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- 0:00Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
- 0:05Speaker 1: on SEVENOA. Oh it's cold out there. We'll get to
- 0:11Speaker 1: Johnny Carson coming up. We'll get to Epstein, We'll get
- 0:14Speaker 1: to Bill Atman, We'll get to we'll give you all
- 0:16Speaker 1: the latest on Mom Donnie, everything you need to know,
- 0:19Speaker 1: where there is to know right now. We'll get to
- 0:22Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. We'll get to affordability and a whole lot more.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Lots to talk about today, A freezing cold. This is
- 0:29Speaker 1: the first well we had one last week, but this
- 0:32Speaker 1: is another one of those winter days today. So I
- 0:35Speaker 1: come into our beautiful, magnificent iHeart headquarters, which is floor
- 0:41Speaker 1: after floor after floor after floor of studio's office. But
- 0:44Speaker 1: on our sixth floor here, the first thing I see
- 0:47Speaker 1: is that Christmas tree. Why is there a Christmas tree?
- 0:50Speaker 1: It's not even Thanksgiving yet. It's not just here. They're
- 0:53Speaker 1: all over the place, these Christmas trees. It's starting earlier
- 0:56Speaker 1: and earlier and earlier, and it's gotta stop. It's got
- 1:01Speaker 1: to stop. The I told you last week about that
- 1:04Speaker 1: condominium place in Florida where they made residents take down
- 1:08Speaker 1: the Christmas decorations, told them they're not allowed to put
- 1:11Speaker 1: them up till after Thanksgiving. Their rule is one holiday
- 1:16Speaker 1: at a time, and it makes sense. So President Trump,
- 1:20Speaker 1: let me just explain this Epstein stuff. This has been
- 1:24Speaker 1: going on for quite a while now. Donald Trump has
- 1:26Speaker 1: nothing to do with Epstein. There's no Epstein connection with
- 1:30Speaker 1: Donald Trump. There's nothing there. But he has been brilliantly
- 1:34Speaker 1: playing the Democrats, letting them build it up and build
- 1:38Speaker 1: it up. If you're watching the Sunday shows, it was
- 1:40Speaker 1: all about Trump Epstein, Trump Epstein. He's letting this build
- 1:44Speaker 1: and build and build and build. So it'll end up
- 1:47Speaker 1: when they're all released, all these files, it'll be another
- 1:51Speaker 1: example of Democrats totally misleading the public, totally conning them
- 1:55Speaker 1: about something. Now, the Epstein situation is pretty simple. He
- 2:00Speaker 1: made himself a lot of money, showed up in Florida
- 2:03Speaker 1: Palm Beach, and being a zillionaire, suddenly started hanging out
- 2:07Speaker 1: at mar A Lago and there he was all over
- 2:09Speaker 1: mar A Lago. This is back in the good old
- 2:10Speaker 1: and they were talking twenty something years ago, maybe twenty
- 2:15Speaker 1: five years ago. And anytime anybody with a lot of
- 2:19Speaker 1: money starts spending it at mar A Lago and throwing
- 2:23Speaker 1: parties there, or back when Trump owned the plaza, if
- 2:26Speaker 1: somebody spent a fortune throwing an incredible gallot in the ballroom,
- 2:30Speaker 1: Trump would always show up. And you'll notice even now
- 2:34Speaker 1: if you follow all this stuff on Instagram, when there's
- 2:36Speaker 1: a big, big wedding or an event at mar A
- 2:39Speaker 1: Lago where they rent the ballroom, Trump will show up.
- 2:41Speaker 1: He'll show up and wander through the crowds hill ever.
- 2:43Speaker 1: So that's how he met Epstein, That's how I got
- 2:44Speaker 1: to know him. Epstein had lots of women and fun
- 2:47Speaker 1: and celebrities, so Trump started hanging out with him whenever
- 2:50Speaker 1: he was at mar A Lago or there'd be a
- 2:52Speaker 1: party in there. It was just at parties, nothing else.
- 2:55Speaker 1: A couple of times Epstein came up to Trump's office
- 2:57Speaker 1: showing off to some women that he could bring up there.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Not underage, not under age, perfectly appropriate, age appropriate women.
