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

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone R. Well, Hey, a beautiful day to day.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be well, it's gonna be very hot ninety tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: ninety on Saturday, but bright sunshine. It's like summer. It
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  Speaker 1: changes on Sunday, gets a little cooler, and there there
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  Speaker 1: might be rain. We'll get to Scott Pelley in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of things going on. Todd blanche the acting
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  Speaker 1: attorney general. President Trump has nominated him to be the
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  Speaker 1: attorney general. They'll try to Democrats in Congress will try
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  Speaker 1: to stop him. They'll yell about Epstein and all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things. Yeah, and the other thing. If you're Democrat
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  Speaker 1: and you watch MSNBC or CNN, all they'll be telling
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  Speaker 1: you all day. I watched him do it this morning.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has nominated Todd his personal lawyer. This is
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  Speaker 1: a horrible, unheard of to nominate your personal lawyer to
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  Speaker 1: be the attorney general. Well, they're just lying to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's happened many times. Remember John Mitchell was the attorney general.
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  Speaker 1: He had been Nixon's personal lawyer. Ed Meese was the
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  Speaker 1: attorney general under Reagan. He had been Reagan's personal It
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  Speaker 1: happens a lot. It's not unusual. Don't listen to these people. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy appointed his brother attorney general, who'd not
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  Speaker 1: only been his personal lawyer, he'd been his campaign manager.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been there. It's perfectly normal. Happens all the time. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this guy that I always forget his name, the guy
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  Speaker 1: that Trump has nominated for DNI Director of National Intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be qualified. Everybody's got problems with this guy.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to remember he has not nominated him
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  Speaker 1: to be the Director of National Intelligence, Bill Poltz. He
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  Speaker 1: has thrown him in there as the acting DNI, acting.
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  Speaker 1: He is not nominating him for the job. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: happened once before, and I can't remember the names, but
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago, in the first Trump term, he
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  Speaker 1: just threw somebody in there is acting for you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months until he found who he wanted,
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  Speaker 1: which was John Ratcliffe. And Ratcliffe was a great choice.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll see the same thing here. This guy's just temporary.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to be the nominee. Yeah. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to mention Ukraine. Good for them, Ukraine is but
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  Speaker 1: you know when Russia invaded Ukraine, you figured, ouh, that's
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  Speaker 1: it for Ukraine now being wiped out in two months,
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  Speaker 1: Well it's about six years later and they're doing just fine.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, if you had to score this on points,
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine wins at this point. Now they've gotten really good.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of just coming over here crying and begging for
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  Speaker 1: our weapons, they've gotten really good at making their own weapons.
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  Speaker 1: They've been using drones more than ever. And they not
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  Speaker 1: only used drones, they figured out how to make drones.
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  Speaker 1: They built massive drone factories in the Ukrain. They're making
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  Speaker 1: all their own drones. They've become so effective with drones.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, when it comes to going to war in
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  Speaker 1: Iran or something, we might be able to learn something
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  Speaker 1: from Ukraine about what they've been doing drone wise. Now
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  Speaker 1: Putin is about to go to his big economic forum.
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  Speaker 1: It's his version of Davos. It's this very ritzy annual
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  Speaker 1: economic forum. They hold it in Saint Petersburg. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg International and Economic Forum. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: held this week. Well, right before it opens, Ukraine strikes
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  Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg with the drones. They got a big fuel
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  Speaker 1: export depot there, big fuel hub, very important to Putin.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine wiped it out in a drone blitz at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the week. Just wiped out that fuel hub
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  Speaker 1: right before he's about to start this economic forum. Good
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  Speaker 1: for Ukraine. Ukraine blew it all up. In fact, if
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  Speaker 1: you go to the Economic Forum, you'll notice thick black
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  Speaker 1: smoke billowing into the sky. Long range drones slammed into
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  Speaker 1: that oil terminal and completely wiped it out. Pretty amazing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about oh, one more thing, John Bolton. You
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  Speaker 1: remember John Bolton got indicted. He had stolen classified documents.
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  Speaker 1: They found out he had lots of classified documents, He
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  Speaker 1: had absolutely no authorization to take them, and he was indicted.
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  Speaker 1: A while back, he was arrested, he was indicted, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody said, well, so this is a frame job. It's
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  Speaker 1: Trump out to get people. He's frame Well not only
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  Speaker 1: was he not framing him. Yesterday, Bolton pled guilty. He
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  Speaker 1: pled guilty. They made a deal. He won't go to prison,
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  Speaker 1: he'll pay a two million dollar fine, but he's guilty.
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  Speaker 1: He admitted to being guilty. He pled guilty. He was guilty.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Bolton, he's that guy with the big Walrus mustard.
