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Hour 2: Diddy is living the high life in prison. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simons on WOR. Well, wait a minute. Hour number two,
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  Speaker 1: if you just joined us, we start at nine o'clock
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  Speaker 1: every day now. That's right, the show's three hours now,
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  Speaker 1: nine to noon every day here on 710 WOR. So
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  Speaker 1: that disgusting, creepy, bug-eyed, weirdo, dirty Jack Smith on hearings yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: They went after him. Everybody taking shots at him. He
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  Speaker 1: opens with a ridiculous statement about how he's nonpartisan. He
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  Speaker 1: does not have nothing to do with Trump. There is politics.
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  Speaker 1: This is like these statements Iran puts out. We have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with terrorism. We've never supported terrorism. We
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  Speaker 1: never wanted a nuclear weapon. Same thing as Iran. Same
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  Speaker 1: kind of credibility. So this is Hawley going after him.
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  Speaker 2: I've been watching this whole hearing.
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  Speaker 3: I've watched everything you said. I noticed that you began
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  Speaker 3: by saying, I have no partisan loyalty and you repeated
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  Speaker 3: over and over and over, there's nothing in your investigation
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  Speaker 3: about politics.
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  Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, your investigation was all about politics. You twice
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  Speaker 3: indicted a presidential candidate, the leading presidential candidate and a
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  Speaker 3: former president of the United States, during a presidential election
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  Speaker 3: against all Justice Department policy, against all Justice Department history,
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  Speaker 3: something never before seen or contemplated in 250 years of
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  Speaker 3: this country's history. You did it anyway, all for the
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  Speaker 3: purpose of keeping Donald Trump off the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: Everything he did. was totally against all policy. It was
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  Speaker 1: totally unethical, immoral. It was disgusting trying to stop this guy.
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  Speaker 1: So they got him on a thousand things in the
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  Speaker 1: hearings yesterday. They caught him in a million deceptions, refusing
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  Speaker 1: to answer, all kinds of terrible things. Now, there was
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  Speaker 1: one moment where the Republican senator is going to accuse
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  Speaker 1: him of having gone to a basketball game with Fonny Willis,
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  Speaker 1: that other dirty prosecutor. And if you're watching CNN or
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC or any of the left-wing stuff. This is what
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  Speaker 1: they leaped on because the senator had it all wrong.
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  Speaker 1: His accusation was 100% false. He had somehow, whoever came
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  Speaker 1: up with this got it all mixed up. The accusation
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  Speaker 1: was he was at a Hawks game with Fannie Willis. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out he was at a basketball game, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a Hawkeyes game and it wasn't in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: It was in Maryland. So the guy had it all wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The accusation was all wrong. Terrible, embarrassing moment for this
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  Speaker 1: guy But it had nothing to do with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the hearings. 99% of the hearings were dirt coming
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  Speaker 1: out about Jack Smith. If you're watching CNN or MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: or any fake news, you never heard about it. They
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  Speaker 1: never mentioned it. All they showed you was the one
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  Speaker 1: time the Republicans went after him, they were wrong. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're one of those left-wing channel viewers, you come
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  Speaker 1: away with a totally false impression. They never showed you
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  Speaker 1: all the 9,000 clips of him getting caught in one
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  Speaker 1: problem after another. This was that moment. This is Eric Schmidt.
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  Speaker 4: Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden
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  Speaker 4: State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks on February 3rd, 2024?
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  Speaker 2: What city would that be in?
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  Speaker 5: Atlanta.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So your testimony today is that you did not go
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  Speaker 4: to a Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 7: I have no recollection of that.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Is it your testimony that you were not in Atlanta
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  Speaker 4: on February 3rd, 2024?
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  Speaker 1: Let me just give you a little context.
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  Speaker 4: The day before Fannie Willis came clean with her affair
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  Speaker 4: with the prosecutor, you know the Atlanta prosecutor that was
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  Speaker 4: also trying to get Trump? The next day, were you
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  Speaker 4: in Atlanta?