- 3:07Speaker 1: And that was the relationship. Well, then a couple of
- 3:09Speaker 1: things happened at mar A Lago. Epstein started hiring some
- 3:14Speaker 1: people away from mar Olago mar A Lago's staff members,
- 3:17Speaker 1: so Trump told him to cut it out, and he didn't. Also,
- 3:21Speaker 1: at one point Epstein went after I think she was fifteen,
- 3:25Speaker 1: a girl that worked in the locker room. It was
- 3:28Speaker 1: actually the daughter of a member. It got back to Trump,
- 3:31Speaker 1: and Trump immediately banned Epstein from mar Alago. This is
- 3:35Speaker 1: twenty something years ago. Banned him. It's actually twenty four,
- 3:38Speaker 1: twenty one years ago. Banned him from mar Alago forever,
- 3:41Speaker 1: never spoke to him again, cut off all ties with
- 3:44Speaker 1: the guy. Now, as far as these young young girls,
- 3:46Speaker 1: that was Epstein's preference, that's what Epstein liked, these young
- 3:49Speaker 1: young girls. So it was him. There's rumor that Prince
- 3:53Speaker 1: Andrew also liked that and got involved. But all these
- 3:56Speaker 1: people hanging around with Epstein, it wasn't about young girls
- 3:59Speaker 1: for them, not pedophiles. That was Epstein. But if you
- 4:04Speaker 1: went to and I was at a few Epstein things,
- 4:06Speaker 1: if you went to Epstein's parties, there were women all
- 4:08Speaker 1: over the place, but all ages, all ages, not young girls.
- 4:11Speaker 1: He had a lot of his young girls working for
- 4:14Speaker 1: him as messuse's and if you go to the party,
- 4:16Speaker 1: they'd be checking the coats and that kind of stuff.
- 4:19Speaker 1: But Trump has no worries at all about Epstein. It's
- 4:24Speaker 1: going to be nothing in those files that's going to
- 4:25Speaker 1: bother Trump. And he knows that so that's why he's
- 4:28Speaker 1: been stringing Democrats along. He's now last night called for
- 4:32Speaker 1: Republican release all the files, and at some point you'll
- 4:35Speaker 1: see it. All, all the files will come out. Now.
- 4:37Speaker 1: The problem is, this is the only problem Trump might have.
- 4:40Speaker 1: There might be some big, big donors of his, the
- 4:42Speaker 1: friends of his, that are in the files, but if
- 4:44Speaker 1: it's in the files, it's not going to be young girls.
- 4:46Speaker 1: It's going to be them at these parties, maybe cheating
- 4:49Speaker 1: on their wife, that sort of stuff. That's like a
- 4:51Speaker 1: Bill Gates kind of situation. One has already come out.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary to Bill Clinton, resident of Harvard,
- 5:01Speaker 1: very prestigious guy, a very married guy. But he was
- 5:04Speaker 1: carrying on with women, not young girls, older women. And
- 5:09Speaker 1: the emails have already emerged from the Epstein estate. They
- 5:13Speaker 1: found the emails where Larry Summers is and I don't
- 5:16Speaker 1: know why you would put this in writing, but these
- 5:19Speaker 1: guys put it in writing. He's emailing back and forth
- 5:21Speaker 1: about this woman that woman, and she won't see him anymore,
- 5:25Speaker 1: and they're talking about they're talking about his dating life,
- 5:27Speaker 1: and he's turning to Epstein for advice on how to
- 5:29Speaker 1: get this woman back. This is a married guy, So
- 5:32Speaker 1: that kind of stuff will come out. That's the worst
- 5:34Speaker 1: of it. But nobody Trump's has no Epstein problem at all.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Once it's all released, you'll see that one of the
- 5:42Speaker 1: people at Epstein hired away from Marlago was this infamous woman,
- 5:47Speaker 1: Virginia Giuffrey, who worked at mar Alago in the Spa.
- 5:53Speaker 1: It was Gallaine Maxwell that recruited her way into Epstein world.
