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Speaker 1: Now sor presents no marksmoo. Well, hey, shutdown is over.
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Speaker 1: We'll go over the details. We'll get to the Epstein
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Speaker 1: files and the hoax that's taking place. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer, We'll get to Bruce Blakeman, We'll get to
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Speaker 1: mom Donnie. There's more to learn about this guy. It's
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Speaker 1: not good. It's not good at loss to talk about today.
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Speaker 1: So the shutdown was the longest in history, forty three days.
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Speaker 1: A year from now, nobody will remember it. Longest one
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Speaker 1: before that was thirty five days. That was in the
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Speaker 1: first Trump term. Nobody remembers that the shutdown ended. Trump
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Speaker 1: was at a big dinner last night, business leaders dinner
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Speaker 1: in the East room of the White House. Big dinner
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Speaker 1: taking place. But while that dinner was going on, the
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Speaker 1: vote took place. They ended the shutdown. Took the president
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Speaker 1: a while, about an hour to get out of that dinner,
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Speaker 1: get to the Oval Office where he had the cabinet,
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Speaker 1: some of those business leaders, and announced the end of
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Speaker 1: the shutdown, signed the legislation that brought it all to
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Speaker 1: an end. It was a great moment. He was very
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Speaker 1: happy about that. He pointed out that this little stunt,
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Speaker 1: the Democrats pulled. This whole shutdown ended up costing America
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Speaker 1: one point five trillion dollars. What do you call it,
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Speaker 1: their little escapade, they're a little endeavor. He called it
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Speaker 1: something like that cost one point five trillion dollars. Was
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Speaker 1: one of the reasons for the shutdown was to try
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Speaker 1: to damage the Trump economy, just wreak a little havoc there,
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Speaker 1: especially leading up to the election. They thought it would
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Speaker 1: help them, especially in Virginia where a huge percentage of
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Speaker 1: voters are government workers. So they thought it would help
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Speaker 1: in Virginia, New Jersey and other places, just to have
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Speaker 1: the shutdown going on, just to rile up Democrats. So
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Speaker 1: you got to admit it did work. The down is
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Speaker 1: over now. However, this extension only goes till January thirty first,
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Speaker 1: so it's like two months before we have to go
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Speaker 1: through this again, and we'll see what happens. The fight
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Speaker 1: over the Affordable Care Act, which is obviously not affordable
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Speaker 1: since you need a subsidy to have it, you have
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Speaker 1: to subsidize it, it's obviously not affordable. The President will
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Speaker 1: come up with a better plan by the time January
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Speaker 1: thirty first rolls around, and he'll put that plan out.
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Speaker 1: One of his ideas is to give it costs so
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Speaker 1: much money for this Obamacare. The government has to spend
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Speaker 1: astronomical amounts of money on it, and he figured out
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Speaker 1: that you could be easier just to give people the
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Speaker 1: money and let him go buy their own healthcare. That way,
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Speaker 1: they could pick whatever they wanted and get a much
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Speaker 1: better plan than you'd get from the governor government. The
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Speaker 1: problem is big one for Democrats. The reason they don't
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Speaker 1: like that. You might say, well, it makes perfect sense,
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Speaker 1: that sounds like a much better one. The real secret
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Speaker 1: of Obamacare is the money goes directly to the insurance companies,
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Speaker 1: not the consumer. Insurance companies love that they get paid
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Speaker 1: massive fees by the government under Obamacare. That's one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons Schumer was fighting to keep it the way.
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Speaker 1: It is not just Tim but other congressmen and women,
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Speaker 1: including some Republicans, because by paying off these insurance companies directly,
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Speaker 1: it means massive donations to them from the insurance companies.
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Speaker 1: They're big, big, big donors. So Congress was trying to
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Speaker 1: keep this in place where the money just goes direct
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Speaker 1: to the insurance companies. Now the present's going to try
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Speaker 1: to end that and give it direct to the consumers
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Speaker 1: and let them pick whatever kind of plan they want.
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Speaker 1: So that's what this fight was about, in large parts,
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Speaker 1: affordability thing. Affordabilities has been drilled into everybody's head. That's
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Speaker 1: how propaganda works. You just repeat something i'd nauseum from
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Speaker 1: every direction. If you keep hearing it all day and night,
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Speaker 1: you start to believe it affordability crisis. It's not a
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Speaker 1: crisis because inflation is down dramatically from Joe Biden's presidency,
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Speaker 1: where it hit nine percent at one point round two percent.
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Speaker 1: Now it's way way down. Energy prices are down. Now
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Speaker 1: people will say, well, what about healthcare, that's sort of well,
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Speaker 1: that's that's not an inflation factor. That's insurance. That's all
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Speaker 1: caused by other reasons. That's not inflation driving that up.
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Speaker 1: Even here in New York City, you didn't see the
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Speaker 1: gas prices come down that much. All around the country,
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Speaker 1: gas prices are way down, but not so much here
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Speaker 1: or California. Well, the reason for that is state, local taxes, fees, penalty,
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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff on the gas that's keeping it up.
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Speaker 1: So it's not an affordability crisis. Prices are down and
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Speaker 1: going down. I think this is President Trump talking to
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Speaker 1: Laura Ingram about it.
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Speaker 2: Look at the price of gasoline going from four to
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Speaker 2: fifty to two fifty two seventy, it's going to be
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Speaker 2: two dollars gas.
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Speaker 1: People want affordable.
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Speaker 2: Well, the anthemy is my thing, and we have the
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Speaker 2: greatest economy in history.
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Speaker 3: Are Republicans not selling it?
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Speaker 2: For Republicans don't talk about it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they need to do a better job on
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Speaker 3: Capitol Hill.
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Speaker 2: The tags I'll give false talk and the Republicans, and
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Speaker 2: I say it all the time, Republicans have to talk
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Speaker 2: about the fact that prices are down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the Costco Walmart. Walmart just put out
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Speaker 1: that big study the price of a Thanksgiving dinner will
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Speaker 1: be twenty five percent less than less than last year.
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Speaker 1: So you got all those kinds of things. But you're right,
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Speaker 1: Democrats have to talk about it. You can drill something
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Speaker 1: into people's heads and they believe it. You remember, all
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Speaker 1: through the election, from the beginning, all you kept telling
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Speaker 1: is Curtis can't win. Curtis can't win, No way Curtis
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Speaker 1: can win. Well, of course there is. He was as
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Speaker 1: good as candadate and probably a better candidate in many
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Speaker 1: ways in the very beginning. But if ten months, if
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Speaker 1: Curtis can't win every time, everywhere you look, Curtis can't win.
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Speaker 1: Curtis can't win. Curtis. If you just hear that four
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Speaker 1: million times, you actually start to believe it, and people
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Speaker 1: start repeating it. They're like parrots, just repeating what they're
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Speaker 1: told to repeat. So that's the affordability the State of
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Speaker 1: the Union speech. The President will make that in January.
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Speaker 1: That's where he's got to fix all this. That'll come
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Speaker 1: before the next shutdown vote. That's where he's got to
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Speaker 1: get through and really communicate all this to the public. Hey,
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Speaker 1: let's get to this Epstein stuff for a second. These
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Speaker 1: Epstein files, they want them released. There's nothing that dramatic,
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Speaker 1: and there's nothing about Trump in the files. Nothing. And
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Speaker 1: remember those files have been in the hands of a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. It was here at the US Attorney's
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Speaker 1: Office Southern District. They all saw the files. I've talked
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Speaker 1: to a lot of people that have seen those files.
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Speaker 1: It's nothing about Trump and there's nothing There's stuff about
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Speaker 1: other people in there, but nothing as dramatic as you think.
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Speaker 1: There was never a client list. Epstein never had any
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Speaker 1: sex clients. He had a client list, but it was
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Speaker 1: for a wealth management fund. As far as the sexual
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Speaker 1: stuff the girls, it wasn't a business. He didn't charge anybody.
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Speaker 1: There were no clients. I mean if he came to
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Speaker 1: his house, there were women there of all ages. By
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Speaker 1: the way, he's the one that liked the young women's
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Speaker 1: It looked like a Prince Andrew like young women too.
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Speaker 1: But here's another thing to remember. Joe Biden had the
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Speaker 1: Epstein files in his hands for four years. For four years,
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, James Cobe, Clapper, Brannan, all these
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Speaker 1: people had the Epstein files. It belonged to the Biden
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Speaker 1: Justice Department for four years. They were trying in every
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Speaker 1: way to stop Donald Trump. At that point, they were
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Speaker 1: coming up with every scheme to stop Donald Trump. You
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Speaker 1: can be sure they looked through the Epstein files. Had
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Speaker 1: there been one word in there damaging the Trump, they
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Speaker 1: would have released it the next day. They would They
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Speaker 1: have a million people that know how to leak it
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Speaker 1: to the press. It's real easy to do. Had there
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Speaker 1: been anything that would hurt Trump, they would have used
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Speaker 1: it lead up to the election and during the election
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Speaker 1: they would have used it if there was anything in there.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing in there about Trump. Now, yesterday, earlier this week,
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Speaker 1: they put out this again. They leaked it. They leaked
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Speaker 1: it to reporters. There's victim number one says Trump was
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Speaker 1: in the house, that she spent a lot of time
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Speaker 1: with Trump. Victim number one. That's all they put out.
