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Hour 1: Horse-drawn carriage debate in NYC heats up. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is 710WOR, where the Mark Simone Show starts now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now it's Friday, finally. Now it's going to rain today,
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  Speaker 2: but it's going to be a nice weekend. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to rain today, off and on, and then sunshine all weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Not warm, it's going to be cool, but sunshine all weekend.
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  Speaker 2: A lot to get to. We'll get to Katie Zachariah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to Elon Omar, we'll get to Susie Wiles,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to Mamdani and Blakeman and Hochul and a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot more. 18 days until the election. 18 days
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  Speaker 2: until the election. Two and a half weeks away. President
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  Speaker 2: Trump goes to Georgia today and then from Georgia for
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  Speaker 2: the first time beginning of the season. He'll after that
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  Speaker 2: go to Palm Beach, Florida. We'll spend the weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't been there in a long time. It closes
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  Speaker 2: for the summer. It closes right after Mother's Day. It
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  Speaker 2: usually opens around Halloween, but it's going a little early
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  Speaker 2: because there's a big MAGA something dinner. Then there's an
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  Speaker 2: RNC dinner tonight that he will be at. That's at Mar-a-Lago.
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  Speaker 2: So first weekend back. It's almost, oh, it is the
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  Speaker 2: middle of October. So he'll be back there. Election looks
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. Republicans, pretty good for the Senate election. Looks
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  Speaker 2: like they should win the Senate, despite all the fake
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  Speaker 2: polls you're reading out there. The House is in question, though.
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  Speaker 2: That's too close to call. We'll have a great pollster
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  Speaker 2: with us later on in the program, so we'll get
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  Speaker 2: the latest on that. Now, Katie Zachariah. It was shaky,
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  Speaker 2: that first briefing. She was nervous. It was shaky. Her
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  Speaker 2: main problem is her voice. She's got kind of a
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  Speaker 2: shrill voice. It's not a pleasant voice. It's not an
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  Speaker 2: authoritative voice. That's the problem. But But not all press
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  Speaker 2: secretaries do. Now, usually when you become the press secretary,
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  Speaker 2: you spend a couple of weeks preparing. You go to
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  Speaker 2: the White House. You go over all the stuff. You
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  Speaker 2: do practice rounds. You meet with all the principals in
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  Speaker 2: the White House. You get up to speed, every detail
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  Speaker 2: of every issue. And again, you really spend a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks prepping. Then you do your first briefing. Well,
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  Speaker 2: she got there on a Sunday. uh, Monday was a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody was in the white house. And then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden try to do her first briefing on a
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday with no preparation. That wasn't a good idea. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't smart. She was on Hannity last night and Sean
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  Speaker 2: gave her a real tough grilling. I mean, a very
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  Speaker 2: polite one, uh, a very nice one, but it was
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  Speaker 2: a grilling anything. I mean, there's nothing you could ask
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  Speaker 2: her that he didn't hit her with. He asked her
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  Speaker 2: everything and anything. And, uh, she was pretty good on there.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're going to read in the, uh, Fake news,
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  Speaker 2: or if you're watching CNN, they'll tell you it was
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  Speaker 2: a train wreck. It wasn't a train wreck. Listen for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Given the fact that I'd been on the job less
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  Speaker 3: than maybe eight hours and had a briefing book in
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  Speaker 3: the morning, I feel like I did my very best, Sean,
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  Speaker 3: to deliver for the American people that day.
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  Speaker 2: What is that? Wait, hang on. That's my phone. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: hang on, hang on, hang on. Sorry about that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: her voice is a little shrill. It's kind of childlike-ish.
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  Speaker 2: But again, that'll smooth out. She'll get better at that.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as content, she was fine. And he
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  Speaker 2: asked her about saying she was a lawyer and she'd
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  Speaker 2: never passed the bar. And she went through all of that.
