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Hour 1: Bruce Blakeman's running mate. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan.
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Speaker 2: Here comes the Mark Simone Show on Sevenrday. It's only Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: but you know, today's the first day of spring training.
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Speaker 2: That's right. Spring is just a few weeks away, just
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Speaker 2: a few weeks. Spring training opens today. Hey, we got
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Speaker 2: a lot to get to. We'll get to the latest
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Speaker 2: on the Guth three kidnapping. We'll get to Bad Bunny.
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Speaker 2: There's all sorts of Epstein developments. We'll get to that.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to Cardinal Dolan, We'll get to Bruce Blakeman.
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Speaker 2: He's picked a running mate. He'll get the nomination. Actually,
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Speaker 2: tomorrow morning he'll officially become the candidate. Super Bowl is over,
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Speaker 2: and now I realized it's gonna be the first weekend
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Speaker 2: with no football. There's nothing to watch this weekend football wise.
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Speaker 2: So the Bad Bunny thing, I think was great because
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Speaker 2: it's first of all, he wasn't that bad.
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Speaker 3: He was.
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Speaker 2: He was pretty good. I don't know one thing he said.
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Speaker 2: You couldn't understand him. It was in Spanish, but it
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Speaker 2: looks good. The moves, well, scenery was great, it was staging.
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Speaker 2: It was okay, probably not the best choice, but but
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Speaker 2: it's just it was worth it. Just to watch the
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Speaker 2: entire left wing, all the Democrats, all the media watched them.
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Speaker 2: Have to convince themselves to pretend that they're big Bad
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Speaker 2: Bunny fans, especially the older liberals and the older left
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Speaker 2: wing media people. They have to pretend they they're really
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Speaker 2: big fans of that bad Bunny boy. They love that
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Speaker 2: bad Bunny. If you grab their phone, let me see
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Speaker 2: your playlist. I don't see any Bad Bunny in there.
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Speaker 2: But they got to pretend they love bad Bunny because
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Speaker 2: this is the latest anti Trump thing they can do.
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Speaker 2: It was out protesting ice, now it's defending bad Bunny. Meantime,
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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny says, cashing in on this. Now, you gotta remember,
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Speaker 2: there were a lot of reasons you got to peel
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Speaker 2: away the layers of this. This Roger Goodell, who you
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Speaker 2: look at that guy and he's just look a very
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Speaker 2: unpleasant guy. He looks like the worst high school principle
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Speaker 2: you ever saw, Just a stern, unpleasant looking guy. He's
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Speaker 2: got no personality, absolutely humorless. And you'll wonder, how the
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Speaker 2: hell does this guy get eighty million a year or
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Speaker 2: whatever he gets to be the NFL commissioner. How does
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Speaker 2: he last so long? Because the owners love him. The
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Speaker 2: fans can't stand him. The owners love Roger Goodell. He
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Speaker 2: makes them a fortune. He's the best negotiator. He's a ruthless,
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Speaker 2: brutal negotiator with the networks. You put him in a
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Speaker 2: courtroom and there's an NFL lawsuit. He's great in a courtroom,
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Speaker 2: very skilled at all that stuff. And also he's a mastermind,
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Speaker 2: always scheming, scheming, scheming, scheming to make the NFL more money.
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Speaker 2: So they've been plotting the last few years. Couple of things.
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Speaker 2: One one of the reasons for bad Bunny Big big
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Speaker 2: big with a Hispanic community, and the Hispanic community tends
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Speaker 2: to like soccer and not really football. You got to
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Speaker 2: remember people that have come from somewhere else, they're big
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Speaker 2: soccer fans. You know, football is the number one most
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Speaker 2: popular sport in America. Around the world, it doesn't even
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Speaker 2: make the top ten. It's not that popular around the world.
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Speaker 2: So they make a fortune here in the US. But
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Speaker 2: Roger Goodell knows, and the NFL realizes to make more money.
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Speaker 2: To grow this thing, they got to go international. That's
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Speaker 2: why they start playing the games overseas every season. And
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Speaker 2: now they're going to try to appeal to other countries,
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Speaker 2: other languages. They want to make this league international, they
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Speaker 2: want to go worldwide. So that's one reason for a
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Speaker 2: bad bunny.
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Speaker 3: But just.
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Speaker 2: Forcing all these Democrats have to pretend they love bad Bunny,
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Speaker 2: it was worth it. Now. Glaine Maxwell testified yesterday she
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Speaker 2: took the fifth on everything because she's appealing her case.
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Speaker 2: It's going to come up in court pretty soon, so
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Speaker 2: she used that as a justification for taking the fifth.
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Speaker 2: She well, here she is.
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Speaker 4: I would like to answer your question, but on the
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Speaker 4: Advice and Council, I respectfully declined to answer this question
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Speaker 4: and any related questions. My habeas petition is pending in
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Speaker 4: the Sudden District of New York. I therefore invoke my
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Speaker 4: right silence under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution.
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Speaker 2: Now I knew Ghlaine Maxwell. She sounds quite proper, but
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Speaker 2: in real life was a raunchy kind of a woman,
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Speaker 2: rough and tough and raunchy. She has told the committee,
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Speaker 2: she's implied that she could, well, she said it publicly,
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Speaker 2: that she could clear Donald Trump and Bill Clinton of
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Speaker 2: all wrongdoing. But she wants clemency. She does not want
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Speaker 2: to be a charge. She wants the charges dropped and now,
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump does not need clearing. There was never a
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Speaker 2: hint of him ever being involved in anything bad with Epstein. Billy.
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Speaker 2: In fact, he off Epstein twenty something years ago. He
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Speaker 2: just stopped talking to me. First, got whiff of Epstein
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Speaker 2: hitting on a young woman at mar Alago, threw him
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Speaker 2: out of the club, immediately distanced him, warned to everybody,
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Speaker 2: including me, back then, stay away from Epstein. And the
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Speaker 2: guy that was the police chief, Palm Beach, came out
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Speaker 2: yesterday and revealed he was the police chief in two
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Speaker 2: thousand and eight when they went after Epstein, and he
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Speaker 2: said one of the first calls he got was from
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump back in two thousand and eight, who said,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you're going after Epstein. And he told him
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Speaker 2: about the problem he had with Epstein and mar A Lago,
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Speaker 2: and he said, everybody knows about this guy. You got
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Speaker 2: to go after him. And he encouraged him to take
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Speaker 2: a really good look at Gallayne Maxwell, saying she's evil,
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Speaker 2: she's the accomplice.
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Speaker 5: Look at her.
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Speaker 2: But he really encouraged the police to go after him.
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Speaker 2: So she wants to clemency. Now Bill Clinton has a
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Speaker 2: problem because he continued his relationship with Epstein right to
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Speaker 2: the very end. And Epstein was very the only relationship
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Speaker 2: Trump had with Epstein. He was a wealthy guy. He
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Speaker 2: showed up in Palm Beach, and when you were a
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Speaker 2: wealthy guy in Palm Beach, you joined mar A Lago.
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Speaker 2: And he started coming there, spending a ton of money
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Speaker 2: and going to the parties. And Trump would stand there
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Speaker 2: in the parties and talk to him, and that was
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Speaker 2: really about the whole relationship. A couple of times Trump
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Speaker 2: hitched a ride on Epstein's plane down to Palm Beach.
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Speaker 2: People used to do that back then. If you wanted
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Speaker 2: to go to Palm Beach for the weekend, you'd hit
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Speaker 2: your ride, sometimes on Trump's plane, Epstein's plane. People would
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Speaker 2: do that very often. But whenever the two times Trump
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Speaker 2: went on Epstein's plane, it was with his wife and daughter.
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Speaker 2: But Clinton is different. Clinton had a very, very very
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Speaker 2: close relationship with Epstein. Look at the White House visitors
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Speaker 2: logs when Clinton was there. Epstein's a regular visitor, sleeping
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Speaker 2: over at the White House. He's hundreds and hundreds of
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Speaker 2: times in the White House. It was Epstein who helped
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Speaker 2: form the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, one of the
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Speaker 2: reasons Epstein was able to ingratiate himself with so many
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Speaker 2: people was his check book. He had what they call
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Speaker 2: check's appeal. He would write massive checks, even the Palm
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Speaker 2: Beach Police Department. I give him credit for going after
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Speaker 2: him because Epstein was a big donor the Palm Beach.
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Speaker 2: It was just his weekend house, but he gave the
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Speaker 2: police department forty thousand to buy some piece of equipment
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Speaker 2: they needed, then later give him ninety thousand for by
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Speaker 2: another piece of equipment they needed, donated heavily to their
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Speaker 2: scholarship foundation. Just a big, big donor. He wrote checks
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Speaker 2: to everybody, celebrities, colleges, that's where they were all over them.
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Speaker 2: So here's comer. He's the chairman of the committee.
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Speaker 6: As expected, Laige Maxwell took the fifth and refused to
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Speaker 6: answer any questions.
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Speaker 2: This is obviously is very disappointing.
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Speaker 6: We had many questions to ask about the crime she
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Speaker 6: and Epstein committed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's asked.
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Speaker 3: For clemency from the president.
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Speaker 6: So I personally, for the reasons you just stated, don't
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Speaker 6: think she should be granted any type of immunity or clemency.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Donald Trump doesn't need his name cleared with Epstein,
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Speaker 2: so I don't think he's gonna give her any clemency. Comber.
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Speaker 2: We love Comber. He's a great guy, but he tends
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Speaker 2: to overpromise and underdeliver. As I always tell you, Republicans
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Speaker 2: are not good at hearings. They Democrats do hearings. They
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Speaker 2: wipe people out. Democrats when they have a hearing, they
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Speaker 2: tear into the person. Twenty of them just rip the
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Speaker 2: person apart like pitbulls. It's vicious. When the Republicans try
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Speaker 2: to do the same thing in the hearing, yeah, they
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Speaker 2: never quite get it done. It's a little harmless. He
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Speaker 2: let's get to Nancy Guthrie. The deadline has been missed. Well,
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Speaker 2: we don't know. The deadline was last night five o'clock
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Speaker 2: our time, but well actually it was five o'clock her time,
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Speaker 2: so it would be seven o'clock our time. The deadline passed.
