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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent ten
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  Speaker 1: war A lot of good stuff to get to today,
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  Speaker 1: lots good talk about. We'll get to President Trump. He's
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  Speaker 1: just done a very lengthy CNBC interview which is driving
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  Speaker 1: the left nuts. We'll get to Oh, I forgot about
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  Speaker 1: this major major shakeup in the Trump administration. Get that
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  Speaker 1: in a second. We'll get to Iran. The talks will
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  Speaker 1: resume today, Iran confirming they will be there at the
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  Speaker 1: bargaining table. We'll get to Obama and what the hell
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  Speaker 1: is he up to right now? We'll get to mister
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  Speaker 1: met again. We'll get to Hochel, Bruce Blakeman, who should
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  Speaker 1: be the next governor. We'll get to crazy Mom, Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: and a whole lot more. Let me just clear this up.
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  Speaker 1: If you've been watching the news NBCCBSABC, if you're reading
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times, if you're using that crazy fake
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  Speaker 1: news left wing media which is just about everything now,
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  Speaker 1: you would have seen the headline major shakeup in the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration, A major shakeup. Well, the major shakeup is
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  Speaker 1: what the hell's her name? Uh, resignation of Lori Chavez.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you say it. Diremer Derimer. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know her name. This is the major shakeup.
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  Speaker 1: She's actually the labor secretary, which is the one of
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  Speaker 1: the least important cabinet jobs. But she has resigned. And
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  Speaker 1: if this what's today Tuesday. If on Sunday you said
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  Speaker 1: to all of these newspeople, who's Lori's Chavez Drimmor, they
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  Speaker 1: would go huh, who huh? Nobody ever heard of her.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a major shakeup, major shakeup. She uh was
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  Speaker 1: the labor secretary. She got in a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: There was a whistleblower that filed all these complaints and
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  Speaker 1: it turned out it was true that she was drinking
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  Speaker 1: an office during working hours. According to all of this,
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  Speaker 1: according to the investigation, created a hostile work environment. She
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  Speaker 1: was pursuing an extra marital affair with the security guard.
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  Speaker 1: Well he's labor, I guess. The complaint also said she
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  Speaker 1: committed travel fraud by a lot of the aids, chief
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  Speaker 1: of staff and deputies were make up these official trips
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  Speaker 1: that weren't actually official. There were the destinations where there
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  Speaker 1: were family vacations or just plain vacations on the taxpayer's dime.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're watching the news, major shakeup. Nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: heard of this woman. The day before, not one of
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  Speaker 1: you newspeople ever said, let's try to get an interview
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  Speaker 1: with Lori Chavez de rim Or. Nobody ever heard of her.
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  Speaker 1: Now you said, well, yeah, but Trump, why would Trump? Uh? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I looked into that. Where the hell did she come from?
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  Speaker 1: It was actually the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Teamster's president
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  Speaker 1: Shaw O'Brien had recommended her to Trump, in fact, had
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  Speaker 1: encouraged Trump to nominate. And it's again, it's not the
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  Speaker 1: biggest cabinet post. You can really put just about anybody
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  Speaker 1: in there. Do you know any labor secretaries that have
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  Speaker 1: stood out? Who's that little guy? Robert Reich? Wasn't he
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  Speaker 1: a labor secretary? Again, it's a job where you just
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  Speaker 1: stick somebody. So forget the major shakeup now. Iran talks
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  Speaker 1: will continue today. Iran has confirmed they will send a delegation.
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  Speaker 1: There will be peace talks today. Steve Whitkoff, Jared Kushner,
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  Speaker 1: I think Vice President Vance and our team are there
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  Speaker 1: over there now in Islamabad, Pakistan. You ever see the
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  Speaker 1: life Jared Kushner lives in Miami, lives in this spectacular
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  Speaker 1: mansion Miami, fun and son and glamour and fun. He's
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  Speaker 1: running a massive real estate empire. He's a billionaire. He's
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  Speaker 1: having the time of his Life's got a beautiful way.
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  Speaker 1: Who the hell would want to give all this up
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  Speaker 1: and sit on a plane for twenty hours to get
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  Speaker 1: to Islamabad, Pakistan to sit in the Islama biod Pakistan
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  Speaker 1: hotel ballroom for twelve hours talking to a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: crazy Iranian negotiating. Who would want to do this? But
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  Speaker 1: that's what he enjoys. Some people like pickleball. He likes
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  Speaker 1: this talking to crazy Iranians at a bargaining table. So
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  Speaker 1: the talks will continue today. Iran making all their usual threats,
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  Speaker 1: they have now said they are prepared to reveal new
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  Speaker 1: cards on the battlefield. They have some secret new thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: so far we took out all their major stuff, all
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  Speaker 1: their real weapons, and now they're down to what they
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  Speaker 1: call these mosquito boats. They're little, tiny speed boats with dynamite.
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  Speaker 1: If a ship is trying to come through the strait,
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  Speaker 1: they'll zoom out from a cave and try to hit
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  Speaker 1: the ship with a bomb. But they're not that effective.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of that, I don't know what they have now
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  Speaker 1: we do know. It turns out, you know, we took
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  Speaker 1: out all their rockets and missile launchers and that sort
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. It turns out that they did bury underground
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  Speaker 1: long before all this started. They buried a lot of
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  Speaker 1: missile launchers and rockets to have in reserve in case
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  Speaker 1: we blew up everything. They could dig those out. So
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  Speaker 1: they're in the process of digging out those rockets and
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  Speaker 1: missile launchers. Now we watched carefully, as does Israel, with
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  Speaker 1: satellite photos of all this stuff. So I guess if
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  Speaker 1: we see them digging out something, we'll blow up the
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  Speaker 1: spot before they even get it out. We are blockading
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  Speaker 1: the straight of hor Moves, and we did take out
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  Speaker 1: one of There was a tanker that tried to come
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  Speaker 1: through the blockade, and if you watch the way the
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  Speaker 1: US handled it, it was pretty amazing. It was the Tusca,
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  Speaker 1: an Iranian flagged tanker ship, a vessel that tried to
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  Speaker 1: cross the blockade and it went right through it. We
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  Speaker 1: then went after the ship. We hit it with a missile.
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  Speaker 1: The first missile went right through the engine room, completely
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  Speaker 1: disabled the ship completely disabled. Were one shot. Our helicopters
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  Speaker 1: flew right to the ship US Marines repelled down under
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  Speaker 1: the ship took total control of it immediately. This all
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  Speaker 1: happened in a second President Trump putting out a statement
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  Speaker 1: saying that right now US Marines have custody of this vessel.
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  Speaker 1: It violated the sanctions US Treasury sanctions, and because of
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  Speaker 1: their prior history of illegal activity, we have taken full
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  Speaker 1: custody of the ship and everything on it. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's going to try crossing that blockade again.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll happen today. The other thing will happen today
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  Speaker 1: is Kevin Walsh is the nominee for the new FED chairman,
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to have hearings today, and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see all hell break loose in these hearings. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you got to remember Republicans, they're not very good at hearings.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know what to do. But these Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: brilliant in hearings. They know how to create viral video.
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  Speaker 1: They huff and puff and yell and scream and they
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  Speaker 1: carry on. Makes for quite a show. You'll be seeing
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  Speaker 1: this all over the place. The star will be Elizabeth Warren.
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  Speaker 1: She will yell and scream at Kevin wars She's a
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  Speaker 1: very good guy. He's a quiet guy. He's perfectly qualified
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  Speaker 1: as to be the FED chairman. There were a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of choices. There was Kevin Hassett, and there was Scott Bessett,
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  Speaker 1: but they're needed in the White House, more valuable in
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  Speaker 1: the White House. So it came down to Kevin Warresh.
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  Speaker 1: Who's a great choice. He'll be fine. They're gonna yell
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  Speaker 1: and scream, Elizabeth Warren, You're gonna see it tonight all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. She'll call them all kinds of names.
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  Speaker 1: She's gonna yell and scream about. He's in the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 1: Does nothing bad nothing. Everybody's in the Epstein files. Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Warren is mentioned four hundred times in the Epstein Files.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he had anything to do with Epstein. I'm
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  Speaker 1: mentioned six times in the Epstein files. I have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with the guy. It happens all the time,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll happen. He's a wealthy guy. He's worth about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million, married to a wealthy woman, wealthy family.
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  Speaker 1: So she'll yell and scream about that. They'll argue about
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  Speaker 1: FED independence. That must be totally independent. It doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be that independent. There is a Republican Tom Tillis,
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  Speaker 1: who is vowed to block the nomination. Here's the problem
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  Speaker 1: with all of that, there could be a deadlock twelve
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  Speaker 1: to twelve. His problem is he wants the federal government
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  Speaker 1: to drop the probe against Jerome Powell. The president in
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  Speaker 1: the fighting with Jerome Powell. His administration has started to
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  Speaker 1: investigate Powell. He's probably not a crook. It's probably not
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  Speaker 1: something you need to investigate. But even if he's not
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  Speaker 1: a crook, well maybe he should investigate. What happened was
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  Speaker 1: they built the new fed building. Trump is an absolute
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  Speaker 1: world class expert on this stuff. Looked over the building,
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  Speaker 1: went through it and said, this is about maybe eight
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred million worth of stuff here. They spent something
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  Speaker 1: like three billions, so where'd the other two billion go?
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  Speaker 1: That's worth an investigation. You don't have to pers investigate Powell.
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  Speaker 1: That maybe broad the investigation out a little. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on that today. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: hard to believe. Tim Cook took over from Steve Jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Cook has been the chairman of Apple for I
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  Speaker 1: thought a few years. It turns out it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of years. Tim Cook is now sixty five. He's reached
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  Speaker 1: retirement age. It's hard to believe. Boy, time really goes by.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO September one. He's
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  Speaker 1: sixty five already and stepping down. Wow, So he'll transition
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  Speaker 1: to the role of executive chairman. They've picked the new CEO.
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  Speaker 1: It's John Turnus. He's fifty, been at Apple for like
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years, and he's a real hardware guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: very good at the hardware, and that's really Apple's main
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  Speaker 1: business is hardware creating devices. He was very, very big
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  Speaker 1: and crucial on the development of the iPhone and all
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  Speaker 1: of so, and give Tim Cook credit. When Tim Cook
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  Speaker 1: took over as chairman, the company was worth three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty billion. Today it's worth four trillion. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good run. That's not bad at all. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know you got the Swallwell, you got these congressmen,
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  Speaker 1: the sexual harassment, rape charge, all this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all these kind of shenanigans. There's a Republican two that's
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  Speaker 1: got some problems. So there's a Senate Ethics Committee, which
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  Speaker 1: is basically a fake thing. You know they always you remember, now,
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  Speaker 1: Franklin got in a trouble. He was very proud to say,
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  Speaker 1: I've turned it right over to the Senate Ethics Committee.
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  Speaker 1: I want them to investigate. Well, the Senate Ethics Committee,
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  Speaker 1: when they investigate, they'll investigate, but they do nothing about it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Franken and others love to have it go
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  Speaker 1: to the Senate Ethics Committee because even if they find
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff, all they do is send you a letter.
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  Speaker 1: You just get a letter. It's like a warning. That's
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  Speaker 1: all it is. But there's been a push to have
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  Speaker 1: them release who they've been investigating through the years, who
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  Speaker 1: had a real sexual harassment, rape, all kinds of misconduct,
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  Speaker 1: who had Well, they released it it was twenty eight names.
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  Speaker 1: There's twenty eight senators they've had to investigate. I mean
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of bad stuff. Democrats win with fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans had twelve. I know, you say, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't add up to twenty eight. Well, some of
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  Speaker 1: them had multiple investigations. Remember I'll see Hastings, Democrat from Florida.
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  Speaker 1: He got investigated a few times a few different incidents
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  Speaker 1: through the years. So pretty bad stuff. Now the Mets
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  Speaker 1: play later today. I think it's tonight seven o'clock. The
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  Speaker 1: Mets are and eleven. They've just all lost eleven games
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  Speaker 1: in a row, and some people believe it's the curse.
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  Speaker 1: This mister met who's cute a missus Met too, I think,
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  Speaker 1: And they walk around they were up here in our
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  Speaker 1: hallways and they see you. They wave and they shake
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  Speaker 1: your hand. That's about it. When it was Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: they're hugging him and kissing him. It was so this
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  Speaker 1: went very very viral. Friend Sid Rosenberg started it and
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  Speaker 1: went super viral, and then he put a curse on it,
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  Speaker 1: like the Sid curse, and others put the curse on him,
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  Speaker 1: and it seems to have worked. Since that day, the
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  Speaker 1: Mets have lost eleven in a row. That's a long streak.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the longest. I think that's the longest
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  Speaker 1: streak in twenty years. And tonight they play again. Will
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  Speaker 1: it be twelve games in a row. I don't bet it.
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  Speaker 1: Will I bet they lose twelve in a row. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're now the last place, Mets. They're in the last place.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what you do about this. It's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this would be a hell of a coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: The hugging and kissing Mom Donnie. Next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you lose eleven in a row, could be twelve in
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  Speaker 1: a row. What do you do about it? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe have have Curtis come down. He was the Republican candidate.
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  Speaker 1: Have Curtis come down and hug him. Uh, And then
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  Speaker 1: you could, I guess you'd have to have Cuomo to
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  Speaker 1: THEDI nobody wants to hug Cuomo. And who knows. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he gets a little touchy feely there, missus met You
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  Speaker 1: better stay back a little, but we'll see tonight. Keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on that game. Hey, Bruce Blakeman has a
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  Speaker 1: great new ad out. It's kind of visual, you got
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  Speaker 1: to really see it. But he's going after Kathy Hochel
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  Speaker 1: and you know, she's just awful, just terrible, And I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of ads. There's so many things
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  Speaker 1: you can get her for. But one of the first
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  Speaker 1: was when it comes to taxes. I don't think Mom,
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  Speaker 1: Donnie or Hokele understands anything about how we tax people
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  Speaker 1: or how we collect taxes. You know, they love to
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  Speaker 1: yell and screen tax to billionaires pay their fair share.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they're just lying, but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they know. I don't think they've ever looked at the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: These wealthy billionaires pay most of the tax. They pay
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  Speaker 1: way beyond their fair share. You know, the top one
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  Speaker 1: percent pays like forty percent of our taxes. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of ridiculous. I mean, they basically pay it all. Without them,
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  Speaker 1: you got nothing. They overpay like crazy, and that's good,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe they should they can afford to. But right
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  Speaker 1: now they're overpaying like crazy, and that makes up for
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  Speaker 1: the people who don't pay any tax. But so Hochel
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, was yelling and screaming for
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  Speaker 1: all you billionaires, or you'd Mago or you'd Trump billionaires,
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  Speaker 1: get the hell out of New York, moved to Florida,
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  Speaker 1: go away, don't ever come back. Well a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them did, and we lost a huge amount of tax revenue.
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  Speaker 1: So now she's saying, you know, please come back. She
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  Speaker 1: actually even said, tell your friends to go to Florida
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  Speaker 1: and tell them to come back, get them back here.
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  Speaker 1: So Blakeman has put this together. You have to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: It's up on my Twitter. You can see it there.
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  Speaker 1: It's really visual. You got to see the cliffs, and
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  Speaker 1: it's got music, and you got to see the visuals
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  Speaker 1: on it. But it's a great commercial, and let me
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  Speaker 1: see if I can play it. Hang on a second,
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  Speaker 1: it's here somewhere. I'll find it. It's in my phone.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is it, right, hang on? Had you
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  Speaker 1: got to lently? No shoot? I stay, you shoot, I go.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta watch the videos, great beautiful pictures and stuff
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  Speaker 1: going with it till the end, moving vans, So you've
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  Speaker 1: got to lently, no shoot, I stay, you shoot, I go.
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  Speaker 1: They sold me first step. Should we go down to
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  Speaker 1: the pond beach where you'll see who you can bring
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  Speaker 1: back home? Because our tax space has been writing it's fine. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta watch it. It's up on my Twitter if
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  Speaker 1: you want to see it. But pretty interesting that she's
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  Speaker 1: telling people to leave, just leave, get the hell out
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  Speaker 1: of here. She says, move to Florida. Now it's a
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  Speaker 1: year later. They moved to Florida two years later, and
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  Speaker 1: she's bagging them to come back. I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: don't think mom Donnie has ever looked at the tax numbers.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds good to tax the billionaires, to go after Trump,
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  Speaker 1: tax the billionaires. I don't think he's ever said that
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  Speaker 1: any experts bring in the numbers. Let me see where
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  Speaker 1: we get most of our tax revenue for. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you ran a restaurant, you do all these metrics,
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  Speaker 1: who's our biggest customers, Where are we getting the most
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  Speaker 1: revenue from? And you cater to that crowd. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do in government. That's what any
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  Speaker 1: business would do. You cater to them and make sure
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  Speaker 1: they stay. Anyway. Hey, well we'll take some calls in
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
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  Speaker 1: is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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  Speaker 1: ten