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Hour 2: Putin agrees to talk. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the middle of the week. It's 13 days
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  Speaker 1: until the election. That's right, 13 days. Election day. Make
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  Speaker 1: sure you get out and vote. Early voting in New
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  Speaker 1: York starts this weekend. So if you can, do it
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. Vote Saturday or Sunday. Get out and vote
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  Speaker 1: for Bruce Blakeman. And the attorney general's race looks pretty good. Normally,
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  Speaker 1: it's tough for anybody running against a Democrat attorney general,
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  Speaker 1: but this is the worst attorney general, the most biased, slanted, lawfare,
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  Speaker 1: making up fake cases against Donald Trump. But the opponent,
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  Speaker 1: with a name nobody can pronounce, Sarita Karatumimedi, you'll see
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  Speaker 1: her name on the ballot. She's the Republican candidate for
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General. Make sure you vote for her. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you vote for her. Get rid of Letitia James. Would
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  Speaker 1: be a big help for New York. But again, you
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  Speaker 1: can start voting Saturday in New York. Connecticut, I think
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  Speaker 1: you've already got your early voting going on. But it's
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  Speaker 1: 13 days from today. So there's been a big breakthrough
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  Speaker 1: with Russia. As you know, President Trump, for the last
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  Speaker 1: week or so, has been very nice to Putin. He's
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  Speaker 1: been flattering him. He's been nice. He's been using the carrot,
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  Speaker 1: not the stick, and getting criticism for it, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of criticism for it, but it's paying off. He got this,
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  Speaker 1: Russia has released this American teacher they've been holding for
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  Speaker 1: about four years. Biden claimed he was trying to get
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  Speaker 1: the guy out, but never did anything to get him out.
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  Speaker 1: It's a terrible situation, this teacher being held in Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Trump got him released. Yesterday he was released. With no conditions.
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  Speaker 1: It was not a prisoner swap. He asked Putin to
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  Speaker 1: release this guy, and Putin did it. He's been released.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the big breakthrough. It's just breaking now that
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  Speaker 1: Putin has agreed to sit down with Zelensky and the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: for trilateral talks. This has never happened before with the
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  Speaker 1: Russia-Ukraine war. But Putin has now agreed he will sit
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  Speaker 1: down with the Russians and The Ukrainians, the Americans will
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  Speaker 1: all meet, trilateral talks. They'll get this done somehow. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if they'll end the war, but they'll get
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  Speaker 1: the talks done. They'll get in a room and all
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  Speaker 1: start talking. That's a big, big breakthrough. And again, Trump
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  Speaker 1: very good at using the carrot, then the stick, then
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  Speaker 1: the carrot, then the stick. So the problem is Zelensky
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  Speaker 1: is not the greatest in a room when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to negotiating. As you've seen, just sitting with President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: he managed to get himself in there. 10 different fights
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  Speaker 1: in that first meeting. But Putin, a much, although totally
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  Speaker 1: evil and disgusting, a much cagier, slyer guy than Zelensky.
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  Speaker 1: Although Zelensky's done a great job coming up with weapons
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  Speaker 1: and as a general, he's been great in this war.
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  Speaker 1: But there will be trilateral talks. That's good news. The
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  Speaker 1: other breaking news this morning, Brad Lander, The extremely annoying
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  Speaker 1: Brad Lander is being held by Israel. He was in Israel. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense to begin with because there's
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  Speaker 1: nobody that hates Israel more than Brad Lander. There's nobody
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  Speaker 1: that's denounced Israel more than Brad Lander. He's attacked them,
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  Speaker 1: accusing them of genocide. He's totally opposed to Israel. He's
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  Speaker 1: the most anti-Israel guy in the world. What the hell
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  Speaker 1: is he doing in Israel? Well, he was there to
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  Speaker 1: help the Palestinians or the Gazans or supposedly helping them
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  Speaker 1: plant olives. Who knows what he's doing there? He's there
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  Speaker 1: for photo opportunity. He's there to publicize himself. But for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, he's been detained. We'll find out exactly why. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Israel is detaining Brad Lander, don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: After they're alone with this guy for about two hours,
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  Speaker 1: they'll release him. They'll put him on a plane and
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  Speaker 1: get him the hell out of there. Nobody wants this
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  Speaker 1: guy around. very slimy, annoying politician, Brad Lander. Uh, the
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  Speaker 1: other thing, uh, Katie's Zacharia has reemerged. You know, she
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  Speaker 1: left the white house last week. She's back in California
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  Speaker 1: and she finally reemerged. You'll see the pictures all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. She's reemerged with a little tiny, uh, halter
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  Speaker 1: top on and, uh, these tight little sweat pants. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Looks like one of those Instagram influencers trying to get attention.
