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Hour 1: Big meeting with Saudi Arabia. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
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Speaker 1: it all means. He smarts amone on seven to ten.
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Speaker 1: Wo Well, it's big developments happening with the mayor of
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Speaker 1: Mom Donnie. Mayor elect Mom Donnie, with Donald Trump, woop
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Speaker 1: with Epstein. We'll get to all of that coming up.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week, a week
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Speaker 1: from tomorrow. It's Thanksgiving. Unbelievable because you walk down the hall.
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Speaker 1: You can tell because there's a Thanksgiving buffet down there
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Speaker 1: by Elvis Durant Studio, by Jim Kurr Studio, there's a
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Speaker 1: whole Christmas buffet and we have to It's tons and tons.
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Speaker 1: It goes on for miles these buffets, and everybody's eating
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Speaker 1: like crazy because we have to finish this be for
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Speaker 1: today's lunch buffet, which begins in the two hours, that's why.
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Speaker 1: And then then we do this all day long with
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Speaker 1: these buffets in front of every studio up and down
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Speaker 1: the hall. It's all buffets. And then we do features
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Speaker 1: on why an obesity problem. So we got a lot
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Speaker 1: to get to. Let's start with the great news. Mayor
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Speaker 1: elect Mom Donnie. You know you're gonna have to get
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Speaker 1: used to saying mayor Mom Donnie. But he's agreed to
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Speaker 1: and Jessica Tish's agreed to stay. She will be the
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Speaker 1: police commissioner under Mom Donnie. That's reassuring to a lot
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Speaker 1: of people. They've had a series of meetings. They had
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Speaker 1: phone calls over the weekend, which is a good sign.
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Speaker 1: If you have all these meetings in person and then
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Speaker 1: it turns into phone calls, it means you've done the
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Speaker 1: hard stuff. You got that out of the way, and
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Speaker 1: the phone calls he usually just follow up. So she
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Speaker 1: will stay on as the police commissioner. Now she made
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Speaker 1: some agreements with him. She's not gonna just stay on,
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Speaker 1: you know, good faith. They're gonna have to. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: have to actually agree to stuff. So he's agreed to
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Speaker 1: basically her alone. This is a key thing. He's got
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Speaker 1: these crazy programs with his social workers taken over instead
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Speaker 1: of police. They've made an agreement that the police department
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Speaker 1: will stay the police department. She will run that. Whatever
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Speaker 1: silly stuff he wants to do with the social workers,
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Speaker 1: that'll be separate. It'll be a department of Community safety
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Speaker 1: that he will run. They will focus with the social
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Speaker 1: workers on the homeless and mentally ill. They'll just deal
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Speaker 1: with that. They'll leave the police department alone. The police
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Speaker 1: department will deal with actual crime. That's one agreement they've made.
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Speaker 1: I don't know all the others, but they've agreed on
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. So she will stay. That's very important.
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Speaker 1: It's very very good news. Jessica Tish will stay on. Now,
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Speaker 1: some people say, well, we don't know, it might just
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Speaker 1: be a couple of months. You might just stay and
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Speaker 1: then leaving three I don't think so, you know, she's
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Speaker 1: not going to do that. She would either stay or leave.
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Speaker 1: If she's staying, it's because they read on the right stuff.
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Speaker 1: She's got good, solid agreements with him. If she's staying,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be for a while. It'll be Remember,
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Speaker 1: police commissioners generally serve a very long time, you know.
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Speaker 1: Not everybody's Ray Kelly. He was the greatest police commissioner
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Speaker 1: in history. So that was like, I think, eighteen years.
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Speaker 1: But he's Babe Ruth. That's not normal. But normally a
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Speaker 1: police commissioner, a good police commissioner stays a few years.
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Speaker 1: It's not one year, it's a number of years, four years,
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Speaker 1: three years, four years, five years, something like that. It
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Speaker 1: was only under Eric Adams we had the police Commissioner
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Speaker 1: of the month. How many do we have under Adams?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think those Jeopardy guys could even
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Speaker 1: get that name. All the Eric Adams police commissioners. It's
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Speaker 1: not easy. Let me think he shot suwell m Who
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Speaker 1: is the McDermott Dermott Dermot Shay. That's another one. O'Neill.
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Speaker 1: What was O'Neill's first name, James O'Neill. That's three. Oh,
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Speaker 1: Eddie Caban that's four. Who is the guy that was
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Speaker 1: there briefly? Very nice guy was his name? Donnelly? He
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Speaker 1: was just there temporarily. He came in for a few months,
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Speaker 1: but a very good guy. Donnelly. That's five. And Jessica Tish.
