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Mark interviews political commentator Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: You can read her columns. But also she's got a
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  Speaker 1: great website, lizpeak dot com with all sorts of news
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  Speaker 1: and stories and interesting analysis lizpeak dot com. Of course
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  Speaker 1: you're Oliver Television, Liz Peak. How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm terrific.
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  Speaker 3: I'm baited breath to see how this election comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, how about you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's impossible to predict anything. We only have these cheap, little,
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  Speaker 1: flimsy public polls, not any really good polls, and the
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  Speaker 1: turnout is so extraordinary that the model they used is
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  Speaker 1: off anyway, So wouldn't you agree anything could happen. We
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope something happens other than the obvious, the
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  Speaker 3: obvious being that zoron Mom Donnie has been leading Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Cuomo by double digits up until literally a nanosecond ago.
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  Speaker 3: So ah, yeah, I would It would be very cheering
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  Speaker 3: to have, you know, to have him defeated after all
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  Speaker 3: the publicity that's been thrown about him, which is all
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  Speaker 3: accurate about his lack of experience, his radical policies, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: It would just be nice to know that voters actually
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  Speaker 3: are thinking and that they are actually not just buying
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  Speaker 3: what this con man is selling. And I say those
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  Speaker 3: words pretty judiciously. I think he is a con man.
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  Speaker 3: If he went to vote in college, it's impossible to imagine,
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  Speaker 3: and he's bright enough to have gone there, et cetera,
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  Speaker 3: that he really believes what he's saying, that he's believes
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  Speaker 3: that he can deliver all these wonderful freebies to people
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  Speaker 3: and not completely wreck the city as he tries to
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  Speaker 3: pay for it. So, you know, I think this guy
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  Speaker 3: is dangerous. I hope that voters agree.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you, he's a con man. He looks
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  Speaker 1: like a hustler, but maybe he's a con man the
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  Speaker 1: other way. Maybe this whole socialist maybe that was the
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  Speaker 1: con and when he gets in office, he'll just be
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  Speaker 1: a normal mayor.
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  Speaker 3: I think the odds of that are about one in
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  Speaker 3: ten gazillion. Okay, no, no, I mean, the only constraints
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  Speaker 3: on him are going to be reality, and he has
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  Speaker 3: so far had no response when people have challenged him
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  Speaker 3: with the reality that he doesn't have an open checkbook,
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  Speaker 3: that New York already is struggling to cover its stephesis,
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  Speaker 3: that there are tens of thousands of well healed New
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  Speaker 3: Yorkers who have already left, and others in the queue
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  Speaker 3: to leave if he continues to raise taxes. What's so infuriating,
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  Speaker 3: Mark is that there's never a Democrat that says, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what we're.
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  Speaker 2: Doing isn't working.
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  Speaker 3: Piling on lots of regulations and high taxes, it drives
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  Speaker 3: up the cost of living, it drives people out of
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  Speaker 3: the city, particularly when other services like our public schools
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  Speaker 3: are really mediocre at best or terrible at worst. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't you think at some point they sit down and say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe we should try a new tax. Let's
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  Speaker 3: look at Florida, where there's no income tax, where people
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  Speaker 3: are moving in droves because the state works, where the
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  Speaker 3: state budget per person is what one half of New
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  Speaker 3: York something like that for no particular reason except New
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  Speaker 3: York is piled on all these mandates and requirements from
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  Speaker 3: the public sector as well as businesses and just inflated
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  Speaker 3: the cost of everything. I mean, that's not a workable approach,
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  Speaker 3: and yet there seems to be no appetite for challenging
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  Speaker 3: that approach.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite disheartening.
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  Speaker 1: You have to say, yeah, we're telling Liz peak. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to be realistic and be practical and use
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  Speaker 1: logic and realistic. I guess you got to go to
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  Speaker 1: people in the private sector, right, I mean, we need
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  Speaker 1: more private sector guys in government. They know to do
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  Speaker 1: that well.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, find a private sector guy who's
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat who runs for office, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: And that's why someone like Andrew Cuomo, he isn't going
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  Speaker 3: to go back to running a restaurant or building a
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  Speaker 3: apartment buildings or whatever. He has no trade, almost no
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  Speaker 3: Democrat build up, Blasiol, Lori, lightfoot, name it.
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  Speaker 2: What do they do? The only thing they do is
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  Speaker 2: run again.
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  Speaker 3: And Kamala Harris thinking she should do a reprise of
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  Speaker 3: her absolutely catastrophic presidential run on what basis because she
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  Speaker 3: can't think of anything else to do. These people have
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  Speaker 3: no fallback position, And I mean, is that harsh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I really can't think of a Democrat. Very few come
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  Speaker 3: out of the private sector. Remember Obama's White House. One
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  Speaker 3: of the critiques many of us had was there wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a single businessman in the High House. They had no
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  Speaker 3: idea how Obamacare should work, or this program or that.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, where are we now? We're in
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  Speaker 3: a situation where literally the government is locked down because
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are so angry about the essential failings of Obamacare.
