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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is 710WOR, where the Mark Simone Show starts now.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Wednesday already. Big night for the Yankees. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that. We'll get to crazy, evil Jack Smith.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to Cornell. We'll get to Mamdani. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of Mamdani news. We'll get to AI. You know, everybody's
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  Speaker 2: afraid of AI. They want regulation. They want this and
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  Speaker 2: this with the president. Had quite a gathering yesterday, pretty
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  Speaker 2: impressive group. All the tech leaders, all the big tech
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  Speaker 2: CEOs were all there around one big conference table. He
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  Speaker 2: had Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and he had the
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  Speaker 2: chairman of Anthropic, chairman of Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Jeff Bezos.
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  Speaker 2: All these guys were there. You know how much brainpower?
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  Speaker 2: Forget the fact that there was probably a trillion dollars
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  Speaker 2: worth of wealth in that room and maybe more actually.
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  Speaker 2: But the average IQ in that room was like 180, 190.
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  Speaker 2: So they have come out with the answer what to
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  Speaker 2: do about AI. You don't want government regulation only because
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  Speaker 2: these 90-year-old congressmen, they have no idea what to do
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  Speaker 2: about AI. They don't even begin to understand how it works.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want Bernie Sanders to be running your AI
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: They have no clue. So they've come up with the answer. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: look what they've come up with. They're going to implement
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  Speaker 2: internal controls. Aha. Ooh, internal controls. Well, that's not all.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to implement an internal team. Ooh. And they're
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  Speaker 2: going to have monitoring. They're going to also have an
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  Speaker 2: independent external auditor. I don't know what this is going
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  Speaker 2: to do, but it sounds good. They are, ooh, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to designate a committee. Ooh, a committee, wow. Now
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  Speaker 2: that'll take care of things. The committee will, also all
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  Speaker 2: the companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices.
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  Speaker 2: Over time, it will, might make sense, might make sense
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  Speaker 2: to codify some of these steps into laws or regulations.
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  Speaker 2: You don't already have these laws about that. product liability
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  Speaker 2: and all that. So they're basically going to police themselves.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the truth is, if this AI, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure it is, is as powerful as everybody says, and
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  Speaker 2: it can take over everything and wipe us all out, well,
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  Speaker 2: then we had better be in control of it, not China.
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  Speaker 2: Nuclear weapons are nothing compared to this. So we better
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  Speaker 2: be the leader in this. And if we slow down
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  Speaker 2: or stop, China will get ahead of us and control AI.
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  Speaker 2: They are already recruiting more AI engineers than we are, but, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to stay ahead on this. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing. Uh, president Trump, uh, after the meeting, well.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm seeing tremendous self policing and they understand
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  Speaker 3: that they have to sell police. And it's very hard
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  Speaker 3: for somebody to come outside, get into these, these models
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  Speaker 3: are very complex.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you wanted a guy to really do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing and police the whole thing, I think Mark
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  Speaker 2: Zuckerberg is your guy. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Now, um,
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be an AI committee, a committee.
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  Speaker 3: We're also thinking about forming a committee of sorts where
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  Speaker 3: we put maybe 10 people on that committee. It could
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  Speaker 3: be from that group so that we can, so the
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  Speaker 3: committee can watch over the whole enterprise.
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  Speaker 2: Problem solved. I'm going to have a committee. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: what did he actually say? Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: We're also thinking about forming a committee.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not exactly a committee. They're thinking of a committee,
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  Speaker 2: but they'll keep thinking about it.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to work to make the community happy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they also got into data centers. The data centers
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  Speaker 2: are just big, huge buildings that bring a ton of
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  Speaker 2: money into a community and a lot of jobs. But
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  Speaker 2: the electricity problem they've solved, the water problem they've solved,
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  Speaker 2: they just make a lot of noise. They got these
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  Speaker 2: turbines that do the cooling work. that create not only noise,
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  Speaker 2: but a vibration and a hum. For about a half
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  Speaker 2: a mile away, it's pretty bad. You can faintly hear
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  Speaker 2: it a mile away, but it's in a half mile
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  Speaker 2: radius where it's pretty bad. But they'll figure out what
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  Speaker 2: to do about that.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to work to make the community happy. That
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  Speaker 4: might be supplying oil and gas. It might be supplying education.
