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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Mark simonshell on sevent tenor Well, we
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to get to today. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: the latest don the gu three situation. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, We'll get to the police commissioner making some changes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the Super Bowl, We'll get to bad
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  Speaker 1: Bunny and a whole lot more. You got forty degrees today,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be forty today. This will really start melting the snow.
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  Speaker 1: You'll really start to get rid of it today, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's going to stay upper thirties and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: forty over the weekend. So by Sunday Monday, all the
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  Speaker 1: snow should be gone once and for all. Hey, you
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  Speaker 1: are only thirty seven days till spring. That's five weeks,
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  Speaker 1: five weeks until spring begins. Spring training today, teams doing
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  Speaker 1: their first work at today, so we're getting there almost
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  Speaker 1: through the winter. Jobs numbers came out this morning, very
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  Speaker 1: very very good, expecting about sixty new jobs. Who've got
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty thousand new jobs, Very very good
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  Speaker 1: numbers for the economy. Wages are up, inflation is down,
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  Speaker 1: the big beautiful bills starting to kick in economy, improving
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  Speaker 1: Dow way over fifty thousand. Average wages is for workers
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  Speaker 1: up a couple thousand this year, and for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in a few years, wages are going up much
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  Speaker 1: much faster than inflation, So that's good news. The Guthrie kidnapping, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen the doorbell camera. The few things
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  Speaker 1: that are obvious. They're not the most elaborate professional kidnapping.
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  Speaker 1: This one slow bumbling sort of guy who gets there
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  Speaker 1: and looks surprised to see that doorbell camera there and
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  Speaker 1: looks at it, and the fact that he was surprised
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  Speaker 1: by it is now telling him that maybe maybe there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of casing the place first, or surveillance first,
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  Speaker 1: or knowing the place really well before they got there.
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  Speaker 1: Now the guy is bundled up like crazy. He has
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  Speaker 1: covered head to toe in You remember, this is Tucson, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: where it's very warm. Why would anybody have what looks like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's going skiing or something. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: he's an Antarctica bundled up in this puffy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: winter type outfit, obviously trying not to leave any DNA
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  Speaker 1: on the scenes, big puffy gloves over his hands, face
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  Speaker 1: covered except for the mouth and the eyes. But all
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  Speaker 1: of that covering up means, besides hiding his identity, trying
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  Speaker 1: not to leave any DNA in the house. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. It's Tucson, Arizona, where it's very warm, and
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  Speaker 1: if you're bundled up in heavy, heavy clothes like that,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna sweat, and you're probably gonna sweat a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So investigators are back in the house right now as
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  Speaker 1: we speak, looking for sweat, looking for they want to
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  Speaker 1: get DNA off. This person covered himself up so he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't leave any DNA, but if he dropped one beat
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  Speaker 1: of sweat anywhere, that's got the DNA in it. So
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  Speaker 1: they're looking for that right now as we speak. They
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  Speaker 1: did detain somebody last night. Now apparently they're looking carefully
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  Speaker 1: at anybody that was in the house, workers of any
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  Speaker 1: kind that were doing work in the house. So there
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  Speaker 1: was one they stopped last night. They've let him go.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently he's totally innocent. They do say off the record,
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  Speaker 1: they got a couple persons of interest they're still looking at. Now.
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  Speaker 1: What took so long to get that footage, the doorbell
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  Speaker 1: camera footage. You should have seen that the first did
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  Speaker 1: well she has is it nester, is it an Amazon camera?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, you gotta have a subscription to have
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  Speaker 1: the footage stored. You can see it live, but if
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  Speaker 1: you want it stored and saved, you have to pay
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  Speaker 1: for the subscription, which is something like one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year. She didn't subscribe, didn't have the subscription. So,
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  Speaker 1: as we kept hearing, none of the surveillance video was saved,
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  Speaker 1: none of it. However, this is not the local authorities now,
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  Speaker 1: this is the FEDS. This is the FBI, federal government.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has sent all of the resources he can send.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are highly sophisticated. So even though with it
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  Speaker 1: Google or whoever I think was Google the company, but
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  Speaker 1: they didn't save the footage. But these guys were able
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  Speaker 1: to go into servers and find the footage even though
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  Speaker 1: it's deleted off of Google. It goes somewhere into some
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  Speaker 1: server and it takes very, very sophisticated work to find it,
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  Speaker 1: but they found it. That's how they got it. Now
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  Speaker 1: there are some people might get a little shake of
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  Speaker 1: surprise that because they got that doorbell cameraon, they're carefully
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  Speaker 1: deleting their footage for whatever reason. Now, they find out
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  Speaker 1: it could be recovered by law enforcement if they absolutely
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  Speaker 1: had to. So it took a while to get it.
