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Hour 1: City Council's decision. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now on The Voice of New York, it's the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone Show on 710WOR. Hey, it's Friday. That's the good news.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a beautiful autumn weekend. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to get to today. We'll get to the horses.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Elon Omar. We'll get to Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the real polls. We'll get to Vivek Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 1: This ad controversy is hysterical. It's the double standard at
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  Speaker 1: its best. A lot to get to today. So the
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  Speaker 1: horses are gone as of, what's the actual date? 2028.
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  Speaker 1: June 1st, 2028. No horses will be allowed anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. No horse-drawn carriages anywhere in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: City Council voted yesterday. It passed the resolution to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the horses. As we told you, the Speaker
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  Speaker 1: won't do the votes unless it's all prearranged, don't they?
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  Speaker 1: They do a lot of vote counting first, make sure
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  Speaker 1: they got the votes. Then they hold the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it was 40 to 7 to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the horses, 40 to 7. Two council members abstain. The
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  Speaker 1: ban will take place June 1st, 2028. You know, A
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  Speaker 1: while back, they restricted the horses outside of Central Park.
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  Speaker 1: You could be in Central Park, but not out in
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  Speaker 1: the streets, which was a good idea. That was the
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  Speaker 1: best idea. And right now, it's 200 carriage drivers, 200
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  Speaker 1: horses and buggies. Carriage industry workers fought hard. Now, they
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  Speaker 1: are going to file a lawsuit. And you never know.
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  Speaker 1: You never know. They might prevail in the lawsuit. Although,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a city, I would think you've got the
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  Speaker 1: power to restrict whatever you want to restrict in certain
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  Speaker 1: parts of your city. President Trump got into the mix.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump came in to defend those horses and carriages,
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  Speaker 1: tweeting out, it's a great tradition. He attacked the city
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  Speaker 1: council for banning him on Twitter and Truth Social. He wrote,
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  Speaker 1: the horse-drawn carriage in New York City is a quintessential
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  Speaker 1: New York experience. So sad that for political reasons, we'll
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  Speaker 1: see it go. So sad to see the beloved Central
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  Speaker 1: Park horse-drawn carriage industry ending after over a century. based
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  Speaker 1: largely on one tragic accident. That's the key to all this.
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  Speaker 1: There really is no safety problem with the horses, none.
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  Speaker 1: There was one death, you saw it a year, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the only one in 100 years. One death from
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  Speaker 1: horses in 100 years. In Central Park, e-bikes killed 133
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  Speaker 1: people in just seven years. So once again, one death
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  Speaker 1: from the horses in 100 years, E-bikes in Central Park,
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  Speaker 1: 133 deaths in seven years. So which one should you
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  Speaker 1: really be getting rid of? The horse-drawn carriages, they don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they're going to do. They got a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half to find something else to do. I
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  Speaker 1: imagine you'll see them, if the lawsuit's not successful, you'll
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  Speaker 1: see them disappearing one by one by one as drivers
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  Speaker 1: find something else to do. They find some place to
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  Speaker 1: sell the horse or the carriage. Now, there's got to
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  Speaker 1: be horse-drawn carriages somewhere else in America. You could go there.
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  Speaker 1: City Council, they're very proud of what they did. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's a union for these horse-drawn carriages. They're the ones
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  Speaker 1: that will push this lawsuit. And they're the ones claiming
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  Speaker 1: that this is all about real estate. The horses are
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  Speaker 1: not kept in Central Park. They're kept in stables on
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  Speaker 1: the west side of Manhattan. One is next to the
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  Speaker 1: Javits Center. One of the stables is next to Hudson Yards.
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  Speaker 1: These are big places, these stables. So because one's next
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  Speaker 1: to the Javits Center, because one is next to Hudson Yards,
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  Speaker 1: they could be very valuable real estate. If you tore
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  Speaker 1: down the stable, it could be a place for another skyscraper.
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  Speaker 1: Very valuable real estate. So the unions and the drivers
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  Speaker 1: are claiming it's all for these real estate developers. There's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them. And I guess they'll try to
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  Speaker 1: look into... Donations. There are a couple of people now
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  Speaker 1: looking at all this. The big real estate interest. Did
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  Speaker 1: they donate to these city council people? Especially Julie Menon,
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  Speaker 1: speaker of the city council, because she was all for
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  Speaker 1: the horses a while back. Now she's all against the horses.
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  Speaker 1: Was it real estate developers getting to her? There's one
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  Speaker 1: real estate developer, Steve Nislick. He has repeatedly denied any
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  Speaker 1: hidden real estate motives. stating they have zero personal interest
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  Speaker 1: in acquiring or developing the stable sites. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: A real estate developer wouldn't mislead you, would he? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. Anyway, here's Julie Menon, city council speaker.
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  Speaker 2: They don't belong in an area that attracts 42 million
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  Speaker 2: people a year, pulling a 1,000-pound carriage in record-breaking heat.
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  Speaker 1: It's record-breaking heat two days a year. Also, they've been
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  Speaker 1: operating for 100 years and there have been no issues,
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  Speaker 1: no safety. Well, there was that one incident, but that's
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  Speaker 1: once in 100 years. That's the most incredible safety record ever.
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  Speaker 1: But the city council.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tragedy for everybody in this business.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tragedy for the horses. It's a tragedy for
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  Speaker 1: the city of New York.
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  Speaker 3: But that being said, we are not done yet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see. We'll see. Uh, let me see. Here's some,
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  Speaker 1: here's some more people on this though. I wouldn't, uh,
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  Speaker 1: put my, my best friend in risk.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I, I, I want these people to
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  Speaker 4: understand that it is not about the love they have
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  Speaker 4: for the animals.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And, uh, they know they're animals and, but, but we're
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  Speaker 1: putting them in risk. Uh, I don't know. I look
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  Speaker 1: at those horse drawn carriages. I'm in central park like
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  Speaker 1: five days a week. I, I, you look at the
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  Speaker 1: horse carriage. Nobody looks at that and goes, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: that looks dangerous. If this is the problem, shut down
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  Speaker 1: those roller coasters. You ever see these rides they have
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  Speaker 1: in amusement parks? That looks scary. The horse and carriage
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  Speaker 1: going half a mile an hour, 90-year-old horse clip-clopping slow.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody looks at that and said, oh my God, this
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  Speaker 1: looks dangerous. I don't think there's any risk. Again, one incident,
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  Speaker 1: one death in a hundred years. Outside of that, accidents.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there've been a couple big Very, very, very few.
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  Speaker 2: I think if these people truly do love their horses,
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  Speaker 2: I've been around horses, I've volunteered at sanctuaries that take
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  Speaker 2: care of horses. They do best when they're in a
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  Speaker 2: field where they're able to be with their friends and
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  Speaker 2: run around and do everything a horse would love to
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  Speaker 2: do naturally where they can't get that here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's not the worst job in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I would think the worst thing is being a racehorse.
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  Speaker 1: There's a guy on your back whipping you. screaming at you,
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  Speaker 1: kicking you. To me, that's a bad job. You look
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  Speaker 1: at the horses in Central Park with the carriages. They
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  Speaker 1: don't look too thrilled. They don't look like it's the,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the greatest job in the world, lugging a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of tourists around all day long. But it's like
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  Speaker 1: being a cab driver. You know, you look at the
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  Speaker 1: cab drivers, nice people, but they don't look like they're
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  Speaker 1: having the time of their life. They don't look like
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  Speaker 1: they're beaming, thrilled to be doing this. You're stuck in,
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  Speaker 1: you ever drive in New York City? Oh, God, stuck
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  Speaker 1: in that bumper to bumper. Imagine doing that eight hours
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  Speaker 1: a day. It's annoying. So I guess if you're a horse, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you'd rather be out in the field in Pennsylvania, out
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  Speaker 1: in the sun, than have a bunch of tourists and go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're going a half a mile an hour
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  Speaker 1: through Central Park, dodging bikes and everything. It's more dangerous
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  Speaker 1: for the horses with those e-bikes all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: For months, our family hasn't been allowed to just grieve.
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  Speaker 1: We've had to fight.
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  Speaker 6: We've had to channel our devastating sorrow into a bore
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  Speaker 6: for change.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I don't know what he's saying, but that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the horse guys. And well, we wish them
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  Speaker 1: all luck. But again, the lawsuit, who knows? Maybe it'll
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  Speaker 1: have some success. You know who's in real trouble is
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  Speaker 1: Ilan Omar. Ilan Omar's got a lot of trouble ahead
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  Speaker 1: of her and probably a million dollars in legal bills
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  Speaker 1: ahead of her. All sorts of stuff coming out now.
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  Speaker 1: Besides all the other stuff, and being married to her brother.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently they got her DNA. They got the brother's DNA.
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  Speaker 1: They got warrants to go through their garbage. And in
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  Speaker 1: the garbage, besides finding documents and bills and all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of stuff in people's garbage, it's the first thing a
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  Speaker 1: private eye does when he's looking at you. Go steal
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  Speaker 1: your garbage. There's a lot of stuff in there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you throw away your letters, your credit card bills,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. It's in your garbage. But also in
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  Speaker 1: there is your DNA because everything in there has been
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  Speaker 1: touched by you. So they got her DNA. Same thing
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  Speaker 1: with the brothers. So they'll figure this out. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: other big thing that's come out, they seem to have proved,
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  Speaker 1: proven that her name is not Ilan Omar, that she
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  Speaker 1: long ago made up this name Ilan Omar, that she's
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  Speaker 1: actually Ilan Nursad Elmi. Now, why would you change that name?
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  Speaker 1: That's got a ring to it. Ilhan Noor Syed Elmi.
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  Speaker 1: I guess she wanted something simpler, something more American. So
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  Speaker 1: she changed it to Ilhan Omar. But it's not her name,
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  Speaker 1: according to the feds. And in the documents, they say
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  Speaker 1: they've proven that that's actually her real name. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: funny thing is, that's her real name from birth. The
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  Speaker 1: brother seems to have the same last name. So that
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  Speaker 1: would make this even more suspicious. Legal experts say if
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  Speaker 1: she has lived in the United States her entire life
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  Speaker 1: here under an alias, it creates all kinds of legal
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  Speaker 1: implications for her, all kinds of trouble for her. So
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  Speaker 1: expect her. According to every source that got her, expect
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  Speaker 1: her to be deported. Could end up in jail, actually.
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  Speaker 1: And expect her to be removed. You can't be in Congress.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be serving if you're there under a phony name.
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  Speaker 1: If your citizenship status isn't right, she can be removed, deported,
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  Speaker 1: or jailed. Some of this is coming up. Hey, Vivek
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  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy in Ohio ran this ad. The Republican candidate is
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton, a Democrat. The Democrat candidate is Amy Acton.
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  Speaker 1: And the mother apparently did a lot of interviews saying
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  Speaker 1: her daughter's a liar, her daughter's terrible. So they got
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  Speaker 1: her to do a commercial. They had her record a
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  Speaker 1: commercial where the mother said, said, you know, I love
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  Speaker 1: my daughter, but she's been lying to you. She's lied
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  Speaker 1: about this. She's lied about that. Don't vote for her.
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  Speaker 1: She's got problems. She needs help. They ran that as
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  Speaker 1: a commercial. So now the Democrats go nuts, absolutely nuts.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, this has crossed a line that nobody's
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  Speaker 1: ever crossed. This has crossed the line like you should
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  Speaker 1: never cross. When I'm watching Morning Joe this morning, they
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  Speaker 1: have that That dopey Donnie Deutsch IQ of like maybe, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: maybe 100, maybe. And he's a former advertising guy. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, this is the dirtiest political ad ever. This
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  Speaker 1: ad will go down in the history books. Nobody has
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  Speaker 1: ever done a dirtier ad than this ad. Now, of course,
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  Speaker 1: it's the corrupt, biased Morning Joe show. So at the
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  Speaker 1: end of his rant, nobody says to him, Well, why
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  Speaker 1: was it okay when they did it to RFK Jr.?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody asked that, of course. Remember when RFK Jr. was running,
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  Speaker 1: they had Caroline Kennedy record an ad denouncing him. They
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  Speaker 1: had everybody in the Kennedy family record ads denouncing RFK Jr.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody brought that up. So if the Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: going to be mad, they should be mad at the plagiarism.
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  Speaker 1: They stole a Democrat technique. Get family members to go
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  Speaker 1: after him. Is this President Trump talking about it? I
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  Speaker 1: know one thing.
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  Speaker 7: If my mother said that about me, it would be
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  Speaker 7: you would have hit gold.
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  Speaker 1: You would have been very happy about it. So I
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  Speaker 1: know nothing about it other than the mother said horrible
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  Speaker 1: things about a person that's running for governor of a
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  Speaker 1: great state, a great state. And if it's even a
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  Speaker 1: little bit true, you don't want her as governor. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: the other thing is President Trump forgot something. He forgot
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  Speaker 1: they did that to him, too. They did it to him.
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  Speaker 1: Remember they dragged out some cousin. What was her name?
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  Speaker 1: Mary Trump. They dragged out this cousin to say all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of horrible things about Trump, that he was evil.
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  Speaker 1: He was a liar. He was a crook. He was
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  Speaker 1: just anything she could say. And then they dragged her
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  Speaker 1: onto every show, a whole hour with Rachel Maddow, a
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  Speaker 1: whole hour with morning Joe. They used her in commercials.
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  Speaker 1: They had her on every TV shows. Now, the funny
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  Speaker 1: thing about that, she's the cousin of Donald Trump, but
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  Speaker 1: she never actually met him. She was, uh, An outcast
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  Speaker 1: for the Donald Trump side of the family. She never
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  Speaker 1: even met him. Never met him. She was once in
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  Speaker 1: the same room with him at the White House for
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  Speaker 1: some big, huge, hundreds of people in a gathering, but
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  Speaker 1: never actually met. Don Jr. told me he's never met her.
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  Speaker 1: But they used her all over television against Trump, a relative.
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  Speaker 1: So they did it to him. And he's right. If
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  Speaker 1: they got his mother to do that ad, they would
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  Speaker 1: have been pushing that ad everywhere. So it's the double
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  Speaker 1: standard Democrats are famous for. Bruce Blakeman doing very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very well. He got the endorsement of the New York
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  Speaker 1: Post today. Now, that's great, but endorsements mean absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe in the 1950s it might have helped, but if
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: you check the New York Times endorsements, They have a
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  Speaker 1: track record of 97% of their endorsements lose, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Hillary Clinton for president? Every newspaper in America endorsed her.
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  Speaker 1: She had the endorsement of every major newspaper in America.
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  Speaker 1: And lost, of course. Lost big. So the endorsements mean nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with the union endorsements. Maybe, maybe if you
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  Speaker 1: got the police union, the police endorse you. Well, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you could brag about that. But otherwise, endorsements don't mean anything.
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  Speaker 1: That was one of the problems with Cuomo. Besides the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he was the most hated guy in New York,
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  Speaker 1: besides the fact nobody ever wanted him in office again,
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  Speaker 1: he kept doing this old 1960s kind of campaign where, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the plumbers union has endorsed me. I just got the
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  Speaker 1: endorsement of the concrete workers union like nobody cares about
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: this stuff so but blakeman is doing very very well
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  Speaker 1: coming up later in the show we'll have the world's
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  Speaker 1: best pollster the real pollster give us all the latest
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: numbers this uh george washington bridge shooting wow just horrible
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  Speaker 1: case well we'll get to that in a moment we've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot more to get to that's mark simone
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  Speaker 1: here in three hours every day it's nine to noon
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  Speaker 1: three hours every day On 710WOR. Mark Simone. Mr. New York.
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  Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon. On 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the president on the road every day. Every day going
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  Speaker 1: to a different state. Campaigning hard for the midterms. Today
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon he'll go to Florida. A big rally.
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  Speaker 1: Fort Myers, Florida. This afternoon. And then as long as
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  Speaker 1: he's in Florida. Normally flies home. Sleeps in the White House.
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  Speaker 1: And then goes out the next day for another state. Well,
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  Speaker 1: because he's in Florida, he'll go to Mar-a-Lago and sleep
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  Speaker 1: there tonight. And he'll be in Palm Beach tomorrow morning. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all of you old yentas at Mar-a-Lago, don't get excited.
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  Speaker 1: You think, oh, my God, he'll be here tonight. No, actually,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be in Palm Beach at Mar-a-Lago. But
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, he's going to Georgia for a rally there.
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  Speaker 1: He'll do that. Uh, and then I think he comes
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  Speaker 1: back to get the schedule. He comes back to Palm beach. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he may be there on Sunday. So, uh, if you've
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: never been to Mar-a-Lago, it's a lot of old ladies
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  Speaker 1: who chased the president around the room. Uh, hang on,
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  Speaker 1: let me see. Where is Sunday? Uh, uh, yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, wait, I'm sorry. You had to look on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: He'll wake up in Palm Beach, but then Sunday he's
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  Speaker 1: going to Michigan. He'll do rallies in Michigan. Can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine that? This is one weekend. Fort Myers, Florida, rally Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia rally Saturday. Michigan rally on Sunday. So Mar-a-Lago stays.
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  Speaker 1: It's closed all summer. You know, right after Mother's Day,
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  Speaker 1: it closes down. The club's closed. And it reopens Halloween weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So next weekend it officially reopens. But again... The campaign
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  Speaker 1: will still be on, so I imagine he'll be doing
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  Speaker 1: rallies and he will not be there for you women
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  Speaker 1: to chase him around the room. And we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: the best pollster in the world a little later in
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  Speaker 1: the show. He'll give us the latest numbers. It looks
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  Speaker 1: very good for the Senate. Republicans, excellent chance of keeping
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  Speaker 1: the Senate. The House, don't listen to anybody's opinion. It's
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: too close to call. In the real polls, it's just
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  Speaker 1: too close to call right now. The horrible shooting on
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  Speaker 1: the George Washington Bridge. Nobody can still believe this happened.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen road rage where somebody goes crazy
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  Speaker 1: and shoots somebody, but it's an ex-cop, usually a guy
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  Speaker 1: that's been on the force 20 years, pretty disciplined, pretty careful.
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  Speaker 1: You don't expect an ex-cop to be recklessly using his gun.
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  Speaker 1: But it appears that's what happened. It appears that's what happened. Now,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you know, when you go up the West Side Highway...
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and you want to go to the George Washington Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: you take that exit for the George Washington Bridge, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: then as you come over that exit, it circles around
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  Speaker 1: to the bridge. As you're circling around, it becomes the
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  Speaker 1: most confusing thing in New York City roadways because there's
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  Speaker 1: three lanes, and then all these signs hit you real fast.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to take the cross Bronx, take the
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  Speaker 1: right lane. If you're George Washington Bridge, lower level, take
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  Speaker 1: the left lane. bridge upper level, take the middle lane.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: So it happens real fast. All of a sudden, you know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and then it's kind of stupid. I don't know why
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: they haven't fixed it. So it's like three lanes, crowded
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: lanes of traffic that all have to merge real fast.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So you could cut somebody off without even realizing it
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: or intending to. The guy that was killed, everybody agrees,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: was the nicest man in the world, family man, lived
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in Rockland County, really nice man. So, He's not going
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to be an aggressive or a bad driver. Apparently, and again,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: you've got to merge so fast in those lanes there.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: He must have cut this guy off without intending to.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And maybe he might have done it and not even
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: realized he did it. It's that confusing there. So the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: off-duty cop apparently chased him. They can see in the video.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: He then chased the guy, tailgating him and very, very
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: aggressively tailgating him and flashing his lights into this guy's car.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: So the guy might not know he cut him off,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: might think this is some nut following him. He just
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: kept going. And then the off-duty cop pulls up like
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: alongside him and tries to smash him into the barricade,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: takes out his gun and shoots him and flees the scene.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: They got enough security cameras, their surveillance cameras, that they
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: could find a good picture of the license plate in
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the car. It was a Range Rover. They got the plate.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: They traced it to where he lives upstate with his wife.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: He's got a daughter who's in college. They went up there,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: searched the house, arrested the guy. It turns out he's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: an off-duty cop now, or a former cop, an ex-cop.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: When you're an ex-cop or a cop, you know, obviously
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you're going to get better treatment from the police department,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and that's understandable. They're going to take care of their own.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: So he had to go into court yesterday for the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: first time. Reporters were there to get a look at
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the guy, Romero, get pictures, get a look at him.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: He never appeared, except in the courtroom, which means they
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: snuck him in some secret back entrance so he wouldn't
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: have to do a perp walk So the press couldn't
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: see him. Police did that as a courtesy to him
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: because he's an ex-cop. People were upset about that.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Did you see him do a perp walk in there
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: just now? That was a modified perp walk, right? He
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: had on a nice outfit. He looked clean cut. He
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: looked very different from every other defendant that you saw
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: in that courtroom before he was arraigned. So the preferential
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: treatment is how he's presented to Judge McGrath.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: All right, but hey, listen, every defendant, you know, vicious mugger,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: dirty gangman, you know, as soon as you see him
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: in court, he's got a Brooks Brothers suit on, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you can tell the guy's never had a suit on
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in his life, and he feels uncomfortable. So they didn't
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: bring him, they got him into the courtroom without coming
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: through the hallways, without coming through the lobby there where
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: anybody could see him.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Do any of you have a picture of Victor Romero?
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: No.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: So Victor Romero's complete identity was scrubbed from the Internet.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: prior to him being arrested.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, somehow they got everything offline and they got him
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: into the courtroom so nobody could get a picture of him.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: All right, it's an ex-cop that happens. The family of
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the guy that was killed, Irvine, seems to be a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: wonderful family man. The family was all there crying, obviously.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: They say that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: He's not a flight risk. We can't take his passport away.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: He fled the scene and left my brother to die.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, not a flight risk. I guess he's not
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a flight risk. They did have a million-dollar bail on
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the guy. They didn't take his passport. All right, that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: is a little unusual.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: And to go home and have dinner that same night
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: when my brother was not.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Able to have dinner with his children or his wife. Yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that's so tough to watch the family go through this.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: So this guy, this ex-cop, was doing security work. He
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: left the force about 25 years ago. He's been doing
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: security work. His most recent job he's been on for
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a while, working for a big financial firm, biotech energy investment,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: big financial firm. And he worked as a security and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: driver for the CEO of the company. And that's where
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the Range Rover came from. It belonged to the company.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: That's the car the CEO had. So, uh, this guy,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the ex cop every day, he would take the car
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: home and drive in with it. The Range Rover, pick
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: up his boss and drive him around all day. A
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: lot of guys like that, big CEOs, they always have
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a driver who's an ex cop. That way he's armed.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: He's got a badge. Has he got an ex cop
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: who's trained in security, got a gun, perfect protection. Also,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: if he's an ex cop, uh, Uh, and you're driving
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: somewhere and they're closing the street. You can't make a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: left turn. It's an ex-cop. He can hold up his badge.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You can always go right through. So almost every CEO,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: it's an ex-cop driving them. But, uh, the C the CEO,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: no comment from him, no comment at all. That's a terrible,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: terrible case. I mean, I don't know how this guy
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: defends this. There was fighting over whether it's murder, whether
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: it's manslaughter, uh, Illegal experts say.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: We'll get back to it. We'll get legal experts saying
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the argument will be, how could you fire right into
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: somebody's car, aim at them and not call that murder? Anyway,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: we'll get back to this tragic story. We had a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: lot more to get to. We'll take some calls coming up.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: It's Mark Simone here.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Six.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, oh, I scared myself for a moment. No, no, no,
• 24:52
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• 24:57
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• 25:03
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• 25:07
  Speaker 6: On 710WOR.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Look at this. Monica Lewinsky is secretly shopping a book around.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: A tell-all book. That means she's gotten herself a book agent.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And they're contacting publishers. That means she's looking for money,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: big money, big advance. Well, she may have waited too
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: long to get a lot of money. Years ago, Bill
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Clinton was still a big deal, even out of office.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: He was the leader of the Democrat Party, but that's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: over with. Even Democrats pay no attention to him anymore.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: He's really old news. So that brings down the possible
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: advance money she could get for a book. Now, if
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you're Bill Clinton and you're in Chappaqua and you're reading
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that she's writing a tell-all book, you are saying to yourself, oh,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: my God, this is not good. This is not going
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to be good. This is going to be a problem.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: You're on the phone with a bunch of people. What
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the hell can we do about it? Can you stop her?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Is there any way to stop her? So I don't
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: know what they're going to do about this. But again,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: for publishers, it's kind of old news. It's like writing
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a tell-all book about Jimmy Carter. You're a little late
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: on this. But it's pretty good juicy sex in this book,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: taking place right in the Oval Office. So there'll be
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: publishers that'll be interested in this. Now, the thing is,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: when you go to a publisher and you show them
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: what you're going to say, they're going to say, it's
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: not enough. You've got to tell more. And she's going
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to do that. Well, I don't want to go into
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: detail about this. If you want money for an advance,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to go into excruciating detail. So
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with the book. Let's take some calls.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing? Hey,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: what's going on? I can't. The button doesn't work. Mike,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you there?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, Mike. Yes, good morning, Mark.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Mike.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: How are you now? Completely unrelated to the news of
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: the day.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: We like that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: I was watching an old movie with Sandy Dennis and
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Anthony Newley. I was wondering if you knew Newley and
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: if you were a fan. I mean, he wrote some
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: pretty great songs in his.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Well, Anthony Newley was a great singer. He was a
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: superstar singer, nightclub singer in Las Vegas, all that. And
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: he was a great songwriter. He wrote What Kind of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Fool Am I? Once in a Lifetime. He wrote Million
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Broadway Shows. Who Can I Turn To? Who Can I
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Turn To? He wrote... Candyman. The Candyman, Willy Wonka and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the Chocolate. But he was also... One of the funniest
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: guys in the world. Could have made a living as
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: a comedian. And he was always a guest on my show.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: And if you remember, Steve Allen and I did a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: radio show for a few years. Anthony Newley was a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: regular with all the big comedians on the show and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: was as funny as anybody. And a great guy.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you can tell. There's a couple of video clips
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: on YouTube with he and Sammy talking. And you could
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: tell they just were killing each other. They just loved
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: being in each other's company. I mean, whether it was
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: singing or just goofing around, they both seemed to be genuinely,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: you know, enamored of the other.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a very handsome guy. And when he sang,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it was a little, you know, schmaltzy kind of. Yes.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: But in the 60s.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I loved it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was big in the 60s. Steve Lawrence,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Edie Gourmet was a very schmaltzy kind of singing. But
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: that's what people loved in the 60s. But he was
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a wonderful guy, Anthony Newley.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Hey, Richard Harris had, you know, had that, you know,
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: MacArthur Park, for heaven's sake. Couldn't be any more schmaltzy
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: than that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Well, that wasn't schmaltzy. That was dramatic. That's what Jimmy
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Webb wanted, like a dramatic actor to do it. Yes.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Very true.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Great question, Mike. Thanks for calling. Let's
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: go to Sal in Westchester. Sal, how you doing?
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Hey, Mark. Those recent allegations against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar that
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: she married.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Her gay brother.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: That they cover up their women so that their femininity
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: can't be exposed.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think she has to worry about that,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: but go ahead.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: But it kind of tells you something that might be
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: being gay and Islam is kind of one and the same.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, thanks for calling. Let's go to Harrison.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: in Hewlett. Harrison, how are you doing?
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: Hey, good, Mark. Good morning. I just wanted to comment
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: on that pizza list and say that besides Connecticut being
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: that low, How could Michigan and Illinois be below Connecticut
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: when they have amazing pizza, too?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: No, they don't have amazing pizza. Chicago's got that deep
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: dish pizza. It's interesting. It's not amazing. And I'm from Michigan.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: They don't have any great pizza there.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Detroit has some good spots, though.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: That's good. It's not amazing. It's not great. Your problem
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: is Long Island. Long Island, you've got all kinds of
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the greatest food in the world, but you are way
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: behind in pizza. Why don't they have great pizza in
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Long Island?
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: I don't get it. I still find the best pizza
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: is in Queens, Danny's.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: New Park.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: No, you're right. And, you know, even Dave Portnoy, who's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the best pizza reviewer in the world, has talked about
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: this at great length. Why doesn't Long Island have decent pizza?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, they got decent pizza. They got good pizza.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: They don't have any great pizza. And as he points out,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the problem is, for some reason in Long Island, they
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: never knew how to get the undercarriage right. Nice and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: crispy and.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Pizza in long island is too doughy and too soft
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and there's a restaurant in huntington posto patso they make
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the best pizza you'll ever have but it's a restaurant
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: they're not there to sell pizza you can't go in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and get a slice but i'm talking about uh just
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: getting a slice for some reason long island is way
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: behind where they should be let's go to uh eddie
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in nassau county eddie how you doing All right.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Good morning. I'd just like to know, when are they
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: going to write a book about Joe Biden and his
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: sellout racketeers, who probably did better than Benedict Donald or Robert?
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: There's already a number of books about it.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Really? Yeah. How come the guy isn't in jail since
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: nobody's above the law?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Well, he probably should be. But, no, there's many great
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: books have been written about it. Check Miranda Devine's book,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: The Big Guy. That's what that's about. It's a big bestseller.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: How about he's not busting rocks in Leavenworth?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he could bust rocks. I don't know.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You want to send him to prison?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Just destroy his reputation. That's the best thing. I mean,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a guy like that, first of all, you put him
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in prison, he wouldn't know he's in prison. He doesn't
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: know where he is. So what's the difference? Let's go
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to Joel in Florida. Joel, how are you doing? Good morning, Mark.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: Hope you're having a good day. For many years, they've
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: been trying to close the stables down, and no mayor
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: has been willing to do that. What I'm curious about,
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: do you see any chance that there will be an
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: investigation against the actual real estate owners of the properties
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: where the stables are? Because once the stables close, they're
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: the ones that come out making the big bucks.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Well, we don't know that they're making big bucks. No
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: one knows that. And they all say they're not going
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to do anything and make any bucks. We don't know.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: But did they influence this decision? there are people looking
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: into it as we speak. It began last night. There
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: are people looking into, did any of the real estate
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: developers make big donations to the city council to sway
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: their votes? Nobody can figure out why Julie Menon, who
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: was for the horses, now is against them. I don't know.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: She looks pretty honest to me, but who knows? They'll
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: check into the real estate interests and were they making donations?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Did they do anything to change the vote? We'll see.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: We'll find out. One more real fast. Joe in Hoboken,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: what do you want to say, Joe?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Hi, Mark.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Real quick on the pizza debate.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: Porto and Jersey City makes their own mozzarella and ricotta,
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: so I recommend Porto.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no. New York, obviously the best pizza state.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Jersey could be second. It's either Connecticut or New Jersey.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You'd have to give it to Jersey. They have more
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: great pizza. Connecticut's got three or four world-class places. Frank Pepe... Sally's,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: but New Jersey has six or seven of the finest
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: pizzas in the world. Just check Dave Portnoy's reviews. You
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: can find out where they are. We've got a lot
• 33:43
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• 33:45
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• 33:48
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• 33:51
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• 33:54
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• 33:58
  Speaker 1: He makes really great points, but it's also the funniest
• 34:00
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• 34:05
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• 34:12
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• 34:16
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• 34:20
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• 34:24
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• 34:29
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• 34:32
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• 34:35
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