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  Speaker 1: So the pictures of her trying to look hot outside
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  Speaker 1: in this little tight outfit, that's how she wanted to reemerge.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the right thing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you saw her as the press secretary with those very
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  Speaker 1: formal business suits, those banker-type business suits. Now she's running
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  Speaker 1: around in the trashy little gym clothes trying to get attention.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean, what could she do?
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  Speaker 1: How do you reemerge? You suddenly show up working at
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  Speaker 1: a soup kitchen trying to help people. Is that the
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  Speaker 1: way to reemerge? That's always pretty phony. You know, these
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  Speaker 1: people that every Thanksgiving, I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: do this. Thanksgiving, they go to the soup kitchen to
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  Speaker 1: help feed the poor. And they put up pictures of
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  Speaker 1: themselves working at the soup kitchen on Thanksgiving. It sounds good,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not helping anybody, you know, because for the
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  Speaker 1: next 364 days of the year, they're not at the
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  Speaker 1: soup kitchen. You know, if you said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go do this every weekend, that might help. But a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours once a year, you're not helping anybody. But
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  Speaker 1: Katie Zakaria, I don't know what she's going to do.
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  Speaker 1: She was an occasional guest on Fox. I guess maybe
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  Speaker 1: she could do that. She could try to get on
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else, Newsmax or someplace else. She could try to
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  Speaker 1: get her own. She's not a host. She can't do
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  Speaker 1: her own show, but maybe be a regular there.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Elon Omar has put out a video begging for cash.
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  Speaker 1: Begging for money. She's in real trouble. Real serious legal trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Real legal trouble. So she's going to have a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: And they're really going to go after her. And the
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  Speaker 1: charges look pretty serious. So she's going to need a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money to fight this legal battle. She could
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  Speaker 1: very easily get deported. They could easily prove, it looks like,
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  Speaker 1: according to sources and the evidence, That she's not a citizen.
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  Speaker 1: That would remove her from Congress. All good. All good.
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  Speaker 1: And you know this woman in Michigan, Alyssa Slotkin, who's in,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats love it, but with everybody else, she's in hot
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  Speaker 1: water because she came out with this crazy talk about
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  Speaker 1: they should start investigating, indicting, going after anybody who supports Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is insane. This is like beyond McCarthyism.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, anybody, they're trying to discourage young people,
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  Speaker 1: especially college students who get out of college, from becoming
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  Speaker 1: Republicans or becoming Trump supporters. So she's threatening to arrest
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  Speaker 1: them all, indict them all. I mean, this is the
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  Speaker 1: worst Soviet Stalinist craziest crap, but she's pushing this. And
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  Speaker 1: she's pretty much sticking to her guns.
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  Speaker 3: I want to look at these signature cases and not
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  Speaker 3: just focus on the president, but on the people who
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  Speaker 3: enabled him. I want young people coming out of school
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  Speaker 3: to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like,
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  Speaker 3: that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity. I want
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  Speaker 3: them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself
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  Speaker 3: a ton of problems that I don't want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she basically wants to threaten any young person that
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  Speaker 1: if you go to help Trump or become a Trump supporter,
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  Speaker 1: you could be arrested, you could be indicted. It's insane.
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  Speaker 1: It's un-American. It's evil, President Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Slotkin said that there should be prosecutions in order to
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  Speaker 4: scare people from going into politics.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Democrat, and that's what they do.
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  Speaker 5: That's all they're good at.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what?
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  Speaker 4: That's why they're getting their asses kicked.
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  Speaker 1: Well. But she keeps sticking to her guns on that.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, the fake news backs her up completely.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Guilfoyle. She is headed back to Florida. She'll be
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  Speaker 1: living in Palm Beach. Kimberly Guilfoyle has finally listed herself
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  Speaker 1: now as a speaker. They got these speakers bureaus, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where if you want a big speaker, a famous speaker
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  Speaker 1: or expert speaker, interesting speaker, you go to a speakers
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  Speaker 1: bureau and you go to their websites and they tell you,
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  Speaker 1: You've got each person, some of them very famous, some
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  Speaker 1: of them not so famous, and has how much their
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  Speaker 1: fee is. So she's listed herself as $ 100, 000 per appearance.
