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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's the middle of the week. It's 13 days
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  Speaker 2: until election night. 13 days from now, election night. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a big, big, big night. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens. A lot is going on all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: The Senate looks very good for Republicans. The House could
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  Speaker 2: go either way. Behind the scenes, every real pollster behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes tells you they cannot see a clear winner here.
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  Speaker 2: It's just deadlocked. The final two weeks is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a big, big push. President Trump, who's got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money in those Republican funds there, is about
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  Speaker 2: to give $ 400 million into these campaigns. He's plowing $ 400
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  Speaker 2: million into the campaigns. Now, little Mike Bloomberg has announced
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  Speaker 2: he'll put $ 80 million towards the Democratic campaigns. Obviously, Trump's
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  Speaker 2: $ 400 million, only to Republicans. Bloomberg will be given $ 80
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  Speaker 2: million to Democrats. Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, who you'll remember
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  Speaker 2: when he wanted to be mayor, he pretended to be
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  Speaker 2: a Republican for a while, but he's a lifelong Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: supporter of all kinds of crazy stuff, common sense stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but some crazy stuff. He can go A little on
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  Speaker 2: both sides there. But he's jumping in the race. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's certain people that kept quiet about 2028, but it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty obvious they're running now. One is J.B. Pritzker, the
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  Speaker 2: big fat Ralph Cramden governor of Illinois. Although he's on
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  Speaker 2: those shots now. He's slimming down. He's got a ways
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  Speaker 2: to go, but he's slimming down. He's a very wealthy guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a billionaire. He's worth $ 4 billion now. He is
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  Speaker 2: spending a lot of money. Pritzker is throwing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money around, about $ 40 million altogether, and especially for
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  Speaker 2: black and Hispanic candidates. Now, why would that be? Well,
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  Speaker 2: he wants to run in 2028, and he's studied the
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  Speaker 2: whole process, and he sees that you got to win
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  Speaker 2: over a few people like Clyburn, Senator Clyburn of South Carolina. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he's the one who got Joe Biden a nomination. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when they all got to South Carolina, everybody got chased
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  Speaker 2: out of the race and Biden was anointed. So he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to win over Clyburn and some other black and
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  Speaker 2: Hispanic leaders. He thinks that's the key to 2028. Clyburn,
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  Speaker 2: very grateful, but he said, he said to be taken seriously,
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  Speaker 2: he is taken seriously, but he said they won't be
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  Speaker 2: swayed by campaign contributions alone. Although it's a big help.
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  Speaker 2: But he's clearly in the race. Looks like Mark Kelly
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  Speaker 2: wants to get in the race. That's that awful, nasty,
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  Speaker 2: vicious senator from Arizona. He is obviously running around right now.
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  Speaker 2: He's campaigning in 20 states. If you want to run
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  Speaker 2: in two years, you run around now pretending you're there campaigning.
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  Speaker 2: for candidates, but you're actually campaigning for yourself. He said,
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  Speaker 2: when asked, is he running for president, said he's getting
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  Speaker 2: closer to making a decision. Well, it's being cagey, but
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  Speaker 2: when you're on a plane flying to 20 different places,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty obvious what you're up to. Hey, Texas, they've
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  Speaker 2: registered a lot of people. They can now have almost
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  Speaker 2: 20 million people registered to vote. That breaks the all-time record.
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  Speaker 2: Registration up. But again, too close to the call. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows what will happen. Bruce Blakeman campaigning yesterday with George Pataki.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a big help. They were up at the border,
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  Speaker 2: the Pennsylvania border, because Pennsylvania allows fracking, and things are
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  Speaker 2: booming there.
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  Speaker 3: Booming.
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  Speaker 2: Their energy costs are low because they've got all that
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  Speaker 2: natural gas. We have just as much, but because of
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo and Hochul, we're not allowed to frack. So your
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  Speaker 2: energy bill is four times more than it would be
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  Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. The economy... is nothing like Pennsylvania's booming economy.
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman will bring back fracking.
