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- 0:01Speaker 1: Now on the Voice of New York.
- 0:03Speaker 2: It's the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wor.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Hey Friday. Finally, that's good news. It's not a bad
- 0:15Speaker 1: day today. Now, if you're a Democrat, you're not going
- 0:17Speaker 1: to like this. The stock market is on fire and
- 0:21Speaker 1: it's going to hit fifty thousand again today. Nobody ever
- 0:24Speaker 1: thought they'd live to see a Dow at fifty thousand,
- 0:28Speaker 1: but it's probably going to hit that. It could hit
- 0:30Speaker 1: it later today, So be nice to your Democratic friends
- 0:33Speaker 1: are going to be in a very bad mood. They
- 0:35Speaker 1: don't like to see that. They'd like to see a crash.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Right now, we'll get to President Trump, we'll get to
- 0:40Speaker 1: the White House correspondence, and we'll get to Mom Donnie.
- 0:44Speaker 1: We'll get to Crazy Mayor Mom Donnie's latest, and we'll
- 0:49Speaker 1: get to Pete Hegsith and more So. The Democrats had
- 0:52Speaker 1: these big hearings yesterday. If you never I always try
- 0:56Speaker 1: to explain to you, Republicans stink at hearings. They don't
- 0:59Speaker 1: know how to do it. You know, they're asking questions
- 1:02Speaker 1: and if the guy doesn't answer, they slowly ask it again,
- 1:07Speaker 1: and it's like a conversation that nothing goes viral from that,
- 1:11Speaker 1: Democrats do a hearing. It's yelling and screaming. They call
- 1:14Speaker 1: the guy's names. If he even even tries to answer,
- 1:17Speaker 1: they shout him down. That goes viral. So we'll play
- 1:23Speaker 1: some clips of the left trying to destroy hegxith. So
- 1:27Speaker 1: the White House Correspondents dinner. Apparently here's the problem. You know,
- 1:32Speaker 1: for years the president wouldn't go to that dinner. I
- 1:35Speaker 1: had no interest in that dinner. All of a sudden
- 1:37Speaker 1: he goes. But you know, he's a great roaster. We've
- 1:41Speaker 1: never had a president who was a very experienced roaster. Now,
- 1:47Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan had a good sense of humor, and he
- 1:51Speaker 1: had done five or six Dean Martin ROAs, but those
- 1:55Speaker 1: were television roasts. They were kind of watered down for television.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Ump himself has done maybe a hundred more, maybe a
- 2:05Speaker 1: couple hundred roasts, and the biggest toughest roasts in the
- 2:08Speaker 1: world the Old Friars Club roast, not the one on television,
- 2:12Speaker 1: the ones right over there in the Hilton Ballroom. I
- 2:14Speaker 1: mean they were that was like the Major League, the
- 2:17Speaker 1: New York Yankees, and the World Series of roasts. And
- 2:19Speaker 1: he did dozens and dozens and dozens, So he's a
- 2:23Speaker 1: real serious roaster. And he also apparently was going to
- 2:27Speaker 1: take this one real seriously. This is going to be
- 2:29Speaker 1: the greatest roast of these journalists, of these fake news figures.
- 2:34Speaker 1: He was going to just level them with this stuff.
- 2:36Speaker 1: So he had a unbelievable speech ready to go. That's
- 2:40Speaker 1: why when all the chaos happened, he fought so hard
- 2:43Speaker 1: to go back and do this because he had spent
- 2:45Speaker 1: months coming up with the greatest speech ever. Now it
- 2:48Speaker 1: couldn't go back because the secrets apparently they were really
- 2:52Speaker 1: arguing and the secret services. We have to completely sweep
- 2:55Speaker 1: the room, the hotel, the whole first and second foot
- 2:58Speaker 1: We came and he said, we'll do it. He said
- 3:00Speaker 1: it's going to take four or five hours. He realized
- 3:03Speaker 1: it would be three in the morning when he got back,
- 3:04Speaker 1: no point. So that was the end of that. And
- 3:06Speaker 1: then he kept saying in the press comers, we'll do
- 3:08Speaker 1: this in a month, We'll try to do it within
- 3:10Speaker 1: thirty days. I don't know, you know, it's the impact
- 3:16Speaker 1: would have been great with these roasting jokes, but after
- 3:19Speaker 1: what happened, it's a little delicate, So I don't know.
- 3:21Speaker 1: If it'll ever really work, but it'll save the jokes,
- 3:23Speaker 1: so'll use them somewhere else. Now, after what happened, people
- 3:26Speaker 1: have suggested he should wear a bulletproof vest because in Butler,
- 3:33Speaker 1: the shooter hit him in the ear on the golf
- 3:36Speaker 1: course at mar A Lago. The shooter was not able
- 3:39Speaker 1: to shoot, but had the Secret Service guy and not
- 3:41Speaker 1: spotted him, he would have had a shot at President Trump.
- 3:44Speaker 1: And had this lunatic got into the ballroom, he would
- 3:48Speaker 1: have had a shot at President Trump. So should he
- 3:50Speaker 1: wear a bulletproof vest? Maybe there were times where George
- 3:55Speaker 1: Bush wore a bulletproof vest. I think there were a
- 3:59Speaker 1: couple of occasions, a Reagan War one. But the problem
- 4:01Speaker 1: with Trump it loves to look good in that suit.
- 4:04Speaker 1: He's a little overweight. You know, we all are, but
- 4:06Speaker 1: he's a little overweight, and if you put on that vest,
- 4:10Speaker 1: you look really fat. That's what happened with Bush a
- 4:12Speaker 1: couple of times when he wore one. Everybody thought, what
- 4:15Speaker 1: happened to him? I'd gained so much weight. It was
- 4:17Speaker 1: the vest, and Trump was asked about it.
- 4:19Speaker 2: If there talks about you potentially wearing a bulletproof vest.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Moving forward, given you have now been shot at. I
- 4:25Speaker 3: don't know if I can handle looking twenty pounds have.
- 4:31Speaker 2: Got somebody's got physical.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Somebody these guys, I don't want to hear him. Yeah,
- 4:41Speaker 1: you gotta be Obama could wear a bulletproof vest, nice
- 4:44Speaker 1: and thin, wouldn't have wouldn't have affected him so much.
- 4:48Speaker 1: So I don't think you'll ever see that bulletproof fest. Now,
- 4:51Speaker 1: what they could do if he's going to appear at
- 4:53Speaker 1: something like that Correspondence dinner, you could put that plexa
- 4:57Speaker 1: glass up there. Remember in the outdoor rallies, there was
- 4:59Speaker 1: a time where they put up that bulletproof glass in
- 5:01Speaker 1: front of him and he kind of spoke from behind it.
- 5:05Speaker 1: It's not great. It makes you look like like you're
- 5:08Speaker 1: a bank teller behind that glass. It's not a good effect.
- 5:12Speaker 1: So the king is gone, Thank god, he's left. Now
- 5:17Speaker 1: you people with your no Kings rallies and you know
- 5:19Speaker 1: Kings sons, you know you can never do it again.
- 5:23Speaker 1: I'm afraid you can't do it ever again because it'll
- 5:27Speaker 1: look ridiculous. You're out in the street all over America,
- 5:29Speaker 1: every city, no Kings, thousands and hundreds of millions of you,
- 5:33Speaker 1: and now there was a real king here all over
- 5:36Speaker 1: the place, and you're not one protester showed up. So
- 5:39Speaker 1: here's our actual king and you didn't protest, so you
- 5:42Speaker 1: obviously have lost all credibility. Obviously you have nothing against kings.
- 5:46Speaker 1: It's just trumped arrangement syndrome. So now Hexath Pete Hexath
- 5:51Speaker 1: testifying before Congress, and the war in Iran could not
- 5:56Speaker 1: go any better. I mean, it'd be great if they
- 5:58Speaker 1: just surrendered and gave us everything, but that's nobody expected
- 6:01Speaker 1: that that fast, but militarily absolute crushed them in one second,
- 6:07Speaker 1: wiped out their military completely. As long as we keep
- 6:10Speaker 1: the straits straight up hor mooose blocked, we've got them
- 6:13Speaker 1: totally shut down their economy. They have absolutely no revenue
- 6:16Speaker 1: coming in. So it's a great success so far, and
- 6:20Speaker 1: it's only two months. I know the president under the law,
- 6:24Speaker 1: you're supposed to get congressional authority after I think it's
- 6:28Speaker 1: ninety days now. The President is arguing that the moment
- 6:32Speaker 1: the ceasefire started, the clock stops on that ninety days.
