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- 0:00Speaker 1: You just heard the news.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Now you'll find out what it all means.
- 0:05Speaker 3: It's Mark Simone on 710WOR.
- 0:10Speaker 4: Hey, well, a lot to get to today. We'll go
- 0:13Speaker 4: over last night's Blakeman-Hockel debate. We'll get to Katie Zachariah.
- 0:18Speaker 4: We'll get to Kimberly Guilfoyle. We'll get to the president.
- 0:21Speaker 4: He's on the road. Boy, is he on the road.
- 0:24Speaker 4: We'll get to... The horses are going to get banned
- 0:27Speaker 4: in Central Park. We'll get to Mamdani and Tisch and
- 0:30Speaker 4: the Pope and a whole lot more. So, yeah, the
- 0:34Speaker 4: president's an incredible schedule. He made a trip to Alaska
- 0:39Speaker 4: yesterday afternoon. That's a seven and a half hour flight.
- 0:42Speaker 4: Although you can go pretty fast in Air Force One.
- 0:45Speaker 4: Six hours. Alaska. Big rally. Then flew from there to
- 0:51Speaker 4: Las Vegas, Nevada. Spent the night in Las Vegas. From
- 0:55Speaker 4: Las Vegas, he's going to Arizona today and then another
- 0:58Speaker 4: state or two. This, of course, would have killed Joe Biden.
- 1:02Speaker 4: He wouldn't have survived any of this. But Trump, business
- 1:06Speaker 4: as usual, crisscrossing the country. Big rally last night in Alaska.
- 1:12Speaker 4: Huge cheers. Now, we'll get back to the president in
- 1:16Speaker 4: these rallies. Midterms, it actually looks pretty good for the
- 1:21Speaker 4: Republicans in the Senate. Looks pretty good in the real polls.
- 1:24Speaker 4: A house too close to call right now. New press
- 1:29Speaker 4: secretary is Katie Zachariah, and she was nervous and shaky
- 1:33Speaker 4: in the first briefing, White House briefing. That's happened before.
- 1:37Speaker 4: It happened with Sean Spicer. It happens many times. But,
- 1:40Speaker 4: of course, you got the fake news, the MSNBC, MSCNN,
- 1:46Speaker 4: New York Times crowd, who just exploded. This was their
- 1:49Speaker 4: whole topic for the whole day, that it was a
- 1:51Speaker 4: train wreck. a disaster, a train wreck, the worst thing. Well,
- 1:56Speaker 4: it was not the worst thing ever. She was nervous.
- 2:02Speaker 4: And the problem is they threw her in there without
- 2:04Speaker 4: any prep. Normally, it takes a lot of prep to
- 2:07Speaker 4: do your first briefing. You got to spend a week
- 2:09Speaker 4: at the White House. You got to spend a lot
- 2:12Speaker 4: of time with all the principals, talking at great length
- 2:15Speaker 4: to them, learning backwards and forwards, every detail of everything
- 2:18Speaker 4: going on. Then you got to, you know, talked to
- 2:22Speaker 4: the president a lot for a couple of days about
- 2:25Speaker 4: what type of briefings he wants, how he wants it done.
- 2:28Speaker 4: There's a lot of prep that goes into this. For
- 2:30Speaker 4: some reason, if the president made a mistake here, this
- 2:33Speaker 4: was the mistake. He threw her in too fast. Should
- 2:36Speaker 4: have let her have a week at the White House
- 2:38Speaker 4: to get herself acclimated, get ready for everything. Instead, as
- 2:42Speaker 4: soon as you get there, do the briefing the next day.
- 2:44Speaker 4: So it was a little too soon. Now, she wasn't
- 2:47Speaker 4: that bad. The biggest problem was, You have to read
- 2:52Speaker 4: an opening statement. You have to run down all the
- 2:56Speaker 4: things you want to brief the press on. So for
- 2:58Speaker 4: eight minutes, you went through this opening. Now, this is
- 3:02Speaker 4: a real art, being able to read this without looking
- 3:04Speaker 4: like you're reading it. You don't want to look like
- 3:07Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer, where you put on these Ben Franklin glasses,
- 3:10Speaker 4: look down on the whole time. It happens a lot.
- 3:14Speaker 4: It's a strange skill to be able to read a
- 3:16Speaker 4: teleprompter or a script and not look like you're reading.
- 3:19Speaker 4: Very few people have this skill. TV anchors have it.
- 3:23Speaker 4: But in television, a lot of times you'll see a
- 3:24Speaker 4: guy's a guest on the show every week. He's great.
- 3:27Speaker 4: Every day he's a guest. He's phenomenal. What a talker.
- 3:30Speaker 4: And then one day they let him fill in. And
- 3:33Speaker 4: then when he has to read the teleprompter, he suddenly
- 3:36Speaker 4: gets very stuck. He's not used to reading a teleprompter.
- 3:39Speaker 4: So that was, but then again, that just takes a
- 3:42Speaker 4: little practice. They'll have a media coach work with her.
- 3:45Speaker 4: Somebody will show her how to do that, how to
- 3:47Speaker 4: look up and how to, So that gets fixed real fast. Now,
- 3:51Speaker 4: the rest of it where she had to answer questions
- 3:54Speaker 4: or talk about, she was fine. She was a little nervous.
- 3:57Speaker 4: She was a little shaky. Again, it happened to show
- 3:59Speaker 4: on Spicer's first day and other press secretaries. But the
- 4:03Speaker 4: toughest thing she had to reveal was Kimberly Guilfoyle being
- 4:07Speaker 4: asked to leave. Now, you take a listen. She sounds fine.
- 4:09Speaker 5: We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign. She has been
- 4:14Speaker 5: a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.
- 4:18Speaker 4: All right. I mean, it's a little, you know, sounds
- 4:22Speaker 4: like Carrie in Sex and the City. It's a little,
- 4:24Speaker 4: but OK, she's a young woman. That's how they talk.
