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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here's more marks alone on seven to ten Wash. Well,
- 0:10Speaker 1: so what it is? What's the day today? December third?
- 0:14Speaker 1: It's only December third. I walk in the lobby. There's
- 0:17Speaker 1: a Christmas tree in the lobby of the building. There's
- 0:19Speaker 1: a wreath, there's a come up here to the sixth floor.
- 0:22Speaker 1: I get off the elevator, there's a Christmas tree. They
- 0:24Speaker 1: walk by Light FM. There's Christmas music all the time.
- 0:27Speaker 1: It's everywhere. Yesterday, walking over the Fox along sixth Avenue,
- 0:32Speaker 1: the candy canes are up, the big candy canes, the
- 0:35Speaker 1: big ornaments are up. The tree on top of the
- 0:38Speaker 1: Marquee at Radio City Music Hall. Tonight they light the
- 0:41Speaker 1: tree and Rockefeller Center. You know, Bryant Park, beautiful Bryant Park.
- 0:47Speaker 1: But that's become a big deal, that tree. They had
- 0:49Speaker 1: their tree lighting ceremony last night. A lot of people
- 0:52Speaker 1: showed up. It's not as big as the Rockefeller Center thing.
- 0:54Speaker 1: They don't have, you know, seventeen famous singers singing there,
- 0:58Speaker 1: but they're getting there year by year by year. So
- 1:02Speaker 1: be careful if you're driving tonight, avoid midtown Manhattan Rockefeller Center.
- 1:06Speaker 1: It will be massive gridlock everywhere. Steve Whitkoff, our negotiator,
- 1:13Speaker 1: and Jared Kushner, who wasn't of much use in the
- 1:17Speaker 1: first term of Trump, but this time around he's very
- 1:20Speaker 1: useful when it comes to these negotiations. He was brilliant
- 1:23Speaker 1: at settling things as much as you can between Israel
- 1:27Speaker 1: and Arab countries. He was very good in the first term.
- 1:29Speaker 1: So he and Witkoff are a good team. They do
- 1:31Speaker 1: in the negotiating Israel, Hamas that sort of. But they're
- 1:35Speaker 1: now working on peace in Ukraine, settling that war. Looks
- 1:40Speaker 1: like they got a ways to go. But they had
- 1:41Speaker 1: a big meeting with Putin yesterday. Putin always, always, always
- 1:49Speaker 1: will keep you waiting. Don't you hate people that are
- 1:52Speaker 1: always late for something. They're just scatterbrain, their flaky. They're late,
- 1:56Speaker 1: you're waiting for them forty minutes. And it's different with Putin. Deliberate.
- 2:00Speaker 1: It's deliberate. It's to put you in your place. It's
- 2:03Speaker 1: psychological warfare. He does, even if it's the most important
- 2:08Speaker 1: international meeting, the president's envoys are coming from the He'll
- 2:12Speaker 1: keep you waiting deliberately. It's to just psyche you out.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Now it doesn't work because if you're wi cough and
- 2:19Speaker 1: you're Jared. You know he does this all the time.
- 2:23Speaker 1: You know he's going to keep you waiting an hour
- 2:25Speaker 1: and a half. It's just normal. This is what he does.
- 2:28Speaker 1: It's not personally. He does it to everybody. So they
- 2:30Speaker 1: knew and they went and just had a nice lunch.
- 2:32Speaker 1: What they waited for the guy, and then he shows up.
- 2:36Speaker 1: You see the picture of him at the big negotiating table.
- 2:39Speaker 1: This is in Russia, Moscow. It's a white table and no, no,
- 2:45Speaker 1: didn't look right. It looked like a table Betty Crocker
- 2:48Speaker 1: would have even arouse. It's just something not very tough
- 2:52Speaker 1: about it. But they're all sitting around the table. And
- 2:55Speaker 1: at twelve thirty that began the conversation, Now, what you
- 2:59Speaker 1: want to talk to Putin? Who wants to talk to Putin?
- 3:02Speaker 1: Do you look at that guy when you see the video,
- 3:06Speaker 1: you say to yourself, yeah, I love to sit down
- 3:08Speaker 1: with that guy. It looks like the most unpleasant thing
- 3:11Speaker 1: you could do is talk to this guy. But they
- 3:14Speaker 1: sat down with him at twelve thirty and the meeting,
- 3:16Speaker 1: which was not very successful. They were not able to
- 3:19Speaker 1: come to agreement. In fact, there was much disagreement. They
- 3:21Speaker 1: didn't make much progress. It made little progress, but not much.
