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- 0:00Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
- 0:05Speaker 1: on 710WOR. Well, hey, I've got a lot to get
- 0:10Speaker 1: to today. UN week, Netanyahu, the Iranian president yesterday, Chinese
- 0:15Speaker 1: President Xi's visit to Washington. That was pretty interesting, that greeting.
- 0:20Speaker 1: That fat slob, Chris Christie, wait till you hear what
- 0:22Speaker 1: he's up to. We'll get to Harvey Weinstein, who... Begged
- 0:27Speaker 1: for mercy yesterday. We'll get to that. We'll get to
- 0:29Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. We'll get to Hochul and Blakeman and more
- 0:33Speaker 1: coming up. It's 54 degrees outside. Boy, that summer, when
- 0:40Speaker 1: it ends, it ends. It's 54 outside. I see overcoats outside.
- 0:46Speaker 1: I see scarves. I see sweaters outside. Now, you know,
- 0:50Speaker 1: when you look at the video of President Trump, he
- 0:53Speaker 1: comes to greet the At the airport, he comes to
- 0:57Speaker 1: greet Chinese President Xi, President Trump wearing a heavy overcoat
- 1:02Speaker 1: and gloves. And that's many, many miles south of us
- 1:07Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C. President Xi's visit to Washington, Andrews Air
- 1:14Speaker 1: Force Base, now called Joint Base Andrews. It's very, very,
- 1:19Speaker 1: very unusual for a president to actually come to the
- 1:22Speaker 1: airplane and wait at the bottom of the steps to
- 1:24Speaker 1: greet somebody. That is highly unusual. Last time it happened
- 1:30Speaker 1: was 1962. John F. Kennedy did it for the British
- 1:34Speaker 1: prime minister. Now actually Barack Obama did it for the Pope,
- 1:39Speaker 1: but for a world leader, that is the ultimate sign
- 1:44Speaker 1: of respect. Now there are a lot of people that
- 1:46Speaker 1: are mad about that. They don't think President Trump should
- 1:49Speaker 1: be showing that kind of courtesy, that kind of respect
- 1:52Speaker 1: to Xi, who is our enemy, our enemy, but that's
- 1:56Speaker 1: the Trump way. No matter how much you hate somebody,
- 1:58Speaker 1: no matter how much of a dispute you're in, you
- 2:01Speaker 1: try to talk to the guy, you try to be
- 2:03Speaker 1: nice to the guy. He does it with Mamdani, and
- 2:05Speaker 1: he does it with President Xi. Now, many are critical
- 2:07Speaker 1: of it, but he does it hoping to make an agreement,
- 2:11Speaker 1: hoping to get something out of him. Now, the problem
- 2:13Speaker 1: with Xi or the Iranians or the Russians, you can
- 2:17Speaker 1: make all the agreements you want, no matter what the
- 2:19Speaker 1: agreement you make, they're not going to stick to it.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Iran never does. China never does. Russia never does. So
- 2:28Speaker 1: it's like thinking socialism is going to work. A billion
- 2:32Speaker 1: times these agreements with Chinese, Iranians, Russians never work. They'll
- 2:37Speaker 1: never stick to them. So I don't know what the
- 2:39Speaker 1: point is, but there's a huge day of activities with
- 2:43Speaker 1: President Xi. It's President Xi Day there. I'm looking at
- 2:46Speaker 1: the schedule. It just goes on and on. At 10 o'clock,
- 2:49Speaker 1: there's a gift exchanging ceremony. I've seen this President Xi.
- 2:54Speaker 1: What the hell would you give this guy? But the President,
- 2:58Speaker 1: he'll give Trump a gift. Trump will give him probably
- 3:00Speaker 1: a box of Trump steaks or something like that. Some
- 3:03Speaker 1: Trump neckties or something like that. One of those Trump
- 3:06Speaker 1: hats or maybe even the Trump golf shirt. And then
- 3:11Speaker 1: they go to all sorts of meetings throughout the day.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Then tonight there's a big state dinner. All the tech CEOs,
- 3:18Speaker 1: the Zuckerberg types, Apple CEO and And all the AI
- 3:23Speaker 1: CEOs have been invited to this state dinner with President
- 3:29Speaker 1: Xi and Madam Ping. And that'll be tonight. So that'll
- 3:33Speaker 1: take up most of the day here in New York.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Big day. At the UN, it's Netanyahu Day. Benjamin Netanyahu
- 3:41Speaker 1: will speak. He stayed in New York last night without
- 3:45Speaker 1: incident as far as crazy protesters or anything like that.
