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Hour 1: Russian plague outbreak. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now on The Voice of New York, it's the Mark
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Speaker 1: Simone Show on 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Wednesday, middle of the week already. A lot
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Speaker 2: to get to today. It's a terrible, terrible, terrible anniversary,
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Speaker 2: October 7th. We'll look back at that. It's a happy
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Speaker 2: anniversary for Fox News. 30th anniversary today. We'll take a
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Speaker 2: look back at the beginnings of Fox News. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to the Yankees. Tonight is the third game. They lost
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Speaker 2: the first two. They've got to win three in a
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Speaker 2: row to stay in this. They're not going to win
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Speaker 2: three in a row. They're up against the best team
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Speaker 2: in baseball. They'll be back at Yankee Stadium tonight. It's
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Speaker 2: a home field advantage. I don't know how much that means.
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Speaker 2: But it doesn't look good. We'll get to crazy Mayor Mamdani.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to President Trump. He's going to get on
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Speaker 2: the phone with Vladimir Putin. They're going to discuss this
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Speaker 2: plague outbreak in Russia. Now, we went through this about
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Speaker 2: six years ago with this virus that was in Wuhan, China,
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Speaker 2: thinking it would stay local. It started to spread around China.
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Speaker 2: So we... This plague came from the same thing, came
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Speaker 2: from a lab. A test tube broke. A lab worker
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Speaker 2: got it on him. He's in the hospital. Marco Rubio
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Speaker 2: is on top of this.
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Speaker 3: We encourage Russia to be transparent and share more information
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Speaker 3: with the world so that all of us could react
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Speaker 3: accordingly and appropriately. But we'll have to make those decisions
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Speaker 3: on the basis of the information that we're learning and
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Speaker 3: are being provided.
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Speaker 2: And so far, that's still quite limited. If you're depending
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Speaker 2: on Russia to be transparent, you got a problem there.
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Speaker 2: As I say, President Trump will call Putin. They will speak.
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Speaker 2: Very deep discussions, he says. There was a lab technician
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Speaker 2: who died on Friday in a hospital. The illness is
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Speaker 2: pretty serious. She died after reportedly breaking the test tube
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Speaker 2: containing this deadly pathogen, got her infected. There's been significant
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Speaker 2: concern that she may have died from pneumonic plague. which
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Speaker 2: can spread from person to person. Not good. Not good.
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Speaker 2: Suffice it to say, we're watching it very closely.
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Speaker 3: And I think the whole world is watching it very
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Speaker 3: closely because depending on what we learn about it, we
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Speaker 3: would know how to respond.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. But again, you've got to prevent another Wuhan virus,
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Speaker 2: another one of those from spreading. October 7th, three years ago,
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Speaker 2: was the most horrible virus awful genocide, Holocaust, terrorist attack,
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Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, launched by Hamas on
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Speaker 2: behalf of the Palestinians. It was a horrible, horrible, horrible thing.
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Speaker 2: Just the most brutal, ugly, you know, there's a documentary
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Speaker 2: that was made about it that contains some of the
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Speaker 2: graphic footage. If you watched all the news coverage, you
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Speaker 2: haven't seen the really graphic footage, the really, really, unbelievably
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Speaker 2: ugly stuff that happened there. This documentary is about 40
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Speaker 2: minutes long. They would like Mamdani to look at it.
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Speaker 2: The producer and the ambassador is asking Mamdani to sit
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Speaker 2: there and watch it. They think if he were to
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Speaker 2: watch this, he would understand. I think they're a little naive,
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Speaker 2: guys like Mamdani, The left wing with the anti-Semitism, it's
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Speaker 2: so deeply embedded into them. There is nothing, nothing that's
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Speaker 2: going to change their mind, no matter how horrible it
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Speaker 2: is to watch, no matter how awful it looks. They
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Speaker 2: just think to themselves that it was justified, that it
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Speaker 2: had to be done on behalf of Hamas. And now
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Speaker 2: there's no indication that Mamdani will watch this documentary. It's
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Speaker 2: 47 minutes long, but it goes, it's actual footage. that
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Speaker 2: was shot by Hamas terrorists. They had GoPro cameras they
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Speaker 2: were wearing. So you could actually see the brutal, disgusting slaughter,
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Speaker 2: the raping of women, the killing of babies. It's all
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Speaker 2: in there. Will Mamdani watch it? I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. And there's no change in his mind.
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Speaker 2: You know, October 7th unleashed a wave of anti-Semitism. You
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Speaker 2: would think after such a brutal, unbelievable day, terrorist attack,
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Speaker 2: that the world would unite behind Israel, just like after 9-11,
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Speaker 2: they united behind the United States for 10 minutes, but
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Speaker 2: they did. But instead, it somehow unleashed this anti-Semitism that
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Speaker 2: was under the surface on the left, on much of
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Speaker 2: the left. And I hate to say it, but in
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Speaker 2: the three years, this anti-Semitism has become acceptable in in
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Speaker 2: a lot of places all over the world and a
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Speaker 2: lot of countries and a lot of the United States
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Speaker 2: among the left. It's just the ugliest thing, but it's,
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Speaker 2: it's happened. So that's three years ago today. Mamdani will
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Speaker 2: go to a vigil tonight to honor the dead from, uh,
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Speaker 2: October 7th. Now he does these kinds of things where
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Speaker 2: you think he's doing the right thing, where you think
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Speaker 2: he's turning on this, uh, You know, he'll do the
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Speaker 2: right thing. Like he signed that anti-terrorist bill the other day.
