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Hour 1: Mamdani endorses Abdul El-Sayed. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, this is The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's the middle of the week. It's 13 days
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  Speaker 2: until election night. 13 days from now, election night. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a big, big, big night. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens. A lot is going on all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: The Senate looks very good for Republicans. The House could
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  Speaker 2: go either way. Behind the scenes, every real pollster behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes tells you they cannot see a clear winner here.
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  Speaker 2: It's just deadlocked. The final two weeks is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a big, big push. President Trump, who's got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money in those Republican funds there, is about
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  Speaker 2: to give $ 400 million into these campaigns. He's plowing $ 400
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  Speaker 2: million into the campaigns. Now, little Mike Bloomberg has announced
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  Speaker 2: he'll put $ 80 million towards the Democratic campaigns. Obviously, Trump's
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  Speaker 2: $ 400 million, only to Republicans. Bloomberg will be given $ 80
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  Speaker 2: million to Democrats. Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, who you'll remember
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  Speaker 2: when he wanted to be mayor, he pretended to be
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  Speaker 2: a Republican for a while, but he's a lifelong Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: supporter of all kinds of crazy stuff, common sense stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but some crazy stuff. He can go A little in
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  Speaker 2: both sides there. But he's jumping in the race. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's certain people that kept quiet about 2028, but it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty obvious they're running now. One is J.B. Pritzker, the
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  Speaker 2: big fat Ralph Cramden governor of Illinois. Although he's on
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  Speaker 2: those shots now. He's slimming down. He's got a ways
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  Speaker 2: to go, but he's slimming down. He's a very wealthy guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a billionaire. He's worth $ 4 billion. He is spending
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. Pritzker is throwing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money around, about $ 40 million altogether, and especially for black
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  Speaker 2: and Hispanic candidates. Now, why would that be? Well, he
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  Speaker 2: wants to run in 2028, and he's studied the whole process,
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  Speaker 2: and he sees that you got to win over a
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  Speaker 2: few people like Clyburn, Senator Clyburn of South Carolina. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he's the one who got Joe Biden a nomination. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when they all got to South Carolina, everybody got chased
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  Speaker 2: out of the race and Biden was anointed. So he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to win over Clyburn and some other black and
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  Speaker 2: Hispanic leaders. He thinks that's the key to 2028. Clyburn,
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  Speaker 2: very grateful, but he said, he said to be taken seriously,
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  Speaker 2: he is taken seriously, but he said they won't be
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  Speaker 2: swayed by campaign contributions alone. Although it's a big help.
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  Speaker 2: But he's clearly in the race. Looks like Mark Kelly
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  Speaker 2: wants to get in the race. That's that awful, nasty,
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  Speaker 2: vicious senator from Arizona. He is obviously running around right now.
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  Speaker 2: He's campaigning in 20 states. If you want to run
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  Speaker 2: in two years, you run around now pretending you're there campaigning.
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  Speaker 2: for candidates, but you're actually campaigning for yourself. He said,
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  Speaker 2: when asked, is he running for president, said he's getting
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  Speaker 2: closer to making a decision. Well, it's being cagey, but
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  Speaker 2: when you're on a plane flying to 20 different places,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty obvious what you're up to. Hey, Texas, they've
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  Speaker 2: registered a lot of people. They can now have almost
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  Speaker 2: 20 million people registered to vote. That breaks the all-time record.
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  Speaker 2: Registration up. But again, too close to the call. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows what will happen. Bruce Blakeman campaigning yesterday with George Pataki.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a big help. They were up at the border,
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  Speaker 2: the Pennsylvania border, because Pennsylvania allows fracking, and things are
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  Speaker 2: booming there. Booming. Their energy costs are low because they've
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  Speaker 2: got all that natural gas. We have just as much,
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  Speaker 2: but because of Cuomo and Hochul, we're not allowed to frack.
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  Speaker 2: So your energy bill is four times more than it
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  Speaker 2: would be in Pennsylvania. The economy... is nothing like Pennsylvania's
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  Speaker 2: booming economy. Blakeman will bring back fracking.