- 3:48Speaker 1: But he will speak today. It should be a fiery
- 3:51Speaker 1: and dramatic speech. as he takes on the UN, as
- 3:55Speaker 1: he takes on all the people that are trying to
- 3:58Speaker 1: wipe out Israel, as he takes on Mamdani and all
- 4:01Speaker 1: the anti-Semites all over the place. So this will be
- 4:04Speaker 1: some speech today. Yesterday, it was the Iranian president who
- 4:08Speaker 1: tried to tell us all off.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Yesterday, the United States president described us as terrorists.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Yes.
- 4:16Speaker 2: We have been the victims of terrorism.
- 4:18Speaker 1: No, you haven't. You've been the world sponsor of terrorism.
- 4:22Speaker 1: You've sponsored the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, every terrorist organization in
- 4:25Speaker 1: the world.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Palestine remains an open wound on the conscience of the
- 4:30Speaker 2: international community, and Gaza remains.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Nobody knows what the hell this guy is saying, but
- 4:35Speaker 1: he looked terrified. He looked panicked. This guy's got to
- 4:40Speaker 1: worry that when he gets back to Iran, they don't
- 4:42Speaker 1: kill him and execute him. One wrong word, one wrong move,
- 4:45Speaker 1: and he's executed. He's the president of Iran, but you
- 4:48Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be his life insurance company. But he
- 4:51Speaker 1: went on and on.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress. For
- 4:57Speaker 2: our sick people is cure and treatment. For the agricultural
- 5:02Speaker 2: sector is food security. For industry is advancement and progress
- 5:07Speaker 2: and supply of electrical energy.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the Iranian method. You just out and out lie.
- 5:12Speaker 1: We have nuclear for peaceful commercial purposes. Well, see, the
- 5:16Speaker 1: problem is that sort of uranium, you would enrich it
- 5:20Speaker 1: to 20% to use for commercial and peaceful purposes. It's
- 5:24Speaker 1: enriched to 20%. 90% is nuclear weapon. Well, they kept
- 5:31Speaker 1: enriching more and more. They had it up to 60%. 60%,
- 5:36Speaker 1: which meant they were two weeks away from 90%. and
- 5:39Speaker 1: having a nuclear weapon. That's when we attacked, when they
- 5:42Speaker 1: hit 60% and climbing. That meant only two weeks till
- 5:45Speaker 1: they had a nuclear weapon. So that's what they did,
- 5:48Speaker 1: just lie and lie and lie.
- 5:50Speaker 2: They came into surrounding territories and targeted our universities, our
- 5:57Speaker 2: healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructures, all of
- 6:03Speaker 2: it against international law.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Well, that's just terrible. Our old friend Mike Wallace would say,
- 6:09Speaker 1: That story does not have the added benefit of being true,
- 6:13Speaker 1: but it's quite a story. So he just went on
- 6:16Speaker 1: and on, lying and lying. The U.S. representative got up
- 6:19Speaker 1: and walked out in the middle of this.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Those who are ill, innocent people, the poor, the least
- 6:24Speaker 2: privileged in our society are the targets of these sanctions.
- 6:27Speaker 2: And this is what the United States seeks to do.
- 6:30Speaker 1: So he went on and on. Nobody was buying it.
- 6:33Speaker 1: And remember, the president lashing out at Iran in his speech.
- 6:37Speaker 1: And this is unheard of. Four times during the president's
- 6:40Speaker 1: speech got applause from the U.N. General Assembly. Never happens.
- 6:43Speaker 1: They actually burst out in applause four times during his speech.
- 6:47Speaker 1: This guy, they just looked at him half asleep, all
- 6:51Speaker 1: comatose listening to this speech. So he's gone. We'll see
- 6:56Speaker 1: if he's alive a week from now. President Xi, when
- 7:00Speaker 1: he landed, as they say, the president was there to
- 7:02Speaker 1: greet him. President Xi came down the stairs and they
- 7:05Speaker 1: stood there. And there were a lot of military there,
- 7:07Speaker 1: so they saluted the military. And then President Trump pulled
- 7:11Speaker 1: this trick he pulled on Putin. Just as they're standing there,
- 7:15Speaker 1: a military flyover, our most ferocious warplanes fly over, making
- 7:20Speaker 1: an unbelievable amount of noise. F-16s, B-52s, stealth bombers, they
- 7:25Speaker 1: just do a flyover right over their heads. It's quite
- 7:28Speaker 1: an intimidating and frightening moment. Remember when it happened with
- 7:32Speaker 1: Putin and he ducked? He didn't know what the hell
- 7:33Speaker 1: was going on. Well, when they did it to Sheik,
- 7:37Speaker 1: He didn't flinch. He didn't bat an eye. Why? Because
- 7:41Speaker 1: they warned him. This trick only works once. The Chinese
- 7:45Speaker 1: warned him that Trump might pull this stuff. So he
- 7:48Speaker 1: was ready for it and just stood there frozen. Didn't move.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Didn't flinch. Didn't even blink. That's pretty interesting. So, hey,
- 7:58Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein. That was rough. That was rough. Apparently he
- 8:02Speaker 1: was going to get sentenced yesterday in another rape case.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Which rape was this? I don't know. We can't keep
- 8:07Speaker 1: track of all of them. But apparently he begged for
- 8:11Speaker 1: mercy in the courtroom. He groveled for mercy, it says,
- 8:14Speaker 1: during his sentencing. Begging for mercy. The prosecutor would hear
- 8:19Speaker 1: none of it. The judge would hear none of it.
