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

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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, the Mark Simone Show. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's cold out. If you haven't been out yet, it's cold.
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  Speaker 1: You need an overcoat. You see President Trump on the
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  Speaker 1: airport tarmac there greeting Xi, wearing the big winter overcoat,
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  Speaker 1: the cashmere overcoat and gloves. It's cold out. Got big rainstorm.
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  Speaker 1: It mostly will be Saturday into a little bit into Sunday. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be maybe not that bad in the city. East
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  Speaker 1: of the city is where it could be heavy rain.
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu speaks at the UN today. That's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a traffic and security nightmare. He's expected to really let
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  Speaker 1: everybody have it, tell off everybody. It'll be a great moment.
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  Speaker 1: He'll expose the terrible, well, not expose, but really go
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  Speaker 1: after the anti-Semites, Mamdani and company. the president banned, they
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  Speaker 1: say he banned the press from the White House. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't ban the press. He banned MSNOW and CNN. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you even call them news networks. And Politico,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a news site. These are political advocacy sites,
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  Speaker 1: left-wing advocacy sites, which is fine, but they're not, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the, all of the press still allowed in the
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  Speaker 1: White House. So they went to a court, a DC
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  Speaker 1: left-wing judge. They love to tell you, It's a Trump-appointed judge.
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  Speaker 1: Trump had nothing to do with picking the judge. Judges
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  Speaker 1: are always picked by the senators or the congressmen or locals.
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  Speaker 1: And the president approves it. Very rarely does the president
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  Speaker 1: actually look for his own pick. So he didn't know
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  Speaker 1: the judge when he appointed him. And that's always the
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  Speaker 1: case with every president. But the judge ruled you can't
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  Speaker 1: ban the press. It has to go to trial. But
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  Speaker 1: he put in a 14-day hold on the ban. So
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  Speaker 1: you can't ban them for 14 days. So they showed
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  Speaker 1: up today and they were banned again. Here's Brit Hume.
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  Speaker 1: Brit Hume is a very important voice to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's brilliant. Old Washington hand. He knows his stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, the White House has generally avoided defying
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  Speaker 1: court orders, but it appears to have done just that
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Well, it's a little tiny matter. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like he banned the press. He just banned these couple
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  Speaker 1: of kooky left-wing outfits. And he is defying a court order.
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  Speaker 1: You're not supposed to do that. But what's the judge
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  Speaker 1: going to do about it? What's he going to do? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they could serve him with a subpoena or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Hold him in contempt. Good. Try it. See how that
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  Speaker 1: works out for you. You can't even get into the
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  Speaker 1: White House grounds. How are you going to enforce it?
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  Speaker 1: So this will be an interesting battle to watch. And
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  Speaker 1: we told you yesterday, Taylor Swift put out a new single.
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  Speaker 1: She knows how to create a whole buzz about anything,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a wedding, whether it's a... So the new
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  Speaker 1: single had everybody talking, breathlessly waiting to hear it. It's
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  Speaker 1: not much of a melody, but a great, great song.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell she's singing, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure as long as she knows, it's fine. So it's
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. Millions will be downloading it as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we'll see. President Xi... is here for
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  Speaker 1: a whole day with Donald Trump. Boy, you look at
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  Speaker 1: the schedule. There's a gift exchanging ceremony. This is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You have to give the Chinese a gift. They have
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  Speaker 1: to give you a gift. I'm sure it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be anything too exciting, either gift. And then they
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  Speaker 1: have all sorts of meetings. Where's the president's schedule? Here
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  Speaker 1: it is. 10 a.m., greet the president. He was greeted
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at the tarmac. Now he comes to the White House.
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  Speaker 1: And in the South Portico, you have a greeting ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: And then Melania has to meet with Madame Ping, his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen her? Does not look like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun, this one. Does not look like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun to be with. Then a 1010, a rival
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  Speaker 1: ceremony with 1015. They will make remarks. Luckily, this is
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  Speaker 1: all behind us now. Oh, 1030.
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  Speaker 2: 1030.
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  Speaker 1: The President and First Lady participate in a gift exchange
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  Speaker 1: with them in the Blue Room. Then they move back
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  Speaker 1: to the South Portico at 1040. The President and First
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  Speaker 1: Lady participate in silent drill platoon review. Who wants to
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  Speaker 1: do this all day? It doesn't sound like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. 11 o'clock, they participate in a military review.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants to do this all day? They sit there
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  Speaker 1: and they watch the military come. What are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Showing off for China? They know we got a military.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look at Iraq, Iran. You could see what
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  Speaker 1: we can do. Ah, here we go. 1130. That's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: The president participates in a bilateral meeting with Xing in
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office with Xi, Xi Jinping. Closed press. A
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  Speaker 1: bilateral meeting. It looks like the bilateral meeting is a
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  Speaker 1: half hour on the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Even for a half hour, you've seen this President Xi.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell would you talk to him about for
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  Speaker 1: a half hour? You could talk about AI. You could
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  Speaker 1: try to come to an agreement. Now, the one thing
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  Speaker 1: they do want to talk about is it's believed that
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  Speaker 1: China is supplying Iran with money, with cash, with weapons,
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  Speaker 1: keeping them going. You want to get them to stop
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  Speaker 1: doing that. That's the main topic. The second topic might
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  Speaker 1: be AI guidelines and restraints. But as everybody knows, Whatever
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  Speaker 1: is agreed to in the meeting is never going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: You could get Xi to promise not to keep supplying Iran,
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  Speaker 1: not to give them weapons. You could make an agreement.
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  Speaker 1: You could sign an agreement. You could have 20 people
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  Speaker 1: sign it. You could sign 10 more agreements. And he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to stick to it. That's the history of
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  Speaker 1: China and Iran and Russia. They never stick to an agreement.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the point of this? And also, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you realize, but Xi is very weak.
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  Speaker 1: It's not certain that he will continue as the leader
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  Speaker 1: of China. A lot of people think he should be removed.
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  Speaker 1: He's in a weak position right now there. So he
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  Speaker 1: has to be very careful. He can't show any weakness
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  Speaker 1: with the President of the United States. Okay, then they participate. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at this. A cultural visit to the Smithsonian National
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  Speaker 1: Museum of Art. Oh, excuse me. It's one wing. It's
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  Speaker 1: the Asian art. All right, if I told you right
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  Speaker 1: now you're going to go spend the day at the
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  Speaker 1: Smithsonian in the Asian art wing, it doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. If I said to you, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to take Xi Jinping and Mrs. Ping and show
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  Speaker 1: them around, this doesn't sound like a great day. Then
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  Speaker 1: at 3.30, they have a policy meeting without Xi Jinping.
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  Speaker 1: He goes back to his hotel or something. Thank God.
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  Speaker 1: You get away from this guy for two hours. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: then at 7.55 is the state dinner in the East
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  Speaker 1: Room of the White House, President and the First Lady.
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  Speaker 1: Big state dinner. They've invited all the tech CEOs, the
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerbergs, the head of Apple, the head of the
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  Speaker 1: AI companies. They'll all be there. Mr. and Mrs. Ping
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  Speaker 1: will be there. They get to take a picture with them.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say you had a picture with Xi Jinping. What
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  Speaker 1: are you going to do with it? Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to show that to people? What are you going to
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  Speaker 1: do with that? Put that on your Instagram? Here's me
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  Speaker 1: and Xi Jinping. Not that exciting. So then he'll leave
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  Speaker 1: later tonight, and I'll get rid of this guy for
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  Speaker 1: a while. UN week, by the way, will drop down
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  Speaker 1: a little. Netanyahu's speaking today. That's a big thing. Big security,
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  Speaker 1: traffic nightmare. And then tomorrow, it'll ease up slightly. And
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  Speaker 1: then this thing continues next week, but without the world leaders.
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  Speaker 1: So once the world leaders leave, you won't have the
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  Speaker 1: traffic problems. So it'll be a little less tomorrow and Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And then over the weekend, these world leaders will start leaving. Now,
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  Speaker 1: many of them might stay for a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: because they got Broadway shows. They got shopping. They go
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  Speaker 1: to restaurants. There's a couple of hookers they didn't get to.
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  Speaker 1: This is what goes on over the weekend. Then Monday
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  Speaker 1: should be much easier. Next week should be much easier.
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  Speaker 1: Still be UN activity, but not these world leaders. And
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  Speaker 1: that will help a lot. As I mentioned, Prince Harry
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  Speaker 1: is here. Whenever they do this UN General Assembly week,
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  Speaker 1: they do the Clinton Global Initiative, which is a big
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  Speaker 1: shakedown of donors. They get every big star-struck donor. You
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  Speaker 1: give them a ton of money. And they have seminars
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  Speaker 1: and panels and meet and greets. They try to get
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  Speaker 1: famous people there. The big name this week is Prince Harry.
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  Speaker 1: Prince Harry is there to speak about the dangers of
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  Speaker 1: social media. He's going to talk about social media affecting
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  Speaker 1: our kids. Now, who the hell is this guy to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it when he's got a wife that that's
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  Speaker 1: all she does all day is put stuff up on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: That's all these two do for a living is put
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  Speaker 1: up social media stuff. I don't know who the hell
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  Speaker 1: they are to bother anybody about this. The Iranian president
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  Speaker 1: spoke yesterday, of course, calling us all kinds of names
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  Speaker 1: and He looked terrified. The Iranian president. He's currently the
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  Speaker 1: president of Iran, but you know, this is Iran. They
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  Speaker 1: could take you out and execute you at any moment.
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  Speaker 1: He looked so panicky. He looked so frightened when he
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  Speaker 1: was speaking. Because if it's one wrong word from this guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're going to execute him as soon as
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  Speaker 1: he gets back. He's the president of Iran, but no
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  Speaker 1: life insurance company would handle this guy right now. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he had life insurance. They even asked for their calendar back.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want to. You know who's negotiating with Gaza
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  Speaker 1: and all of that is Jared Kushner. You ever heard
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  Speaker 1: Jared Kushner speak? Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: We want to have a Gaza Strip that could thrive
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  Speaker 2: and reach its full potential. In order for that to happen,
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  Speaker 2: it must be fully demilitarized in that regard, meaning that
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  Speaker 2: Hamas has agreed to give up the weapons, but we
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  Speaker 2: need to implement that.
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  Speaker 1: Does he sound a little annoying? I don't know. Would
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  Speaker 1: you want to listen to this guy for a whole
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  Speaker 1: hour in a meeting?
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  Speaker 2: We're building something that is really a platform to enable
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  Speaker 2: the Palestinian people in Gaza to finally focus on improving
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  Speaker 2: their livelihoods and improving their lives and for those who
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  Speaker 2: want to live in peace to give them a chance
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  Speaker 2: to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, these old Washington hands or the Democrats or
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  Speaker 1: the old congressmen, they'll say, well, he should not have
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  Speaker 1: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. This should be a professional
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  Speaker 1: State Department, professional foreign policy people. They should be doing
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  Speaker 1: the negotiating. Well, they're not that effective, those guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they got briefing books and they look effective. The most
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  Speaker 1: important thing taught to Trump when he first ran, first
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  Speaker 1: big meeting was Henry Kissinger. And there's nobody knows this
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  Speaker 1: stuff better. And he said, the one thing Kissinger told
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  Speaker 1: them is when it comes to foreign policy, don't let
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  Speaker 1: the State Department handle it. And when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, don't listen to these idiots with their briefing books.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let them negotiate. And he said, do it yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what that's all about. And Kissinger's right. Look
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  Speaker 1: at all the professional negotiators and diplomats and State Department
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy experts. For all their years of these negotiations,
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  Speaker 1: Nothing ever changed. Nothing ever got settled. Nothing. It never
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  Speaker 1: made any difference. Now, the other thing is, does it
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  Speaker 1: matter who's negotiating? No matter what agreement you make with China,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what agreement you make with Palestinians, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what agreement you make with Iran, nobody sticks to it ever.
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  Speaker 1: There's never been one single case where they've ever stuck
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  Speaker 1: to any of these agreements. So what's the difference, what
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  Speaker 1: you come up with? You know, a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: they got rid of cable. They used to call it
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  Speaker 1: cut the cord, cutting the cord. The cable bill was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It was $ 200, $ 300. You'd pay a fortune for your
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  Speaker 1: cable TV. So a lot of people cut the cord.
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  Speaker 1: They got rid of that, and they went to streaming
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  Speaker 1: because you could just, $ 8, you got streaming. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: was $ 8. Then it's $ 12. Then it's $ 15. Then it's $ 20.
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  Speaker 1: And now it turns out you can't have one streaming service.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to have six of them. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: guess you could just have Netflix, but you got to
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  Speaker 1: have Paramount. You got to have Disney. You got to
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  Speaker 1: have Hulu. And they keep raising the prices. Everybody's all
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  Speaker 1: upset now. This is if you want the ad-free Disney.
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  Speaker 1: It's going up $ 2.
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  Speaker 2: 50.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be $ 21. 50 a month. And Hulu increasing
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  Speaker 1: $ 2. 50 a month. It's now going to be $ 22 a month.
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  Speaker 1: So if you add up the five or six or
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  Speaker 1: seven streaming things you got, you're right back to the
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  Speaker 1: $ 200 you were spending on cable. You could watch it
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  Speaker 1: with the ads. That's a lot cheaper, which I recommend,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. Hey, watch a couple of commercials. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to kill you. Hulu is good for certain things.
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  Speaker 1: If you want live TV, you got to pay a
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  Speaker 1: lot more for that. That's extra. But Hulu live TV,
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  Speaker 1: put that in your computer, in your phone. You can
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  Speaker 1: watch live television live. All your favorite channels, networks. You
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  Speaker 1: can watch Fox. You can watch Channel 5. You can
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  Speaker 1: watch MSNBC right in your phone wherever you are. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great thing to have. Hey, we got the phones
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  Speaker 1: fixed from yesterday. They're actually working. We can take some calls.
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  Speaker 1: 800-321-0710 is the number. We'll take some calls next. We
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  Speaker 1: always look for new callers. 800-321-0710.