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  Speaker 3: We could start fracking tomorrow on the southern tier in
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  Speaker 3: New York. We've got one of the largest natural gas
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  Speaker 3: reserves in the world. Increase our energy supply by a
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  Speaker 3: tremendous level and cut our utility bills in half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now Pataki out there campaigning with him, proudly campaigning
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  Speaker 2: with him. Pataki, the last Republican governor and really the
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  Speaker 2: last popular governor We've ever had. Cuomo was not a
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  Speaker 2: popular governor. Oh, he had a moment there during the
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  Speaker 2: pandemic with his briefings because everybody was locked up in
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  Speaker 2: their house and terrified. So they watched them every day.
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  Speaker 2: Soon as they were allowed out, they stopped watching his briefings.
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  Speaker 2: Ratings plunged and he had to stop doing them. But then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Cuomo left in disgrace, in total disgrace, fled
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  Speaker 2: Albany with the police chasing him. So you can't say
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  Speaker 2: it was a successful governorship. Blakeman, uh, on Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: So let's start off with 48 utility rate hikes in
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  Speaker 3: the last four years. That's one a month. And the
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  Speaker 3: reason why our utility bills are so high is because
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  Speaker 3: she's completely wedded to green energy. It's a scam. We're
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  Speaker 3: not going to be able to provide enough energy with
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  Speaker 3: wind turbines in the middle of the ocean or solar
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  Speaker 3: farms in upstate New York that are under snow.
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  Speaker 2: You can make the case. It's a scam because, uh,
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  Speaker 2: It sounds good on paper, windmills and solar and all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff. But every time it's tried, it totally bombs.
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  Speaker 2: It produces very little energy. It does more environmental damage
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  Speaker 2: than the gasoline does. It is ridiculously expensive. It's 10
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  Speaker 2: times the cost of normal electricity. Europe tried it. Germany
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  Speaker 2: tried it. A lot of European countries went totally green,
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  Speaker 2: wind and solar. For a year or two. Finally, about
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  Speaker 2: a year ago, had to take it all down because
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't work. In fact, it does just the opposite
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  Speaker 2: of what you think it's going to do. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the scam part of it. Hokel on Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: Picture his vision for New York. Hyperscale data centers all
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  Speaker 1: over New York State. Smokestacks building out of fossil fuel
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  Speaker 1: generated power plants, as well as oil rigs and fracking
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  Speaker 1: rigs everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was talking about fracking. There's no smoke.
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  Speaker 2: There's no smokestacks. Fracking, it's underground. It's the cleanest energy
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  Speaker 2: in the world. Data centers in New York? Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Could you even imagine that? Well, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: she knows this. We have 35 data centers already in
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  Speaker 2: New York. You know, we have 19 data centers in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: They've been there for years. The smaller ones, but we
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  Speaker 2: have data centers in Manhattan. We've had them for a while.
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  Speaker 2: And again, those data centers... the big boogeyman there. You're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be terrified of the data center. They're getting
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  Speaker 2: better and better as far as electricity use, water. They
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  Speaker 2: figured out how to solve those problems. The only problem
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  Speaker 2: is the noise. They're figuring that out. They'll make quieter turbines.
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  Speaker 2: And every year, the data centers will get smaller, just
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  Speaker 2: like the computers did. You know, back in 1975, that
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  Speaker 2: IBM computer was like the size of a basketball court. Now,
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  Speaker 2: It's the size of my phone. In fact, my phone
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  Speaker 2: has more power than that computer did. So the data
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  Speaker 2: centers will also get smaller and smaller. President Trump every
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  Speaker 2: day flying to different states. Today he goes to South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina to campaign. That's Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister. Very
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  Speaker 2: nice woman, not a great candidate. But he'll try to
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  Speaker 2: pull her across the finish line. J.D. Vance back in
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  Speaker 2: Ohio today. Vivek Ramaswamy, you remember him? He's running for
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  Speaker 2: governor of Ohio. And it's a strange race, very strange race.
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  Speaker 2: He needs a lot of help. This is like the
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  Speaker 2: fourth time Vance has had to go to Ohio to
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  Speaker 2: help out. So the strangest thing, I don't think we
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  Speaker 2: have it here. We don't have the audio. But he's
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  Speaker 2: running against this woman who's a little weird. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how this even happened. He got the woman's mother,
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic candidate, her mother. recorded an ad for Vivek Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a pretty vicious ad. The mother looks
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  Speaker 2: into the camera and says, my daughter's a liar. She's
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  Speaker 2: been lying all her life. She's lying about her childhood.