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  Speaker 1: What to get deleted footage, you got to go through
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  Speaker 1: every possible back end server, look through everything, probably have
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  Speaker 1: to look through millions of hours to find this. It
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  Speaker 1: was not easy. Took incredible manpower to do it. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that's something the locals couldn't have done. So off the record,
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  Speaker 1: these the Feds are saying they got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: persons of interest. There's a couple of people they're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: They said, things are different in this kidnapping from a
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  Speaker 1: normal case. Normally a ransom note letter would be sent
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  Speaker 1: to the family. In this case, they're being sent to
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  Speaker 1: the local TV station. Savannah Guthrie, course, works for the
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  Speaker 1: NBC network here in New York. So why weren't the
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  Speaker 1: ransom notes sent to NBC if you decided to send
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  Speaker 1: them to television? Why the local two Sound station. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that suggests that the kidnappers are local two Sound people
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  Speaker 1: and familiar with that station. Also, the other thing is,
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  Speaker 1: normally you'd send something, some proof of life. You'd send
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  Speaker 1: a picture of the victim kidnapped, You'd send a picture
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  Speaker 1: of her tied up, you'd send a recording something. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't done anything like that. Now, they did want six
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  Speaker 1: million in bitcoin. They gave the bitcoin account, and people
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  Speaker 1: looking at that bitcoin account have seen activity. Now yesterday
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  Speaker 1: or the day before, they saw three hundred dollars go
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  Speaker 1: into it. That's usually what the FBI or law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: will do to track you down. You can track down crypto.
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  Speaker 1: It can be done, and one of the first steps
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  Speaker 1: you send a small amount of money into the account
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  Speaker 1: and you can follow it through the blockchain. You can
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  Speaker 1: follow it to see where it lands. You can scrape
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  Speaker 1: bits of stuff off the different places it goes through,
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  Speaker 1: so you may see another exchange or two for a
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  Speaker 1: couple hundred bucks. That's them tracking it. But believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, you can track crypto.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This could cause a drop in some of those crypto
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  Speaker 1: stocks in a week or two, when all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden they realize criminals or whoever's you using it for
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  Speaker 1: shady purposes, you hedge fund guys, They may start to
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  Speaker 1: realize it is traceable and that might cause a little
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  Speaker 1: drop in crypto use coming up. So we'll keep following
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  Speaker 1: it for you. We'll let you know if anything breaks.
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  Speaker 1: This could happen at any time. They could announce something
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  Speaker 1: at any time. The Epstein case, well, you can go
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  Speaker 1: through these files over and over and most of it
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  Speaker 1: is pretty boring. The Prince Andrew stuff is juicy, The
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton stuff is juicy, but the rest of it
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  Speaker 1: is nothing. They have been trying to go after Howard Lutnik.
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  Speaker 1: They got him in Congress. He had a testify in
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  Speaker 1: front of Congress. Here's a guy who had almost no
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Here's the White House Press Secretary.
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  Speaker 3: Secretary. Lotnik remains a very important member of President Trump's team,
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  Speaker 3: and the president fully supports the secretary.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now they want him fired because all he did
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  Speaker 1: was one time he had lunch with Epstein. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to fire people that had lunch with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: well that's every major figure on Wall Street. That's about
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  Speaker 1: twenty five world leaders. That's a lot of prominent people.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have had lunch with Epstein. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reason Lutnick got involved with Epstein, he didn't really
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  Speaker 1: get involved with him, but the only reason he knew him.
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  Speaker 1: Lutnick bought a house in Manhattan. He was married and
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  Speaker 1: his kids and he bought a big townhouse on seventy
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  Speaker 1: first Street, and the house next door, which literally touches
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  Speaker 1: his house. They share a wall together. The house next
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  Speaker 1: door was Jeffrey Epstein, so at some point he got
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  Speaker 1: to know his neighbor. They talked. At one point Epstein said,
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  Speaker 1: you want to see my house, and he came and
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  Speaker 1: looked around the house, and then they started to exchange emails,
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  Speaker 1: very very few emails. I think it was like eight
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  Speaker 1: emails over four years. So it's not really a relationship.
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  Speaker 1: And at one point and Epstein would invite everybody to
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  Speaker 1: his house in Palm Beach, to his house in New York,
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  Speaker 1: wherever he was, the island down in the Bahamas, And
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  Speaker 1: turned out Lutnick was down there in the Bahamas, big
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  Speaker 1: vacation week. He was with his family. And Epstein keeps
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  Speaker 1: it stop by for lunch, stop by the island for lunch.
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  Speaker 1: So one day he does stop by the island for lunch,
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  Speaker 1: but he came to lunch. He was there for an hour.
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  Speaker 1: When he came to lunch, he had with him his wife,
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  Speaker 1: his kids, and two nannies. Now, some people think that
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  Speaker 1: when you're testifying, just say a nanny. Don't say two nannies.
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  Speaker 1: You sound too elitist when you have to have two
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  Speaker 1: nannies for your kids. But this is him and Mike Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: The Speaker was asking, well, shouldn't he resign? Everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: him to resign.
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  Speaker 3: How Flutnick is a great commerce secretary to an extraordinary
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  Speaker 3: job for the country.
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  Speaker 2: And Thomas Massey.
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  Speaker 1: Should stuff again again. If you had to resign for
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  Speaker 1: having lunch with Epstein, that would be half the CEOs
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  Speaker 1: in New York, about twenty world leaders. In fact, Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was always having people come to his house for lunch,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of times, by the way, you have
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  Speaker 1: to have every college president of every major university resigned
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  Speaker 1: because they we were all constantly having lunch at Epstein's house.
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  Speaker 1: One reason is he was a big donor. Now why
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  Speaker 1: would all these guys get Well, he had what they
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  Speaker 1: call check's appeal. He would write your check. He would
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  Speaker 1: donate millions to a college. If you had some charity,
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  Speaker 1: he'd write He write a check just like that, as
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Dick Cabot, and he wanted somebody to finance
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  Speaker 1: his a PBS special, an American Master Special four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty thousand. Epstein wrote the check just like that.
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  Speaker 1: So if that's all he wants in exchange, come to lunch,
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  Speaker 1: come to dinner, you do it. And here's Lutnick he
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  Speaker 1: had to testify about this, about this visit.
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  Speaker 3: When you visited the private island? Did do you see
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  Speaker 3: anything inappropriate during that visit?
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I saw with my wife and my
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  Speaker 2: children and the other couple and their children was staff
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  Speaker 2: who worked for mister Epstein on that island.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all. It was. An hour boat pulled up,
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  Speaker 1: got off, had lunch with Epstein. There was another couple
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  Speaker 1: with their kids, a lot of kids there, and that
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  Speaker 1: was it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you in fact make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's
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  Speaker 3: private island?
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  Speaker 2: I did have lunch with him, as I was on
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  Speaker 2: a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife
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  Speaker 2: was with me, as were my four children and nanny's.
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  Speaker 2: I had another couple. They were there as well with
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  Speaker 2: their children, and we had lunch on the island.
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  Speaker 1: That's it pretty simple. Now, what can we learn from this, Well,
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  Speaker 1: don't invite Howard Lutnick to lunch, because look at this guy.
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  Speaker 1: He brings four kids with him, he brings his wife,
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  Speaker 1: he brings another couple with kids. He brings two nannies.
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  Speaker 1: You invite the guy to lunch, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it takes twelve seats. I mean, so don't invite him
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  Speaker 1: to lunch. But he's a nice guy. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's anything there. Listen, there's a lot of people I know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a guy I know who's almost another Howard Lutnik.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big hedge fund chairman. I don't really know
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  Speaker 1: the guy, but he always invites me to parties at
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  Speaker 1: his house. And he has great parties, all fine people.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to three or four of them, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the guy. I never talked to the guy
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  Speaker 1: more than five seconds of my whole life. So the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he stopped by with twelve people for lunch,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty harmless, pretty innocent. Now, when you get to
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, that's another matter. Because Bill Clinton was heavily
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  Speaker 1: involved financially with Epstein, so is Hillary. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was the guy who helped launch and fund and
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  Speaker 1: start the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Global Initiative was a
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  Speaker 1: big Epstein project, and he gave tons of money to
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  Speaker 1: the Clintons and Clinton did a lot of stuff for Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein is trying. He's a fixer who tries to open
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  Speaker 1: doors in other countries for business. And if you're having
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  Speaker 1: a problem there in India, why Bill Clinton can call
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  Speaker 1: the president of India. He can call the head of
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  Speaker 1: any country, tree, heads of state. They all loved Bill Clinton.
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  Speaker 1: He can get you right into the President's office, right
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  Speaker 1: into the Prime Minister's office. And he did that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff for him. But it looked like, unlike these
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  Speaker 1: other people, with Bill Clinton, there was a lot of socializing.
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  Speaker 1: There's Bill Clinton in the pool with some women. There's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton in the hot tub with some women, now
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  Speaker 1: not underage, not underage. Bill Clinton preferred older women, but
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  Speaker 1: there were plenty of them around. So it's now you
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  Speaker 1: can go to the Epstein files. By the way, just
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  Speaker 1: google Epstein files. It'll take you to the DOJ website
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  Speaker 1: where it's called the Epstein Library. There's a search bar.
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  Speaker 1: You can search any name you want. And it's fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to read the emails of some of these people. And
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  Speaker 1: the first thing you're going to think is why the
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  Speaker 1: hell did they put all this in writing? But they're
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  Speaker 1: writing back and forth about everything. All the Epstein's emails
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  Speaker 1: are up there, all of his texts, all of his
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  Speaker 1: credit card bills. It's fascinating to read. Hey, the super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl second highest audience ever, one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: million viewers. Super Bowl second highest audience ever, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five million, and there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people tuned in just to see Bad Bunny. That was
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  Speaker 1: the peak. Because when Bad Bunny did his halftime show
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred and twenty eight million, we're watching one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight million. Now, it's not the highest
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  Speaker 1: halftime Kendrick Lamar got one hundred and thirty three million,
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  Speaker 1: but big, big reviews for big numbers, big ratings for
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  Speaker 1: Bad Bunny, which I thought it was pretty good. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: one thing he said, I couldn't understand what he was singing.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, when I listen to the radio half the
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  Speaker 1: artist singing, I don't understand what they're saying. Anyway, even
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  Speaker 1: when they speak English, you can't always understand the lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a colorful, lively sort of halftime show.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know the Real Housewives in New York, You
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  Speaker 1: remember the original cast, Jill Zarin, Ramona Singer, Sonia Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: the Countess. They were the original Real Housewives in New York.
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  Speaker 1: They're all these old hags. Now they're down in Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 1: So they were going to do a big comeback show.
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  Speaker 1: Bravo was gonna be a it's a big show. It's
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  Speaker 1: coming in the fall. Original cast of the Real Housewives
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  Speaker 1: in New York. They're all back, but Jill Zarin has
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  Speaker 1: been fired. She was fired yesterday because after the Bad
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  Speaker 1: Bunny thing, she put up this video ranting and raving
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  Speaker 1: about bad Bunny. Now here's the problem these And I
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  Speaker 1: know most of these Real Housewives, or I used to
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  Speaker 1: know them. I stopped talking to all of them. They're
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  Speaker 1: just horrible to be around. They're really really shallow people,
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  Speaker 1: really tacky, not very bright. And when you're a you know, Abbie,
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  Speaker 1: she's one of those, and you're not that bright. Some
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  Speaker 1: of those, how are you? Some of those are pretty bright.
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  Speaker 1: These people not bright. These are low IQ people. So
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  Speaker 1: she's whenever low IQ people like that try to talk
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  Speaker 1: about anything political, anything in the news, they sound like
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  Speaker 1: absolute morons. And she was talking about bad Bunny and
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  Speaker 1: sounded like an imbecile and ranting and raving, and she's
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  Speaker 1: being called a racist. She said at one point, why
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  Speaker 1: would I know white people? How come no white people?
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  Speaker 1: And it just sounded awful. They fired her immediately. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: most of the real housewives of all those different cities
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  Speaker 1: have come out and condemned her. In her defense, she
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  Speaker 1: it sounded racist, but she may not be a racist
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  Speaker 1: because I did know her. She is a babbling idiot,
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  Speaker 1: not very bright. So and again, when people like that
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  Speaker 1: try to talk about anything political, they get themselves into trouble.
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  Speaker 1: But she has been fired and that's it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: her family, her husband had a big business, Zaren Fabrics.
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  Speaker 1: It's a huge company, big, one of the top fabric companies.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess they sold it. She has no connection
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  Speaker 1: to it now. So even Zaren Fabrics on their website,
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  Speaker 1: on their Instagram put up a big notice we have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with this woman. We don't know this woman,
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  Speaker 1: we never heard of this woman. Pretty bad for her, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten.