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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
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  Speaker 1: on 710WOR. Well, it's Friday. That's good news. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a nice day today in the 80s. Might
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  Speaker 1: be the last day in the 80s for a while.
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  Speaker 1: And it should be a pretty nice weekend. A lot
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  Speaker 1: to get to. We'll get to Iran. We'll get to Cornell.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that botched execution. We'll get to the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Mamdani and, of course, a whole lot more.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees, the next game is tomorrow night. They begin
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  Speaker 1: the seven-game playoff series with Tampa tomorrow night. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's 6.30, right?
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  Speaker 2: 6.30.
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  Speaker 1: It's an early game. So everybody will be watching that.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you're in Boston, you probably won't want to watch that.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has sent a third aircraft carrier, To Iran,
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  Speaker 1: it is heading there now, but also he is sending
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  Speaker 1: an amphibious assault ship with about 5,000 Marines on it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this type of ship is used for ground invasion. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the word is that after the midterms, the day after
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  Speaker 1: the midterms, he is going to just pound Iran into
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  Speaker 1: the ground. There may even be, now that landing force,
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  Speaker 1: those Marines, that amphibious force, that would be for Karg Island.
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  Speaker 1: They would take Karg Island. We would take it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the entire oil facility of Iran. We would seize that.
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  Speaker 1: And that aircraft carrier would be used for punishing brutal
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  Speaker 1: attacks on Iran. And the president has said, once they
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  Speaker 1: confirm that Iran was behind the fly Dubai hijacking and
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  Speaker 1: the attack on our air base in the UK, that
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  Speaker 1: would be reason enough to just completely pound them into
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  Speaker 1: the ground, just literally destroy much of that. We're trying
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  Speaker 1: to wipe out the IRGC and all of that. So
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  Speaker 1: the hijacker, by the way, if you're a New York
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  Speaker 1: Times reader or you watch CNN or MSNBC, you may
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  Speaker 1: not know about this. It was an actual hijacking. He
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  Speaker 1: was an actual terrorist, a radicalized extremist, Islamic extremist. His
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  Speaker 1: mission was to kill Jews. That was the idea. It
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  Speaker 1: was a flight filled with Jewish people, Jewish children, he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to kill them all. That's what it was. If
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  Speaker 1: you're reading the New York Times or watching MS Now,
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  Speaker 1: they keep telling you it was an altercation among employees.
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  Speaker 1: There was an altercation, a workplace altercation. It's not what
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was a terrorist attack. He was a
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  Speaker 1: very radicalized hijacker. Here's Benjamin Netanyahu. It looks like he
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  Speaker 1: had been radicalized. I think it's too early to say
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  Speaker 1: whether he had any connections with Iran or with anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: It's too early to say that.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll be able to say that fairly definitively within
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  Speaker 3: a matter of days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows more than he's saying there. Now the
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  Speaker 1: question is, and the most important question, is he a
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  Speaker 1: lone wolf? Was he inspired by something and did this?
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  Speaker 1: Was he part of an actual cell? Are there others involved?
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  Speaker 1: If so, you've got to find them quickly. It will
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  Speaker 1: turn out most likely that Iran was involved. He's clearly
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  Speaker 1: a lunatic terrorist and just was the most vicious knife attack.
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  Speaker 1: There are two possibilities. The big question is, how did
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  Speaker 1: he get a job as a co-pilot? How did this
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  Speaker 1: airline hire him without a proper background check? And also,
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  Speaker 1: in most airports... The crew of the plane, even the pilots,
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to go through the same screening the passengers do.
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  Speaker 1: That's in most airports. It's supposed to be that way
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  Speaker 1: in this country. Now, you're talking about other countries, other airports.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows? Who knows what they do? And even in
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  Speaker 1: this country where they're supposed to screen the crew and
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  Speaker 1: the pilots, who knows if they really do? You know,
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  Speaker 1: they know these people. They might let them just walk
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  Speaker 1: through Netanyahu. There are two possibilities. One, that he didn't
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  Speaker 1: go through a metal detector.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, passengers go through a metal detector. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure that pilots always do. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you say, OK, he's part of the air crew.
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  Speaker 1: Let him go. Number one.
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  Speaker 3: And then he could have carried a knife or an axe.
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  Speaker 3: Or he might have gotten an axe from the equipment
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  Speaker 3: in the, you know, that might be standard on this airplane.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So clearly his intent was to crash the plane,
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  Speaker 1: kill it. It was a plane filled with Jewish passengers.
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  Speaker 1: It was an anti-Semitic terrorist attack. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be announcing that very soon. very soon. Then you
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  Speaker 1: had the attack on our airbase in UK. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like Iran was behind that as well.
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  Speaker 5: There are strong indications that Iran played a part in
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  Speaker 5: what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford. But of course,
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  Speaker 5: it remains an ongoing, complex and serious police investigation. And
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  Speaker 5: of course, we are working closely with our colleagues in
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  Speaker 5: the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's why Another aircraft carrier, a third one,
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  Speaker 1: is heading towards Iran. An amphibious assault ship is heading
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  Speaker 1: towards Iran the day after the midterms. They'll pay for
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  Speaker 1: all of this.
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  Speaker 6: We knew that Iran and IRGC was going to try
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  Speaker 6: to do an attack, possibly on a United States asset
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  Speaker 6: in the UK. We had been already watching this with
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  Speaker 6: our counterparts in London, giving them a heads up. They
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  Speaker 6: were also feeding information to us. So this was something
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  Speaker 6: we were paying attention to already. We just didn't know
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  Speaker 6: where it was coming from. Iran is the lead world
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  Speaker 6: sponsor of terror.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well. Hey, the Cornell situation, it looks so bad
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  Speaker 1: for the university. However, if you really look into it,
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  Speaker 1: this gang rape, alleged gang rape, was a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. It was 2024. It was two years ago
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  Speaker 1: that it took place. The word went around the campus.
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  Speaker 1: The students all seemed to know about it. And as
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  Speaker 1: it was happening, these kids were texting each other. They
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  Speaker 1: were in a group chat. All over the campus, everybody
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  Speaker 1: apparently was on this group chat and they were telling
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  Speaker 1: everybody about what was going on and if you want
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  Speaker 1: some free sex, although they didn't use the word sex,
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  Speaker 1: they used something worse. They said, come on over, and
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  Speaker 1: people were coming over. It was a horrible, horrible situation.
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  Speaker 1: And she was, the problem was, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: in the New York law, some states have this law.
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  Speaker 1: If you get yourself so drunk that you can't even
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  Speaker 1: see straight, You can't consent because you're so drunk. If
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  Speaker 1: you do that to yourself, if you get yourself drunk,
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  Speaker 1: it's no longer a crime. In other words, you can't
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  Speaker 1: claim rape if you got yourself that drunk. It's a
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  Speaker 1: stupid law. It's got to be changed. There was a
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  Speaker 1: push to change this law in the state assembly. Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: of all people, kept blocking it. So that's the reason,
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  Speaker 1: most likely, that when it went to the prosecutor, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't file criminal charges. Because it turns out the young student,
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  Speaker 1: she went out to, she was 18. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be 21 to drink, right? Yeah, you have to be 21.
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  Speaker 1: So she's underage. She had a drink before she went out.
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  Speaker 1: And then a bunch of them are going to a bar.
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  Speaker 1: This is, Cornell is in Ithaca, and they went to
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  Speaker 1: downtown Ithaca, and they went to some bar. And at
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  Speaker 1: that bar, if you're underage, if you're 18, they'll let
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  Speaker 1: you in, but they'll draw a big X on your hand.
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  Speaker 1: which means you're underage, not supposed to serve you. But
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  Speaker 1: she goes out to this bar and there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of students there. Some of them are old enough to
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  Speaker 1: get a drink. And apparently they gave her drinks. And
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  Speaker 1: then this is what they do in college. And they
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  Speaker 1: all left and went to another bar and had more drinks.
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  Speaker 1: So by the time she got to the fraternity, went
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  Speaker 1: over this fraternity house, there was supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: party or something. They were supposed to see some friends
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  Speaker 1: at this fraternity house. By the time she got there,
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  Speaker 1: She had had 10 drinks, 10 drinks. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of alcohol in a little woman, a young 18-year-old woman,
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  Speaker 1: 10 drinks. She gets to the fraternity party, and the
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  Speaker 1: first thing they do is give her a drink. That's
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  Speaker 1: drink number 11 she's had. They also give her some drugs.
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  Speaker 1: It's not clear whether it was cocaine or something else.
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  Speaker 1: She took some kind of drugs, sniffed something, plus the
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  Speaker 1: 11 drinks. She didn't know where she was. She couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see straight. She even passed out a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: She went apparently to a bedroom in the fraternity house
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  Speaker 1: with some student, a male, and slept with him. He
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  Speaker 1: then started texting about it. Other guys came in and
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  Speaker 1: had sex with him. So this is how this all
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  Speaker 1: got out of control. She was so traumatized by all
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  Speaker 1: of this that she, I guess she told her friends,
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  Speaker 1: and word got around campus. In fact, all the guys,
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  Speaker 1: these awful guys were bragging about this So the story
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  Speaker 1: got known all over campus. It took her a while,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, to get up the nerve and
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  Speaker 1: compose herself enough to go to the campus police and
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  Speaker 1: tell them what happened. And she told them the whole story.
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  Speaker 1: It's a 10-page report that they wrote. Ten pages of
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  Speaker 1: her telling her story, exactly what happened. And they sent
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  Speaker 1: it over to the local district attorney in Ithaca. And
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  Speaker 1: he looked at it and decided he couldn't file criminal
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  Speaker 1: charges because she was so drunk that she can't claim rape.
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  Speaker 1: This is this strange New York law. Cornell did start
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  Speaker 1: to investigate, and they put together an investigating committee, and
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  Speaker 1: they did investigate. Now, this has not been made clear.
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  Speaker 1: Cornell did take some action. They expelled some of the students.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the other students, they suspended them for a
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  Speaker 1: year or two. So they did take some action. They
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  Speaker 1: also closed that fraternity down. So they did take some action. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the story went public. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of press. The district attorney looked really bad for not
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  Speaker 1: filing those charges. And I guess he's now deciding to
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  Speaker 1: actually file the charges. But it's too late. Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 1: has stepped in. Why? Because she's got a tight election race.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman is starting to pull ahead of her. So
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  Speaker 1: she's got to act like she's on top of this.
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  Speaker 1: Pretend she's doing something. So she has put the Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Letitia James in as the special prosecutor to go
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  Speaker 1: after these kids. Now, A problem with Letitia James, one,
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  Speaker 1: she's not that good as a prosecutor. Her biggest dream
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  Speaker 1: fantasy in life was to get Trump. She came up
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  Speaker 1: with a preposterous case that a left-wing kook judge took
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  Speaker 1: her side, but then it was eventually tossed out, ruled ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: So she's not that successful as a prosecutor. The other
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  Speaker 1: problem is the district attorneys all over New York State,
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  Speaker 1: that's a state job. District attorney is not a local job.
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  Speaker 1: It's a state job. That's why there's no term limits
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  Speaker 1: on it. And the district attorney that she says fumbled
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  Speaker 1: up the case is her district attorney. So she should
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  Speaker 1: remove him and replace him with what she thinks is
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  Speaker 1: a great district attorney. But she's not going to do
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  Speaker 1: that because this is all for show. She's pretending that
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  Speaker 1: she's taking action. She's doing something. She's on top of it,
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  Speaker 1: appointing Letitia James. That's enough. to make it look like
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  Speaker 1: she's doing something and to stall till the election, which
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  Speaker 1: is only 32 days away. Students say, and apparently record show,
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  Speaker 1: this is not the first rape problem on campus. It's
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  Speaker 1: happened before a number of times. And there's about 16,000
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  Speaker 1: students at Cornell. If you got 16,000 students, and if you,
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  Speaker 1: as we just showed you, the kind of drinking they
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  Speaker 1: do and the drugs and Who knows what could happen
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  Speaker 1: on campus? Students are all frustrated.
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  Speaker 7: It's been incredibly somber on campus this week. I think
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  Speaker 7: students are disgusted that something like this could have taken
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  Speaker 7: place on our campus. But I think there's also a
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  Speaker 7: lot of frustration across many parts of the process.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Cornell is an awful place. Earlier this week, we
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  Speaker 1: told you about the horrible anti-Semitic rallies that were going
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  Speaker 1: on at Cornell. There were students chanting from the river
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  Speaker 1: to the sea. I mean, real anti-Semitic, awful stuff at Cornell.
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  Speaker 1: The only good news for them is this rape story. His, uh,
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  Speaker 1: It got everybody to forget about that part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they get that problem solved, too. But the student's
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  Speaker 1: not happy.
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  Speaker 4: Mostly sorrow and just kind of a lot of sadness
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  Speaker 4: surrounding the case. People don't really know what to do
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  Speaker 4: with how they're feeling. That's why I am really excited
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  Speaker 4: about this hearing and creating more policies that are going
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  Speaker 4: to give students the voice they feel like they need
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  Speaker 4: right now. I feel like people just want to take action.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know like where to though. So I'm hoping
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  Speaker 4: like the assembly and admin and different clubs can be
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  Speaker 4: here as resources for us and a time that we really,
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  Speaker 4: really do need it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Cornell student. You hear that? Like, like I, like,
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  Speaker 1: like that's a Cornell student. Hey, this botched execution. It's
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  Speaker 1: Krista Pike. It sounds horrible. They gave her a lethal injection.
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  Speaker 1: She survives. In fact, The reporters could hear her. They
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  Speaker 1: sometimes put a curtain down, but they could hear her say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how come I'm in so much pain? She survived the injection.
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  Speaker 1: They gave her another lethal injection. She survived that. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they could hear her snoring. This sounds horrible. This sounds like,
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  Speaker 1: how the hell could this happen?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: This is unbelievable. How could such a thing? Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you look into it, it does happen on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, 3% of all executions, end up like this,
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  Speaker 1: where they can't kill the person. And you might say, well,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what you try, for instance, take hanging, hanging
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  Speaker 1: a prisoner. That's the highest number of bungled executions. When
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  Speaker 1: it comes to hanging, 85 were botched. 1901, they hung
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  Speaker 1: the outlaw, Tom Blackjack Ketchum. His head popped clean off
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  Speaker 1: when he dropped because They didn't take into account how
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  Speaker 1: fat he was. Things go wrong. Well, what about electrocute? Well,
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  Speaker 1: electrocutions have had problems. In fact, second most botched executions.
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  Speaker 1: There are many incidents where the inmate's head bursts into flames.
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  Speaker 1: That sort of stuff. Now, the lethal injection. Lethal injections
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  Speaker 1: have had 75 botched attempts. 75. So she survived. They
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  Speaker 1: took her to the hospital. It's believed she has a
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  Speaker 1: terrible brain injury. As a result, but apparently her lawyers
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  Speaker 1: kept telling everybody because of the condition she was in,
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  Speaker 1: she had the most awful veins. She had these tiny
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  Speaker 1: little veins and they kept telling them there was no
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  Speaker 1: way the injection would get through her veins, that it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to kill her. I mean, listen to
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  Speaker 1: this lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: It was also predictable. Krista's legal team told the state
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  Speaker 2: of Tennessee and the courts that her medical conditions would
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  Speaker 2: cause her to suffer an agonizing death. The state and
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  Speaker 2: the court dismiss Krista's concerns.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't take that into consideration.
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  Speaker 2: Krista is alive right now. We don't have a sense
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  Speaker 2: of her prognosis or much update on her.
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  Speaker 1: Health at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: But we do know that she is alive right now
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  Speaker 2: and receiving life-saving medical care.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now they're going to argue. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to execute again. They're going to try to argue
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  Speaker 1: she suffered enough. She survived two executions. She can't try
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  Speaker 1: to do it again. But who knows?
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  Speaker 8: She was heard to remark that it was burning.
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  Speaker 1: This is actually the witness that was there.
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  Speaker 8: She was heard to remark that it was burning and
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  Speaker 8: painful in her arm, that her arm would explode. And
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  Speaker 8: that all sounded to me like the intravenous was no
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  Speaker 8: longer in the vein, if it ever really was. And instead,
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  Speaker 8: the chemical was then being infiltrated into the skin and
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  Speaker 8: tissues of her arm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Some people, I remember I had a call yesterday. I said,
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  Speaker 1: why not just use a 25-cent bullet, just a firing squad?
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  Speaker 1: You know, there are, I think, seven states that still
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  Speaker 1: have firing squads. It's kind of ugly and not very
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  Speaker 1: 2026-like to have a firing squad, but there are states
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  Speaker 1: that do it. And there is an argument for it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot to get to this morning. Don't forget,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here three hours every day now, 9 to noon,
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  Speaker 1: 9 a.m. to noon, three hours every day. Mark Simone
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  Speaker 1: here on 710 WOR.