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FULL SHOW: New Melania Trump movie is in theaters today! New Fed chair pick by Trump. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now sevenor presents.
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Speaker 2: No Mark Simon Shaw.
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Speaker 3: Well, Don Lemon arrested, We'll get to that. There's a
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Speaker 3: new FED chairman, We'll get to that. Minnesota, the latest
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Speaker 3: Alex Preddie, there's a shutdown battle going on right now,
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Speaker 3: the new Millennium movie, and lots to talk about Luigi Mangione.
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Speaker 3: All right, the good news is the big storm on
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Speaker 3: Sunday looks like it's gonna miss us, that big bomb
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Speaker 3: cyclone storm that was heading right for us. In some
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Speaker 3: of the weather models, it looks like as it stands
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Speaker 3: now and we're we're within the three days, which is
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Speaker 3: usually when the weather's very accurate, looks like it will
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Speaker 3: miss us. If you're in the end of Long Island,
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Speaker 3: the Hampton's Montuck, it's gonna hit you. You could get
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Speaker 3: three inches of snow and ferocious winds. And if you're
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Speaker 3: way up the Connecticut shore line you might get it.
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Speaker 3: But Manhattan, Westchester, New Jersey, Connecticut, NASA, most of I
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Speaker 3: think you're safe from any series. There should be no
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Speaker 3: accumulation on Sunday. That's the current forecast. So, hey, Don
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Speaker 3: Lemon has been arrested. Now I'm looking at It's always
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Speaker 3: good to go to Mediaite. Mediaite is a left wing,
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Speaker 3: very biased, very slanted, left wing websites. Very good website,
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Speaker 3: but very very slanted. And let me look at all
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Speaker 3: the different headlines. It's got political world rocked by stunning
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Speaker 3: arrest of Don Lemon, terrifying. CNN's Brian Selter says, Morning
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Speaker 3: Joe warns Don Lemon's arrest is what happens in authoritarian countries.
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Speaker 3: Now let's put out just make clear the actual decision
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Speaker 3: to indict Don Lemon was not made by Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: It was not maade by the Attorney general. It was
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Speaker 3: not made by the Deputy Attorney General. It was not
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Speaker 3: made by anybody in the Jet department. They decided they
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Speaker 3: would present it to a grand jury, and the grand
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Speaker 3: jurors voted to indict Don Lemon. Not the Trump people.
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Speaker 3: A grand jury looking at the evidence voted to indict
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Speaker 3: Don Lemon. He's charged with civil rights violations. And there's
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Speaker 3: laws on the books that you could argue, well, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, the church, the doors are open. Anybody can
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Speaker 3: walk into that church. Yeah, that's true, but there's laws
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Speaker 3: on the books. The law is very specific. If you
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Speaker 3: go into the church, you can't do anything to interrupt
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Speaker 3: the service. You can't do anything to interrupt the service
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Speaker 3: or anybody in there. You can't do anything to intimidate
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Speaker 3: them in any way. And Don Lemon was part of
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Speaker 3: this mob that went in there trying to intimidate the
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Speaker 3: hell out of everybody in there, the worshippers, and to
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Speaker 3: stop the service. Can't. It's a total violation of the law.
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Speaker 3: There's a couple of laws there that he's going to
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Speaker 3: be charged with, and one of them, well one of
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Speaker 3: them is a civil rights violation, and one of them
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Speaker 3: is what they used to call the klu Klux Klan Act,
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Speaker 3: because that's what the clan did way back when they
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Speaker 3: would go into black churches as a mob and yell
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Speaker 3: and scream and menace everybody and stop the service. Well
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Speaker 3: that's what happened here in Minneapolis. So when the Klan
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Speaker 3: did that all the time, that's when they passed this
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Speaker 3: other law to make that totally illegal. So Don Lemon
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Speaker 3: will face a couple of charges. He was arrested yesterday
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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. He was there to cover the Grammys
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Speaker 3: and that's when they arrested him. Now I know Don
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Speaker 3: Lemon when he says cover the Grammys, that means go
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Speaker 3: to the parties. He was at all the parties. Actually,
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Speaker 3: Don Lemon is very close to Clive Davis, very very
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Speaker 3: close friend to Clive Davis's and Clive Davis is like
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Speaker 3: the King of the Grammys. His Grammy party is the
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Speaker 3: most important event of the whole week. So that's where
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Speaker 3: Don Lemon was, and they arrested him. I heard he
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Speaker 3: spent a couple of hours in jail on Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: He's hired Abby Lowell, who's the big number one top
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Speaker 3: Washington d C. Any kind of problem with the government,
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Speaker 3: that's the guy you hire. That's who Hunter Biden hired,
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Speaker 3: Abby Lowell. It's a guy Abby Lowell representing him. So
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Speaker 3: we'll see what happens next. Now Lemon is in his
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Speaker 3: statements already is claiming that he was acting as a journalist.
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Speaker 3: Now the problem is, that's a hard case to make
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Speaker 3: in court acting as a journalist. He's not actually employed
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Speaker 3: anywhere as a journalist. He has no job as a journalist.
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Speaker 3: He has been I guess what he did in the past.
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Speaker 3: He's more of an anchor talk show host. But I
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Speaker 3: guess you could call him a journalist in the past.
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Speaker 3: But he's not a journalist. He's an unemployed guy for
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Speaker 3: a couple of years. He has a Twitter thing, a
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Speaker 3: twitter feed. I think he has a sub stack. He
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Speaker 3: maybe does a podcast, but I don't know that that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that qualifies you legally as a journalist.
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Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. Also going into court today,
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Speaker 3: Luigi Mangione Friday today. It was an attempted break out
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Speaker 3: of prison yesterday, probably the worst one ever attempted. A
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Speaker 3: guy showed up at the correctional center here in Manhattan
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Speaker 3: claiming that he was an FBI agent and he was
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Speaker 3: there to pick up Luigi Mangion and transfer him. They
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Speaker 3: asked to see some identification. The guy took out his
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Speaker 3: driver's license, and I think they explained him now, we
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Speaker 3: meant FBI credentials, not a driver's license. And then they
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Speaker 3: frisked him and found a wasn't a knife. It was
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Speaker 3: a pizza cutter, you know that round, the little round
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Speaker 3: thing you cut the He had a pizza cutter on him.
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Speaker 3: Apparently he did work at a pizza place. I guess
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Speaker 3: he stole the cutter. I don't know what he was
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Speaker 3: planning to do with that, but he's in jail now. Too,
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Speaker 3: So the breakout attempt didn't go well. Manjeone's going to
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Speaker 3: argue all kinds of things in court today. He's got
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Speaker 3: a whole bunch of lawyers. They'll argue that the arrest
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Speaker 3: was illegal, unlawful. And then when they arrested him in Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 3: the McDonald's, some of the evidence they took, they took illegal.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how he's gonna argue this even if
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Speaker 3: you've got evidence tossed out. The surveillance cameras on the
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Speaker 3: street here in Manhattan. One thing about Manhattan. Not know
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Speaker 3: other places don't have this, but in Manhattan every inch
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Speaker 3: of the street has got a surveillance camera on it,
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Speaker 3: so you can see the video of Mangione shooting the guy.
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Speaker 3: So all this other stuff, I don't think it'll come
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Speaker 3: into play now. Tom Holman is still in Minnesota trying
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Speaker 3: to calm things down, doing a pretty good job of it.
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Speaker 3: But you got these crazy nut job agitators, Alex pretty
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Speaker 3: who as soon as it happened, you saw all these
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Speaker 3: people all of the airwaves, making these speeches about what
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Speaker 3: a gentle soul he was, what a wonderful, tender human
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Speaker 3: being he was. Now that turned out to be a
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Speaker 3: ridiculous thing to claim, because we saw the videos of
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Speaker 3: him two weeks ago, totally out of control, raging like
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Speaker 3: an absolute lunatic in the street, yelling and screaming, and
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Speaker 3: the ICE agents were making an arrest. He got right
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Speaker 3: in their face. And then I can't play the audio
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Speaker 3: for you because everything's the F word, F you, you
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Speaker 3: mother efforts, and he's screaming right, he's spitting on them,
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Speaker 3: screaming and assault me. Go ahead, assault me, you mother effort,
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Speaker 3: just out of control in a rage. And then they
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Speaker 3: get in their car. They were pretty good at just
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Speaker 3: tolerating it. The Ice agents didn't do anything. They got
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Speaker 3: in their car, they're going to driveway. He starts violently
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Speaker 3: kicking the car really hard, and one point kicked it
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Speaker 3: so hard he not only smashed the tail light, he
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Speaker 3: took the entire tail light section out of the car,
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Speaker 3: leaving a hole in the back of the car. So
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Speaker 3: then the agent stopped, tackled him to the ground, and
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Speaker 3: I don't know why. I guess they were just being
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Speaker 3: very tolerant, trying to de escalate it. I don't know why,
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Speaker 3: but the agents let him go. They should have arrested
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Speaker 3: him right then and there. He committed a number of
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Speaker 3: crimes right there. He's a criminal. They should have arrested him,
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Speaker 3: And had he been arrested put in jail, maybe he'd
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Speaker 3: still be alive today, Maybe wouldn't have been around to
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Speaker 3: try it again. So he's just I mean, what kind
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Speaker 3: of lunatic. I mean, you got to be a raging
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Speaker 3: lunatic to do that. If you were on the street
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Speaker 3: and you saw a bunch of police cars surrounding somebody
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Speaker 3: and it looked like they would arrest that guy, would
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Speaker 3: you have the nerve to go interfere with that? I mean,
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Speaker 3: it takes a lot of guts. Let's say you wanted
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Speaker 3: to go Maybe maybe if you had a lot of nerve,
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Speaker 3: you'd go start yelling at them. Hey, what the hell
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Speaker 3: you didn't start yelling and taunting them and yelling at
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Speaker 3: that takes a hell of a lot of nerve. But
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Speaker 3: how much nerve does it take to get right in
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Speaker 3: their spit on the cops, pushed them, call them every
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Speaker 3: name in the world, and then start damaging their vehicle,
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Speaker 3: kicking the tail light out of their vehicle. That takes
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Speaker 3: a hell of a lot of nerve. If you know
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Speaker 3: what that's not even nerve. You got to be on something.
