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Hour 1: Big changes at 60 Minutes on CBS. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now wor presents the Mark Simon.
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Speaker 2: Showy another beautiful day to day. We got a lot
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Speaker 2: to get to. We'll get to that crazy, insubordinate, awful,
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Speaker 2: pompous ass Scott Pelly. We'll get to the White House
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Speaker 2: correspondence Cinner, It's back on. We'll get to Ran We'll
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Speaker 2: get to the primaries yesterday. We'll get to the Knicks.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to Delaney Hall. We'll get to that goofy
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden, who everyone Democrat and Republican in the political
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Speaker 2: world agrees is having the worst rollout of a book
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Speaker 2: ever for any president the vice president spouse ever in history.
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Speaker 2: So hey, by the way, the Director of National Intelligence.
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Speaker 2: There's the guy whose name I'm blanking out on who
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Speaker 2: President Trump has appointed. And everybody's upset because they don't
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Speaker 2: think he's qualified. They don't think he's the right choice.
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Speaker 2: They're not happy with this guy. Currently, he's the housing czar,
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Speaker 2: he's run Fanny and Freddie and all that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he's a very competent guy. I don't know exactly he's
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Speaker 2: not the best choice for Director of National Intelligence. But
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Speaker 2: here's the thing. Trump is not appointing him, nominating him
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Speaker 2: to be director of National Intelligence. He's just sticking him
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Speaker 2: in as acting National Intelligence Director till he finds who
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Speaker 2: he wants. He's not going to be the nominee. When
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Speaker 2: you stick somebody in like this just acting. He's done
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Speaker 2: this before. I can't remember the names. First term Director
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Speaker 2: of National Intelligence stuck somebody in there just as acting
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Speaker 2: till he got John Ratcliffe. So don't worry about this guy.
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Speaker 2: It's just temporary. When you nominate, when you're not nominated,
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Speaker 2: but when you appoint him acting director, Congress is not involved.
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Speaker 2: They have nothing to say about it, don't need any approval,
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Speaker 2: but it gives him whatever he needs a month, two months,
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Speaker 2: three months, four months to pick somebody. So this is
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Speaker 2: not going to be the guy. He doesn't look like
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Speaker 2: the right choice. But he's just acting. It'll just be temporary.
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Speaker 3: So this Scott Pelly is the biggest pompous ass in
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Speaker 3: the history of broadcasting. He's been officially fired, thrown out
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Speaker 3: of there. You heard well, as we said yesterday, Barry
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Speaker 3: Weisse's new president of CBS News, brings in a new
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Speaker 3: person to run sixty minutes. You like him, you don't
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Speaker 3: like him, that's one thing. But Scott Pelly gets up
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Speaker 3: in the first town hall where this guy is there
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Speaker 3: to introduce himself to the staff, and Scott Pelly, the
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Speaker 3: pompous asked that he is tells the guy off, screaming
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Speaker 3: at the guy, calling him every name, telling him how
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Speaker 3: bad he is, and he's murdered sixty minutes. He's the
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Speaker 3: worst thing in the world. Now, first of all, you
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Speaker 3: got a brand new boss. This is not a good
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Speaker 3: speech to make. If you got a brand new Boston.
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Speaker 3: You don't think he's the right kind of guy. Your
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Speaker 3: opening statement should be you're the worst person ever. You
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Speaker 3: have done the worst, but bad enough if you went
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Speaker 3: to his office and said that to him. This is
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Speaker 3: in a big meeting with the whole staff, in front
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Speaker 3: of in front of everybody. He tries to bully this guy,
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Speaker 3: intimidate this guy, he tries to humiliate this guy in
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Speaker 3: front of the whole staff. Well, it turns out that
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Speaker 3: this guy was very nice about this. In the beginning
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Speaker 3: of fact, he suspected that Scott Pelly was not happy
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Speaker 3: with the choice. So now we find out that before
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Speaker 3: this big town hall he got, he sent an invitation
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Speaker 3: to Scott Pelly said I know you may have disagreements,
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Speaker 3: could we meet privately and we can talk them out.
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Speaker 3: You can air them out, you can tell me what
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Speaker 3: your problem is. Pelly refused. Even invited Scott Pelly to
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Speaker 3: have dinner with him to discuss things. He refused. So
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Speaker 3: then Scott Belly pulls this ridiculous stunt in front of
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Speaker 3: the whole staff. And of course it's in the middle
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Speaker 3: of Big Town Hall. There's a thousand witnesses, so of
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Speaker 3: course it leaks out. It's all over the place. It
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Speaker 3: looks bad for CBS News. They then give him one
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Speaker 3: more chance. Barry Weiss, in this new head of sixty minutes,
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Speaker 3: decide we'll meet with you privately and settle this and
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Speaker 3: air this out. Well, apparently when they met with him
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Speaker 3: the next day privately to air it out, he just
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Speaker 3: told them off again. He's screaming at how awful, evil,
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Speaker 3: disgusting the guy is. So what are you gonna do.
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Speaker 3: You gotta fire the guy is. As Joe Peshi said
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Speaker 3: in that scene in Casino, this guy was just begging
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Speaker 3: to be made an example of it. So you gotta
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Speaker 3: fire the guy. Now there were some people yesterdays. Well,
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Speaker 3: it can't fire him. He's got a contract. And if
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Speaker 3: they fire him, they'd have to pay out the contract.
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Speaker 3: They'd have to pay him five million dollars to fire him. Well,
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Speaker 3: it turns out you don't have to do that because
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Speaker 3: what he did was so so awful and so inappropriate
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Speaker 3: and so disgusting. It violated the contract. You know, it's
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Speaker 3: in every contract. I have it in my contract. We
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Speaker 3: all have it in our contract. There's a clause in there.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I can't be fired. It's an ironclad contract,
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Speaker 3: except there's a clause in there termination for cause. And
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Speaker 3: it's got all this legal mumbo jumble that goes on
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Speaker 3: for two pages of what would be caused you can
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Speaker 3: be fired at. But there's a whole chunk in there
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Speaker 3: where it says if you do anything to humiliate the company,
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Speaker 3: embarrass the company, in subordination, you know, all that kind
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Speaker 3: of stuff. If you cause him, if you cause a
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Speaker 3: big scene public that embarrasses the company, that's cause you
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Speaker 3: can be fired. So the in fact, if you go
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Speaker 3: to my Twitter, you can see the letter terminating him
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Speaker 3: from the New sixty Minutes Boss, and it says that
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Speaker 3: right in there, you're being terminated for cause. So Scott
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Speaker 3: Pelley is out. He is fired. Some think what he
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Speaker 3: did was so bad that it had to be suicide.
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Speaker 3: He had to be deliberately committing suicide and wanting to
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Speaker 3: get fired. I don't know. I mean, it's a good thing.
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Speaker 3: For sixty minutes, this sanctimonious pompus asked, who's screaming about
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Speaker 3: journalism and he's fighting for journalism? Was not a journalist.
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Speaker 3: He was a fake news guy. If you go on
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Speaker 3: Twitter the last few days, you see people posting all
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Speaker 3: the clips of all the fake news he did. Nobody
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Speaker 3: pushed that Russia hoax more than him. Just an awful guy,
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Speaker 3: fake interviews with Biden, fake everything. Do you remember he
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Speaker 3: did a commencement speech? Was it last year? It was
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Speaker 3: the most bizarre convention speech ever where he just looks
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Speaker 3: at these you know, convention speech supposed to be happy,
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Speaker 3: uplifting message of hope and optimism and motivational speech to
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Speaker 3: send these kids out into the world. He makes this
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Speaker 3: gloom and doom speech about how the world is over,
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Speaker 3: We've lost all our freedom, there's no more democracy. So
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Speaker 3: I think this is a bit of it. Let me
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Speaker 3: let me see, listen to this doom and gloom.
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Speaker 4: But in this moment, this moment, this morning, Our sacred
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Speaker 4: rule of law is under attack. Journalism is underattack, universities
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Speaker 4: are under attack, Freedom of speech is underattack, and insidious fear.
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Speaker 3: Is reaching.
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Speaker 4: Through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our
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Speaker 4: private thoughts.
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Speaker 3: Listen to this pompous to the fear to speak in America.
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Speaker 4: Oh, power can rewrite history.
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Speaker 3: So it goes on and on. Can you imagine you're
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Speaker 3: a graduation and this guy's going to do an hour
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Speaker 3: of this nonsense. So they should have fired him right
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Speaker 3: out after that speech. But he's a horrible, horrible guy,
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Speaker 3: an embarrassment to the profession. So he has been fired,
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Speaker 3: and that's it. What do you think he'll turn up next,
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Speaker 3: probably MS, now, CNN, someplace like that, and he'll do
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Speaker 3: a Colbert. He'll tell her it was Trump that got
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Speaker 3: him fired. It's all because of Trump. He was fired. CBS,
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Speaker 3: by the way, it's the same network beginning this week
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Speaker 3: put out an official statements and Colbert was actually losing
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Speaker 3: forty million a year and they, you know, Network TV
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Speaker 3: is not doing so well right now, and they couldn't
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Speaker 3: continue to sustain these financial losses. So I mean, I'm
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Speaker 3: sure Trump, you know, yelling and screaming about it didn't help,
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Speaker 3: but it was financial reasons. The same thing here. Sixty
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Speaker 3: minutes ratings are down about ninety percent. If you go
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Speaker 3: to my Twitter, you'll see the chart ratings chart, sixty
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Speaker 3: minutes ratings to the last ten years. It's just straight
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Speaker 3: down for ten years. Now. They'll these fake newspeople at
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Speaker 3: sixty minutes to tell you we're up twelve percent from
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Speaker 3: last year. Yeah, they are, but down ninety percent from
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Speaker 3: ten years of seular. The graph, it's like straight down
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Speaker 3: and there's a little uptick that doesn't mean much of anything.
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Speaker 3: Still way way down from where it was. Hey, So
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Speaker 3: the White House Correspondence dinner is back on. It will
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Speaker 3: be June twenty fourth. Now that's a July twenty fourth.
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Speaker 3: July twenty fourth, that's a Friday night, usually on Saturday night,
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Speaker 3: July twenty fourth, and they will not go back to
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Speaker 3: the Hilton for this makeup dinner. They will not go
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Speaker 3: back to the Hilton where they always have it. That's
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Speaker 3: where the whole setup there just didn't seem to be
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Speaker 3: security wise any good. It was just a bad setup.
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Speaker 3: So guess where it's going. You'll keep hearing it's moving
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Speaker 3: to the Waldorf Astoria in Washington. But what they might
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Speaker 3: not mention in some of these stories, it's really the
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Speaker 3: Trump Hotel. It's the Trump Hotel in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 3: He built years ago, right before his first term. And
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Speaker 3: there's really very fine, prestigious hotels in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 3: There's the Willard, the hay Adams, but they're old, they're
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Speaker 3: not that big, and they're old, old, old, old hotels.
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Speaker 3: You know, the hotels the Truman would stay in it.
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Speaker 3: That was kind of hotels. So years ago Trump saw
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Speaker 3: that they didn't have one big, huge, spectacular hotel, so
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Speaker 3: he built the Trump Hotel. There was an old post
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Speaker 3: office building and it was spectacular, and every left wing
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Speaker 3: cook would yell and scream about it, so the worst
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Speaker 3: hotel and it's evil and boycott it. But if you
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Speaker 3: talk to travel agents off the record, they would all say,
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Speaker 3: it's the finest hotel ever in Washington, really luxurious, fine hotel.
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Speaker 3: It's got a big ballroom, not as big as the Hilton,
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Speaker 3: but a big ballroom. So it's now the Waldorf Astoria.
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Speaker 3: Trump sold it a few years ago. Waldorf bought it.
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Speaker 3: That's where the White House Correspondence dinner will be now
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Speaker 3: that Hilton had the biggest ballroom twenty five hundred people.
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Speaker 3: But this new ballroom at the new venue, the Waldorft Ballroom,
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Speaker 3: thirteen hundred seats, so they'll have it there. That means
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Speaker 3: they got to get rid of twelve hundred people, but
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Speaker 3: there might be a lot of people who bought tickets
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Speaker 3: the first time who can't come this time, so it'll
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Speaker 3: be thirteen hundred people. President Trump has agreed to speak
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Speaker 3: at this now at the original White House Correspondents dinner, Boy,
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Speaker 3: did he have a speech ready to go. It was
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Speaker 3: a real roast, just ridiculing and making fun of all
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Speaker 3: the fake newspeople. It was a rough, rough roast. But
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Speaker 3: after what happened the shooting, can you do it again?
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Speaker 3: Even he said, I don't know whether or not I
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Speaker 3: can give the same nasty roast at least does it
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Speaker 3: concerns certain people. But we'll find out. He's got to
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Speaker 3: redo that speech. It'll be July twenty fourth. Hey, By
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Speaker 3: the way, the White House Ballroom the Trump wants to build,
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Speaker 3: he said, that's why we need this White House Ballroom
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Speaker 3: totally secure, and we could do the White House Correspondence
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Speaker 3: dinner there well. Head of the White House correspondents to
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Speaker 3: Jackie Heinrich, they would never do it in the White
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Speaker 3: House ballroom.
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Speaker 5: It cuts against the independence of the press from the
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Speaker 5: government that it covers. So we would never hold our
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Speaker 5: annual event on government property. That was well understood by
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Speaker 5: the White House. There are also a lot of government
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Speaker 5: ethics rules. I think a lot of our organizations would
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Speaker 5: not approve of us getting a gift that is paid
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Speaker 5: for by taxpayer dollars in the form of a venue
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Speaker 5: that is public property.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, okay, you can just pay for it. You
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Speaker 3: pay the Hilton to use the ballroom, you pay the
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Speaker 3: Waldorf to use whatever you were paying. Just give that
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Speaker 3: to the White House ballroom, give it to the government,
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Speaker 3: just donated. So that would solve that problem. But the
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Speaker 3: ballroom's a long way off, so we don't have to
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Speaker 3: worry about that yet. Hey, the California primary, Steve Hilton
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Speaker 3: did very, very well. Now that's the primary. When you
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Speaker 3: go into the general, he's great, I mean, he would
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Speaker 3: be the best governor for California. But you go to
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Speaker 3: the general, it's a lot of Democratic voters and it's
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Speaker 3: going to be an uphill climb. It's not going to
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Speaker 3: be easy. Some political analysts estimate his chance at twenty
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Speaker 3: five percent. But he's a great campaigner. Last night he
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Speaker 3: won big in the primary.
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Speaker 6: It looks very much as if Californias really will have
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Speaker 6: the chance to vote for change in November.
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Speaker 7: And take.
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Speaker 6: And take our state and take our state in a
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Speaker 6: new direction.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and again it's been a one party state for
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Speaker 3: years Democrat. But who knows? Things are so bad in California,
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Speaker 3: especially in the cities with the homeless and the needles
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Speaker 3: and the crime, and maybe people rise up.