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  Speaker 4: It may be helping teachers along financially, helping people along financially.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have so much money. These data companies, that's
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  Speaker 2: what they'll do. They just pass it. I told you
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  Speaker 2: yesterday about this one place in Pennsylvania they want to
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  Speaker 2: build one. The town's opposing it. They offered a $ 10, 000
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  Speaker 2: check to everybody in town. They offered to donate $ 100
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  Speaker 2: million to police and fire and all that. They'll do
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. Hey, they put an airport near you.
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  Speaker 2: It's noisier than the data center and more dangerous. And
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  Speaker 2: you don't see the airport running around giving everybody checks
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  Speaker 2: or paying for the local police and all that. But
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  Speaker 2: so this is the key to the AI problem. Self-regulation.
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  Speaker 4: There's a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation.
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  Speaker 3: And we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 3: the FBI, all of that.
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  Speaker 4: But the self-regulation is very important. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here's the real problem. You got all of these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Why would these guys all of a sudden be interested
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  Speaker 2: in government regulation? These guys control AI right now. basically
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  Speaker 2: four companies that control AI. It's a cartel. They control it.
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  Speaker 2: They kind of like a lot of regulation because it
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  Speaker 2: creates a fence around this, a lot of red tape
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  Speaker 2: and bureaucracy, so no newcomer company can come in and
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  Speaker 2: compete with them. So once they've got it all controlled,
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  Speaker 2: they like to close the gate and no one else
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  Speaker 2: can get in. So that's the idea.
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  Speaker 3: This is one more example of why I will never
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  Speaker 3: stifle the growth of technology that will be bigger than
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  Speaker 3: The Industrial Revolution, this is why the SI superintelligence is,
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  Speaker 3: they're saying, bigger than the Industrial Revolution.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's right about that. Again, if it's the most
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  Speaker 2: powerful thing in the world, if it could kill everybody,
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  Speaker 2: if it could control us, wipe us out, we have
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  Speaker 2: to be the leader, not China. So we do have
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  Speaker 2: to stay on top of it. Hey, awful, evil Jack Smith.
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  Speaker 2: This is the dirtiest prosecutor in the world, this Jack Smith. He's,
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  Speaker 2: as I say, they could have picked a special counsel.
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  Speaker 2: They needed a special counsel to go after Trump. 1,200
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  Speaker 2: people right in the D.C. area, perfect for it. They
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  Speaker 2: went halfway around the world to bring this guy back
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  Speaker 2: because he's a known hitman. That's what he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: for years. He's a hitman. When you need to go
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  Speaker 2: after a Republican, you need a dirty prosecutor to go
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  Speaker 2: after Republicans. Jack Smith is your guy. He's done it
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  Speaker 2: for years a number of times. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: in each case, When it finally got to a very
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  Speaker 2: high court, they overturned everything he did. Good example is
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  Speaker 2: when he went after Republican Governor Virginia McDonald. He got
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  Speaker 2: him on 12 things, got him indicted, convicted. Finally went
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  Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court where they ruled that everything he
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  Speaker 2: was charged with was just crummy political nonsense. And they
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  Speaker 2: dropped everything and they reprimanded Jack Smith. So that's his history.
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  Speaker 2: Hit man when you need to go after a Republican.
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  Speaker 2: But his history is also, is he always gets caught
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  Speaker 2: in the end and exposed. So... If you haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 2: go watch the video of Jack Smith on the stand.
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  Speaker 2: You could see he's a real gangster. He's a real,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, he's like a bug-eyed weirdo, but a
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  Speaker 2: real scary looking gangster type of a guy. So he
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  Speaker 2: made an opening statement where if you look at his history,
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  Speaker 2: he's only gone after Republicans. If you look at what
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  Speaker 2: he did here with Trump, with the documents, all he
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  Speaker 2: did was go after Trump, every Trump donor. every organization
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  Speaker 2: that supported Trump, he went after them. Charlie Kirk's organization,
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  Speaker 2: Turning Point, he went after them. He went after donors.
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  Speaker 2: It was obviously just to frighten everybody, terrorize everybody, trying
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  Speaker 2: to stop Trump. Now, when it comes to classified documents,
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  Speaker 2: Trump had the fewest of any president in the history
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  Speaker 2: of the world. In the end, he only had 35.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden had 8,000. So if you're investigating this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: why would you go after Trump and not the guy
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  Speaker 2: that had literally two, three thousand times as many documents?
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  Speaker 2: But he made this opening statement saying he's totally neutral,
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  Speaker 2: he's not partisan.
