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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten. Woor
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  Speaker 1: filling in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto. I love coming
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  Speaker 1: time outside. It is Can Rozotto, former New York City
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  Speaker 1: TV news anchor here and always nice to fill in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of the Mark Simone Show. I
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  Speaker 1: put it on and rip the knob off, and we
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  Speaker 1: recommend you do that for those here at seven to
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  Speaker 1: ten WR. We've got a lot to talk about today.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So, so much to talk about today. Phone
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  Speaker 1: part in the conversation. Eight hundred three to two one
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  Speaker 1: zero seven ten. Eight hundred three to two one zero
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  Speaker 1: seven to ten. The Trump administration, of course, everybody there
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  Speaker 1: now on full focus mode after the speech that the
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  Speaker 1: President gave last night. Of course, President very upset and
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  Speaker 1: his administration upset with a few of the TV networks
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  Speaker 1: that refused to air the president's address. Do they have
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  Speaker 1: to air the president's address? Absolutely none. They are not
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  Speaker 1: required to by law. And there have been issues or
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  Speaker 1: times in the past, I should have on issues, but
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  Speaker 1: times in the past, one time under Obama, one time
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  Speaker 1: under Biden where presidential addresses to the nation were not carried,
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  Speaker 1: but it was different circumstances. Under the Obama administration, it
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  Speaker 1: happened to be that the President wanted to have a
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  Speaker 1: prime time address on the night that all the TV
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  Speaker 1: networks were airing the debut of their fall lineup, and
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  Speaker 1: they had been promoting it for weeks and weeks. So
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  Speaker 1: what a lot of the what a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: networks did was delay broadcast the president's address and they
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  Speaker 1: carried it in full. In the case of President Biden,
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  Speaker 1: there was something and I'm forgetting exactly what issue it was,
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  Speaker 1: but it was an extremely controversial issue, and they did
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  Speaker 1: air parts of his address, they just didn't err it
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  Speaker 1: in full to absolutely say we're not going to carry it,
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  Speaker 1: and then those who did carry it, who are the
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  Speaker 1: leftist networks, decided to fact check as they went along.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so obscenely offensive. Let the president speak. After
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  Speaker 1: he speaks, you want to go point by point and
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  Speaker 1: attack and final though you never ever did it to
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  Speaker 1: Obama and you certainly only rarely did it to the
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  Speaker 1: sleepy guy Joe, but you do it to Trump, and
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  Speaker 1: inevitably what he ends up saying that you fact check
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  Speaker 1: as wrong three months from now always turns out to
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  Speaker 1: be right. But you don't go back and correct yourselves,
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  Speaker 1: do you. And yes, I'm speaking to all the networks
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  Speaker 1: I formally worked at. I have worked at ABC, NBCCBS
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  Speaker 1: and Fox all at different times. I've worked for all
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  Speaker 1: of those networks at various times, and I just know
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  Speaker 1: why it happens. It happens because because the newsrooms are
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  Speaker 1: polluted with people who are far left in their political opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Not even that the people at the top are that way,
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  Speaker 1: although in many cases they are. It's that when you
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  Speaker 1: locate your network in Manhattan and the employees are all
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  Speaker 1: from the New York City area, they live here. In
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  Speaker 1: many cases, they're born and raised here, they were educated here.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a certain mindset, and that mindset
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  Speaker 1: is anti Republican. It's anti conservative, anti family, anti traditional,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what you get. So when you hire people,
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  Speaker 1: you can't hire people that commute in from two hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles away, so you hire people from Manhattan or from
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  Speaker 1: the boroughs, and just by percentage, they tend to be
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  Speaker 1: four to one or five to one liberal, and so
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  Speaker 1: that translates into what goes on the air. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not a conspiracy at the top. It's not that the
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  Speaker 1: chairman of the network says this is what we'll do.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. It's just the day today.
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  Speaker 1: People in charge, the managers, you know, who select what
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  Speaker 1: stories go on the air, how we cover the stories,
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  Speaker 1: they tend to be left. And if it comes right
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  Speaker 1: down to we will air President Trump's speech in its
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  Speaker 1: entirety as is, or we will nitpick it to death,
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  Speaker 1: or we will instead air a special report on the environment,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to go with the environment because that's the mentality,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way they were raised. They believe Republican bad
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  Speaker 1: anything to the left of Republican good, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: ends up making it to air. And that's why they
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  Speaker 1: have no audience left. They have literally lost their audience.
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  Speaker 1: TV news, every channel, every network is literally scratching and
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  Speaker 1: scraping for survival. Do you know that local TV news
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  Speaker 1: news stations, the NBCCBSABC, etc. Stations, the locally owned stations
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  Speaker 1: New York, LA, Chicago. Do you know what they used
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  Speaker 1: to bill in advertising revenue on average? And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: speaking with any inside information here. I'm giving you stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's been in Business Week and it's been published back
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  Speaker 1: in the year twenty fifteen, if you were a Channel
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  Speaker 1: four in New York, or a Channel two or a
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  Speaker 1: Channel seven, your advertising revenue was in the neighborhood of
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  Speaker 1: three hundred to four hundred and fifty million dollars just
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  Speaker 1: from that local station. Can you imagine literally a printing
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  Speaker 1: press for cash. You know what it's down to now
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty five to one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty million. Now you say, ken, that's a lot of money. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of money. But remember the cost of
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  Speaker 1: doing business has risen substantially. The networks are doing poorly
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  Speaker 1: in terms of their advertising revenue on a national scale,
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  Speaker 1: so they rely on their locally owned station revenue. They
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  Speaker 1: pull a lot of that money out used to be
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  Speaker 1: that a Channel four, if they made four hundred million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: they got to keep three hundred and fifty million to
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  Speaker 1: for their operating expenses, et cetera, et cetera. Now say
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  Speaker 1: a network, and I'm not this is I'm making a
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  Speaker 1: lot of assumptions here, but based on what I've read
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  Speaker 1: and what I know, network will pull out ninety ninety
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  Speaker 1: five percent of the income from that station, and the
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  Speaker 1: station isn't left with a whole lot to run itself.
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  Speaker 1: So the TV news anchors who used to make two
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  Speaker 1: three million a year in the eighties and nineties, for
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  Speaker 1: the main anchors, they don't make anywhere near that today.
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  Speaker 1: You're lucky if you get somebody who makes between five
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand and a million as the main anchor, and
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  Speaker 1: then you get people making a lot less than that
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  Speaker 1: in other anchor positions. And again I'm not speaking about
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  Speaker 1: any specific person, and I haven't looked at any contracts
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of years, so I'm not speaking out
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  Speaker 1: of school. I'm just telling you the industry is changing,
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  Speaker 1: The industry is dying. Broadcast TV news is just not
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  Speaker 1: go to must see TV like it used to be
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  Speaker 1: used to be. It came up from work at five
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  Speaker 1: five thirty, you took off your shoes. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: looked at the mail you put on the six o'clock news. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you one person, including people who work
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  Speaker 1: in the industry, who do that. And that is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: So you know they call that linear broadcast. Today people
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  Speaker 1: are not watching linear broadcast, meaning when it's on the air. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they tend to stream a lot. Older folks are still
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Anyone under fifty forty five not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Well do you remember also this case of the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration talking about wanting to replace a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: US attorneys around the country. All right, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you heard this story. The new Seattle US
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  Speaker 1: attorney was just appointed the other day. His name is
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  Speaker 1: Roger Rogoff. Literally minutes after he was sworn in two
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  Speaker 1: days ago, he got fired by the Trump administration. So
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  Speaker 1: this is what happened. See, district court judges are allowed
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  Speaker 1: to appoint a temporary US attorney if an interim appointees
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  Speaker 1: term expires without a formal presidential emination. So there was
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  Speaker 1: an interim US attorney in the Seattle area, and that
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  Speaker 1: individual he did his one hundred and twenty days it expired,
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  Speaker 1: and at that point the judges, there are seventeen of
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  Speaker 1: them in the Western District of Washington, they get to
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  Speaker 1: appoint a US attorney. Now the president doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: keep it. In fact, under President Obama, there were seventeen
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  Speaker 1: oh no, there were fourteen, I'm sorry, fourteen people judges
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  Speaker 1: US attorneys, not judges US attorneys around the country. The
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  Speaker 1: first day Obama took office, wiped them all out, got
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  Speaker 1: rid of them all because they were Bush appointees. Then
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  Speaker 1: over the ensuing months, there were another ninety seven that
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  Speaker 1: the Obama administration terminated. They did it quietly, it never
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  Speaker 1: made the news. Everyone kept their mouths shut. It was good.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody sued, nobody complained because it was just the assumption
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  Speaker 1: you serve at the discretion and the pleasure of the president.
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  Speaker 1: And if the president comes in and says, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want this guy, I want that guy, whether their personal
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  Speaker 1: friends or not, that's just been accepted. But remember Trump
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  Speaker 1: is Satan incarnate according to the Democrats. So the minute
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration, via the the acting Attorney General sent
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  Speaker 1: a termination letter to this US attorney, Roger Rogoff, who
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is a hardcore leftist in Seattle appointed
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  Speaker 1: by seventeen a hardcore leftist federal judges who were all
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  Speaker 1: appointed themselves by Obama and Biden. So of course the
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  Speaker 1: person they would select is a hard core liberal. And
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration they have a right to put in
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  Speaker 1: who they want. So they said, I'm sorry, you're terminated,
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  Speaker 1: will appoint another interim US attorney until a person could
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  Speaker 1: get approved by the Senate. So the interim attorney would
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  Speaker 1: take that position, and then you need fifty one votes
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate to confirm that person, and then they
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  Speaker 1: get to serve. Okay, So of course you can't just
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  Speaker 1: go away peacefully and gracefully. Right. So now Roger Rogoff
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  Speaker 1: is now suing the administration, making a big deal about
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  Speaker 1: it the TV news in Seattle. If you watch it,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw some of it online, you would think
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  Speaker 1: the president sent a noose in the mail to have
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  Speaker 1: this guy. Humh. It is just unbelievable. They just can't accept.
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  Speaker 1: This is the democrats of view of the universe. When
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  Speaker 1: we're in power, we will appoint all these people, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to shut up. When you're in power, we
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  Speaker 1: will appoint all these people, and you have to shut up,
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  Speaker 1: so you never get to appoint anybody. If you're a Republican,
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  Speaker 1: we always have the final say because we want power.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember when Senator Chucky Chuck Schumer, hellow, good
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  Speaker 1: to see you. By the way, Chuck Schumer, who, as
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  Speaker 1: Mark talked about yesterday, farted on the floor of the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear that? Do we have the sound? I
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  Speaker 1: think we have. I'll find it. I'll look, I'll look
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  Speaker 1: for the sound of Schumer fart. I'm sure. Let me
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  Speaker 1: look through the Simone files. I'll find it here and
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  Speaker 1: we'll fight. Or if you find it is he forwarded
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  Speaker 1: to me, we have to It is rather disgusting and
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  Speaker 1: as Simone was talking about yesterday, Mark, you can hear
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer laughing as he farts. I mean, kind of
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  Speaker 1: a gross guy. If he's in front of hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: you're in front of one hundred US senators and the
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  Speaker 1: world watching on TV. You fart and you just chuckle
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  Speaker 1: about it says a lot about what he must be
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  Speaker 1: like privately. But nonetheless, he had announced on the floor
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  Speaker 1: of the Senate on December twenty six, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: he announced that two hundred and thirty five judges were
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  Speaker 1: just appointed by Joe Biden to quote preserve Biden's liberal legacy.
