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Hour 3: Time Magazine on Trump. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we've got a final hour, our third hour. That's right,
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Speaker 2: we start at 9 o'clock every day now. So, President
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Speaker 2: Trump has given a big interview to Time Magazine. The
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Speaker 2: left going nuts now. The interview is leaking out. Mediaite.
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Speaker 2: Mediaite is a very left-wing, very slanted website. They said...
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Speaker 2: The five wildest moments from Trump's Time Magazine interview. Wildest
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Speaker 2: moments means the left wing picks up on this. Apparently
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Speaker 2: in the interview, he lashed out at all the Supreme
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Speaker 2: Court decisions and said he regrets all of his Supreme
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Speaker 2: Court picks. That would be Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett
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Speaker 2: says he regrets every one of them. Okay, that's supposed
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Speaker 2: to be the wildest moment. Here's the other wild moment,
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Speaker 2: according to the mediaite. Trump ramps up Caitlin Collins attacks. Well,
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Speaker 2: everybody hates, I mean, except for the left, everybody hates
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Speaker 2: this Caitlin Collins. Angry, nasty, slanted, biased, and oh, look
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Speaker 2: at this, Trump threatens to add New York Times to
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Speaker 2: the media ban. All right, that's fine. It's, you know,
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of people that read it still
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Speaker 2: think it's the New York Times, the prestigious paper of record.
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Speaker 2: It's just a slanted, slanted, it's beyond slanted. They don't
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Speaker 2: even If you're a New York Times reader, a lot
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Speaker 2: of the news is withheld from you. A lot of
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Speaker 2: information is deliberately withheld from you. You're getting misled on
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Speaker 2: a lot of things. For instance, this awful hijacking by
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Speaker 2: this radical extremist religious fanatic terrorist from Oman, the guy
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Speaker 2: that tried to crash the plane. He's a terrorist. We
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Speaker 2: know that. We knew that right away. But New York
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Speaker 2: Times yesterday said it was an altercation among employees. An
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Speaker 2: altercation among employees. So if you're reading the Times, you're
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Speaker 2: really missing a lot of news. The other bombshells from
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Speaker 2: the interview. Trump says he'll pardon his staffers. Well, I
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Speaker 2: guess that's going to be the tradition now. Biden created
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Speaker 2: this whole thing where you pardon all your own officials
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Speaker 2: before you leave office. And I guess every president will
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Speaker 2: do that from now on. Here's number four. Trump insists
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Speaker 2: that he met his timeline on Iran. Well, I think
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Speaker 2: they thought that would be a couple of weeks. It's
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Speaker 2: seven months, but it's not really seven months. You know,
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Speaker 2: if you watch the left-wing news, they'll say, as the
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Speaker 2: war enters, it's seven months. Yeah, but it's only like
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Speaker 2: 12 days out of seven months. It's the strangest war ever.
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Speaker 2: They go to war, missiles, bombs, firing, shooting, the war
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Speaker 2: for one day. And then they say, you know what?
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Speaker 2: We'll see you next month. We'll resume in 15 days.
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Speaker 2: And so it's a day. It's like one day a month.
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Speaker 2: We've never seen a war like that. Once every month
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Speaker 2: to come out and fight for a day. That's about it. Oh,
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Speaker 2: and number five, wildest moment, according to the left-wing site, Mediaite,
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Speaker 2: Trump snaps at the interviewer about not asking one blanking
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Speaker 2: positive question. Well, that's a good point. That's a very
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Speaker 2: good point. If they were interviewing Obama or Biden, they
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Speaker 2: would ask some positive stuff, but it's all vicious, negative questions. Very, very,
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Speaker 2: very slanted. Hey, Britain just fallen apart. Left-wing kooks have
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Speaker 2: taken over Britain. So the new thing now is they're
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Speaker 2: releasing all their prisoners, thousands and thousands of prisoners just
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Speaker 2: released into the streets, which means, you know, one thing
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Speaker 2: about the London, Britain, crime-free. Remember years ago, the police,
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Speaker 2: why they don't even carry guns. It's so crime-free. Now
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Speaker 2: it's street crime, crime everywhere. And they're releasing thousands of prisoners.
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Speaker 2: This is an Andrew Cuomo type thing. You remember when
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Speaker 2: Cuomo was governor, he not only closed the prisons and
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Speaker 2: released prisoners, he bragged about it. He bragged about being
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Speaker 2: the governor who's closed more prisons than any other governor.
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Speaker 2: You see these stories in the news, some lunatic nut
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Speaker 2: job or some awful guy beat up somebody, stabbed somebody
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Speaker 2: on the subway, attacked somebody, raped somebody. Very often you
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Speaker 2: read the story, it's one of these people they released
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Speaker 2: from prison. Just let them loose. Trump getting a lot
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Speaker 2: of flack over a TV ad that was put together.
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Speaker 2: It's an ad. I guess it's promoting him, but it's really,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just promoting the government, federal government,
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Speaker 2: the administration, paid for by taxpayer money. So they're yelling
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Speaker 2: and screaming, as they always do, that this is illegal.
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Speaker 2: You can't use taxpayer money to fund a campaign ad.
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Speaker 2: But Trump points out. I'm not running for office, first
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Speaker 2: of all.
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Speaker 3: And so the answer, you know, given by me, but
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Speaker 3: I'm not running for office and I don't talk about anybody.
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Speaker 2: That's a very good point. How could it be a
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Speaker 2: campaign ad if there's no campaign? He's not running for anything.
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Speaker 2: I'm not promoting.
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Speaker 3: You have to understand, I'm not promoting a candidate.
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Speaker 4: I'm not promoting myself because I'm not running for office.
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Speaker 2: I'm promoting the country. Now, I played to this before,
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Speaker 2: even the CNN pollster saying Democrats could get wiped out
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Speaker 2: in November. You know, if you read the fake polls
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Speaker 2: and all of that, they make it sound like Republicans
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Speaker 2: have no chance in the midterms. Well, it may be
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Speaker 2: the other way around. In the real polls, it's too
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Speaker 2: close to call. And it's all going to be about turnout.
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Speaker 2: If Republicans turn out, they're going to win. If Republicans
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Speaker 2: stay home, Democrats have a good shot. But here's the
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Speaker 2: real interesting key to all this. You know, the fake
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Speaker 2: polls keep trying to convince everybody Democrats have a big lead.
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Speaker 2: That's not the case. Those are the fake polls. Now,
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Speaker 2: listen to this. Chuck Schumer, in this big interview here,
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer, first of all, he says he's going to
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Speaker 2: run again for the Senate leader among the Democratic leader.
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Speaker 2: He's 75 years old. The Democrats hate Schumer. He's a crusty, nasty, old,
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Speaker 2: useless politician, cheap politician from years ago. The new breed
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Speaker 2: of Democrats, they don't like these useless old senators. But
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Speaker 2: he says he will run for a Senate leader again.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing. In the interview, he's warning now,
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Speaker 2: warning that Republicans may steal the election. Republicans might steal
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Speaker 2: the election. Now, there's no reason to think that. There's
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Speaker 2: no evidence. Why would he all of a sudden be yelling,
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Speaker 2: watch out, the Republicans are going to steal the election?
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Speaker 2: Why would he keep saying that? Well, because he's seen
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Speaker 2: the internal polling and he's seen that Republicans might win.
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Speaker 2: So he's setting up this whole false narrative that they
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Speaker 2: stole it to explain why Suddenly they won. But that's
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Speaker 2: a good sign in the polling he's seeing that Republicans
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Speaker 2: look pretty strong. He's already yelling and screaming that they're
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Speaker 2: going to steal the election. Now, first of all, if
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Speaker 2: you claim they stole it, that's what they call election denying.
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Speaker 2: Remember how hard they came down on Trump when he
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Speaker 2: implied that Democrats stole the election? Remember how crazy they
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Speaker 2: got that Trump said it? Well, if a Democrat says it,
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Speaker 2: it's just fine. They don't worry at all. Hey, Yankees
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Speaker 2: big win last night. Spike Lee apparently getting into a fight.
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Speaker 2: Spike Lee, you know, he's always there at the basketball games. Well,
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Speaker 2: now he's at the Yankee games and he came into
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Speaker 2: the legend suite. And I guess, you know, one thing
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Speaker 2: about Spike Lee, he's a very nice guy in real life.
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Speaker 2: And when he comes into the legend suite or wherever
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Speaker 2: it is, talks to everybody, he'll take pictures with everybody.
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Speaker 2: Even when he's sitting at a table, he'll have some
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Speaker 2: empty seats. Anybody can sit with him. He's a very
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Speaker 2: nice guy. with uh with people however there was a
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Speaker 2: lunatic or some nut job there screaming at him about
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Speaker 2: palestine uh a guy with a video you know with
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Speaker 2: a phone trying to video him saying i want you
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Speaker 2: to say f palestine i want you to say the
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Speaker 2: really bad guy so spike lee got a little crazy
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Speaker 2: and then jumped up and tried to attack the guy
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Speaker 2: people had to hold spike lee back it's quite a
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Speaker 2: story because when you're like 102 pounds i don't know
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Speaker 2: if you should be attacking anybody How hard was it
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Speaker 2: to hold him back? But they got the bad guy
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Speaker 2: out of the room, and he was gone. Hey, tonight
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Speaker 2: there's a debate. I think it's the Comptroller debate. And
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Speaker 2: then a week from now, there is the Attorney General debate.