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Speaker 3: He must have been on some kind of drugs to
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Speaker 3: be that out of control, to be that deranged, just
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Speaker 3: absolutely insane. This guy. So hey. The other big news,
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Speaker 3: Kevin Warsh is the new FED chairman. Donald Trump had
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Speaker 3: it down to a bunch of choices. It was either
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Speaker 3: going to be Treasury Secretary Scott Bessont, but Bessant didn't
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Speaker 3: want to move over there. Bessett wanted to stay in
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Speaker 3: the White House. And I think that's a good idea.
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Speaker 3: I think Bessant is the most valuable of all these guys.
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Speaker 3: Keep him in the White House. Keep this Treasure secretary
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Speaker 3: to me, much more important job than FED chairman. Then
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Speaker 3: there was Kevin Hasset, who's another great, great guy, brilliant guy,
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Speaker 3: perfect guy for FED chairman. But he's in the White House,
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Speaker 3: is Economic Council, and he's very very very very valuable there.
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Speaker 3: So they didn't want to give him up. They wanted
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Speaker 3: to keep him there. The other choice was Kevin Walsh,
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Speaker 3: Kevin Hassett, Kevin Walsh, and they always said it would
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Speaker 3: come down to the two Kevins, and so it looked
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Speaker 3: like it would be Kevin Walsh, although at the last
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Speaker 3: minute a new candidate emerged. Rick Ryder suddenly was in
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Speaker 3: the mix. Rick Ryder, who nobody liked, and they looked
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Speaker 3: at his donation history. Donated to Pete Bootage Edge, he
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Speaker 3: donated to Kamala Harrison is like another Jerome Powell. He
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Speaker 3: wasn't even really in the mix. He was being pushed
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Speaker 3: by the Wall Street guys, Black Rock, Larry Fink. They
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Speaker 3: were the ones pushing him, so it was more of
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Speaker 3: just a courtesy interview and all of that. Then there
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Speaker 3: was a last minute candidate the last two days. Judy
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Speaker 3: Shelton is a great woman. I'd be perfect for that,
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Speaker 3: although it ended up being Kevin Warsh. He'll be the
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Speaker 3: new FED chairman. Wall Street not that thrilled about it.
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Speaker 3: The reaction so far as the market is down over it.
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Speaker 3: Some people think he's too hawkish. When you're a FED chairman,
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Speaker 3: hawkish means you're you know, you're trying to increase rates,
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Speaker 3: you're trying to be too aggressive. But yeah, they spent
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Speaker 3: a lot of time, a lot of time talking to him.
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Speaker 3: Scott Bessont pushed him. This was Scott Bessont's final choice
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Speaker 3: and he pushed it. Which means he'll be responsible for
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Speaker 3: this if it goes bad and warsh. He's a nice guy,
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Speaker 3: and he's a very very plugged in, well connected guy.
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Speaker 3: Everybody in his family father close to the president, his
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Speaker 3: father in law close to the president, and his grandfather
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Speaker 3: in law very close to the president. So and he
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Speaker 3: was working like crazy to get the job, not just
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Speaker 3: campaigning hard, but everybody says behind the scenes, trying to
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Speaker 3: sabotage the other candidates, bad bouthing him to everybody. So
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Speaker 3: he's the new FED chairman. It should be announced later today.
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Speaker 3: Expect the President to make the announcement later. The Milania
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Speaker 3: movie had its big premiere last night in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 3: Fifteen hundred people Kennedy Center. Get it. Monica Crowley will
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Speaker 3: be with us later. Imagine she was there. She'll tell
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Speaker 3: us about it. Hey, President Trump somehow has gotten Putin
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Speaker 3: to agree to a cease fire in the Ukraine for
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Speaker 3: one week, just a one week ceasefire. He called him
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Speaker 3: and somehow got this done.
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Speaker 4: It really they said they've never experienced cold like that.
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Speaker 4: And I personally asked President Putin not the fire into
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Speaker 4: Kiev in the various towns for a week and he
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Speaker 4: agreed to do that, and I have to tell you
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Speaker 4: it was very nice. A lot of people said, don't
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Speaker 4: waste the cold, and you're not going to get that,
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Speaker 4: and he did it, and we're very happy that they
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Speaker 4: did it.
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Speaker 3: All right, it's not much, but it's something. You know,
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Speaker 3: hundreds of people get killed a week there, so they'll
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Speaker 3: save a few hundred lives. Hey, they had a cabinet
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Speaker 3: meeting yesterday and President Trump it was different this time.
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Speaker 3: You know, the last two times they had a cabinet meeting,
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Speaker 3: the cameras are allowed in and the press is allowed
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Speaker 3: in there, and then he lets every one of the
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Speaker 3: cabinet members speak. But he didn't do that this time.
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Speaker 3: He didn't let them speak. And he actually said, we're
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Speaker 3: not going to go through all that again because the
13:06
Speaker 3: last time we did it it lasted three hours and
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Speaker 3: I closed my eyes a few times and they started
13:11
Speaker 3: making fun of me, thinking I was asleep, and he said, look,
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Speaker 3: it got pretty boring. The room started to laugh. He said,
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Speaker 3: I just closed them because I wanted to get the
13:21
Speaker 3: hell out of there. He says, I didn't sleep, I
13:25
Speaker 3: was just getting bored, which I believe that's what I
13:30
Speaker 3: don't know why he wants this job. You know, this
13:32
Speaker 3: guy used to the most fun. He was in New York.
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Speaker 3: It's a glamorous, fun existence. It was parties and celebrities,
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Speaker 3: and he'd be going to his office every movie stars
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Speaker 3: coming in, comedian. It'd be nothing but fun. Now he's
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Speaker 3: sitting in Washington, the president of Lithuania. Who wants to
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Speaker 3: talk to that guy? Cabinet meeting with all these secretaries
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Speaker 3: of this and that. Pretty boring stuff, but it's what
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Speaker 3: he wants to do now. In the cabinet meeting, he
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Speaker 3: did not call on Christy Nome, and they didn't take
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Speaker 3: questions from the press, and all the talking they did
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Speaker 3: not bring up Minnesota in any way. They talked mostly
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Speaker 3: about the economy and a good idea, you know, Minnesota
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Speaker 3: is The two shootings were horrible. In the case of Pretty,
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Speaker 3: I still don't see why the shots were fired. In
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Speaker 3: the case of Renee Good, you can see why the
14:23
Speaker 3: shots were fired. She did hit the guy with his
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Speaker 3: car with her car, and the first shot went right
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Speaker 3: through the front windshield, which means he was in front
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Speaker 3: of the car as it came at him and it
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Speaker 3: did hit him. You can see that in other Viti is,
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Speaker 3: but the pretty one. You can't see that. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they should have just arrested the guy. He would have
14:39
Speaker 3: been in jail for a very long time for that
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Speaker 3: incident and for the one two weeks ago the damaged
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Speaker 3: the police car. Gallain Maxwell claims now that twenty five
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Speaker 3: of the Jeffrey Epstein accomplices, victims whatever you want to
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Speaker 3: call him, had made secret settlements with the the billionaire
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Speaker 3: of people that were there. So what that would mean
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Speaker 3: was that's why they were never in the mix, never
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Speaker 3: came forward, never testified. So it's an interesting point that
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Speaker 3: there'd be a lot of victims out there that never
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Speaker 3: came forward, never came close to talking to anybody in
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Speaker 3: law enforcement. They are going through the Epstein files. What's
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Speaker 3: taken so long, Well, you got to go through and
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Speaker 3: read every page to make sure that there's no victim names,
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Speaker 3: You got to redact all that. You got to read
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Speaker 3: five point two million pages. You know how long that
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Speaker 3: would take. Justice Department says they've assigned now four hundred
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Speaker 3: lawyers to this and they're working around the clock trying
15:41
Speaker 3: to review all five point two million pages. Now, when
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Speaker 3: you get these pages, you're going to be very disappointed.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've talked to a lot of people saw
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Speaker 3: most of this is coming from the Justice Department, the
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Speaker 3: US Attorney's Office Southern District. They're the ones that ran
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Speaker 3: the investigation. And if you talk to guys it to
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Speaker 3: put all this together, they'll say, what's in these files.
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Speaker 3: It's basically just interviewed transcripts of interviews with witnesses. Some
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Speaker 3: of it true, some of it turned out not to
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Speaker 3: be true. You know, you get good witnesses, bad witnesses.
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Speaker 3: But that's what's in there. Hey, don't forget it was
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Speaker 3: President Trump and his Justice Department that arrested Epstein. It
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Speaker 3: took place in twenty nineteen. It was during the Trump administration.
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Speaker 3: Epstein got arrested and prosecuted. Hey, we'll take some calls
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Speaker 3: in a minute. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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Speaker 3: Hey, we got we got some open lines. I've never
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Speaker 3: seven ten let's go to my in Florida. Mike. How
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Speaker 3: you doing, Good.
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Speaker 5: Morning, Mark.
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Speaker 6: I was last night.
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Speaker 7: I was watching a video on YouTube with your old
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Speaker 7: partner Steve Allen and Johnny Mercer doing a medley of
17:12
Speaker 7: Alan would sing a song and you'd say, well, Johnny,
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Speaker 7: did you ever write a song similar to that?
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Speaker 5: It was very clever.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's great. Yeah, go on to YouTube. Great
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Speaker 3: type Steve Allen, Johnny Mercer. There's some amazing stuff, all
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Speaker 3: those old variety shows, all those great everything you've ever
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Speaker 3: seen on TV and you want to see again, it's
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Speaker 3: on YouTube. In fact, it's it's fabulous. There's some nights
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Speaker 3: I don't watch anything except YouTube all night, and it's addictive.
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Speaker 7: That's what I was doing last night, and I stumbled
17:38
Speaker 7: on this and it got me to thinking about the
17:40
Speaker 7: old am FM format. First of all, I wanted to
17:42
Speaker 7: ask you if you ever work in the old FM format,
17:45
Speaker 7: like your friend Jonathan Schwartz, who would do sets sort
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Speaker 7: of like that. You know, he played like Yo, you know,
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Speaker 7: Black Sabbath and Frank Sinatra in the same set, you know,
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Speaker 7: back in the back in the Yeah, I was.
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Speaker 3: On when I first came to New York, I was
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Speaker 3: on w p I XFM, which was a very hot,
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Speaker 3: cutting edge FM station back then, and we played all
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Speaker 3: these new artists nobody heard before, like the Police and
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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 7: All that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Mike, good call, Thanks for colling. Let's
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Speaker 3: go to uh Marco in the Bronx Marco? How you doing?