- 8:22Speaker 1: And apparently they found a little scheme where he paid
- 8:25Speaker 1: a podcaster $ 1. 75 million, almost $ 2 million, to instill fear
- 8:32Speaker 1: in his victim's. Weinstein looked decrepit. He's only 74, but
- 8:36Speaker 1: he looked 94. He had just remained frozen as they
- 8:41Speaker 1: sentenced him to 15 years behind bars. He's already behind
- 8:45Speaker 1: bars for years, but the judge really went after him,
- 8:49Speaker 1: calling him a sexual predator, took advantage of his insatiable
- 8:53Speaker 1: appetite for sexual dominance. I have no remorse for, oh,
- 8:59Speaker 1: Weinstein said, I have no remorse for Miriam Haley who
- 9:04Speaker 1: was rolled into court in a wheelchair. I guess Weinstein
- 9:08Speaker 1: came in in a wheelchair, but he had no remorse
- 9:09Speaker 1: for the victims. Turned out he had hired private investigators
- 9:13Speaker 1: to track her after she came forward to look for
- 9:15Speaker 1: dirt on her. Well, that's not unusual. You hire any
- 9:18Speaker 1: top criminal lawyer, first thing they do is put a
- 9:21Speaker 1: lot of private eyes on the case, investigate the accuser,
- 9:24Speaker 1: see if they can find any dirt to discredit her.
- 9:26Speaker 1: That's not nice, but that happens in every major criminal case.
- 9:32Speaker 1: But the judge really went after him. Alvin Bragg, ooh,
- 9:35Speaker 1: he was a press conference, how glad he was to
- 9:37Speaker 1: put this guy. Nobody said to him, hey, this is
- 9:40Speaker 1: the first time you put anybody in jail. How come
- 9:42Speaker 1: you don't put criminals in jail? I mean, this guy's
- 9:44Speaker 1: a bad guy, Harvey Weinstein, but why don't you put
- 9:47Speaker 1: some other criminals in jail? He's so busy letting everybody out. Remember,
- 9:52Speaker 1: he wrote that memo the first day in office. We
- 9:54Speaker 1: will not seek carceral sentences. In other words, don't put
- 9:59Speaker 1: anybody in jail. This guy, at least this guy he
- 10:01Speaker 1: puts in jail, but it's the only case. Gloria Allred,
- 10:05Speaker 1: remember her from 20 years ago? 30 years ago, remember her?
- 10:10Speaker 1: Gloria Allred, tabloid attorney. There she was all over this thing.
- 10:14Speaker 2: He says, although you no longer pose a physical threat,
- 10:19Speaker 2: you are.
- 10:19Speaker 3: A sexual predator. So I think that's among the most
- 10:23Speaker 3: important things that the judge said.
- 10:25Speaker 1: How much quieter slowed down that Gloria Allred. Remember, she
- 10:27Speaker 1: used to be yelling and screaming all the time. Well,
- 10:30Speaker 1: so I knew Harvey Weinstein. He was an aggravating guy
- 10:35Speaker 1: to be around. I mean, just you'd run into this guy.
- 10:39Speaker 1: You'd see him at a party or something. You start
- 10:41Speaker 1: talking to him. Next thing he's screaming at you about
- 10:43Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton is great. I mean, I always tell people,
- 10:46Speaker 1: don't talk about politics. And I would never talk about it.