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Speaker 2: Letitia James, you can throw her out, which you should
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Speaker 2: do on Election Day. Vote for the Republican. I can't
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Speaker 2: remember her name. It's a long name. But throw Letitia
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Speaker 2: James out of office. and get the Republican in there.
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Speaker 2: So we get a legitimate attorney general, not a crazed
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Speaker 2: partisan warfare, lawfare attorney general. And then the gubernatorial debate,
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Speaker 2: it'll be Blakeman against Hochul, is 12 days from now. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: it's on New York One, which nobody sees. Hochul would
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Speaker 2: not agree to any major real debate. Channel 2, Channel 4,
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Speaker 2: Channel 5, Channel 7, everybody tried to get Hochul to
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Speaker 2: debate Blakeman. She refused all debates. The only one she
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Speaker 2: accepted is little New York One because it has very
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Speaker 2: few viewers and because it's extremely biased. It's extremely left
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Speaker 2: wing at New York One. Very biased. And the moderator
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Speaker 2: will be Errol Lewis. Nice guy, but very biased left wing.
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Speaker 2: So Hoke will agree to that where she'll be protected
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Speaker 2: by them. That's the only debate with Blakeman. Which is
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Speaker 2: really unfair. I mean, she didn't take public money. She
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Speaker 2: was able to raise a ton of money. If you
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Speaker 2: don't take the public matching funds, then you don't have
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Speaker 2: to agree to any debates. And it's just awful. But
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Speaker 2: Hochul is not going to debate on any major stations.
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Speaker 2: Mamdani is, who knows what he's up to with this.
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Speaker 2: He's launching his anti-Semitism, fight against anti-Semitism. Nobody, no mayor
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Speaker 2: has ever done more to stir up the anti-Semitism. No
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Speaker 2: mayor has ever acted more anti-Semitic than Now he's pretending
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Speaker 2: to fight it. He's getting a lot of criticism. And
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Speaker 2: he's doing one of those, well, I'm only attacking Israel.
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Speaker 2: I'm not attacking Jews. You can't separate the two.
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Speaker 5: Sorry.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way.
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Speaker 6: Criticism of a prime minister, criticism of government policy is
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Speaker 6: distinct from bigotry of a people. And what my job
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Speaker 6: is to ensure is not only that we are proud
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Speaker 6: of being the most Jewish city in the United States
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Speaker 6: of America... but that we also make this a city
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Speaker 6: where Jewish life can continue to flourish.
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Speaker 2: And nobody knows what the hell he's up to suddenly
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Speaker 2: pretending he's fighting anti-Semitism, suddenly pretending he loves Jews. Nobody
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Speaker 2: knows what this guy's about to pull with this stuff.
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Speaker 6: Frankly, you know, when it comes to criticism of the
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Speaker 6: Israeli prime minister or the Israeli government, that has no
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Speaker 6: bearing on our responsibility to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe.
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Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, but that's the cry of the anti-Semite. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I'm only attacking Israel. I'm only, uh, picking on Israel.
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Speaker 2: You know, Israel was the subject of a Holocaust on
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Speaker 2: October 7th. October 7th was a vicious Holocaust launch against Israel.
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Speaker 2: A horrible, horrible, horrible thing. And, uh, Netanyahu's doing what
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Speaker 2: he's supposed to do, responding as strong a response as
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Speaker 2: he can come up with. So, uh, nobody knows why
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Speaker 2: mamdani's suddenly doing this is it just to get the
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Speaker 2: heat off him for his anti-semitism or is it he's
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Speaker 2: got some crap uh planned and this is cover for
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Speaker 2: it i don't know bruce blakeman.
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Speaker 7: Still hasn't denounced global intifada the whole thing's a joke.
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Speaker 2: Yeah no it's just it's just terrible so uh blakeman
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Speaker 2: running a lot of ads everywhere that's good and you
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Speaker 2: you can help the campaign you want to donate go
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Speaker 2: to blakeman for new york.com blakeman for new york.com um
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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth getting a lot of criticism. You know, he's
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Speaker 2: just fired a bunch of generals. A lot of criticism.
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Speaker 2: And people, you know, the left wing. See, that's the
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Speaker 2: other thing. If you're a MS Now viewer, CNN viewer,
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Speaker 2: you don't know what's going on. These are great generals. Oh,
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Speaker 2: they've been there for years. How could he fire these generals? Well,
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Speaker 2: the truth is many of them are really bad, really political.
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Speaker 2: There are a lot of bad generals in there. They
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Speaker 2: needed to be fired. And good for Hegseth. Good for Hexeth,
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Speaker 2: he got it done.