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  Speaker 1: But then if you look down at the fine print there,
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  Speaker 1: it says ranging from $ 50, 000 to $ 100, 000, available for corporate appearances,
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  Speaker 1: speaking engagements, virtual events, fireside chats, meet and greets. It
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  Speaker 1: Then they have to tell you where the speaker's coming
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  Speaker 1: from because you'll have to pay the travel expenses. So
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  Speaker 1: down there in the fine print says she'll be coming
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  Speaker 1: from West Palm Beach Airport. So far, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: of any bookings yet for her, but I could see that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You have to kind of say what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to say in the speech. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of speeches. You can book me, but
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  Speaker 1: it'll say these are his topics. So she hasn't listed
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  Speaker 1: any of that. And so far we know of nobody
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  Speaker 1: actually booking her. But they're going after her for this.
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  Speaker 1: But they all do this. Mike Pompeo, anybody that was
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  Speaker 1: in the cabinet, anybody that was well-known in politics, all
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  Speaker 1: these people. Everybody you see on Fox and people you
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  Speaker 1: see on MS now, they're all listed with these speakers' bureaus.
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  Speaker 1: You can book all of them for an event. But
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  Speaker 1: the fake news going after this saying it's the Trump orbit,
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  Speaker 1: why they're cashing in. They all do this. Everybody that
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  Speaker 1: worked for Biden, all the former press secretaries, cabinet, they're
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  Speaker 1: all available as speakers. Everybody does it. Not unusual. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: they're cleaning up the Social Security rolls. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fraud everywhere, not just voter fraud, Social
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  Speaker 1: Security fraud. So now that the Trump administration is running it,
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  Speaker 1: they decided to clean up the rolls and they've officially
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  Speaker 1: started this will help clean up a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's 17 million in the Social Security base
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  Speaker 1: that they believe are actually dead, listed as alive. So
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  Speaker 1: they're clearing up the death dates. There are 25 million
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  Speaker 1: records that had missing citizenship information. So they're cleaning all
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  Speaker 1: this up. And they're currently in the process of correcting
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  Speaker 1: an additional 9 million records with inaccurate status on them.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's ever bothered to do this before, correct all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a great step, and they'll actually do it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Katie Zakaria, by the way, remember she had
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  Speaker 1: all this flack because she said she was a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out she never passed the bar. Her excuse was,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you have a law degree and you're
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  Speaker 1: working in a law firm, you can say you're a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't passed the bar, you can't say you're
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  Speaker 1: an attorney, and everybody laughed at that. Well, it turns
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  Speaker 1: out if you go to the American Bar Association, the
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  Speaker 1: rules are different state by state. But the American Bar
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  Speaker 1: Association last year put out an article and the American
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  Speaker 1: Bar Association said an attorney is someone who passed the
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  Speaker 1: bar and has been admitted to practice law in a jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 1: A lawyer is someone who received the same legal training
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  Speaker 1: but has not been admitted to practice law. So according
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  Speaker 1: to the American Bar Association, Katie Zakaria is actually correct.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this. Kathy Hochul getting desperate, very desperate, because
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman caught up to her. They're now pretty much even.
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  Speaker 1: They're within the margin of error in the real polls.
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  Speaker 1: She's now pushing to announce a chip-making plant in Utica.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: She's going to try to get a chip-making plant. There's
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  Speaker 1: a company called Solid Gym. It's the U.S. arm of
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: a South Korean chip giant. if you don't want AI,
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: why would you want a chip making plant? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but she's desperate and she'll do anything that sounds good,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: looks good. So she's trying to get this big chip
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  Speaker 1: making plant to Ithaca. She's looking for votes up there.
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  Speaker 1: Albany insiders insist, well, actually they point out no deal
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  Speaker 1: has been finalized. So she could make a deal according
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  Speaker 1: to Albany insiders. She can make this deal and announce it.
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  Speaker 1: And it sounds great. Everybody's thrilled up there that this
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  Speaker 1: has come. But then she can hand it off to
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  Speaker 1: the feds and then all the red tape will come
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: in and it'll never get done. They call it the
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Albany two-step. So she can prop it up and then
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: hand it to the feds and making sure it never happens.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: So that's the kind of stuff these people do. You
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: got to be very, very wary of them. President Trump
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: going to South Carolina today. be campaigning for Darlene Graham.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: That's a tough race. Kamala Harris is announced. She's going
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  Speaker 1: on a five-state midterm campaign swing. Does this help anybody?
