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- 0:00Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
- 0:05Speaker 1: on seven w R.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Hey, not bad today. It'll be a near forty. It's
- 0:11Speaker 2: going to be in the fifties this week. That's good news.
- 0:13Speaker 2: We got a lot to get to today. There's a
- 0:15Speaker 2: lot of things going on. We'll get to Maduro and
- 0:18Speaker 2: all the latest. We'll get to Mamdani and all the
- 0:21Speaker 2: bad news. We'll we'll get to Marty Supreme, remind me
- 0:25Speaker 2: to talk about that. We'll get the Frank Sinatra coming up.
- 0:27Speaker 2: We'll get to MS now they're looking more and more
- 0:33Speaker 2: pathetic now that NBC threw them the hell out. We'll
- 0:37Speaker 2: get to Wegmans. We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel. We got
- 0:40Speaker 2: lots to get to today. Hey, this just happened about
- 0:44Speaker 2: an hour ago. It looks like a congressman has died.
- 0:48Speaker 2: I forgot the name. It's not a name you'd even know.
- 0:50Speaker 2: He's a California congressman House of Representatives. But the problem
- 0:54Speaker 2: is he was one of the few Republicans in California.
- 0:57Speaker 2: So he's a Republican congressman. He's he's apparently it's been
- 1:01Speaker 2: confirmed he's dead. Now that means the Democratic governor will
- 1:07Speaker 2: appoint a Democrat to take that seat until they can
- 1:09Speaker 2: have an election. Now, the problem is Republicans in the
- 1:12Speaker 2: House of Representatives I think are right on the border.
- 1:15Speaker 2: I can't because other people have left. You know, there
- 1:20Speaker 2: are a couple of empty seats right now. I think Republicans
- 1:22Speaker 2: are down to two hundred and eighteen in the House.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Would put them right on the border, the absolute borderlines.
- 1:28Speaker 2: If they lose anything, they lose control of the House.
- 1:32Speaker 2: That's why this congressman dying this morning very crucial to
- 1:35Speaker 2: the Republicans. Would mean Mike Johnson wouldn't be Speaker anymore.
- 1:39Speaker 2: It would mean if Democrats take control, you'd have an
- 1:41Speaker 2: impeachment every month. You remember, in Trump's first term, they
- 1:45Speaker 2: would impeach him every year in the spring. Every spring impeachment.
- 1:50Speaker 2: This would be every month. Obviously they would start with
- 1:53Speaker 2: Maduro and Venezuela. That would be their first impeachment thing,
- 1:57Speaker 2: and then they would impeach him over Epstein. He would
- 2:00Speaker 2: impeach him over January six Oh, he can't do it.
- 2:03Speaker 2: They already did January sixth. That didn't go anywhere. But
- 2:06Speaker 2: they'll find something every month. Now. Maduro in court pleaded
- 2:10Speaker 2: not guilty. You know, they set the next court date.
- 2:13Speaker 2: He was in court yesterday. When's the next day comes
- 2:15Speaker 2: to court? March seventh, that's two months away. That means
- 2:20Speaker 2: he sits in jail for two months in that Brooklyn
- 2:24Speaker 2: Correctional Center. They don't seem to trust the Manhattan Correctional
- 2:27Speaker 2: Center anymore. That's where they put Jeffrey Epstein and he
- 2:30Speaker 2: got dead in there. I was going to say he
- 2:32Speaker 2: got murdered in there. Well, we'll see, and they ruled
- 2:35Speaker 2: it officially a suicide.
- 2:37Speaker 3: But.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Who knows. But they don't seem to trust it anymore.
- 2:42Speaker 2: So they now keep the prisoners in the Brooklyn Detention Center,
- 2:45Speaker 2: the US Attorney Southern District. That's where they kept p Diddy,
- 2:48Speaker 2: and that's where they kept Kallay Maxwell, and this is
- 2:52Speaker 2: where they're keeping Maduro. He's got lawyers that have been
- 2:55Speaker 2: appointed for him and he's going to plead, not get
- 3:00Speaker 2: but there's evidence, I mean physical evidence. There's a text
- 3:04Speaker 2: back and forth. They'll prove he was involved hands on
- 3:08Speaker 2: with the narco drug trafficking. The terror. Narco terrorism is
- 3:13Speaker 2: what it was. He'll be charged with that. He will
- 3:15Speaker 2: be convicted now. And if he's claiming that he is
- 3:20Speaker 2: still the leader of Venezuela. That's kind of well. Here's
- 3:25Speaker 2: the legal expert, Jonathan Turley.
- 3:26Speaker 4: His statement in court was remarkable, that he's still the
- 3:29Speaker 4: president of his country. You would think that the prison
- 3:32Speaker 4: jump suit would disabuse him of that concept. But I
- 3:37Speaker 4: certainly over fifty countries around the world would not accept that,
- 3:41Speaker 4: and I don't think the court will either.
- 3:43Speaker 2: You See, if you want to sound smart, like a
- 3:45Speaker 2: like a Jonathan Turley, you use words like that. You
- 3:47Speaker 2: don't say he claimed he was still the president, which
- 3:49Speaker 2: makes him sound nuts. You say the jumpsuit would disabuse
- 3:53Speaker 2: him of that. Throw that word in there and then
- 3:55Speaker 2: disabuse him. Here's more of a Turley. Now, remember to
- 4:00Speaker 2: hear all these democrats and all the fake news talking
- 4:04Speaker 2: heads tell you this was an illegal operation. This is
- 4:07Speaker 2: unheard of to go into a country seasonally. It's done
- 4:10Speaker 2: all the time. It's been done many times. We arrested Noriega.
- 4:14Speaker 2: You can talk lots of cases where this has happened,
- 4:17Speaker 2: and plenty of presidents have done things like this.
