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Hour 2: Will a partial Government Shutdown happen? · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on seven. Well, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to get through this hour just to bring up the
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  Speaker 1: speed that Don Lemon was arrested. He is in has
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  Speaker 1: been indicted. Apparently he was partying like crazy in La
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  Speaker 1: the Grammy Awards this Sunday night. The parties have already begun.
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  Speaker 1: He was out there all night partying. The night ended
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  Speaker 1: with him being arrested by federal agents. And now remember
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  Speaker 1: this is not it's not just Donald Trump deciding to
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  Speaker 1: arrest him. It's not the Attorney General, it's not the
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  Speaker 1: Justice departments. Nothing in the trumpetminstress and it made the
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  Speaker 1: final decision. It was the grand jury. They just simply
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  Speaker 1: presented it to the grand jury, and the grand jury
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  Speaker 1: voted to indict Don Lemon for there's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: laws he violated in that church. Now, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people worried that this will make Don Lemon into a
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  Speaker 1: huge martyr that he'll be on every You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that was basically fired in disgrace. He was
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  Speaker 1: out of work. Nobody would touch this guy, nobody would
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  Speaker 1: hire this guy. He was doing one of these silly
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  Speaker 1: podcasts from his bedroom, running around with a microphone, totally
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  Speaker 1: out of work. But this, well, this is different.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly he'll be all over MSNBC and CNN, and there'll
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  Speaker 1: be a GoFundMe that could raise millions and millions. He's
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  Speaker 1: hired the top lawyer you could hire in a matter
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  Speaker 1: like this, Abbey Lowell. So a lot of people worried
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  Speaker 1: that this will make Don Lemmon not only a martyr,
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  Speaker 1: but bigger than ever, may actually bring back his broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: career for him. The Justice Department right now is releasing
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  Speaker 1: more Epstein files. We explained last hour. There's five million
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  Speaker 1: pages that need to be read and gone through with
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  Speaker 1: a fine tooth coming to make sure there's no identifying
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  Speaker 1: victims or anything like that. So apparently they've gotten a
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  Speaker 1: batch done. O re liasa batch later. Now, what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen every time they release a batch, You're going
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  Speaker 1: to be very disappointed because there's going to be nothing
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  Speaker 1: that interesting in there. But this will continue for a while. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking. Last time, Monica Crowley was with this telling
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  Speaker 1: us about this two hundred and fiftieth Birthday of America.
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  Speaker 1: The whole year is going to be big, big events
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  Speaker 1: celebrating America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, and if she
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  Speaker 1: listed all the events, I realized, as miserable as Democrats are, now,
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  Speaker 1: as angry, crazy, miserable as the Democrats are, this year's
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  Speaker 1: going to be tough on them, very tough on them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're not into flag waving or you know,
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  Speaker 1: Fourth of July. They don't like that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's not their favorite day. So when the whole year
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  Speaker 1: is America, the flag and all the events she talked about,
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  Speaker 1: this is not going to be the National Prayer Service.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are not going to be flocking to that. What's
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  Speaker 1: the other one? The National State Fair that's not big
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  Speaker 1: with Democrats at the White House in Washington. The events
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  Speaker 1: are NASCAR, Yeah, that's not big with the Jimmy Kimmel, CNN,
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  Speaker 1: Colbert crowd. They're not big on Nascar. The other one
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  Speaker 1: was UFC Fighting Championship at the White House. And then
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  Speaker 1: the Fourth of July and Democrats, I don't like this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's a miserable day for them. Fourth of July with
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  Speaker 1: the flag and the picnics and hot dogs. They don't
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  Speaker 1: like this. So this is going to be a very
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  Speaker 1: rough year for your Democratic friends. As this stuff starts
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  Speaker 1: to unfold, especially in the summer. So you think they're
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  Speaker 1: angry and miserable. Now just wait, So we got a
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  Speaker 1: new FED chairman, Kevin Wash everybody likes some Powell is
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  Speaker 1: just awful. Really need to get rid of him. He's
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  Speaker 1: still got till May before his term is over. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you're done as the FED chairman, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: give up your board seat. So his term is up
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  Speaker 1: in May, but he's his board term. Having a seat
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  Speaker 1: on the board goes to like twenty twenty eight. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're gracious about it, you step down and you
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  Speaker 1: get the hell out of there. Knowing Paul bad guy
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  Speaker 1: hates Trump, probably will not. Here's President Trump. You can
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  Speaker 1: do it with a pencil.