- 5:58Speaker 1: She eventually killed her. She committed suicide not that long ago.
- 6:05Speaker 1: But she did a million interviews with law enforcement, US Attorney, FBI,
- 6:08Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, and she wrote a book
- 6:12Speaker 1: and in all the interviews and in the books, she
- 6:14Speaker 1: made it clear nothing ever happened with Donald Trump. In fact,
- 6:16Speaker 1: she said he was a very nice man and always
- 6:19Speaker 1: a total gentleman with her. And remember she had worked
- 6:22Speaker 1: for him too. So the US Attorney here in New York,
- 6:27Speaker 1: good guy Jay Clayton, he's been told to oversee an
- 6:30Speaker 1: investigation and to look into Democrats because a lot of
- 6:34Speaker 1: Democrats are going to have a problem. Now you know
- 6:36Speaker 1: who was really tangled up with Epstein or the banks.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Nothing to do with sex, but JP Morgan, Chase and
- 6:42Speaker 1: these other banks were really really close with Epstein, working
- 6:47Speaker 1: hard with him. The reason they did that Epstein had
- 6:50Speaker 1: billions of dollars that he was working with and he
- 6:54Speaker 1: had to put it somewhere, so they wanted it in
- 6:56Speaker 1: their bank because they can make a fortune having his
- 6:59Speaker 1: billion in their banks. So JP Morgan chasing. These other
- 7:02Speaker 1: banks were very nice to Epstein, and these are the
- 7:06Speaker 1: same banks that d banked Donald Trump threw him out,
- 7:09Speaker 1: refused to take his business. And if you're a major corporation,
- 7:14Speaker 1: you can't exist without banks. You have to have banks
- 7:17Speaker 1: for everything. So that was just disgusting the way they
- 7:21Speaker 1: d banked. It wasn't just Trump, other conservative companies. So
- 7:24Speaker 1: they deserve everything they're getting with this Epstein stuff. Now,
- 7:27Speaker 1: who else will have a problem A lot of celebrities,
- 7:30Speaker 1: George Stephanopolis will have a big problem with George Sloppadopoulos,
- 7:35Speaker 1: Katie Couric, these are some of the celebrities that were
- 7:37Speaker 1: at Epstein's house having dinner with them. You know, when
- 7:40Speaker 1: you see the ABC Sunday Morning Show this week make
- 7:43Speaker 1: a big deal out of Epstein, they failed to mention
- 7:46Speaker 1: George Stepanopolos at Epstein's house having dinner with him. Now
- 7:50Speaker 1: when asked about it. Stephanopolis gives you this ridiculous explanation.
- 7:56Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was. I had no idea
- 7:58Speaker 1: who he was. I had no idea who he was.
- 8:02Speaker 1: I should have done my due diligence. Is Stephanopoulos's quote, Well,
- 8:07Speaker 1: the guy's a news broadcaster, host of a news show,
- 8:11Speaker 1: supposedly a journalist and a newsman. They didn't know Jeffrey
- 8:14Speaker 1: Epstein was. Now, this is after Epstein was convicted of
- 8:18Speaker 1: being a pedophile. This was trafficking the miners for prostitution.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Epstein was already convicted and had gone to prison for it.
- 8:27Speaker 1: George stephanoppois, I had no idea he was. I should
- 8:30Speaker 1: have looked into it. Well, I knew who he was.
- 8:33Speaker 1: You probably knew who he was. You probably read about it,
- 8:35Speaker 1: the guy in Florida that got convicted. Of course, you
- 8:37Speaker 1: read about this guy's a professional newsman on a network,
- 8:41Speaker 1: claiming he didn't know about it. This is this clip
- 8:43Speaker 1: running around the internet right now of Katie Couric. She's
- 8:46Speaker 1: on with what's the Bravo guy's name, Andy Andy Cohen.