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  Speaker 2: She said she grew up in a tent. She said
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  Speaker 2: that she's lying about that. She's always been a liar.
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  Speaker 2: Don't vote for her. This is Amy Acton, the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: candidate's mother. So that's pretty powerful stuff. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of backlash on this. Obviously, Democrats are furious. The
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  Speaker 2: media is furious. Everybody's all over Vivek Ramaswamy for doing
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  Speaker 2: such an ad. They think it's tasteless. They think family
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  Speaker 2: is off limits. But it is her mother. And in
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  Speaker 2: the ad, the mother says, my daughter needs help. And
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  Speaker 2: she can't help you if she needs help herself. People
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  Speaker 2: can change. But first, they have to tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And my daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for her.
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  Speaker 2: Don't vote for people who lie. Don't let her become governor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds very odd. It is crossing all kinds of lines.
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  Speaker 2: But if the mother wanted to do this ad, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. So a lot of controversy about the ad.
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  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy's campaign admitting it is their ad and they did
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  Speaker 2: pay for it. But that could cause a lot of backlash.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. President Trump, you know, a lot of controversy.
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  Speaker 2: He's been so friendly lately with Putin, with Russia. He's
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  Speaker 2: been saying nice things about Putin. It's already gotten some benefit.
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  Speaker 2: There's that teacher that Russia has been holding hostage for
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  Speaker 2: four years now. They captured this American teacher. They've been
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  Speaker 2: holding him hostage for four years. He was released yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: No exchange of hostages or anything. He was just released.
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  Speaker 2: So some good has come from praising Putin, although it's
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  Speaker 2: bothering a lot of people. Most people aren't even paying
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  Speaker 2: attention to that part of anything. But Trump on the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine has to want to settle this war. Zelensky has
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  Speaker 4: to want to settle this war. And if he doesn't,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a very bad thing. Look,
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  Speaker 4: we have given tremendous amounts to Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: We've got nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Back other than high diesel. We have given probably, possibly
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  Speaker 4: more money to Ukraine than almost anybody over the years.
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  Speaker 4: Hundreds of billions of dollars. We've got nothing back. And
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  Speaker 4: the American taxpayers are tired of it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Now, you know how Trump works. He does
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  Speaker 2: carrot first, then the stick. He always tries the carrot first.
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  Speaker 2: With Putin, he's trying the carrot. Now, if that doesn't work,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get the stick. He already did the carrot phase
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  Speaker 2: with Zelensky, and Zelensky didn't respond well, so now they're
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  Speaker 2: on the stick. Zelensky... They want to have him sit
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  Speaker 2: down and talk.
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  Speaker 5: If the issues about Ukraine, our future, it can be
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  Speaker 5: acceptable only when we are at the table of negotiations.
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  Speaker 5: It's absolutely clear. We are thankful that intelligence works. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I'm speaking about early warning, what is very important for
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  Speaker 5: our people.
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  Speaker 2: For children. He's a little annoying to listen to.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: But he's talking about the Starlink system. They have the
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  Speaker 2: military version called Space Shield. It was throttled down for
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  Speaker 2: a day or two. The Wall Street Journal, not the
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  Speaker 2: most reliable newspaper. The Wall Street Journal now claiming it
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  Speaker 2: was definitely Elon Musk. Personally, Elon Musk, he personally did it.
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  Speaker 2: But again, the Wall Street Journal has gone pretty much
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  Speaker 2: rogue for the last couple of years. What did Scott
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  Speaker 2: Besson say? It's more of a features magazine. They should
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  Speaker 2: call it the Main Street Journal. Again, not most trusted
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  Speaker 2: paper anymore. So they're the ones pinning it all on Musk.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what evidence they have. They use the
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  Speaker 2: usual stupid people familiar with the matter. Well, when you
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  Speaker 2: quote people familiar with the matter, they're wrong about 80%
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  Speaker 2: of the time. Zelensky on Russia.
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  Speaker 5: We want the Americans to take these ideas to the Russians.
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  Speaker 5: And one of the important ideas is to move to
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  Speaker 5: a trilateral Potential trilateral meeting of the leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the annoying to listen to. Anyway, hey, there's
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  Speaker 2: a big debate tonight. El-Sayed and Rogers. This is another debate.
