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Hour 2: Democrats are ahead. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: More Mark.
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Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show.
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Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Shadow Stevens. Welcome to hour number two. That's right.
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Speaker 3: If you still don't know, the show is now three hours.
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Speaker 3: We start at 9 a.m. It's now nine to nine.
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Speaker 3: Now three hours. It wasn't my idea, but it's worked
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Speaker 3: out very well. Nine to ten hour is way, way
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Speaker 3: up in the ratings, and we are killing everybody between
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Speaker 3: nine and ten. So thanks to you, we got a
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Speaker 3: lot to get to this hour. We'll get to all sorts.
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Speaker 3: We'll get to Bruce Blakeman, Kathy Hochul. Blakeman, I think,
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Speaker 3: is on his way to a big victory. A lot
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Speaker 3: of momentum there. The midterms, Republicans most likely will win
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Speaker 3: the Senate. Looks very good for the Senate. Now, the House,
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Speaker 3: that could go either way. It's just too close to call.
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Speaker 3: And the polls are very... crazy rigged and skewed, so
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Speaker 3: you can't go by them. It's hard to tell. Now,
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Speaker 3: you've got a lot of places like Michigan where you've
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Speaker 3: got this crazy Muhammad Abdul, Al-Sayyad, this communist crazy, almost
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Speaker 3: a doctor, not quite a doctor, a little bit of
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Speaker 3: a doctor, but he's not really a doctor. And you've
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Speaker 3: got the normal candidate, good, solid guy, Mike Rogers running
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Speaker 3: in Michigan. Forget what the polls show. They're always skewed
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Speaker 3: way to the left. Michigan, I'm from Michigan. Michigan's a good,
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Speaker 3: common-sense kind of place. You've got to figure, there's a
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Speaker 3: couple of pockets of crazy, radical voters, but most of
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Speaker 3: Michigan will go with Rogers, and Rogers still battling El-Sayed.
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Speaker 3: He can't even get along with his other senators. He's
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Speaker 3: already threatened one of his Democrat senators, put his head
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Speaker 3: on a pike.
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Speaker 4: I mean, this guy's angry and divisive, and when he
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Speaker 4: does that kind of thing, you're never going to get
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Speaker 4: a problem fixed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's him on El-Sayed. El-Sayed... In the Senate,
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Speaker 3: the Democrats in the Senate, they don't want Al-Sayed. They
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Speaker 3: do not want to work.
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Speaker 1: With this guy.
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Speaker 3: Here's Al-Sayed yelling and screaming about something.
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Speaker 4: Why do you.
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Speaker 5: Think that Republicans are really using you to attack the
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Speaker 5: whole Democratic Party?
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Speaker 4: I think we all well know why they're doing it.
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Speaker 3: My name's Abdul. I'm Muslim. It's not the communist stuff.
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Speaker 3: It's not the crazy positions you've taken. It's your first name.
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Speaker 3: That's what Most voters, that's what they go by. They
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Speaker 3: vote based on the first name. You're always going to
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Speaker 3: get this kind of stuff. Even crazy Kathy Hochul, Blakeman
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Speaker 3: was just mopping the floor with her in the debate,
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Speaker 3: and she panicked, and she went total panic. Remember, she
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Speaker 3: started yelling, Blakeman is a QAnon. He's hanging around with
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Speaker 3: white supremacists. Now, of course, it's preposterous when you look
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Speaker 3: at Bruce Blakeman, but that's what you do. When you're
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Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul and you're in desperate trouble in a debate,
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Speaker 3: you pull out that crazy low-life Joe Biden kind of crap.
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Speaker 3: That's what Biden used to do in a debate. He'd
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Speaker 3: yell and scream, you're a white supremacist, you're a QAnon,
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Speaker 3: you're an alt-right. Nobody knows what the hell QAnon is
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Speaker 3: or what alt-right is. It's some chat room on the
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Speaker 3: internet that nobody's been in, nobody knows about. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he said he's hanging around with QAnon. He couldn't hang
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Speaker 3: around with QAnon if he wanted to. Nobody knows who
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Speaker 3: the hell it is or where it is. If I
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Speaker 3: said right now, let me go hang out with QAnon,
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Speaker 3: where's that? So it was real low-level Joe Biden crap.
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Speaker 3: The fact that Hochul resorted to that was, it was
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Speaker 3: an amazing moment. And it just shows how empty her
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Speaker 3: argument was that she tried that kind of crap. So
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Speaker 3: here's the problem. If, let's say Democrats were to win
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Speaker 3: the whole thing, Senate, House, they're not, but let's say
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Speaker 3: they were. They would then go full crazy. They would
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Speaker 3: be able to pass anything and everything. They would pass
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Speaker 3: the most radical, crazy nonsense. They'd impeach Trump. They would
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Speaker 3: just go berserk. This would cost them the 2028 election.
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Speaker 3: So you've got to remember, if they win big, they're
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Speaker 3: going to lose in 2028 because the public won't like
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Speaker 3: all this crap they're going to do. So they would
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Speaker 3: lose in 2028. Also remember, even if they just win
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Speaker 3: the House, that will give them a lot of power
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Speaker 3: in Congress. They will come for Chuck Schumer. They will
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Speaker 3: take him out. Chuck Schumer is the worst politician, the
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Speaker 3: most awful thing that ever happened in New York. He
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Speaker 3: may have been good in the beginning, but he just
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Speaker 3: became a low-life, cheap politician, just doing favors for donors,
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Speaker 3: collecting money. He's always there when you don't need him.
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Speaker 3: He's never there when you need him. When the crazy
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Speaker 3: anti-Semitism was putting kids in Columbia University and other places
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Speaker 3: in great physical danger. Where was Schumer? Left town. Remember
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Speaker 3: during the pandemic? Left town. Remember during the riots? Left town.
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Speaker 3: He's always hiding. He's never there when you need him.
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Speaker 3: Only there when you don't need him. When the anti-Semitism
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Speaker 3: spread like wildfire, he ran the other way. In fact,
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Speaker 3: he even went along with all the crazy democratic socialists
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Speaker 3: and anti-Israel and anti-Semites. You know, in the middle of
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Speaker 3: all that, he wrote a book called Anti-Semitism. That was
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Speaker 3: just for cover. That was just in case anybody brought
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Speaker 3: up the fact that he was playing along with these anti-Semites.
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Speaker 3: He could point to the book. That's the only reason
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Speaker 3: he wrote that book, just to give himself some cover.
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Speaker 3: But it fooled nobody. It didn't fool anyone. And obviously,
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Speaker 3: Republicans don't like him, except the donors. But Democrats don't
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Speaker 3: like him either, except the donors. But he's finished. If
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Speaker 3: the Democrats win big, First thing they're going to do
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Speaker 3: is throw Schumer the hell out. That'll be the end
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Speaker 3: of Schumer. A lot of establishment politicians will get thrown
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Speaker 3: out if these crazies win. But it looks like Republicans
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Speaker 3: will hold the Senate. The House could go either way.
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Speaker 3: You'd need a lot of momentum and a lot of turnout.
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Speaker 3: That's what this No Kings rally was about. But also
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Speaker 3: you've got Donald Trump out there. If anybody can pull
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Speaker 3: a rabbit out of the hat, it'll be him in
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Speaker 3: the end. The midterms are 15 days away. They're two
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Speaker 3: weeks from tomorrow. You're in the final two weeks of
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Speaker 3: the campaign. And you got to remember, there's early voting
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Speaker 3: already getting underway. So the election is pretty much on
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Speaker 3: right now. Hey, in the Ukraine, Zelensky turning on President Trump,
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Speaker 3: which not a smart thing to do, but in his defense,
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Speaker 3: President Trump turned on him first. Even last week saying
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Speaker 3: Ukraine should get a new leader. Now, From the beginning,
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Speaker 3: the only reason the Ukraine survived is the U.S. backed it.
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Speaker 3: The only reason the Ukraine is still there is because
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Speaker 3: we provided all the weapons, all the military power, all
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Speaker 3: the money for the first few years. The war is
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Speaker 3: like now, it's like year 27 of this war. Actually,
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Speaker 3: what is it, year five already? Year four or five
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Speaker 3: of this war? But we totally saved Ukraine with weapons,
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Speaker 3: with money, with everything they needed. Now, give Ukraine credit,
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Speaker 3: in the last couple of years, they started to make
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Speaker 3: their own weapons, drones, state-of-the-art, unbelievable drones. They even started
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Speaker 3: to build their own drone factories. They're turning them out
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Speaker 3: by the thousands. Then they started to make their own missiles,
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Speaker 3: their own missile factories. Zelensky has been brilliant about that. Ukraine, amazing.
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Speaker 3: That's how we won World War II, by coming up
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Speaker 3: with the right weapons and being able to manufacture them
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Speaker 3: a lot bigger and better than the enemy. Well, that's
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Speaker 3: what Ukraine has done here with drones and missiles. So
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Speaker 3: that's great. But we've needed them to stop doing certain things.
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Speaker 3: Don't take out the Russian oil refineries because that drives
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Speaker 3: up the price of oil like crazy. And President Trump
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Speaker 3: asked him to stop hitting the refineries. Zelensky didn't listen.
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Speaker 3: And then the next day and the next day and
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Speaker 3: the next day took out Russian oil refineries. He's still
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Speaker 3: doing it. So that upset President Trump. He let Zelensky
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Speaker 3: have it. He even said you should get a new
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Speaker 3: leader in the Ukraine. So Zelensky is going now after Trump.
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Speaker 3: He's afraid to come right out and attack him. But
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Speaker 3: he kind of did here by saying it's the EU,
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Speaker 3: the European Union. They've kind of stepped in and they've
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Speaker 3: been helping out with money and whatever. So listen to this.
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Speaker 3: He's trying to praise the EU, European Union, but He's
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Speaker 3: kind of letting you know, forget Trump. The only ones
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Speaker 3: that are there for me are the EU.
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Speaker 6: I'm so thankful that we have such huge support from EU,
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Speaker 6: Council Commission, and leaders, real leaders, so that they stay
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Speaker 6: with us from the very beginning of this war.
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Speaker 3: See what I mean? They are leaders, real leaders, unlike Trump.
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Speaker 3: All right, he's entitled to that. Trump went after him first.
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Speaker 3: But this... is what was supposed to happen in the
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Speaker 3: first place. It was supposed to be the EU back
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Speaker 3: in the... It wasn't just supposed to be us with
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Speaker 3: the money and the weapons. Where was the EU for
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Speaker 3: the first three, four years? They should have been handling this.
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Speaker 3: It's in their backyard. It's their problem a lot more
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Speaker 3: than it's ours. So, hey, and it turns out, remember
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Speaker 3: last week, the Starlink, the Elon Musk system, the satellite system,
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Speaker 3: And they have the military version, which is way beyond
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Speaker 3: the civilian version, the military version. They were depending on
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Speaker 3: that for communications to get their intelligence, U.S. providing them
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Speaker 3: with intelligence. The Starlink was vital to them to find
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Speaker 3: out targeting and all that stuff. Well, it went down
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Speaker 3: last week for a couple of days. And Zelensky blamed
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Speaker 3: Elon Musk. Elon Musk then tweeted out... he has nothing
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Speaker 3: to do with turning on or off the Starlink. That
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Speaker 3: would be the U.S. military and the president. And then
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Speaker 3: the U.S. military and the president said they didn't turn
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Speaker 3: it off. They didn't do anything to it. Zelensky didn't
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Speaker 3: believe them. But now it turns out that it wasn't
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Speaker 3: the U.S. or President Trump. We didn't shut it down.
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Speaker 3: It was just something in the system. It shut itself
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Speaker 3: down for a couple of days. Here's Marco Rubio. Well,
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Speaker 3: I don't know what Zelensky said. I'm not sure Zelensky
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Speaker 3: knows what he's talking about, but it wasn't deliberate. We
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Speaker 3: had nothing to do with that. The United States, nobody
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Speaker 3: ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down. It sort
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Speaker 3: of happened. Yeah, I mean, you've seen this happen to anything, digital, anything, Internet.
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Speaker 3: It can all of a sudden slow down and needs
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Speaker 3: to be fixed, and that was what happened. Uh, Hey,
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Speaker 3: speaking of, uh, all this stuff, uh, AI, you know,
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Speaker 3: the AI stocks have been going crazy there, obviously. I mean,
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Speaker 3: if you bought AI stocks a while back, you're making
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Speaker 3: a lot of money. Way, way, way up. So why
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Speaker 3: are they suddenly dropping a little? Uh, cause a lot
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Speaker 3: of investors have convinced themselves. I don't mean the real investors.