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Speaker 2: We don't know if ransom was paid or not paid.
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Speaker 2: The Feds are now in charge of the investigation, and
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Speaker 2: the Feds are very good at keeping a lid on everything.
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Speaker 2: They keep everything quiet, so we don't know if the
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Speaker 2: ransom was paid. They asked for six million in bitcoin.
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Speaker 2: We do know there are new videos. It's Savannah Guthrie
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Speaker 2: put out.
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Speaker 7: No matter where you are, even if you're far from Tucson,
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Speaker 7: if you see anything, you hear anything, if there's anything
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Speaker 7: at all that seems strange to you that you report
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Speaker 7: to law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess she's talking about neighbors. Anybody in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: You know, people that have been there, the reporters, the
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Speaker 2: people covering the situation. They've been to Nancy Guthrie's house.
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Speaker 2: They've been outside there. They tell me it's incredibly dark.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's out in the desert. There's no street lights.
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Speaker 2: It's unbelievably dark. You can't see a thing around when
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Speaker 2: you look around in the streets there.
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Speaker 7: We believe our mom is still out there.
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Speaker 3: We need your help.
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Speaker 7: Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock trying to
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Speaker 7: bring her home, trying to find her. She was taken
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Speaker 7: and we don't know where, and we need your help.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now, they asked for six million in bitcoin. Now here's
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Speaker 2: the thing. A lot of people don't know this, but bitcoin,
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Speaker 2: it is traceable. It can be traced. In fact, if
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Speaker 2: you got bitcoin stuck, it may take a little drop
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Speaker 2: pretty soon because as this case, unfolds. If they're able
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Speaker 2: to track down the criminals and people realize you can
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Speaker 2: be tracked through bitcoin, that's going to cause them a
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Speaker 2: little lack of sales because a lot of criminals, drug dealers,
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Speaker 2: they love to use bitcoin because they think it's totally untraceable.
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Speaker 2: But the criminal, if it's the real criminal in the note,
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Speaker 2: did give an exact bitcoin address. Now, what they'll often
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Speaker 2: do in that case is just somebody will send a
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Speaker 2: little money to that address, just a little amount to
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Speaker 2: that bitcoin address, and then there's ways of tracking it
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Speaker 2: as it goes through the blockchain, and you send a
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Speaker 2: small amount to that crypto wallet and you can sort
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Speaker 2: of see where it lands. You're closer and closer, and
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Speaker 2: the local sheriff and the local police probably can't do this,
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Speaker 2: but the Feds are really good at tracing this down.
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Speaker 2: Cryptocurrency is not untraceable. There is data that can be
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Speaker 2: scraped from just a simple transaction that can yield a
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Speaker 2: lot of information, And there have been cases where they
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Speaker 2: have tracked somebody through crypto. It can be done. There's
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Speaker 2: in the FEDS, there's a real experts on blockchain forensic
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Speaker 2: They can trace all the blocks that generate each and
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Speaker 2: every transaction. They can actually you see what you send
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Speaker 2: a code to someone one wallet to another. But when
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Speaker 2: you send a code, you know things are in that code.
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Speaker 2: There's our ways, there are ways to track it, so
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Speaker 2: this could be interesting.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie, of course, immediately flew out there to Tucson
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Speaker 2: and stayed with the relatives in their house. But apparently
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Speaker 2: reporters are all over the house. They're all over the
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Speaker 2: Nancy Guthrie house, They're all over the daughter's house and
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Speaker 2: the Guthrie's. Savannah and her family were all staying in
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Speaker 2: this one house, but it was surrounded by reporters, so
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Speaker 2: they have temporarily rented. Savannah Guthrie rented a one point
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Speaker 2: two million dollar mansion. This house is in a guarded gatehouse,
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Speaker 2: a gated community. Nobody can get in there, and it's
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Speaker 2: located in the community where you can't even see it
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Speaker 2: from the street. So it gives them some privacy, gives
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Speaker 2: them some distance from them and the news crews all
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Speaker 2: over the streets. We'll see what develops later today. What else, Hey,
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Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman, who would be the best governor for New York.
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Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman would be the perfect governor for New York.
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Speaker 2: He's a governor. Now, that's what a county executive is
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Speaker 2: in Nassau County, best run, safest county in America. So
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Speaker 2: he has to pick a running mate, and he just did.
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Speaker 2: He picked a running mate yesterday. They're having the convention
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Speaker 2: right now. But he's picked Madison County Sheriff Hood twenty
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Speaker 2: two years in the Syracuse Police Department, Blakeman courses from
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Speaker 2: around here. You want the other half of the ticket
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Speaker 2: to be an upstate guy. Hood a great resume. Father
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Speaker 2: of Ie serves as vice president of the New York
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Speaker 2: State Sheriff's Association, chairman of the National Sheriff's Association. So
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Speaker 2: now tomorrow's the nomination, the actual nomination. They have a
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Speaker 2: convention for like three days.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: It's a Republican convention every year. This is like the
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Speaker 2: state Republican Convention being held in Garden City. They're all
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Speaker 2: at the Garden City Hotel right now. And Garden City
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Speaker 2: is a beautiful place, beautiful one of the nicest towns
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Speaker 2: in Long Island. All kinds of stuff opening there lately.
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Speaker 2: There's a new I of our Own supermarket. There's a
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Speaker 2: Tony's Tacos, which is all over Long Island, just open there.
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Speaker 2: But tomorrow they'll nominate Blakeman at about this time tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: and then they got some other races. They're going to
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Speaker 2: nominate Joseph Fernandez, candidate for state Controller. And then oh,
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Speaker 2: the GOP candidate. There's going to be a Republican candidate
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Speaker 2: to take on Letitia James, the sleazy, awful Attorney General.
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Speaker 2: So this will be former federal prosecutor Saritha. Oh good, well,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna have a little trouble pronouncing this last name.
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Speaker 2: Comma to Reddy. I think it is all right, I said,
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Speaker 2: But she's she's trying to get the seat. There's a
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Speaker 2: little battle there between two GOP. But you want to
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Speaker 2: get riddle Letitia James this year, that would be a great,
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Speaker 2: great thing to do. Hey, Cardinal Dolan has left Saint Patrick's.
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Speaker 2: But you know he's got an apartment now in New
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Speaker 2: York City. It's in a parish in murray Hill, but
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Speaker 2: it's a very nice apartment. He'll be living there. He's
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Speaker 2: not leaving New York. He'll be living here and he's
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Speaker 2: gonna take various jobs. One was announced yesterday he will
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Speaker 2: be the NYPD chaplain. There are a couple of them,
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Speaker 2: but he'll be I guess the head chaplain. The NYPD
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Speaker 2: chaplain is a great job taking care of our are
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Speaker 2: men and women in law enforcement. That's one thing he'll
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Speaker 2: be doing. He'll be uh in this parish where they
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Speaker 2: gave him a beautiful apartment. He'll be holding services there
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Speaker 2: and apparently other parishes. So you'll be able to on
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Speaker 2: a Sunday go see Cardinal Dolan. That's great news. Ronald Hicks,
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Speaker 2: who took over, had his installation on Friday, first time ever.
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Speaker 2: The mayor didn't show up. That's mom, Donnie. He didn't
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Speaker 2: show up. But you know he's I wouldn't think he's
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Speaker 2: too religious a guy, I don't know. He's a socialist,
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Speaker 2: as he loves to say.
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Speaker 1: I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will
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Speaker 1: govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my
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Speaker 1: principles for fear of being deemed radical.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's great, you're socialist. Fortunately, got you picked the
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Speaker 2: wrong city. You get elected. This is the capitalism capital
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Speaker 2: of the world. It's like, if you hate cars, you
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Speaker 2: want to ban cars, you can't be the mayor of Detroit.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense. So this is the Wall
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Speaker 2: Street is our main industry, capitalism, finance? And is he
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Speaker 2: a socialist? Well, they asked Bill Maher.
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Speaker 6: Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not
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Speaker 6: mayor Mom Donnie is a socialist or a democratic socialist.
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Speaker 6: Let me settle it. He's a straight up communist. How
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Speaker 6: do I know this? Well, I'm reading between the lines
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Speaker 6: when one of his major advisors says, elect more communists,
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Speaker 6: which is fine, it's fine. It's a belief system. He's
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Speaker 6: allowed to believe it and people are allowed to vote
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Speaker 6: for it. But if liberals deny it, like he's just
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Speaker 6: going through a goth phase, they're going to lose more elections.
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Speaker 6: This is not a communist country.
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Speaker 2: No, And how do you get a Mom Donnie, Well,
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Speaker 2: you send a couple of generations to woke left wing,
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Speaker 2: a crazy college. All of our universities, colleges are now
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Speaker 2: in doctrination centers and they come out thinking like Mom Donnie.
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Speaker 2: And after about twenty years of that stuff, you get
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Speaker 2: enough to vote in a mayor like that. Hey, we'll
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Speaker 2: take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 2: seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten.
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Speaker 7: If you're listening to Mark on the ico on woor.
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Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Jacob
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Speaker 2: in Denver, Colorado. Jacob, how you doing Hi?
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Speaker 8: I think there's a case in front of the Supreme
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Speaker 8: Court whether or not the states have to clean up
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Speaker 8: their voter rolls. Yeah, and if the Supreme Court says yes,
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Speaker 8: you do have to clean up your voter rolls, what
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Speaker 8: happened to all this gerimandering? Will they have to do
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Speaker 8: it over again or they just let it go?
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Speaker 2: No, well they can't to do it over again anyway.
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Speaker 2: You don't have time for the midterms, but you got
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Speaker 2: to do it before twenty eight and clean up all this.
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Speaker 8: Okay, but you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose all these votes.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 8: If you clean up your voteroals, you're gonna lose Democrats,
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Speaker 8: You're gonna lose Republicans. You will have to do them.
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Speaker 2: You only clean up the bad votes, the suspicious ones.
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Speaker 2: You'll lose more Democrats than Republicans. Hey, Jacob, we've had
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Speaker 2: snow here for a few days and it's driving us nuts.
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Speaker 2: You're in Denver, you have snow, like all went right?
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Speaker 2: How much snow do you have there?
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Speaker 8: We have absolutely none. We have had no in two months.
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Speaker 8: Our average temperature is sixty degrees what what's happening. What's
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Speaker 8: happening is is there's a high planted right over Denver,
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Speaker 8: well right over Colorado. So the jet stream is pushing
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Speaker 8: all the cold that would normally go over Denver to
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Speaker 8: New York and Detroit and all that.
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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot. Yeah, this is all wrong, it's not
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Speaker 2: not right.
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Speaker 8: But but you know, I remember, I remember in twenty ten,
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Speaker 8: was it December twenty ten? There was a there was
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Speaker 8: a northeaster and the garbage piled up in Brooklyn ten
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Speaker 8: feet high. Also, so this is really nothing new to
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Speaker 8: you guys.
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Speaker 2: All right, well that's a good point we got. All right,
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Speaker 2: good call, Jacob, Thanks for calling. Isn't that that's just
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Speaker 2: wrong that we got all this snow? Denver has no snow.
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Speaker 2: You know, this past weekend it was so unbelievably cold
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Speaker 2: in New York. It was actually about ten degrees colder
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Speaker 2: in New York City than Antarctica. That's an actual fact.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to uh Rocco in Rockland County, Rocco, How
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Speaker 2: you doing.
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Speaker 9: Doing great, Paisano Marco. The bottom line is he's a mierda.
19:27
Speaker 9: That's what madammi is. He the damn communist? And what's
19:29
Speaker 9: he going to do about the hell that New York City,
19:32
Speaker 9: the richest city in the world, doesn't have a retirement
19:35
Speaker 9: home for American veterans because he doesn't care. He didn't
19:38
Speaker 9: show up at the installation Licago. He denounced Christopher Clubs.
19:42
Speaker 9: Christopher Cumbas was not his flavor. He broke the love
19:44
Speaker 9: of Christ to the New world. He is an anti Semitic,
19:47
Speaker 9: anti catholosis. He stinks, and New York's getting what they deserved.
19:52
Speaker 9: But putting that rat in office.
19:54
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for coding Helly. We survived eight years
19:56
Speaker 2: at Doblasio. We'll survive four years of this guy. Let's
19:59
Speaker 2: go to Joe and Amityville. Joe, how you doing?
20:03
Speaker 9: Yeah?
20:03
Speaker 3: You doing? Mark? You got to love this country. We
20:05
Speaker 3: give a fly off to the janniar who couldn't do
20:08
Speaker 3: nothing of but Gravisquatch.
20:10
Speaker 5: Listen to his lyrics.
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Speaker 2: Are you talking about bad Bunny?
20:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, bad Bunny? Give him a fly?
20:17
Speaker 2: Nice's okay, that's not bad Bunny's fault. It's just this
20:20
Speaker 2: is the latest left wing thing. They're pretending that they're
20:22
Speaker 2: Bad Bunny fans. There, even these sixty two year old
20:26
Speaker 2: left wing they're defending Bad Bunny. They're convincing themselves they
20:29
Speaker 2: love Bad Bunny. They've never a million years had him
20:33
Speaker 2: in their playlist. They never listened to them. Let's go
20:36
Speaker 2: to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
20:38
Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark, Mark, I'm okay, Good morning Mara. What
20:41
Speaker 5: about that speech Mondamie gave yesterday where he kept on
20:46
Speaker 5: quoting the Koran and Allah? I mean, what was he
20:51
Speaker 5: speaking to a microphone into a minaret to, you know,
20:55
Speaker 5: called the faithful the prayer?
20:57
Speaker 9: Mark?
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Speaker 5: What if the other average news of corruption that the
21:03
Speaker 5: government needs to look at. We all heard about Minnesota
21:07
Speaker 5: the corruption of the daycare centers, and now in California,
21:14
Speaker 5: the hospice centers and the nursing homes. The government has
21:17
Speaker 5: to look at the Medicaid program where you could hire
21:22
Speaker 5: anybody you want to be your homemade attendant. Now, how
21:28
Speaker 5: does the government know if that person is badging and
21:32
Speaker 5: if they're really working all their hours that they claim
21:36
Speaker 5: they are. In the past, the homemade attendants. And I
21:39
Speaker 5: know because my aunt when she was old, she had
21:42
Speaker 5: when we have to go for the city, the city
21:44
Speaker 5: would screen these people to see if they weren't criminals, this, that,
21:48
Speaker 5: and the other, that they were on the up and up.
21:51
Speaker 5: I know a woman who's a homemade attendant for a
21:54
Speaker 5: mother who lives in the east village. You mean to say,
21:58
Speaker 5: the mother's going to rat on the door to if
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Speaker 5: the door.
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Speaker 2: That's a good point, Vincent. You're right, that's the problem.
22:03
Speaker 2: That's how you get all this government fraud, wasting, bloating.
22:06
Speaker 2: Now you can make anybody your homemade, just declare them
22:08
Speaker 2: that and start packing.
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Speaker 5: What if is the mother gonna rat the door around
22:12
Speaker 5: if she says she built medicaid for forty hours of
22:17
Speaker 5: service and she was only at a mother's house for five.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're absolutely right, good call, Vincent. That's again
22:24
Speaker 2: this is how this stuff starts, the daycare fraud to
22:27
Speaker 2: medicaid fraud. All of a sudden, they just just send
22:30
Speaker 2: money flying out to everybody. There's no checks, no system,
22:33
Speaker 2: no balances. No Hey, when we come back the dean himself,
22:37
Speaker 2: Ed Rollins, we'll talk to him next. What's gonna happen
22:39
Speaker 2: in the midterms. Can a Republican win the governor's race
22:42
Speaker 2: in New York State? We'll get to that and a
22:44
Speaker 2: lot more questions coming up next on seven to ten WR.
22:48
Speaker 1: It's more more Mark Simone On sevent ten WR.
22:57
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk to the Dean himself. Rollins, the best
23:00
Speaker 2: political analyst out there. Nobody's run more campaigns, worked in
23:03
Speaker 2: more white houses, and great to add them with us,
23:06
Speaker 2: Ed Rollins.
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Speaker 9: How you doing, good morning, Mark, Are you here?
23:09
Speaker 2: I'm good? So hey. Bruce Blakeman will be nominated tomorrow
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Speaker 2: as the Republican candidate for governor. Big endorsement today from
23:17
Speaker 2: the New York Post. But how easy? How tough is
23:20
Speaker 2: it for a Republican to win the governor's race in
23:22
Speaker 2: New York?
23:23
Speaker 3: Now, well, it's tough. But Bruce is a great candidate,
23:26
Speaker 3: and in my senses, he comes from the right area
23:28
Speaker 3: of the state. He's got a great record, He's as
23:31
Speaker 3: stronger candidate as we could have in New York. I
23:35
Speaker 3: think we're a very weak mayor. I mean we're not mayor,
23:38
Speaker 3: big governor. Yeah, So you know, I don't think at
23:41
Speaker 3: this point in time you can see to the past history.
23:44
Speaker 3: What's going to happen here. So he can he raise
23:47
Speaker 3: the money? Can he campaign effectively? Yes? So I think
23:50
Speaker 3: the ped race is still still to watch very closely.
23:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been in this game a while. How did
23:55
Speaker 2: we get to this world where you could have the
23:57
Speaker 2: worst record in the world, you absolutely stink like gas
24:00
Speaker 2: Newsom or whoever, and you can run again. How does
24:03
Speaker 2: this happen nowadays?
24:06
Speaker 3: Well, there's so much clutter in the media today that
24:10
Speaker 3: it's hard to people make so many impressions that are
24:15
Speaker 3: out there. It's like the president. The president's got so
24:17
Speaker 3: much going on, but it's hard to focus on two
24:20
Speaker 3: or three things. And in a campaign like this, you
24:23
Speaker 3: need a campaign on a few things. You've got to say,
24:25
Speaker 3: here's what she's done that basically have affected your life badly,
24:30
Speaker 3: and keep hammering on that issue. Don't talk about thirty
24:32
Speaker 3: five issues. And the same way the democrats. Democrats keep
24:35
Speaker 3: talking about we've got to have all these policy papers
24:37
Speaker 3: and what have you. At at the end of the day,
24:39
Speaker 3: policy papers are not going to be any for them.
24:41
Speaker 3: What's going to do something that they're going to make
24:43
Speaker 3: their case against against the president of the president's party. Yeah,
24:47
Speaker 3: and as far as the president too, much clutter, too
24:50
Speaker 3: much media.
24:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, the economy, if you look at the actual numbers,
24:54
Speaker 2: the math, the economy is doing well, it's headed in
24:57
Speaker 2: the right direction. Everything's good. But what does the president
24:59
Speaker 2: do it needs to do to get better messaging about that?
25:02
Speaker 3: Well, he needs he needs to basically focus himself on
25:05
Speaker 3: the message. You know, he sees the one dragging the message.
25:07
Speaker 3: And all the foreign policy stuff that he's doing certainly
25:11
Speaker 3: may be important, but it's not important to the voters
25:14
Speaker 3: out there that are basically worrying about healthcare and worrying
25:17
Speaker 3: about food prices and housing prices, what have you. So
25:21
Speaker 3: I would argue it now that we're in the in
25:23
Speaker 3: the actual election year, the president needs to spend his
25:27
Speaker 3: time and energy on these issues at matative voters. He's
25:30
Speaker 3: got strong polsters, get the posters, give them three or
25:33
Speaker 3: four things he should be talking about, and talk about
25:35
Speaker 3: those things. You know. I think the key thing here is,
25:39
Speaker 3: you know, there's there's a lot of crisises in the world,
25:41
Speaker 3: and the president wants to solve those crisises, and it's
25:43
Speaker 3: done a pretty effective job and all that, but most
25:46
Speaker 3: people out there aren't worried about Iran as much as
25:49
Speaker 3: they're worried about, you know, what's happening in Westchester County
25:52
Speaker 3: or Suffolk County or across the country.
25:56
Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting what you said about clutter. But as
25:59
Speaker 2: President Trump doing a great job. But he's the king
26:02
Speaker 2: of clutter. If you watch a press conference of speech
26:04
Speaker 2: and there's four thousand things he's working on at once,
26:06
Speaker 2: so and you can't cure him with that, can you.
26:10
Speaker 2: That's always the way.
26:11
Speaker 3: You can't cure him that. One of the concerns I
26:13
Speaker 3: have is having another the White House political director and
26:15
Speaker 3: have one Congressional committee. The intend now is to put
26:20
Speaker 3: him out and have him campaign and try and drive
26:22
Speaker 3: out the vote. Only votes when he's on the pallet.
26:26
Speaker 3: I would just argue, the more you move around the country,
26:28
Speaker 3: the less likely he can stay on message. And you know,
26:33
Speaker 3: he needs to stay in the White House. He needs
26:35
Speaker 3: to go out maybe ten or twenty times. He told
26:38
Speaker 3: him in the campaign. But if they have him out
26:40
Speaker 3: there three or four days a week, you know he
26:43
Speaker 3: likes the campaign. But at the end of the day,
26:46
Speaker 3: you've got priority messages going out. We needs to stay
26:48
Speaker 3: in that White House. It hit the big message places
26:52
Speaker 3: and be very consistent and quit in selfing people. You know,
26:56
Speaker 3: he needs to quit make cracks about his opponents. You know,
27:00
Speaker 3: Joe Biden is gone. But we'll die on the beach. Uh.
27:04
Speaker 3: You know, to the end of the day. We you
27:08
Speaker 3: can't blame everything on him at this point in time
27:09
Speaker 3: because always gonna listen, this is Trump's administration. His biggest problem.
27:13
Speaker 3: Has got a very narrow majority of the House. Uh,
27:16
Speaker 3: and it does that the Senate doesn't have anything. So yeah,
27:20
Speaker 3: you know, to to seat you know, this week he's
27:23
Speaker 3: got a two seat margin. He's got to get every
27:25
Speaker 3: member they're voting for him on these issues. And we
27:27
Speaker 3: now have a big ice debate on on funding and
27:31
Speaker 3: that's very important.
27:33
Speaker 2: Uh.
27:33
Speaker 3: You know, you drive this Congress through, uh through a
27:37
Speaker 3: budget fight for another two or three weeks. Here again,
27:40
Speaker 3: people are distracted. People want want order.
27:44
Speaker 2: But you know there's this whole anti ice feeling of
27:46
Speaker 2: the Democrats. But you know, November is a long way away.
27:50
Speaker 2: Democrats always overplay their hand. They always go too far.
27:53
Speaker 2: Don't you think they'll do that this time? By by
27:56
Speaker 2: election time, I don't know, we'll see.
27:58
Speaker 3: You know, we don't have we don't have a full year.
28:01
Speaker 3: You know, the reality is three or four months from now.
28:04
Speaker 3: These campaigns got to be running a hundred hundred degrees
28:08
Speaker 3: forward and the Congress is not gonna want to go
28:12
Speaker 3: back here. You've got forty four members Congress that are
28:18
Speaker 3: Democrats have targeted forty four. Those forty four guys and
28:21
Speaker 3: gals are gonna have to be home worrying about what
28:24
Speaker 3: their constituous are saying. And if you're dragged here to
28:27
Speaker 3: fight these stupid battles, we're not gonna win. Uh. You know,
28:31
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, people will get frustrated. Yeah,
28:35
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying is my argument is we
28:38
Speaker 3: don't we don't have a year. Time flies very quickly here,
28:41
Speaker 3: you know, big expensive races, and you got to you
28:44
Speaker 3: gotta be focusing on everything that rights to district right now.
28:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at some of these Congress people now, from
28:51
Speaker 2: King Jeffries to elon Omar to AOC to Jasmine Kracher.
28:56
Speaker 2: These are some real low IQ people. Did you ever
28:59
Speaker 2: see that before where we had those people go well, no,
29:04
Speaker 2: but they.
29:04
Speaker 3: Are pretty safe districts though, so they can they can
29:07
Speaker 3: do and say what they want. You know, the key
29:10
Speaker 3: thing here is we don't we don't have There'll be
29:13
Speaker 3: a lot of seats. They'll talk about being competitive. It
29:15
Speaker 3: won't be competitive, it's it's really twenty five seats total
29:19
Speaker 3: that they're going to be competitive on both sides. They'll
29:21
Speaker 3: argue forty four Democrats that could be defeated, thirty five
29:26
Speaker 3: Republicans can to be defeated. In the reality where we
29:28
Speaker 3: switch those numbers, reality is, you know, this comes down
29:33
Speaker 3: to ten fifteen seats, and you've got to make all
29:35
Speaker 3: your efforts there.
29:36
Speaker 2: Yea, Hey, voter I d Democrats opposing that blocking that
29:42
Speaker 2: That looks pretty bad on their part, doesn't it.
29:45
Speaker 3: It does. But you know, the there's so much confusion
29:48
Speaker 3: on voting. I mean, the key thing is get your
29:51
Speaker 3: voter out, whatever it takes to get them out, and
29:55
Speaker 3: don't argue about the method of voting, argue about who's
29:57
Speaker 3: going to vote. And the president can do that. But
30:00
Speaker 3: again I would just argue read in the cabinet, every
30:03
Speaker 3: the vice president need to be out there saying the
30:06
Speaker 3: same thing. The economy is the economy. It's the economy. Uh,
30:10
Speaker 3: And that's that's what the public wants to hear.
30:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, in New York City, Mom, Donnie Uh, probably
30:17
Speaker 2: the worst person we could have for mayor. But he
30:20
Speaker 2: seems very busy with photo ops and press conferences and
30:23
Speaker 2: the public stuff and not really doing any work. That's
30:26
Speaker 2: a good thing. But you think we'll get through these
30:28
Speaker 2: four years of mom Donnie.
30:30
Speaker 3: Well, they get through it one way or the other.
30:32
Speaker 3: It's what kind of shape. If his policy is getting implemented,
30:36
Speaker 3: we'll have a very bad state of affairs in New
30:39
Speaker 3: York in four years. But so far, I think he's
30:42
Speaker 3: he's more of a personality than he is effective mayor.
30:45
Speaker 3: And the people that he's put in are, to Blasio,
30:47
Speaker 3: people who are not very effective and I think to
30:49
Speaker 3: a certain extent and are very dangerous. And you've got
30:52
Speaker 3: to make this nation's financial capital, communications capital, and you've
30:56
Speaker 3: got to make the city run and run effectively. I
30:58
Speaker 3: don't I don't know that he's gonna be do that.
31:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the more reason we need Bruce blake When
31:02
Speaker 2: as governor. Just the counter, no question about Yeah, well
31:06
Speaker 2: Ed Rollins, great stuff, Thanks for being with us. We'll
31:09
Speaker 2: talk again soon, pleasure, all right, take care? Yea, Bruce
31:12
Speaker 2: Blakeman will get the nomination tomorrow at the convention. A
31:17
Speaker 2: big endorsement of him today New York Post. That's good news. Hey,
31:21
Speaker 2: don't forget at noon today, every day twelve noon, Buck Sexton,
31:24
Speaker 2: Clay Travis. You'll learn a lot. Listen to them every
31:27
Speaker 2: day noon to three. Then at three o'clock you got
31:30
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31:34
Speaker 2: You got Jesse Kelly every night at six, and Jimmy
31:37
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31:41
Speaker 2: Here on seven to ten. Wor mister New York Mark Simone,
31:46
Speaker 2: you're the best seven wr Well, Hey, it's gonna be
31:53
Speaker 2: about I don't know, thirty five thirty six degrees today.
31:56
Speaker 2: That'll start melting the snow. Tomorrow it's going to be forty.
31:59
Speaker 2: That'll really melt the snow. And then it's going to
32:01
Speaker 2: stay in the upper thirties the rest of the week
32:04
Speaker 2: and then back to forty on Saturday. So by the end,
32:07
Speaker 2: by this weekend, the snow will be gone. It will melt. Now.
32:10
Speaker 2: The only thing is there's a chance of snow or
32:14
Speaker 2: rain Sunday, but it looks like it's going to be
32:17
Speaker 2: near forty on Sunday, so that would make it rain.
32:19
Speaker 2: As all this snow melts, you kind of wants some
32:21
Speaker 2: rain to wash it all away. So that's good news.
32:25
Speaker 2: You got a three day weekend coming up this weekend,
32:28
Speaker 2: the President's Day. You have Valentine's Day Saturday night. You
32:31
Speaker 2: got President's Day on Monday, so you got a three
32:34
Speaker 2: day weekend coming up. Spring training begins today. That's good news.
32:38
Speaker 2: We're just a few weeks away from spring, it's not
32:41
Speaker 2: far away. Let's see Dan Bongino. You know, he left.
32:45
Speaker 2: He was the assistant director of the FBI. Quit, came
32:49
Speaker 2: back here and started his podcast again. Just signed a
32:52
Speaker 2: deal to rejoin Fox News. He'll be a Fox News contributor.
32:56
Speaker 2: You'll see him all over there. Much better, much better.
32:59
Speaker 2: It's much more fun to be on Fox News. It's
33:01
Speaker 2: much better to be on radio TV. It's fun. It's
33:04
Speaker 2: great then to go sit in a federal building in Washington,
33:07
Speaker 2: d C. And work in the government. Anyway, we got
33:10
Speaker 2: a lot to get to in the next hour. Bill
33:12
Speaker 2: O'Reilly will be here. Hey, who was at the super Bowl?
33:15
Speaker 2: He was at all the parties, all the events. He'll
33:17
Speaker 2: give us the inside scoop on what went on out there,
33:21
Speaker 2: and we'll get to that and a lot more. Just
33:23
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