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Speaker 1: Victim number one said she was with Trump in the
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Speaker 1: house and on the plane. Well, they didn't say what
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Speaker 1: they could have said. Victim number one was Virginia Gouffrey
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Speaker 1: because the reason they withheld her name. She did multiple
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Speaker 1: interviews with law enforcement. She was interrogated and interviewed millions
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Speaker 1: of times by law enforcement. In every single interview, she
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Speaker 1: said absolutely nothing happened with Donald Trump. He came to
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Speaker 1: parties and things at the house, and she said he
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Speaker 1: was always a total gentleman and very friendly. Nothing ever happened.
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Speaker 1: She's no longer with us. She died, but she did
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Speaker 1: write a book, a long book about everything, and in
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Speaker 1: the book she says nothing ever happened with Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Nothing ever. So they kept that from you. If you're
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Speaker 1: watching nightly news like NBC, boy, you really got conned
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Speaker 1: by them last night. What a fake story victim number one,
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Speaker 1: so she spent a very delar time with Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Somewhere at the end of the piece they inserted it
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Speaker 1: in real quick just for a second. Virginia Goovery said
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Speaker 1: nothing happened with Donald Trump, but for ten minutes they
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Speaker 1: made it sound like something bad happen with Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: So a complete total hoax. Now, the guy who they've
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Speaker 1: also has been dragging in this is Michael Wolfe, who
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Speaker 1: is the lowest form of journalism. I wouldn't even call
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Speaker 1: it journalism, a gossip column He's the lowest form of
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Speaker 1: gossip columnist. He is the most disgusting, creepy guy in
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Speaker 1: the world. He's put out a couple of books. The
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Speaker 1: whole business model is just bashing Donald Trump. And he
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Speaker 1: he'll say anything and everything, most of it not true.
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Speaker 1: He's been caught in a million things that are not true.
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Speaker 1: But because he's bashing Donald Trump, they'll put him on MSNBC,
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Speaker 1: He'll be on Meet the Press, He'll be on the
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Speaker 1: ABC Sunday Morning Show. He is the sleaziest, dirtiest gossip columnist.
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Speaker 1: Don't believe anything he says. Now, Apparently Epstein at one
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Speaker 1: point was emailing back and forth with this guy. So
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Speaker 1: they're starting to release all these emails Epstein and him were,
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Speaker 1: but if you really read the emails, it looks like
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Speaker 1: this lowlife, Michael Wolf, this creepy lowlife, was coaching Epstein
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Speaker 1: on how to damage Trump and at one point suggested
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Speaker 1: blackmailing Trump because Epstein said he didn't have much of
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Speaker 1: anything on Trump, and he said, well, if you said
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Speaker 1: you did, you might. You could use it as leverage
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Speaker 1: and then take it back and then you'd have he'd
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Speaker 1: owe you a favor. He was talking about actually blackmailing
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Speaker 1: Trump with Epstein. It's really embarrassed in this. It's interesting
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Speaker 1: the Clinton stuff. You know, obviously the Clinton's, the Obama's
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Speaker 1: all busy with Epstein, but somewhere in there, Epstein reveals
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Speaker 1: he had a fight with Clinton. He broke up with
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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. He doesn't exactly say what it was, but
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Speaker 1: he said to Clinton, I guess Clinton was supposed to
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Speaker 1: do him some sort of favor, and he swore to
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Speaker 1: me that he did it, but he forgot. He swore
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Speaker 1: the exact opposite only two weeks before. So he was
11:30
Speaker 1: supposed to do something for him, didn't do him. Now.
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Speaker 1: The other thing is this Epstein seemed to be very
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Speaker 1: cozy with the New York Times financial journalist, this lowlife
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Speaker 1: Michael Wolf. So it's really the journalists that we're dealing
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Speaker 1: with Epstein, New York Times finance journalist emails back and forth,
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Speaker 1: you can tell their real buddies, and he's relying heavily
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Speaker 1: on Epstein. What the hell is the New York Times
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Speaker 1: doing all tangled up with Epstein? Now, the guy that
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Speaker 1: should be the most embarrass is Larry Summers, who was
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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton's Treasury secretary. He was one of Barack Obama's
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Speaker 1: chief economic advisors. You'll remember he was the president of Harvard.
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Speaker 1: Larry Summers, who tries to be this distinguished guy. If
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Speaker 1: you look through the emails, apparently he was very close
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Speaker 1: to Epstein. And Larry Summers, a married man, was meeting
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Speaker 1: with various women all over the place. Not young girls,
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Speaker 1: but women who he's trying to do something with and
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Speaker 1: apparently was having trouble. He was getting rejected left and
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Speaker 1: right by women, and he's constantly emailing Epstein for advice,
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Speaker 1: and there's emails back and forth. He's like a teenager
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Speaker 1: Larry Summers right in Epstein. Well, here's what she wrote,
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Speaker 1: she texted me, can't I'm busy. I'll call you next week.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean? And then Epstein is emailing him back.
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Speaker 1: He's just play it cool, don't whine, don't look me,
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Speaker 1: don't look good. And then apparently supposed to spend a
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Speaker 1: weekend with one woman in London and she canceled and
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Speaker 1: what does that mean? How can I get any And
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Speaker 1: Epstein's coach him, don't say this say that's quite pathetic
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Speaker 1: on the part of Larry Summers. He should really be embarrassed.
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Speaker 1: He you know Ozzy Osbourne, We lost Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon
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Speaker 1: Osbourne finally revealed this for everybody to hear. She didn't
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Speaker 1: really know Donald Trump. Well, I mean not really, but
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Speaker 1: he got her number and he left her a voicemail.
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Speaker 1: This is Donald Trump leaving a voicemail for Sharon Osbourne.
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Speaker 4: Everyone will know.
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Speaker 2: I shared is Donald Trump, and I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: wish you the best and the family have great. Ozzie
13:47
Speaker 2: was amazing. He was an amazing guy. I met him
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Speaker 2: a few times and I want to say that he
13:52
Speaker 2: was unique in every way and talented. So I just
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Speaker 2: wanted to wish you the best. And it's a tough thing.
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Speaker 2: I know how close you were, and whenever I can do,
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Speaker 2: take care of yourself, say loo to the family.
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Speaker 1: Thanks by Well, now they're playing it with Sharon Osbourne.
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Speaker 1: There you see her tear up listening to it. It
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Speaker 1: was very nice. He does that all the time for people.
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Speaker 1: You're not supposed to know about that, because the press
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Speaker 1: would never ever report that. Hey, we'll get to Bruce Blakeman.
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Speaker 1: Apparently he's taking it seriously this run for government. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna even go on a little tour upstate, which is
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Speaker 1: a good idea. That's what a smart guy does. You know,
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Speaker 1: you go test the waters.
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Speaker 3: You go.
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Speaker 1: You don't just sit there and decide should I shouldn't I.
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Speaker 1: You go up there and you meet voters, you see
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Speaker 1: how it feels, You get a feel for things. That's
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Speaker 1: that's what a smart manager would do. But we'll get
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Speaker 1: to that coming up. We'll get to mom Donnie, his transition,
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Speaker 1: what he's working on. Boy, even the Washington Post, even
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Speaker 1: the Washington Post bashing Mom Donnie, talking about how phony
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Speaker 1: he was, this smiling, happy, and you know candidate and
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Speaker 1: then that angry, ugly victory speech election. But we'll take
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Speaker 1: some calls next eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 5: Now back to the Mark Simone Show on wr.
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Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 1: zero seven ten is and the I'm let's go to
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Speaker 1: Bob in Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good?
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Speaker 3: Mark?
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Speaker 5: Thanks for taking my call. And just as an awareness,
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Speaker 5: I hope everybody's okay on the Red Cup. But Thursday
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Speaker 5: there's a big rally in Brooklyn later on today, course
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Speaker 5: they're on strike.
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Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 5: Union? No coffee? Old Starbucks? Oh oh, I hope it's
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Speaker 5: going to be extra angry libs out there today. Be
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Speaker 5: careful please.
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Speaker 1: Oh well, what would you say, Red Cup?
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Speaker 5: It's today? Is there?
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Speaker 3: Red Cup?
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Speaker 5: Thursday day that they kick off their holiday and the
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Speaker 5: baristas are on strike? Yeah, of course, I guess thirty
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Speaker 5: dollars an hour isn't enough and they don't.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. You know. I gave up
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Speaker 1: on Starbucks. Actually since we moved into our new place
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Speaker 1: here because the kitchen is right down there, we got
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Speaker 1: like twelve different coffee machines and make you any kind
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Speaker 1: of coffee you want it's free. They got like forty
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Speaker 1: seven different brands of coffee you can choose. And I
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Speaker 1: imagine a lot of people where they go to work
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Speaker 1: in a nice, big office, but the coffee's free. Why
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Speaker 1: would just stand in line at Starbucks and pay twelve
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Speaker 1: dollars or something? And it's like getting coffee from the
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Speaker 1: motor vehicle department. You wait in line, Finally you get
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Speaker 1: up there, you place your order. Now they say, all right,
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Speaker 1: now go over there and wait in that line to
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Speaker 1: go get it. It's like motor vehicle, here's your temporary coffee.
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Speaker 1: You'll get the real coffee in that line over there.
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Speaker 1: It's absolutely ridiculous. And you always get in the line
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Speaker 1: behind that one guy with the most complicated order, and
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Speaker 1: it takes forever. And you know, and they have food
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Speaker 1: at Starbucks. But you notice the food case got smaller.
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Speaker 1: It used to be like the whole counter. Now it's
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Speaker 1: like a little tiny section. And it's avoid Starbucks. There's
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Speaker 1: you know, there's all these other places springing up. What's
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Speaker 1: the one over there? I can't remember. There's one right
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Speaker 1: across the street, blank Street. Blank Street is a great
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Speaker 1: one that they're springing up all over the place. Gregory's
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Speaker 1: coffee is pretty good. Hey, and dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts
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Speaker 1: has much better coffee than Starbucks. It tastes much better
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Speaker 1: than Starbucks. I mean I wouldn't exactly hire their decorator.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're the most depressing looking stories you've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: But the coffee is great. It's probably the best coffee
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Speaker 1: you yet dunkin Donuts. It's one tenth the price of Starbucks.
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Speaker 1: And everybody that works there looks like they're gonna kill
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Speaker 1: themselves as soon as you leave. They don't look too thrilled.
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Speaker 1: But but it's much better coffee. Let's go to Aaron
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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Erin, how you doing, Good morning, Mark.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure you saw some of the clips of Gavin
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Speaker 6: Newsom partying with the indigenous folks in Brazil.
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Speaker 1: Well, listen, let the guy enjoy himself.
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Speaker 6: Well, my point is that I think he should return
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Speaker 6: the favor and treat them to the French Laundry.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a famous Thomas Keller restaurant out in California
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the pandemic, when you were not
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Speaker 1: allowed to go to a restaurant. He was seen at
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Speaker 1: the French laundry, which is it doesn't sound very good,
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Speaker 1: the French laundry, but it's one of the most expensive,
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Speaker 1: one of maybe the ten best restaurants in the world.
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Speaker 1: And there he was. Now this other problem is his
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Speaker 1: campaign director got caught embezzling funds a quarter of a
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Speaker 1: million dollars. It's not his fault, Gavin Newsom, and there's
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Speaker 1: no governor or candidate goes line by line over the
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Speaker 1: accounting stuff. But it's the guy he picked, so reflects
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Speaker 1: on him. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how
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Speaker 1: you doing. Good morning, Mark.
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Speaker 4: I'm doing very well.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 6: Mark.
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Speaker 4: We all know that Chuck Schumer's career was over, as
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Speaker 4: well as his fake Sunday press conferences. So I have
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Speaker 4: to ask, first of all, if he writes a book,
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Speaker 4: will he go on the Liberal network to promote it? Secondly,
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Speaker 4: will he get hired as a commentary And when people
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Speaker 4: touches him and Kamala Harris write books, are they artificially
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Speaker 4: inflated for The New York Times by having people buying
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Speaker 4: thousands of copies?
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Speaker 1: Yes, that can be done. All good questions. If Chuck
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Speaker 1: Schumer writes a book, nothing will happen nobody will buy it.
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Speaker 1: We just tested that about six months ago. Remember he
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Speaker 1: wrote that book, what's it called anti Semitism. Here's the
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Speaker 1: guy who looks the other way when the worst anti Semitism,
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Speaker 1: the most frightening anti Semitism, was taking place on our
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Speaker 1: college campuses in his district, and he looked the other way.
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Speaker 1: He left town, ran away. Then he has a gall
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Speaker 1: to write a book called anti Semitism. It didn't sell.
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Speaker 1: He's a disaster. No, he cannot get a job as
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Speaker 1: a TV commentator because he's an old, depressing, fossil old
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Speaker 1: dinosaur who just sounds awful talking. That's why he always
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Speaker 1: reads everything off these index cards. It's what's the other question?
