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Hour 1: When will gas prices drop? · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Why from midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
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Speaker 1: on seven.
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Speaker 2: R.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what happened? It's cold us, but it don't got
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Speaker 1: warmer tomorrow. You got a lot to get to today.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to the president's speech last night. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to the shutdown. Pam BONDI might have a problem. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to Christy Nome this stuff coming out about her.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to ice the shutdown, all of that crazy
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Speaker 1: mayor Mom Donnie with his idea of raising taxes and
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Speaker 1: all that. As we have always hoped. The City Council
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Speaker 1: speaker Julie Mennon, Democrat, but a common sense Democrat is
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Speaker 1: standing up to him and blocking him, and she may
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Speaker 1: be become a hero in what's about to happen here.
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Speaker 1: So we got a lot to get to this morning.
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Speaker 1: President's speech last night, I don't know it was it
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Speaker 1: was a good speech. Don't think he's did his best
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Speaker 1: When he does those reading a teleprompter standing there in
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Speaker 1: the where wherever that was the East room or wherever
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Speaker 1: they did that speech, it's you know, I would he's
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Speaker 1: better with an audience, although it was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: a formal address. He's not great with formal addresses. It's
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Speaker 1: not doesn't play to his strength, or I would have
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Speaker 1: I would have gone to a military base and done
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Speaker 1: it there with with the with the troops around him.
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Speaker 1: But then the Democrats, the crazy fake news would attack
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Speaker 1: and we exploiting the military and all of that. So,
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Speaker 1: but it was a pretty good speech. He laid out
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Speaker 1: a lot of things a lot of people don't know.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you're you know, hard work in American
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Speaker 1: you don't have time to follow this stuff. Eight hours
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Speaker 1: a day. You're not listening to talk radio, you're not
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Speaker 1: going really in depthy just watching the nightly news. All
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Speaker 1: you hear about is the straits of Hormosa closed and
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Speaker 1: this is the worst thing that ever happened. How are
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Speaker 1: we going to get him open? This is total disaster
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Speaker 1: with the straits closed. And so there were some good
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Speaker 1: parts he had explain to people, we don't get any
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Speaker 1: oil from the Straits of horn Moose. It has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with us, doesn't affect us.
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Speaker 3: To those countries that can't get fuel, many of which
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Speaker 3: refuse to get.
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Speaker 1: Involved in the No, that's what was the other point.
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Speaker 1: It's Europe that needs a straight at Horme Moose it's India, Pakistan.
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Speaker 1: Those over there, they need the streets Hormose. They should
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Speaker 1: help get it open.
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Speaker 3: To those countries that can't get fuel, many of which
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Speaker 3: refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran. We
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Speaker 3: had to do it ourselves. I have a suggestion. Number one,
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Speaker 3: buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty,
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Speaker 3: we have so much. And number two, build up some
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Speaker 3: delayed courage. Should have done it before, should have done
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Speaker 3: it with us as we asked. Go to the strait
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Speaker 3: and just take it, protect it, use it for yourself.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So again, we have all the oil we need.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to President Trump's first term, we're totally oil independent.
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Speaker 1: And then here's the the Yeah. I love after something
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Speaker 1: like this to watch MSNBC and CNN and all the
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Speaker 1: crazies and how are they going to attack it? Well,
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Speaker 1: he pointed out, once we're done, once it's over, once
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Speaker 1: we leave Straits of Hormuse automatically open, they'll open by themselves.
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Speaker 1: Because the only people that need the Straits of Hormuse,
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Speaker 1: it's Iran. That's how they sell their oil. That's what
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Speaker 1: they do for revenue, sell oil. But you can only
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Speaker 1: sell it if the Straits are open and the tankers
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Speaker 1: are moving. If the straits are closed and the tankers
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Speaker 1: aren't moving, you can't sell any oil and you're going
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Speaker 1: to lose all your income. So this is what they
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Speaker 1: attacked him on. He's it's a childish fantasy that they'll
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Speaker 1: just open by themselves. What kind of out of control
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Speaker 1: terrible though, that's just playing they'll open by themselves. Most
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Speaker 1: people watching this understood exactly what he meant. They will
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Speaker 1: open as soon as we leave. We could actually open
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Speaker 1: them militarily, but it would require some risk, and we
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Speaker 1: don't get any oil from there. I even take the risk.
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Speaker 1: But it was okay last night.
