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Mark interviews Fox News contributor Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: R Well, Liz Peak, the brilliant columnus. You can read
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  Speaker 2: her columns of Fox News, and make sure you check
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  Speaker 2: her website. There's great stories up there today. Lizpeak dot com,
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  Speaker 2: lizpeak dot com. Course you see her all over television.
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  Speaker 2: Liz Peak. How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on. Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, California primary, Steve Hilton got more votes than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think does he have a chance?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, what I think is that he'll be a
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  Speaker 3: contender in November.
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  Speaker 1: Thank Heavens for that. You know, if you take his
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  Speaker 1: vote and line it.
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  Speaker 3: Up against the combined votes for Tom Steyer, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and Tony Batara, he probably is not ahead. And that's
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  Speaker 3: sort of the Democrat establishment plus left wing foot loops,
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  Speaker 3: yeah versus you know, versus Steve Hilton.
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  Speaker 1: But look, I think he does have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: Why seventy percent of voters in California say they want
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  Speaker 3: to change, and Steve Hilton is talking to that desire
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  Speaker 3: for change. He's proposing common sense fixes to a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the things that ail California. How can Democrats pretend
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  Speaker 3: to be the party of affordability? When every major city
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  Speaker 3: except for ones in Hawaii, that are the most expensive
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  Speaker 3: to live in are in California. There's no reason for that.
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  Speaker 3: Hawaii is far away, I get that. California, No, it's
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  Speaker 3: right here, and yet it is outrageously expensive because of
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  Speaker 3: bad policies, because of strangling regulations on businesses, because of
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  Speaker 3: permitting inaccessibility, the fact that it's impossible to build, and
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  Speaker 3: high taxes. People kind of like they have an out
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  Speaker 3: of body experience. They don't believe that high taxes wend
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  Speaker 3: their way into higher prices. Of course they do. It
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  Speaker 3: drives up the price of everything. So California has seven
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  Speaker 3: dollars gallon gasoline? Why taxes and fees and all the
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  Speaker 3: stupid things that they've done to make gasoline practically extinct
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  Speaker 3: in the state of California.
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  Speaker 1: So do I think he has a chance.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ever optimistic about the common sense of the American people.
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  Speaker 1: Mark who knows. I mean, I think.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to have the public union's public employee unions
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  Speaker 3: lined up aggressively against him. You're going to have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people who want to go out and vote
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  Speaker 3: for the wealth tax. That's going to probably draw a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the fringe left to the ballot box. But look,
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  Speaker 3: California is losing businesses, losing people, losing revenues, and all
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  Speaker 3: of those people are being replaced by illegal aliens who
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  Speaker 3: are not paying their way. So yeah, I think California
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  Speaker 3: has got problems. Steve is offering solutions. Let's hope the
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  Speaker 3: voters recognize that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What is it with Democratic voters? You know they'll scream
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  Speaker 2: about tariffs that could raise the price. Yeah, but the
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  Speaker 2: corporate taxes a tariff, it's democratic tariffs, so the I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And then Democrats have controlled every inch of New York,
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  Speaker 2: the city government, the state government for twelve years. How
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  Speaker 2: does Mom Donny get away with running on the affordability
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  Speaker 2: crisis I.
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  Speaker 3: Know, and reforming New York. None of it makes any sense.
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  Speaker 3: People are not thinking through his policies. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 3: watch all his adulation on Twitter or x as I do.
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  Speaker 1: People come in and say, look what he's already done.
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  Speaker 3: He's filled one hundred thousand potholds, He's improved housing affordability
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  Speaker 3: and availability, He's done this and that.
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  Speaker 1: No, he hasn't.
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  Speaker 3: He's talked about a lot of stuff, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the next couple of years, let's see, as the
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  Speaker 3: CEO of Goldman Sachs said in a recent interview, let's
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  Speaker 3: see if he knows how to govern. I mean that
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  Speaker 3: is a little different than campaigning, although he's already taken
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  Speaker 3: much of his office and devoted it to in effect
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  Speaker 3: constant campaigning. With this sort of promotional videos and TikTok
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  Speaker 3: IDAs that he's got going on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really appalling to me. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what he produces.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what about La. It looks like Pratt has a
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  Speaker 2: real shot to win this. Of course, you've gotta wait
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  Speaker 2: days and days to see what happened and during this
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  Speaker 2: mail and that's where all the cheating happens. But could
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  Speaker 2: Pratt be yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he certainly is in good position right now, nine
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  Speaker 3: points ahead of the number three person, Karen Vass, astonishingly
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  Speaker 3: because I think she has the appeal of I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: a stale piece of bread. Is in the lead and
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  Speaker 3: certainly leading Spencer Pratt, But he seems to be number two.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you always worry in California that all these
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  Speaker 3: mysterious ballots come in after the fact, after the date,
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  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden he loses but his lead's
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  Speaker 3: pretty big. I would think it's gonna And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: it's like two thirds of the vote's been counted, right,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not it's not forty percent, it's sixty seven
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  Speaker 3: or something percent.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a big lug of it. Let's just hope
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  Speaker 1: is fair and honest and that.
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  Speaker 3: He has a chance, because my gosh, again, what has
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  Speaker 3: Karen Bass done for Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 1: That?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my line for Steve Hilton was what do
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  Speaker 3: you have to lose to California voters for LA What
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  Speaker 3: has Karen Bass done?
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  Speaker 1: I can't think of a single thing.
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  Speaker 2: So these crazy left wing socialists. Is a Democrat party
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  Speaker 2: ever going to clean house and get back to normal, Well.
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  Speaker 3: Not anytime soon, because the money is coming from the
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  Speaker 3: far left.
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  Speaker 1: Money is power.
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  Speaker 3: And you know when you have someone like Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 3: endorsing a real wing nod this person's Cheva. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how that she pronounces that chevalier or whatever, who
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  Speaker 3: is really racist and offensive and doesn't even think Bernie
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  Speaker 3: Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are far enough left and taking
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  Speaker 3: on by the way, a five turn Democrat who's head
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  Speaker 3: of the Hispanic Caucus. Wow, I mean about a leap
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  Speaker 3: into the unknown. Will people follow him? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think I think you're seeing a lot
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  Speaker 3: of money coming in from anti Israel groups, pro Muslim groups,
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  Speaker 3: I said on Varney this morning. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: American's got to take a moment to say, what's on
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  Speaker 3: the other side of that anti Israel trade. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Graham Platner in Maine is accusing Susan Collins of taking
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  Speaker 3: APAC money. Where's his money come, Frank? I mean, who's
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  Speaker 3: on the other side of the anti Israel trade. It's
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  Speaker 3: pro Muslim, anti American groups that are anti capitalists and
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  Speaker 3: really don't want our country to succeed. So I think
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  Speaker 3: people need to take a moment here and figure out
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  Speaker 3: which side of that are there on the pro Hamas
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  Speaker 3: group or pro Israel group.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that's a pretty easy decision to make.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, apparently the Bidens need money. They got huge overhead,
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  Speaker 2: and so Joe Biden the book is to raise some
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  Speaker 2: money and cash in. But this book, to hearth, this
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  Speaker 2: is not helped the Biden images.
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  Speaker 3: Hahaha, No it is not, because every time she opens
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  Speaker 3: her mouth we are reminded of how completely hapless Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden was the essential lie of the last four years
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  Speaker 3: that Joe Biden was capable of running again. Every you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to whitewash this now, Mark, but every Democrat official,
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  Speaker 3: every Democrat place, you know, stakeholder was raising their hand
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  Speaker 3: and saying, oh, yes, Joe's in perfectly good shape. And
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  Speaker 3: she was the cheerleader number one. So they have all
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  Speaker 3: this angst about not releasing an autopsy. Holy crow, I
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  Speaker 3: can write their autopsy. The reason they lost in twenty
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  Speaker 3: four was that everything about the party was dishonest. It
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  Speaker 3: was dishonest to pretend Joe could run, It was dishonest
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  Speaker 3: not to have any kind of primary to choose his successor,
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  Speaker 3: and everything Kamala Harris's.
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  Speaker 1: Campaign on was dishonest. I mean really, it was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a cataclysmic defeat. It's true, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: really hard to figure out why.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the cover up was just the most disgraceful
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  Speaker 2: thing in the history of a media and journalism. So
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  Speaker 2: this Barry Weis's cleaning house at sixty minus, is this
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  Speaker 2: like the beginning maybe of the end of fake news.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe they'll get the oh.
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  Speaker 1: There's always going to be fake news.
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  Speaker 3: What amuses me, is there're so irate that a wealthy
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  Speaker 3: person who owns the network now is supposedly determining editorial content.
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  Speaker 1: Well maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he just wants to get the organization back into
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  Speaker 3: the center where it can appeal to both left and right,
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  Speaker 3: as opposed to narrowing its target audience. But all they're
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  Speaker 3: mad about is that their guys are no longer in charge.
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  Speaker 3: It was always wealthy people looking the station, and they
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  Speaker 3: just had a different political slant. There's nothing morally highbrow
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  Speaker 3: about that or anything really to take umbrage about. It's
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  Speaker 3: as your team lost. You know, elections have consequences, so
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  Speaker 3: to economic decisions, so to business decision. And if somebody
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  Speaker 3: like Jeff Bezos comes along and makes a fortune and
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  Speaker 3: decides to buy the Washington Post.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what, that's his right. And if he wants to.
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  Speaker 3: Change the Washington Post a little bit editorially or at
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  Speaker 3: least have some influence in that, that is his right,
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  Speaker 3: just like it's the right of the Sulzberger family to
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  Speaker 3: influence the New York Times. So there's nothing new here
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  Speaker 3: under the sun. It's just whose team is at bat
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  Speaker 3: And Scott Pelley behaved abominably in a meeting and then
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  Speaker 3: in the follow up meetings. If you've read the letter
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  Speaker 3: that his boss posted to or sent to him, it's
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  Speaker 3: a very well written letter.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I was hoping to have a civil discourse.
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  Speaker 1: We did not. You did not, and so you're fired.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what, Honestly the shoot spot of these
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  Speaker 3: liberal entertainers and newspeople and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They think they are so important. Mark guess what they're not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, And the record shows William Paley a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times called Edward R. Murrow into the office and
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  Speaker 2: yelled at them to drop a certain story. You're right,
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  Speaker 2: it's been going on forever.
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  Speaker 3: Course, if you own a property like a news station
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  Speaker 3: or a newspaper or whatever, you have some say. And
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, this trickles down to kids today who
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  Speaker 3: just don't think they have to do it all with
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  Speaker 3: their boy Remember when they had to sit in of
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  Speaker 3: Apple employees demanding certain things refusing it was actually I
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  Speaker 3: think about showing up in the office two or three
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  Speaker 3: days a week. They refuse to do it, and then
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  Speaker 3: some of them got fired, and it's like, what why
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  Speaker 3: is it? You know, there's no sense of accountability. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I guess what if your boss is your boss, you
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  Speaker 3: need to listen to them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, great stuff, Liz Peak. You can read her
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  Speaker 2: columns at a Foxnews dot com, but go to her website.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of good stories up there, lizpeak dot com,
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  Speaker 2: lizpeak dot com. And we'll see on a television course.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark, take care right, take.
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  Speaker 2: Care and you forget But Clay, I listened to them
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  Speaker 2: every day noon to three, and then you got the
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  Speaker 2: most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. And
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: make sure if you haven't listened yet, listen to Jimmy Faylor,
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  Speaker 2: an excellent show. It's so funny, every night nine to
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  Speaker 2: midnight on seven ten wor