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  Speaker 1: The word salad, babbling yo-yo, Kamala Harris, drunk all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Is this going to help anybody? Well, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: where they're sending her. They're not sending her to battleground states.
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  Speaker 1: She'll be in Nevada, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: She'll be attacking President Trump for rising costs. You've got
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: to give them a lot of credit, these Democrats. Their
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: costs were much higher than Trump's. Their gas costs, their inflation,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: everything was much higher than Trump. But they campaign against
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  Speaker 1: him based on costs. Give them credit. That takes a
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  Speaker 1: lot of nerve, a lot of chutzpah to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that with a straight face. Hey, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: some calls coming up next. 800-321-0710 is the number. Give
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  Speaker 1: me a call. 800- 321-0710. Mr. New York. Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take some calls. Let's go to Lou in Chicago. Lou,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Great show. Thanks. Mark, I was just wondering, you know
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: what's happening in France right now? I kind of think
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  Speaker 2: that Mayor Daley, the old man, had the right idea. That,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he told him, if you were messing around
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  Speaker 2: in Grant Park, shoot to kill. And I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to sound like a goofball, but what do you think
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  Speaker 2: of that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that was the old Mayor Daley. He was
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  Speaker 1: also the most corrupt guy in the world. Dead people voting.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: All kinds of shenanigans with that guy. But there's a
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: nice balance in between... modern-day stuff and Mayor Daley stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. They need to send out the military, and
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: they need to put this down. They should have done
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  Speaker 1: it the first night. Good point. Thanks for calling. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Andrew in Florida. Andrew, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing great, Mark. Thanks so much for taking my call.
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  Speaker 5: I remember you from substituting for Rush. You were great.
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  Speaker 5: He was great, and you're great now. I appreciate everything
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  Speaker 5: you do. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes the button.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm calling about something else, but I just wanted
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  Speaker 5: to throw in that Mamdani, if you just reverse the
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  Speaker 5: M and the D in the middle, it's Mad Manny.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody ever says that. I'm the only one that's thought
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  Speaker 5: of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that good. That's why no one ever says it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, thank you for that. But hey, you're an
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: expert on Jack Parr and Johnny Carson and all that,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm really calling you about... My father, his name
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: was George Jason, and he was on the Jack Parr
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  Speaker 5: show many times. And I'm asking you if you perhaps
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: remember him. He was a musician, magician, and comedian. And
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: he was going to be on the Ed Sullivan show,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: but he died in 1959.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: You wouldn't remember him, would you?
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  Speaker 1: No. George Jason. No, but there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys back then who were big on all the talk shows.
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  Speaker 1: that nobody would know today. There's a million comedians. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: saw them in every show. There was Toadie Fields and
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  Speaker 1: Milt Kamen and London Lee and all these guys. In
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  Speaker 1: today's world, nobody would know them. Same thing with singers.
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  Speaker 1: But that was the good old days of The Tonight Show.
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  Speaker 1: Those good old days in New York and the nightclubs. Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Let's go to Marge in Manhattan. Marge,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Hi, I'm here.
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  Speaker 6: I just wanted to talk about Medicare for All.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody seems to explain that Medicare is not free for seniors.
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  Speaker 6: We start paying for Medicare the minute we work. It
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: comes out of our taxes. And that's for Medicare A.
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  Speaker 6: If you haven't paid in enough quarters, you're not eligible
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  Speaker 6: for Medicare.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have Medicare? Do you have Medicare?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Does it cover everything? Is it good?
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  Speaker 6: It's a very nice program, but it's not free.
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  Speaker 1: No, I understand that. When you have Medicare, do you
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  Speaker 1: pay anything? Do you pay a monthly fee or anything?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you do?
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  Speaker 6: You pay a month. It depends on the plan. If
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  Speaker 6: you go for traditional Medicare A and B, you have
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  Speaker 6: to buy a secondary that could cost $ 400 a month.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Well, all right. Well, thanks for calling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the problem is it's like Obamacare. It sounded great on paper.
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  Speaker 1: In reality, it was a disaster for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Not the right coverage. A lot of things not covered.
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  Speaker 1: It was costing them way too much. Remember that if
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Everybody
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: lost their doctor immediately. The last thing you want is
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: your health care totally in the hands of government bureaucrats.
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  Speaker 1: No competition allowed. That's the last thing you want. Let's
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: go to Jamie in Columbia, South Carolina, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: Mark, I'm in Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Columbus, Ohio. All right, I'll talk slower.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I just, great show like usual. I want to
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  Speaker 5: ask you about that Steve Hilton governor race in California.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: If he has a chance, are they going.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: To do the Spencer Pratt thing where they take a
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: month to count the votes?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: And in the long run, it doesn't work out?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's a very good question. Yes, they're going to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: do that to him. And that's the problem. Let's say
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: he wins by three points. Not enough. The cheating could
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: be seven, eight points. Yeah, if he wins, they'll just say,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: haven't counted yet. It's going to take a while to count.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Absentee ballots are out there. They'll play those shenanigans. That's
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the other thing. Election night is 13 days away. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: you think, wow, that's going to be exciting election night.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: A lot of these races, especially California, you may be
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: waiting two weeks to get the results. And Hilton is
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: doing well. He should be the governor. But you got
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to win by like 15 points to overcome the cheating
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in California. Some states, Connecticut, they say you got to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: win by five or six points to overcome the cheating.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: But California, real bad. Let's go to Oscar in New Jersey. Oscar,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: how you doing?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You sound like Joe Biden. What are you trying to say?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who do you think is a bigger liar, a
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Somali pirate or you?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's pretty much a tie, I would say.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Somali pirate? When was the last time you saw a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Somali pirate? Let's go to Bill in New Jersey. Bill,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Listen, Mark, I got a question.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: What happened to the Iranians? Mark, how are you?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: What happened to what? Is it over?
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Did we win?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: What happened to what? Wait, you're cutting out. Say it again.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: What happened to what?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, the war in Iran? It's on hold right now.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: You know, when they say this war has been dragging
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: on for eight months, the war is like a total
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of eight days. I mean, most of the time they
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: go to war for a day, then they take a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: month off, and back to war. This has been the
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: longest break. How long has this been? Six, eight weeks,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I think. It's pretty much to the midterms. Once the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: midterms are over, from what I hear, they're going to
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: finish Iran off with MOABs. That's the mother of all bombs.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: That's the single biggest bomb outside of the nuclear bomb. Apparently,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the Pentagon has been putting together target packages. And apparently,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you heard that phone call. There was a great phone
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: call between Trump and Bibi Netanyahu. And they both, you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: could hear it in the undertone of what they were saying.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: By the way, Bibi Netanyahu is up for re-election. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: his election is next week. Next week, the Israeli elections.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: The week after, the U.S. elections. And the week after,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: they will finish off the Iran war. You could hear
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in the conversation that when Trump said, you're the guy
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I want by my side. And Netanyahu said, yes, and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we've got a job to finish. They're just waiting for
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the election to be over. And then it will resume
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: on a level never seen before. And that should finish
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: it off. Hey, coming up next, we hope. We'll be
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: talking to Steve Moore, the great economist, Steve Moore, talking
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: about the economy, gas prices, all sorts of stuff, and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: how it looks. We'll get to all of that coming
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: up on 710WOR. It's the Mark Simone Show. Live from
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the WOR LifeVac studio. Well, with us now, the brilliant economist,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Steve Moore. You should get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: If you haven't read that, it's good to, you'll learn
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a lot from that. The Trump Economic Miracle. And he
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: runs the committee to Unleash Prosperity. Every day they put
• 22:42
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• 22:45
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• 22:48
  Speaker 1: at UnleashProsperity.com. UnleashProsperity.com. Steve Moore, how you doing?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mark.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Doing actually very well, thank you. I think the economy
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: is doing a lot better than the media is portraying
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: it to be, that's for sure. And feeling very upbeat
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: about the direction of things.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Well, wait a minute. I'm looking at the New York Times.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Economy in crisis, in crisis.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Is that true? Did I really say that?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: No, but you know what I mean.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, that's what a lot of the headlines
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: have been. But, you know, you look at what these statistics,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: you know, and I'm an economist, so I look at,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: you know, what's coming out every day. We've got a
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: record-booming stock market. We've got a record amount of investment
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: capital coming into the United States.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: We're like a magnet.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: We have the lowest number of people collecting unemployment insurance
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: in something like 30 years. We have the lowest poverty
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: rate probably ever in the history of the United States.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: We're producing more oil and gas than any time before
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: in the history of the country. And so we're now
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: an exporter. And by the way, I did read in
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal today that the Middle East and
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: the Strait of Hormuz has record amount of oil flowing now.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: So those are all positive signs, and yet people are
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: in a bad mood.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I see that oil has dropped $ 10 a barrel
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in just 36 hours, which is good news. Hey, explain this.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The airlines are a mess. United Airlines, no exception. The
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: CEO of United Airlines is calling for a national wealth tax.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: What is he thinking?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, I saw that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: How's it going to help you?