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Speaker 7: Those who responded positively, which is most of them, are
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Speaker 7: leading newly focused and newly empowered and disciplined formations. Those
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Speaker 7: generals who did not, who clung to the woke department
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Speaker 7: or seem to think civilian control of the military is
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Speaker 7: simply a suggestion, well, they no longer work here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there were some bad generals there, the Mark Milley types.
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Speaker 2: I mean, really bad political operatives. trying to just wreak
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Speaker 2: havoc within the Pentagon. You can watch the video of them.
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Speaker 2: There's some funny video of Milley saying, you know, when
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Speaker 2: he refused to appear with Trump, I cannot get involved
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Speaker 2: in politics or issues ever in any way. It's wrong.
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Speaker 2: And then you cut that together with thousands and thousands
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Speaker 2: of videos of him taking extreme political stances, lashing out
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Speaker 2: on political issues. He was just a massive... political nonsense
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Speaker 2: and contradictions. Hey, why is this? Alcohol use declining. Why
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Speaker 2: is that exactly? It's going up on one age group,
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Speaker 2: 50 to 64. 50 to 64-year-olds, it's up 4%. Everywhere else,
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Speaker 2: it's going way down. Gen Z, it declined by more
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Speaker 2: than 5%. Millennials drinking 17% less. Why is that? Oh,
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Speaker 2: you know why? Pot, weed, it's everywhere. Who needs the
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Speaker 2: alcohol anymore? It's everywhere. Hey, what's the worst housing market
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Speaker 2: in America right now? If you go state by state,
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Speaker 2: if you try to sell a house, what's the worst
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Speaker 2: housing market in America right now? It's Florida. Florida is
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Speaker 2: one toughest place to sell a home right now. According
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Speaker 2: to the latest ranking, they did all 48 states, continental states.
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Speaker 2: Florida is at the bottom of the barrel. 210,000 homes
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Speaker 2: are up for sale. It's the biggest glut of any
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Speaker 2: state studied. Toughest place to sell a house right now. Florida,
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Speaker 2: really tough. What's the easiest place to sell a house?
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Speaker 2: Hottest market? Connecticut. Connecticut. Over half its homes, 56%, sold
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Speaker 2: above asking. That's the highest ranking of any state in
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Speaker 2: the nation. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800- 800-321-0710
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Speaker 1: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 2: Much more Mark. Mark Simone.
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Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Shadow Stevens. Let's take some calls.
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Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 5: 3-2-1-0-7-10.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Mike in Connecticut. Mike, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: Let me try it again. Mike, are you there? I
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Speaker 2: got him again. Mike from Connecticut. No, we lost him.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to John in Ronkonkoma. John, how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Doing good, Mark. How you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm good.
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Speaker 5: Hey, so what are your thoughts on what are the
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Speaker 5: chances that Jack Smith actually gets, you know, gets charged?
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Speaker 2: Well, everything he did was unethical, immoral, disgusting, creepy, partisan.
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Speaker 2: But there's a question as to whether anything was actually illegal.
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Speaker 2: He is getting sued right now. Some of the one
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Speaker 2: of the disgusting things he did was he investigated everybody
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Speaker 2: in Congress. senators, congressmen and women. He got their phone records,
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Speaker 2: their texts, their emails. There was no reason to do this.
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Speaker 2: He had no authority to do this. But he did it.
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Speaker 2: And Senator Marsha Blackburn is the first to sue him.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully others will file lawsuits against him. Hopefully he'll spend
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Speaker 2: the rest of his life in court getting sued. But
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Speaker 2: he's a creepy weirdo, bug-eyed, disgusting, dirty cop. Hopefully they will.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll be able to prosecute him.
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Speaker 2: but hopefully they'll be suing him for the rest of
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Speaker 2: his life. Let's go to Tom in Queens. Tom, how
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Speaker 2: you doing?
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark.
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Speaker 8: So Ringo Starr is playing at Forest Hills tonight, first
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Speaker 8: time since 1964. Just wondering if you ever had a
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Speaker 8: chance to interview him or talk to him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a bunch of times. He's a very nice guy.
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Speaker 2: He's kind of a goofy, you know, I mean that
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Speaker 2: in a nice way. He's kind of a goofy, fun
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Speaker 2: sort of a guy. you know, Lennon was very serious.
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Speaker 2: McCartney is a little mixture of both. George Harrison was,
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Speaker 2: he was kind of shy, George Harrison, but smart guy.
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Speaker 2: Are you going to go see Ringo tonight?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: It's supposed to be nice. It's outside, so it should.
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Speaker 2: Be a good night.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. All right.
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Speaker 2: Well, have fun tonight. You know, you go to a
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Speaker 2: McCartney concert. It's incredible. McCartney will do two hours. And
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Speaker 2: if you wanted to relive the Beatles music, it's McCartney
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Speaker 2: that can kind of really do that for you with
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Speaker 2: Ringo it's a little different how many records featured the
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Speaker 2: voice of Ringo Starr a handful but it's still Ringo
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Speaker 2: McCartney in incredible shape you know Ringo looking a little
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Speaker 2: older McCartney looks like hey looks older but he's pretty
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Speaker 2: I've never seen a guy like him do he'll do
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Speaker 2: a two-hour concert and never take a sip of water
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Speaker 2: the whole time it's unbelievable let's go to Mike in St.
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Speaker 2: James Mike how you doing.
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Speaker 5: Good Mark thank you Hey, when a general or admiral
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Speaker 5: gets fired, don't they actually move him rather than put
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Speaker 5: him out on the street?
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Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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Speaker 5: They move him to a different position, right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess they take his general ship away and
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Speaker 2: they move him to something else. But it's kind of
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Speaker 2: the sign to get the hell out of there. Now,
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Speaker 2: usually when you're a general and you leave the Pentagon,
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Speaker 2: you then make millions and millions and millions working for
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Speaker 2: defense contractors. Of course, if you just got fired and
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Speaker 2: they know that this administration can't stand you, but they
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Speaker 2: know there'll be another administration in two years and they'll
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Speaker 2: put you on the payroll. You can get a lot
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Speaker 2: of money as an ex-general. Let's go to Michael Danbury, Connecticut. Michael,
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Speaker 2: how are you doing?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. How are you?
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to touch on the tie-in. This Clancy trial,
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Speaker 1: it seems to be that they want people to look
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Speaker 1: at it from her point of view and but she's
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Speaker 1: had problems, and you have to understand all that. So
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Speaker 1: in keeping with that, I wanted to get your take
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Speaker 1: on these two Chris Hansen movies that have come out,
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Speaker 1: where it almost seems they're portraying him like he's completely
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Speaker 1: out of his mind, and the things that he did
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Speaker 1: to these perverts is actually not correct.
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Speaker 2: If I'm not wrong, he's already suing them, isn't he?
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Speaker 2: I think he is.
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Speaker 1: I believe so, yes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the two.
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Speaker 2: Documentaries are the cheapest easiest thing to make so they're
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Speaker 2: making documentaries about anything and everything but there's one about
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Speaker 2: Dateline Chris Hansen I believe he's already suing them. We'll
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Speaker 2: look into that and report back to you tomorrow on
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Speaker 2: those lawsuits. In Dateline, remember, they catch the pervert, and
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Speaker 2: he's there waiting to meet the 15-year-old girl. All of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, Chris Hansen walks out, and then remember the
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Speaker 2: guy would run out of the house, and 42 cops
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Speaker 2: would jump on him. It was a big thing for years, Dateline.
20:10
Speaker 2: On NBC. Let's go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim,
20:14
Speaker 2: how you doing?
20:15
Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark. How you been there, Mark? Good. Been
20:18
Speaker 5: a while since we spoke. And, gee, Mark, give me
20:22
Speaker 5: a feeling on the Save America Act. I've been busy.
20:25
Speaker 5: I haven't been able to listen too much, but. I mean,
20:27
Speaker 5: shame on him.
20:28
Speaker 2: What do you mean you've been busy? What the hell
20:30
Speaker 2: could you have been doing? How busy are you? Tell
20:32
Speaker 2: us what you were so busy with.
20:34
Speaker 5: My wife keeps me jumping around the house. Even in retirement, Mark,
20:39
Speaker 5: there's absolutely not much rest at all.
20:43
Speaker 2: So you were probably a big business guy. You were
20:45
Speaker 2: probably a big executive, yelling at unions, standing up to everybody.
20:48
Speaker 2: Now you go home and your wife has you taking
20:50
Speaker 2: out the garbage and.
20:52
Speaker 5: Actually, I was a union member, electrician union. Tough union guy,
20:56
Speaker 5: big union boss.
20:58
Speaker 2: As soon as you come home, the wife goes, take
21:00
Speaker 2: out the garbage.
21:02
Speaker 5: Why do you put up with it? Why do I
21:03
Speaker 5: say yes, honey?
21:05
Speaker 2: Why do you put up with it? That's the question.
21:07
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, women run the world. But really, you know,
21:12
Speaker 5: I sit back and I say, What's more important than
21:16
Speaker 5: the Save America Act? I just think they're underestimating the
21:19
Speaker 5: Republican Party that it's going to have an impact on
21:22
Speaker 5: the midterms.
21:23
Speaker 2: Well, no, the Save America Act is a great thing.