- 3:24Speaker 1: The meeting lasted five hours, five hours. How the hell
- 3:32Speaker 1: did these guys do it? If I were you know,
- 3:34Speaker 1: Steve Whitcoff is a wealthy guy, a big successful builder.
- 3:39Speaker 1: It does all kinds of work all over America, New York,
- 3:41Speaker 1: Palm Beach, Miami's Building building. To who that wants to
- 3:45Speaker 1: give all that up and go sit in a room
- 3:46Speaker 1: with Putin for five hours? Five hours of talking to Putin?
- 3:52Speaker 1: You can't even talk right to him. He's got an interpreter.
- 3:54Speaker 1: You know, I think he speaks English, but he pretends
- 3:56Speaker 1: he doesn't. Uses the interpreter. It gives him extra time
- 3:59Speaker 1: to hear your question and think of an answer. But
- 4:03Speaker 1: so wit Coffin, Jared Kushner had to bring their own interpreter.
- 4:07Speaker 1: So when you see all these people at the table,
- 4:09Speaker 1: a couple of them are interpreters. A couple of them
- 4:11Speaker 1: are aids to Putin. So who the hell would want
- 4:17Speaker 1: to do this? Sit there and talk to Putin for
- 4:20Speaker 1: five hours? And be honest, you got a choice. You
- 4:25Speaker 1: have to do one or two things. You're gonna have
- 4:27Speaker 1: a delayed flight and you'll have to sit at the
- 4:29Speaker 1: gate for three hours or talk to Putin for five hours,
- 4:33Speaker 1: Which would you choose? Of course, you sit at the gate.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I can look at my phone, I can watch movies.
- 4:39Speaker 1: I can listen to podcasts. There'll be a snack bar there.
- 4:43Speaker 1: You could do a lot of who the hell wants
- 4:44Speaker 1: I talked to Putin for five hours, so there were
- 4:46Speaker 1: like twenty eight points. Putin was okay with two or
- 4:49Speaker 1: three of them, but there were a lot of them.
- 4:52Speaker 1: He said, we just can't compromise on it. But they're
- 4:56Speaker 1: they're making some progress and they'll eventually get this done eventually. Now,
- 5:04Speaker 1: Trump will not go to the meeting until they're close.
- 5:08Speaker 1: And that's why you use Witcoffin Jarrett. You don't embarrass
- 5:11Speaker 1: yourself by coming out empty handed five times in a row.
- 5:14Speaker 1: So you'll let these guys get it very, very very close,
- 5:17Speaker 1: and then you show up Cabinet meeting yesterday. It was
- 5:22Speaker 1: pretty interesting, the war crimes hoax. All these guys like
- 5:29Speaker 1: check Schumer trying to make it Suddenly they're war crime experts.
- 5:32Speaker 2: If Trump were to order an attack on land, that
- 5:36Speaker 2: would be an act of war and Congress would invoke
- 5:40Speaker 2: the War Powers Act. It's Congress's prerogative to go to war,
- 5:46Speaker 2: and I hope Republicans will defend that role.
- 5:52Speaker 1: This is just Schumer, a big blowharder, doesn't know what
- 5:54Speaker 1: he's talking about. Obama was famous for drone strikes on land,
- 5:58Speaker 1: blowing up people all over the place, Afghanistan or Iraq wherever,
- 6:03Speaker 1: hundreds of hundreds, hundreds of drone strikes. Do you know
- 6:08Speaker 1: when they did the Osama bin Laden raid, they were
- 6:11Speaker 1: going to go into his house and get him. You know,
- 6:14Speaker 1: the actual orders from Obama were to shoot him and
- 6:18Speaker 1: kill him. And this was all discussed ahead of time. Well,
- 6:22Speaker 1: what if he surrenders. They were told to shoot him
- 6:25Speaker 1: and kill him. They were given the order not to
- 6:28Speaker 1: take him alive. Now, if he comes out of his
- 6:32Speaker 1: bedroom and you're there, you could say, well I shot
- 6:35Speaker 1: because I didn't he might have a bomb on him.
- 6:38Speaker 1: So it actually was discussed, what if he comes out
- 6:40Speaker 1: of his bedroom totally naked. We know he can't possibly
- 6:44Speaker 1: have a weapon or a bomb on him. They were
- 6:46Speaker 1: told to shoot him and kill him. They were ordered
- 6:49Speaker 1: not to take him alive. Now I imagine the reason for
- 6:53Speaker 1: that order is they didn't want to get him alive
- 6:55Speaker 1: and bring him back here because they'd have to try him,
- 6:58Speaker 1: and that trial would have been a security nightmare, all
- 7:02Speaker 1: kinds of controversies. They were told, make sure you kill
- 7:04Speaker 1: them no matter what. So even if he's asleep and
- 7:08Speaker 1: he doesn't wake up, you got to shoot him. So
- 7:11Speaker 1: but again, that's war. That's what you do in a war.
- 7:14Speaker 1: You shoot to kill all the time. And even a
- 7:19Speaker 1: police shooting a mob hit whatever it is, you don't
- 7:21Speaker 1: fire one bullet and say, well, huh, the guy survived.
- 7:24Speaker 1: How about that. No, you shoot a bunch of shots
- 7:27Speaker 1: and make sure they're dead. So this war crime hoax,
- 7:30Speaker 1: they'll try it for another couple of weeks. It'll go nowhere.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Then they'll give up. Big cabinet meeting yesterday the CNN
- 7:37Speaker 1: CNN if anybody still watches that, their big thing was
- 7:41Speaker 1: fact checking the cabinet meeting. The CNN fact chucker checker.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Trump told thirteen whoppers in the cabinet unbelievable lies that
- 7:50Speaker 1: he told. Let's see what the thirteen are. He claimed
- 7:55Speaker 1: that the tariffs have brought in eighteen trillion dollars, All right,
- 8:00Speaker 1: right about that? That's Trump. They brought in like eight trillion.
- 8:03Speaker 1: But you know Trump, if it's eight trillion. I'll tell
- 8:04Speaker 1: you it's eighteen trillion. If it was eighteen trillion, he
- 8:07Speaker 1: would have told you it was thirty trillion. All right.
- 8:09Speaker 1: They got him on that, But he's right in what
- 8:12Speaker 1: he's saying. He's absolutely correct. The tariffs have brought in
- 8:15Speaker 1: a fortune. He's exaggerating the number. He claimed grocery prices
- 8:19Speaker 1: are down. They're up two point seven percent year over year.
- 8:24Speaker 1: That's actually a bit of a lie because their overall
- 8:28Speaker 1: grocery prices are down. There are certain things that have
- 8:31Speaker 1: gone up, way up, and that's brought the whole average up.
- 8:36Speaker 1: But overall grocery prices are down. So they're wrong about
- 8:40Speaker 1: that one. Well, technically they might be right, but they're
- 8:44Speaker 1: misleading you. He claimed these cutting prescription drug prices by
- 8:49Speaker 1: five hundred to nine hundred percent. These numbers make no
- 8:53Speaker 1: mathematical sense. That be below zero, it'd be like less
- 8:57Speaker 1: than zero. Okay, they got him on that. But he
- 8:59Speaker 1: has brought the prices of drugs down. He's exaggerating the
- 9:03Speaker 1: number again, but that's him, the salesman. He does that.
- 9:08Speaker 3: Uh.
- 9:09Speaker 1: He claimed every military attack on the drug smuggling boat
- 9:12Speaker 1: saves an average of twenty five thousand lives. Experts say
- 9:16Speaker 1: this number makes no sense. Well, first of all, they're
- 9:18Speaker 1: not you know, at CNN they find the dumbest, worst,
- 9:21Speaker 1: slanted or biased or totally fabricating accident. Plenty of people's
- 9:27Speaker 1: lives were saved by getting rid of the fentanyl and
- 9:30Speaker 1: the cocaine. Obviously, lives were saved blown up these drug boats. Okay,
- 9:34Speaker 1: it might not be twenty five thousand. How would you
- 9:37Speaker 1: know exactly how many lives are saved per boat? But
- 9:40Speaker 1: he's absolutely right, And he's saying, you're just quibbling about
- 9:42Speaker 1: the he's exaggerating numbers. Yeah, that could be. Uh, what else?
- 9:47Speaker 1: He has stopped inflation in its tracks? Okay, there's still
- 9:53Speaker 1: He has brought inflation down. It was nine percent at
- 9:55Speaker 1: one point under Biden, Biden's average inflation for the four
- 9:58Speaker 1: years five point two percent. It's now three percent and dropping.
- 10:02Speaker 1: So he clearly has brought it down, stopped it dead
- 10:05Speaker 1: in his tracks. Okay, maybe that's too much. These are
- 10:10Speaker 1: the whoppers of claiming. He told he claimed he inherited
- 10:13Speaker 1: the worst inflation of all time. All right, it was
- 10:17Speaker 1: horrifying under Biden. Nine percent, horrifying number, horrifying. But they're
- 10:24Speaker 1: arguing there that's not the all time high. It was
- 10:26Speaker 1: higher somewhere in the history of Amyria. Okay, that could be.
