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

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  Speaker 1: The mar Simone Show on sevenor well, I lot to
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  Speaker 1: get to this hour just to bring up the speed
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  Speaker 1: that Don Lemon was arrested. He is in has been indicted. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: he was partying like crazy in La the Grammy Awards
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday night. The parties have already begun. He was
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  Speaker 1: out there all night partying. The night ended with him
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  Speaker 1: being arrested by federal agents. And now remember this is
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  Speaker 1: not it's not just Donald Trump deciding to arrest him.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the Attorney General, it's not the Justice departments,
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the Trump adminstress and it made the final decision.
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  Speaker 1: It was the grand jury. They just simply presented it
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  Speaker 1: to the grand jury, and the grand jury voted to
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  Speaker 1: indict Don Lemon for there's a couple of laws he
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  Speaker 1: violated in that church. Now, a lot of people worried
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  Speaker 1: that this will make Don Lemon into a huge martyr
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  Speaker 1: that he'll be on every You know, he's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that was basically fired in disgrace. He was out of work.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody would touch this guy, nobody would hire this guy.
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  Speaker 1: He was doing one of these silly podcasts from his bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: running around with a microphone, totally out of work, but this, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is different. Now. Suddenly he'll be all over MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: and CNN, and there'll be a GoFundMe that could raise
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions. He's hired the top lawyer you could
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  Speaker 1: hire in a matter like this, Abbey Lowell. So a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people worried that this will make Don Lemon
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  Speaker 1: not only a martyr, but bigger than ever, may actually
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  Speaker 1: bring back his broadcasting career for him. The Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: right now is releasing more Epstein files, explained last hour.
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  Speaker 1: There's five million pages that need to be read and
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  Speaker 1: gone through, with a fine tooth coming to make sure
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  Speaker 1: there's no identifying victims or anything like that. So apparently
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  Speaker 1: they've gotten a batch done o releas a batch later. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen every time they release a batch,
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be very disappointed because there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be nothing that interesting in there. But this will continue
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  Speaker 1: for a while. Hey, we're talking. Last time, Monica Crowley
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  Speaker 1: was with us telling us about this two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth Birthday of America. The whole year is going to
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  Speaker 1: be big, big events celebrating America's two hundred and fiftieth Birthday,
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  Speaker 1: and if she listed all the events, I realized, as
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  Speaker 1: miserable as Democrats are, now, as angry, crazy, miserable as
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats are, this year is going to be tough
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  Speaker 1: on them, very tough on them. You know, they're not
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  Speaker 1: into flag waving or you know, Fourth of July. They
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  Speaker 1: don't like that kind of stuff. It's not their favorite day.
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  Speaker 1: So when the whole year is America, the flag and
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  Speaker 1: all the events she talked about, this is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be the National Prayer Service. Democrats are not going
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  Speaker 1: to be flocking to that. What's the other one? The
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  Speaker 1: National State Fair that's not big with Democrats at the
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  Speaker 1: White House in Washington. The events are NASCAR, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: not big with the Jimmy Kimmel, CNN, Colbert crowd. They're
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  Speaker 1: not big on Nascar. The other one was UFC Fighting
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  Speaker 1: Championship at the White House. And then the Fourth of
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  Speaker 1: July and Democrats, I don't like this stuff. It's a
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  Speaker 1: miserable day for them. Fourth of July with the flag
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  Speaker 1: and the picnics and hot dogs. They don't like this.
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  Speaker 1: So this is going to be a very rough year
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  Speaker 1: for your Democratic friends. As this stuff starts to unfold,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the summer. So you think they're angry and miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Now just wait. So we got a new FED chairman,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin wassh. Everybody likes some Powell is just awful. Really
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  Speaker 1: need to get rid of him. He's still got till
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  Speaker 1: May before his term is over. Now, when you're done
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  Speaker 1: as the FED chairman, you're supposed to give up your
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  Speaker 1: board seat. So his term is up in May, but
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  Speaker 1: he's his board term. Having a seat on the board
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  Speaker 1: goes to like twenty twenty eight. But if you're gracious
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  Speaker 1: about it, you step down and you get the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of there. Knowing Paul bad guy hates Trump, probably
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  Speaker 1: will not. Here's President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it with a pencil. It's not cutting,
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  Speaker 2: it's not saying we have to get rid of jobs
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  Speaker 2: or it's just like literally so easy to do. But
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  Speaker 2: we have a guy that doesn't want to do it
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  Speaker 2: because he's I think he's politically biased.
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  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I believe he's politically biased, because most smart people say
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  Speaker 2: it's not even a question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we know he's politically He not only politically biased,
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  Speaker 1: but he hates hates hates Trump, so he'll stay there,
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  Speaker 1: probably just to make Trump miserable. So the good news,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to miss this snowstorm. It's not going to
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  Speaker 1: hit us on Sunday. But the freezing temperatures have caused
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems. You know, the Hudson River, the
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  Speaker 1: East River are frozen, frozen, that's ruined everything. There's no
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  Speaker 1: ferry service. But also remember we need those those rivers
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  Speaker 1: for all kinds of commercial purposes and shipping and delivery.
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  Speaker 1: So ice breakers are now in the Hudson River. They
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  Speaker 1: came yesterday. These icebreakers are trying to break up the
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  Speaker 1: ice and open it up, and hopefully it'll get the
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  Speaker 1: ferry service back, although who the hell takes a ferry
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  Speaker 1: in this kind of cold weather. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 1: here in Manhattan walking around, those bikes are all over
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  Speaker 1: the place, riding around in the slush and the snow
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  Speaker 1: and the unbelievably cold temperatures. Bikes all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: And they're not just the delivery bikes that I could understand,
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  Speaker 1: but just amateur bikes, you know, city bikers. They're still
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  Speaker 1: out there in this snow. Hey, the Milania movie opens today.
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  Speaker 1: You should go see it. It's in fifteen hundred theaters today.
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  Speaker 1: They had the first screening at the White House, big
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  Speaker 1: private event, and then the big premiere was last night
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  Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center with all the usual cast of characters,
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  Speaker 1: the whole Trump administration, all the cabinet secretaries, all of that.
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  Speaker 1: And then there were two after parties, big bashes afterwards
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  Speaker 1: that went all night. But it opens today all over
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  Speaker 1: the country. If you want to see it, go see it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hear all these left wing people as
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  Speaker 1: the film starts to be talked about and do well,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear all these media left wing idiots start
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that this movie is a bribe, that
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  Speaker 1: why would Malania get forty million from Amazon for this film? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bribe. It was Amazon bribing the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: with the forty million. Now, of course they'll never mention
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  Speaker 1: that Michelle Obama, whose documentary Totally Bombed, got eighty million
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  Speaker 1: from Netflix. Actually that's the better question. Why did Malania
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  Speaker 1: only get half? Who would you rather look at for
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  Speaker 1: two hours? Milania or Michelle Obama? The Michelle Obama documentaries
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  Speaker 1: are just it's really crabby in real life and has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to say. It's just the most boring two hours
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  Speaker 1: that Milania documentary. And remember when you see the documentary,
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  Speaker 1: they shot like four thousand hours just to get anything interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So the two hours you're seeing is the most interesting
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  Speaker 1: of the four thousand hours. Remember also, Michelle Obama got
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  Speaker 1: a book deal. You know, normally when you get a
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  Speaker 1: book deal, they'll give you ten million for your book
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  Speaker 1: in advance. Maybe if you're the president, maybe twenty million.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Michelle Obama's book deal sixty five million, unheard of,
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  Speaker 1: totally unheard of. Shakespeare couldn't get sixty five million for
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  Speaker 1: a book deal. But so you talk about bribing somebody,
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  Speaker 1: the shutdown looms, they're trying to make some kind of deal.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you got crazy, angry Chuck Schumer, who's at
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  Speaker 1: the end of a very mediocre career right now. Schumer
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  Speaker 1: making all kinds of demands, are going to try to
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  Speaker 1: do this shutdown, and they're going to try to use
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  Speaker 1: ice in Minnesota, and all that is an excuse. You
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  Speaker 1: can't just shut down the Department of Homeland Security because
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  Speaker 1: everything is in that department. That's where the TSA is
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  Speaker 1: in there, the Secret Service. You can't defund that. But
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  Speaker 1: here's Schumer yelling and huffing and puffing.
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  Speaker 3: Caucus is unified over three main legislative objectives. First, we
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  Speaker 3: want to end roving patrols. We need to tighten the
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  Speaker 3: rules governing the use of warrants and require ICE's coordination
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  Speaker 3: with state and local law enforcement. Second, we want to
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  Speaker 3: enforce accountability. Third, we want masks off. Body cameras on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now, this is all a big mess of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Body cameras on. Yeah, I would agree with that. Masks off.
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  Speaker 1: The reason they wear the mask is these crazy, raging,
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  Speaker 1: nutjob violent protesters have threatened the families of the ICE agents.
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  Speaker 1: If they can see the face, they can identify the person.
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  Speaker 1: They will then go to the well the ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: are away on the job, they will go to the
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  Speaker 1: ICE agent's house and terrorize his children and his wife.
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  Speaker 1: That's literally what would happen. That's that's why the masks. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to take the masks off. A proposal.
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  Speaker 1: The compromise will be every agent will have a number
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  Speaker 1: on his uniform, big number, and that's an identifying number.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to report the guy, you just
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  Speaker 1: give that number and then within the department they know
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  Speaker 1: who it is. So that's the way they'll do that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: body cams. That's that's actually going to work against the protesters.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, the Renee Good shooting, if that guy had
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  Speaker 1: a body cam, you would have seen the car come
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  Speaker 1: right at it and smash it. So bodycam will help
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  Speaker 1: the Ice agents. Hopefully the shutdown doesn't happen. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people Lindsey Graham causing the problem. The President
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  Speaker 1: will call him this afternoon and calm him down and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it'll get straightened out. Now Here in New York
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  Speaker 1: budget crisis, you got Mamdanie in charge. He has started
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  Speaker 1: to figure out it's not just about taxes. The reason
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  Speaker 1: you have a budget crisis is the budget is totally
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  Speaker 1: out of control. It's absolutely ludicrous that this one city
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  Speaker 1: has one hundred and twenty billion dollar budget. It's insane.
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  Speaker 1: So cuts have to be made. Now, Supposedly, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to try his own little doge. He's going to have
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  Speaker 1: somebody appointed in each department to be like the doge
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  Speaker 1: officer and figure out what can be cut. Let's hope
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  Speaker 1: he really is going to do this.
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  Speaker 4: The tools that the city has, these are the most
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  Speaker 4: painful tools. We are talking about cuts, We are talking
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  Speaker 4: about property taxes, the things that I do not want
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  Speaker 4: to pursue. Yeah, and yet the scale of this fiscal
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  Speaker 4: crisis of twelve billion dollars, this is not an ordinary crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you know the idea of the budget cuts.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that you're going to hurt any services or
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  Speaker 1: deprive people the services or anything like that. The overpaid
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  Speaker 1: for everything. There's incredible waste bloat all through the budget.
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  Speaker 1: The one hundred and twenty billion. You could easily cut
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  Speaker 1: that to sixty billion and promptly forty billion if you
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  Speaker 1: really efficient about it. And hopefully he'll actually do this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: actually seriously look at cutting stuff. I know he wants
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  Speaker 1: to raise taxes, but he doesn't have the power to
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  Speaker 1: do it. He's got to go to the governor. She's
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  Speaker 1: running for reelection, so she's got to be careful. Or
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  Speaker 1: you got to go to the city council. And as
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you yesterday, we got a new city council
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  Speaker 1: speaker who's a moderate. He's a Democrat, but a very
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  Speaker 1: common sense, moderate Democrat who's not going to do crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a good check and balance on on mom, Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: So the Luigi Manngi own cases, it's in court today
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  Speaker 1: and the judge is already tossed out a couple of charges,
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  Speaker 1: and those were the charges that would have brought the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty. Now, I don't know what case would call
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  Speaker 1: for the death penalty more than this one. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we see the video of him just deliberately assassinating this
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  Speaker 1: guy for no reason at all, walking right up to
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  Speaker 1: this guy and shooting him dead. I mean, what more
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  Speaker 1: do you need for a death penalty? But it's a
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan courtroom, it's a Manhattan judge. They don't like the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty, so they've taken that off the table. Now,
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  Speaker 1: one thing about when you take that off the table,
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  Speaker 1: it makes the conviction easier for a jury. And the
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  Speaker 1: judge did rule that the evidence in his backpack that
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  Speaker 1: was on him when he got arrested can stay. So
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  Speaker 1: even though the death penalty's gone, it looks more and
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  Speaker 1: more and more like an absolutely definite chance of conviction.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you got the video, you got everything, So
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  Speaker 1: that's good news. Hey, yesterday was the cabinet meeting, so
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  Speaker 1: all the left wing sites are trying to find something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with it. Very hard to do. It's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good cabinet meeting. But here's mediaite media. Itite is the
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  Speaker 1: real left wing, left wing slanted site, the Big Headline.
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  Speaker 1: The five most fawning moments from the Trump Cabinet meeting
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  Speaker 1: Fawning Moments Number one Pete Hexath claiming the Venezuela operation
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  Speaker 1: was one of the greatest in world history. Well, actually
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  Speaker 1: that's true. I've heard a million military experts say they're
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  Speaker 1: amazed at the efficiency, how well run that operation was.
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  Speaker 1: It was absolutely dazzling. I mean, get into a country,
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  Speaker 1: get a world leader in his bed, and get him
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  Speaker 1: out of the country without any without losing one American life.
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  Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. What was the other one? Number two?
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  Speaker 1: Howard Lutnick consists Trump is fixing everything. Oh, actually he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's fixing the supply chain, he's fixing the economy, getting
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  Speaker 1: everything straightened out. So all of these are actually great things.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's small business administrator. List of wars he's ended, added
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  Speaker 1: another one. He's ended the war on main street and
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  Speaker 1: hardworking families. Well that's pretty much true. Their income has
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  Speaker 1: come up under all the Trump stuff, all the Trump
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  Speaker 1: economic stuff. Average income now for a working person is
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  Speaker 1: way up a couple of thousand bucks this year. Scott
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  Speaker 1: Bessant predicts twenty twenty six will be the year of
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  Speaker 1: the Trump boom. Yeah, so does everybody else. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: the tax cuts are kicking in. You probably get a
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  Speaker 1: rate cut pretty soon. Yeah, it really will be. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the final one. Trump saved hundreds of lives during the
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  Speaker 1: winter storms due to his love of coal. Well, actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had a ton of energy. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices are way down. An amount of gas, the
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  Speaker 1: amount of oil being pumped, and all that is way
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  Speaker 1: way way up. Hey, you know a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they move out of New York, they move
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  Speaker 1: out of California, they moved to Texas, they moved to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: People leaving New York leaving Texas over the last bunch
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  Speaker 1: of years for tax reasons, other reasons. Studies now show
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  Speaker 1: that because of that, when they do the twenty thirty census,
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  Speaker 1: New York and California combined will lose six House seats
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  Speaker 1: and the House seats will be transferred to places like
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  Speaker 1: Texas and Florida. And they estimate that's going to cost
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  Speaker 1: Democrats in the future nine electoral votes right there. Pretty interesting. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten