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Mark interviews Fox News contributor Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone wor well, Hey, do we
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  Speaker 1: have Liz Peak. Yep, we're getting there, the great columnist,
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  Speaker 1: Liz Peak. We'll talk to her about all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: stuff coming up. Now. The caller before I said something
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  Speaker 1: about the fire truck at the airport LaGuardia that got
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  Speaker 1: hit by the plane, not being a New York City
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  Speaker 1: Fire department. Well, so I checked. Apparently Port Authority fire
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  Speaker 1: handles fires. It's Port Authority fire trucks, but they're backed
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  Speaker 1: up by the New York Fire Department. So and just
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  Speaker 1: in a massive coincidence, I'm am seeing a lunch today
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  Speaker 1: for the fire commissioner. So I'll get you a definite
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  Speaker 1: answer on that. We'll do it. We'll bring it to
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  Speaker 1: you tomorrow, but with us right now. Liz Peak, the
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  Speaker 1: brilliant columnist, and you'll see her all over television. You
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  Speaker 1: read her columns on Foxnews dot com, The Hill dot com,
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  Speaker 1: and even better, check her website lizpeak dot com for
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  Speaker 1: great news and analysis, and sign up you'll get news
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  Speaker 1: and analysis email to your free every morning lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, I'm terrific. Thank you? How about you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. Where do we even start the shutdown?
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  Speaker 1: The three hour lines, the four hour lines at the airport.
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to get the blame for all of this?
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone is getting blamed for this, honestly, Mark,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think Republicans are taking the brunt of it,
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  Speaker 3: even though it is Democrats who basically have shut down
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  Speaker 3: the government by refusing to fund DHS.
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  Speaker 2: But Republicans are refusing to fund part.
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  Speaker 3: Of DHS at the Transportation Security Administration, which mainly is
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  Speaker 3: responsible for all these lines that are making people crazy
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  Speaker 3: across the country. And I got to tell you, I
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  Speaker 3: really do think people are just angry at everybody about it.
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  Speaker 3: But because Republicans are in the majority and they have
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  Speaker 3: the White House.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the buck stops with them.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of people are saying, look, I don't
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  Speaker 3: care who's to blame, just fix it. And I'm kind
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  Speaker 3: of in that camp because, honestly, I have so many
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  Speaker 3: friends and relatives who have been waiting. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: going to the airport four hours early, as the son
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  Speaker 3: of a friend of mine did on the weekend, and
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  Speaker 3: almost missing your flight. I mean, the stress level of
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  Speaker 3: all that, and he wasn't traveling with little babies and
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  Speaker 3: old people. I mean, imagine if you're trying to get
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  Speaker 3: a family through TSA and you have to wait for
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  Speaker 3: three hours. I mean, honestly, our legislators even thinking about
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  Speaker 3: these people are putting themselves in their shoes. Well, no
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  Speaker 3: they're not, because guess what they get escorted through security.
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  Speaker 3: That's a custom in almost every airport. And look, I
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  Speaker 3: understand why, maybe it's necessary for security reasons. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you right now. If you are a representative
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  Speaker 3: of mine and I was in a four hour line
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  Speaker 3: and I saw you whisking through the airport, I would
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  Speaker 3: not be happy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, they say that's why Congress did not leave
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  Speaker 1: Washington this weekend. They didn't want to be seen being
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  Speaker 1: wisked through. So, but why is government so allergic to
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  Speaker 1: the private sector. You know, you could bring in private
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  Speaker 1: Some airports use private security and they have no problems. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk is offered to pay all the TSA workers.
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  Speaker 1: Why not cooperate with the private sector more?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, there are airports, isn't it Seattle or oddly enough,
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  Speaker 3: some West coast airport that is maybe San Francisco run private.
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  Speaker 2: Security and it is very successful.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have this problem, of course, but in general,
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  Speaker 3: my understanding is it's very successful. Why wouldn't that be
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  Speaker 3: an appealing alternative. Why don't we shift over to privately funded,
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  Speaker 3: privately run tsa everywhere in the country Because these are
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  Speaker 3: government employees.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats love government.
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  Speaker 3: Employees, which is why they were hysterical when Elon Musk's
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  Speaker 3: doge effort began to hut the ranks of government employment.
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  Speaker 2: And they vote Democratic almost always.
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  Speaker 3: Now, after this problem, maybe they won't be so eager
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  Speaker 3: to do that. But generally speaking, it is a very
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  Speaker 3: incestuous system where Democrats vote ever bigger benefits and paychecks
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  Speaker 3: for government employees unions, and the unions vote for Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's really a pretty horrible system, which is
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  Speaker 3: why I remember FDR said public employees should never be unionized,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he was totally right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Liz peak when it comes to Iran, I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching CNN or MSNBC and they put on somebody like
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  Speaker 1: Senator Mark Kelly who's yelling and screaming the president has
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  Speaker 1: no plan, there's no plan, there's no goal, there's no objective,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little irresponsible to claim. I'm sure there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of planning and if you can't figure out what
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  Speaker 1: our goal is in Iran, there's really something wrong with you,
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  Speaker 1: isn't there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is really offensive.
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  Speaker 3: It's just whatever Donald Trump does must be wrong in
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  Speaker 3: the eyes of Democrats. But for people like Mark Kelly,
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  Speaker 3: who has a pretty solid understanding of what the military
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  Speaker 3: world is like, to assume that you would go into
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  Speaker 3: this conflict, which by the way, has been extraordinarily successful
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  Speaker 3: in a very short period of time in degrading the
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  Speaker 3: enemy's military response and pretend that we don't know what
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  Speaker 3: we're doing. Ay, that's incredibly bad for Morales, A shame
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  Speaker 3: for him, Shame on him be he must know better.
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  Speaker 3: But see, he is just wildly antagonistic to this administration
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  Speaker 3: because they called him out on a number of occasions
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  Speaker 3: for making utterances, including the one where they told he
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  Speaker 3: basically told our military people men and women, not to
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  Speaker 3: obey a order if you don't believe it's it's legitimate,
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  Speaker 3: and that is like inciting rebellion in our armed forces.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what is he?
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  Speaker 3: Who is he to make that comment and what does
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  Speaker 3: he think the ramifications of it would be it was
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  Speaker 3: incredibly irresponsible. So he you know, the administration has sought
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  Speaker 3: legal action against him, They want to demote him, strip
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  Speaker 3: him of his rank, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they were right. I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: a pretty horrible thing he did. But he's an angry.
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  Speaker 3: Man and he's kind of laying it all out there
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  Speaker 3: and being as offensive as he possibly can. But to
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  Speaker 3: your point, yeah, Mark, he's it's really bad acting.
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  Speaker 2: In my view speak speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Of offensive, this mayor and his wife. The mayor is
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  Speaker 1: going to prison to pray with the prisoners of all
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  Speaker 1: murdered people. The wife is illustrating the most anti semitic
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  Speaker 1: stuff in the world. Are we going to get through
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  Speaker 1: these four years?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, really good question. Let's just hope it's not eight.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hope we do somehow rally the forces of opposition
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  Speaker 3: and get rid of this guy after four years. My
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  Speaker 3: view is, Mom, Donnie is an extraordinary politician in the
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  Speaker 3: sense that he has done absolutely nothing to broaden his
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  Speaker 3: base to appeal to voters who did not support him
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  Speaker 3: in the mayoral election. I think he was selected accidentally.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of these accidental wins where you went up
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  Speaker 3: against a truly hideously unpopular former governor Andrew Cuomo, who
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  Speaker 3: people really didn't like, and you had a sort of
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  Speaker 3: cardboard cutout forgive me Curtis Leewah Republican candidate that no
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  Speaker 3: one took very seriously. So Mamdani had a clear lane.
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  Speaker 3: He became mayor, and he is rubbing our noses in
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  Speaker 3: everything that we find offensive. And I gotta tell you, yes,
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  Speaker 3: going to the prison to pray with people of Muslim
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  Speaker 3: faith instead of ever paying any slight attention to or
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  Speaker 3: showing concern for the victims of crimes that these people
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  Speaker 3: have committed. Honestly, Mark, how insane is that? It certainly
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  Speaker 3: can't be popular unless you're a complete hair brain, fire
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  Speaker 3: on hair liberal. This just doesn't make any sense. So
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  Speaker 3: shame on him, But shame on voters for letting this happen.
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  Speaker 3: Shame on the Jewish community for not realizing what was
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  Speaker 3: about to happen to their people in New York, whom
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  Speaker 3: this guy has no regard for whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's absolutely hideous. And again, let's just make
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  Speaker 2: sure it's not eight years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we love Curtis, but if Andrew Cuomo, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: had stayed out of this. Who knows things might have
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  Speaker 1: been to Can you imagine a guy getting run out
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  Speaker 1: of office, quits and scandal leaves in disgrace, with the
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  Speaker 1: police chasing them out of all.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, and this is the guy we're going
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  Speaker 3: to make a mayor of New York here. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a real insight. Democrats have no options, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: most Republicans come from the business world or they have
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  Speaker 3: something to go back to.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have nothing. They are not able to run a
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  Speaker 2: restaurant or build you know, a cement planned or you
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  Speaker 2: name it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, show me five Democrats who have left
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  Speaker 3: office and done anything but run for some other office.
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  Speaker 3: That's all they can think of. It's really it is
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  Speaker 3: a it's like a life sinecure to be on the
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  Speaker 3: public dole. And I don't mean welfare, but I mean
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  Speaker 3: the taxpayer dole. And that's and that is kind of
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  Speaker 3: their default option. Count on or be a commentator at
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  Speaker 3: CNBC or MSNBC.
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  Speaker 2: That's also possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, very good point. Liz Peak brilliant as always.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody a reader columns foxnews dot Com. You can go
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  Speaker 1: to the Hill watch her on television, and make sure
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  Speaker 1: you go to lizpeak dot com. It's a great news
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  Speaker 1: site and sign up, put your email in there. You'll
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  Speaker 1: get the daily briefings and great stuff lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. Have a great day,
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  Speaker 2: and stay out of the airports.
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