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  Speaker 2: She went to Pepperdine, which is a very fine law school,
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  Speaker 2: graduated from Pepperdine, has a law degree, and did take
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  Speaker 2: the bar in California and didn't pass. Now, that's not unusual.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't pass the bar the first time.
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  Speaker 2: But she never went back and took it again because
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  Speaker 2: at that time, she's married and her husband has to
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  Speaker 2: go to China for a big job. She's going to China.
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  Speaker 2: So she immediately goes to China. Now, she has worked
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  Speaker 2: as doing legal work for corporations. And while in California,
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  Speaker 2: she worked at the Shenzhen Law Firm. So she's worked
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  Speaker 2: at law firms. She was one of four international associates
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  Speaker 2: who drafted multi-million dollar agreements for cross-border transactions and all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of complicated legal stuff. So she did a lot
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  Speaker 2: of legal work. Now, you can do that without passing
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  Speaker 2: the bar. She's a lawyer who didn't pass the bar.
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  Speaker 2: So you can do the legal work in a firm
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  Speaker 2: as long as a barred attorney, someone who has passed
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  Speaker 2: the bar, is there to sign off on it, you're fine.
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  Speaker 2: And people point to, there have been judges who went
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  Speaker 2: to law school, have a law degree, but never actually
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  Speaker 2: passed the bar. There was Judge Thomas Griffin, U.S. Court
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  Speaker 2: of Appeals, D.C. Circuit was confirmed. He'd served as a
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  Speaker 2: general counsel at Brigham Young University. He never passed the
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  Speaker 2: actual bar exam, but he was a trained lawyer with
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  Speaker 2: a law degree. So it's not a big deal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're making it sound like it's the greatest scandal. It's nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely nothing. She hasn't been appointed attorney general, press secretary,
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  Speaker 2: a law degree. is absolutely not essential in any way
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  Speaker 2: to be the press secretary. It has no relevance to
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  Speaker 2: this whatsoever. But it's fake news. They've got to have
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  Speaker 2: something to yell and scream about, huff and puff about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you run a fake news channel, if
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  Speaker 2: you run MSNOW or CNN, you've got to get those
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  Speaker 2: people riled up. It's like people with the pitchforks and torches,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to give them red meat, throw them stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So anything you think is a scandal, they'll throw out. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Susie Wiles stuff, the New York Times writing an
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  Speaker 2: article about how women, women are all getting thrown out
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  Speaker 2: of the Trump administration. They're trying to make it look
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  Speaker 2: like a female issue. It's not. It's just people that
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  Speaker 2: Trump wasn't happy with and removed them. A New York
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  Speaker 2: Times headline, the disappearing women of the Trump administration. But again,
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  Speaker 2: there are people he wasn't happy with. Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard,
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  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi. They just, you know. Thought they would do well.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't do well on the job, and he removed them,
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  Speaker 2: which is what you're supposed to do. But eight female
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  Speaker 2: cabinet-level officers, Lori Chavez de Ramirez. I don't even remember
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  Speaker 2: who that is. Oh, she was the labor secretary. A
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  Speaker 2: couple others you wouldn't remember. But Susie Wiles is the
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  Speaker 2: one on the chopping block now. We got reported by
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  Speaker 2: somebody that Susie Wiles was close to being dismissed. She's
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  Speaker 2: the White House chief of staff. Apparently it says, now
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  Speaker 2: who knows? Who believes this stuff? This is media ideas,
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  Speaker 2: a very, very biased left-wing website. Political reports that Trump
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  Speaker 2: freaked out that the news was out. Well, he can
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  Speaker 2: freak out, but I know he is considering getting rid
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  Speaker 2: of Susie Wiles because he's been asking everybody. He's been
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  Speaker 2: running it by anybody and everybody. So the problem is
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  Speaker 2: he'll ask everybody. He talks to hundreds of people a day,
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  Speaker 2: very smart people. I mean, if you need opinions... He's
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  Speaker 2: talking to the most brilliant executives, smartest people, the most
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  Speaker 2: brilliant politicians all day long. So if you need to
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  Speaker 2: do a survey, that's the group to do it with.
