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

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  Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes the Mark Simone Show on seven wo on. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to Kathy Hockel. The State of the State
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  Speaker 2: speech did not impress anybody. We'll get to President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to Iran, We'll get to Kamala Harris. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Mom Donnie, who turns out and out to
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  Speaker 2: be a great texting buddy with Donald Trump. It said
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  Speaker 2: that they text a few times a week. At least
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  Speaker 2: twice a week they text. It's a bromance that has blossomed.
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  Speaker 2: They discuss a wide range of topics. Lately they have
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  Speaker 2: discussed Venezuela, zoning, red tape in the Big Apple, real
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  Speaker 2: estate and now why does Trump like to take Well,
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  Speaker 2: he'll talk to anybody. He'll talk You could be his
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  Speaker 2: worst enemy. You could be the New York Times. You
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  Speaker 2: could be Bill Maher. He'll bring you right into the
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  Speaker 2: White House, sit down with you, talk to you. Could
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  Speaker 2: be the awful, evil, deceptive, corrupt sixty minutes, he'll sit
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  Speaker 2: down with you again and talk to you. Does it
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  Speaker 2: all the time. And in the case of Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: he is the mayor of New York, so he does
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of power over New York real estate
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  Speaker 2: where Trump has a huge steak, and they you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like that old godfather, keep your enemies closer, kind
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  Speaker 2: of a kind of a deal. Sources say, Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 2: is not kissing his rear end, but speaking out to
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  Speaker 2: Trump on his beliefs. Now, of course Trump kind of
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  Speaker 2: rolling his eyes as he texts back the budding relationship.
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  Speaker 2: The regularity of the texting are a big departure from
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  Speaker 2: previous interactions between presidents and New York City, and that
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  Speaker 2: might be part of it. Trump realizing he made a
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  Speaker 2: mistake just avoiding Deblasio. You should try to just keep
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  Speaker 2: talking to him, keep the door open and try to
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  Speaker 2: work with him, try to persuade him. You never know,
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  Speaker 2: And remember, Mom Donnie is just a little kid. He's
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  Speaker 2: a little thirty four year old guy Trump, a senior
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  Speaker 2: veteran who's been everywhere, done everything Mom Donnie, who's never
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  Speaker 2: even had a job, never done much of anything in life.
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  Speaker 2: So he could become some sort of mentor in a
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  Speaker 2: way to Mom Donnie. Now they say he's also he's
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  Speaker 2: kind of fascinated by the whole Mom Donnie's story. He
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  Speaker 2: feels kind of an emotional connection to what Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 2: did in that it's similar to Trump. Trump was a
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  Speaker 2: guy who came out of nowhere politically. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: was a very successful business guy, but no political experience
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  Speaker 2: of any kind. And usually if you're a business guy
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  Speaker 2: who wants to get into politics, heh, you run for Congress,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you run for Senate. We've had some business guys
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  Speaker 2: run for mayor, run for governor, but for a business
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  Speaker 2: guy out of nowhere to run for president, it's really unusual.
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  Speaker 2: The most successful before that was Ross Perrault, but that
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  Speaker 2: was a third party candidate. But to have a business
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  Speaker 2: guy with no political experience come out of nowhere get
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  Speaker 2: the Republican nomination, and to do so had to defeat
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  Speaker 2: the Bush machine and the Clinton machine to get the nomination,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty impressive. So I think he kind of sees
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie as really having to accomplished something impressive. A
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  Speaker 2: guy with no job, no experience, no resume of any kind,
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  Speaker 2: just a fast talker, talk his way into the nomination,
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  Speaker 2: wipe out Andrew Cuomo in two debates to get the nomination,
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  Speaker 2: wipe out everybody in the general, and win. So I
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  Speaker 2: can understand that just wanting to keep his keep his
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  Speaker 2: hands on the Mam Donnie there. But maybe something something
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  Speaker 2: good might come out of this. Maybe Trump can persuade
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  Speaker 2: him on certain things. Now. President Trump has also said
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary cities and states will have their federal funds cut
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  Speaker 2: off on February first. That can be devastating for states
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  Speaker 2: and cities depend on federal money for transit, for mass transit,
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  Speaker 2: for all kinds of things. It could even affect the Medicaid,
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  Speaker 2: food stamps, all that sort of stuff. Twelve states really
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  Speaker 2: good to have a problem. California, Illinois, New York, a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of the nation's ten largest cities could have their
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  Speaker 2: funds cut off. Now New York is a perfect candidate
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  Speaker 2: for that because of Kathy Hokle. That's stupid state of
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  Speaker 2: the State of the State speech that she made yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: which everybody thought was just awful, just nothing. She just