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  Speaker 5: I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my
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  Speaker 5: decision to bring charges against President Trump. I made those
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  Speaker 5: decisions without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs,
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  Speaker 5: or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
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  Speaker 2: Again, it was strictly Trump hatred. We had the dirtiest
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  Speaker 2: attorney general ever, Merrick Garland, who they got to get
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  Speaker 2: to him under oath too. But why, when you got
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  Speaker 2: 1,200 special counsels in D.C., why did he go halfway
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  Speaker 2: around the world to bring in this gangster? But Smith,
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  Speaker 2: with a straight face, said all this nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: The status, power, prominence, or political affiliation of the subject
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  Speaker 5: of an investigation is must play no role in the
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  Speaker 5: decision to investigate, prosecute, or decline to prosecute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. But again, the guys with a thousand times
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  Speaker 2: more classified documents never went after them. Never. Never went
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  Speaker 2: after them. And then we got that Senator Kennedy. He
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  Speaker 2: jumps in there.
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  Speaker 6: When you went to Judge Boasberg, you didn't even tell
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  Speaker 6: him you were seeking the phone records. of members of Congress,
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  Speaker 6: did you? Because you knew he wouldn't agree. He would say, hey, counselor,
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  Speaker 6: anybody who knows a law book from a J.Crew catalog
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  Speaker 6: knows that this violates the Constitution. But you didn't tell him,
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  Speaker 6: did you?
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  Speaker 2: That came out. It was a long hearing yesterday, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot of really dirty stuff about Jack Smith came out,
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  Speaker 2: the things he did. The things he covered up. Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: was great.
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  Speaker 5: We sought nondisclosure orders from the court.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't tell him, did you?
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  Speaker 5: In seeking nondisclosure orders, we did not disclose.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't tell him, but you're unbiased. You have no
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  Speaker 6: personal feelings. You make me want to throw up in
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  Speaker 6: my mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he got the, hey, Ted Cruz was good.
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  Speaker 1: You can sigh all you like. It's a very simple question.
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  Speaker 1: You know damn well you did. You've been questioned about
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  Speaker 1: the checks that you guys got. You know the answer.
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  Speaker 1: So why don't you answer the question? Did your team
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  Speaker 1: obtain donor and fundraising information?
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  Speaker 2: It's a yes.
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  Speaker 1: You can say yes.
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  Speaker 5: I do not recall the attachments to specific subpoenas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot of that. I do not recall. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's the creepiest guy ever, this Jack Smith. Anyway, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get back to him. Hey, Iran has put out a
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  Speaker 2: propaganda letter. They do these all the time, but this
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  Speaker 2: is a 25-page letter. It's addressed to the American people.
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  Speaker 2: We all got a letter from Iran. It's urging everybody
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  Speaker 2: to oppose President Trump in the midterm elections, the IRGC.
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  Speaker 2: is trying to sway the November 3rd elections. They openly
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  Speaker 2: admit it. They said this is the purpose of the letter.
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  Speaker 2: They want you to vote against Republicans, vote against Trump.
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  Speaker 2: They want to get Democrats in because Democrats are generally
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  Speaker 2: nice to them. Democrats pay the money, make an agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Here's some more money. So they want Democrats in. Now,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people who would know this kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuff think they're on the verge. They're right on the
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  Speaker 2: brink of total collapse in Iran. Scott Besson thinks they
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  Speaker 2: got a couple of weeks. General Petraeus reporting they're right
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  Speaker 2: on the brink and they only got a few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the problems now for them, the Strait
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  Speaker 2: of Hormuz, that's their leverage, keeping it closed. Well, apparently
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  Speaker 2: it's open and we've developed so many other routes to
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  Speaker 2: bring the oil out that pre-war it was averaging about
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  Speaker 2: 18 million barrels a day coming out of there. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we got it up some days to 17 million. They
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  Speaker 2: think now the average conservative estimate, 13 million barrels a day.
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  Speaker 2: So it's at 72% of normal output. Also, they've started
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  Speaker 2: using other routes, other pipelines. For instance, the East-West pipeline,
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  Speaker 2: the Saudi started using that. That's doing 7 million barrels
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  Speaker 2: a day. So with the Strait of Hormuz closed, now
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  Speaker 2: listen to this number. With the Strait of Hormuz closed,
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  Speaker 2: we've gotten... A billion barrels of oil out in the
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  Speaker 2: last few months. One billion barrels have come out. That's
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  Speaker 2: why oil has dropped down. Remember, oil had hit 105.
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  Speaker 2: It's now 90. It's coming down. But we're averaging about
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  Speaker 2: 13 million barrels a day. There was one day we
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  Speaker 2: got 17 million barrels out of the Strait of Homeless,
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  Speaker 2: which is pretty much what it was before the conflict.
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  Speaker 2: And it's getting better and better all the time. So, hey,
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  Speaker 2: that fight with Canada, the tariffs, all of that, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's getting ugly, and the U.S. has now banned some
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  Speaker 2: Canadian imports. Yeah, sounds serious. They've banned certain things that
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  Speaker 2: are not allowed in. They're banned from Canada. Beer. Is
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  Speaker 2: there a Canadian beer anybody likes? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Canadian beer? I can't even think of one. Canadian wine.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anybody that's ever been in a restaurant
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  Speaker 2: and said, what kind of Canadian wine do you have?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's ever said that. Cider. Great. I
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  Speaker 2: could live without cider. Canadian whiskey. Well, that was big
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  Speaker 2: during Prohibition. But since then, I don't think we need
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  Speaker 2: Canadian rum, Canadian gin, Canadian vodka. You see, vodka is
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be European. It's supposed to be Russian. It's
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to be Canadian. Toronto vodka doesn't sound great.
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  Speaker 2: Canadian brandy. Again, this doesn't sound good. Canadian liqueur. I
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  Speaker 2: think we'll survive. I think we'll survive this band. Yankees, big, big,
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  Speaker 2: big night last night. First game of the wild card.
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  Speaker 2: If they win tonight, they've clinched the wild card and
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  Speaker 2: they move on. So I wasn't crazy about the announcing.
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  Speaker 2: You need an announcer who gets excited, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: a John Sterling, like a Phil Rizzuto, like a Mel Allen.
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  Speaker 2: But this was an amazing moment. Bases loaded. That guy
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  Speaker 2: comes up and hits a grand slam. Incredible moment. He
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  Speaker 2: hammers this ball. Right center field.
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  Speaker 3: It is a slam!
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  Speaker 2: Again, not enough. John Sterling would be yelling and screaming.
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  Speaker 2: Rizzuto would be giving that. Holy cow! And a slam?
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  Speaker 2: You're too lazy to say grand slam? It's a slam?
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  Speaker 2: So that was Rice.
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  Speaker 3: What a night for Ben Rice.
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  Speaker 2: Six RBIs, four hits tonight, two homers, a single, and
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  Speaker 2: a double. And he just put this game out of reach.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to yell. You're supposed to get excited. But
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  Speaker 2: it was quite a night. Yankees play again tonight. If
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  Speaker 2: they win tonight, they move on. They're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to do all this without Aaron Judge, but so far
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  Speaker 2: they've been great. Hey, we'll get to Mamdani throughout the program.
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  Speaker 2: The Pieta tear-tacks. is, well, the people fighting this Pietro
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  Speaker 2: Terra tax won a huge victory, huge victory. Now, they
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  Speaker 2: took it to court in Staten Island, which tends to
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  Speaker 2: be conservative anti-Mamdani, so that was the right place. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani and company will try to get it moved to
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  Speaker 2: friendlier courts, but the court ruled, now they didn't rule
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  Speaker 2: against the tax, they just ruled that the way Mamdani
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  Speaker 2: went about it, the rollout, was absolutely wrong, terrible, disgusting.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into it. We'll give you all the details
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  Speaker 2: on this, but it's temporarily blocked. Although Mamdani has appealed
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  Speaker 2: it immediately. And the good news is a lot of
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  Speaker 2: billionaires are jumping in on this fight. It used to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot of these homeowners and Randy Master, who's
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  Speaker 2: a great attorney, former deputy mayor for several administrations, top,
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  Speaker 2: top guy. He's the one filing the lawsuit, but other
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  Speaker 2: people are jumping in now. Steve Wynn. Yeah. Look, Las
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  Speaker 2: Vegas Steve Wynn, he lives in Palm Beach now, but
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  Speaker 2: he has a huge pied-a-terre in New York City, and
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  Speaker 2: he got his pied-a-terre tax bill, $ 183, 000. He's fighting this.
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  Speaker 2: Wilbur Ross, the former Commerce Secretary, he's got a place
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  Speaker 2: in Southampton, and so he filed it there. Same thing
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  Speaker 2: with Wynn. They got places in New York City, but
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  Speaker 2: they filed in Southampton, thinking it's a friendlier court to them. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get back to this. We've got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: get to today. It's Mark Simone here, 9 to noon.
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  Speaker 2: 9 to noon every day here on 710WOR.