- 4:19Speaker 4: This is Norjega two point zero. I mean, he is
- 4:22Speaker 4: going to be arguing that he is still the head
- 4:24Speaker 4: of state and titled to immunity. I just had very
- 4:27Speaker 4: few people believe that's true. And he's in a worse
- 4:31Speaker 4: position than Noriega. So I expect that they're going to
- 4:34Speaker 4: stick the landing on this. They're gonna this is going
- 4:38Speaker 4: to go to trial, and he stands an excellent chance
- 4:41Speaker 4: of being convicted.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll just repeat the whole Noriega thing. They hear
- 4:45Speaker 2: the Democrats. If you watch Rachel Maddow or any of
- 4:47Speaker 2: those shows, you know, Jake Tapper, you know, if you're
- 4:49Speaker 2: just watching, they look like very serious, very knowledgeable people,
- 4:53Speaker 2: but they're like crazy partisans. And though if you watch
- 4:57Speaker 2: these shows, they'll tell you things like, well, I've don't
- 4:59Speaker 2: Claire violation of international law, international law. What the hell
- 5:05Speaker 2: is in nobody's ever heard of this international law. There
- 5:07Speaker 2: is no international law that we have to follow. He's
- 5:10Speaker 2: more of Turly.
- 5:11Speaker 4: They have not only these these recordings that they say
- 5:14Speaker 4: show him taking an active role in the criminal enterprise,
- 5:18Speaker 4: but this wasn't just simply criminal enterprise.
- 5:20Speaker 5: This was a family enterprise.
- 5:22Speaker 4: And so you've got his son, his wife with facing
- 5:25Speaker 4: very strong evidence, but you also have high ranking former
- 5:30Speaker 4: associates who have pled guilty, and they very well could
- 5:34Speaker 4: be cooperating witnesses, including the former head of military intelligence
- 5:39Speaker 4: in his country.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's gotten no shot at beating this charge. Now,
- 5:45Speaker 2: normally you get in the right judge. You know, you're
- 5:47Speaker 2: left wing kook of a judge in Manhattan. But looks
- 5:50Speaker 2: like they got a good judge. I think he's ninety
- 5:52Speaker 2: five years old, this judge, but still on the bench.
- 5:54Speaker 4: You have to go through these documents and one of
- 5:56Speaker 4: the defense counsel maybe two will be designated as clear council,
- 6:00Speaker 4: and they will sit in a metal room called a skiff,
- 6:03Speaker 4: and they will look through all of these documents and
- 6:06Speaker 4: they will file challenges. That's why this isn't going to
- 6:09Speaker 4: go anywhere for over a year as they work through
- 6:12Speaker 4: this stuff.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Now, that's why the next court date is March seventh,
- 6:16Speaker 2: and why they're waiting two months. There's a ton of evidence,
- 6:19Speaker 2: a ton of documents. They have to give his attorneys
- 6:22Speaker 2: plenty of time to go through all this stuff. And
- 6:24Speaker 2: as Turley says, it's probably going to be a year
- 6:27Speaker 2: long trial. This guy will spend the next year in
- 6:29Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Detention Center. Not good for him. Now, again,
- 6:33Speaker 2: if you're reading the New York Times, or you watch
- 6:35Speaker 2: that MSNBCMS NOW whatever the hell they call it c
- 6:39Speaker 2: and then you don't know what the hell's going on.
- 6:41Speaker 2: They give you a little it's like the jigsaw puzzle.
- 6:43Speaker 2: To give you two pieces. That's it, that's all you get.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Leave out all the other three hundred pieces, so you
- 6:50Speaker 2: never get the whole picture. They never point out to
- 6:52Speaker 2: you that every Democrat, every major Democrat, Biden, Schumer, Elizabeth
- 7:00Speaker 2: the War and anybody can name, have been screaming and
- 7:03Speaker 2: screaming for years to get rid of Maduro. That he's
- 7:06Speaker 2: a war criminal, he's a narco terrorist, he must be eliminated.
- 7:10Speaker 2: You have to get rid of him. They've all been
- 7:12Speaker 2: calling for getting rid of Maduro. When the Biden administration
- 7:16Speaker 2: was in power or the Obama administration all talked about
- 7:19Speaker 2: getting this guy, getting rid of him. Of course it's Democrats.
- 7:22Speaker 2: They just talk. They don't actually do anything. Hey, here's
- 7:25Speaker 2: Biden has been doing this for longer than anyway. This
- 7:27Speaker 2: is forty years ago. Listen to Biden. Way back then,
- 7:30Speaker 2: for the first time, we were fighting and losing the
- 7:33Speaker 2: war on our own soil.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Let's go after the drug lords where they live with.
- 7:39Speaker 2: An international strike force.
- 7:41Speaker 6: There must be no safe haven for these narco terrorists,
- 7:45Speaker 6: and they must know it.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Now here's an interesting question. Why would you become a
- 7:52Speaker 2: drug lord? Why would you get involved in drugs? You
- 7:54Speaker 2: ever watched that show Breaking Bad? Better call Saul gus Fring,
- 7:59Speaker 2: who's when the Salamancas. When you look at that, do
- 8:03Speaker 2: you say, ye, I'd like to be like I'd like
- 8:05Speaker 2: to live like them. They're living out in the middle
- 8:07Speaker 2: of the desert. Looks like the dirtiest business. Why would
- 8:09Speaker 2: you want to get involved in that? Well, money, if
- 8:12Speaker 2: you're in the middle of Mexico. How else are you
- 8:15Speaker 2: going to make hundreds of millions of dollars except in
- 8:17Speaker 2: the drug business. It's money that leads into him. But
- 8:21Speaker 2: now here's the thing about Maduro. He's running Venezuela. Venezuela
- 8:25Speaker 2: has twenty percent of the world's oil it has. It's
- 8:30Speaker 2: sitting right now on three hundred billion barrels of oil.