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Speaker 3: I don't mean the Warren Buffetts. I mean, the, uh,
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Speaker 3: amateur investors, the, uh, The other investor. They've all convinced
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Speaker 3: themselves this is a bubble and it's going to burst
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Speaker 3: and they're going to come crashing down. So a lot
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Speaker 3: of them are panicking right now. There's panic. They're selling
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Speaker 3: the AI stocks because they've gone up way too much,
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Speaker 3: way too far. And they'll give you all these stories
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Speaker 3: about how the pattern matches the pattern of the dot-com bubble,
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Speaker 3: of this bubble. It looks like it's a bubble pattern.
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Speaker 3: They can see it. They can't see anything. So the.
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Speaker 3: The AI stocks have been dropping. However, all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden there's big NASDAQ gains because the real investors, the
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Speaker 3: ones that actually know what they're doing, are buying the dip.
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Speaker 3: The dip has caused them to come in, and those
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Speaker 3: are the big investors, big money investors. So that's why
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Speaker 3: you're seeing this little NASDAQ spike right now. You know,
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Speaker 3: the Warren Buffetts of the world will always tell you
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Speaker 3: that when When everybody is in panic, when everybody says
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Speaker 3: it's crashing, when everybody's fleeing, that's when they buy. That's
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Speaker 3: the time to buy. When everybody's enthusiastic, don't buy. When
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Speaker 3: everybody's in panic, everybody's in fear, that's when they buy.
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Speaker 3: So Bruce Blakeman has caught up to Kathy Hochul in
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Speaker 3: the polls. He may even be passing her right now.
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Speaker 3: But don't get complacent. This is a turnout election. You've
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Speaker 3: got to get out there and vote. Uh, Hochul was
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Speaker 3: in panic already. That's why she spent millions and millions
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Speaker 3: on these attack ads. She's using up a lot of
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Speaker 3: her money. The democratic governor's group had to step in.
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Speaker 3: They had to lend her money. They've poured in 4 million.
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Speaker 3: This is how desperate she's getting. Another 4 million from them.
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Speaker 3: Who is that democratic governor's group? Well, big chunk of
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Speaker 3: the chunk of the money came from mayor Bloomberg and
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Speaker 3: then from the New York hospital association management corporation. They
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Speaker 3: each put in a million dollars. Another $ 600, 000 came from
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Speaker 3: the Sports Betting Alliance. John Hess, he's the CEO of
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Speaker 3: Hess Corporation, he put in $ 600, 000. The Super PAC on
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Speaker 3: Saturday released two different ads slamming Blakeman. Now, what do
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Speaker 3: you attack Blakeman on? They did tons of opposition research.
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Speaker 3: They dug into everything about Blakeman. You know what they found?
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Speaker 5: Nothing.
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Speaker 3: Nothing. Not a bad, not a damn thing. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they did some serious opposition research. There is no skeleton
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Speaker 3: in the Blakeman closet. They could not find anything to
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Speaker 3: attack him on. So what are the ads? Well, the
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Speaker 3: first one is about MAGA Bruce Blakeman. He's MAGA. He's MAGA.
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Speaker 3: He's MAGA. If that's all you got. He is friends
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Speaker 3: with Donald Trump. He agrees with him on some things.
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Speaker 3: He disagrees with him on a lot of things. Disagrees
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Speaker 3: with him on major things. He's pro-choice. Uh, Trump is not.
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Speaker 3: Trump actually is, but he pretends he's not. There's a
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Speaker 3: lot of issues he disagrees with him on, but they're
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Speaker 3: calling him MAGA. The other attack ad, same thing, same thing.
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Speaker 3: His support of Donald Trump's cost-raising agenda is hurting New York. No,
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Speaker 3: he's not supporting anything that's raising costs. Blakeman firing back,
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Speaker 3: calling Hochul a useful tool who takes orders from Mamdani.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't call her moderate. She's an extremist. I don't
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Speaker 3: care what she calls herself, but look at her record.
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Speaker 3: Highest taxes in the United States.
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Speaker 2: Extreme.
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Speaker 3: Utility bills 75% higher than the national average. That's a
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Speaker 3: good point. You want to associate him with Trump when
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Speaker 3: you're totally, totally connected to Mamdani in every way. Hey,
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Speaker 3: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. We'd
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Speaker 3: love to hear from you, especially if you're a new caller,
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Speaker 3: if you've never called before.
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Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 3: Mark Simone, live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Hey, let's
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Speaker 3: take some calls. Let's go to Josh in Boston. Josh,
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Speaker 3: how you doing?
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Speaker 1: Oh, hi, Mark.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's the Buchanan guy. You can hear the accent.
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Speaker 8: No, I'm not.
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Speaker 3: You're trying to sound New England-ish. That New York accent,
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Speaker 3: you can't hide that for a second. Let's go to
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Speaker 3: James in Manhattan. James, how are you doing? Good morning, Mark. Yes, James.
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Speaker 2: I got a request.
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Speaker 9: I'm glad that you referred to, I think, Schumer and
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Speaker 9: Biden as low-lifes. But I'd like for you to stop
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Speaker 9: using the word crazy and lunatics to describe them all
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Speaker 9: and use the correct word that I think, and it's evil.
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Speaker 3: Well, I use that word a lot on them.
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Speaker 9: Oh, I usually hear you say crazy.
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Speaker 3: No, you've got some kind of filter. You only hear
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Speaker 3: half of what I say, but let's go to Peter
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Speaker 3: in Long Island. Peter, how you doing?
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Speaker 10: I'm doing well, Mark. Thanks for taking my call. I
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Speaker 10: asked your screener about the warfare cases against Trump. I
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Speaker 10: know the ones with Jack Smith have been dropped. But
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Speaker 10: what's happening with Lateef James and Alvin Bragg?
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. Very good question. Thanks for asking.
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Speaker 3: They've been stalled and delayed by Hochul and the Democrats
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Speaker 3: because there's actually no conviction. He's not a convicted felon.
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Speaker 3: He's not convicted of anything because technically, technically, you're not
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Speaker 3: actually convicted until the judge has done the sentencing. And
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Speaker 3: that's never happened. All the cases against Trump are ridiculously fabricated.
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Speaker 3: Our greatest legal scholars, even Democrat Alan Dershowitz has said
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Speaker 3: he's read the charges a hundred times and he can't
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Speaker 3: figure out what the hell the crime is. There's nothing there.
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Speaker 3: They will all be tossed out on appeal. When it
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Speaker 3: goes to a real court, they'll all be tossed out.
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Speaker 3: Now you're saying it's two years, two and a half.
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Speaker 3: Why isn't it going to a real court? Because the
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Speaker 3: Democrats are holding it up. Normally when you appeal, it
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Speaker 3: happens within a few months. the most a year, but
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Speaker 3: they control the judges, they control the court process in
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Speaker 3: New York, and they've held up the appeals. They will
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Speaker 3: not let it go to appeal yet, because it will
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Speaker 3: get tossed out. He should actually make an issue out
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Speaker 3: of that. He should push that a lot more. Let's
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Speaker 3: go to Chris in Montreal. Chris, how you doing? I'm okay, thanks, Mark.
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Speaker 3: How you doing?
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 3: The weekend? The weekend? It's still on. It's not over.
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Speaker 3: The weekend ends on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
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Speaker 5: Listen, on Ukraine and stuff, I'm totally embarrassed by Trump.
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Speaker 3: I mean, even if he's not.
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Speaker 5: In Putin's pocket, what he does makes it look like
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Speaker 5: he is.
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Speaker 2: It's very hard to defend.
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Speaker 3: You've got to remember, you're a panic and you always,
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Speaker 3: everything bothers you. There's nobody, no voter, no normal American
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Speaker 3: cares about this. This is like an MS Now issue.
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Speaker 3: Nobody actually cares about this.
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Speaker 5: The oil depots that Zelensky's been hitting are legitimate military targets.
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Speaker 5: It's hurting them.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. But right now we don't... If they.
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Speaker 5: Stop doing it and then turn around and buy oil
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Speaker 5: from Russia, us, it looks like Trump's in Putin's pocket.
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Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. Only to an MSNBC viewer.
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Speaker 5: I'm not watching MSNBC.
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Speaker 3: But you're always a panic and you're a great reverse
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Speaker 3: barometer of everything because whatever you predict never happens. I...
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Speaker 3: The only reason he's doing this with Putin, he'd like
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Speaker 3: to get the price of diesel down. It's the funniest
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Speaker 3: thing in the world. Democrats yelling and screaming and screaming,
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Speaker 3: get the price of diesel down. The price of diesel
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Speaker 3: is the most important thing. Well, Zelensky blowing up diesel
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Speaker 3: refineries is driving the price up. So he asked him
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Speaker 3: to stop for a couple of weeks. Zelensky wouldn't listen.
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Speaker 3: This Trump is in Putin's pocket. How long is that
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Speaker 3: now they've been doing that? Ten years.
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Speaker 8: Ten years.
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Speaker 3: There's nobody that hates Putin more than Trump, and there's
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Speaker 3: nobody that hates Trump more than Putin. They are not
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Speaker 3: in anybody's pocket. Let's go to Joe in Lincoln Park. Joe,
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Speaker 3: how are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're on for three hours. It gives
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Speaker 2: me three hours of common sense and peace and hearing
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Speaker 2: the facts. Hey, I'm a registered voter. I'm out of
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Speaker 2: the country. I called Morristown for an absentee ballot. They
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Speaker 2: check me out. I'm a registered voter. They send me
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Speaker 2: an application. I fill out the application. They send me
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Speaker 2: back the absentee ballot. Where are these absentee ballots coming from?
19:48
Speaker 2: If you're not a registered voter, you can't get an
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Speaker 2: absentee ballot. Help me on this.
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Speaker 3: You want me to help you? I don't know. It's
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Speaker 3: New Jersey. You're crazy over there in New Jersey as
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Speaker 3: far as your government.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm in the red side of New Jersey.
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Speaker 3: No, I know, but it's New Jersey. It's New Jersey government.
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Speaker 3: Just go in person and vote. If you can't get
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Speaker 3: the absentee ballot, just show up somewhere and get it.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't trust New Jersey and their absentee ballots anywhere. Hey,
20:17
Speaker 3: that guy said peaceful, right? That's one thing about this show.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's common sense. We try to be,
20:21
Speaker 3: but it's a peaceful show. No yelling, no screaming. You
20:26
Speaker 3: know how you listen to, I've been listening to some hosts.
20:28
Speaker 3: They're usually newcomers. They're not really radio hosts. They're trying to,
20:32
Speaker 3: all of a sudden somebody puts them on the radio.
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Speaker 3: They're always yelling. They think you got to yell to
20:36
Speaker 3: make your point. You know, when they try to talk
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Speaker 3: to you like this, and they're always, as Churchill said,
20:43
Speaker 3: people scream when they got nothing to say. You can
20:46
Speaker 3: talk normally. It's radio. You don't yell on the radio.
20:50
Speaker 3: It's not like TV where, you know, when the viewer's
20:53
Speaker 3: watching television, he's across the room. He's 15 feet away
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Speaker 3: on the couch. When they're listening to the radio, it's
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Speaker 3: right in their ear. Or it's in the car and
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Speaker 3: the speaker is like a foot and a half from them.
21:07
Speaker 3: Don't yell at them on the radio. Let's go to
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Speaker 3: Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how are you doing?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. Mark, I'm okay. As you well know,
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Speaker 1: being in show business, sometimes optics and the perception matter
21:21
Speaker 1: and mean more than the actual reality. What the gentleman
21:26
Speaker 1: two calls ago said about Trump here and there making
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Speaker 1: complimentary statements about Putin. Putin's a degenerate. People that I
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Speaker 1: don't like and that I have to do business with,
21:39
Speaker 1: I don't make complimentary statements.
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Speaker 3: That's a different kind of business. This is politics.
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Speaker 1: I know it's politics.
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Speaker 3: It actually works. It worked on the nut job in
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Speaker 3: North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Trump didn't want to sell Zelensky to Tomahawk Missiles because
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Speaker 1: they had a greater range that could have reached right
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Speaker 1: into Moscow. They had a 1,500-mile range. Putin, Zelensky made
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Speaker 1: his own, which have a bigger payload, cost one half
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Speaker 1: the amount. There's no perception problem there. I don't see
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Speaker 1: why Zelensky should put a bomb right in Red Square.
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Speaker 3: I know, but you've got to remember, Trump right now,
22:26
Speaker 3: he doesn't want the oil refineries blown up because it'll
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Speaker 3: drive the pressure.
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Speaker 1: Well, Zelensky, if you're listening, blow all of them up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, of course Zelensky wants to, but it's like,
22:36
Speaker 3: let me put it in terms you can maybe relate to.
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Speaker 3: When Michael Corleone said about Hyman Roth, Don't go after him.
22:43
Speaker 3: I have business with Hyman Ross. Leave him alone right now.
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Speaker 1: It's that kind of thing. Yeah, and then a couple
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Speaker 1: episodes later, the guy shot him in the airport when
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Speaker 1: he was trying to come back after Israel trumatted the country.
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Speaker 3: Very good point. Excellent point. Vincent, thanks for calling. We'll
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Speaker 3: get all the latest news, because when we come back,
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Speaker 3: we've got the greatest columnist in the world. Michael Goodwin
23:06
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Speaker 3: Well let's turn now to the greatest columnist in america
23:21
Speaker 3: michael goodwin his columns every sunday and every wednesday in
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Speaker 3: the new york post and you can get all his
23:28
Speaker 3: columns they're all up on the new york post website
23:30
Speaker 3: michael goodwin how you doing good morning mark thank you
23:34
Speaker 3: hey a great column yesterday now explain this to me
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Speaker 3: the Democratic socialists are at war with Mamdani because he's
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Speaker 3: not radical enough for them? Is that the case?
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Speaker 7: Yes. I mean, it's amazing, isn't it, that he is
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Speaker 7: very radical, the most radical mayor in New York history.
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Speaker 7: And yet, for many of his fellow travelers, he's given in, right?
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Speaker 7: He's changed his stripes. He's compromised too much, particularly on
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Speaker 7: the police side. and keeping Jessica Tish as commissioner. And
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Speaker 7: he's now also accused of being a sellout to the Palestinians.
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Speaker 7: I mean, this is crazy talk. But I think these
24:21
Speaker 7: are the sorts of people who are burning down Paris.
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Speaker 7: So we're lucky we're only getting a fight so far.
24:28
Speaker 7: But this is the danger of this new left radicalism.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the fires, the rioting, the destruction of Paris, of
24:36
Speaker 3: much of France. What do you think? That'll have some
24:39
Speaker 3: effect on the midterms. People might realize you don't want
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Speaker 3: these left-wing crazies in power.
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Speaker 8: I think it could and it should.
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Speaker 7: I think people should wake up and look at what
24:51
Speaker 7: these leftists are really about. They're not really about building
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Speaker 7: a socialist state so much as they are about tearing
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Speaker 7: down the nation that exists now. So if you like
25:05
Speaker 7: your health care, right, you can keep it.
25:08
Speaker 8: That was a big lie.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's a big lie now, too, that they would
25:14
Speaker 7: change everything to give the government more power. That's what
25:19
Speaker 7: the left believes in. It trusts only the power of
25:23
Speaker 7: the state, not individual liberty. not private power of any kind,
25:29
Speaker 7: not corporate power, only government power. Now, I think most
25:35
Speaker 7: Americans are repelled by that idea, yet enough of them
25:40
Speaker 7: are being hoodwinked that this leftist movement has.
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Speaker 8: To be taken seriously.
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Speaker 7: I mean, Mamdani's election is the clearest example, but many
25:52
Speaker 7: of the Democrats running in this midterm election are also far, far,
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Speaker 7: far off the deep end.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. This whole war on Mamdani, I guess they want
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Speaker 3: him to get rid of Jessica Tisch. I mean, she's
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Speaker 3: been a pretty fine police commissioner. Is this just anti-Semitism?
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Speaker 3: Is that why they want to get.
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Speaker 9: Rid of her?
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Speaker 7: I think that's a part of it, Mark. Obviously, she's Jewish.
26:20
Speaker 7: She often wears a Jewish star and a necklace. and
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Speaker 7: she's made no bones about it. And yet, she has
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Speaker 7: not been commissioner in a way that favors any group
26:35
Speaker 7: over another. She has been very even-handed, and she has
26:39
Speaker 7: been fundamentally sound in using the tactics and the knowledge
26:46
Speaker 7: developed over years of intelligence gathering under the leadership Giuliani years, right?
26:55
Speaker 7: And then the Bloomberg years. So her real supporters were
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Speaker 7: Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton.
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Speaker 8: Now, that's quite a lineage.
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Speaker 7: And she is the inheritor of their police leadership.
27:11
Speaker 8: So she is doing a fine, fine job.
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Speaker 7: And I think Mamdani would be crazy to fire her
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Speaker 7: just to give a scalp to the far-left maniacs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, let's talk about Israel. Netanyahu, the election is
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Speaker 3: next week. It's a week from tomorrow. President Trump came
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Speaker 3: out with a big endorsement for him. And what do
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Speaker 3: you think? What do you think will happen in Israel?
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Speaker 7: You know, I've talked to a lot of people who
27:38
Speaker 7: know more about this than I do, and nobody seems
27:41
Speaker 7: to know. Nobody has a firm grasp about which way
27:46
Speaker 7: it's going. I have some friends who are going back
27:48
Speaker 7: to vote. Most Americans, I think, who are Israeli citizens
27:56
Speaker 7: as well, dual citizens, do not like Netanyahu, from my experience.
28:03
Speaker 7: But there's nobody on the scene who can rival him.
28:07
Speaker 8: So, for example, there.
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Speaker 7: Are 10 Muslim Arab seats in the Knesset out of 120.
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Speaker 8: And the leader of the two parties, each.
28:20
Speaker 7: With five seats, and they have offered, they will give
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Speaker 7: their 10 votes to any candidate who promises to create
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Speaker 7: a Palestinian state. And none of the major candidates have
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Speaker 7: accepted the offer. They know that's a very unpopular position
28:43
Speaker 7: in Israel. that the creation of a Palestinian state, I mean, where?
28:49
Speaker 8: Who's going to protect? What are the rules?
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Speaker 7: So they find no takers. So that's the kind of
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Speaker 7: thing that suggests Netanyahu still has the largest base of
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Speaker 7: the three main candidates. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: A great number of people in the U.S. have Israeli citizenship.
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Speaker 3: They're asking them to fly back to Israel just to vote.
29:12
Speaker 3: But you're right. A lot of them are flying back
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Speaker 3: to vote against Netanyahu. And what is the argument against Netanyahu?
29:18
Speaker 3: Is it just Netanyahu derangement syndrome?
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, I think to a certain extent, Mark,
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Speaker 7: some of it is just exhaustion, fatigue.
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Speaker 8: I mean, he's been around forever.
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Speaker 7: He's been the prime minister, the longest serving prime minister,
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Speaker 7: not continuously, but he's like the rubber bandwagon. you know,
29:40
Speaker 7: you squeeze it and it just comes back. That's what
29:44
Speaker 7: his career has been. And people, October 7th, of course,
29:50
Speaker 7: he explained for not being more aware of what was coming.
29:55
Speaker 7: And then there is the whole issue of the West
29:57
Speaker 7: Bank of what's going on. the fact that he won't
30:01
Speaker 7: really curb that because his majority depends on some of
30:07
Speaker 7: those kingmakers in his party. So I think that he
30:12
Speaker 7: has been far from a perfect prime minister, but it's
30:15
Speaker 7: a democracy.
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Speaker 8: The only democracy in the Mideast.
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Speaker 7: And so if he wins, it will be because he
30:23
Speaker 7: is the choice of the free voters.
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Speaker 3: Well, you're right. You know, as a, Ed Koch will
30:30
Speaker 3: tell you, or George Pataki will tell you, once you
30:33
Speaker 3: get into the third or fourth term, a lot of
30:35
Speaker 3: people start turning on you.
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Speaker 8: Sure.
30:38
Speaker 3: It looks like Netanyahu now believes in a one-state solution.
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Speaker 3: He may be right. We tried that two-state solution, and
30:44
Speaker 3: look how that ended up.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: What do you think?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, that's sort of the theme of a
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Speaker 7: book by David Friedman, who was the American ambassador during
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Speaker 7: Trump's first term. And He believes that the West Bank
31:03
Speaker 7: and whatnot should be treated in the same way that
31:06
Speaker 7: America treats Puerto Rico, for example. The Puerto Ricans can
31:11
Speaker 7: vote in local elections, but they cannot vote in the
31:15
Speaker 7: national election. He believes that is a model for how
31:21
Speaker 7: Israel should handle the West Bank. It should annex it,
31:25
Speaker 7: but then keep it somehow as a protectorate. rather than
31:29
Speaker 7: a full-fledged citizenship in the complete way.
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Speaker 8: So it's an interesting argument.
31:38
Speaker 7: And there are no other good arguments on the table.
31:42
Speaker 8: So I'm not sure where this ends up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, Michael Goodwin, great column yesterday. Everybody can go read
31:48
Speaker 3: if you missed it. It's up on the New York
31:50
Speaker 3: Post website. You can read his column every Sunday, every Wednesday.
31:54
Speaker 3: Go check. All of his columns are up on the
31:56
Speaker 3: New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 8: Oh, it's a pleasure. Thank you, Mark.
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