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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan.
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Speaker 2: Here comes the Mark.
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Speaker 3: Simone Show on SEVR.
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Speaker 2: Heay, what happened? It's cold outside, but it's got warmer tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: You got a lot to get to today. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to the president's speech last night. We'll get to the shutdown.
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Speaker 2: Pam BONDI might have a problem. We'll get to Christy Nome,
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Speaker 2: this stuff coming out about her. We'll get to ice
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Speaker 2: the shutdown, all of that crazy mayor Mom Donnie with
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Speaker 2: his idea of raising taxes and all that. As we
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Speaker 2: have always hoped. The City Council speaker Julie Mennon, Democrat,
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Speaker 2: but a common sense Democrat is standing up to him
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Speaker 2: and blocking him, and she may be become a hero
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Speaker 2: in what's about to happen here. So we got a
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Speaker 2: lot to get to this morning. President's speech last night,
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Speaker 2: I don't know it was it was a good speech.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he did his best When he does
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Speaker 2: those reading a teleprompter standing there in the wheerever that
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Speaker 2: was the East Room or wherever they did that speech,
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Speaker 2: it's you know, I would he's better with an audience,
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Speaker 2: although it was supposed to be a formal address. He's
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Speaker 2: not great with formal addresses. It's not doesn't play to
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Speaker 2: his strength, or I would have I would have gone
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Speaker 2: to a military base and done it there with with
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Speaker 2: the with the troops around him. But then the Democrats,
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Speaker 2: the crazy fake news would attack and fork exploiting the
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Speaker 2: military and all of that. So but it was a
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Speaker 2: pretty good speech. He laid out a lot of things
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Speaker 2: a lot of people don't know. You know, if you're
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Speaker 2: you know, hard work in American you don't have time
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Speaker 2: to follow this stuff. Eight hours a day. You're not
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Speaker 2: listening to talk radio, you're not going really in depthy
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Speaker 2: just watching the nightly news. All you hear about is
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Speaker 2: the Straits or Hormosa closed and this is the worst
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Speaker 2: thing that ever happened. How are we going to get
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Speaker 2: him open? This is total disaster with the straits closed.
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Speaker 2: And so there were some good parts he had explain
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Speaker 2: to people, we don't get any oil from the Straits
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Speaker 2: of horn Moose. It has nothing to do with us,
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Speaker 2: doesn't affect.
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Speaker 1: Us to those countries that can't get fuel, many of
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Speaker 1: which refuse to get involved in.
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Speaker 2: The That's what was the other point. It's Europe that
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Speaker 2: needs a straight at hor Moose. It's India Pakistan. Those
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Speaker 2: over there they needed straet terms. They should help get
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Speaker 2: it open to.
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Speaker 1: Those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse
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Speaker 1: to get involved in the decapitation of Iran. We had
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Speaker 1: to do it ourselves. I have a suggestion. Number one,
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Speaker 1: buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty,
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Speaker 1: we have so much. And number two, build up some
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Speaker 1: delayed courage. Should have done it before, should have done
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Speaker 1: it with us as we asked. Go to the strait
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Speaker 1: and just take it, protect it, use it for yourself.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So again, we have all the oil we need.
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Speaker 2: Thanks to President Trump's first term, we're totally oil independent.
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Speaker 2: And then here's the one I love after something like
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Speaker 2: this to watch MSNBC and CNN and all the crazies
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Speaker 2: and how are they going to attack it? Well, he
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Speaker 2: pointed out, once we're done, once it's over, once we
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Speaker 2: leave Straits of Hormose automatically open, they'll open by themselves.
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Speaker 2: Because the only people that need the Straits of Hormuse
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Speaker 2: it's Iran. That's how they sell their oil, that's what
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Speaker 2: they do for revenue, sell oil. But you can only
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Speaker 2: sell it if the straits are open and the tankers
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Speaker 2: are moving if the straits are closed and the tankers
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Speaker 2: aren't moving, you can't sell any oil and you're gonna
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Speaker 2: lose all your income. So this is what they attacked
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Speaker 2: him on. He's it's a childish fantasy that they'll just
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Speaker 2: open by themselves. What kind of out of control terrible though,
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Speaker 2: that's just planned. They'll open by themselves. Most people watching
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Speaker 2: this understood exactly what he meant. They will open as
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Speaker 2: soon as we leave. We could actually open them militarily,
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Speaker 2: but it would require some risk, and we don't get
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Speaker 2: any oil from there. I even take the risk. But
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Speaker 2: it was okay last night.
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Speaker 1: Our objectives are very simple and clear. We are systematically
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Speaker 1: dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or project power
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Speaker 1: outside of their borders. That means eliminating Iran's navy, which
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Speaker 1: is now absolutely destroyed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So if you're watching all the crazies last night, well,
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Speaker 2: the best thing is this, Chuck Schumer tweets. Schumer tweets
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Speaker 2: out that it was the most rambling, incoherent speech ever,
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Speaker 2: the most rambling, out of control, meandering rambling. Nobody could
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Speaker 2: understand what he was saying. Nobody can understand why we
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Speaker 2: were there. And then he said it was. He made
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Speaker 2: it clear that this is the single greatest foreign policy
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Speaker 2: blunder in the history of the world. Now that's when
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Speaker 2: you know things are going well for the president. Chuck
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Speaker 2: Schumer is not that stupid. I mean, he has some
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Speaker 2: kind of functioning brain. But even he couldn't come up
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Speaker 2: with a logical argument. Obviously, it's if you take out
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Speaker 2: the worst, most evil terrorist government in the world. Obviously
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Speaker 2: you could argue, well, we didn't need to do it,
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Speaker 2: or this wasn't the right time. But obviously it's not
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Speaker 2: the greatest foreign policy blunder. I mean, it's a great
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Speaker 2: thing to do, even if it's not the right moment,
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Speaker 2: Even if it's not the right way. It would never
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Speaker 2: be considered the greatest killing hitler. It can't be considered
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Speaker 2: the greatest foreign policy blunder in the world. Wiping out
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Speaker 2: the Ayatola, wiping out the most evil terrorist funding regime
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Speaker 2: in the world. I think people understand that's not the
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Speaker 2: biggest foreign policy blunder in history. And it was a
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Speaker 2: short speed feeling like twenty minutes.
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Speaker 1: Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise
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Speaker 1: in gasoline prices here at home. This short term increase
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Speaker 1: has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching
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Speaker 1: to range terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and neighboring
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Speaker 1: countries that have nothing to do with the conflict.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you see, he's not good at that reading the
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Speaker 2: teleprompt many kind of it's not his strength. He when
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Speaker 2: he just talks, you know, just a couple of keywords
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Speaker 2: on the page, when he just starts talking, he's brilliant,
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Speaker 2: but that it's not his strength. But that's what people
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Speaker 2: were calling for, it demanding a formal Oval office speech,
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Speaker 2: although he wasn't. He hate doing it in the Oval office.
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Speaker 2: He don't like sitting at the desk. He likes standing.
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Speaker 2: So that's why they did it in the east room there.
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Speaker 2: But other presidents are professional politicians. At George Bush and
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Speaker 2: Bill Clinton, they know how to give that very formal speech,
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Speaker 2: and they're great teleprompter readers. It's it's not a skill
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Speaker 2: to be proud of that you're good at reading a speech.
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Speaker 2: The fact that you can just add libberts, speak from
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Speaker 2: the heart and do an hour and a half, that's
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Speaker 2: something to be proud of. So reaction Wall Street Journal,
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Speaker 2: which doesn't like Trump, you know, the Wall Street Journal
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Speaker 2: never very favorable to Trump. They thought it was a
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Speaker 2: great speech, They thought it was wonderful. They really really
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Speaker 2: applauded it. Stock market is down, which means nothing. It's
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Speaker 2: you know, as John Carney pointed out yesterday, the stock
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Speaker 2: market Wall Street is an overreaction machine. They overreact to everything.
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Speaker 2: And they did this with tariffs, you know, plunge eight
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Speaker 2: million points, so this is the end of the world,
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Speaker 2: and then two seconds later it goes right back up
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Speaker 2: to an all time high. So you'll see the same
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Speaker 2: thing here in a few weeks when the war is over.
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Speaker 2: Gas prices will plunge, stock market will go nuts. One
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Speaker 2: reason that does that is it is an overreaction machine.
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Speaker 2: It'll go too low on the bad news, and then
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Speaker 2: when the good news comes, it'll go way too high
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Speaker 2: and then level off at some point. NATO. He brought
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Speaker 2: up NATO and he is threatening to pull out a
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Speaker 2: NATO and some people think, well, that's crazy, will not
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Speaker 2: so crazy anymore. The idea NATO is that we're a
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Speaker 2: member and that it would somehow help us in the
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Speaker 2: worst crisis. And here we are in a crisis and
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Speaker 2: they're doing absolutely nothing for us. We're not allowed to
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Speaker 2: use the base in Italy for this. Well, that's why
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Speaker 2: we have a base in Italy for something like this.
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Speaker 2: And then when it came out that Iran we didn't
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Speaker 2: never knew this has missiles and go two thousand miles
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Speaker 2: and hit Italy. That's all the more recent. You should
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Speaker 2: open up that base, let us use it. Well, you
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Speaker 2: still can't use it, can't use the airspace of this country.
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Speaker 2: They won't send any troops. So what's the point. What's
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Speaker 2: the point? NATO is pretty useless. Look at the Russia
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Speaker 2: invades Ukraine. I mean, look at that. NATO totally useless
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Speaker 2: in that case, nothing they could do to help. So
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Speaker 2: the president will threaten to pull out unless they do something,
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Speaker 2: unless they become more cooperative, more favorable to the US.
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Speaker 2: Here's Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 3: When we need them to allow us to use their
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Speaker 3: military basis, their answer is no. Then why are we
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Speaker 3: in NATO? You have to ask that question. Why do
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Speaker 3: we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions
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Speaker 3: of dollars over the year's trillions of dollars, and all
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Speaker 3: these American forces stationed in the recas. If we can
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Speaker 3: only use we can we in our time of need,
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Speaker 3: we're not going to be allowed to use those bases.
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Speaker 2: The good point. I mean, if you joined the club,
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Speaker 2: a private club or something, but you're not allowed in,
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Speaker 2: you can't come, you can't do anything, you'd leave. Why
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Speaker 2: would you even stay? Pam Bondi Attorney General president behind
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Speaker 2: closed doors talking to people about getting rid of Pam
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Speaker 2: Bondy and replacing her with Lee Zelden as the new
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Speaker 2: attorney general. Now let me just point out, having observed
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump closely for decades, sometimes he'll start talking about
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Speaker 2: something and they'll talk to everybody behind the scenes. He'll
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Speaker 2: run it by everybody, and it looks like, wow, look
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Speaker 2: at that, that's what they're going to do. But you know,
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Speaker 2: come back in two weeks it might have changed. He
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Speaker 2: does throw out stuff, give it a little time. Then
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Speaker 2: he might switch to something else, or he might just
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Speaker 2: drop it entirely, or after throwing it out and seeing
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Speaker 2: what the reaction is for a week or two, he
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Speaker 2: might she do it. So we don't know, but he
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Speaker 2: has been talking behind closed doors about getting rid of
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Speaker 2: Pam Bondy replacing her with Lee Zelden. Lee Zelden, who's
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Speaker 2: the EPA director, has become a real star behind the scenes.
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Speaker 2: They love him in the administration. He's done a great
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Speaker 2: job and they're really really proud of him. So if
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Speaker 2: not the attorney General, he will move up into a
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Speaker 2: much more prominent role at some point. But keep an
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Speaker 2: eye on that. Pam Bondy, they are well, he's not
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Speaker 2: happy with the way she handled the Epstein files. She
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Speaker 2: did nothing wrong, it's just the way she did it
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Speaker 2: made it all look wrong. You know, they're on my desk.
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Speaker 2: They'll be released. Well they weren't, really, it's just too
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Speaker 2: much bungling. Her optics were terrible. It looked like she
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Speaker 2: was covering something up. There really was nothing to cover
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Speaker 2: up that would harm President Trump. So keep an eye
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Speaker 2: on that. Also, keep an eye on Telsey Gabbard. They're
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Speaker 2: not too thrilled with her. But now, what would happen
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Speaker 2: if he removed Pam Bondy and put in Lee Zelden.
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Speaker 2: He would probably need Senate conformation. He's already confirmed as
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Speaker 2: EPA director, but Attorney general it's a different Congressional committee.
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Speaker 2: They'd probably have to probably have to confirm him. And
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Speaker 2: you know, these people in Congress, they're going to hold
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Speaker 2: it up forever. They're going to try to block it.
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Speaker 2: They're going to give him a hard time. It won't
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Speaker 2: be easy to get him confirmed. But that's okay because
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Speaker 2: the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, Trump is very very
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Speaker 2: happy with him, and he'd be acting Attorney General until
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Speaker 2: the confirmation. So if they couldn't get Zelden confirmed right away,
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Speaker 2: they'd be very happy having Todd blanche in there for
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Speaker 2: a long time. So that's possible that that could happen.
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Speaker 2: It looks like they're going to settle the shutdown. They've agreed,
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Speaker 2: the Democrats, the Republicans. They've come up with a solution
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Speaker 2: where they'll fund homeland security but make Ice something separate.
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Speaker 2: It's a simple solution. It settles the shutdown. Everything goes
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Speaker 2: back to normal. TSA agents now get paid, they'll get
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Speaker 2: all their back pay, they can come back to work.
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Speaker 2: It looks great ho therever, If you look at it,
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Speaker 2: if you're a normal, reasonable person, not a Washington swamp creature,
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Speaker 2: you look at this, you know what, anut you could
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Speaker 2: have done this the first minute. Why didn't you just
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Speaker 2: do this the first second? Exactly? They could have It's
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Speaker 2: Democrats and Republicans to blame. They could have done this immediately.
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Speaker 2: It's a simple logical answer. They could have done this
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Speaker 2: the first day. But they put everybody through hell with
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Speaker 2: this for no reason at all, absolutely ridiculous. So they'll
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Speaker 2: go back to work. One of the things that helped
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Speaker 2: was Ice, the President sending ice into the airports. It
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Speaker 2: was brilliant because with the TSA calling in sick and
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Speaker 2: the four hour lines in total chaos and people going crazy,
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Speaker 2: it gave the Democrats a lot of leverage. But when
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Speaker 2: the President sent icy and they did a great job
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Speaker 2: straightening everything out, took away the leverage that Democrats, so
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Speaker 2: they kind of caved in on all this. Hey, our
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Speaker 2: friend Charlemagne across the hall over there on the air
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Speaker 2: this morning, said he had a fly. He went to
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Speaker 2: La Guardia over the week, he flew somewhere and he
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Speaker 2: said he was shocked. The ice agents were great. They
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Speaker 2: were running everything, and he couldn't believe how wonderful the
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Speaker 2: ice agents were. They were friendly, they were handing out water,
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Speaker 2: they were helping everybody. He said, it was absolutely amazing,
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Speaker 2: very impressed with them. He said, maybe that was the point,
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Speaker 2: some sort of syop, you know, operation to improve the
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Speaker 2: image of Ice. No, actually ice has always been that way.
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Speaker 2: These ICE agents are great people, great law enforcement public servants.
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Speaker 2: They're wonderful. They're great to everybody, except when you try
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Speaker 2: to run them over with your car. They're all great,
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Speaker 2: they're fine, they're great. The way they handle themselves. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you've gotten an suv and aimed it right at them,
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Speaker 2: they might get different. But that's anybody and everybody. So
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Speaker 2: people didn't understand that. You've seen the ice age. Why
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Speaker 2: did they Why would they so brutal? Well, they're not.
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Speaker 2: It's only when people are trying to kill them, hit them,
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Speaker 2: run them over, that's when they That's that's when they
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Speaker 2: get nasty. Hey, speaking to airports, you know when you
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Speaker 2: see those air traffic controllers and those towers as wow,
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Speaker 2: that's such a sophisticated in the communications equipment they have
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Speaker 2: in these planes. And then you see when they have
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Speaker 2: an accident. How stupid this stuff is? That truck, the
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Speaker 2: fire truck. You know yet you're cleared across the runway.
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Speaker 2: You just told the plane to land two seconds ago,
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Speaker 2: and they hit each This is unbelievable, stupid little mistakes. Now,
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Speaker 2: here's a plane landing at LaGuardia contacts the tower. What
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Speaker 2: runway they use? This runway? Okay, that run well, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. It turns out he's landing at LaGuardia.
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Speaker 2: He contacts the wrong airport. He's talking to the tower
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Speaker 2: at Kennedy. You realize what a disaster this could have
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Speaker 2: been listened to this exchange final for a sure.
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Speaker 1: If it's just a La Guardia, this is Kennedy tower,
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Speaker 1: please go to La Guardia's hours. Sorry, that's crazy.
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Speaker 2: You notice they all sound young. You know, remember years
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Speaker 2: ago you got in the plane. Pilot was always the
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Speaker 2: old guy with white hair. He was a Chuck Jeger looking,
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Speaker 2: a veteran that looked like he flew a million years
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Speaker 2: and a million plus Sully Sullenberger looking guy. Now you
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Speaker 2: see them, they look like they're twelve years old. They
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Speaker 2: look like they've been flying six months. So it's a
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Speaker 2: hell of a mistake to make contact. The wrong airport,
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Speaker 2: the wrong tower. They give you the runway number, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't exist. You realize you got the wrong airport. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this kind of stuff didn't used to happen like this. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: we'll take some calls. In a minute. Eight hundred three
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