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  Speaker 2: But when you ask hundreds of people, word's going to
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  Speaker 2: get out. So he can freak out. But it is
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  Speaker 2: being talked about there. Now, voter fraud. Well, there are
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  Speaker 2: mail-in ballots being sent out to people that aren't citizens.
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  Speaker 2: There are people that.
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't even be voting. It's going on like crazy.
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  Speaker 2: They've asked California about 20,000 ballots that went to non-citizens.
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  Speaker 2: And California refused to respond. So there's all kinds of investigations.
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  Speaker 2: Justice Department looking into it.
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  Speaker 5: I can confirm that the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection
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  Speaker 5: Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings. that have
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  Speaker 5: been sent to various addresses nationwide, some of those including
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  Speaker 5: Secretary of State offices and the related election offices. We
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  Speaker 5: have intercepted some of these letters and they are in
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  Speaker 5: law enforcement possession.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one of the reasons this happens, you've got some
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  Speaker 2: very bad secretaries of state. They're the ones in charge
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  Speaker 2: of the ballots and the voting in their states. And
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  Speaker 2: you remember George Soros a few years ago spent a fortune, many,
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  Speaker 2: many hundreds of millions of dollars getting these secretaries of
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  Speaker 2: state installed, real bad left-wing woke crazies into the secretary
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  Speaker 2: of state jobs in many, many, many states. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why it's hard to control. And whatever the steps the
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  Speaker 2: Justice Department is taking probably won't have any effect on
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  Speaker 2: the midterms because it's only 18 days a week, not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time to do anything. So, hey, last
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  Speaker 2: night was the Al Smith dinner. It's an off-year Al
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  Speaker 2: Smith dinner. It's not a presidential year where the candidates
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  Speaker 2: show up. But the strangest sight of all at the
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  Speaker 2: Al Smith dinner was Zoran Mamdani in a white tie
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  Speaker 2: and tails. But there he was at the Al Smith dinner.
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  Speaker 2: It's black tie in the audience, but up on the dais,
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  Speaker 2: it's white tie and tails. So you would think he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't do that. You would think he's such a socialist anti-elitist.
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  Speaker 2: But there he was. sitting up on the dais with
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  Speaker 2: the billionaires and the elite in his white tie and tails. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Cardinal Dolan, uh, who's still a big part of New
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  Speaker 2: York City. He was the honoree. He was the keynote speaker.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for inviting this now-retired, unemployed pensioner on Social Security
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  Speaker 6: and a fixed income as your speaker this evening. I
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  Speaker 6: used to be in Who's Who?
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm Who's He? Yeah, well, it's an old joke,
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  Speaker 2: but he was very good. excellent last night. The emcee,
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  Speaker 2: the comedian Jim Gaffigan.
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  Speaker 7: We have a pretty diverse dais. We have with us
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  Speaker 7: the 1%, the.
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  Speaker 2: 01 %, and the.
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  Speaker 7: 001 %. Sadly, Mayor Bloomberg couldn't make it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the first one he ever missed.
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  Speaker 2: But it was strange. There was Mom Donnie up there
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  Speaker 2: in a white tie and tails. Now, it's a very,
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  Speaker 2: you look at the pictures, you think this is a
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  Speaker 2: very serious dinner. No, it's actually a lighthearted dinner. It's
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  Speaker 2: a roast. Everybody jokes around. The other honoree was Police
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner Jessica Tish. And she was pretty funny, too.
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  Speaker 8: Things have got a little hot for me this week,
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  Speaker 8: just in case.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone hiring? Well, I don't think Mom Donnie's going to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of her. But she was good last night.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of.
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  Speaker 5: Talk these days that the mayor's friends don't like me.
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  Speaker 9: That is simply not true. President Trump and I get
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  Speaker 9: along great.
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  Speaker 2: All right. That's not bad. Not bad. You know, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: she's not a comedian, but you have somebody on your
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  Speaker 2: staff who writes some jokes for you. Reach out to her.
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  Speaker 2: Some comedian, you know, to give you a few jokes. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of Mom Donnie, in the debate, Blakeman really went
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  Speaker 2: after Mom Donnie, calling him all kinds of names. And
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  Speaker 2: it was odd that Kathy Hochul didn't defend him when
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  Speaker 2: it came to her. She didn't say anything to defend him.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought maybe Mom Donnie might not like that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she can't win without Mom Donnie. She needs
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie to get her over the finish line in
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  Speaker 2: New York City. Well, Mamdani is still there. He's in
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  Speaker 2: the fight. Mamdani coming out swinging. He even made a video.
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  Speaker 2: But Mamdani now going after Blakeman.
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  Speaker 8: It is hard for anyone to keep up with all
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  Speaker 8: of the bigotry and racism that Bruce Blakeman exhibits on
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  Speaker 8: a regular basis. So I think that the governor did
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  Speaker 8: a good job and I'll never fault someone for not
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  Speaker 8: being able to catch all of it because that is
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  Speaker 8: a fool's errand when it comes to Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Right now he's trying to crush Blakeman, but that is
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  Speaker 2: quite a tribute to Blakeman because one thing you'll never
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  Speaker 2: see in Blakeman is any racism or bigotry. There's never
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  Speaker 2: been a hint of that, an allegation of that. I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you, knowing the guy 30 years, there is
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  Speaker 2: no bigotry or racism, nothing. That's a preposterous charge. But again,
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  Speaker 2: it's a tribute to Blakeman. They can't find anything to
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  Speaker 2: attack him on. They can't come up with an attack.
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  Speaker 2: So they go to that cheap joe biden crap you
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  Speaker 2: know joe biden used to do that whoever he was
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  Speaker 2: running against is a white supremacist he's a racist uh
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  Speaker 2: he's a q anon he's a whatever they whatever stuff
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  Speaker 2: they would have all this crazy stuff that didn't fit
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  Speaker 2: but it's just cheap joe biden crap that you do
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  Speaker 2: in a debate so if blakeman's using that it means
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't find anything to go after blakeman on but
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  Speaker 2: he did put out the first video Mamdani campaign video.
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  Speaker 10: Governor Kathy Hochul actually fights for working families in New York.
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  Speaker 10: When Bruce was busy, or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy,
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  Speaker 10: Governor Hochul was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget
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  Speaker 10: deficit here in New York City. And when New York
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  Speaker 10: City needed a partner in delivering free universal childcare, Governor
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  Speaker 10: Hochul didn't just help us deliver 2,000 new seats for
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  Speaker 10: two-year-olds this year. She worked with us so we could
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  Speaker 10: deliver 10,000 more seats next January. That's why I'm voting
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  Speaker 10: for Governor Hochul, because she's the real deal for New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 8: Bruce Blakeman?
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  Speaker 5: He's a bad apple.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Listen, that's a Mamdani video, but it'll help
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  Speaker 2: Hochul with the Mamdani voters. She needs them. She has
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  Speaker 2: to win the real nuts of the left wing, and
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  Speaker 2: that'll help with them. As far as that, Blakeman is
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  Speaker 2: not busy. Again, ridiculous. Blakeman's known for being a workaholic.
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman's known for going from 6 a.m. to midnight every day,
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  Speaker 2: not only in the office, but going to everything, every event,
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  Speaker 2: every meeting, every town hall, everything you can go to.
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  Speaker 2: He's just nonstop all day and night, always has been. So, again,
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  Speaker 2: a kind of a tribute to him that they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: find anything to go after him on. Hey, the horses.
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  Speaker 2: This is an important point. You know, this whole thing
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  Speaker 2: about getting rid of the horses. They have to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the horses. It's inhumane. And it's not just Mamdani,
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  Speaker 2: but it's Julie Menon, the city council speaker, who's starting
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  Speaker 2: to look more and more weird, this city council speaker.
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  Speaker 2: Very strange. She's pushing this. The reason you have to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the horse is growing public safety liability.
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  Speaker 2: She said it's about public safety. Well, let's look at
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  Speaker 2: the facts. One horse died in 100 years. 100 years
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  Speaker 2: of operations. No, excuse me. It's not the horse. It's
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  Speaker 2: one person died. In 100 years of the horse to
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  Speaker 2: run carriages, only one person was killed. having anything to
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  Speaker 2: do with those horse-drawn carriages. In 100 years, only one
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  Speaker 2: person died as a result of the horses. With the e-bikes,
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  Speaker 2: there have been 130 that have been killed in seven years.
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  Speaker 2: So one person died as a result of the horses
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  Speaker 2: in 100 years. 130... Actually, it's 133. 133 died just
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  Speaker 2: in seven years. So that's like 16 deaths a year
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  Speaker 2: by e-bikes. One death every hundred years by horses. So
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't look kosher, this whole thing. Some people think
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani just wants to get rid of anything that he
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  Speaker 2: thinks is elite. It's virtue signaling from Mamdani. Also, the
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  Speaker 2: Plaza Hotel closing. And we'll get to that coming up. Apparently...
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  Speaker 2: He was asked to help with that and wouldn't talk
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  Speaker 2: to anybody. So it's, you know, when you come to,
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  Speaker 2: if you're, we have a lot of listeners around the country,
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  Speaker 2: when you come to New York this Christmas and you're
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  Speaker 2: around Central Park, you won't see the plaza will be
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  Speaker 2: all covered up in scaffolding. You won't see the horses.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be different. Hey, we got a lot more to
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  Speaker 2: get to coming up. It's Mark Simone here. Nine to noon,
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  Speaker 9: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 5: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, you know that Apple, the corporation Apple, yesterday
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  Speaker 2: with the closing price of the stock is now above
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  Speaker 2: the $ 5 trillion mark. You remember? A few years ago,
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  Speaker 2: there was the first company ever, Apple's the first company
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  Speaker 2: ever to be worth a trillion dollars. First trillion dollar company. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it just passed the $ 5 trillion mark. There's only two
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  Speaker 2: companies worth more than $ 5 trillion. Apple and the other? No,
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  Speaker 2: it's NVIDIA. NVIDIA. Both became the only $ 5 trillion companies
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  Speaker 2: in the world. We're talking about the Plaza Hotel. So
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  Speaker 2: I went there yesterday, talked to the employees. Most of
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  Speaker 2: them had no idea the hotel was closing. They found
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  Speaker 2: out when it was in the newspaper. Nobody warned them
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  Speaker 2: ahead of time. The Plaza Hotel, the landmark Plaza Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: is closing, they say, for four years for complete renovations,
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  Speaker 2: including the outside, the facade. That means it'll be covered up.
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  Speaker 2: Scaffolding needs to be covered up for four, five years.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the hotel are condos. Now, apparently the condo
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  Speaker 2: owners were told months ago about this plan. And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they're not happy about it. It's a mess, but half
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  Speaker 2: the condos aren't occupied. It's not the best place to live.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of people I know that live there
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  Speaker 2: are not happy there. But sales were pretty tough anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Like right now, there's 29 units on the market. This
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  Speaker 2: is before the closing was announced. 29 units on the market. Now,
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  Speaker 2: with the place closed for four years, nobody's going to
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  Speaker 2: buy any place there, except With it closed, and it'll
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  Speaker 2: look like a mess when it's closed, it might drive
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  Speaker 2: the price of those apartments down. So you might see
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  Speaker 2: some bottom feeders looking for something there. The Plaza Hotel
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  Speaker 2: has 378 union workers. The hotel says they'll take them
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  Speaker 2: back when they reopen at the same pay. Well, what
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: are they supposed to do for four years? The hotel
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: union for that hotel, Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, says
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: it'll try to place them elsewhere in the meantime. And
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: we'll see. Now, they're saying four years, but remember, the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Waldorf closed, and they said for four years. It ended
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: up being 10 years, so anything can happen. The Plaza
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: is actually owned by Qatar, the country of Qatar. It's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: the Qatari Hospitality Group. They own some big hotels around
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the world, Grosvenor House, the Savoy in London, the Carlton
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: in Cannes. They have hotels in all over Europe. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: they also own the Dream Hotel, the great hotel. Hotspot, downtown,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Meatpacking District, the Dream Hotel, they own that as well.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: But they own the plaza. It looks like they want
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to spend some money and totally redo it. Top to bottom,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: not only all the rooms, the lobby, but everything, the outside,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: just completely redo it. Now, apparently, they tried to call
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Mayor Mamdani to discuss it with him. That's one thing
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you do as mayor. You meet with all the top businesses,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: and you help.
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: Them, and.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: whatever they need, whatever you can do to make things
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: better for New York, but he wouldn't return the call.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Nobody at City Hall would talk to them. Nobody. That's
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Mamdani in action. Also, the other thing he's doing, he
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: has tried to, well, he's asked all the garages in
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: New York City, all the private New York City garages
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: to refuse to allow anyone any ICE agents or vehicles
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: in their garages. You know, when ICE comes to New York,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: they come with a lot of vehicles, obviously, you know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of cars, a lot of all kinds of vehicles.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: You got to park them somewhere. So he's asked all
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: parking lot owners to block them. I said, I'm asking
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: you to not rent, lend, or otherwise make your property
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: available to ICE as a staging area. Well, this is
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: a wiggle room in there. I mean, just cause you're
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: parking your vehicles there. It doesn't mean you're staging there. Uh, mom,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Donnie wrote this in a letter to everybody. He said,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: make it known that ice is not authorized to use
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: your garages and lots. I said, I don't know if
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: you can get away with that discrimination. There's a lot
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: of lawsuits possible there. The federal government ice, I'm sure
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: we'll be suing the city mom, Donnie. Also, uh, Parking garages,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: they're all owned by these big parking lot companies, and
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: most of them do business all over the place, and
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: they don't want to make enemies of the federal government.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: ICE is federal law enforcement, so they don't want to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: have a fight with the federal government. And then a
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: lot of the parking lots that are used are like
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: a Costco or stuff like that. And if you're a
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: big national corporation like Costco, you don't need to get
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: in a fight with the Trump administration. So Mamdani Grand
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: standing here, I don't know if he'll be able to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: pull that off or not. Anybody will stick to it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Obama is going to Michigan over the weekend. He's trying
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to get black voters to vote for Al-Sayed. They're generally
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: not crazy about left-wing kook socialist nutjobs like that. So
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Obama's there to help. It shows you, you know, Al-Sayed,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: they keep acting like he's just going to coast to victory.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Not the case. Not the case. Rodgers most likely will win.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: But they're pulling out all the stops. AOC showed up
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: to campaign for him. Hillary showed up, although I don't
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: think anybody asked her. I think she just showed up. Obama,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: they're begging him to come, and he will come and
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: campaign for... Now, the last time he did this, he
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: didn't want to look like he was campaigning just for Al-Sayed,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: so he made all the other candidates show up to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: make it look like it was a general Democratic rally
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: for Michigan. So he may do that again. Now, El-Sayed
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: is raising a lot of money. His father-in-law, Jukaku Tayyib,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: he's a founding member of the Islamic Society of North America.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: He's donated a quarter of a million dollars. He also
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: got a six-figure donation from current or former Council on
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: American Institute Relations officials. That's CAR, you know, that's C-A-I-R.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Considered a terrorist group by many, the UAE declared them
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a terrorist organization. A number of countries have. They're banned
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: as a terrorist organization in Egypt, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: These are the groups now that are trying to get
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: al-Sayed elected to the U.S.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: Senate.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: From what I hear, people in the U.S. Senate don't
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: want to have to work with this guy. They don't
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: want him there. You remember, he was asked about his
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: family's ties to all the Islamic crazy revolutionary groups, and
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: he said, absolutely not. Well, then they found all these
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: texts from his sister, his mother, and boy, he said
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: he didn't really know his sister. He hardly met his sister.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: He thinks he met her once. He might know her.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: He doesn't really know her. He said he didn't live
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: with his mother. He had nothing to do with his mother.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It's amazing who these Democrats nominate and the spinning around
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: they have to do to try to get around all
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: this stuff. Anyway, we've got a lot more to get to.
• 23:52
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• 23:54
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• 24:01
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Call
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: me now.
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: 800-321-0710.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Ukraine, Russia, well, remember we had that agreement. We agreed
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: not to strike each other's energy facility. Well, apparently the
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: agreement is totally off. Russia hit a power plant. But
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: it was really the oil facilities we didn't want to
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: hit because that is what's driven up the price of
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: diesel oil. But Ukraine not listening at all. They hit
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: an oil refinery in Russia. strike on that let me
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: just check the price of oil it's probably up a
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: little because of that strike yeah it's up a little
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: because they did knock out every time you knock out
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: an oil facility a refinery in Russia it's going to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: drive the price of diesel up President Trump has asked
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: them to stop apparently they're not listening anyway let's take
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: some calls let's go to Margaret in Rockaway Margaret how you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Doing morning Mark thank you for taking my call um
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: Regarding El-Said, you know, you forget the Quran says that
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: you're allowed to lie to infidels. So he could just
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: keep going on saying he doesn't know anything and yada, yada, yada.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it's perfectly believable. I don't know my sister. I
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: never met my mother. It sounds like a believable story.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I hardly knew her. I think I met my sister once.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But it's the fake news. They believe everything. They won't
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: question him. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Greg in
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Jersey City. Greg, how you doing?
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: All right. Did you see that CNN interview with the
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Democratic candidate for Senate in Florida, Angie Nixon, who wants
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: to jail?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Do you think my life is that empty that I
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: would be watching a CNN interview with Angie Nixon? Nobody
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: saw it. It was on CNN. Who would have seen it?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: How did you see it?
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Well, because I saw Chris Murphy was with her in
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: the interview. I've got to be honest.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: If I'm watching the TV and there's Chris Murphy, I
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: immediately change the channel. If I'm walking down the street
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: and there's Chris Murphy, I turn and go the other way.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: He's the most reprehensible, repulsive character in the world. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: what did she say, Angie Nixon?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, no. I mean... you know, the CNN was trying
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: to press her on some of her statements about, you know,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: you know, abolishing prison, you know, abolishing ice. And, you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: she's saying, you know, you know, Ashley, Ashley should, she'd
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: be put in jail for what she said. And there was,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's no followup obviously, but I can't believe that, um, the, the, the,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: the DNC is even giving her any more support.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they got one crazy character after another from
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Al Sayad to, to this nut job in Texas to
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the one in Florida. They always nominate these nuts. And, again,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: it might be CNN, but they ask the question, pretend
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: they've gotten an answer. She doesn't answer. Again, as you say,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: no follow-up, and that's the end of it. Let's go
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: to Ralph in Stanford, Connecticut. Ralph, how are you doing?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Doing fine. Good morning.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: You were talking about the horses in Central Park.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: And how they're thinking of getting rid of them.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Well, they are getting rid of.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Them.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Put NYPD mounted police organization as supervisors of the care
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: and feeding of these animals.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: The NYPD mounted police. It's a top part of the NYPD.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: They got better things to do than chase these crazy
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: horse carriage drivers around. It's not that big a problem.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I think you should limit it. Don't allow them outside
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the park. They have to stay in the park. Don't
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: allow them anywhere else. They should never be out in
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the street where there's traffic. It's that simple. You can
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: gradually reduce the number. But let me just give you
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: those statistics again. As far as the horses in the carriage,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: it's led to one death in 100 years. One death
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: in 100 years. The e-bikes, 133 deaths in the last
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: seven years. With the e-bikes, it's almost 20 deaths a
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: year every year. The horse and carriage, one death per century.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: So it's really the e-bikes they should probably get rid of.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Stan in Brooklyn. Stan, how are you doing?