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Speaker 1: That's six, six police commissioners in four years. It's embarrassing,
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Speaker 1: it's awful. So I think if she's agreed to stay,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be for a while. Now. That's the most
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Speaker 1: important thing about mom. Donnie whatever nonsense, crazy stuff he
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Speaker 1: wants to do. Fine, But as long as the streets
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Speaker 1: are safe, that kind of fixes everything. Safe streets you
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Speaker 1: pretty much help every situation. If the streets are safe,
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Speaker 1: businesses flourish, if the streets are safe, tourists keep coming here.
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Speaker 1: That's very important for our economy. So he's Jessica Tish
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Speaker 1: will stay. That's important. Outside of that, he's gonna have
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Speaker 1: all these all the crazy people he's appointed, they're all
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Speaker 1: from the Deblasio administration, the same exact deputy mayors, first
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Speaker 1: deputy mayor. They're all from the Blasio administration. So you'll
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Speaker 1: basically get a repeat of that. It wasn't bad, and
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Speaker 1: we got through it. We got through eight years of that.
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Speaker 1: We'll get through four years of Mom Donnie. It might
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Speaker 1: only be one year. You know, you're going to get
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Speaker 1: a new governor, probably a year from now, and that
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Speaker 1: governor can remove the mayor. They have the power to
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Speaker 1: remove the mayor. It's happened before FDR removed Jimmy Walker
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Speaker 1: the mayor. So that's good news. Now. The only bad
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Speaker 1: part of this Tish thing, Mam Donnie does not want
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Speaker 1: Ice coming in here arresting illegals, and many of these
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Speaker 1: illegals are the worst criminals, So you want him arrested
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Speaker 1: and taken out here. Jessica Tish may have agreed with
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Speaker 1: him not to cooperate with ice. That's I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but that's the only problem. Hocal apparently is recruited a
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Speaker 1: number of big Wall Street exec top Wall Street names,
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Speaker 1: big business guys, people that know Trump, and she's put
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Speaker 1: together of this group. She wants them to go to
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and convince him to not send the National
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Speaker 1: Guardian to protect people. Now, if Jessica Tish is here
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Speaker 1: and doing a good job, there'd be no reason to
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Speaker 1: send the National Guard in. But if there is a problem,
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Speaker 1: of course you'd want him to send the National guard.
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Speaker 1: Why would you turn away anything that's going to give
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Speaker 1: you a public safety Why would you turn away any
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Speaker 1: law enforcement, public safety anything. And also bear in mind,
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Speaker 1: you remember a few years ago when there was the
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Speaker 1: crime was getting out of control. What did Kathy Hokeel do.
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Speaker 1: Nobody remembers this. She sent the National Guard in. Remember
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Speaker 1: she put him in all the subways, So she sent
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Speaker 1: the National Guarden. She thought it was a good thing
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Speaker 1: to do. But that's the hypocrisy. Democrats are famous for
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Speaker 1: President Trump meeting with the Saudi Prince yesterday. Saudi leaders,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't like this. You know, you
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Speaker 1: don't want to have two cozy relationship between a president
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Speaker 1: and the Saudis, and they looked like reporters were asking
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Speaker 1: about the Trump organization has all kinds of business interests
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Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia. They're building hotels and apartments and this
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Speaker 1: looks pretty sleazy, but he pointed out they've been doing
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Speaker 1: that anyway, long before he was president. They were building
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Speaker 1: over there, and they're building all over the world. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the amount of building they're doing in Saudi Arabia is
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Speaker 1: a lot less than they're doing in Europe or anywhere else. Hey,
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Speaker 1: the greatest moment was Trump and this ABC reporter. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's funny. ABC News. ABC the network attacks Trump twenty
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Speaker 1: four to seven for ten years. They call them every
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Speaker 1: name in the world. They insult them with everything he'm
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Speaker 1: insult them with. All they do is attack and insult
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump twenty four to seven for ten years without
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Speaker 1: it never stops. If he insults him once, it's an
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Speaker 1: international incident all of a sudden, ABC News is the
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Speaker 1: worst thing that's ever happened. But this is yesterday. They
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Speaker 1: got the Saudi crown prints. They're in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 1: They've made some agreements to help the US, to help
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Speaker 1: our businesses and a lot of big good business leaders
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Speaker 1: have flown in, Tim Cook of Apple, all these big
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Speaker 1: tech guys everything. They're all there. Elon Musk came back
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Speaker 1: to the White House for this. It's very important, and
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Speaker 1: they're trying to talk about what they're going to do
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Speaker 1: together and hopefully they make some kind of an agreement
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Speaker 1: over protecting Israel and all of that. So it's all
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Speaker 1: good stuff. But the ABC reporter can't stop. She's asking
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Speaker 1: about remember the guy that was killed, Koshogi, and she's
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Speaker 1: asking about Epstein. This is in the middle of this
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Speaker 1: positive thing. So Trump gets mad, but this is great.