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Speaker 3: Our objectives are very simple and clear. We are systematically
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Speaker 3: dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or project power
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Speaker 3: outside of their borders. That means eliminating Iran's navy, which
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Speaker 3: is now absolutely destroyed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, if you're watching all the crazies last night,
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Speaker 1: well the best thing is this, Chuck Schumer tweets. Schumer
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Speaker 1: tweets out that it was the most rambling, incoherent speech ever,
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Speaker 1: the most rambling, out of control, meandering rambling. Nobody could
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Speaker 1: understand what he was saying. Nobody can understand why we
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Speaker 1: were there. And then he said it was He made
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Speaker 1: it clear that this is the single greatest foreign policy
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Speaker 1: blunder in the history of the world. Now that's when
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Speaker 1: you know things are going well for the president. Chuck
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Speaker 1: Schumer is not that stupid. I mean, he has some
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Speaker 1: kind of functioning brain. But even he couldn't come up
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Speaker 1: with a logical argument. Obviously, it's if you take out
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Speaker 1: the worst, most evil terrorist government in the world. Obviously
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Speaker 1: you could argue, well, we didn't need to do it,
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Speaker 1: or this wasn't the right time. But obviously it's not
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Speaker 1: the greatest foreign policy blunder. I mean, it's a great
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Speaker 1: thing to do, even if it's not the right moment,
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Speaker 1: Even if it's not the right way. It would never
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Speaker 1: be considered the greatest killing hitler. It can't be considered
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Speaker 1: the greatest foreign policy blunder in the world. Wiping out
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Speaker 1: the Ayatola, wiping out the most evil terrorist funding regime
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Speaker 1: in the world. I think people understand that's not the
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Speaker 1: biggest foreign policy blunder in history. And it was a
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Speaker 1: short speed feeling like twenty minutes.
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Speaker 3: Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise
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Speaker 3: in gasoline prices here at home. This short term increase
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Speaker 3: has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching
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Speaker 3: to range terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and neighboring
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Speaker 3: countries that have nothing to do with the conflict.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you see, he's not good at that reading the
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Speaker 1: teleprompt many kind of it's not his strength. When he
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Speaker 1: just talks, you know, just a couple of keywords on
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Speaker 1: the page. When he just starts talking, he's brilliant, but
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Speaker 1: that it's not his strength. But that's what people were
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Speaker 1: calling for, it demanding a formal Oval office speech. Although
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Speaker 1: he wasn't. He hate doing it in the Oval office.
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Speaker 1: He don't like sitting at the desk. He likes standing.
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Speaker 1: So that's why they did it in the east room there.
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Speaker 1: But other presidents are professional politicians at George Bush and
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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, they know how to give that very formal speech,
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Speaker 1: and they're great teleprompter readers. It's it's not a skill
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Speaker 1: to be proud of that you're good at reading a speech.
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Speaker 1: The fact that you can just add litbits, speak from
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Speaker 1: the heart and do an hour and a half that's
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Speaker 1: something to be proud of. So reaction Wall Street Journal,
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Speaker 1: which doesn't like Trump. You know, the Wall Street Journal
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Speaker 1: never very favorable to Trump. They thought it was a
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Speaker 1: great speech, They thought it was wonderful. They really really
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Speaker 1: applauded it. Stock market is down, which means nothing. It's
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Speaker 1: you know, as John Carney pointed out yesterday, the stock
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Speaker 1: market Wall Street is an overreaction machine. They overreact to everything.
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Speaker 1: And they did this with tearriffs, you know, plunge eight
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Speaker 1: million points, so that is the end of the world,
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Speaker 1: and then two seconds later it goes right back up
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Speaker 1: to an all time high. So you'll see the same
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Speaker 1: thing here in a few weeks when the war is over.
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Speaker 1: Gas prices will plunge, stock market will go nuts. One
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Speaker 1: reason that does that is it is an overreaction machine.
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Speaker 1: It'll go too low on the bad news, and then
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Speaker 1: when the good news comes, it'll go way too high
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Speaker 1: and then level off at some point. NATO. He brought
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Speaker 1: up NATO and he is threatening to pull out a
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Speaker 1: NATO and some people think, well, that's crazy, will not
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Speaker 1: so crazy anymore. The idea NATO is that we're a
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Speaker 1: member and that it would somehow help us in the
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Speaker 1: worst crisis. And here we are in a crisis and
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Speaker 1: they're doing absolutely nothing for us use. We're not allowed
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Speaker 1: to use the base in Italy for this. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: why we have a base in Italy for something like this.
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Speaker 1: And then when it came out that Iran we didn't
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Speaker 1: never knew this has missiles and go two thousand miles
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Speaker 1: and hit Italy. That's all the more recent. You should
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Speaker 1: open up that base, let us use it. Well, you
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Speaker 1: still can't use it, can't use the airspace of this country.
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Speaker 1: They won't send any troops. So what's the point. What's
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Speaker 1: the point? NATO is pretty useless. Look at the Russia
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Speaker 1: invades Ukraine. I mean look at that. NATO totally useless
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Speaker 1: in that case, nothing they could do to help. So
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Speaker 1: the president will threaten to pull out unless they do something,
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Speaker 1: unless they become more cooperative, more favorable to the US.
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Speaker 1: Here's Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 4: When we need them to allow us to use their
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Speaker 4: military bases, their answer is no. Then why are we
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Speaker 4: in NATO? You have to ask that question. Why do
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Speaker 4: we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions
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Speaker 4: of dollars over the year's trillions of dollars, and all
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Speaker 4: these American forces stationed in the region. If we can
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Speaker 4: only use we can we in our time of need,
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Speaker 4: We're not going to be allowed to use those bases.
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Speaker 1: A good point. I mean, if you joined the club,
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Speaker 1: a private club or something, but you're not allowed in,
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Speaker 1: you can't come, he can't do anything, you'd leave. Why
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Speaker 1: would you even stay? Pam Bondy Attorney General President behind
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Speaker 1: closed doors talking to people about getting rid of Pam
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Speaker 1: Bondy and replacing her with Lee Zelden as the new
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Speaker 1: attorney general. Now let me just point out, having observed
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump closely for decades, sometimes he'll start talking about
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Speaker 1: something and they'll talk to everybody behind the scenes. He'll
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Speaker 1: run it by everybody and it looks like, wow, look
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Speaker 1: at that, that's what they're going to do. But you know,
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Speaker 1: come back in two weeks it might have changed. He
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Speaker 1: does throw out stuff, give it a little time. Then
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Speaker 1: he might switch to something else, or he might just
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Speaker 1: drop it entirely, or after throwing it out and seeing
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Speaker 1: what the reaction is for a week or two, he
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Speaker 1: might actually do it. So we don't know, but he
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Speaker 1: has been talking behind closed doors about getting rid of
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Speaker 1: Pam Bondy replacing her with Lee Zelden. Lee Zelden, who's
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Speaker 1: the EPA director, has become a real star behind the scenes.
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Speaker 1: They love him in the administration. He's done a great
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Speaker 1: job and they're really really proud of him. So if
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Speaker 1: not the attorney General, he will move up into a
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Speaker 1: much more prominent role at some point. But keep an
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Speaker 1: eye on that Pam Bondy, they are well, he's not
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Speaker 1: happy with the way she handled the Epstein files. She
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Speaker 1: did nothing wrong, it's just the way she did it
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Speaker 1: made it all look wrong. You know, they're on my desk.
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Speaker 1: They'll be released. Well they weren't, really, it's just too
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Speaker 1: much bungling. Her optics were terrible. It looked like she
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Speaker 1: was covering something up. There really was nothing to cover
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Speaker 1: up that would harm President Trump. So keep an eye
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Speaker 1: on that. Also, keep an eye on Telsey Gabbard. They're
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Speaker 1: not too thrilled with her. But now, what would happen
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Speaker 1: if he removed Pam Bondy and put in Lee Zelden.
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Speaker 1: He would probably need Senate conference. He's already confirmed as
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Speaker 1: EPA director, but Attorney general's a different congressional committee. They'd
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Speaker 1: probably have to probably have to confirm him. And you know,
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Speaker 1: these people in Congress they're going to hold it up forever.
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Speaker 1: They're going to try to block it. They're going to
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Speaker 1: give him a hard time. It won't be easy to
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Speaker 1: get him confirmed. But that's okay because the Deputy Attorney General,
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Speaker 1: Todd Blanche, Trump is very very happy with him, and
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Speaker 1: he'd be acting Attorney General until the confirmation. So if
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Speaker 1: they couldn't get Zelden confirmed right away, they'd be very
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Speaker 1: happy having Todd blanche in there for a long time.
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Speaker 1: So that's possible that that could happen. It looks like
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Speaker 1: they're going to settle the shutdown. They've agreed the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: the Republicans. They've come up with a solution where they'll
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Speaker 1: fund homeland Security but make Ice something separate. It's a
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Speaker 1: simple solution. It settles the shutdown. Everything goes back to normal.
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Speaker 1: TSA agents now get paid, they'll get all their back pay,
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Speaker 1: they can come back to work. It looks great ho therever.
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Speaker 1: If you look at it, if you're a normal, reasonable person,
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Speaker 1: not a Washington swamp creature, you look at this, you know,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, you could have done this the first minute.
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Speaker 1: Why didn't you just do this the first second? Exactly?
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Speaker 1: They could have It's Democrats and Republicans to blame. They
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Speaker 1: could have done this immediately. It's a simple logical answer.
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Speaker 1: They could have done this the first day. But they
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Speaker 1: put everybody through hell with this for no reason at all.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely ridiculous. So they'll go back to work. One of
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Speaker 1: the things that helped was ice, the President sending ice
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Speaker 1: into the airports. It was brilliant because with the TSA
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Speaker 1: calling in sick and the four hour lines in total
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Speaker 1: chaos and people going crazy, it gave the Democrats a
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Speaker 1: lot of leverage. But when the President sent icy and
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Speaker 1: they did a great job straightening everything out, took away
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Speaker 1: the leverage that Democrats had, so they kind of caved
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Speaker 1: in on all this. Hey, our friend Charlemagne across the
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Speaker 1: hall over there on the air this morning, said he
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Speaker 1: had a fly. He went to La Guardia over the week.
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Speaker 1: He flew somewhere and he said he was shocked. The
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Speaker 1: ice agents were great. They were running everything, and he
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe how wonderful the ice agents were. They were friendly,
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Speaker 1: they were handing out water, they were helping everybody. He said,
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Speaker 1: it was absolutely amazing, very impressed with them. He said,
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Speaker 1: maybe that was the point, some sort of SYOP, you know,
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Speaker 1: operation to improve the image of Ice. No, actually, Ice
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Speaker 1: has always been that way. These ICE agents are great people,
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Speaker 1: great law enforcement public servants. They're wonderful. They're great to everybody,
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Speaker 1: except when you try to run them over with your car.
