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

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  Speaker 1: Now this is the Mark Simon.
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  Speaker 2: Show on sevent ten. Hey, so what's the day Tuesday?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Now, everybody's kind of leaving. I'm actually taking
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the week off. But everybody's kind of fleeing,
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  Speaker 2: leaving radio TV. You know, you watch Fox or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: you while you notice all the hosts are gone. They're
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  Speaker 2: on the C list guests, same thing, MSNBC. Everybody's leaving,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some late night TV reruns. Everybody takes off
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the week. The President will leave later
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  Speaker 2: today and head to mar A Lago. I think you
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  Speaker 2: can turn that off now, we don't need a whole soundtrack.
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  Speaker 2: The President will go to mar A Lago later today.
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  Speaker 2: They actually have the tree's delivered to the White House.
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  Speaker 2: There's a tree ceremony, and I think he does that
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  Speaker 2: pardoning the Turkey. In fact, last year's a turkey part.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, they should check see if that's auto pen
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  Speaker 2: on that. So that's today, and then late in the day,
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  Speaker 2: actually about I think five six o'clock, the President will
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  Speaker 2: leave head tomorrow A Lago, arrive there around nine pm
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  Speaker 2: tonight and he'll be there until Sunday night. So he's
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  Speaker 2: taking the rest of the week off. Hey, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to call me and Letitia James what this means as
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  Speaker 2: far as their case. We'll get to the MAMDANNI meeting.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting more and more detail on exactly what happened there.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to everybody loves Raymond. We'll get to Times
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  Speaker 2: Square in New Year's Eve, we'll get to the MAMDANNI
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  Speaker 2: transition team and more. Now, today's Tuesday. Tomorrow's the big
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  Speaker 2: travel day. Most people will travel tomorrow. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the busiest Thanksgiving travel season ever. It's expected that
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  Speaker 2: eighty two million people will be traveling. That's by train,
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  Speaker 2: car playing. Eighty two million people traveling this Thanksgiving. Now
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  Speaker 2: the good news, air traffic controllers are all back to work.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's back full schedule. Everything's back up to speed with
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  Speaker 2: air traffic control. But tomorrow's the biggest travel day of airlines.
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  Speaker 2: They call it their super Bowl. Here's the airline spokesman.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a busy week for us, the airlines,
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  Speaker 2: the travel sector in general, airports, TSA, FAA, Especially for us,
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  Speaker 2: this week is our super Bowl. All right, I think
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  Speaker 2: our super Bowl is a little more exciting than yours.
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  Speaker 2: But okay, now, hey, Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what got them on this kick, but you
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  Speaker 2: know they've been having a lot of trouble on airplanes
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  Speaker 2: with the rowdy passengers, fights breaking out, people half naked,
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  Speaker 2: people with bare feet, putting them up on the seat
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  Speaker 2: like bare feet right next to somebody else's head. And
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  Speaker 2: it's been absolutely disgusting years and years ago. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're back and watch mad Men when Don Draper has
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  Speaker 2: to fly somewhere. You know, everybody on the plane has
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  Speaker 2: a suit and tie. The stewardesses are all beautiful, well dressed,
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  Speaker 2: and they're serving lobster and champagne. And the cart comes
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  Speaker 2: down the island. They're carving this this juicy steak. This
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  Speaker 2: was airline travel back then, back in the fifties and
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  Speaker 2: sixties was Pan America, and it was the most elegant
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  Speaker 2: way to travel. Everybody was dressed beautifully. It was first
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  Speaker 2: class all the way. Now what happened, Well, truth is,
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  Speaker 2: airline travel was expensive back then. You know, you paid
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  Speaker 2: today's in today's dollars, You were pay thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 2: for the airplane ticket. So and then things got cheap.
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  Speaker 2: You know, remember it was the first one was People's
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  Speaker 2: Express wherever. I think that was the first one in
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  Speaker 2: the seventies where you could fly for like sixty eight bucks.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it's very cheap. And then there
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  Speaker 2: were more cheap airlines, and then the real airlines had
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  Speaker 2: to start competing, so they had to bring down the
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  Speaker 2: ticket prices. So now it's cost nothing the fly. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta fly to Florida and back, it's two hundred dollars
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  Speaker 2: around trip, whereas back in the Don Draper days it
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  Speaker 2: was four thousand, five thousand. So back then you had
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  Speaker 2: all the wealthy, you know, well dressed of people on planes,
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  Speaker 2: and the people with the cheap tickets were all on
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  Speaker 2: greyhound buses. But now the airlines got cheaper than the
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  Speaker 2: greyhound buses. So everybody's a slob on the airlines. But Duffy,
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  Speaker 2: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants to go back to that
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  Speaker 2: golden age of air travel where people dress up in
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  Speaker 2: a suit and tie, and he thinks if you're dressed up,
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  Speaker 2: that would change your behavior. He's probably right. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're dressed up, you behave a little differently. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to go to a wedding or funeral, and
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  Speaker 2: people that never get dressed up or suddenly in a
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  Speaker 2: suit and tie and it stiffens him up. They behave
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  Speaker 2: a little better.
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  Speaker 3: But here's Duffy maybe dressing with some respect, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt.
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  Speaker 3: I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better,
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  Speaker 3: which encourage us, encourages us to maybe behave all a
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  Speaker 3: little better.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he's absolutely right. Of course, he's insane, he's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to do this, nobody, nobody's going to do this.
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  Speaker 2: You're not gonna get anybody to do Hey, you go
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  Speaker 2: to a funeral. Now, people are in sweatsuits. If people
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  Speaker 2: just don't dress up anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow will be the busiest day. There'll be fifty two
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  Speaker 3: thousand flights tomorrow as Americans board aircraft fly across the country.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they're going to go to sporting events, they're going
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  Speaker 3: on vacation, or hopefully they're going to spend time with
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  Speaker 3: their families.
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  Speaker 2: Now you go to the hottest restaurant in Manhattan, the
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  Speaker 2: most expensive, hottest, everybody is dressed like a slob. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are certain restaurants that required a jacket and tie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Twenty one Club, the Four Seasons, Let's cirque,
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  Speaker 2: you had to wear a jacket and tie. You'll notice
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  Speaker 2: they're all clothed and out of business. It doesn't work
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  Speaker 2: in today's world. You're not I mean, I like to
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  Speaker 2: get dressed up, but you're you're not going to convince
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  Speaker 2: everybody to put on a suit and tie to get
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  Speaker 2: on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but nowadays people somewhere they
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  Speaker 2: got one suit and one tie and it's only for
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  Speaker 2: a funeral or if they got to go to court. For
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people, especially these badly behaved people, the
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  Speaker 2: only time they're going to wear a suit is when
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  Speaker 2: they're the defendant on trial. And speaking of trials, the
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  Speaker 2: Ca Mey case and the Letitia James case both thrown
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  Speaker 2: out by a left wing judge. They will bring back
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  Speaker 2: the cases. They will be appealed. You know, Comy was
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  Speaker 2: out there doing his victory dance. He should probably stop
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  Speaker 2: that because it is going to get appealed. Definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, we'll be taking all available legal action, including an
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  Speaker 4: immediate appeal, to hold Letitia James and James Comy accountable
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  Speaker 4: for their unlawful conduct.
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  Speaker 2: Now they will be on trial. This here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when it first happened, call me put out that video.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Comy is this weirdo, pompous, sanctimonious guy, and
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  Speaker 2: he put out this video. I am innocent, Let's go
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  Speaker 2: to trial. I want to try this to show you
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  Speaker 2: how innoson.
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to trial. Well, they got no court and
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  Speaker 2: he didn't argue the case at all. All they did
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  Speaker 2: was try to find some technical difficulty with the prosecutor
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  Speaker 2: to get the case dismissed on a technicality, and that's
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  Speaker 2: how the judge threw it out. So there was no
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  Speaker 2: ruling of any kind on Komy's guilt or Letitia James's guilt. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: This was strictly the technical stuff about the prosecutor that
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  Speaker 2: you have to be confirmed by the Senate. This prosecutor
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  Speaker 2: was appointed as an interim prosecutor, interim temporary prosecutor. So
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  Speaker 2: they argued that it was she had used up her
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  Speaker 2: allotted one hundred and twenty day interim appointment and then
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  Speaker 2: she was beyond one hundred and twenty day. It's just
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  Speaker 2: silly nonsense, but that's how got turned out. Now they
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  Speaker 2: can simply get another prosecutor, which would be easy to do.
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  Speaker 2: They could do that, they could have somebody else to
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  Speaker 2: do the case. The only problem with Komy there is
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  Speaker 2: a statute of limitations, and I think we just went
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  Speaker 2: past it, so they'd have to But it was in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of this trial. So normally you could argue
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  Speaker 2: to get a grace period, a six to eight month
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  Speaker 2: grace period on that statute of limitations. The judge can
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  Speaker 2: deny it. In fact, in the ruling, this was a
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  Speaker 2: Bill Clinton, left wing Comy lovin swamp judge who in
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  Speaker 2: the decision puts something in there about I don't feel
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  Speaker 2: this this case would have a grace period apply to
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  Speaker 2: it for statute of limitations. So this judge was doing
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  Speaker 2: everything to protect Call me Comy was again doing his
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  Speaker 2: victory dance all over TV yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful that the court ended the case against me,
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  Speaker 1: which was a prosecution based on malevolence and incompetence and
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of what the Department of Justice has become
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  Speaker 1: under Donald Trump, which is heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, it's heartbreaking. Oh my god. There are a
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  Speaker 2: couple of cases you could argue that maybe it's a weaponisation.
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  Speaker 2: You could maybe argue a couple of these cases, Well,
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  Speaker 2: they call me. There were a thousand cases that were
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  Speaker 2: no doubt. Weapon is a total weaponization. This guy made
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  Speaker 2: up the whole Russia hoax, total weaponization. Look called me
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  Speaker 2: one after everybody and anybody. Uh So it's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the irony of this whole thing that he's being
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  Speaker 2: accused of doing. Uh he's accusing Trump of doing what
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  Speaker 2: he's the most guilty of in the history of the FBI,
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  Speaker 2: worse than j Edgar Hoover.
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  Speaker 1: This case mattered to me personally, obviously, but it matters
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  Speaker 1: most because a message has to be sent that the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States cannot use the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice to target his political enemies.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's call me's job. Let him do that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what your politics are. You have to
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  Speaker 1: see that as fundamentally Unamerican and a threat to the
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  Speaker 1: rule of law that keeps all of us free.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I've met call me a few times. He actually
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  Speaker 2: talks like this, believe it or not. When you meet
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  Speaker 2: him just socially, he's like the sanctimonious Hello. Oh, he's
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  Speaker 2: very She's this very serious, pompous voice. So the case
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  Speaker 2: will come back. Now in the case of Letitia James.
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  Speaker 2: There's no statute of limitations problem, that case will proceed.
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  Speaker 2: She's absolutely If you look at the paperwork, it looks
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  Speaker 2: like she's absolutely guilty of mortgage frauds. So her they
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  Speaker 2: got I don't see how they don't end up convicting her.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to have a real problem. But call me.
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  Speaker 2: They got to go over all these technicalities. Hey, if
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  Speaker 2: you watch fake news NBCCBSABC, MSNBC, if you watch the
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  Speaker 2: fake news networks, they'll give you this stuff about the
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor who has no experience as a prosecutor. She was
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  Speaker 2: appointed prosecutor without any experience as a prosecutor. She has
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  Speaker 2: no prosecutorial experience. They keep making a big point out
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  Speaker 2: of this, but because it's fake news, they never point
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  Speaker 2: out that that's not unusual. Many many US attorneys that
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  Speaker 2: are appointed have no experience as a prosecutor. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: I mean, many of them do, but many of them don't.
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  Speaker 2: You know what good example is Chris Christy. He was
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  Speaker 2: never a prosecutor. He was appointed US attorney with no
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  Speaker 2: experience as a prosecutor. In fact, he'd just been a
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  Speaker 2: regular corporate lawyer. He'd never even been in a courtroom
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  Speaker 2: before when he was made US attorney. And if you
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  Speaker 2: watch him on that Sunday Morning show, you know he's
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  Speaker 2: always giving you that. You know, as a prosecutor. As
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  Speaker 2: a former prosecutor, I can tell you well, he became
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  Speaker 2: a prosecutor just because he was a big donor, bundler
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  Speaker 2: for George W. Bush And the reward was US attorney
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  Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Never been a prosecutor. It's not unusual.
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  Speaker 2: Happens all the time. So we'll see where that case goes.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing will happen till after Thanksgiving. This everybody's going away. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump Mam Donnie meeting, all right, here's so we're
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  Speaker 2: learning more and more about this meeting. It was broken
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  Speaker 2: by He doesn't want his name mentioned. It's a big, big, big, big,
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  Speaker 2: big New York business name, huge business name who had
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  Speaker 2: a very good relationship with Mom Donnie. Big business guy.
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  Speaker 2: He broke at the meeting. He admits it was Mam
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  Speaker 2: Donnie who wanted the meeting. A top Mam Donnie inner
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  Speaker 2: circle person approached him to see if he could set
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  Speaker 2: up the meeting. He talked with the President, he talked
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  Speaker 2: with the White House. They were open to the meeting.