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: What's his name again? I forget what his name is.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: But he gave a speech the other day in an
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: interview where he said we should have a national wealth tax, which,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: by the way, every country that's tried that has torpedoed
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: their economy. And then he said, how about this one, Mark?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: He said we should have an inheritance tax of up
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: to 100%. So here's the thing. I mean, think about this.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: If you were to tell rich people, You can't pass
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: on any of your money to your kids. everybody would
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: just spend, spend, spend. It would be like, you know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: you would spend every penny you have before the government
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: get a hold of it. It's the dumbest thing I've
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: ever heard at a hundred. Hasn't this guy ever heard
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: of the laugher curve? If you tax something, you get
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: lots of it. And if you tax it too high,
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: you lose revenue. It wouldn't collect a single dime of
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: inheritance tax because nobody would have an inheritance.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Has this guy ever heard of go woke, go broke guy, go, go,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: go talk to Jaguar, go talk to Budweiser. Uh, What
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: is he thinking?
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Well, think about it this way. Why do people build
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: up a business over their lifetime? People want to leave
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: a legacy for their children. That's the American way. My
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: dad continued to work until he was 75 years old
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: and worked and worked and put his blood and sweat
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: and tears into that business for 40, 50 years. The
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: government said, oh, by the way, you can't pass any
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: of that on to your kids. Now, it turns out
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: none of us actually took over that business, but you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: this is the American way. You know, you build up
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: a farm, you build up a ranch, you build up
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: a business, and then you get to pass that on
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: to your kids. And that's outrageous to think of. By
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: the way, in the Communist Manifesto, the first, one of the,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: you know, first commandments of the Communist Manifesto is to
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: eliminate inheritance.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Now, what else?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: By the way, I'm not flying United. You know, if
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I have a choice You know, like if I have
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: to go to fly to Chicago, I can fly to
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Chicago on American or United. I'm so pissed off at
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: this guy. I'm going on American. He's not getting my
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: business anymore.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Everybody avoid United for a while until the CEO goes. Hey,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: President Trump, there's a lot of stuff that never gets reported,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: but you report it in your daily hotline. Like as
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a result of the border being closed, drug deaths are
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: way down. That's not been reported.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: It's an amazing statistic. I mean, I was shocked when
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I saw them. Fentanyl deaths are down. Remember, we had
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: a fentanyl crisis three, four years ago. Remember that?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Now, fentanyl has almost fallen, you know, it's fallen like 80%. Wow.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: And deaths from cocaine, deaths from other major, you know, drug,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: dangerous drugs have fallen very substantially. But the big one
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: is fentanyl. And fentanyl was coming in through the border, remember?
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: And we've, as a result of, you know, sealing up
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: the border, we have cut those fentanyl. I mean, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: think there were like 60,000 deaths a year. from fentanyl
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: under Biden. Now it's down to like 10,000, which is
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: still too many, but that's a big decline.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, down 80%. Now, had it gone up 3%, the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: media would be covering that story day and night.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Of course it would.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It would.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: And so this is a real victory for Trump. I mean,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: he is saving lives by keeping all these dangerous poisons
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: out of our country.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, one thing I don't like about the Trump administration,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: this thing about we'll buy some businesses, we'll invest in companies.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: There's no good that would come of that, is there? No.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's two problems with that. You know, when
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I first came to Washington in the mid-' 80s, I actually
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: worked for one year in the Reagan administration, believe it
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: or not. And I was working on privatization, where we
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: were actually looking at how the federal government could sell assets,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: like federal lands and the post office and stuff like that,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: and sell these assets and collect money so we could
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: use that to reduce our debt. And so, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: and we did some of that. We didn't do near
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: enough of it. But now we have the opposite. When
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: you have an institution like the United States government that's
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: $ 40 trillion in debt, why.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Is it buying assets?
