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Hour 1: Is CBS News getting better? · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's only about three hundred more weeks of him to
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  Speaker 1: get through, and then you'll be fine. Got to keep
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  Speaker 1: clearing my throat. I'm not sick, I just my nose
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  Speaker 1: has been stuffed up for a week and a half.
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  Speaker 1: It's just this ridiculously cold weather. It's gonna be in
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  Speaker 1: the forties today, fifties later this week in Alaska. Remember
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  Speaker 1: the Remember a couple weeks ago we had all that
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  Speaker 1: snow on a Friday. Remember Bridgeport seven inches long, Island
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  Speaker 1: seven inches. It was harm seven inches through this weather Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: This is just the past couple of days. Seven feet
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  Speaker 1: of snow, seven feet of snow. You know here, if
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  Speaker 1: you get an inch, there's already a school closings immediately Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get to about ten feet before they
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  Speaker 1: close the schools there. So we'll get to Venezuela, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to Greenland, we'll get to Tim Waltz, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to CBS News. They're getting a lot of flat. They've
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  Speaker 1: been cleaning up the evening News, trying to make it
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  Speaker 1: less corrupt, and they're getting a lot of fla. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to that crazy George Conway who's running for
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  Speaker 1: Congress we'll get to mom. Donnie Hey. Speaking of getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of flack, this Hilton story did not get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of coverage. But you know, there's Hilton is
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  Speaker 1: a great hotel chain. You got Hilton hotels all over
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  Speaker 1: the place, and there's one in the Minnesota where you know,
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  Speaker 1: ICE when they go into these cities, you don't realize
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  Speaker 1: all the logistics that are required. And I forget arresting
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  Speaker 1: the criminals, the criminal illegals, just the logistics of getting
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  Speaker 1: them all there. If you want to send one hundred
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents there, you got to move them there. All
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  Speaker 1: their equipment, everything, their vehicles, everything has to be moved there.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got to find a hotel for them
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  Speaker 1: to stay in. So in every city they have to
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  Speaker 1: book one hundred hotel rooms. Although well, government likes to
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  Speaker 1: waste money. But although it might be you know, they
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  Speaker 1: double up, so it's fifty hotel rooms, two in a room, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But in Minneapolis they used here it is again in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 1: they used a Hilton hotel to have the ICE agents stay, well,
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  Speaker 1: the local Hilton hotel employees. You know, it's a Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: and they were crazy left wing, childish democrats, woke democrats,
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  Speaker 1: so they found out these were Ice people coming to
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  Speaker 1: stay in the hotel, so they canceled the reservation and
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  Speaker 1: informed Ice that they were not welcome to stay in
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  Speaker 1: this Hilton hotel. Well, you can't do that, of course,
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  Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. Now, it's not the fault of Hilton the corporation.
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  Speaker 1: It's these employees in this local hotel, and it turns
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  Speaker 1: out it's not owned by Hilton. You know, many of
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  Speaker 1: these hotels are owned and built by Hilton, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these hotels you stay in were just built
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  Speaker 1: by the local guy who built a hotel and then
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  Speaker 1: he makes a deal with Hilton to come in and
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  Speaker 1: run it and put their name on it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: franchise you can buy, so you can build yourself a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful hotel and then you get Marriott to be the
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  Speaker 1: name on it and run it. You have to make
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  Speaker 1: a partnership franchise agreement with them. In this case, it
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  Speaker 1: was Hilton. So Hilton looked into this and they immediately
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  Speaker 1: withdrew the franchise. They fired this local owner and hotel.
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  Speaker 1: They took their name off the hotel. They will have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with this hotel anymore. It's against their
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  Speaker 1: policy to discriminate against people because of their race, or
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  Speaker 1: because you don't like the way they look, or you
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  Speaker 1: don't like their politics. You can't discriminate and refuse to
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  Speaker 1: give them a room. So Hilton has withdrawn the franchise.
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  Speaker 1: They will have nothing to do with Hotel anymore. So now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the left wing cooks are all going after Hilton,
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  Speaker 1: denouncing Hilton, writing about Hilton. Here's one of these left
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  Speaker 1: wing cooks. Hilton was trying to protect people from government
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  Speaker 1: thugs who separate people from their families. They separate families.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, every law enforcement agency in the world
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  Speaker 1: separates families. The New York City police separate families. The
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis police separate whenever anybody's arrested. If they arrest a woman,
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  Speaker 1: say a mother, and they arrest her and have to
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  Speaker 1: arrest her, take her in handcuff her, take her to jail.
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  Speaker 1: That you can't bring your kids with you. You're separated.
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  Speaker 1: The kids have to stay with a relative or something,
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  Speaker 1: or if there's nobody, they go into child services. But
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  Speaker 1: every law enforcement agency separates families. Every arrest, families are separated.
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  Speaker 1: So Hilton getting a lot of flack. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: who else is getting a lot of flax. CBS News
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  Speaker 1: because the new woman in charge, Barry Weiss, decided to
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  Speaker 1: clean up the corruption over there and try to make
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  Speaker 1: it a little more fair and balanced. So normally you
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  Speaker 1: watch the CBS Evening News, all they do is denounce
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  Speaker 1: the President, denounce the administration, call them all kinds of names.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever they do, it's awful. So the new CBS News
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  Speaker 1: under Berry Weiss, they put in a new anchor. This
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  Speaker 1: guy's pretty good. It's off to a rough, rocky start,
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  Speaker 1: but he's pretty good. He'll he'll slowly, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: actually get some pretty good ank. This David Muher, you know,
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  Speaker 1: might be a little slanted, but he's a sharp look
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  Speaker 1: and it's a great newscast. The ABC Evening News and
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  Speaker 1: the new NBC News anchor. I can't remember his name,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Yamas. That's his name, Tom Yamas. He's actually I
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  Speaker 1: like Lester Holdy was a nice guy. Totally corrupt on
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  Speaker 1: the air, totally biased, but he's a nice guy. This
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  Speaker 1: guy's sharper, better, quicker, and the same thing with CBS.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's pretty good. But they've decided to make the
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  Speaker 1: newscast fair. So every night they'll go after the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration a little with the language because it's still being
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  Speaker 1: written by CBS newswriters. But they'll be fair, they'll put
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  Speaker 1: the other side. On the first night of this new guy,
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  Speaker 1: he gave Pete Hegxith three segments on the New three
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  Speaker 1: segments on the Evening News to respond. And then it
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  Speaker 1: was Marco Rubio one night. They brought him on live
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  Speaker 1: and whatever they said bad about Trump, they put on Rubio,
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  Speaker 1: let him respond. And then Christy Nome, whatever the attack was,
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  Speaker 1: they then put went to her, put her on live
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  Speaker 1: on the news and let her respond. That's the fair
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  Speaker 1: thing to do, so you're supposed to do so. CBS
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  Speaker 1: News getting all kinds of flak from left wing critics
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  Speaker 1: now attacking them like crazy. Here's one the call says it.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's become Fox News light. They're shilling for the administration,
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  Speaker 1: just giving the other the other side of chance to respond.
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  Speaker 1: That's shilling for the administration. So uh, changes are happening.
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  Speaker 1: And remember this is only the first year of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Give them two three years and we'll see what happens. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all this Greenland talk, you know, I feel bad for
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats. This is costing them a fortune. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they all had to go out and buy Ukrainian flags
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  Speaker 1: to wave around. And then all the trouble in Israel
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  Speaker 1: they had and they had to go out and you know,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the flags. They had to go out
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  Speaker 1: and buy a Hamas flags and Palestinian flags to wave around.
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  Speaker 1: I mean every second they got to buy a new flat.
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  Speaker 1: Then ice they had, all these liberals had to go
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  Speaker 1: buy Mexican flags, and now they all got to go
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  Speaker 1: buy Venezuelan flags. You know, they're spending a fortune on flags.
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  Speaker 1: Had I known this was going to happen, I would
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  Speaker 1: have bought stock and flag companies a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: But it just you go into any left wing kook
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  Speaker 1: woke democrats home, there's a closet now filled with different flags. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, a lot of this stuff, these protests
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  Speaker 1: are funded organized. They're not organic or natural. Many of
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  Speaker 1: them paid for by Soros and those other oligarchs. The
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  Speaker 1: Democrat oligarchs like Soros fund them. Nicole what's his name,
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman. So the president and the administration
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  Speaker 1: for they've hinted at this, but for the first time
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  Speaker 1: ever they said they're looking at going after them harmit.
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  Speaker 1: Dillon and others in the Department of Justice now talking
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  Speaker 1: about conspiracy charges against them. When you see what looks
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be just an organic protest that happened all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden over Venezuela, they all two hundred of them,
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  Speaker 1: have all the same equipment. They have the same exact
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  Speaker 1: signs from the same printer, and they're real high quality,
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  Speaker 1: glossy printed signs, really expensive. Well, so this is all
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  Speaker 1: being funded by these Soros type zillionaires. But now they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about rico charges, conspiracy charges funding protests, so finally
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  Speaker 1: something may be done about that. So the Venezuela talk.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the other thing. The President talking about Greenland
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  Speaker 1: taking over Greenland, hinting at the military go in there
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  Speaker 1: and sees Greenland. He's not going to do that. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be the military. First of all, the
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  Speaker 1: military seizing Greenland. A boy Scout troop could take over
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  Speaker 1: Greenland in about half an hour. I mean, it would
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  Speaker 1: take twenty minutes to seize Greenland. So what he wants
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  Speaker 1: is to buy it from Denmark. Denmark owns Greenland. And
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  Speaker 1: there was a time a while back where they were
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  Speaker 1: actually kind of interested in talking about it because the
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  Speaker 1: price was going to be billions of dollars for Greenland
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  Speaker 1: and they needed the money. Denmark's economy in trouble, a big, huge, huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge deficit and debt. Well, one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: saved them was that ozempic because apparently some of the
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  Speaker 1: original whatever it is from ozempic made in Greenland in Denmark,
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  Speaker 1: and they've made a fortune off it, which made up
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  Speaker 1: a lot of their deficit. But US wants Greenland, they'd
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  Speaker 1: like to buy it. They'd like to work out an
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  Speaker 1: agreement to buy it and pay for it and then
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  Speaker 1: own it. But that's the reason for all this invasion
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  Speaker 1: military to it's just negotiating, just negotiating. There's no chance
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  Speaker 1: of actually invading Greenland or taking it over. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a very valuable thing for the US. It's very important,
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  Speaker 1: crucial military base for US, crucial as far as shipping lanes.
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  Speaker 1: It has all kinds of defense strategic reasons why we
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  Speaker 1: need to have Greenland. Also, it's filled with valuable minerals
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. So it's a win win to take Greenland.
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  Speaker 1: And Denmark really doesn't need it for any defense purposes
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  Speaker 1: or strategic purposes or military base purposes, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: always the fear for all those same reasons that the
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  Speaker 1: Russia or somebody else could take it over President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You know, remember Joe Biden, remember him, And maybe once
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  Speaker 1: a year he tried to do a press conference and
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  Speaker 1: they'd call on three people where they were already picked beforehand,
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  Speaker 1: questions and answers written out right in front of Joe.
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  Speaker 1: And they had to put a big card with the
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  Speaker 1: reporter's name so Joe could call on him, and the
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  Speaker 1: reporter's picture so he'd recognize them. And they used a
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  Speaker 1: real big font you know, so Joe could see it.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the old days. Now it's President Trump every
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  Speaker 1: two seconds of press conference, anytime he's walking in the hall,
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  Speaker 1: anytime the reporter's there, he'll answer questions, he'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: them on They all have a cell number. They can
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  Speaker 1: call him anytime. Hundreds and hundreds of these reporters have
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  Speaker 1: a cell number. Even this crazy Joe Scarborough, right after
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela or the Greenland stuff started, he said he called
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  Speaker 1: the President Trump and talked to him for twenty minutes Greenland.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's how open he is. He'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough on the phone for twenty minutes. But wherever
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  Speaker 1: he is, you immediately can talk to him. He'll answer questions.
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  Speaker 1: You see, even when he's on the plane, he'll come
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  Speaker 1: out of the private cabin and answer questions for a
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  Speaker 1: half hours. So anyway, the whole thing is it's a
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  Speaker 1: winning situation in Venezuela. And he talked about that, you
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  Speaker 1: got to win the midterms. Oh, okay, the midterms. Now
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  Speaker 1: this is the other thing. How does this affect the midterms? Well,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices will come down even more. They've come down dramatically. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: By the way, it's another side issue. Gas has come
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  Speaker 1: down to two fifty a gallon, two seventy five a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: It was four dollars under Joe bidden It's now two
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  Speaker 1: fifty everywhere except New York, and except California. It's two
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  Speaker 1: fifty everywhere you go in the country. Two seventy five.
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  Speaker 1: In New York it's still four dollars, four to fifty.
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  Speaker 1: California it's five. Nobody is you have totally corrupt meat.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise they'd be all over these two governors at demanding
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  Speaker 1: to know why they haven't let the gas prices come down.
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  Speaker 1: The reason hasn't come down here, the state will just
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  Speaker 1: add the taxes to make up for it and keep it.
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  Speaker 1: So gas prices are way down all over America with Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to get fifty million gallons immediately of
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  Speaker 1: their oil. That'll bring down prices even more. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the drilling that started is starting to kick in.
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  Speaker 1: So also, you're going to have the tax cuts take
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  Speaker 1: effect now finally, since New Year's Day, they're now in effect.
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  Speaker 1: People to get more money in their paychecks. So that's
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  Speaker 1: going to help Republicans in the midterm, and that's important.
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  Speaker 3: You got to win the midterms because if we don't
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  Speaker 3: win the midterms, it's just going to be I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they'll find a reason to impeach me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there'll be an impeachment a week. But on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, when they do their remember first term was
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  Speaker 1: an impeachment once every year, every spring. This will be
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  Speaker 1: every month, and then they'll totally devalue the whole idea
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  Speaker 1: of impeachment will mean nothing after a while. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: only time bomb there is a healthcare costs. Obamacare turns
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  Speaker 1: out to be totally unworkable. In fact, they called it
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  Speaker 1: the Affordable Care Act. All it did was drive prices
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  Speaker 1: up like crazy, which was to be expected. Anytime you
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  Speaker 1: take anything out of the private sector and have the
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  Speaker 1: government run it, it gets much more expensive. And it
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  Speaker 1: got so out of control that they had to start
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  Speaker 1: giving subsidies to pay for it. It's the Affordable Care Act,
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  Speaker 1: but it's so unaffordable you have to have a government
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  Speaker 1: subsidy to be able to afford it. So that expired.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're going to have possible you know, one of
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  Speaker 1: those shutdown talk things again at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats want to just keep the subsidy going forever, just
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  Speaker 1: subsidize it. President Trump, being a logical businessman types as well,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we fix it so it actually is affordable,
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  Speaker 1: privatize a lot of it, make it more efficient, get
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  Speaker 1: all the crazy, you know, crazy corruption and complication out
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  Speaker 1: of it, and make it simple. And I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: the logical thing to do. But Democrats don't want that.
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  Speaker 1: So healthcare will be crucial in the midterms. We could
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  Speaker 1: have had.
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  Speaker 3: Healthcare good healthcare. Obamacare is bad and the people understand
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  Speaker 3: it's bad, and the premiums are horrible. But one thing
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  Speaker 3: I've learned, I've learned a lot about healthcare. I found
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  Speaker 3: healthcare so sort of like, not of tremendous interest, but
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  Speaker 3: it was very important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so again all day long. You can talk to him.
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  Speaker 1: Reporters can talk to him anytime, ask him anything. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's a more important issue. You know how he does
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  Speaker 1: that dance and aver there's music, he starts dancing. So
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  Speaker 1: he was asked about that. This is interesting. Now, his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Malania is a very dignified, very elegant woman, and there
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  Speaker 1: he is dancing, and he was asked about it.
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  Speaker 3: My wife hates when I do this, she said. You know,
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  Speaker 3: she's a very classy person. Right, she said, it's so presidential,
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  Speaker 3: he said, but I did become president somebody she hates
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  Speaker 3: when I dance. I said, everybody wants darling. It's not presidential.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, that's true, but ninety percent of what he
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  Speaker 1: does isn't presidential. He breaks all the rules and he
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  Speaker 1: knows how to do it and be successful at it.
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  Speaker 1: But I can understand her saying that.
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  Speaker 3: She said, could you imagine after you are dancing? She
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  Speaker 3: said that to me, and I said, there's a long
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  Speaker 3: history that perhaps she doesn't know. Because he was an
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  Speaker 3: elegant fellow, even as a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, but again, I've known Donald Trump, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty five years and the decades before he was president.
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  Speaker 1: It was all the same thing as a top big
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  Speaker 1: business guy in New York real estate. Everybody in that
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  Speaker 1: world was why does he have to be Why does
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  Speaker 1: he have to do that? Why does he have to
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  Speaker 1: behave like it? You know how to back? Doesn't he know?
