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

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  Speaker 1: Now on The Voice of New York, it's the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone Show on.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR. Hey, it's Wednesday, middle of the week already. A
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  Speaker 2: lot to get to today. It's a terrible, terrible, terrible anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: October 7th. We'll look back at that. It's a happy
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  Speaker 2: anniversary for Fox News. 30th anniversary today. We'll take a
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  Speaker 2: look back at the beginnings of Fox News. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to the Yankees. Tonight is the third game. They lost
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  Speaker 2: the first two. They've got to win three in a
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  Speaker 2: row to stay in this. They're not going to win
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  Speaker 2: three in a row. They're up against the best team
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  Speaker 2: in baseball. They'll be back at Yankee Stadium tonight. It's
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  Speaker 2: a home field advantage. I don't know how much that means.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't look good. We'll get to crazy Mayor Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to President Trump. He's going to get on
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  Speaker 2: the phone with Vladimir Putin. They're going to discuss this
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  Speaker 2: plague outbreak in Russia. Now, we went through this about
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  Speaker 2: six years ago with this virus that was in Wuhan, China,
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  Speaker 2: thinking it would stay local. It started to spread around China.
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  Speaker 2: So we... This plague came from the same thing, came
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  Speaker 2: from a lab. A test tube broke. A lab worker
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  Speaker 2: got it on him. He's in the hospital. Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 2: is on top of this.
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  Speaker 1: We encourage Russia to be transparent and share more information
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  Speaker 1: with the world so that all of us could react
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  Speaker 1: accordingly and appropriately. But we'll have to make those decisions
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  Speaker 1: on the basis of the information that we're learning and
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  Speaker 1: are being provided. And so far, that's still quite limited.
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  Speaker 2: If you're depending on Russia to be transparent, you got
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  Speaker 2: a problem there. As I say, President Trump will call Putin.
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  Speaker 2: They will speak. Very deep discussions, he says. There was
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  Speaker 2: a lab technician who died on Friday in a hospital.
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  Speaker 2: The illness is pretty serious. She died after reportedly breaking
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  Speaker 2: the test tube containing this deadly pathogen, got her infected.
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  Speaker 2: There's been significant concern that she may have died from
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  Speaker 2: pneumonic plague. which can spread from person to person, not good.
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  Speaker 2: Not good.
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  Speaker 1: Suffice it to say we're watching it very closely, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the whole world is watching it very closely,
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  Speaker 1: because depending on what we learn about it, we would
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  Speaker 1: know how to respond.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, you've got to prevent another Wuhan virus,
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  Speaker 2: another one of those from spreading. October 7th, three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: was the most horrible day awful genocide, Holocaust, terrorist attack,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, launched by Hamas on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of the Palestinians. It was a horrible, horrible, horrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: Just the most brutal, ugly, you know, there's a documentary
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  Speaker 2: that was made about it that contains some of the
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  Speaker 2: graphic footage. If you watched all the news coverage, you
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen the really graphic footage, the really, really, unbelievably
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  Speaker 2: ugly stuff that happened there. This documentary is about 40
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  Speaker 2: minutes long. They would like Mamdani to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: The producer and the ambassador is asking Mamdani to sit
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  Speaker 2: there and watch it. They think if he were to
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  Speaker 2: watch this, he would understand. I think they're a little naive,
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  Speaker 2: guys like Mamdani, The left wing with the anti-Semitism, it's
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  Speaker 2: so deeply embedded into them. There is nothing, nothing that's
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  Speaker 2: going to change their mind, no matter how horrible it
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  Speaker 2: is to watch, no matter how awful it looks. They
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  Speaker 2: just think to themselves that it was justified, that it
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  Speaker 2: had to be done on behalf of Hamas. And now
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  Speaker 2: there's no indication that Mamdani will watch this documentary. It's
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  Speaker 2: 47 minutes long, but it goes, it's actual footage. that
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  Speaker 2: was shot by Hamas terrorists. They had GoPro cameras they
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  Speaker 2: were wearing. So you could actually see the brutal, disgusting slaughter,
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  Speaker 2: the raping of women, the killing of babies. It's all
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  Speaker 2: in there. Will Mamdani watch it? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. And there's no change in his mind.
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  Speaker 2: You know, October 7th unleashed a wave of anti-Semitism. You
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  Speaker 2: would think after such a brutal, unbelievable change, terrorist attack,
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  Speaker 2: that the world would unite behind Israel, just like after 9-11,
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  Speaker 2: they united behind the United States for 10 minutes, but
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  Speaker 2: they did. But instead, it somehow unleashed this anti-Semitism that
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  Speaker 2: was under the surface on the left, on much of
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  Speaker 2: the left. And I hate to say it, but in
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  Speaker 2: the three years, this anti-Semitism has become acceptable to in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of places all over the world and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of countries and a lot of the United States
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  Speaker 2: among the left. It's just the ugliest thing, but it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's happened. So that's three years ago today. Mamdani will
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  Speaker 2: go to a vigil tonight to honor the dead from, uh,
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  Speaker 2: October 7th. Now he does these kinds of things where
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  Speaker 2: you think he's doing the right thing, where you think
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  Speaker 2: he's turning on this, uh, You know, he'll do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing, like he signed that anti-terrorist bill the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Then he hands the pen to the lawyer for the terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: So he always does the right thing or appears to
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  Speaker 2: do the right thing and then does something awful at
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  Speaker 2: the end of it. Now, he's going to do that tonight.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to go to this vigil for the Israelis
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  Speaker 2: killed on October 7th, but then he's going to a
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian event. It's his way of doing something to signal
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  Speaker 2: the haters and then He goes right the opposite way
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  Speaker 2: to signal his base. Don't worry, I don't really mean it.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Mondani, you're going to hear these crime numbers
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  Speaker 2: all over the place. Crime is the lowest in history.
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  Speaker 2: They're talking only about shootings. Shootings are down. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: in the numbers, it looks like they may be at
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  Speaker 2: the lowest point ever. Shootings. But subway crime is up. Robbery, up.
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  Speaker 2: Hate crimes up dramatically. There's a spike in all of
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  Speaker 2: these things. So shooting is down, but they kind of just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, generalize. You'll just hear the lowest crime numbers
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  Speaker 2: in history. They're talking about shooting. Not crime, not subway crime,
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  Speaker 2: not robbery, which is the stuff most people have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about. Here's Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, from January until the end of August, our
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  Speaker 3: city recorded 5,000 fewer reported crimes than it did through
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  Speaker 3: the same eight months in 2025. I want to put
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  Speaker 3: that into percentages. Major crime is down 6.6% across the
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  Speaker 3: five boroughs, with the largest drop in the Bronx, which
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  Speaker 3: has recorded 2,400 fewer crimes this year compared to last.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, most of it is shooting, though. Subway crime is up.
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  Speaker 3: Our subway system recorded zero rapes, shooting incidents, or shooting
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  Speaker 3: victims throughout the entire month of August. In August, we
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  Speaker 3: made history with the fewest robberies on transit ever recorded
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  Speaker 3: in that month. And we've achieved these record lows as
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  Speaker 3: ridership reaches highs not seen since the pandemic, with nearly
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  Speaker 3: 4.7 million New Yorkers riding the subway on a Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: last month.
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  Speaker 2: But overall, subway crime up, and he's not even mentioning
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  Speaker 2: the spike in hate crime. It's pretty bad. President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: speaking to reporters, there's a reporter from Bloomberg. Bloomberg is
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  Speaker 2: a very biased, slanted left-wing news organization. And they're asking
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  Speaker 2: him about the Wall Street Journal. President Trump, no filter.
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  Speaker 3: What is the Wall Street Journal now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm meeting with them tomorrow. What is the Wall Street Journal?
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  Speaker 2: They've been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: You've been wrong about it.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to turn this. You're trying to turn this.
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  Speaker 3: You've been wrong about it.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're trying to turn this into debate.
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  Speaker 3: There are business people. You're wrong. You've been wrong all
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  Speaker 3: your life on this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to turn this into a debate. What's the debate?
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  Speaker 2: You have been wrong. You can check the records. Pretty simple.
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  Speaker 2: How come you're not talking about the riots in France? Well,
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  Speaker 2: because that's not news. That's pretty much normal. Every so often,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a yearly event in France. Riots, boycotts, worker
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  Speaker 2: strike happens all the time. This time, it is escalating, though,
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  Speaker 2: in France. Police fired tear gas, 6,100 arrests. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: bad over there. But again, it's something they do in France.
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  Speaker 2: It's like their national pastime, these riots, this worker strike
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  Speaker 2: and boycott of everything. It's pretty bad this time. President
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  Speaker 2: Trump saying that much of it is due to they
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of illegals in there. They got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of migrants that have shown up. And it's added
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  Speaker 2: to the numbers. So they love this stuff, striking, boycotting, picketing. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: this Krista Pike, this is the woman who was executed.
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  Speaker 2: Two lethal injections. She survived both of them. She's in
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. She's wide awake. She's speaking. She's talking. Krista
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  Speaker 2: Pike survived both lethal injections. Actually, I think she's the
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  Speaker 2: first person in history to survive two lethal injections. And
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  Speaker 2: she's conscious. She's speaking to everybody. She's getting medical care.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to be in the hospital for a while.
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  Speaker 2: But she's awake and talking. MSNBC is calling her, trying
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  Speaker 2: to sign her up as a correspondent or something. But
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  Speaker 2: she's 50 years old. Now, she was in such a
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  Speaker 2: weird medical condition, her lawyers kept warning the state that
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  Speaker 2: her veins were all screwed up, that her veins were
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  Speaker 2: all clogged, her veins were all tiny, and that the
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  Speaker 2: lethal injection would not get through her veins and kill her.
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  Speaker 2: She had a choice. Believe it or not, you get
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  Speaker 2: a choice between being electrocuted or not. She chose the
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  Speaker 2: lethal injection. Who knows? Maybe she knew with her veins
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't work. So she was rushed to the hospital,
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  Speaker 2: been there for days and days and days. She's handcuffed, shackled,
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  Speaker 2: you know, handcuffed to the bed. Despite the severe damage
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  Speaker 2: she endured to her arms, she's still handcuffed. Her recovery,
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  Speaker 2: they say, is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear, but
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  Speaker 2: they expect a long, slow recovery. Now, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: They would probably want to execute her again, but you
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  Speaker 2: can't until she recovers. And under the law, if she's
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  Speaker 2: not totally coherent, you can't execute her. She has to
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  Speaker 2: be totally coherent. There's something in the law where they
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to know what's going on, and
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  Speaker 2: they have to be able to speak and defend themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So she could just pretend to not be too coherent
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  Speaker 2: and avoid execution that way. The price of gas, hang on,
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  Speaker 2: let me check. Price of oil, yeah, it's down to $ 89.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big drop from where it was, and it'll
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  Speaker 2: keep dropping as we get more and more oil coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the straight of our moose every day. But
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that, when it's $ 4. 50 at the pump,
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  Speaker 2: You know, like $ 1. 50 of that is taxes. It could
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  Speaker 2: be $ 3 a gallon if it got rid of all
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  Speaker 2: this gas tax. Like in New York, the gas tax
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  Speaker 2: in New York, just the New York State gas tax,
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  Speaker 2: 75 cents a gallon. But President Trump now saying he's
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  Speaker 2: considering suspending federal gas tax. Just suspend it. Just take
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  Speaker 2: off the federal gas tax, and that would drop it
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  Speaker 2: a lot. Federal gas tax is about 20 cents a gallon.
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  Speaker 2: For diesel, it's about 25 cents a gallon. One reason
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  Speaker 2: to do that, it would encourage the states to do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. So if the state and federal tax
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  Speaker 2: were taken off gas, the price would drop a dollar
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  Speaker 2: a gallon here. Dollar a gallon, which would help a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people. So I just heard that on the news.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's autumn. It's really autumn. The skating rink
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  Speaker 2: opens next week. The Rockefeller Center rink will be open.
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  Speaker 2: This is happening too fast. It was just summer. It's
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  Speaker 2: happening really fast. Passengers were on a United Airlines flight. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you go to the airport, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're so afraid there's going to be delays. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be stuck. It's going to not take off on time.
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  Speaker 2: You could be sitting there for an hour or two.
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  Speaker 2: Passengers on this United Airlines flight had a brutal 12-hour
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  Speaker 2: delay A 12-hour delay. Passengers were grounded by one thing
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  Speaker 2: after another. There was a cockpit malfunction. Took a while
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  Speaker 2: to fix that. Then they had a severe thunderstorm. Took
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  Speaker 2: a while to fix that. Then something else happened. It's
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  Speaker 2: one thing after another. It's a 12-hour delay. And then,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, after a certain number of hours,
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  Speaker 2: there's a regulation, union rules, that the crew has to
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  Speaker 2: be changed. The crew can't work anymore. There's no rule
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  Speaker 2: that they can't keep you sitting there for 10 hours,
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  Speaker 2: 11 hours, but you can't do that to the crew.
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  Speaker 2: So they, well, I guess it's important because you want
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  Speaker 2: the crew alert when they're flying the plane. But then
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  Speaker 2: after about 10 hours, sorry, we have to, the crew
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  Speaker 2: has to go. They can't be held here anymore. So
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  Speaker 2: they have to find a new crew to come in
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  Speaker 2: and take over the plane. And that takes them a
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  Speaker 2: couple hours. So it was a 12 hour delay. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: I guess they just canceled the flight after. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine sitting there 12 hours? A lot of it was
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  Speaker 2: on the plane. Then they made everybody get off the plane,
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  Speaker 2: sit in the airport. But 12 hours of this, and
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  Speaker 2: then they canceled the flight. There was also a faulty
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  Speaker 2: door seal. Then there was a mishap with the plane's
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  Speaker 2: pushback tug that played a... It's one thing after another.
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  Speaker 2: That was United Airlines. Give them credit for it. United Airlines. So, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: 30th birthday of Fox News today. We'll take a look at...
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  Speaker 2: the beginnings of fox news it was 30 years ago
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  Speaker 2: you remember and nobody nobody knew what it was it
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  Speaker 2: was now it's the number one cable news channel but
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  Speaker 2: at the time nobody had ever heard of it and
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't really on anywhere there was a manhattan cable
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  Speaker 2: back then this is before spectrum and optimum and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff but they wouldn't run it and rudy giuliani
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  Speaker 2: was uh was he still yeah he was the mayor
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  Speaker 2: at the time and he pushed and pushed and pushed
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  Speaker 2: to get fox news on And it started very slowly.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity was one of the originals. Britt Hume was
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  Speaker 2: one of the originals. Bill O'Reilly was one of the originals.
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  Speaker 2: Became the big star there along with Sean. And then
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  Speaker 2: one by one, it slowly grew. It took a while.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll go back to the beginning. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: some of the originals coming up a little later. The
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  Speaker 2: Emmy Awards. Huh. Moving to Amazon Prime. The Emmy Awards
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  Speaker 2: always been on network television for seven decades. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: since 1955, it's been on every network. It was on
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  Speaker 2: NBC for years, CBS, ABC. That's it. Leaving network TV.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to Amazon. Now, Amazon says they'll make it free.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to pay for a subscription to Prime Video.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a big deal. Network TV is dying.
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  Speaker 2: Very small audience now. You know, a primetime TV show,
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  Speaker 2: Law & Order, one of these primetime shows, used to
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  Speaker 2: easily get 40 million viewers. Now they're lucky if they
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  Speaker 2: get 3 million. I mean, the numbers are way, way
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  Speaker 2: down on television and especially network television. Way down. So
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  Speaker 2: something like the Oscars used to do 100 million people.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're lucky if they can hit 10 million. And
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  Speaker 2: the only thing keeping television alive Oscars, Emmys, that sort
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. But really, it's sports. It's NFL, Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the playoff games, some of those were getting 30,
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  Speaker 2: 40 million. That's the only time network TV really comes alive.
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  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes doing pretty well. Actually, they had their biggest
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night of the season this past Sunday night. 60
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  Speaker 2: Minutes got 10 million viewers. Still not like the old days.
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  Speaker 2: The old days, they would get 60 million. But 10
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  Speaker 2: million is huge. It would make it the number one
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  Speaker 2: show on television. So one by one, The streaming services
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  Speaker 2: will steal everything from network TV. The award shows, they're
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  Speaker 2: already doing a few of the sports stuff, a few
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  Speaker 2: of the games. Once they steal it all, once they
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  Speaker 2: break those network sports contracts and get that, that's the
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  Speaker 2: end of network TV. Hey, we've got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: get to. It's Mark Simone here. Three hours every day,
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  Speaker 2: 9 to noon. Three hours, 9 to noon here on 710WOR.