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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is 710WOR, where the Mark Simone Show starts now. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now it's Friday, finally. Now it's going to rain today,
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  Speaker 1: but it's going to be a nice weekend. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to rain today, off and on, and then sunshine all weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Not warm, it's going to be cool, but sunshine all weekend.
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  Speaker 1: A lot to get to. We'll get to Katie Zachariah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to Elon Omar, we'll get to Susie Wiles,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to Mamdani and Blakeman and Hochul and a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot more. 18 days until the election. 18 days
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  Speaker 1: until the election. Two and a half weeks away. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump goes to Georgia today and then from Georgia for
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  Speaker 1: the first time, beginning of the season, he'll after that
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  Speaker 1: go to Palm Beach, Florida. Well, he'll spend the weekend
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  Speaker 1: at Mar-a-Lago. He hasn't been there in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It closes for the summer. It closes right after Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 1: It usually opens around Halloween, but it's going a little
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  Speaker 1: early because there's a big MAGA something dinner. Then there's
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  Speaker 1: an RNC dinner tonight that he will be at. That's
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  Speaker 1: at Mar-a-Lago. So the first weekend back, it's almost, well,
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  Speaker 1: it is the middle of October. So he'll be back there.
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  Speaker 1: Election looks pretty good. Republicans, pretty good for the Senate election.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like they should win the Senate, despite all the
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  Speaker 1: fake polls you're reading out there. The House is in question, though.
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  Speaker 1: That's too close to call. We'll have a great pollster
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  Speaker 1: with us later on in the program, so we'll get
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  Speaker 1: the latest on that. Now, Katie Zachariah. It was shaky,
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  Speaker 1: that first briefing. She was nervous. It was shaky. Her
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  Speaker 1: main problem is her voice. She's got kind of a
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  Speaker 1: shrill voice. It's not a pleasant voice. It's not an
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  Speaker 1: authoritative voice. That's the problem. But But not all press
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  Speaker 1: secretaries do. Now, usually when you become the press secretary,
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  Speaker 1: you spend a couple of weeks preparing. You go to
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  Speaker 1: the White House. You go over all the stuff. You
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  Speaker 1: do practice rounds. You meet with all the principals in
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  Speaker 1: the White House. You get up to speed, every detail
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  Speaker 1: of every issue. And again, you really spend a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks prepping. Then you do your first briefing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she got there on a Sunday. Monday was a holiday,
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  Speaker 1: nobody was in the White House, and then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden tried to do her first briefing on a
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday with no preparation. That wasn't a good idea. That
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  Speaker 1: wasn't smart. She was on Hannity last night, and Sean
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  Speaker 1: gave her a real tough grilling. I mean, a very
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  Speaker 1: polite one, a very nice one, but it was a grilling. Anything,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing you could ask her that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't hit her with. He asked her everything and anything,
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  Speaker 1: and she was pretty good on there. Now you're going
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  Speaker 1: to read in the Fake news, or if you're watching CNN,
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  Speaker 1: they'll tell you it was a train wreck. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a train wreck. Listen for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Given the fact that I'd been on the job less
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  Speaker 2: than maybe eight hours and had a briefing book in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, I feel like I did my very best, Sean,
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  Speaker 2: to deliver for the American people that day.
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  Speaker 1: What is that? Wait, hang on. That's my phone. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: hang on, hang on, hang on. Sorry about that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: her voice is a little shrill. It's kind of childlike-ish.
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  Speaker 1: But again, that'll smooth out. She'll get better at that.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as content, she was fine. And he
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  Speaker 1: asked her about saying she was a lawyer and she's
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  Speaker 1: never passed the bar. And she went through all of that.
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  Speaker 1: She went to Pepperdine, which is a very fine law school,
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  Speaker 1: graduated from Pepperdine, has a law degree, and did take
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  Speaker 1: the bar in California and didn't pass. Now, that's not unusual.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't pass the bar the first time.
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  Speaker 1: But she never went back and took it again because
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  Speaker 1: at that time, she's married and her husband has to
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  Speaker 1: go to China for a big job. She's going to China.
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  Speaker 1: So she immediately goes to China. Now, she has worked
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  Speaker 1: as doing legal work for corporations. And while in California,
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  Speaker 1: she worked at the Shenzhen Law Firm. So she's worked
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  Speaker 1: at law firms. She was one of four international associates
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  Speaker 1: who drafted multi-million dollar agreements for cross-border transactions and all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of complicated legal stuff. So she did a lot
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  Speaker 1: of legal work. Now, you can do that without passing
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  Speaker 1: the bar. She's a lawyer and didn't pass the bar.
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  Speaker 1: So you can do the legal work in a firm
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  Speaker 1: as long as a barred attorney, someone who has passed
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  Speaker 1: the bar, is there to sign off on it, you're fine.
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  Speaker 1: And people point to, there have been judges who went
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  Speaker 1: to law school, have a law degree, but never actually
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  Speaker 1: passed the bar. There was Judge Thomas Griffin, U.S. Court
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  Speaker 1: of Appeals, D.C. Circuit was confirmed. He'd served as a
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  Speaker 1: general counsel at Brigham Young University. He never passed the
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  Speaker 1: actual bar exam, but he was a trained lawyer with
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  Speaker 1: a law degree. So it's not a big deal. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're making it sound like it's the greatest scandal. It's nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely nothing. She hasn't been appointed attorney general, press secretary,
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  Speaker 1: a law degree. is absolutely not essential in any way
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  Speaker 1: to be the press secretary. It has no relevance to
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  Speaker 1: this whatsoever. But it's fake news. They've got to have
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  Speaker 1: something to yell and scream about, huff and puff about.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you run a fake news channel, if
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  Speaker 1: you run MSNOW or CNN, you've got to get those
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  Speaker 1: people riled up. It's like people with the pitchforks and torches,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to give them red meat, throw them stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So anything you think is a scandal, they'll throw out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Susie Wiles stuff, the New York Times writing an
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  Speaker 1: article about how women, women are all getting thrown out
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  Speaker 1: of the Trump administration. They're trying to make it look
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  Speaker 1: like a female issue. It's not. It's just people that
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  Speaker 1: Trump wasn't happy with and removed them. A New York
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  Speaker 1: Times headline, the disappearing women of the Trump administration. But again,
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  Speaker 1: there are people he wasn't happy with. Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard,
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  Speaker 1: Pam Bondi. They just, you know. Thought they would do well.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't do well on the job, and he removed them,
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  Speaker 1: which is what you're supposed to do. But eight female
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  Speaker 1: cabinet-level officers, Lori Chavez de Ramirez. I don't even remember
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  Speaker 1: who that is. Oh, she was the labor secretary. A
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  Speaker 1: couple others you wouldn't remember. But Susie Wiles is the
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  Speaker 1: one on the chopping block now. We got reported by
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  Speaker 1: somebody that Susie Wiles was close to being dismissed. She's
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  Speaker 1: the White House chief of staff. Apparently it says, now
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  Speaker 1: who knows? Who believes this stuff? This is media ideas,
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  Speaker 1: a very, very biased left-wing website. Political reports that Trump
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  Speaker 1: freaked out that the news was out. Well, he can
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  Speaker 1: freak out, but I know he is considering getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of Susie Wiles because he's been asking everybody. He's been
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  Speaker 1: running it by anybody and everybody. So the problem is
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  Speaker 1: he'll ask everybody. He talks to hundreds of people a day,
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  Speaker 1: very smart people. I mean, if you need opinions... He's
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  Speaker 1: talking to the most brilliant executives, smartest people, the most
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  Speaker 1: brilliant politicians all day long. So if you need to
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  Speaker 1: do a survey, that's the group to do it with.
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  Speaker 1: But when you ask hundreds of people, word's going to
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  Speaker 1: get out. So he can freak out. But it is
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  Speaker 1: being talked about there. Now, voter fraud. Well, there are
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  Speaker 1: mail-in ballots being sent out to people that aren't citizens.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't even be voting. It's going on like crazy. They've
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  Speaker 1: asked California about 20,000 ballots that went to non-citizens. And
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  Speaker 1: California refused to respond. So there's all kinds of investigations.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department looking into it.