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Speaker 2: Then he hands the pen to the lawyer for the terrorists.
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Speaker 2: So he always does the right thing or appears to
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Speaker 2: do the right thing and then does something awful at
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Speaker 2: the end of it. Now he's going to do that tonight.
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Speaker 2: He's going to go to this vigil for the Israelis
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Speaker 2: killed on October 7th, but then he's going to a
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Speaker 2: Palestinian event. It's his way of doing something to signal
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Speaker 2: the haters and then He goes right the opposite way
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Speaker 2: to signal his base. Don't worry, I don't really mean it.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of Mondani, you're going to hear these crime numbers
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Speaker 2: all over the place. Crime is the lowest in history.
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Speaker 2: They're talking only about shootings. Shootings are down. In fact,
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Speaker 2: in the numbers, it looks like they may be at
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Speaker 2: the lowest point ever. Shootings. But subway crime is up. Robbery, up.
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Speaker 2: Hate crimes up dramatically. There's a spike in all of
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Speaker 2: these things. So shooting is down, but they kind of just,
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Speaker 2: you know, generalize. You'll just hear the lowest crime numbers
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Speaker 2: in history. They're talking about shooting. Not crime, not subway crime,
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Speaker 2: not robbery, which is the stuff most people have to
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Speaker 2: worry about. Here's Mom Donnie.
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Speaker 5: Last year from January until the end of August, our
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Speaker 5: city recorded 5,000 fewer reported crimes than it did through
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Speaker 5: the same eight months in 2025. I want to put
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Speaker 5: that into percentages. Major crime is down 6.6% across the
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Speaker 5: five boroughs, with the largest drop in the Bronx, which
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Speaker 5: has recorded 2,400 fewer crimes this year compared to last.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, most of it is shooting, though. Subway crime is up.
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Speaker 5: Our subway system recorded zero rapes, shooting incidents, or shooting
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Speaker 5: victims throughout the entire month of August. In August, we
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Speaker 5: made history with the fewest robberies on transit ever recorded
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Speaker 5: in that month. And we've achieved these record lows as
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Speaker 5: ridership reaches highs not seen since the pandemic, with nearly
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Speaker 5: 4.7 million New Yorkers riding the subway on a Wednesday
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Speaker 5: last month.
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Speaker 2: But overall, subway crime up. And he's not even mentioning
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Speaker 2: the spike in hate crime. It's pretty bad. President Trump,
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Speaker 2: speaking to reporters, there's a reporter from Bloomberg. Bloomberg is
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Speaker 2: a very biased, slanted left-wing news organization. And they're asking
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Speaker 2: him about the Wall Street Journal. President Trump, no filter.
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Speaker 4: What is the Wall Street Journal now? I'm meeting with
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Speaker 4: them tomorrow. What is the Wall Street Journal?
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Speaker 2: They've been wrong about everything.
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Speaker 4: So have you, by the way.
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Speaker 2: You've been wrong about everything.
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Speaker 5: You're trying to turn this into debate. There are business people.
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Speaker 5: You're wrong. You've been wrong all your life on this stuff.
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Speaker 2: You're trying to turn this into a debate. What's the debate?
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Speaker 2: You have been wrong. You can check the records. Pretty simple.
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Speaker 2: How come you're not talking about the riots in France? Well,
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Speaker 2: because that's not news. That's pretty much normal. Every so often,
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Speaker 2: it's like a yearly event in France. Riots, boycotts, worker
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Speaker 2: strike happens all the time. This time, it is escalating, though,
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Speaker 2: in France. Police fired tear gas, 6,100 arrests. It's pretty
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Speaker 2: bad over there. But again, it's something they do in France.
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Speaker 2: It's like their national pastime, these riots, this worker strike
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Speaker 2: and boycott of everything. It's pretty bad this time. President
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Speaker 2: Trump saying that much of it is due to, they
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Speaker 2: got a lot of illegals in there. They got a
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Speaker 2: lot of migrants that have shown up and it's added
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Speaker 2: to the numbers. So they love this stuff, striking, boycotting, picketing. Hey,
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Speaker 2: this Krista Pike, this is the woman who was executed.
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Speaker 2: Two lethal injections. She survived both of them. She's in
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Speaker 2: the hospital. She's wide awake. She's speaking. She's talking. Krista
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Speaker 2: Pike survived both lethal injections. Actually, I think she's the
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Speaker 2: first person in history to survive two lethal injections. And
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Speaker 2: she's conscious. She's speaking to everybody. She's getting medical care.