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Speaker 6: We've got the rebel spirit, We've got the hustle, we've
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Speaker 6: got the attitude. We've got everything we need to make
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Speaker 6: California golden again except for a good governor. And very
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Speaker 6: soon we will as well.
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Speaker 3: Well five months await November. Boy, that would be something.
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Speaker 3: You get Steve Hilton in California, you get Bruce Blakeman
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Speaker 3: in New York. Wow, Now, La mayors race. Pratt pract
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Speaker 3: did very, very very well. Oh now, let me just
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Speaker 3: put a big asterisk on all of this. It's California,
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Speaker 3: so you know what happens there. Like we don't have
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Speaker 3: the results of the primary for Pratt won't know for
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Speaker 3: a long time. There's these mail in votes. It takes
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Speaker 3: them days and days and days. They got to get
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Speaker 3: these mail ins, and they're gonta count. Mail in voting
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Speaker 3: is that's where all the cheating happens. As Jimmy Carter
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Speaker 3: would say, mail in votes very bad. So who knows
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Speaker 3: what could happen. But Pratt had a great night.
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Speaker 5: The next five months is I'm gonna have time to
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Speaker 5: build out this team, to show everybody.
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Speaker 6: The level of Democratic supporters that have behind me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see. Hey, of course the Knicks Tonight,
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Speaker 3: that's gonna be a big night. It's in San Antonio,
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Speaker 3: but there's watch parties being scheduled all over the place,
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Speaker 3: from Central Park to the Radio City. They always do
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Speaker 3: these watch parties. Nick, Tonight's gonna be a big night.
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Speaker 3: What times of game start I said eight thirty? I
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Speaker 3: think eight o'clock something like that. Coverage I think starts
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Speaker 3: around seven thirty, but eight o'clock it'll be on ABC
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Speaker 3: channelson eight thirty, channel seven nixt Tonight. You're gonna see
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Speaker 3: Nick stuff all over the place. If you walk around
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Speaker 3: Maison Square Garden, look at those subways. You come up
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Speaker 3: the subway stairs and it's all been painted blue and orange.
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Speaker 3: Looks beautiful. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred
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Speaker 3: three two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight
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Speaker 3: hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simon Show, Live from the wr Life
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Speaker 1: Back Studios.
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Speaker 3: Let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 3: seven ten is the number. Let's go to Mara in Nevada. Mara,
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Speaker 3: how you.
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Speaker 8: Doing so good?
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Speaker 9: Jaw Vincent Mark Jill is on that bull face line. Sure, yes,
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Speaker 9: but she started a relationship with Joe by cheating on
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Speaker 9: her husband. All cheaters are liars, and then she hooks
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Speaker 9: up with the champion liar. You know what they deserve
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Speaker 9: where they are in the dutchmin of history.
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Speaker 3: Very good, I agree. Yeah, Joe Biden on this lying tour.
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Speaker 3: You know the problem is she lied. The first day
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Speaker 3: Biden in the debate looked so bad. He couldn't talk,
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Speaker 3: he was incoherent, couldn't finish the sentence. But that's normal,
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Speaker 3: it's the way he was every day. So to lie
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Speaker 3: to make it sound like this was so unusual. Oh
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Speaker 3: my god, I thought he was having a stroke. That
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Speaker 3: was the lie to make it sound like, oh so
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Speaker 3: unusual for him to be like that. But then everybody said, well,
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Speaker 3: if you thought he was having a stroke, why didn't
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Speaker 3: you take him to a doctor right afterwards? Or how
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Speaker 3: come you took him from there to the waffle house
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Speaker 3: to a big, noisy party. So now she's telling the
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Speaker 3: story yesterday that well, there were there were doctors there,
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Speaker 3: and they examined him. As soon as he came off.
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Speaker 3: The doctors examined him, said he's okay, he's okay. No,
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Speaker 3: but he saw any doctor examine him. Let's go to
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Speaker 3: Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing, good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
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Speaker 8: Regarding the Scott Tully story, I was a stage manager
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Speaker 8: in New York for more than thirty years, and I
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Speaker 8: don't think the public realizes how dumb and quotes many
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Speaker 8: of these guys they see on air, sitting in the
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Speaker 8: anchor desk or on you know, delivering the news really are.
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Speaker 8: There's many of them don't have an original thought in
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Speaker 8: their head. They're actors, you know, they're reading somebody else
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Speaker 8: some and they're playing a role.
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Speaker 3: There's some anchors like that.
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Speaker 8: More than I think, more than people would have sad
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Speaker 8: I think would imagine, and some that they would really
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Speaker 8: be surprised, are you know, complete knuckleheads?
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Speaker 3: Well, well, but you could tell who the dumb ones
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Speaker 3: were because they they were the pretty boys. You know
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Speaker 3: that the mannequins like Walter Cronkite was not hired for
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Speaker 3: his looks frustrated.
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Speaker 8: You're right, Kronkite wasn't. But some you're right, because of
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Speaker 8: them are like frustrated actors and they just sort of
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Speaker 8: violed his journalism course and they'll put me on TV.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean like Mike Wallace wasn't hired because he
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Speaker 3: was a great looking. He was hired because he really
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Speaker 3: knew his stuff, right.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, and those guys war correspondents, and they were
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Speaker 8: old school, you know, in the old days, these guys
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Speaker 8: didn't go to journalism school. They you know, they went
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Speaker 8: to a bar and they covered the war. You know,
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Speaker 8: that's how they became journalists. You know, journalism school is
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Speaker 8: a new that fangle, you know thing for many of
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Speaker 8: these modern guys.
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Speaker 3: You know, a good example is Peter Jennings. When they
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Speaker 3: hired him at ABC, he was the youngest anchor ever
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Speaker 3: the network news. He was like twenty seven, and he
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Speaker 3: was just a pretty boy and he didn't know anything
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Speaker 3: but he was a very smart guy deep down, he said.
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Speaker 3: He actually left, he said, this is no good. He
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Speaker 3: went overseas, became a foreign correspondent, right, went into the
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Speaker 3: field for years, got seasoned. He said, I'll come back
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Speaker 3: as a seasoned guy who knows what he's doing. And
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Speaker 3: then he was great, that's right.
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Speaker 8: Some guys like him have that epissany and they realized that,
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Speaker 8: you know, hey, I am just a vapid thing tweeting
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Speaker 8: somebody else's words. I'm going to prove myself. And they
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Speaker 8: do have a brain in their head, but there's so.
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Speaker 3: Many I'm trying to not names here. You know they are, Yes,
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Speaker 3: they just look great. They got a big smile, they
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Speaker 3: read the teleprompter and they don't know anything bad. You're right.
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Speaker 7: And for all their crying, by the way, for all
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Speaker 7: the Scott Tilly's crying about how they're coming for the
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Speaker 7: press and they're silencing the press, all they do is
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Speaker 7: complain about how the kind you know, they never stopped
19:16
Speaker 7: talking about it, so nobody's really coming for them.
19:18
Speaker 8: I mean that's the irony.
19:19
Speaker 3: No, he's pretty bad. Yeah, he was a horrible guy.
19:22
Speaker 3: But thanks for calling Mike. So does this woman telling
19:25
Speaker 3: me this story about.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
19:28
Speaker 3: One day he filled in for Katie Kirk on the
19:30
Speaker 3: evening News and he's telling them what he wants and
19:34
Speaker 3: he's going to do this story. And he said, at
19:36
Speaker 3: this point, I will take my glasses off. He said,
19:40
Speaker 3: as I take my glasses off, I want you to
19:42
Speaker 3: zoom in on me as I take my glasses off.
19:44
Speaker 3: He's staging this phony, fake news, the theatrics of it.
19:48
Speaker 3: Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing.
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Speaker 10: Good?
19:54
Speaker 11: Thanks May? How is an American Idol can CALLI thirty
19:57
Speaker 11: three million votes in five and a half minutes and
19:59
Speaker 11: have a win in California and New York and all
20:02
Speaker 11: these other states. Takes them a month to tell us
20:04
Speaker 11: who's actually gonna win. And imagine if you get what
20:06
Speaker 11: Trump once we go to paper ballots, it will take
20:08
Speaker 11: two months to count all the votes in the state
20:10
Speaker 11: like California.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, American Idol just wants the real vote from
20:14
Speaker 3: the public California. They want that right in cheating process
20:18
Speaker 3: because they can.
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Speaker 11: We I had a question for you, Mark. There was
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Speaker 11: a report on the news or something that a whole
20:24
Speaker 11: bunch of write in ballots or mail in ballots in
20:26
Speaker 11: California got burnt up in a fire and a voting
20:29
Speaker 11: place was damage or something. There's any two to that story.
20:32
Speaker 11: And this is all about the Los Angeles mayors.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, we'll look into that, but that happens
20:36
Speaker 3: all the time. That's one way they cheat. Would they
20:38
Speaker 3: cheat with the mail ins? And then Connecticut was famous
20:40
Speaker 3: for that. You remember the one what was his name
20:43
Speaker 3: running for governor and it looked like he was going
20:45
Speaker 3: to win. He he won by three points, so they
20:47
Speaker 3: had to screw around. And remember they said all the
20:49
Speaker 3: ballots got wet. Yep, yep, they got wet and they
20:53
Speaker 3: had to recount. It was a ridiculous thing. But I
20:57
Speaker 3: remember Al Franklin in Minnesota. They yeah, yeah, yeah, look
21:01
Speaker 3: like it's gonna lose till they found thousands of votes
21:03
Speaker 3: in the trunk of a car that they've been misplaced.
21:06
Speaker 3: That's how they screw around with this stuff. Let's go
21:08
Speaker 3: to Dennis in Long Island. Dennis, how you doing?
21:12
Speaker 10: Hey, Mark morning? How you doing?
21:14
Speaker 8: Mark?