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  Speaker 4: I can confirm that the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection
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  Speaker 4: Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings. that have
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  Speaker 4: been sent to various addresses nationwide. Some of those, including
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  Speaker 4: Secretary of State offices and the related election offices. We
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  Speaker 4: have intercepted some of these letters and they are in
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  Speaker 4: law enforcement possession.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one of the reasons this happens, you got some
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  Speaker 1: very bad secretaries of state. They're the ones in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the ballots and the voting in their states. And
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  Speaker 1: you remember George Soros a few years ago spent a fortune, many,
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  Speaker 1: many hundreds of millions of dollars getting these secretaries of
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  Speaker 1: state installed, real bad left-wing woke crazies into the secretary
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  Speaker 1: of state jobs in many, many, many states. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why it's hard to control. And whatever the steps the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department is taking probably won't have any effect on
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  Speaker 1: the midterms because it's only 18 days a week, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time to do anything. So, hey, last
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  Speaker 1: night was the Al Smith dinner. It's an off-year Al
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  Speaker 1: Smith dinner. It's not a presidential year where the candidates
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  Speaker 1: show up. But the strangest sight of all at the
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  Speaker 1: Al Smith dinner was Zoran Mamdani in a white tie
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  Speaker 1: and tails. But there he was at the Al Smith dinner.
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  Speaker 1: It's black tie in the audience, but up on the dais,
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  Speaker 1: it's white tie and tails. So you would think he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. You would think he's such a socialist anti-elitist.
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  Speaker 1: But there he was. sitting up on the dais with
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  Speaker 1: the billionaires and the elite in his white tie and tails.
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal Dolan, who's still a big part of New York City.
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  Speaker 1: He was the honoree. He was the keynote speaker.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for inviting this now retired, unemployed pensioner on Social
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  Speaker 5: Security and a fixed income as your speaker this evening.
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  Speaker 1: I used to.
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  Speaker 5: Be in Who's Who? Now I'm Who's He?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's an old joke, but he was very good.
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  Speaker 3: Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Last night the mc uh the comedian jim gaffigan.
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  Speaker 6: We have a pretty diverse dais uh we have with
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  Speaker 6: us the one percent the 0.01 percent and the 0.001
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  Speaker 6: percent Sadly, Mayor Bloomberg couldn't make it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's the first one he ever missed.
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  Speaker 1: But it was strange. There was Mom Donnie up there
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  Speaker 1: in a white tie and tails. Now, it's a very,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the pictures, you think this is a
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  Speaker 1: very serious dinner. No, it's actually a lighthearted dinner. It's
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  Speaker 1: a roast. Everybody jokes around. The other honoree was Police
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Jessica Tish. And she was pretty funny, too.
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  Speaker 3: Things have got a little hot for me this week,
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  Speaker 3: just in case.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone hiring? Well, I don't think Mom Donnie's going to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of her. But she was good last night.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of talk these days that the mayor's
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  Speaker 2: friends don't like me.
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  Speaker 4: That is simply not true.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump and I get along great.
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  Speaker 1: All right. That's not bad. Not bad. You know, and listen,
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  Speaker 1: she's not a comedian, but you have somebody on your
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  Speaker 1: staff who writes some jokes for you, reach out to
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  Speaker 1: Some comedian, you know, to give you a few jokes. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Mom Donnie, in the debate, Blakeman really went
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  Speaker 1: after Mom Donnie, calling him all kinds of names. And
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  Speaker 1: it was odd that Kathy Hochul didn't defend him when
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  Speaker 1: it came to her. She didn't say anything to defend him.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought maybe Mom Donnie might not like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she can't win without Mom Donnie. She needs
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie to get her over the finish line in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. Well, Mamdani is still there. He's in
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  Speaker 1: the fight. Mamdani coming out swinging. He even made a video.
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  Speaker 1: But Mamdani now going after Blakeman.
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  Speaker 3: It is hard for anyone to keep up with all
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  Speaker 3: of the bigotry and racism that Bruce Blakeman exhibits on
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  Speaker 3: a regular basis. So I think that the governor did
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  Speaker 3: a good job and I'll never fault someone for not
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  Speaker 3: being able to catch all of it because that is
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  Speaker 3: a fool's errand when it comes to Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, he's trying to crush Blakeman, but that is
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  Speaker 1: quite a tribute to Blakeman because one thing you'll never
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  Speaker 1: see in Blakeman is any racism or bigotry. There's never
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  Speaker 1: been a hint of that, an allegation of that. I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you, knowing the guy 30 years, there is
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  Speaker 1: no bigotry or racism, nothing. That's a preposterous charge. But again,
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  Speaker 1: it's a tribute to Blakeman. They can't find anything to
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  Speaker 1: attack him on. They can't come up with an attack.
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  Speaker 1: So they go to that cheap joe biden crap you
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  Speaker 1: know joe biden used to do that whoever he was
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  Speaker 1: running against is a white supremacist he's a racist uh
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  Speaker 1: he's a q anon he's a whatever whatever stuff they
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  Speaker 1: would have all this crazy stuff that didn't fit but
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  Speaker 1: it's just cheap joe biden crap that you do in
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  Speaker 1: a debate so if blakeman's using that it means he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find anything to go after blakeman on but he
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  Speaker 1: did put out the first video Mamdani campaign video.
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  Speaker 7: Governor Kathy Hochul actually fights for working families in New York.
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  Speaker 7: When Bruce was busy, or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy,
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  Speaker 7: Governor Hochul was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget
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  Speaker 7: deficit here in New York City. And when New York
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  Speaker 7: City needed a partner in delivering free universal childcare, Governor
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  Speaker 7: Hochul didn't just help us deliver 2,000 new seats for
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  Speaker 7: two-year-olds this year. She worked with us so we could
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  Speaker 7: deliver 10,000 more seats next January. That's why I'm voting
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  Speaker 7: for Governor Hochul, because she's the real deal for New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman?
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  Speaker 4: He's a bad apple.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Listen, that's a Mamdani video, but it'll help
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  Speaker 1: Hochul with the Mamdani voters. She needs them. She has
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  Speaker 1: to win the real nuts of the left wing, and
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  Speaker 1: that'll help with them. As far as that, Blakeman is
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  Speaker 1: not busy. I mean, again, ridiculous. Blakeman's known for being
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  Speaker 1: a workaholic. Blakeman's known for going from 6 a.m. to
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  Speaker 1: midnight every day, not only in the office, but going
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  Speaker 1: to everything, every event, every meeting, every town hall, everything
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  Speaker 1: you can go to. He's just nonstop all day and night,
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  Speaker 1: always has been. So, again, a kind of a tribute
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  Speaker 1: to him that they couldn't find anything to go after
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  Speaker 1: him on. Hey, the horses. This is an important point.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this whole thing about getting rid of the horses.
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  Speaker 1: They have to get rid of the horses. It's inhumane.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just Mamdani, but it's Julie Menon, the
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  Speaker 1: city council speaker, who's starting to look more and more weird,
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  Speaker 1: this city council speaker. Very strange. She's pushing this. The
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  Speaker 1: reason you have to get rid of the horse is
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  Speaker 1: growing public safety liability. She said it's about public safety. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's look at the facts. One horse died in 100 years.
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  Speaker 1: 100 years of operations. No, excuse me. It's not the horse.
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  Speaker 1: It's one person died. In 100 years of the horse-drawn carriages,
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  Speaker 1: only one person was killed having anything to do with
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  Speaker 1: those horse-drawn carriages in a hundred years only one person
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  Speaker 1: died as a result of the horses with the e-bikes
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  Speaker 1: there have been 113 that have been 130 that have
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  Speaker 1: been killed in seven years so one person died as
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  Speaker 1: a result of the horses in 100 years 130 Actually,
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  Speaker 1: it's 133. 133 died just in seven years. So that's
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  Speaker 1: like 16 deaths a year by e-bikes. One death every
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  Speaker 1: hundred years by horses. So it doesn't look kosher, this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. Some people think Mamdani just wants to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of anything that he thinks is elite. It's virtue
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  Speaker 1: signaling from Mamdani. Also, the Plaza Hotel closing. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that coming up. Apparently... He was asked to
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  Speaker 1: help with that and wouldn't talk to anybody. So it's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you come to, if you're, we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of listeners around the country, when you come
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  Speaker 1: to New York this Christmas and you're around Central Park,
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  Speaker 1: you won't see, the plaza will be all covered up
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  Speaker 1: in scaffolding. You won't see the horses. It'll be different. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot more to get to coming up.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mark Simone here. Nine to noon, three hours, nine
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  Speaker 1: to noon every day on 710WOR.