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Speaker 8: Hey, Mark? How you doing, mister New York I'll call
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Speaker 8: you Okay, Listen, these paid agitators, yes, just cut exposed.
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Speaker 8: How come it's not really nobody's realizing Maybe they get
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Speaker 8: a big five thousand dollars bonus if they're up in
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Speaker 8: the face of these these poor ice people. How could
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Speaker 8: nobody see that there's so many of them?
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Speaker 3: People see that it's under investigation. Hey, we revealed the name.
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Speaker 3: I was it Monday or Tuesday of the guy that's
18:52
Speaker 3: the big funder of this, Neville Roy Singham. And I
18:55
Speaker 3: noticed he's getting a lot of coverage today. It's starting
18:57
Speaker 3: to come out about this guy and he is under
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Speaker 3: investigation now. He's like a worse than George Soros kind
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Speaker 3: of guy because he's partners with the Chinese Communist government.
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Speaker 3: The only problem is he lives in Singapore, so it's
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Speaker 3: very hard to touch this guy. But what part of
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Speaker 3: the Bronx are you in frog's neck? I'm a very
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Speaker 3: nice part of the Bronx. Excellent. You got that beautiful
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Speaker 3: former Trump golf course there, right, but now it's something.
19:23
Speaker 5: Oh what a shame they took that away?
19:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, thanks for calling. Let's go
19:28
Speaker 3: to uh Claire in New Jersey. Claire, how you doing?
19:33
Speaker 9: Oh?
19:34
Speaker 6: Hi, Mark.
19:35
Speaker 9: I'd like to say, by the way, I'm a former
19:37
Speaker 9: nurse for a long time and one of the nurses.
19:40
Speaker 9: The head of the protest stations there is saying they
19:44
Speaker 9: don't want ice now in the hospitals. They're protesting in
19:49
Speaker 9: allegiance to the r N that got shot in Minneapolis.
19:53
Speaker 9: But I'd like to make a comment as a former nurse,
19:57
Speaker 9: why wasn't there any protests Lake and Riley, who was
20:01
Speaker 9: a nursing student raped and murdered. Nothing was said.
20:04
Speaker 3: Well, that's the double standard Democrats are famous for. You know,
20:08
Speaker 3: remember if pretty had been killed by an illegal alien,
20:11
Speaker 3: you never would have heard it on the news. It
20:13
Speaker 3: would have gotten there would have been no coverage of it.
20:16
Speaker 3: But you're a nurse, did you did you ever smash
20:18
Speaker 3: a police car? Kick out the taillight.
20:21
Speaker 9: You know what, there was such respect, not only that
20:24
Speaker 9: I have family in Minneapolis. It was a beautiful city
20:29
Speaker 9: at one time. Beautiful. They've been there for the last
20:31
Speaker 9: forty years. It's a disgrace now.
20:34
Speaker 3: By a good point. You remember Minneapolis was Mary Tyler Moore,
20:38
Speaker 3: Roda Phyllis. Now look what happened to it? And they
20:42
Speaker 3: what is wrong with these people in Minnesota? Look who
20:45
Speaker 3: they elect to office? Al Franken, Tim Waltz, people like that.
20:50
Speaker 3: Let's go to Chris in Manhattan. Chris, how you doing?
20:53
Speaker 6: Boy?
20:54
Speaker 5: More come good things?
20:55
Speaker 4: Listen, speaking of Minnesota, if we know that Ilhan Omar
20:59
Speaker 4: really married.
21:00
Speaker 5: Her brother, just that alone? Yes?
21:02
Speaker 6: Is that not immigration fraud?
21:04
Speaker 3: That's why that's why they're investigating her immigration status.
21:07
Speaker 5: And but we all kind of know about it already.
21:09
Speaker 3: You know you didn't hear me.
21:10
Speaker 5: I said.
21:12
Speaker 3: It's currently under investigation as we speak. You never know,
21:15
Speaker 3: they may end up deporting her. Let's go to Jim
21:18
Speaker 3: and Nutley. Jim, how you doing.
21:20
Speaker 10: I'm so sick and tired about these Epstein file uh
21:26
Speaker 10: people coming out. What's the big deal about this? I mean,
21:30
Speaker 10: as far as as far as all these victims, those
21:33
Speaker 10: girls knew just what they were getting into.
21:35
Speaker 3: To me, well, a lot of them were underage and
21:38
Speaker 3: some of them were not. A lot there were women
21:40
Speaker 3: of all ages with Epstein, but some of them were
21:42
Speaker 3: underage and they didn't always know what they were getting into.
21:45
Speaker 10: I heard that some of those girls were recruiting. Other
21:47
Speaker 10: girls were listen.
21:50
Speaker 3: There were all types of women. They're good ones, bad ones,
21:52
Speaker 3: evil ones, nice ones. They didn't all choose that some
21:56
Speaker 3: of them. But the original point of the Epstein files
21:59
Speaker 3: were to get Donald Trump, and fortunately it turned out
22:04
Speaker 3: Donald Trump was the one guy that knew to stay
22:06
Speaker 3: away from Epstein and got away from him. So it's
22:08
Speaker 3: not gonna in any way damage Trump. It's going to
22:10
Speaker 3: really kill the Clintons. It's no coincidence that they're refusing
22:15
Speaker 3: to testify before Congress, refusing and defying a subpoena that
22:21
Speaker 3: peer before Congress to talk about Epstein. So they really
22:25
Speaker 3: really do not want to talk about this guy. So hey,
22:28
Speaker 3: when we come back, Monica Crowley will be with us.
22:31
Speaker 3: She is the Chief of Protocol for the United States
22:34
Speaker 3: Special Ambassador. We got lots to talk to her about.
22:37
Speaker 3: She's right there in the middle of everything in DC.
22:40
Speaker 3: We'll talk to her next on seven to ten WR
22:43
Speaker 3: Let's get back.
22:44
Speaker 2: To the Mark Simone Show on worr.
22:48
Speaker 3: Well, Monica Crowley is the I mean an amazing, amazing person,
22:53
Speaker 3: Chief of Protocol of the United States of America, ambassador
22:57
Speaker 3: and our old friend, and it's good to have her
23:00
Speaker 3: this Monica Crowley, how are you hi?
23:03
Speaker 5: Mark?
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Speaker 11: It's always great to be with you. How are you good?
23:06
Speaker 3: I mean, but we knew you when you were you
23:08
Speaker 3: were just Monica Crowley, then, don't you well.
23:12
Speaker 11: I'm still I'm still Monica Crowley.
23:14
Speaker 3: Don't you miss the good old days just doing radio
23:17
Speaker 3: and TV and having fun And.
23:21
Speaker 11: Well, No, first of all, I'm incredibly blessed to serve
23:28
Speaker 11: this president and the American people in the country. I
23:31
Speaker 11: love as cheaper Protocol of the United States. It's such
23:35
Speaker 11: a blessing, Mark, it truly is. And I am as
23:39
Speaker 11: witnessed by my being on your show this morning. I
23:42
Speaker 11: am still doing radio and television. I'm just speaking on
23:46
Speaker 11: behalf of the President and his agenda now rather than
23:49
Speaker 11: speaking on my own behalf.
23:51
Speaker 2: So I'm still doing it.
23:52
Speaker 11: We've got huge events coming up, including America's two hundred
23:56
Speaker 11: and fiftieth birthday on July fourth, and I'm huge part
24:00
Speaker 11: of that as well as the FIFA World Cup and
24:03
Speaker 11: that final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New
24:07
Speaker 11: Jersey on July nineteenth, and I'm a big part of
24:10
Speaker 11: that too. So we've got a lot of exciting things
24:13
Speaker 11: coming up in the country.
24:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now this is a big deal. It's the two
24:16
Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth Birthday of America. Events all this year
24:20
Speaker 3: and now this will continue through the summer fourth of July,
24:24
Speaker 3: or will continue the rest of the year.
24:27
Speaker 11: Well, it is going to continue the rest of the
24:29
Speaker 11: year mark Obviously, We've got a lot of big events
24:32
Speaker 11: planned between now and July fourth, and then it's all
24:35
Speaker 11: culminating on July fourth with a major addrest from the
24:39
Speaker 11: President from the White House to the country and in
24:42
Speaker 11: fact to the world. But leading up to it, we're
24:44
Speaker 11: going to have events like the Great American State Fair,
24:48
Speaker 11: which is going to take place on the Mall and
24:50
Speaker 11: all fifty states will have their own pavilions, they'll all
24:54
Speaker 11: be represented, so I encourage everybody in the spring and
24:57
Speaker 11: early summer to come down for that. We're also going
25:00
Speaker 11: to have a National Prayer event happening on the Mall
25:04
Speaker 11: on May seventeenth, So please mark your calendars for that,
25:08
Speaker 11: because it really is a cornerstone to what we're doing
25:12
Speaker 11: in the Trump administration, and in terms of marking our
25:15
Speaker 11: big national birthday, which is to try to bring the
25:19
Speaker 11: country together, to unite the country in this grand, majestic
25:24
Speaker 11: celebration of our country, but also to unite under prayer
25:29
Speaker 11: and to unite the country under God, because after all,
25:32
Speaker 11: we can't make America great again, we can't restore the
25:36
Speaker 11: country unless we return to God.
25:39
Speaker 9: So that is going to be a huge event.
25:40
Speaker 11: And then of course we're going to have UFC to
25:43
Speaker 11: fifty taking place on the South Lawn on the White
25:46
Speaker 11: House June fourteenth, and that of course is Flag Day
25:51
Speaker 11: and the President's big birthday. That is going to be
25:54
Speaker 11: quite the event. We have so many other things planned
25:57
Speaker 11: and for New York centric.
26:00
Speaker 9: I know we're on in WR New York.
26:03
Speaker 11: New York is going to host an international Naval review
26:07
Speaker 11: of tall ships and naval battleships and so on on
26:11
Speaker 11: July third and launching on July fourth as well, So
26:15
Speaker 11: the Tall Ships procession, which some of us might remember
26:19
Speaker 11: from the bi centennial in nineteen seven, right, We're going
26:24
Speaker 11: to do it all over again this year to celebrate
26:26
Speaker 11: two point fifty. It's going to go up the Hudson River.