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  Speaker 2: In every state, they have two, three debates in a
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  Speaker 2: governor's race or a Senate race. It's only here in
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  Speaker 2: New York where Kathy Hochul refuses that. She only allowed
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  Speaker 2: one debate. She refused the normal two or three debates.
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  Speaker 2: Only one debate. And she demanded it beyond this little
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  Speaker 2: tiny thing that nobody sees. New York won. which is
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  Speaker 2: also very, very biased left-wing. So she demanded, that's the
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  Speaker 2: only thing she'll do, and that's all she did. Turned
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  Speaker 2: down Channel 2, Channel 4, Channel 7, refused to do it.
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  Speaker 2: So pretty, pretty embarrassing. But Al-Sayed, you remember, he was
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  Speaker 2: asked in that last debate, who's a bigger enemy of,
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  Speaker 2: who's a bigger threat to America, Iran or Israel? And
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't answer. He said, it's a stupid question. It's
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  Speaker 2: different now. Now he's pretty much coming out... openly anti-Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to El Sayed.
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  Speaker 6: The question of Israel's existence is not a question. I'm
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  Speaker 6: not going to play this gotcha game about whether or
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  Speaker 6: not it has a right to exist. The question ultimately
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  Speaker 6: is about whether or not we want a politics that dignifies...
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  Speaker 6: You're not going to play the gotcha game, but you're
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  Speaker 6: not going to say you think Israel has.
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  Speaker 7: A right to exist.
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  Speaker 6: Well, my question, you know, Casey, I think the question
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  Speaker 6: we all ought to ask is, does everybody have equal
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  Speaker 6: rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination? That's Jewish Israelis and Palestinians.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's not the clip. We don't have the
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  Speaker 2: right clip. The other thing he said Israel is not
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  Speaker 2: a friend. It's not an ally. He came right out
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  Speaker 2: and said it. Right out and said, Israel is not
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  Speaker 2: a friend of the United States. They are not an ally.
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  Speaker 2: You can criticize Israel or something specific, but that was
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  Speaker 2: pretty bold. He said, they're not a U.S. ally. It's
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  Speaker 2: time for us to realize that. An ally that takes
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  Speaker 2: your money to push you into wars you shouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: fighting is not an ally. And he goes on and
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  Speaker 2: on about how bad Israel is. Time to realize they're
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  Speaker 2: not our friend. Obviously, that's a preposterous statement. And, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump doesn't get pushed into anything. Nobody's pushing him around.
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  Speaker 2: But it's our ally. It's been our greatest ally. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's been going on for about 60, 70 years.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a crazy thing for him to say. Mamdani
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  Speaker 2: now really pushing Al-Sayed.
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  Speaker 8: When you think about Dr. Al-Sayed's campaign campaign. I often
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  Speaker 8: go back to the way that he describes it. Money
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  Speaker 8: out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all.
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  Speaker 8: Those are concerns that ring true for Michiganders. They're also
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  Speaker 8: concerns that ring true for New Yorkers. And I think
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  Speaker 8: that his victory and the victory of Democrats across this
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  Speaker 8: country is of critical importance to our city. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: first of all, When you think about Dr.
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  Speaker 2: El-Sayed's… He's not exactly a doctor. He's not allowed …
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  Speaker 2: If he treated a patient, he'd be arrested. It'd be
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  Speaker 2: illegal for him to treat. He's not a physician. He's
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  Speaker 2: not … You know, so when it comes to Oz,
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  Speaker 2: they call him Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Oz.
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  Speaker 2: He actually is a doctor, a famed heart surgeon, was
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  Speaker 2: a doctor for decades in a hospital. But him, they
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  Speaker 2: call Mr. Oz. But it's Dr. El-Sayed, who's not really
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  Speaker 2: a doctor. Katie Zakaria is more of a lawyer than
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  Speaker 2: this guy is a doctor. So Mamdani really pushing that now,
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  Speaker 2: which you tell you all you need to know about
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani and El-Sayed. Hey, we got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here three hours every day, nine to noon, three
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  Speaker 2: hours every day. Mark Simone here on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Only on 710WOR. Well, hey, here's some hotel tips for you. Now,
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  Speaker 2: take anything out of the minibar. But many of them,
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  Speaker 2: So at every hotel front desk, they got a ton
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: of chargers and cables that will lend you or probably
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: rent you. Also, when you're checking in, you're checking in
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: at the hotel. And they check in and everything. And
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: then now they're going to tell you what room number.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: They don't tell you out loud. They write it on
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: this card and they hand you the card. Why don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: they say it out loud? That's policy because somebody standing
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: close by might overhear what room you're in. Just for
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: security reasons, they never, ever say it out loud. Now,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: President Trump, this is a brilliant idea. You know, you
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: got this fraud all over the place, this Medicaid daycare fraud.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: You saw it in Minnesota where it was like 100
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: million in fraud. The government will pay you if you're
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: doing Medicaid or daycare. And many of these centers are
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: just Somalian fraud in Minnesota. Here in Queens, it's all
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: kinds of people doing it. It's just fraud. And they've
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: uncovered Now, Nick Shirley is this kid. He's just a
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: kid with a camera. And he became a reporter, this
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: kid with a camera. And he's uncovered hundreds and hundreds
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: of millions of dollars in fraud. And 60 Minutes, with
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: an army of cameras and journalists, won't even go near this.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: The real journalists don't go near it. The fake news
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: avoids it. But this kid with his camera has been amazing.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So President Trump invited him to the White House and
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: President Trump announced, because maybe other people want to do
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: what he's doing, it's easy to find the fraud if
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: it's a daycare center getting $ 10 million in reimbursement and
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: you show up and it's an empty storefront with nobody
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: in it and never had anybody in it, how could
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: it be a daycare center? There's no kids. There's no anything. Sometimes,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: They show up at the address that's listed for the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: thing that's getting all the reimbursement. And it turns out
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: it's an empty apartment. It's not even a business. So
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: President Trump has announced he'll pay a commission for anybody
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: uncovering this stuff. If you uncover one of these frauds,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: you'll get a 1% commission. So let's say Nick Shirley,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: he's probably uncovered $ 200 million in this fraud, minimum, maybe more,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: $ 200 million. So the commission on that would be $ 2
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: million for him. So even if you find most of
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: these fraud things, it turns out they're getting $ 10 million
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: in government reimbursement. The commission on that would be $ 10 million.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It would be $ 100, 000. That's a big reward. So there's
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: now going to be a 1% commission if you can
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: uncover any of these fraud things. And again, it's easy
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: to do. There's records where you can find out who's
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: getting this government reimbursement. You show up, and if there's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: nothing there, nobody there, It's clearly fraud. It's not really
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: a daycare center. It's not really Medicaid center. And it
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: happens in Minnesota. It's all over the place. They believe
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: that Waltz and a lot of politicians, Omar, maybe they
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: weren't directly involved, but they were directly involved in looking
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the other way and letting it happen. Omar is in
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: real trouble, Elon Omar. They've got her on a lot
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: of things. It looks like she lied, out and out lied,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: on her birth certificate and other things, changing her age
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to defraud her way into the U.S. This is the allegation,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: but I hear there's a lot of evidence and they
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: will get her. And it also looks like she did
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: marry her brother. That's the other word coming out, that
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: they've got her DNA and they will be able to
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: prove that. So it's going to go badly for Omar.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: She's going to have a lot of trouble, President Trump.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Could she be deported? Oh, she could be. She could
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: also go to jail. I mean, she could also go
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: to jail.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: You know, they keep talking about deportation.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: No, she could go to jail. This is just my opinion.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I think she's a sick, very dishonest person, but who
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: hates our country.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now, you could try, well, this is a Trump
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: law theory. He's going after Zipo. Well, this Omar investigation
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: was actually started by the Biden administration. The evidence came
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: to the Biden administration of all this. They began the investigation.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: It's the Biden administration, so they moved very slow on that. But,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: you know, they were so busy trying to get Trump,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: but this is a Biden investigation into Omar. But it
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: looks like they got her. So it should be pretty
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: bad for her. Do you know what the latest Instagram,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: TikTok idiotic craze is? Remember the one, what was the
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: one with cinnamon? When you pour cinnamon down your throat? Okay,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: this is hard to believe. The latest one is the
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: fire challenge. It's going viral. The fire challenge is you
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: set yourself on fire and see how fast you can
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: put it out. Obviously, you've got to be a complete
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: moron to do this, but they're just kids. They're dumb kids.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: New Orleans is having a big problem. Here's one boy
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: nine years old who did it. You pour something, gasoline
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: or some kind of alcohol, all over yourself and then
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: set yourself ablaze. This nine-year-old, serious damage. Seventy percent of
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: his body was burned. But this fire challenge, the dumbest,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: most dangerous of all of this, all these dumb TikTok crazes.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: But it's going on. Parents, schools, law enforcement trying to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: stop this. Hey, we got a lot to get to.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Lots coming up. And we'll take some calls, too. It's
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone here. 9 to noon every day. Three hours
• 24:24
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• 24:29
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• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, price of oil dropping. There was this big
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: spike in oil. It shot up to like $ 107 a barrel.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: It's $ 97 a barrel now. Dropped $ 10 a barrel in
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: just two days. Actually, at the gas pumps, it's down.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Average national gas price now $ 4. 26, down a little. France,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you'll notice the rioting has subsided, greatly, greatly subsided. don't
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: take that as a sign that Macron has done anything.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I know there's curfews and all that. It's not so
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: much that. The rioting is a weekend activity. It's more
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: on the weekends. So this coming weekend, they're all scheduled
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to come back. Although Macron's saying that he will not
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: allow that stuff to happen again this weekend, that he
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: will be ready for it. Now, this is Macron. Who knows? Macron,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: not the toughest leader in the world. If this were another, well, Italy,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: they started to get this in Italy. They brought out
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the military and quashed it right away. Macron has not
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: brought in the military. And if he did, it's the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: French military. It's like one notch above a Boy Scout troop.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: So I don't know what they're going to do. But
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: he claims they will be prevented from doing it this weekend.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: We'll see. Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mike.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: That soundbite you played of Mandani endorsing El-Sayed is the
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: perfect example or a great example of the difference between
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: the two parties. There was no hesitance. There was no buts.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: There was no equivocation in his endorsement. If that was
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: a Republican expert, a pundit, or, you know, a guy
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: you didn't know, he would have been 14. Well, there's
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: something about a lie. Well, you know, gee, Lindsey Graham's
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: daughter was sister. She's not exactly Patrick Henry. Democrats, without hesitance,
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: will endorse their guys because they know once they're in,
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: they're going to vote in lockstep. There's going to be
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: no fighting amongst themselves. And they're going to just do
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: what they're told to do. Republicans don't understand that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: No, they understand. Listen, you're right. It's a different, Republicans
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: are different. I mean, both parties stink. They're both awful.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: But Republicans feel like, for the most part, they're country
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: club types. They, you know, do a little politics. But
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: with the Democrats, and you know a lot of Democrats,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: it's full-time, 24-7 warfare. I mean, they're always, they're on
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: the front lines fighting away. Republicans, they fight. They don't fight.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: They stop.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: They don't, you know, they, And every win, big or small, counts.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: And the Republicans think, oh, we'll debate and discuss and
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: I'll dazzle them with my incredible argument, but they don't win.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: And it's like, that's the problem. Democrats will take any win.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Getting rid of Katie Zachariah was a win. As minute
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: as it is, it is a win.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: It's something they can gloat about and brag about. As
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: I say.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: It's warfare for them. They're fighting 24-7, bombing, attacking 24-7. Yeah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: that's a good point, Mike. Thanks for calling. Hey, by
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: the way, with that Katie Zachariah, there's now the New
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: York Times and some others saying Trump's war on women.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: He's been firing a lot of women. Look at the
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: women he's fired, and they go through all these women
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that he's fired. Well, they forget to mention they were
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the ones calling for each of these women to be fired.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: They were the ones demanding Zachariah be fired. They're the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: ones going after Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem and all
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: these women. Kimberly Guilfoyle was the press chasing them out,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: demanding they be fired. And then as soon as they're fired,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: why is he firing all these women? It's the double
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: standard Democrats are famous for. Let's go to Mike in Brooklyn. Mike,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: how you doing? Good morning, Mark.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: Mark, I'm just calling.
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: How's Joe Bartlett doing? We haven't heard from him.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: In a while.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, Joe Bartlett's fine. I think he's on the morning
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: show now and then. We've got to call him. We
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: haven't called him in a while. He's in Hilton Head.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Where is that? South Carolina. That's South Carolina, right? Yeah,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: he's down there. He plays golf every day. Joe Bartlett
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: doing great. Well, thanks for asking, Mike. Let's go to
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: David in Queens. David, how are you doing?
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: Hey, Mark. Good morning. Mark, Liz Hochul has her minions
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: in the state assembly touting the Home Energy Assistance Program.
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: The people out there should realize that the pennies they
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: would give back to you on this program is money
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: that they stole from you. Mark, it's time for the Mr.
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: Ed impersonator to be shown the door.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Who's that? Oh, now we got a guest?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Who's the Mr. Ed impersonator? Oh, is he talking about Hochul? Maybe.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, that's state legislature. I'm looking for
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: the story here. You know, there's... they've identified a bunch
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: of state legislators who have not shown up in a year.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: They haven't been to now. apparently you can vote without
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: showing up in person you do not have to physically
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: show up to vote so they voted but they have
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: not shown up in a year and it's pretty bad
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you know um it's not a full-time job if you're
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: in the state uh legislature in albany if you're in
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the state uh Senate or the Assembly, it's not a
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: full-time job. They all do something else for a living.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: But you're supposed to show up once in a while.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: So some of them have not shown up in a
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: year ever. You know that comedian Carrot Top? Carrot Top.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I always thought awful comedian. He's the guy. He was
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: in the news a couple weeks ago. He tried to
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: kill himself. And terrible. But he's back. He's recovered. and
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: you know, he has a, what they call a residency
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, a regular, uh, you know, he's got
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: his own showroom. He appears all the time. And, uh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: he came back, did his first show. And, uh, you know, he's,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: he's a lot of props. He does props. He's one
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: of the stupid prop comedians, but he came out and
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: he said, uh, just to be serious for a moment,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: you all know what happened. And, uh, I'm not a,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: you know, usually talking up here, but, uh, I have
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: to say something. And I was wondering, how do I
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: explain this? What do I do? How do I come back?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And he said, I'm a prop comedian. So I came
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: up with the right prop. And then he reaches in
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the box and pulls out a noose. It got a
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: huge laugh. It was very funny there. Now, you may
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: be saying to yourself, how does a guy like that
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: have his own residency in Las Vegas? It's not a big,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: big room with 2,000 seats. But he's got his own
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: showroom with a couple hundred seats. He rents it. It's
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: what they call a rental. You may not realize this.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Most of the shows in Las Vegas are what they
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: call rentals. In other words, the performer rents the room
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: from the hotel, sells his own tickets. The hotel doesn't
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: have anything to do with it except they just charge rent.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Most of these shows, even some of the big ones
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: in the hotels, they're renting the room. In show business,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: they call it four-walling the room, which means you're not
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: getting paid. You got to sell your own tickets. but
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: uh that's the new las vegas is in real trouble
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: business is way down in las vegas it's in real
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: trouble it's really bad right now so that's one way
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: they're making money they're just renting the room a lot
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: of these guys even you know rich little is still
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: performing there rich little it's a rental he rents a
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: room does his own show promotes it himself sells his
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: own tickets even wayne newton the last couple years that
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: was a rental he would rent the room promoted himself,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: sell his own tickets. So that's the state of Las
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Vegas right now. You know, you go back a few
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: years ago, they used to pay performers, overpay them like crazy.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: You know, they'd pay somebody $ 400, 000 a week. And they'd
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: take a loss on the show, but they'd make it
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: back in the casino. Well, those days are gone. Las
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Vegas is in real financial trouble. So they're renting out
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: the rooms to performers. Business is way down. And they
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: don't have any more of the stuff. You know, they
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: always had the free buffets. All of that stuff is
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: gone now. In fact, as business went down, they made
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: a huge mistake. They kept raising the prices, causing business
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: to drop even more. You know, now it's like 25
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: bucks for a cup of coffee in Las Vegas. A
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: lot of people avoiding the place now. Hey, we got
• 33:03
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• 33:34
  Speaker 2: well hey it's gonna be a really uh well a
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: nice day today it's not gonna be warm it'll be
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: in the upper 50 well it'll get to 60 degrees
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: maybe today windy 60 degrees but bright sunshine for like
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: the next five days thursday tomorrow mid 60s and then
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: back into the upper 50s but bright sunshine no rain
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: at all uh for the next five days bright sunshine
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: for five days now this is uh hurricane or el
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: nino whatever the hell it is it's offshore it's not
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: going to hit us you might get a little bit
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: of rain in the uh eastern tip of long island
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: like montauk you might get a little rain but most
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of no rain but this is what the wind is
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: from that's why it's so windy today it's the very
• 34:18
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