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Speaker 1: He really tells her off. I love listening to this.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen. That will fight it out.
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Speaker 2: For Congress to release the Epstein files.
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Speaker 1: Why not just do it now?
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
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Speaker 2: I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
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Speaker 2: you ask these questions. You start off with a man
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Speaker 2: who's highly respected asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just
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Speaker 2: a terrible question. And you could even ask that same
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Speaker 2: exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you over
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Speaker 2: at ABC. You're gonna psych it. You're a terrible person
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Speaker 2: and a terrible reporter. As far as the Epstein Files is,
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Speaker 2: I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
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Speaker 2: him out of my club many years ago because I
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Speaker 2: thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I
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Speaker 2: would turn out to be right. But you know who
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Speaker 2: does have? Bill Clinton? Larry Somemmers, who ran Harvard, was
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Speaker 2: with him every single night, every single weekend. They lived together.
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Speaker 2: They went to his island many times. I never did
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Speaker 2: Andrew Weissman here. All these guys were friends of his.
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Speaker 2: You don't even talk about those people. You just keep
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Speaker 2: going on the Epstein files. And what the Epstein is
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Speaker 2: is a Democrat hoax to try and get me not
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Speaker 2: to be able to talk about the twenty one trillion
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Speaker 2: dollars that I talked about today. It's a hoax.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: I just got a little report and I put it
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Speaker 2: in my pocket. Of all the money that he's given
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Speaker 2: to Democrats, he gave me none, zero, no money to me,
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Speaker 2: but he gave money to democrats. And people are wise
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Speaker 2: to your hoax. And ABC's your company, your crappy company
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Speaker 2: is one of the perpetrators.
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Speaker 5: And I'll tell you something.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you something.
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Speaker 2: I think the license should be taken away from ABC
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Speaker 2: because your news is so fake and is so wrong,
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Speaker 2: and we have a great commissioner, a chairman who should
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Speaker 2: look at that, because I think when you come in
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Speaker 2: and when you're ninety seven percent negative to Trump and
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Speaker 2: then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means
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Speaker 2: obviously your news is not credible and you're not credible
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Speaker 2: as a reporter. So I've answered your question. You should
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Speaker 2: go and look at the Democrats who received money from Epstein,
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Speaker 2: who spent their time. Larry Summers was with them all
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Speaker 2: the time, that creep of the fun. This guy was
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Speaker 2: with him all the time. What's his name? Read Hoffman.
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Speaker 2: I don't know read Hoffman, but I know he spends
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Speaker 2: a lot of money in the radical left. Read Hoffman,
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Speaker 2: in my opinion, should be under investigation. He's a sleevesbag
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Speaker 2: and those are the people, but they don't get any press,
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Speaker 2: they don't get any news. And you're not after the
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Speaker 2: radical left because you're a radical left network. But I
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Speaker 2: think the way you ask a question, with the anger
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Speaker 2: and the meanness is terrible.
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Speaker 1: You ought to go back and learn how to be
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Speaker 1: a reporter no more. So that's pretty good. But let's
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Speaker 1: break that down. Now, he threatens the licenses of ABC.
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Speaker 1: You're not supposed to do that. But if they are
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Speaker 1: broadcasting false information and distorting the news, and they have
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Speaker 1: been caught doing that, remember the George Stephanoppolis false accusations,
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Speaker 1: and the ABC had to pay Trump fifteen million quietly
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Speaker 1: and not so quietly to settle it. So you're not
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Speaker 1: supposed to threaten their license, but if they are distorting
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Speaker 1: the news, you are supposed to take the license away.
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Speaker 1: And let's read how it's an interesting guy, this guy
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Speaker 1: reid hoffin this techzillionaire. He funds a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 1: He funded the Egen Carroll lawsuit against Trump, which will
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Speaker 1: nobody believes that most people think is just total hoax,
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Speaker 1: But he funded that. God are all the best lawyers.
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Speaker 1: But it's a good question, he brings up if he
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with Epstein for twenty years, he
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Speaker 1: hasn't the twenty one years, he has nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with Epstein, no kindection. A million years ago in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and four, he found out about Epstein, and the
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Speaker 1: young girls threw him out of mar A Lago, banned
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Speaker 1: him from the club, there's a million witnesses to this,
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Speaker 1: people that work there, people that were members there, so
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Speaker 1: everybody knew about it back then. I knew about it
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Speaker 1: because he's one of the people that warned me years ago,
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Speaker 1: twenty years ago, stay the hell away from Epstein, bad guy.
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Speaker 1: Except for twenty one years he stayed away from him
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Speaker 1: while Democrats got closer and closer and closer to Epstein.