26:29
Speaker 11: We have about I think about thirty five to forty
26:33
Speaker 11: countries who have committed a tall ship to that parade.
26:37
Speaker 11: So again, so many things, all culminating on July fourth
26:41
Speaker 11: mark and then after July fourth, later in the summer,
26:45
Speaker 11: we are going to have an incredible race around with
26:50
Speaker 11: NASCAR Formula One Grand Prix in the US Capitol, which
26:55
Speaker 11: is going to be incredible that I think is taking
26:58
Speaker 11: place in August. To encourage everybody, if you want to
27:01
Speaker 11: find out what's happening in New York or in your
27:04
Speaker 11: community or nationally, please go to Freedom two fifty dot org.
27:09
Speaker 11: Freedom two fifty dot org and the entire calendar of
27:14
Speaker 11: events is all laid out there and you can figure
27:17
Speaker 11: out how you can get involved in your community, your state,
27:20
Speaker 11: and nationwide.
27:22
Speaker 3: That's a good idea because right now we hate twenty
27:24
Speaker 3: twenty six groups. You freezing to death. Here, we got snow,
27:26
Speaker 3: we can't get rid. But forget this couple of weeks.
27:30
Speaker 3: It's going to be a great year, one of the
27:32
Speaker 3: biggest best years of our lifetime. With all this stuff
27:35
Speaker 3: going on.
27:36
Speaker 11: Hey, you were Davos, right, I was, Yes, I was
27:40
Speaker 11: with the President for.
27:41
Speaker 3: That and a much better Davos this year without that
27:44
Speaker 3: Klaus whatever his name, was running things much much better Davos.
27:48
Speaker 3: I liked it this year.
27:50
Speaker 12: Well.
27:50
Speaker 11: The World Economic Forum, which hosts DeVos every year in Davos, Switzerland,
27:55
Speaker 11: is under new management. Larry think of black Rock and
27:59
Speaker 11: a few others have taken over from Klaus Schwab. And
28:02
Speaker 11: of course the big dog on the block is always
28:05
Speaker 11: President Trump, and it's always the United States of America,
28:08
Speaker 11: and this time around the dynamic was completely different. The
28:12
Speaker 11: last time I was in Davos was January of twenty twenty,
28:16
Speaker 11: when I served in the first Trump administration. It was
28:19
Speaker 11: after you know, it was right as COVID was starting
28:23
Speaker 11: to rip around the world from China, so the dynamic
28:27
Speaker 11: was completely different and globalism was still on the march.
28:31
Speaker 11: This time around, President has put his foot down on globalism.
28:34
Speaker 11: This was an America first presentation by him and by
28:38
Speaker 11: the US delegation, and it was just an incredible thing
28:42
Speaker 11: to see. I mean, Davos has really changed, and I
28:45
Speaker 11: think for the better. I think national sovereignty for America
28:49
Speaker 11: and other countries around the world that is now on
28:52
Speaker 11: the menu versus destructive globalism.
28:56
Speaker 3: Oh that's good right now, Monica Crowley, the Milennia film Big,
29:00
Speaker 3: Big Documentary opens today in fifteen hundred theaters. You saw
29:04
Speaker 3: the premiere of it. Tell us about the film, Yes.
29:07
Speaker 11: Well, I was very fortunate to be invited to the
29:10
Speaker 11: private screening at the White House last weekend of this
29:14
Speaker 11: very small intimate group Queen Ranya of Jordan by Tyson
29:18
Speaker 11: Tony Robbins. Very small group, and I saw den It
29:22
Speaker 11: was absolutely incredible. It opens nationwide and globally today and
29:28
Speaker 11: I encourage everybody to go get a ticket, be a
29:31
Speaker 11: part of history and see this beautiful film because it
29:35
Speaker 11: really is a behind the scenes view of the first Lady,
29:39
Speaker 11: the President, their family in about twenty It covers about
29:44
Speaker 11: twenty days leading up to and then immediately after the
29:47
Speaker 11: inauguration last year, and it's just smart and it follows
29:52
Speaker 11: her and her philanthropy, her businesses, her love of her country,
29:57
Speaker 11: her love of her husband and her family. It showed
30:00
Speaker 11: she's some fashion, there's some fun. It's very funny in
30:03
Speaker 11: places as well. It's a real inside look and I
30:07
Speaker 11: think everybody will love it, So go get your ticket today.
30:10
Speaker 3: Yes, and a brilliant woman. You know, she speaks five
30:13
Speaker 3: languages fluently. I can't even learn a second language. I'm
30:16
Speaker 3: still don't work on an English five languages.
30:20
Speaker 11: She really is underestimated. I think maybe she likes it
30:23
Speaker 11: that way. But she is brilliant in her own right,
30:27
Speaker 11: very very accomplished, and just a beautiful woman inside and out.
30:32
Speaker 11: And this is really her moment, you know. Obviously President
30:35
Speaker 11: Trump is running country extremely well. I mean I think
30:39
Speaker 11: he's going to go down as the goat the greatest
30:41
Speaker 11: of all time, really doing an extraordinary job as president.
30:46
Speaker 11: And I'm really leading not just the free world, but
30:49
Speaker 11: leading the world. This movie is her moment. This is
30:53
Speaker 11: something special for her and she so deserves it because
30:56
Speaker 11: she has been and continues to be an extraordinary first.
31:00
Speaker 3: Lady Monica Crawley. One final thing, we got a new
31:03
Speaker 3: FED chairman nominated picked Kevin Walsh. Good guy. I think
31:08
Speaker 3: that's a good choice. Don't agree.
31:10
Speaker 7: Yes, I do too.
31:11
Speaker 11: And in the first Trump administration, I was very honored
31:13
Speaker 11: to serve in the Treasury Department as Assistant secretary, so
31:17
Speaker 11: I know a lot of these issues. I dealt with
31:19
Speaker 11: the FED very closely, particularly during the COVID era, when
31:23
Speaker 11: we were standing up all kinds of unprecedented programs to
31:27
Speaker 11: save the American people in American businesses. So I know
31:30
Speaker 11: a lot about the FED. I've dealt with them. I
31:32
Speaker 11: think Kevin Walsh is going to be an extraordinary FED chairman.
31:37
Speaker 11: He really is, and he's going to partner. The FED
31:40
Speaker 11: is independent, of course, but the kinds of policies I
31:44
Speaker 11: think you're going to see coming from the FED in
31:47
Speaker 11: terms of maximum employment and interest rates, the money supply,
31:52
Speaker 11: I think it is going to compliment what the President
31:55
Speaker 11: is doing on the fiscal side. You are going to
31:58
Speaker 11: see an economic boom under the Trump administration that we
32:03
Speaker 11: have not seen since first Trump administration, only even better.
32:07
Speaker 11: So get ready, buckle up, Yanks, the boom coming at us.
32:10
Speaker 3: I got a big year coming up. It's the two
32:12
Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth, the birthday of America. Give us the
32:14
Speaker 3: website again. Anybody should go to.
32:16
Speaker 11: Yes, it's Freedom two fifty dot org again. Freedom two
32:21
Speaker 11: fifty dot org for everything you need to know about
32:23
Speaker 11: America's big two hundred and fiftieth birthday party.
32:27
Speaker 3: Well, Manica Crowley, great work. If she's the Chief of
32:30
Speaker 3: Protocol in the United States Ambassador of Monica Crowley, thanks
32:34
Speaker 3: for being with us.
32:35
Speaker 11: Always a pleasure.
32:36
Speaker 3: Mark, thank you, all right, take care. Yeah, that's something
32:39
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty years thing. A lot of big
32:41
Speaker 3: events this year, so you may not be thrilled with
32:45
Speaker 3: the year so far. This January is not the best month.
32:48
Speaker 3: It was pretty bad, but you're in store for an
32:50
Speaker 3: incredible year. Don't forget Buck and Clay coming up at
32:53
Speaker 3: noon today. They do a great show every day noon
32:55
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32:58
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33:02
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33:05
Speaker 3: great show he does, funny, interesting every night nine o'clock.
33:09
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33:14
Speaker 2: Mark Simone show continues now.
33:20
Speaker 3: All right, just checking the very latest forecast. Now the latest,
33:25
Speaker 3: and we're pretty close to Sunday, so it's not likely
33:27
Speaker 3: to change too much. The latest is we're not gonna
33:29
Speaker 3: get hit with that snow storm on Sunday. It's what
33:33
Speaker 3: they call a bomb cyclone, very heavy, ferocious winds, snow
33:37
Speaker 3: falling very fast. Well, it looks like it's turned. It
33:40
Speaker 3: will miss New York City. It will mostly miss Westchester, Connecticut,
33:46
Speaker 3: Nassau County to out the end of Long Island. If
33:49
Speaker 3: you're out in the Hampton's or somewhere out there, you
33:51
Speaker 3: could get hit with it and get three inches or so.
33:53
Speaker 3: But we're safe for Sunday, New York. It's not gonna
33:56
Speaker 3: be a great day. It's gonna be cold and extremely windy,
34:00
Speaker 3: but it looks like no snow. Now. The good news
34:03
Speaker 3: is we'll miss we'll we'll miss this storm on Sunday.
34:07
Speaker 3: We won't get any more snow, and then on Monday
34:10
Speaker 3: Tuesday gets up to thirty two thirty three degrees, so
34:13
Speaker 3: the snow will start melting. It's not going to be easy.
34:17
Speaker 3: We've never had this happen where we got this kind
34:19
Speaker 3: of snow and then way below freezing for a week afterwards,
34:22
Speaker 3: so the snow couldn't melt. So that could start to
34:25
Speaker 3: change next week. We'll get out of this mess next week. Hey,
34:28
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34:30
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34:45
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34:52
Speaker 3: Well, we've gotta lot to get to this hour, just
34:55
Speaker 3: to bring up the speed that Don Lemon was arrested.
34:57
Speaker 3: He is in that has been a it. Apparently he
35:01
Speaker 3: was partying like crazy in La the Grammy Awards this
35:04
Speaker 3: Sunday night. The parties have already begun. He was out
35:07
Speaker 3: there all night partying. The night ended with him being
35:10
Speaker 3: arrested by federal agents. And now remember this is not
35:17
Speaker 3: it's not just Donald Trump deciding to arrest him. It's
35:19
Speaker 3: not the Attorney General, it's not the Justice departments. Nothing
35:22
Speaker 3: in the trumpetmistress. And it made the final decision. It
35:24
Speaker 3: was the grand jury. They just simply presented it to
35:27
Speaker 3: the grand jury, and the grand jury voted to indict
35:31
Speaker 3: Don Lemon for there's a couple of laws he violated
35:35
Speaker 3: in that church. Now a lot of people worried that
35:38
Speaker 3: this will make Don Lemon into a huge martyr that
35:43
Speaker 3: he'll be on every You know, he's a guy that
35:45
Speaker 3: was basically fired in disgrace. He was out of work.
35:49
Speaker 3: Nobody would touch this guy, Nobody would hire this guy.
35:51
Speaker 3: He was doing one of these silly podcasts from his bedroom,
35:56
Speaker 3: running around with a microphone, totally out of work. But this, well,
36:01
Speaker 3: this is different. Now. Suddenly it'll be all over MSNBC
36:04
Speaker 3: and CNN, and there'll be a GoFundMe that could raise
36:07
Speaker 3: millions and millions. He's hired the top lawyer you could
36:10
Speaker 3: hire in a matter like this, Abbey Lowell. So a
36:13
Speaker 3: lot of people worried that this will make Don Lemon
36:16
Speaker 3: not only a martyr, but bigger than ever, may actually
36:20
Speaker 3: bring back his broadcasting career for him. The Justice Department
36:24
Speaker 3: right now is releasing more Epstein files. We explained last hour,
36:28
Speaker 3: there's five million pages that need to be read and
36:31
Speaker 3: gone through with a fine tooth coming to make sure
36:34
Speaker 3: there's no identifying victims or anything like that. So apparently
36:38
Speaker 3: they've gotten a batch done over Lisa Batch later. Now,
36:41
Speaker 3: what's going to happen Every time they release a batch,
36:44
Speaker 3: You're going to be very disappointed because there's going to
36:46
Speaker 3: be nothing that interesting in there. But this will continue
36:50
Speaker 3: for a while. Hey, we're talking last hour. Monica Crowley
36:53
Speaker 3: was with us telling us about this two hundred and
36:55
Speaker 3: fiftieth Birthday of America. The whole year is going to
36:58
Speaker 3: be big, big events celebrating America's two undred and fiftieth birthday.
37:03
Speaker 3: And if she listed all the events, I realized, as
37:06
Speaker 3: miserable as Democrats are, now, as angry, crazy, miserable as
37:11
Speaker 3: the Democrats are, this year's going to be tough on them,
37:16
Speaker 3: very tough on them. You know, they're not into flag
37:19
Speaker 3: waving or you know, Fourth of July. They don't like
37:21
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. It's not their favorite day. So
37:25
Speaker 3: when the whole year is America, the flag and all
37:29
Speaker 3: the events she talked about, this is not going to
37:32
Speaker 3: be the National Prayer Service. Democrats are not going to
37:38
Speaker 3: be flocking to that. What's the other one? The National
37:42
Speaker 3: State Fair that's not big with Democrats. And at the
37:46
Speaker 3: White House in Washington, the events are NASCAR. Yeah, that's
37:51
Speaker 3: not big with the Jimmy Kimmel, CNN, Colbert crowd. They're
37:56
Speaker 3: not big on Nascar. The other one was UFC Fighting
37:59
Speaker 3: Championship at the White House. And then the Fourth of
38:02
Speaker 3: July and Democrats, I don't like this stuff. It's a
38:07
Speaker 3: miserable day for them. Fourth of July with the flag
38:09
Speaker 3: and the picnics and hot dogs. They don't like this.
38:13
Speaker 3: So this is going to be a very rough year
38:15
Speaker 3: for your Democratic friends as this stuff starts unfold, especially
38:19
Speaker 3: in the summer. So you think they're angry and miserable.
38:21
Speaker 3: Now just wait. So we got a new FED chairman,
38:28
Speaker 3: Kevin Wash everybody likes the Powell is just awful. Really
38:32
Speaker 3: need to get rid of him. He's still got till
38:34
Speaker 3: May before his term is over. Now, when you're done
38:37
Speaker 3: as the FED chairman, you're supposed to give up your
38:40
Speaker 3: board seat. So his term is up in May, but
38:43
Speaker 3: he's his board term having a seat on the board
38:46
Speaker 3: goes to like twenty twenty eight. But if you're gracious
38:49
Speaker 3: about it, you step down and you get the hell
38:51
Speaker 3: out of there. Knowing Paul bad guy hates Trump, probably
38:55
Speaker 3: will not. Here's President Trump.
38:57
Speaker 4: You can do it with a pencil cutting. It's not
39:01
Speaker 4: saying we have to get rid of jobs or it's
39:02
Speaker 4: just like literally so easy to do. But we have
39:06
Speaker 4: a guy that doesn't want to do it because he's
39:08
Speaker 4: I think he's politically biased. I really do. I believe
39:11
Speaker 4: he's politically biased, because most smart people say it's not
39:15
Speaker 4: even a question.
39:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we know he's politically He not only politically biased,
39:19
Speaker 3: but he hates, hates, hates Trump, so he'll stay there,
39:23
Speaker 3: probably just to make Trump miserable. So the good news,
39:26
Speaker 3: we're going to miss this snowstorm. It's not going to
39:28
Speaker 3: hit us on Sunday. But the freezing temperatures have caused
39:32
Speaker 3: a lot of problems. You know, the Hudson River, the
39:34
Speaker 3: East River are frozen, frozen, that's ruined everything. There's no
39:39
Speaker 3: ferry service. But also remember we need those those rivers
39:43
Speaker 3: for all kinds of commercial purposes and shipping and delivery.
39:47
Speaker 3: So icebreakers are now in the Hudson River. They came yesterday.
39:52
Speaker 3: These icebreakers are trying to break up the ice and
39:55
Speaker 3: open it up, and hopefully it'll get the ferry service back,
39:58
Speaker 3: although who then he'll take ferry in this kind of
40:01
Speaker 3: cold weather. You know, if you're here in Manhattan walking around,
40:04
Speaker 3: those bikes are all over the place, riding around in
40:07
Speaker 3: the slush and the snow and the unbelievably cold temperatures.
40:11
Speaker 3: Bikes all over the place. And they're not just the
40:13
Speaker 3: delivery bikes that I could understand, but just amateur bikes,
40:19
Speaker 3: you know, city bikers. They're still out there in this snow. Hey,
40:23
Speaker 3: the Milania movie opens today. You should go see it.
40:25
Speaker 3: It's in fifteen hundred theaters today. They had the first
40:32
Speaker 3: screening at the White House, big private event, and then
40:35
Speaker 3: the big premiere was last night the Kennedy Center with
40:38
Speaker 3: all the usual cast of characters, the whole Trump administration,
40:41
Speaker 3: all the cabinet secretaries, all of that. And then there
40:44
Speaker 3: were two after parties, big bashes afterwards that went all night.
40:51
Speaker 3: But it opens today all over the country. If you
40:54
Speaker 3: want to see it, go see it. Now. You're going
40:57
Speaker 3: to hear all these left wing people as the film
40:59
Speaker 3: starts to be talked about, and do well, you hear
41:01
Speaker 3: all these media left wing idiots start to tell you
41:04
Speaker 3: that this movie is a bribe, that why would Malania
41:08
Speaker 3: get forty million from Amazon for this film? Well, that's
41:12
Speaker 3: a bribe. It was Amazon bribing the Trump administration with
41:15
Speaker 3: the forty million. Now, of course they'll never mention that
41:19
Speaker 3: Michelle Obama, whose documentary totally bombed, got eighty million from Netflix.
41:25
Speaker 3: Actually that's the better question. Why did Malania only get half?
41:29
Speaker 3: Who would you rather look at for two hours, Milania
41:31
Speaker 3: or Michelle Obama. The Michelle Obama documentaries are just it's
41:35
Speaker 3: really crabby in real life and has nothing to say.
41:39
Speaker 3: It's just the most boring two hours that Milania documentary.
41:42
Speaker 3: And remember when you see the documentary, they shot like
41:45
Speaker 3: four thousand hours just to get anything interesting. So the
41:49
Speaker 3: two hours you're seeing is the most interesting of the
41:51
Speaker 3: four thousand hours. Remember also, Michelle Obama got a book deal.
41:56
Speaker 3: You know, normally when you get a book deal, they'll
41:58
Speaker 3: give you ten million for your book in advance. Maybe
42:02
Speaker 3: if you're the president, maybe twenty million. Remember Michelle Obama's
42:07
Speaker 3: book deal sixty five million, unheard of, totally unheard of.
42:12
Speaker 3: Shakespeare couldn't get sixty five million for a book deal.
42:15
Speaker 3: But so you talk about bribing somebody, the shutdown looms,
42:21
Speaker 3: they're trying to make some kind of deal. Of course,
42:22
Speaker 3: you got crazy, angry Chuck Schumer who's at the end
42:28
Speaker 3: of a very mediocre career right now, Schumer making all
42:31
Speaker 3: kinds of demands. Are going to try to do this shutdown,
42:34
Speaker 3: and they're going to try to use ice in Minnesota,
42:37
Speaker 3: and all that is an excuse. You can't just shut
42:40
Speaker 3: down the Department of Homeland Security because everything is in
42:42
Speaker 3: that department. That's where the TSA is in there, the
42:45
Speaker 3: Secret Service. You can't defund that but here's schumer yelling
42:50
Speaker 3: and huffing and puffing.
42:51
Speaker 13: Caucus is unified over three main legislative objectives. First, we
42:58
Speaker 13: want to end groving patrol. We need to tighten the
43:02
Speaker 13: rules governing the use of warrants and require ICE's coordination
43:06
Speaker 13: with state and local law enforcement. Second, we want to
43:11
Speaker 13: enforce accountability. Third, we want masks off. Body cameras on.
43:18
Speaker 3: Okay, now, this is all a big mess of stuff.
43:21
Speaker 3: Body cameras on. Yeah, I would agree with that masks off.
43:24
Speaker 3: The reason they wear the mask is these crazy, raging,
43:27
Speaker 3: nutjob violent protesters have threatened the families of the ICE agents.
43:34
Speaker 3: If they can see the face, they can identify the person.
43:36
Speaker 3: They will then go to the well the ICE agents
43:39
Speaker 3: are away on the job, they will go to the
43:42
Speaker 3: ICE agent's house and terrorize his children and his wife.
43:45
Speaker 3: That's literally what would happen. That's why the masks. Now,
43:49
Speaker 3: you don't need to take the masks off proposal. The
43:52
Speaker 3: compromise will be every agent will have a number on
43:55
Speaker 3: his uniform, big number, and that's an identifying number. So
43:59
Speaker 3: if you want to hurt the guy, you just give
44:01
Speaker 3: that number and then within the department they know who
44:04
Speaker 3: it is. So that's the way they'll do that. Now
44:08
Speaker 3: body cams, that's actually going to work against the protesters.
44:12
Speaker 3: For instance, the Renee Good shooting, if that guy had
44:15
Speaker 3: a bodycam, you would have seen the car come right
44:18
Speaker 3: at it and smash it. So bodycam will help the
44:22
Speaker 3: Ice agents. Hopefully the shutdown doesn't happen. There's a lot
44:27
Speaker 3: of people Lindsey Graham causing the problem. The President will
44:30
Speaker 3: call him this afternoon and calm him down and hopefully
44:35
Speaker 3: it'll get straightened out. Now Here in New York budget crisis,
44:39
Speaker 3: you got Mamdani in charge. He has started to figure
44:42
Speaker 3: out it's not just about taxes. The reason you have
44:45
Speaker 3: a budget crisis is the budget is totally out of control.
44:50
Speaker 3: It's absolutely ludicrous that this one city has one hundred
44:53
Speaker 3: and twenty billion dollar budget. It's insane. So cuts have
44:57
Speaker 3: to be made. Now, Supposedly, he's going to try his
45:00
Speaker 3: his own little doge. He's going to have somebody appointed
45:04
Speaker 3: in each department to be like the doge officer and
45:07
Speaker 3: figure out what can be cut. Let's hope he really
45:10
Speaker 3: is going to do this.
45:11
Speaker 14: The tools that the city has, these are the most
45:13
Speaker 14: painful tools. We are talking about cuts. We are talking
45:16
Speaker 14: about property taxes, the things that I do not want
45:18
Speaker 14: to pursue. Yeah, and yet the scale of this fiscal
45:20
Speaker 14: crisis of twelve billion dollars, this is not an ordinary crisis.
45:24
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now you know the idea of the budget cuts.
45:27
Speaker 3: It's not that you're going to hurt any services or
45:30
Speaker 3: deprive people the services or anything like that. The overpaid
45:34
Speaker 3: for everything. There's incredible waste bloat all through the budget.
45:40
Speaker 3: The one hundred and twenty billion. He could easily cut
45:42
Speaker 3: that to sixty billion and promptly forty billion if you
45:45
Speaker 3: were really efficient about it. And hopefully he'll actually do
45:50
Speaker 3: this stuff, actually seriously look at cutting stuff. I know
45:53
Speaker 3: he wants to raise taxes, but he doesn't have the
45:56
Speaker 3: power to do it. He's got to go to the governor.
45:59
Speaker 3: She's running for real, so she's got to be careful.
46:02
Speaker 3: Or you got to go to the city council. And
46:03
Speaker 3: as a I'm telling you yesterday we got a new
46:05
Speaker 3: city council speaker who's a moderate. He's a Democrat, but
46:09
Speaker 3: a very common sense moderate Democrat who's not going to
46:13
Speaker 3: do crazy stuff. So that's a good check and balance
46:16
Speaker 3: on on Mom, Donnie. So the Luigi MANNGI own cases.
46:20
Speaker 3: It's in court today and the judge is already tossed
46:24
Speaker 3: out a couple of charges, and those were the charges
46:26
Speaker 3: that would have brought the death penalty. Now, I don't
46:30
Speaker 3: know what case would call for the death penalty more
46:32
Speaker 3: than this one. I mean, we see the video of
46:35
Speaker 3: him just deliberately assassinating this guy for no reason at all,
46:39
Speaker 3: walking right up to this guy and shooting him dead.
46:42
Speaker 3: I mean, what more do you need for a death penalty?
46:44
Speaker 3: But it's a Manhattan courtroom, it's a Manhattan judge. They
46:48
Speaker 3: don't like the death penalty, so they've taken that off
46:50
Speaker 3: the table.
46:52
Speaker 2: Uh.
46:52
Speaker 3: Now, one thing about when you take that off the table,
46:54
Speaker 3: it makes the conviction easier for a jury. And the
46:58
Speaker 3: judge did rule that the evidence in his backpack that
47:01
Speaker 3: was on him when he got arrested can stay. So
47:03
Speaker 3: even though the death penalty's gone, it looks more and
47:06
Speaker 3: more and more like an absolutely definite chance of conviction.
47:11
Speaker 3: I mean, you got the video, you got everything, So
47:14
Speaker 3: that's good news. Hey, yesterday was the cabinet meeting, so
47:20
Speaker 3: all the left wing sites are trying to find something
47:22
Speaker 3: wrong with it. Very hard to do. It's a pretty
47:24
Speaker 3: good cabinet meeting. But here's Mediaite. Media Ite is the
47:27
Speaker 3: real left wing or left wing slanted site, the big
47:32
Speaker 3: headline The five most fawning moments from the Trump cabinet meeting.
47:36
Speaker 3: Fawning moments Number one Pete Hexath claiming the Venezuela operation
47:42
Speaker 3: was one of the greatest in world history. Well, actually
47:46
Speaker 3: that's true. I've heard a million military experts say they're
47:50
Speaker 3: amazed at the efficiency, how well run that operation was.
47:54
Speaker 3: It was absolutely dazzling. I mean, get into a country,
47:59
Speaker 3: get a world leader in his bed, and get him
48:01
Speaker 3: out of the country without any without losing one American life.
48:06
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. What was the other one? Number two?
48:10
Speaker 3: Howard Lutnick consists Trump is fixing everything. Oh, actually he is.
48:13
Speaker 3: He's fixing the supply chain, he's fixing the economy, getting
48:17
Speaker 3: everything straightened out. So all of these are actually great things.
48:20
Speaker 3: Trump's small business administrator. List of wars he's ended added
48:26
Speaker 3: another one. He's ended the war on main street and
48:30
Speaker 3: hardworking families. Well that's pretty much true. Their income has
48:34
Speaker 3: come up under all the Trump stuff, all the Trump
48:36
Speaker 3: economic stuff. Average income now for a working person is
48:40
Speaker 3: way up a couple of thousand bucks this year. Scott
48:44
Speaker 3: Bessent predicts twenty twenty six will be the year of
48:47
Speaker 3: the Trump boom. Yeah, so does everybody else. It's going
48:50
Speaker 3: to the tax cuts are kicking in. You'll probably get
48:53
Speaker 3: a rate cut pretty soon. Yeah, it really will be.
48:58
Speaker 3: Here's the final one. Trump's saved hundreds of lives during
49:01
Speaker 3: the winter storms due to his love of coal. Well, actually, yeah,
49:04
Speaker 3: we had a ton of energy. All of a sudden,
49:07
Speaker 3: gas prices are way down. An amount of gas, the
49:10
Speaker 3: amount of oil being pumped, and all that is way
49:14
Speaker 3: way way up. Hey, you know a lot of people,
49:17
Speaker 3: you know, they move out of New York, they move
49:19
Speaker 3: out of California, They moved to Texas, they moved to Florida.
49:23
Speaker 3: People leaving New York leaving Texas over the last bunch
49:25
Speaker 3: of years for tax reasons, other reasons. Studies now show
49:32
Speaker 3: that because of that, when they do the twenty thirty census,
49:37
Speaker 3: New York and California combined will lose six House seats
49:41
Speaker 3: and the House seats will be transferred to places like
49:44
Speaker 3: Texas and Florida. And they estimate that's going to cost
49:47
Speaker 3: Democrats in the future nine electoral votes. Right there. Pretty interesting. Hey,
49:52
Speaker 3: we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three two one
49:56
Speaker 3: zero seven ten. Is the number eight hundred three two
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Speaker 3: one zero seven ten.
50:01
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50:10
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50:15
Speaker 3: Hey, let's take some polls. Let's go to Carl Yorktown Heights. Carl,
50:19
Speaker 3: how you.
50:20
Speaker 5: Doing all right?
50:21
Speaker 12: Good speak you Mark? Mark over in New Yorktown. Our prices,
50:26
Speaker 12: our gifts sayed between three twenty nine and three thirty
50:29
Speaker 12: three for us the last six months. I don't understand
50:32
Speaker 12: what we're not coming down yet.
50:34
Speaker 3: Oh, because New York State is every time the price
50:36
Speaker 3: of gas comes down, new York State increases the tax
50:39
Speaker 3: to keep it where it is, So gases two fifty everywhere,
50:42
Speaker 3: But in California and New York they keep raising the tax,
50:45
Speaker 3: the local tax, to keep it up there. So the
50:49
Speaker 3: price you pay for living in New York. Hey, you
50:52
Speaker 3: got a lot of snow up there, Carl.
50:54
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, we had about between fifteen and eighteen fifteen.
50:59
Speaker 12: And they're still taking out the sidewalks.
51:03
Speaker 3: All right, Carl, thanks for calling Yorktown. He it's a
51:05
Speaker 3: very nice place. Let's go to rich In Myrtle Beach.
51:08
Speaker 3: Rich How you doing.
51:10
Speaker 6: Hey, thanks May. We're getting two to four inches of
51:12
Speaker 6: snow here tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night, and it'll stick
51:15
Speaker 6: around for a couple of days. They're going to be
51:16
Speaker 6: in the team for the next few days.
51:18
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Myrtle Beach. Where's that South Carolina?
51:21
Speaker 6: Yes, South Carolina, North Carolina.
51:23
Speaker 3: Until you go down there to get away from this weather.
51:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, in Inland where your buddy Joe Barbler lives, he's
51:29
Speaker 6: going to be getting five to eight inches in there
51:31
Speaker 6: by that part of South Carolina.
51:33
Speaker 5: Whoa yeah, you know.
51:36
Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer continues to just show what a complete idiot
51:39
Speaker 6: and the putts he really is. It's just disgraceful what
51:42
Speaker 6: this guy is still in office. But I don't know
51:44
Speaker 6: if you saw this. I saw a posted somewhere that
51:47
Speaker 6: some film companies looking for as many cops and firemen
51:50
Speaker 6: as they can find because they're doing a giant documentary
51:54
Speaker 6: on the after nine to eleven illnesses and cancers that
51:57
Speaker 6: came about. I don't know if you saw anything or
51:59
Speaker 6: do anything about that. No, but no acting experience needed.
52:03
Speaker 3: Well, obviously they want to people. You know, sounds like
52:06
Speaker 3: a documentary kind of thing. But interesting. Yeah, you're right
52:08
Speaker 3: about Schumer because, uh, he's really the poster boy for
52:13
Speaker 3: term limits. He is just an old dinosaur, this old fossil,
52:17
Speaker 3: this useless bureaucrat who gets nothing done except for donors.
52:22
Speaker 3: And you wonder, how the hell did that guy stay there?
52:24
Speaker 3: How does he get reelected donor service? That's what he's
52:26
Speaker 3: known for. They all got his cell phone and is
52:30
Speaker 3: even the Republican donors lot. They'll as they'll tell you,
52:33
Speaker 3: I can wake that guy up at two in the morning.
52:34
Speaker 3: He'll do whatever I need. That's Chuck Schumer. That's that's
52:38
Speaker 3: been his main business for all these years. Let's go
52:40
Speaker 3: to Bob Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good? Mark?
52:44
Speaker 3: Thank you? Hey.
52:45
Speaker 15: I'm surprised that there's not more hope law about the
52:48
Speaker 15: MTA making history about like the one point five billion
52:52
Speaker 15: in all the time. It's interesting there's a dulge project
52:57
Speaker 15: at Mundani and Cochel could take to find out, like, jeez,
53:02
Speaker 15: so much over time, what's going on over there all
53:05
Speaker 15: the money taking agency?
53:06
Speaker 3: As Curtis would say, yeah, no, it's though it's total waste, fraud, bloat.
53:12
Speaker 3: New York State budget, New York City budget. You know,
53:15
Speaker 3: Florida is a bigger place than New York. It has
53:18
Speaker 3: a bigger population than New York State. There has more
53:20
Speaker 3: big cities than New York State. Their budget is half
53:24
Speaker 3: the budget in New York State. Half. We could cut
53:27
Speaker 3: our budget in half. You know what that means. It
53:29
Speaker 3: means your taxes get cut in half. New York City,
53:32
Speaker 3: we could cut this budget in half. That means your
53:34
Speaker 3: taxes get cut in half. You're overpaying like crazy for
53:38
Speaker 3: all that waste and fraud and bloat. Let's go to
53:40
Speaker 3: Richard in New Jersey. Richard, how you doing?
53:43
Speaker 5: How do you doing? Mark? Thank You've been taking the
53:45
Speaker 5: call with respect to Minneapolis. Something that doesn't make sense.
53:49
Speaker 5: It's cold as there than here. Why are they getting
53:51
Speaker 5: into confrontations spray with firehosts?
53:54
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the cold has helped. There was
53:58
Speaker 3: supposed to be a vicious violence weekend protest. The cold
54:01
Speaker 3: weather put an end to that last weekend. And they
54:03
Speaker 3: do spray them, but they spray them with that it's
54:07
Speaker 3: not I know what it is, mace or some chemical.
54:10
Speaker 3: And they spray them in the face.
54:12
Speaker 5: On them and they get the hell out of dodge quick.
54:14
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well yeah, but it's there's a lot of videos
54:17
Speaker 3: online you can see of them getting sprayed. And it's
54:19
Speaker 3: not with a little you know thing you hold in
54:20
Speaker 3: your hand, little pepper spray thing. It's like a big
54:23
Speaker 3: fire hose of spray. It's great to watch those videos
54:27
Speaker 3: because it comes out all red and green and blue,
54:29
Speaker 3: like a rainbow of powder just going hitting them right
54:33
Speaker 3: in the face. It's like a cannon. They use it.
54:36
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55:01
Speaker 12: How are you?
55:02
Speaker 3: I'm good? How are you?
55:06
Speaker 16: I'm calling about accessor Ride.
55:08
Speaker 3: Wor Yes, you sound very gentle. What are you calling about.
55:13
Speaker 16: Access? The issues with accessor Ride? They left me stranded
55:17
Speaker 16: last night and the night before.
55:19
Speaker 3: What's accessor z nicol Uh.
55:22
Speaker 16: It's it's a transfer empta transfer transportation for disabled.
55:27
Speaker 3: Oh and what happened? They didn't show up?
55:31
Speaker 16: They didn't show up Wednesday night or last night. Wow,
55:35
Speaker 16: I was standing out Nicole for twenty five minutes last
55:38
Speaker 16: night because it kept saying writing in three minutes, arriving
55:42
Speaker 16: in three minutes. They never showed up.
55:44
Speaker 3: Oh well, sorry to hear that. You're okay now, I
55:46
Speaker 3: hope you got home.
55:47
Speaker 8: Okay, I got home.
55:49
Speaker 16: I'd take accessor ride. I had to take an uber
55:52
Speaker 16: last night. One hundred and thirty one days.
55:54
Speaker 3: Oh all right, Well that's a terrible story. I hope
55:56
Speaker 3: that doesn't happen again. Thanks for calling. Yeah, that's the
55:59
Speaker 3: mt they've had, not just the MTA but MTA Metro
56:04
Speaker 3: North Long Island Road. A lot of disruption all this
56:07
Speaker 3: week because of the snow, because of whatever. A lot
56:10
Speaker 3: of trains canceled late, didn't show up. But that's a
56:12
Speaker 3: horrible story there. Hey, when we come back, Charlie Gasparino
56:16
Speaker 3: will be with us, the best business reporter on earth.
56:18
Speaker 3: Lots to talk to him about. Coming up next on
56:21
Speaker 3: seven to ten, wor.
56:23
Speaker 1: More Mark Simone on seven tenor Well.
56:28
Speaker 3: Charlie Gasparino, the best business reporter on Earth. Of course,
56:31
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56:33
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56:37
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56:39
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56:42
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56:47
Speaker 3: you doing good?
56:49
Speaker 5: I just read that Don Lennon got arrested.
56:53
Speaker 3: Well it's it's it's great. But aren't you worried that
56:57
Speaker 3: this could make him into a big martyr, This could
56:59
Speaker 3: make him into a big TV star all over again.
57:03
Speaker 5: And I don't know, I don Lemon will screw up anything.
57:09
Speaker 5: He was like a normal human being.
57:10
Speaker 7: I'd be like yeah.
57:12
Speaker 5: A few times, like once recently as a matter of fact.
57:16
Speaker 5: I mean he was like, seemed like a nice guy.
57:19
Speaker 5: I just don't what he did in that church and
57:23
Speaker 5: some of his other antics. It's just so stupid. I
57:26
Speaker 5: don't don't quite understand it. It's I mean, okay, like, listen,
57:32
Speaker 5: you cover stories, but are do you partake in the
57:37
Speaker 5: story like he kind of He definitely kind of stepped
57:41
Speaker 5: over the line and in it's such a horrible way
57:44
Speaker 5: because all as they were doing was harassing poor people
57:46
Speaker 5: at church. It wasn't like these was a clan rally
57:50
Speaker 5: or anything. These were a bunch of Christians who are
57:52
Speaker 5: sitting there praying to God while these assholes come in
57:57
Speaker 5: off the street and started using them and their kids.
58:00
Speaker 5: And he made it sound like, you know, it was
58:02
Speaker 5: MLKA coming across the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
58:05
Speaker 3: You know, well, if you read the lie, it's pretty specific.
58:10
Speaker 3: You're not allowed to do anything to intimidate or interfere
58:13
Speaker 3: with the service. It's pretty clear.
58:16
Speaker 5: It's well, yeah, they you know. I just wonder, you know,
58:20
Speaker 5: I mean, I wonder if he could fall behind that
58:23
Speaker 5: that First Amendment stuff. But although it seemed like he
58:26
Speaker 5: was so part of it, just I wonder it was
58:30
Speaker 5: giving him advice to do this stupid stuff because it's
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Speaker 5: really dumb. I mean, it's really really dumb. And I
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Speaker 5: don't think and this is why I don't think he'll
58:39
Speaker 5: be a martyr on this mark. It's so stupid. Even
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Speaker 5: lefties indeed it will say it's stupid what he did.
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Speaker 3: All right, that's a good point. Kevin Walsh, Are we
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Speaker 3: happy with this? I am.
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Speaker 5: I think this is a great choice. I mean, so
58:56
Speaker 5: I wrote a story I don't remember. It was a
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Speaker 5: couple of about a month ago, had a bunch of
59:00
Speaker 5: CEOs went to Trump and said, listen, if you're gonna
59:03
Speaker 5: go there, do not pick you know, if you can
59:07
Speaker 5: get rid of of Howell, do not be a ascid
59:10
Speaker 5: Kevin has And Kevin Hassen's a nice guy's a smart guy,
59:13
Speaker 5: but he's way too much of a cheerleader. I mean, well,
59:16
Speaker 5: you kind of need somebody that is seen as independent
59:20
Speaker 5: because you know, whether we like it or not, we
59:22
Speaker 5: sell a lot of debt. You know, we're still running
59:25
Speaker 5: two trillion dollar budget deficits. If the FED is seen
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Speaker 5: as not independent, someone that's gonna FED share is gonna,
59:32
Speaker 5: you know, on the phone with Trump juice in the
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Speaker 5: economy whenever Trump wants. You know, people are just not
59:37
Speaker 5: gonna buy your debt because it's gonna inflation is gonna erod.
59:40
Speaker 5: It's it's uh, it's buying, it's it's it's investment advantage.
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Speaker 5: So you you need someone that that's kind of like
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Speaker 5: in the middle. And Kevin Walsh really is an independent guy.
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Speaker 5: He's a long time inflation hawk. Got that back up.
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Speaker 5: My guess is he will agree with Trump and low
1:00:00
Speaker 5: short term rates. Fad uh. He will do other things
1:00:04
Speaker 5: to mitigate the inflation impact of that, which is, you know,
1:00:10
Speaker 5: unwinding the Fed's massive ballad sheet. It controlled, it holds
1:00:14
Speaker 5: all these asets and he needs to sell them. That
1:00:17
Speaker 5: will keep that will keep the lid on interest rates.
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Speaker 5: And I think it's and I know the guy just
1:00:22
Speaker 5: pull disclosure. I know my life. I've known a few years.
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Speaker 5: Really smart, decent man. I mean, this is a good
1:00:28
Speaker 5: a good choice, really good.