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  Speaker 1: He's a guy who for a thousand years was screaming,
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  Speaker 1: we have to go blow up Iran. We have to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he was a real hawk, a real war guy,
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  Speaker 1: real warhawk. We have to blow up a ran, blow
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  Speaker 1: up a in Now. Trump did hire him in the
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  Speaker 1: first term. But Trump can't stand to me either and
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  Speaker 1: knows he's a nutjob. But Trump hired him just to
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  Speaker 1: be in the pictures in the room to scare Iran
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  Speaker 1: in other countries because they were afraid of Bolton because
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  Speaker 1: he was such a hawk and he was ready to
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  Speaker 1: blow him all up. So Trump didn't want have to
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  Speaker 1: do that back then. So he's hired Bolton to make
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  Speaker 1: it look like there's something bad could happen, just to
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  Speaker 1: intimidate them. He had Bolton sitting there. But Bolton's a bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad guy, and he did steal classified documents, as did
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden. He was caught with seven thousand stolen classified
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  Speaker 1: documents in his house when he took them he was
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  Speaker 1: a senator, no authority to take them. The others he
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  Speaker 1: took when he was vice president and his vice presid
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  Speaker 1: you have no authority to take them. Trump, who did
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  Speaker 1: not have classified documents in Marlago, They really found nothing.
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  Speaker 1: They found thirty five sort of classified if you put
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  Speaker 1: them in a folder. It's one inch of one box
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  Speaker 1: that was even considered classified documents. But they're not classified
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  Speaker 1: because Trump, as president, has the authority to take the documents.
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  Speaker 1: He's the one that's classifying them. He's the President's up
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  Speaker 1: to him what's classified, and he could unclassify anything at
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  Speaker 1: any time. So if that had gone to a real court,
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  Speaker 1: all of that would have come out. Same thing happened
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  Speaker 1: to Bill Clinton when he was caught with classified documents.
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  Speaker 1: It went into a real court and he pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the president, and I unclassified them. He has every
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  Speaker 1: right to do that, and Clinton won the case in court,
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  Speaker 1: as Trump would have. So Hey, CBS, Scott Pelley, despite
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  Speaker 1: his sanctimonious nonsense, was a fake news guy. He ran
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  Speaker 1: lots and lots and lots of fake news, and CBS,
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately sixty Minutes went all to hell about ten years
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  Speaker 1: ago and became I guess because of Trump. They went
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  Speaker 1: crazy because of Trump, and they became a fake news
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  Speaker 1: organization and they were running lots of fake news. It
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  Speaker 1: was really really ugly fake news. They made up that
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  Speaker 1: whole fake Ron Desanta scandal that didn't exist. He could
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  Speaker 1: have explained it in one second. They wouldn't let him
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  Speaker 1: on the air to explain it. They wouldn't include him
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  Speaker 1: in the piece. They lied about Hunter Biden's laptop laptop,
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  Speaker 1: they lied about Trump and the wire tap. They said
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't wire tapped in Trump Tower. Of course he was,
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  Speaker 1: and it was proven. Remember they doctored up the Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris interview right before the election. When asked about Israel,
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't answer and she mumbled out some ridiculous word
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  Speaker 1: solid answer. Well, they cut it out and they stuck
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  Speaker 1: in a good answer that they found from some other
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  Speaker 1: interview and for another question. So they doctored up the interview.
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  Speaker 1: They doctored up interviews Biden to make him look coherent.
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  Speaker 1: You can see it when you watch it as he's talking,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you can see there's edits because
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  Speaker 1: he lost his place and didn't know what he was saying.
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  Speaker 1: They cut all that out. So it's just total fake news. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when did CBS go really bad? It was really Dan
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  Speaker 1: Rather If you go back to the great Kronkite era,
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  Speaker 1: they were always a kind of left wing guys working.
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  Speaker 1: They were always Democrats and sometimes there was a little slant.
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  Speaker 1: I mean sometimes they just put in a certain adjective
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  Speaker 1: or something. But when Rather came in, it was total corruption.
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  Speaker 1: They went total fake news. Remember it began when Bush senior,
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  Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush was running for reelection and it
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  Speaker 1: was getting close to the election and he and Clinton, well,
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  Speaker 1: it was very close, so they were trying to hurt Bush.
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  Speaker 1: So Rather decided they would open the Evening News every
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  Speaker 1: night with a special feature called Economy in Crisis and
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  Speaker 1: this dramatic music. Every night they'd opened the CBS Evening
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  Speaker 1: News are rusial feature Economy in Crisis. It wasn't in crisis,
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  Speaker 1: but they did this every night, five nights a week.
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  Speaker 1: Every broadcast they'd give you the headlines, the thing and
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  Speaker 1: also coming up our special feature Economy in Crisis. All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the election happens, Clinton wins. That night,
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  Speaker 1: the features gone, there's no Economy in crisis. They dropped
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  Speaker 1: it that night and it was just total fake news.
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  Speaker 1: And you remember the famous confrontation. George HW. Bush goes
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  Speaker 1: live on the CBS Evening News with Rather and Rather
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  Speaker 1: it's just mister fake news trying to punch and beat
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  Speaker 1: up Bush. Although Bush fought back in fact, Bush fought
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  Speaker 1: back so strongly that a lot of people think that's
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  Speaker 1: what turned it for him. That was the first time
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  Speaker 1: he ran and helped get him elected. But it was
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  Speaker 1: rather that changed everything. You could do whatever you want,
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  Speaker 1: you could make up stuff, you could lie. It was
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  Speaker 1: rather that push that whole fake story that George W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush had gone a wall, which he did no truth
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  Speaker 1: to that, and to prove it he used a forged
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  Speaker 1: fake document, total fake document. He got caught with a fake,
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  Speaker 1: forged document from supposedly from some superior officer about Bush
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  Speaker 1: going a wall, and he actually ran this work got
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  Speaker 1: him fired. When they investigated, they realized he faked this document.
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  Speaker 1: And when he got caught, he found some secretary or
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  Speaker 1: something from that National Guard office to say, well, it
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  Speaker 1: may have been fake, but I think that's what he
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  Speaker 1: would have written. And he put her on the air.
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  Speaker 1: He used that as evidence, but he wouldn't put on
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  Speaker 1: the air the guy's wife. The guy's wife had said
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  Speaker 1: to them, I know him better than anybody. He loved
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  Speaker 1: George W. Bush. He was very impressed with him. He
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  Speaker 1: never went a wall. In fact, he said, George W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush is one of the best guys. He's got in
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  Speaker 1: the guard one of the best pilots he's ever had.
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  Speaker 1: Rather refused to put that on the air. That's when
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  Speaker 1: it changed, and Rather began that era of total fake news.
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  Speaker 1: Recruited some of the worst people in the world. He
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  Speaker 1: was running pretty much running the CBS News and that
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  Speaker 1: leads to sixty Minutes going corrupt and Scott Pelly and
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  Speaker 1: expect Leslie Stall to be gone pretty soon. Hey, she's
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  Speaker 1: eighty five. It's enough eighty five years old. Expect her
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  Speaker 1: to be gone at some point. So I read to
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  Speaker 1: the Pelly statement. Here Variety, you know, a Variety, the
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  Speaker 1: show business magazine, very slanted, left wing. Here's the headline,
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  Speaker 1: CBS News gutted sixty minutes on air. Team, Can the
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  Speaker 1: show really go on? Yeah, it'll be on this Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: it beyond every Sundays, gonna be just what kind of
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  Speaker 1: really go on? Of course it can go on. You
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  Speaker 1: can do it without fake news. It is possible. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's in the media world, broadcasting guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: not in the news business, in the entertainment. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say who it is, friend of mine. This
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  Speaker 1: is on his Facebook, he writes, two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: years of a free press was nice. But with Ellis
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  Speaker 1: and his owner, the party's over. Yeah, we have no
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  Speaker 1: more free press. These people believe this stuff. They get
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  Speaker 1: themselves all worked up. He writes. It was another backroom
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  Speaker 1: deal among the cabal of billionaires, and those with their
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  Speaker 1: eyes on the ball could see it playing out, along
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  Speaker 1: with the Colbert thing, the continuing attacks against Disney, the
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  Speaker 1: attempt to silence Kimmel. Next stop unless somebody jumps in,
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  Speaker 1: Allison will be owning Warner Brothers and CNN. And as
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  Speaker 1: for you and the Maga crowd, assuming you can assimilate
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  Speaker 1: all these words, they convince themselves that anybody for Trump
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  Speaker 1: is uneducated, dumb, can't talk, can't think. Before you post
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  Speaker 1: an opinion, you consider the facts that over half a century,
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  Speaker 1: sixty minutes was the top rated show of all programs
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  Speaker 1: on TV. Yeah that's true. Yeah, sixty million, eighty million
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  Speaker 1: people will watch it. Well, now it's four million, so
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit of a difference. So you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you've got sixty million people watching, you can charge this
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  Speaker 1: much for the commercials. When you got four million, you
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  Speaker 1: can charge eh, maybe this much. That's it. And the
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  Speaker 1: ratings are down ninety percent. I don't know anything anywhere
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  Speaker 1: and broadcasting where you could have your ratings down ninety
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  Speaker 1: percent over ten years and not have management make some changes.
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  Speaker 1: I have never heard of that in the history of broadcasting.
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  Speaker 1: So you realize how nobody in the world has ever
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  Speaker 1: taken themselves as seriously as Scott Pelly. Boy does he
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  Speaker 1: take himself seriously? And remember that Jim Acosta, who they
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  Speaker 1: threw the hell out of CNN, talk about taking yourself seriously.
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  Speaker 2: And make no mistake, they don't care about the ratings.
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  Speaker 2: They don't care about making money. This is an ideological
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  Speaker 2: and partisan political project on the part of the Ellisons,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump friendly Ellisons who now control Paramount, who, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, are trying to take control of WBD and
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  Speaker 2: CNN and turn it into this giant media conglomerate that
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  Speaker 2: will essentially act like a state media organization in support
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  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. First of all, as we said, the new owner,
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  Speaker 1: David Ellison is not a political guy. He's not a Republican,
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  Speaker 1: he's not anything. He's no interest in politics. His father's
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  Speaker 1: Larry Ellison. He is I don't know if he's a Republican,
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  Speaker 1: but he is friends with the president. But and Barry
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  Speaker 1: Weiss is a Democrat, not a Trump supporter. She's a Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: but a normal common sense Bill Clinton sort of a Democrat. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. Jimmy Faylor will be with
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  Speaker 1: us in a few minutes. We'll take some calls next.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten