless he's running. It's not a type of place
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  Speaker 2: he would go. Chris Christie's not going there for a vacation.
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  Speaker 2: So he's there. He's running. I love this state. I
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  Speaker 2: love the people here.
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  Speaker 7: And if I decide to run.
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  Speaker 2: This will be a place where I'll be spending a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time. Okay. Definitely, absolutely no chance of anything. Now,
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  Speaker 2: why is he doing this? He knows he has no chance.
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  Speaker 2: Why is he doing this? I think he's looking for
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  Speaker 2: a job. I don't think he's had one in a while.
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  Speaker 2: A guy like this, he could be on the board
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  Speaker 2: of big companies, get paid a lot of money. He
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  Speaker 2: could put you on the masthead of a law firm,
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  Speaker 2: pay a lot of money to look important for the
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  Speaker 2: law firm and bring in clients, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So if you look like you might be a president
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  Speaker 2: or you might be a top presidential contender, that can
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  Speaker 2: get you some work in corporate America where the real
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  Speaker 2: money is. So that might be what this is all about.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe his TV contract is up and he needs
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  Speaker 2: to get renewed. Thought he'd have a hell of a
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  Speaker 2: TV career. He really doesn't. He's on that ABC Sunday
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  Speaker 2: show once or twice a month. They put him on
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  Speaker 2: the panel on that ABC Sunday show. It's not a
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  Speaker 2: big thing anymore. Those Sunday shows is like $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 2: 1.3 million viewers, that's it. And they don't pay a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money to be on the panel once or
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  Speaker 2: twice a month. So he's probably looking for more of
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  Speaker 2: a TV career. It's one reason. It's like that awful
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  Speaker 2: Nikki Haley. That's why she would run. Just looking to
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  Speaker 2: get on corporate boards or get a corporate job or
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  Speaker 2: a TV job. So I think that's what he's really
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  Speaker 2: up to. Hey, the very sad story of Sully Sullenberger,
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  Speaker 2: the unbelievably skilled pilot who landed that plane in the
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  Speaker 2: Hudson River. Remember that landing in the Hudson River so
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  Speaker 2: many years ago? Bird strike. Took out both engines. There
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  Speaker 2: he is, up over New York City in a big
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  Speaker 2: jet plane with both engines out. No power, no engines.
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  Speaker 2: And what do you do? Now, luckily, this guy, like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pilots, had been a military pilot in Vietnam.
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  Speaker 2: So those are usually very skilled guys. And this is
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  Speaker 2: the luckiest thing ever. He had also trained As a
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  Speaker 2: glider pilot, he was an expert in flying gliders, which
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  Speaker 2: means he knew how to fly, knows how to fly
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  Speaker 2: without engines. Because when he had to do that landing,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, he had to know where to land.
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  Speaker 2: And he knew the Hudson River would be the place.
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  Speaker 2: And they kept telling him, go north of the George
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  Speaker 2: Washington Bridge because there's more room there. But he knew
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  Speaker 2: to go south because south of the bridge is New
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  Speaker 2: York City and in the middle of everything. And he
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  Speaker 2: knew the plane might not stay afloat that long once
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  Speaker 2: it hit the water. And you wanted to be wherever
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  Speaker 2: you were closest to the rescue boats, NYPD rescue boats,
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey rescue boats. He knew if he landed south
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  Speaker 2: of the George Washington Bridge, there'd be a ton of
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  Speaker 2: boats there in a second to rescue everybody. And he
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  Speaker 2: was right. And it's not easy to land a plane
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  Speaker 2: with no power and no engines. You got to keep
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  Speaker 2: the wings exactly level in the right way. so that
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  Speaker 2: when you hit, you don't smash the plane. And he
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  Speaker 2: knew how to do it. Now he has Alzheimer's. He's
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  Speaker 2: been diagnosed. He's talking about it openly.
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  Speaker 4: An early diagnosis is so critically important. If you have doubts,
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  Speaker 4: get tested. Because the sooner you act, the more options
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  Speaker 4: there are, the better the outcome is likely to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great hero, very sad story.
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  Speaker 4: One of the first things I noticed was it was
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  Speaker 4: harder and harder to remember people's names, even people we knew.
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  Speaker 4: And that's still an issue. Just forgetting things that I
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  Speaker 4: normally wouldn't or repeating myself, not realizing I just said
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  Speaker 4: that an hour ago. And then having to look at
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  Speaker 4: my calendar every day to keep track of all the
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  Speaker 4: events that I have. We felt all those emotions and
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  Speaker 4: the shock, the anger, why me? We're not by any
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  Speaker 4: means alone. We're part of this community who are trying
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  Speaker 4: to make the best of a bad situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the big lesson there, get tested. Very important.
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  Speaker 2: Get tested. Joe Biden, you listening? Get tested. Get tested. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we got a lot to get to. Are the phones fixed? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the phones are fixed. We can actually take phone calls later.
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  Speaker 2: They were out all day yesterday. It wasn't our fault.
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  Speaker 2: Turns out it was an AT & T outage affecting
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  Speaker 2: many buildings. But we'll get to that. We'll get back
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  Speaker 2: to UN week. I'll tell you when it's all going
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  Speaker 2: to be over. We'll get to Blakeman and Hochul and
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  Speaker 2: a lot more coming up. Mark Simone here three hours
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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's this new study out about affordability. What's the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: most affordable cities and all that sort of stuff? Most
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: affordable places to live? Guess who gets crushed in this,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: who comes in just about last? 137th place, Manhattan. Queens, 147. Brooklyn, 148. Yeah,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: New York City in this thing gets crushed as totally unaffordable.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: You have to realize it's a great compliment to New York.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It means it costs a fortune to live here. that
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the rents are a fortune, to buy an apartment is
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a fortune. Why is that? Because everybody's here. You can't,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: you can always tell when an area is not doing well,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the prices plunge. If there's a town where nobody wants
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: to live, the house that was a million, all of
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: a sudden it's 400,000. That's why certain places, if you
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: went to Greenwich, Connecticut, or if you went to Locust
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Valley in Long Island, It's a fortune for us. It's
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: a lot of money because everybody wants to live there. Meantime,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: if you go to a lesser rundown area, it doesn't
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: cost that much. So the fact we have an affordability
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: problem here, it's terrible, but it means you're doing very, very,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: very well. And that's why some states, they have no
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: state income tax. They need to do that to get
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: people there. You know, you got to lower the prices
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: to get people in. So some states have to have
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: no state income tax to attract people. But now, according
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: to this same study, you get more for your money.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: It's not in terms of square footage, but in terms
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: of amenities of a city. So New York ranks like
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: number three in the country as far as amenities. In
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: other words, the best transit system, green space, that sort
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: of stuff, parks, things to do. So we rank extremely
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: high on that. Yeah, we're considered the best public transit.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I know it's filthy and dangerous down there in some
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: of those subways, but what they mean is you could
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: go anywhere on the subway. It's not like Boston where
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: you can only go like five places on the subway.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You can get anywhere and everywhere in the city on
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the subway. Hey, the TSA is getting these new scanning machines,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: these new security scanners. Super high tech. They're even better.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: They're unbelievable. You know, the thing where you put your bag,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: your carry-on bag, and they put it through the scanning. Well,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the only problem is it's like an inch narrower. So
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: everybody's carry-on bag, you know, there's a certain size for carry-on.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: It used to be a certain size. And then like
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: 20 years ago, they made it a little smaller. So
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: if you have a carry-on from 30 years ago, you
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: can't carry it on anymore. The current carry-on size, I
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: forget exactly what it is, but these new scanners are
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: like one inch smaller. So a lot of carry-ons aren't fitting,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: which means you got to go back to the counter
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: and check your bag. It's a really annoying thing to
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: have happen. So all they suggest is call ahead or
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: look up exactly what the carry-on limit is for that
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: particular airline, because not every airport will have these These
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: brand new scanners. But just check and see if they do.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Because you could have a big problem with that. CNN,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: they're in absolute panic over there. Over the new ownership.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And the new ownership is talking about bringing in somebody
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: that's really got them freaked out. We'll get to that
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: coming up in a little while. Bernie Sanders has unveiled
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: his bill. It's a bill to ban AI or look
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: at this. Even Bernie's now calling it superintelligence. That's the
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Trump name, superintelligence. Bernie Sanders has a bill to pause AI.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: It's very dangerous. It could wipe us all out. This
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: bill would pause it. Now, this is Bernie Sanders who
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: doesn't even know how to work his phone, who can't
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: turn on his computer, doesn't know anything about this. He
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: still has a VCR blinking 12. He doesn't even know
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: how to fix that. This guy doesn't know anything about
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: anything tech. But he smells money and votes and donations
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and whatever he smells here. And he's going to ban superintelligence.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: He's got one other person to join in on this.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: this stupid bill. Nobody's banning super intelligence or, or AI. Uh,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you know, and the other thing is if you made it,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: first of all, if we stopped, if it's really that
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: dangerous that it could wipe out the whole world, why
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: would we want to stop and let China keep going
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and become dominant in it? Why would we want it
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: totally controlled by China? We have to, we're ahead of
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: China right now, way ahead of them in AI. And
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: we better stay that way if, uh, AI is that
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: dangerous and you can't make an agreement with China. It's like, uh,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: When you try to make these nuclear agreements, you can't
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: police it. They'll swear not to have more than this
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: number of nuclear weapons. But then they do it anyway.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: And with AI, it would be even harder to know
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: what they're doing. So there's no way to make an
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: AI agreement for them to slow down. You'd never know
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: what they're actually doing. But we'll get back to this.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: We can take some calls later. The phones are back
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: and they're working. Mark Simone here. Three hours every day,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: 9 to noon. On 710WOR. Mark Simone.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR. Well, hey, this UN week has just been awful, disruptive,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: screwing up everybody in New York City. Not just the traffic,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: but pedestrians, too. All these road closures, sidewalk closures, street closures. Today,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Netanyahu speaks at the UN. That's a very big, big day.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: So that'll mean a lot of tie-ups, a lot of security.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: But then it'll start to ease up a little tomorrow.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And then they got this UN week next week, but
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: it's different. It won't be the world leaders. They'll be
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: leaving over the weekend. By Monday, most of them will
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: be gone. So you'll still have UN activity, but not
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the massive street closures and sidewalks closed. If you might
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: have been standing in the right spot where they got
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: all the barriers up and you can't cross the street.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: If you actually saw the presidential motorcade come by, it's
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: something to watch, almost ludicrous kind of. It's like literally
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: 50 motorcycles in a formation coming down the street. And
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: then after that, a bunch of big black SUVs with
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: all kinds of flashing lights. And then the presidential limousine,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: the beast. It's an incredible car, but it's not just
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: one beast, three of them. Three of them in a
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: row come by. I guess that's because that way you're
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: not sure exactly which one he's in. But if you look,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you can see which one he's in. And then followed
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: by a lot of black SUVs, followed by two ambulances,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: followed by cars with all kinds of weapons and Stinger
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: missiles on top of them. It's an amazing thing to watch.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: But we should be easing up a little tomorrow, which
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: is Friday, and then by Monday should be much, much better. Hey,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: let's take some calls. Let's go to jerry in delaware
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: jerry how you doing hey good morning mark yes jerry.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Hey yes yesterday i heard you talk about the new
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: yorkers moving to.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Delaware they're all moving to delaware.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah well they moved down here and they're not happy.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: All right now listen once they all get there you
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: can't keep talking like this you can't be calm and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to go how are you and you're
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: gonna have to talk faster and uh and shove and
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: push everybody. Can you handle that?
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Uh, I mean, it's nice, but, uh, they really been, uh,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: building houses like crazy here. Like these developments, 300, 500,000
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: or 300 homes, 500 homes. Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: So in case anybody doesn't know Delaware, it's like the
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: number one place seniors are moving to from New York.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: It's like, What is it? You have low taxes there
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: or no taxes, no state tax?
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like no sales tax. On some things, there's
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: like your car and stuff, you have tax on that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: But the problem is they put these gigantic developments in,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: and the east-west roads here.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Are only two lanes. Oh, yeah, see, that's the other thing.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: They do that in Austin, Texas, right over there in
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. They built a million skyscrapers along the water.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: But all they got is River Road. They forgot to
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: add some roads. So you got that problem, too.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: So, I mean, we moved down here from Jersey in 2011. Yeah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: But we're not used to traffic. And a New Yorker
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: should be used to traffic.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: What made you pick Delaware? What made you pick Delaware?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Just because it was cheaper in Delaware, easier?
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we were retiring.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: And what is there to do in Delaware?
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: You got the beaches.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: You got golf. Okay, that's the summer. What do you
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: do in the winter there?
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Well, actually, I play golf all winter pretty much. As
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: long as it's 30 degrees, I'll play.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, look where I'm sitting right now. Right now.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Look where I'm sitting. It's like 200 feet away. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: got Carnegie Hall. Right over there, I got the greatest
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: shopping in the world. There's Bergdorf. There's this. There's that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Right over that way, there's Broadway. Surrounding us are hundreds
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: of the hottest restaurants. What do you do in Delaware?
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is a travel. You've got to go north.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: How far is Philadelphia from here? It's about a two-hour ride.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: That's not so close.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: We're down in Lewis. Sorry you jumped to Cape May.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: That's some of our stuff. I'm glad you moved to Delaware.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I hate to break it to you. You sound like
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: a beaten man. You sound totally defeated by Delaware. Now we're...
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: We're thinking of moving south to North.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: Carolina or South Carolina.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for calling. Good call, Jerry. See, I'm
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: just telling you, that's what happens when you leave New York.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I bet you I talked to this guy 10 years
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: ago in New Jersey. He'd call up and go, hey,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: how are you? Move to Delaware. Hello. It wears you down.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Same thing with Florida. I know guys that moved to Florida.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: They were like media guys here in New York. You
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: could call them up and tell them a million things.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: They go, okay, yeah, right. Okay, I'm going to write them.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Now you call him in Florida. You tell him one thing.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: What did you say? You slow down when you leave
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: New York. Let's go to Mike in Florida. He's an exception.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Mike in Florida, how are you doing?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. You're absolutely right about slowing down. If
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I say... If I talk to somebody and I put
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: out more than two thoughts to them, they're completely baffled
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and confused.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: It's incredible.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: There's another media guy, big media guy. I don't want
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: to mention any names, but I used to watch this
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: guy cross the street. He'd go in and out of
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the cars. He'd walk right over the car. He'd boom, boom,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and cross it. Last time he visited, he couldn't cross
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the street. He goes, oh, oh, oh, all these cars.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: He was afraid of them.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I still walk that way down here,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and I walk after dinner every night. I walk through
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a mall, a shopping center, out to a shopping center.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And I walk through the parking lot, and people will
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: come to a stop and not move until I've gone
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: into a store or something. They're terrified to see. And
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I said, look, I dodged cabs in Manhattan for 50 years.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: You're not going to hit me. Believe me. You're not
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: going to get me. I promise you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: The way they drive down there, if they hit you,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't hurt. They drive like two miles an hour.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't hurt anyway.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And then I could convince them that they didn't
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: actually hit me. So it was even better. But, you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you talked about the affordability. When I moved into Manhattan
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: more than 50, almost 50 years ago, I was living
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: in a studio apartment on 88th Street. I was paying
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: $ 350 a month. I couldn't afford it. Everything was, you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: everything was still relatively expensive. I mean, if you go,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and if you go back to, well, You watch.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: An old movie. Wait a minute. $ 350, 000 back then, that's
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the equivalent of $ 3, 500, 000 now.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Right. Exactly. Exactly. But I wasn't making what they're making
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: now either. If I was making $ 25, 000 a year, it
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: would be a lot. I couldn't afford anything. Pizza was
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: only $ 0. 50 a slice, but it's not like I could
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: eat out every night. It's expensive down here in Florida,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: by the way, other than housing. It's very expensive to live.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: You know, food is expensive. Drinks are expensive.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: But in those days, back then, way back down on
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the Upper East Side, it was quite the swinging place.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: It was all singles.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: It was great.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: A lot of action there. Remember all those bars and
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: all those places?
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: A million bars on 2nd and 3rd Avenue.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: It was nothing but.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: The hottest women, nothing but action. Now you go to
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: those neighborhoods, they're all 80. How about you? It turns
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: out it's the same exact women. They never moved.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And they're all sitting in the bar with their dogs now.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they all got a dog.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: But, well, anyway, you're happy you moved to Florida, aren't you?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I'll be back in Manhattan before I die. You see?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I told you, you'll all be back, every one of
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: you in Florida. You'll be back.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Look, you know, it's just, everything was convenient. When I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: left Manhattan, everything was a block away. The supermarket. you know, everything,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: you know, the bagel shop, the pizza place. My doctor
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: was that, you know, the subway was a block away
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: on 86th street. It was great. I didn't have to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: hear you have to get in the car and schlep
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: everywhere you go.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And their life now is driving and circling around the mall,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: looking for a parking space. That's your life.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: That's what it's like. That's what it is.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling Mike. I don't mean to put down Florida.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I know every, I really have a lot of listeners
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: in Florida. Always writing me. Stop putting down for, I'm
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: just being realistic here. If you live in New York city,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Appreciate where you live.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: It's great.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, we got a lot coming up. I'm here three
• 32:28
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• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And then at noon, you got Buck Saxton and Clay Travis.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: They do a wonderful show every day at noon. Then
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: you got the most listened to radio show in America,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity. You got Jesse Kelly at six. You got
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: the very funny Jimmy Fela at nine o'clock. In fact,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: he'll be with us later in the show here. On 710WOR.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: More Mark. Mark Simone. Mr. New York.
• 32:54
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• 32:58
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR. Hey, it's only 55 degrees right now.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: 55.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: That's it. Well, we'll get to the fall and all
• 33:10
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