- 8:35Speaker 2: There's seventeen trillion dollars in oil in Venezuela. Why didn't
- 8:41Speaker 2: he just use that? He let the whole oil industry crumble,
- 8:45Speaker 2: dry up, the infrastructure to pump the oil all decay.
- 8:49Speaker 2: All he had to do was bring that back, fix
- 8:52Speaker 2: the infrastructure and start pumping oil. He could have been
- 8:54Speaker 2: the biggest oil baron in the world. You see those
- 8:57Speaker 2: Saudis with the palaces in the garage with five million
- 9:02Speaker 2: rolls royces that he could be bigger than these guys.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Why did he become a narco terrorist when he could
- 9:06Speaker 2: have been the biggest oil bearing around. Now we'll go
- 9:10Speaker 2: in there and fix the infrastructure, get the oil pumping
- 9:14Speaker 2: again again. Seventeen trillion trillion in oil is sitting there.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Venezuela could be one of the wealthiest, most successful countries
- 9:23Speaker 2: in the world. Now we got to get the American
- 9:26Speaker 2: oil companies to go in there. They're not going to
- 9:28Speaker 2: be too crazy about doing this because it looks like
- 9:30Speaker 2: it could be some kind of dangerous war zone. But
- 9:33Speaker 2: once they get it stabilized. Now you're also going to
- 9:37Speaker 2: watch all these democrats ye all about Trump campaigned about
- 9:41Speaker 2: the endless wars, no boots on the ground, none of it. Well,
- 9:44Speaker 2: there's no hit that he's ever going to do anything
- 9:46Speaker 2: like that. This was just a quick three hour operation
- 9:49Speaker 2: in out seize the leader. And one reason this was
- 9:52Speaker 2: done is Grenada. You remember when Ronald Reagan took office
- 9:58Speaker 2: in his first year. It's the end of his first year.
- 10:02Speaker 2: He did the same exact sort of thing. We invaded
- 10:05Speaker 2: this little tiny island of Grenada. A bunch of American
- 10:09Speaker 2: medical students had been captured and were being held hostage.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Reagan did the same thing. It was a quick just
- 10:15Speaker 2: a few hours on the ground. American military went in
- 10:19Speaker 2: there and just attacked the building where they were being held,
- 10:25Speaker 2: extracted these medical students, got them out of there real fast.
- 10:28Speaker 2: It was an incredible military operation. The reason that Reagan
- 10:33Speaker 2: did that is he took over from a president who
- 10:36Speaker 2: was just horrible with the military. Jimmy Carter had turned
- 10:40Speaker 2: our military into a worldwide embarrassment. They were out of parts,
- 10:43Speaker 2: the weapons weren't working, everything was old, outdated number. Carter
- 10:47Speaker 2: even tried to rescue our hostages in Iran and the
- 10:51Speaker 2: helicopters couldn't even land right. They crashed. Everybody got killed.
- 10:54Speaker 2: It was a disaster. And the same thing with Biden.
- 10:57Speaker 2: He let the military decay, the equipment decay. He tried
- 11:01Speaker 2: to the Afghanistan withdrawal, and it was like a Jimmy
- 11:03Speaker 2: Carter operation, total disaster. People got killed, just humiliating, embarrassing.
- 11:09Speaker 2: So we had to get our reputation back and go
- 11:13Speaker 2: back to being impressive militarily to the world. So this
- 11:16Speaker 2: was Grenada, That's what this was for. It was a
- 11:20Speaker 2: demonstration for China, Russia, Iran, because China Russia didn't claim
- 11:26Speaker 2: to have an incredible military, but they don't. We've seen
- 11:30Speaker 2: Russia in Ukraine and all Russia's got us a little
- 11:33Speaker 2: ragtag army with drunken kids that can't fight. They don't
- 11:38Speaker 2: have the proper equipment, they don't even have night vision.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Where pretty sure that China is the same thing. It
- 11:45Speaker 2: looks like a big, big military, but they've never been
- 11:47Speaker 2: battle tested and they'll probably be as bad as Russia.
- 11:50Speaker 2: So it's a demonstration to the other countries that we
- 11:54Speaker 2: have incredible military capability. We're back. This operation in the
- 11:59Speaker 2: middle of the night to go into the palace there
- 12:02Speaker 2: and seize Maduro was incredibly detailed. Do you know. They
- 12:07Speaker 2: built an exact replica of his residence, which means they
- 12:11Speaker 2: knew exactly what his residents looked like in every detail.
- 12:15Speaker 2: They had people on the inside. So they built a replica,
- 12:18Speaker 2: a complete replica of his residence, and they trained in
- 12:20Speaker 2: that for months. They also went in there, I mean
- 12:24Speaker 2: the skill of these guys. You know, they used to
- 12:27Speaker 2: say Pete Hegsath is the most unqualified, the least qualified
- 12:31Speaker 2: a defense secretary. The guy has run flawlessly, run the
- 12:34Speaker 2: most incredible military operations for the last year, from the
- 12:38Speaker 2: taking out of Iran's nuclear reactors to the going after
- 12:41Speaker 2: the oil tankers. I mean this one. To run this,
- 12:44Speaker 2: you got to give this guy credit as one of
- 12:46Speaker 2: the most successful defense secretaries ever. But to get to
- 12:50Speaker 2: that residence, they had to take out all the military bases,
- 12:54Speaker 2: knock out all the electricity, They shut down all the
- 12:56Speaker 2: lights in the city. The stuff that went on was unbelievable,
- 13:01Speaker 2: the whole operation, from the moment they went in. Three
- 13:05Speaker 2: hours later they got Maduro on the deck of an
- 13:08Speaker 2: American warship out at sea and they're taking them away.
