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Hour 1: Letitia James steps in. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, this is The Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Simone Show on 710WOR. Well, hey, it's Monday morning. A
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  Speaker 2: lot to get to today. We'll get to Cornell. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Iran. We'll get to the midterms. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to daylight saving time. All sorts of stuff to cover
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  Speaker 2: this morning. President Trump, busy schedule every day. He's flying
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  Speaker 2: to another state. He'll be in Nebraska later today, campaigning
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  Speaker 2: for the midterms. We'll get to all of that coming up. Now, Cornell,
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  Speaker 2: about a week ago, week and a half ago, we
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  Speaker 2: were talking about it. It was a bit of a story.
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  Speaker 2: It's become a huge story. It is spiraling out of control.
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  Speaker 2: The Cornell president finally forced to put out a statement,
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  Speaker 2: video statement, eight minutes long, apologizing, typical crisis management, the
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  Speaker 2: three points, apologize, talk or admit what happened, talk about
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing to clean it up. Now, he was
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  Speaker 2: actually a brand new president at the time of the incident.
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  Speaker 2: At the time of the incident, the president left, and
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  Speaker 2: this guy was the temporary acting president. He's now been
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  Speaker 2: made permanent, but they were in transition there. So at
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  Speaker 2: the time, they did a bit of an investigation, not
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  Speaker 2: enough of an investigation. It should be pointed out that
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  Speaker 2: at the time, Cornell, after their investigation, they did expel
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  Speaker 2: some of the students. Some of the others they suspended.
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  Speaker 2: They got rid of the fraternity. They banned it from
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  Speaker 2: the campus, that fraternity. Hey, by the way, that is
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  Speaker 2: the ugliest building I've ever seen, that fraternity building. Have
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  Speaker 2: you seen that picture, that white building with the black
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  Speaker 2: tic-tac-toe all over it, the board? It's the ugliest building.
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  Speaker 2: Tear that thing down, too. So it's just a horrible situation. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to get worse because Kathy Hochul has jumped
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  Speaker 2: in to use it as an election issue. This is
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  Speaker 2: a two-year-old incident. It's been in the news for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. And this incident took place two years ago
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  Speaker 2: in New York State. Kathy Hochul never lifted a finger
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  Speaker 2: about it. But now she wants to use it as
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  Speaker 2: an election issue. So you're not going to hear the
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  Speaker 2: end of this. Now, she's appointed. Letitia James is the
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  Speaker 2: special prosecutor, which is absolutely idiotic. First of all, it's
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  Speaker 2: Letitia James, who's a creepy sort of character with her
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  Speaker 2: political vendettas and lawfare and all that. But aside from that,
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  Speaker 2: more importantly, she's not a prosecutor. She's never in her
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  Speaker 2: life been a prosecutor. She's never prosecuted a criminal case ever.
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  Speaker 2: She has absolutely no experience in it. She's got a
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  Speaker 2: law degree. And one time early, early in her career,
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  Speaker 2: in the very beginning, worked as one of those legal
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  Speaker 2: aides or those, what do you call those, you know, legal,
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  Speaker 2: free legal aid. But that was briefly. And then all
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  Speaker 2: of her life, she's been a politician. She served on
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  Speaker 2: the city council for years. She was the public advocate
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  Speaker 2: for years. She's never prosecuted a case in her life ever, ever.
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  Speaker 2: So you'd think if this is so important, you'd put
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  Speaker 2: somebody with some experience on it, but this is all
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  Speaker 2: politics for Kathy Hochul. So it's Letitia James.
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  Speaker 3: No institution gets to protect its reputation at the expense
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  Speaker 3: of a young person seeking justice. No public official gets
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  Speaker 3: to look the other way when the system breaks down
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  Speaker 3: and fails our young people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now she's going to make all kinds of pontificating, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: dramatic speeches trying to, this is all for the election. Now, uh, Again,
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't have cared less about this case two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: But now she sees she can use it, so she's
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  Speaker 2: all over it.
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  Speaker 3: She spoke to the police. She sat for hours and
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  Speaker 3: told them exactly what happened to her. And according to
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  Speaker 3: new reports, she could not have been clearer that she
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  Speaker 3: was 100% confident that she had been raped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Hochul apparently not familiar with the case at all.
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  Speaker 2: I would think her story is true. I would want
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  Speaker 2: to see justice for her. But they've got some problems.
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  Speaker 2: One is her story has not been consistent. It's changed
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  Speaker 2: in a number of ways from her initial talk to
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  Speaker 2: campus police. They wrote up a report to her first
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  Speaker 2: talk with the district attorney to her lawsuit today. There's
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  Speaker 2: contradictions in all of these about what happened. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of contradictions. The defense attorneys for these awful guys are
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  Speaker 2: going to use all of that. And now the other
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  Speaker 2: problem is Letitia James, again, she's not a criminal prosecutor.
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  Speaker 2: She never prosecuted a case in her life. Didn't know
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  Speaker 2: that you're not supposed to hold a press conference or
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  Speaker 2: tweet and take sides and prejudge the case. The defense
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  Speaker 2: can use that against you. But she put out a
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  Speaker 2: tweet declaring the guy's guilty. That's it. Then it's funny
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  Speaker 2: in that press conference when they asked her to comment
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  Speaker 2: about her tweet, she said, I don't comment about tweets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But it's your tweet. You wrote it. We're asking you
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  Speaker 2: to comment about what you said. So she's already muddied
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  Speaker 2: up the case quite a bit. Here's Letitia James.
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  Speaker 5: We will review the facts, gather evidence, interview witnesses, and
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  Speaker 5: if warranted, pursue prosecutions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there she is prejudging the whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: Every New Yorker deserves to know that when they report
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  Speaker 5: a crime, it will be investigated fully and fairly. that
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  Speaker 5: they will be seen and heard.
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  Speaker 2: All right, these statements are fine. But previous to that,
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  Speaker 2: she was already declaring all these guys guilty. You can't
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  Speaker 2: do that if you're the prosecutor. And, you know, she
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  Speaker 2: was accused of rape once. It was a rape allegation
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  Speaker 2: against Letitia James. Yeah. It never got the... And remember,
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  Speaker 2: she's the public advocate at the time. It was supposedly
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  Speaker 2: at her Christmas party. And the accuser... was not taken
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  Speaker 2: seriously by prosecutors, so they didn't file any charges. But
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  Speaker 2: she's been accused of this, so she does know there
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  Speaker 2: is such a thing as false charges in cases like this.
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  Speaker 2: But I would assume this woman is telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: It's just her story has changed a few times. Now,
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  Speaker 2: her attorney can argue all kinds of reasons why that changed,
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  Speaker 2: the trauma, the whole thing. But the defense attorneys will
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  Speaker 2: use that. Now, the good news is, There's text messages
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  Speaker 2: at the time from those awful fraternity kids texting about
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  Speaker 2: what was going on. So they'll use that as hard
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  Speaker 2: evidence against them. The university at the time conducted an investigation,
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  Speaker 2: but it wasn't thorough enough. They didn't get to the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of things. Now, the other problem is this whole report,
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  Speaker 2: everything she said, was handed over to the local district attorney,
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  Speaker 2: and he decided to let it go. He didn't think
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  Speaker 2: there was anything there illegal. And when it heated up
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  Speaker 2: in the news, he then went back to it. But
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  Speaker 2: Hochul has removed him from the case. District attorneys all
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  Speaker 2: work for her. District attorneys are, it's a state job.
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  Speaker 2: The governor can remove them. And if this guy's so bad,
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  Speaker 2: she should remove him immediately. His reason for not prosecuting,
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  Speaker 2: there's a crazy thing in the New York law that
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  Speaker 2: if you get yourself intoxicated, let's say you're so drunk
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  Speaker 2: you can't consent. You're so drunk you don't know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. It would be impossible for you to consent
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  Speaker 2: because you're too drunk. Under New York state law, if
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  Speaker 2: you'd get yourself that drunk, voluntarily get that drunk, you
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  Speaker 2: can't claim rape. It's a strange thing in the law,
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  Speaker 2: but it's in New York state. It's something they got
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  Speaker 2: to fix. Hochul's up for re-election. She'll work with New
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  Speaker 2: York state now to change that law. but that's also
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  Speaker 2: going to be a factor in this case. She did.
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  Speaker 2: Now you might be hearing these AOC statements, this crazy
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  Speaker 2: AOC who never knows what she's talking about has been
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  Speaker 2: telling the story of what happened. And it's all false.
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  Speaker 2: Everything she's saying, she was lured to the fraternity. That's
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  Speaker 2: not true at all. She wanted to go to the
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  Speaker 2: fraternity house and did. She voluntarily drank. She voluntarily took
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  Speaker 2: some drugs. It was her choice. So everything AOC is saying,
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  Speaker 2: they drugged her with ketamine. They dragged her and, To
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  Speaker 2: the attorney, none of this is true. That's just AOC craziness.
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  Speaker 2: So it's interesting to note, if you're thinking of voting
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  Speaker 2: for her, that she gets things totally wrong and lies.
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  Speaker 2: And just goes out there and spews all kinds of lies.
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  Speaker 2: So bear that in mind if you're thinking of voting
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  Speaker 2: for her. And don't forget the Duke University case 20
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  Speaker 2: years ago. Very similar story. Duke University students, the lacrosse team,
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  Speaker 2: accused of gang raping a stripper. It sounded horrible. It
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  Speaker 2: was just like this where it was all over the news.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody lashing out at these fraternity guys. Everybody wanted to
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  Speaker 2: give them the electric chair. Everybody. Well, it turned out
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing wasn't true. It turned out the accuser
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  Speaker 2: was not telling the whole story, was not telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And they were actually innocent. So that was 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Just just bear that in mind. Just just keep that
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  Speaker 2: in mind. President Trump getting into a huge fight with
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  Speaker 2: Senator Tom Cotton, getting so mad at him that he
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  Speaker 2: gave out his cell number. He's done that before. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he did that to Lindsey Graham years ago. But the
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  Speaker 2: reason he's so mad at Cotton, the fight is over
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  Speaker 2: daylight saving time. The president wants to keep it permanently,
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  Speaker 2: permanent daylight savings time. It's called the Sunshine Protection Act.
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  Speaker 2: It would make daylight savings time permanent. You'd never have
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  Speaker 2: to set your clocks ahead. or back, which is good
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  Speaker 2: because coming up in December, it's going to start to
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  Speaker 2: get dark at 4.30. If we keep Daylight Savings Time,
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  Speaker 2: it'll get dark at 5.30. It's not that much better,
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  Speaker 2: but it helps.
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  Speaker 1: It helps.
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  Speaker 2: Now, President Trump... We.
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  Speaker 6: Want to get away from this ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Way and custom of every twice a year turning your
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  Speaker 2: clocks back, turning your clocks forward, being late for dinner,
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  Speaker 2: being late for very important meetings. It's ridiculous. And if
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  Speaker 2: you look at the public, they agree.
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  Speaker 6: That's a 100% issue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. That's a problem. Your iPhone, your iWatch,
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  Speaker 2: they'll change the time automatically for daylight saving time. But
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  Speaker 2: then you've got to change your alarm clock, your this clock,
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  Speaker 2: your that clock, and then you think you're all done,
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  Speaker 2: and then You go in the kitchen, uh-oh, I forgot
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  Speaker 2: the clock in the microwave. There's a clock in the
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  Speaker 2: oven I got to change. Then you get in your car.
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  Speaker 2: There's a clock there. You got to change that. You
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  Speaker 2: got to go into all kinds of settings. It's a problem. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other thing is there are a lot of studies
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  Speaker 2: that show daylight savings time, when we come off it,
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  Speaker 2: it actually affects people's health. It actually costs a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money for us. So it's a good idea to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it. Now, why is Tom Cotton demanding it?
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  Speaker 2: that we go off daylight saving time? Well, he's the
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  Speaker 2: senator from Arkansas. And here's the problem. Arkansas is at
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  Speaker 2: the end of a time zone. It's at the very end.
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  Speaker 2: You got to remember, let's say it gets dark at
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  Speaker 2: five o'clock here in New York at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the time zone. Well, if you're at the other end
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  Speaker 2: of the time zone, it's not getting dark till six o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: It's like almost an hour difference, one end of the
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  Speaker 2: time zone to the other. So Arkansas is right on
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  Speaker 2: the end which means if it's going to stay dark
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  Speaker 2: out till seven in the morning in Arkansas, it'll stay
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  Speaker 2: dark out till eight in the morning. So he's arguing
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  Speaker 2: that it would stay dark out till like eight 30.
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  Speaker 2: All the kids would have to go to school in
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  Speaker 2: total darkness. And that's his whole problem. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to do that to the kids. But nowadays, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, you just went to school,
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  Speaker 2: you left your house and you walked to school and
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  Speaker 2: your parents had no idea where the hell you were.
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  Speaker 2: But nowadays the parents never leave the kid They're never
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  Speaker 2: more than two feet away from the kid all day
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  Speaker 2: and night. What do they call that? Helicopter parents. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I think it's just for Arkansas. They've got
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  Speaker 2: to come up with something. Maybe a state can make
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  Speaker 2: it an exception if it wants to. Do that in
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  Speaker 2: the law. Everybody else wants to keep daylight savings time.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: It would be great for everybody. Yankees tonight. The next
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  Speaker 2: playoff game is tonight. It's game two. They lost the
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: first game. They've got to win tonight. They cannot get
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  Speaker 2: two games behind. The good news is Wednesday they moved
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  Speaker 2: to Yankee Stadium. I guess that gives them an advantage
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: being at Yankee Stadium. Hopefully it does. Hey, remember that
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  Speaker 2: crazy Jack Smith, that bug-eyed weirdo prosecutor, the hit man
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  Speaker 2: for the Biden administration? He's got a history of that,
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  Speaker 2: of going after Republicans, charging them with anything and everything.
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  Speaker 2: He also has a history of the charges never sticking.
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  Speaker 2: When he went after McDonald in Virginia, he convicted him
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  Speaker 2: of eight things. It got to the Supreme Court and
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  Speaker 2: they ruled all eight were phony, ridiculous charges and threw
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  Speaker 2: them out. But in the hearings, a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: think he should actually be nominated for a Best Acting Oscar.
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  Speaker 2: He was amazing in those hearings, trying to convince everybody
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  Speaker 2: that he's not a partisan. He's not political. He has
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  Speaker 2: no partisan leanings in any direction. He's totally neutral. He
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  Speaker 2: actually said this under oath. But there he was this
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  Speaker 2: weekend seen at a protest, a No Kings protest. a
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  Speaker 2: power to the people, no Kings protest festival. There was
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  Speaker 2: Jack Smith wearing a no King shirt. I mean, you
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: can't get much more left wing, a crazy Democrat than
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: a no King shirt at the festival. Foo fighters, lead singer,
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  Speaker 2: Dave Grohl even mentioned him from the stage. They dedicated
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  Speaker 2: a song to Jack Smith. They said he was a hero.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen performed, uh, and he, well, uh, he, It
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  Speaker 2: was sort of a concert. It was more him lecturing
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  Speaker 2: you about everything. He came out talking about ICE for
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  Speaker 2: 10 minutes, and then he did that Minnesota song that
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  Speaker 2: he does. What's that called? The Streets of Minnesota. Then
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  Speaker 2: he talked more and more about ICE. Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I love Bruce Springsteen, but the last thing
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear from him is politics. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's like having Mitch McConnell sing Born to Run. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: stick to what you know, but people who paid a
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  Speaker 2: fortune for this had to listen to a lecture from
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen. Hey, speaking of Mitch McConnell, You see the
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: SNL open, the cold open? They did a thing of
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: all these Republicans coming out. They bring out this old
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: fossil in a wheelchair. It's supposed to be Mitch McConnell.
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  Speaker 2: And they make jokes about how feeble he is, how
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: out of it he is. Okay. But did you hear
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  Speaker 2: one of these jokes in the whole four years of Biden?
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  Speaker 2: The whole four years of Biden, it was never a mention. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: compared to Biden, Mitch McConnell is like a track star.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Not one mention of Biden in four years
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  Speaker 2: on that show. Hey, Taylor Swift, surprise appearance in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of a monologue. Actually woke up the audience because
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  Speaker 2: the co-host or the host that week, not exactly dazzling
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  Speaker 2: the audience. But hey, we got a lot to get to.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: We'll get to lots of coming up. We'll get to
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: household income. You're not going to believe these numbers. And
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: we'll get to Mamdani. He's done even more damage to
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: New York. Wait till you hear this. Coming up, it's
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone, three hours every day, 9 to noon, 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: to noon, every day, on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 4: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, there's a lawsuit. I think this is the
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: one that will stop the Piedra terror attacks. It's a
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: brilliant lawsuit. It's a different one. Well, we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: it coming up. The Republicans right now, when it comes
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: to the midterms, they're a little behind. Now, don't go
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  Speaker 2: by all the fake polls, these media polls, these college polls.
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  Speaker 2: They're all heavily rigged. The metrics are all wrong. Don't
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: go by them. But if you look at real polling,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Republicans are a little behind. But with momentum, that's very,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: very important. That's a good place to be in. The
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: worst thing you can have happen is to be way
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: ahead too early. And it looks like the Democrats may
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: have peaked too early. And they're starting to lose ground.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: President Trump now all over the place, traveling all over
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  Speaker 2: the country. One different state every day. He'll be in
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska today. He's going back to Texas this week. Now,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: you could say, well, Texas should have been a sure thing.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that he has to keep going back there
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  Speaker 2: is not good. Well, the other thing is they don't
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  Speaker 2: go back unless they've really dug through the numbers and
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  Speaker 2: think they've got a shot at winning, at turning it around.
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  Speaker 2: So if he's going back, it means he can turn
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  Speaker 2: it around. If it looks hopeless, North Carolina or something,
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  Speaker 2: they just pull out. So the fact that he's going
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  Speaker 2: back to Texas means they see something very encouraging in
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  Speaker 2: the numbers. But things look very good for Republicans right
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  Speaker 2: now in the midterms, better than you're being told. And
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  Speaker 2: you'll be told all along by fake polls and fake
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  Speaker 2: news that it's hopeless, the Republicans are going to get
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  Speaker 2: wiped out. That's to discourage turnout. And that's another reason
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the president is out there hoping to encourage Turnout. Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman in New York. Don't go by the fake polls,
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  Speaker 2: the public polls that you read, these cheap, flimsy polls
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  Speaker 2: with the bad metrics. In the real polls, which are
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  Speaker 2: not public, they cost a fortune, but they're deadly accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman doing very well.
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  Speaker 6: Our internal polling has us in the margin of error.
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  Speaker 6: It's neck and neck. And I'm sure Kathy Hochul's poll
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  Speaker 6: is the same because she spent $ 6 million over the
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  Speaker 6: last couple of weeks attacking me. And you don't attack
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  Speaker 6: a Republican in New York State and raise their name
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  Speaker 6: ID unless you're in deep trouble. And she's in deep
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  Speaker 6: trouble because people are miserable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Blakeman's in a very good spot. Just a little behind,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: but with momentum. That's what you want. You don't want
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: to be... Good examples, Kathy Hochul. Far ahead. 20 points ahead.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Too early, too soon, and lost it all. And again...
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: She's got this internal polling too. She has actual real
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: polling with the real numbers. And you can tell what
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: they said because she's running millions in attack ads. She
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: wasn't doing that before. All of a sudden, she is
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: spending millions and millions and millions in vicious attack ads
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: against Blakeman. That's because she saw the real polling and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: it scared the hell out of her. So all of
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: a sudden, tons of money were allocated to go after Blakeman.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: You know what's a real compliment to Bruce Blakeman? They
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: did the most extensive opposition research. They dug into him
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: to look for some dirt on him. They looked and
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: they looked and they looked. And they couldn't find anything.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: There's nothing there. They couldn't find one piece of dirt
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: to attack him on. So instead, the attack ads are
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: all about him and Trump. He's so close to Trump.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: He's too close to Trump. He's a Trump supporter. He's
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a MAGA guy. That's all they came up with. They
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: couldn't find anything else to attack him on. Quite a compliment.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to Blakeman. You can also hear about the economy, how
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: bad the economy is. The economy is actually doing pretty well.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: It's actually a very strong economy. Jobs are up since
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the president took office. And the good news is they're
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: real jobs. They're not government jobs. They're private sector jobs.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And here's an interesting statistic that gets ignored. Second, Trump
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: administration nearly all of the jobs created have gone to women.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Men only got 8% of the jobs. 92% of the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: jobs in the new Trump administration have all gone to women. Now,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: one reason might be he's deporting A million people. Now,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: those statistics show most of the people deported are men.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: So that might have changed things a little. But it's
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: an interesting statistic. Nobody else will report it. You won't
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: hear it anywhere else. Hey, the Tennessee prison, you know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: they tried to execute Krista Pike. They gave her a
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: lethal injection. She survived. They gave her another lethal injection.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: She survived. It's happened before. Like 3% of.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Executions don't work. And it doesn't matter what it is.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It can be hanging, it could be electrocution, it could
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: be lethal injection. 3% of them fail and the person survives.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But the prison boss of that Tennessee prison, he's resigned.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: He has left. Tennessee's prison chief, Frank Strada, is resigning
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: from his position. Now, the interesting thing is before this prison,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: he was in Arizona running a prison there. And in
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: that prison, they had three problem-plagued executions, three executions that
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: didn't work. So he's got a history of this, but
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I would think, I would think they looked into this
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: before they hired the guy, but maybe not. President Trump promising, well,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: he's announced he's going to send $ 90 checks, $ 90 checks
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: to 20 million seniors to help them with their Medicare premiums.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: They found some money in the fund that they can
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: give back. So every senior, 20 million of them actually,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: We'll get a $ 90 check. And then on the campaign
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: trail this weekend, he revived that promise to give everybody $ 5, 000.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Send everybody a check for $ 5, 000 if the Republicans win
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the midterms. And it's a great idea because it's the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: kind of thing Democrats would do. That's why they're getting
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: so crazy about it. It's what they do. They promise
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: a free phone, a free this. They just promise you
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: free stuff if you vote for themself. For a Republican
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to steal their little gimmick, they're very unhappy about that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: And it's also a great idea because you promised the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: $ 5, 000 check to everybody. Republicans win, they take over, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: you don't send the $ 5, 000. You keep promising it. Well,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: who knows? We'll see. It'll end up being a $ 1, 000
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: check to everybody. There is the money to do it
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: coming in because, believe it or not, these crazy tariffs
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: do bring in a couple trillion dollars. And all this
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: manufacturing come back. So the money is there to do it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: It'd be an easy thing to do. If you just
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: get rid of all the waste and fraud and bloat
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and the budget, you could send everybody $ 50, 000. But he'll
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: come up with something. Mayor Mamdani getting his flu shot.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: You should get your flu shot. It's that time of year.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And you notice in the video, he invited Curtis Sliwa
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to get the shot with him. He and Curtis are
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: sitting there side by side. It's a very funny video.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It's up online. of them getting flu shots. Curtis is
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: very funny in the video and it's driven a lot
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: of people crazy. A lot of other radio hosts, everybody
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: lashing out at Curtis. What are they doing with Mayor Mondale? See,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: it's a tradition for mayors. They've done this forever. When
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: it's time for the flu shot, they'll make a video
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to encourage people to get a flu shot. Most of
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: the time, they'll get some big celebrity to come be
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: with them. And if it's a Democrat, Easy to get
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: big celebrities because all the big Hollywood people love these Democrats.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: So it's quite an honor to Curtis, actually. It's quite
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: an honor. They usually look for some big celebrity to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: be in the video with them. The fact they asked Curtis,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: that's quite an honor. One of the reasons the other
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: radio hosts are going crazy. They weren't asked. Nobody asked them.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: But listen, we're all opposed to Mamdani. We can't stand
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: what he's doing. But when it comes to public service
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: or something like that, you do those things. You do those.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I did a luncheon with him a couple weeks ago.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It was all to raise money for the Police Athletic League,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: a great charity. But there we were, smiling, laughing. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: introduced him. It was great. But that's what you do
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: when it's public service, charity, flu shots. You do that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: You do that. You can't run around being an angry,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: screaming lunatic every time you see the guy. Anyway, we'll
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: take some calls coming up. 800-321-0710 is the number. Mark
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Simone here. Nine to noon every day. It's three hours now.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Nine to noon every day. More Mark. The Mark Simone Show.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR. Thank you, Shadow Stevens. Well, this just announced
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Caroline Leavitt, formerly the White House Press Secretary. Caroline Leavitt
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: will join Fox News. as a contributor. Now, at some point,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I would imagine she'll have her own show, like a
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: lot of other ex-press secretaries, Dana Perino and Kayleigh McEnany
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: and others. But for now, a contributor, that's probably what
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: she wants, because that means you appear on various Fox
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: shows as a guest. You do 10 minutes on this show,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: 10 minutes on that show, and you can do it
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: from home. They set you up at home with a
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: little mini TV set there. It's a big TV screen
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: behind you that puts the background in it's, uh, three
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: lights and a camera. And, uh, it's just, you know,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: once in a while, you know, every couple of hours
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: you do 10 minutes. So the whole point of her
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: leaving the white house was so she could be with
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: her kids and help, you know, ever around the house,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: be there to raise her kids. So this is the
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: perfect job. She'll do this. So once she's doing this,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you'll see her on, uh, Fox and friends, you'll see
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: her on outnumbered or, or you'll see her on Hannity
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: or you'll see her on Jesse. And it's an easy
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: way to, uh, And a lot of these contributors have
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: never left their house. It's a great job. You don't
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: have to go anywhere. You just got to go into
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the other room and do 10 minutes and come back. Now,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: some show, I'm on Kudlow all the time. There, you
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: got to be on the set. It's very important because
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: it's a great looking set, but perfect for Caroline Levitt.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: And then at some point, if she's great as a contributor,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: they'll give her her own show when she's ready to
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: come back full time. Let's take some calls. Let's go
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how are you doing?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I'm doing very well, thank you. Mark, during yesterday's Chicago
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Bears game, I saw a great ad with President Trump.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: As he walked down a hall line with pictures, he
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: listed all of his plans and accomplishments. And I thought
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: it was quite powerful. This is excellent timing for the midterms.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: A question, if I may, how is Barron Trump doing
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: these days?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question. He's doing fine. A lot
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: of people love that ad of President Trump that, you know,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: they say, wow, it's very dramatic. Ooh, that's a powerful ad. Now,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: if you're a Democrat, you're getting livid. I think that's
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: one reason he's running the ad, just to make Democrats nauseous.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: They go crazy when they see this ad. Now, the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: other problem is you use taxpayer funds to pay for it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: You have the government pay for it. I Legally, technically,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: he's right. You're not supposed to spend government money on
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: campaign ads. But the ad's only really about him. And
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: as he points out, he's not a candidate. He's not
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: running for anything ever again. He'll never be running for
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: anything ever again. So technically, it's not a campaign ad.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: But it's perfect Trump. He figured out a way to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: get Democrats screaming and crazy and have them just bursting
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: at the seams. But it's technically legal. Oh, Barron Trump's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: doing fine. Barron is going to school. He goes to NYU.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But they have a Washington, D.C. campus. That's where he goes.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Although lately he's been taking classes privately without going into
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: too much detail. You'll notice you have not seen anything
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: of Barron Trump lately. That's because of that horrifying Iranian threat.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: They've actually threatened to assassinate Barron Trump. So that's why.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: You don't hear about him, and you don't see him
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: right now. Let's go to Peter in Manhattan. Peter, how
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you doing? Hey, what's up, Mark?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Mark, I got a question for you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is the guy. He hates Trump, hates everything.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Hates Blakeman, hates all this stuff. Always angry about it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: What is Blakeman's position on illegal aliens?
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I think it's a product. Oh, his position is follow
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the law. Stick to the law.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that is his position.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: What is your position?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: You've got to listen. Why is your system so bad,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: your phone system so bad? Listen to me.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: When he says, well, if they've been here a long time.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: This is why you never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: argue with anybody. I just gave him the answer, but
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: then nothing satisfies him. They'll keep arguing. His position is
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: follow the law. What, what, what? See, this is what
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: they do. His position is stick to the law. Whatever
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the law says, enforce it. That's his position.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: You hope it is. You hope it is.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: And I bet you this guy's a really nice guy,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: this Peter. You can tell from his voice. He's like
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: a nice, fun, warm guy. Soon as they get into politics,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: you can't tell them anything. Don't even try to convince,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: you're not going to convince anybody of anything. Blakeman's actual
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: position is enforce the law. If you tell them that,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: they go, it just makes them madder. Don't argue with them.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Blauvelt in Florida. Blauvelt, how you doing?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark Simone.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: If Blakeman is following the law, he proved it because
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: he put up all the jail cells for ICE. That's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: right there, black and white.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: And I have a question for you. He didn't actually
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: put up jail cells. When ICE comes to town and
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: they've got to arrest illegals who are committing crimes, they
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: do need help. The local law enforcement should help them.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: And Blakeman gave them locals to help, and he let
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: them use a wing of a jail in case, you know,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: you've got to have a place to hold your prisoners. Yeah,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I have one question for you, Mark. What's your TV
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: schedule this week? I don't know. I don't know. Actually,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: these TV shows, they kind of book day to day. Like,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: they don't schedule. Sometimes they'll do, but most of the time.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: It's day-to-day depending on... Are you on cut mode this week? Yeah,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I'm on every week, but it's day-to-day. You know, like,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard... Oh, I shouldn't say this. Let me look,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: let me look. Nope, didn't hear from him today.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So it's like an encore. It's an encore process.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Well, you can't book a TV show too far in
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: advance because you don't know what the topics are going
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to be. Let's say it's a war breaks out somewhere. Well,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: it's going to be all generals and military types. And
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: let's say it's a big financial. It's going to be
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: treasury types, economists. But, yeah, it'll be one day this week.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Ralph in Manhattan. Ralph, how are you doing?
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: What kind of fair shake, Mark, are these guys from
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Cornell going to get? They're probably creeps. I mean, I
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: can assure you they're creeps. But when they use this thing, Mark,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: as a political football, which they're doing in spades, man,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: you're going to see these guys go down in flames,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: not get a fair trial. I mean, I thought it
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be a semblance of fairness. But as
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you see, it's not.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Really going to end up that way, Mark. I think
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: they're guilty. That's just my gut instinct. Yeah. Yeah. they
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: got some things in their favor. One is the victim
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: has changed her story multiple times. Also, Letitia James, not
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: having any experience as a prosecutor, she's never prosecuted a
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: criminal case in her life, shot her mouth off and
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: prejudged the case. They can use all this stuff. What
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: they'll do with Hochul and James saying all these things,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: they'll get it moved out of state. They'll get the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: case moved to another venue. And that will help.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and how about that Duke situation when you found
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: out years afterwards, it took years to find out that
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: it was an absolute hoax. There was no truth to
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: it whatsoever. That was shocking to me when I found
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: out there was no truth to it. I thought it
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: was somewhere in between, but it wasn't that way.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: No, and that's a good thing to bear in mind.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Good point, Ralph. The Duke lacrosse case, it was exactly
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: the same stuff. And it turned out it was not
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: just misleading. It was totally, completely false. My gut instinct
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: is this woman's not lying totally, but we'll see. Just
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: remember the Duke Lacrosse case 20 years ago turned out
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: to be a total hoax, but we'll see where this goes.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about the Cornell case. And again, that
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: fraternity house, that is the ugliest building I have ever seen.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Stop showing that picture. It looks hideous, that building. In fact,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: tear it down or put a new front on that building. Hey,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the Pieta tear tax, you know, there's a big lawsuit.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Randy Mastro's running it. They're trying to block the Pieta
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: tear tax. And they won a couple of rounds with
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the judge saying the rollout was bad. It wasn't done correctly.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: And so it didn't kill the Pieta tear tax. It
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: just said they have to redo the whole thing. Well,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: there's another lawsuit that is so brilliant. I think this
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: one is going to stop the Pierre de Terre text.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: We'll explain it to you coming up in the next hour.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I think the answer to this, it's brilliant. And then
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: we got that and a lot more to get to
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: coming up. It's Mark Simone here every weekday now, 9
• 33:30
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• 33:32
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• 33:34
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• 33:36
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• 33:40
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• 33:44
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• 33:48
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• 33:59
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• 34:02
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• 34:06
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• 34:11
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• 34:14
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• 34:17
  Speaker 2: this pumpkin nonsense coming up. And again, the most brilliant lawsuit,
• 34:21
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• 34:23
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