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Speaker 1: If he leaves, you know, if he leaves as bad
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Speaker 1: as he is, you can get somebody worse as senate
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Speaker 1: to minority leader. You're going to get like a Chris Murphy,
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Speaker 1: that real dirty, you know, lying, thieving, rotten Connecticut senator.
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Speaker 1: And then you, speaking of Connecticut, you guys got Richard Blumenthal.
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Speaker 1: He's your Chuck Schumer. Just depressing old man. Let's let's
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Speaker 1: go to Jimmy and New Milford. Jimmy, how you doing.
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Speaker 7: Thanks, Good morning, Mark, Mark, you know the way you
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Speaker 7: were saying that. Every time it turned around, people were
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Speaker 7: saying that Curtis can't, when Curtis can't, when Curtis can't win.
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Speaker 7: You know, I love w All and I love the DJs,
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Speaker 7: but the problem is, I think when they always have
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Speaker 7: to repeat.
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Speaker 6: For every day.
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Speaker 7: You know, the nuts are saying about Donald Trump. You
20:54
Speaker 7: know you got to say, uh is they have to
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Speaker 7: say to the lad who say if he did, they
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Speaker 7: have to be paid to make the point. You know, whoa,
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Speaker 7: look at what they're shay, whoa. But I'm so sick.
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Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Do you know what he said? I don't know what
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Speaker 1: he said. He's said to cut He's got a good voice.
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Speaker 1: It said something catchy about his way. You like listening
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Speaker 1: to him. But I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: But and did he say? The DJs at w R.
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Speaker 1: I think the last DJ here I'm trying to remember, well,
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Speaker 1: it would have been somewhere in John Gambling. I think
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Speaker 1: he used to play music. Gene Clavin used to be
21:35
Speaker 1: here in the afternoons. He played music, But I think
21:37
Speaker 1: that was in the late seventies. So I don't think
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Speaker 1: we've had a DJ since then when we come back,
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Speaker 1: we'll see if we can talk to Steve Moore. I
21:45
Speaker 1: think he'll show up. Steve Moore, the Brilliant Economists will
21:48
Speaker 1: be with us next on seven to ten w o R.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show seven ten wo R.
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Speaker 1: Hey, the great economist Steve Moore. Make sure you get
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Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, Good to be with you now.
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Speaker 6: I'm not doing well.
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Speaker 3: I spent so much time in the last four days
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Speaker 3: at the airport. This flight castle, that flight castle, you know, delays.
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Speaker 3: It's just been a complete avoc and now I hear
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Speaker 3: that it's probably going to go on for even another
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Speaker 3: two weeks, even now that they're finally about to reopen
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Speaker 3: the government. It's just been chaotic. And by the way, Mark,
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Speaker 3: what exactly did Chuck Schumer achieve from this? I mean
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Speaker 3: really nothing. I mean it was fifty six billion dollars
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Speaker 3: of lost taxpayer money cause mayhem, turmoil, frustration for people
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Speaker 3: in the country and he got nothing.
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Speaker 1: Well, did he get nothing? Or was the whole idea
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Speaker 1: just to screw up the Trump economy a little, maybe
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Speaker 1: screw up the.
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Speaker 3: Old Well maybe that would be a very nefarious motivation,
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Speaker 3: you know, if he intentionally sabotaged the economy to make
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Speaker 3: Trump look bad. But I guess that's what politicians do
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Speaker 3: this these days. And you know, shame on him because
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Speaker 3: it really did ruin our whole weekend. My wife and
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Speaker 3: I were gonna have a little retreat, you know, get
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Speaker 3: away for three or four days. We spent half the
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Speaker 3: weekend in the airports and people were so angry all over,
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Speaker 3: you know, everywhere we went. And what a way to
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Speaker 3: score political points is to is to inconvenience people all
23:38
Speaker 3: over the country.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you look back fourteen shutdowns, no party has
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Speaker 1: ever gained anything from a shutdown. The shutdown caucuses, oh
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Speaker 1: for fourteen, isn't it. It never does anything?
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Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and what and by the way, you
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Speaker 3: know what what what Chucky Schumer wanted was to you know,
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Speaker 3: allow the legal immigrants to get help benefits, to add
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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year in cost
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Speaker 3: to the federal government when we're already running two trillion
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Speaker 3: dollar deficits. I mean, it was outrageous demands and he
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Speaker 3: was basically holding the government hostage until in Trump, to
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Speaker 3: his credit, did not blink. Here he said, you know,
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Speaker 3: screw you, We're we're not going to cave into your blackmail.