- 13:12Speaker 2: So it was an incredible operation. It's a big demonstration
- 13:15Speaker 2: too Russia, China and Iran. And don't think the message
- 13:20Speaker 2: was received loud and clear. So uh, Mom, Donnie, oh oh, Mom, Donnie.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Now he uh. There was a terrible rumor yesterday that
- 13:31Speaker 2: he had demoted the police Commissioner Jessica Tish everybody likes her,
- 13:34Speaker 2: that she would now report to the first deputy mayor,
- 13:37Speaker 2: not to him. He corrected that, he said, it's not true.
- 13:40Speaker 5: My police commissioner will continue to report directly to me.
- 13:44Speaker 5: My police commissioner, just like my school's chancellor will report
- 13:46Speaker 5: directly to me. The executive order is in terms of
- 13:51Speaker 5: the question of coordination, this is reporting continues to be directly.
- 13:54Speaker 2: To the mayor. Yeah, I don't know how that's good.
- 13:59Speaker 2: You're a reporting to this guy. This guy's got they've
- 14:01Speaker 2: never had a job in his life. He's twelve years old.
- 14:04Speaker 2: You're reporting that at least that first deputy mayor might
- 14:07Speaker 2: be another left wing cook. But he'd been a deputy
- 14:09Speaker 2: mayor before under Deblasio. But so, mom, Donnie, you know,
- 14:14Speaker 2: the other thing was just weird. He talks about affordability.
- 14:16Speaker 2: He wants to have free buses, he wants to live,
- 14:18Speaker 2: freeze the rent. Everything's bringing the prices down, affordability. Yet
- 14:22Speaker 2: when it comes to this congestion pricing, the guy loves it. Hochel, mom, Donnie,
- 14:27Speaker 2: yesterday celebrating the one year anniversary of congestion pricing. It's
- 14:31Speaker 2: a tax on people. Everybody has to pay it. Everybody
- 14:36Speaker 2: you're paying. Even though you're saying, well, I don't have
- 14:38Speaker 2: a car, You're still paying the congestion pricing because every
- 14:43Speaker 2: form of transportation from a cab to an uber has
- 14:45Speaker 2: a price increase as a result. And everything you buy
- 14:48Speaker 2: in every store in Midtown Manhattan there's a price increase
- 14:52Speaker 2: because the trucks pay enormous congestion pricing fees and that's
- 14:56Speaker 2: added into the price. But here he was celebrating.
- 14:59Speaker 5: Congestion price is a program that has been successful, no
- 15:03Speaker 5: matter how you measure it. We all understood the imperatives
- 15:06Speaker 5: of dreaming of a different kind of streetscape in this city.
- 15:10Speaker 2: The hell's he talking about? What is a streetscape? Were
- 15:16Speaker 2: you dreaming of a different street scape?
- 15:17Speaker 3: You know?
- 15:18Speaker 2: I was kind of dreaming of the old one where
- 15:19Speaker 2: it's just cars. Now you can't cross the street without
- 15:22Speaker 2: looking six ways. You gotta wait, Is there a scooter?
- 15:25Speaker 2: An electric bike? Is there one of those pettycat You're
- 15:27Speaker 2: gonna get hit by anything and everything in every direction.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Hokel loves this congestion pricing, And yes, the cameras are
- 15:35Speaker 2: staying on.
- 15:39Speaker 6: But now, my friends, the results are extraordinary.
- 15:47Speaker 2: They convinced themselves of this nonsense. Now she did say
- 15:50Speaker 2: there is a price increase coming, But it's twenty twenty eight.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Here's the good news. Bruce Blakeman will be the governor
- 15:57Speaker 2: and he'll take office in janu twenty twenty seven, and
- 16:01Speaker 2: I'm sure the first thing he'll work on is getting
- 16:04Speaker 2: rid of congestion pricing. It's absolutely ridiculous. You want to
- 16:07Speaker 2: ease congestion. Put the street back the way it was
- 16:10Speaker 2: with four lanes. Now it's like one lane, one lanes,
- 16:13Speaker 2: a parking lane, one's lanes, a bike lane, one lanes,
- 16:15Speaker 2: a petty cab lane, one lanes a scooter. Put the
- 16:18Speaker 2: street back the way it was. There's congestion because you
- 16:22Speaker 2: took two thirds of the street away on every street.
- 16:25Speaker 2: They we'll get to Tim Waltz. Why did he drop out?
- 16:28Speaker 2: His daughter is saying the family was getting attacked left
- 16:31Speaker 2: and right, and his political career is over. He announced
- 16:36Speaker 2: yesterday he's not running.
- 16:37Speaker 6: I'm passing on this race with zero sadness and zero regret.
- 16:41Speaker 6: I did not run for this job to have the job.
- 16:45Speaker 6: I ran for the job to do the job. The
- 16:48Speaker 6: hell is he talking about?
- 16:49Speaker 2: Now? You got to give him credit for a guy
- 16:51Speaker 2: with an IQ of ninety, maybe I name eighty. Maybe
- 16:58Speaker 2: eighty goofy, silly guy, not very intelligent. Look where he got.
- 17:03Speaker 2: You got to give him credit. Now, they've got to
- 17:06Speaker 2: be governor of a state. You got to be the
- 17:08Speaker 2: vice presidential nominee. You know, a guy with no brains
- 17:10Speaker 2: and no talent. You got to give him credit for that.