- 8:52Speaker 1: She's on the Bravo show, and good for Andy Cohney said,
- 8:54Speaker 1: the hell were you doing at Jeffrey Epstein's house, having
- 8:57Speaker 1: dinner with him. So she said, well, I didn't know
- 9:00Speaker 1: who he was. I probably shouldn't. Remember she was the
- 9:04Speaker 1: anchor of the CBS Evening News, that's one of the
- 9:08Speaker 1: top news jobs in the world. And she didn't know
- 9:10Speaker 1: who Jeffrey Epstein was. This is after he was in prison,
- 9:13Speaker 1: this is after he'd been convicted, after he went to jail.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was. I guess I should
- 9:19Speaker 1: have invested. First of all, who goes to anybody's house
- 9:22Speaker 1: and you don't know who they are? Have you ever
- 9:25Speaker 1: been to a house I'd had dinner with somebody and
- 9:28Speaker 1: when you're leaving, who is that? I don't know. I
- 9:30Speaker 1: have no idea who the guy is. I just say,
- 9:32Speaker 1: you having dinner in his house? Yeah, I don't know
- 9:35Speaker 1: who he is. Even if somehow you were that stupid,
- 9:39Speaker 1: that ignorant that you didn't know who he was after
- 9:41Speaker 1: spending the evening at his house, wouldn't you then have
- 9:44Speaker 1: some idea who he was? So, Katie Kirk, I didn't.
- 9:48Speaker 1: I should have checked. Now, she uses the excuse that
- 9:51Speaker 1: Prince Andrew was going to be at the dinner and
- 9:54Speaker 1: that Megan Markle and Prince Harry were going to become
- 9:58Speaker 1: a big, big story or there was a royal waves.
- 10:01Speaker 1: She said, I felt I should get to know Prince Andrew.
- 10:04Speaker 1: He could help me get the exclusive. It doesn't work
- 10:07Speaker 1: that way. You just you don't need to go to
- 10:10Speaker 1: somebody's house and you can start working the story without that.
- 10:13Speaker 1: So a lot of people like Stephanopoulos, Katie Kirk are
- 10:16Speaker 1: going to have a big, big Epstein problem. You know,
- 10:20Speaker 1: there's a woman in Congress, Stacy Plasket, She's a Democrat.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Now there's a lot of files being released from the
- 10:28Speaker 1: Epstein estate, and this Epstein would text like crazy with people.
- 10:34Speaker 1: But apparently this Democrat congresswoman is texting back and forth
- 10:37Speaker 1: with Epstein. And it's during the hearings. You remember they
- 10:40Speaker 1: had hearings on Trump. Was it Michael Cohen or something?
- 10:45Speaker 1: It was Michael Cohen. There were these hearings going on
- 10:48Speaker 1: and they're asking questions, you know, they take turns each
- 10:50Speaker 1: congress person on the committee. Well, they're about to come
- 10:53Speaker 1: to the Stacey Plasket in the during the hearings, she's
- 10:57Speaker 1: texting Epstein, who's watched it live on TV? What should
- 11:01Speaker 1: I ask him? You've been watching the testimony. What did
- 11:04Speaker 1: they leave out? What should I? And Epstein is texting
- 11:07Speaker 1: her questions to ask and at one point the witness
- 11:10Speaker 1: is talking and he mentions Rona. So this dumb congresswoman
- 11:15Speaker 1: texts Epstein is what's Rona? Is that an acronym for something?
