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

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, hang on, it's just breaking. Uh, there are two
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  Speaker 2: ex-FBI officials. They're the ones accused of covering up the
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Biden laptop. Former senior bureau officials Nikki Flores and
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  Speaker 2: Bradley Benavides.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They've been indicted and they're being charged for lying to Congress.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Hunter laptop was covered up. You got
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  Speaker 2: all these sleazy, dirty swamp characters in the CIA and
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  Speaker 2: the FBI. And they were all busy trying to cover
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  Speaker 2: up that Hunter Biden laptop. You remember Clapper and Brennan,
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  Speaker 2: all those dirty, sleazy guys. Well, Here's two ex-FBI officials.
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  Speaker 2: They have been charged for lying to Congress, and that
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  Speaker 2: means there's more coming. Usually start down low, indict those guys,
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  Speaker 2: and then get them to turn on the people above them.
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  Speaker 2: So this is pretty interesting. They wouldn't have indicted them,
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  Speaker 2: this task force that was looking at all this corruption
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  Speaker 2: in the FBI. They wouldn't indict them if they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have the evidence. So They're indicted right now, charged with
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  Speaker 2: lying to Congress. Probably more charges coming, more people, but
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  Speaker 2: it was a terrible, terrible cover-up. The Hunter Biden laptop,
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  Speaker 2: so keep an eye on that. Hey, in Europe, a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of the major websites in Europe went dark. There
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  Speaker 2: was a problem with hacking. They were trying to protect
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  Speaker 2: the systems from hackers, and the hacking was so sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: and complicated the only thing they could do is shut
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  Speaker 2: these major websites down not to get too technical here
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  Speaker 2: but there's a vulnerability the PHP 2 shell whatever the
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  Speaker 2: hell that is and there was a way to hack
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  Speaker 2: into that but 70% of the websites using those websites Germany, France, Belgium, Finland,
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  Speaker 2: Netherlands they took their government websites offline they shut it
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  Speaker 2: all down To prevent the hacking was pretty serious stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're getting word this morning that in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 2: major health lab had to announce that there was hacking.
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  Speaker 2: They got hacked. All your personal data may have been
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  Speaker 2: retrieved by the hackers. And now it turns out it's Quest.
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  Speaker 2: You all know Quest when you get a blood test.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor gives you a blood test. It's sent out to
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  Speaker 2: the lab. And it's always, it's Quest or there's another
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  Speaker 2: one called LabCorp. But most of the time, it's Quest.
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  Speaker 2: You get the blood test. I just got a blood test.
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  Speaker 2: Came back fine, tested negative on everything. But the problem
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  Speaker 2: is when you get the blood test, the insurance usually
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  Speaker 2: pays it. You pay for the blood test. And then
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  Speaker 2: a month later, you get a bill from Quest or
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  Speaker 2: LabCorp for $ 9.
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  Speaker 1: 32.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell this is, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: just pay it. And then two months later, you get
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  Speaker 2: a bill from Quest or LabCorp, $ 11. 16. Now, what the
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  Speaker 2: hell do I... Why didn't you just bill me everything
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  Speaker 2: the first time? You could call them up, but you
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  Speaker 2: know you're going to be on hold talking to a
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  Speaker 2: recording for seven hours, so you just pay it. And
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  Speaker 2: then a couple months later, you get another bill from
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  Speaker 2: Quest or LabCorp for $ 4. 03. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: hell this is with these... These laboratories, these blood tests.
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  Speaker 2: But I have a feeling that's their main business. Just
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  Speaker 2: sending you extra bills, $ 3, $ 8, $ 12. But you do
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  Speaker 2: that a million times, you make a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great business for them. Let me check the
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  Speaker 2: price of oil. It was spiking up this morning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's still up.
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  Speaker 1: It's over $ 100 now.
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  Speaker 2: It's $ 102 a barrel. Big spike. It was down to $ 97.
