Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Hour 1: Where is health insurance headed?

Transcript

Hour 1: Where is health insurance headed? · The Mark Simone Show

0:00
Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
0:05
Speaker 1: on seven to ten.
0:06
Speaker 2: Wr Hey, it's a Thursday. We got a lot to
0:11
Speaker 2: get to, big, big, big deal in the peace deal
0:14
Speaker 2: in the Mideast. We'll get to that, the Nobel Prize,
0:18
Speaker 2: We'll get to the Yankees, We'll get to the stock market.
0:22
Speaker 2: We'll get to the New Jersey debate. Last night, people
0:24
Speaker 2: think Mikey Cheryl has seen some real trouble in the
0:28
Speaker 2: internal polls. She seemed to change her tone and change
0:32
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff for last night's debate. And the
0:35
Speaker 2: same thing for Cuomo. He's getting desperate. There was a
0:38
Speaker 2: major shocking flip flop from Cuomo. We'll get to that
0:43
Speaker 2: coming up. And well, let's start with Israel the Middle East.
0:48
Speaker 2: The peace deal looks like it's done. It looks like
0:52
Speaker 2: it'll get signed over the weekend. President Trump planning to
0:56
Speaker 2: go to Egypt to sign this bill.
0:59
Speaker 3: I may go there sometime towards the end of the week,
1:04
Speaker 3: maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see. But there's a
1:09
Speaker 3: very good chance to Negotiations are going along very well.
1:13
Speaker 2: It looks like it's done. Hamas will release the hostages.
1:18
Speaker 2: They'll start with the living hostages, believed to be about twenty.
1:22
Speaker 2: They'll release them immediately. They'll release the remaining hostages, the
1:26
Speaker 2: bodies of the other hostages. Israel's going to give up
1:29
Speaker 2: something like nineteen hundred prisoners. All right, that's not great,
1:32
Speaker 2: but you got to do that. The deal looks pretty good.
1:36
Speaker 2: President Trump. Tomorrow's Friday, he goes to get his annual
1:39
Speaker 2: physical Walter Reed Medical Center, and then after that is
1:43
Speaker 2: expected to head to the Middle East Saturday or Sunday.
1:48
Speaker 2: It's an amazing accomplishment. It's certainly worthy of a Nobel Prize.
1:52
Speaker 2: Even in Gaza. Even in Gaza they're cheering him on
1:55
Speaker 2: the streets of Gaza and screaming Nobel Prize for Trump
2:00
Speaker 2: can't get it because the Nobel Prize is a totally
2:02
Speaker 2: corrupt award. It's the most slanted partisan, a left wing
2:07
Speaker 2: liberal award. If you look at the list of who
2:10
Speaker 2: was denied a Nobel Prize, it's amazing, from Gandhi to
2:14
Speaker 2: all sorts of people. But if you go to the
2:16
Speaker 2: Nobel Prize for literature, some of the greatest figures in
2:21
Speaker 2: literature were denied the Nobel Prize, from Mark Twain to Tolstoy,
2:24
Speaker 2: to It's an endless list, and it was always because
2:27
Speaker 2: they weren't they weren't liberal enough, they didn't like their politics.
2:32
Speaker 2: It's the most political award in the world, and the
2:35
Speaker 2: most fascinating thing about it is to this day the
2:38
Speaker 2: Nobel Prize has this incredible reputation, totally undeserved. It's just
2:44
Speaker 2: a wacky partisan award, yet they still have this prestige
2:49
Speaker 2: the Nobel Prize. You know, the worst economist in the
2:54
Speaker 2: history of the world was Paul Krugman the New York Times,
2:57
Speaker 2: that bug eyed weirdo who got everything wrong. Every prediction, forecast,
3:02
Speaker 2: everything he ever wrote turned out to be totally wrong.
3:05
Speaker 2: He has the Nobel Prize for economics. So you remember
3:08
Speaker 2: when they were trying to go after Trump and they
3:10
Speaker 2: put out a letter from this signed by thirteen Nobel
3:14
Speaker 2: Prize winners. Well, right there, you knew it was a
3:17
Speaker 2: slanted partisan the word. Yet somehow, you know, a lot
3:21
Speaker 2: of people's minds, it has this prestigious reputation. So the
3:24
Speaker 2: Nobel Prize comes out tomorrow. There's no chance of Trump
3:27
Speaker 2: getting it because he's not left wing wacko. Also, I
3:32
Speaker 2: would assume it's coming out tomorrow. This was decided long ago.
3:36
Speaker 2: They're not picking the winner tonight. So it comes out tonight.
3:39
Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be the announcement. It means absolutely nothing. It's
3:42
Speaker 2: the silliest towards but the Israel peace Deal unbelievable. And
3:48
Speaker 2: you know when you talk about the art of the deal,
3:50
Speaker 2: and sometimes Democrats will say, well, where's the great negotiator? Well,
3:53
Speaker 2: here it was, Here it was, and there's nobody savvier
3:57
Speaker 2: at this stuff, and Benjamin Netanyahu gets somehow Trump got
4:01
Speaker 2: leverage over net and Yahoo and strategically carefully over the
4:06
Speaker 2: last few weeks and months, somehow it kind of boxed
4:08
Speaker 2: him in a little, so he went along with this.
4:11
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just luck in some of these deals. But
4:14
Speaker 2: even Democrats looking at this privately saying this was all skill,
4:17
Speaker 2: not luck, And a lot of credit goes to Jared Kushner,
4:23
Speaker 2: normally useless when it comes to the White House, but here,
4:26
Speaker 2: this is what he was meant to do. This is
4:28
Speaker 2: where he excelled. Steve Whitkoff the same, and Trump pointing
4:31
Speaker 2: out Mike Huckabee was a big, big part of this process.
4:34
Speaker 2: Hu could be the ambassador to Israel. You wouldn't think
4:39
Speaker 2: he would be so Israel savvy, but he's spent a
4:42
Speaker 2: lot of time there over the years. It's something that
4:45
Speaker 2: means a lot to him. So he was great at this.
4:48
Speaker 2: So that will that will happen most likely over the
4:51
Speaker 2: weekend hostages. First release of the release of all the
4:53
Speaker 2: living hostages expected on Monday. So you got this fat
4:59
Speaker 2: slob governor of the Illinois Pritzker, This Ralph Cramdon looking guy,
5:05
Speaker 2: huffing and puffing. What it's all about? Really, he wants
5:08
Speaker 2: to be a twenty twenty eight candidate. He has no
5:10
Speaker 2: shot at all because he has no personality, nothing, nothing
5:17
Speaker 2: interesting about him. He's kind of a troll like to
5:20
Speaker 2: look at. So he's got no shot at all, especially
5:24
Speaker 2: against a Gavin Newsom or other slick, smart candidates with personality.
5:28
Speaker 2: He's got no shot at all. But he's trying to
5:30
Speaker 2: get there, and he thinks by being the biggest Trump
5:34
Speaker 2: fighter in the world. He's a little nutty when he
5:36
Speaker 2: gets into Trump fighting. Remember the convention. He got up
5:40
Speaker 2: there and he said he opened with and he got
5:42
Speaker 2: huge applause. He said he's going to talk about Trump.
5:45
Speaker 2: He said, time out of here from a real billionaire,
5:48
Speaker 2: and the audience applauded, implying Trump's not a real billionaire. Well,
5:53
Speaker 2: at the time, Pritzker worth about one billion, Trump worth
5:55
Speaker 2: about seven billions. I don't know what the hell he's
5:57
Speaker 2: talking about. And then here he is yesterday. But he
6:01
Speaker 2: just doesn't want He wants to keep that crime in Chicago.
6:05
Speaker 2: There's a lot of killing. It's a killing field. Thirty
6:07
Speaker 2: five forty people shot every weekend in Chicago. He wants
6:12
Speaker 2: to keep it that way. He's demented, literally unhinged.
6:16
Speaker 4: And this is somebody who's so insecure that he lashes out.
6:20
Speaker 5: Pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason
6:23
Speaker 5: at all.
6:24
Speaker 2: He can't.
6:25
Speaker 6: He isn't going to do it.
6:26
Speaker 2: Taco Trump always chickens out. It's back to taco. I
6:31
Speaker 2: think I think that's kind of been proven wrong. Now
6:35
Speaker 2: Pritzker keeps arguing, you cannot send troops national Guard or military.
6:41
Speaker 2: You can't send troops into an American city state. The
6:44
Speaker 2: federal government can never do that. And if they do that,
6:47
Speaker 2: it's the worst violation of the cont it's the total
6:50
Speaker 2: end of democracy. You cannot do that. Well, of course
6:54
Speaker 2: you can, and it's been done before in riots in
6:57
Speaker 2: all sorts of situations. Nineteen sixty seven, Ryot Johnson said,
7:01
Speaker 2: troops into cities done all the time. I'll give you
7:04
Speaker 2: the best example was John F. Kennedy. Back then, it
7:08
Speaker 2: was horrible, horrible segregation, and black students couldn't go to
7:12
Speaker 2: college in Mississippi and Georgia and Atlanta. You remember of
7:15
Speaker 2: those governors, those awful governors, Lester Maddocks and George Wallace
7:20
Speaker 2: and others who would stand in the doorway of the
7:23
Speaker 2: school blocking it so black kids couldn't attend college. Well,
7:27
Speaker 2: Kennedy sent troops in lots and lots and lots of
7:30
Speaker 2: troops to integrate those colleges. It was a big deal
7:34
Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty one, sixty two, massive amounts of troops
7:39
Speaker 2: sent in. Now, of course it was Kennedy. He's a Democrat,
7:42
Speaker 2: so there was nothing but applause. And he was a hero.
7:44
Speaker 2: And these same Democrats told you this is the most heroic,
7:47
Speaker 2: wonderful thing any president's ever done. But now, if the
7:50
Speaker 2: president sends in troops, it's the end of our democracy.
