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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now on the Voice of New York Kate Still Mark
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  Speaker 1: sim Own Show on seven ten. Wow, Hey, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to Minnesota. We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to CBS. We'll get to the Hilton, We'll get to Milania.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the Mayor. We' got a lot to
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  Speaker 1: talk about today. What the hell? This is ridiculous, this weather. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've had big snowstorms before, in fact, much
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  Speaker 1: bigger than this one. But in every case, the day
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  Speaker 1: or two after the snowstorm, it gets over freezing, over
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  Speaker 1: thirty two degrees and it starts melting. We've never had
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  Speaker 1: this happen before, where you get the snowstorm and then
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  Speaker 1: it stays in the teens for the whole week, and
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  Speaker 1: the snow just doesn't go away. So it's just miserable outside.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to stay outside very long. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: have to go to Jimmy. Get all your exercise jumping
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  Speaker 1: over snowbanks and puddles and slush, and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a while before you can go back to regular shoes.
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  Speaker 1: You got to wear your snow shoes, your snow boots,
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  Speaker 1: your ugly shoes. It's just a mess out there. The
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  Speaker 1: mayor is calling it code blue. That's the new term.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven people have died already outside. They found dead people
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  Speaker 1: outside who are out in the streets and just died
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  Speaker 1: in the cold weather. And it's cold blue.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the city remains in Cold blue, which means
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  Speaker 2: that we are intensifying outreach, that we are conducting round
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  Speaker 2: the clock checks and have loosened traditional shelter intake procedures
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  Speaker 2: to accommodate as many New Yorkers as possible.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta admit he's very good at those press conferences.
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  Speaker 1: He sounds very authoritative when he talks. He may not
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  Speaker 1: know what he's doing, but he sounds good. But it's
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  Speaker 1: been a horrible situation. People have died outside, but at.
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  Speaker 2: Least ten New Yorkers have tragically lost their lives after
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  Speaker 2: being found outdoors. We don't yet know whether every case
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  Speaker 2: will be ruled hypothermia, but we need every New Yorker
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  Speaker 2: to be on alert, looking out for their neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it actually hit eleven after that statement, and.
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  Speaker 2: We are mobilized every resource at our disposal to ensure
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  Speaker 2: that New Yorkers are brought indoors during this potentially lethal
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  Speaker 2: weather event.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so Minnesota. The Trump administration trying to reset things
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  Speaker 1: a little course correction. The border patrol has been pulled out,
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  Speaker 1: not just the leader of the border patrol, but the
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  Speaker 1: entire border patrol. Because they're a border patrol. They operate
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  Speaker 1: on the border with no population around them. To suddenly
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  Speaker 1: be operating in a city, he's a whole different thing
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  Speaker 1: for a border patrol. And to be operating in a
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  Speaker 1: city where the police have been ordered to go away
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  Speaker 1: and let the protesters go at the border patrol. This
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  Speaker 1: is the key to this whole situation. The shooting of
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  Speaker 1: the nurse pretty if you look at it from what
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  Speaker 1: we know so far, doesn't look justified. It doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: like a good shooting. I mean it's I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: legal because in that kind of mayhem struggle guy resisting arrests,
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  Speaker 1: they're probably covered legally. But it doesn't look like a
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  Speaker 1: good shooting. It doesn't look like it was necessary. But again,
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  Speaker 1: border patrol not used to being in a city, not
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  Speaker 1: used to working in crowds. They work all alone on
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  Speaker 1: a border, and they're certainly not used to being physically
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  Speaker 1: confronted by a mob of protesters. They're not used to it,
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  Speaker 1: they're untrained for that, they're inexperience with that. So the
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  Speaker 1: real key to all of this. You can argue about
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  Speaker 1: the officers shooting all of that stuff, but the real
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  Speaker 1: key to this is the mayor and the governor's decision
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  Speaker 1: to remove all police from the scene, which created the
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  Speaker 1: total chaos. No, we've had many times where there's massive
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  Speaker 1: protests going on, but the protesters are under control because
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  Speaker 1: the police are there setting up barricades, keeping the crowd
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  Speaker 1: on that side of the street, and the protesters are
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  Speaker 1: certainly allowed to yell all kinds of things and wave
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  Speaker 1: their signs and yell and scream. That's a protest. What
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  Speaker 1: happened in Minnesota is those are not pro testers. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: was not a protester. Protest is a guy with a sign,
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  Speaker 1: yelling and protesting. But when you physically get involved, you
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  Speaker 1: try to interfere with a law enforcement operation, You try
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  Speaker 1: to actually stop the law enforcement operation, interfere with law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement and prevent whatever. That's not protesting. That's a whole
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  Speaker 1: other category. And the police were not anywhere near any
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  Speaker 1: of this. They had been deliberately called back. You got
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  Speaker 1: the police, the president of the police union in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: The president of the police union now coming out and
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  Speaker 1: saying that this is what caused this. He's specifically blaming this.
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  Speaker 1: He's the head of the police union. I'm looking for
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  Speaker 1: his statement here. Minnesota Police Union boss Mark Ross tells
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  Speaker 1: his staff there would have been no loss of life
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  Speaker 1: had the police been there, had they not been held
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  Speaker 1: back by the mayor, there would have been no loss
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  Speaker 1: of life. Things would have remained under control. He says. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: our local politicians would not allow the police there, would
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  Speaker 1: not allow them to maintain order. As a result, Ice
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  Speaker 1: and Border patrol agents, who are not trained to deal
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  Speaker 1: with civilian clashes like this, have been all on their
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  Speaker 1: own trying to deal with angry locals. He said that
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  Speaker 1: such cooperation didn't even interfere with Minnesota's sanctuary laws. All
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  Speaker 1: they had to do was allow the police to maintain order. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have a history of this when it comes to this,
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  Speaker 1: of pulling back the police. So this sort of stuff happened.
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  Speaker 1: She saw the same thing on January sixth. They were
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  Speaker 1: offered ten thousand troops to guard the capitol, and that
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  Speaker 1: would have kept the protesters at a distance from the Capitol.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't have gotten near the capitol or into the
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Pelosi and she later admitted to this on video,
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  Speaker 1: and the mayor, Muriel Bowser turned it down. And who
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  Speaker 1: knows who is behind that decision to turn down the troops. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all they had were the building police, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: building security people, the Capitol Hill police force, who were
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  Speaker 1: not equipped in any way to handle a mob of
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  Speaker 1: four hundred thousand people. A handful of building cops can't
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  Speaker 1: handle four hundred thousand people. So the whole place got Overrunya.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing in Minnesota. The police were told
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  Speaker 1: to go away, do not go there, do not maintain order,
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  Speaker 1: do not control the protesters, So they left the category
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  Speaker 1: of protesters. They're physically clashing with the officers and actually
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  Speaker 1: trying to interfere with their operations, trying to block them.
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  Speaker 1: And the other problem is you got the mayor and
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  Speaker 1: the governor spreading this false crap that they're not police.
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  Speaker 1: The governor saying stop referring to them as law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: They're not law enforcement, which is absolutely not true. You
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  Speaker 1: got other Democrats there calling them mall cops, not police.
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  Speaker 1: This is not true. They're actual official law enforcement, police officers.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the main cause. Then you got Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 1: We can't play it on the air because he's using
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  Speaker 1: the F word and cursing. It's up on my Twitter
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  Speaker 1: if you want to see it. Schumer trying to sound tough,
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  Speaker 1: using the F word a lot about this. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: cleaned up. This is another statement. I felt. I was
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  Speaker 1: punched in the stomach. I looked at those pictures, those
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  Speaker 1: videos over and over again and said, this can't be America.
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  Speaker 1: This is some kind of a fascist dictatorship. It's what
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  Speaker 1: happens if you got crazy out of control of protesters rioters,
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  Speaker 1: and you take the police away and let them physically
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  Speaker 1: clash with the cops. It's what happened in January sixth.
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  Speaker 1: And look at Ashley Babbitt, and that was a far
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  Speaker 1: worse shooting than Pretty. In the case of Ashley Babbitt,
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  Speaker 1: she was twenty feet away, She was nowhere near anybody.