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  Speaker 2: And they agreed to it. Now, one of the conditions
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  Speaker 2: was that Mam Donnie, they asked that he not come
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  Speaker 2: in there and if there were a press conference afterwards
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  Speaker 2: starts spewing his left wing nonsense. He agreed not to
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  Speaker 2: do that to keep it, keep it in check, and
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  Speaker 2: they agreed to the meeting, so it took place. Now, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: the why would Mamdani reach out and pull strings trying
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  Speaker 2: to get a meeting with the president. Why was it
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  Speaker 2: so important him, Well, apparently after he got elected. One
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  Speaker 2: of the things that happens is you meet with the
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  Speaker 2: current mayor, the current city hall people, the current governor,
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  Speaker 2: the current government. You meet with them and they show
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  Speaker 2: you the books. Basically, they show you everything, all the
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  Speaker 2: inside stuff, the files, the secrets. So he's looking through
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  Speaker 2: the financials of it and he realizes New York has
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  Speaker 2: a huge budget problem. Then if he wants to do
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  Speaker 2: any of these programs, pay for even a few of them,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to have a problem. And he also under law,
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  Speaker 2: now you have to balance the city budget. You can't
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  Speaker 2: go into debt. So he was briefed on the budget
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  Speaker 2: and he saw that a major part of it is
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  Speaker 2: seven point five billion in federal aid. There's no way
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  Speaker 2: you can get that budget to work without that seven
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  Speaker 2: point five billion in federal aid to the city. So
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  Speaker 2: he saw it was crucial. The whole budget is going
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  Speaker 2: to face a seventeen billion dollar budget deficit in the
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  Speaker 2: next fiscal year. You have to balance that according to
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  Speaker 2: the law. So he absolutely has to have that federal money.
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  Speaker 2: If Trump cuts off the federal money, he is dead.
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  Speaker 2: Not only do all his programs disappear. Anything he wants
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  Speaker 2: to do is going without the federal money. But he's
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  Speaker 2: got a major budget crisis. He could have a shortfall
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  Speaker 2: of as much as eight billion dollars. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: he's got to make sure that federal money doesn't stop.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only thing that keeps his administration alive. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why he wanted the meeting. That's why he wants
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  Speaker 2: to get along with Trump. Trump wants the meeting because
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  Speaker 2: he wants me. You know, like any crazy person you're
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  Speaker 2: dealing with, Kim Jong un or Putin or whoever, you
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  Speaker 2: want to meet with them, try to work something out
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  Speaker 2: with them. Trump is playing nice for now, but he
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  Speaker 2: can go, you know, rough at any time. So they
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  Speaker 2: want to work out something with the keep deporting the illegals,
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  Speaker 2: the criminal illegals and all that. He wants the police.
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  Speaker 2: Trump wants the police force to be top notch here
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  Speaker 2: in New York, total law enforcement. So if mont Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, doesn't do the right thing on either of those,
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  Speaker 2: Trump can stop the turn off the money flow, and
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie will be in huge financial trouble. So he
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  Speaker 2: agreed to a lot of things. He agreed not to
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  Speaker 2: antagonize Trump. Next year they're going to have this big,
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  Speaker 2: big budget problem. So that's the reason it all took place.
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  Speaker 2: They got off to a good start. Now Trump can
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  Speaker 2: go nasty at any point if he wants. Mam Donnie
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  Speaker 2: really doesn't have any leverage on this, As Trump said
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  Speaker 2: Tola Zelenski, you don't have the cards right now. So
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  Speaker 2: Mam Donnie will probably be most important thing is of
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  Speaker 2: the crime situation. He will leave the police department alone.
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  Speaker 2: We hope that's the one thing he agreed with Trump
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  Speaker 2: on leave the police department alone, let him clean up
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  Speaker 2: the crime. Anyway, we'll get back to that. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to the Ukraine. It looks like there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a peace deal. As crazy as that peace plan was,
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  Speaker 2: as pro Russia as that police plan was. Looks like
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  Speaker 2: they're working something out. You may have an agreement within
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  Speaker 2: a week. Meetings are taking place as we speak. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to hey. New Year's Eve, they unveiled the new ball.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every fifteen twenty years they do a new ball.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the ball drops on New Year's Eve. It
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  Speaker 2: used to be light bulbs, then it became LEDs, and
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  Speaker 2: then when all digital. The new ball, this one is huge.
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  Speaker 2: It's twelve feet in diameter. It's much much, much bigger
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  Speaker 2: than the other balls, be much more visible. It's all circles.
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  Speaker 2: The old one was triangles. It's all circles, so it
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  Speaker 2: can do amazing effects. It's on display in times square
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  Speaker 2: if you want to go look at it. Anyway, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. We'll take some calls. Next.
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  Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten