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Mark interviews Fox News contributor Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simon Show Live from the Double O
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  Speaker 1: R Life Back studios. Well, Lizpeak the brilliant columns. You
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  Speaker 1: can read her at Foxnews dot com, orth Hill dot
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  Speaker 1: com and of course you'll see her all over television.
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  Speaker 1: But also make sure you check out our website. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of good stuff up there, great stories and analysis.
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  Speaker 1: Lizpeak dot com, lizpeak dot com, Lizpeak. How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I am terrific. I don't lose it out.
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  Speaker 1: You're cutting out? Where are you on a train or plane?
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  Speaker 2: I'm in Westster.
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  Speaker 1: Ope, we lost her? Are you there?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Call her back? Tryer call her back and see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's in a very remote part of the world Westchester,
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  Speaker 1: no believe it or not. There are places, uh right
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the busiest areas where there's no
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  Speaker 1: cell service or very bad cell service. You know the
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  Speaker 1: Hampton's there's no cell service. I mean it's really bad
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  Speaker 1: out there Long Island. If you're driving past Oyster Bay
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  Speaker 1: and you get to East Norwich around there, you got
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  Speaker 1: no cell service. There's parts of Westchester where it just
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  Speaker 1: goes away and you got no cell service. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: call her back and get her back in case you
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear. Starting Monday, this show is expanding. It's going
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  Speaker 1: It means I gotta get up an hour earlier. But
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  Speaker 1: there was big, big, big, big, big demand for this
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  Speaker 1: starting Monday, nine to noon, every weekday, starting a week
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  Speaker 1: from day. We got her back. No, we're working on it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get her back. It's very tough getting the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Now what part of Westchester could she be in? There's
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  Speaker 1: no well, I mean obviously White playing Scarsdale, Rye Yonkers,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of Celtic, but there's those in between areas. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if we can find her. Hey, in Maine, they
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  Speaker 1: got a replacement for that, Graham Platner. They got a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Jackson to take on Susan. Troy Jackson in
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  Speaker 1: his name, all right, it's a great name. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a movie star named Troy Jes starring Troy Jackson. But
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  Speaker 1: he seems like the dullest guy in the world. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's one reason they chose him. He's a very
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  Speaker 1: very dull guy, so so dull they think he'll be
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  Speaker 1: a good candidate. Oh, we got her back, Liz Peek,
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  Speaker 1: are you there?
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  Speaker 2: I am here. I don't know what happened. Anyway, I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy to join you. Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, much better, much much better have some of these
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  Speaker 1: democratic socialists. Take New York for instance, Mom, Donnie, who
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  Speaker 1: the hell are these people that vote for him? I
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  Speaker 1: know they're younger, but what kind of people are they?
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  Speaker 1: These younger Mom Donnie voters?
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  Speaker 3: They're over educated white liberals who are angry read that
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  Speaker 3: they spent a fortune on some sort of college degree
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  Speaker 3: or graduate degree in the canter and a living. That's
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  Speaker 3: my interpretation, obviously, is not one hundred percent. But look,
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  Speaker 3: I think further seriously, we know they are mostly white.
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  Speaker 3: We know they are mostly college graduate or have advanced
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  Speaker 3: degrees of some sort, and they've been indoctrinated in the
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  Speaker 3: schools they went to. And this is not just a
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  Speaker 3: right wing talking point, Mark, It is statistically the case
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  Speaker 3: that most faculties, particularly in the humanities, meaning things like
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  Speaker 3: political science or economics or history, are very left leaning.
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  Speaker 3: Most are self identified liberals, not even Democrats, but liberals,
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  Speaker 3: and they have taught these young people the evils of capitalism,
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  Speaker 3: the glories of socialism, that Israel is a colonizing nation
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  Speaker 3: and has subjected and carried out undue hostility and meanness
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  Speaker 3: towards the Palestinian people. All of it is so biased,
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  Speaker 3: and all of it is so basically incorrect that these
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  Speaker 3: kids come out just you know, with a point of
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  Speaker 3: view that's very hard to sway. The good news, mark
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  Speaker 3: is that the Trump administration is I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you saw this, but they're going to cut down on
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  Speaker 3: the amount people can borrow to go to college, but
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  Speaker 3: also to get advanced degrees. Mostly the new Trump rules
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  Speaker 3: have to do with graduate degrees, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's one hundred percent appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: We have kids getting you know, PhDs in gender studies,
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  Speaker 3: and guess what, that is not of great utility. If
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  Speaker 3: they want to do it and they want to pay
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  Speaker 3: for it, great, but you and I the taxpayer, should
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  Speaker 3: not be on the hook for that, and we are.
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  Speaker 2: So I think this.
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  Speaker 3: Is sort of a little known thing that kicked in
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  Speaker 3: July first that the White House has done. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's unbelievably important as sort of a beginning step to
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  Speaker 3: out these ridiculous excessive payments to faculties and to colleges
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  Speaker 3: that bring nothing to the table, they don't have any
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  Speaker 3: interest whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: And whether these kids can get a job.
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  Speaker 3: Let's make sure they do. And one of the ways
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  Speaker 3: you do that is you cut off the funding.
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  Speaker 1: Well this is all great, but if you start a
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  Speaker 1: whole new education process, it could be twenty years before
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  Speaker 1: enough of them get out.
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  Speaker 2: Mark.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, but you got to start somewhere, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you, But this is the cancer. This
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  Speaker 3: is the source of the cancer. When you go after cancer,
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  Speaker 3: you go after certainly the symptoms and you try and
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  Speaker 3: excise what is rotten in the body. But you got
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  Speaker 3: us to go to the source. And this is the source.
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  Speaker 3: So let's hope the ballot box corrects this excess sooner
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  Speaker 3: rather than later. It's very interesting to me, you know
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  Speaker 3: that this head of the DSA went on Shannon Breams
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  Speaker 3: Fox news station I think yesterday and basically said, yes,
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  Speaker 3: we want to abolish the Senate. We want to abolish ice,
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  Speaker 3: we want to abolish in the electoral college, we want
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  Speaker 3: to abolish borders, et.
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  Speaker 2: Cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: They are such lunatics, want to abolish prisons because and
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  Speaker 3: Shannon Breen comes back with, well, you know, shouldn't some
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  Speaker 3: people be in prison, you know, like murders and rapists. Well,
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  Speaker 3: but we want to get rid of the conditions that
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  Speaker 3: lead to those people being in prison, meaning poverty. It's
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  Speaker 3: so far fetched and idiotic that, you know, it is
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  Speaker 3: the gift that gets keeps on giving for the Republicans
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  Speaker 3: in the midterms, because as much as people don't like
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  Speaker 3: the Republican Party right now, they dislike the Democrats even worse.
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  Speaker 3: And this is going to really and by the way,
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  Speaker 3: Kim Jeffreys is out on this dump saying, eyah, we
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  Speaker 3: have a big tent, bring them on. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: want to welcome everybody. He should not be doing that.
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  Speaker 3: He should be saying, no, we disavow these people. They're crazy,
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  Speaker 3: They're anti Semitic. It's not what the Democratic Party stands for.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the backbone in the Democratic Party? I think you
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  Speaker 3: have to I don't know whether you need a magnifying
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  Speaker 3: glass to find it.
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  Speaker 2: Even then, I think you're going to come up short.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're talking with Liz Peak. You know, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how bad the Republicans are, Democrats always have they
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  Speaker 1: finder way to make themselves worse.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow, they really do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, right now, if you look at favorability. The
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  Speaker 3: New York Times had this article about the broke unhappy
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party, which is a pretty extraordinary story action I think.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's basically about how the Republicans have The
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  Speaker 3: Republican National Committee has one hundred and thirty million dollars
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  Speaker 3: on hand right now, and the Democratic the DNC is
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  Speaker 3: in a negative too. Then, in other words, they owe
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  Speaker 3: money instead of having collected any And it all goes
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  Speaker 3: back to Kamala Harris spending an enormous amount of money
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  Speaker 3: in her campaign. But they they talk about how unpopular
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is and what this is for Democrats to
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  Speaker 3: score off of that.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what.
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  Speaker 3: The favorability on the Democratic Party is worse than it
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  Speaker 3: is for Donald Trump, and it's worse than the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 3: So forgive me, I'm not really weeping about the Democrats'
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  Speaker 3: financial problems. Maybe if they had a message other than
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  Speaker 3: we hate Trump, maybe they'd be doing a little better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, But as our friend Larry Kutlo keeps pointing out,
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  Speaker 1: and I agree, Republicans are not good right now with
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  Speaker 1: the messaging. They've got to come up with the message.
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  Speaker 1: What should they be doing well?
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  Speaker 3: I one hundred percent agree every single one of those
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  Speaker 3: people out there running for their House seat should be
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  Speaker 3: talking up the tax cuts from last year, the no
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  Speaker 3: tax on overtime, et cetera. Republicans are in a defensive
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  Speaker 3: crouch and I get it. Or gasoline prices are over
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  Speaker 3: four dollars and nobody likes the war in Iran. At
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  Speaker 3: the other hand, the economy is doing actually pretty well
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  Speaker 3: right now. Unemployment's very low, investment is booming, manufacturing is increasing.
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  Speaker 3: All the kinds of things that people want to have happened.
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  Speaker 3: So they should be talking up the economy. They should
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  Speaker 3: be talking up the big beautiful bill. The Democrats have
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  Speaker 3: so scared the Republicans with the messaging about how the
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  Speaker 3: wealthy should pay their fair share and the tax cuts
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  Speaker 3: were only for the wealthy. It isn't true, Mark, but
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  Speaker 3: somehow they don't have the guts to stand up and
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  Speaker 3: refute it. I frankly think an awful lot of these
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  Speaker 3: Republicans don't really understand supply side economics, whatever you want
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  Speaker 3: to call it, the fact that tax cuts always always
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  Speaker 3: leads to higher tax revenues and growth in the economy.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't really accept it or believe it. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the other problem is if you watch the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday shows or the evening news, you get the feeling
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  Speaker 1: we're in the middle of the depression and the worst economy. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: that's really not the case at all, is it.
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  Speaker 3: No, it isn't. And in fact, a couple of data
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  Speaker 3: points on that. I watched the Bank of America Institute
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  Speaker 3: reports very carefully, because Bank America does business with about
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  Speaker 3: half the country. I mean, it's a tremendously good read
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  Speaker 3: on what's actually happening too people right now.
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  Speaker 2: And two things of importance.
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  Speaker 3: One is, consumer spending was up in the last month
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  Speaker 3: for the most in several years. It was up over
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  Speaker 3: six percent, very good number. Secondly, what they're seeing is
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  Speaker 3: that wages are going up at the bottom end faster
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  Speaker 3: than at the top end, meaning that the income disparity,
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  Speaker 3: if that's something that concerns you and probably everyone should
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  Speaker 3: be looking at, that is actually narrowed under Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: and real wages are going up, which they didn't all
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  Speaker 3: the time under Joe Biden. So you also look at
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  Speaker 3: what American Express reported the other day. American Express had
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  Speaker 3: incredibly good numbers, and it's because consumers are spending. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they can't spend if they're not optimistic and if they're
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  Speaker 3: not getting income increases, and some of American Express certainly
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  Speaker 3: is the high end is impacted by the stock market.
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  Speaker 3: But the reality is right now the economy is pretty solid,
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  Speaker 3: but you will never hear that from the liberal media.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Liz Peak, brilliant as always, and keep up the
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  Speaker 1: good work on TV. You can get her columns at
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  Speaker 1: Foxnews dot com, Thehill dot com, and make sure you
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  Speaker 1: check her website. There's great stuff up there. Lizpeak dot com,
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  Speaker 1: Stories Analysis, lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. Mark.
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