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Speaker 3: Well that's that's good here. But do we want to
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Speaker 3: Fed chairman?
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Speaker 5: The talkish it depends on the hawk is well, you
1:00:37
Speaker 5: do you like inflation?
1:00:40
Speaker 3: No, I'm not not crazy about it.
1:00:41
Speaker 5: No, So, I mean, inflation is probably the worst thing
1:00:45
Speaker 5: for one of the worst things for an economy because
1:00:47
Speaker 5: it really destroys the social fabric. If if you're an
1:00:50
Speaker 5: average person and you work like really hard, but you
1:00:54
Speaker 5: still can't afford food, which inflation gives you. And that's
1:00:58
Speaker 5: kind of the problem that Biden had. And and by
1:01:00
Speaker 5: extent eris you know, you've got a real societal problem.
1:01:05
Speaker 5: And I and I think that's what he's good at.
1:01:07
Speaker 5: I mean, I think he'll understand that there is a
1:01:11
Speaker 5: dual mandate. It's inflation first in the context of full employment.
1:01:18
Speaker 5: He understands that. And if you want to spur the economy,
1:01:22
Speaker 5: that's where you got fiscal policy coming out of the
1:01:24
Speaker 5: White House. And I think this is kind of what
1:01:28
Speaker 5: with the FED lost track of the FED under Powell
1:01:30
Speaker 5: became like part of the the sort of the fabric
1:01:35
Speaker 5: of fiscal policy and and and White House policy. And
1:01:38
Speaker 5: he can't be engaged in ESG and DEI and all
1:01:42
Speaker 5: these radical leftist clauses. And I think, you know, I
1:01:47
Speaker 5: think Warsh understands. I know he understands that. So I
1:01:50
Speaker 5: think he will he will give Trump what he wants,
1:01:54
Speaker 5: lower short term interest rates, which I don't understand why
1:01:56
Speaker 5: he's so obsessed with that, because the short term interest
1:01:59
Speaker 5: rates really little. It's the ten year that means a lot.
1:02:03
Speaker 5: And that's all based on plation expectations. That's where all
1:02:05
Speaker 5: the consumer rates are pegged off him. Yeah, be that
1:02:08
Speaker 5: as a may He'll play the game and he'll do it. Well,
1:02:10
Speaker 5: I guess all right.
1:02:11
Speaker 3: That's good to hear. Hey, mom, Donnie has been in
1:02:14
Speaker 3: office now for two three weeks and a lot of
1:02:16
Speaker 3: people are saying, well, it seems okay, nothing bad, but
1:02:19
Speaker 3: what what how do you read the mom Donnie situation?
1:02:23
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, he's a horrible moron. I mean.
1:02:29
Speaker 3: That's a good annoulytis.
1:02:32
Speaker 5: Literally right, he doesn't he didn't want the cops to
1:02:35
Speaker 5: get rid of the homeless guys off the streets and
1:02:36
Speaker 5: some zero weather or guess what they died. I mean,
1:02:39
Speaker 5: the guy is a complete idiot. If he was this
1:02:42
Speaker 5: was anybody when when in R next to its name,
1:02:45
Speaker 5: the New York Times would be running front page stories
1:02:48
Speaker 5: about how he needs to be the one thing. I
1:02:52
Speaker 5: wrote about this in the Post today, and I've been
1:02:54
Speaker 5: writing about this a lot. There's a lot that he
1:02:57
Speaker 5: can't do because of a guy named you carry, a
1:03:01
Speaker 5: former governor, a guy named Felix Roatan who is a
1:03:04
Speaker 5: former financier the public but you know, you know, dedicate
1:03:08
Speaker 5: his life the civic work in New York City and
1:03:11
Speaker 5: basically bringing the city back after the financial crisis of
1:03:14
Speaker 5: the seventies. They created the structure where you can't run
1:03:18
Speaker 5: budget deficits or else you lose control of the budget.
1:03:21
Speaker 5: The state takes it over. It's almost impossible go into
1:03:24
Speaker 5: the foult Don Olders gets first DIBs on tax revenues
1:03:29
Speaker 5: even before it goes to pay all these programs. You
1:03:32
Speaker 5: can raise taxes, but you need the state to raise
1:03:36
Speaker 5: for you. In many ways. If you lose population because
1:03:39
Speaker 5: you raise taxes and the state agrees to it, well
1:03:43
Speaker 5: guess what. Then you have budget deficits. And if you
1:03:46
Speaker 5: run a deficit the end of the year, because you
1:03:50
Speaker 5: will lose control of the budget, it goes to the state.
1:03:53
Speaker 5: So all those handcuffs are on. Even a commedie like Mondai.
1:03:59
Speaker 5: I think even in the unis babon prisis. By the way,
1:04:02
Speaker 5: you need debt in New York City is very I
1:04:04
Speaker 5: just wrote about this is very is very flat right now.
1:04:08
Speaker 5: I mean the price is our movement. It's they're high,
1:04:11
Speaker 5: They're up a little bit. Anyway, that's where we.
1:04:15
Speaker 3: Are right now.
1:04:15
Speaker 5: It'll be interest to see what he does. I mean,
1:04:17
Speaker 5: I mean Madami, even when it doesn't come to taxes
1:04:19
Speaker 5: and all, that can really wreak havoc on the city
1:04:22
Speaker 5: and culturally in somebody other ways. Obviously, I just worry
1:04:26
Speaker 5: about these ice protests coming to New York and every
1:04:29
Speaker 5: soon because you have the same sort of political dynamic
1:04:31
Speaker 5: as you have in Minnesota. Minnesota have a bunch of leftists,
1:04:34
Speaker 5: like really craved and leftists, including a moron as governor
1:04:39
Speaker 5: Tim Watson almost became our vice president, you know, Aggan
1:04:42
Speaker 5: on these violent leftist protesters. You can see someone like
1:04:47
Speaker 5: Mandami doing the same because he's cut from that cloth
1:04:50
Speaker 5: in cloth is as By the way, these protesters are people.
1:04:53
Speaker 5: The aren't just like protesting. These are trained near militia
1:04:59
Speaker 5: style trained left this anarchists. So I think I'm worried
1:05:05
Speaker 5: about that coming to the city more than even like
1:05:08
Speaker 5: him raising taxes.
1:05:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we should stop using the word protester.
1:05:14
Speaker 3: That implies you're standing there across the street with a
1:05:16
Speaker 3: sign and yelling, but when you're spitting in their face,
1:05:18
Speaker 3: they're kicking the tail light out of their car. That
1:05:20
Speaker 3: that's behind a protester, isn't it.
1:05:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you saw the one that was shot, right, Yeah,
1:05:28
Speaker 5: I mean the Americans die. That guy was out of
1:05:31
Speaker 5: his mind. I mean, he's a crazy protester. And by
1:05:36
Speaker 5: the way, who shows up You know, I can't. I
1:05:40
Speaker 5: want to respect the dead. Alex pretty or Pretto whatever
1:05:43
Speaker 5: his name is. Yea, And I see you nurse were
1:05:46
Speaker 5: supposed to electively this guy came, a lock came, he
1:05:51
Speaker 5: was he had two backup rounds on a concealed weapon
1:05:57
Speaker 5: when he was getting an attacking cop. What does that
1:06:02
Speaker 5: tell you? I mean, that's that's pretty pretty wild if
1:06:08
Speaker 5: you ask me. Very aggressive.
1:06:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you saw police carrying out an operation,
1:06:13
Speaker 3: who has the nerve to go over there and try
1:06:15
Speaker 3: to stop it? Interfere with it? That takes a hell
1:06:17
Speaker 3: of a lot.
1:06:17
Speaker 5: Of nerve, which a loaded weapons.
1:06:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, what is that? Charlie Gasperino, great talk. And Hey,
1:06:27
Speaker 3: if anybody out there doesn't have the book, go woke,
1:06:30
Speaker 3: go broke. Get this book. You're gonna love it. And
1:06:34
Speaker 3: are you doing TV today?
1:06:37
Speaker 5: No, because I'm barely They already got back my voice.
1:06:40
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Well, otherwise, you see him all over the
1:06:43
Speaker 3: Fox Business Network doing the great reporting, read his columns
1:06:46
Speaker 3: New York Post, and make sure you follow on Twitter.
1:06:49
Speaker 3: He is one of the best tweeters on earth. Charlie
1:06:52
Speaker 3: Gasparino at Twitter. Charlie, thanks for being with us. Take care. Hey,
1:06:59
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Speaker 3: Hey, Now, remember earlier in the program, we were talking
1:07:30
Speaker 3: about the Epstein files, and I said, there's five point
1:07:33
Speaker 3: two million pages and they've got four hundred lawyers at
1:07:38
Speaker 3: the Justice Department reviewing them. You can't just release these files.
1:07:40
Speaker 3: You got to review them carefully and make sure you
1:07:44
Speaker 3: remove any thing that identifies the victims, that kind of stuff.
1:07:48
Speaker 3: So they had to go through five point two million pages.
1:07:50
Speaker 3: That's what's taken so long. But as we speak, the
1:07:54
Speaker 3: Justice Department has just released three point five million page
1:08:00
Speaker 3: that's about two thirds of what's left. So all that's
1:08:03
Speaker 3: left is about thirty percent. But today, right now, they're
1:08:06
Speaker 3: releasing three point five million pages of the Epstein file.
1:08:11
Speaker 3: This will include at least two thousand videos and one
1:08:17
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty thousand images that these are pictures, all
1:08:22
Speaker 3: of which were taken by Epstein. Now I take a
1:08:26
Speaker 3: lot of pictures. I'm a big photographer all day long.
1:08:28
Speaker 3: I'm taking pictures of anything and everything. And if you
1:08:31
Speaker 3: look at my Instagram, I'm always putting up picture. I
1:08:34
Speaker 3: just love taking pictures. But I looked on my phone
1:08:36
Speaker 3: to see how many pictures I have, and this is
1:08:38
Speaker 3: for years. It's like it's only about twenty thousand pictures.
1:08:43
Speaker 3: You know, how would anybody take one hundred and eighty
1:08:47
Speaker 3: thousand pictures? And this is just one batch altogether, there's
1:08:50
Speaker 3: something like almost a million pictures. Who could take that
1:08:53
Speaker 3: many pictures? But if you want to start going through them,
1:08:56
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