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Hour 1: Joe Kent is out! · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent ten.
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Speaker 2: Woo Hey, it's Wednesday. It's two days until spring begins,
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Speaker 2: two days away. Hey, we got a lot to get to.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to this. We'll get to this Joe Knt
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Speaker 2: who quit and what his future is. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: the oscars. The ratings are down. Take a look at why.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to a crazy uh moron Zamdami mo zoron
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Speaker 2: mam dami Uh. He's offended a lot of people yesterday
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Speaker 2: with his crazy rant at the Saint Patrick's Day breakfast.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to the Guthrie case, some developments there no
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Speaker 2: nothing about finding her, but some other things. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to the ran of course, and a whole lot more so.
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Speaker 2: Mark Wayne Mullen is being confirmed today. The hearings are today.
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Speaker 2: He's been nominated to replace Tulsey Gabbart. Now they'll bloody
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Speaker 2: him up a little in these hearings, because that's what
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Speaker 2: you do in a hearing. They'll ask him how he
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Speaker 2: made how he became so wealthy while in office. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's every one of them sitting there. They'll pick on
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Speaker 2: some other things, but he'll get confirmed. He's a senator
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Speaker 2: one reason he was appointed is the way things are
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Speaker 2: right now that these Senate committees will not confirm any
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Speaker 2: Trump nominee, So you got to pick a senator because
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Speaker 2: he's one of them. They won't turn down one of
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Speaker 2: their own, though, they'll confirm one of their own. And
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Speaker 2: Mark Wayne Mullen has been very good at making friends
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Speaker 2: in the House, in the Senate, He's been known for that,
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Speaker 2: having lunch with people on both sides of the aisle,
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Speaker 2: going to the gym with people on both sides of
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Speaker 2: the aisle. So it'll drag on for a while, but
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Speaker 2: they will confirm him later today. The Warren I ran
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Speaker 2: some good developments overnight. We killed Asmiel Katib, Actually Israel
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Speaker 2: did it. He was the Iran Minister of Intelligence, but
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Speaker 2: he's believed to be the actual guy who oversees Rand's
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Speaker 2: entire global terror apparatus. Sleeper cells, hesbola hoodies, all that
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Speaker 2: sort of stuff. Killed him last night in a bombing raid.
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Speaker 2: He's gone. Two people were killed in a missile strike
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Speaker 2: on Ramot Gan it's near Tel Aviv. That's in Israel retaliation.
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Speaker 2: Now here's the other thing. We've been escalating. The bombing.
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Speaker 2: You don't hear as much about it, but it's actually
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Speaker 2: been much more intense. In fact, yesterday we started dropping
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Speaker 2: five thousand pound penetrator bombs, bunker buster bombs that go
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Speaker 2: deep underground. We've been using them to take out mountains,
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Speaker 2: take out underground missile sites that are way underground, especially
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Speaker 2: along the coast. Those are the ones that particularly threatened
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Speaker 2: the straits of Hormusa. We took a bunch of those
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Speaker 2: out last night. All good developments, a lot of good
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Speaker 2: stuff happened in there. Allies still refused to come in
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Speaker 2: and help. Off the record, any general will tell you
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Speaker 2: as far as the Allies coming in, there's absolutely no
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Speaker 2: military value to them coming up. There's nothing militarily we
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Speaker 2: could use for any of them. The only reason to
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Speaker 2: get them to come in is just for the optics,
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Speaker 2: just symbolically. It looks good to have a coalition, so
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Speaker 2: we don't need them militarily for anything. In fact, they
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Speaker 2: might actually slow things down sometimes when you put together
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Speaker 2: these coalitions. It happened in Iraq. It sometimes slows things down,
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Speaker 2: lack of communication between different countries' forces getting in the
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Speaker 2: way of each other.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 2: Military wise better without the Allies. It was just a
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Speaker 2: symbolic thing, So we'll see. The president was asked, is
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Speaker 2: this going to be another Vietnam? A ridiculous question, of course.
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Speaker 1: Because the Uranian regime is built sky news.
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Speaker 4: If you put boots on the grounds.
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Speaker 1: In round, it will be another Vietnam.
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Speaker 2: Are you afraid of them?
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Speaker 5: No, I'm not afraid of I'm really not afraid of anything.
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Speaker 2: It's a day fourteen or it's two weeks. I'd hardly
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Speaker 2: call that another Vietnam, which was twelve years. Two weeks
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Speaker 2: is not twelve years. Big difference. And boots on the
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Speaker 2: ground the only boots on the ground. They do have
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Speaker 2: marine strike forces that have come in, twenty five hundred
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Speaker 2: of them. There may be an occasion where they need
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Speaker 2: to go ashore from an amphibious crap. Just go ashore,
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Speaker 2: quick raid, literally twenty minutes in and out. That's the
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Speaker 2: only kind of boots on the ground you'll see. So
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Speaker 2: things are going well. We did kill two days ago
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Speaker 2: the leader of the country after the Ayahtola, and he
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Speaker 2: supposedly appointed his son to be the new Ayahtola, but
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Speaker 2: that never actually took place. The real leader has been
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Speaker 2: Ali Larjani. He was killed earlier this week and people
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Speaker 2: were stunned at as arrogance. He was the new leader.
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Speaker 2: We knew he was the new leader, and he's one
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Speaker 2: of the most brutal, awful terrorist leaders of the whole
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Speaker 2: Iranian government. But he took over. He was the leader,
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Speaker 2: and he had the arrogance to just walk down the
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Speaker 2: street by himself, out in the open. There. He was
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Speaker 2: walking along the street when an Israeli bomb hit him
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Speaker 2: right on the head and blew him into a million pieces.
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Speaker 2: So he's gone. That's the end of that. It's just
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Speaker 2: getting better and better over there. Now, you heard about
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Speaker 2: this guy in the Trump administration who quit. His name
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Speaker 2: is Joe Kent. Joe Kent was the National counter Terrorism
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Speaker 2: Center Director. Now this sounds very imposing, this title, but
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Speaker 2: this is what they do in the swamp. They come
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Speaker 2: up with these titles. Joe Kent has been a big
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Speaker 2: Trump supporter. He's been a big supporter of going after Iran,
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Speaker 2: of taking out Iran. He has said this for years.
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Speaker 2: He has been saying for years that Iran is a
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Speaker 2: major threat, the biggest sponsor of terrorism. He's pushed going
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Speaker 2: after Iran for years. So he suddenly quit saying it
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Speaker 2: was wrong to go after Iran. Why the contradictory stuff.
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Speaker 2: Who knows. Who knows what goes through his head. He's
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Speaker 2: got a history of just being wrong on everything. He's
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Speaker 2: also got a history of appearing to be very antisemitic
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Speaker 2: anti Israel. I think that's the thing here in this
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Speaker 2: He always wanted to go after I Ran and get
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Speaker 2: rid of them. But in this case it's Israel really
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Speaker 2: leading the charge, Israel doing eighty percent of the military work,
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Speaker 2: Israel being the biggest beneficiary of all of this. I
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Speaker 2: think that's what really offended Joe Kent. He's always blaming
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Speaker 2: Israel for everything. You remember the Gulf War, not the
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Speaker 2: Iraq War, the Gulf War. I remember when we had
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Speaker 2: to liberate Kuwait from Sodom Hussein. That was the George
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Speaker 2: hw Bush War. In the Gulf War, this same Joe
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Speaker 2: Kent kept yelling and screaming we were only doing this
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Speaker 2: because of Israel. This was Israel that made us do it. Well,
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Speaker 2: if you just check the record book back in the
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Speaker 2: Gulf War, Israel totally opposed the Gulf War. Israel begged
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Speaker 2: us not to do it. Israel at the time thought
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Speaker 2: it was more important to go after Iran. Israel thought
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Speaker 2: we were fighting the wrong fight. So Joe Kent has
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Speaker 2: a history of contradictory stuff, history of anti Semitic kind
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Speaker 2: of nonsense. He's a great military veteran, eleven combat tours,
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Speaker 2: and people that know him and know his history say
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Speaker 2: it was very, very sad to watch him end his
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Speaker 2: career in this anti semitic rant that he put out yesterday,
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Speaker 2: leaving even Mitch McConnell, who's no fan of Donald Trump,
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Speaker 2: issued a scathing statement saying about Kent virulent anti semitism.