- 17:13Speaker 2: Now what happens, who's going to run for governor of Minnesota? Well,
- 17:17Speaker 2: our old buddy, Mike Lindell, my pillow is as announced
- 17:22Speaker 2: he's running for governor. He's one of the biggest, biggest
- 17:25Speaker 2: businessmen in Minnesota. So now here's the bad news. There
- 17:30Speaker 2: looks like they're going to try to throw somebody strong
- 17:32Speaker 2: against him, a big Democrat like Amy Klobucher, the Senator
- 17:37Speaker 2: is now talking about entering the race, so they'll put
- 17:39Speaker 2: up a big candidate. They actually think Lindell has a
- 17:43Speaker 2: great shot. Remember, Minnesota goes for those kind of non
- 17:46Speaker 2: political types like a Jesse Ventura. So this will get interesting. Hey,
- 17:50Speaker 2: we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two
- 17:52Speaker 2: one zero seven ten is the number, eight hundred three
- 17:56Speaker 2: to two one zero seven ten.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Give w Bri said on the iHeart Radio app to
- 18:02Speaker 1: hear Mark Simone and all the wr hosts in an instance.
- 18:07Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simon Show on WR.
- 18:14Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Robert in
- 18:18Speaker 2: West Center. Robert, how you doing.
- 18:21Speaker 7: Well? Thank you very much, and happy piece, Tiffany. Mark
- 18:25Speaker 7: is so on the on the money with Pete hegset
- 18:28Speaker 7: the raid with the Hooties, the bombing of Iran and
- 18:31Speaker 7: then now this raid demand So far he's three and
- 18:35Speaker 7: oh he's flawless. He's doing a great job. But the
- 18:38Speaker 7: funniest thing yesterday was with that idiot Mundamie when he
- 18:42Speaker 7: said I have to call the president and chastise him.
- 18:45Speaker 7: Could you imagine the White House? They probably put him
- 18:47Speaker 7: on hold for like an hour. Is the president? This
- 18:49Speaker 7: guy's on the line. He wanted to take a call.
- 18:52Speaker 2: No, no, no, I know how Trump panlty. I've watched
- 18:54Speaker 2: him for about thirty years. When an idiot's on the phone,
- 18:59Speaker 2: he's all in his eyes at everybody in the room,
- 19:01Speaker 2: like pointing at the phone and making faces. But when
- 19:05Speaker 2: he's on the phone actually talking to he said, he
- 19:08Speaker 2: just knows how to button them up. He said, yeah,
- 19:10Speaker 2: I really want your opinion on this, yea, let me
- 19:12Speaker 2: know what you think. Well, that's coming from you. That's
- 19:14Speaker 2: very it's good advice. It's very important. And then he's
- 19:17Speaker 2: rolling his eyes for everybody in the room, holding the
- 19:19Speaker 2: phone away from his head and making faces. And now
- 19:23Speaker 2: he I'm sure he said it the end. Thanks for calling. Yeah,
- 19:27Speaker 2: anytime you got any thought, Yeah, call me, call me.
- 19:29Speaker 2: Keep in tell you got my number, right, Yeah, well yeah,
- 19:31Speaker 2: keep calling me. He's very good at that. Remember, a
- 19:35Speaker 2: big part of his life is being a salesman. I mean,
- 19:37Speaker 2: besides building an empire and building one hundred story skyscrapers
- 19:41Speaker 2: all over the world. I mean, you got to be
- 19:42Speaker 2: a hell of a salesman. He's great with that stuff.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Let's go to Harriet in Brooklyn. Harriet, how you doing.
- 19:49Speaker 7: Oh, it's a pleasure speaking with you. Mark. You're the best. Mark.
- 19:53Speaker 7: We've got to get Blakeman. And however, if there is a.
- 19:57Speaker 6: Watchman on the wall, if there is continued voting without
- 20:02Speaker 6: voter ID, there's no way that he's going to beat
- 20:05Speaker 6: these communists.
- 20:07Speaker 2: Well, actually you can. There is cheating with that no
- 20:10Speaker 2: voter idea and all that stuff, but usually you got
- 20:12Speaker 2: to get like an extra seven percent to overcome the cheating.
- 20:15Speaker 2: Blakeman is going to be great at this. First of all,
- 20:19Speaker 2: he's the only one qualified to be governor. He actually
- 20:21Speaker 2: is a governor right now. That's what he does in
- 20:23Speaker 2: Nasau County. It's basically the governor of Nassau County. He's
- 20:26Speaker 2: done a phenomenal job, best county executive in America. Nobody
- 20:31Speaker 2: more qualified than Blakeman to be governor. Now you might say, then, well,
- 20:34Speaker 2: what is he good as a candidate. He has been
- 20:37Speaker 2: brilliant on social media the last week. The last week
- 20:42Speaker 2: he has just check his social media every day. He's
- 20:44Speaker 2: got videos up of him. He went to Buffalo to
- 20:47Speaker 2: go to the Buffalo Bill's game. That looks good. You know,
- 20:49Speaker 2: you got to win these upstate voters. He went to
- 20:51Speaker 2: a diner, then he went to this place that's a
- 20:53Speaker 2: great Italian restaurant in Buffalo. You would think this guy's
- 20:56Speaker 2: lived in Buffalo all his life. He's great at this stuff.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Pretty amazing stuff. Let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel,
- 21:03Speaker 2: how you doing, Good morning, Mark, welcome back.
- 21:07Speaker 7: It's a highpothetical question. Where do you see New York
- 21:10Speaker 7: City one year from today?
- 21:14Speaker 2: Right here, right next to Long Island, right below west Chester,
- 21:17Speaker 2: Where would I see it?
- 21:18Speaker 7: Being I mean under Mandami, where do you see New
- 21:21Speaker 7: York City one year from today?
- 21:22Speaker 2: Well, go back to Doblasio and look at one year
- 21:25Speaker 2: into his first term. Uh, and it's the same thing.
- 21:28Speaker 2: This is going to be Deblasio third term. It's just
- 21:30Speaker 2: going to be more Deblasio. He's in fact, it's the
- 21:32Speaker 2: same exact people, same deputy mayors, same commissioners. Although he
- 21:37Speaker 2: does find it's the same thing with the Blasio You know,
- 21:39Speaker 2: you look at who we appointed. This is when he
- 21:42Speaker 2: pointed to I'll find it. He just appointed somebody to
- 21:46Speaker 2: some position, like a real left wing wacka. But that's
- 21:49Speaker 2: exactly what Deblasio kept doing, the same exact thing. Now,
- 21:53Speaker 2: let me just clear up one thing about the fire commissioner.
- 21:57Speaker 2: All hell broke clues. He appointed a fire commissioner no
- 22:00Speaker 2: fire department experience. That's perfectly normal. Half our fire commissioner's
- 22:04Speaker 2: never had any fire department experience. Every mayor at some
- 22:09Speaker 2: point appoints at fire commissioner who had never ever been
- 22:12Speaker 2: involved in the fire department. The last fire commissioner at
- 22:15Speaker 2: Robert Tucker was great. The guy was phenomenal. No experience
- 22:19Speaker 2: with the fire department, and he was great at it.
- 22:23Speaker 2: Who had caught your point. Charles Hines, very respected guy
- 22:28Speaker 2: in New York politics, never had any experience of the
- 22:30Speaker 2: fire department. He was fire commissioner before Robert Johnson at Tucker.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Robert Tucker. Last fire commissioner with no experience who was
- 22:40Speaker 2: before ing Laura Kavanaugh, who was pretty good, no experience
- 22:44Speaker 2: at all. Laura had never been anywhere near a fire
- 22:46Speaker 2: department and it was actually Obama that got her the job,
- 22:49Speaker 2: called up Eric Adams and got her the job. She
- 22:53Speaker 2: was pretty good without any experience. You could name half
- 22:56Speaker 2: the fire commissioners. Howard Safer was a great fire commissioner.
- 23:00Speaker 2: Experience none as in the fire department. So it's perfectly normal.
- 23:05Speaker 2: Let's go to sal in Long Island. Sal. How you
- 23:07Speaker 2: doing Hi?
- 23:09Speaker 8: Good morning, Mark.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Yes, Mark.
- 23:11Speaker 8: I was having an idea and was a little bit radical.
- 23:14Speaker 8: But with the violent crime having in the cities where
- 23:17Speaker 8: guns and knives are prevalent and people are getting seriously
- 23:20Speaker 8: hurt or killed, there should be a punishment or a
- 23:23Speaker 8: deterrent for the person with the gun and knife.
- 23:27Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we had all that stuff, mandatory jail if
- 23:29Speaker 2: you have it. We had all these tough gun laws.
- 23:31Speaker 2: You know, you go right to jail with a gun
- 23:32Speaker 2: if you use a gun, and you had an extra
- 23:33Speaker 2: ten years, we had all that stuff. Thank Andrew Cuomo
- 23:36Speaker 2: for getting rid of all that stuff. He's the guy
- 23:38Speaker 2: that got rid of bail. It's Andrew Cuomo. You know,
- 23:41Speaker 2: no bail, no jail, close the prisons, drop all this
- 23:45Speaker 2: and him and the Democrats and the legislature and Democrats
- 23:49Speaker 2: all over in different cities, different states. They got rid
- 23:52Speaker 2: of all these things. In fact, even if you've been
- 23:56Speaker 2: picked up thirty seven times, if you come into court,
- 23:59Speaker 2: you remember you used to be three strikes in, you're out.
- 24:01Speaker 2: You could come in the court happens every day forty
- 24:04Speaker 2: two prior arrests. That judge lets you out. No bail,
- 24:06Speaker 2: no jail, Thanks to Andrew Cuomo. Hey, when we come back,
- 24:10Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly. We haven't talked to him in a few weeks.
- 24:12Speaker 2: He's been away. I've been away. Talk to Bill O'Reilly
- 24:14Speaker 2: next on seven to ten.
- 24:16Speaker 1: W R Listening to Mark.
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- 24:44Speaker 3: How you doing, ah, Megan Josh, Happy New Year? How
- 24:48Speaker 3: are you good?
- 24:49Speaker 2: We haven't talked in a couple of weeks. So good
- 24:52Speaker 2: that everybody's back. Not everybody's back. Tim Waltz is leaving,
- 24:56Speaker 2: that's good news. And Maduroz it's him.
- 25:01Speaker 3: Oh my god. You know, it's a when you look
- 25:05Speaker 3: at the whole landscape of the Democratic Party, it really
- 25:10Speaker 3: is a shambles. And the Republican Party isn't capitalizing on
- 25:17Speaker 3: the disarray within the opposition because of ego, and you
- 25:23Speaker 3: know a lot of stuff that doesn't really matter. But
- 25:27Speaker 3: I've never seen the Democratic Party, and you know me,
- 25:30Speaker 3: I write about politics and history and all that in
- 25:33Speaker 3: worse shape than it's in now, you know what I mean.
- 25:36Speaker 3: Who's the leader of the party, Chuck Schumer. I mean,
- 25:41Speaker 3: just look at how he handled the Maduro thing. It's incomprehensible.
- 25:46Speaker 3: So Schumer in twenty twenty was mocking Trump when Trump
- 25:50Speaker 3: was running against Biden for not removing Maduro mocking him, well, removed,
- 25:59Speaker 3: you were going to do it, okay, And now he says, oh,
- 26:05Speaker 3: why you're removed, Maduro, I'm going Chuck, this is on videotape.
- 26:10Speaker 3: Do you have no idea? Do you have no idea
- 26:14Speaker 3: that what you say is then recorded for history? Apparently
- 26:17Speaker 3: Chuck does it. And now when he makes any statement
- 26:21Speaker 3: at all, he never lifts his head up. He's just
- 26:24Speaker 3: reading off of paper that somebody wrote for him, like Biden,
- 26:28Speaker 3: and I really think that, you know, I know he's
- 26:31Speaker 3: not going to run for reelection. That's what Cassio Korse says.