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: It should be selling assets. We should be selling, you know,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: things and making money so that we can help reduce
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: our debt burden. So I don't like this. That's point
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: number one. And just philosophically, I guess that's it. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: the second reason I'm against it is, you know, what
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: the government's trying to do here is pick winners and losers.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: But guess what? The government's not very good at that.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: They're not very good at picking.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Winners and losers.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: In fact, what they're really good at is picking losers.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Remember Solyndra?
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Remember that one? Remember, what was it, Fisker Auto and
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: all these companies that I think it was the Obama
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: administration invested in. Like every one of them went bankrupt.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: So I don't think these people running government who can't
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: sell us their own books are going to be very
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: good at figuring out what companies to invest in, do you?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: No, it's crazy.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: I'd rather go to my broker rather than have the
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: government tell me where to invest.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, you were talking about this a while back. The
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: flat tax is the smartest, most brilliant thing. Everybody pays 17%.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: It's fair. But you can never do it because selling
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: those loopholes and deductions is what Congress does for a living.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: So how could you ever get it passed?
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I know it's really tough because it really is, is, uh,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: you know, Washington makes its living. You know, people, we
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: get rich, you know, three of the five richest counties
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: in America are in and around Washington, DC, because we
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: get rich because you send us all your money. Thank you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Thank you for doing that, Mark. You're so nice to
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: send us all your money. And, uh, you know, you
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: send us a dollar and we send you 80 cents back.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: It's a really great gambit we got there anyway. So
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: one of the ways we make a lot of money
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: in Washington, uh, and, and created whole industries. is by
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: the whole tax preparation industry. And we've got armies of
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: tax lawyers out there. When I get to the bottom
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: line of my tax return every year, and mine isn't
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: especially complicated, but it's a little complicated, you have to
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: attest to the fact that the information you've given to
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: the United States government is valid and true. And I
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: signed that, but I don't know if it is. I mean,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: I do my best, but I have no idea whether
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I paid the right amount because the whole thing is
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: so damn confusing. Why does the tax system have to
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: be so confusing? With a flat tax, you literally have
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: a postcard return. You've got seven lines on the return.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: How much money did you make? You get a deduction
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: on your kids. You get just a few deductions, and
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: then you pay a small flat rate on that. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter whether you're Bill Gates or Steve Moore,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: you're going to pay the same rate, but he's going
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: to pay a hundred times more tax than I do.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Cause he has a hundred times more money than I do.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: That's a fair system. And I bet most Americans love it,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: but everybody in Washington hates it. Cause it takes power
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: away from the, from the, you know, the Congressman and lobbyists. And,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: and by the way, if you know who was one
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: of the instigators of the flat tax was our friend.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Steve Forbes.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Should have been elected on it, but yeah.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Now, By the way, when he ran for president and
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: started talking about the flat tax, oh, my God, Washington
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: went into conniptions. They're like, oh, my God, stop this man.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: He's dangerous. Besides the fact that it's the easiest, most logical,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: fair thing in the world, what about people saying, well,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: we'll get less revenue that way?
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, you get so much more because now there's
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: no way to stash away and hide your money. So
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: what we've created are these tax shelters, and who takes
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: advantage of the tax shelters? Rich people with fancy pants lawyers.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: So now if you're somebody like a Bill Gates, you're
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: going to pay your fair share, but you're going to
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: pay a lower rate, so your incentive to continue to
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: invest in the economy and so on goes up. I mean,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: if you imagine we had a 17% tax rate in
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: this country, I mean, we would be a vacuum cleaner
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: of capital from all over the world. Nobody could possibly
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: compete with the United States. So the only problem is
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: we'd have to find a job for all those IRS
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: agents and all the tax accountants.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and those congressmen would have to find something else
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to sell for a donation.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Right, exactly.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Well, Steve Moore, great stuff. And that daily briefing you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: put out, the hotline, it's the best.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Did you mention it's free?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It's absolutely free. You go to UnleashProsperity.com. Sign up for it.
• 32:59
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• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Mark.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Have a great weekend.
• 33:10
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• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Well, you had that big spike in oil over the weekend.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: It shot up like $ 107 a barrel. Well, it's been dropping,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: continues dropping. Been dropping the last couple of days down
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: $ 10 a barrel just in the last couple of days.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: So that's a good sign. Apparently, oil moving like crazy
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: through the Strait of Hormuz. Lots and lots and lots
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of oil flowing through there. It's going to be a beautiful, well,
• 34:11
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• 34:12
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