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  Speaker 7: I do not believe so.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy is building it up, building it up
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  Speaker 1: so dramatic. Ooh, he's caught him in a big one. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out this senator is all wrong. The guy
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  Speaker 1: was never at a game.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever meet Nathan Wade or Fannie Willis in
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  Speaker 4: your time at special counsel?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: What would you say if I had a series of
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  Speaker 4: text messages from your team that said you were in
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  Speaker 4: Atlanta at a Warrior Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024,
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  Speaker 4: the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair? I
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  Speaker 4: don't think you know that we have this stuff. So
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you a second to process it so you don't,
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  Speaker 4: you know, perjure yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's so dramatic. Now it turns out this guy's
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  Speaker 1: got it. I don't know where he got this story.
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  Speaker 1: It's all wrong. And it turns out in a terrible moment. But,
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  Speaker 1: but as I say, 99% of the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: day was, Awful, terrible, disgusting stuff on Jack Smith. And again,
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  Speaker 1: the left-wing networks never reported it. They make it look
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  Speaker 1: like this is all that happened. But Smith finally figured
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  Speaker 1: it out, Jack Smith, that they had the wrong game
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  Speaker 1: the wrong day.
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  Speaker 2: If this is the correct.
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  Speaker 7: Basketball game, I recall going to a University of Maryland
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  Speaker 7: basketball game where Caitlin Clark was playing right around that time.
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  Speaker 7: and the Marshal Service was there with me. You could
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  Speaker 7: check if that was the exact date. It was Maryland
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  Speaker 7: playing Iowa, I think, February of 2024.
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  Speaker 2: But again, you could.
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  Speaker 7: Check that out if that's what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Is it the Hawkeyes?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Could it then be that University of Iowa is the Hawkeyes?
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  Speaker 2: Could that be it? And maybe before we show this
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the senator got it all wrong and embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: moment for him but nothing to do with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the hearing so again if you watched nbc nightly
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  Speaker 1: news or abc night all they showed you was this
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  Speaker 1: guy making this huge mistake they forgot to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that the rest of the day jack smith was caught
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  Speaker 1: in one piece of crap after another and he looked
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  Speaker 1: horrible and who knows there could be criminal referrals coming
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  Speaker 1: out of this against jack but they never told you
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  Speaker 1: about any of that so hey this lindsey clancy lawyer
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  Speaker 1: This old lawyer, this old country, looks like some old
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  Speaker 1: country lawyer. It's actually Massachusetts. But the whole hearing was
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer admitting that she killed her kids. Of course
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  Speaker 1: she killed her kids. That's obvious. But the whole first
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  Speaker 1: trial was him explaining why. It was about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she was traumatized. They had her on all kinds of medications.
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  Speaker 1: They did so much psychological damage to her. So that
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  Speaker 1: was the whole hearing. The whole trial. So it looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's been negotiating to get the whole thing dropped.
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  Speaker 1: He's been trying to plea bargain. He doesn't want a
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  Speaker 1: second trial. He's been trying to negotiate no second trial. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like he's been unsuccessful. It looks like there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a second trial. So now he's changing
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  Speaker 1: the whole case completely. Now he's arguing that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: prove anything, that there's no DNA. There's no evidence. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how on earth he thinks he's going to
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  Speaker 1: get away with that. They can just read the transcript
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  Speaker 1: from the first trial. where he admits she did it.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know what this guy is thinking.
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  Speaker 8: It was not even a horrendous investigation. There was no investigation.
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  Speaker 8: This entire case is based on speculation. Where is the admission?
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  Speaker 8: Where does she say that she did this? And what's
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  Speaker 8: most chilling is the fact that when she comes out
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  Speaker 8: of this obvious coma that she is in, That when
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  Speaker 8: she comes out of it, Your Honor heard the testimony
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  Speaker 8: from the psychiatrist and from the doctors at Brigham and
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  Speaker 8: Women's Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: She was told what happened. She had no memory of
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  Speaker 2: what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got to give this guy credit. To have
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  Speaker 1: this kind of nerve to pull this crap. The whole
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  Speaker 1: trial you admitted she did it. This is like pathological
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  Speaker 1: chutzpah from... from this guy. Unbelievable. So it looks like
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  Speaker 1: there will be a second trial, which is good for us.
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  Speaker 1: We have plenty to talk about. But this old codger here,
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  Speaker 1: this is the end of his career. He's about 75.
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  Speaker 1: Not a very distinguished legal career, not a lot of victories.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a big, big, big note for him
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  Speaker 1: to go out on. That's why he's playing this up. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this crazy mom, Donnie, is now battling anti-Semitism. He's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest anti-Semite on earth. He's allowed anti-Semitism to spread. More
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  Speaker 1: than allowing it, he's encouraged it. He's the absolute worst
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to anti-Semitism, but now he's pretending that
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna fight it. And he's, listen to this guy.
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  Speaker 9: Anti-Semitism is real and it is growing. Here in New
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  Speaker 9: York City, while our Jewish neighbors make up only 12%
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  Speaker 9: of the population, NYPD statistics show that anti-Semitic hate crimes
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  Speaker 9: account for more than half of all confirmed hate crimes.
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  Speaker 9: This is not only unacceptable, it's something we all have
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  Speaker 9: an obligation to change.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. He's a man of principle. Or not,
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  Speaker 1: depending on what the situation calls for. Depending on what
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  Speaker 1: the TikTok video is going to be. But give him
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  Speaker 1: credit for being able to put on that voice. All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden he's... Anti-Semitism is very real. All of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden he's very concerned about it.
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  Speaker 5: After.
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  Speaker 1: After being the most anti-Semitic guy in the world and
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  Speaker 1: encouraging and pushing it.
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  Speaker 9: Jewish New Yorkers should feel cherished and celebrated in the
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  Speaker 9: most Jewish city in America. That's why we are investing
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  Speaker 9: millions in Jewish cultural centers and nonprofits.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you got to give him credit for the nerve
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  Speaker 1: of this guy to try to pull this crap on us.
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  Speaker 1: So his pied-à-terre tax, which is about the, it's more
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  Speaker 1: hocal than him. And actually, it's Cuomo. You know, all
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  Speaker 1: the bad stuff Cuomo did to New York, the no bail,
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  Speaker 1: the no jail, it's an endless list. of horrible, horrible
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  Speaker 1: things Cuomo did to New York. One of them is
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  Speaker 1: this Pierre de Terratax. He was the first guy I
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  Speaker 1: remember pushing this publicly, talking about a Pierre de Terratax.
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  Speaker 1: So it's Kathy Hochul and Mamdani. They love to tax
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  Speaker 1: you to death. Any way they can tax you, anything
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  Speaker 1: they can tax. But the pied-a-terre tax hit a big snag.
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  Speaker 1: A judge ruled against it. He didn't rule against the
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  Speaker 1: tax itself. He didn't say it was wrong. But he
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  Speaker 1: said the rollout was wrong. The way they did it
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. Basically, they sent out 17,000 letters to people.
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  Speaker 1: And many of them didn't have a pied-a-terre tax. It
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  Speaker 1: was the home they live in. I think even the
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  Speaker 1: Staten Island borough president, Vito Fasella, got one. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was his father's house. His father lives there. His
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  Speaker 1: father's never lived anywhere else. Never had another house. He
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  Speaker 1: gets one of these letters that he's a pied-a-terre. So
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  Speaker 1: 17,000 notices were sent out, and most of them false,
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  Speaker 1: most of them wrong. But they were sent to residents,
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  Speaker 1: and it was up to them, the resident, to try
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  Speaker 1: to prove that the government was wrong. Well, and this
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  Speaker 1: is the right decision. The judge ruled that's absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 1: The burden is not on the homeowner. The burden is
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  Speaker 1: on the government to prove their case. And the government
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  Speaker 1: has access to everything. Tax records, driver's license, everything. They
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  Speaker 1: can see where you live or where you don't live.
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  Speaker 1: So the judge ruled against them. Mamdani appealed the ruling immediately.
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  Speaker 1: The city is pushing for this tax to raise $ 500 million.
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  Speaker 1: There's no reason for that. The budget in New York
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  Speaker 1: City is double what it should be. You could cut
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  Speaker 1: this budget by $ 20 billion without blinking. So there's no
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  Speaker 1: reason for this tax. Now, a lot of... Wealthy guys
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  Speaker 1: are joining in. Steve Wynn has joined in. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a bill for $ 183, 000 for this. And Wilbur Ross, the
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  Speaker 1: former commerce secretary, got a bill for $ 83, 000. So they've
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  Speaker 1: filed their own lawsuits. See, the problem is these are
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  Speaker 1: very wealthy guys. These are billionaires. And a billionaire can
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff. They've got an army of
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  Speaker 1: attorneys working. They got an army of experts. They got
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  Speaker 1: endless money and resources. They can fight you. Even if
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  Speaker 1: you had government, they can fight you. But see, the
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  Speaker 1: problem with these guys, these are retired billionaires. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you're running Amazon, you're pretty busy all day. But these
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  Speaker 1: are retired billionaires. They got nothing to do all day.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing about billionaires, they love a fight, a battle.
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  Speaker 1: They love to work all day. They love a project.
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  Speaker 1: So you get a retired guy who's had nothing to do,
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  Speaker 1: who's sitting in Palm Beach, They're going to the same
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  Speaker 1: dinner parties with the same crowd. He loves this. He
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  Speaker 1: comes to life with this kind of battle. So Mamdani's
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  Speaker 1: going to have a problem. These guys are going to really,
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  Speaker 1: really go after Mamdani. And it's a good thing. So, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. Now, the campaign is in the final month,
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  Speaker 1: but it's going to turn to taxes. Hochul's a big
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  Speaker 1: tax hiker. She believes in high taxes. She believes in
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  Speaker 1: taxing everything. Blakeman has put out a tax plan that
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  Speaker 1: everybody says is phenomenal. Absolutely brilliant. He wants to slash
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  Speaker 1: taxes in New York by $ 35 billion. That's right, $ 35 billion.
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  Speaker 1: We're overtaxed like crazy. It's about $ 7, 000 for the average family.
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  Speaker 1: So under his tax plan, the average family will get
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  Speaker 1: a $ 7, 000 tax savings. Low-income taxpayers would benefit the most.
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  Speaker 1: Plan calls for eliminating all taxes. If you make under $ 50, 000,
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  Speaker 1: no taxes. If you're a married couple, And you're below $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 1: No taxes at all. So that means the average couple
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  Speaker 1: in 45 of the 62 counties would pay no tax.
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  Speaker 1: So on top of that, he wants to cut property tax.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to lower utility bills, cut them in half.
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo raised your utility bills when he closed Indian Point
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  Speaker 1: and banned fracking. And Hochul continued this policy. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant tax plan. Now, he's got to get this
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  Speaker 1: out there. There's going to be one debate, but he's
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  Speaker 1: got to really get this out there, and that'll make
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  Speaker 1: a big difference. Anyway, we'll talk more about that. We'll
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  Speaker 1: take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 5: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekday. Smart Simone. Only on 710WOR. Hey, well,
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  Speaker 1: during this break, we had two of our top engineers
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  Speaker 1: working on the phones. Well, let's see. Let's see if
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  Speaker 1: this was successful. First, I'll try the old-fashioned way. Jim
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'll try the new way. Let's see if
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  Speaker 1: this works. No. Let's try Rob.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why it doesn't work now. You guys
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  Speaker 1: will have to pick it up in there. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Jim in New Jersey. Jim, how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Two quick points. I think two of the best Yankee
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  Speaker 6: announcers are still alive. They're in their 90s. One would
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  Speaker 6: be Bill White, and the other is Tony Kubik.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Kubik is still alive?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he is. Early 90s. Mark, I got a little confused.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned Manalapan. You know there is a Manalapan in
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  Speaker 6: New Jersey, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the good one.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know what the New Jersey one is famous for?
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  Speaker 1: I hate to ask.
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  Speaker 6: That's where the largest battle of the American Revolution was there,
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  Speaker 6: the Battle of Monmouth. Molly Pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we like Manalapan in New Jersey, but there's a
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  Speaker 1: Manalapan right below Palm Beach. It's very, very hot right now,
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  Speaker 1: real estate-wise. All right. Thanks for calling. Hey, you know
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  Speaker 1: who I saw last night? Uncle Junior. Dominic Chianese. He's
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  Speaker 1: got to be like 95. He was out having dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Very good shape. Let's go to... Oh, hey, I got
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  Speaker 1: it that time. Let's go to Bob in Long Island. Bob,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Bob.
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  Speaker 1: Go Buchanan.
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  Speaker 2: Go Buchanan.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the Buchanan guy. All right. Here's the problem. I
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  Speaker 1: can't hang up. That's the problem. The hang up button
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. Can you get rid of Bob in there?
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to get our phones working. Let's try Ralph
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan. Ralph, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: You know, Mark, if Hochul wins again, you know that
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  Speaker 5: New York is through. I mean, Blakeman just proposed something
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  Speaker 5: so brilliant and so great for New York. If they
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  Speaker 5: turn around and reject him, it's all over, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you. It's bad if
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  Speaker 1: she wins, but it's not all over.
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  Speaker 2: It's not through.
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  Speaker 1: Everything will be fine. We've survived everything. Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 5: I get what you mean. I'm a little I'm a
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  Speaker 5: little drastic, but it's unbelievable how they keep voting for
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  Speaker 5: people that have no clue whatsoever. I mean, she was
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  Speaker 5: the you know, the the carry the water for our
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  Speaker 5: friend Cuomo back in the old days. And she she
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  Speaker 5: surged to such high levels as such a. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand why people can ever even praise her
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  Speaker 5: in any way.
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  Speaker 2: Shape, or form.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can explain it, but thanks for calling. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the problem is most people don't get any real news.
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  Speaker 1: They'll read the New York Times. They'll watch MSNBC. So
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  Speaker 1: they never hear all the bad stuff that these people do.
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  Speaker 1: They'll never hear the real story about anything. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo did so much damage to us with the no bail,
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  Speaker 1: no jail, with the closing Indian point, with the, closing
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  Speaker 1: of prisons, letting all the prisoners out. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can go on and on. But one of them, don't
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  Speaker 1: forget one of them, he's the guy that picked Kathy Hochul.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: He's the guy that chose Kathy Hochul for us. Let's
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: see if I can try this one. No, it doesn't work.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: You've got to do it. Rob in Franklin Square. Rob,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: Hi, Mark. You know, you can blame the judges on this.
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: That should be summarily dismissed, what they didn't prove the
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: case with the, you know, it's so stupid with the
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: old coots thing. But can I mention something about Comics Unleashed?
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Comics Unleashed. Very good show. Byron Allen.
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: I deviated. You know, over the 20 years, but they
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: only did four seasons, though.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: No, no. 2006. They've done tons of seasons. They do
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: take some time.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Let's get this guy off the air. We can't broadcast
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: false information. They've done plenty of seasons. Comics Unleashed. It's
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: a very good show. It's on CBS every night now
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: at 1130. on CBS. It replaced Colbert and it's doing
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: much better than Colbert. In fact, in the most important thing,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: which is the 18 to 49 demo, it is wiping
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: out Kimmel and Fallon. It's pretty amazing. Comics Unleashed. What's today? Wednesday. Uh,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: in fact, tomorrow night, my friend Dave Koenig is on
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a very good comedian. He'll be on Comics Unleashed, uh,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Take a look at it. In fact, it's
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: doing so well that, uh, CBS is going to do
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a primetime special, an hour of Comics Unleashed. This is
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Byron Allen, the comedian who became a producer, a businessman,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: went from comedian to making himself a billion dollars. He's
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: a billionaire. I can't think of any other, maybe Cosby,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: comedian that became a billionaire. Oh, Seinfeld, but it's very,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: very few. It's a short list. So the thing about
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Comics Unleashed, there's no political jokes of any kind and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: no topical jokes. So they could take a show from
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: five years ago to 15 years ago and run it today.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: They're as fresh as can be. They're in syndication all
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: over the place. Hey, when we come back, we'll take
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a look at the midterms. It's only 34 days away.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: It's like one month till the midterms. What can Republicans do?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Where does it really stand? We'll talk to the dean himself,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the great political analyst, Ed Rollins. We'll talk to him
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: next time. 710 WOR. Mark Simone here. Three hours every day.
• 20:11
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• 20:14
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• 20:17
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• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Well, let's
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: talk to the dean himself. Ed Rollins has been in
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of White Houses. He's run a lot of campaigns.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: He's run some of the most successful campaigns in history,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and he's with us now. Ed Rollins, how you doing?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark. How are you?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Very good. 34 days until the midterms. What do you think?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: How does it look to you?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: It doesn't look good. I mean, being perfectly honest, I
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: would bet the house is gone and the people that
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: watch these things closely are betting heavily on that. But
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the question is, is it by 10 votes or is
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: it by 10? 25 votes, the difference. And that's a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: big difference. The thing that I think none of us
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: anticipated a couple months ago is incentives in play now.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: And if for some reason the president's party loses the Senate,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: then he's got two miserable years ahead. And I think
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the thing that we all were hopeful for is he's
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: got hundreds of millions of dollars sitting in a fund,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: a PAC fund, that we thought was going to be
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: put in these races. And we now see that he's
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: running free campaigns paid for by the government, which is
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: only to antagonize people, and they're not very good ads
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: about himself. And I think to a certain extent, if
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you want to be successful, you've got to go out
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: and convince voters that I need this congressman, I need
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: this senator, I need them desperately to finish my agenda
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: in the last two years, and I don't see that
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: happening at this point in time.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Now, nobody's a better fighter, battler than Donald Trump. Why
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: has he fallen asleep here on this?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I think he's either getting bad information or he doesn't
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: believe any of this. You know, if you don't believe
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: your pollsters, you don't believe the polls, or if you
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: don't think it matters, you don't care about the House
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and the Senate, then you don't do the right thing.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And the other thing is there's nobody in this administration
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: that can help candidates. If I was running a campaign,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: there's not a single member of this cabinet that I
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: would want to come out, except possibly Rubio, and he
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: can't come out as a secretary of state, and he's
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: got 15 jobs already. uh there's not a single person
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: in this cabinet i mean if i'm if i got
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: problems with the ag community i don't want i don't
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: want secretary rollins to come out and tell me we
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: don't need beef uh because other means of getting protein
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: when the beef market is dying i don't want the
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: energy seconds here to come out and tell me that
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the things are going to be great when oh and
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: diesel fuel is seven eight nine dollars a gallon so
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: you know my sense is in the five weeks we
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: have left here uh Uh, it's late. People are already
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: voting now by absentee ballots in other places. And I
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: think in the next couple of weeks, uh, uh, unless
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: something dramatically happens on the war economy, which I don't anticipate, uh, it's,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be, it's not going to be
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: a good election.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, the economy, you look at the real numbers, the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: economy is in great shape. I know gas is high,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: but the economy is in great shape. But most people
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: are watching the news where they're told every day it's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a disaster, economic disaster. What, what do Republicans do about that?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: The fake news, the bad, uh, gaslighting of the.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Well they should be doing something about that you know
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and instead you know the reality here is you know
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the president's out there talking about uh uh i'm gonna
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: i'm raising warnings about the deep state the warmongers globalist
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: marxist communist and fascist that was joe mccarthy's thing when
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: i was eight years old 50 years ago uh it
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: didn't work then it's not going to work now you
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: got to go out and you got to basically point
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: out these these new democrats who what they're about, and
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: define them before they define us. And I think to
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: a certain extent, those terms, globalist, Marxist, communist, fascist, it's
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: hard to tell anybody what that means. What you can, though,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: is you can take someone like the mayor of New
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: York and you can take someone like some of the
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: other candidates and define what they are. This is what
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: they stand for, and this is what I stand for,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and this is what the Republican Party stands It needs
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: to be saying, I need these Republicans to help me
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: finish the last two years to get the economy moving again,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to basically get my peace plan and all the rest
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: of it. Right now, it's not credible.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: So if Democrats win the House, they'll be impeaching Trump
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: all the time. But if they win the Senate, what
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: does that mean? They could convict him, right, and remove him?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I don't think they'd convict him, and I think it'd
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: be terrible for them to even try it for them.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: What they can do is they can batter him, they
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: can block everything, they can basically— control of money. The
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: truth of the matter is the House under the President's
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: speaker has been an arm of the White House. It
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: will not be an arm of the White House if
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the Democrats control it. It will be every single thing
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the President will have to fight for. And he doesn't care.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: He's an 80-year-old man. He's got the things that he's
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: interested in, which right now are not what the country's
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: interested in. The country doesn't care about a ballroom in
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the White House. The country doesn't care about a wading
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: pool The country doesn't care about tearing down the Kennedy Center.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: If they care, it's a negative side. So I think
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to a certain extent he needs to be talking about
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the big picture, what happens after the Iranian war is settled,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: how do we keep peace in the world, how do
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: we get the job market back in a more effective place.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: And he's been a great communicator in the past, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: he's not been a good communicator right now. I don't
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: think his heart's in it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Ed Rollins, you've sat through a lot of administrations. You've
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: been in a lot of white houses. You've been there
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: till the end. How do you think this ends for
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump in two years?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: How do you think it's going to end? It doesn't
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: end well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think it does. You know, especially if
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the Democrats take control, there'll be a very severe opposition.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: You know, historians will go back and basically rewrite the
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: negative stuff that's you know, he's had his peak periods.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: And I think to a certain extent, you know, he
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: still can bring, if he develops a piece in the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Middle East that other people salute and respond to. But,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't seem to be doing that. And
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I think to a certain extent, unless the economy's booming
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: and the promises that he's making that it will be booming,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: it has to be proven to the American public. It's
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: not right now.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: But, you know, you study his history in business and whatever,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: when he's really down, when they really got him, when
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: he was wiped out, that's when he always battles back
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and comes out better than ever. You don't think that
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: could happen here?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a big difference between battling back
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: and coming back in a city like New York, where
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: you're building buildings, putting your names on them, as opposed
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: to basically running a government that the opposition is very
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: severe and has... Right now, the last two years, he's
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: controlled every element of abortion in D.C., and I think
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that's what he's going to be measured on. But the
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: last two years... As I said, I think if the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Democrats try and impeach him, that's not what the country wants.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: The country wants, and if the Democrats want to have
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: more than two years in office, they've got to go
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: show the ability to move the ball forward. Yeah.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Hey, Ed Ronson, Bruce Blakeman catching up in the polls.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: He's put out an incredible, a brilliant tax plan that
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: would reduce taxes on everybody. What do you think Bruce
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Blakeman's chances are?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I think he has a better chance than most Republicans
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: across the country. I mean, New York's a tough state for,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: for Republicans, but, uh, I think he's run a good campaign. Uh, the,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: the problem is everything, everything is so negative. You know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: you've got to win these things before the last three
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: or four weeks. Uh, I think he has the momentum. Uh,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: she's a terrible candidate, uh, terrible governor. I knew I'm
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a good candidate here. Uh, and I think he's been
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: a good candidate. Uh, he's got, he's got something. I
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: think if there's any bright spot, it's there. Uh, uh,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: but he's got to have money. He's got to have resources.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: And I think to a certain extent, uh, he's got
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: a plan that obviously most tech, most New Yorkers would
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: like this plan. If they can get, get through the,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: all of the dialogue, the campaigning, I can just say,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I haven't been around this business for 50 years. Um,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the negative advertising that's everywhere is terrible. Every, and it's,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: it's hard to break through, uh, Democrats or Republicans. Uh,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and right now it's all, I think the country turns
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: it out, uh, Now, the advantage the Republicans have had
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: is this $ 4 or $ 5 billion PAC fund that Trump has.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: And he's not spending that money. He needs to spend
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: that money and spend it quick because we're down the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: short areas here.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Well, if Trump is listening and he says, that's it,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to fix this, what could he actually do
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: at this point? It's only a month away.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Well, he can go out and save some of these
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Senate races and he can go out there and basically
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: talk about things that matter. And again, what matters is
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: not is not a ballroom. Convention center ballrooms. You know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: you look at that White House. I mean, take last week.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, the stupid fight with CNN and MSNBC and
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: what have you. He had two days of monumental meetings
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: with the head of China. Most people in the country
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: didn't see it. You know, for a stupid, stupid fight
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: over CNN and MSNBC that maybe has two million viewers
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: a day. He's got to basically just get out there
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: and have a plan. I don't see a plan. And
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I'm a Trump guy in the past and a super PAC.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I just don't see a plan. And I don't know
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: what's going on with the White House people. I don't
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: know where they are. You know, we've got candidates out
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: there basically in Iowa and Texas and Florida running in trouble.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're fighting for the governorship of Florida. We're
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: fighting for the Senate seat in Texas, two of the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: strongest states we have. And right now they're question marks. People,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: places like Iowa, Kansas, you know, it's just, to me,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: it's mind-boggling.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Wow. Well, Ed Rollins, great as always. Always good having
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you with us. We'll do it again soon. And thanks
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: for being with us.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Take care, Bob.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Take care. All right. Not the most encouraging report there, but... Hey,
• 30:28
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• 30:39
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• 30:42
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• 30:46
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• 30:51
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