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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, this is The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's Monday morning. A lot to get to today.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to Cornell. We'll get to Iran. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to the midterms. We'll get to daylight saving time. All
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  Speaker 2: sorts of stuff to cover this morning. President Trump, busy
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  Speaker 2: schedule every day. He's flying to another state. He'll be
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  Speaker 2: in Nebraska later today, campaigning for the midterms. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to all of that coming up. Now, Cornell, about a
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  Speaker 2: week ago, week and a half ago, we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about it. It was a bit of a story. It's
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  Speaker 2: become a huge story. It is spiraling out of control.
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  Speaker 2: The Cornell president finally forced to put out a statement,
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  Speaker 2: video statement, eight minutes long, apologizing, typical crisis management, the
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  Speaker 2: three points, apologize, talk or admit what happened, talk about
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing to clean it up. Now, he was
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  Speaker 2: actually a brand new president at the time of the incident.
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  Speaker 2: At the time of the incident, the president left, and
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  Speaker 2: this guy was the temporary acting president. He's now been
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  Speaker 2: made permanent, but they were in transition there. So at
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  Speaker 2: the time, they did a bit of an investigation, not
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  Speaker 2: enough of an investigation. It should be pointed out that
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  Speaker 2: at the time, Cornell, after their investigation, they did expel
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  Speaker 2: some of the students. Some of the others they suspended.
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  Speaker 2: They got rid of the fraternity. They banned it from
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  Speaker 2: the campus, that fraternity. Hey, by the way, that is
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  Speaker 2: the ugliest building I've ever seen, that fraternity building. Have
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  Speaker 2: you seen that picture, that white building with the black
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  Speaker 2: tic-tac-toe all over it, the board? It's the ugliest building.
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  Speaker 2: Tear that thing down, too. So it's just a horrible situation. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to get worse because Kathy Hochul has jumped
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  Speaker 2: in to use it as an election issue. This is
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  Speaker 2: a two-year-old incident. It's been in the news for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. And this incident took place two years ago
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  Speaker 2: in New York State. Kathy Hochul never lifted a finger
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  Speaker 2: about it. But now she wants to use it as
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  Speaker 2: an election issue. So you're not going to hear the
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  Speaker 2: end of this. Now, she's appointed. Letitia James is the
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  Speaker 2: special prosecutor, which is absolutely idiotic. First of all, it's
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  Speaker 2: Letitia James, who's a creepy sort of character with her
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  Speaker 2: political vendettas and lawfare and all that. But aside from that,
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  Speaker 2: more importantly, she's not a prosecutor. She's never in her
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  Speaker 2: life been a prosecutor. She's never prosecuted a criminal case ever.
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  Speaker 2: She has absolutely no experience in it. She's got a
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  Speaker 2: law degree. And one time early, early in her career,
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  Speaker 2: in the very beginning, worked as one of those legal
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  Speaker 2: aides or those, what do you call those, you know, legal,
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  Speaker 2: free legal aid. But that was briefly. And then all
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  Speaker 2: of her life, she's been a politician. She served on
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  Speaker 2: the city council for years. She was the public advocate
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  Speaker 2: for years. She's never prosecuted a case in her life ever, ever.
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  Speaker 2: So you'd think if this is so important, you'd put
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  Speaker 2: somebody with some experience on it, but this is all
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  Speaker 2: politics for Kathy Hochul, so it's Letitia James.
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  Speaker 1: No institution gets to protect its reputation at the expense
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  Speaker 1: of a young person seeking justice. No public official gets
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  Speaker 1: to look the other way when the system breaks down
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  Speaker 1: and fails our young people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now she's going to make all kinds of pontificating,
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  Speaker 2: dramatic speeches. This is all for the election. Now, Again,
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't have cared less about this case two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: But now she sees she can use it, so she's
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  Speaker 2: all over it.
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  Speaker 1: She spoke to the police. She sat for hours and
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  Speaker 1: told them exactly what happened to her. And according to
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  Speaker 1: new reports, she could not have been clearer that she
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  Speaker 1: was 100% confident that she had been raped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Hochul apparently not familiar with the case at all.
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  Speaker 2: I would think her story is true. I would want
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  Speaker 2: to see justice for her, but they've got some problems.
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  Speaker 2: One is her story has not been consistent. It's changed
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  Speaker 2: in a number of ways from her initial talk to
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  Speaker 2: campus police. They wrote up a report to her first
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  Speaker 2: talk with the district attorney to her lawsuit today. There's
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  Speaker 2: contradictions in all of these about what happened, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of contradictions. The defense attorneys for these awful guys are
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  Speaker 2: going to use all of that And now the other
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  Speaker 2: problem is Letitia James. Again, she's not a criminal prosecutor.
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  Speaker 2: She never prosecuted a case in her life. Didn't know
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  Speaker 2: that you're not supposed to hold a press conference or
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  Speaker 2: tweet and take sides and prejudge the case. The defense
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  Speaker 2: can use that against you. But she put out a
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  Speaker 2: tweet declaring the guy's guilty. That's it. Then it's funny
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  Speaker 2: in that press conference when they asked her to comment
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  Speaker 2: about her tweet. She said, I don't comment about tweets.
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  Speaker 2: But it's your tweet. You wrote it. We're asking you
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  Speaker 2: to comment about what you said. So she's already muddied
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  Speaker 2: up the case quite a bit. Here's Letitia James.
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  Speaker 3: We will review the facts, gather evidence, interview witnesses, and
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  Speaker 3: if warranted, pursue prosecutions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there she is prejudging the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Every New Yorker deserves to know that when they report
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  Speaker 3: a crime... it will be investigated fully and fairly, that
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  Speaker 3: they will be seen and heard.
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  Speaker 2: All right, these statements are fine. But previously, she was
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  Speaker 2: already declaring all these guys guilty. You can't do that
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  Speaker 2: if you're the prosecutor. And, you know, she was accused
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  Speaker 2: of rape once. It was a rape allegation against Letitia James. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It never got... the, uh, and I remember she's the
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  Speaker 2: public advocate at the time. It was supposedly at her
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  Speaker 2: Christmas party and the accuser was not taken seriously by prosecutors.
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  Speaker 2: So they didn't file any charges, but she's been accused
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  Speaker 2: of this. So she, she does know there is such
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  Speaker 2: a thing as false charges in cases like this. But, um,
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  Speaker 2: it's just, I would assume this woman is telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, her story has changed a few times. Now, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Her attorney can argue all kinds of reasons why that
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  Speaker 2: changed the trauma, the whole thing. But the defense attorneys
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  Speaker 2: will use that. Now, the good news is there's text
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  Speaker 2: messages at the time from those awful fraternity kids texting
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  Speaker 2: about what was going on. So they'll use that as
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  Speaker 2: hard evidence against them. The university at the time conducted
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  Speaker 2: an investigation, but it wasn't thorough enough. They didn't get
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  Speaker 2: to the bottom of things. Now, the other problem is
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  Speaker 2: this whole report, everything she said, was handed over to
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  Speaker 2: the local district attorney, and he decided to let it go.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't think there was anything there illegal. And when
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  Speaker 2: it heated up in the news, he then went back
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  Speaker 2: to it. But Hochul has removed him from the case.
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  Speaker 2: District attorneys all work for her. District attorneys are, it's
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  Speaker 2: a state job. The governor can remove them. And if
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  Speaker 2: this guy's so bad, she should remove him immediately. His
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  Speaker 2: reason for not prosecuting, there's a crazy thing in the
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  Speaker 2: New York law, that if you get yourself intoxicated, let's
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  Speaker 2: say you're so drunk you can't consent. You're so drunk
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  Speaker 2: you don't know what's going on. It would be impossible
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  Speaker 2: for you to consent because you're too drunk. Under New
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  Speaker 2: York state law, if you'd get yourself that drunk, voluntarily
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  Speaker 2: get that drunk, you can't claim rape. It's a strange
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  Speaker 2: thing in the law, but it's in New York state.
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  Speaker 2: It's something they got to fix. Hochul's up for reelection.
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  Speaker 2: She'll work with New York state now. to change that law,
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  Speaker 2: but that's also going to be a factor in this case. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you might be hearing these AOC statements, this crazy AOC
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  Speaker 2: who never knows what she's talking about has been telling
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  Speaker 2: the story of what happened, and it's all false, everything
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  Speaker 2: she's saying. She was lured to the fraternity house. That's
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  Speaker 2: not true at all. She wanted to go to the
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  Speaker 2: fraternity house and did. She voluntarily drank. She voluntarily took
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  Speaker 2: some drugs. It was her choice. So everything AOC is saying,
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  Speaker 2: they drugged her with ketamine. They dragged her to the fraternity.
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  Speaker 2: None of this is true. That's just AOC craziness. So
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting to note, if you're thinking of voting for her,
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  Speaker 2: that she gets things totally wrong and lies and just
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  Speaker 2: goes out there and spews all kinds of lies. So
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  Speaker 2: bear that in mind if you're thinking of voting for her.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget the Duke University case 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Very similar story. Duke University students, the lacrosse team, accused
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  Speaker 2: of gang raping a stripper. It sounded horrible. It was
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  Speaker 2: just like this where it was all over the news.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody lashing out at these fraternity guys. Everybody wanted to
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  Speaker 2: give them the electric chair. Everybody. Well, it turned out
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing wasn't true. It turned out the accuser
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  Speaker 2: was not telling the whole story, was not telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And they were actually innocent. So that was 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Just bear that in mind. Just keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump getting into a huge fight with Senator Tom Cotton,
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  Speaker 2: getting so mad at him that he gave out his
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  Speaker 2: cell number. He's done that before. Remember, he did that
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  Speaker 2: to Lindsey Graham years ago. But the reason he's so
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  Speaker 2: mad at Cotton, the fight is over daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 2: The president wants to keep it permanently. Permanent daylight savings time.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the Sunshine Protection Act. It would make daylight
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  Speaker 2: savings time permanent. You'd never have to set your clocks
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  Speaker 2: ahead or back, which is good because coming up in December,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to start to get dark at 4.30. If
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  Speaker 2: we keep Daylight Savings Time, it'll get dark at 5.30.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that much better, but it helps. It helps. Now,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump.
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  Speaker 4: We want to get away from this ridiculous... way and
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  Speaker 4: custom of every twice a year turning your clocks back,
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  Speaker 4: turning your clocks forward, being late for dinner, being late
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  Speaker 4: for very important meetings.
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  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. And if you look at the public, they agree.
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  Speaker 4: That's a 100% issue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. That's a problem. Your iPhone, your iWatch,
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  Speaker 2: they'll change the time automatically for daylight saving time. But
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  Speaker 2: then you've got to change your alarm clock, your this clock,
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  Speaker 2: your that clock, and then you think you're all done,
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  Speaker 2: and then You go in the kitchen, uh-oh, I forgot
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  Speaker 2: the clock in the microwave. There's a clock in the
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  Speaker 2: oven I got to change. Then you get in your car.
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  Speaker 2: There's a clock there. You got to change that. You
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  Speaker 2: got to go into all kinds of settings. It's a problem. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other thing is there are a lot of studies
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  Speaker 2: that show daylight savings time, when we come off it,
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  Speaker 2: it actually affects people's health. It actually costs a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money for us. So it's a good idea to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it. Now, why is Tom Cotton demanding it?
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  Speaker 2: that we go off daylight saving time? Well, he's the
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  Speaker 2: senator from Arkansas. And here's the problem. Arkansas is at
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  Speaker 2: the end of a time zone. It's at the very end.
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  Speaker 2: You got to remember, let's say it gets dark at
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  Speaker 2: five o'clock here in New York at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the time zone. Well, if you're at the other end
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  Speaker 2: of the time zone, it's not getting dark till six o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: It's like almost an hour difference, one end of the
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  Speaker 2: time zone to the other. So Arkansas is right on
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  Speaker 2: the end which means if it's going to stay dark
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  Speaker 2: out till 7 in the morning in Arkansas, it'll stay
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  Speaker 2: dark out till 8 in the morning. So he's arguing
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  Speaker 2: that it would stay dark out till like 8.30. All
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  Speaker 2: the kids would have to go to school in total darkness.
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  Speaker 2: And that's his whole problem. He doesn't want to do
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  Speaker 2: that to the kids. But nowadays, you know, when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, you just went to school. You left
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  Speaker 2: your house and you walked to school. And your parents
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  Speaker 2: had no idea where the hell you were. But nowadays,
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  Speaker 2: the parents never leave the kid They're never more than
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  Speaker 2: two feet away from the kid all day and night.
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  Speaker 2: What do they call that? Helicopter parents. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just for Arkansas. They've got to come
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  Speaker 2: up with something. Maybe a state can make it an
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  Speaker 2: exception if it wants to do that in the law.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else wants to keep daylight savings time. It would
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  Speaker 2: be great for everybody. Yankees tonight. The next playoff game
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  Speaker 2: is tonight. It's game two. They lost the first game.
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  Speaker 2: They've got to win tonight. They cannot get two games behind.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is Wednesday they moved to Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that gives them an advantage being at Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully it does. Hey, remember that crazy Jack Smith, that
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  Speaker 2: bug-eyed weirdo prosecutor, the hit man for the Biden administration?
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  Speaker 2: He's got a history of that, of going after Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: charging them with anything and everything. He also has a
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  Speaker 2: history of the charges never sticking. When he went after
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  Speaker 2: McDonald in Virginia, he convicted him of eight things. It
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  Speaker 2: got to the Supreme Court and they ruled all eight
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  Speaker 2: were phony, ridiculous charges and threw them out. But in
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  Speaker 2: the hearings, a lot of people think he should actually
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  Speaker 2: be nominated for a Best Acting Oscar. He was amazing
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  Speaker 2: in those hearings, trying to convince everybody that he's not
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  Speaker 2: a partisan. He's not political. He has no partisan leanings
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  Speaker 2: in any direction. He's totally neutral. He actually said this
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  Speaker 2: under oath. But there he was this weekend seen at
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  Speaker 2: a protest, a No Kings protest. a power to the people,
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  Speaker 2: no Kings protest festival. There was Jack Smith wearing a
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  Speaker 2: no King shirt. I mean, you can't get much more
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  Speaker 2: left wing, a crazy Democrat than a no King shirt
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  Speaker 2: at the festival. Foo fighters, lead singer, Dave Grohl even
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  Speaker 2: mentioned him from the stage. They dedicated a song to
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  Speaker 2: Jack Smith. They said he was a hero. Bruce Springsteen performed, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and he, well, uh, he, It was sort of a concert.
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  Speaker 2: It was more him lecturing you about everything. He came
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  Speaker 2: out talking about ICE for 10 minutes, and then he
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  Speaker 2: did that Minnesota song that he does. What's that called?
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  Speaker 2: The Streets of Minnesota. Then he talked more and more
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  Speaker 2: about ICE. Can you imagine? I mean, I love Bruce Springsteen,
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  Speaker 2: but the last thing I want to hear from him
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  Speaker 2: is politics. I mean, it's like having Mitch McConnell sing
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  Speaker 2: Born to Run. It's like, stick to what you know,
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  Speaker 2: but people who paid a fortune for this had to
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  Speaker 2: listen to a lecture from Bruce Springsteen. Hey, speaking of
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  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell, You see the SNL open, the cold open?
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  Speaker 2: They did a thing of all these Republicans coming out.
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  Speaker 2: They bring out this old fossil in a wheelchair. It's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be Mitch McConnell. And they make jokes about
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  Speaker 2: how feeble he is, how out of it he is. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But did you hear one of these jokes in the
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  Speaker 2: whole four years of Biden? The whole four years of Biden,
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  Speaker 2: it was never a mention. Listen, compared to Biden, Mitch
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  Speaker 2: McConnell is like a track star. I mean, Not one
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  Speaker 2: mention of Biden in four years on that show. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, surprise appearance in the middle of a monologue.
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  Speaker 2: Actually woke up the audience because the co-host or the
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  Speaker 2: host that week. Not exactly dazzling the audience, but we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. We'll get to lots
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  Speaker 2: of coming up. We'll get to household income. You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to believe these numbers. And we'll get to Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: He's done even more damage to New York. Wait till
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  Speaker 2: you hear this. Coming up, it's Mark Simone, three hours
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