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Mark interviews Fox News contributor Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark the Moto on.
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  Speaker 2: Seven to ten. Woor Well, listen, brilliant column. This Liz Pig.
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  Speaker 2: You beer all over television, but most important thing is
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  Speaker 2: read her column and you can get it at Foxnews
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  Speaker 2: dot com. You can get it at the Hill dot
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  Speaker 2: com or check out her website lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I love your column about affordability. Now. In New York,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, for twenty years, Democrats have controlled everything in
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  Speaker 2: New York state legislature, city council, mayor, governor, everything controlled
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  Speaker 2: by Democrats. If there's an affordability crisis, wasn't it their fault?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean you know, sometimes I write a column
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  Speaker 3: and I think, surely everybody knows this, this is so obvious,
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  Speaker 3: But then you put something out there with actually facts
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  Speaker 3: to support a premise, the premise being the Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: absolutely the last people that should be talking about affordability
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  Speaker 3: because all the most expensive places to live in America
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  Speaker 3: are run by Democrats. It's not like they just have
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat mayor a Democrat governor. Generally speaking, the most
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  Speaker 3: expensive cities and states have been under Democrats and whole
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  Speaker 3: for decades. And why then are prices so high? Why
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  Speaker 3: is the cost of living so exorbited? Why are rents
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  Speaker 3: We got a new report today in New York out
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  Speaker 3: of control in New York. Well, it isn't Republicans fault, folks.
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  Speaker 3: It's because Democrats embrace number one excessive spending on all
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  Speaker 3: kinds of benefits and so forth. That mean they have
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  Speaker 3: to raise taxes repeatedly. Where does that tax money come from?
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  Speaker 3: When it comes from you and me, but believe me,
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  Speaker 3: it also comes from businesses operating in New York who
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  Speaker 3: then pass along to consumers so that jacks up prices.
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  Speaker 3: Environmentalists also have a huge say in the governments New
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  Speaker 3: York City, New York State, California, Illinois, Maryland, whatever, and
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  Speaker 3: environmentalists stand in the way of permitting. It takes two
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  Speaker 3: to three times as long to get approval for a
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  Speaker 3: building project in New York as it does.
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  Speaker 1: Almost any place in the world.
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  Speaker 3: So time is money in construction pree month that goes by,
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  Speaker 3: the cost of raw materials goes up, the cost of
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  Speaker 3: brick and cement and whatever else you know, glass and windows,
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  Speaker 3: everything goes up in price. I was involved with a
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  Speaker 3: university in New York. We wanted to build a building.
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  Speaker 3: By the time we got all the approvals him ten
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  Speaker 3: years on, the price had almost tripled.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so it is so frustrated.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other thing, of course, there are two
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  Speaker 3: other legs of this really solid Democrat run stool. One
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  Speaker 3: is energy policies that jack up electricity and gasoline prices,
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  Speaker 3: which you know in New York you're paying an enormous
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  Speaker 3: premium over the rest of the country on that. And
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  Speaker 3: then are pro union rules meaning you can't as the
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  Speaker 3: city or the state many states, you can't do business
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  Speaker 3: with outfits they're using non union labor.
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  Speaker 1: So already you're.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about a thirty to fifty percent premium over what
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  Speaker 3: you have to what you might be able to save
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  Speaker 3: in constructing highways and schools and everything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Mark, it's so obvious to me.
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  Speaker 3: But why is it that you know, young voters they
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  Speaker 3: don't know anything. But I mean a lot of a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Americans, a lot of people in this town
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  Speaker 3: and stay blindly go and vote Democrat over and over again,
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  Speaker 3: hoping it'll turn out differently.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what, it never does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But a big factor is the media went totally
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  Speaker 2: corrupt about ten years ago and never ever ever reports
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  Speaker 2: this that when they interview a Democrat, they never ask
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  Speaker 2: them about that. Yeah, so how do you fix that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, And we just there are just repeat
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  Speaker 3: needed examples of where the media is putting their thumb
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  Speaker 3: on the scale. You know what, I think there has
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  Speaker 3: been too little talk about.
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  Speaker 1: What went on in Maine.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's been plenty of talk about Graham Platner
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  Speaker 3: and all the bad things he did. Bad guy and
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  Speaker 3: a bad character. But the New York Times is one
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  Speaker 3: of the main villains of that story because, as you
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  Speaker 3: well know, they did a catch and kill effort to
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  Speaker 3: kind of put out there that there might be sexual
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  Speaker 3: assault up revelations, but that it couldn't be corroborated. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, they completely squashed the story being told
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  Speaker 3: by the Democrat woman who came forward and finally killed
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  Speaker 3: off Graham Platner's political hopes in this cycle.
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  Speaker 1: I say this cycle because.
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  Speaker 3: It's completely clear to me that he might run again.
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  Speaker 3: That people are just going to say, well, that was just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, an unfortunate incident. But the New York Times
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  Speaker 3: absolutely crafted a story they could kind of get that
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  Speaker 3: story out there of sexual assault, but do it in
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  Speaker 3: such a way that most voters would say, well, you
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  Speaker 3: know it was the reports were from a Republican who
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  Speaker 3: didn't like his politics.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a little bit like the woman.
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  Speaker 3: Who accused Joe Biden of assaulting her, remember, and she
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  Speaker 3: was completely dismissed because presumably she might have had a
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  Speaker 3: political angle, although.
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  Speaker 1: She was a pidon aid, so it tells you she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't politically motivated.
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  Speaker 3: The media has a great deal to account for, to
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  Speaker 3: be accountable for, and guess what it never will be
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  Speaker 3: But there you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it went totally corrupt in an effort to
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  Speaker 2: stop Trump in twenty sixteen, and then yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they had to continue throughout his term. And then I
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  Speaker 2: guess they decided, you know what, we liked this model
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  Speaker 2: better and we'll stick with it and it'll never change.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it saved them, Mark the New York Times, I
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  Speaker 3: think honestly would have been extinct if they had not
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  Speaker 3: basically made their entire Remember they even the publisher even
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  Speaker 3: put out a note about how basically anything was valid
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  Speaker 3: in the effort to stop Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of their mantra. Pretty horrifying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, you wrote a column. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: a week ago. But mom Donnie's preening arrogance will ultimately
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  Speaker 2: prove his downfall. What did you mean by to explaining
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  Speaker 2: that that's interesting?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I keep a running log of offensive things mom
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  Speaker 3: Donnie has done, and it doesn't you know.
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  Speaker 1: All I did really was kind of go back.
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  Speaker 3: To that and say, okay, he offended the Puerto Ricans
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  Speaker 3: by not doing the traditional Puerto Rican Day event at
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  Speaker 3: Gracie Mansion. He offended Catholics, of which there are more
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  Speaker 3: than a million in New York City by not attending,
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  Speaker 3: as every mayor has done, the investiture of the new archbishop.
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  Speaker 3: They have offended, of course, Jews by daily on day one,
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  Speaker 3: literally day one, removing the definition of anti Semitism that
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  Speaker 3: Eric Adams had put in place, and then you know
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  Speaker 3: fourteen other things that they've done to offend Jews. But
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  Speaker 3: if you kind of go through the most recent thing
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  Speaker 3: that sort of tipped me to write that was this map.
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  Speaker 3: And I have to say I buried the map story.
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  Speaker 3: I was and bury it, but it was like at
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  Speaker 3: the lead and then I caught, you know, two days later,
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  Speaker 3: everyone thinks it's this big new breaking news. No, it
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  Speaker 3: happened in May that they brought out this map of
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  Speaker 3: historic neighborhoods, ethnic neighborhoods of importance.
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  Speaker 1: No, Little Italy. I mean, can you imagine. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you, but when.
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  Speaker 3: I first came to New York, Little Italy was a
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  Speaker 3: big deal and you went down there kind of yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because it was sort of racy, and the food was great,
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  Speaker 3: and there'd been this there was this rubout at on
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  Speaker 3: Bardo's Clamhouse, and you know, I mean, it was all
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  Speaker 3: kind of I don't know, it was like stuff from
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  Speaker 3: TV Land, and we all thought that was really cool
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  Speaker 3: and to not include that, and of course they didn't
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  Speaker 3: include Jewish neighborhoods, Irish neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like this, you know, this.
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  Speaker 3: Drip drip of offensive things that Mamdanni's done, which seems
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  Speaker 3: to me a pretty weird track for a politician to follow.
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  Speaker 3: Mostly politicians try to broaden his base. He's done everything
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  Speaker 3: he can to narrow it. And that speaks to me,
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  Speaker 3: not of some intensely weird political calculus.
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  Speaker 1: That speaks to me of arrogance. And I think he
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  Speaker 1: is an incredibly arrogant guy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but when you say it'll bring his downfall,
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  Speaker 2: how's that going to happen with the media totally backing
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  Speaker 2: him up?
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  Speaker 3: Well, because I think eventually, you know, we had dinner
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  Speaker 3: with some friends last night who were Jewish, and I
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  Speaker 3: think they didn't I don't know who they voted for
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  Speaker 3: in the last election, but by gosh, they are so
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  Speaker 3: critical of the thirty percent of Jews have voted for him.
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  Speaker 3: I think Jews, you know, that group is sort of
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  Speaker 3: going away from him. I think if there's a decent
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  Speaker 3: alternative to Mom Donnie next time round, a Democrat that
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  Speaker 3: is not a lunatic and who actually appeals to Afflics
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  Speaker 3: and to Italians and Jews and so forth, I think
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  Speaker 3: that's how that's how it happens. I mean, yes, he's
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  Speaker 3: a great TikTok mayor, but meanwhile, you know, we have
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  Speaker 3: rents at the highest ever and he was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be the guy that was going to change that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'll see, right.
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  Speaker 3: I just think I just think eventually, you lose too
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  Speaker 3: many people that you have offended.
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  Speaker 1: I sure hope.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Well, Democrats are losing territory. They lost the
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  Speaker 2: working people that lost the Jewish vote. Gradually they're losing
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  Speaker 2: every little bit of that base. So well, I hope
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  Speaker 2: you're right. I hope it continue.
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  Speaker 1: I hope so too.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, lis Peak, everybody read her columns at
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  Speaker 2: go to Foxnews dot com, The Hill dot com, lispeak
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  Speaker 2: dot com, and you read her brilliant columns. Liz Peak,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. Mark. Have a
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  Speaker 1: terrific hot day.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks, take care. Yeah, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: ninety to day, but the real fea makes it feel
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  Speaker 2: like one hundred. I still don't understand that. If it
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  Speaker 2: feels like one hundred, why isn't it one hundred? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but let me just check. Yeah, actually, ninety
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  Speaker 2: two will be the high today, ninety eight tomorrow. Tomorrow's
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  Speaker 2: the big heat wave day. It'll drop back to ninety
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  Speaker 2: two on Thursday, then down into the eighties on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: But it looks like rain Saturday and Sunday. Forecast could change.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the way it is right now, So be
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  Speaker 2: careful if you're out today for too long. It is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a hot day. Real feel again will
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  Speaker 2: be Yeah, real feel well, actually not so bad, it
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  Speaker 2: says Real feel eighty nine now, but it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot of heat today. Buck and Clay will
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