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Hour 1: More famous names are in the Epstein files. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now on the Voice of New York. He still Mark
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Speaker 1: sim Own show on sevent tenoo.
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Speaker 2: Hey, well it's Thursday already. It's not the greatest day,
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Speaker 2: a little rainy. It's gonna get colder. Yeah, it's been
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Speaker 2: a summer like but it's gonna get cold throughout the day.
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Speaker 2: It'll be down into the thirties tonight and then forties
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Speaker 2: tomorrow and fifties over the weekend. But the winter is over.
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Speaker 2: You're nine days away from spring. Spring begins in nine days,
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Speaker 2: So a lot to get to today. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of Epstein fallout. A lot of people are suddenly leaving
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Speaker 2: their jobs, their businesses over Epstein. We'll get to that
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Speaker 2: coming up CNN. Totally humiliated. We'll get to the oscars,
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Speaker 2: we'll get to well, lots to talk about today. Now.
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Speaker 2: The latest in Iran. The Straits of Hormuz is the
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Speaker 2: big issue. Tankers trying to move through there. A couple
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Speaker 2: got hit. Now, this is gonna be tough to straighten
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Speaker 2: this out, but not that tough. It'll take it'll take
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Speaker 2: a week or so to get things going. The problem
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Speaker 2: is we've taken out the Iranian Navy, all sixty ships.
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Speaker 2: We didn't even think they had sixty ships, but we've
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Speaker 2: taken out the entire Uranian navy. It's non existent. Then
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Speaker 2: they had sixteen mine laying ships that could plant mines
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Speaker 2: in the bottom of the water. There those all sixteen
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Speaker 2: have been taken out. They're gone. Here's the other here's
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Speaker 2: the problem. Now. If they want to attack ships what's
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Speaker 2: left of the regime, they do it in two ways.
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Speaker 2: Speedboats loaded with dynamite that can just come out of nowhere,
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Speaker 2: and drones. Drones are the hardest thing to defend against
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Speaker 2: because we've taken out most of their missiles. Because missile
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Speaker 2: requires a launcher, you can see the launcher and blow
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Speaker 2: up all the launchers. A drone you can't see. It
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Speaker 2: could be hidden in a garage, hidden in a basement.
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Speaker 2: You're bring it out of the garage all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: there it is in the air, and it's very hard
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Speaker 2: to stop. So there are a lot of drones left,
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Speaker 2: less and less every day. But that's the problem with
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Speaker 2: the ships. Now, it's going to take a while to
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Speaker 2: figure this out. They'll have to take out more drones.
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Speaker 2: The only good news with the drones, you can see
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Speaker 2: where they came from and take out those locations price
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Speaker 2: of oil will go up as a result. We're not
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Speaker 2: that dependent on these Rainian oil coming for the Straits
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Speaker 2: of Hormus. China is extremely dependent on it, India almost
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Speaker 2: totally dependent on it. It's twenty percent of the world's oil.
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Speaker 2: And again, we got all the oil we need right here,
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Speaker 2: so we're not dependent on it. Just to get the
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Speaker 2: price down, a number of nations have decided to open
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Speaker 2: up their strategic petroleum reserve and release a couple hundred
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Speaker 2: million gallons into the market just to drive the price down.
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Speaker 2: You don't need to do it, but they decided to
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Speaker 2: do it just to lower the price. The leader of Iran,
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Speaker 2: the new one, the Iatola's Sun. Normally, if somebody you're
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Speaker 2: the new leader of the country, you've just been voted
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Speaker 2: the leader of the country, you'd be so thrilled, you'd
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Speaker 2: be so this has got to be the worst thing
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Speaker 2: had ever happened to anybody, because you know, you've probably
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Speaker 2: got two weeks to live now. He was not there
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Speaker 2: for his induction ceremony, his installation ceremony two days ago.
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Speaker 2: Many many people showed up for it except him. He
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Speaker 2: wasn't there, and word is that he's in very bad ship.
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Speaker 2: Word is he still in a coma and he had
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Speaker 2: his leg blown off in one of those original strikes.
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Speaker 2: His leg has gone amputated. He's still in a coma.
