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FULL SHOW: Leave the clocks alone; Cornell rape case update. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, this is The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's Monday morning. A lot to get to today.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to Cornell. We'll get to Iran. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to the midterms. We'll get to daylight saving time. All
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  Speaker 2: sorts of stuff to cover this morning. President Trump, busy
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  Speaker 2: schedule every day. He's flying to another state. He'll be
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  Speaker 2: in Nebraska later today, campaigning for the midterms. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to all of that coming up. Now, Cornell, about a
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  Speaker 2: week ago, week and a half ago, we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about it. It was a bit of a story. It's
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  Speaker 2: become a huge story. It is spiraling out of control.
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  Speaker 2: The Cornell president finally forced to put out a statement,
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  Speaker 2: video statement, eight minutes long, apologizing, typical crisis management, the
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  Speaker 2: three points, apologize, talk or admit what happened, talk about
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing to clean it up. Now, he was
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  Speaker 2: actually a brand new president at the time of the incident.
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  Speaker 2: At the time of the incident, the president left, and
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  Speaker 2: this guy was the temporary acting president. He's now been
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  Speaker 2: made permanent, but they were in transition there. So at
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  Speaker 2: the time, they did a bit of an investigation, not
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  Speaker 2: enough of an investigation. It should be pointed out that
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  Speaker 2: at the time, Cornell, after their investigation, they did expel
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  Speaker 2: some of the students. Some of the others they suspended.
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  Speaker 2: They got rid of the fraternity. They banned it from
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  Speaker 2: the campus, that fraternity. Hey, by the way, that is
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  Speaker 2: the ugliest building I've ever seen, that fraternity building. Have
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  Speaker 2: you seen that picture, that white building with the black
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  Speaker 2: tic-tac-toe all over it, the board? Goodness, the ugliest building.
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  Speaker 2: Tear that thing down, too. So it's just a horrible situation. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to get worse because Kathy Hochul has jumped
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  Speaker 2: in to use it as an election issue. This is
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  Speaker 2: a two-year-old incident. It's been in the news for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. And this incident took place two years ago
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  Speaker 2: in New York State. Kathy Hochul never lifted a finger
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  Speaker 2: about it. But now she wants to use it as
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  Speaker 2: an election issue. So you're not going to hear the
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  Speaker 2: end of this. Now, she's appointed. Letitia James is the
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  Speaker 2: special prosecutor, which is absolutely idiotic. First of all, it's
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  Speaker 2: Letitia James, who's a creepy sort of character with her
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  Speaker 2: political vendettas and lawfare and all that. But aside from that,
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  Speaker 2: more importantly, she's not a prosecutor. She's never in her
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  Speaker 2: life been a prosecutor. She's never prosecuted a criminal case ever.
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  Speaker 2: She has absolutely no experience of that. She's got a
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  Speaker 2: law degree. And one time early, early in her career,
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  Speaker 2: in the very beginning, worked as one of those legal
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  Speaker 2: aides or those, what do you call those, you know, legal,
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  Speaker 2: free legal aid. But that was briefly. And then all
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  Speaker 2: of her life, she's been a politician. She served on
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  Speaker 2: the city council for years. She was the public advocate
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  Speaker 2: for years. She's never prosecuted a case in her life ever, ever.
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  Speaker 2: So you'd think if this is so important, you'd put
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  Speaker 2: somebody with some experience on it, but this is all
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  Speaker 2: politics for Kathy Hochul. So it's Letitia James.
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  Speaker 3: No institution gets to protect its reputation at the expense
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  Speaker 3: of a young person seeking justice. No public official gets
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  Speaker 3: to look the other way when the system breaks down
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  Speaker 3: and fails our young people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now she's going to make all kinds of pontificating, dramatic
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  Speaker 2: speeches trying to, this is all for the election. Now, uh, Again,
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't have cared less about this case two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: But now she sees she can use it, so she's
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  Speaker 2: all over it.
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  Speaker 3: She spoke to the police. She sat for hours and
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  Speaker 3: told them exactly what happened to her. And according to
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  Speaker 3: new reports, she could not have been clearer that she
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  Speaker 3: was 100% confident that she had been raped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Hochul apparently not familiar with the case at all.
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  Speaker 2: I would think her story is true. I would want
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  Speaker 2: to see justice for her. But they've got some problems.
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  Speaker 2: One is her story has not been consistent. It's changed
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  Speaker 2: in a number of ways from her initial talk to
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  Speaker 2: campus police. They wrote up a report to her first
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  Speaker 2: talk with the district attorney to her lawsuit today. There's
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  Speaker 2: contradictions in all of these about what happened. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of contradictions. The defense attorneys for these awful guys are
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  Speaker 2: going to use all of that. And now the other
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  Speaker 2: problem is Letitia James. Again, she's not a criminal prosecutor.
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  Speaker 2: She never prosecuted a case in her life. Didn't know
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  Speaker 2: that you're not supposed to hold a press conference or
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  Speaker 2: tweet and take sides and prejudge the case. The defense
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  Speaker 2: can use that against you. But she put out a
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  Speaker 2: tweet declaring the guy's guilty. That's it. Then it's funny
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  Speaker 2: in that press conference when they asked her to comment
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  Speaker 2: about her tweet. She said, I don't comment about tweets.
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  Speaker 2: But it's your tweet. You wrote it. We're asking you
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  Speaker 2: to comment about what you said. So she's already muddied
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  Speaker 2: up the case quite a bit. Here's Letitia James.
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  Speaker 5: We will review the facts, gather evidence, interview witnesses, and
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  Speaker 5: if warranted, pursue prosecutions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there she is prejudging the whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: Every New Yorker deserves to know that when they report
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  Speaker 5: a crime... it will be investigated fully and fairly, that
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  Speaker 5: they will be seen and heard.
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  Speaker 2: All right, these statements are fine. But previous to that,
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  Speaker 2: she was already declaring all these guys guilty. You can't
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  Speaker 2: do that if you're the prosecutor. And, you know, she
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  Speaker 2: was accused of rape once. It was a rape allegation
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  Speaker 2: against Letitia James. Yeah. It never got... the, uh, and
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  Speaker 2: I remember she's the public advocate at the time. It
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  Speaker 2: was supposedly at her Christmas party and the accuser was
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  Speaker 2: not taken seriously by prosecutors. So they didn't file any charges,
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  Speaker 2: but she's been accused of this. So she, she does
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  Speaker 2: know there is such a thing as false charges in
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  Speaker 2: cases like this. But, um, it's just, I would assume
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  Speaker 2: this woman is telling the truth. It's just, her story
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  Speaker 2: has changed a few times. Now, uh, Her attorney can
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  Speaker 2: argue all kinds of reasons why that changed the trauma,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. But the defense attorneys will use that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the good news is there's text messages at the time
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  Speaker 2: from those awful fraternity kids texting about what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: So they'll use that as hard evidence against them. The
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  Speaker 2: university at the time conducted an investigation, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: thorough enough. They didn't get to the bottom of things. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other problem is this whole report, everything she said,
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  Speaker 2: was handed over to the local district attorney and he
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  Speaker 2: decided to let it go. He didn't think there was
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  Speaker 2: anything there illegal. And when it heated up in the news,
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  Speaker 2: he then went back to it. But Hochul has removed
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  Speaker 2: him from the case. District attorneys all work for her.
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  Speaker 2: District attorneys are, it's a state job. The governor can
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  Speaker 2: remove them. And if this guy's so bad, she should
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  Speaker 2: remove him immediately. His reason for not prosecuting, there's a
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  Speaker 2: crazy thing in the New York law That if you
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  Speaker 2: get yourself intoxicated, let's say you're so drunk you can't consent.
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  Speaker 2: You're so drunk you don't know what's going on. It
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  Speaker 2: would be impossible for you to consent because you're too drunk.
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  Speaker 2: Under New York state law, if you'd get yourself that drunk,
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  Speaker 2: voluntarily get that drunk, you can't claim rape. It's a
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  Speaker 2: strange thing in the law, but it's in New York state.
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  Speaker 2: It's something they got to fix. Hochul's up for reelection.
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  Speaker 2: She'll work with New York state now. to change that law,
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  Speaker 2: but that's also going to be a factor in this case. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you might be hearing these AOC statements, this crazy AOC
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  Speaker 2: who never knows what she's talking about has been telling
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  Speaker 2: the story of what happened, and it's all false, everything
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  Speaker 2: she's saying. She was lured to the fraternity house. That's
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  Speaker 2: not true at all. She wanted to go to the
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  Speaker 2: fraternity house and did. She voluntarily drank. She voluntarily took
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  Speaker 2: some drugs. It was her choice. So everything AOC is saying,
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  Speaker 2: they drugged her with ketamine. They dragged her to the attorney.
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  Speaker 2: None of this is true. That's just AOC craziness. So
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting to note, if you're thinking of voting for her,
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  Speaker 2: that she gets things totally wrong and lies and just
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  Speaker 2: goes out there and spews all kinds of lies. So
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  Speaker 2: bear that in mind if you're thinking of voting for her.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget the Duke University case 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Very similar story. Duke University students, the lacrosse team, Accused
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  Speaker 2: of gang raping a stripper. It sounded horrible. It was
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  Speaker 2: just like this where it was all over the news.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody lashing out at these fraternity guys. Everybody wanted to
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  Speaker 2: give them the electric chair. Everybody. Well, it turned out
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing wasn't true. It turned out the accuser
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  Speaker 2: was not telling the whole story, was not telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And they were actually innocent. So that was 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Just bear that in mind. Just keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump getting into a huge fight with Senator Tom Cotton,
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  Speaker 2: getting so mad at him that he gave out his
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  Speaker 2: cell number. He's done that before. Remember, he did that
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  Speaker 2: to Lindsey Graham years ago. But the reason he's so
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  Speaker 2: mad at Cotton, the fight is over daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 2: The president wants to keep it permanently. Permanent daylight savings time.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the Sunshine Protection Act. It would make daylight
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  Speaker 2: savings time permanent. You'd never have to set your clocks
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  Speaker 2: ahead or back, which is good because coming up in December,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to start to get dark at 4.30. If
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  Speaker 2: we keep Daylight Savings Time, it'll get dark at 5.30.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that much better, but it helps.
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  Speaker 6: It helps.
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  Speaker 2: Now, President Trump... We.
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  Speaker 7: Want to get away from this ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Way and custom of every twice a year turning your
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  Speaker 2: clocks back, turning your clocks forward.
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  Speaker 8: Being late for dinner, being late for very important meetings.
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  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. And if you look at the public, they agree.
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  Speaker 4: That's a 100% issue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 9: That's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Your iPhone, your iWatch, they'll change the time automatically for
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  Speaker 2: daylight saving time. But then you've got to change your
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  Speaker 2: alarm clock, your this clock, your that clock, and then
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  Speaker 2: you think you're all done, and then You go in
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen, uh-oh, I forgot the clock in the microwave.
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  Speaker 2: There's a clock in the oven I got to change.
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  Speaker 2: Then you get in your car. There's a clock there.