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  Speaker 1: So this has been gone on his whole life. He's
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  Speaker 1: perfected this system of breaking all the rules. His instincts
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  Speaker 1: are great. He makes it work. Hey, coming up, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to George Conway, this crazy nutjob Democrat wants to
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  Speaker 1: run for Congress here in New York. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that and more. Coming up, we'll take some calls. Next
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
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  Speaker 1: the number. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, how you doing? Adam?
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? We did wake you did? We?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: No? No, no, no no no how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Let me check? Not bad anytime? Just jump in whenever
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  Speaker 1: you feel like it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, run am I on there ready or.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like around something, but.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So this is Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see Mark. Listen.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad you're there. But I heard that China and
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  Speaker 5: Russia have already pay Venezuela and oil right for the
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  Speaker 5: fields for oil rights in the fields of Venezuela. Did
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  Speaker 5: they get their money back or what's your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's like Amazon where you can
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  Speaker 1: just send it back and get the refined.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's another reason we went into Venezuela. You have
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, everybody in there
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  Speaker 1: doing god knows what it was like the axis of
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  Speaker 1: evil all over again. That's another reason to break all
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  Speaker 1: that up. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats are very good at controlling the language. So
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  Speaker 4: there's always the equal such and such, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: Act and the fair so and so law. And affordability
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: is the current one. And the funny thing is, you
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: know what's not as affordable as it once was? Everything?
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you watched Andy Grifford Show, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: you know a haircut was fifty cents last time I
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: went to get a haircut down here far seventeen dollars
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: and it's a number two once around the head. You know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, not even any.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true of old TV. You know, you
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: watch a TV show from nineteen sixty and the guy says,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a five hundred dollars. You know, you
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: don't realize that's like ten thousand today. So but no,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: that's a good point. Yeah, this affordability is an interesting thing. Obviously,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: it's always about the economy. You remember when Bill Clinton
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: ran and carvill famously said, it's the economy, stupid, It's
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: always the economy. But Democrats last year did extensive testing
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: with focus groups, seriously, and they came on the word
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: affordability in the focus groups and it tested through the roof.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: So they zero it in on that word affordability, affordability.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And it's not that they're so good at messaging. It's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: just the corruption where the every inch of media, anchors, newspaper,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: they're all in cahoots with them. And if they drill
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: it into your head over and over and over and
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you start to believe it, affordability crisis. If that's all
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you see day and night, everywhere you turn, affordability crisis.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: You'll start to think there's an affordability crisis. You know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: they did that with Curtis in the race.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You know, Curtis had as good a chance as Mam
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Donnie in the beginning. I mean, if you look at
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: these two guys on paper, Mam Donnie never had a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: job twelve years old. I mean, on paper, this guy
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: has no chance. But they kept doing that over and over.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven. All you heard was Curtis can't win.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: CURTI Yeah, well Curtis is great, but he can't win.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: He can't win, he can't win. Well, after a while
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: people start to believe this. Let's go to uh, let's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: I'm doing good, Mark, Mark. Every time I hear his
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: word affordability, I'm going to say, the government is the first,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: the first person that causes uh unaffordability in the City
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: of New York. Like this latest bonehead idea that got
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: the city Council a couple of months ago pass this law.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: It wasn't veto proof. They passed this law that if
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: you're going to sell you if you have a private
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: building and you're gonna sell it, you have to offer
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: it to one of sixteen nonprofit agencies that the city's
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: gonna tell you. You have to offer it to them first,
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: and if den if they don't want it, you could
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: sell it privately. And even then, if you're in before
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: you go into contract, you have to offer it to
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: these sixteen probably not nonprofit communist agencies. Well, I spoke
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: actually to a lawyer about this, and this is totally unconstitutional.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: The problem is is the New York City courts are
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: all rigged with these left wing nut jobs. So it's
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: gonna that's.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: What happened to Donald Trump. And let me ask you
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a question. You're a smart guy. You could be in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: any business you want. Why would anybody be a owner
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: of an apartment building or a landlord? It's got to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: be the most difficult, troubled, the kind of way, just
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: NonStop problems, isn't it?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Mark?
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: These days? It is especially Mandami the other day appointed
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: this so called tenants rights advocate. Her name is CEA Weaver,
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: and she actually went on the air in an interview
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: and says, we have to rethink private property rights.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, I'll give me a better one. Let
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: me see here's an actual quote for her home ownership
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: is a weapon of white supremacy exactly.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: And then she goes on to say that we're going
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: to attack white neighborhoods more than minority neighborhood so forth
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: and so on. I actually spoke to a lawyer about
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: this and he did tell me this is totally unconsciousness.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It is, but you know, it's New York. But we
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: got to go for the news with great call. We'll
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: get back to that woman and some of her crazy
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Mondannie just put her in charge of housing. Well, we'll
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: get to her in the next hour. But you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: we bring you the smartest people on earth will do
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that in the moment. Steve Forbes will be with us.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: He can explain a lot of this stuff in a
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: very rational way with the Steve Forbes next on seven
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• 22:12
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• 22:14
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• 22:18
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• 22:20
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• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Steve Forbes, How are you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Doing fine?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Thanks?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: How are you in this new year? Lots happening. Seems
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: like the year's half over already with everything that's going on.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of hey, we're talking about affordability. Democrats found
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that word through focus groups, affordability. But it has improved
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a lot in the last year, hasn't it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: The real progress is being made. One of the things
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I think the Trump President Trump and his team underestimated
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: was how big of a mess they were actually inherited
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: from the Biden administration. But when you go down the
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: list of what they've done and what I hope they're
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: going to be doing this year, it's impressive. One of
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the most boring subjects in the world, of course, is regulation.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: It's not the kind of thing that has people really aroused,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: but it's been a huge drain, huge burden on American
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: manufacturing and what they've done and things like with evs.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: You know, if they make these regulations permanent through legislation,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the auto industry is going to have a revival and
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: renaissance that we haven't seen since the nineteen fifties and
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: nineteen sixties in terms of new designs and new ways
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of doing things instead of everything looking like a jelly
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: bean because of government regulations. So they're doing really really
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: important things. Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: be saved through a deregulation. The tax cut is a
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: savior of preserving the twenty seventeen tax cuts, but also
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the big write offs for investment in manufacturing and businesses
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: today is going to kick in. And one of the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: things they're talking about, which I hope they'll do Mark,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: is have a second reconciliation bill and cut personal income
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: tax rates, cut the corporate rate, which President Trump wanted
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: to do from twenty one to fifteen percent, cut the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: capital gains, which that should be a no brainer. It's
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: good for investment but also instantly raises revenue. So some
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: things are moving in the right way, and a big
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: battle coming up again. Another boring subject monetary policy is
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve. Getting somebody in there who will fundamentally
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: re rechange, change the way the Federal Reserve operates on.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: The FED operates on the assumption the prosperity causes inflation.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: They have an allergy to a vigorous, growing economy, and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: that's got to be changed because that's been a dead
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: weight for decades.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: But how crucial is the Fed nowadays you know, you
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: can't rate cut your way to prosperity, can you.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: No, But what you can do is have rates actually
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: set by the marketplace. What the FED is doing now
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: is a form of rent control. We know what that's
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: done in New York, and we'll do even more. But
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: you know, they used to talk about renting the money.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: So when you're borrowing the money, you're renting it, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve is setting the rental rates instead of
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: letting the market do it. So the key thing is
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: not to have the FED come up the financial markets,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: which is done with their artificial coming around with interest rates,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: and go for a stable dollar. That's why I hope
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary Besson and President Trump say they want a strong,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: stable dollar. They want the dollar to remain a reserve
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: currency where you have to have a stable and trustworthy
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: So I hope they get the FED in the right direction.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And I'll make a prediction even though I'm probably wrong,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: but you never make money going with the crowd. In
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: terms of the head of the FED, I think a
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: good thing would be to send Scott Besson over to
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the FED.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: He's got the.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Strength and knows what needs to be done and have
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Kevin Hassett, I'll go to the Treasury Department.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Oh well, listen, you know more about this than I.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: But Scott Besson's a great Treasury secretary and there's oh
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: yes he is. YEA other people could be great FED chairman.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Look who I'm talking to, Warp, You'd be perfect for it,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: but you.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Got I'm an agitator now.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: But is it your top guy? If it's Scott Besston,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: wouldn't need be more valuable as a Treasury secretary than
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a FED chairman.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I think he would be. Actually, well, the reason I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: would like him at the FED is that one, he's
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: got a fixed term, and he would not. I think
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: he's because of his background in finance and the success
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: in finance. There's no way they can capture him, no
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: way they can buffalo him the way they did Jerome Powell.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And I think he would also know how to ask
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the right questions, that's key, and have the and not
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: be intimidated by PhDs. They're over three hundred there now
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: they should be uber drivers, but they're they're at the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: FED right now mucking things up, and and so I
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: think Besson would have the strength to really turn things
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: over We've already seen what Lee's Eldon's done at the
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: EPA in terms of deregulation, and the tread of the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Energy team with this administration's phenomenal, right, and Bergham's that
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: that's going to pay real dividends and already is at
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the pump. And by the way, by the way, the
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: lower price of gas line somehow doesn't make the headlines
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: the way it does when the Democrats are in and
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: prices are going up and gets ignored. Prices are going
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: down and the media ignores it. But with winner right
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: with us, boy, people want those low rates, you know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Part of the problem though I don't know how they
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: managed to do it, but as the price has dropped
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a lot on gas here in New York and in California,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: they kept the price way up there at four dollars
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a gallon, which is where most of the reporters in
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the media live, so they haven't felt the effect yet.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. And but you know, since
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: they pride themselves and being a great journalist, they should
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: ask the question why and the answer is thing called tax.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Steve Forth, let me ask you about Venezuela. It was
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a booming economy for many years, and then Chavez and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Maduro come in with their socialism and screw it up.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: What's the potential for the economy in Venezuela with the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: right leader.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: The potential is phenomenal. We all know about their oil reserves,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: and it will take time to get the fields back up.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: They've been erecked and that takes time. But one of
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: the things I hope we do before we have a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: new democratic elected government. There is a couple of things.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: One is keep out the International Monetary Fund the IMF.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: They always recommend higher taxes and currency devaluations with triggers inflation.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: So keep out the IMF and know what they should
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: do do in Venezuela is since nobody pays attention to
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: their bullovar currency anymore toilet paper, is it dollarize it?
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Malay should have done that in Argentina, the President of Argentina.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: But dollarize the Venezuelan economy. They're always already using dollars
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: informally anyway, so make it formal and then put in
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: a low rate tax system and by golly, you'd see
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: you've got millions of people who left Venezuela. They would
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: bring capital back you'd see domestic capital being created again.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And there you said, they have an entrepreneurial spirit, and
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: you could see that economy not revived just because of oil,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: but doing other things. And you have a success in Venezuela.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: You've got a new president of Chile to get that
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: country back on track. Hopefully Malay gets it right with
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: the currency. In Argentina. You have those three countries booming.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: By golly, that changes everything, not just in Latin America,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: but as a model for other countries around the world.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, Steve Forbes, what's your outlook forecast for New Jersey
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: with another crazy Democrat governor? Oh man, You.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Know, whenever you talk, whenever you talk to a financial advisor,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the first thing they say to me, they're more polite
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: than I'm about to be to myself.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: You idiot.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Why he's saying in the state of New Jersey, that's
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: one of the most misgoverned states in the Union. And
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the sad thing is years ago, Larry Cudlow and I
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: did a tax program for Christy Whitman when she became governor,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: and we helped get through big cuts in the state
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: income tax rate. And one of the things we learned
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: back then was New Jersey was once the most prosperous
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: state in the country, grew faster than the rest of
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the country, recovered faster than the rest of the country,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: and high taxes and regulation killed what had been a
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: booming economy, always doing better than the national average. And
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: that can be brought back again. That's why the pharmaceutical
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: industry is based in New Jersey and other industries, and.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: The policy wrecked it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And that's what is so frustrating as we see real
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: life examples of before and after. And yet and yet
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: people continue to talk about the need for re education centers.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe for economics, I don't know, but well, it's sad
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: because the potential is enormous, but people and capital are
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: moving elsewhere.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Well I would laugh at you, but we just elected
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hokele and Mamdani So I'm who am I to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: But yes, Steve Forbes great to talk to you. Everybody
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: should get his book. His latest book is Inflation. No
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: better book on the subject inflation. Just go to Amazon
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and get Steve Forbes's book, read his columns, watch them
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: on television. Of course, Forbes one of the great media
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: companies in America, in the world Steve Forbes, thanks for
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: being with us.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you, and keep up your a great fight, especially
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: now that we've got a communist running the great New
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: York Venezuela. Throw it gets loss of communist.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And we gave one. Well. Thanks for reminding us, Steve Forbes,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: have a great new year. Thanks for being with us,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: you too, Thank you. Mark, take care. Hey, don't forget
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