Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Mark interviews Monica Crowley, the Chief of Protocol of the United States.

Transcript

Mark interviews Monica Crowley, the Chief of Protocol of the United States. · The Mark Simone Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Mister New York. He's on the case the Mark Simon
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Show on seven tenor well, hey, we knew her when
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: she was just Monica Crowley. She is now the Chief
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: of Protocol of the United States of America. She is
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: the Ambassador Monica Crowley, Madam Ambassador. How you doing?
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: Hi, Good morning, Mark. I'm doing well.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: Although I have to say keeping up with President Trump
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: is quite the project.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Oh I don't know. I was every in the New
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: York Times. Apparently he's cognitive whatever, he's falling asleep.
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, the propagandaize coming from the mainstream
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: media just never stop.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: It is the exact opposite.
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: You know, you would think that if they wanted to
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: lie about President Trump, and they have for the last
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: eleven years.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: Since he became a leader and a candidate and a president,
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: but you would think that it would have like semblance
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: of believability. This is like President Trump literally never sleeps.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: He is going around the clock.
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: There is no such thing as a day off, there
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: is no such thing as a weekend.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: It is NonStop with.
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: Him, and it is all geared to the American people
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: to bringing America back, making America great again, getting our
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: economy back, on track, which is why he was back
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: doing a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday. It is about securing
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: peace around the world, to make sure that conflicts around
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: the world are minimized and ended, which brings greater prosperity
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: to their regions, to the world, and to the United States.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: The man never stops.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if they weren't so corrupt, it's a more fascinating story.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: They could be reporting that no president ever behaved like this.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Usually it's a press conference two weeks from Monday. Nobody's
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: ever had four hundred press conferences a day or just
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: events around the clock. And do you sometimes not even
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: know where you're going to be, what city? The way
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: he moves and keeps moving.
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: It is nonsense.
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: Every day I wake up, Mark and I'm like, Okay,
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: what kind of adventure is going to be coming at
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: me today?
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: And it really is an adventure. Every day is a blessing.
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: But I have to say, at the end of last week,
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: I in the space of seventy two hours, Mark, I
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: went from dealing with the President of Rwanda to the
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: president of FIFA and FIFA legends to Jane Simmons of.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Kiss Yeah, tell us about it.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: Literally in seventy two hours. It's just extraordinary.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about the Kennedy Center. Looked really great.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: That's a Sunday night ceremony.
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely amazing. So on Thursday last week, the President
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: presided over a peace deale between the presidents of Rwanda
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: and the Congo and that conflict has been going on
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: for thirty five years, so he brokeer that peace deal
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: and we did that, and then on Friday at the
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: Kennedy Center, we hosted FIFA for the twenty twenty sixth
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: final draw for the World Cup next year, which President
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: Trump heroically brought to the United States back in his
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: first term. So we did that on Friday, and then
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: all weekend we celebrated at the Kennedy Center for the
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: Kennedy Center Honors, which was taped on Sunday, and it's
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: going to air, I believe on December twenty third on CBS,
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: so the rest of the country will get to see
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: what we saw live on Sunday night. And it was
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: just magical. We had so many acts that are just
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: purely American icons, like George Strait and Kiss and Gloria Gaynor,
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: Sylvester Stallone.
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: It was just absolutely magical.
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: To see all of these phenomenal acts get their due.
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: Michael Crawford of course, get their do with tributes and
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: then tribute performances. So I encourage everybody to watch on
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: December twenty third on CBS because.
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: You will love the show.
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: But really, Mark, that's another project that President Trump has
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: taken under and turned around.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: He has saved the Kennedy.
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: Center, which is one of America's great cultural institutions.
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: He has saved it.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know a lot of stuff is going on.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: People don't realize. Apparently the infrastructure was crumbling at the
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Kennedy Center. He had to fix that. He's fixed up
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: every inch of the White House, the entrance to this,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: the that, not to mention the ballroom and all that.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: But the boy, he doesn't get any credit for that.
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: He really, No, he doesn't, but I'll tell you he will.
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: He will because he really believes said our capital city, Washington,
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: d C. Should be a sparkling gem. And that is
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: why he is moving on all fronts to turn our
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: capital city into that shining city on a hill that
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan talked about when he talked about America. But
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: President Trump really believes that the entire country will follow
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: suit if our capital is cleaned up and made safe.
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: And that's why we have the National Guard on the streets.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: And we had that horror happened right around Thanksgiving where
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: we had two National guardsmen shot and one unfortunately passed away.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: One is struggling for his life still.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: But he has.
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: Actually ratcheted up the National Guard present since that horrific shooting. Washington,
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: d C now is incredibly safe, much safe for them
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: where you were now sparkling, and it does extend to
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: our institutions as well, like the Kennedy Center. He has
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: done all of that while turning the US economy around,
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: while brokering peace deals around the world.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: Again, the man never stops for good.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, now, Monica Crowley, as Chief of Protocol, all the
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: world leaders come to the White House, they first meet
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: with you, and we see you greet them, and you're
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: sitting with them and you're talking with them. What do
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: you notice they all have in common, all the different
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: world leaders, as far.
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: As that's a really yeah, that's a really interesting question. Mark,
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean my office and I've got an absolutely
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: phenomenal team.
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: I cannot do any of this without them. They are
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: just incredible.
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: And what we do is manage the diplomatic engagements for
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: the President, the Vice president, and the Secretary of State.
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: So I am I am obviously hooked to the President
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: and these world leaders.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: And I have to say.
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: That most of them, not all, but the vast majority
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: of these world leaders.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: First of all, they.
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: When they come in, they all have a sense of
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: awe of the President and the White House in America.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: They all understand where they are, and.
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: Even if they're meeting with the President elsewhere, like President
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: Putin of Russia met with President Trump in Alaska, so
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: not in the White House, but there is a fundamental
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: understanding that they are dealing with the world's superpower. And
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: President Trump is one of the few presidents in recent
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: history to understand the importance of American leverage and knows
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: how to use it. He knows he's sitting atop the
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: world's superpower militarily, economically, diplomatically, politically, culturally, and he leverages it,
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: and he knows how to leverage it. This is why,
• 7:37
  Speaker 3: you know, coming out of his business background is so invaluable.
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: But these world leaders understand, and I would say almost
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: all of them have said to me and to others.
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: You know, even if we disagree with President Trump on policy,
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: even if we have serious policy differences with the administration
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: with the United State, we all appreciate a strong American president.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: They all appreciate that he is strong and that he
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: tells them the truth. Now, they may not like the truth,
• 8:14
  Speaker 3: they may not like what they're hearing from him, they
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: may disagree right, and they may want to counter it,
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: but they all understand that having a strong American hand
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: in the White House, sitting atop the country, they know
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: exactly where they stand. They don't have to waste time
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: guessing what does the president believe, where's American policy going.
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: They know exactly where they stand, and then they can
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: operate from there, and they all appreciate that more than
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Wow, well, hey, we only got about thirty seconds left.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: You got the most important, glamorous job. But tell the truth.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: You miss us, you miss New York, you miss the
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: radio and TV, don't you.
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: Well. I am so blessed to be in this job,
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: and I thank God every day, and I thank the
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: President for having the confidence in me to do this job.
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: It is incredibly important and I'm just so grateful. But
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: I am a New Yorker.
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: So while I'm in DC doing this job, while President
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: Trump is in office, as long as they will have me,
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: I am still a New York girl, and I pray
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: and hope that we will survive the Mondommie years and
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: that he will moderate because you know, New York City
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: is the capitalist gem, the cultural gem of this country,
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: and it cannot go the way of a San Francisco
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: or a Seattle or Portland. It cannot be gutted. And
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: so I hope him pray that while you're all there,
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: you guys, every New Yorker will work hard to save
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: our city.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, Monica Crowley, keep up the great work. Hey,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: next time we'll talk about this coming year. You got
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: the biggest events and coming this next year. But great job,
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: Monica Crowley, Ambassador, Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol of the
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: United States. You're doing a great job. Thanks for being
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much much.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: Mark and Christmas, all right, Merry Christmas, take care. Hey,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: don't forget coming up at noon, it's Buck Sexton and
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Clay Travis with an excellent show. And then you got
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: the most listened to radio show in America. Sean Hannity
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: at three, Jesse Kelly at six, and you should be
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: listening now. Every night at nine, we got a fabulous
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: new show. Every night at nine, it's Jimmy Fayla. On
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: seven to ten, wor