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  Speaker 2: You got to change that. You got to go into
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of settings. It's a problem. Now, the other
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  Speaker 2: thing is there are a lot of studies that show
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  Speaker 2: daylight savings time, when we come off it, it actually
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  Speaker 2: affects people's health. It actually costs a lot of money
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  Speaker 2: for us. So it's a good idea to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of it. Now, why is Tom Cotton demanding it? that
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  Speaker 2: we go off daylight saving time? Well, he's the senator
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  Speaker 2: from Arkansas. And here's the problem. Arkansas is at the
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  Speaker 2: end of a time zone. It's at the very end.
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  Speaker 2: You got to remember, let's say it gets dark at
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  Speaker 2: five o'clock here in New York at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the time zone. Well, if you're at the other end
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  Speaker 2: of the time zone, it's not getting dark till six o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: It's like almost an hour difference, one end of the
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  Speaker 2: time zone to the other. So Arkansas is right on
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  Speaker 2: the end which means if it's going to stay dark
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  Speaker 2: out till 7 in the morning in Arkansas, it'll stay
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  Speaker 2: dark out till 8 in the morning. So he's arguing
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  Speaker 2: that it would stay dark out till like 8.30. All
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  Speaker 2: the kids would have to go to school in total darkness.
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  Speaker 2: And that's his whole problem. He doesn't want to do
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  Speaker 2: that to the kids. But nowadays, you know, when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, you just went to school. You left
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  Speaker 2: your house and you walked to school. And your parents
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  Speaker 2: had no idea where the hell you were. But nowadays,
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  Speaker 2: the parents never leave the kid They're never more than
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  Speaker 2: two feet away from the kid all day and night.
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  Speaker 2: What do they call that? Helicopter parents. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just for Arkansas. They've got to come
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  Speaker 2: up with something. Maybe a state can make it an
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  Speaker 2: exception if it wants to. Do that in the law.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else wants to keep daylight savings time. It would
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: be great for everybody. Yankees tonight. The next playoff game
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: is tonight. It's game two. They lost the first game.
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  Speaker 2: They've got to win tonight. They cannot get two games behind.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is Wednesday they moved to Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that gives them an advantage being at Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully it does. Hey, remember that crazy Jack Smith, that
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  Speaker 2: bug-eyed weirdo prosecutor, the hit man for the Biden administration?
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  Speaker 2: He's got a history of that, of going after Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: charging them with anything and everything. He also has a
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  Speaker 2: history of the charges never sticking. When he went after
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  Speaker 2: McDonald in Virginia, he convicted him of eight things. It
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  Speaker 2: got to the Supreme Court and they ruled all eight
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  Speaker 2: were phony, ridiculous charges and threw them out. But in
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: the hearings, a lot of people think he should actually
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: be nominated for a Best Acting Oscar. He was amazing
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: in those hearings, trying to convince everybody that he's not
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  Speaker 2: a partisan. He's not political. He has no partisan leanings
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  Speaker 2: in any direction. He's totally neutral. He actually said this
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  Speaker 2: under oath. But there he was this weekend seen at
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  Speaker 2: a protest, a No Kings protest. a power to the people,
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: no Kings protest festival. There was Jack Smith wearing a
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  Speaker 2: no King shirt. I mean, you can't get much more
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: left wing, a crazy Democrat than a no King shirt
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: at the festival. Foo fighters, lead singer, Dave Grohl even
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  Speaker 2: mentioned him from the stage. They dedicated a song to
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: Jack Smith. They said he was a hero. Bruce Springsteen performed, uh,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: and he, well, uh, he, It was sort of a concert.
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  Speaker 2: It was more him lecturing you about everything. He came
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  Speaker 2: out talking about ICE for 10 minutes, and then he
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: did that Minnesota song that he does. What's that called?
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: The Streets of Minnesota. Then he talked more and more
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  Speaker 2: about ICE. Can you imagine? I mean, I love Bruce Springsteen,
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  Speaker 2: but the last thing I want to hear from him
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  Speaker 2: is politics. I mean, it's like having Mitch McConnell sing
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  Speaker 2: Born to Run. It's like, stick to what you know,
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: but people who paid a fortune for this had to
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: listen to a lecture from Bruce Springsteen. Hey, speaking of
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  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell, You see the SNL open, the cold open?
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  Speaker 2: They did a thing of all these Republicans coming out.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: They bring out this old fossil in a wheelchair. It's
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: supposed to be Mitch McConnell. And they make jokes about
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  Speaker 2: how feeble he is, how out of it he is.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But did you hear one of these jokes in the
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  Speaker 2: whole four years of Biden? The whole four years of Biden,
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: it was never a mention. Listen, compared to Biden, Mitch
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: McConnell is like a track star. I mean, Not one
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: mention of Biden in four years on that show. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, surprise appearance in the middle of a monologue.
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  Speaker 2: Actually woke up the audience because the co-host or the
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: host that week. Not exactly dazzling the audience, but we
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. We'll get to lots
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: of coming up. We'll get to household income. You're not
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: going to believe these numbers. And we'll get to Mamdani.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: He's done even more damage to New York. Wait till
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  Speaker 2: you hear this. Coming up, it's Mark Simone, three hours
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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, there's a lawsuit. I think this is the
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: one that will stop the Piedra terror attacks. It's a
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: brilliant lawsuit. It's a different one. Well, we'll get to
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: it coming up. The Republicans right now, when it comes
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: to the midterms, they're a little behind. Now, don't go
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  Speaker 2: by all the fake polls, these media polls, these college polls.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: They're all heavily rigged. The metrics are all wrong. Don't
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: go by them. But if you look at real polling,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Republicans are a little behind. But with momentum, that's very,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: very important. That's a good place to be in. The
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: worst thing you can have happen is to be way
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: ahead too early. And it looks like the Democrats may
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: have peaked too early. And they're starting to lose ground.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: President Trump now all over the place, traveling all over
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: the country. There's one different state every day. He'll be
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: in Nebraska today. He's going back to Texas this week. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you could say, well, Texas should have been a sure thing.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that he has to keep going back there
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  Speaker 2: is not good. Well, the other thing is they don't
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  Speaker 2: go back unless they've really dug through the numbers and
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  Speaker 2: think they got a shot at winning, at turning it around.
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  Speaker 2: So if he's going back, it means he can turn
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  Speaker 2: it around. If it looks hopeless, North Carolina or something,
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  Speaker 2: they just pull out. So the fact that he's going
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: back to Texas means they see something very encouraging in
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: the numbers. But things look very good for Republicans right
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  Speaker 2: now in the midterms, better than you're being told. And
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: you'll be told all along by fake polls and fake
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  Speaker 2: news that it's hopeless, the Republicans are going to wipe
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it out. That's to discourage turnout. And that's another reason
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the president is out there hoping to encourage turnout. Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman in New York, don't go by the fake polls,
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  Speaker 2: the public polls that you read, these cheap, flimsy polls
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  Speaker 2: with the bad metrics in the real polls, which are
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: not public. They cost a fortune, but they're deadly accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman doing very well.
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  Speaker 7: Our internal polling has us in the margin of error.
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  Speaker 7: It's neck and neck. And I'm sure Kathy Hochul's poll
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  Speaker 7: is the same because she spent $ 6 million over the
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: last couple of weeks attacking me. And you don't attack
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  Speaker 7: a Republican in New York State and raise their name
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  Speaker 7: ID unless you're in deep trouble. And she's in deep
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  Speaker 7: trouble because people are miserable.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Blakeman's in a very good spot. Just a little behind,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: but with momentum. That's what you want. You don't want
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: to be... Good examples, Kathy Hochul. Far ahead. 20 points ahead.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Too early, too soon, and lost it all. And again...
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: She's got this internal polling too. She has actual real
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: polling with the real numbers. And you can tell what
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: they said because she's running millions in attack ads. She
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: wasn't doing that before. All of a sudden, she is
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: spending millions and millions and millions on vicious attack ads
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: against Blakeman. That's because she saw the real polling and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: it scared the hell out of her. So all of
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: a sudden, tons of money were allocated to go after Blakeman.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: You know what's a real compliment to Bruce Blakeman? They
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: did the most extensive opposition research. They dug into him
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: to look for some dirt on him. They looked and
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: they looked and they looked. And they couldn't find anything.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: There's nothing there. They couldn't find one piece of dirt
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: to attack him on. So instead, the attack ads are
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: all about him and Trump. He's so close to Trump.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: He's too close to Trump. He's a Trump supporter. He's
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a MAGA guy. That's all they came up with. They
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: couldn't find anything else to attack him on. Quite a compliment.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to Blakeman. You can also hear about the economy, how
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: bad the economy is. The economy is actually doing pretty well.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: It's actually a very strong economy. Jobs are up since
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the president's gone. And the good news is they're real jobs.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: They're not government jobs. They're private sector jobs. And here's
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: an interesting statistic that gets ignored. Second, Trump administration, nearly
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: all the jobs created have gone to women.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Men only got 8% of the jobs. 92% of the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: jobs in the new Trump administration have all gone to women. Now,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: one reason might be he's deported from A million people. Now,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: those statistics show most of the people deported are men.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: So that might have changed things a little. But it's
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: an interesting statistic. Nobody else will report it. You won't
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: hear it anywhere else. Hey, the Tennessee prison, you know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: they tried to execute Krista Pike. They gave her a
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: lethal injection. She survived. They gave her another lethal injection.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: She survived. It's happened before. Like 3% of.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Executions don't work. And it doesn't matter what it is.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It can be hanging, could be electrocution, could be lethal injection. 3%
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: of them fail and the person survives. But the prison
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: boss of that Tennessee prison, he's resigned. He has left.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Tennessee's prison chief, Frank Strada, is resigning from his position. Now,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the interesting thing is before this prison, he was in
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Arizona running a prison there. And in that prison, they
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: had three problem-plagued executions three executions it didn't work so
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: he's got a history of this but I would think
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I would think they looked into this before they hired
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the guy but maybe not President Trump promising well he's
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: announced he's going to send $ 90 checks $ 90 checks to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: 20 million seniors to help them with their Medicare premiums
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: they found some money in the fund that they can
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: give back so every senior 20 million of them actually
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: We'll get a $ 90 check. And then on the campaign
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: trail this weekend, he revived that promise to give everybody $ 5, 000.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Send everybody a check for $ 5, 000 if the Republicans win
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the midterms. And it's a great idea because it's the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: kind of thing Democrats would do. That's why they're getting
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: so crazy about it. It's what they do. They promise
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: a free phone, a free this. They just promise you
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: free stuff if you vote for themself. For a Republican
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to steal their little gimmick, they're very unhappy about that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: And it's also a great idea because you promised the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: $ 5, 000 check to everybody. Republicans win, they take over, and
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: you don't send the $ 5, 000. You keep promising it. Well,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: who knows? We'll see. It'll end up being a $ 1, 000
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: check to everybody. There is the money to do it
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: coming in because, believe it or not, these crazy tariffs
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: do bring in a couple trillion dollars. And all this
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: manufacturing come back. So the money is there to do it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: It'd be an easy thing to do. If you just
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: get rid of all the waste and fraud and bloat
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and the budget, you could send everybody $ 50, 000. But he'll
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: come up with something. Mayor Mamdani getting his flu shot.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: You should get your flu shot. It's that time of year.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And you notice in the video, he invited Curtis Sliwa
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to get the shot with him. He and Curtis are
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: sitting there side by side. It's a very funny video.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It's up online. of them getting flu shots. Curtis is
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: very funny in the video. And it's driven a lot
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: of people crazy. A lot of other radio hosts, everybody
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: lashing out at Curtis. What are they doing with Mayor Mondale? See,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: it's a tradition for mayors. They've done this forever. When
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: it's time for the flu shot, they'll make a video
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to encourage people to get a flu shot. Most of
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: the time, they'll get some big celebrity to come be
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: with them. And if it's a Democrat, easy to get
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: big celebrities because all the big Hollywood people love these Democrats.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: So it's quite an honor to Curtis, actually. It's quite
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: an honor. They usually look for some big celebrity to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: be in the video with them. The fact they asked Curtis,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: that's quite an honor. One of the reasons the other
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: radio hosts are going crazy. They weren't asked. Nobody asked them.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: But listen, we're all opposed to Mamdani. We can't stand
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: what he's doing. But when it comes to public service
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: or something like that. You do those things. You do those.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I did a luncheon with him a couple weeks ago.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It was all to raise money for the police athletically.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Great charity, but there we were, smiling, laughing. I introduced him.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: It was great, but that's what you do when it's
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: public service, charity, flu shots. You do that. You do that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You can't run around being an angry, screaming lunatic every
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: time you see the guy. Anyway, we'll take some calls
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: coming up. 800-321- 0710 is the number. Mark Simone here.
• 24:32
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• 24:35
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• 24:37
  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show.
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: On 710WOR.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Shadow Stevens. Well, this just announced Caroline Leavitt,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: formerly the White House Press Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, will join
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Fox News as a contributor. Now, at some point, I
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: would imagine she'll have her own show, like a lot
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: of other ex-press secretaries, Dana Perino and Kayleigh McEnany and others.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: But for now, a contributor, that's probably what she wants
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: because that means you appear on various Fox shows as
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a guest. You do 10 minutes on this show, 10
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: minutes on that show, and you can do it from home.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: They set you up at home with a little mini
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: TV set there. It's a big TV screen behind you
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: that puts the background in. It's three lights and a camera.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And it's just, you know, once in a while, you know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: every couple hours you do 10 minutes. So the whole
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: point of her leaving the White House was so she
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: could be with her kids and help, you know, around
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the house, be there to raise her kids. So this
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: is the perfect job. She'll do this. So once she's
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: doing this, you'll see her on Fox and Friends, you'll
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: see her on Outnumbered, or you'll see her on Hannity,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: or you'll see her on Jesse. And it's an easy
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: way to do it. And a lot of these contributors
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: have never left their house. It's a great job. You
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: don't have to go anywhere. You just got to go
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: into the other room and Do 10 minutes and come back. Now,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: some should. I'm on Kudlow all the time. There, you've
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: got to be on the set. It's very important because
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: it's a great-looking set. But perfect for Caroline Levitt. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: then at some point, if she's great as a contributor,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: they'll give her her own show. When she's ready to
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: come back full-time. Let's take some calls. Let's go to
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Dave in Chicago. Dave, how are you doing?
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark.
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: I'm doing very well, thank you. Mark, during yesterday's Chicago
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: Bears game, I saw a great ad with President Trump.
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: As he walked down a hall line with pictures, he
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: listed all of his plans and accomplishments, and I thought
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: it was quite powerful. This is excellent timing for the midterms.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: A question, if I may. How is Barron Trump doing
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: these days?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question. He's doing fine. A lot
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: of people love that ad of President Trump. They say, wow,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: it's very dramatic. Oh, that's a powerful ad. Now, if
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: you're a Democrat, you're getting livid. I think that's one
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: reason he's running the ad, just to make Democrats nauseous.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: They go crazy when they see this ad. Now, the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: other problem is you use taxpayer funds to pay for it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: You have the government pay for it. I legally, technically,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: he's right. You're not supposed to spend government money on
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: campaign ads. But the ad's only really about him. And
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: as he points out, he's not a candidate. He's not
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: running for anything ever again. He'll never be running for
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: anything ever again. So technically, it's not a campaign ad.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: But it's perfect Trump. He figured out a way to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: get Democrats screaming and crazy and have them just bursting
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: at the seams. But it's technically legal. Oh, Barron Trump's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: doing fine. Barron is going to school. He goes to NYU.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But they have a Washington, D.C. campus. That's where he goes.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Although lately he's been taking classes privately without going into
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: too much detail. You'll notice you have not seen anything
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: of Barron Trump lately. That's because of that horrifying Iranian threat.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: They've actually threatened to assassinate Barron Trump. So that's why.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: You don't hear about him, and you don't see him
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: right now. Let's go to Peter in Manhattan. Peter, how
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: Hey, what's up, Mark? Mark, I got a question for you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is the guy. He hates Trump, hates everything.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Hates Blakeman, hates all this stuff. Always angry about it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: What is Blakeman's position on illegal aliens? I think it's
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: a product.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, his position is follow the law. Stick to the law.
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that is his position.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: What is your position?
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: Because you've got to listen. Why is your system so bad,
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: your phone system so bad? Listen to me. When he says, well,
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: if they've.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Been here a long time.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: This is what I mean about this guy. This is
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: why you never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever argue with anybody.
• 28:50
  Speaker 12: Sure.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I just gave him the answer, but then nothing satisfies him.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: They'll keep arguing.
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: No, no, no, no.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: His position is follow the law.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Mock, mock, mock.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Mock, mock, mock. See, this is what they do. His
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: position is stick to the law. Whatever the law says,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: enforce it. That's his position.
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: You hope it is.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: You hope it is.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: And I bet you this guy's a really nice guy,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: this Peter. You can tell from his voice. He's like
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: a nice, fun, warm guy. As soon as they get
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: into politics, you can't tell him anything. That's right. Don't
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: even try to convince. You're not going to convince anybody
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: of anything. Blakeman's actual position is enforce the law. If
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: you tell them that, it just makes them madder. Don't
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: argue with them. Let's go to Blauvelt in Florida. Blauvelt,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 29:37
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Mark Simone.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: If Blakeman is following the law, if he proved it,
• 29:43
  Speaker 13: because he put up all the jail cells for ICE.
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: That's right there, black and white. And I have a
• 29:49
  Speaker 12: question for you.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: He didn't actually put up jail cells. When ICE comes
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: to town and they've got to arrest illegals who are
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: committing crimes, they do need help. The local law enforcement
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: should help them. And Blakeman gave them locals to help,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: and he let them use a wing of a jail
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: in case, you know, you've got to have a place
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: to hold your prisoners.
• 30:08
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I have one question for you, Mark.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: What's your TV schedule this week?
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Actually, these TV shows,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: they kind of book day to day. Like, they don't schedule.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Sometimes they'll do, but most of the time. It's day-to-day
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: depending on.
• 30:25
  Speaker 12: Are you on cut mode this week?
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on every week, but it's day-to-day. You know, like,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard... Oh, I shouldn't say this. Let me look,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: let me look. Nope, didn't hear from him today yet.
• 30:36
  Speaker 12: So it's like an encore. It's an encore process.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Well, you can't book a TV show too far in
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: advance because you don't know what the topics are going
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to be. Let's say it's a war breaks out somewhere. Well,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: it's going to be all generals and military types. And
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: let's say it's a big financial that's going to be
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: treasuries types, economists. But, yeah, it'll be one day this week.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Ralph in Manhattan. Ralph, how are you doing?
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: What kind of fair shake, Mark, are these guys from
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: Cornell going to get? They're probably creeps. I mean, I
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: can assure you they're creeps. But when they use this thing, Mark,
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: as a political football, which they're doing in spades, man,
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: you're going to see these guys go down in flames,
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: not get a fair trial. I mean, I thought it
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: was supposed to be a semblance of fairness. But as
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: you see, it's not really going.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: To end up that way, Mark. I think they're guilty.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: That's just my gut instinct. Yeah. They got some things
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: in their favor. One is the victim has changed her
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: story multiple times. Also, Letitia James, not having any experience
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: as a prosecutor, she's never prosecuted a criminal case in
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: her life, shot her mouth off and prejudged the case.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: They can use all this stuff. What they'll do with
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Hochul and James saying all these things, they'll get it
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: moved out of state. They'll get the case moved to
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: another venue. Absolutely.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and how about that Duke situation when you found
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: out years afterwards, it took years to find out that
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: it was an absolute hoax. There was no truth to
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: it whatsoever. That was shocking to me when I found
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: out there was no truth to it. I thought it
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: was somewhere in between, but it wasn't that way.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: No, and that's a good thing to bear in mind.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Good point, Ralph. The Duke lacrosse case, it was exactly
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: the same stuff. And it turned out it was not
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: just misleading. It was totally, completely false. My gut instinct
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: is this woman's not lying totally, but we'll see. Just
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: remember the Duke LaCrosse case 20 years ago turned out
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: to be a total hoax. But we'll see where this goes.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about the Cornell case. And again, that
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: fraternity house, that is the ugliest building I have ever seen.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Stop showing that picture. It looks hideous, that building. In fact,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: tear it down or put a new front on that building. Hey,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the Pieta tear tax, you know, there's a big lawsuit.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Randy Mastro's running it. They're trying to block the Pieta
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: tear tax. And they won a couple of rounds with
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the judge saying the rollout was bad. It wasn't done correctly.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: And so it didn't kill the Pieta tear tax. It
• 33:08
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• 33:10
  Speaker 2: there's another lawsuit that is so brilliant. I think this
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: one is going to stop the pied-a-terre text. We'll explain
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: it to you coming up in the next hour. I
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: think the answer to this, it's brilliant. And then we
• 33:24
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• 33:26
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• 33:30
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• 34:11
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• 34:14
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• 34:17
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• 34:21
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• 34:45
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• 34:49
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• 34:54
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• 34:57
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• 35:00
  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz. We're up to about average about
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: 10 million barrels a day. One day we hit 17
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: million barrels. That's a lot of oil coming through every day.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: So the pied-a-terre tax, this ridiculous Mamdani tax, this pied-a-terre tax.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So a bunch of people got Randy Mastro, Randy Mastro,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: a former deputy mayor and a great lawyer, and he
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: put together this big lawsuit against Mamdani and the city
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: to block the pied-a-terre tax. And they filed in Staten Island,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: which is smart because that's the Manhattan. You've got a
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: crazy left-wing kook of a judge who loves Mom Donnie.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: And the judge ruled they were right, that the rollout
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: had been done improperly, that they can't send out 17,000
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: letters when there's not that many pied-à-terre taxes. They can't
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: just send a letter demanding that people prove that they're
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: innocent on this. In America, you're guilty until proven innocent.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: It's up to the city to prove they owe it,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: not up to the homeowner to prove they don't. So
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: on that basis, Mastro won, but all the judge ruled
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: is that the rollout was done incorrectly, that you'll have
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: to roll out this thing differently. But the idea is
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: you got to stop this tax. Well, Wilbur Ross, good
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: old Wilbur Ross, former commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross has filed
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: a lawsuit and Steve Wynn, You know, Steve Wynn, Las Vegas,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: the casinos, all that stuff. These are two billionaires. So
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: now they've jumped into this fight. But the Wilbur Ross
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: lawsuit is brilliant. They're filing this lawsuit. And they're filing
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: in Southampton. They both live there. And they both have, well,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: they don't live there. They live in Florida. But they
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: both have pied-a-terres there, Southampton. Now, this lawsuit is the
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: one that could overturn and completely destroy the pied-a-terre tax.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: A pied-a-terre tax means you live in another state, you
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: live somewhere else, and this is just a part-time home
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: you keep in New York. I don't know why they
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: don't say that. They have to call it a pied-a-terre.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: But Wilbur Ross, this is brilliant. He's suing based on
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: violation of the Constitution. First rule of America is no
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: taxation without representation. That's what the Revolutionary War was about.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: No taxation without representation. Well, I don't know why we