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Speaker 1: And he's right, why aren't they, Why aren't they outside
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Speaker 1: of Bill Clinton's house demanding some answers? Or Larry Summers?
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Speaker 1: He was the former Treasury secretary to Obama Clinton. He
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Speaker 1: was an advisor and economic advisor to Joe Biden during
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Speaker 1: this recent presidency, and president of Harvard. Now, why aren't they?
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Speaker 1: Why aren't they bothering Larry Summers and making him explain this? Now,
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Speaker 1: Summers put out statements saying he's ashamed of his close
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Speaker 1: relationship with Epstein, and apparently Summer's cheating on his wife
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Speaker 1: like crazy and using Epstein as his dating coach. You
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Speaker 1: can see it in the emails and texts. He's now
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Speaker 1: resigned from every board he's on, He's resigned from everything,
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Speaker 1: still works for Harvard, but and it turns out that
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Speaker 1: Epstein over these last twenty years has been a major
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Speaker 1: Democratic donor. Hasn't given a penny to Trump, But major
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Speaker 1: Democratic donor. If they hate this guy so much, why
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Speaker 1: are they taking his money? Why are they letting him
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Speaker 1: from their campaigns? It's a very good question, you know,
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Speaker 1: when these files come out. First of all, there's not
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Speaker 1: that much in the fire. The Epstein files don't have
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Speaker 1: all the juicy stuff in him. The juicy stuff is
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Speaker 1: in the texts and emails, and those are coming from
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Speaker 1: the Epstein estate. But Trump asked some good questions, why
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Speaker 1: why aren't they going after these people? And this current
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Speaker 1: Democratic congresswoman what's her name? Plasket? Stacey Plaskett very close
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Speaker 1: to Epstein, and while she's in the hearings grilling Michael Cohen,
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Speaker 1: she's texting back and forth with Epstein during the hearings
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Speaker 1: to get his advice on what to say next and
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Speaker 1: what So, how come reporters never bother her? Somebody did
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Speaker 1: ask the Stacey Plasket Well, oh no, it was Caitlin Collins.
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Speaker 1: She was on CNN. So she said to Hakim Jeffreys,
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Speaker 1: how come you're not mad at Stacey Plaskett for being
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Speaker 1: so close to Epstein. They're texting back and forth during
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Speaker 1: the hearings on Trump, and Epstein says, well, she has
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Speaker 1: not violated any law. Okay, it's not illegal, but it's
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Speaker 1: certainly inappropriate. It's not illegal to go to Epstein's house
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Speaker 1: and hang out with him, but it's totally inappropriate. You know,
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Speaker 1: George Stephanopolis having dinner with Epstein at his house, Katie
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Speaker 1: Couric having dinner with Epstein at his house. Why aren't
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Speaker 1: more people asking them about all this? Trump has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with Epstein. I love Good Day in New York.
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Speaker 1: It's a great shows on Channel five every morning. And
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Speaker 1: they got this political guy that does the political pieces.
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Speaker 1: His name is Robert Moses. He's a cute guy. I
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Speaker 1: like him, but he's the most slanted partisan. So when
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Speaker 1: Trump said he had nothing to do with Epstein.
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Speaker 2: I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
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Speaker 2: him out of my club many years ago because I
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Speaker 2: thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I
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Speaker 2: would turn out to be right.
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Speaker 1: So when Robert Moses does the story with this clip,
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Speaker 1: he actually said President Trump tried to claim that he
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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Epstein about biased language. He
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Speaker 1: tried to claim he did. This is all well known
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Speaker 1: to people. Again, there are a million witnesses to be
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Speaker 1: They never tell you this part of it. He tried
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Speaker 1: to claim, you could easily find a dozen witnesses right
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Speaker 1: now that know about how this did happen twenty one
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Speaker 1: years ago. Threw him the hell out of mar Alago.
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Speaker 1: Never spoke to him again. Anyway. We'll get back to Epstein,
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Speaker 1: We'll get back to Mom, Donnie. Lots more to get to.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to Hochel and more coming up. We'll take
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Speaker 1: some calls next. Eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 1: seven ten is the number, eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 1: zero seven ten. Yeah, more marks alone on sevent ten.
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Speaker 1: Listen to that. I guess I have to just accept it.
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Speaker 1: It's the holiday season. Like I think, it's still the
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Speaker 1: end of summer, it's still early fall. I guess I
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Speaker 1: have to accept it's Thanksgiving, It's Christmas season out in
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Speaker 1: the hall, this Christmas trees, this Christmas music, got a
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Speaker 1: Christmas buffet. I just have to accept it.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: I know that's go to stake some calls. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing, Good.
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Speaker 6: Morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, that SoundBite you played from the
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Speaker 6: press conference is really underscores the problem that Trump has
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Speaker 6: not only with the media, but with the Republican Party,
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Speaker 6: who just cower every time they have a chance to
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Speaker 6: get somebody's you know.
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Speaker 4: Watch and advice, they fall back on, well, it's not
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Speaker 4: technically illegal, so they won't censure that congress woman who's
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Speaker 4: texting with Epstein during the during the hearings, you know,
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Speaker 4: because it wasn't technically illegal.
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Speaker 6: And meanwhile they then.
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Speaker 7: They fall back on, well, Trump should release everything. But
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Speaker 7: you know, if Trump releases all this Epstein stuff, they'll
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Speaker 7: drag him in front of the court and they say
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Speaker 7: he jeopardized the lives of the accused and the and
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Speaker 7: the victims, and then that would become a UNO watch show.
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Speaker 3: It's calling.
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Speaker 1: Well, a bigger problem is once he releases everything, they'll
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Speaker 1: claim it's not everything. And you may have I've seen
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Speaker 1: these Jeffrey Eckstein victims. It's about a dozen women holding
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Speaker 1: this press conference. The Democratic consultants have got a hold
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Speaker 1: of these women staging these press conferences where they go
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Speaker 1: on and on and on. But you'll notice there's a
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Speaker 1: dozen victims. Not one of them not one of them
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Speaker 1: has ever seen Donald Trump or mentioned Donald Trump. Or
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Speaker 1: that's the problem with this Epstein stuff. It's going to
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Speaker 1: implicate some Democrats. Larry Summers has already had his public
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Speaker 1: life destroyed by the handful of texts and emails that
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Speaker 1: came out. Wait till it all comes out, You're going
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Speaker 1: to see a lot of major Democrats, their donors, their cabinet,
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Speaker 1: a lot of these people are going to be ruined
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Speaker 1: when this stuff comes out. Let's go to Lou and
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Speaker 1: Queen's Lou, how you doing.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, you said it, be careful about opening up
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Speaker 3: Pandora's box. That's what this is going to turn into.
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Speaker 3: But I wanted to draw your attention to a fascinating
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Speaker 3: story in the Internal.
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Speaker 1: Well we'll be the judge of that. If it's in
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Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal, how fascinating can it be. That's
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Speaker 1: usually that thing. That paper has news from like three
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Speaker 1: weeks ago all the time.
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Speaker 3: Well, this is all news. It's about during the show
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Speaker 3: of Iran. I didn't know it. The Israelis and the
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Speaker 3: Iranians were working together to put together their whole water system,
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Speaker 3: you know, their water supply and everything else, and it
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Speaker 3: was working perfectly.
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Speaker 2: That.
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Speaker 3: Of course, the Iatola came to power, the Iranian engineers
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Speaker 3: along with the Israelis all went to Israel.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're having a big water crisis in Iran. In fact,
19:33
Speaker 1: it's so bad they to believe they may have to
19:38
Speaker 1: evacuate Iran. They've already moved people into concentrated areas where
19:42
Speaker 1: they'd still have some water. But there's a tremendous water
19:45
Speaker 1: shortage occurring in Iran. I said, this is what I
19:49
Speaker 1: mean about the Wall Street Journal. This is this story
19:51
Speaker 1: from two weeks ago. That's just in there. Now, let's
19:54
Speaker 1: go to Rob in Franklin Square. Rob, how you doing hy?
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Speaker 8: Good morning Markia. You know, I don't think it was
19:59
Speaker 8: a good call for the President to have that press
20:02
Speaker 8: conference with with the Crown Prince, with the because uh,
20:05
Speaker 8: you know, you know, with this couple building and the
20:07
Speaker 8: death of Kosholgi, he should have known that that they
20:10
Speaker 8: were gonna he was gonna be asked questions about him.
20:13
Speaker 8: You know, maybe he's been better off not having uh
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Speaker 8: you know.
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Speaker 1: Well that's taken the easy way. In the smart way.
20:19
Speaker 1: He never does that. He likes to whatever the toughest
20:22
Speaker 1: way to do it is. That's the way he always
20:23
Speaker 1: likes to do it. Yeah. No, he never hides from
20:27
Speaker 1: anything or anybody. Probably, you know, if you get somebody
20:31
Speaker 1: who's out of line like that, you should probably just
20:33
Speaker 1: ban them for two weeks, put them in the penalty box,
20:35
Speaker 1: like no ABC News allowed in the White House for
20:38
Speaker 1: two weeks. Just try that. Maybe they'll learn how to
20:40
Speaker 1: behave a little better. Let's go to Joe in Long Island.
20:43
Speaker 6: Joe, how you doing, Hey, Mark, You're the best as always.
20:47
Speaker 1: Just two quick things.
20:48
Speaker 3: I think I've heard that Trump was actually an FBI
20:51
Speaker 3: in forman in two thousand and nine against EV's team.
20:54
Speaker 1: And no, no, no, no, not true. Not true.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and then but he actual he did give them
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Speaker 7: some information.
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Speaker 1: Not true. You saw that on some website, right, not true? Okay,
21:07
Speaker 1: not true the FBI of two thousand and nine. That
21:10
Speaker 1: was Camian Company and not big Trump fans. Yeah. Now,
21:13
Speaker 1: Trump broke up with him twenty one years ago, had
21:16
Speaker 1: nothing to do with him since. But he was very
21:18
Speaker 1: close to Democrats. Now he was. I didn't know him
21:22
Speaker 1: that well. I don't know what his politics were, but
21:23
Speaker 1: he was in the middle of the Upper East Side
21:25
Speaker 1: of Manhattan and the circles he traveled in It was
21:28
Speaker 1: mostly Democrats in those circles. Had there been more Republicans around,
21:33
Speaker 1: well maybe he would have known more Republicans. But you know,
21:35
Speaker 1: when you're trying to immerse yourself in the world of
21:39
Speaker 1: politics in New York City, you're gonna end up knowing
21:41
Speaker 1: a lot more Democrats than Republicans. Hey, when we come back,
21:45
Speaker 1: I want to talk to this guy. He's an assemblyman
21:48
Speaker 1: from New York actually from Oyster Bay. Jake Blumenkrantz. He
21:52
Speaker 1: served with Mom Donnie in the Assembly. He's a Republican,
21:55
Speaker 1: but you know, he can give us some insight into
21:57
Speaker 1: Mam Donnie and maybe he can explain to us what
22:00
Speaker 1: the hell's going on with this socialism and Mom Donnie.
22:02
Speaker 1: This could be interesting. We'll get to this next on
22:05
Speaker 1: seven to ten WR.
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Speaker 2: Marximo on sevent ten WR.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Jake blumen Krantz, very popular assemblyman State Assembly. He's
22:16
Speaker 1: from Oyster Bay. You might have seen a lot of
22:19
Speaker 1: him on television and everywhere lately, served with Mamdani. Can
22:22
Speaker 1: give us some insight into that whole phenomenon. And he's
22:26
Speaker 1: with us right now. Jake blumin Krantz, how you doing good?
22:29
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Hey. Also, you're a young guy. How old are you?
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Speaker 5: I am twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nine, and you're in the State Assembly. Mamdannie is
22:38
Speaker 1: thirty four. We're seeing more and more of this. What
22:40
Speaker 1: is this new phenomenon of all these very young public servants.
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Speaker 5: Look, I think when you see issues go unaddressed by
22:47
Speaker 5: establishment candidates on either side of the aisles, as a
22:50
Speaker 5: young person, you got to step in and you got
22:52
Speaker 5: to say this isn't right. We have solutions, we have answers,
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Speaker 5: and in reality my answers and may Or Elect mondonni'sncaers
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Speaker 5: are different. But I think that the sentiment that things
23:03
Speaker 5: need to change is the same.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we're used to these Sheldon Silver, Chuck Schumer,
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Speaker 1: old men with the glasses all flogged up kind of
23:11
Speaker 1: people in the government. But it's good to see. Hey,
23:16
Speaker 1: tell us about Mandannie. You served with Mam Donnie. What
23:20
Speaker 1: did you think of him back then? I do.
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Speaker 5: He's been an assemblyment with me since I started. Interesting character.
23:26
Speaker 5: I think what I'd say to anyone who asked me
23:28
Speaker 5: that question is he means what he says, and he
23:30
Speaker 5: says what he means. He's an ideological guy, and he
23:33
Speaker 5: believes a lot of the rhetoric that he Espouses' unfortunate
23:36
Speaker 5: as a Jewish legislator to see someone like him rise
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Speaker 5: so prominently because he introduced legislation like not on My Dime,
23:44
Speaker 5: which would effectively empower the AG's office to hurt Jewish
23:48
Speaker 5: charities and not for profits for supporting Israel, among many
23:53
Speaker 5: other very dangerous pieces of legislation. Yeah, in a new
23:56
Speaker 5: place of power, we're gonna have to see what he's
23:58
Speaker 5: gonna do.
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Speaker 1: Well, you were two young guys up in all being
24:00
Speaker 1: in the Assembly. Did you have any a lot of
24:02
Speaker 1: personal interaction with him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we did interact quite a bit, and I'd say
24:07
Speaker 5: he's a very cordial person. But at the end of
24:09
Speaker 5: the day, my concern with him is his policy proposals
24:13
Speaker 5: and his incorrect solutions to the correct problems. We do
24:17
Speaker 5: have a problem with affordability, but I don't think the free, free,
24:21
Speaker 5: free parade is one that is either effective or going
24:24
Speaker 5: to solve the problems he hopes to solve.
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Speaker 1: You might get some naive voters, but Mom, Donnie, as
24:30
Speaker 1: bad as he is, seems like a very high IQ
24:33
Speaker 1: sort of a guy. Why wouldn't a guy like that
24:34
Speaker 1: know the history of socialism and its failures.
24:38
Speaker 5: Well, he might be not necessarily looking at its failures,
24:41
Speaker 5: but populism at large is what is a play in
24:45
Speaker 5: his campaign. He's telling people what they want to hear.
24:47
Speaker 5: They want to hear that your rent will go down.
24:49
Speaker 5: They want to hear that groceries are too expensive. I
24:51
Speaker 5: think he's tapping into the affordability message in a way
24:53
Speaker 5: that people appreciate. My problem with it is, you're right,
24:56
Speaker 5: he is not paying attention to the rest of the
24:58
Speaker 5: history of socialism. It's very easy to win O for
25:01
Speaker 5: voters when you have a message like that, but it's
25:03
Speaker 5: very hard to govern.
25:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jake Blumenkrantz, you're an assemblyman. You're a Republican up
25:08
Speaker 1: there in Albany, in the Assembly with very few Republicans
25:11
Speaker 1: up there. How does it feel? How tough is it
25:14
Speaker 1: being a Republican in that legislature.
25:17
Speaker 5: It's always an uphill battle because they have a supermajority,
25:20
Speaker 5: a veto proof supermajority right now and at the end
25:23
Speaker 5: of the day, even if the governor doesn't feel compelled
25:26
Speaker 5: to pass many of his agenda points, if he manages
25:28
Speaker 5: to convince enough of our colleagues in the Assembly and
25:30
Speaker 5: Senate to do what he wants to do. Her hands
25:32
Speaker 5: will be tied, and that'll be a big question for
25:34
Speaker 5: her as she runs for reelection this year.
25:36
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, but this socialism, this Mondanni, it's not just him,
25:39
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of them all over the country. What
25:42
Speaker 1: is this socialism creeping into democratic politics?
25:46
Speaker 5: So the DSA is an organization, the Democratic Socialists of
25:49
Speaker 5: America that continues to have a pernicious effect on the
25:52
Speaker 5: Democratic Party. They are on the rise in New York State.
25:56
Speaker 5: In many races in the city, we don't even run
25:58
Speaker 5: Republican candidates because there's none a enough voters that and
26:01
Speaker 5: there's not enough candidates that we have to run, which
26:04
Speaker 5: allows them to take a hold and combat the Democrats
26:07
Speaker 5: from the far left. And it's become a race left
26:09
Speaker 5: with no finish line.
26:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let me get back to we're talking
26:13
Speaker 1: with Assemblyman Jake Blumenkrantz. You said Mandani means what he says.
26:18
Speaker 1: Can we at least hope maybe it's he's a lot
26:21
Speaker 1: of talk but not much action, And maybe it won't
26:24
Speaker 1: be as bad as we think.
26:27
Speaker 5: I think with any mayor who has as as strong
26:30
Speaker 5: proposals as mister Mandami does. There will be questions as
26:34
Speaker 5: to what is possible and what is impossible, and I
26:37
Speaker 5: think that comes with participation from the state legislature. Let's
26:40
Speaker 5: see if there are commer heads up north in Albany
26:42
Speaker 5: than there are in the city, and that would determine
26:44
Speaker 5: whether or not he's able to really fulfill much of his
26:46
Speaker 5: promises or not.
26:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now he's appointed his first deputy mayor. It's a
26:50
Speaker 1: guy named Dean Fulahan, who was Deblasio's first deputy mayor.
26:55
Speaker 1: But this is problem with this fullahand he apparently is
26:58
Speaker 1: very plugged in up there in Albany, to the legend
27:00
Speaker 1: and can get things done. Did you ever have any
27:02
Speaker 1: dealings with them?
27:04
Speaker 5: I never, personally don't them. But I'd say that mister
27:06
Speaker 5: Mondombe is going to play a really smart Albany game,
27:08
Speaker 5: and that's a really dangerous thing for New Yorkers and
27:11
Speaker 5: for many who are concerned that his policies are detrimental
27:14
Speaker 5: to us and the problems that he hopes to solve.
27:16
Speaker 1: All right, well, you're not exactly cheering this up, but
27:19
Speaker 1: that's okay. We want you to be honest.