21:14
Speaker 10: This this crazy governor we have in New York. She's
21:18
Speaker 10: pushing for the heist of the mask no mask? Yeah, well,
21:21
Speaker 10: want to cheat? Want to cheat? The protesters should have
21:24
Speaker 10: no mask too, so we can identify them.
21:26
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I listen, don't try to analyze what Kathy
21:31
Speaker 3: Holk is doing. It's just crazy partisan knee jerk, anything
21:36
Speaker 3: to get elected. Comments. If no masks is popular, she'll
21:39
Speaker 3: yell no masks. But you're right, absolutely no, No, I
21:42
Speaker 3: mean there's a reason they You heard this, this protester
21:47
Speaker 3: that that bit the ice agent send him to the hospital,
21:50
Speaker 3: screaming at the guy. I know who you are. I'm
21:52
Speaker 3: going to find your family. I'm going to kill your family.
21:54
Speaker 3: I'm gonna kill That's why they wear masks so people
21:56
Speaker 3: can't dox them, which means figure out who they get
22:00
Speaker 3: their address, go after their home. Look what happened to Kavanaugh?
22:04
Speaker 3: Crazy lunatic shows up at his house with a gun,
22:08
Speaker 3: a knife, a hammer, a rope. Oh, I mean that's
22:11
Speaker 3: why they wear masks. Hey, when we come back to
22:13
Speaker 3: brilliant columnist Liz Peak will be with us next on
22:17
Speaker 3: seven to ten.
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Speaker 1: Wor mister New York Mark Simone.
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Speaker 3: Well, this Peak, the brilliant columnist. You can read her
22:29
Speaker 3: columns of Fox News, and make sure you check her website.
22:31
Speaker 3: There's great stories up there everyday. Lizpeak dot com lizpeak
22:35
Speaker 3: dot com. Course you see her all over television. Liz Peak,
22:38
Speaker 3: How you doing.
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Speaker 12: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on Mark.
22:42
Speaker 3: Hey, California primary, Steve Hilton got more votes than anybody.
22:47
Speaker 3: What do you think does he have a chance?
22:48
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, what I think is that he'll be a
22:52
Speaker 12: contender in November. Thank heavens for that. You know, if
22:55
Speaker 12: you take his vote and line it up against the
22:57
Speaker 12: combined votes for Tom Starts, you know, an Tony Batara,
23:03
Speaker 12: he probably is not ahead. And that's sort of the
23:06
Speaker 12: Democrat establishment plus left wing foot loops versus you know,
23:11
Speaker 12: versus Steve Hilton. But look, I think he does have
23:14
Speaker 12: a chance. Why seventy percent of voters in California say
23:18
Speaker 12: they want to change, and Steve Hilton is talking to
23:21
Speaker 12: that desire for change. He's proposing common sense fixes to
23:27
Speaker 12: a lot of the things that ail California. How can
23:30
Speaker 12: Democrats pretend to be the party of affordability when every
23:34
Speaker 12: major city except for ones in Hawaii that are the
23:38
Speaker 12: most expensive to live in, are in California. There's no
23:41
Speaker 12: reason for that. Hawaii is far away, I get that. California, No,
23:46
Speaker 12: it's right here, and yet it is outrageously expensive because
23:50
Speaker 12: of bad policies, because of strangling regulations on businesses, because
23:56
Speaker 12: of permitting inaccessibility, the fact that it's impossible to build,
24:01
Speaker 12: and high taxes. People kind of like they have an
24:05
Speaker 12: out of body experience. They don't believe that high taxes
24:08
Speaker 12: wend their way into higher prices. Of course they do.
24:11
Speaker 12: It drives up the price of everything. So California has
24:15
Speaker 12: seven dollars gallon gasoline? Why taxes and fees and all
24:18
Speaker 12: the stupid things that they've done to make gasoline practically
24:22
Speaker 12: extinct in the state of California. So do I think
24:26
Speaker 12: he has a chance. I'm ever optimistic about the common
24:29
Speaker 12: sense of the American people. Mark who knows. I mean,
24:32
Speaker 12: I think you're going to have the public union's public
24:36
Speaker 12: employee unions lined up aggressively against him. You're going to
24:40
Speaker 12: have a lot of people who want to go out
24:41
Speaker 12: and vote for the wealth tax. That's going to probably
24:45
Speaker 12: draw a lot of the fringe left to the ballot box.
24:49
Speaker 12: But look, California is losing businesses, losing people, losing revenues,
24:54
Speaker 12: and all of those people are being replaced by illegal
24:58
Speaker 12: aliens who are not paying their way. So yeah, I
25:01
Speaker 12: think California has got problems. Steve is offering solutions. Let's
25:05
Speaker 12: hope the voters recognize that.
25:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is it with Democratic voters? You know, they'll
25:09
Speaker 3: scream about tariffs that could raise the price. Yeah, but
25:12
Speaker 3: the corporate taxes a tariff. It's democratic tariffs. So the
25:18
Speaker 3: I mean, and then Democrats have controlled every inch of
25:21
Speaker 3: New York, the city government, the state government for twelve years.