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: didn't think of this before, but that's exactly what's happening
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: in this case. You're being taxed without representation. You live
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: in Florida. You can't vote in New York. You have
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: no say in New York. You can't vote. You can't
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: vote for any of these laws or any of these politicians,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: but you're getting taxed. So you have no representation, but
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: you're getting taxed. Now, just on that, he's probably going
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: to win. So it's a great argument. Now, you may
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: have a hard time with some left-wing judges in New York,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: but this will end up going to the Supreme Court,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: and they're going to pretty much have to rule that
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: it is taxation without representation. You can't do it. Now,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: the other part of the lawsuit is that it violates
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the Commerce Clause. And remember, this is the former Commerce
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Secretary suing. It violates the Commerce Clause because states can't
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: tax people who live in other states. It's a very
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: good point. How could you tax somebody that lives in
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: another state? If that were allowed, a lot of states,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: California is in desperate trouble financially. They could just tax
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: everybody in Nevada to collect money. You can't do it.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: You're saying, yeah, but they own property. It doesn't matter.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Some people come into this state all the time. Sometimes
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: they drive in from New Jersey. and go to stores
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and restaurants and spend a lot of money, and they
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: buy a lot of stuff here. You can put a
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: sales tax on it, but that's it. And, you know,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: if they buy an apartment, you can put a sales
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: tax on it, you can put a property tax on it,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: but you can't just tax them personally with a pied-a-terre tax.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I don't see how Wilbur Ross could lose this lawsuit.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: He might lose it with a left-wing judge in New York,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: but it will get appealed, it will end up in
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, And it sounds like an absolute no-brainer.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: So I think he ends up winning this. Now, that's
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: pretty interesting. Hey, we were talking before about Bruce Blakeman.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Hochul has seen the real polls, not the public polls,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: but the real polls show them tied. And Hochul is
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: in panic. She is running millions and millions and millions.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: And she's spending a ton of money on attack ads.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But as I pointed out last time, they can't find
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: anything to attack the guy on. They've done the opposition
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: research over and over. They can't find anything bad about Blakeman.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: So they're just attacking him for being friends with Trump.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: But a lot of political consultants are pointing out, they've
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: noticed with her millions and millions and millions in ad buys,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: There's no positive ads. There's no ads where she runs
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: on her record. That's a pretty interesting point. She cannot
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: run on her record. She's got nothing to point to.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: That's going to be a problem. Their debate is coming up.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I think it's next week. She's turned down all the
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: major debates, Channel 2, 4, 7, 5. She will not
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: do any of these debates. She's refused to debate. She's
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: agreed to one debate on Little New York 1, which
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: has 12 viewers. So she's agreed because... Very few people
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: see New York won. And the other reason she's agreed,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: it's a very biased, very left-wing place. A very biased
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: left-wing guy, Errol Lewis, will be the moderator of the debate.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: So all of this favors Hochul. That's why she's agreed
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: to that one debate. One debate. Pretty sad. But, hey,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: the city council, big hearings coming up on A.I., Now,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: there's congressional hearings. There's the AI panel. Everybody's looking into AI.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: The city council wants in on this act. They know
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: it's a hot political issue. They are not going to
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: do anything about it. They don't have the power to
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: do anything about it. They don't know anything about it.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: But it looks good for them to be having AI hearings.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: So they will pretend to be doing something about AI.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: You see these people on the city council. None of
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: them can figure out anything about AI. They don't know.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: And you're not going to get anybody of any importance
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: to come testify, but they'll pretend that they're doing something
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: about AI. You know, they like to make fun of
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: President Trump. Look at him. He fell asleep. He's falling asleep.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: First of all, the guy works like 19 hours a day,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: like most billionaires, never sleeps at night. He's working all night.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: And I've seen it in a lot of billionaires. You're
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: having dinner and they'll doze off for two minutes. They'll
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: close their eyes. They all do that. It's just because
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: they don't sleep at night. They work around the clock.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: But President Trump, working harder than any president ever worked,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: traveling more than any other president. You know, every day
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: for the last few days, middle of the day, he
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: flies to some state, does a big, massive rally, and
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: flies home. Today, it's Nebraska. Every day, he's going to
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: a different state. But you know what's amazing is President
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Xi of China, who's only 73... He came in for
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: the big summit with President Trump. Apparently, President Xi's got
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: a real problem. He really has to rest. And it's
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: come out now that for the visit, you know, they
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: schedule a whole series of events. This is a big
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: two days, these two leaders together. It's a big summit.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: So all day long, they schedule all these things they're
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: going to do. They're going to have a meeting with this.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: They're going to go to this luncheon. They're going to
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: have another meeting. They're going to go to this. Apparently,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Xi's people told the White House that he has to
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: have breaks during the day. He not only has to
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: have breaks for an hour, two hours. At one point,
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: he needed a five-hour break, but they also have to
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: set up a private room somewhere for this break where
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: he can go into this private room and be alone,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: just him and his wife, and rest. Why would you
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: need a private room, a special private room for you
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and your wife? Have you seen her? I don't think
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: they're fooling around or anything. I think this is This
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: is a nap. I don't think anything's going on with
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: these two. But apparently he needs to take lots of naps.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: And can you imagine if he had a meeting with Biden? Boy,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: the whole day would be snoring. It'd be all naps
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: with like a five-minute period to work, but that'd be
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: about it. Justice Alito, Samuel Alito, probably the most conservative justice,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: confirms he is considering retirement. He's only 76. That's very
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: young for a Supreme Court justice. He's talking about next year,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: but he said he is thinking about retirement. Now, that
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: would mean President Trump gets a fourth Supreme Court pick.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: A fourth pick. Now, things will be different because the
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Democrats will go absolutely nuts. They don't like anybody he's picked,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: although many of his picks have turned out to be
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: a lot less conservative than anybody thought. And that's often
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: the case with these Supreme Court justices. But he'll get
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: a fourth pick. Democrats will go nuts trying to stop it,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: block it, all that stuff. They put out that list
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: of the most powerful women in Washington. Melania is on it.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Usha Vance is on it. Susie Wiles, White House chief
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: of staff. But you know who's on it? Natalie Harp,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: who's an executive assistant to the president. Because they say
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: she's always by his side. Well, that's what an executive
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: assistant is. It's like your secretary. They're always there if
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: you're the president. And she's not the only one. There's
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Margo Martin. There's three of them. There's Chamberlain, Harris. There's
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: three of them. But for some reason, they pick a
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: target and then they go crazy trying to smear them.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Here's a big article. Where to go pumpkin picking on
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Long Island? Stop with the pumpkin picking. You know, just
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: stop it. Hey, you go to Long Island, go to
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: any great supermarket. Right in front, there's a whole rack
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: of pumpkins. They got a million pumpkins in front. Any suburb, Connecticut,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: go to Balducci's. Right in front, there's 500 pumpkins there.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: That's where you pick a pumpkin. You don't have to drive.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: You drive to a pumpkin patch, you have to pick
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: it off the, what do they grow, on a tree?
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Out of the ground? I have no idea. pumpkin patch,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: pumpkin picking. You really have to re-examine your life if
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: this is your weekend high point. We're going pumpkin picking.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Just go anywhere. Go any place. Walk into anything. They
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: got pumpkin latte. Go over there. There's pumpkin frozen yogurt.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Go over here. There's pumpkin this. Everything is pumpkin. The
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: other thing is this apple picking. People actually drive two
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: hours out to some orchard to pick at Go to
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: any supermarket. Go to Whole Foods. Go to Wegmans. Go
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: to any place. Right in the front, there's an apple
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: section where they have 42 different kinds of apples. You
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: can pick your apples there. That's apple picking. Because when
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: you get to– it used to be you just go
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: in and buy an apple. They had red apples. They
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: got green apples. Now you go, you can't figure out
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: what you want. They got the Gala Gala pink apples.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: They got Fuji apples. They have crisp this apples, honey
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: crisp apples. It's impossible. And when did this happen with
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: this 47 kinds of apples? So forget all this. Forget
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: all this. Michael Douglas confirms that when he was making
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: the movie Romancing the Stone, he did have an affair
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: with Kathleen Turner. He said she was smart, funny, sexy,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: the deep, sultry voice. They did have an affair. Now,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: why is he confessing this in his new memoir? I
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: have no idea. They went to Kathleen Turner and asked
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: her about this. And she said, good heavens, what a
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: fuss about something 40 years ago. I love Michael. I
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: look forward to seeing the book. That's a yes. But,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: you know, what he doesn't mention is just about every
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: movie ever made, the leading man was sleeping with the
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: co-star or somebody in the cast. I could name names.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I could go down the list. It happens all the time,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: all the time. And very often they're making the movie.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: It's at a studio in Hollywood, but then there's the
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: month where they go on location somewhere and you got
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: nothing else to do. It happens all the time. This
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: goes on in every movie set, not to mention that,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: you know, the big stars all have a big trailer,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: a trailer that they decorated like a beautiful living room.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: And when you're making a movie, You got to shoot
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: scenes for an hour. Then you got like a two
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: hour wait while they set up for another scene and
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: do all this stuff. So you got to go sit
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: in your trailer for two hours. It's very common on
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: most movie sets that if you're the big star, they'll say,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: what do you want? You want a massage? You want a,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I can't say the words. It's a certain sexual act.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: You want this? And if you want it, they'll send
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: somebody in to do it. This goes on all the time.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: You're not supposed to know this, but it goes on
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: all the time. on every movie step. You could go
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: back to those movies from the 40s, you know, like
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: any movie, Humphrey Bogart, Clark, whoever it was, they were
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: sleeping with the co-star. We could go into great detail here,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: but we won't. It happened all the time, constantly. Classic example,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Spencer Tracy ends up sleeping with Katharine Hepburn. It becomes
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: like the love of his life. But Michael Douglas, I
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: guess the reason he did this is to sell the
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: memoir because He's a great actor, great guy, Michael Douglas.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: But right now, if somebody said, ooh, there's a book
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: about Michael Douglas, who the hell's going to read it?
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: But you've got to put stuff like this in and
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: leak it out to get people to buy the book. Hey,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. Give
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: me a call.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: It's the Mark Simone Show. Live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Well, hey,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: let's take some calls. Let's go to Richard in Bayshore. Richard,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 49:45
  Speaker 12: Hello, Mark.
• 49:46
  Speaker 13: Good morning. Two diverse points. One, allegedly, Xi is a
• 49:50
  Speaker 13: heavy smoker and drinker.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks like a wild sort of party guy,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: don't you think?
• 49:58
  Speaker 13: Well, you know, maybe there's not much else to do
• 50:01
  Speaker 13: except that one, you know. Well, the other thing is
• 50:05
  Speaker 13: on sales tax. If you're from out of state, you
• 50:07
  Speaker 13: do not have to pay the state sales tax. Obviously,
• 50:11
  Speaker 13: most people don't bother unless it's a.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have to apply to have it lifted.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: It's a pain in the neck. It's better to just.
• 50:18
  Speaker 13: Well, you know, years ago, if you buy a car,
• 50:20
  Speaker 13: I bought a car in Jersey, right? And they did
• 50:23
  Speaker 13: not charge me the tax there. I lived in New York.
• 50:26
  Speaker 13: I had to pay the tax at Motor Vehicle, the
• 50:28
  Speaker 13: New York State amount.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: All right, but you live in Bayshore. You went all
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the way to New Jersey, right?
• 50:34
  Speaker 13: No, in those days, I lived in Bay Bridge in Brooklyn.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 50:37
  Speaker 13: It was an easy hop. And actually, I wanted a
• 50:41
  Speaker 13: special car, so I got what I was looking for.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Were you buying, like, a Batmobile? What do you mean,
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: a special car? What kind of special?
• 50:48
  Speaker 13: No, no, I got an old, well, they got a
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: 93 Olds Cutlass Convertible. I don't know if you remember
• 50:53
  Speaker 13: the one with the roll bar across it.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I would drive to another state just not to get
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: an Olds Cutlass Convertible. Why would you want to drive around...
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: that's like a car from happy days.
• 51:05
  Speaker 13: Uh it was a 93 it was uh rare uh
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: and uh i drove it like 178 000 miles so.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: I got my no they were well made those cars
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: all right richard thanks for calling those car collectors they
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: love the craziest kind of stuff let's go to uh
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: greg in long island greg how you doing Mark.
• 51:25
  Speaker 12: Good morning.
• 51:26
  Speaker 10: I wanted to respectfully invite to your attention the mistakes
• 51:30
  Speaker 10: you're making about pumpkin picking and the therapeutic value of
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: getting away from supermarkets and running a car through parking lots.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Pumpkin picking is great for a guy like you. I'm
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: talking about normal people. Normal people, we don't have to
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: drive out to.
• 51:47
  Speaker 12: A middle of nowhere.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: It's a.
• 51:50
  Speaker 10: It's a big part.
• 51:50
  Speaker 12: Of the tourist industry. It's not only pumpkin picking. It's
• 51:54
  Speaker 12: strawberry picking. And people who do that also.
• 51:58
  Speaker 10: Find their way to the wine tasting at the vineyards.
• 52:02
  Speaker 10: This is true not just of Long Island.
• 52:04
  Speaker 13: I hate to break it.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: To you, but right on this block, there are two supermarkets.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: One over there, one over there. I can pick all
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: the strawberries I want. There's 19 restaurants.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: But don't you do enough of that?
• 52:15
  Speaker 13: I got all the.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Wine I want right here without going. Why do I
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: have to drive out three hours in the middle of
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: nowhere to have wine?
• 52:22
  Speaker 10: Because it's God's. You get out into the open air.
• 52:25
  Speaker 10: It's God's country. It's therapeutic value is remarkable for people.
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: They should try it. And you're contributing to the tourist economy.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: All right, but listen, I do get out all the time.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: I went to Long Island the other day. I drove out.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: I was in Manhasset and Americana. I was in Garden City.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: No more beautiful place than Garden City. I was in Huntington.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: I was out in God's... I don't have to drive
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: another two hours out to a vineyard somewhere at the
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: end of Long Island.
• 52:49
  Speaker 10: Well, you take into consideration the fact that when you
• 52:54
  Speaker 10: have this regular visits that you go to, it's good.
• 52:58
  Speaker 10: But try something different now and then. Try strawberry picking
• 53:03
  Speaker 10: in June.
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: It's beautiful.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: If you ever hear that I went strawberry picking, have
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: me committed.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Strawberry picking, what are you, nuts?
• 53:13
  Speaker 14: It's great, I'm telling you.
• 53:15
  Speaker 10: And it's only part of what you bring your family with.
• 53:19
  Speaker 10: to enjoy, and it's not all you do. You get
• 53:22
  Speaker 10: to see the atmosphere.
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: It sinks in.
• 53:25
  Speaker 10: It becomes part of your life.
• 53:27
  Speaker 12: It makes you appreciate that there's more than just cities.
• 53:31
  Speaker 12: What is this guy in a cult?
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, where do you live in Long Island?
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: Oh, I'm out on the North Fork of the East End.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: You're 10 minutes away from the pumpkins. If it was
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: three hours away, you wouldn't be driving out there.
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: Well, that's just it. You have a lot of people
• 53:48
  Speaker 12: who yearn.
• 53:49
  Speaker 10: To get away from places like Garden City. I share
• 53:53
  Speaker 10: your cherished view of Garden City and places like that.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Garden City is the most beautiful place in the world.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: You know, if you go, they got Ivorone Brothers there,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: the great supermarket. Go in there. They got all kinds
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: of strawberries. They're really fresh.
• 54:06
  Speaker 12: But when you visit eastern Long Island, you're seeing what
• 54:09
  Speaker 12: those places were like. ages ago.
• 54:12
  Speaker 10: It's going back in time.
• 54:14
  Speaker 12: It's magnificent.
• 54:15
  Speaker 10: And there are very few places like that left. That
• 54:18
  Speaker 10: fight is going on to preserve places like that all
• 54:20
  Speaker 10: over the country. And I urge those who are engaged
• 54:23
  Speaker 10: in that fight to stick with it.
• 54:25
  Speaker 12: It's worth saving your heritage. That's what Long Island is
• 54:28
  Speaker 12: on the eastern.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Well, you ever notice Long Island, you're like exit 36, 38, 39,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Manhasset Gardens. The traffic is unbelievable. You ever notice when
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: you get out to the strawberry fields, there's no traffic?
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: That's because it's not that interesting to people. Nobody wants
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: to go there.
• 54:41
  Speaker 15: No, it is.
• 54:41
  Speaker 10: The traffic is quite heavy at this time of the year.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for two minutes on Sunday.
• 54:46
  Speaker 12: We're the Unhamptons. We're the North Forks.
• 54:49
  Speaker 10: The South Fork is what you're talking about with the commercialization.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: You are the Unhamptons, but you notice the house in
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: the Hamptons is $ 25 million. The house where you are
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: is like $ 1. 50 million. That's the reason.
• 55:00
  Speaker 12: A little more than that.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: A little more.
• 55:02
  Speaker 15: But anyway.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Good guy, Greg.
• 55:04
  Speaker 10: Pumpkin picking a chance.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: All right. We'll put you in the Chamber of Commerce.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Elaine in Brooklyn. Elaine,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 55:12
  Speaker 14: Good morning. I just wanted to mention Kathy Hochul has
• 55:16
  Speaker 14: been on the board of directors at Cornell. You can
• 55:20
  Speaker 14: tell me that she didn't know about this girl being raped.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, I can tell you that she generally doesn't know
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: about anything going on. If there's somebody who. As clueless
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: as to what's going on, it'd be Kathy Hochul.
• 55:31
  Speaker 14: What a pity. What a pity. All the more reason
• 55:33
  Speaker 14: to vote for Blakeman.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Vote for Blakeman. Everybody should.
• 55:36
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Help Bruce Blakeman. Go to BlakemanForNewYork.com. You
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: can contribute. You can do all that there. And we'll
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: get back to Kathy Hochul appoints Letitia James, a woman
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: who's never prosecuted a criminal case in her life. No
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: experience as a prosecutor. We got time for one more? No,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: not really. Well, we'll have to do one more real fast.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Jack in Orange County. Jack, how you doing?
• 56:00
  Speaker 13: Hi, Mark.
• 56:01
  Speaker 12: I have this idea that I hope President Trump catches on.
• 56:06
  Speaker 12: He likes to rename things. I would like to see
• 56:10
  Speaker 12: the Republican Party change from a red state to a
• 56:15
  Speaker 12: gold state. A lot of confusion out there.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, please, don't say gold around this guy. This guy,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: we love President Trump, but they'll put gold on everything. Oh,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: my God. Everything is gold with him. You know, you
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: need sunglasses just to go to his apartment. There's so
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: much shiny stuff everywhere. Hey, when we come back, the
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: greatest columnist in America. We'll talk to Michael Goodwin next
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: about all sorts of stuff. Coming up on 710WOR.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Mark Zamo, Mr.
• 56:41
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• 56:42
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• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Well, here's the best columnist in America, Michael Goodwin. You
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday in
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: the New York Post. All of his columns are up
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: on the New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, how are you?
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark.
• 57:04
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Hey, there's some old political hands, long-time campaign guys that
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: say the Republicans are actually in a pretty good position.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: You want to be a little behind at this point
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: and surge at the end. You don't want to be
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: too far ahead too soon. President Trump running around the
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: country campaigning. What do you think the chances are for
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: the Republicans?
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: Well, I agree with Karl Rove's analysis. That is, the
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: polls are probably overstating the Democrats' advantage. Nonetheless, I think
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: that is what most people believe. We can argue over
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: the extent of the advantage. Is it 4 points, 6 points,
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: 8 points on the generic vote? But combined with President
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: Trump's low approval rating consistently in all polls, I do
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: think this is now... a race where Democrats have the lead.
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: It's not over yet, but time is short.
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: And Bruce Blakeman in New York, he was 20 points behind.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Now it's pretty much neck and neck in the real polls.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: I think Hochul is pulling out all the stops to
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: use the power of the office to For example, the
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: way she jumped on this Cornell case is very much about,
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: you know, me, me, me. It's not about the case.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: It's about, look at me. I'm doing something about it. And,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: of course, in picking Letitia James, I think she has
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: tried to guarantee that there will be convictions in a
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: criminal case. So I think it's hopeful. as her usual,
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: which is not really taking chances, not really fighting for
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: anything that isn't already approved by the Democratic Party.
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: I mean, she.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: she is really more a representative of the party than
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: she is a governor of the state. Yeah.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Has anybody pointed out that Letitia James has absolutely no
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: experience in prosecuting criminal cases and never done it in
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: her life? Wouldn't you think she's the wrong choice for this? Also,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: she's too political.
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that point, Mark, is really a good one.
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: She's very active on social media and very active press office.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: And everything is partisan. I mean, I feel like every
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: day I get an email from her office telling me,
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: we're suing the Trump administration. So this is what she
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: has turned the office into, a 24-hour-a-day campaign against the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: president and therefore for her and for the Democratic left.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: It doesn't give me any confidence that she'll ever do
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: anything fair if it's a controversy. She will always hurt.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: her default position is political, to go back to the
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: outsider outrage at the politics of it. And so, yes,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: I think this is a mistake by Hochul and one
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: that obviously will not hurt her before the campaign is over.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: But down the road, it could turn out to have
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: been a big mistake.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Hey, our crazy Mayor Mamdani, what is he up to?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: A couple of days ago, he puts out a video
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: all about the fighting anti-Semitism. Yesterday, he puts out a
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: bunch of pictures of him. He went to see some
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Orthodox rabbis and have dinner with them. What is he
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: up to?
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: Well, look, I think he is preaching to his choir
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: in the sense that some of the Orthodox groups have
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: been supportive of him. He has been very generous to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: them in government programs. And I think he's carving out
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: for himself not only some votes, but some testimony that
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: he's not an anti-Semite. Look, I think that does not
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: carry you in the popular places of the city. Your policies,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: you know, the whole thing that you want to arrest Netanyahu,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: you still want to arrest him. You want the United
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: States to recognize the International Criminal Court, which could then
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: arrest and imprison American soldiers anywhere around the world. This
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: is a huge mistake. So I think he's trying to
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: change his image, but I don't believe for a minute
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: he has changed his stripes.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: Well, his other stripe is that he just talks. He
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: doesn't do anything. And why don't his supporters notice he's
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: yelling and screaming about arresting Netanyahu? Netanyahu is here for
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: two days. He doesn't do a damn thing about it.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Netanyahu leaves, and he's yelling and screaming about arresting him.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: He just talks. He never actually does anything. Don't his
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: supporters see that?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, Mark, that he's always, in effect, trying
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: to draw a contrast between himself and And every mayor
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: who came before him, see, I'm different. Maybe I don't
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: get it done, but I say things differently. I talk differently.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: You know, my heart is different. And so I think
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: he's always speaking to the converted. He's never speaking to
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: people who don't already support him with ideas that that
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: would transcend. I think it's a mistake. A mayor, a governor,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: a president, you always have to enlarge your vision and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: your rhetoric to get those people who don't support you.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: And I get the feeling at this point, he's not
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: even trying. He's comfortable. The election was so close. He's
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: still in his first year. So I think at some point,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: he's going to have to understand that it's not enough
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: to carry you through four years just preaching to the choir.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: Well, didn't de Blasio get away with that and get reelected?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: He did. And that is one of the problems of
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: such a Democratic-leaning city, that there's no real opposition. Now,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: we'll see. Right now, there is no uh, strong opposition
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: to Mondani in the person, in the, in a single
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: person or institution. But I am confident that if he
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: continues down this road, uh, he will face increasing opposition
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: and complaints and he will have to change his tune
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: to keep his job. Yeah.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. Um, uh, also, um, this pied-a-terre tax,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: the Wilbur Ross lawsuit looks brilliant. It's violating the Commerce Clause.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: It's taxation without representation. You're taxing people who can't vote here.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: I think that's going to win that lawsuit.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: Well, look, I think the fact that another case has
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: led to it being sent back to the starting line
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: because the haphazard way they just threw as many apartments
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: and owners into it as they could just to get
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: the numbers up and really, I think, to harass people
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: and say, just pay. Just pay us and we'll leave
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: you alone. I mean, it's like a mafia shakedown, right?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: But look, I do hope this thing fails and I
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: hope it fails and I hope it backfires on Kathy Hochul.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: She did this and she should be penalized as well
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: as the mayor.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good point. Well, Michael Goodwin, brilliant as always. Everybody
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: should read Michael Goodwin in the New York Post every
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Sunday and every Wednesday. All of his columns are up
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: on the New York Post website. Go read them. Michael Goodwin,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: thanks for being with us. My pleasure.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Mark.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Take care. Hey, let's not forget Andrew Cuomo. He deserves credit.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: He was the first guy I remember pushing this pied-a-terre tax.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: He was the first guy pushing all of that stuff. Remember,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: he was the guy pushing no bail, no jail. Give
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: him credit for all the terrible things that have come out. Hey,
• 1:06:09
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• 1:06:11
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• 1:06:17
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely fall out there. It's definitely autumn. But
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a beautiful week. It's going to
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: be sunny all week. Now, not too warm. It's not
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: going to be summer-like. But it is going to be,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: let's see today, the high 71. Tomorrow, 61. But then
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: it gets about, it'll be about 70 degrees from Wednesday on.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the forecast. There is absolutely no
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: rain in the forecast for two weeks. Now rain for
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: two weeks. That's good news. So if you want to
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: go pumpkin picking, apple picking, or anything like that, you
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: can do it. Hey, we got a lot to get
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: to coming up. We'll get back to Cornell. We'll get
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: to Megan and Harry, these two losers, these two unemployed idiots,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: apparently are coming back. Yeah, won't get rid of them
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: that easily. Oh, and the billionaire Ken Griffin. You know,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: the guy that Mamdani targeted. Well, we'll get to that
• 1:07:55
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• 1:07:58
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• 1:08:17
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• 1:08:22
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• 1:08:38
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• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: 710WOR. Well, hey, a lot to get to this hour. Hey, congratulations,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Kash Patel. You remember he had this girlfriend for the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: last three or four years, this country music star. And
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: they were always trying to make it look like some
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: sort of seedy, slimy something going on. What's he doing
• 1:09:00
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• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: they just announced they're getting married.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Well, they're engaged. Alexis Wilkins and Kash Patel. He's about
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: almost 20 years older, but they've been together three or
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: four years and then congratulations. They're getting engaged. The left
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: will now Find some way to trash her and him
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: even more. And now that they're getting engaged. Hey, this
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Fly Dubai hijacking. This terrorist gets a job as a
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: co-pilot on this airline, Fly Dubai. How he got this job,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: nobody will ever figure out. We now know his name
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: is Hamam Al-Hamami. Hamam Al-Hamami. He's only 29. And he
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: gets a job as a co-pilot on the airline. He
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: apparently has a history of the most extreme posts online.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: And you just take a look at his social media online.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: It's the most disgusting, extreme stuff. Talking about beating women.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Women are cheap meat devoured by anyone and everyone. Other
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: posts call for severe Islamic punishment against Jews and homosexuals.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: His social media accounts, I mean, make it clear that
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: he's a radicalized jihadist nut. He talks about killing Jews.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: The Times of Israel has gone through all his social media,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: found a lot of this stuff, published it. But I
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: would think, because any normal business, before they hire somebody,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: they check their social media just to make sure. So
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: how this airline could not check this, He had a
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: previous job at Oman's National Airline last year, but they
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: removed him because of his extremist Islamist views and apparently
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: just spew them all over the place. Employees got nervous
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: around the guy, so they got rid of him. And
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: he has a couple of posts on his social media
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: showing Israeli airline jets followed by a photo montage of
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: a suicide bomber and Al Qaeda. That's on his LinkedIn profile.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: How could any company not check this stuff out? And
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: how could they end up hiring this guy? They just
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: didn't check his social media. It's absolutely ridiculous. You know,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: the guy that tackled him was a plumber. He's a
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: good looking guy. And he's Israeli. So apparently in Israel,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: this guy is like the hottest sex symbol in Israel.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: Women are going crazy about this guy. formerly just an
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: everyday plumber, now a big sex symbol in Israel. Even
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: President Trump gushing over him on TikTok. It turns out
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: the guy, this Israeli hero, is also a big Trump fan.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: I would imagine everybody in Israel is because it was
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Trump that saved Israel after October 7th. Imagine if Biden
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: had been in power. But it's Trump who's done more
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: for Israel than any president ever. And A lot of Israelis,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: and it's a great thing, have military service. It's just
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: pretty much standard there in Israel that you join the
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: military for a time. It's great training for life. It's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: great training for a lot of things. It's one of
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: the things we'll miss in this country. If everybody had
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: to have some military service for a couple of years,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: they'd be much better, sharper, more disciplined, better workers, all
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: of that stuff. Hey, the Cornell case, I don't know,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: this is going to be quite a mess. Kathy Hochul,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: just for political purposes, just for political purposes, is pretending
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: to be outraged.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: No institution gets to protect its reputation at the expense
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: of a young person seeking justice.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Well, this happened two years ago. Kathy Hochul's district attorney
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: let the guys go and didn't do anything about it,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: and she never said a word about it.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: She spoke to the police. She sat for hours. And
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: told them exactly what happened to her. And according to
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: new reports.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: And she did nothing, Kathy Hochul.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 9: Nothing.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing. Paid no attention to this. Now it's three weeks,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: four weeks, four weeks before the election. And she's using
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: it as an election issue. So she's going to yell
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: and scream about this. And pretend that she is on
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: top of it. Pretend that she is taking action. When
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: actually nothing will get done. She makes the worst possible
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: choice for a special prosecutor. Letitia James, besides being way
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: too political for a case like this, and she shot
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: her mouth off with her posting on Twitter, prejudging the case,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: defense attorneys will be able to use that against her,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: the fact that she prejudged the case. And also, why
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: would you pick Letitia James? She has no experience at
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: all as a prosecutor. She's never prosecuted a criminal case
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: in her life. Before being Attorney General, she was the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: public advocate, which is basically a no-show job in New
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: York City. You don't do anything. You basically make speeches.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: The public advocate does absolutely nothing. Before that, she sat
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: on the city council for many years. That's her background.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: She knows nothing about prosecuting criminals. She's never done it
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: in her life. And it happens. You can just be
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: a political figure and with no experience get yourself elected
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: Attorney General. You know, Chris Christie was the U.S. attorney
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: in New Jersey. And if you watch him on those
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Sunday shows, very often he'll say, you know, as a prosecutor,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: I was a prosecutor. He was never a prosecutor. He
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: never prosecuted anything. He was a big donor to the
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: Bush campaign. He raised a ton of money for the
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Bush campaign. So they owed him something. So they made
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: him U.S. attorney in New Jersey, even though he'd never
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: been in a courtroom in his life. It can happen.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: It can happen where you get... appointed prosecutor, even though
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: you don't know how to prosecute. So that's the case
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: with Letitia James. You know, and the Cornell situation sounds
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: so horrifying. But do you know that in U.S. colleges,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: in one year, there have been over 8,000 rape cases reported,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: 8,000 rape cases reported every year in colleges. The school
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: with the most reported incidents, University of Utah, Had the
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: most reported rapes, nearly doubled the number of the number two.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: 146 rape accusations in one year. That's like 10 a month.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: That's like 11 or 12 a month. That's like two
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: a week. That's the University of Utah. Number two, University
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: of Colorado Boulder. Second highest count with 96 rapes. Ohio
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: State is third with 67 rapes reported every year. That's
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: a staggering amount. That's like six a month. That's unbelievable.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Other schools that made the top 10, Penn State, UCLA,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California, Santa Barbara,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Indiana University, University of Kansas. And New York Columbia University
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: stood out with a lot. They held Columbia number one
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: in New York. It's just horrifying. This goes on. Oh,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: and I don't know what it is. It's just drugs
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: and drinking and standards are so low now. It's just
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: absolutely crazy. Now, you know, the billionaire, Ken Griffin, this
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: is the guy that Mondami targeted, big hedge fund billionaire.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: ken griffin he's the guy i guess mom donnie first
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: picked him because ken griffin bought that apartment over there
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: on central park south for 250 million this is for
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: an apartment 250 million for an apartment and he's already
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: got the nicest department in new york over on park
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: avenue in the finest building on park avenue he has
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: the most magnificent apartments like two floors of the building
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: it's it's It's considered the finest building in New York,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: that Park Avenue. So I don't know what the Central
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: Park South was for. It could be just an investment.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: So he's got these two unbelievable apartments in New York
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: for a total of like $ 350 million. And he doesn't
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: even live here. He lives in Florida most of the time.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: But Mamdani went after him and really targeted him. Now, Mamdani,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: remember he did that video standing outside of Ken Griffin's building,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: basically showing you where he lives and denouncing him. We've
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: never seen anything like that before, where a mayor targets
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: a private citizen just because he bought an apartment and
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: makes videos taunting the guy and trying to terrify the
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: guy and trying to give out his address. It's crazy.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: And a guy like Ken Griffin, you might say, well,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: he's a billionaire. They really do a lot. They're the
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: guys that make all the donations to the hospitals and
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: the museums and keep them afloat. And he's building a
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: building here in New York over at Park Avenue and 52nd.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: They tore down three or four buildings at Park Avenue
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: and 52nd, and they're going to put up like a
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: 90-story skyscraper. So, yeah, I know you might say, well,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: we don't need another 90-story skyscraper. Well, it's going to
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: create 6,000. jobs. It's great for New York. He almost
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: killed the project because of Mom Donnie, but apparently it's
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: still going on. But as much as you want to
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: hate these billionaires, boy, do they donate a lot of money.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: They support all the charities, the hospitals, the museums. They
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: keep it all going. So Ken Griffin just announced he's
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: given $ 3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University for a new
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: campus in Miami. Now, they have a New York City campus,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: but he's giving $ 3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University for
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: their Miami campus. And he just pledged another billion dollars
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: for their main campus in Pittsburgh. So that's donations that
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: could have gone here in New York for their campus,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: not given it to them. Now, these billionaires, again, nobody's
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: more charitable than these guys with all the hospitals, everything,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: even silly things like the opera, the ballet. They wouldn't
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: be there if it wasn't for these billionaires donating. But
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: then you get the Bernie Sanders socialists targeting these guys.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: Get off of your yachts and your rocket ships. Take
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: a break from your cocktail parties and take a look.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: Around you. Now, first of all, rocket ships. He's talking
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: about Elon Musk. And that's another thing. Musk created Tesla,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: created 100,000 jobs there, changed the world of electric cars
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: with that thing. He's got a space company creating rockets.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: He's got that Starlink, those satellite communications that everybody can
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: have in their house that's being used all over the world.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's really, really helping millions of people. And
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: what did Bernie Sanders create? Exactly. Nothing. Not a damn thing.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: He just talks.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: Get off of your yachts and your rocket ships.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: Remember, it's Bernie Sanders, typical socialist who we've seen flying
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: around on private jets, staying in the most luxurious hotels
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: all over the world. With your money. With our money.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: One thing about guys like Ken Griffin, they pay for themselves.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: You know, if you have luggage, of course, you got
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: to carry on on the plane. And then the big
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: bag that you got to check. People always say, airline
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: people always say, don't get fancy luggage. Don't get any
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: expensive looking luggage. Make sure you got the crummiest, cheapest
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: luggage to check. I know it doesn't sound right, but apparently,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: you know, you're not allowed to lock your suitcase anymore.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: So when it's back there with the baggage handling. They
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: do go through some suitcases and they do steal stuff.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: And they always pick the most expensive looking luggage. They
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: figure that's where the expensive stuff will be. If you've
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: got a crummy 25-year-old broken down suitcase, they're not looking
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: in there. But if you've got some Louis Vuitton luggage
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: or Gucci, they're going to look through that. Well, look
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: at this guy. He had a watch stolen out of
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: his suitcase. An $ 80, 000 Patek Philippe. Now, if you've got
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: an $ 80, 000 Patek Philippe, that should probably go in your carry-on.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: You probably don't want to check that. But he did
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: check it. And it was stolen. And he discovered it
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: was stolen. He was flying from Los Angeles to the
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: Louis Armstrong New Orleans airport. But good for the airline. Apparently,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: they got a lot of surveillance cameras. And they looked.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: They found the two guys that stole it. One's 42
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: and one's 18. They were both busted. They've been arrested.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: It's a serious felony because it's an $ 80, 000 theft. They
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: both will be prosecuted. But again, get yourself some nice
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: crummy luggage. They'll never open it. They'll never, never check it.
• 1:22:44
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• 1:22:53
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• 1:22:53
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• 1:23:01
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• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: go to Kathy in North Carolina. Kathy, how you doing?
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 9: Hello, Mark.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 13: Good morning.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 13: Hello.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 8: I know I have a cold, so I have a
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 8: really nice voice.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: You always have a nice voice. Weren't you a radio
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: star at one point?
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 8: I was, but I've always found so much better when
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 8: I have a little huskiness in there like Kathleen Turner.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 8: But anyway, wow, thanks for those statistics on the school rapes.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 8: I know this opinion won't matter much to a bachelor
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 8: with no kids, but us moms out there are just
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 8: done with this. Like, what is the point of sending
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: our kids off to college and spending $ 60, 000, $ 70, 000 a
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 8: year I mean, is it too much to ask for
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 8: them to keep them safe? I really question this. I
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 8: sent both mine off. They both got high degrees, doctorates.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 8: And I just, I don't even know why, because they,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 8: they allow them to have sex. They allow them to drink.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 8: They allow them to do drugs. The fraternities need to
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 8: go away. They just need to go away. The old
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 8: days of, you know, the letter sweater, the fraternities that
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 8: were just all a bunch of fun guys are just gone.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 8: They're just gangs. And I, I just think that would
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 8: be one of the first things that they should do.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 8: It's just like organized crime on campuses. And I just
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 8: think we have to have a whole new reshuffle. Not
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 8: to mention.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: Listen, you're absolutely right. That's the problem with these colleges.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: They've only got these indoctrinating professors teaching everybody to come out.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 12: Of socialist colleges. Yes, that's another problem.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: Cut back on the professors and start hiring security, start hiring...
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: Didn't they have people.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 12: Yeah, no co-ed.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 8: No co-ed.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: No real.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 8: They always have sober houses. They're never sober. The RAs
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 8: are just useless. And I just... I feel so bad
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: for us that we wasted all.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 12: I mean.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 8: I guess we don't waste some of it, but it's
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 8: just that we endanger our children. I really believe that,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 8: especially ones that have never been away.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: That's a good point. Those universities are getting away with murder.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: Somebody needs to step in and fix all of them.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: Good call, Kathy. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Suzanne
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: in New Canaan, Connecticut. Suzanne, how are you doing?
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 14: Good morning, Mark.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 15: I have just a quick one about, I wonder if
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 15: this whole college rape culture status due to the students
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 15: being a fallout of the COVID lockdowns, they're socially inept.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 15: But also the cultural influence of, you know, Cardi B
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 15: glorifying trains and Alex Earle podcast on threesomes and foursomes
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 15: and all this stuff like nobody, you know, need to
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 15: know about.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was going on long before the pandemic.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: It's just a, Generation after generation getting weirder, crazier, standards slip, discipline,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: everything goes away.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 8: And I have a little irony for you.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 15: I'm a Cornellian. I just got an email from the
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 15: Cornell Fund has an article about Cornell offering a degree
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 15: to incarcerated students.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: What did you call yourself? You're a Cornellian? Is that
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: what you people call yourself?
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 7: I'm a Cornellian.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 15: I went to Cornell.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: A Cornellian. Well, it's... It's one strange school. Who went
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: to Cornell? Bill Marr went there.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 14: Ann Coulter.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: Ann Coulter from New Canaan went there. Crazy Keith Oberman
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: went there, although he went to the agricultural school, not
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: the real Cornell.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 15: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 8: Janet Reno.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: Very good.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: Let's see, who else?
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: Very impressive.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 15: Nabokov.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 10: E.B.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 4: White.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 12: Very good.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 15: We could go on and on.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: Impressive, impressive. Thanks for calling. Let's go to... Phil in Northport.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 13: Hello, Mark.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 11: Very little mention was made of a recent passing of
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 11: Denny Hastert, who was.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: You know, I just saw that about 9.30. It broke
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: that he has died, the former Speaker of the House.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: And I forgot to mention it. That's... He was a
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: nice guy, but you know what? It's not that important.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: Did we lose him? Phil, you there?
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 6: Phil?
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: Phil?
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: Nope, I think we lost him. Phil? Nope, he's gone. Yeah,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: in fact, if we walk out in the hall here,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: if you go out in the street there and stop
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: a thousand people with a picture of Denny Astor, it's like,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: can you tell me who this is? No, but it's
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: a nice guy, but too far in the past. Let's
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Mark. Mark, I'm okay. My girlfriend graduated from
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 9: Cornell 40 years ago, and as far as all this
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 9: wilding going on in the frat houses 50 years ago,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 9: when it started in the late 60s and 70s, I
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 9: beg to differ with Kathy from North Carolina. There have
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 9: been always a lot of sluts. Let's just put it
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 9: that way, and I won't go into particulars because I
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: knew women back then....
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: But wait a minute. You're talking about way back.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 9: You're talking about your cocktail.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: Waitress Copacabana floozies. You were talking about modern times.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 9: Well, modern times. Where are these young men and women
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 9: getting their ethics and their morality from? Maybe their parents
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 9: are corrupt. Maybe their parents were partying. of that 60s, 70s,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 9: or grandparents, 70s generation. Mark, speaking about people going through
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 9: your luggage in the airport... I can't tell you. Every
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 9: time I go to Italy, the police are always looking
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 9: through my luggage for stuff. And the only reason why
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 9: I know is because I use certain knots to tie
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 9: my luggage that unless you're a fisherman like Rich would
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 9: know from South Carolina, you're not going to know how
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 9: to retire. Now, you talked about today the city council
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 9: is having all the big AI people, they're going to
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 9: have this meeting. But yet I heard Daria Auburn say
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: the city council already has a bunch of proposed legislation,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 9: proposed bills on the desk of Julie Manning saying, number one,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 9: as I said last week, you have to use city-approved
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 9: AI software to sweeten the deal for the rats. Any
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 9: company who's not using this city-approved software will be fined,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 9: and the city's going to share the money with the rats.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, you put your finger right on it. This
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: is what the AI hearings are about in the city council.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 9: You know what happens to rats, don't you, Mark?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to make the AI companies pay all the
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: politicians to get their proofs.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and you know what happens to rats?
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 4: What?
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 9: As Curtis says, snitches get.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll talk to the greatest gossip
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: columnist of all, Rob Shooter, with us next on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, the Mark Simone Show.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: Well, with us right now, the country's top gossip columnist,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: the great journalist, Rob Shooter. Make sure you follow his Substack. Actually,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: sign up for his Substack. It's Naughty But Nice on Substack.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: He's got a great YouTube channel. Just type Rob Shooter
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: into YouTube. He's got a novel out called It Started
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: With a Whisper. A lot of stuff going on. And
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: he's with us now. Rob Shooter, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 12: Hey, my friend. It's good to be here. I'm a
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 12: busy guy.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: Busy, busy, busy.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, you are.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, is this true, this Harry and Meghan? They're not
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: coming back here, are they?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a little bit of a tease, but it's true.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 12: It is true. Let me explain. So Harry and Meghan
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 12: are coming back to the USA for the holidays, for Christmas.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 12: They left her mom behind. So when they first moved
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 12: to Britain all those years ago, six, seven years ago,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 12: her mom went with them. And they're very, very close
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 12: to Doria. And she did not want to return to
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 12: Britain with them. And so I think part of their
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 12: deal of going back is that she'll get to see
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 12: the grandkids. At Christmas time, you know, families on different
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 12: coasts in different parts of the country, they get together
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 12: at Christmas. And so they are coming back at Christmas,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 12: which makes sense. because the royal family, they go to
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 12: Balmoral or Sandringham at Christmas, and I don't think Harry
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 12: and Meghan are yet that welcomed back in the family
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 12: to get an invite to that, and so they're not
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 12: going to be with the royals this year, maybe next year.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: So that's the real reason they're coming back, because it
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: would be embarrassing to be there and not be invited
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: to the royals.
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  Speaker 12: You'll get to the bottom of it, my friend. That's
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 12: basically what I'm trying to say. They are coming back.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 12: They'll be here for a couple of weeks, flying into... California,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 12: into Montecito, where they've still kept their house. They have
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 12: not sold their house yet. And so this trip to Britain,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 12: this relocation to Britain, is still a test. It's a
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 12: trial run. Until they sell that house, I don't believe
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 12: they are moving back full-time. Coming back for Christmas, about
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 12: two weeks, and then they will be back in the U.K.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they couldn't get anything going here in the U.S.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Nobody was interested. They go
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: to England, make a big production out of it. Have
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: they been offered anything over there?
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 12: No, nothing. It's a disaster. Nothing. What he's getting over there, though,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 12: is he's treated like a prince. Here in America, he
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 12: was a prince. He was Diana's son. But Americans don't
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 12: want kings. We got rid of our British king a
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 12: long time ago. And so they don't really bow and
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 12: scrape and defer to him as they do in Britain.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 12: I'm British. The royal family over there, is everything. And
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 12: here in America, there's great respect for them, a lot
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 12: of love for the royal family, particularly Queen Elizabeth. But
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 12: I don't think he got the response he wanted in L.A.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 12: He's back in Britain. He's going to charity events. He's
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 12: putting on his medals and he is thoroughly enjoying being
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 12: treated like he is very special again. So he likes
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 12: it there. Meghan has yet to figure out her role
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 12: over there. She's got not much going on.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you a question. When they do
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: their income tax, on the first question, occupation, what do
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: they put?
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  Speaker 12: It's interesting. Harry was asked this question, not about his taxes,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 12: but he was asked, what do you do? What's on
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 12: your passport? And his first answer is he's a full-time dad.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 12: And his second answer, which is very telling, is he
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 12: is a prince of England. Do not forget. that from
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 12: the day this little guy was born, people bowed to him.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 12: When he was five years old, grown men, grown women
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 12: had to bow and curtsy. That changes the way you
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 12: live your life. He's a very entitled guy, and he
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 12: expects people to be very deferential towards him, and it
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 12: didn't happen here. It does happen in Britain.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, all right.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: Hey, Saturday Night Live, Dakota Johnson, the host, and Taylor
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: Swift comes on. I mean, what is this relationship they
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: have all of a sudden?
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 12: Yeah, these two are the new best friends, and the
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 12: one that's really seething with jealousy is her old best friend,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 12: Blake Lively. If you remember, Taylor got dragged into Blake
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 12: Lively's lawsuit with Justin Baldoni, a sexual harassment, sexual lawsuit
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 12: that ultimately was settled but went away. But Taylor and
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 12: Blake fell out. It was a public falling out. Blake
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 12: was not invited to the wedding. They have not spoken
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 12: in a long time. And Taylor now has moved on.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 12: And her new best friend is Dakota Johnson. They have
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 12: been friends for a while, but now they are particularly close.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 12: And I'm assuming the reason is because Blake has gone.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 12: Blake and Dakota never really got along that well. And
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 12: now that Blake's out of the picture, Taylor's there 24-7.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 12: So it does sting, doesn't it? It must really sting
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 12: because On Saturday night, Blake Lively was watching SNL, and
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 12: there was her former best friend who has clearly, clearly
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 12: moved on with someone new.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: Rob Shooter, this can't be true. You're reporting that Lauren
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: Sanchez pushing her husband, Jeff Bezos, to run for president.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: That can't be.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 12: It sounds bizarre. But you know what? I heard... 12
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 12: years ago that Donald Trump was thinking of running for
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 12: president and nobody believed it. Stranger things have happened. And
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 12: so Jeff Bezos has arguably started one of the most
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 12: successful companies of all time. He knows how to run Amazon.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 12: Lauren is wildly ambitious. I've known her for about 20 years.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 12: She used to be the weekend host of a show
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 12: called Extra Extra, which is an entertainment show. And I
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 12: used to go to the set with clients, and Lauren
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 12: was the host. And even back then, we knew she
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 12: was wildly ambitious, which is a good thing. I don't
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 12: think anybody knew she would end up marrying.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 9: one of the.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 12: Richest men in the world. I spoke to some of
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 12: her friends and they said she has been around Trump
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 12: and the White House a lot and it is intoxicating.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 12: She was at the inauguration. She was there a couple
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 12: of weeks ago for the big state dinner for China.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 12: And it is intoxicating. And Lauren has figured out that maybe, maybe,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 12: it sounds crazy, doesn't it? But maybe we could have
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 12: a President Bezos. He's certainly got enough money to run.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 12: He doesn't need to raise money. He knows how to
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 12: manage a big company. But she's the one that's pushing.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 12: I'm not sure that he's as interested in politics as
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 12: she is. And I'm not even sure she's that political.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 12: But she would love to be first, ladies.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're forgetting a big factor. Donald Trump, love
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: him or hate him, was an incredible talker. As a
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: talk show guest, he.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 6: Was the best.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: He had his own TV show. He was an incredible speaker.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: He was such an unbelievable person.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 11: I'm with you.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 13: I'm with you.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 12: But you've met these rich people. They think they are invincible.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 12: They think they can do anything. And they have a
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 12: level of confidence. Jeff Bezos has a swagger about him.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 12: that a little bald guy shouldn't have. Like, he just
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 12: walks like he is a king. And he's got billions
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 12: of dollars to back him up. So if he's got
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 12: a wife who is pushing him, and he does listen
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 12: to Lauren, who knows? You're right, there's a million reasons.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 12: There's nobody like Trump. There'll never, ever be another Trump
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 12: in our lifetime. But I do think people mistake that.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 12: And they think... If he can do it, and he
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 12: makes it look so effortless, doesn't he? He makes it
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 12: look as if it's easy. It's not easy. It's really,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 12: really hard. But the impression he gives is if I
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 12: can do it, you can do it. We know that's
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 12: not true. I'm not sure Lauren Sanchez knows that.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but remember Bloomberg, who's probably better qualified than Bezos
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: to run. Bloomberg gets in the debate and goes, and
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: couldn't talk. And Bezos is far worse. Bezos, you can't
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: run and talk like this. Somebody has to tell him.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 12: You're right. This all figures out in the wash, doesn't it?
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 12: Now we're at that really exciting time that now, with
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 12: a few years left of the Trump presidency, it's starting
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 12: to get interesting. Who will run? For a long time,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 12: the Rock Talks about running the celebrity, the action hero.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 12: I don't think he will. Matthew McConaughey's name has come up.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 12: Trump has opened up politics in the most exciting way.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 12: And now, instead of those old boring families, the Bushes
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 12: and the Clintons, who we've just had forever, the Kennedys,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 12: I think we might see some really exciting, some wacky,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 12: some odd, some maybe great. But I think over the
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 12: next couple of years, we're going to see a lot
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 12: of names thrown into that hat.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm afraid you're right. Hey, before we run out
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: of time, tell us about your YouTube channel.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 15: Oh, thank you.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 12: Thank you, my friend. Yes, I started a YouTube channel.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 12: Friends of mine have YouTube channels, and they are getting
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 12: millions and millions of viewers. Now, in Britain, the BBC
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 12: is no longer the number one network. YouTube is. Here
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 12: in America, YouTube now gets more viewers than ABC, CBS,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 12: and NBC combined. And the luxury of a YouTube channel...
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 12: is I can do it in my own living room.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 12: So a couple of weeks ago, I tested out a
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 12: morning show, 9 a.m. every morning, five days a week,
• 1:39:49
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• 1:39:51
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• 1:39:54
  Speaker 12: and we're having so much fun. And so if you're
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 12: on YouTube, check out Rob Schuster Gossip and subscribe, like,
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• 1:40:03
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• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can't do it in the morning, you
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: can just do it anytime. It's on all day, right?
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 12: You can do it anytime. It's wild, isn't it? Like,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 12: I've changed. Like, I used to get up every morning
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 12: and watch the Today Show or GMA, and now my
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 12: life is different. I consume YouTube. I get a lot
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 12: of information from YouTube. More people are watching. Jimmy Fallon
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 12: on YouTube than they are on TV. YouTube is this main,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 12: it's amazing place because now if you've got a voice,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 12: if you want to do a show, you can do it.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 12: It took me a little while to build up my courage.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 12: I don't want to do a show that's not very good.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 12: And so I did some practice runs. I met with
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 12: some producer friends of mine and polished it. And then
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 12: just a few days ago, we started and today was
• 1:40:43
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  Speaker 2: All right. Go to Rob Shooter Gossip on YouTube. Rob
• 1:40:52
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• 1:41:01
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• 1:41:03
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• 1:41:06
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  Speaker 12: I always appreciate you. Take care, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, crazy Jack Smith, that bug-eyed weirdo prosecutor Jack Smith,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: testified in front of Congress that he's not a partisan,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: that he's totally neutral. He's not anti-Trump. There's nothing partisan.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: And then look at this. Two days later, this weekend,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: he's at a No Kings rally, big No Kings protest,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: wearing a No Kings t-shirt. And by the way, I've
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: never seen a guy look worse in a t-shirt. This
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: is not for you, Jack Smith, these t-shirts. It's like
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: a tight t-shirt. Looks even creepier in it. But there
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: he is with a No Kings t-shirt on. Why would
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: you do that two days after you just testified under
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: oath that you're not a crazed partisan? Who knows with
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: this guy? He's just one strange guy. Hey, Yankees tonight.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: The playoffs resume. Big game tonight. They absolutely have to
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: win tonight. They cannot fall two games behind and hope
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: to win this series. That's tonight. And then Wednesday night
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: it moves back to Yankee Stadium. Give them a little advantage,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: I guess. But they're up against the the best team
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: in baseball. It's going to be a beautiful day today. Bright,
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: sunny day. It's going to be like this all week.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be warm. It's going to be fall-like.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: High will be about 70, and then the rest of
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: the week it'll be in the 60s. But nothing but
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: sunshine for a week. There is no rain in the
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: forecast for two weeks. I have never seen that before.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: Now remember, these forecasts can change. They're really only good
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: for about three days out. But Right now, no rain
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: in the forecast anywhere. Hey, we're out of time. I'll
• 1:43:40
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