27:21
Speaker 5: I don't mean to paint a bleak picture. But I
27:24
Speaker 5: do think that we as Republicans, we need to win
27:26
Speaker 5: on the battlefield of ideas with new ideas. We can't
27:30
Speaker 5: just say no, his policies are bad. We need to
27:32
Speaker 5: truly propose and try it and act real change for
27:37
Speaker 5: the sake of affordability. People are struggling out there. People
27:40
Speaker 5: can't afford their groceries. We do need to come up
27:42
Speaker 5: with the proposals that work and fight against ones that don't.
27:45
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, if we don't
27:47
Speaker 5: have new messaging and new ideas and new voices coming
27:50
Speaker 5: into the fray, it'll be a difficult task.
27:52
Speaker 1: But you look at this affordability crisis across America. It
27:55
Speaker 1: seems to always be in the blue cities, and the
27:57
Speaker 1: Democrat solutions usually lead to this crisis. So how do
28:02
Speaker 1: you message that, How do you make that clear that
28:05
Speaker 1: they pretty much caused.
28:06
Speaker 5: You have to be you have to be tactful, and
28:08
Speaker 5: you have to realize that sometimes even in urban areas,
28:11
Speaker 5: the logic can prevail. Mayor Bloomberg Grant as a Republican
28:15
Speaker 5: who was a fiscal conservative who wanted to rain in
28:20
Speaker 5: some of the spending to be a prolific builder and
28:23
Speaker 5: we saw that, and we saw the city in sort
28:26
Speaker 5: of a golden age, and it's important we want to
28:28
Speaker 5: try and focus on bringing ourselves back to those times
28:30
Speaker 5: and bring ourselves back to the ideas of safety and
28:33
Speaker 5: affordability as paramount.
28:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, it tell us about serving in the Assembly.
28:38
Speaker 1: How is that that? Is it full time when you're
28:40
Speaker 1: an assemblyman or is it a part time thing? You're
28:42
Speaker 1: not there every day.
28:44
Speaker 5: We're up there for about six months a year, and
28:48
Speaker 5: it comes down to making sure that our budget priorities
28:51
Speaker 5: are in place and making sure we're getting what we
28:53
Speaker 5: need for our communities. And we work closely in a
28:57
Speaker 5: bipartisan way to do that when we can as part
28:59
Speaker 5: of the minority caucus. But we have, we still managed
29:04
Speaker 5: to get some great accomplishments done that.
29:05
Speaker 1: We're just fighting the good fight, all right, Well, good stuff.
29:08
Speaker 1: And you're an Oyster Bay right, I love Oyster Bay,
29:10
Speaker 1: great town.
29:10
Speaker 5: Yes, beautiful Long Island absolutely.
29:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, good luck, keep up the good fight.
29:15
Speaker 1: You're one of the few Republicans up there in all
29:17
Speaker 1: beneath Jake bloom And Grants, thanks for being.
29:19
Speaker 5: With us, Thank you for having me on.
29:22
Speaker 1: All right, take care, all right, that that wasn't the
29:26
Speaker 1: most encouraging thing. But way we want him to be honest,
29:29
Speaker 1: you know, I keep I want to think it, Mom,
29:33
Speaker 1: Donnie's going to be like the Blasio who was bad.
29:35
Speaker 1: But it wasn't as bad as we thought it might be.
29:38
Speaker 1: Because remember the good thing about the Blasio. Well here's
29:40
Speaker 1: the only difference. The good thing about the Blasi he
29:42
Speaker 1: just never showed up for work. Remember he would go
29:45
Speaker 1: to the gym. He'd wake up like nine in the morning,
29:47
Speaker 1: go to the gym till noon. Then he went to
29:49
Speaker 1: that coffee place in Brooklyn, hang out there, cho up
29:52
Speaker 1: in city Hall about three o'clock, take a nap, wake
29:55
Speaker 1: up and leave and go home. It was about his
29:57
Speaker 1: whole day. The only problem with this, mom, younger, more
30:02
Speaker 1: energetic guy, he might actually be doing stuff all day
30:05
Speaker 1: and night.
30:05
Speaker 2: Now.
30:05
Speaker 1: The good news is he's never had a job in
30:09
Speaker 1: his life. He's never been an executive, he's never been
30:11
Speaker 1: a manager, So that hopefully means he won't know how
30:14
Speaker 1: to execute anything or get anything actually done. The bad
30:19
Speaker 1: news is he's got all these exta Blasio people running
30:22
Speaker 1: city Hall, first deputy mayor dean fullhand. These guys actually
30:26
Speaker 1: know how to execute. So anyway, the good news is
30:29
Speaker 1: Jessica Tish will stay as police commissioner. We're assuming that
30:33
Speaker 1: they had a number of conversations. We're assuming she wouldn't
30:35
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30:37
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30:41
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30:43
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30:46
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