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  Speaker 3: We could start fracking tomorrow on the southern tier in
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  Speaker 3: New York. We've got one of the largest natural gas
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  Speaker 3: reserves in the world. Increase our energy supply by a
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  Speaker 3: tremendous level and cut our utility bills in half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now Pataki out there campaigning with him, proudly campaigning
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  Speaker 2: with him. Pataki, the last Republican governor and really the
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  Speaker 2: last popular governor We've ever had Cuomo was not a
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  Speaker 2: popular governor. Oh, he had a moment there during the
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  Speaker 2: pandemic with his briefings because everybody was locked up in
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  Speaker 2: their house and terrified. So they watched them every day.
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  Speaker 2: Soon as they were allowed out, they stopped watching his briefings.
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  Speaker 2: Ratings plunged and he had to stop doing them. But then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Cuomo left in disgrace, in total disgrace, fled
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  Speaker 2: Albany with the police chasing him. So you can't say
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  Speaker 2: it was a successful governorship. Blakeman, uh, on Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: So let's start off with 48 utility rate hikes in
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  Speaker 3: the last four years. That's one a month. And the
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  Speaker 3: reason why our utility bills are so high is because
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  Speaker 3: she's completely wedded to green energy. It's a scam. We're
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  Speaker 3: not going to be able to provide enough energy with
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  Speaker 3: wind turbines in the middle of the ocean or solar
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  Speaker 3: farms in upstate New York that are under snow.
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  Speaker 2: You can make the case. It's a scam because, uh,
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  Speaker 2: It sounds good on paper, windmills and solar and all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff. But every time it's tried, it totally bombs.
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  Speaker 2: It produces very little energy. It does more environmental damage
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  Speaker 2: than the gasoline does. It is ridiculously expensive. It's 10
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  Speaker 2: times the cost of normal electricity. Europe tried it. Germany
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  Speaker 2: tried it. A lot of European countries went totally green.
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  Speaker 2: Wind and solar. For a year or two. Finally, about
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  Speaker 2: a year ago, had to take it all down because
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't work. In fact, it does just the opposite
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  Speaker 2: of what you think it's going to do. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the scam part of it. Hokel on Blakeman.
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  Speaker 4: Picture his vision for New York. Hyperscale data centers all
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  Speaker 4: over New York State. Smokestacks building out of fossil fuel
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  Speaker 4: generated power plants, as well as oil rigs and fracking
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  Speaker 4: rigs everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was talking about fracking. There's no smoke.
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  Speaker 2: There's no smokestacks. Fracking, it's underground. It's the cleanest energy
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  Speaker 2: in the world. Data centers in New York? Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Could you even imagine that? Well, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: she knows this. We have 35 data centers already in
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  Speaker 2: New York. You know, we have 19 data centers in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: They've been there for years. The smaller ones, but we
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  Speaker 2: have data centers in Manhattan. We've had them for a while.
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  Speaker 2: And again, those data centers... the big boogeyman there. You're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be terrified of the data center. They're getting
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  Speaker 2: better and better as far as electricity use, water. They
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  Speaker 2: figured out how to solve those problems. The only problem
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  Speaker 2: is the noise. They're figuring that out. They'll make quieter turbines.
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  Speaker 2: And every year, the data centers will get smaller, just
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  Speaker 2: like the computers did. You know, back in 1975, that
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  Speaker 2: IBM computer was like the size of a basketball court. Now,
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  Speaker 2: It's the size of my phone. In fact, my phone
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  Speaker 2: has more power than that computer did. So the data
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  Speaker 2: centers will also get smaller and smaller. President Trump every
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  Speaker 2: day flying to different states. Today he goes to South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina to campaign. That's Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister. Very
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  Speaker 2: nice woman, not a great candidate. But he'll try to
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  Speaker 2: pull her across the finish line. J.D. Vance back in
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  Speaker 2: Ohio today. Vivek Ramaswamy, you remember him? He's running for
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  Speaker 2: governor of Ohio. And it's a strange race, very strange race.
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  Speaker 2: He needs a lot of help. This is like the
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  Speaker 2: fourth time Vance has had to go to Ohio to
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  Speaker 2: help out. So the strangest thing, I don't think we
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  Speaker 2: have it here. We don't have the audio. But he's
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  Speaker 2: running against this woman who's a little weird. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how this even happened. He got the woman's mother,
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic candidate, her mother. recorded an ad for Vivek Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a pretty vicious ad. The mother looks
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  Speaker 2: into the camera and says, my daughter's a liar. She's
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  Speaker 2: been lying all her life. She's lying about her childhood.
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  Speaker 2: She said she grew up in a tent. She said
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  Speaker 2: that she's lying about that. She's always been a liar.
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  Speaker 2: Don't vote for her. This is Amy Acton, the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: candidate's mother. So that's pretty powerful stuff. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of backlash on this. Obviously, Democrats are furious. The
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  Speaker 2: media is furious. Everybody's all over Vivek Ramaswamy for doing
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  Speaker 2: such an ad. They think it's tasteless. They think family
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  Speaker 2: is off limits. But it is her mother. And in
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  Speaker 2: the ad, the mother says, my daughter needs help. And
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  Speaker 2: she can't help you if she needs help herself. People
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  Speaker 2: can change. But first, they have to tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And my daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for her.
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  Speaker 2: Don't vote for people who lied. Don't let her become governor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds very odd. It is crossing all kinds of lines.
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  Speaker 2: But if the mother wanted to do this ad, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. So a lot of controversy about the ad.
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  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy's campaign admitting it is their ad and they did
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  Speaker 2: pay for it. But that could cause a lot of backlash.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. President Trump, you know, a lot of controversy.
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  Speaker 2: He's been so friendly lately with Putin, with Russia. He's
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  Speaker 2: been saying nice things about Putin. It's already gotten some benefit.
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  Speaker 2: There's that teacher that Russia has been holding hostage for
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  Speaker 2: four years now. They captured this American teacher. They've been
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  Speaker 2: holding him hostage for four years. He was released yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: No exchange of hostages or anything. He was just released.
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  Speaker 2: So some good has come from praising Putin, although it's
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  Speaker 2: bothering a lot of people. Most people aren't even paying
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  Speaker 2: attention to that part of anything. But Trump on the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 5: Ukraine has to want to settle this war. Zelensky has
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  Speaker 5: to want to settle this war. And if he doesn't,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a very bad thing. Look,
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  Speaker 5: we have given tremendous amounts to Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: We've got nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Back other than high diesel. We have given probably, possibly
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  Speaker 5: more money to Ukraine than almost anybody over the years.
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  Speaker 5: Hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: We've got nothing back.
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  Speaker 5: And the American taxpayers are tired of it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now you know how Trump works. He does
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  Speaker 2: carrot first, then the stick. He always tries the carrot first.
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  Speaker 2: With Putin, he's trying the carrot. Now, if that doesn't work,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get the stick. He already did the carrot phase
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  Speaker 2: with Zelensky, and Zelensky didn't respond well, so now they're
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  Speaker 2: on the stick. Zelensky, they want to have him sit
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  Speaker 2: down and talk.
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  Speaker 6: If the issues about Ukraine, our future, it can be
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  Speaker 6: acceptable only... when we are at the table of negotiations.
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  Speaker 6: It's absolutely clear. We are thankful that intelligence works. Now,
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  Speaker 6: I'm speaking about early warning, what is very important for
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  Speaker 6: our people, for children.
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  Speaker 2: He's a little annoying to listen to, all right, but
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about the Starlink system. They have the military
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  Speaker 2: version called Space Shield. It was throttled down for a
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  Speaker 2: day or two. The Wall Street Journal, not the most
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  Speaker 2: reliable newspaper, The Wall Street Journal now claiming it was
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  Speaker 2: definitely Elon Musk. Personally, Elon Musk, he personally did it.
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  Speaker 2: But again, the Wall Street Journal has gone pretty much
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  Speaker 2: rogue for the last couple of years. What did Scott
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  Speaker 2: Besson say? It's more of a features magazine. They should
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  Speaker 2: call it the Main Street Journal. Again, not the most
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  Speaker 2: trusted paper anymore. So they're the ones pinning it all
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  Speaker 2: on Musk. I don't know what evidence they have. They
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  Speaker 2: use the usual stupid, people familiar with the matter. Well,
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  Speaker 2: when you quote people familiar with the matter, they're wrong
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  Speaker 2: about 80% of the time. Zelensky on Russia.
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  Speaker 6: We want the Americans to take these ideas to the Russians.
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  Speaker 6: And one of the important ideas is to move to
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  Speaker 6: a trilateral, potential trilateral meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Of the leaders. Oh, it's the annoying to listen to. Anyway, hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's a big debate tonight. El Sayyad. And Rogers, this
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  Speaker 2: is another debate. In every state, they have two, three
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  Speaker 2: debates in a governor's race or a Senate race. It's
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  Speaker 2: only here in New York where Kathy Hochul refuses that.
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  Speaker 2: She only allowed one debate. She refused the normal two
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  Speaker 2: or three debates, only one debate. And she demanded it
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  Speaker 2: beyond this little tiny thing that nobody sees, New York won,
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  Speaker 2: which is also very, very biased left-wing. So she demanded,
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  Speaker 2: that's the only thing she'll do, and that's all she did.
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  Speaker 2: turned down Channel 2, Channel 4, Channel 7, refused to
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  Speaker 2: do it. So pretty, pretty embarrassing. But Al-Sayed, you remember,
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  Speaker 2: he was asked in that last debate, who's a bigger
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  Speaker 2: enemy of, who's a bigger threat to America, Iran or Israel?
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  Speaker 2: And he wouldn't answer. He said, it's a stupid question.
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  Speaker 2: It's different now. Now he's pretty much coming out openly anti-Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to Al-Sayed.
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  Speaker 7: The question of Israel's existence is not a question. I'm
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  Speaker 7: not I'm not going to play this gotcha game about
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  Speaker 7: whether or not it has a right to exist. The
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  Speaker 7: question ultimately is about whether or not we want a
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  Speaker 7: politics that dignifies. You're not going to play the gotcha game,
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  Speaker 7: but you're not, you're not going to say you think
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  Speaker 7: Israel has a right. Well, my question, you know, Casey,
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  Speaker 7: I think the question we all that ought to ask is,
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  Speaker 7: does everybody have equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination?
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  Speaker 7: That's Jewish Israelis and Palestinians.
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  Speaker 2: All right. That's not the clip. We don't have the
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  Speaker 2: right clip. The other thing he said, Israel is not
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  Speaker 2: a friend. It's not an ally. He came right out
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  Speaker 2: and said it right out and said, Israel is not
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  Speaker 2: a friend of the United States. They are not an ally.
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  Speaker 2: You can criticize Israel or something specific, but that was
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  Speaker 2: pretty bold. He said, they're not a U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Ally.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for us to realize that an ally that
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  Speaker 2: takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be fighting is not an ally. And he goes on
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  Speaker 2: and on about how bad Israel is. It's time to
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  Speaker 2: realize they're not our friend. Obviously, that's a preposterous statement.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, Donald Trump doesn't get pushed into anything.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's pushing him around. But it's our ally. It's been
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  Speaker 2: our greatest ally. And I think that's been going on
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  Speaker 2: for about 60, 70 years. So it's a crazy thing
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  Speaker 2: for him to say. Mamdani now really pushing Al-Sayed.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about Dr. Al-Sayed's campaign, I often go
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  Speaker 1: back to the way that he describes it. Money out
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  Speaker 1: of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all. Those
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  Speaker 1: are concerns that ring true for Michiganders. They're also concerns
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  Speaker 1: that ring true for New Yorkers. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: his victory and the victory of Democrats across this country
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  Speaker 1: is of critical importance to our city.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, first of all.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about Dr. El-Sayed's cancer.
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  Speaker 2: He's not exactly a doctor. He's not allowed. If he
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  Speaker 2: treated a patient, he'd be arrested. It would be illegal
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  Speaker 2: for him to treat. He's not a physician. You know,
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  Speaker 2: so when it comes to Oz, they call him Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Oz.
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  Speaker 2: He actually is a doctor, a famed heart surgeon, was
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  Speaker 2: a doctor for decades in a hospital. But him they
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  Speaker 2: call Mr. Oz. But it's Dr. El-Sayed, who's not really
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  Speaker 2: a doctor. Katie Zakaria is more of a lawyer than
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  Speaker 2: this guy is a doctor. So Mamdani really pushing that now,
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  Speaker 2: which you tell you all you need to know about
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani and El-Sayed. Hey, we got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here three hours every day, nine to noon, three
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  Speaker 2: hours every day. Mark Simone here on 710WOR.