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  Speaker 3: It's not cutting, it's not saying we have to get
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  Speaker 3: rid of jobs or it's just like literally so easy
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  Speaker 3: to do. But we have a guy that doesn't want
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  Speaker 3: to do it because he's I think he's politically biased.
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  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he's politically biased, because most smart people say
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  Speaker 3: it's not even a question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we know he's politically not only politically biased,
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  Speaker 1: but he hates hates, hates Trump, so he'll stay there,
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  Speaker 1: probably just to make Trump miserable. So the good news,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to miss this snowstorm. It's not going to
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  Speaker 1: hit us on Sunday. But the freezing temperatures have caused
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems. You know, the Hudson River, the
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  Speaker 1: East River are frozen, frozen, that's ruined everything. There's no
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  Speaker 1: ferry service. But also remember we need those those rivers
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  Speaker 1: for all kinds of commercial purposes and shipping and delivery.
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  Speaker 1: So icebreakers are now in the Hudson River. They came yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: These ice breakers are trying to break up the ice
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  Speaker 1: and open it up, and hopefully it'll get the ferry
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  Speaker 1: service back, although who the hell takes a ferry in
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  Speaker 1: this kind of cold weather. You know, if you're here
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan walking around, those bikes are all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: riding around in the slush and the snow and the
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  Speaker 1: unbelievably cold temperatures. Bikes all over the place. And they're
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  Speaker 1: not just the delivery bikes that I could understand, but
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  Speaker 1: just amateur bikes, you know, city bikers. They're still out
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  Speaker 1: there in this snow. Hey, the Milania movie opens today.
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  Speaker 1: You should go see it. It's in fifteen hundred theaters today.
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  Speaker 1: They had the first screening at the White House, big
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  Speaker 1: private event, and then the big premiere was last night
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  Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center with all the usual cast of characters,
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  Speaker 1: the whole Trump administration, all the cabinet secretaries, all of that.
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  Speaker 1: And then there were two after parties, big bashes afterwards
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  Speaker 1: that went all night. But it opens today all over
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  Speaker 1: the country. If you want to see it, go see it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hear all these left wing people as
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  Speaker 1: the film starts to be talked about and do well,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear all these media left wing idiots start
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that this movie is a bribe, that
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  Speaker 1: why would Malania get forty million from Amazon for this film? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bribe. It was Amazon bribing the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: with the forty million. Now, of course they'll never mention
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  Speaker 1: that Michelle Obama, whose documentary Totally Bombed, got eighty million
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  Speaker 1: from Netflix. Actually that's the better question. Why did Malania
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  Speaker 1: only get half? Who would you rather look at for
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  Speaker 1: two hours? Milania or Michelle Obama? The Michelle Obama documentaries
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  Speaker 1: are just it's really crabby in real life and has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to say. It's just the most boring two hours
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  Speaker 1: that Milania documentary. And remember when you see the documentary,
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  Speaker 1: they shot like four thousand hours just to get anything interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So the two hours you're seeing is the most interesting
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  Speaker 1: of the four thousand hours. Remember also, Michelle Obama got
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  Speaker 1: a book deal. You know, normally when you get a
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  Speaker 1: book deal, they'll give you a ten million for your
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  Speaker 1: book in advance, maybe if you're the president, maybe twenty million.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Michelle Obama's book deal sixty five million, unheard of,
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  Speaker 1: totally unheard of. Shakespeare couldn't get sixty five million for
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  Speaker 1: a book deal. But so you talk about bribing somebody,
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  Speaker 1: the shutdown looms, they're trying to make some kind of deal.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you got crazy, angry Chuck Schumer, who's at
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  Speaker 1: the end of a very mediocre career right now. Schumer
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  Speaker 1: making all kinds of demands, are going to try to
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  Speaker 1: do this shutdown, and they're going to try to use
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  Speaker 1: ice in Minnesota, and all that is an excuse. You
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  Speaker 1: can't just shut down the Department of Homeland Security because
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  Speaker 1: everything is in that department. That's where the TSA is
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  Speaker 1: in there, the Secret Service. You can't defund that. But
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  Speaker 1: here's Schumer yelling and huffing and puffing.
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  Speaker 4: Caucus is unified over three main legislative objectives. First, we
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  Speaker 4: want to end roving patrols. We need to tighten the
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  Speaker 4: rules governing the use of warrants and require ices coordination
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  Speaker 4: with state and local law enforcement. Second, we want to
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  Speaker 4: enforce accountability. Third, we want masks off. Body cameras on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now, this is all a big mess of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Body cameras on. Yeah, I would agree with that. Masks off.
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  Speaker 1: The reason they wear the mask is these crazy, raging,
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  Speaker 1: nutjob violent protesters have threatened the families of the ICE agents.
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  Speaker 1: If they can see the face, they can identify the person.
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  Speaker 1: They will then go to the well the ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: are away on the job, they will go to the
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  Speaker 1: ICE agent's house and terrorize his children and his wife.
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  Speaker 1: That's literally what would happen. That's that's why the masks. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to take the masks off. A proposal.
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  Speaker 1: The compromise will be every agent will have a number
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  Speaker 1: on his uniform, big number, and that's an identifying number.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to report the guy, you just
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  Speaker 1: give that number and then within the department they know
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  Speaker 1: who it is. So that's the way they'll do that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: body cams. That's actually going to work against the protesters.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, the Renee Goods shooting, if that guy had
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  Speaker 1: a bodycam, you would have seen the car come right
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  Speaker 1: at it and smash it. So bodycam will help the
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  Speaker 1: ice agents. Hopefully the shutdown doesn't happen. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people Lindsey Graham causing a problem. The President will
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  Speaker 1: call him this afternoon and calm him down and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: it'll get straightened out. Now Here in New York budget crisis,
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  Speaker 1: you got Mom Donnie in charge. He has started to
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  Speaker 1: figure out it's not just about taxes. The reason you
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  Speaker 1: have a budget crisis is the budget is totally out
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  Speaker 1: of control. It's absolutely ludicrous that this one city has
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty billion dollar budget. It's insane. So
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  Speaker 1: cuts have to be made. Now, Supposedly, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: try his own little doge. He's going to have somebody
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  Speaker 1: appointed in each department to be like the doge officer
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  Speaker 1: and figure out what can be cut. Let's hope he
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  Speaker 1: really is going to do this.
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  Speaker 5: The tools that the city has, these are the most
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  Speaker 5: painful tools. We are talking about cuts, we are talking
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  Speaker 5: about property taxes. The things that I do not want
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  Speaker 5: to pursue. Yeah, and yet the scale of this fiscal
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  Speaker 5: crisis of twelve billion dollars, this is not an ordinary crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you know the idea of the budget cuts.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that you're going to hurt any services or
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  Speaker 1: deprive people the services or anything like that. The overpay
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  Speaker 1: for everything. There's incredible waste bloat all through the budget
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty billion. You could easily cut that
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  Speaker 1: to sixty billion and promptly forty billion if really efficient
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  Speaker 1: about it. And hopefully he'll actually do this stuff, actually
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  Speaker 1: seriously look at cutting stuff. I know he wants to
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  Speaker 1: raise taxes, but he doesn't have the power to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to go to the governor. She's running for reelection,
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  Speaker 1: so she's got to be careful. Well, you got to
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  Speaker 1: go to the city council. And as I'm telling you yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: we got a new city council speaker who's a moderate.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Democrat, but a very common sense, moderate Democrat
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  Speaker 1: who's not going to do crazy stuff. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: good check and balance on on mom, Donnie. So the
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  Speaker 1: Luigi Manngi own cases, it's in court today and the
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  Speaker 1: judge is already tossed out a couple of charges, and
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  Speaker 1: those were the charges that would have brought the death penalty. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what case would call for the death
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  Speaker 1: penalty more than this one. I mean, we see the
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  Speaker 1: video of him just deliberately assassinating this guy for no
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  Speaker 1: reason at all, walking right up to this guy and
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  Speaker 1: shooting him dead. I mean, what more do you need
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  Speaker 1: for a death penalty? But it's a Manhattan courtroom, it's
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  Speaker 1: a Manhattan judge. They don't like the death penalty, so
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  Speaker 1: they've taken that off the table. Now, one thing about
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  Speaker 1: when you take that off the table, it makes the
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  Speaker 1: conviction easier for a jury. And the judge did rule
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  Speaker 1: that the evidence in his backpack that was on him
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  Speaker 1: when he got arrested can stay. So even though the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty's gone, it looks more and more and more
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  Speaker 1: like an absolutely definite chance of conviction. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: got the video, you got everything, So that's good news. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: yesterday was the cabinet meeting, So all the left wing
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  Speaker 1: sites are trying to find something wrong with it. Very
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  Speaker 1: hard to do. It's a pretty good cabinet meeting. But
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  Speaker 1: here's mediaite. Mediaite is the real left wing or left
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  Speaker 1: wing slanted site The Big Headline. The five most fawning
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  Speaker 1: moments from the Trump Cabinet meeting. Fawning Moments Number one
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  Speaker 1: Pete Hexath claiming the Venezuela operation was one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest in world history. Well, actually that's true. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: a million military experts say they're amazed at the efficiency,
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  Speaker 1: how well run that operation was. It was absolutely dazzling.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, get into a country, get a world leader
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  Speaker 1: in his bed, and get him out of the country
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  Speaker 1: without any without losing one American life. It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: What was the other one? Number two? Howard lutt Nick
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  Speaker 1: consists Trump is fixing everything. Oh, actually he is. He's
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  Speaker 1: fixing the supply chain, he's fixing the economy, getting everything
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  Speaker 1: straightened out. So all of these are actually great things.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's small business administrator. List of wars he's ended added
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  Speaker 1: another one. He's ended the war on main street and
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  Speaker 1: hardworking families. Well that's pretty much true. Their income has
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  Speaker 1: come up under all the Trump stuff, all the Trump
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  Speaker 1: economic stuff. Average income now for a working person is
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  Speaker 1: way up a couple of thousand bucks this year. Scott
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  Speaker 1: Bessant predicts twenty twenty six will be the year of
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  Speaker 1: the Trump boom. Yeah, so does everybody else. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: the tax cuts are kicking in. You probably get a
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  Speaker 1: rate cut pretty soon. Yeah, it really will be. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the final one. Trump saved hundreds of lives during the
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  Speaker 1: winter storms due to his love of coal. Well, actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had a ton of energy. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices are way down. An amount of gas, the
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  Speaker 1: amount of oil being pumped, and all that is way
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  Speaker 1: way way up. Hey, you know a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they move out of New York, they move
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  Speaker 1: out of California, They moved to Texas, they moved to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: People leaving New York leaving Texas over the last bunch
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  Speaker 1: of years for tax reasons, other reasons. Studies now show
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  Speaker 1: that because of that, when they do the twenty thirty census,
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  Speaker 1: New York and California combined will lose six House seats
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  Speaker 1: and the House seats will be transferred to places like
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  Speaker 1: Texas and Florida. And they estimate that's going to cost
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  Speaker 1: Democrats in the future nine electoral votes right there. Pretty interesting. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Carl, Yorktown, Heights. Carl,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing all right?
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  Speaker 8: Good speak you Mark? Mark over in New Yorktown. Our
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  Speaker 8: prices our gifts sayed between three twenty nine and three
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  Speaker 8: thirty three four the last six months. I don't understand.
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  Speaker 8: We're not coming down yet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, because New York State is every time the price
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  Speaker 1: of gas comes down, New York State increases the tax
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  Speaker 1: to keep it where it is, So gases two fifty everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But in California and New York they keep raising the tax,
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  Speaker 1: local tax to keep it up there. So the price
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  Speaker 1: you pay for living in New York. Hey, you got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of snow up there, Carl.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, we had about between fifteen and eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa fifteen.
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  Speaker 8: It's still digging out the sidewalks.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Carl, Thanks for calling. Yorktown Height's a very
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  Speaker 1: nice place. Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich
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  Speaker 1: how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks, Maul. We're getting two to four inches of
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  Speaker 2: snow here tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night, and it'll stick
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  Speaker 2: around for a couple of days. Going to be in
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  Speaker 2: the team for the next few days.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Myrtle Beach. Where's that? South Carolina?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, South Carolina, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Until you go down there to get away from this weather.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in Inland where your buddy Joe Bartler lives, he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be getting five to eight inches in there
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  Speaker 2: by that part of South Carolina. Whoa yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer continues to just show what a complete idiot
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  Speaker 2: and the putts he really is. It's just disgraceful what
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  Speaker 2: this guy is still in office. But I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you saw this. I saw posted somewhere that some
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  Speaker 2: film company is looking for as many cops and fire
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  Speaker 2: him and as they can find because they're doing a
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  Speaker 2: giant documentary on the after nine to eleven illnesses and
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  Speaker 2: cancers that came about. I don't know if you saw
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  Speaker 2: anything or knew anything about that. No, but no acting
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  Speaker 2: experience needed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, obviously they want to people. You know. Sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a documentary kind of thing, but interesting, Yeah, You're right
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  Speaker 1: about Schumer because uh, he's really the poster boy for
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  Speaker 1: term limits. He is just an old dinosaur, this old fossil,
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  Speaker 1: this useless bureaucrat who gets nothing done except for donors.
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  Speaker 1: And you wonder, how the hell did that guy stay there?
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  Speaker 1: How does he get reelected donor service? That's what he's
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  Speaker 1: known for. They all got his cell phone and is
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  Speaker 1: even the Republican donors love they as they'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I can wake that guy up at two in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: He'll do whatever I need. That's Chuck Schumer. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: been his main business for all these years. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Bob Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good?
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  Speaker 2: Mark?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, I'm I'm surprised that there's not more hope law
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  Speaker 7: about the MTA making history about like the one point
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  Speaker 7: five billion in over time. It's interesting. There's a dulge
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  Speaker 7: project at Mundani and Cochal could take to find out, like, geez,
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  Speaker 7: so much overtime? What's going on over there? All the
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  Speaker 7: money taking agency, as Curtis would say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's total waste, fraud, bloat. New York
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: State budget, New York City budget. You know, Florida is
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  Speaker 2: Mark?
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  Speaker 6: Thank You've been taking the well with respect to Minneapolis,
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: something that doesn't make sense. It's cold as there than here.
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  Speaker 6: Why are they getting into confrontation spraying with fire hoses?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, the cold is helped. There was
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a vicious, violent weekend protest. The cold
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• 19:18
  Speaker 1: do spray them, but they spray them with that it's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: not I know what it is, mace or some chemical.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And they spray them in the face, freeze on them.
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  Speaker 6: And they get the hell out of Dodge quick.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, yeah, but there's a lot of videos online
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you can see of them getting sprayed. And it's not
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: with a little you know thing you hold in your hand,
• 19:35
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• 19:41
  Speaker 1: comes out all red and green and blue, like a
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  Speaker 1: Wor Yes, you sound very gentle. What are you calling about?
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  Speaker 9: Access? The issues with accessor ride? They left me stranded
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and what happened they didn't show up.
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  Speaker 9: They didn't show up Wednesday night or last night. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: Well, sorry to hear that. You're okay now, I hope
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I got home. I just take accessorize. I had
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  Speaker 1: Oh all right, Well that's a terrible story. I hope
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't happen again. Thanks for calling. Yeah, that's the
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• 22:03
  Speaker 6: I just read that Don Lemon got arrested.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Well it's it's it's great, But aren't you worried that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: this could make him into a big martyr, This could
• 22:13
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  Speaker 6: And I don't know Don Lemon will screw up anything.
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  Speaker 2: He was like a.
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  Speaker 6: Normal human being. I'd be like yeah times, like once
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: recently as a matter of fact. I mean he was like,
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: seemed like a nice guy. I just don't what he
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: did in that church and some of his other antics.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: It's just so stupid. I don't I don't quite understand it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: It's I mean, okay, like, listen, you cover stories, but
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: aren't you partake in the story like he kind of
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: He definitely kind of stepped over the line and in
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: it's such a horrible way because all as they were
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  Speaker 6: doing harassing poor people at church. It wasn't like these
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  Speaker 6: was a clan rally or anything. These are a bunch
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  Speaker 6: of Christians who are sitting there praying to God while
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: these assholes come in off the street and started using
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  Speaker 6: them and their kids. And he made it sound like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it was MLKA coming across the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Well, if you read the lie, it's pretty specific.
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  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to do anything to intimidate or interfere
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: with the service. It's pretty clear.
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  Speaker 6: It's well, yeah, they you know, I just wonder, you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, I wonder if he could fall behind that
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: that First Amendment stuff. But although it seemed like he
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: was so part of it, and just I wonder I
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: was giving him advice to do this stupid stuff because
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: it's really dumb. I mean, it's really really dumb. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: I don't think and this is why I don't think
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  Speaker 6: he'll be a martyr on this mark. It's so stupid.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Even left these in the media will say it's stupid
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  Speaker 6: what he did.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's a good point, Uh, Kevin, wash, Are
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: we happy with this? I am.
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  Speaker 6: I think this is a great choice. I mean, so
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: I wrote a story I don't remember. It was a
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: couple of about a month ago that a bunch of
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: CEOs went to Trump and said, listen, if you're gonna
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: go there, do not pick you know, if you can
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: get rid of Howell, do not pick ascid Kevin has
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: and Kevin Hassen's a nice guy's a smart guy, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: he's way too much of a cheerleader. I mean, well,
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: you kind of need somebody that is seen as independent
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: because you know, whether we like it or not, we
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: sell a lot of debt. You know, we're still running
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: two trillion dollar budget deficits. If the FED is seen
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: as not independent, someone that's gonna FED share is gonna,
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: you know, on the phone with Trump juice in the
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: economy whenever Trump wants. You know, people are just not
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: gonna buy your debt because it's gonna inflation is gonna erode.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: It's it's uh, it's buying it's it's it's that's been advantage.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: So you you need someone that that's kind of like
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: in the middle. And Kevin Walsh really is an independent guy.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: He's a long time inflation hawk. Got that back up.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: My guess is he will agree with Trump and lower
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: short term rates fast. Uh, he will do other things
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: to mitigate the inflation impact of that, which is you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: unwinding the Fed's massive ballad sheet. It controlled. It holds
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: all these assets and he needs to sell them. That
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: will keep that will keep the lid on interest rates.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: And I think it's and I know the guy just
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: pull disclosure. I know my life. I've known a few years.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Really smart, decent man. I mean, this is a good
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: a good choice, really good.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Well that's that's good here. But do we want to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: fed trim in the talkish?
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: It depends on the hawk is Well, you do you
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: like inflation?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not not crazy about it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: No, So I mean, inflation is probably the worst thing
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: for one of the worst things for an economy because
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: it really destroys the social fabric. If you're an average
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: person and you work like really hard, but you still
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: can't afford food, which inflation gives you. And that's kind
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: of the problem that Biden had. And by extent eris
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: you know, you've got a real societal problem. And I
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: and I think that's what he's good at. I mean,
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: I think he'll understand that there is a dual mandate.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: It's inflation first in the context of full employment. He
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: understands that. And if you want to spur the economy,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: that's where you got fiscal policy coming out of the
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: White House. And I think this is kind of what
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: with the FED lost track of the FED under power,
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: became like part of the the sort of the fabric
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: of fiscal policy and and White House policy, and he
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: can't be it engaged in ESG and DEI and all
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: these radical leftist clauses. And I think, you know, I
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: think Warsh understands. I know he understands that. So I
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: think he will he will give Trump what he wants,
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: lower short term interest rates, which I don't understand why
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: he's so obsessed with that, because the short term interest
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: rates really mean little. It's the ten year that means
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: a lot. And that's all based on plation expectations. That's
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: where all the consumer rates are pegged off.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Him.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, be that as it may. He'll play the game
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: and he'll do it. Well. I guess, all right.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That's good to hear. Hey, mom Donnie has been in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: office now for two three weeks and a lot of
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: people are saying, well, it seems okay, nothing bad, But
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: how do you read the mom Donnie situation?
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, he's a horrible moron.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I mean that's a good analysis, but.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Literally, right, he doesn't. He didn't want the tops to
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: get rid of the homeless guys off the streets and
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: some zero weather or guess what they died. I mean,
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: the guy is a complete idiot. If he was this
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: was anybody when when an R next to its name,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: the New York Times would be running front page stories
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: about how he needs to be the one thing. I
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: wrote about this in the Post today, and I've been
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: writing about this a lot. There's a lot that he
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: can't do because of a guy named Hugh Carry, a
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: former governor, a guy named Felix Roat and who is
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: a former financier the public but you know, you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: dedicate his life the civic work in New York City
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: and basically bringing the city back after the financial crisis
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: of the seventies. They created a structure where you can't
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: run budget deficits or else you lose control of the budget.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: The state takes it over. It's almost impossible going to
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: the fold. Don olders get first DIBs on tax revenues
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: even before it goes to pay all these programs. You
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: can raise taxes, but you need the state to raise
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: for you. In many ways. If you lose population because
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: you raise taxes and the state agrees to it. Well,
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: guess what then you have budget deficits. And if you
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: run a deficit the end of the year, because you
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: you will lose control of the budget. It goes to
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: the state. So all those handcuffs are on even a
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: comedie like Mandami. Oh, I think even in unis ball
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: bond crisis. By the way, you need debt in New
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: York City is very I just wrote about this is
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: very is very flat right now. I mean the price
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: is our movement. It's they're high, They're up a little bit. Anyway,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: that's where we are right now. It'll be interest to
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: see what he does. I mean, I mean Mandami, even
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: when it doesn't come to taxes and all, that can
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: really rerek havoc on the city and culturally in somebody
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: other ways. Obviously, I just worry about these ice protests
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: coming to New York and every soon because you have
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: the same sort of political dynamic as you have in Minnesota.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Minnesota have a bunch of leftists, like really crave and leftists,
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: including a moron as Governor Tim Watson almost became our
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: vice president, you know, Aggan, on these violent leftist protesters,
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: you can see someone like Mandami doing the same because
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: that he's cut from that cloth cloth as. By the way,
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: these protesters aren't people. They aren't just like protesting. These
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: are trained, near militia style trained leftist anarchists. So I
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: think I'm worried about that coming to the city more
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: than even like him raising taxes.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we should stop using the word protester.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: That implies you're standing there across the street with a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: sign and yelling, but when you're spitting in their face,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: they're kicking the tail light out of their car. That
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: that's behind a protester, isn't it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: I mean you saw the one that was shot right, Yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: I mean the Americans die. That guy was out of
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: his mind. I mean he's a crazy protester. I mean,
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: and by the way, who shows up You know, I can't.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: I want to respect the dead Alex Pretty or Predo,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: whatever his name is. Yeah, I see, you nerves were
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: supposed to electively. This guy came a lot, came. He
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: was He had two backup rounds on a concealed weapon
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: when he was getting an attacking cops. What does that
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: tell you? I mean, that's that's pretty pretty wild. If
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: you asked me very aggressive.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you saw police carrying out an operation,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: who has the nerve to go over there and try
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: to stop it? Interfere with it? That takes a hell
• 31:31
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