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  Speaker 1: He went on to say that Democrats would quote rely
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  Speaker 1: on the judges appointed by Biden to protect his White
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  Speaker 1: House legacy from President Donald Trump and what he called
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  Speaker 1: the most extreme elements of Trump's agenda. So that's why
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  Speaker 1: when you hear everything that the President signs an executive
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  Speaker 1: order for, or every piece of legislation that the President pushes,
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  Speaker 1: you hear of a US District Court judge blocking it,
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  Speaker 1: blocking it, blocking it. This was intentional. December twenty sixth, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, December twenty sixth, twenty twenty four. This was intentional.
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  Speaker 1: So thanks to Is he the best darned board guy
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  Speaker 1: in the world. This was Schumer on the floor of
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  Speaker 1: the Senate, now on iron the NDAA, when all the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration can say about his disastrous one I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why it makes me leave, all right?
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  Speaker 1: So that was Chuck Schumer. I'm on the flora. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Is he on the floor of the Senate farting for
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  Speaker 1: those who didn't hear, Yes, I'm three years old. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's listen again. Listen for the listen now on iron
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  Speaker 1: and the NDAA. But a trumpet. I'm sorry, Yes, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: My mother right now is embarrassed. I know. But that
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  Speaker 1: says a lot about the man. Uh, I will I
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  Speaker 1: will not forget when I was working for ABC. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: This is several years ago. I don't work for ABC anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But I was working for ABC Television and they had
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  Speaker 1: me and a whole bunch of anchors and reporters doing
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  Speaker 1: the Pride I think the anniversary of Pride. Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 1: comes over to me, and he felt it incumbent upon
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  Speaker 1: himself to announce to me something that has later been published.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not speaking out of school. But he announces,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my daughter is a lesbian and we love
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  Speaker 1: HUD just like anybody else. It was so like ikey
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  Speaker 1: and unnecessary and like, okay, so Willie for you should
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  Speaker 1: I that's great, congratulations, Senator Shumer. There's just something so
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  Speaker 1: phony and icky about the man. So the fact that
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  Speaker 1: like this dirty old suit that probably stinks, like when
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  Speaker 1: he takes it off, it probably stands upright against the
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  Speaker 1: wall for him to stand there on a mic and fart. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I won't say the word far it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I've said my share of the word for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the year. But nonetheless, when he talked
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  Speaker 1: to the Senate about the fact that there would be
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  Speaker 1: an insurance that the Liberals would stay in control through
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  Speaker 1: these activist Democrat judges, and nobody said a word about it,
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  Speaker 1: that was okay. Well, Look, the bottom line is the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States, who right now, thankfully happens
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  Speaker 1: to be Donald J. Trump, has a right to appoint
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  Speaker 1: whomever he wants into the position of US Attorney, and
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  Speaker 1: has done so. In the case of Washington, of the
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  Speaker 1: Washington State US Attorney, he has at least removed the
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  Speaker 1: liberal person and will appoint a conservative likely or as
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  Speaker 1: close to one as possible. In the days ahead seven ten,
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  Speaker 1: wore the Voice of New York. We will take your
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  Speaker 1: calls at eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Partly
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  Speaker 1: sunny today, lots of smoke though in the air. We
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  Speaker 1: still have a smoke advisory, poor air quality advisory and
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  Speaker 1: effect making it hard to breathe. So just beware of
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  Speaker 1: that if you have breathing issues. Highs today, mid eighties
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  Speaker 1: a little later, the left thought the Supreme Court had
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  Speaker 1: the final say regarding birthright citizenship, forcing assault to sit
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  Speaker 1: down and shut up like suckers while illegals sneak in
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  Speaker 1: just to give birth to a baby so the child
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  Speaker 1: could be a US citizen. But the Court left a
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  Speaker 1: little wiggle room regarding definitions, and one US senator has
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  Speaker 1: sponsored a bill that might just codify President Trump's eg
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  Speaker 1: executive order from his first day in office. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. Your calls are next, though, so we'll take
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  Speaker 1: him eight hundred three two one zero seven ten eleven
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  Speaker 1: twenty two right now, Ken Rozotto on seven ten WR
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  Speaker 1: for the Great Mark Simone