The latest developments in the race for NYC mayor

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from War from Everywhere, USA. It's
Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayler.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh hot, damn, here we go, Here we go.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Got a big hour.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
You can't say bigot is a plus size hour a
Fox across America with your Maine man, Jimmy Faler coming up.
Mary Catherine Ham, a Fox News contributor, a legitimately seven
hundred IQ points higher than me if we were to
take a test right now, is going to stop by
and dumb it down for a State of the Union
on all things. We've got a race for the mayor's

(00:36):
residents here in New York City that apparently Donald Trump
is getting involved in right as we speak, and uh,
we'll give you some of that. You're about to hear
the greatest speech you've ever heard. I don't know that
there's a speech, but there is a report that Trump
is working behind the scenes to clear the Democrat field,
the field as a whole, meaning Eric Adams.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, get a mad.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
They get the mayor to current incumbent mayor drop out
of the race. They get Curtis leewa Republican nominee and
a good friend of.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
This show, get him out. Of here yet about.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And they clear the field for a one on one
between Zoron Mom, Donnie and hansy Andy Cuomo, who is
you know? I got to tell you man not terribly
popular with the Fox audience because he killed a lot
of elderly people during COVID and then wrote a self
congratulatory book about how he handled COVID while the pandemic

(01:35):
was still going on. Okay, the football equivalent of dumping
the gatorade on yourself at halftime of a game you're
not even winning.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
This is the biggest schmuck I've ever met.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
But lo and behold, Cuomo did not go down because
his top aid, Melissa de Rosa, testified that he falsified
COVID data and death data. He went down because he
got me too, because he had a bit of an
issue with an office etiquette.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Cuomo, of course, sees the New York City Mayor's race
as a last gasp at relevance. If you are the
mayor of New York, you are nationally relevant. And he
fancies himself a president someday and he wants okay, that
image rehabilitation. He wants that comeback story, and he wants

(02:25):
to use the mayor's race as a stepping stone to
hire office like that is a real thing. And you
know how they say politics makes for strange bedfellows. If
ever there was a better example of it, I haven't
seen it. Okay, because what Trump knows more than anything
is the guy in charge of the whole entire country,
is that you can't have a socialist running New York City.
So as much as you hate a guy like hansy

(02:48):
Andy Cuomo, and he's better than New Yorker standing in
a breadline. He's better than having a guy in there
who is explicitly stated that we need to defund police.
He's better than having a guy in there that wants
social workers responding to domestic disputes. He's better than having
a guy in there that's promising free buses and government

(03:08):
run grocery stores, things that have been bankrupted in other
major cities in this country. And so lo and behold
if this report is true, and that is a very
big caveat okay, but I will read you the article
really quickly. President Donald Trump considering giving New York City
Mayor Eric Adams a position in his administration as a
way of clearing the field for Governor Andrew Cuomo to
have a better shot at beating frontrunners or on Mom

(03:31):
Donnie in the New York City mayorial race. The New
York Times is reporting on Wednesday. Now, you know The
New York Times very very rarely quotes anonymous sources and
gets the story right. He's a part, But I don't
doubt there is a motivation here for Trump to do this.

(03:51):
So the report, which is based on three sources, none
of which are named, said advisors to the President believe
this could be a way to damage the chances Mom
Donnie ends up running the Big Apple. Trump teams also
looking at giving Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa a role in
the White House as part of its plan to make
it a one on one match between Cuomo and Mom Donnie.
So this would be Trump going all in to clear
the field, putting two guys into the administration. The reason

(04:15):
I have a problem with this, and I do mean
this okay, is because it allows Mom Donnie to nationalize
the race. If Trump clears the field for Cuomo and
Republican money comes sailing in for Cuomo, it's no wronger
a race between Mom Donnie and Cuomo. It's now a
race between Mom Donnie and Trump, okay, and that allows him,

(04:36):
in a predominantly blue city, to make this a referendum
on Trump. That's how we got Letitia James's attorney general.
She ran for office saying, I'll sue Trump, I'll arrest Trump,
Trump's gonna go to jail, which lo and behold. She
followed through on all of those things. And now they've
thrown out a lot of the judgments against Trump. Why
because these were politically tainted prosecutions. She ran for office

(04:58):
on I'm gonna get that guy. That's not justice being blind.
So thankfully the courts upheld that, you know that standard,
and Trump didn't have to pay the penalty that Letitia
James brought against him. But the reality is she at
a time when New York City's crime rates soared. They
were dumbing down the crime statistics to make them look palatable,

(05:19):
businesses were fleeing. She was able to successfully run for
office and get re elected based on the fact that
a lot of New Yorkers didn't like Donald Trump. Alvin
Bragg did the same thing. He ran for office and
then he signed a bunch of woke bail reforms, and
nobody goes to jail anymore. In New York City, everything
turns to the current police commissioner is doing a phenomenal job.

(05:41):
She's a lot more involved in letting the rank and
file cops do their job. Having increased presence on the street,
maintain a little more stability. I mean, it's New York.
It's going to be chaotic regardless. But the point is,
most people in a position of power in an overwhelmingly
blue state, in the current climate we live in, have

(06:03):
been able to nationalize their races. People run for mayor
in towns you've never heard of in the state of
Illinois by going hill stand up to Donald Trump and
you go, wait, what does that have to do with
mayor of Opahlikah, Alabama or wherever the.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Hell you run it.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'm not I like Opaka, Alabama had a good buddy
from down there, goold gambling buddy. Not to be confused
about my buddy Tommy Daniel and his crazy ass wife Laura.
These are different people in Alabama. But the point is,
stick with me. When you nationalize a race, it allows
for a local dereliction of duty. It's actually a bad thing.
They have this going on in Chicago right now. Brandon

(06:42):
Johnson's at fourteen percent.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
JB.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Pritzker's pound for palace bad of a governor's we've ever had.
So what are they both doing yelling about Trump? So
in a one party town, people go, oh, this guy's
mad at Trump. I'm mad at Trump, my man, I'm
with you, Like you have the highest murder rate in
the nation. Shut up Trump to lower it, that means
it must be a bad thing. So let's keep that
high murder rate. I'm with my man over here. And

(07:05):
that's what they do, and it's bad. It's actually bad
for a city. So there's a part of me that
doesn't want mom Johnny to be mayor. But there's no
whirl where I can tell you Andrew Cuomo's got my support.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh, it's awful.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
But the reality is, you know, you get to the
Sophie's choice position where if you're running the federal government
in New York city's gonna tank. Okay, you wind up
passing the bill onto everybody else in this country. They
don't just let New York go under. It's too big.
It's the center of commerce here in America. It's a
big deal. That's what I've been saying for months. Nobody
listening around the country cares who the New York City

(07:37):
mayor race is. Okay, or mayor is. But we're in
a position where if Democrats socialism comes to New York,
not only is it going to bankrupt this municipality and
make your life more expensive as a tax payer, but
if it proves to be a winning strategy in the
mayor's race, they are absolutely positively going to nationalize it
in twenty twenty eight, and they're going to put a
woman like Alexandria Ocassio on the president ballot. No God, no, God, please, no, no, no.

(08:06):
Alexandria Ocassio Cortes, mind you, otherwise known as AOC.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
AOC is a dope.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
But the point is, Okay, mom, Donnie's bid for Gracie Mansions,
whether the mayor lives here in New York City, is
really just a blueprint for a national attempt at the
White House by AOC. She is the person endorsing him,
who got him all the heat on TikTok. She's the
one working behind the scenes to align him with the
big mega donors. You know, because when you're the guy

(08:33):
running to be the champion of the little guy. What
you need to do is round up all the activist
billionaires to get him.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
On your side. That's what they do. Okay, Mom.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Donnie who said we got to defund the police because
they're racist and anti gay had his wedding in Uganda,
where the punishment for being gay in public is death.
Does that sound like a guy who supports the gay community.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
No, of course not.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, guy wants to defund the police is guarded by
seven seventy cops. Okay, so he knows the cops are good.
But this is the reality of what we're dealing with
here in New York City. There are larger implications than
just winning or losing a mayor's race. And that's why
I wouldn't be shocked to see Trump get involved. What
I don't like about it is that it becomes a

(09:22):
referendum on Trump a year ahead of the midterms. I
get it, he's a ballsy guy. He'll go all in.
But who you going in for a guy Andrew Cuomo
that you've been trashing. You spent the last your last
four years in office trashing this guy. You know, there
were some moments where they worked together during COVID, but
there were just as many moments where they didn't. And
Cuomo was having his press conferences and calling Trump a racist,

(09:42):
and Trump was calling him incompetent. And then, of course
Joe Biden, when Cuomo was on the verge of getting
me tooed right out of office at the very time
his top aid was testifying that he falsified COVID death data,
of course Joe Biden went on TV and called him
the gold standard.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
The answer is, I don't fully know. We've been leading
it to the governors. Thank god, the governors have been moving.
Your governor New York's done one hell of a job.
I think he's sort of the gold standard.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
True, Cuomo the gold standard. Biden's lost his marvels.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Guy was run out of office like a week later.
But this is where we find ourselves in politics. It
seems like none of the options are good because Cuomo
is really awful. And of course, Mom Donnie represents socialism.
He's not like denying that. Like Mam Donnie is running
on a platform that's killed two hundred million people in history,

