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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone on 710WOR. Well, it's the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: We look back on that terrible day. Rudy Giuliani is
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  Speaker 1: there at the ceremony. You got the ex-presidents. You got
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  Speaker 1: First Lady's Laura Bush. Hillary Clinton is there. Rudy is there.
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  Speaker 1: And Mayor Mamdani was walking by. Stopped to shake hands
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  Speaker 1: with Rudy. Rudy Giuliani, very cordial, shook his hand. The picture,
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  Speaker 1: the video, going viral. Rudy was one of the people
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  Speaker 1: asking Mom Donnie not to come. The families had asked
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  Speaker 1: him not to come. He's behaved himself at the ceremony. Again,
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  Speaker 1: very nicely shook Rudy Giuliani's hand, knowing it would be
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  Speaker 1: a picture that would go viral. So things went pretty
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  Speaker 1: smoothly down there. It was right after the attack that morning,
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  Speaker 1: later in the day, if you were watching the real
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  Speaker 1: highbrow shows, not the low-end shows, but the highbrow shows
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  Speaker 1: with all these serious guys from the government, that you
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  Speaker 1: first heard the name Osama bin Laden on a talk show.
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  Speaker 1: They started talking about it. Many of these intelligence guys
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  Speaker 1: said they knew right away this was Osama bin Laden.
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  Speaker 1: And they then tried to pin the whole thing on
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  Speaker 1: Bush for much of the next couple of years, saying
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  Speaker 1: there was the August 6th PDB warning him. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you read the August 6th PDB, it was not warning
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  Speaker 1: about this sort of an attack. It was warning about
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  Speaker 1: terrorists attacking federal buildings. And it says right in the PDB,
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  Speaker 1: 75 different FBI teams are on this right now. So
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  Speaker 1: if you read that, you would think everything is being handled.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to remember, Bush was brand new in office.
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  Speaker 1: He had just taken office in January. This was September.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't have an FBI director until the week before,
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks before. The Democrats in Congress held up
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  Speaker 1: the confirmation hearings. So he just got an FBI director
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  Speaker 1: in place. Now, Condoleezza Rice, who is Bush's secretary of state,
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  Speaker 1: apparently today has apologized to the families for not preventing
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  Speaker 1: this attack. But there's not much really she could have done. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as far as preventing the attack, there were two occasions
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  Speaker 1: in the late 90s where Bill Clinton could have killed
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  Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden and decided not to. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: famous incidents, one where they were watching him on drones
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  Speaker 1: and they had him in their sights and they wanted,
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  Speaker 1: the drone was armed and could blow him up and
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  Speaker 1: they asked for permission. This has all been documented, well
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  Speaker 1: documented and written about and it was... Bill Clinton in
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  Speaker 1: the White House with some of his cabinet, and they
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  Speaker 1: went around the table, and Madeleine Albright said, you can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. I'm negotiating with countries in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: This will screw up my negotiations. And the then Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Janet Reno says, you can't do that. It's not legal.
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  Speaker 1: There's no legal basis to just kill this. So the
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  Speaker 1: whole cabinet, all left-wing Clinton cabinet people, they talked him
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  Speaker 1: out of it. So they let bin Laden go. There
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  Speaker 1: was another one of those occasions where they let him go.
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  Speaker 1: Had they killed him a year or two before, who
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  Speaker 1: knows how things might have changed. But a lot of
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  Speaker 1: families still yelling today about the Saudis and whatever their
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  Speaker 1: role might have been in this. We'll never get to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of that. But again, a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of officials there. Rudy Giuliani. Also, usually every
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  Speaker 1: 9-11 that night, Rudy holds a dinner for the people
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  Speaker 1: in his administration. You remember Tom Von Essen, the great
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  Speaker 1: fire commissioner? one of our greatest fire commissioners, and he
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  Speaker 1: was quite a figure that day. Bernard Carrick was no
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  Speaker 1: longer with us, and all the rest of the Giuliani administration.
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  Speaker 1: And it was an amazing task overnight to get the
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  Speaker 1: city back together, just all sorts of little technical things.
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  Speaker 1: When the bombs took out the buildings and the ground
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  Speaker 1: and blew up the ground, it took out the cable,
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  Speaker 1: it took out the electricity, it took out the power lines,
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  Speaker 1: it took out all kinds of stuff. that had to
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  Speaker 1: be repaired overnight somehow they got it done so when
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  Speaker 1: you woke up the next day you had electricity in
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  Speaker 1: lower Manhattan and you had your phones and they had
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  Speaker 1: to arrange for a lot of food had been destroyed
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  Speaker 1: like supermarkets everything they had to get food to the
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  Speaker 1: workers to everything lots of refrigerated trucks had to be
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  Speaker 1: gathered up and the food had to be brought from
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey and then a lot of restaurants great restaurant
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  Speaker 1: guys went down there and set up kitchens. And you
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  Speaker 1: had to feed. There were tens of thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: working down there, these heroic workers. You had to feed
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  Speaker 1: them and take care of them. And again, there was
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  Speaker 1: parts of the Giuliani administration that just scrambled throughout the
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  Speaker 1: night to get everything as close to normal as they
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  Speaker 1: could get the next day. They wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: the mail got delivered, all of that stuff. You couldn't
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  Speaker 1: come into Manhattan as soon as the attacks happened. They
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  Speaker 1: closed the bridges. They closed the tunnels. It was a
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  Speaker 1: long time before they started letting people back into Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: And if you lived here in the middle of Manhattan,
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  Speaker 1: on every corner, in the middle of every street intersection,
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  Speaker 1: there were military vehicles, there were troops, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: combat troops standing there, and there were police from all
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  Speaker 1: over the country who all sent cars and sent police
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  Speaker 1: to help out. So in the street, you'd see police
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  Speaker 1: cars everywhere, not just New York City, but there'd be
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  Speaker 1: Albany police cars, there'd be Tennessee police cars, there'd be
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  Speaker 1: Texas police cars. They all somehow got here and all
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  Speaker 1: tried to help out. The city council is renaming streets.
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  Speaker 1: They've rolled out 26 new 9-11 street and public place
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  Speaker 1: co-namings and urging the state to do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: and make sure the 9-11 curriculum is taught properly in schools.
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  Speaker 1: So the city council renaming a lot of streets all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. There's a Never Forget Way now in
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  Speaker 1: Howard Beach, Queens. There's an Eastside 9-11 Remembrance Way, Upper
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  Speaker 1: East Side. 9-11 Beacon Memorial Way in Bay Ridge, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: They'll also recognize nearby memorials. There's a Brooklyn 9-11 Wall
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  Speaker 1: of Remembrance in Coney Island. There's the Tunnel to Towers
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  Speaker 1: 5K Run and Walk 9-11 Memorial Way. in Red Hook.
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  Speaker 1: And great, great to do that. Hey, just some other news.
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  Speaker 1: There are other things in news. The Gilgo Beach murderer,
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  Speaker 1: that Rex Heuermann, that big Frankenstein-looking guy, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: in prison. They sent him to Little Siberia. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they call it. It's actually the Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the most bleak, isolated, frigid, cold part of
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  Speaker 1: the Adirondack Mountains. It's up near the Canadian border. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where he's been sitting and locked up. Little Siberia's
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  Speaker 1: got like three life sentences. He'll never get out. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be there forever. But Rex Heumann was caught smuggling drugs
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  Speaker 1: into the prison. Drug possession, smuggling a package in. So
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  Speaker 1: they said that he will now be disciplined. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: a guy is in the worst prison in the world
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  Speaker 1: with three life sentences... I don't know what the hell
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  Speaker 1: you could do to discipline this guy. I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: solitary or something. But it's quite a prison. 60, 6-0.
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  Speaker 1: 60-foot high walls. 60 feet high. Seven feet of thick
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  Speaker 1: concrete walls. Hey, Savannah Guthrie was on the Today Show.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a moment that just stopped the whole show.
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie was talking about they're going to go to
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  Speaker 1: a broadcast from Ireland. And they were talking about Ireland.
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  Speaker 1: And she started talking about her mother. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: she said, my mother was Irish. You notice the word was.
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  Speaker 1: My mother was Irish. It's the first time she ever
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  Speaker 1: publicly talked about her mother not being with us anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So it was Al Roker and everybody else. Craig Melvin.
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  Speaker 1: They all kind of froze for a second on the panel.
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  Speaker 1: Got very quiet there. But she said, my mother's family.
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  Speaker 1: My mother was Irish. Her grandmother was Irish. Quite a
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  Speaker 1: moment there. So the ceremonies continue, the Pentagon, the World
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  Speaker 1: Trade Center, and it'll go on throughout the day today. Very,
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  Speaker 1: very sad day for everybody. We all look back and
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  Speaker 1: everybody remembers where they were 25 years ago, what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing at that moment. They've now added six moments
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  Speaker 1: of silence. when the first plane hit, when the first
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  Speaker 1: building came down, when the second plane hit. Moments of
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  Speaker 1: silence for Shanksville, for the Pentagon. They've added a seventh
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  Speaker 1: moment of silence now for the victims. Now, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: spoke in Pennsylvania. There's a lot of fake news out there.