- 10:29Speaker 1: But he's still right about what he's saying. He's gotten
- 10:31Speaker 1: it right. You're just talking about exaggeration. He claimed the
- 10:36Speaker 1: end of eight wars. Well, the list includes two wars
- 10:39Speaker 1: that weren't actually wars. Listen, he's great at ending these wars.
- 10:43Speaker 1: He can't argue they go on and on. It's basically
- 10:45Speaker 1: all the same thing. Uh, let's see, yeah, they're all
- 10:50Speaker 1: the same thing. He's absolutely right everything he's saying. He's
- 10:52Speaker 1: just if you wanted to argue that he's exaggerating, yeah,
- 10:55Speaker 1: you could, of course he is. Yesterday, Mom, Donnie met
- 10:59Speaker 1: with Eric Adams. They had a big meeting at City Hall.
- 11:01Speaker 1: These two guys can't stand each other. It was sort
- 11:05Speaker 1: of cordial. Uh, Mom, Donnie was trying you know. I
- 11:09Speaker 1: give him credit this, Mom, Donnie. He always tries to
- 11:12Speaker 1: say something nice. He tries to be positive. He meets
- 11:15Speaker 1: with Trump, it's very positive. He can't stand Adam. They
- 11:18Speaker 1: don't get along, but he leaves and tries to praise
- 11:20Speaker 1: him somehow.
- 11:21Speaker 3: I've appreciated the mayor's work on city yes. I also
- 11:23Speaker 3: think the trash containerization has been a good step forward
- 11:26Speaker 3: in the way in which we handle garbage across the city.
- 11:28Speaker 3: And these are things that I deserve, that New Yorkers
- 11:31Speaker 3: deserve to have be built on as opposed to be discarded.
- 11:33Speaker 1: Okay, the guy's mayor of New York for four years,
- 11:36Speaker 1: four years? What can you praise him? Mind? I got
- 11:38Speaker 1: to come up with something he did rail four years?
- 11:41Speaker 1: What did he do? Reight? Ah, the trash containerization. What
- 11:45Speaker 1: the that's where they put the new trash can with
- 11:48Speaker 1: a lid that closes. This is what he did with
- 11:52Speaker 1: trash cans have lids that closes. They say the number
- 11:55Speaker 1: of rats are down because it's in the airtight trash
- 11:57Speaker 1: contaentl Okay, that's very good, But this is your main
- 12:00Speaker 1: accomplishment of four years. Not good? How did you go
- 12:03Speaker 1: with this? It went well.
- 12:04Speaker 3: I appreciated the conversation that I had with Mayor Adams
- 12:08Speaker 3: and his team, and we focused on how to make
- 12:10Speaker 3: this as smooth as possible of a transition and how
- 12:13Speaker 3: to continue to serve yours. You're right, Look, I think
- 12:15Speaker 3: it is possible to be fair and honest in your
- 12:19Speaker 3: assessment of an administration. I've obviously made my critiques clear.
- 12:22Speaker 3: I also think that there are good things that this
- 12:24Speaker 3: administration has done. I think these are the two examples
- 12:26Speaker 3: on City of Yes and containerization. And I also have
- 12:29Speaker 3: appreciated the work the Commissioner Tish has done in reducing
- 12:32Speaker 3: crime across the five boroughs. And that's a critical part
- 12:34Speaker 3: of why I decided to retain him.
- 12:35Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. So when you think back on
- 12:38Speaker 1: Adams and his legacy, it's that trash can containerization.
- 12:43Speaker 3: There you go.
- 12:43Speaker 1: What a program City of Yes? What is that? I
- 12:46Speaker 1: don't know, some program he did. Hey, here's the big question.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Does Mom Donnie move into Gracie Mansion? You don't have to,
- 12:53Speaker 1: you know, Bloomberg didn't. Of course. Now in the case
- 12:57Speaker 1: of Bloomberg, he has two massive talent is cut together
- 13:01Speaker 1: to become one enormous townhouse. Gracie Mansion looks like a
- 13:06Speaker 1: ghetto apartment, looks like a housing project apartment compared to
- 13:10Speaker 1: his house. So he never left his house. He stayed
- 13:14Speaker 1: in his house, and Ed Kotch had a really nice
- 13:17Speaker 1: apartment in Greenwich Village. He would go back there every weekend.