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Speaker 1: They're all great, they're fine, they're great. The way they
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Speaker 1: handle themselves. Now, if you've gotten an suv and aimed
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Speaker 1: it right at them, that they might get different. But
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Speaker 1: that's anybody and everybody. So people didn't understand that you've
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Speaker 1: seen the ice, did they? Why were they so brutal? Well,
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Speaker 1: they're not. It's only when people are trying to kill them,
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Speaker 1: hit them, run them over, that's when they That's that's
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Speaker 1: when they get nasty. Hey, speaking to airports, you know
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Speaker 1: when you see those air traffic controllers and those towers
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Speaker 1: as wow, that's such a sophisticated in the communications equipment
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Speaker 1: they have in these planes. And then you see when
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Speaker 1: they have an accident. How stupid this stuff is? That truck,
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Speaker 1: the fire truck. You know yet you're cleared across the runway.
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Speaker 1: You just told the plane to land two seconds ago,
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Speaker 1: and they hit each This is unbelievable, stupid little mistakes.
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Speaker 1: Now here's a plane landing at LaGuardia contacts the tower.
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Speaker 1: What runway they use? This runway? Okay? That run well,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. It turns out he's landing at LaGuardia.
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Speaker 1: He contacts the wrong airport. He's talking to the tower
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Speaker 1: at Kennedy. You realize sort of disaster. This could have
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Speaker 1: been listened to.
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Speaker 2: This exchange wild final for a sure. If it's.
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Speaker 5: Guardia, this is Kennedy Tower, Please go to La Guardia's towers.
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Speaker 6: Sorry, that's crazy.
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Speaker 1: You notice they all sound young. You know, remember years
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Speaker 1: ago you got in the plane. Pilot was always the
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Speaker 1: old guy with white hair. He was a chuck yeger looking,
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Speaker 1: a veteran that looked like he flew a million years
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Speaker 1: and a million plus Sully Sullenberger looking guy. Now you
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Speaker 1: see them, they look like they're twelve years old. They
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Speaker 1: look like they've been flying six months. So it's a
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Speaker 1: hell of a mistake to make contact the wrong airport,
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Speaker 1: the wrong tower. They give you the runway number, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't exist. You realize you got the wrong airport. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff didn't used to happen like this.
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Speaker 1: An anyway, we'll take some calls in a minute eight
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Speaker 1: hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Is the
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Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 1: zero seven ten. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Brian in Grantwich, Connecticut. Brian, how you doing?
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Speaker 6: Hey, Mark, good morning. I hope you're doing well.
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Speaker 2: So I loved you.
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Speaker 6: I loved your peace on the ice agents at the airport.
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Speaker 6: So my girlfriend's a little woke and she was flying
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Speaker 6: to Hawaii to see her her kids. And when she landed,
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Speaker 6: she called me and said, you know what, Brian, I've
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Speaker 6: never seen it smoother. And he could not have been nicer. Guys,
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Speaker 6: So that's a little bit of an idditt to what
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Speaker 6: you just mentioned before.
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Speaker 1: Right now, when you say your girlfriend's a little woke,
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Speaker 1: what does that mean? How woke is she?
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, she's uh, she's not voting for my guy,
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Speaker 6: I'll tell you that. But it's okay along very well,
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Speaker 6: ye right, But I just said, I share that with you.
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Speaker 6: And I met a couple of a couple of months
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Speaker 6: ago and.
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Speaker 7: Said, Jay House.
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Speaker 1: That's Tony, Tony's restaurant at Jay House, the biggest hot
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Speaker 1: spot of Greenwich. Of course there's Pulpo, there's a scale,
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Speaker 1: But Tony, very good, thanks for calling. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: uh Rich and Myrtle beach Rich. How you doing?
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Speaker 7: Thank Mark voting away here?
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Speaker 8: If she's not voting away here, at least, I hope
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Speaker 8: she's super hot, you know.
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Speaker 1: But well, I didn't want to. I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: say it, but obviously this woman is super hot. If
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Speaker 1: this guy is putting up with the woke craft, she
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Speaker 1: must look great.
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Speaker 8: You know. I want to prefer Trump behind the desk.
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Speaker 8: And in one paragraph he says that harmu straight has
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Speaker 8: nothing to do with our oil. And in the next
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Speaker 8: paragraph he says the price of oil and gas is
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Speaker 8: up because of almost truth, because of the straight. So
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Speaker 8: somebody who wrote that speech should have double checked that.
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Speaker 1: No, it is no, it's it's it's correct. What happens
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Speaker 1: is we don't get any oil from there. There's no
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Speaker 1: reason for us to pay anymore because we got we
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Speaker 1: make our own straight. So home its doesn't affect us.
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Speaker 1: But it's these oil guys that these JR. Ewings that
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Speaker 1: run all the oil companies. They all conspire that our
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Speaker 1: oil is that's right West Texas Intermediate. They'll claim, well,
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Speaker 1: we have to raise it because the world market they
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Speaker 1: raise it anyway. So he could step in and do something,
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Speaker 1: but it's.
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Speaker 8: Going to be over.
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Speaker 7: I hope he does.
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Speaker 8: I hope he does.
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Speaker 1: No reason to it. It'll be over in three weeks,
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Speaker 1: no reason.
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Speaker 8: You know, as far as NATO is concerned, you brought
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Speaker 8: up a good point. They're totally feckless. They're useless. They
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Speaker 8: have a war on their own continent for the first
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Speaker 8: time since World War Two, and they can't deal with
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Speaker 8: any of it on their own without the US help.
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Speaker 8: They're terrible. They're like babies.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they're absolutely worthless. You're right, we got to
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Speaker 1: get out of NATO. Also. You know these organizations, the
18:50
Speaker 1: United Nations, nineteen forty eight it was created. It's been
18:53
Speaker 1: over there for nineteen forty eight. How many years is that?
18:55
Speaker 1: It's like eighty something years. Name one thing they've ever
18:58
Speaker 1: done for anybody anything, United Nations. Get rid of that
19:04
Speaker 1: whole place, close it down, get rid of NATO. Let's
19:07
Speaker 1: go to David Long Island. David, how you doing.
19:11
Speaker 9: I'm good. But I do think there's a reason to
19:14
Speaker 9: stay in NATO. But it's not because our allies are
19:17
Speaker 9: dependable or anything like that. The reason we should stay
19:21
Speaker 9: in NATO is because by treaty, it forces this country
19:25
Speaker 9: to spend five percent of GDP on defense. If we
19:29
Speaker 9: ever have a Democrat Democrat administration in the future, they
19:35
Speaker 9: will gut our military down to nothing and we will
19:38
Speaker 9: be butt naked if we ever need.
19:41
Speaker 1: That's a good point. But remember under Biden, under Jimmy Carter,
19:44
Speaker 1: we did gut the military even though we were NATO members,
19:47
Speaker 1: So you could still gut it anyway. They just spend
19:49
Speaker 1: the money.
19:49
Speaker 8: Jam.
19:50
Speaker 9: Hey, you think you can gut it, but you can't
19:52
Speaker 9: with China building ships like crazy.
19:55
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not saying you should. I'm just
19:57
Speaker 1: saying it is possible. They did it under Jimmy Carter,
20:00
Speaker 1: they do it under Biden. You still have to spend
20:02
Speaker 1: the five percent. It's a NATO rule. But what they
20:04
Speaker 1: do is instead of building planes and ships and tanks,
20:07
Speaker 1: they'll spend the money on diversity programs, diversity training. They'll
20:12
Speaker 1: just spend it differently. That's the problem. Let's go to
20:14
Speaker 1: Bill in Hamburg, New Jersey. Bill, how you doing good?
20:18
Speaker 7: Mark?
20:19
Speaker 2: Thank you? A quick word about the moonshot here today.
20:22
Speaker 2: First of all, the camera covers was terrible. I was
20:25
Speaker 2: very disappointed about that. But when I lived in Florida,
20:28
Speaker 2: I used to go to moonshots, Dirk shiding, The ground
20:32
Speaker 2: is vibrating, the water in that lake is shimmering and shivering.
20:36
Speaker 2: But I'm asking myself a question from when I used
20:39
Speaker 2: to go to them back in the late sixties, fifty
20:42
Speaker 2: years later, what the hell have I benefited from any moonshots?
20:46
Speaker 2: And what will I benefit this one?
20:48
Speaker 1: You actually have benefited a lot from the space programs
20:51
Speaker 1: because they've invented a ton of stuff in the space
20:55
Speaker 1: programs that helped us later. That's where microwaves were invented,
20:59
Speaker 1: MRIs were in. There's a list you can go online
21:01
Speaker 1: and find it by like two hundred important inventions that
21:04
Speaker 1: came as a result of the space program. So that's now.
21:08
Speaker 1: Some people will argue that's in the sixties seventies. You
21:11
Speaker 1: don't really need that anymore because Silicon Valley and Apple
21:15
Speaker 1: and all the tech companies they're now doing stuff that
21:19
Speaker 1: comes out with all these inventions, so without Some people
21:22
Speaker 1: will argue, if you look at the last twenty years,
21:25
Speaker 1: more inventions have come from those tech companies than from
21:29
Speaker 1: the space program. I think the most fascinating thing is
21:32
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, seventies. You're watching the rocket take off the capsule.
21:36
Speaker 1: What it looks like, What the rocket looks like. It's
21:39
Speaker 1: a billion years later, it's twenty twenty six. I'm watching
21:41
Speaker 1: this just a little rocket looks exactly the same. It's
21:44
Speaker 1: the same looking capsule. Nothing changed in fifty years since
21:48
Speaker 1: the last time you went to the moon, same look
21:49
Speaker 1: of everything. You think it would look like a tesla
21:53
Speaker 1: or something. You think it would look entirely different. Now, Hey,
21:57
Speaker 1: when we come back, Steve Moore. We hope Steve Moore
22:01
Speaker 1: will be with us next lots to talk to him
22:03
Speaker 1: about what about these oil prices, gas prices, stock market.
22:06
Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that in a moment. On
22:08
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22:10
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22:17
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22:47
Speaker 8: Well? Happy?
22:48
Speaker 7: He stared everyone, And so we got to uh, I
22:51
Speaker 7: thought Trump was good last night. I think we are
22:53
Speaker 7: coming to the conclusion of the situation around and we're
22:57
Speaker 7: going to get those straights. So for moves open and
22:59
Speaker 7: when I happens, I'm here to tell you that the
23:01
Speaker 7: gas price will head back down to both to three
23:05
Speaker 7: dollars or less.
23:05
Speaker 8: Now.
23:06
Speaker 7: I know in New York area pay maybe a little
23:08
Speaker 7: bit more than that, but nationwide, I think we're going
23:11
Speaker 7: to see gas prices back down to three dollars now,
23:14
Speaker 7: and it'll take maybe a month. But this is a
23:18
Speaker 7: temporary situation, and we're going to see once we get
23:22
Speaker 7: that gas price back down, the economy is going to
23:24
Speaker 7: be roaring back to life.
23:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't get any oil from the straights HORM
23:29
Speaker 1: I mean really almost nothing. So the WTI and these
23:33
Speaker 1: people that just raise the price anyway, it just shows
23:37
Speaker 1: you how j are you and these guys are You
23:40
Speaker 1: can't trust these guys.
23:41
Speaker 8: Can you? Well, so what's going on?
23:44
Speaker 7: I get asked this question all the time.
23:46
Speaker 1: How come?
23:47
Speaker 7: I want to give you a few statistics. Number One,
23:50
Speaker 7: the United States is the number one oil and gas
23:52
Speaker 7: producer in the world. I don't know if you're aware
23:54
Speaker 7: of that, but we are. We produce more oil and
23:56
Speaker 7: gas than Saudi Arabia, than Russia, than Iran, than Venezuela,
24:01
Speaker 7: and so we're number one in the world. Number two,
24:03
Speaker 7: we are actually an oil and gas exporter. On that
24:06
Speaker 7: did you know that we export? We produce more oil
24:10
Speaker 7: and gas than we consume. That's about the first time
24:12
Speaker 7: in a long, long, long time that that's happened. And
24:15
Speaker 7: it's partly because the you know, the shale revolution and
24:19
Speaker 7: Trump's drill baby drill strategies. So then people ask, okay, well,
24:23
Speaker 7: if that's the case, why are we paying you know,
24:25
Speaker 7: one hundred dollars a barrel for oil. It's because it's
24:28
Speaker 7: a globally traded commodity, so the price is not set
24:31
Speaker 7: in any country. It's set by world demand and world
24:35
Speaker 7: supply and the fact that you know about you know,
24:37
Speaker 7: I think it's about twenty percent of the world's oil,
24:40
Speaker 7: maybe a little higher than that comes from the straits
24:43
Speaker 7: of Romus. You've got a supply chain problem. And when
24:45
Speaker 7: that happens, the price goes up. But my point is
24:49
Speaker 7: Mark that what goes up quickly can come down quickly.
24:52
Speaker 7: And when that happens, you're going to see the stock
24:55
Speaker 7: market roar back to life, and you're going to see prices. Now, look,
24:58
Speaker 7: we're going to get a lousy number for the consumer price.
25:01
Speaker 7: It'll probably come out in a week or two, and
25:04
Speaker 7: it's going to show, you know, a big increase in
25:07
Speaker 7: consumer prices because gas is higher, and when energy prices
25:11
Speaker 7: go up, price, if a lot of things go up.
25:13
Speaker 7: But I'm feeling pretty good that that's going to be
25:16
Speaker 7: a situation that is that has resolved because I want
25:20
Speaker 7: to get the economy booming, and it was remember twenty
25:22
Speaker 7: twenty five was a blockbuster. You're for the economy, as
25:25
Speaker 7: was Trump's first term.
25:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when the oil price, when it drops to
25:30
Speaker 1: sixty dollars a barrel, those oil company heads aren't that
25:32
Speaker 1: thrilled about that, are they? They kind of like it?
25:34
Speaker 8: High, of course they like it.
25:37
Speaker 7: I I mean, of course they do. If you have
25:40
Speaker 7: if you have a lemonade stand and nobody else says
25:42
Speaker 7: lemon lemonade, you're gonna make a lot of money, right,
25:45
Speaker 7: And so that's the way the free market works. But
25:47
Speaker 7: I'm afraid that we're going to try mark some of
25:50
Speaker 7: the stupid policies that Jimmy Carter put in place in
25:52
Speaker 7: the nineteen seventies. The last time we had a big
25:55
Speaker 7: oil spike up and that wasn't the last time, but
25:57
Speaker 7: one of the more recent times when the field remember
26:00
Speaker 7: the Iranian hostage situation at the embass and so on.
26:05
Speaker 7: But we had we had all these stupid policies that
26:09
Speaker 7: came out of Washington, including a what they call a
26:11
Speaker 7: windfall profits tax. Of the old companies says, oh no,
26:15
Speaker 7: you can't make money up. So guess what they stopped
26:16
Speaker 7: producing because they put in this, and so then the
26:19
Speaker 7: price wentn't even higher.
26:22
Speaker 1: The stock market. Uh, we always look to the stock market,
26:25
Speaker 1: what do they think? What are they? Aren't they really
26:27
Speaker 1: always overreacting to everything. They're not the best barometer of anything,
26:30
Speaker 1: are they?