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Speaker 2: He's got terrible facial lacerations, so you won't see him
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Speaker 2: for a while. He did put out a statement, but
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Speaker 2: it's kind of like a Joe Biden's statement. You don't
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Speaker 2: know who actually put it out. You know, Biden couldn't
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Speaker 2: have put it out, but somebody wrote it up and
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Speaker 2: used the auto pen. So this is the same kind
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Speaker 2: of deal. Now, what do we have to worry about. Well,
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Speaker 2: there's a couple of threats on the horizon besides the
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Speaker 2: Straits of Hormuse, and by the way, the Iranians have
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Speaker 2: expanded that bombing and into the Persian Gulf, so there's
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Speaker 2: striking ships wherever they can. But again that'll be mopped
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Speaker 2: up and cleaned up in a week or so. But
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Speaker 2: the things they're worried about right now cyber attacks here
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Speaker 2: in this country. Cyber attacks. The worst thing that could
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Speaker 2: target be our banking system, electrical grid. This is something
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Speaker 2: scary thought, but we faced this before. They've tried this before,
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Speaker 2: so we know a little more about how to block it.
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Speaker 2: Sleeper cells that could be in this country, terrors, sleeper
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Speaker 2: cells that could be activated. That's a problem. You've had
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Speaker 2: this wide open border for the last four years, millions
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Speaker 2: poured across and that's where the sleeper cells would come through.
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Speaker 2: That wide open border. The big threat that they're getting
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Speaker 2: through intelligence. This doesn't mean it's real, but intelligence sources
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Speaker 2: are reporting it. The threat is that there'll be drone
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Speaker 2: strikes on California. This will come from ships, boats off shore.
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Speaker 2: The drones would be launched from there. These are unmanned
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Speaker 2: drones and they can be controlled from thousands of miles away.
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Speaker 2: The ships, the boats, they're not ships, they're just boats,
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Speaker 2: can be controlled from miles away. They're not even manned.
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Speaker 2: They can be controlled from millions of miles away. So
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Speaker 2: they're very worried about that drone attacks on California. So
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Speaker 2: FBI everybody looking for any sign of anything like that.
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Speaker 2: The President keeps getting attacked. That is mixed messaging, you know,
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Speaker 2: it makes all these different statements. He's always speaking to
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Speaker 2: the press wherever he is, and some of the messaging
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Speaker 2: on Iran is it's contradictory. That's the big complaint. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's actually good. Mixed messaging contradictory, not clear, that's good
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Speaker 2: for the enemy. You don't want to be clear. You
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Speaker 2: don't want to come on television publicly say here's exactly
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Speaker 2: what we're going to do. Here's exactly when we're going
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Speaker 2: to pull out. You never want the enemy to know that.
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Speaker 2: So the mixed messaging might annoy the media, but it's
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Speaker 2: great as far as handling the enemy. The other attack, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, he hasn't clearly explained why we're there. He
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Speaker 2: hasn't explained if you need this, explain to you something
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Speaker 2: really wrong with you. I mean you you're taking out
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Speaker 2: the most evil, brutal, awful leader in the world. You're
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Speaker 2: taking out the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
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Speaker 2: If you need to explain to you why you would
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Speaker 2: do that, I think you need a lot of help there.
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Speaker 2: So we'll keep you up on Iran. It's day day
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Speaker 2: twelve today, or was it day thirteen today, something like that,
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer. Of course, Blumenthal referring it to it as
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Speaker 2: an endless war, Well, I don't know. When you're under
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Speaker 2: two weeks, that's really not an endless war. Hey, that
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Speaker 2: save act. It's very important for the mid terms. The
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Speaker 2: Save Act would make it change everything in the election.
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Speaker 2: So federal law that would make it required that everybody
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Speaker 2: has to show ID, IM prove they're an American citizen.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty easy nowadays to prove that. Most people now
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Speaker 2: have an enhanced driver's license that real ID. You just
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Speaker 2: prove you're a citizen. You show the documents, you prove
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Speaker 2: you're a citizen. You vote the way it's been as
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Speaker 2: anybody can vote. We've seen lots of examples of people
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Speaker 2: who weren't citizens who were caught voting. So the Save
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Speaker 2: Act would require it. Some states do require ID. Many
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Speaker 2: states require ID, but I think about thirty eight states
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Speaker 2: require ID. I got to prove your citizen. But then
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Speaker 2: there's some Blue states that if you're breathing close enough
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Speaker 2: you can will let you vote. And they want to
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Speaker 2: make it a federal requirement that every state has to
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Speaker 2: have only American citizens voting. And the Senator John Thunne
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Speaker 2: and the Senate has made a mess of this, screwed
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Speaker 2: up the whole thing. There's going to be a vote,
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Speaker 2: doesn't look like it'll succeed. Schumer, everybody was a little surprised,
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Speaker 2: actually said the quiet part out loud. Why would Democrats
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Speaker 2: oppose this? They come up with these weird explanations. One
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Speaker 2: was that, well, minority voters they can't get ID Huh,
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Speaker 2: they're too stupid. They don't know how to get an ID.
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Speaker 2: They're incapable of finding out how to get an idea
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Speaker 2: or drivers, which is absolutely ridiculous, not to mention one
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Speaker 2: of the most racist things you could say. Then they
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Speaker 2: tried this divorced women won't be able to vote, something
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Speaker 2: to do with their maiden name, this name, which makes
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Speaker 2: no sense at absolutely no sense at all. The real
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Speaker 2: reason is if you're illegal, you're not gonna be able
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Speaker 2: to vote anywhere. But Schumer, in one of those rants
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Speaker 2: he's got the every every year the glasses get bigger
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Speaker 2: and nice had this really really big glasses on actually
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Speaker 2: said the quiet part out loud.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but their bill isn't voter ID number one. It
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Speaker 3: is about voter registration. It makes it. It allows ICE
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Speaker 3: to kick tens of millions of people off the rolls,
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Speaker 3: off the rolls, and they don't tell them until election day,
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Speaker 3: and you show them and you say you're not registered anymore.
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Speaker 3: You're not registered here, you're not on the rolls.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if ice kick them off the rolls because
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Speaker 2: they're not an American citizen. And Schumer says it's tens
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Speaker 2: of millions. Is sometimes Democrats like, wow, the voter fraud
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Speaker 2: is very, very minor, it's very small. Well, if he's
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Speaker 2: saying it's tens of millions, it's not so small. So well,
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Speaker 2: let's see tomorrow's day. It's not going to go well
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Speaker 2: tomorrow for that vote. Hey, the Epstein stuff, Boy, there's
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Speaker 2: a lot more fallout with Epstein, more and more and more.
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Speaker 2: As you just heard them the news. Steve Tish was
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Speaker 2: all over the Epstein files talking to Epstein about women,
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Speaker 2: about this woman, that woman, this girl, that girl. Is
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Speaker 2: she a pro? Is she not? It's pretty seedy kind
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Speaker 2: of conversation he was having with Epstein. So it's now
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Speaker 2: been agreed that Steve Tish will transfer his ownership of
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Speaker 2: the Giants. He's got something like twenty percent of the team,
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent of the team. He will transfer it
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Speaker 2: actually to him and his sister Laurie, brother Jonathan. They
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Speaker 2: will transfer it to the next generation, to their kids.
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Speaker 2: Actually they had forty five percent ownership share. They'll put
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Speaker 2: it into a trust and the kids will now own
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Speaker 2: the trust, and the trust will have no voting or control.
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Speaker 2: They'll just have some ownership, but no control or voting
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Speaker 2: or say in the running of the Giants. One reason
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Speaker 2: they're doing this now is there's going to be the
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Speaker 2: NFL owner's Spring meeting later this month, and they thought
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Speaker 2: that maybe the owners would go nuts over this Steve
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Speaker 2: Tish Epstein connection. So to get ahead of that, Tish
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Speaker 2: is bowing out. He'll be out of the Giants. The
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Speaker 2: Mara family. John Merrow really runs at They're great people,
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Speaker 2: so everything's good with the Giants. So he's gone. As
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Speaker 2: a result, you got people all over the country, got
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Speaker 2: Larry Summers having to leave Harvard. Casey Washerman is one
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Speaker 2: of the biggest major figures in Hollywood, having a step
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Speaker 2: down from the company he founded, having a step down
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Speaker 2: as the Olympic chairman for Los Angeles. Now here's a
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Speaker 2: guy who he's okay here, I think Jeffrey Epstein wanted
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Speaker 2: to do damage control twenty fourteen. This was after the
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Speaker 2: first time he got convicted for this disgusting stuff. But
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Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen that Virginia Jeffrey was doing that civil
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Speaker 2: lawsuit where she was accusing of all kinds of stuff. Remember,
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Speaker 2: there was tremendous, awful bad news coverage of this, so
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Speaker 2: he wanted to do some damage control. So Epstein talked
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Speaker 2: to Larry Summers, a big part of the Clinton administration,
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Speaker 2: former Harvard president, all of that, and Larry Summer said,
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Speaker 2: you ought to hire Joe Lockhart, the ex Press secretary.
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Speaker 2: He'll help you with damage control pr public image. So
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Speaker 2: epstein'sid all right, set it up, and Summers put the
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Speaker 2: two of them together. So Lockhart looked like, ooh, we
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Speaker 2: may have an Epstein problem, but if you study the
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Speaker 2: stuff here, it's pretty clear. Lockhart was not interested, declined.
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Speaker 2: The offer. Never worked for Epstein, so he cleared himself.
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Speaker 2: Now the other people having some problem problems. There's some
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Speaker 2: very very big doctors and medical people all over New
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Speaker 2: York City. You know, you got your regular doctors, then
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Speaker 2: you got your concierge doctors give you a lot more service.
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Speaker 2: Then you get your real high end concierge doctors. And
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Speaker 2: these guys, you know, you got their cell number. Anytime
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Speaker 2: you need them twenty four to seven, you can call them.
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Speaker 2: They'll get you right into any hospital. They'll make house calls,
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Speaker 2: do it whatever you need. So there were a few
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Speaker 2: of them that Epstein got a hold of it and
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Speaker 2: started paying a fortune to tens of thousands of dollars
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Speaker 2: for every little thing. So there were a couple that
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Speaker 2: Epstein had taken care of him, taking care of the
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Speaker 2: girls and taking care of them, all kinds of stuff. Yes,
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Speaker 2: sexually transmitted diseases with one of them, but sometimes they'd
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Speaker 2: come in with bruises and they were bashed up. And
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Speaker 2: some of these doctors, Epstein wanted them to be anonymous.
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Speaker 2: In other words, if you have an account with the
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Speaker 2: concierge doctor, you have to list everybody that's going to
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Speaker 2: be treated. Well, some of them were just listed anonymously,
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Speaker 2: and apparently that's unethical. You're not supposed to do that
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Speaker 2: if you're a doctor. So some of those guys have
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Speaker 2: a problem. Goes beyond the doctors he was. I won't
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Speaker 2: mention any hospitals, but he was making deals with hospitals
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Speaker 2: so we could use their emergency room. And even more
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Speaker 2: than that. You can go in the New York Times
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Speaker 2: and read these articles. They've had a lot of coverage
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Speaker 2: of it this past week. But with some of these hospitals,
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Speaker 2: they would send the team over to his house to
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Speaker 2: treat the women. Here's the one woman here who seemed
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Speaker 2: to have her skull bashed a little and required a
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Speaker 2: lot of stitches. So you see a picture of the
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Speaker 2: laid her out on the dining room table. The team
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Speaker 2: from the hospital came over to Epstein's house and stitched
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Speaker 2: her up right there on the dining room table. There's
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Speaker 2: other situations where a girl got hurt in Epstein's depraved
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Speaker 2: whatever he was doing, and the doctors were asked to
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Speaker 2: take her to another place, like to New Jersey or
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Speaker 2: somewhere so there'd be no Epstein connection, and take her
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Speaker 2: into a hospital under another name. So a lot of
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Speaker 2: these people getting caught in all this stuff. There's more
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Speaker 2: and more evidence. Now, you know, disgusting enough these young girls,
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Speaker 2: but there's more and more evidence that whatever weird sexual
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Speaker 2: things were going on, people were getting injured. So some
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Speaker 2: of these girls shown up bruised, bleeding, that sort of
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Speaker 2: really bad stuff. And as we told you yesterday, Epstein
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Speaker 2: had this magnificent ranch in New Mexico, and there are
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Speaker 2: now nothing is confirmed, but they're now sources of saying
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Speaker 2: some people died. Some girls might have died in some
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Speaker 2: rough sex and they're buried on the ranch. So officials
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Speaker 2: are now actually seriously looking at digging up the grounds
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Speaker 2: of that ranch looking for that that's developing story, but
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Speaker 2: again nothing is confirmed yet, nothing is confirmed. Anyway, We've
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Speaker 2: got a lot to get to today. We'll take some calls.
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Speaker 2: Next eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is
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Speaker 2: the number. Hey, we're having that big networking event. It's
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Speaker 2: week from tonight, March nineteenth, six to eight pms. A
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Speaker 2: lot of CEOs, a lot of business leaders, and it's
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Speaker 2: Will will be there saying a few words. It'll be
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Speaker 2: Hey, well it takes me calls eight hundred three two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven. Ten is a number eight hundred three
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Speaker 2: two one zero seven to ten. Let's go to Dana
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Speaker 2: in Poughkeepsie. Dana, how you doing?
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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm good.
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Speaker 5: How are you? Mark?
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Speaker 2: Let me check? Not bad? Not bad.
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Speaker 4: So I have a question. I keep seeing people on
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Speaker 4: social media a lot and people saying that the reason,
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Speaker 4: you know, Trump even offered help to Spana Guthrie was
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Speaker 4: to distract from the Epstein files coming out, and he's
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Speaker 4: in it, and I ran as a distraction. But I
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Speaker 4: know you looked at it more. I haven't looked through
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Speaker 4: all of them. He's only mentioned in the context of
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Speaker 4: like real estate, right, like there's nothing.
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Speaker 2: No, he's mentioned a lot, But what he's mentioned for
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Speaker 2: is apparently Epstein hated him and Epstein is just bad
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Speaker 2: mouthing him like crazy. There's a lot of this creepy,
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Speaker 2: awful tabloid guy Michael Wolfe who writes these evil books
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Speaker 2: about Trump. He and Epstein are talking back and forth
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Speaker 2: all day. But how much they hate Trump. So that's
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Speaker 2: most of what's in there. But yeah, are you in
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Speaker 2: the Epstein files? Did you check?
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Speaker 4: I don't think so?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Dan, A good call, Thanks for calling. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you can go just google Epstein files. It'll take you
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Speaker 2: a Department of Justice website, the Epstein Library. There's a
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Speaker 2: search bar and you can search your name. So I'm
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Speaker 2: searching all these people I know who were tangled up
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Speaker 2: with Epstein, and they came up, and then I don't
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Speaker 2: know why, just hell of it, type my name and
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Speaker 2: I came up. I'm in there five or six times.
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Speaker 2: So nothing bad, nothing bad. He was coming to some event.
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Speaker 2: I was m saying there was an email that mentioned me,
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Speaker 2: mentioned my show. Nothing bad, So I started typing it everybody.
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Speaker 2: So and they put up all of his American Express
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Speaker 2: bills in the files. So everybody I know who has
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Speaker 2: a restaurant, I'd sure enough the restaurant would come up
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Speaker 2: because it's in a an America Express bill. You'd be
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Speaker 2: shocked how many people come up in there. But a
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Speaker 2: lot of it is harmless. But the every time Trump
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Speaker 2: does anything, it's a distraction from the Epstein files. Trump's
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Speaker 2: the only guy that has nothing to worry about in
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Speaker 2: the Epstein files. He's clean in those Epstein files. I've
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Speaker 2: looked through him. Everybody's looked through him for that. There's
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Speaker 2: nothing on him in there. Let's go to Rich in
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Speaker 2: Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Hey, Thanks Mark, before I get to my John soon point.
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Speaker 5: Has there ever been anybody investigated, looked into more than
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Speaker 5: Donald J. Trump in the history of this country? And
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Speaker 5: they still can't find anything on the guy. The guy's
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Speaker 5: squeaky clean, and they just won't let it go. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, I have known the guy for a million years.
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Speaker 2: You know, you always suspect, Oh, there must be something.
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Speaker 2: He's well squeaky clean from Jack Smith, the prosecutor he had.
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Speaker 2: Remember he had four federal prosecutors. Okay, four years. They
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Speaker 2: cannot find a damn thing. One reason for that. You'll
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Speaker 2: find this with a lot of billionaires. It's not that
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Speaker 2: they're the most honorable people on earth. They just know
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Speaker 2: they're a target and they make sure they're They won't
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Speaker 2: even smoke a Cuban cigar. They're that careful about that
19:53
Speaker 2: stuff that's right.
19:54
Speaker 5: And so John soon guy is really becoming a big disappointment.
19:57
Speaker 5: McConnell was actually pretty good for a while. McConnell doesn't
20:00
Speaker 5: even know where we use anymore. Staff is running his seat.
20:03
Speaker 5: But was John feeling like McConnell's right hand man? Is
20:06
Speaker 5: that why he ended up being the Senate leader? And
20:07
Speaker 5: they're going to make a change you think? Are they're
20:09
Speaker 5: going to stick around with this guy? Yeah?
20:10
Speaker 2: I mean they're all kind of wormy characters. You know,
20:12
Speaker 2: you look at that Congress, the Senate, they the House, Republicans, Democrats,
20:18
Speaker 2: they're the worst people. Have you ever seen people this bad?
20:20
Speaker 2: You get no three hundred and eighty million people in America,
20:24
Speaker 2: we end up with these people running everything.
20:26
Speaker 5: It's really aw home about Kathy Mays trying to release
20:29
Speaker 5: all the exposure of the sex scandals and he voted
20:32
Speaker 5: it down because they don't want to let themselves get
20:34
Speaker 5: in trouble.
20:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just the worst people in the world. In
20:37
Speaker 2: Congress You know, if you ever watch the Fox Business
20:40
Speaker 2: or CNBC, you know they have these CEOs come on,
20:43
Speaker 2: these big business leaders and you know who they are,
20:45
Speaker 2: some big CEO and they'll be very impressive. They start talking, Wow,
20:49
Speaker 2: what an impressive guy, What a smart guy. Then you
20:52
Speaker 2: watch these senators come on, tell they're the worst, slimiest people,
20:56
Speaker 2: both sides of the aisle. Let's go to Larry in Cranford. Larry,
21:00
Speaker 2: how you doing?
21:02
Speaker 5: Hey? Mark?
21:02
Speaker 1: Hi?
21:04
Speaker 5: So the iotolas Son sounds like he doesn't have a
21:07
Speaker 5: leg to stand on.
21:08
Speaker 2: From what you said, that's not nice. So you're picking
21:11
Speaker 2: on the iatolas Son.
21:15
Speaker 5: I wonder which leg it is. I don't know if
21:17
Speaker 5: he's right leged or left legged. I have no idea.
21:20
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for calling. Somebody was going to do
21:23
Speaker 2: it. It was bound to happen. The Ietola Son took over
21:25
Speaker 2: if you had just joined us. The reports are now
21:28
Speaker 2: his leg was blown off in one of those bombings.
21:31
Speaker 2: That's why you haven't seen him. He's in a coma,
21:33
Speaker 2: reportedly leg blown off, facial lacerations and all of that. Again,
21:38
Speaker 2: as I said from the beginning, when he got this job,
21:40
Speaker 2: I'm sure his insurance company immediately canceled his policy. Hey,
21:45
Speaker 2: when we come back, Steve Moore, the brilliant economist, we'll
21:48
Speaker 2: be with us next. What's going to happen with oil prices,
21:51
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen in the economy. We'll get to all
21:52
Speaker 2: of that just a second, seven to ten.
21:55
Speaker 1: WR to Mark Simone onor.
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Speaker 2: Well, Steve Moore the brilliant Economist, to make sure you
22:03
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22:06
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22:22
Speaker 2: how you doing?
22:24
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm doing well. Mark, how about you? I'm hoping
22:27
Speaker 5: we we get this war over with in a successful way.
22:31
Speaker 5: And I ran so we can see the price of
22:34
Speaker 5: gasoline go back down to where it was, and.
22:36
Speaker 2: I expect that.
22:37
Speaker 5: Fully. I agree with Trump that once we get the
22:40
Speaker 5: straits of Hormos open, and once we start to get
22:43
Speaker 5: some of the infrastructure rebuilt that was bombed by the Iranians,
22:48
Speaker 5: we're going to be headed right back to low gas
22:50
Speaker 5: prices that we had before the war started, and with
22:53
Speaker 5: Trump's pro drill baby drill policies.
22:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, we're having a temporary spike. It's not
22:58
Speaker 2: as bad as the Biden days, but it's a spike.
23:00
Speaker 2: And in the end, if everything works out successfully, we
23:04
Speaker 2: could have lower gas prices than we had a month ago. Right,
23:08
Speaker 2: we could.
23:08
Speaker 5: We may, We may very well. And look, the world
23:10
Speaker 5: is a wash in energy and better way. This is
23:13
Speaker 5: pretty amazing that the number one country that produces oil
23:17
Speaker 5: and gas you know what country that is?
23:20
Speaker 2: United States? Yeah, well there now.
23:22
Speaker 5: The number one producer of oil and gas, you know
23:25
Speaker 5: that from reading the hotline right this morning. And we've
23:28
Speaker 5: surpassed Saudi Arabia and even more amazingly, I was shocked
23:32
Speaker 5: about this, and that we are now a net exporter
23:36
Speaker 5: of oil gas for the first time in forty years.
23:38
Speaker 5: In other words, we're producing more oil and gas than
23:40
Speaker 5: with than we consume. So you know, this drill baby
23:44
Speaker 5: drill strategy works. But there's a global price. See, people
23:47
Speaker 5: are confused about why is it that the price of
23:50
Speaker 5: gas has gone up here even though it hasn't disrupted
23:53
Speaker 5: our supplies of oil and gas, just to gas and
23:57
Speaker 5: oil in the Middle East. And the answer is because
23:59
Speaker 5: it's a global So you know, even though we're producing
24:02
Speaker 5: as much oil and gas as ever here in the US,
24:05
Speaker 5: when you get a big disruption like you're seeing in
24:07
Speaker 5: the in the Middle East with the Saudi Arabian oil,
24:09
Speaker 5: et cetera, that that will cause the price to rise everywhere.
24:13
Speaker 5: So but anyway, it's a it's a policy. Can you imagine,
24:18
Speaker 5: by the way, mark, if we had not done drill,
24:20
Speaker 5: baby drill, we'd be paying eight nine dollars a barrel
24:24
Speaker 5: of gas. And by the way, I was on a
24:26
Speaker 5: radio show this morning in California. There are some gas
24:29
Speaker 5: stations they're paying eight bucks a gallon in California.
24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, their average is over five dollars. Now that is
24:36
Speaker 2: mostly due to Newsome in his climate change nonsense.
24:39
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right. So this is what's so ironic
24:42
Speaker 5: is Gvin Newsom, who's you know, the leading contender for
24:44
Speaker 5: the Democratic nomination in twenty twenty eight, running around the country,
24:48
Speaker 5: is saying, oh, you know, Donald Trump is causing gas
24:50
Speaker 5: prices to rise. I'm like, wait a minute, you know,
24:53
Speaker 5: where are the gas prices the highest in California by
24:56
Speaker 5: a mile. You know, they're about a dollar fifty above
24:59
Speaker 5: the national average, and gas prices there because of his
25:02
Speaker 5: own policies, and then he blames on Trump for that.
25:05
Speaker 5: But look, I'm confident we're going to see these prices
25:07
Speaker 5: come down, you know, in a few weeks, and that'll
25:11
Speaker 5: be blessed relief.
25:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. Newsome also his state, California has a
25:15
Speaker 2: seventy cents a gallon tax on guests. How do they
25:18
Speaker 2: testify something like that.
25:21
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a big debate in the in the legislature
25:23
Speaker 5: there in California about why don't we suspend the gas
25:27
Speaker 5: tax for a while while, you know, and then when
25:29
Speaker 5: they and the Democrats all voted that down. You know,
25:32
Speaker 5: by the way, it's the Blue states that have the
25:33
Speaker 5: highest the gas prices. So the states with the highest
25:37
Speaker 5: gas prices there are California number one, Washington State number two,
25:40
Speaker 5: Hawaii number three, Oregon number four. You know, you just
25:44
Speaker 5: go down the list, and New Jersey has high taxes. Incidentally,
25:48
Speaker 5: there's another story related to this, because I know you
25:51
Speaker 5: have so many listeners in the New York metropolitan area
25:54
Speaker 5: New Jersey. Did you see that the New Jersey is
26:00
Speaker 5: losing one of its oil companies that's moving, I believe,
26:04
Speaker 5: to Texas. Gee, what a shock. Yeah, And I think
26:06
Speaker 5: it's the exon of New Jersey. And so you know,
26:10
Speaker 5: Standard Oil was basically practically founded in New Jersey and
26:14
Speaker 5: now they're moving out. I mean it just shows these
26:16
Speaker 5: high tax states are getting killed by the low tax
26:19
Speaker 5: blue states.
26:20
Speaker 2: Even the founder, as you report, the founder of Starbucks,
26:23
Speaker 2: Howard Schultz, is leaving Washington State to move to Floridat
26:30
Speaker 2: does you everything you see that happen?
26:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's funny. And by the way, Schultz
26:35
Speaker 5: is a liberal guy. I mean he's a bleeding heart liberal.
26:39
Speaker 5: And even he's moving the low states up. That means
26:43
Speaker 5: you're going to see a lot of billionaires moving to
26:45
Speaker 5: Texas and Florida and Tennessee and states that don't impose
26:48
Speaker 5: income taxes. And that's why, by the way, New Jersey,
26:52
Speaker 5: you know, until the I think it was around the
26:54
Speaker 5: mid nineteen sixties, did not have an income tax, and
26:57
Speaker 5: it might have been the early seventies day about the
26:59
Speaker 5: income tax. So now you have in New Jersey as
27:01
Speaker 5: the one of the highest income taxes in the country.
27:03
Speaker 5: And gee, is it surprising people are leaving New York,
27:06
Speaker 5: New Jersey, Connecticut with the high income taxes. I don't
27:09
Speaker 5: think it is. Yeah.
27:10
Speaker 2: Now for a young Democrats listening right, I'll explain this
27:13
Speaker 2: to them. Florida, no income tax, Texas, no income text.
27:16
Speaker 2: Yet they're booming, aren't they.
27:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they have a lot of their budget surpluses,
27:21
Speaker 5: whereas New York, New Jersey, Connecticut are struggling with the
27:24
Speaker 5: highest income taxes to balance the budgets.
27:27
Speaker 2: And what's the secret to that? Just hold your costs down,
27:30
Speaker 2: control your budget.
27:32
Speaker 5: Well, if you have if you have nine states that
27:35
Speaker 5: have no income taxes, we do in the United States,
27:37
Speaker 5: and they're going twice as fast as the states that
27:40
Speaker 5: have high income taxes. Do you know the answer to this?
27:44
Speaker 5: Maybe those high income tax states when they want to
27:47
Speaker 5: lower their income tax rates, But in New York and
27:49
Speaker 5: New Jersey they talk about raising them again. California is
27:52
Speaker 5: talking about an eight percent wealth tax on top of
27:55
Speaker 5: the highest income tax. I mean, these Democrats, all they
27:58
Speaker 5: want to do is tax, tax, tax, spend, span spend.
28:01
Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, Steve Moore in the Hotline today, this is
28:03
Speaker 2: a great idea. The TSA. You talk about privatizing them.
28:08
Speaker 2: It makes perfect sense. Wouldn't that save us a fortune
28:11
Speaker 2: and be more efficient?
28:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean people are very frustrated with how long
28:15
Speaker 5: it takes to get through the I travel a lot.
28:17
Speaker 2: I know you do, and I know a lot of.
28:19
Speaker 5: Your listeners do. And you know when you go to
28:21
Speaker 5: the TSA now, especially that the government, that agency of
28:25
Speaker 5: government has been shut down, thank you, Chuck Schumer. It's
28:28
Speaker 5: at some point some cities it's taking two to three
28:31
Speaker 5: hours to get through TSA and to get through the
28:35
Speaker 5: security that if we had a privatized system, you could
28:39
Speaker 5: get through in fifteen minutes.
28:40
Speaker 2: Really and save a lot of money in the process.
28:43
Speaker 5: Wouldn't we You would save a lot of money. Yep.
28:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah. But when they the airline businesses, the
28:50
Speaker 2: Trump has always said the worst business in the world.
28:53
Speaker 2: You're always going to lose money in the airline business.
28:55
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean the airports have to be running inefficiently.
28:58
Speaker 2: That's a whole different business, isn't it.
29:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, Why does the government have to run airports? They
29:03
Speaker 5: don't run anything very well. They don't run the postal
29:06
Speaker 5: service very well. They can't balance the budget, they can't
29:08
Speaker 5: fight crime, they can't do any of the financial stuff.
29:11
Speaker 5: So why would we why would we turn over that
29:14
Speaker 5: operation to UH to government employees. I guarantee you we'd
29:18
Speaker 5: have a much more efficient system if if the airports
29:21
Speaker 5: and the and the and the TSA security was done
29:26
Speaker 5: by private employees. And by the way, the reason the
29:28
Speaker 5: Democrats don't want to do that is because they're all
29:30
Speaker 5: government employees and they're all members of unions.
29:32
Speaker 2: Well, if you want to read stories like the great
29:34
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29:38
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29:41
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29:45
Speaker 5: Not much better just in time for you, Mark.
29:47
Speaker 2: Much better time for your show. Well, Steve Moore. Everybody
29:50
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29:59
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30:01
Speaker 5: Okay, Mark, have a great day and great weekend.
30:03
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Speaker 1: One wr Hey, well Thursday, we got uh got rain
31:02
Speaker 1: all day today.
31:03
Speaker 2: Then it's not bad. It's not bad. It'll get cold
31:05
Speaker 2: tonight into the thirties for the first time in a
31:08
Speaker 2: few days, and then forties tomorrow, fifties over the weekend,
31:11
Speaker 2: and then it'll be okay next week, and then the
31:13
Speaker 2: week after spring begins, and then the week after baseball
31:17
Speaker 2: season begins. You got through the winter and that's good news.
31:21
Speaker 2: So we got a lot to get to in the
31:23
Speaker 2: next hour. We'll get to the Oscars. Don't forget that
31:25
Speaker 2: Sunday night, the Oscar Awards, the presenters, I don't know.
31:30
Speaker 2: It's not the greatest list in the world. But we'll
31:33
Speaker 2: tell you who's gonna who's gonna be there, and we'll
31:36
Speaker 2: get to that coming up in the next hour. Have
31:39
Speaker 2: you been watching the mini series Love Story John F.
31:42
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior, Carolyn Bassett. It portrays Jackie Kennedy Jackie o
31:49
Speaker 2: Nassis a little rough. She's chained smoking throughout the whole thing,
31:52
Speaker 2: kind of nasty to everybody, But outside of that, it
31:56
Speaker 2: just makes the Kennedy family look wonderful. They're all up
31:59
Speaker 2: in our complaining they're being exploited by this, but really
32:03
Speaker 2: it's probably the first thing in a million years that's
32:05
Speaker 2: actually making the Kennedys look good. Usually the books the
32:08
Speaker 2: miniseries are all pretty ugly, so and this thing is
32:12
Speaker 2: really caught on. It's like a beautiful fairy tale. So
32:14
Speaker 2: it's the one positive piece of media for the Kennedy
32:18
Speaker 2: family in a long time. Hey, we'll be back after
32:20
Speaker 2: the news. A lot to get to in the next
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