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  Speaker 2: Which turned out not to be.
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  Speaker 3: Something that every what in the country could afford, not
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  Speaker 3: to be accessible to the majority of the country, only
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  Speaker 3: serves seven percent of the country, and even so is
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  Speaker 3: a catastrophe.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean you just have to say, when do
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  Speaker 2: they ever look at.
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  Speaker 3: The product of their handywork and say, you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: doing something wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that should be the next movement, get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the politicians. The original idea of the Founding
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  Speaker 1: Fathers was citizen legislators, people from the private sector come
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  Speaker 1: in and serve for a while and then go back.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, in Connecticut you got Ned Lamont. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a guy who is in the business world most of
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  Speaker 1: his life, and he's a crazy Democrat, but he gets
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  Speaker 1: very logical at times and very reasonable because he's got
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  Speaker 1: private sector experience. So but the problem is we did
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  Speaker 1: get a guy from the private sector to come in Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and look what they did to him. And I think
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  Speaker 1: part of that has scared off anybody else from the
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  Speaker 1: private sector from coming in. Don't you agree?
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  Speaker 3: Who would want really who would you want to run
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  Speaker 3: for off? I certainly wouldn't know. I mean it is
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  Speaker 3: a crucible and not a very pleasant one. But boy,
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  Speaker 3: talk about a businessman taking over, remember without a doubt,
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  Speaker 3: And you could dislike a lot of the stuff he did,
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  Speaker 3: and I do. Mayor Bloomberg was the best mayor we've
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  Speaker 3: had in New York in my lifetime because he surrounded
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  Speaker 3: himself with equally talented, smart capable people and they really
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  Speaker 3: ran the city very well. Again, I don't like the
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  Speaker 3: bike lanes, and I don't like his obsession with big gulps, etc.
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  Speaker 3: But the reality is Mike was very, very smart, and
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  Speaker 3: he did a very good job running the city. It
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  Speaker 3: was safe and prosperous and attracting all kinds of new
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  Speaker 3: industries and businesses.
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  Speaker 2: When he left and build a Blasio just scorched it.
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  Speaker 2: And how is it?
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  Speaker 3: I guess there's just so many people who are newcomers
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  Speaker 3: to New York and they don't remember how things actually
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  Speaker 3: work in the city and how they did work under
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  Speaker 3: Bloomberg and then they didn't work under Deblasio.
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  Speaker 2: Why would they go to go further down that path?
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and don't forget Rudy Giuliani who rescued the city from.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he did a great job too. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: What about New Jersey, You know you got two horrible candidates,
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  Speaker 1: Chittarelli and the Mikey Chow. Then they're not the most
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  Speaker 1: dynamic candidates. So it looks like it's deadlock there. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think will happen?
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  Speaker 2: It does seem deadlocked.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to me Chittarelli has the momentum uh coming
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  Speaker 3: into election day.
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  Speaker 2: Mikey Cheryl just seems like a train wreck.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's one extremely good ad they're running about
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  Speaker 3: her when she just can't answer an obvious question. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is going This is a race that
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  Speaker 3: may well come down to whether Trump is an assetability
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  Speaker 3: in these sort of borderline toss up areas because all
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  Speaker 3: the advertising, this is what Democrats, this is their brand.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: All they do is run ads about how much they
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  Speaker 3: hate Trump. It's never like, really, here's what we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: do that's better and different. Here is how we're going
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  Speaker 3: to confront the fact that Joe Biden's legacy leftos with
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  Speaker 3: high electricity costs and all kinds of other problems, lots
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  Speaker 3: of illegal migrants, living in our country, et cetera. All
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  Speaker 3: they want to do is to fame Donald Trump. It's
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  Speaker 3: pretty darn thin gruel, But there are an awful lot
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  Speaker 3: of people out there who lap it up and think
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  Speaker 3: it tastes just fine.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that race could go everywhere either way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, great stuff. Liz Peak has a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful website. You should check it. There's new stories, new
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  Speaker 1: stuff every day. It's lizpeak dot com lizpeak dot com.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the best place to get your column too, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean today's Fox News column is on my website.
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  Speaker 3: Two days ago I had a Hill column that's on
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  Speaker 3: the website. Yes, thank you, Mark, I appreciate you're mentioning that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just go to lizpeak dot com and just turn
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  Speaker 1: on TV anytime day or night, and there she is too.
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  Speaker 1: So Liz Peak, thanks in your face, Thanks for being.
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  Speaker 3: With Thanks Mark, thank you for having me. Always appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, take care, and don't forget coming up at noon,
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