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Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell pointing out Joe kent't testified before the Senate
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Speaker 2: one year ago that Iran and its terror proxy's threatened
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Speaker 2: US service members. It was the biggest threat he testified
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Speaker 2: about the threat. McConnell goes on to say the virulent
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Speaker 2: anti semitism of his resignation letter makes it clear he's
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Speaker 2: just incapable of upholding these plays. Just it's his charges
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Speaker 2: are baseless, incendiary, and McConnell went on, remember this is
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Speaker 2: a real swamp guy, McConnell. Isolationists and anti Semites have
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Speaker 2: no place in either party and do not deserve places
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Speaker 2: of trust in our government. So he's gone now he's
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Speaker 2: a very good looking guy, although kind of a I
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Speaker 2: don't know, kind of a mannequin looking guy, but good talker,
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Speaker 2: good looking. I assume the reason he's doing all this
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Speaker 2: is he wants a TV job. He wants to be
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Speaker 2: on CNN or MSNBC, and if you're suddenly attacking Trump
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Speaker 2: like crazy, you instantly get on there. He'll be on
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Speaker 2: every show in the world for the next few days.
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Speaker 2: He'll be on Morning Joe and The View, and Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Kimmel and Colbert. He'll be on all these shows. And
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Speaker 2: I guess he hopes to get a TV job out
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Speaker 2: of it. And you can make you make a lot
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Speaker 2: of money doing that. It's pretty good. Hey, the oscars, Now,
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Speaker 2: everybody's trying to figure this out. You know, they got
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Speaker 2: these betting markets, polymarket, those kind of stuff, these prediction marks.
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Speaker 2: It's all amateur's betting, and they bet on everything. They
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Speaker 2: bet on politics, they bet on the oscars. Everybody is
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Speaker 2: looking at this. It seems in the betting markets they
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Speaker 2: got right every single category, every single win everything, They
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Speaker 2: predicted everything correctly. Now, not in the week's leading up,
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Speaker 2: but at the last couple days the betting got absolutely
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Speaker 2: everything right. Now that never happened, So they're worried there
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Speaker 2: might might have been some kind of leak. You know,
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Speaker 2: those votes are tabulated by an accounting firm and they
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Speaker 2: usually come in the locked briefcase with the guy's handcuffed
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Speaker 2: to it. But starting to worry somebody leaked something at
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Speaker 2: how else could these betting markets be so accurate? Hey,
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Speaker 2: the Savannah Guthrie case, you don't hear about it anymore.
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Speaker 2: The Nancy Guthrie case, you just don't hear about it.
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Speaker 2: Nothing on the news, hardly anything for days and days.
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Speaker 2: And people have noticed that the top reporters covering this
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Speaker 2: porter so this was their full time beat covering this,
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Speaker 2: this is this case. They've all left town. The last
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Speaker 2: one left yesterday. It packed up and left. Not a
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Speaker 2: great sign for the Now there's still a federal agents
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Speaker 2: there looking as far as the sheriff's office, they've been
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Speaker 2: bumbling from the beginning. Who knows what they're doing. In fact,
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Speaker 2: there's now the sheriff Nanos, who is the bumbling Barney
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Speaker 2: fifish awful local sheriff first on the case. There's now
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Speaker 2: a recall movement underway that's already started. Petitions are being
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Speaker 2: signed to recall him and get him out of office. It
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Speaker 2: would actually be a great idea to do it. Hey,
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Speaker 2: speaking of the OSCARS, ratings were not good. They haven't
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Speaker 2: been good in a while. You know, if you go
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Speaker 2: back twenty five years, the OSCARS got about fifty seven
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Speaker 2: fifty eight sixty million people watching Sunday Night. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: fifty seven million, it was eighteen million. It's way down,
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Speaker 2: and it had been twenty million the year before. The
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Speaker 2: twenty one million, but it was down nine percent, nine
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Speaker 2: percent from last year.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what this does to Conan O'Brien. They
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Speaker 2: were pretty high on him, but it dropped nine percent
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Speaker 2: this year. It may not be his fault. The problem
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Speaker 2: is two problems. One, nobody wants to watch these award
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Speaker 2: shows anymore. Nobody wants to watch award shows, and the
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Speaker 2: way people watch stuff has changed. Nobody watches an award
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Speaker 2: show for three hours. They're not going to sit there
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Speaker 2: for three hours watching one award show. They'll binge watch
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Speaker 2: eighteen hours of a series, but they're not going to
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Speaker 2: watch an award show for three hours. So even though
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Speaker 2: only only eighteen million watching on television, one hundred and
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Speaker 2: eighty four million went to their phones or online and
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Speaker 2: watched little bites of it, which is what I did.
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Speaker 2: I didn't watch the actual show, but later later, I
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Speaker 2: just went to YouTube, watched the opening monologue, watched a
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Speaker 2: couple of the awards, watched the little Barbarus streisand segment.
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Speaker 2: Just that, and that's what most people did. Only eighteen
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Speaker 2: million watched the show. One hundred and eighty four million
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Speaker 2: watched the clips, which is up, by the way, up
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Speaker 2: forty two from last year. So it's just the way
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Speaker 2: people do stuff now. They're not going to sit there.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes people do that, even with sports, you know, they
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Speaker 2: don't watch the whole game. They just look at their
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Speaker 2: phone every so often and look at the highlights every
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Speaker 2: so often. Well, Saint Patrick's Day is over. We love
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Speaker 2: the Irish people, we love the parade, but you got
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Speaker 2: to get better food. I went to these Saint Patrick's
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Speaker 2: Day parties. All right, I'm not that big a fan
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Speaker 2: of corn, beef and soda bread. It's enough with that.
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Speaker 2: And the music musically, I mean, can we get some guitars,
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Speaker 2: some trumpets, some trombone, some something, But those bagpipes, I
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Speaker 2: guess it's okay for a parade. I mean for a parade.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, it's kind of marching music. But you notice
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Speaker 2: if you watch college football, then when the halftime, when
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Speaker 2: the band comes on, there's no bill need any bagpipes.
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Speaker 2: You go to Carnegie Hall, you don't see any bagpipe ride.
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Speaker 2: It's once a year. It was a pretty good parade.
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Speaker 2: It was actually not bad. Yesterday. Hey, you know we
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Speaker 2: will get to the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. This
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Speaker 2: is the government shutdown. It's all being shut down by
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Speaker 2: government by Democrats. The Democrats are keeping it going. The
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Speaker 2: problem is the TSA is part of Homeland Security, and
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Speaker 2: TSA workers are not getting paid. They've now missed two paychecks.
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Speaker 2: About three four hundred of them have left. More are
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Speaker 2: leaving every day. And TSA screeners they don't well, they
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Speaker 2: make about forty five thousand a year. They've been working
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Speaker 2: out without pay for a couple of weeks. Now ten
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Speaker 2: percent are calling in sick every day. Nearly three hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy five have quit their jobs over this. Now
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Speaker 2: the problem is if this gets any worse, the airports
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Speaker 2: are now talking about what they call their doomsday scenario.
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Speaker 2: You know, right now, if you go to the airport
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Speaker 2: because of the TSA problems and the shortage and the shutdown,
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Speaker 2: massive delays, you know, usually it's an hour or two,
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Speaker 2: now three four five hour delays getting through security. But
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Speaker 2: the doomsday scenario is actually shutting down some airports. They're
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Speaker 2: actually talking about that now. Some airports could be shut
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Speaker 2: down entirely, which would be a real nightmare that would
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Speaker 2: affect everybody everywhere. And we'll get to coming up, we'll
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Speaker 2: get to a mom Donnie just causing a terrible scene
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Speaker 2: yesterday at the Saint Patrick's Day breakfast. We'll get to that,
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Speaker 2: and a whole lot more just ahead. We'll take some calls.
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Speaker 3: Next.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten seven trs
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Speaker 2: Mark Simone Show continues. Now take some calls. Eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight
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Speaker 2: hundred three two one zero seven ten. Let's go to
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Speaker 2: Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing pretty good?
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Speaker 3: Felt like twenty six degrees here this morning, so we'll
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Speaker 3: get back to the fifties tomorrow. But it was a
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Speaker 3: pretty pretty cold blast last night and the day before.
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Speaker 3: You know this, John Thune, he's got to go, he
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Speaker 3: better get his uh, you know what, off the off
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Speaker 3: the crapper. You know, we've got over seventy judge openings
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Speaker 3: that need to be filled. At least Mitch McConnell, the
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Speaker 3: Turtle was good at doing these judges and getting judges
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Speaker 3: appointed in. There's a lot of red states that have
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Speaker 3: a lot of openings and courting to Laura Ingram, there's
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Speaker 3: something like, you know, well over seventy high level judge
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Speaker 3: ships that need to be filled, and John Thuhon in
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Speaker 3: the Senate that they're just not doing anything to look
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Speaker 3: at the long range term by not doing anything like that.
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Speaker 2: No, you're absolutely right. Thoon is one useless guy. Anytime
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Speaker 2: you see a politician, he looks like that senator on
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Speaker 2: the Godfather, remember excuse you?
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Speaker 3: Or yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like I wouldn't trust him for a second.
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Speaker 2: Not that I would trust Mitch McConnell either, But you're right,
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Speaker 2: McConnell at least been there six hundred years, knew how
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Speaker 2: to get stuff done. Let's go to doctor Bob in
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Speaker 2: Long Island. Doctor Bob, how you doing okay?
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Speaker 6: Mark, good to speak to you. Yeah, I second the
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Speaker 6: emotion about Whoon his disaster he's just treading water. But
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Speaker 6: I'm just wondering, Mark, you know, they're really getting ready
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Speaker 6: to close some of the airports because the TSA people
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Speaker 6: walking off without getting paid. I can't believe that the
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Speaker 6: senators are getting paid for blocking government functions. And I
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Speaker 6: think that they should set up a priority list of
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Speaker 6: maybe some of the states that have maybe democratic senators.
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Speaker 6: Maybe tick off of Massachusetts airports, maybe take off some
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Speaker 6: of the Chicago and California airports, and announce the schedule
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Speaker 6: when the closures are going to occur. Maybe that'll put
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Speaker 6: some pressure on those senators.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to pressure these guys, but a good point. Well,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people want to make sure because normally,
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Speaker 2: you know these congressman, House, Senate, they go right through
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Speaker 2: that there's no TSA line for them. They go, they
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Speaker 2: got escorted right through, an escort actually shows up, bring
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Speaker 2: them right through. Everybody wants that stopped, not just during
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Speaker 2: this but forever. You'll notice you hear the senators, the Democrats, everybody.
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Speaker 2: They'll criticize the Secretary of Defense, they'll criticize the Secretary
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Speaker 2: of State. But you'll notice you never hear anybody in
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Speaker 2: Congress Democrats you'll never hear them criticize the Secretary of Transportation,
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Speaker 2: which right now is Sean Duffy. And the reason they
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Speaker 2: never criticize the Secretary of Transportation is when your secretary
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Speaker 2: of transportation, first thing you do is you give your
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Speaker 2: cell number to everybody in Congress, Republican Democrat, they all
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Speaker 2: have his cell number. They're going to the airport, they
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Speaker 2: can call him, heal, arrange for an escort to show up.
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Speaker 2: Whatever you got, any problem in an airport train, he
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Speaker 2: call him, take care of it, just like that. So
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Speaker 2: you could threaten them with all kinds of things. You
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Speaker 2: could threaten them with no more escorts, no more this.
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Speaker 2: And you could just say we're going to have the
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Speaker 2: Secretary of Transportation change his phone number to a new
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Speaker 2: number that you don't have. Then maybe they'll cave in
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Speaker 2: real fast. Let's go to Foggi in Long Island. Did
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Speaker 2: I say your name right?
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Speaker 7: Fagi?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 7: Hi Mark. I have a question, why can't we pass
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Speaker 7: term limits for any member of Congress or political figure?
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Speaker 7: Because presidential have term limits? Why are people allowed to
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Speaker 7: be in Congress for fifty years? Make a Korea out
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Speaker 7: of it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they're all horrible. The worst people are these
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Speaker 2: lifetime senators, Republicans, Democrats. They all stink. But well, the
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Speaker 2: reason the problem is they'd have to pass it. They're
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Speaker 2: the only ones that can pass it against themselves, and
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Speaker 2: they won't do it.
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Speaker 7: And also, why can't they pass that if they prevent
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Speaker 7: any Americans who earn their living like the TSA members,
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Speaker 7: why can't we pass a lot that says if they
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Speaker 7: prevent that, they will not get paid either. It's frustrating
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Speaker 7: and I feel for those people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, concres should not get paid during the shutdown.
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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. Where are you in Long Island.
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Speaker 7: I'm on Bayville.
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Speaker 2: Bayville are right next to Jackie.
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Speaker 7: Martlin, right, I know, and Billy Joe. We used to
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Speaker 7: run into him into town all the time.
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Speaker 2: Well, Bazil is right next to where he lives. Center
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Speaker 2: and also got the great, the great songwriter Jimmy Webb
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Speaker 2: lives in Bayville.
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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, it's a beautiful town. Yeah, it's gonna
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Speaker 7: come alive in the summertime. Right now, it's still like
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Speaker 7: peaceful and quiet.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for all you people that drive all the way
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Speaker 2: out to the Hamptons, you go to Bayville, It's got
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Speaker 2: a beautiful Beach. It's close.
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Speaker 7: It's I go to Southhold during the summer for ward,
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Speaker 7: so I'm like, yep, I'm gonna drive.
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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks for Colin. Let's go to Gina and
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Speaker 2: Staten Island. Gina. How you doing.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm great.
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Speaker 3: I love your show.
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Speaker 4: Mark. I just have a question about the voter ID.
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Speaker 4: I was having an argument with my sister and she
20:10
Speaker 4: said that she doesn't think that, you know, we should
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Speaker 4: have voter ID. And I said, yeah, but how do
20:15
Speaker 4: you know who's voting? And she said, when she took
20:17
Speaker 4: her son to go register to vote, you have to
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Speaker 4: show ago birth certificate. So I just I'm confused. I
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Speaker 4: don't understand.
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Speaker 2: All right, let me give you some good advice. Stop
20:26
Speaker 2: talking to your sister. Know what the else he's talking about.
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Speaker 2: Stop talking to her. Everybody has a driver's license. Everybody
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Speaker 2: can show voter ID. It's it's photo I D. It's
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Speaker 2: the easiest thing to do. It's everywhere you go, everywhere
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Speaker 2: in the world, you have to show a photo ID.
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Speaker 2: To get into any office building, to buy medicine, to
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Speaker 2: do anything, you had to have photo ID. Everybody has it.
20:53
Speaker 2: It's a simple thing to do, but it screws up
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Speaker 2: the Democrats, and you know they putting legals on the
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Speaker 2: on the ballots and all that. It screws them up
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Speaker 2: to do it. So that's the reason they keep it
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Speaker 2: posting it. We'll get to this in the next hour.
21:06
Speaker 2: It's a very good topic. In the next hour. We'll
21:09
Speaker 2: get to this save act. It's very important. You know,
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Speaker 2: the yell and scream on MSNBC or CNN, how it's
21:17
Speaker 2: wrong to make people show photo ID. It's racist, it's suppresses,
21:20
Speaker 2: it's you have to show a photo ID to get
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Speaker 2: into MSNBC or CNN. Every guest on the show has
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Speaker 2: to show a photo ID. I'm sitting here at iHeart.
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Speaker 2: You gotta show photo ID to get in this building.
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Speaker 2: Everybody does everywhere. Hey, when we come back to brilliant
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21:38
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22:06
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Speaker 1: I'm terrific. Thank you for having me on.
22:10
Speaker 2: Mark, Hey, great to have you. The Fed the decision
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Speaker 2: later today. They'll do nothing, right.
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Speaker 1: They'll probably do nothing.
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Speaker 5: And you know, I've been thinking about this a lot,
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Speaker 5: of course everyone has. So what is the biggest issue
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Speaker 5: right now?
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Speaker 6: What?
22:26
Speaker 5: You know, you just had Congress come together in a
22:30
Speaker 5: bipartisan fashion to pass a housing bill. Congress almost never
22:35
Speaker 5: does anything in a bipartisan fashion. And as Steve Forbes
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Speaker 5: said to me yesterday on set, you know, it's a
22:41
Speaker 5: problem if it's bipartisan. And I kind of agree with him.
22:45
Speaker 5: I mean, I think this is a little bit of
22:47
Speaker 5: a boneheaded bill. Some of it's good, some of the
22:50
Speaker 5: releasing and removing of permitting and so forth, it's very important.
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Speaker 5: But what's the biggest issue. It's affordability. What's that all about?
22:59
Speaker 5: It's more rates. Mortgage rates are too high. The Fed
23:02
Speaker 5: needs to lower rates. And Mark just ask yourself what
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Speaker 5: impact does raising or lowering the FED rate have on
23:10
Speaker 5: oil prices?
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Speaker 1: The answer is zero.
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Speaker 5: So oil prices are high obviously because of the war,
23:17
Speaker 5: they've gone up a fair amount thirty percent or more.
23:21
Speaker 5: And yes, that's going to feed into all kinds of products, petrochemicals, plastics, fertilizers,
23:27
Speaker 5: et cetera. Does it have anything to do with interest
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Speaker 5: rates that the Feder setting, No, it has none. So
23:34
Speaker 5: you know, usually the Canesiine approach is the raise interest
23:38
Speaker 5: rates to damp and demand. No one's going to drive
23:41
Speaker 5: less or consume less plastics because the FED lowers interest rates.
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Speaker 1: That is a fact.
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Speaker 5: So you know, I think the two issues are totally separate.
23:52
Speaker 5: I think the FED should acknowledge that. I hope they do,
23:57
Speaker 5: and they set the stage for lower interest rates as
23:59
Speaker 5: the year goes on, because we do have a pretty
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Speaker 5: sluggish employment market right now. There is their dual mandate,
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Speaker 5: as you well know, they're supposed to be watching the
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Speaker 5: jobs market and inflation.
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Speaker 1: And what we really need to.
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Speaker 5: Do is to get Kevin warsh in there as head
24:17
Speaker 5: of the FED. It's not a guarantee that he's going
24:19
Speaker 5: to lead the FED and lowering rates, but it's sure
24:21
Speaker 5: a pretty good bet that Jay Powell isn't going to
24:24
Speaker 5: do that. And we have this absurd to me situation
24:29
Speaker 5: where Janine Piro, who I like and admire very much,
24:32
Speaker 5: is hanging on to what I think is a completely
24:37
Speaker 5: flimsy and inconsequential pursuit of J. Powell is supposedly having
24:45
Speaker 5: mismanaged or possibly even crookedly managed the building of the
24:49
Speaker 5: FED headquarters. For heaven's sakes, get rid of this, get
24:53
Speaker 5: rid of it, get rid of Tom Tillis's objection to
24:55
Speaker 5: getting the Kevin Worst nomination through, and let's start over
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Speaker 5: with a new, better, more efficient, and more up to
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Speaker 5: date Federal Reserve, which is what has to happen.
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Speaker 3: Well, J.
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Speaker 1: Powell, long run. Yeah, no, apologies, J.
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Speaker 3: Powell.
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Speaker 2: Building the new FED building for what should have cost
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Speaker 2: six hundred million ends up costing three billions of definite,
25:16
Speaker 2: definite mismanagement there. But you're right, yeah, court case.
25:19
Speaker 1: Is going to go criminal. No, he's not a criminal.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think he's an ineffectual FED chair and
25:25
Speaker 5: obviously a very ineffectual overseer of a construction project. But
25:30
Speaker 5: if every construction manager in Washington, DC who oversaw a
25:35
Speaker 5: cost overrun went to jail, you know, the streets would
25:39
Speaker 5: be a lot lighter.
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Speaker 1: Let's just say that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, But you know, if you can't manage the construction
25:43
Speaker 2: of a building. If you're that unaware, if you're that bumbling,
25:46
Speaker 2: why should you manage the American economy?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so let's get rid of him. And the
25:51
Speaker 5: only way we're going to get rid of him is
25:53
Speaker 5: by replacing him. And we can't replace him now because
25:56
Speaker 5: we have a you know, a Republican supposedly Republican said
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Speaker 5: who's saying he won't further the nomination unless they drop
26:03
Speaker 5: these charges. So this is sort of easy in my head.
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Speaker 5: We want Jay Powell out, get rid of this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when would we get a new FED chairman? As
26:11
Speaker 2: it may that a new federmans And yes, we get
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Speaker 2: a new FED chairman. J Powell can stay on the
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Speaker 2: FED board, correct.
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Speaker 5: He can for I think it's two and a half
26:21
Speaker 5: more years after that. Oh okay, well, I mean the
26:25
Speaker 5: question is will he do that? I'm not sure that
26:27
Speaker 5: he will. Is not very I mean this is true
26:30
Speaker 5: in corporate world too. It's not very much fun to
26:32
Speaker 5: see the top role and then hang around to sort
26:35
Speaker 5: of see what happens next. That generally speaking, is not
26:39
Speaker 5: a recipe for success.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Save Act, it makes perfect sense to everybody
26:46
Speaker 2: in America. You got to show your driver's license, your
26:48
Speaker 2: photo ID to vote. You got to do that to
26:51
Speaker 2: enter any building in Manhattan. You got to show that
26:53
Speaker 2: to buy prescriptions for a million things. Uh so, what
26:58
Speaker 2: do you think will.
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Speaker 5: It ever have to do it to snow under mayor
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Speaker 5: Mom Danie have two means of identification?
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Speaker 1: Mark No. One.
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Speaker 5: I also think very few people are challenging. Certainly nobody
27:10
Speaker 5: on the right is challenging the need for voter ID.
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Speaker 1: The problem now is they sort.
27:14
Speaker 5: Of gunked up this bill with issues that they knew
27:18
Speaker 5: that Democrats were going to have a hard time voting for,
27:21
Speaker 5: like transgender you know, letting boys play in girls' sports
27:25
Speaker 5: and all these things. I agree with everything in the bill,
27:28
Speaker 5: but my view is that they should have I think
27:32
Speaker 5: they should junk the whole thing and have a one
27:34
Speaker 5: issue bill on the floor.
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Speaker 1: The one issue is voter ID.
27:38
Speaker 5: Make Democrats vote against something that eighty plus percent of
27:43
Speaker 5: the country applauds. And I really think that is the
27:47
Speaker 5: way to pass this. And frankly, the Republicans in Congress
27:50
Speaker 5: need a few wins right now. They need to actually
27:52
Speaker 5: pass some things to have the President sign it, and
27:56
Speaker 5: let's have voter ID. And if you want to complicate
27:58
Speaker 5: it a little bit by having the registration a proof
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Speaker 5: of citizenship. I applaud that as well. I know Democrats
28:05
Speaker 5: have all kinds of objections to that. Dick Blumenthal just
28:08
Speaker 5: came out and said he didn't know where his birth
28:10
Speaker 5: certificate was, and I tweeted back that if he doesn't
28:12
Speaker 5: know where his passport is, then he's really got a
28:14
Speaker 5: cognitive problem. But you know, I think there we could
28:18
Speaker 5: have this bill simpler, better and again make it clear
28:23
Speaker 5: to the American public what's in it. Now you've got
28:25
Speaker 5: all this other stuff, and I think that was a
28:27
Speaker 5: huge mistake.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know, a while back, I wasn't sure where my
28:31
Speaker 2: birth certificate was and I went online and there's about
28:33
Speaker 2: ten thousand sites that you can go to that will
28:36
Speaker 2: get you over you get a copy, get a replacement
28:38
Speaker 2: birth certificate in two weeks. It's easy to do. So, yes, hey,
28:42
Speaker 2: this Joe Kent, this counter terrorism whatever he is, who
28:46
Speaker 2: quit and protest? How long before we see him as
28:50
Speaker 2: a host on MSNBC or CNN.
28:52
Speaker 5: Ahha, Probably that could happen. Although he is I think
28:58
Speaker 5: emerging as a bit of a wing nut. And what
29:00
Speaker 5: I mean by that is he's really on the far
29:02
Speaker 5: reaches of this sort of Israeli conspiracy, plus you know,
29:11
Speaker 5: anti Semitism, right in league with people like Tucker Carlson,
29:16
Speaker 5: Megan Kelly and so forth, who think this whole war
29:19
Speaker 5: is about Israel. And I have to say, mark, of
29:22
Speaker 5: all the presidents we've had in recent times, or even
29:26
Speaker 5: political leaders, the idea that Donald Trump is being led
29:30
Speaker 5: by the nose by a foreign ally Benjamin at Yahu,
29:35
Speaker 5: is so ludicrous to me. I don't know anybody who
29:38
Speaker 5: is more self determined, let us say, than Donald Trump, right,
29:44
Speaker 5: I mean, and completely does what he wants to do
29:47
Speaker 5: when he wants to do it, et cetera. Joe Kent, yes,
29:51
Speaker 5: is now a darling of the left because he's come
29:54
Speaker 5: out critical of the war. But you know, look at
29:58
Speaker 5: what he said in interview. It is just two years
30:01
Speaker 5: ago about Iran being a major threat to this country.
30:05
Speaker 5: It's really almost impossible for me to believe. By the way,
30:08
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago he was talking about maybe
30:10
Speaker 5: running for office. I have to think some of this
30:13
Speaker 5: is maybe in preparation for some attempt to run for office.
30:16
Speaker 5: I don't know, obviously, I don't know, but I think
30:21
Speaker 5: it's incredibly phony baloney. And you know that's the kind
30:25
Speaker 5: of heroes the left have right now.
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