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Mark interviews NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Being President Trump making a historic speech in Israel this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Goodman wrote a powerful column yesterday about peace in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East, and he's the best columnist in America
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  Speaker 1: and he's with us right now. Michael Goodwin, how you.
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  Speaker 2: Doing, good morning, Mark?
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone is doing pretty good this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, yeah, what do you?
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  Speaker 1: I assume you saw the speech? Pretty powerful, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Extraordinary? Yeah, I mean Trump at his trumpiest right.
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  Speaker 3: It's just you know, he's a remarkable figure on the
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  Speaker 3: world stage. And you know you can you can hate
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  Speaker 3: him if you want, but what he has achieved here,
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  Speaker 3: I believe, is nothing short of remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now, everybody was so thrilled unless you turned over
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  Speaker 1: to MSNBC. Their glasses were fogging up, the bow ties
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  Speaker 1: were crooked.
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  Speaker 3: The boat was thinking, eh, well.
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  Speaker 1: But they were trying to sumit it. They said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: are all these partners we have, these Middle Eastern country, Saudi,
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  Speaker 1: those type of partners. You can't count on them. And
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  Speaker 1: who trusts some us to hold up any end of
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  Speaker 1: an agreement? What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I guess there's got to be a little rain on
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  Speaker 3: every parade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, Mark, this is a remarkable day, and I
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  Speaker 2: think the president, among the many other things that he
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  Speaker 2: said that made perfect sense today by focusing on the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian attack which the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Carried out with Israel. The effects of that, and I
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  Speaker 3: think probably the fall of the Iranian regime sooner rather
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  Speaker 3: than later, is that it creates a whole new dynamic
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  Speaker 3: in the region and frankly in the world. But you
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  Speaker 3: think back to Hesbalah, right, where did they get their
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  Speaker 3: money in arms from a moss of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, big, big part of this.
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  Speaker 3: Iranian terror regime, the hooties Syria. I mean, it's it's all,
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  Speaker 3: it's all coming undone before our eyes. But only because
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  Speaker 3: of two things. Israel's resolve and because of Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 3: vision that we could change this dynamic. And he has
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  Speaker 3: done it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't realize at the time. We just thought
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  Speaker 1: it was take out the nuclear stuff, and that was
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  Speaker 1: that we didn't realize the chess move that he was
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  Speaker 1: playing there. Take out these terrorist groups financing, take out
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  Speaker 1: their muscle, and you've weakened Hesbala hoodies, everybody all at once.
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  Speaker 3: So but and and I think that within the kind
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  Speaker 3: of the terrorist world, Iran has been diminished and embarrassed
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  Speaker 3: and humiliated. It turned out to have been efeckless at
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  Speaker 3: the at the most important moment, and it could not
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  Speaker 3: you know it, Its air defenses were shredded, It had
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  Speaker 3: no defense for an attack on its homeland. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's the ultimate failure of any regime, in any kind
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  Speaker 3: of government.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Trump has shown a lot of things. Who's not
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  Speaker 1: as tough as we think. Even if you look at Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: We always started the Russian military as a superpower, but
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  Speaker 1: they're struggling now for years to try to get anywhere
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  Speaker 1: with this ragtag Ukrainian army. So do you think maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's the same with China, that maybe they're not the biggest,
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  Speaker 1: the powerful military that we think they are.
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  Speaker 3: Well, those are two very good points and if and
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  Speaker 3: the president is clearly focused on both of them. So
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  Speaker 3: if he can pull off something similar in each of
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  Speaker 3: those situations, I mean, talk about your pox Americana.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that.
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  Speaker 3: Would be a remarkable event.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but.
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  Speaker 3: Already what he has done in the Mid East is
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  Speaker 3: I think not just unprecedented, but even unthinkable. Right that
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  Speaker 3: no one thought this kind of thing was even possible
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  Speaker 3: before Donald Trump got involved, and before I mean, look
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  Speaker 3: Netayahu of course, is a highly controversial and even unpopular
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  Speaker 3: person within Israel. But I think their partnership has stood
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  Speaker 3: the test of time and achieved great things, not only
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  Speaker 3: for Israel but for the world by by cooling the
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  Speaker 3: hot temperatures of Iran, especially and all of the offshoots
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  Speaker 3: who were taking Iranian money. That that well has dried
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  Speaker 3: up thanks to the American sanctions and thanks to President
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  Speaker 3: Trump's attack. I think it has. It has changed the
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  Speaker 3: dynamic completely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, before we run out of time, let's just
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  Speaker 1: get to the mayor ole race. I noticed mam Donni,
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  Speaker 1: who's a very articulate guy, a very sharp debater. In
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  Speaker 1: the last week or two, everytimes he's asked a tough question,
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  Speaker 1: he goes into that word salad, not a bumbling Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris word salad, but a skilled one. But yet the
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  Speaker 1: word sellid the fact that he's being vague and not answering.
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell us about his campaign?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, I think he's a very shallow man. I
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  Speaker 3: mean he's not He hasn't done anything in the real world,
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  Speaker 3: right except get himself in this position. I mean people
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  Speaker 3: like him are a dime for two dozen in Albany, right,
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  Speaker 3: the kind of shallow, inexperienced, you know, good at getting intellected,
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  Speaker 3: nothing else. And I think one of the things that's
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  Speaker 3: probably happened to him is he's feeling exposed at this point.
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  Speaker 3: His ideas are bad ideas, they're not popular. Anybody with
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  Speaker 3: any sense would tell him, you know, all this free
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  Speaker 3: stuff is a disaster in the making. You will destroy
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  Speaker 3: the city if you try to reign in the police,
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  Speaker 3: If you hate the police, if you tell them not
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  Speaker 3: to make arrests or prostitution for misdemeanors, for all of
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  Speaker 3: these kinds of things, you'll have no police department. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: will want to be a police officer. And I think
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  Speaker 3: he's already running up against problems. And of course there's
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  Speaker 3: the budget issue. If he were to do what he's
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  Speaker 3: going to do, where will he get the money, What's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen to the school system, what's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen to safety, to who's going to invest in New
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  Speaker 3: York City? If it looks like the socialist government is
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  Speaker 3: just going to confiscate everything. So I think he's I
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  Speaker 3: think the longer this campaign goes on, the worse he looks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now you got the debate coming up this week.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be Thursday night. Culmos not a great debater. Mom
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  Speaker 1: Donnie's pretty good. Curtis is great. Could this change the race?
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  Speaker 1: Let's say Curtis land some knockout punches.
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  Speaker 3: That's the potential. I think that the most likely potential
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  Speaker 3: is that Mom Donnie will be exposed as a lightweight
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  Speaker 3: or as a goofy goofy inexperience know nothing lightweight. Now,
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  Speaker 3: whoever does that, if it's Sliwa or if it's Cuomo,
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  Speaker 3: will be the big beneficiary. Whoever can draw the stronger
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  Speaker 3: contrast between themselves and Mam Donnie, I think, will be
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  Speaker 3: the big beneficiary. But but you're right Mark that this
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  Speaker 3: could this debate could be pivotal because early voting starts
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  Speaker 3: pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope. So well, everybody read Michael Goodwin's column yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It's New York Post. It's all his columns are up
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  Speaker 1: on the New York Post website. You can go read
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  Speaker 1: them all. It's every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New
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  Speaker 1: York Post. Great stuff, Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's a pleasure. Thank you. Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. We've got a lot to get to Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get back to the Miroral race. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: great detail about that debate and what could happen, and
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  Speaker 1: Eric Adams and a whole lot more coming up on
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  Speaker 1: seven to ten Woir