21:26
Speaker 2: It'd be honest voting, a proper voting procedure. But it
21:30
Speaker 2: will not take effect for the midterms. It'll take a
21:32
Speaker 2: while to implement it.
21:33
Speaker 5: Mark, we got the House, the Senate, and probably the
21:36
Speaker 5: greatest president we ever had. They can't get it through.
21:39
Speaker 2: It's great. Except for your wife, everything's perfect. Except for
21:42
Speaker 2: the wife yelling at you. Anyway, thanks for calling. When
21:44
Speaker 2: we come back, we'll talk to the brilliant columnist Liz Peek.
21:49
Speaker 2: She'll be with us next on 710WOR. Now, 9 till
21:53
Speaker 2: noon weekdays.
21:55
Speaker 4: Mark Simone.
21:56
Speaker 2: More Mark.
21:58
Speaker 4: On 710WOR.
22:00
Speaker 2: Well, the brilliant columnist Liz Peek. You can read her columns, foxnews.com, thehill.com.
22:07
Speaker 2: Even better, go to her website. You can get everything there.
22:09
Speaker 2: Just go to lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com. Liz Peek, how are you doing?
22:16
Speaker 4: I am terrific. Thanks for having me on.
22:18
Speaker 2: Hey, only 33 days until the midterms. What do you think? Republicans,
22:24
Speaker 2: they haven't really done enough messaging and spending, have they?
22:29
Speaker 3: Oh, I think that's totally true. It's very discouraging to
22:34
Speaker 3: know that there's a lot of good material for Republicans
22:39
Speaker 3: out there campaigning, Mark, and particularly good material coming from,
22:44
Speaker 3: for example, the Big Beautiful Bill, which absolutely directly ties
22:48
Speaker 3: to the fact that so many American families are feeling
22:52
Speaker 3: better off I understand that inflation is the big issue
22:56
Speaker 3: and affordability and everything.
22:58
Speaker 4: But the reality is it's got a binary.
23:01
Speaker 3: Republicans cut taxes, giving more money to people that take
23:05
Speaker 3: home out of their paycheck.
23:07
Speaker 4: And what do Democrats want to do?
23:09
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris incredibly ran against the 2000s, extending the 2017
23:15
Speaker 3: tax cuts. In other words, she wanted to later on
23:18
Speaker 3: to our economy and our population, a massive tax increase. Wayne,
23:23
Speaker 3: have you ever heard about Democrats wanting to cut taxes?
23:26
Speaker 4: They don't.
23:27
Speaker 3: They oppose it all the time. So, you know, no
23:30
Speaker 3: taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime. Those are very
23:34
Speaker 3: popular measures that were in that big, beautiful bill.
23:38
Speaker 4: And, you know, it's just weird. I think a lot
23:40
Speaker 4: of Republicans are running away from that.
23:42
Speaker 3: Bill, worried that they're going to be accused of backing
23:47
Speaker 3: handouts to the rich. It was a middle class tax bill.
23:50
Speaker 3: That's what it was. And frankly, they should have followed
23:53
Speaker 3: it up with more middle class tax cuts this year.
23:57
Speaker 4: And it's very.
24:00
Speaker 3: Unfortunate, to use a mild word, that they didn't have
24:04
Speaker 3: another reconciliation bill with more changes in it. Because yes,
24:08
Speaker 3: I know everyone is worried about federal spending and the deficit. Yeah,
24:13
Speaker 3: so cut spending, which of course Democrats hate the idea of,
24:16
Speaker 3: but also every time they've cut taxes, you get more revenue.
24:20
Speaker 4: That is the history. It's a fact. And Republicans should
24:24
Speaker 4: have run with that.
24:26
Speaker 3: Anyway, look, every candidate has his own local issues to
24:31
Speaker 3: be concerned about, but man, I think they missed a
24:33
Speaker 3: big opportunity.
24:35
Speaker 4: Let's face it, they had the trifecta, right?
24:37
Speaker 3: The Senate, the House, and the White House And even
24:40
Speaker 3: though the margins were pretty narrow, certainly things like cutting
24:45
Speaker 3: taxes should have been first and foremost on their agenda.
24:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, the only problem in the world of fake news,
24:51
Speaker 2: when people are watching network news, reading the New York Times,
24:54
Speaker 2: all they hear is the Republicans. It was tax cuts
24:56
Speaker 2: for the rich, tax cuts for billionaires. And they start
24:58
Speaker 2: to believe that that's all it was. It's certainly not
25:01
Speaker 2: the case. But how do you battle that fake news?
25:03
Speaker 2: How do you get through?
25:05
Speaker 4: Well, for one thing, you try.