- 13:20Speaker 1: He'd like to stay there. So Mom Donnie lives in
- 13:22Speaker 1: Brooklyn in an apartment. No not, I think he lives
- 13:25Speaker 1: in Long Island City or a story of somewhere like
- 13:27Speaker 1: a queen's. But will he move into Gracie Mansion.
- 13:30Speaker 3: That's the decision I haven't yet made. The meeting came
- 13:32Speaker 3: about as just part of a typical transition, a transition
- 13:36Speaker 3: where we're looking to have a conversation with the current
- 13:38Speaker 3: mayor about what it looks like to have a smooth
- 13:40Speaker 3: transfer between this administration and the next administration. I appreciated
- 13:43Speaker 3: the work of his staff and ensuring that it continues
- 13:45Speaker 3: to be smooth.
- 13:47Speaker 1: So yeah, he said he has thought of staying in
- 13:49Speaker 1: his apartment. He has a massive security detail now as
- 13:53Speaker 1: the incoming mayor, a full security detail. But they're saying
- 13:58Speaker 1: you can't live in the apartment anymore because it's in
- 14:00Speaker 1: an apartment building. It'd be too hard to guard you
- 14:03Speaker 1: in that apartment building, and if we could, it'd be
- 14:07Speaker 1: totally disruptive to everybody else coming and going out of
- 14:10Speaker 1: that building. So he's probably gonna have to leave and
- 14:13Speaker 1: go to Gracie Mansion. Hey, you know what was the
- 14:15Speaker 1: most interesting thing. This was not at this press conference,
- 14:19Speaker 1: but last night, he goes on New York One, on
- 14:20Speaker 1: that Errol Lewis show. Errol Lewis, very nice guy, the
- 14:24Speaker 1: most slanted biased media person in the world, but a
- 14:30Speaker 1: nice guy. And he said something interesting on that show.
- 14:33Speaker 1: But because it's New York One, three people saw it,
- 14:36Speaker 1: so you probably never heard about this. This is why
- 14:38Speaker 1: you never don't hear about this. He revealed on the
- 14:40Speaker 1: show that he and Trump still talk after that meeting
- 14:44Speaker 1: at the White House. They've spoken to each other on
- 14:46Speaker 1: the phone a few times. They kept in touch. It's fascinating.
- 14:50Speaker 1: In fact, after the shooting of the National Guards woman mom,
- 14:54Speaker 1: Donnie said he called Trump to express his sympathies for
- 14:58Speaker 1: that woman, and they had talked about He said, they've
- 15:01Speaker 1: talked a few times. Very interesting stuff. Hey, in New Jersey,
- 15:06Speaker 1: you know McGreevy, remember Governor McGreevy, a nice guy left
- 15:10Speaker 1: in a bit of a scandal. But he lost last
- 15:12Speaker 1: night to this guy Solomon. So McGreevy, like Cuomo, thought
- 15:17Speaker 1: he could make some quote a comeback, but apparently not.
- 15:19Speaker 1: He lost, and he you know, that's the end of
- 15:22Speaker 1: him politically. I want to say from my heart, I
- 15:25Speaker 1: congratulate counselmen now Mayor elect James Solomon. Yeah. Mcgreevy's a
- 15:29Speaker 1: good guy, but you know it's it's the wrong kind
- 15:33Speaker 1: of democrat. The Democrats of today hate the old establishment democrats. Uh,
- 15:37Speaker 1: they like these Trump haters. This Solomon d of the
- 15:40Speaker 1: issue is clear.
- 15:42Speaker 2: The work begins tonight, and the work and we have
- 15:47Speaker 2: to do is maybe a Jersey City affordable. And so
- 15:51Speaker 2: I say tonight and cale Jersey City.
- 15:54Speaker 1: So that's how this guy won. If you're today's Democrat,
- 15:56Speaker 1: just yell affordability, affordability, affordability. Nobody knows what that all.
- 15:59Speaker 1: It means, afford a bill, Christmas Jersey City, it's all
- 16:03Speaker 1: Wall Street guy's hedge fund pee.
- 16:05Speaker 3: Yah.
- 16:05Speaker 1: Certain places they're always going to be expensive. You know,
- 16:08Speaker 1: if you move to Beverly Hills, it's not that affordable.
- 16:12Speaker 1: So if you go to the wealthiest place in the
- 16:14Speaker 1: world in the middle of Manhattan, the Upper East Side,
- 16:16Speaker 1: it's very expensive. So you can go there and yell
- 16:19Speaker 1: about affordability. But there's going to be places that are expensive.
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