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  Speaker 2: Big spike overnight. Now, the reason for that, the Houthis
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  Speaker 2: are on the attack. They've been hitting Saudi Arabia. They
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  Speaker 2: hit the airport. They hit a couple other things. But
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  Speaker 2: the rumor is, the word is, and even the Saudis
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  Speaker 2: are making noise that they're about to hit the Saudi
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  Speaker 2: oil facilities. And if they do that, that would affect
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  Speaker 2: the price of oil. So that's why the traders have
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  Speaker 2: spiked up the price of oil. It's $ 102 a barrel.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you keep hearing about the Republicans are going
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  Speaker 2: to lose, Trump is going to lose, they're going to lose,
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  Speaker 2: the price of oil, the price of gas, the price
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  Speaker 2: of oil. It's not good, but it's not the issue
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  Speaker 2: that the fake news is pretending it is. Not everybody
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  Speaker 2: in the world, and nobody's happy about oil going up,
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  Speaker 2: but not everybody in the world is voting on one issue. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a trucker or something, it's a big effect
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  Speaker 2: on your business. If you're just an average driver, it's
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  Speaker 2: an annoyance. It's not You're not necessarily going to change
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  Speaker 2: your vote over the price of gas at the pumps
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  Speaker 2: for a normal voter. Just because gasoline went up at
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  Speaker 2: the pump doesn't mean you're suddenly for men and women's sports, transgender,
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  Speaker 2: surgery for children, open borders. You're not going to vote
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  Speaker 2: for that just because the price of gas went up.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not the big factor they make it out
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  Speaker 2: to be. Hey, the good news, there's this El Nino story.
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  Speaker 2: affecting the weather all over the world. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be with us all winter, this El Nino system. It's bad.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad for a lot of places. The good news
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  Speaker 2: for the Northeast, it's not going to affect us except
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  Speaker 2: because of the El Nino, it will raise the temperature
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  Speaker 2: all winter. That means here in the Northeast, here in
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  Speaker 2: New York and the whole tri-state area, probably no snow
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  Speaker 2: all winter. Now, when you're in In El Nino, you
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  Speaker 2: do get a lot of precipitation, so there could be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of rain days, but there will be no
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  Speaker 2: snow or very, very little snow this winter. We had
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  Speaker 2: this El Nino thing a few years ago. Remember, there
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  Speaker 2: were a couple of winters where it never snowed once.
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  Speaker 2: That was an El Nino winter. So we got one
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  Speaker 2: of those coming up. That's the good news. President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to Florida this afternoon. He'll do a big
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  Speaker 2: rally in Fort Myers. Then he'll go to Palm Beach,
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  Speaker 2: sleep at Mar-a-Lago. Then tomorrow he'll go to Georgia for
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  Speaker 2: a big rally, sleep in Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago. And then
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  Speaker 2: he'll go to Michigan on Sunday for a big rally.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the schedule for the whole week.
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  Speaker 2: It's one state after another, just nonstop crisscrossing the United States. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: that Brad Lander, he's running for whatever the hell he is,
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  Speaker 2: control or The most annoying left-wing kook, liberal, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic.
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  Speaker 2: He's Jewish, but you can still be anti-Semitic and be Jewish.
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  Speaker 2: He's just an angry anti-Semite, left-wing, annoying guy. Goes over
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  Speaker 2: to Israel trying to get himself arrested. Puts out all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of statements, pictures. He was detained. Israel detained him. Detained, detained, detained.
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  Speaker 2: For about two minutes, he and his group went into
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  Speaker 2: a military zone. Israeli defense forces surrounded them, demanded to
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  Speaker 2: see identification, see who they were, and then let him go.
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  Speaker 2: In 12 seconds, he was detained. But, ooh, he's cashing
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  Speaker 2: in on this.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm angry about as an American Jew and a
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  Speaker 1: human being is the violence that is being done to Palestinians,
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  Speaker 1: an effort to push them off their land and out
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  Speaker 1: of their homes.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he's angry about as a Jew.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm angry about as an American Jew and a
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  Speaker 1: human being.
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  Speaker 2: As a human being. He's angry. He's angry. You can
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  Speaker 2: hear how angry he is. Well, first of all, would you?
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a new documentary. It's got the actual
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  Speaker 2: footage of the Hamas terrorists committing genocide on Israel that
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  Speaker 2: October 7th, where they literally sliced the throats of babies,
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  Speaker 2: where they raped women, where they just slaughtered and tortured.
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  Speaker 2: He's not angry about that. That didn't bother him. But
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  Speaker 2: Israel responds, he's angry. But he just goes on and
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  Speaker 2: on and on.
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  Speaker 1: This is part of an effort to ethnically cleanse them
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  Speaker 1: from their land by making it impossible to harvest their
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  Speaker 1: fields or drive on their roads or in their homes.
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  Speaker 2: This is your typical morning Joe trying to cleanse the land.
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  Speaker 2: Israel just wants peace. Stop committing holocausts against them. That's
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  Speaker 2: all they're asking for. So, hey, this is a fascinating story.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these driverless cars. A lot of people just
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  Speaker 2: don't trust it. The driverless car. You're sitting in the car.
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  Speaker 2: The car is driving itself. So a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: don't trust it. And then everybody else will tell you
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  Speaker 2: it's perfectly safe. It's safer than a human driver. This
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  Speaker 2: happens now and then. This week, a Tesla on a
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  Speaker 2: highway going 70 miles an hour, which is fine. Speed
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  Speaker 2: limit was probably 65, 70. A Tesla is on the
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  Speaker 2: highway driving. It hit and killed a 71-year-old pedestrian. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the 71-year-old pedestrian for some reason was trying to walk
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  Speaker 2: across the highway, which is a little crazy. But the
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  Speaker 2: victim was crossing Interstate 80. This is in California. The
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  Speaker 2: Tesla hit him. The driver was 26 years old. He
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  Speaker 2: was in the car. The car stopped and everything. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, it caused a lot of other collisions. But
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  Speaker 2: every other driver took off. The Tesla stayed. And the driver,
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  Speaker 2: who's 26, explained to the cops it's a driverless car.
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  Speaker 2: He had nothing to do with driving it. The Tesla
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  Speaker 2: has video. It records everything. It was horrifying footage of
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  Speaker 2: hitting the older guy, killing him. But the guy did
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  Speaker 2: walk directly into the Tesla's path. The video showed the
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  Speaker 2: Tesla's brakes being applied, but the vehicle wasn't able to
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  Speaker 2: stop in time. And it did steer to the left,
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  Speaker 2: trying to avoid the pedestrian. Despite the evasive action, the
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  Speaker 2: right front portion of the Tesla struck the individual hard.
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  Speaker 2: and then caused the man to be struck by another
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  Speaker 2: vehicle while lying in the street. So it looks like
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  Speaker 2: the Tesla knocked him down. He was on the ground hurt,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get up, and the other cars hit him. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other cars took off. Tesla's full system driving or
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  Speaker 2: whatever can steer, change lanes, navigate roads, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: fully autonomous. In a situation like that, they say the
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  Speaker 2: driver should remain alert, be ready to take control, but
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  Speaker 2: When you see it happening, by then it might be
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  Speaker 2: too late to do anything. Now, under California law, drivers
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  Speaker 2: remain responsible even for an automatic vehicle safely operating. Even
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  Speaker 2: when the automated driving is in, you're responsible legally. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that's going to mean for this driver.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still a little dangerous, obviously, these automatic driving cars.
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  Speaker 2: So Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense. And he's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a, the way he dresses is kind of weird.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got like an American flag tie and
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  Speaker 2: he's got this American flag pocket square. It looks a
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  Speaker 2: little cheesy. So I don't know if he has the
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  Speaker 2: best taste in the world. But Secretary of Defense, and
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  Speaker 2: he wants, if you look at the old pictures of
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  Speaker 2: General Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower, you know, commanded the Normandy invasion,
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  Speaker 2: World War II. General Eisenhower had a globe. And back
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  Speaker 2: in those days in the 50s, they had these big globes.
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  Speaker 2: They were huge. They were like enormous. They were like
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  Speaker 2: the size of a refrigerator and they were on a big,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful wooden stand. They weren't on a desk or anything.
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  Speaker 2: They had a floor stand. Enormous globes. You remember seeing
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  Speaker 2: those in old pictures from the 50s? Eisenhower had one
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  Speaker 2: in his office. So, Hegseth apparently was Big, big fan
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  Speaker 2: of this globe. He wanted it. It was being stored
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in the Pentagon. It was used by Eisenhower in
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  Speaker 2: World War II, which means it's an outdated globe. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: probably half the countries on it are different now. But
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  Speaker 2: Hegseth wanted it. He dispatched people in his office to
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  Speaker 2: go find the globe in the Pentagon and bring it
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  Speaker 2: to his office. It was a huge globe, like 30
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  Speaker 2: inches in diameter, big wooden stand. So these guys went
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  Speaker 2: down to move. They found it. They moved. Now, normally,
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  Speaker 2: historical items like that are supposed to be moved by
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  Speaker 2: a team of trained curators who know how to move
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  Speaker 2: valuable art. These are just a couple of guys from
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  Speaker 2: Hex's office. Well, they tried moving it, and they were
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  Speaker 2: bringing it, and they dropped it. At one point, they
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  Speaker 2: dropped it, and it smashed. One whole side of it,
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  Speaker 2: a whole part got cracked. And the fragile, it's a shell.
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  Speaker 2: The fragile shell cracked, and a big chunk is missing.
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  Speaker 2: near Antarctica, so they kind of destroyed it. The resulting
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  Speaker 2: gash appears to be several inches. Now, we're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be all upset. We're supposed to be mad at Hex
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  Speaker 2: and how dare the press watch the media go after
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  Speaker 2: them for this. The globe was in a backroom warehouse
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  Speaker 2: for how long? 65 years? Nobody was ever going to
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  Speaker 2: see this globe again, so don't worry about it so much. Hey,
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