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing fine. I googled the term
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: lawyer and attorney.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Wow, you've got a computer now. Look at you.
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: Oh, my God. It's an old one. It's an IBM
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: Fortune 01 computer. It goes rather slow.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Well, we're not looking for amateur Googling to get our answers.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: A lawyer graduated from law school but cannot practice in court. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: we don't go by Google.
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: Okay, well, I also looked another place.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. We would only turn to
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: a professional for this answer. And the answer is she
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: probably shouldn't call herself a lawyer. You can do it technically,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: but you should probably.
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: Well, apparently a lawyer cannot.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we understand that. You can't go into court unless
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: you pass the bar. And as I said before, she
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: was in a law firm doing complicated legal work on contracts,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: which you can do with a law degree. But in
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: the end. a barred attorney, someone who's passed the bar,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: has to kind of sign off on the whole thing.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: But the problem is, try to make this look like
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: this is some kind of relevant issue to something. She's
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: not being nominated for attorney general. If you check the record,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: no press secretary has ever passed the bar. I don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: think most of 99% of press secretaries have never passed
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the bar. It has nothing to do with the job.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: It's not a requirement. Now she was kind of misleading
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: when she said she was a lawyer, but you could
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: argue not that misleading. She did work in law firms
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: doing legal work and she does have a law degree. So,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and as I pointed out, there are judges on the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: bench who've been confirmed by the Senate who, uh, did
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: go to law school, graduated with a law degree, but
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: have never passed the bar. So it's a silly issue.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with anything. And in fact,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: if that's all they got on her, a little puffing
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: up the resume a little, that's absolutely nothing. Again, you
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: don't need a law degree. You don't need to be
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: a pass the bar. You don't need to be an attorney.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: In fact, it is never a requirement for press secretary.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: It's not at all. Hey, um, I'm looking at pictures
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: around the White House. The ballroom is going up. I
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: don't know if you've noticed, but the floor is in
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: and some of the walls are going up. You can see,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: if you look, you can sort of see what the
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: ballroom's looking like, the size, everything. It's well under construction.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: You know, this is President Trump, master builder. If this
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: was the government, this would be a 20-year project to
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: get this built. He said he'll get it done in months.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: It looks like he will. It looks like he will.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: It's only a couple of months and a lot of
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: it has gone up already. They've raised about $ 333 million
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: from private donors. Apple gave $ 25 million. NVIDIA gave $ 25 million.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: The Adelson family, the Las Vegas billionaires, a big donation,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: got $ 25 million. Charles Egan, co-founder of Chairman of the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Dish Network, gave $ 25 million. They got $ 77 million from
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: donors who requested anonymously. Anonymity. A vast majority of wealthy
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: individuals and companies. Oh, here, see, they're trying to make
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: it look bad. Most of these donors have interests subject
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: to the federal government raising concerns about conflict of interest.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: This is the way the fake news reports it. Of course,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: that's every donor to everything. Every donation ever made to
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: every politician, every president, every Democrat. You take a look
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: at them. Most of them are people who are regulated
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: by the federal government. I mean, it's insane to think that,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: first of all, it's a good donation. If you're donating
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: to a candidate, a campaign, a political package, that's a
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: little raunchy. But if you're donating money to build a
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: beautiful addition to the White House, that's like a national treasure,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: something that will be there forever. That's a good donation.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: And if you're donating to restore the Washington Monument or
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: this ballroom would be magnificent. Now, President Trump probably will
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: never use it. Because the full completion, decor, everything probably
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: won't take place until he's out of office. But future
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: presidents will love it. It'll be an incredible thing for centuries.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: So it's a good donation. Hey, we've got a lot
• 33:04
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