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  Speaker 1: The fake news is just unbelievable. They just out and
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  Speaker 1: out lie about everything. There was the Republican midterm convention,
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  Speaker 1: and you're saw these stories about empty seats. There were
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  Speaker 1: empty seats there. Well, if you talk to everybody who
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  Speaker 1: was there, there were no empty seats. In fact, there
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  Speaker 1: were about 2,000 people in line that couldn't get in
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  Speaker 1: because the seats were full. But there's that picture where
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  Speaker 1: there's a section of empty seats. Well, zoom in on
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  Speaker 1: the picture. Zoom in on it. Make it really big
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  Speaker 1: and zoom in. You'll notice. Look at the stage. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the podium. There's nobody up there. There's nothing going on.
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  Speaker 1: The picture was taken way before anything started. The convention
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even begun yet. You could always do that. They
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  Speaker 1: used to do that at Trump rallies. They'd take a
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  Speaker 1: picture three hours before the rally. People would get to
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  Speaker 1: the rally 12 hours early. But they take a picture
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  Speaker 1: three hours before it started showing empty seats. Again, just
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  Speaker 1: total fake news. It happened with today's 9-11 ceremonies. The
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  Speaker 1: president said maybe he'll go to the World Trade Center
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  Speaker 1: and be there for this. And then he decided he
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  Speaker 1: would go to the Pentagon instead. So Maggie Haberman, New
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  Speaker 1: York Times, Maggie Haberman is always caught with her fake news.
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  Speaker 1: She's the one that made up the whole fake story.
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  Speaker 1: that the reason President Trump isn't going to the World
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  Speaker 1: Trade Center is they won't let him speak. They won't
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  Speaker 1: let him make a speech. That's why he's not going.
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  Speaker 1: Complete fake story. President Trump has been at that ceremony
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  Speaker 1: a few times before. So he knows as well as anybody,
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  Speaker 1: there's no speaking. There are no speeches at the World
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  Speaker 1: Trade Center on 9-11. The families read the names, but
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  Speaker 1: there are no speeches. There were the first couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: but then about 15 years ago, They decided they'll never
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  Speaker 1: have any speeches, certainly not any politicians. There are no speeches.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody speaks. But again, the president's been there a number
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  Speaker 1: of times. He absolutely knew that. So Maggie Haberman pushing
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  Speaker 1: that fake story. I saw it even again this morning
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  Speaker 1: on New York One, which is a very, very left-wing
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  Speaker 1: biased place, New York One. Oh, they hate Trump over there.
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  Speaker 1: So they spread that fake story again about he didn't
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  Speaker 1: come to the World Trade Center because they wouldn't let
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  Speaker 1: him speak. But he was in Pennsylvania. Made a great
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  Speaker 1: speech there. Mamdani was at the World Trade Center in
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  Speaker 1: the VIP section there behaving himself. Kathy Hochul was there.
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Bill Clinton. You know, Bill Clinton's the guy,
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  Speaker 1: as we said, who let Osama bin Laden live. Had
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  Speaker 1: two chances to kill him and said, no, don't kill
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  Speaker 1: him in the late 90s. So I wonder what he
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  Speaker 1: thinks when he sees... the result of that decision. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder what he thinks when he's sitting there. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other stuff going on. The stock market
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  Speaker 1: moving up. Oil prices have been spiking, but they're backing
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  Speaker 1: off a little, just a little. They're not back to
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  Speaker 1: anything near where they should be. But they did drop
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  Speaker 1: about $ 3 today. So the president made clear at that
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  Speaker 1: convention he doesn't expect a big price drop, does not
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  Speaker 1: expect a big price drop until after the midterms. So
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  Speaker 1: it did spike up about, it's up about 13 cents
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  Speaker 1: a gallon just in the last week. And you may
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  Speaker 1: see it go a little higher. That's apparently the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: strategy to just stall. They've been, you know, just militarily destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: Their economy is being destroyed. But apparently that's the strategy.
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  Speaker 1: Just withstand this, withstand anything, just get through it. And
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  Speaker 1: they're hoping the Democrats win the midterms and Democrats take over,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they'll, They'll end the war immediately. They'll become
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  Speaker 1: friends with the Iranians. They'll offer them money, rebuild, that
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Hey, we'll take a break, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mark Simone here on September 11th, 25 years later,
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  Speaker 1: on 710WOR.