- 10:49Speaker 1: He'd bring it up, start yelling at me about how
- 10:51Speaker 1: great the Clintons were. Hey, by the way, I saw
- 10:53Speaker 1: Bill Clinton yesterday. He didn't look so good. Very, very frail.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Walking very slow with some guys helping him. It didn't
- 11:03Speaker 1: look good. Now, the reason he's here, anytime they have
- 11:06Speaker 1: this UN week, the Clintons run their Clinton Global Initiative
- 11:11Speaker 1: at the New York Hilton. And they charge... starstruck donors,
- 11:16Speaker 1: a fortune to come to this. It's basically a money-making
- 11:20Speaker 1: operation for the Clintons. They take in millions with this
- 11:23Speaker 1: Clinton Global Initiative, and they claim that they're doing humanitarian
- 11:27Speaker 1: work all over the world. But if you dig into
- 11:29Speaker 1: the finances and look through their tax forms, most of
- 11:32Speaker 1: the money does not get to this humanitarian work. It's
- 11:36Speaker 1: a way to make a lot of money. Now, they
- 11:38Speaker 1: need celebrities. There are notables. Because these big, big money
- 11:41Speaker 1: donors are more starstruck than anybody. You can get them
- 11:44Speaker 1: to pay half a million to come to your thing.
- 11:47Speaker 1: If they can take pictures with famous people. But I
- 11:50Speaker 1: think they're having trouble getting famous people or big notable
- 11:54Speaker 1: political figures to this event anymore. Because the big speaker
- 11:58Speaker 1: yesterday was Prince Harry. They flew in Prince Harry. Or
- 12:04Speaker 1: whatever he is. I don't know if he's even a
- 12:05Speaker 1: prince anymore. He's a guy with nothing to do. Prince Harry.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Managed to fit this into his busy schedule and come
- 12:14Speaker 1: over here. And there he was, made a little speech,
- 12:16Speaker 1: took pictures with everybody. I'm sure they paid him a
- 12:19Speaker 1: nice bit of money to come do that. So, hey,
- 12:24Speaker 1: you know who wants to run 2028? Well, I don't
- 12:28Speaker 1: think he's capable of running. He wants to walk, I guess.
- 12:30Speaker 1: It's Chris Christie. Yeah, that big fat slob is back.
- 12:35Speaker 1: He's back. 2028. 2028. Boy, this is a dumb time
- 12:39Speaker 1: to run. This is the one time the Republicans have
- 12:41Speaker 1: a hell of a bench. They got J.D. Vance. They
- 12:45Speaker 1: got Marco Rubio. They got Scott Besant. They got a
- 12:48Speaker 1: big bench. This is a tough field to run against,
- 12:51Speaker 1: especially if you're a New Jersey governor who left in disgrace,
- 12:54Speaker 1: who hasn't worked in 10 years or whatever. It's kind
- 12:57Speaker 1: of a tough, this will be tough. But there's Chris Christie,
- 13:01Speaker 1: and he's pretty open about wanting to run.
- 13:03Speaker 4: Am I looking at it? Look, anybody who comes up
- 13:07Speaker 4: here Anybody who comes up here and has ever run
- 13:12Speaker 4: for president and not won and told you they're not
- 13:17Speaker 4: looking at it again is lying.
- 13:19Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Now, there he was in New Hampshire. Now, a guy
- 13:23Speaker 1: like Chris Christie, Mr. New Jersey, never goes to New
- 13:26Speaker 1: Hampshire unless he's running. It's not a type of place
- 13:29Speaker 1: he would go. Chris Christie's not going there for a vacation.
- 13:32Speaker 1: So he's there. He's running. I love this state and
- 13:34Speaker 1: I love the people here.
- 13:36Speaker 4: And if I decide to run, this will be a
- 13:39Speaker 4: place where I'll be spending a lot of time.
- 13:40Speaker 1: Okay. Definitely, absolutely no chance of anything. Now, why is
- 13:47Speaker 1: he doing this? He knows he has no chance. Why
- 13:49Speaker 1: is he doing this? I think he's looking for a job.
- 13:52Speaker 1: I don't think he's had one in a while. A
- 13:55Speaker 1: guy like this, he could be on the board of
- 13:57Speaker 1: big companies, get paid a lot of money. He could
- 13:59Speaker 1: put you on the masthead of a law firm, pay
- 14:03Speaker 1: a lot of money to look important for the law
- 14:05Speaker 1: firm and bring in clients, that kind of stuff. So
- 14:08Speaker 1: if you look like you might be a president or
- 14:10Speaker 1: you might be a top presidential contender, that can get
- 14:13Speaker 1: you some work in corporate America where the real money is.
- 14:17Speaker 1: So that might be what this is all about. Or
- 14:19Speaker 1: maybe his TV contract is up and he needs to
- 14:23Speaker 1: get renewed. Thought he'd have a hell of a TV career.
- 14:26Speaker 1: He really doesn't. He's on that ABC Sunday show once
- 14:30Speaker 1: or twice a month. They put him on the panel
- 14:32Speaker 1: on that ABC Sunday show. It's not a big thing anymore.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Those Sunday shows is like $ 1 million. 1.3 million viewers,
- 14:40Speaker 1: that's it. And they don't pay a lot of money
- 14:42Speaker 1: to be on the panel once or twice a month.
- 14:44Speaker 1: So he's probably looking for more of a TV career.
- 14:48Speaker 1: It's one reason. It's like that awful Nikki Haley. That's
- 14:50Speaker 1: why she would run. Just looking to get on corporate
- 14:53Speaker 1: boards or get a corporate job or a TV job.
- 14:56Speaker 1: So I think that's what he's really up to. Hey,
- 14:59Speaker 1: the very sad story of Sully Sullenberger, the unbelievably skilled
- 15:04Speaker 1: pilot who landed that plane in the Hudson River. Remember
- 15:09Speaker 1: that landing in the Hudson River so many years ago?
- 15:12Speaker 1: Bird strike. Took out both engines. There he is, up
- 15:16Speaker 1: over New York City in a big jet plane with
- 15:18Speaker 1: both engines out. No power, no engines. And what do
- 15:23Speaker 1: you do? Now, luckily, this guy, like a lot of pilots,
- 15:28Speaker 1: had been a military pilot in Vietnam. So those are
- 15:34Speaker 1: usually very skilled guys. And this is the luckiest thing ever.
- 15:37Speaker 1: He had also trained As a glider pilot, he was
- 15:41Speaker 1: an expert in flying gliders, which meant he knew how
- 15:45Speaker 1: to fly, knows how to fly without engines. Because when
- 15:49Speaker 1: he had to do that landing, first of all, he
- 15:50Speaker 1: had to know where to land. And he knew the
- 15:53Speaker 1: Hudson River would be the place. And they kept telling him,
- 15:55Speaker 1: go north of the George Washington Bridge because there's more
- 15:59Speaker 1: room there. But he knew to go south because south
- 16:03Speaker 1: of the bridge is New York City and in the
- 16:06Speaker 1: middle of everything. And he knew the plane might not
- 16:09Speaker 1: stay afloat that long once it hit the water. And
- 16:12Speaker 1: you wanted to be wherever you were closest to the
- 16:15Speaker 1: rescue boats, NYPD rescue boats, New Jersey rescue boats. He
- 16:18Speaker 1: knew if he landed south of the George Washington Bridge,
- 16:21Speaker 1: there'd be a ton of boats there in a second
- 16:23Speaker 1: to rescue everybody. And he was right. And it's not
- 16:27Speaker 1: easy to land a plane with no power and no engines.
- 16:30Speaker 1: You got to keep the wings exactly level in the
- 16:34Speaker 1: right way. so that when you hit, you don't smash
- 16:36Speaker 1: the plane. And he knew how to do it. Now
- 16:39Speaker 1: he has Alzheimer's. He's been diagnosed. He's talking about it openly.
- 16:44Speaker 3: An early diagnosis is so critically important. If you have doubts,
- 16:49Speaker 3: get tested. Because the sooner you act, the more options
- 16:53Speaker 3: there are, the better the outcome is.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Likely to be. Yeah, great hero, very sad story.
- 16:58Speaker 3: One of the first things I noticed was it was
- 17:00Speaker 3: harder and harder to remember people's names, even people we knew.
- 17:03Speaker 3: And that's still an issue. Just forgetting things that I
- 17:05Speaker 3: normally wouldn't or repeating myself, not realizing I just said
- 17:10Speaker 3: that an hour ago. And then having to look at
- 17:13Speaker 3: my calendar every day to keep track of all the
- 17:16Speaker 3: events that I had. We felt all those emotions and
- 17:19Speaker 3: the shock, the anger.
- 17:23Speaker 1: Why me?
- 17:24Speaker 3: We're not by any means alone. We're part of this
- 17:27Speaker 3: community who are trying to make the best of a
- 17:30Speaker 3: bad situation.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the big lesson there, get tested. Very important.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Get tested. Joe Biden, you listening? Get tested. Get tested. Hey,
- 17:43Speaker 1: we got a lot to get to. Are the phones fixed? Yeah,
- 17:45Speaker 1: the phones are fixed. We can actually take phone calls later.
- 17:48Speaker 1: They were out all day yesterday. It wasn't our fault.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Turns out it was an AT & T outage affecting
- 17:54Speaker 1: many buildings. But we'll get to that. We'll get back
- 17:58Speaker 1: to UN week. I'll tell you when it's all going
- 18:00Speaker 1: to be over. We'll get to Blakeman and Hochul and
- 18:02Speaker 1: a lot more coming up. Mark Simone here. Three hours
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