25:25
Speaker 3: How does Mom Doney get away with running on the
25:27
Speaker 3: affordability crisis?
25:29
Speaker 12: I know, and reforming New York. None of it makes
25:33
Speaker 12: any sense. People are not thinking through his policies. I'm
25:37
Speaker 12: sure you watch all his adulation on Twitter or x
25:43
Speaker 12: as I do. People come in and say, look what
25:46
Speaker 12: he's already done. He's filled one hundred thousand pop holes,
25:50
Speaker 12: He's improved housing affordability and availability. He's done this and that. No,
25:55
Speaker 12: he hasn't. He's talked about a lot of stuff, and
25:58
Speaker 12: you know, in the next couple of years, let's see,
26:00
Speaker 12: as the CEO of Goldman Sachs said in a recent interview,
26:05
Speaker 12: let's see if he knows how to govern. I mean,
26:07
Speaker 12: that is a little different than campaigning. Although he has
26:11
Speaker 12: already taken much of his office and devoted it to
26:14
Speaker 12: in effect constant campaigning with this sort of promotional videos
26:19
Speaker 12: and TikTok ITAs that he's got going on. I mean,
26:22
Speaker 12: it's really appalling to me. But you know, we'll see
26:25
Speaker 12: what he produces.
26:27
Speaker 3: Hey, what about la, It looks like Pratt has a
26:29
Speaker 3: real shot to win this. Of course, you've gotta wait
26:31
Speaker 3: days and days to see what happened and during this
26:34
Speaker 3: mail that's where all the cheating happens. But could Pratt be.
26:37
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly, Well, he certainly is in good position right now,
26:42
Speaker 12: nine points ahead of the number three person, Karen Bass,
26:45
Speaker 12: astonishingly because I think she has the appeal of I
26:49
Speaker 12: don't know, a stale piece of bread. Is in lead
26:55
Speaker 12: and certainly leading Spencer Pratt, but he seems to be
26:57
Speaker 12: number two. You know, you're always worrying California that all
27:01
Speaker 12: these mysterious ballots come in after the fact, after the date,
27:06
Speaker 12: and all of a sudden he loses. But his lead's
27:08
Speaker 12: pretty big. I would think it's gonna And by the way,
27:11
Speaker 12: it's like two thirds of the vote's been counted, right,
27:13
Speaker 12: so it's not forty percent, it's sixty seven or something percent.
27:18
Speaker 12: So it's a big slug of it. Let's just hope
27:21
Speaker 12: is fair and honest and that he has a chance,
27:23
Speaker 12: because my gosh, again, what has Karen Bass done for
27:27
Speaker 12: Los Angeles? That? I mean, my line for Steve Hilton
27:32
Speaker 12: was what do you have to lose to California voters
27:34
Speaker 12: for LA? What has Karen Bass done? I can't think
27:38
Speaker 12: of a single thing.
27:39
Speaker 3: So these crazy left wing socialists these is a Democrat
27:44
Speaker 3: party ever going to clean house and get back to normal, Well.
27:47
Speaker 12: Not anytime soon, because the money is coming from the
27:50
Speaker 12: far left. Money is power. And you know when you
27:54
Speaker 12: have someone like Mom Donnie endorsing a real wing nut,
27:59
Speaker 12: this person and v I don't know how that she
28:01
Speaker 12: pronounces that Chevalier or whatever who is really racist and
28:05
Speaker 12: offensive and doesn't even think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
28:09
Speaker 12: are far enough left and taking on, by the way,
28:13
Speaker 12: a five turn Democrat who's head of the Hispanic Caucus. Wow,
28:18
Speaker 12: I mean, talk about a leap into the unknown. Will
28:21
Speaker 12: people follow him? I don't know. I mean I think
28:26
Speaker 12: I think you're seeing a lot of money coming in
28:28
Speaker 12: from anti Israel groups, pro Muslim groups, I said on
28:32
Speaker 12: Varney this morning. I mean, I think American's got to
28:34
Speaker 12: take a moment to say, what's on the other side
28:37
Speaker 12: of that anti Israel trade. I mean, Graham Platner in
28:40
Speaker 12: Maine is accusing Susan Collins of taking APAC money. Where's
28:44
Speaker 12: his money come from? I mean, who's on the other
28:47
Speaker 12: side of the anti Israel trade. It's pro Muslim, anti
28:50
Speaker 12: American groups that are anti capitalists and really don't want
28:55
Speaker 12: our country to succeed. So I think, you know, people
28:58
Speaker 12: need to take a moment here and figure out which
29:01
Speaker 12: side of that are they on, the pro Hamas group
29:04
Speaker 12: or pro Israel group. To me, that's a pretty easy
29:06
Speaker 12: decision to make.
29:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, apparently the Bidens need money. They got huge overhead,
29:12
Speaker 3: and so Joe Biden the book is to raise some
29:15
Speaker 3: money and cash in. But this book, to her, this
29:18
Speaker 3: is not helping the Biden images it hahaha.
29:21
Speaker 12: No, it is not, because every time she opens her mouth,
29:24
Speaker 12: we are reminded of how completely hapless Joe Biden was.
29:27
Speaker 12: The essential lie of the last four years that Joe
29:31
Speaker 12: Biden was capable of running again. Every you know, they're
29:34
Speaker 12: going to whitewash this now, Mark, but every Democrat official,
29:37
Speaker 12: every Democrat place, you know, stakeholder was raising their hand
29:43
Speaker 12: and saying, oh, yes, Joe's in perfectly good shape, and
29:45
Speaker 12: she was the cheerleader number one. So they have all
29:50
Speaker 12: this angst about not releasing an autopsy. Holy crow, I
29:54
Speaker 12: can write their autopsy. The reason they lost in twenty
29:57
Speaker 12: four was that everything about the party was dishonest. It
30:00
Speaker 12: was dishonest to pretend Joe could run. It was dishonest
30:03
Speaker 12: not to have any kind of primary to choose his successor,
30:06
Speaker 12: and everything Kamala Harris's campaign on was dishonest. I mean really,
30:10
Speaker 12: it was like, you know, a cataclysmic defeat. It's true,
30:15
Speaker 12: but it's not really hard to figure out why.
30:18
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and the cover up was just the most
30:21
Speaker 3: disgraceful thing in the history of a media and journalism.
30:24
Speaker 3: So this Barry Weis's cleaning house at sixty men, is
30:26
Speaker 3: this like the beginning maybe of the end of fake news.
30:29
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe they'll get the oh, there's.
30:31
Speaker 12: Always going to be fake news. What amuses me is
30:36
Speaker 12: there's so irate that a wealthy person who owns the
30:40
Speaker 12: network now is supposedly determining editorial content. Well, maybe not.
30:45
Speaker 12: Maybe he just wants to get the organization back into
30:49
Speaker 12: the center where it can appeal to both left and
30:51
Speaker 12: right as opposed to narrowing its target audience. But all
30:57
Speaker 12: they're mad about is that their guys are no longer
31:00
Speaker 12: in charge. It was always wealthy people looking at station,
31:04
Speaker 12: and they just had a different political slant. There's nothing
31:08
Speaker 12: morally highbrow about that or anything really to take umbrage about.
31:12
Speaker 12: It's just your team lost. You know, elections have consequences,
31:16
Speaker 12: so to economic decisions, so to business decisions. And if
31:20
Speaker 12: somebody like Jeff Bezos comes along and makes a fortune
31:25
Speaker 12: and decides to buy the Washington Post, guess what, that's
31:28
Speaker 12: his right. And if he wants to change the Washington
31:30
Speaker 12: Post a little bit editoriling, or at least have some
31:35
Speaker 12: influence in that, that is his right, just like it's
31:38
Speaker 12: the right of the Sulzberger family to influence the New
31:40
Speaker 12: York Times. So there's nothing new here under the sun.
31:44
Speaker 12: It's just whose team is at bat. And Scott Pelly
31:47
Speaker 12: behaved abominably in a meeting and then in the follow
31:51
Speaker 12: up meetings. If you've read the letter that his boss
31:55
Speaker 12: posted to or sent to him, it's a very well
31:58
Speaker 12: written letter. It's like I was, you know, hoping to
32:00
Speaker 12: have a civil discourse. We did not. You did not
32:04
Speaker 12: and so you're fired. And you know what, honestly, the
32:09
Speaker 12: chutzpah of these liberal entertainers and newspeople and stuff. They
32:14
Speaker 12: think they are so important. Mark guess what they're not.
32:19
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, in the record shows, William Paley a couple
32:22
Speaker 3: of times called Edward R. Murrow into the office and
32:24
Speaker 3: yelled at them to drop a certain story. You're right,
32:26
Speaker 3: it's been going on forever.
32:28
Speaker 12: Of course, if you owned a property like a news
32:32
Speaker 12: station or a newspaper or whatever, you have some say.
32:36
Speaker 12: And I mean honestly, this trickles down to kids today
32:40
Speaker 12: who just don't think they have to do it all
32:41
Speaker 12: with their boy Remember when they had to sit in
32:44
Speaker 12: of Apple employees demanding certain things refusing it was actually
32:49
Speaker 12: I think about showing up in the office two or
32:51
Speaker 12: three days a week. They refuse to do it, and
32:53
Speaker 12: then some of them got fired, and it's like, what
32:55
Speaker 12: why should it? You know, there's no sense of accountability. Yeah,
32:58
Speaker 12: I guess what if your boss is your bo, you
33:00
Speaker 12: need to listen to them.
33:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, great stuff. Liz Peak. You can read her
33:04
Speaker 3: columns at a foxnews dot com, but go to her website.
33:06
Speaker 3: There's a lot of good stories up there. Lizpeak dot com,
33:10
Speaker 3: lizpeak dot com, and we'll see on television course and
33:14
Speaker 3: thanks for being with us.
33:16
Speaker 12: Thank you, Mark, Take care right.
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