26:32
Speaker 7: Well, it's it's compared to what you know, he's going
26:34
Speaker 7: to ask a bunch of economists on CNBC here. I mean,
26:38
Speaker 7: so I think that the it's probably the best forward
26:41
Speaker 7: looking barometer we have. But it, you know, it, it
26:44
Speaker 7: really moves, you know, still saying it moves on feed
26:47
Speaker 7: fear and greed that would drive the stock market, and
26:51
Speaker 7: right now the fear is prevailing. But look, we ive
26:55
Speaker 7: told you this many times. When I got started in
26:57
Speaker 7: this business, that doubt Jones was about a thousand. Now
27:00
Speaker 7: we're close to fifty thousand, so you know, we've had
27:03
Speaker 7: a nice run up. And look, the United States is
27:06
Speaker 7: in a such a great position to be the dominant country.
27:09
Speaker 7: We've got to keep being, you know, the dominant energy country.
27:12
Speaker 7: And more of the lessons of this is, by the way,
27:14
Speaker 7: let's produce so much oil and gas here at home
27:17
Speaker 7: that we don't have to worry about what's happening. And
27:20
Speaker 7: countries like Iran or Russia or remember that we saw
27:24
Speaker 7: big spike up when the Russians invaded Ukraine. You know that,
27:27
Speaker 7: y you know, so we we keep living through this
27:30
Speaker 7: and I want to disengage from a lot of these
27:33
Speaker 7: other countries by just making us energy self sufficient, which
27:36
Speaker 7: basically Trump is done.
27:37
Speaker 8: Yeah.
27:38
Speaker 1: Hey, Steve Moore, if you owned a restaurant and all
27:40
Speaker 1: of a sudden thirty percent of your customers stopped coming,
27:43
Speaker 1: you'd say, I got to change things. I got to
27:45
Speaker 1: make some cheap You got these blue cities where in
27:48
Speaker 1: New York, LA, everybody's moving out. Yes, why wouldn't the
27:51
Speaker 1: politicians say, hey, we better change something our tax policy
27:55
Speaker 1: or something.
27:57
Speaker 7: So this is a very big story. We've covered it
27:59
Speaker 7: in our hotline this morning, which is the three metro
28:04
Speaker 7: areas that have lost the most population since twenty twenty.
28:09
Speaker 7: You know what they are?
28:10
Speaker 1: I would say New York in LA.
28:12
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, And you know what the third one is
28:15
Speaker 7: my hometown Chicago. Yeah, So those are you know, and
28:19
Speaker 7: I look for for the last hundred years, those have
28:22
Speaker 7: been the three and the most important cities in the world.
28:25
Speaker 7: You know, New York was the financial capital, Los Angeles
28:28
Speaker 7: became the entertainment capital, Chicago was the commoditi's capital. And
28:32
Speaker 7: these are great, great cities and they're being destroyed by
28:37
Speaker 7: left wing socialist what is mon dom com'mself a democrat
28:42
Speaker 7: socialist whatever that means. Well, you know, how is it
28:46
Speaker 7: that such a great city like New York. Can the
28:49
Speaker 7: voters of New York really be that stupid? I mean,
28:51
Speaker 7: as I said in the Highline today, you wouldn't hire
28:53
Speaker 7: these people to change a light bulb. You know Brendan Johnson,
28:57
Speaker 7: the ones who's he's the mayor of Chicago. He's got
29:02
Speaker 7: a nice smile, just like Mondommie has a nice smile.
29:05
Speaker 7: He's a good speech. But it doesn't not to do anything.
29:08
Speaker 7: The same thing you know in California where the mayor
29:10
Speaker 7: they are allowed to burn baby burn. Remember it burned
29:13
Speaker 7: down all the areas of Los Angeles. So it's sad
29:17
Speaker 7: to me, it really is. It's leadership matters. And I remember,
29:21
Speaker 7: as you do, when Rudy Giuliani came in and within
29:24
Speaker 7: eighteen months he fixed the city.
29:26
Speaker 8: Remember that.
29:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, but the idea if you got rid of
29:29
Speaker 1: the tax, no state tax, no this tax, that the
29:32
Speaker 1: whole state would collapse. You wouldn't be able to fund anything.
29:34
Speaker 1: It would be terrible. We've tried it out in Florida
29:37
Speaker 1: and Texas and what were the rest exactly?
29:39
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean New York. So we mentioned the three
29:42
Speaker 7: cities that are you know, in the most rapid decline
29:45
Speaker 7: and now you know, here's the thing. It's kind of amazing.
29:49
Speaker 7: San Antonio and Austin, Texas or two of the fastest
29:55
Speaker 7: growing cities in America. They are When you and I
30:00
Speaker 7: were growing up, they were kind of sleepy southern, small
30:02
Speaker 7: southern towns. And how did you know Austin and San
30:05
Speaker 7: Antonio are both in the top ten of cities in
30:08
Speaker 7: the country.
30:08
Speaker 1: What, oh my god, wow?
30:11
Speaker 8: And with no tax amazing.
30:13
Speaker 7: So no income taxes. Yeah, and that is because they
30:17
Speaker 7: have no income tacks that are growing. And then you've
30:19
Speaker 7: got places like uh, I was just in Naples, Florida,
30:22
Speaker 7: one of the fastest growing cities. You know, Tampa is booming.
30:26
Speaker 7: So gee, what are all these cities have a common? Oh,
30:28
Speaker 7: they have no income tax. What are the cities they
30:30
Speaker 7: have the highest income taxt oh, Los Angeles and New York.
30:34
Speaker 1: So when the mayor says, or any of these democrats
30:37
Speaker 1: rich should start paying their fair share, what is there?
30:41
Speaker 1: What is their fair share? I think they're already paying
30:43
Speaker 1: more than it, aren't they?
30:45
Speaker 8: Well, it's overall they do.
30:47
Speaker 7: But you know what's happened in these states like California,
30:51
Speaker 7: Washington State, others that are looking at these these wealth taxes. Now,
30:55
Speaker 7: guess what the wealth wealthy move they moved to. You know, see,
30:59
Speaker 7: how is going to be see a big decline if
31:02
Speaker 7: they passed that, uh, that wealth tax in California, it
31:06
Speaker 7: is going to be uh it's just a sprint out
31:09
Speaker 7: of the state. But do you see you know, uh,
31:12
Speaker 7: Elizabeth Warren has a solution to this. You know what
31:14
Speaker 7: her solution is, no tax everybody in the country.
31:18
Speaker 8: Let's have a federal you know.
31:20
Speaker 9: Now there are there were.
31:21
Speaker 7: Eleven European countries that had wealth taxes, and ten of
31:24
Speaker 7: the eleven have repealed them because they don't work.
31:26
Speaker 1: But they but liberals ne for Lauren Unbelievad.
31:30
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31:30
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31:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, he said exactly what I just said on your
31:46
Speaker 7: show that you know, if these states keep taxing the rich,
31:48
Speaker 7: the rich are going to be gone.
31:51
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:52
Speaker 7: So, uh he's pretty rich himself, by the way.
31:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, great stuff, and everybody to get your book.
32:00
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32:06
Speaker 7: It's a red state, Blue State book about exactly what
32:10
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32:12
Speaker 7: states and this in a condition of such decline and
32:17
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32:20
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32:22
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33:23
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the mayor keeps saying that we're so broke.
33:26
Speaker 1: We got we gotta raise taxes, we gotta do this.
33:30
Speaker 1: I just cut the budget. Cut the budget. It's way
33:33
Speaker 1: too much. Our budget is double the budget of Florida,
33:37
Speaker 1: and Florida is a bigger state with a bigger population.
33:40
Speaker 1: So but now they're looking at money making schemes. For instance,
33:44
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Bridge. Now, did you ever notice under the
33:48
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bridge It seems to be something under there big. Well,
33:54
Speaker 1: it turns out there are vaults, in their big vaults
33:57
Speaker 1: underneath the book Brooklyn Bridge. And in those vaults there's
34:00
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand square feet of space. That's a lot of space.
34:05
Speaker 1: Thirteen thousand square feet is huge. So what are they
34:08
Speaker 1: doing there. They've been storing city vehicles in there. They've
34:13
Speaker 1: turned it into like just a parking garage, which is
34:15
Speaker 1: not necessary. The city has plenty of parkings all over
34:18
Speaker 1: the place. So the new plan now is to get
34:21
Speaker 1: those cars out of there and turn that space into
34:27
Speaker 1: rental vaults. You can, in the words, you're can rent
34:29
Speaker 1: a vault underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. They'll break them up
34:32
Speaker 1: into units, kind of like storage units, but bigger, fancier.
34:37
Speaker 1: And they think they've looked at this. They think they'll
34:41
Speaker 1: make about seventeen million a year off this space renting
34:44
Speaker 1: an out to people. Seventeen million a year, and that
34:47
Speaker 1: would start probably by the end of the year. So
34:50
Speaker 1: it's a good idea. I mean, nobody really I actually
34:53
Speaker 1: was in two thousand and one, I think it was
34:55
Speaker 1: right after nine to eleven they closed up that space
35:00
Speaker 1: and just put city vehicles in there. They used to
35:02
Speaker 1: use it for art shows. It used to be a
35:05
Speaker 1: pretty good space. So they want to bring that back
35:08
Speaker 1: and get that seventeen million yere. Now we got a
35:12
Speaker 1: city council speaker who's very very, very common sense, not
35:16
Speaker 1: a crazy left wing cook like mom Donnie. So Mam
35:20
Speaker 1: Donnie wants to raise taxes, budget shortfalls. She wants to
35:23
Speaker 1: cut the budget, which is what you should do. We
35:26
Speaker 1: probably half that budget is total waist fraud bloat. She
35:30
Speaker 1: wants to cut two billion out of the budget. Just
35:34
Speaker 1: cut two billion of it right there, And she's identified
35:37
Speaker 1: where you could do it. You'd save a lot of money.
35:39
Speaker 1: Great idea. Now, of course, Mom, Donnie going crazy. He
35:43
Speaker 1: won't do that.
35:44
Speaker 5: Speaker Menon's preliminary budget proposal would result in slashing billions
35:49
Speaker 5: of dollars from agency budgets, which would force the city
35:53
Speaker 5: to cut services, double counting previously identified savings, overestimating revenue,
36:00
Speaker 5: an exaggerating debt. Service savings does nothing to close a deficit.
36:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you talk about services, it's waste, fraud, bloat.
36:08
Speaker 1: I mean, the services stink everywhere. Even the money we
36:12
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36:16
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