- 26:34Speaker 3: His seat and she'll win in crazy New York.
- 26:38Speaker 2: You know, I always ask you to explain this crazy
- 26:41Speaker 2: left wing kook behavior, but I think it's just they're
- 26:45Speaker 2: just childish. It's like a child, you know. They demand
- 26:48Speaker 2: something and if you tell them they have to have
- 26:49Speaker 2: it now, they don't want it. If you tell them
- 26:51Speaker 2: they can't have it now, they want it. Is it
- 26:53Speaker 2: really that simple? They're just childish.
- 26:55Speaker 3: I think it's all emotion, particularly for you're younger liberal
- 26:59Speaker 3: people and conservatives too. I'm working on a special now
- 27:05Speaker 3: for News Nation. I think it's going to happen about
- 27:10Speaker 3: the craziness within the far right. You know, they're attacking
- 27:14Speaker 3: each other and tearing each other pieces and doing all that.
- 27:19Speaker 3: And when you step back and you look at what
- 27:21Speaker 3: they're doing, it's all motion. And I think as who
- 27:25Speaker 3: drives this extremism. And there's some profit in it too,
- 27:29Speaker 3: there's money in it. The crazier you get, the more
- 27:32Speaker 3: people pay attention, and the more money you can potentially
- 27:36Speaker 3: make if you want to do it the other way
- 27:38Speaker 3: and build up credibility. That takes time and patience. And
- 27:43Speaker 3: you know, these people are on social media. They want
- 27:45Speaker 3: to make money, so they toil the grenades and then
- 27:49Speaker 3: you know, our Halberg's loose.
- 27:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the difference there's obviously a lot of
- 27:54Speaker 2: crazy far right kind of you know, Alex Jones type
- 27:57Speaker 2: of nonsense, but the real you know, Scott Bess and
- 28:01Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, they don't pay attention to that whole group,
- 28:04Speaker 2: whereas with the left they kind of all are together,
- 28:07Speaker 2: the crazies and the mainstreams.
- 28:09Speaker 3: You know what. The reason is that the left depends
- 28:12Speaker 3: on the money from the radicals like Soros and others,
- 28:17Speaker 3: and the right doesn't. That's the reason. So there isn't
- 28:22Speaker 3: any kooky right wing group that funds individual politicians nearly
- 28:30Speaker 3: to the extent that the far left does. The Progressive
- 28:34Speaker 3: Communist movement a lot of money and they kick a
- 28:38Speaker 3: lot of money into campaigns. That's why Bragg is there,
- 28:45Speaker 3: That's why Letitia James is there. Because they're far left
- 28:50Speaker 3: finance their campaigns. But you don't have that on the
- 28:53Speaker 3: conservative side.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Very interesting. That's a good explanation. Maduro will be convicted, obviously,
- 29:02Speaker 2: And so what happened that no Kings? I thought it
- 29:04Speaker 2: was no Kings Now they love this.
- 29:05Speaker 3: Guy, Yeah, but nobody loves him. That was just communist stuff.
- 29:11Speaker 3: Yesterday and a New York Posts really did a good
- 29:14Speaker 3: job and tracking that down who these nuts were supporting
- 29:19Speaker 3: Maduro and they found out that they were from a
- 29:21Speaker 3: far left group that sympathetic kids. I mean, you know,
- 29:27Speaker 3: but it's not a mass movement of a yeah we
- 29:29Speaker 3: like Maduro, I mean, even a liberal people they have
- 29:34Speaker 3: to know this guy's a human rights violator and he's
- 29:37Speaker 3: a drug dealer. Just today, just about a few moments ago,
- 29:42Speaker 3: I got a call from a European and they frozen
- 29:46Speaker 3: all of Maduro's counts in Switzerland. Well, what is he
- 29:50Speaker 3: doing with the counts in Switzerland. What is that his
- 29:54Speaker 3: government pension? Sally, he's a guy in Switzerland. Come on,
- 30:00Speaker 3: the guy's a dope dealer. It's like, oh no, don't
- 30:07Speaker 3: remove the dope dealer. No, no, you know I did that.
- 30:12Speaker 3: And then they tivot to and CNN is the best
- 30:15Speaker 3: of this. I love them. I then become my favorite
- 30:18Speaker 3: go to now CNN. They're better than any sitcom I
- 30:21Speaker 3: have ever seen on television, with the possible exception of
- 30:25Speaker 3: the Mary Tyler Marshall. Okay, so you can just I
- 30:29Speaker 3: just turned over there. I know when they hear lunacy,
- 30:32Speaker 3: but funny lunacy. So they come on here last night,
- 30:36Speaker 3: you know, all for our brows. Oh oh Trump, Yeah,
- 30:41Speaker 3: it's illegal. Oh well, Park and then they put it
- 30:45Speaker 3: into it. Well what happens now? So I said, why
- 30:48Speaker 3: don't you bring on this, Cleo, get a little ball there,
- 30:52Speaker 3: and who knows what's gonna happen? All right, That's not
- 30:55Speaker 3: why they made the move. Trump administration made the move
- 30:59Speaker 3: because they felt that the Venezuelan government was harming the
- 31:05Speaker 3: United States in a variety of ways. That's what I
- 31:08Speaker 3: mean to move. And you know, that's not a hard
- 31:13Speaker 3: country to control. And the CIA, in conjunction with the
- 31:17Speaker 3: Venezuelan military, will be able to comment down and then
- 31:22Speaker 3: there'll be an election about a year, as there should be,
- 31:25Speaker 3: and maybe the Venezuela's will get back to democracy. They're
- 31:29Speaker 3: not protesting in the streets in Caracas, and the army
- 31:33Speaker 3: sold out Maduro. They made a deal with the CIA,
- 31:37Speaker 3: and that's how the Delta Force got in there with
- 31:39Speaker 3: no resistance.
- 31:40Speaker 2: Wow, hey, you mentioned CNN. Even funnier I think is
- 31:44Speaker 2: MS now this is MSNBC. After that?
- 31:47Speaker 3: I can't.
- 31:48Speaker 2: Oh, it's I can't, But I'm watching yesterday they're promoting
- 31:51Speaker 2: all day long tonight at nine exclusive interview with the
- 31:55Speaker 2: Gaven Newsom. I see this guy on TV every five minutes. Now,
- 31:58Speaker 2: right now on the screen, they promote tonight exclusive interview
- 32:02Speaker 2: with Nancy Pelosi. She's on everything on every channel every day.
- 32:06Speaker 2: How is this exclusive?
- 32:09Speaker 3: I guess? I look, I can't watch that, all right,
- 32:14Speaker 3: I have to be honest, I just can't. But Cianna
- 32:20Speaker 3: is a different cat, as Dennis Miller would say, because
- 32:24Speaker 3: CNN goes worldwide and in everyone tell you are you
- 32:28Speaker 3: travel the world? That's the NF Okay, they bought that
- 32:32Speaker 3: thing early to Turner. So they're propaganda that infiltrates everything.
- 32:40Speaker 3: I'm doing a YouTube. You mentioned my YouTube channel, which
- 32:43Speaker 3: is really very successfuln't know what YouTube, Yeah, I don't
- 32:48Speaker 3: even know what YouTube is, but I'm successful on it.
- 32:51Speaker 3: I'm doing a commentary about Jimmy Kimmel doing a slash
- 32:58Speaker 3: Trump America. He's for British television. I got a call
- 33:04Speaker 3: from a friend of mine who lives in Western England
- 33:07Speaker 3: who knows nothing about America because there there's no reporting
- 33:11Speaker 3: over there. They can't get really what's happening, so relies
- 33:15Speaker 3: on me to tell them why Trump is doing X,
- 33:17Speaker 3: Y and Z and kim Will goes over there just
- 33:20Speaker 3: slashes the country. This is on Christmas Day, you may
- 33:23Speaker 3: remember that, Yeah, And I'm going why why do you
- 33:28Speaker 3: want to hurt your country? Jim We know you don't
- 33:30Speaker 3: like Trump, and you're perfect right not to like him,
- 33:34Speaker 3: but why do you want to hurt your country? Why?
- 33:38Speaker 3: And that's my commentary. This is actually seditious and they
- 33:43Speaker 3: do a freedom of speech. I mean, this guy goes
- 33:46Speaker 3: over and he does his propaganda stuff to a foreign
- 33:50Speaker 3: country that doesn't know any better, and it hurts his
- 33:53Speaker 3: own country. What are you doing.
- 33:55Speaker 2: But I keep going back to childish. It's pouting. He's
- 33:57Speaker 2: just pouting.
- 33:58Speaker 3: It's oh yeah, Well the Jim has got that personal
- 34:02Speaker 3: thing going. But Trump does that too. But you have
- 34:06Speaker 3: to be honest, you know, you go after Trump and
- 34:08Speaker 3: he takes it personally, and it must do I do.
- 34:14Speaker 3: I'll listen. You come intact me and my family personally.
- 34:19Speaker 3: You're on my list. Yeah, and that's not a list
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- 34:46Speaker 3: Thanks having me and look for a good year of
- 34:49Speaker 3: talking to you. Mark. I always appreciate it.
- 34:51Speaker 2: Well, we love having you on. Thanks for being with us.
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- 35:24Speaker 2: Well, hang on, I'm reading this here. Heidi Klum lounging
- 35:29Speaker 2: on the beach. Photographs. You know, they put up people
- 35:31Speaker 2: pub best photos, Instagram, TikTok everywhere. She's on the beach
- 35:36Speaker 2: in some tropical island. And apparently people recognize the towel,
- 35:40Speaker 2: the beach towel six hundred bucks, six hundred bucks. It's
- 35:47Speaker 2: terry cloth. Actually retails for six hundred and ten dollars.
- 35:52Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure it makes it. I think it's oh,
- 35:53Speaker 2: it's a Gucci. It's a Gucci towel, six hundred and
- 35:56Speaker 2: ten dollars, currently unavailable, sold out. So hey missus, mom
- 36:02Speaker 2: Donni there the socialist mom Donnie and his wife the inauguration.
- 36:07Speaker 2: People studying the pictures of the wife at the inauguration
- 36:11Speaker 2: and apparently extremely expensive like eight hundred dollars boots that
- 36:15Speaker 2: she's wearing. Well, that's okay, And if she wants to
- 36:18Speaker 2: buy some nice boots, why not. But she's a socialist,
- 36:21Speaker 2: you know, she's supposed to have those Soviet style boots
- 36:23Speaker 2: and not extremely expensive designer boots. Hey, coming up in
- 36:28Speaker 2: the next hour, we got a lot to get to.
- 36:30Speaker 2: There's a Frank Sinatra documentary. I forgot to mention. I
- 36:34Speaker 2: should mention it because you should take a look at this.
- 36:36Speaker 2: It's really good. Also, we're going to talk about these documentaries.
- 36:39Speaker 2: There's too many of them. A Frank Sinatra documentary, I
- 36:42Speaker 2: can understand, it's a lifetime of stuff. But Chevy Chase documentary, Well,
- 36:46Speaker 2: we'll get to that and more coming up after the news. Also,
- 36:50Speaker 2: we'll get to who got stranded during the Christmas break
- 36:53Speaker 2: and more coming up on seven to ten wo