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Speaker 2: She's going to be in the hospital for a while.
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Speaker 2: But she's awake and talking. MSNBC is calling her, trying
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Speaker 2: to sign her up as a correspondent or something. But
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Speaker 2: she's 50 years old. Now, she was in such a
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Speaker 2: weird medical condition, her lawyers kept warning the state that
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Speaker 2: her veins were all screwed up, that her veins were
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Speaker 2: all clogged, her veins were all tiny, and that the
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Speaker 2: lethal injection would not get through her veins and kill her.
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Speaker 2: She had a choice. Believe it or not, you get
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Speaker 2: a choice between being electrocuted or not. She chose the
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Speaker 2: lethal injection. Who knows? Maybe she knew with her veins
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Speaker 2: it wouldn't work. So she was rushed to the hospital,
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Speaker 2: been there for days and days and days. She's handcuffed, shackled,
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Speaker 2: you know, handcuffed to the bed. Despite the severe damage
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Speaker 2: she endured to her arms, she's still handcuffed. Her recovery,
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Speaker 2: they say, is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear, but
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Speaker 2: they expect a long, slow recovery. Now, here's the thing.
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Speaker 2: They would probably want to execute her again, but you
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Speaker 2: can't until she recovers. And under the law, if she's
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Speaker 2: not totally coherent, you can't execute her. She has to
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Speaker 2: be totally coherent. There's something in the law where they
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Speaker 2: have to be able to know what's going on, and
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Speaker 2: they have to be able to speak and defend themselves.
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Speaker 2: So she could just pretend to not be too coherent
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Speaker 2: and avoid execution that way. The price of gas, hang on,
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Speaker 2: let me check. Price of oil, yeah, it's down to $ 89.
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Speaker 2: It's a big drop from where it was, and it'll
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Speaker 2: keep dropping as we get more and more oil coming
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Speaker 2: out of the straight of our moose every day. But
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Speaker 2: a lot of that, when it's $ 4. 50 at the pump,
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Speaker 2: You know, like $ 1. 50 of that is taxes. It could
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Speaker 2: be $ 3 a gallon if it got rid of all
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Speaker 2: this gas tax. Like in New York, the gas tax
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Speaker 2: in New York, just the New York State gas tax,
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Speaker 2: 75 cents a gallon. But President Trump now saying he's
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Speaker 2: considering suspending federal gas tax. Just suspend it. Just take
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Speaker 2: off the federal gas tax, and that would drop it
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Speaker 2: a lot. Federal gas tax is about 20 cents a gallon.
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Speaker 2: For diesel, it's about 25 cents a gallon. One reason
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Speaker 2: to do that, it would encourage the states to do
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Speaker 2: the same thing. So if the state and federal tax
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Speaker 2: were taken off gas, the price would drop a dollar
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Speaker 2: a gallon here. Dollar a gallon, which would help a
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Speaker 2: lot of people. So I just heard that on the news.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's autumn. It's really autumn. The skating rink
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Speaker 2: opens next week. The Rockefeller Center rink will be open.
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Speaker 2: This is happening too fast. It was just summer. It's
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Speaker 2: happening really fast. Passengers were on a United Airlines flight. Now,
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Speaker 2: you know, when you go to the airport, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're so afraid there's going to be delays. You're going
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Speaker 2: to be stuck. It's going to not take off on time.
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Speaker 2: You could be sitting there for an hour or two.
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Speaker 2: Passengers on this United Airlines flight had a brutal 12-hour
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Speaker 2: delay A 12-hour delay. Passengers were grounded by one thing
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Speaker 2: after another. There was a cockpit malfunction. Took a while
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Speaker 2: to fix that. Then they had a severe thunderstorm. Took
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Speaker 2: a while to fix that. Then something else happened. It's
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Speaker 2: one thing after another. It's a 12-hour delay. And then,
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Speaker 2: believe it or not, after a certain number of hours,
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Speaker 2: there's a regulation, union rules, that the crew has to
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Speaker 2: be changed. The crew can't work anymore. There's no rule
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Speaker 2: that they can't keep you sitting there for 10 hours,
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Speaker 2: 11 hours, but you can't do that to the crew.
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Speaker 2: So they, well, I guess it's important because you want
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Speaker 2: the crew alert when they're flying the plane. But then
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Speaker 2: after about 10 hours, sorry, we have to, the crew
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Speaker 2: has to go. They can't be held here anymore. So
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Speaker 2: they have to find a new crew to come in
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Speaker 2: and take over the plane. And that takes them a
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Speaker 2: couple hours. So it was a 12 hour delay. Eventually,
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Speaker 2: I guess they just canceled the flight after. Can you
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Speaker 2: imagine sitting there 12 hours? A lot of it was
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Speaker 2: on the plane. Then they made everybody get off the plane,
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Speaker 2: sit in the airport. But 12 hours of this, and
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Speaker 2: then they canceled the flight. There was also a faulty
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Speaker 2: door seal. Then there was a mishap with the plane's
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Speaker 2: pushback tug that played. It's one thing after another. That
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Speaker 2: was United Airlines. Give them credit for it. United Airlines.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, 30th birthday of Fox News today. We'll take
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Speaker 2: a look at it. the beginnings of fox news it
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Speaker 2: was 30 years ago you remember and nobody nobody knew
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Speaker 2: what it was it was now it's the number one
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Speaker 2: cable news channel but at the time nobody had ever
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Speaker 2: heard of it and it wasn't really on anywhere there
14:52
Speaker 2: was a manhattan cable back then this is before spectrum
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Speaker 2: and optimum and all that stuff but they wouldn't run
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Speaker 2: it and rudy giuliani was uh was he still yeah
15:02
Speaker 2: he was the mayor at the time and he pushed
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Speaker 2: and pushed and pushed to get fox news on And
15:07
Speaker 2: it started very slowly. Sean Hannity was one of the originals.
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Speaker 2: Britt Hume was one of the originals. Bill O'Reilly was
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Speaker 2: one of the originals, became the big star there along
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Speaker 2: with Sean. And then one by one, it slowly grew.
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Speaker 2: It took a while, but we'll go back to the beginning.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to some of the originals coming up a
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Speaker 2: little later. The Emmy Awards, huh? Moving to Amazon Prime.
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Speaker 2: The Emmy Awards always been on network television for seven decades.
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Speaker 2: In fact, since 1955, it's been on every network. It
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Speaker 2: was on NBC for years, CBS, ABC. That's it. Leaving
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Speaker 2: network TV. It's going to Amazon. Now, Amazon says they'll
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Speaker 2: make it free. You don't have to pay for a
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Speaker 2: subscription to Prime Video. So this is a big deal.
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Speaker 2: Network TV is dying. Very small audience now. You know,
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Speaker 2: a primetime TV show, Law & Order, one of these
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Speaker 2: primetime shows, used to easily get 40 million viewers. Now
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Speaker 2: they're lucky if they get 3 million. I mean, the
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Speaker 2: numbers are way, way down on television and especially network television.
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Speaker 2: Way down. So something like the Oscars used to do
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Speaker 2: 100 million people. Now they're lucky if they can hit
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Speaker 2: 10 million. And the only thing keeping television alive Oscars, Emmys,
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Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. But really, it's sports. It's NFL,
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. You know, the playoff games, some of
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Speaker 2: those were getting 30, 40 million. That's the only time
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Speaker 2: network TV really comes alive. 60 Minutes doing pretty well. Actually,
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Speaker 2: they had their biggest Sunday night of the season this
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Speaker 2: past Sunday night. 60 Minutes got 10 million viewers. Still
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Speaker 2: not like the old days. The old days, they would
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Speaker 2: get 60 million. But 10 million is huge. It would
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Speaker 2: make it the number one show on television. So one
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Speaker 2: by one, The streaming services will steal everything from network TV.
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Speaker 2: The award shows, they're already doing a few of the
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Speaker 2: sports stuff, a few of the games. Once they steal
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Speaker 2: it all, once they break those network sports contracts and
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Speaker 2: get that, that's the end of network TV. Hey, we've
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Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. It's Mark Simone here.
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Speaker 2: Three hours every day, 9 to noon. Three hours. 9
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Speaker 2: to noon here on 710WOR. Mark's a mom. Mr. New York.
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Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 to noon on 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Hey, well, Cornell trying to do damage control, doing it
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Speaker 2: slowly and not very effectively. But Cornell has hired a,
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Speaker 2: you know, they want an investigation team. Cornell is going
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Speaker 2: to investigate their investigation, their handling of the, uh, Cornell seven. Uh,
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Speaker 2: they have hired former U S acting attorney general, Sally
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Speaker 2: Yates to lead the internal investigation. Well, uh, I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you're going to hire somebody, uh, Sally Yates, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. She was in the Trump administration, but Trump
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Speaker 2: fired her. Uh, she was at one time acting attorney general.
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Speaker 2: Trump had to fire her, but, um, That gives her
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Speaker 2: real credibility with the Ivy League. Oh, Trump fired her? Perfect.
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Speaker 2: We'll take her. She's conducting an independent review of how Cornell,
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Speaker 2: if they followed their policies and what they're doing to
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Speaker 2: prevent and respond to sexual assault claims, the university announced Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: The rules of damage control, crisis management is you admit
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Speaker 2: what you did You apologize for what happened. And then
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Speaker 2: you talk about what you're doing to make sure it
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Speaker 2: never happens again. That was basically the three principles. It's
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Speaker 2: pretty bad for Cornell because they had an investigation. They
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Speaker 2: didn't do enough. I mean, they did a lot. They
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Speaker 2: did suspend students. They did expel a couple of them.
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Speaker 2: There were two. Now, it looks like it was really
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Speaker 2: only four students. They say the Cornell seven. But it
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Speaker 2: looks like it was only four that were really doing
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Speaker 2: the actual stuff. while others were just in and out.
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Speaker 2: But afterwards, they didn't do enough. The students are all
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Speaker 2: talking now about all sorts of stuff.
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Speaker 4: So I need you to be honest with me.
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Speaker 5: I'm told, no matter if the other people that I
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Speaker 5: spoke with are not being honest with me, and you are,
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Speaker 5: was that there was.
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Speaker 2: A House meeting about it with the president.
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Speaker 4: We didn't.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. We didn't have a meeting about it. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's really good, the cover of the student meeting, is
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Speaker 2: hold them up. microphone about 600 feet from the guy
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Speaker 2: so you can barely hear him. But let me see
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Speaker 2: if we can hear this one.
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Speaker 4: What people were saying was that there was, like, multiple
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Speaker 4: consenting adults in this room.
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Speaker 2: There is a consensual act that... Yeah, now here's the problem.
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Speaker 2: This woman, who's only 18... Really a girl. I mean,
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Speaker 2: she's only 18. Voluntarily, she wanted to go to this fraternity.
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Speaker 2: She wanted to go. You can see it in the
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Speaker 2: text and everything. She went to the fraternity. She'd already
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Speaker 2: had 10 drinks. She was already, 10 drinks. 10 drinks.
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Speaker 2: She shows up drunk as can be. When she gets there,
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Speaker 2: they offered her ketamine and she did it. And another drink.
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Speaker 2: That's 11 drinks plus the drugs. There were two guys
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Speaker 2: she wanted to have sex with. She voluntarily wanted to
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Speaker 2: have sex with. She admits to all this in her
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Speaker 2: original statement. One of them put the ketamine. What is ketamine?
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Speaker 2: Is it a powder? I guess it is. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think it's a powder. So he put it all over his,
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Speaker 2: let's just use the word penis. and then asked her
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Speaker 2: to perform an act on it. And she voluntarily did this,
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Speaker 2: wanted to do, she admits to all of this in
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Speaker 2: her statement. Now, the problem is apparently this is going
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Speaker 2: on this threesome, which she was, it was consensual. This
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Speaker 2: is what she wanted. And then other guys came into
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Speaker 2: the room. So that's, uh, part of the problem for, um, uh,
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Speaker 2: the prosecutors. She's looks pretty sleazy in all of this. Then, uh,
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Speaker 2: The other problem is her statement, her original statement, is
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Speaker 2: different from her later statement, different from when she spoke
21:36
Speaker 2: to the police. There's discrepancies there. So that's the kind
21:38
Speaker 2: of thing a defense attorney can use. Also, if you've
21:43
Speaker 2: had 11 drinks and a lot of drugs, they'll argue
21:47
Speaker 2: that she wasn't coherent enough to identify anybody. So that's
21:51
Speaker 2: what these defense attorneys will use. It's not going to
21:54
Speaker 2: be easy. But Cornell has started this review. They'll look
21:58
Speaker 2: into it with Sally Yates, who was, again, they keep
22:02
Speaker 2: saying a former attorney general. They forget to mention she
22:06
Speaker 2: was an acting attorney general who got fired, so it's
22:08
Speaker 2: not as impressive as it sounds. Hey, Starbucks, you can't
22:13
Speaker 2: trust this Starbucks. You go into Starbucks, they got this,
22:17
Speaker 2: they all, every drink looks incredible. I mean, you just
22:19
Speaker 2: look at the picture, you look at the description, you
22:22
Speaker 2: want to have it. And then they put these things
22:24
Speaker 2: in there that are sugar-free. So consumers are now suing
22:29
Speaker 2: Starbucks because the sugar-free drink actually had a lot of
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Speaker 2: sugar in it, even though it says sugar-free. It's called
22:36
Speaker 2: a protein beverage, but it was more sugar than protein. Anyway,
22:40
Speaker 2: Starbucks is trying to defend themselves, saying what they meant
22:43
Speaker 2: was there's no added sugar. Now, there's sugar in it
22:47
Speaker 2: from the milk, from all kinds of things, All the
22:50
Speaker 2: ingredients have a lot of sugar, so there's a lot
22:52
Speaker 2: of sugar in the drink, but they're claiming that they're
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Speaker 2: justified in saying sugar-free in that they did not add
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Speaker 2: any sugar. There's no added sugar. Well, I don't know
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Speaker 2: if they're going to get away with that in a courtroom.
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Speaker 2: A Starbucks spokesman said in an email, the claims have
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Speaker 2: no merit. The beverages are protein-packed with no added sugar. Well,
23:13
Speaker 2: the reason there's no added sugar, it already had a
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Speaker 2: ton of sugar, and all the ingredients had enough sugar
23:18
Speaker 2: in it. It was sweet enough. So we'll see what
23:21
Speaker 2: happens with Starbucks. But you're supposed to disclose all the
23:25
Speaker 2: contents and all this stuff. So it's not sugar-free. It's
23:28
Speaker 2: not low-calorie. They're probably going to have a lot of
23:31
Speaker 2: trouble with this lawsuit. Hey, Fox News, 30th anniversary. 30th anniversary. Now,
23:37
Speaker 2: there was only a handful of people that were there
23:39
Speaker 2: the opening day from the beginning. We'll talk to one
23:42
Speaker 2: of them. Coming up in just a couple of minutes,
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Speaker 2: it's Mark Simone here. On 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Mark Simone, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
23:57
Speaker 2: Hey, it's the 30th anniversary of Fox News today. Now,
24:01
Speaker 2: this is hard to believe because it's the biggest number
24:04
Speaker 2: one cable news network. But in the beginning, it was little, tiny,
24:08
Speaker 2: nobody knew it. It was an amazing success story. Very
24:13
Speaker 2: few people there on day one. that are still there,
24:16
Speaker 2: but we've got my friend, my old friend, Eric Sean,
24:20
Speaker 2: great anchor, reporter, senior correspondent for Fox News. He's been
24:24
Speaker 2: there since day one. Eric Sean, how you doing?
24:28
Speaker 4: Hey, Mark. Good to talk to you. We go way
24:31
Speaker 4: back to the early 90s. It's great to talk to you.
24:33
Speaker 4: And always see you, of course. Yeah.
24:35
Speaker 2: Now, before Fox News, I'm trying to remember, you were
24:38
Speaker 2: Channel 5, right? The local Fox.
24:41
Speaker 4: Yes. Channel 11 in the 80s, went to Channel 5
24:43
Speaker 4: in 1989. And in 1990, Mr. Murdoch decided to start
24:51
Speaker 4: a national coverage for all our Fox stations, including Channel 5.
24:55
Speaker 4: So when you say it's just like one, it was me.
24:59
Speaker 4: It was me and a cameraman. And that was it.
25:01
Speaker 4: All you need is that and you plug into a
25:04
Speaker 4: satellite truck somewhere and we traveled all over the world.
25:08
Speaker 4: And then in 1996, I was covering the O.J. Simpson trial.
25:12
Speaker 4: For all the Fox stations in the network. And that
25:14
Speaker 4: is when we started the Fox News Channel.
25:17
Speaker 2: So back then, the only thing that was big on
25:20
Speaker 2: cable was CNN. And then Rupert Murdoch, visionary, decides to
25:24
Speaker 2: start Fox News. And when you tell us about the
25:27
Speaker 2: very beginning, like the first days, it was like a
25:30
Speaker 2: small staff, right? It was kind of primitive back then,
25:32
Speaker 2: wasn't it?
25:33
Speaker 4: Oh, man, it was like Dixie Cups and String. Of course,
25:39
Speaker 4: we had people who knew the business. I'd been at
25:42
Speaker 4: Channel 11 and Channel 5 for a long time at
25:44
Speaker 4: that point. But you couldn't see it in New York.
25:47
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember. We started, and it
25:49
Speaker 4: was not on the cable systems. Mayor Giuliani was a
25:54
Speaker 4: big proponent of doing that. So when we started... I
25:58
Speaker 4: was actually the first day in Jerusalem because the night before,
26:02
Speaker 4: the day before on that Sunday, October 6th, they realized
26:05
Speaker 4: we have a Jerusalem bureau, but there's no reporter. So
26:09
Speaker 4: I flew, you got to do something. So I flew
26:11
Speaker 4: that night and my first live shot was from Jerusalem.
26:15
Speaker 4: And that day there was an earthquake while we were
26:18
Speaker 4: alive on the air and the building kind of swayed
26:22
Speaker 4: while we were alive on the air. Uh, and I think,
26:25
Speaker 4: I like to say, I think that we, Fox News
26:28
Speaker 4: started an earthquake in the media business after that. And then,
26:32
Speaker 4: you know, remember Sam Goodies?
26:34
Speaker 2: Of course, Sam Goodies, the record store.
26:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sam Goodies, the record store. And that was, that
26:39
Speaker 4: then became the first studio. And it was, you know,
26:44
Speaker 4: very small. And then it just exploded beyond what we
26:47
Speaker 4: have today. I was made fun of by the networks.
26:50
Speaker 4: I went one time, went to the White House pool
26:52
Speaker 4: to feed some videotape. And they said, who are you?
26:55
Speaker 4: And I said, I'm Eric Shawn from, where are you from?
26:57
Speaker 4: I said, well, Fox. And they were like, Fox doesn't
27:01
Speaker 4: have a news. You know, hey, Bart Simpson is here. Hey,
27:04
Speaker 4: you look like Homer. You don't look like Homer. Oh,
27:07
Speaker 4: they would bust my chops, Mark. But I think at
27:09
Speaker 4: the end, we had the last laugh.
27:11
Speaker 2: So the first week of Fox News, what was on?
27:13
Speaker 2: I remember there was Hannity, right? Hannity and Combs.
27:16
Speaker 4: Hannity and Combs. And they did a lot of, they
27:19
Speaker 4: did the news. And then there are all these programs
27:21
Speaker 4: called Fox On. Like Fox On, you know, politics. Fox On,
27:26
Speaker 4: foreign affairs. My favorite was Fox On Pets. I think
27:29
Speaker 4: we've got to bring Fox on Pets back. But it
27:31
Speaker 4: just evolved. And it's what it is.
27:35
Speaker 2: In the beginning, Bill O'Reilly was on?
27:38
Speaker 4: Bill was on. I had known Bill from Channel 11.
27:41
Speaker 4: He was on Picks for a very short time. And
27:46
Speaker 4: Bill O'Reilly, Hannity, and Combs, of course. Catherine Cryer had
27:50
Speaker 4: come from NBC, had a show. Mike Schneider, who had
27:54
Speaker 4: been an ABC anchor, he was the anchor of the
27:57
Speaker 4: Schneider Report, which then became Fox Report, which then became,
28:00
Speaker 4: you know, with Shepard Smith. It kind of just all evolved,
28:04
Speaker 4: you know, Steve Doocy on Fox and Friends in the Morning.
28:07
Speaker 4: And it just kind of evolved to what we have
28:11
Speaker 4: obviously today and have had the past number of decades.
28:13
Speaker 2: And what was Roger Ailes telling you guys back then?
28:15
Speaker 2: He was like a genius programming consultant. What did he
28:21
Speaker 2: tell you? He really was.
28:22
Speaker 4: Just go do it. Be yourself. Just go do it.
28:25
Speaker 4: And I think that's one of our secrets. You think
28:28
Speaker 4: of why did it catch on? I think because we
28:33
Speaker 4: are the audience. We're not pontificating. We're not talking down
28:37
Speaker 4: to people. It's just us. And I think that energy
28:41
Speaker 4: comes is on the air. I also think the soul,
28:44
Speaker 4: you know, of like the New York Post, what was
28:46
Speaker 4: News Corp at the time, it's, well, renegades, they're like pirates, underdogs.
28:53
Speaker 4: I think that we still have that same spirit today,
28:56
Speaker 4: that scrappy, I like to call it the scrappy New
28:58
Speaker 4: York spirit that we still have. And I think that
29:01
Speaker 4: is really the soul of the DNA of the company.
29:05
Speaker 4: And all these years later, even though we've become number one,
29:08
Speaker 4: I still think we have that. And you know what?
29:11
Speaker 4: We like each other. We all like each other, which
29:13
Speaker 4: I've heard is different. It can be different from other places.
29:17
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, definitely. Hey, Eric, Sean is like the original
29:20
Speaker 2: Fox News guy. So if you go to Fox News now,
29:24
Speaker 2: it's a major operation. It's an enormous operation. Millions of
29:29
Speaker 2: people are there. Back in the beginning, it was just
29:31
Speaker 2: a handful of people, right? Were you a little short
29:33
Speaker 2: of crew and all that?
29:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'd go to a story, and CNN would have
29:38
Speaker 4: like 15 people. 20 people. I'd have four. It'd be me,
29:42
Speaker 4: a producer, a cameraman, and the satellite truck operator, who
29:46
Speaker 4: maybe we rent. You rent the satellite truck, you plug in,
29:49
Speaker 4: and that's how you go live.
29:51
Speaker 2: And the young.
29:52
Speaker 4: Producers would say, oh, my God, CNS has so many people.
29:55
Speaker 4: And I'd say, no, no, no. We have the attitude.
29:57
Speaker 4: You know, we have a spirit. We have an attitude,
30:01
Speaker 4: I think, that is special. And I think that as
30:03
Speaker 4: long as we should never, you know, lose that, I
30:07
Speaker 4: think that's one of the secrets of what we've come.
30:09
Speaker 4: And now we have, you know, there's Fox Radio, there's Fox.com,
30:14
Speaker 4: Fox Nation, the streaming service. I have shows on that now,
30:18
Speaker 4: the Jimmy Hoffa series, a whole range of programs. And
30:22
Speaker 4: that streaming is huge, and that's become a whole other thing.
30:26
Speaker 4: new frontier for the company.
30:28
Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, Eric Sean is like a Jimmy
30:30
Speaker 2: Hoffa expert. Now, I would assume Jimmy Hoffa, they just
30:34
Speaker 2: cremated him. The body's not anyplace. Didn't they just cremate him?
30:38
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to say that. He's not buried in New Jersey.
30:42
Speaker 4: Part of our show, our series, Riddle, the search for
30:44
Speaker 4: James R. Hoffa, we went out to the Moscato's dump
30:47
Speaker 4: in Jersey City under the Pulaski Skyway. I think it
30:50
Speaker 4: was a very simple mob hit. If you watch our series,
30:56
Speaker 4: I sat down with James P. Hoffa, Hoffa's son, former
31:00
Speaker 4: president of the Teamsters himself, and I think it was
31:04
Speaker 4: just a simple mob hit. Vito Giacalone, Billy Jack, part
31:09
Speaker 4: of the Detroit mob, picks him up at the restaurant
31:11
Speaker 4: with another guy. I think it was Tony Powell, Tony Palazzolo,
31:14
Speaker 4: taking him to the house, and just like in Goodfellas.