- 4:28Speaker 4: But again, she was fine.
- 4:30Speaker 5: I am so honored to work for President Trump and
- 4:34Speaker 5: the American people as the new White House press secretary.
- 4:40Speaker 4: OK, so a little stilted and a little nervous. Again,
- 4:45Speaker 4: you got to wait till the next one. The next one,
- 4:50Speaker 4: if she's much better, then she's going to be fine.
- 4:52Speaker 4: She'll get better every time. If she's exactly the same,
- 4:55Speaker 4: then you might have a problem. But it wasn't as
- 4:57Speaker 4: bad as you're hearing. You can remember what a train
- 4:59Speaker 4: wreck it was. She looked good up there. The eyebrows
- 5:03Speaker 4: were a little too dark. You got to fix those eyebrows,
- 5:05Speaker 4: tone those down. But otherwise, she was fine. The listener,
- 5:11Speaker 4: she's fine.
- 5:12Speaker 5: So I intend to, to the extent possible... include my family,
- 5:16Speaker 5: include my kids in my work. Though my work will
- 5:19Speaker 5: be demanding, they will always be a priority. And President
- 5:22Speaker 5: Trump is the most family-friendly president we've ever had. He
- 5:26Speaker 5: has hired more women with families. And the fact that
- 5:29Speaker 5: he knew I had four kids and he knew that
- 5:31Speaker 5: this job would be demanding and still placed his trust
- 5:34Speaker 5: in me shows that I know I'm capable of being
- 5:37Speaker 5: able to step up to that.
- 5:39Speaker 4: That was fine. It's not great. I mean, listen, you're
- 5:41Speaker 4: not going to say, what an orator. Well, she's Winston Churchill. No,
- 5:44Speaker 4: you're not going to say that. But you wouldn't listen
- 5:46Speaker 4: to that and go, wow, it's a train wreck. But
- 5:49Speaker 4: if you're watching MS Now or CNN, they all run
- 5:55Speaker 4: around like chickens with their head cut off, yelling and
- 5:58Speaker 4: screaming about train wreck. That's what they do over there.
- 6:01Speaker 4: They get themselves all worked up about nothing. Hey, last night,
- 6:06Speaker 4: I was speaking to Kimberly Guilfoyle. The word is there's
- 6:09Speaker 4: more stuff coming. There's more stuff coming. Now, here's the
- 6:14Speaker 4: suspicious part. This whole story about the donor, the.
- 6:18Speaker 3: $ 100, 000.
- 6:18Speaker 4: Payoff for American Express, all this stuff, apparently this story
- 6:22Speaker 4: was developed four months ago. I don't want to mention publications,
- 6:26Speaker 4: but they had it four months ago and held it.
- 6:30Speaker 4: They were trying to use it to screw up the
- 6:32Speaker 4: midterm elections for Trump. They held it until now, releasing
- 6:36Speaker 4: it just three weeks before the election. And apparently there's
- 6:40Speaker 4: more stuff. They're going to unleash it. in the coming
- 6:43Speaker 4: three weeks. So it's to damage Trump. That's to damage
- 6:47Speaker 4: her too, but that's one reason they just told her
- 6:50Speaker 4: to get out and leave. She has been very supportive
- 6:54Speaker 4: of the president, putting out all kinds of statements. I
- 6:56Speaker 4: still support him. I'm 100% behind him on this, on that. Very,
- 7:01Speaker 4: very gracious. And the other thing is she might need
- 7:03Speaker 4: a pardon. That's the other reason for that. The president,
- 7:07Speaker 4: if he were to lose the House, The House is
- 7:10Speaker 4: then going to subpoena everybody. They're going to hold hearings.
- 7:13Speaker 4: They're going to go after everybody. Don Jr., Eric, they're
- 7:16Speaker 4: going to go after Kimberly Guilfoyle if they see something here.
- 7:19Speaker 4: She's a big target because they think because she was
- 7:24Speaker 4: engaged to Donald Trump and with him for a couple
- 7:27Speaker 4: of years, boy, she must know everything about the inner
- 7:30Speaker 4: workings of the Trump family. So that's why she'd be
- 7:32Speaker 4: a big target. So it's possible that if the president
- 7:37Speaker 4: loses the House... He may start pardoning people right away
- 7:41Speaker 4: just so they blunt those House hearings and she'll want
- 7:44Speaker 4: one of those pardons. Hey, the big debate was last night.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Blakeman and Hochul, almost everybody, almost everybody agrees Blakeman won,
- 7:53Speaker 4: won big. If you look at the newspapers or the
- 7:57Speaker 4: news sites where they get a bunch of panelists, you know,
- 8:00Speaker 4: some political analysts ask them to all vote. Even they
- 8:05Speaker 4: said Blakeman won. You know, you'd get the one hardcore
- 8:08Speaker 4: Democratic strategists, but very few of them said Hochul won.
- 8:13Speaker 4: In fact, most of them, they couldn't, they didn't want
- 8:14Speaker 4: to say Blakeman won. So those real Democrat types, well,
- 8:18Speaker 4: it was a tie. That means Blakeman won. He was
- 8:21Speaker 4: very good. Hochul had a lot of problems in that debate.
- 8:27Speaker 4: From her point of view, it's a good thing to
- 8:28Speaker 4: tie him to Trump because the Democratic voted, well, they
- 8:31Speaker 4: hate Trump. So we understand that, but it was too much.
- 8:35Speaker 4: Every second it was Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
- 8:38Speaker 4: It was too much. It didn't look good after a while.
- 8:41Speaker 4: And then some people think Blakeman should have tied her
- 8:44Speaker 4: Mamdani more. He didn't even mention Mamdani until the fourth
- 8:48Speaker 4: quarter of this debate. But OK, no, I mean, you've
- 8:51Speaker 4: got plenty of other plenty of other things to go
- 8:53Speaker 4: after her for. But it's interesting when he did mention Mamdani.
- 8:58Speaker 4: When he did say, you know, Mamdani's an anti-Semite, he's anti-Semitic,
- 9:03Speaker 4: he's anti-American, he's anti-Christian. When he went through all that,
- 9:09Speaker 4: Hochul never defended him. Hochul never said a word. Didn't
- 9:14Speaker 4: stick up for Mamdani in the debate. Now, I guarantee
- 9:17Speaker 4: you Mamdani was in Gracie Mansion watching the debate. And
- 9:21Speaker 4: when he heard Blakeman say all this stuff, he waited
- 9:24Speaker 4: for Hochul's response. And Hochul did not defend them in
- 9:29Speaker 4: any way. So it'd be interesting to see if this
- 9:32Speaker 4: changes the supposed support Mom Donnie's going to have for Hochul.
- 9:37Speaker 4: We'll see what happens. But Blakeman was great in the debate.
- 9:40Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you to vote for change. What
- 9:43Speaker 3: have you got to lose?
- 9:44Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a line Donald Trump used in 2016. Hochul.
- 9:50Speaker 4: I had all kinds of prepared responses and cliche things
- 9:54Speaker 4: to say.
- 9:54Speaker 6: He says that he's going to bring Trump style leadership
- 9:58Speaker 6: to Albany and he's going to let ice run rampant
- 10:01Speaker 6: in our streets.
- 10:02Speaker 4: Yeah. Now, see, this is what Hochul did the whole debate.
- 10:04Speaker 4: This is the problem. I don't know if this works.
- 10:06Speaker 4: These lies are too preposterous. This is just hysterical nonsense.
- 10:11Speaker 4: There was no look at all his campaign ads, every
- 10:14Speaker 4: campaign speech. There's no time at any moment that he
- 10:17Speaker 4: ever say, I'm going to bring Trump style leader. He
- 10:20Speaker 4: never said that. He never proposed having ice run rampant
- 10:24Speaker 4: in the streets. He just, uh, he's for law enforcement.
- 10:28Speaker 4: He's a law enforcement guy. She, some law enforcement, not
- 10:32Speaker 4: too much law enforcement. You know, if you're an illegal
- 10:35Speaker 4: committing crimes, you get a pass. Even if you are
- 10:40Speaker 4: a criminal and you get arrested. No bail, no jail.
- 10:42Speaker 4: She's weak on crime. I think that really got through
- 10:45Speaker 4: to most viewers. Now, the big problem with the debate,
- 10:48Speaker 4: it's on New York One, which absolutely nobody watches. New
- 10:51Speaker 4: York One has 12 viewers. The other problem, as I
- 10:54Speaker 4: kept telling you, very biased, very left-wing. You'll notice they
- 10:59Speaker 4: kept cutting off Blakeman. There were moments where she would
- 11:02Speaker 4: launch a vicious attack, and he'd say, can I just respond?
- 11:05Speaker 4: We have to move on. I'm sorry, we have to
- 11:07Speaker 4: move on. That's the cry of the biased moderator. First
- 11:11Speaker 4: of all, you're doing a TV show. If she really
- 11:14Speaker 4: hit him hard, let him respond. This is good. This
- 11:16Speaker 4: is the debate. This is the debate. Let him respond.
- 11:21Speaker 4: I'm sorry, we have to move on. We have to
- 11:23Speaker 4: move on. Left-wingers, you notice they never once did it
- 11:26Speaker 4: to Hochul. Every time they did that, it was to Blakeman.
- 11:30Speaker 4: Then the other thing the bias networks always do, and
- 11:34Speaker 4: they did this towards the end, they ask a deep question,
- 11:38Speaker 4: and then as Blakeman would answer, They'd say, it's a
- 11:41Speaker 4: yes or no question. We have to have a yes
- 11:42Speaker 4: or a no, yes or a no. There has to
- 11:44Speaker 4: be a rule. In fact, anybody, if you're ever in
- 11:46Speaker 4: a debate, just tell them, just say it. I don't
- 11:49Speaker 4: do yes or no questions. I'll only give you an
- 11:52Speaker 4: answer with substance. I'm not doing a yes or no question.
- 11:55Speaker 4: It's a trick trying to trap you. Blakeman didn't fall
- 11:58Speaker 4: into it. But he was great last night.
- 12:00Speaker 3: The reason why that happened is because of you, Kathy Hochul,
- 12:03Speaker 3: and your immigration policies. Kathy Hochul appealed. to ICE to
- 12:08Speaker 3: let this criminal out. What was this guy doing in
- 12:12Speaker 3: New York in the first place? It's because Kathy Hochul
- 12:15Speaker 3: has made us a sanctuary state.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Now, I should have explained it, though, because some people
- 12:20Speaker 4: may not know, especially a New York One viewer, because
- 12:22Speaker 4: they only get half the story. The guy's a career criminal.
- 12:26Speaker 4: The guy's a gangbanger. The guy, Hochul kept yelling, they're
- 12:30Speaker 4: just shooting at random into cars. No, they're not. They'll
- 12:34Speaker 4: only shoot if you take your car and you try
- 12:35Speaker 4: to run them over. That's That's the only way you're
- 12:37Speaker 4: going to get shot. But she really, really got crazy
- 12:43Speaker 4: and desperate at times. I don't think we have this clip,
- 12:46Speaker 4: but at one time she got so desperate. I can't
- 12:51Speaker 4: believe she even did this. Joe Biden used to try
- 12:54Speaker 4: this crap, but Biden was a real slimy guy. In
- 12:58Speaker 4: a debate, he was the lowest lowlife. They used to
- 13:02Speaker 4: do this to a Republican. They'd start yelling, QAnon! Nobody
- 13:05Speaker 4: knows what the hell QAnon is. It's some kind of
- 13:08Speaker 4: chat room on the internet somewhere with 12 people in it.
- 13:11Speaker 4: It has nothing to do with Trump. It has nothing
- 13:13Speaker 4: to do with Republicans. They don't even know what QAnon is.
- 13:17Speaker 4: So she started hitting him. Blakeman is hanging around with QAnon.
- 13:21Speaker 4: First of all, nobody could, you can't hang around with QAnon.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Who the hell could even find them? He's hanging around
- 13:27Speaker 4: with white supremacists. Can you picture Bruce Blakeman hanging around
- 13:30Speaker 4: with white supremacists? That is the oldest, cheapest, dirtiest, lowest,
- 13:35Speaker 4: low-life thing you could do in a debate. At one point,
- 13:38Speaker 4: she pulled... That's how desperate she got. Bruce Blakeman hangs
- 13:41Speaker 4: around with QAnon and white supremacists. And that was a
- 13:47Speaker 4: sign of absolute desperate panic to try something that low
- 13:52Speaker 4: and stupid and cheap. And I think that hurt her
- 13:54Speaker 4: with the audience, really hurt her with the audience. But Blakeman...
- 13:58Speaker 4: kept battling her. She kept trying to fight back.
- 14:00Speaker 6: He refused to condemn what ICE did. So he basically
- 14:03Speaker 6: says in the state of New York, he'd be fine
- 14:05Speaker 6: if ICE agents shoot into cars.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Yes.
- 14:12Speaker 4: I don't know if anybody's buying this. Blakeman says ICE
- 14:14Speaker 4: agents should just shoot into cars. No, it's like any
- 14:17Speaker 4: law enforcement agency anywhere. If you're going to get killed
- 14:21Speaker 4: and the car is going to run you over, that's
- 14:23Speaker 4: deadly force. You are allowed to use deadly force back.
- 14:27Speaker 4: uh it's her sanctuary i.
- 14:29Speaker 6: Said new york is not a sanctuary for criminals.
- 14:33Speaker 4: Well nobody's buying that right now.
- 14:35Speaker 6: From her that is the war with iran that is
- 14:37Speaker 6: driving up gasoline costs and energy costs.
- 14:41Speaker 2: Uh who edited these clips they're way too short way
- 14:45Speaker 2: too short you got you gotta get the whole answer
- 14:47Speaker 2: in there but um blakeman just kept battling her back kathy.
- 14:52Speaker 3: Donald trump didn't raise utility rates 48 times you.
- 14:57Speaker 4: Did yeah no he was very good on the energy
- 14:59Speaker 4: and that when you do a read through all the
- 15:01Speaker 4: surveys and focus groups they are all of them unanimous
- 15:06Speaker 4: on that number one issue energy bills costs taxes and
- 15:11Speaker 4: she is the One that raised your energy bills up
- 15:15Speaker 4: like crazy 18 times. She's the one that's taxing you
- 15:18Speaker 4: more than any other state anywhere. So it was basically affordability.
- 15:24Speaker 4: And you got to blame Hochul on that. Energy costs,
- 15:29Speaker 4: all that stuff. Taxes, ridiculous taxes and more taxes coming.
- 15:33Speaker 4: And crime. Crime was the big issue.
- 15:35Speaker 6: New York State now has the lowest crime rates it's
- 15:38Speaker 6: had in modern history.
- 15:40Speaker 3: Maybe you haven't heard.
- 15:42Speaker 1: U.S.
- 15:42Speaker 3: News and World Report says I have the safest county
- 15:44Speaker 3: in America.
- 15:46Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 15:46Speaker 4: Now, you know, the funniest thing he does. He does
- 15:50Speaker 4: have the safest county in America. U.S. News and World
- 15:52Speaker 4: Report does a survey every year. So she argued that
- 15:55Speaker 4: it wasn't because of him. It was because the previous
- 15:58Speaker 4: county executive. That was like eight years ago. That was
- 16:02Speaker 4: Laura Kern. It was years ago. How on earth could
- 16:05Speaker 4: you claim that? So she looked pretty ridiculous at times.
- 16:08Speaker 4: We'll play you some more clips. We'll go over the
- 16:09Speaker 4: debate some more. We'll find out what you think about it.
- 16:12Speaker 4: A lot coming up. It's Mark Simone. Three hours every day.
- 16:17Speaker 4: Nine to noon. Three hours every day on 710WOR. Mark
- 16:22Speaker 4: Simone on 710WOR. Well, hey, yeah, they want to get
- 16:28Speaker 4: rid of all the horses in Central Park. I could
- 16:32Speaker 4: see getting rid of them outside of Central Park. They
- 16:34Speaker 4: should not be, those horse carriages should not be riding
- 16:38Speaker 4: around the streets of New York. They just screw up
- 16:39Speaker 4: traffic everywhere. Restrict them to Central Park. But no, no, no,
- 16:43Speaker 4: the city council is about to pass a bill. Looks
- 16:45Speaker 4: like they're going to get this passed. They've tried this before,
- 16:48Speaker 4: but it looks like they really got the support this time.
- 16:50Speaker 4: They're going to pass a bill once and for all
- 16:52Speaker 4: banning the horse-drawn carriages completely. Mayor Mamdani is behind it.
- 16:59Speaker 4: City Council Speaker Julie Menon is behind it. And that's
- 17:03Speaker 4: the deal. They'll completely ban horse-drawn carriages in the Big Apple.
- 17:08Speaker 4: They've been there in Central Park for a couple of centuries.
- 17:11Speaker 4: This will be a big change. The bill would make
- 17:18Speaker 4: horse-drawn carriages. Now, here's the thing. They'll have to go
- 17:21Speaker 4: by June of 2028. So it's almost two years from now. Now,
- 17:26Speaker 4: the reason for that is they believe you got to
- 17:30Speaker 4: give the drivers plenty of time, plenty of time to
- 17:34Speaker 4: find new jobs, to figure out what to do with
- 17:36Speaker 4: the carriage, the horse, sell it. Now, they also have
- 17:39Speaker 4: medallions like a taxi cab. They have medallions that have
- 17:43Speaker 4: a lot of value to them. It's a lot of
- 17:46Speaker 4: money for a medallion. So the city has to figure
- 17:48Speaker 4: out how to reimburse them. for the medallions or do
- 17:52Speaker 4: something or possibly help them find something else to do
- 17:55Speaker 4: for a living. So that's why it's June of 2028.
- 17:58Speaker 4: The reason is, you know, been a lot of horses
- 18:03Speaker 4: that have dropped dead, fainted, fallen in the street in
- 18:06Speaker 4: the past year. It's been happening forever, but more so
- 18:11Speaker 4: in the past year. Several bills have failed, but it
- 18:15Speaker 4: looks like this one has everything it needs to pass
- 18:17Speaker 4: the And that could be it for the carriage.
- 18:20Speaker 3: Just an industry that New York can't really sustain anymore.
- 18:23Speaker 6: We are too busy, too crazy of a city to
- 18:26Speaker 6: have horses walking through the streets of New York.
- 18:29Speaker 8: And I think it's just the time that we need
- 18:31Speaker 8: to do this.
- 18:32Speaker 4: All right. But if it's too dangerous to have a
- 18:35Speaker 4: horse clip-clopping along the street very slowly, why is it
- 18:38Speaker 4: okay to have those bikes going a million miles an hour,
- 18:41Speaker 4: especially in the park? They're just racing around the park.
- 18:45Speaker 4: That's as dangerous as the horses.
- 18:47Speaker 7: I would hope that the city council members have, you know,
- 18:52Speaker 7: that they remember why they came to government and that
- 18:54Speaker 7: that was to help people, not hurt people. This bill
- 18:58Speaker 7: will be devastating for carriage drivers and carriage owners. People
- 19:02Speaker 7: will be evicted. People will lose their houses. They have
- 19:06Speaker 7: mortgages and bills they need to pay.
- 19:07Speaker 1: They have children.
- 19:09Speaker 4: Well, that's why it's June of 2028, but she's got
- 19:12Speaker 4: a point.
- 19:12Speaker 7: I mean, we haven't fought this hard for our horses
- 19:15Speaker 7: and our people for nothing. You know, you can't just
- 19:17Speaker 7: destroy people's lives using government. It's just not supposed to
- 19:20Speaker 7: be done. We will not let the billionaires over at
- 19:22Speaker 7: Nightglass win.
- 19:23Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think billionaires have any interest. I don't
- 19:27Speaker 4: think the billionaires are following this horse issue at all.
- 19:29Speaker 8: We wanted to make sure that this bill was a win-win,
- 19:32Speaker 8: that we protect horses, but we also protect these workers,
- 19:36Speaker 8: and in general, just protect the public at large.
- 19:38Speaker 6: Last day for a horse-drawn carriage in your bill?
- 19:41Speaker 8: Will be June 1st, 2028. And so we allowed a
- 19:45Speaker 8: year and a half for the industry to transition out,
- 19:48Speaker 8: make sure that the workers are protected, make sure that
- 19:51Speaker 8: each horse can have its time to be able to
- 19:54Speaker 8: transition from an urban setting to a rural one.
- 19:57Speaker 4: The horse needs time to transition? I don't know. Horses
- 20:00Speaker 4: are pretty smart. They'll figure it out pretty fast. Now,
- 20:03Speaker 4: I don't.
- 20:05Speaker 7: Know.
- 20:05Speaker 4: Is it cruel to the horse to have them pull
- 20:07Speaker 4: a carriage? I mean, horses have been doing that stuff forever,
- 20:13Speaker 4: pulling a plow, pulling a carriage. If that's cruel, what
- 20:17Speaker 4: about horse racing? What about horse racing? A guy is
- 20:20Speaker 4: sitting on the horse, whipping it, demanding that he run
- 20:23Speaker 4: as fast as he can. That's more cruel than this,
- 20:28Speaker 4: but you can bet on that. You can't bet on this. Anyway, hey,
- 20:32Speaker 4: the Pope, well, it turned out to be worse than
- 20:34Speaker 4: they thought. It looked like surgery to remove a little lump,
- 20:37Speaker 4: and it turned out to be More than they thought.
- 20:40Speaker 9: During the surgery, they were likely looking at the tissue
- 20:42Speaker 9: samples that were being removed from the Pope. The pathologist,
- 20:45Speaker 9: the doctor who examines and diagnoses based off looking at
- 20:48Speaker 9: tissue under a microscope, made the finding that this was
- 20:51Speaker 9: likely an adenocarcinoma, a form of lung cancer. And then
- 20:55Speaker 9: that likely led to the surgeon doing a more radical
- 20:59Speaker 9: resection or removal of the tissue. Not just the lobe,
- 21:02Speaker 9: not just the nodule.
- 21:04Speaker 4: But the lobe of the lung. Pretty serious for the Pope. Now,
- 21:06Speaker 4: they've caught it very early. Chances for full recovery are excellent,
- 21:10Speaker 4: but he's going to be laid up for a while.
- 21:12Speaker 9: The reassuring news is that if this lobe was removed
- 21:15Speaker 9: and it was found that there was no other signs
- 21:17Speaker 9: of spread, this may be a curative procedure. But of course,
- 21:20Speaker 9: we need to wait for the further formal pathology reports.
- 21:23Speaker 9: That includes genetic testing, as well as making sure that
- 21:26Speaker 9: what was removed was the complete mass and that there
- 21:29Speaker 9: was nothing left.
- 21:30Speaker 4: Yeah, now he's supposed to be making a big trip
- 21:33Speaker 4: pretty soon. You can assume that's canceled because even though
- 21:36Speaker 4: he'll most likely be fine. They got tubes in there
- 21:40Speaker 4: and everything. When they pull that out, that hole where
- 21:42Speaker 4: the tube was, you got to give that time to recover.