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  Speaker 1: There was no physical confrontation. She wasn't confronting them. She
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  Speaker 1: was trespassing, trying to come through the window. But from
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  Speaker 1: twenty feet away, the officer just shot her in cold blood.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty was different. He was there confronting the police physically
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  Speaker 1: he was resisting arrest. Was a whole different things. So
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  Speaker 1: and after Ashley Babbitt, poor woman shot in cold blood
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  Speaker 1: right in Schumer's own building office building, did he say
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  Speaker 1: a word. Nope. So Obama put out a statement yesterday
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  Speaker 1: about the killing of Pratty, and we're still waiting for
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  Speaker 1: his statement on Ashley Babbitt. We haven't seen that yet.
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  Speaker 1: It's about five years later. Jimmy Kimmel crying on the
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  Speaker 1: air last night. The President has talked about and other
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  Speaker 1: people have talked about these protesters being funded, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Soros type money. We mentioned one of the guys funding this,
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  Speaker 1: Neville Roy Singham, the guy that's working with the Chinese
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  Speaker 1: communists out of Shanghai, funding this kind of stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: Kimmel on the air last night yelling and screaming there's
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  Speaker 1: no proof. Trump has no proof, calling on him to
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  Speaker 1: prove it. Well, it's currently under investigation actually by the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department, by Congress tracing the money. So I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't stay to that line too long because the
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  Speaker 1: proof may emerge pretty soon. Hey, by the way, Colbert
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  Speaker 1: goes off the air May first, they've announced the He's
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  Speaker 1: announced the end date May first, they'll be the final show.
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  Speaker 1: And of course people are getting all riled up. But
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  Speaker 1: you got to remember Colbert, regardless of the politics. Colbert,
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  Speaker 1: you know, said it was all because of Trump and Trump,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in his lawsuit at CBS where they had
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  Speaker 1: to pay him a big settlement, that was part of
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  Speaker 1: the deal that they remove Colbert. So he's saying he
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  Speaker 1: was fired for political reasons, but actually if he never
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  Speaker 1: mentioned politics, he would still be fired for having the
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  Speaker 1: lowest ratings ever. In fact, in January or last month,
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  Speaker 1: last month, he sent an all time record lowest ratings
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  Speaker 1: in the history of late night television, all time record. Now,
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  Speaker 1: normally that would get you fired. He's had terrible ratings
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  Speaker 1: for a couple years. Now, what's going to happen when
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  Speaker 1: they take him off the air? Most likely CBS will
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  Speaker 1: not replace it with a talk show. They'll put something
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  Speaker 1: else on. They'll put a game show runs or some
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  Speaker 1: kind of reruns. Now, remember remember Kimmel was taken off
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  Speaker 1: the air for a week. Well, when that happened, during
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  Speaker 1: that week, ABC put on reruns of Celebrity Password and
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  Speaker 1: it got triple the ratings of Kimmel. It became number
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  Speaker 1: one in late night. Triple the ratings of Kimmel, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot cheaper. It costs a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: to do a late night talk show. You got a band,
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  Speaker 1: you got an audience, you got a whole bunch of people,
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  Speaker 1: you got twelve writers, you got one hundred people on this.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot cheaper just to throw a rerun into
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  Speaker 1: that time slot, which costs you basically nothing, and you
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  Speaker 1: get triple the ratings. So that's what CBS will do.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll help Kimmel a little. He'll pick up some
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  Speaker 1: of that Colbert audience, but Kimmel still has minuscule ratings,
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  Speaker 1: tiny ratings. Now, the other thing is when they CBS
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  Speaker 1: goes to the reruns of the game show and gets
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  Speaker 1: triple the ratings, which means a lot more revenue because
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  Speaker 1: you can charge more for the commercials with triple the ratings.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people over at ABC you'll say, why don't
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  Speaker 1: we do that and get triple the ratings and make
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  Speaker 1: a lot more revenue. What do we need Kimmel for?
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  Speaker 1: So expect that this is the beginning of the end
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  Speaker 1: of late night TV. Colbert will go away. Remember they
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  Speaker 1: didn't re sign Kimmel to a real contract. They just
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  Speaker 1: signed him to an extension, a one year extension, so
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  Speaker 1: expect this to be Kimmel's final year. Two. The Tonight Show,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little different. It's it's hard to remove that.
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  Speaker 1: That is the uh, the the whole, you know, gold
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  Speaker 1: standard of late night TV. That's where it all began,
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  Speaker 1: The Tonight Show, Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Jay Lennard.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just if there's gonna be one thing standing,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be The Tonight Show. And you know, one good
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  Speaker 1: thing about Fallon he doesn't have to do politics. He
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  Speaker 1: can go back to just being a comedian, which he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good at. Hey's speaking of CBS. The new woman
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  Speaker 1: in charge of CBS News, Barry Weiss, did her town
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  Speaker 1: hall yesterday. The people there are mutiny. They're all upset,
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  Speaker 1: they're going crazy because she's trying to fair and balance
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  Speaker 1: the place. She's trying to get rid of the left
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  Speaker 1: wing total bias. The CBS newspeople furious about that. But
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  Speaker 1: in the in the town hall, she was pretty straightforward
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  Speaker 1: with him, and she said, you're like, nobody's watching whatever
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, however great you think it is, it's not
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  Speaker 1: working because ratings are way way down. CBS News is
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  Speaker 1: sixty minutes, the CBS Morning Show is always in last place.
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  Speaker 1: It's a disaster. So she said, you know, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to make these changes. You can't keep doing
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing. It's bombing. Obviously America doesn't like it.
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  Speaker 1: The public doesn't like it. And she also told them
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  Speaker 1: right to their face in this town hall, the public
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  Speaker 1: doesn't trust you anymore. And that's you know, they always
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  Speaker 1: talking about the presence approval rating. You hear that all
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  Speaker 1: the time, but they never mentioned that news and journalists
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  Speaker 1: are now the lowest rated thing on earth, the lowest
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  Speaker 1: rated thing on earth journalist. American public does not trust
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  Speaker 1: mainstream news. Every poll shows mainsteam press at an all
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  Speaker 1: time low with the public. It's just disaster for them. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Billy Joel the residency at Madison Square Garden
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  Speaker 1: once a month for ten years, millions and millions and
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  Speaker 1: millions of people saw him. Now the next one is coming,
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  Speaker 1: the next residency, Harry Styles, and he's expected to really
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  Speaker 1: really break Billy Joel's record. He's just announced thirty This
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  Speaker 1: is for the residency, thirty Carnegie Hall shows that Carnegill
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden thirty Madison Square Garden Shows thirty. Now
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  Speaker 1: you know if that were Billy Joel, he'd have to
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  Speaker 1: do that over three years. Harry Styles is going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. He's going to do it over two months
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  Speaker 1: this summer thirty shows. You know how hard it is
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  Speaker 1: to sell out Madison Square Garden. You know what a
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  Speaker 1: feet that is. And sometimes you get a Sebastian Scalco
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  Speaker 1: who's so big that when he comes in he'll do
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  Speaker 1: two shows a night at Madison Square Garden, sell it
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  Speaker 1: out twice in one night. Sometimes you get a guy
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  Speaker 1: who'll do two or three nights, four nights, to do
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  Speaker 1: thirty nights in one little burst at Madison Square Garden's
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  Speaker 1: incredible feat. Harry Styles will do it this summer. Make
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  Speaker 1: a fortune. You know, if you're a big star and
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  Speaker 1: you go on tour, it's great. You're in Paris, you're
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  Speaker 1: in London, you're in Hong Kong. It's amazing to be
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  Speaker 1: on this world. But it's a pain in the neck
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  Speaker 1: and airports and planes and hotels and it's awful just
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  Speaker 1: group to be able to just stay in your own city.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Billy Joel loved it. You just like a
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  Speaker 1: regular job. You just commute from your house. It's very easy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: do you know who's the first singer ever to sell
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  Speaker 1: out Madison Square Garden? Madison Square Garden, the current Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden. I mean, that's a major thing for one
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  Speaker 1: guy to just sell out the whole place once. It
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  Speaker 1: was in the late sixties. First time they ever had
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  Speaker 1: a singer sell out. It was Bing Crosby. Believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, Bing Crosby was still alive and well. And
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  Speaker 1: now you remember Crosby in the middle of the twentieth century,
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  Speaker 1: the thirties, forties into the fifties, was the biggest singer
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  Speaker 1: in the world, biggest star in the world. It couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be any bigger. But by the sixties wasn't the same anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But he was the first singer to play Madison Square
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  Speaker 1: Garden by himself and actually actually sell it out. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to Minnesota, we'll get all the latest on it.
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  Speaker 1: In a few minutes. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three two one zero seven to ten