- 6:35Speaker 1: So if they resume after four weeks of ceasefire, he's
- 6:39Speaker 1: saying the clock has stopped. I think he's right. He's
- 6:41Speaker 1: got a I mean, based on simple logic, he's right.
- 6:44Speaker 1: So hexav is testifying. They're trying to get them every
- 6:48Speaker 1: which way. They're accusing him of everything. Now again, Republicans,
- 6:53Speaker 1: it's like a courtroom. You know, they're very proper, and
- 6:55Speaker 1: they ask the questions. Democrats, they call you names, They
- 6:58Speaker 1: accuse you of being a crook, thief of everything in
- 7:02Speaker 1: the world. Listen to Elizabeth Warren trying to make the
- 7:04Speaker 1: case that Hexith is a committed financial crime.
- 7:07Speaker 3: I'd like to hear you say, did you, through your
- 7:10Speaker 3: broker at Morgan Stanley or otherwise seek to invest in
- 7:14Speaker 3: any defense related funds right before Trump started the Iran War.
- 7:19Speaker 2: I'll give it to you as a big fat negative.
- 7:23Speaker 3: Then let me ask you a second question. Is your
- 7:26Speaker 3: broker getting your personal sign off on any investment in
- 7:31Speaker 3: individual stagger fatter negative?
- 7:34Speaker 1: See? Now, none of this is true, but this is
- 7:37Speaker 1: the way the democratic world works. This is the way
- 7:40Speaker 1: the fake news works. Elizabeth Warren, Banking Committee asked about
- 7:44Speaker 1: these shady financial transactions. Now they never happened, but it
- 7:49Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He was asked about it under oath. He
- 7:51Speaker 1: denied it, and it's enough for the fake news you'll
- 7:54Speaker 1: see this all over the fake news. Hexath, confronted about
- 7:57Speaker 1: his suspicious financial denied it. They'll never mentioned there was
- 8:03Speaker 1: no reason even suspected. There's no truth to it at all.
- 8:06Speaker 1: So all the sleeves ball Bloomenthals try to, you know,
- 8:09Speaker 1: argue the war is a total disaster. We've never had
- 8:12Speaker 1: such a disaster. We completely wiped out their military like
- 8:16Speaker 1: the first day. But it's a total disaster. Hexatha wasn't
- 8:19Speaker 1: putting up with any of this.
- 8:20Speaker 2: Stop based on the because you yelled doesn't make you
- 8:26Speaker 2: about economy. You know what is upset incredible? Well, I
- 8:29Speaker 2: would say the blockade that we hold that doesn't allow
- 8:32Speaker 2: anything to come in or out of Iranian ports.
- 8:34Speaker 4: Okay, so always so we've blockaded, they blockaded us, and
- 8:39Speaker 4: then we blockaded their blockade.
- 8:41Speaker 2: You care a lot about President Trump, don't you. You're
- 8:43Speaker 2: going to waste of your five minutes huge.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's enough two uh for the fake news,
- 8:51Speaker 1: because then the Democrats are watching this straight or horn
- 8:54Speaker 1: moves is shut down and now they're going, oh my god,
- 8:57Speaker 1: it's shut down. They never explained to the audience it
- 9:01Speaker 1: doesn't affect us in any way. We never get any
- 9:03Speaker 1: oil from the straight or hormose. We don't need it
- 9:05Speaker 1: for anything. A shutdown only means that Iran has no income.
- 9:09Speaker 1: They're the ones that use it. If they can't move
- 9:11Speaker 1: oil to there, they have zero income. Their economy is crushed.
- 9:15Speaker 1: They never explained that on the freak news, so they
- 9:18Speaker 1: just keep going after him and after him, even quiet
- 9:21Speaker 1: little Christian Gilibrand.
- 9:23Speaker 5: There's no evidence that we are safer because of this war.
- 9:26Speaker 5: We did not have any evidence that Iran intended to
- 9:29Speaker 5: imminently attack this country in any way, shape or form.
- 9:32Speaker 5: So I disagree with your assessment that we are under threat.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Do you believe them when they say death to America?
- 9:39Speaker 5: Listen, our adversaries use rhetoric all the time.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Now, Democrats were saying the same thing about Islama bin Laden.
- 9:47Speaker 1: There's no threat, there's no evidence of any actual threat.
- 9:51Speaker 1: And again back to Elizabeth Warren.
- 9:53Speaker 2: What I give, what you give, what others give. I'm
- 9:56Speaker 2: not looking for money. I don't do it for money.
- 9:57Speaker 2: I don't do it for profit. I don't do it
- 9:58Speaker 2: for stocks. And that's part the reason why I'm able
- 10:00Speaker 2: to be effective in this job. Because no one owns me,
- 10:03Speaker 2: no one owns this department. No one owns this president,
- 10:06Speaker 2: and we can execute for the American people, and we do.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta give her credit to what it is.
- 10:11Speaker 1: She ninetyes. She looks like Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies,
- 10:14Speaker 1: and she's yelling and screaming at this guy. They went
- 10:16Speaker 1: after him for everything.
- 10:17Speaker 2: I don't know what you're insinuating.
- 10:18Speaker 1: Yeah, that he's not a Christian. I don't know something.
- 10:20Speaker 2: I don't know what you're insinuating, Senator, But I am
- 10:23Speaker 2: not ashamed of my faith.
- 10:24Speaker 3: In Jesus Christ.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Well you shouldn't be.
- 10:26Speaker 2: And if you want to shame me for it, go ahead.
- 10:28Speaker 3: I'm not shaming you.
- 10:30Speaker 1: But are you a critical of other faith?
- 10:33Speaker 2: I am a believer. I'm quite open in that, and
- 10:35Speaker 2: our department allows for a multitude of faith. So I
- 10:38Speaker 2: don't know what you're suggesting. I've heard the likes of
- 10:40Speaker 2: things that people like you suggest to try to smear
- 10:43Speaker 2: up my character, and I won't give into it.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's a good point. What is the
- 10:48Speaker 1: point of these questions? The guy's the Defense secretary in
- 10:52Speaker 1: the middle of a war. He's supposed to be asking
- 10:54Speaker 1: war questions, actual detailed questions about what's going on. Instead,
- 10:57Speaker 1: they're talking about his faith, they're talking about his aunt,
- 11:00Speaker 1: They're trying to get him for anything and everything. Completely ridiculous.
- 11:06Speaker 1: So hey, crazy little mom Donnie, you know he started this.
- 11:11Speaker 1: I actually will give you Andrew Cuomo credit. He was
- 11:13Speaker 1: the first one to really push that Pieta tear tax.
- 11:16Speaker 1: Remember Cuomo was the most left wing, woke, crazy left
- 11:21Speaker 1: wing policies, no bail, no jail, close our power plants,
- 11:24Speaker 1: close the prisons, let people out. And he was pushing
- 11:28Speaker 1: that Pieta tear at tax. It was actually it never
- 11:32Speaker 1: happened back then, but now they're trying to make it happen.
- 11:34Speaker 1: And Mom, Donnie targeted a billionaire, Ken Griffin. He actually
- 11:39Speaker 1: targeted this guy. He even made a video in front
- 11:42Speaker 1: of his house pointing to it. And this is where
- 11:44Speaker 1: Ken Griffin lives. I mean, it's a terrible thing to
- 11:46Speaker 1: do when you know you got these nut job protesters
- 11:49Speaker 1: out there, Mom, Donnie, just awful to Ken Griffin.
- 11:52Speaker 2: Like for this penhouse, the touch one CEO Ken Griffin
- 11:56Speaker 2: bought for two hundred and thirty eight million dollars. This
- 11:58Speaker 2: Pieta tear a tax is specifically signed for the richest
- 12:00Speaker 2: of the rich.
- 12:02Speaker 1: Yeah, well good, what's wrong with that? I mean, if
- 12:07Speaker 1: somebody said they've just opened a major new slum on
- 12:11Speaker 1: fifty ninth Street, would we be happy? Was it great?
- 12:15Speaker 2: So?
- 12:16Speaker 1: Somebody a few years ago was it second Orf? Somebody built?
- 12:19Speaker 1: I think was Zecondorf built two twenty Central Park South.
- 12:23Speaker 1: They started this project about fifteen years ago. It was
- 12:26Speaker 1: to be the finest apartment building ever in New York
- 12:31Speaker 1: and it took a long time. Go look at it.
- 12:32Speaker 1: It is the finest. It's considered the finest number one
- 12:37Speaker 1: apartment building in New York right now. For example, this
- 12:41Speaker 1: penhouse Ken Griffin bought two hundred and forty million. Two
- 12:45Speaker 1: hundred and forty million. That's a Now, why would you
- 12:47Speaker 1: get upset if you're a mayor or if you're a city.
- 12:50Speaker 1: This kind of activity is going on. The billionaires of
- 12:53Speaker 1: the world. They're moving here. What is a billionaire do?
- 12:55Speaker 1: What he gets here? Spends money, spends money all over
- 12:59Speaker 1: the place, and he puts business here. Ken Griffin, as
- 13:03Speaker 1: we speak, although he may cancel it now, as he speak,
- 13:07Speaker 1: was working on a skyscraper at fifty second in Park,
- 13:11Speaker 1: an enormous skyscraper. It would take five years to build.
- 13:15Speaker 1: It would employ six thousand construction workers, and when it opens,
- 13:19Speaker 1: it would create fifteen thousand jobs in the city. Now,
- 13:25Speaker 1: what kind of mayor would say to a guy like that,
- 13:27Speaker 1: get out, we don't want you here. Take you fifteen thousand.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Who would get mad at this guy when you find
- 13:32Speaker 1: out a guy is doing a project like that, and
- 13:34Speaker 1: you're the mayor. Every other mayor, governor, smart politician whenever
- 13:39Speaker 1: they hear of something like this, they call the guy immediately. Hey,
- 13:43Speaker 1: if you'd like to meet, if I can help you
- 13:45Speaker 1: in any way, what can we do for you to
- 13:46Speaker 1: help you get this thing built? That's what you're supposed
- 13:49Speaker 1: to do. It's just absolutely insane. But Ken Griffin has
- 13:52Speaker 1: been going after Mom Donnie. He's doing interviews and he's
- 13:56Speaker 1: talking about Mom Donnie.
- 13:58Speaker 4: I think the willingness, Mayor of you, to make this
- 14:00Speaker 4: a policy debate a personal attack just demonstrated a profound
- 14:05Speaker 4: lack of judgment.
- 14:06Speaker 1: It does. It's insane, it's illogical, it's irrational, and apparently hocal.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Although she's the one pushing this Pieta tear attacks, apparently
- 14:16Speaker 1: she wants to meet with Ken Griffin.
- 14:18Speaker 4: We'll talk about our future direction.
- 14:19Speaker 1: New York. Here's the real question.
- 14:22Speaker 4: Is New York going to put their fiscal house to
- 14:24Speaker 4: order and run itself from a position of a strong
- 14:26Speaker 4: government that's pro business or are they looking to play
- 14:30Speaker 4: Why do the Americans think we can do socialism?
- 14:33Speaker 1: Yeah? Now, the other thing is this guy Ken Griffin
- 14:36Speaker 1: is worth fifty billion, and we do that, and the
- 14:40Speaker 1: kind of stuff he's done in his career, you become
- 14:43Speaker 1: an unbelievable expert at running a business, at efficient business,
- 14:47Speaker 1: at running your budget. And now, Mom Donnie should beg
- 14:52Speaker 1: Ken Griffin to give him some lessons. It costs two
- 14:55Speaker 1: million dollars to open a grocery store. I mean a
- 14:58Speaker 1: good grocery store. I mean a you know, a great,
- 15:02Speaker 1: great grocery store that opens to New York, a supermarket chain.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Two million to open one, Mom Donnie's opening a little
- 15:08Speaker 1: tiny dump in the Harlem of a grocery store. Thirty million,
- 15:13Speaker 1: twenty eight million more than it should cost. Now, and
- 15:17Speaker 1: they do this with everything. It costs forty thousand dollars
- 15:21Speaker 1: a mile to pave highway. We spend a million dollars
- 15:24Speaker 1: a mile. They just wasting and wasting taxpayer money. You
- 15:28Speaker 1: should beg every Ken Griffin to come help you straighten
- 15:32Speaker 1: this out. Now. They don't want to do it because
- 15:34Speaker 1: why would they pay ten thousand percent more than they
- 15:36Speaker 1: have to for everything? Because they're taking care of contractors
- 15:40Speaker 1: unions in exchange for donations and votes, so they don't
- 15:44Speaker 1: want that game busted up. But hey, we'll take some calls.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Next eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten
- 15:51Speaker 1: is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
- 15:55Speaker 1: ten