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  Speaker 2: wants to get reelected. That's her only goal to get
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  Speaker 2: re elected in November. So she just threw out all
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  Speaker 2: the focus grouped buzzwords in her state of the state,
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  Speaker 2: you know, affordability, just rattled off all the affordability stuff
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  Speaker 2: except childcare, groceries, utility bills, parents, veterans, disabled seniors, they
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  Speaker 2: all need relief. She kept talking about how bad things were,
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  Speaker 2: everybody needs relief, how it's so awful and something's got
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  Speaker 2: to be okay. Now, this could be a nice political speech,
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  Speaker 2: but the problem is Bruce Blakeman, who's a much better
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  Speaker 2: talker than Kathy Hogel, far more qualified to be governor
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  Speaker 2: than Kathy Ogel. His response was simple, if you listen
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  Speaker 2: to her speech, you'd think she was not the governor.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think she was just elected today. She's been the
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  Speaker 2: governor for over four years. You know, by the time
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  Speaker 2: it's election time, she'll have been the governor five years.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're going to complain about all this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: the argument is, why would anybody vote for you if
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  Speaker 2: it's that bad. This is after five years of you
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  Speaker 2: being governor, so everybody should get rid of you. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the problem Hokeel faces. They have a very tough
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  Speaker 2: time against Blakeman. It's her fifth State of the State
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  Speaker 2: speech as governor. She'll now campaign all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: She spent a lot of the speech bashing Trump, throwing
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  Speaker 2: red meat to the blue state electorate. But a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these issues, you know, especially with ice and illegals,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people want some and done about this.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't want it to go on the way
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  Speaker 2: it is. Also, not everybody thinks ice is that bad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: once in a while they might make a mistake, but
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  Speaker 2: not always.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday they arrested an analyst at New York City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: an analyst with legal work authorization.
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  Speaker 2: Have you met an analyst lately?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're really not threatening, they're not the baddest
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  Speaker 1: of the bad, and they're just.
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  Speaker 2: Doing their jobs. Is that person really a threat? Well,
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  Speaker 2: first all, they don't even know if that's true. Even
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  Speaker 2: if it is true, that's one case out of how
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  Speaker 2: many people have they arrested, three hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 2: so far. The other thing is there was nothing in
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  Speaker 2: the speech about crime. Can you imagine that? No mention
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  Speaker 2: of crime. She's continued the crazy Cuomo ridiculous policies of
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  Speaker 2: no bail, no jail, emptying out the prisons, all that
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  Speaker 2: sort of stuff. You know, every time you go into
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  Speaker 2: a drug store and everything's locked up everything. You know,
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  Speaker 2: people from anywhere else, from way out in the suburbs,
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  Speaker 2: when they come into New York and they going to
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  Speaker 2: a drug store, they can't believe a shampoo is locked up,
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  Speaker 2: the soap is locked up, the aspen is locked everything's
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  Speaker 2: locked up. They've never seen anything like it. And that's
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  Speaker 2: because of Cuomo. That's because of Kathy Hokeel and this
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  Speaker 2: no bail, no gail. Now she's found another way to
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  Speaker 2: lower crime, by the way, you just make some things
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  Speaker 2: no longer a crime. Yeah, you just take certain categories
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  Speaker 2: and make them no longer illegal. Gets your numbers lower.
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  Speaker 2: But it was not a good speech by any stretch
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  Speaker 2: of the imagination. So, hey, Kamala Harris just bought a
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  Speaker 2: new house Malibu, eight million dollar mansion. She and Dougie there.
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  Speaker 2: It's four thousand square feet. It's in a very very
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  Speaker 2: very nice part of Malibu. Is she's certainly entitled to
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  Speaker 2: do that. She made a lot of money on the book.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine she gets a lot of money on speeches.
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  Speaker 2: She's the world's worst speaker. But you know, to a
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  Speaker 2: left wing audience, they don't care. They'll listen to they'll
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  Speaker 2: think it's great. So a new eight million dollar mansion.
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  Speaker 2: This is just one of her many real estate holdings.
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  Speaker 2: So the nurse's strike continues. This is pretty bad, this
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  Speaker 2: nurse's strike. It's a big, big strike. Now, Mam Donnie
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  Speaker 2: was out there picketing with the nurses, which is a
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  Speaker 2: huge mistake on his part, but that's part of being
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  Speaker 2: a little kid who's never had a job, doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: anything about this stuff. Normally, we've had nurses strikes before,
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  Speaker 2: but usually it's the mayor who steps in and tries
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  Speaker 2: to settle the thing. But Mam Donnie is out there
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  Speaker 2: on the picket line with the nurses, so he can't
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  Speaker 2: be an honest broker in this. It's a big problem. Now.
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  Speaker 2: You hear the nurses complain about healthcare. Isn't that funny?
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  Speaker 2: The nurses can't get a healthcare plan. That's how you
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  Speaker 2: know our healthcare system is really messed up when the
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  Speaker 2: nurses working in the hospital can't get decent healthcare. But
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  Speaker 2: the union demands I don't know about some of the
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  Speaker 2: is they want a pay raise ten percent a year
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  Speaker 2: for three years. That's thirty three percent over three years.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big pay raise. How much do nurses make?
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  Speaker 2: You might be surprised the average nurse's salary. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think it is? No, the average nurses salary one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two thousand a year to two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and seventy two thousand a year, which is not bad.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things they're fighting for. They don't want
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  Speaker 2: to have to contribute to their pensions, which is but
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  Speaker 2: most private sector workers do that. Now, the problem with
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  Speaker 2: this strike and if you settle, if you overpay in wages,
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  Speaker 2: if you give away too much, it affects the city's
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  Speaker 2: budget because a lot of these nurses are working at
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  Speaker 2: city hospitals. It's not just north Well or Wild Cornell
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  Speaker 2: or New York Presbyterian. It's not just these private hospitals,
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  Speaker 2: but the nurses contract will affect all the city hospitals
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  Speaker 2: too and drive up their costs. In these city hospitals
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  Speaker 2: are already in a lot of trouble. PBS has announced,
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to feel bad about this. They've had to
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  Speaker 2: cancel the PBS news weekend show. You know they do
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  Speaker 2: newscasts on PBS. This is where they got themselves into trouble.
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  Speaker 2: The idea of PBS, it was originally called educational television,
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  Speaker 2: public broadcasting. It was things like Sesame Street, educational shows,
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  Speaker 2: cultural shows, stuff you wouldn't normally see on regular too.
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  Speaker 2: That was the whole idea of it. Then now even
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  Speaker 2: there they got a little biased, a little slanted, but
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  Speaker 2: that's okay, they're entitled. But then they got into the
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  Speaker 2: news business doing newscasts, and they were the most slanted,
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  Speaker 2: biased newscast. It was basically propaganda for one side. Then
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  Speaker 2: they got these guys like Bill Moyers, who so awful
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  Speaker 2: the slanted propaganda that was coming out of Bill Moyer's
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  Speaker 2: So that's what led to the calls for or the
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  Speaker 2: funding to be cut. They shouldn't have been doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Why were they in the news business. The whole idea
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  Speaker 2: of PBS of public television stuff you can't see anywhere else,
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  Speaker 2: stuff you can't see on regular television. Well, obviously if
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to see a newscast, you could see that
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  Speaker 2: every where you looked this newscast everywhere. There was no
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  Speaker 2: need for PBS to do it none whatsoever. It ended
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  Speaker 2: up costing them their funding. They still have it during
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  Speaker 2: the week but PBS News Weekend, that's the weekend version.
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  Speaker 2: It's final episode, and they were very dramatic about it.
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  Speaker 2: They said, due to federal budget cuts, we had to
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  Speaker 2: make the difficult decision. But first of all, you got
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  Speaker 2: like five, no more than that, maybe seven all news
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  Speaker 2: television Networks twenty four to seven. You've got newscasts everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Every city has all news radio, and we got the
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  Speaker 2: talk radio which covers news. You've got everything. There is
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  Speaker 2: no reason for PBS to ever be doing news. That's
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  Speaker 2: why the co Hey speaking of PBS, there's a very
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  Speaker 2: nice guy. He used to work with him for him.
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  Speaker 2: Neil Shapiro ran Channel thirteen here in New York in
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  Speaker 2: Channel twenty when he's stepping down, retiring, still going to
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  Speaker 2: stay on as chairman emeritus, but a very good guy.
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  Speaker 2: Now the Clintons, what the hell is this all about?
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  Speaker 2: The Clintons were asked to come in and testify in
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  Speaker 2: a private session, not on camera, private talk about the
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  Speaker 2: Epstein stuff, just explain it, and they sent word they
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  Speaker 2: will refuse. They refuse to testify. And if you refuse
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  Speaker 2: to testify when you're summoned to Congress, it's contempt of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to prison for it. Just ask Peter Navarro,
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  Speaker 2: just ask Steve Bannon. They've gone to prison for this.