25:06
Speaker 3: I mean, you try talking about the benefits, the thousands
25:10
Speaker 3: of dollars that the average American family took home last
25:14
Speaker 3: year because of the tax cuts.
25:16
Speaker 4: And the evidence is on our side. The facts are
25:19
Speaker 4: on our side.
25:20
Speaker 3: But I have to say what Democrats have is a
25:23
Speaker 3: message machine, the email. You know, we've all seen these
25:26
Speaker 3: things on Twitter, right, where the email goes out in
25:28
Speaker 3: the morning and 16 politicians say exactly the same words.
25:35
Speaker 4: In response.
25:36
Speaker 3: Where is our messaging, maestro? I don't know that we
25:39
Speaker 3: have one. If we do, they're sure not doing a
25:42
Speaker 3: very good job. You know, there's just an awful lot
25:46
Speaker 3: of issues that the American people believe Republicans have a
25:50
Speaker 3: better view on, like immigration enforcement.
25:53
Speaker 4: Who's out there talking about the fact that the border
25:55
Speaker 4: is secure? I don't think anybody is campaigning on that.
25:58
Speaker 3: Mark, has everybody got just a faulty memory? This was
26:02
Speaker 3: less than two years ago. It was one of the
26:05
Speaker 3: top three issues for American voters. Just because you solve
26:09
Speaker 3: the issue doesn't mean it's not important. And by the way,
26:13
Speaker 3: Democrats have every opportunity, because all of that was done
26:16
Speaker 3: through executive action, to go in and start undoing what
26:19
Speaker 3: Trump has done.
26:20
Speaker 4: Is that really what Americans want?
26:22
Speaker 3: I mean, I really am frustrated by voters' singular focus,
26:28
Speaker 3: particularly on affordability, which is just such a ridiculous thing.
26:32
Speaker 4: The idea that Democrats.
26:34
Speaker 3: who absolutely chronically raise taxes and increase regulations, both of
26:39
Speaker 3: which we can absolutely certify need to higher prices.
26:44
Speaker 4: They're the party of affordability.
26:46
Speaker 3: I don't even know how people can really be tolerating
26:49
Speaker 3: this nonsense.
26:50
Speaker 5: Yeah.
26:50
Speaker 2: Oh, and the price of gas for it. You know,
26:52
Speaker 2: if it was up to Democrats, it'd be $ 10. That's
26:54
Speaker 2: what they always push for, isn't it? They raise the
26:56
Speaker 2: energy cost.
26:57
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's true.
26:59
Speaker 3: Yes, Trump's war in Iran, which of course now has
27:03
Speaker 3: become unpopular, has made oil prices higher. Interestingly, oil prices
27:08
Speaker 3: are coming down now, but somehow nobody's really responding to that.
27:12
Speaker 3: And the war in Russia, which is certainly not Trump's fault,
27:16
Speaker 3: that basically Joe Biden green-lighted when he said, well, if
27:20
Speaker 3: it's just a minor incursion, meaning we wouldn't be too
27:23
Speaker 3: upset about Putin just taking a small fraction of Ukraine. Yeah,
27:29
Speaker 3: prices are high right now for products, but, you know,
27:32
Speaker 3: other prices are coming down and inflation's around 3%. We
27:38
Speaker 3: had a pretty favorable ruling reading on that yesterday. And
27:43
Speaker 3: where was it during Biden? It peaked at 9%. And
27:47
Speaker 3: yet somehow now, really what happened is that prices went
27:52
Speaker 3: up about, for everything, went up about 20% when Joe
27:54
Speaker 3: Biden was president.
27:56
Speaker 4: Trump comes in.
27:57
Speaker 3: Foolishly saying he can lower prices because prices almost never
28:01
Speaker 3: go down except for commodities. And they continue to go
28:05
Speaker 3: up two or 3% a year, but we're basically eating
28:08
Speaker 3: still Biden's inflation.
28:10
Speaker 4: And that is a fact.
28:12
Speaker 3: During Biden's administration, a lot of things went wrong, including
28:16
Speaker 3: everybody felt like they were entitled to raise prices.
28:20
Speaker 4: And that was a really pretty bad scenario.
28:23
Speaker 2: Hey, Liz Peek, explain this to me. The president did
28:26
Speaker 2: the smartest thing you could do. He got, for the
28:29
Speaker 2: AI problem, he got the heads of all the AI
28:31
Speaker 2: companies and all the Google and all the most brilliant
28:34
Speaker 2: people in America, the brilliant tech geniuses, tech geniuses, all
28:38
Speaker 2: in one room. And what did they come up with? Well,
28:41
Speaker 2: form a committee? That's what they came up with? I
28:44
Speaker 2: could have thought of that. Yeah, yeah.
28:47
Speaker 4: Maybe it could have been done remotely.
28:50
Speaker 3: Look, I think any time you convene a group like
28:53
Speaker 3: that that is fiercely competing with each other but also
28:56
Speaker 3: has very, very important interests that the federal government has
29:02
Speaker 3: to be basically addressing and that the public is addressing,
29:08
Speaker 3: you're not going to walk away with a resolution. I mean,
29:13
Speaker 3: I think the answer is I actually buy the idea
29:17
Speaker 3: that the industry has to impose upon itself some restrictions,
29:21
Speaker 3: some Guardrails is the popular word for how we monitor
29:28
Speaker 3: the behavior of new agents being spawned by these new models.
29:34
Speaker 4: There's a concern here.
29:35
Speaker 3: I think Trump was foolish in dismissing the public's concern about.
29:40
Speaker 4: AI safety.
29:41
Speaker 3: I think it's quite possible that the AI executives are
29:45
Speaker 3: overstating the risks for various self-serving interests. But the reality
29:50
Speaker 3: is these companies have seen these.
29:54
Speaker 4: AI agents go rogue. Frankly, I've been talking about this
29:59
Speaker 4: for a year.
30:00
Speaker 3: The fact that they had not ever put out sort
30:02
Speaker 3: of a PR blitz about the advantages or the positives
30:06
Speaker 3: of AI means the country already is sort of scared
30:11
Speaker 3: slash apprehensive about what damage AI could do and really
30:15
Speaker 3: not particularly excited about the very positive things AI could do.
30:20
Speaker 3: This This was a major miss by the industry, but
30:23
Speaker 3: now we have not only concerted action taken against data centers,
30:28
Speaker 3: which is a completely different issue, and that should have
30:31
Speaker 3: been resolved. It's incredible that the Democrats blocked a measure
30:36
Speaker 3: trying to resolve some of the issues about data centers,
30:40
Speaker 3: but that's completely separate from this safety thing.
30:42
Speaker 4: Anyway, look, I think we'll see progress on this issue.
30:47
Speaker 3: I think the industry is aware that these concerns are real.
30:51
Speaker 4: They need to be addressed. And I hope they will.
30:53
Speaker 4: And I hope the white house does too.
30:55
Speaker 2: These are the greatest geniuses of AI though. I would
30:57
Speaker 2: have thought they'd come out of the meeting, maybe explain
30:59
Speaker 2: something to us. Like there are 80% of AI is great, wonderful,
31:03
Speaker 2: nothing to worry about. There's a little part of it.
31:05
Speaker 2: That's they call it that recursive where it can reinvent itself.
31:11
Speaker 2: They didn't. Why don't they just explain to us exactly
31:13
Speaker 2: where the problem is in AI. And if there's a
31:15
Speaker 2: way to fix it.
31:16
Speaker 4: I agree with you.
31:17
Speaker 3: And it's, You know, have we reached singularity, which is
31:21
Speaker 3: when agents really become better empowered than humans? No one
31:25
Speaker 3: really is able to. And I think the problem, honestly,
31:29
Speaker 3: people aren't really sure where we are. I don't even
31:32
Speaker 3: think the industry is quite aware of where we are.
31:35
Speaker 3: They have agents they've created that engineers have created.
31:40
Speaker 4: That are doing unexpected things.
31:42
Speaker 3: And you have to kind of say, well, wait a minute,
31:43
Speaker 3: how can that possibly be? We engineers, we humans set
31:48
Speaker 3: the guardrails, set the rules, tell these agents what to do.
31:51
Speaker 3: And then they do things that are not only unexpected,
31:54
Speaker 3: but not permitted. That is alarming, right? I mean, there
31:58
Speaker 3: is something going on here that isn't quite as expected
32:02
Speaker 3: or isn't right. And I think the industry, frankly, doesn't
32:06
Speaker 3: know what to say about it. I mean, I've read
32:09
Speaker 3: all this stuff, and I think you ought to read Amadei's,
32:13
Speaker 3: Dario Amodei's screens and other people's writings on this topic.
32:18
Speaker 3: It's pretty fascinating, honestly, but it's also a little concerning,
32:23
Speaker 3: to be sure.
32:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, they could go rogue, do things you didn't expect.
32:26
Speaker 2: Of course, that's the same thing with the Supreme Court justices, too.
32:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, or even mayors. Who can tell, right? Right.
32:35
Speaker 2: Well, Liz Peek, brilliant as always. You've got to read
32:37
Speaker 2: her columns, foxnews.com, thehill.com. But the best thing you should
32:42
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32:46
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32:51
Speaker 2: Liz Peek, thanks for being with us.
32:54
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me, Mark.
32:55
Speaker 2: All right.
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