- 11:19Speaker 1: And Epstein text back, No, that's Rona, his assistant, his
- 11:23Speaker 1: chief of staff, and he said, Rona is the keeper
- 11:26Speaker 1: of the secrets. Dig into Rona. This is this congress
- 11:29Speaker 1: woman during the hearings, contexting with Epstein. So these democrats
- 11:33Speaker 1: were very, very very close to Epstein. Rona, by the way,
- 11:39Speaker 1: is Rona graft Who's the nicest woman, the most decent, honest,
- 11:43Speaker 1: There was nothing bad there, So I don't know what
- 11:45Speaker 1: Epstein was talking about. And the other thing, if you
- 11:47Speaker 1: start reading through the emails, Epstein had nothing to do
- 11:50Speaker 1: with Trump after two thousand and four, nothing, no connect
- 11:55Speaker 1: for twenty years. He didn't know Trump at all, but
- 11:57Speaker 1: a lot of these people think he still did. So
- 11:59Speaker 1: you see these very very powerful, big people are texting
- 12:03Speaker 1: and emailing Epstein right up until the end during the
- 12:06Speaker 1: first Trump term. I'm going to Washington to meet with
- 12:10Speaker 1: the present. What should I say? Or a meeting with
- 12:13Speaker 1: this official in the White House, and Epstein is texting
- 12:16Speaker 1: back as if he's connected to Trump, which he wasn't
- 12:19Speaker 1: at that point, giving advice, well he likes this, he
- 12:21Speaker 1: doesn't like this, or don't see Jared, make sure you
- 12:24Speaker 1: see this person. Epstein didn't know anything. He was just
- 12:27Speaker 1: conning these people like crazy. Now here's another important point
- 12:30Speaker 1: to remember. The Biden administration had these Epstein files for
- 12:36Speaker 1: four years. The Biden administration looked through, carefully inspected everything
- 12:42Speaker 1: in the Epstein files for four years. They couldn't find
- 12:46Speaker 1: anything that would hurt Trump. They were looking for it
- 12:48Speaker 1: because they wanted to hurt Trump. They wanted to arrest them,
- 12:51Speaker 1: prosecute him, do whatever they could to stop him. They
- 12:55Speaker 1: looked through the files. They couldn't find anything in there
- 12:59Speaker 1: that would help. That's why you never heard about the
- 13:01Speaker 1: Epstein files for the whole four years of Biden. There
- 13:04Speaker 1: was nothing in there that hurt Trump. And this is
- 13:07Speaker 1: the way this all works. Look at these democrats yelling
- 13:10Speaker 1: and screaming, the demanding we must see the Epstein files. Well,
- 13:15Speaker 1: how come you didn't say a word for four years?
- 13:17Speaker 1: How come you didn't want to see him? In twenty
- 13:19Speaker 1: twenty four. Why didn't you want to see him in
- 13:21Speaker 1: twenty twenty three? How come in twenty twenty two you
- 13:24Speaker 1: never asked to see him twenty twenty one, you never
- 13:27Speaker 1: mentioned it. It's the same thing with the media. You know,
- 13:30Speaker 1: you hear about this is the affordability crisis. Affordability crisis.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Inflation under Biden hit nine percent, It averaged five percent,
- 13:39Speaker 1: but it hit nine percent. None of these people, the
- 13:42Speaker 1: same Democrats, the same media, never mentioned affordability. It never
- 13:46Speaker 1: came up pro check for four years, never mentioned it
- 13:51Speaker 1: at nine percent. Now it's two point five percent. That's
- 13:54Speaker 1: all they can talk about, the affordability crisis. Two point
- 13:57Speaker 1: five percent. Try. Trump was asked to about Epstein last night.
- 14:01Speaker 1: They're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the tremendous
- 14:05Speaker 1: success that we're having as a party. Yeah, yeah, Actually,
- 14:10Speaker 1: Epstein's stuff. You could also call it operation change the subject.
- 14:14Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. It sounds good, it sounds
- 14:17Speaker 1: but again Trump has been setting them up and brilliantly. Hey,
- 14:21Speaker 1: President Trump said he will meet with Mom Donnie. Mom
- 14:24Speaker 1: Donnie said he will meet with Trump. Looks like the
- 14:26Speaker 1: meeting will take place in Washington, DC. We'll get into
- 14:30Speaker 1: it in detail a little later. Also, Mom Donnie has
- 14:36Speaker 1: talked with Jessica Tish again. They spoke over the weekend.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Hopefully she'll stay. The fire commissioner's great guy, Robert Tucker.
- 14:45Speaker 1: He's already quit and left, but he's got a huge
- 14:47Speaker 1: business he can go back to, and I don't think
- 14:50Speaker 1: he wants anything to do with Mom Donnie. Jessica Tish
- 14:52Speaker 1: will see if she stays. Well. There's a lot of
- 14:56Speaker 1: Mom Donnie stuff. We'll get into it a little later.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Lots to talk about and we'll take some calls next.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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