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  Speaker 2: Now Congress has to decide what they'll do. They could
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  Speaker 2: make a criminal referral. If they refer it, it goes
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  Speaker 2: to the DC Justice Department, local district attorney. And guess
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  Speaker 2: who that is. It's Janine Piro. Now nobody remembers this,
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  Speaker 2: but the Clintons put years ago, they put Janine Piro's
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  Speaker 2: husband in jail, Al Piro, who was a top attorney
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  Speaker 2: and a very nice guy in Westchester. And the reason
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  Speaker 2: they did that they were trying to mess up the
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  Speaker 2: reputation of the Piros. Because remember that's when Hillary wanted
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  Speaker 2: to run for Senate and it looked like the main
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  Speaker 2: competitor that might be able to beat her was Janine Piro.
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  Speaker 2: So they had to ruin the reputation of the Piros.
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  Speaker 2: So they charged him. It was some charge with it.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever he asked anybody in the US Attorney's office, hell
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  Speaker 2: is this charge? I said it was from years ago.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean anything. They just drummed up something. But
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  Speaker 2: they got a conviction with it. It was enough to
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  Speaker 2: make her drop out of the race, so it was
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  Speaker 2: an awful thing. Pierro was later pardoned. He's not a
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  Speaker 2: convicted fellow anymore and he's a good guy. But you
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  Speaker 2: gotta remember, I think that still haunts her, and she
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  Speaker 2: would be the one prosecuting them, and I'm sure they've
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  Speaker 2: thought about this now. James Comer is the chairman of
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  Speaker 2: the committee. Clinton's have refused to testify.
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  Speaker 1: As a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for
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  Speaker 1: his lawful subpoena, which again was voted on it unanimously
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  Speaker 1: by the committee in a bob partisan manner. We will
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  Speaker 1: move next week in the House Oversight Committee mark up
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  Speaker 1: to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Conger.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a problem that it gets referred to Janine Piro. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you got nothing to hide, if you did nothing wrong,
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  Speaker 2: why wouldn't you come in and testify, clear things up?
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  Speaker 2: If you did nothing wrong, wouldn't you be happy to
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  Speaker 2: come in and testify. I don't know. Now, Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 2: may try arguing that there's a principal here, a next president,
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  Speaker 2: the former president should not be forced to testify in
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  Speaker 2: front of counts. He'll argue that principle or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: No one's accusing Bill Clinton of any wrong doing. We
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  Speaker 1: just we have questions, and that's why the Democrats voted
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  Speaker 1: along with Republicans to subpoena Bill Clinton.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now it would make sense to ask Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 2: a lot of questions because we're talking about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He knew Jeffrey Epstein in the beginning years ago, but
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  Speaker 2: very briefly, and then cut him off, never spoke to
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  Speaker 2: him again. But Clinton was with Jeffrey Epstein day and night,
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  Speaker 2: all over the place, in the closer relationship to Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: Epstein than almost anybody. Epstein was the one that helped
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  Speaker 2: start the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative. That's Epstein
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  Speaker 2: and Clinton's are flying all over the world. And that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean there was underage women. From what I know
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  Speaker 2: of Epstein. I got to see Epstein a lot. I
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  Speaker 2: stayed away from him, but I got to observe it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't underage girls with everybody. If you liked that, he
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  Speaker 2: had that. But if you were Bill Clinton and you
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  Speaker 2: liked forty year old floozies, he would get you that.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think Clinton had anything to do with
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  Speaker 2: any underage women, but had come in and testify, explain
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. Now I was looking back on this,
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  Speaker 2: I remember the last time I saw Epstein was it
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  Speaker 2: was late June, the twenty third of June twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: I looked it up. We went to him. I was
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  Speaker 2: at a party where Epstein was there. Actually it was
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  Speaker 2: part of it was a movie premiere and he sat
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  Speaker 2: like right in front of me, and then I saw
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  Speaker 2: him in the party afterwards, and it was one week
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  Speaker 2: later that he got arrested. It was I think July sixth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, arrested and that was the end of it.
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  Speaker 2: Now twenty nineteen, Donald Trump was president, so he was
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  Speaker 2: arrested by Donald Trump's Justice Department. Was that Bill bar
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  Speaker 2: at the time, I don't know. You know, Bill Barr's
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  Speaker 2: father actually had a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it's all a tangled mess in the swamp. We'll take
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  Speaker 2: some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two one zero
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  Speaker 2: seven ten is the number, eight hundred three to two,
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  Speaker 2: one zero seven Vintenn