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Speaker 3: And I think Americans should be very angry about what happened.
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Speaker 3: And that's fifty six to sixty billion dollars billion with
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Speaker 3: a B that was lost to taxpayers because of the
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Speaker 3: cost of the shutdown.
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Speaker 1: Now, Steve Moore, am, I right, Obamacare is a total failure.
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Speaker 1: If it wasn't, why would you need If it's affordable,
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Speaker 1: why would you need subsidies?
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Speaker 3: You know it is it would be hard to come
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Speaker 3: up with something stupider than what we have today. And more,
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Speaker 3: it's so expensive we pay through the WAHOO with all
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Speaker 3: of these costs, and by since we passed Obamacare, which
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Speaker 3: was supposed to be the affordable care Act, the cost
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Speaker 3: of health insurance is doubled and tripled for most Americans.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's costing the average family now thirty thousand
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Speaker 3: dollars a year for healthcare. That's a lot of money.
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Speaker 3: And so we've got to figure out a better way
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Speaker 3: to do this. Trump has some very good ideas. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know, let's just move to more of a catastrophic
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Speaker 3: insurance model, where you would you know, for the first say,
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Speaker 3: five thousand dollars of costs, you know, you just pay
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Speaker 3: out of pocket, but you're not going to pay thirty
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year for insurance, and everybody would come
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Speaker 3: out ahead. I mean, when you go to the doctor
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Speaker 3: or the hospital mark, you know, do you ask what
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Speaker 3: it's going to cost?
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Speaker 1: No, nobody does, and then you're in there for five
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Speaker 1: minutes and the bills forty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, can you imagine if we all went
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Speaker 3: to the grocery store and didn't pay for it. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'd have lobster and steak and champagne every night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. But the real reason for this is Obamacare and
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Speaker 1: the reason Democrats fight to keep it. The money goes
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Speaker 1: directly to the insurance companies from the government. Yes, so
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Speaker 1: what do we do about that? How are you going
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Speaker 1: to break that model? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: The insurance companies have become the real villains here. So
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Speaker 3: when they know they wanted these expansions of Obamacare subsidies,
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Speaker 3: which is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars,
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Speaker 3: guess where seventy percent of the money goes.
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Speaker 1: Insurance companies.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, insurance companies. They just put in the bank. They're
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Speaker 3: making so much money hand over fists, and they were
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Speaker 3: the chief lobbyert. They were the group that, more than
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Speaker 3: any other group on Capitol Hill was lobbying for these
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Speaker 3: extensions because they have made a fortune off of Obamacare,
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Speaker 3: whereas there's no evidence that Obamacare has had any positive
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Speaker 3: impact on people's health.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Steve Moore, let me ask you another question. If
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Speaker 1: you are watching TV, listening to radio, reading stuff, going
26:45
Speaker 1: to the news sets, and all you hear about is
26:47
Speaker 1: the affordability crisis. This is all you hear a thousand
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Speaker 1: times an hour, You're going to start to think there
26:53
Speaker 1: is an affordability crisis. It propaganda works that way.
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Speaker 3: Well, there is an affordability crisis, There's no question about it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, prices are up, you know, thirty percent since
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden was present. Thirty percent. It's unbelievable. Now, guess
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Speaker 3: what twenty five percent of that thirty percent was under Biden.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, so I'm angry about the cost
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Speaker 3: of groceries. I'm angry about the cost of you know,
27:17
Speaker 3: buying things today. It's health insurance costs, housing cost, grocery
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Speaker 3: costs up up, up, up up. But folks, remember, the
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Speaker 3: vast majority of this insurance, of this inflation and higher
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Speaker 3: costs and higher interest rates was under Biden because he's
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Speaker 3: spent about five trillion dollars we didn't have with this
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Speaker 3: massive spending spree. So we are seeing costs come down.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, the rate of inflation come down.