7:53
Speaker 2: It's a crime, it's a but again, the incredible hypocrisy
7:59
Speaker 2: democrats are famous for. So hey, they had that mayoral
8:04
Speaker 2: forum yesterday at the New York Athletic Club, the beautiful,
8:08
Speaker 2: prestigious New York Athletic Club, one of the city's finest
8:11
Speaker 2: private clubs. And it was private. But we're starting to
8:15
Speaker 2: see some of the video and we're starting to hear
8:17
Speaker 2: from some of the people that weren't there. And it
8:21
Speaker 2: was all business leaders. All these business leaders, a lot
8:25
Speaker 2: of them basically said, when it came to Mom Donnie,
8:28
Speaker 2: it was a lot of double talk. It was dancing
8:31
Speaker 2: around the questions, skated through generalities. One person said, went
8:37
Speaker 2: out of his way to slam President Trump over and
8:39
Speaker 2: over again. Other attendees said, listen, he had tremendous energy
8:43
Speaker 2: and youth, but nothing of substance. There was no substance,
8:47
Speaker 2: and it didn't make us feel like he could do
8:49
Speaker 2: the job. Curtis, they liked, They said he In some
8:56
Speaker 2: cases there were surprise he had such detailed knowledges of
8:59
Speaker 2: economic He's been working with great, great economic team Larry
9:03
Speaker 2: Kudlow and others advising him. They said, yeah, he was.
9:11
Speaker 2: There was a lot of clarity on how he would
9:12
Speaker 2: deal with crime and all that. So they like Curtis.
9:16
Speaker 2: Now when it comes to Cuomo, now, this crowd was
9:19
Speaker 2: a lot of Democrats, and it wasn't so much what
9:22
Speaker 2: Cuomo was saying, but a number of people in the
9:25
Speaker 2: crowd said they were quite surprised, quite shocked. They hadn't
9:30
Speaker 2: seen him speak in person in a long long time.
9:33
Speaker 2: They said, there was a little shocked. He looked very old,
9:35
Speaker 2: he lacked energy. Here's one said, I hadn't seen him
9:38
Speaker 2: in a while, and I was quite disturbed by it.
9:41
Speaker 2: Another attendee found Cuomo living in the past, seemed to
9:45
Speaker 2: be more focused on things in the past than talking
9:48
Speaker 2: about the future. Other comments, here's this Catherine Wilde, she
9:52
Speaker 2: warns this business partnership. She's a real wacko. She's praising
9:56
Speaker 2: a Zora and Mamdani. I rest my case, total whacka
10:02
Speaker 2: Mamdonnie's positions have become more substantive and realistic. No need
10:09
Speaker 2: to read the rest of her statement. She's a nutty character. Uh,
10:14
Speaker 2: Andrew Cuomo shocked everybody with a major flip flop. Years ago.
10:18
Speaker 2: You remember about was it five six years ago? There
10:22
Speaker 2: was this whole thing about closing Rikers Island. Rikers Island
10:26
Speaker 2: is the big prison that's on an island. It's Rikers Island.
10:30
Speaker 2: It's the perfect place for a prison. It's on an island.
10:33
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a more secure location. And it's a
10:36
Speaker 2: very big island. There's enormous space there. Rikers Island is
10:39
Speaker 2: a number of buildings. You couldn't ask for a better
10:42
Speaker 2: set up for a prison. Lots of buildings, there's room
10:44
Speaker 2: to build more buildings, all sorts of stuff. All of
10:47
Speaker 2: a sudden, there was a proposal to close down Rikers Island. Well,
10:52
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do for a prison? Well, they'll
10:53
Speaker 2: build five other prisons. They'll build one in each borough,
10:57
Speaker 2: which didn't seem to make any sense. It would make
10:59
Speaker 2: more sense they have one big central prison. And why
11:02
Speaker 2: would you put a prison into each neighborhood in different boroughs?
11:07
Speaker 2: Who in Queen's wants the prison in their neighborhood? Why
11:10
Speaker 2: would anybody in the Bronx want a prison in their neighborhood.
11:12
Speaker 2: Why would it? Was a ridiculous idea. Where did it
11:17
Speaker 2: come from? By the way, Cuomo, this is what he
11:21
Speaker 2: was talking about yesterday. He says, we got to stop
11:23
Speaker 2: this plan to close Rikers Island. It's crazy to close
11:27
Speaker 2: Rikers Island. It's wacko. Why would you do it? We
11:30
Speaker 2: must stop this plan. Well, here's the problem. It was
11:33
Speaker 2: his plan. He's the one that proposed it. He's the
11:37
Speaker 2: one that started it. So a lot of people think
11:39
Speaker 2: he saw some internal polling that was frightening him, that
11:44
Speaker 2: he's got absolutely no shot with Democrats. Democrats just don't
11:48
Speaker 2: like him. That's how he got wiped out in the primary.
11:51
Speaker 2: So they think he's trying now to appeal to moderates, independents, Republicans.
11:56
Speaker 2: But here's the guy who was the guy that came
11:59
Speaker 2: up with this plan to close Rikers Island. Now he's
12:03
Speaker 2: against it.
12:03
Speaker 7: We should rebuild new, state of the art jails on
12:07
Speaker 7: Rikers Island, provide free bus service, and use those existing
12:13
Speaker 7: sites for housing and commercial development.
12:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody said that all along. You're the one that
12:18
Speaker 2: wanted to close it.
12:19
Speaker 7: Let's make a major start by stopping a major debacle,
12:24
Speaker 7: which is the new jail construction to replace Rikers Island.
12:28
Speaker 8: The writing is on the wall.
12:30
Speaker 7: It promises to be New York City's big Ditch. It
12:34
Speaker 7: is already years late, big is over budget and obsolete.
12:39
Speaker 2: Geez talking about how horrible it is. It's his plan,
12:43
Speaker 2: it was his idea, it's his plan. He's the one
12:45
Speaker 2: that did it. It's an incredible flip flop. Now I
12:49
Speaker 2: should point out there's another factor to this, because you say, well,
12:53
Speaker 2: what if you got the big prison and you don't
12:55
Speaker 2: need the other five, and it's on an island, no
12:57
Speaker 2: place more secure, why would you ever want to close it?
13:01
Speaker 2: Why would you ever want to move it? Well, a
13:03
Speaker 2: lot of people think the real reason is there were
13:07
Speaker 2: big developers that wanted that island. They wanted to build condos,
13:11
Speaker 2: They want to put casinos, want they had all kinds
13:14
Speaker 2: of plans and they were making massive donations to politicians
13:19
Speaker 2: to get Rikers Island turned over to them because it's
13:23
Speaker 2: the only major island around Manhattan that has a nice,
13:27
Speaker 2: big bridge. You could drive right to it, you know,
13:30
Speaker 2: Governor's Island. When they took the military base away. They
13:33
Speaker 2: tried to sell Governor's Island to developers, condos, apartment but
13:37
Speaker 2: nobody wanted it because you can't drive there, you'd have
13:40
Speaker 2: to take a ferry. They tried to sell it to
13:42
Speaker 2: a casino operators, MGM Grand and others all turned it down.
13:47
Speaker 2: They can't have high rollers taking a ferry. They wanted
13:50
Speaker 2: it didn't have a bridge. Rikers Onland the only island
13:53
Speaker 2: with a bridge, and it's big, and it's kind of bridge.
13:55
Speaker 2: So that's the real reason a lot of people think Cuomo,
13:58
Speaker 2: de Blasio and the rest, we're all trying to come
14:01
Speaker 2: up with this island to hand it over to developers.
14:03
Speaker 2: But big, big, big flip flop for Cuomo. Here's Mom
14:08
Speaker 2: Donnie on all of this.
14:09
Speaker 6: Andrew Cuomo's proposal to take that which is broken, that
14:16
Speaker 6: which is morally bankrupt, that which is a stain on
14:23
Speaker 6: our city, and to keep it open. It's a betrayal
14:29
Speaker 6: not only of the law as it stands today, but
14:32
Speaker 6: also of what New Yorkers actually want.
14:35
Speaker 2: Now you'll notice Mom Donnie, who was always a very
14:37
Speaker 2: fast talker. Mom Donny always talked a mile a minute.
14:39
Speaker 2: You notice Mom Donny is now talking slow. Now Cuomo
14:46
Speaker 2: always does that, But Coloma's not that bright. Mom Donnie's
14:48
Speaker 2: very sharp. Why is he's suddenly talking so slow. People
14:51
Speaker 2: think he's getting very nervous in the last four weeks,
14:54
Speaker 2: very worried about making a flub or saying the wrong thing.
14:56
Speaker 2: He's being very careful when he speaks. It's New York City,
15:00
Speaker 2: and New York City's famous for nayoral races, where the
15:03
Speaker 2: whole thing can turn around in the last four or
15:05
Speaker 2: five weeks. It's happened before. Here's Curtis on all this.
15:08
Speaker 5: In twenty nineteen, he has a press conference, we must
15:11
Speaker 5: close RK his island. Two weeks ago he once again
15:14
Speaker 5: reiterated it should have been closed a long time ago.
15:17
Speaker 5: Where would he have put the inmates back then? You
15:20
Speaker 5: can't trust Cuomo. He's the flip flop guy.
15:24
Speaker 2: He is quite a flip flopper, and you gotta give
15:27
Speaker 2: him credit the gall of this guy. I got pathological huts,
15:31
Speaker 2: but just flip flop on this thing. Anyway, We'll get
15:34
Speaker 2: to the New Jersey governor's race. They had the final
15:36
Speaker 2: debate last night. We got a lot to get to
15:39
Speaker 2: coming up. We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
15:42
Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten. Is the number eight hundred
15:46
Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten.
15:49
Speaker 1: Give WR A bri said on the iHeartRadio app to
15:53
Speaker 1: hear Mark Simone and all the WR hosts in an instead.
15:58
Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simon show on.
16:02
Speaker 2: Hey, let's take the calls. Let's go to Bob and
16:04
Speaker 2: New Rochelle. Bob, how you doing, eh?
16:08
Speaker 9: I think I'm putting into a cross.
16:09
Speaker 8: Or your old men.
16:10
Speaker 2: Sorry to hear that.
16:12
Speaker 9: Yeah, I got to take the Cross Bronx every morning
16:14
Speaker 9: from New Rochelle and it's an absolute nightmare.
16:16
Speaker 10: I'm sure you know.
16:17
Speaker 2: So people are the country who don't know what the
16:18
Speaker 2: cross Bunks is.
16:19
Speaker 9: It's stretching ninety five.
16:20
Speaker 2: Where you're going, where you're going when you take the
16:22
Speaker 2: Cross Bronx.
16:23
Speaker 9: I gotta drive my wife to work. She fabricates metal
16:26
Speaker 9: doors in the Bronx.
16:28
Speaker 2: Why do you have to take the Cross Bronx. You
16:29
Speaker 2: just go straight down.
16:32
Speaker 9: Greet down aware she's right off the Cross Bronx. I
16:34
Speaker 9: follow Waves and it sends me that way all the time.
16:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't trust that Waves. I don't trust that waves
16:39
Speaker 2: at all. You know that Waves is a little corrupt.
16:41
Speaker 2: They can get paid off by sponsors advertisers to have
16:44
Speaker 2: you drive by their business or their billboard. Don't trust
16:47
Speaker 2: that one.
16:47
Speaker 10: They're sending me down ninety five every day, so I
16:49
Speaker 10: don't know who's getting paid off there.
16:50
Speaker 9: But anyway, what I'm calling.
16:51
Speaker 10: For that is is how they let people in the
16:54
Speaker 10: lanes hanhandling.
16:56
Speaker 9: Now, don't I don't sound heartless. You know, if you're
16:57
Speaker 9: down on your luck, down your uck, it shouldn't be
16:59
Speaker 9: in a highway in the middle of the lane.
17:00
Speaker 8: Yeah.
17:01
Speaker 2: Well, actually, uh, they should make that an Olympic sport.
17:04
Speaker 2: He's talking about on the Cross Bronx, which is a
17:06
Speaker 2: major highway, there are these illegals standing right in the
17:09
Speaker 2: middle of the highway, right in between the second and
17:11
Speaker 2: third lane selling candy bars. And you're right, so much
17:15
Speaker 2: taking for money. Yeah, but there's so much traffic on
17:17
Speaker 2: the Cross Bronx. How did they get in there? To
17:19
Speaker 2: get into that middle lane there, it's an amazing thing.
17:23
Speaker 9: Slow and everybody's moving at two or three miles an hour.
17:25
Speaker 8: They just probably walked between the cars.
17:27
Speaker 2: It's still an amazing feat to watch. You're right, it's
17:29
Speaker 2: totally out of control there that Crossbronx. A good point.
17:32
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
17:35
Speaker 2: how you doing.
17:37
Speaker 9: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you.
17:40
Speaker 4: Mark.
17:40
Speaker 9: I got home very late last night, about one o'clock
17:43
Speaker 9: in the morning, and I turned on Larry cud Low
17:45
Speaker 9: and I saw you and Joe Conca. What I'm a
17:49
Speaker 9: little unclear about. I thought the discussion. I thought the
17:53
Speaker 9: discussion was about Governor Kathy Hochel. Is he dropping in
17:57
Speaker 9: the polls due to her endorse see Monday to at
18:01
Speaker 9: least what's your stean?
18:03
Speaker 2: Yes, she took a drop over her mom Donnie.
18:05
Speaker 9: Endorsement and this continues. Does it look like Kathy Hochel
18:12
Speaker 9: will absolutely lose because it took her a long time
18:16
Speaker 9: to endorse Mondonna.
18:17
Speaker 2: Yes, it looks like Kathy Hockel's in big, big trouble.
18:20
Speaker 2: Thanks Dave, Because, as I pointed out on the Larry
18:23
Speaker 2: Cuddler yesterday, if she's five points ahead in those public
18:28
Speaker 2: poles that are all rigged, it means she's really ten
18:30
Speaker 2: points behind. They rig those poles by about eight to
18:33
Speaker 2: ten points, So if she's only five points ahead, she's
18:35
Speaker 2: probably really actually behind. Let's go to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry,
18:39
Speaker 2: how you doing?
18:41
Speaker 6: Good morning?
18:42
Speaker 10: Mark?
18:42
Speaker 1: How are you?
18:43
Speaker 2: Let me check good?
18:45
Speaker 8: Good?
18:45
Speaker 10: I think you're good. I don't know if it's a
18:49
Speaker 10: scare tactic or not. At the air traffic controllers, however,
18:53
Speaker 10: Trump should pull a Reagan if you don't show up fired,
18:58
Speaker 10: bringing the military air trafficers, and that would end that
19:01
Speaker 10: right there.
19:02
Speaker 2: Well, that was a little different situation. That strike was
19:04
Speaker 2: about money, and they went on they went on strike.
19:08
Speaker 2: They all walked out at once, So that was the
19:10
Speaker 2: reason for that. But this is not as scary. There's
19:13
Speaker 2: a couple of airports operating now without controllers. But what
19:16
Speaker 2: they don't want you to know if that has happened
19:18
Speaker 2: in the past, and what it means is you simply
19:21
Speaker 2: controlled from another tower at another nearby airport. It's not good,
19:24
Speaker 2: but it's not as scary as they make it out
19:27
Speaker 2: to be. And the other reason Reagan wanted to do
19:30
Speaker 2: that he had just taken office, he had just become president,
19:34
Speaker 2: and the air traffic controllers thought they could show him
19:37
Speaker 2: and they all walked out, paralyzing the whole nation. Well,
19:40
Speaker 2: he fired them all, brought in the military. It was
19:42
Speaker 2: an incredibly, unbelievably bold move on the part of the president.
19:46
Speaker 2: The real reason he did that is he wanted to
19:49
Speaker 2: show the Soviet Union at the time how tough he
19:54
Speaker 2: could be in China, and they took that as a
19:56
Speaker 2: warning that this guy doesn't bluff and you can't call
20:00
Speaker 2: bluff and this guy is fearless. So that that's the
20:03
Speaker 2: other reason he did that. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn.
20:06
Speaker 8: Vincent, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Mark, I'm okay, Mark,
20:10
Speaker 8: The only one who could pull Kathy Hokal's chestnuts side
20:12
Speaker 8: of the fire is Curtis Sleewer, because if Mondami gets
20:16
Speaker 8: elected by next summer, she's going to be toasting the polls. Mark.
20:21
Speaker 8: You're one hundred percent right about right, ass Island being
20:25
Speaker 8: the only island that had as a bridge and it's
20:28
Speaker 8: easy to get to. I had to go bail somebody
20:31
Speaker 8: out there years ago, and me and this guy I
20:34
Speaker 8: com mentioned his name, Me and Jimmy Motts. We got
20:37
Speaker 8: in his sports car and we went to the parking
20:41
Speaker 8: lot and uh, if you're going to go on the bus,
20:44
Speaker 8: it's the free bus. It's the Department of Corrections. They
20:48
Speaker 8: pat you down before you go on the bus to
20:50
Speaker 8: make sure you're not bringing Contraband I waited in the
20:53
Speaker 8: car on the sun deck and I got a sun
20:56
Speaker 8: there and it was in the summer and you could
20:59
Speaker 8: build the Plazi and Mario Cuomo because the book was
21:03
Speaker 8: correctional facility not far about a mile away from my house,
21:08
Speaker 8: they closed that and they're building co ops over there
21:13
Speaker 8: and build the Blazzo at the time said oh, he
21:16
Speaker 8: was also one of these. I'm going to close like
21:18
Speaker 8: his island and every all the community groups in every
21:23
Speaker 8: borough were up in arms because he said he was
21:26
Speaker 8: gonna build, like you said, five five prisons.
21:31
Speaker 2: The dumbest idea, and it was Clomo that was behind
21:33
Speaker 2: it exactly. Now stop it. He's going to stop his
21:37
Speaker 2: own idea.
21:38
Speaker 8: And there's a co op there now. They're they're building
21:41
Speaker 8: a high rise call up where the prison is. That's
21:44
Speaker 8: why they really wanted it.
21:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, great call, Vincent, excellent point. Oh when we
21:49
Speaker 2: come back, Steve Moore will be with us, the Great Economist.
21:53
Speaker 2: We've got lots to talk to him about. Coming up
21:55
Speaker 2: next on seven to ten w R Western of the Org.
22:00
Speaker 1: Gear's more marksimone on seven tenor.
22:09
Speaker 2: I'm stalling a little here, but it's the hunt for
22:12
Speaker 2: Steve Moore. We're looking for him, the Great Economist. Man
22:16
Speaker 2: is a genius, an absolute genius. But you know how
22:18
Speaker 2: these geniuses are, sometimes it's hard to track them down.
22:22
Speaker 2: I just saw him yesterday. We were on Cuddload together
22:24
Speaker 2: yesterday and then we had a big dinner last night
22:27
Speaker 2: honoring the greatest economist in the world. The greatest living
22:31
Speaker 2: economist is doctor Art Laugher. He's the guy that invented
22:35
Speaker 2: the Laugher curve, which is a basis. Wait a minute,
22:41
Speaker 2: we have all the TVs on here, one on MSNBC,
22:45
Speaker 2: one on CNN, and this one on Fox. And I'm
22:49
Speaker 2: looking at the one on Fox, and the guest is
22:51
Speaker 2: Steve Moore. It's live, so you know, normally we can't
22:59
Speaker 2: find him. And I said, yeah, he'll turn up. We'll
23:01
Speaker 2: get him in a couple of minutes. But there he is.
23:03
Speaker 2: He's on with Bill Hemmer, who was at the dinner
23:05
Speaker 2: last night with us. He's on with Bill Hemmer talking
23:09
Speaker 2: about actually we should just play the audio. We'll have
23:12
Speaker 2: Steve Moore that way. Can you bring it up? Bring
23:16
Speaker 2: up Fox. Let's see what do you say, We'll look
23:19
Speaker 2: for it. I think he was got a little mixed
23:22
Speaker 2: up in his schedule. They we had this dinner honoring
23:25
Speaker 2: Art Laugher fiftieth anniversary of the Laugher Curve, which is
23:29
Speaker 2: how you determine the tax policy. In other words, when
23:31
Speaker 2: you bring down the taxes, you increase the revenue if
23:34
Speaker 2: you do it right. And it was people greatest economists
23:37
Speaker 2: from all over the world flew in for this dinner.
23:40
Speaker 2: Bill Hemmer was there and Steve Moore ran the dinner.
23:45
Speaker 2: But he's on right now on Fox. Listen to this.
23:49
Speaker 11: Inflated rhetoric that keeps coming out of the Democrats. I'm
23:54
Speaker 11: old enough to remember when we passed Obamacare. Remember that
23:58
Speaker 11: in twenty ten, this is all our health care problems.
24:03
Speaker 11: I remember it was called the Affordable Care Act. And
24:05
Speaker 11: since then, the cost of healthcare has gone up and
24:08
Speaker 11: up and up up.
24:09
Speaker 2: Every year.
24:09
Speaker 11: It's doubled in costs since we passed Obamacare. So the
24:13
Speaker 11: same people who told us Obamacare was going to solve
24:15
Speaker 11: all our health care problems are now saying, if we
24:17
Speaker 11: don't pass these massive extensions of Obamacare, we're going to
24:21
Speaker 11: we're going to have a real problems they were supposed
24:25
Speaker 11: to be.
24:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
24:28
Speaker 12: I mean, it doesn't sound like anyone at this point.
24:32
Speaker 12: I mean, this could go maybe another week. There's this
24:34
Speaker 12: talk about this No King's protest that's coming to DC
24:38
Speaker 12: on the eighteenth. I believe don't know if they're going
24:40
Speaker 12: to wait for that. They could, but it could continue
24:42
Speaker 12: to drag on. What's interesting is that you know, we
24:44
Speaker 12: know it's hitting federal workers, we know it's hitting area.
24:46
Speaker 2: I think we got the idea, so you can't say
24:49
Speaker 2: we didn't bring you Steve more. We just had an
24:51
Speaker 2: interview with Steve Moore. You see, this is the thing,
24:54
Speaker 2: if you're doing this in a million years, you'll have guests
24:56
Speaker 2: that don't show up, and you got to fill the
24:59
Speaker 2: tent the courtesy of Steve Moore to when he doesn't
25:03
Speaker 2: show up, to go on TV with a live interview
25:06
Speaker 2: and we can broadcast that. But you know, what he
25:07
Speaker 2: was saying is just what I was going to ask
25:10
Speaker 2: him about anyway. Which is a big part of the
25:14
Speaker 2: shutdown is this healthcare stuff. And the big problem is
25:18
Speaker 2: the cost of healthcare is going up like crazy. And
25:21
Speaker 2: as he pointed out, when they passed Obamacare, nobody remembers this.
25:24
Speaker 2: They call it Obamacare. The original name was the Affordable
25:28
Speaker 2: Care Act, and that was the idea. And it turned out,
25:33
Speaker 2: I know this is hard to believe. I don't mean
25:35
Speaker 2: to Shakia, but it turned out that Obama lied about
25:38
Speaker 2: the whole thing when he started it. You remember he
25:40
Speaker 2: kept saying, if you like your doctor, you can keep
25:43
Speaker 2: your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep
25:45
Speaker 2: your plan. Well, it turns out that was totally false,
25:48
Speaker 2: and we now know it's come out since that he
25:52
Speaker 2: knew it was false, that many people couldn't keep their doctor,
25:55
Speaker 2: and many people couldn't keep their plan. And the other
25:58
Speaker 2: problem was the name Affordable Care Act. It wasn't It
26:04
Speaker 2: might start it off looking okay, but then the cost
26:07
Speaker 2: quickly swored and got out of control. That's what a
26:09
Speaker 2: lot of this fight is about right now.
26:12
Speaker 9: Now.
26:12
Speaker 2: Republicans do the same thing. Remember Bush used to be
26:15
Speaker 2: famous for that. He'd have a bill that was going
26:17
Speaker 2: to it was the Clean Skies Act, and then but
26:22
Speaker 2: you had actually read it was to open a bunch
26:24
Speaker 2: of coal plants, which but they just give it a
26:26
Speaker 2: fancy name, a misleading name, the Clean Energy Act, which
26:29
Speaker 2: it wasn't. So but Obama did that with the Affordable
26:33
Speaker 2: Care Act. It was just the opposite. Prices are way
26:36
Speaker 2: out of control and they're due to almost double in
26:39
Speaker 2: the next year. That's one reason for the shutdown. Republicans
26:41
Speaker 2: want to fix this, Democrats want to keep it. And
26:46
Speaker 2: President Trump has been saying over and over, you got
26:48
Speaker 2: to redo this health carelet it's got to be redone.
26:50
Speaker 2: Of course, Democrats don't trust Trump to do it. So
26:53
Speaker 2: that's what we're going to talk to Steve more about that.
26:55
Speaker 2: The other thing I would ask him about the stock
26:57
Speaker 2: market set another record yesterday, s and P five hundred
27:00
Speaker 2: all time record, Nasdaq all time record. And you know,
27:04
Speaker 2: we've been saying that all along. Every week for the
27:09
Speaker 2: better like the past five or six weeks, the stock
27:11
Speaker 2: market's been setting all kinds of records. So what that
27:14
Speaker 2: means is the tariffs are not a problem. The tariffs
27:17
Speaker 2: are not causing inflation, the tariffs are not hurt in
27:21
Speaker 2: the economy. Wall Street has seen that that Wall Street
27:24
Speaker 2: now accepts the fact that the tariffs are just fine,
27:27
Speaker 2: doing no damage. And it caused the stock market set
27:32
Speaker 2: all kinds of records. They've driven it up to the
27:34
Speaker 2: highest level ever. And now you got the shutdown for
27:37
Speaker 2: nine or ten days and we're setting new records with
27:41
Speaker 2: the stock market during the shutdown, which means Wall Street
27:45
Speaker 2: is just fine with the shutdown. So it's worked out.
27:50
Speaker 2: It's worked out very well. Now the shutdown. You can't
27:53
Speaker 2: continue this forever. It's got to be settled at some point.
27:55
Speaker 2: How long could it go? Well, the longest shutdown ever
27:58
Speaker 2: was thirty five days December twenty eighteen. I know you
28:02
Speaker 2: don't remember it, nobody remembers, but it was thirty five days.
28:04
Speaker 2: You can you can do that. So Steve Moore also
28:08
Speaker 2: mentioned they're talking about a protest this weekend called the
28:10
Speaker 2: No Kings. They're bringing that back. They're bringing that stupid
28:15
Speaker 2: slogan back, No Kings. I guess that means Trump is
28:20
Speaker 2: trying to be you know, that's the other thing you
28:22
Speaker 2: hear that these Pritzkers say he's trying to seize power.
28:25
Speaker 2: He's the president of the United States. There's no more
28:28
Speaker 2: power to seize. You know, once you get to be president,
28:31
Speaker 2: you're really not looking to seize much power anymore. That's like,
28:35
Speaker 2: you know, Elon Musk is worth four hundred and eighty
28:38
Speaker 2: billion dollars. They take youre trying to enrich himself. Once
28:41
Speaker 2: you're over four hundred billion, You couldn't enrich yourself if
28:44
Speaker 2: you tried. It's impossible, you know. Yeah, he's about to
28:50
Speaker 2: hit five hundred billion. He'll be a trillionaire at some point.
28:55
Speaker 2: You know, once you're above one hundred billion, you couldn't
28:57
Speaker 2: spend it if you tried. You literally could not spend it.
29:00
Speaker 2: It's impossible. You can't do it. It's impossible. You're earning like
29:06
Speaker 2: ten billion a year just an interest. You can't spend it.
29:09
Speaker 2: So you wouldn't be trying to enrich yourself anyway. We'll
29:12
Speaker 2: get Steve Moore next week. He does show up, I'd
29:18
Speaker 2: say ninety eight percent of the time. But hey, coming up,
29:22
Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to. In the next hour.
29:24
Speaker 2: Jimmy Faylor will be with us. You know, he does
29:26
Speaker 2: a great show every night nine to midnight. You got
29:29
Speaker 2: to listen to it. It's funny, it's interesting, and of
29:31
Speaker 2: course you got Buck and Clay right after this show.
29:34
Speaker 2: They'll be on at noon today on seven to ten
29:36
Speaker 2: wor mar.
29:39
Speaker 12: Emo Show on seven ten wr.
29:45
Speaker 2: Well, no more, No more Yankee season. It's over. It's over. Yeah,
29:53
Speaker 2: it ended last night. It was not much of a
29:56
Speaker 2: kind of a sad ending. A strikeout end of the game.
30:00
Speaker 4: Here the one chop pitch game. Jeff hop then strikes
30:07
Speaker 4: out Cody Ballancher and the Blue Jays have done it.
30:12
Speaker 4: They have not taught the New York Yankees. They have
30:15
Speaker 4: won their first playoff series since twenty sixteen, and they
30:20
Speaker 4: are going to the American League Championship Series.
30:25
Speaker 2: Now, that's the problem with baseball nowadays. You remember the
30:27
Speaker 2: old days. You win the end of the seed, you win,
30:29
Speaker 2: you win the Pennant that's the pennant. Now you go
30:31
Speaker 2: to the World Series. Now, when you win these series,
30:34
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean you're just not in the next one.
30:36
Speaker 2: It's the al DS series, the ale BS series, the
30:39
Speaker 2: al CS series. So you just keep winning and then
30:43
Speaker 2: it's another you know, it used to be October fourth
30:46
Speaker 2: you'd start the World Series. Now it's like the middle
30:48
Speaker 2: of November. So the Yankees are done for the year.
30:51
Speaker 2: You know, it's been sixteen years since the World Championship.
30:58
Speaker 2: There's no there's no Georgetown anymore. It's not the same thing.
31:02
Speaker 2: Remember how many World Championship? Remember any World Series rings?
31:05
Speaker 2: There are sixteen years since the last one. Hey, we
31:10
Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. Right after the news,
31:12
Speaker 2: I'm here every day ten to noon, or if you want,
31:15
Speaker 2: you can listen to any time you want, day or night.
31:17
Speaker 2: Just get the podcast wherever you get your podcasts back
31:20
Speaker 2: right after the news on seven to ten, Woir