- 21:45Speaker 4: So it's going to be a while before he's going
- 21:48Speaker 4: to be traveling. Hey, the Selma Blair lawyer, Selma Blair,
- 21:55Speaker 4: of course, went nuts on the plane, screaming like a nut,
- 21:58Speaker 4: maniacal screaming, punching, biting, disgusting. So it was when they
- 22:04Speaker 4: landed at JFK. So that means she's in a courtroom
- 22:08Speaker 4: in New York, in Queens, and she's got lawyers. And
- 22:12Speaker 4: the lawyers, these guys got a lot of nerve. They
- 22:16Speaker 4: pled not guilty. And there's like 400 witnesses on the plane.
- 22:20Speaker 4: There's like 200 witnesses on the ground. There's witnesses everywhere.
- 22:24Speaker 4: There's recordings, video, but she's pleading not guilty. I don't
- 22:27Speaker 4: know how she's going to get away with that. And
- 22:29Speaker 4: the judge, a tough Queens judge, wasn't going for any
- 22:33Speaker 4: of their nonsense. It's a serious thing. You know, if
- 22:36Speaker 4: you punch a stewardess hard enough to send her to
- 22:38Speaker 4: the hospital and then you bite another stewardess so she's
- 22:41Speaker 4: bleeding and then you hit somebody in the ambulance and
- 22:44Speaker 4: bite somebody else and you're yelling and screaming, forcing an
- 22:47Speaker 4: emergency landing of a plane, there's local charges, federal charges.
- 22:51Speaker 4: So the lawyers argued in court. Now listen to this.
- 22:56Speaker 4: They argued for leniency. Listen to their reasoning. Consider her
- 23:00Speaker 4: body of work and what she's done for people. This
- 23:08Speaker 4: is someone you should look up to. She is the
- 23:11Speaker 4: gold standard. Now this lawyer deserves an award for pathological chutzpah.
- 23:19Speaker 4: What the? Look at what she's done for people. Someone
- 23:23Speaker 4: we should look up to. What is she, a firefighter?
- 23:25Speaker 4: What is she, a policeman? Is she a first responder?
- 23:29Speaker 4: I gotta be honest. I don't know who the hell
- 23:31Speaker 4: she was when the story first broke. Judge Indira Khan
- 23:37Speaker 4: immediately shot back that she wasn't buying any of this,
- 23:40Speaker 4: said she will not get special treatment because she's a celebrity.
- 23:44Speaker 4: She already denied a request by the lawyers to uncuff
- 23:48Speaker 4: her at the hearings. The judge set up a $ 20, 000
- 23:51Speaker 4: cash or $ 60, 000 bond, which she posted and was freed. So,
- 24:00Speaker 4: Pretty stupid on the part of the lawyers. Also, why
- 24:03Speaker 4: annoy the judge before you're even getting started? Anyway, we've
- 24:06Speaker 4: got lots more to get to. It's Mark Simone here.
- 24:08Speaker 4: Three hours now. Three hours every day. Nine to noon.
- 24:11Speaker 4: And we'll take some calls coming up. But first, on 77. Nope.
- 24:20Speaker 4: I'm looking at a screen that says 77. Sorry. Sorry.
- 24:24Speaker 4: That's a forecast. On 710WOR. com.
- 24:29Speaker 9: The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
- 24:38Speaker 4: Well, hey, the police commissioner, everybody likes Jessica Tisch. They
- 24:42Speaker 4: think she's doing a good job, but there's pressure on
- 24:46Speaker 4: Mondani to get rid of her. Pressure from who? From
- 24:49Speaker 4: the democratic socialists. In other words, the anti-Semites. They don't
- 24:53Speaker 4: want a Jewish police commissioner. The anti-Semites just going nuts.
- 24:58Speaker 4: demanding she be fired. Mom Donnie, what's he going to do?
- 25:01Speaker 8: Over the last 10 months that we've worked together, we
- 25:04Speaker 8: have delivered the lowest recorded number of murders in our
- 25:06Speaker 8: city's history, the lowest recorded number of shootings, as well
- 25:09Speaker 8: as shooting victims.
- 25:11Speaker 4: All right. I think, is that a full defense? I think, well,
- 25:18Speaker 4: when you hear the low crime rate, it's the murder
- 25:20Speaker 4: rate is way down. There is a rise in subway crime,
- 25:25Speaker 4: some robbery in some precincts. Now, again, one of the
- 25:29Speaker 4: reasons crime is down is ICE took about 2,000 dangerous
- 25:34Speaker 4: criminals off the streets of New York. Almost 2,000. They've
- 25:38Speaker 4: taken 600,000 off the streets of the United States. That's
- 25:43Speaker 4: one reason you're seeing a crime drop everywhere. Massive difference
- 25:48Speaker 4: when you take all these criminals off the street. Let's
- 25:52Speaker 4: take some calls. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
- 25:55Speaker 4: how are you doing?
- 25:57Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark.
- 25:58Speaker 4: Yes, Mark.
- 26:00Speaker 1: I watched the White House briefing yesterday. I mean, maybe
- 26:04Speaker 1: she wasn't as cool and composed as a world-renowned actress
- 26:07Speaker 1: like Selma Blair, but she was fine.
- 26:10Speaker 4: Yeah, she was a little shaky, a little shaky, a
- 26:13Speaker 4: little nervous, but that's happened before press secretaries on their
- 26:16Speaker 4: first day.
- 26:18Speaker 10: Of course.
- 26:18Speaker 1: And, you know, the larger point to all of this stuff,
- 26:21Speaker 1: and you went over it in your opening, is anything
- 26:25Speaker 1: to sully.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Anything to sully the president, essentially, is their thing. They
- 26:32Speaker 1: humiliate right out of the Alinsky playbook to humiliate the opponents.
- 26:37Speaker 1: So if they can humiliate her by extension, it humiliates
- 26:40Speaker 1: Trump and so forth. Same thing with Hochul and her
- 26:44Speaker 1: attacks on Blakeman. You're a friend of Trump, and therefore
- 26:49Speaker 1: you're a bad guy. They don't care about the facts
- 26:51Speaker 1: or anything or the reality. And to quote Harry Reid,
- 26:54Speaker 1: they do it because it works. And they understand that.
- 26:57Speaker 1: Even a nimwit like Kathy Hochul can pull it off,
- 27:02Speaker 1: which is astonishing. And it works every single time. This
- 27:06Speaker 1: whole attack against Shane Gillis now, that's all from the left.
- 27:09Speaker 1: It's all ginned up. I thought comedy was sacred. It's
- 27:13Speaker 1: fine when Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of Trump for five years.
- 27:16Speaker 1: It's just comedy. Get a sense of humor. He does it,
- 27:19Speaker 1: and they want to burn him down. So it's all
- 27:23Speaker 1: part of a larger attack on us, you know, the
- 27:26Speaker 1: people who think, you know, normally.
- 27:28Speaker 4: Yeah, no, good point. Excellent call, Mike. That's what they do.
- 27:31Speaker 4: If you watch MSNBC or CNN and read the New
- 27:35Speaker 4: York Times, the whole audience is like sheep. They tell
- 27:39Speaker 4: you what to bleat that day. So yesterday it was
- 27:43Speaker 4: Katie Zakaria, a train wreck, a disaster, a total disaster.
- 27:47Speaker 4: We've seen much worse from press secretaries. Karine Jean-Pierre on
- 27:50Speaker 4: her worst day. On her best day, it wasn't as
- 27:53Speaker 4: good as Katie Zakaria. You know, one thing they went
- 27:55Speaker 4: after her for, she was asked one question where she said,
- 27:58Speaker 4: I don't have that answer for you. I'll have to
- 28:00Speaker 4: get back to you. Oh, they blasted her all day.
- 28:03Speaker 4: What the hell kind of press secretary is she? She
- 28:06Speaker 4: has to get back to you? Remember, there was a
- 28:09Speaker 4: press secretary who did that with every question. Her name
- 28:11Speaker 4: was Jen Psaki. Every question, I'll have to circle back
- 28:15Speaker 4: to you on that. I'll have to circle back. And
- 28:17Speaker 4: she became known as Circle Back Psaki because she She
- 28:20Speaker 4: did it on every question. But again, it's the famous
- 28:24Speaker 4: double standard the left is famous for. Let's go to
- 28:28Speaker 4: Tom in Queens. Tom, how are you doing? Hey, Mark.
- 28:32Speaker 4: Good morning.
- 28:33Speaker 11: So you brought up a good point with Mondami and
- 28:37Speaker 11: the fact that Hochul, I think Bruce was great and
- 28:42Speaker 11: he missed a good opportunity to go after Mondami by
- 28:46Speaker 11: mentioning the fact that he had a $ 126 billion budget
- 28:50Speaker 11: and that Kathy Hochul had to spend $ 8 billion of
- 28:53Speaker 11: taxpayer money to bail him out.
- 28:55Speaker 4: Well, he did mention all that stuff over and over
- 28:58Speaker 4: and over, especially the $ 8 billion she gave to illegals.
- 29:01Speaker 4: You've got to remember, Blakeman was great last night. Whenever
- 29:04Speaker 4: you're on anything, debate, anything, and you do a great job,
- 29:10Speaker 4: every time you turn around, there'll be a guy saying, well,
- 29:13Speaker 4: you know, you should have done this. You should have
- 29:15Speaker 4: said this. You should have said this. It's only a
- 29:17Speaker 4: one-hour debate. You can't say anything and everything. If it
- 29:20Speaker 4: was a three-hour debate, you could go after him for that.
- 29:22Speaker 4: But he hit her with a lot of good shots.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Let's go to Leah in Brooklyn. Leah, how are you doing?
- 29:30Speaker 12: Hi, how are you?
- 29:31Speaker 4: Good.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Good.
- 29:33Speaker 12: I love your show, first of all. I love that
- 29:35Speaker 12: you have the extra hour. Let me tell you what
- 29:38Speaker 12: I'm calling about.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
- 29:40Speaker 12: Yeah, you're in trouble now, but you're not. I live
- 29:44Speaker 12: near the King's Highway train station in Brooklyn. So there's
- 29:47Speaker 12: two entrances on either side of the street. The first entrance,
- 29:52Speaker 12: they put in this elaborate new system that costs tons
- 29:57Speaker 12: of money.
- 29:57Speaker 4: The new gates?
- 29:58Speaker 12: That sounds great. Yeah, the new gate. They put in
- 30:01Speaker 12: the new gate on one side of the street where
- 30:03Speaker 12: you go in, and that saves tons of money, and
- 30:07Speaker 12: they say there was 35% less evasion. I don't know
- 30:12Speaker 12: why there wouldn't be 100% less, but okay, 35%. But
- 30:15Speaker 12: instead of going in, let's say I'm a fear evader,
- 30:19Speaker 12: instead of going in that way, all you have to
- 30:21Speaker 12: do is cross the street. You have that door exit
- 30:24Speaker 12: that people getting off the train.
- 30:26Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's how government works.
- 30:29Speaker 12: No, no, no, wait.
- 30:30Speaker 4: Hey, hey, hey, you wait.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:33Speaker 4: What are you, Selma Blair? You wait.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Listen. Listen.
- 30:37Speaker 12: There's a guard standing there and he does nothing.
- 30:41Speaker 4: I know, that's the way it is. She's going to
- 30:43Speaker 4: yell at me again. Am I interrupting you? I don't
- 30:46Speaker 4: mean to interrupt. I love interrupting you because you start yelling.
- 30:49Speaker 12: I just want to hone in this point. A double
- 30:51Speaker 12: waste of money.
- 30:52Speaker 4: No, I know, but that's the way government works. If
- 30:55Speaker 4: they're going to come up with this high security gate,
- 30:57Speaker 4: nobody can get through it. And there's three entrances. They
- 31:00Speaker 4: only put it on one entrance. They forget to put
- 31:02Speaker 4: it on all three. That's how government does it.
- 31:04Speaker 12: And they're wasting money with the guards. They're wasting money
- 31:06Speaker 12: with this and that. Yeah.
- 31:08Speaker 4: All right, Leah. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Virginia
- 31:13Speaker 4: in Massapequa. Virginia, how are you doing?
- 31:17Speaker 1: Hi, Mark.
- 31:17Speaker 11: How's it going?
- 31:18Speaker 4: Good.
- 31:18Speaker 13: So anyway, I wanted to talk about the debate last
- 31:22Speaker 13: night very quickly. I don't know if you remember or
- 31:25Speaker 13: if anyone remembers, but when Kathy Hochul debated Lee Zeldin,
- 31:29Speaker 13: they again only showed it on Spectrum News. So if
- 31:33Speaker 13: you listen to her debate, you could pull it up online.
- 31:35Speaker 11: She was a complete bimbo.
- 31:38Speaker 10: Lee chewed her up and spit her out, basically.
- 31:41Speaker 1: You can say that, but she did win.
- 31:45Speaker 4: You can say that, but she won the election. She
- 31:47Speaker 4: won big.
- 31:48Speaker 10: She did win the election because nobody sees it. No
- 31:50Speaker 10: one saw it. I saw it after the fact.
- 31:53Speaker 4: You can't say she got chewed up and spit out.
- 31:55Speaker 4: Lise Eldon was great. She still won.
- 31:59Speaker 10: She still won. She looked so stupid. All she talked about,
- 32:02Speaker 10: she talked about the same thing. Guns, guns, guns, no
- 32:05Speaker 10: matter what he said. She looked so dumb. Dumb as
- 32:08Speaker 10: dumb can be. In any case, last night I watched
- 32:11Speaker 10: it live. I never realized that Spectrum News was left-leaning.
- 32:15Speaker 13: Oh, it's very left-leaning.
- 32:17Speaker 10: They kept interrupting him, and I'm like, what are they doing?
- 32:20Speaker 10: I started to get really angry.
- 32:22Speaker 11: I'm like, what is going on?
- 32:23Speaker 1: Oh, no.
- 32:24Speaker 4: I kept warning you for days. They're very, very, very
- 32:27Speaker 4: biased at New York One, Spectrum. Very biased. And I
- 32:31Speaker 4: warned you this was going to happen. And every time
- 32:35Speaker 4: she hit Blakeman with something terrible... Can I respond to that? No,
- 32:39Speaker 4: we have to move on. We have to move on.
- 32:40Speaker 4: We have to move on. Wait, is somebody chasing you?
- 32:42Speaker 4: What do you mean you have to move on? That's
- 32:45Speaker 4: the old trick. They do that. Two things they'll do.
- 32:47Speaker 4: Remember they used to do that to Curtis all the
- 32:51Speaker 4: time in those debates because Curtis was pretty good when
- 32:54Speaker 4: he was really about to let the guy have it.
- 32:56Speaker 4: I'm sorry. We have to move on. We have to
- 32:57Speaker 4: move on. We have to talk about climate change. We
- 32:59Speaker 4: have to talk about something else. So New York won.
- 33:04Speaker 4: very biased that moderators, Errol Lewis. He's a really nice guy.
- 33:07Speaker 4: I used to work with him, but very left wing, very. Uh,
- 33:11Speaker 4: and then they found that woman who was worse than him. And, uh, the,
- 33:17Speaker 4: I mean, the real reason Hocal, Hocal has refused every debate.
- 33:21Speaker 4: She turned down channel two, channel four, channel seven, channel five.
- 33:25Speaker 4: She's refused every debate. You only accepted New York one.
- 33:29Speaker 4: Cause New York one hasn't no viewers. Nobody sees it. It, uh,
- 33:34Speaker 4: You know, it's only on one cable system out of
- 33:36Speaker 4: the five in the New York City area. And they
- 33:40Speaker 4: did stream it live on the New York One website.
- 33:42Speaker 4: Who the hell goes to the New York One website?
- 33:45Speaker 4: They did put it on YouTube. I'll give them credit
- 33:47Speaker 4: for that. But who would know that because they're not
- 33:49Speaker 4: watching New York One to know that. Anyway, we've got
- 33:52Speaker 4: a lot to get to today. Don't forget at noon,
- 33:54Speaker 4: it's Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. Then the most listened
- 33:58Speaker 4: to radio show in America, Sean Hannity at three. Jesse
- 34:02Speaker 4: Kelly at 6, the very funny Jimmy Fela. He's here
- 34:05Speaker 4: every night, 9 to midnight. It's all on 710WOR. Now,
- 34:10Speaker 4: much more Mark. Mark Simone. Now, 9 till noon weekdays.
- 34:16Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
- 34:17Speaker 4: Well, it's going to be a nice day today.
- 34:21Speaker 2: Warm.
- 34:23Speaker 4: I'll be about 78. There's a little chance of rain
- 34:25Speaker 4: around noon. But then that's it. And then nice tomorrow, 65, sunny.
- 34:31Speaker 4: And then a lot of rain is possible on Friday.
- 34:33Speaker 4: But then after that, the weekend is sunny but cool.
- 34:37Speaker 4: The high will only be in the 50s. It will
- 34:40Speaker 4: be real, real fall weather over the weekend. A lot
- 34:44Speaker 4: to get to in the next hour. Lots of stuff
- 34:47Speaker 4: to cover. And we'll do that. We'll go over the
- 34:51Speaker 4: governor's debate again last night. Most people unable to see
- 34:54Speaker 4: it because of that silly little New York one. So
- 34:57Speaker 4: a lot to talk about in the next two hours
- 34:59Speaker 4: here on 710WOR.