27:41
Speaker 3: It was remember when it hit nine point one percent
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Speaker 3: under in place under Biden, and that was in I
27:46
Speaker 3: think twenty twenty one, twenty two. You know, now it's
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Speaker 3: down to about two point eight percent, which is still
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Speaker 3: too high. You know, we'd like to bring it down
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Speaker 3: some more. But Trump is doing that. The inflation rate
27:56
Speaker 3: is coming down. But remember, you know, he's only been
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Speaker 3: in office for nine months, and Biden, we just blew
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Speaker 3: a hole in the budget in the inflation rate, and
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Speaker 3: it's going to take some time. But by the way,
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Speaker 3: I was traveling last week, as I mentioned, and I
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Speaker 3: was in the Midwest for a couple of days, two
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Speaker 3: sixty nine a gallon for gas. Yeah, that's the last
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Speaker 3: time you saw that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't see it in New York at California,
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Speaker 1: but in between, gas prices are ready now. And I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just a mess. But inflation is down since Trump
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Speaker 1: took over, and you always said it is done. You
28:31
Speaker 1: always say it's going to take him a year or
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Speaker 1: so to really fix the problem. So we're only about
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Speaker 1: halfway there, right.
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Speaker 3: Right, And but look, we have the numbers, and what's
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Speaker 3: happened to people's real income. In other words, when you
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Speaker 3: take inflation into account, people things are more affordable today
28:48
Speaker 3: for most people, not less affordable. So the average family
28:51
Speaker 3: has about twelve hundred dollars more after inflation income. Another
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Speaker 3: point I want to make about this is that, you know,
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Speaker 3: the big beautiful tax we passed, most Americans have not
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Speaker 3: felt the effect of that yet because they didn't change
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Speaker 3: their withholding on their taxes. So what that means, and
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Speaker 3: Trump has made this point, you know several times. Next year.
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Speaker 3: Next year people are going to see a big reduction
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Speaker 3: and the taxes withheld from their paychecks because they didn't
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Speaker 3: do it this year. So you know, relief is coming folks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, Steve Moore in Florida, Ron DeSantis, he's talking
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Speaker 1: about getting rid of property tax, and he's saying that
29:29
Speaker 1: everybody should, everywhere, every state, get rid of property tax.
29:34
Speaker 1: And he makes the point, it's your land, you own it.
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Speaker 1: How's the government taxing.
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Speaker 3: You on this?
29:38
Speaker 1: But then what do you do to make up for
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Speaker 1: that needed money? You have growth?
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Speaker 3: You know, I mean Florida has imported one trillion dollars
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Speaker 3: of capital from and disposable income from other states. And
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Speaker 3: guess where most of that money is coming from. No,
29:54
Speaker 3: I don't tell us New York, New York, New York
29:57
Speaker 3: and California. And so they have so much money coming
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Speaker 3: in that they're able to cut their you know, Florida
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Speaker 3: has no income tax, and now they're cutting their property tax.
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Speaker 3: They've cut this tax, that tax. The only tax that's
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Speaker 3: kind of high in there are sales tax, but everything
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Speaker 3: else is pretty low. It's a very affordable state. That's
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Speaker 3: the other thing about the affordability issue, mark that you
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Speaker 3: were asking me about. Yeah, if you live in New York,
30:17
Speaker 3: everything's expensive. If you move to a red state, things
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Speaker 3: cost a lot less. Why because they have high taxes
30:23
Speaker 3: in the Blue states, they have high regulations, they have
30:27
Speaker 3: you know, energy costs are much higher in the Blue states.
30:30
Speaker 3: So if you want more affordability and you want your
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Speaker 3: paycheck to go further, move to a red state.
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Speaker 1: I'm not leaving. I'm staying right here.
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Speaker 6: How do you I know you're not.
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Speaker 3: You know, we need you there in New York and
30:44
Speaker 3: that in Northeast. But a lot of people are and
30:47
Speaker 3: the problem is that that tide will increase dramatically. At
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Speaker 3: a piece of New York Post on this the other
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Speaker 3: day that you know, if mom and Dami does what
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Speaker 3: he said he's going to do and continues to raise
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Speaker 3: the tax rate, you know, I think sixteen percent they want, Well,
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Speaker 3: you can go to Florida or Texas pay zero. You know,
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Speaker 3: people don't get rich by being stupid, right, And they're
31:09
Speaker 3: not stupid if they see, hey, I could pay sixteen
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Speaker 3: percent in New York or zero in Florida. What do
31:14
Speaker 3: you think you'd do, especially if you're a billionaire. I
31:16
Speaker 3: could save one hundred million dollars a year by moving
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Speaker 3: to you know, Florida. Unfortunately, a lot of the billionaires
31:22
Speaker 3: are going to leave. And then who's Mondomini going to
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Speaker 3: get the tax money from.
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Speaker 1: Well, at least he's going to solve the traffic problem.
31:30
Speaker 1: The good luck will be bred.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 1: Steve Moore, great stuff. Everybody. Get his book, The Trump
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Speaker 3: Okay, Mark, have a great weekend here.
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