31:18
Speaker 2: Oh, the Irishman.
31:19
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:20
Speaker 4: No, I'm talking about like a hit in Goodfellas. Oh, yeah.
31:24
Speaker 4: When he walks in and Pesci walks in and thinks
31:29
Speaker 4: he's going to have a meeting. And I think it
31:31
Speaker 4: was very simple. And all of this, you know, came out.
31:36
Speaker 4: Gabe Bagulio. Gabe was the final last suspect in New Jersey.
31:41
Speaker 4: He had nothing to do with it. I just think
31:44
Speaker 4: it was all part of Detroit.
31:45
Speaker 2: Right.
31:46
Speaker 4: And that's all part of our series and what we
31:48
Speaker 4: did in that show.
31:49
Speaker 2: All right, but these guys driving around, where's the body?
31:51
Speaker 2: It's under Giants Stadium. It's in the metal. They just
31:55
Speaker 2: either cremated them or chopped them up like a... The
31:57
Speaker 2: Sopranos doing the meat packing plant, something like that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was actually a paper packaging type plant that
32:04
Speaker 4: crushed all this stuff. And truly, one of the mob
32:08
Speaker 4: guys went there that night. And then someone, you know,
32:12
Speaker 4: you can put these little pieces together to think, I
32:14
Speaker 4: think that's probably what happened. But I'm open and I'm
32:17
Speaker 4: still open and we'll see, you know, we're still open
32:21
Speaker 4: and I've got another new tip now. So we may continue.
32:26
Speaker 2: You should watch Fox Nation. It's their streaming service. And
32:29
Speaker 2: Eric Schoen has a lot of good stuff on Fox Nation.
32:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a whole mob series where I sit
32:34
Speaker 4: down with former mob guys. And Lou Ferrante, who was
32:40
Speaker 4: hijacked with the Gambino family. And then we interviewed Lou Kasman.
32:44
Speaker 4: If you remember, it was called Gotti's Guy. He's a
32:47
Speaker 4: very controversial figure. The Gotti family hates him. I understand that.
32:52
Speaker 4: but it's a whole series, and we just debuted Stories
32:55
Speaker 4: of American Mafia. This third season is on Fox Nation now.
32:59
Speaker 4: That went up this week.
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Speaker 2: Wow. All right. We're going to have to have you back.
33:01
Speaker 4: People are fascinated with that.
33:02
Speaker 2: We're going to have to have you back just to
33:03
Speaker 2: do mob stuff, because he's great on this. But the
33:07
Speaker 2: point of all this was Fox News' 30th anniversary. Did
33:10
Speaker 2: you ever think you'd be there 30 years later?
33:12
Speaker 4: Oh, I can't believe it. And it's gone by in
33:14
Speaker 4: a flash, you know. Wow. It just really has. Thank you, Mark.
33:17
Speaker 2: All right.
33:18
Speaker 4: I want to thank the viewers and everyone for their support.
33:20
Speaker 4: Thank you. creates our success. Wow.
33:23
Speaker 2: Eric, Sean, great work. Keep it up and we'll talk
33:26
Speaker 2: again soon. Thanks for being with us.
33:27
Speaker 4: All right, Mark. Of course.
33:28
Speaker 2: All right. Take care.
33:30
Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:30
Speaker 2: Fox News, 30 years old today. Hey, that Fox Nation,
33:34
Speaker 2: that's their streaming service. Sign up for that Fox Nation.
33:37
Speaker 2: He's got all these great mob specials. Oh, there's a
33:40
Speaker 2: Sinatra documentary on there. It's called Echoes of an Icon.
33:44
Speaker 2: It's one of the best Sinatra documentaries. I'm on it.
33:47
Speaker 2: That's not why it's the best. It's really good. But
33:50
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff on Fox Nation. And, of course,
33:52
Speaker 2: Fox News, the number one cable news network, 30 years.
33:56
Speaker 2: It's Mark Simone here on 710WOR. Mark Simone. Mr. New York.
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Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's autumn, but it's going to be nice today.
34:14
Speaker 2: It'll be about 65, 66 degrees, sunny. It's going to
34:18
Speaker 2: be sunny for the next few days. That's the good news.
34:20
Speaker 2: It'll be warm tomorrow. 76. It'll get near 80 tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: 70 on Friday. The weekend looks like it'll be about
34:28
Speaker 2: 70 degrees. Might be rain on Sunday. But the next
34:31
Speaker 2: four days, bright, beautiful, sunny days. Great weather forecast, at
34:36
Speaker 2: least for the next four days. So we've got a
34:39
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34:41
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34:43
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