(10:40):
starved them to the DEATHLK got them shot and pushed
into a ditch socialism. Okay, he's running on it. He's
not running from that. He's not being like, oh, I
was dumb in college. I had a poster up in
my dorm. I didn't know any better. Shouldn't have posted
that picture online. Sorry, it's sort in the background. Those
are not my views today. No, no, no, he's not saying that.
He's get in front of the Karen being like, yeah,
I'm a Democrat socialist. That's what I'm gonna do. Free healthcare,

(11:02):
free housing, free buses, free willie. Let's get more whales
back into the ocean. Why the hell not free them too.
You know it's dumb, okay, but that's what we're up
against is a city. So it sounds like one of
those situations where Trump's hand is forced because Slee was
not winning.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I know we're on WOOR in New York City. I
know he's got a lot of fans on the station,
even though he jokingly refers to it as women's only radio.
So I could take the heat, Kurt. I have him
on the show all the time. He's on my Fox
New Saturday night show. I don't think he's winning, Okay,
Adams is a joke. It'd be sad to see him
leave because he has single handedly kept the nightclub industry

(11:40):
afloat in this city. Eric Adams, in those first three
years of his tenure, was in every nightclub in New
York City in the Bottle Service area, every single one. Okay,
I am a former New York City cab driver. All
the medallions in my garage are two g's, Like I
drove a cab called Twog thirty four. But if you're
ever in New York and you see a two okay,

(12:01):
they belonged to the same garage that I drove for.
And I have all my original friends are still my buddies.
I didn't like, get a TV show and be like,
I don't know you people. Okay, of course I know
these people. These are my people. I mean, if you
talk about Garth Brooks having friends in low places, I'm
that friend. I'm not the Garth version of that. I'm
the guy in the low The taxi drivers have friends
in low places, I'm the guy in the low place.

(12:22):
Don't be fooled by any of this media stuff. But
the point is, yeah, Adams was out every night. He
was a dirt bag. Mayer and he was all in
on New York being a sanctuary city till he wasn't.
When he realized how bad it was for local resources
and the infrastructure and everything between, he spoke out against it,
at which point the Biden administration rated his office.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
He should be behind bar That's what they did.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
And you know, then he got in trouble for taking
business class upgrades to go to Turkey, which we still
don't understand why that was a thing. Trump came along
kind of wiped the sleigh clean, made good with Adams.
But Adams, of course, in a one party two on
like New York City, did not benefit from that. In
the polls and he is at three percent, he is

(13:07):
at three percent in the pole. Better than that, you
gotta do better. You got to drop out. It sounds
like he's gonna drop out. So if Trump's going to
clear the field of Adams, He's going to clear the
field of my man, Curtis Sliwa. It would leave us
a one on one between Cuomo and Zoron.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Mom Donnie.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now, I don't like Cuomo, but I do like the comps,
and I do like living in a city that has
the boys in Blue as opposed to the social workers,
Mom Donnie wants to replace them with You know, when
the game's on the board on the lawn, you're always
gonna call the boys in blue with the badges over
the thems with the blue hair and the clipboards.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's just a reality.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
So I think Trump's waking up to the same difficult
choice everybody else in New York is okay if it's
Como versus Mom Donnie. We don't like either of them,
but we do like law and order, and that might
be enough to make him win over Mom Donni, a
dirt bag who wants to get rid of the police.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Look, if you hate cops just because of the cops,
the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Do the show that's not afraid to tell you the truth.
Not only is not a very nice custom, you're also
a slow Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayla.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
There it is Fox Across America with Jimmy Fala. I'm
gonna talk to Mary Catherine Ham in the next segment.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
She's on Special Report.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
With Brett barrelst Brett bar veteran of multiple Fox New
Saturday Night appearances. I don't know that he's on this weekend,
because I don't know who the hell's on this weekend.
We're still trying to figure it out. It's only Wednesday.
You give the guy a minute. Come on, folks, calm down.
As far as the radio, this is what I wanted
to say. Spent a lot of time on this this week.

(14:47):
The crime thing's a big thing to me because I
was a former cab driver and I've seen a lot
of street violence. I see how difficult police work is,
and I do see how an indifferent class of politicians
can really drag down the city. Sadly, we've had that
in New York since Giuliani. Okay, Bloomberg did a better
job than anyone gave him credit for, and he stood

(15:08):
behind things like stop and frisk, which got a lot
of you know, a lot of bad apples to behave.
People said, wow, stop and frist didn't really get as
many guns as they said it would. You want to
know why, Because they thought they might get stopped, they
thought they.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Might get frisked.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's true, that is true. A little less likely to
carry him. Okay, But then came the people like build A. Blasio,
who had more sympathy for the criminal than the victim,
and we started to get the woke prosecutors and the
Letitia James' of the world, the Alvin Briggs of the world,
and the taxi career that I had predominantly, Like if
you ever wonder, like how long did you drive a

(15:42):
camp people ask me that a lot. I got licensed
full time in seven. By twenty fourteen, I was not
driving full time. I was still licensed. I just wasn't
on the road every day. You know, there's there were
some issues at the garage with my driving record.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I don't know, but I kidd.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
But the New York I initially was driving in was
actually pretty nice. Like our biggest complaint was the bike
lane had, you know, kind of crippled traffic, which is
not ideal, But in terms of being robbed and shot
at and mugged and migrant pickpockets, we didn't have that. Okay,
it got precipitously worse when Deblasio succeeded Bloomberg, and then

(16:22):
of course just really fell off a cliff when Biden
got into office, because they turned our whole entire city
into a migrant hotel chain. So places like the Roosevelt
around the block from when I'm broadcasting right now in
Fox News headquarters had at any hour of the night,
you know, five hundred scooters out front from people selling drugs.
And on any hour of the night I could be

(16:42):
leaving Fox if it was after nine pm, there were
hookers all over forty sixth Street.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh yes, I've read about that in the Bible.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
And you see that quality of life directly impact the
neighborhood because when there's all kinds of hookers in crime,
people are a lot less likely to frequent those local businesses,
at which point those local businesses and pomps go under.
So now you've got less legal ways to make money,
which brings in more illegal ways, more vice to the community.
And because they started to filter crime through the lens

(17:10):
of race instead of like right and wrong, they told
you a racist for wanting to fight crime, when in fact,
ninety percent of violent crime is committed against victims of
the same race. So when you say things like, oh,
it's racist to go out, Brandon Johnson said, we can't
arrest our way out of this crisis. That's racist, okay.
But if it's racist to arrest black people okay that

(17:32):
are committing crimes, what is it to not bring justice
for the black people who are the victims of those crimes.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
You understand. And yeah, the point is the role of scamp.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
We're going to talk about some of that with Mary
Catherine ham because we care on this show. Do you
remember caring when the guy on the other side of
the microphone just.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Wanted you to have a nice day. I still got
some of that left in me. So don't go.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Anywhere but this Fox across America with Jimmy Falo. One
thing they don't tell you about our guest, famous the
world over, a star of stage and screen. She will
not come on the radio unless you play Metallica. I'm
as myfed as you are. It's in the rider. Mary
Catherine Hamm is here to confirm more deny those allegations.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Hey girl, Hey, I.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Have very specific standards. What can I say?

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I love I didn't see for Metallica though I thought
it might be some hard charge in Motley Crew where
I didn't know, But here we are.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
I have a lot of range.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Jimmy, yes you do. I've drank with you. I'm aware.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Uh do you know, by the way, since this just
threw me down a tangent, you know, Motley Crue had
a lead singer named Vince Neil.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yes, but our.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Mutual friend Kennedy had She had showed me a video
because he has put on a couple of pounds over
the years. Okay, like he actually needs them to kickstart
his heart at this point. It's a bad situation. But
he now they now refer to him as Vince Neil,
which I think is funny.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I can laugh.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I could let Mary Catherine ham, I could laugh at that.
If I wasn't hosting this show, I'd be a before
model in a Nozempa gand go for it.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
You can.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
And I have already prefaced the audience with the fact
that this is a clash of the Titans. Because you
appear regularly on Special Report, this show is more like
Special Ed. So again, a lot of range, there's a
lot that's that's a nice thing about you.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
But this is where I wanted to start off all
the things going on in the news today. Have you
ever met Jensaki?

Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yes, Well, in fact, I have worked together in the past,
guest hosting a radio show together Circle like two thousand
and seventeen.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh I did not know this, Okay, so hold on,
I got to run this value then, okay, because I
was watching her lean into the Trump death Oaks thing.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, and it occurred.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
To me as being like, you know when they say
someone is extra, you know, but when it comes to
like part you know, kind of partisan propagad that's leaning
into that seemed extra to me.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Is that fair?

Speaker 4 (19:49):
I think that's fair.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yes. So far, so so far, so good.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
So my only back and forth with Jensaki is two
years ago, before the White House correspondence dinner party together. Okay,
so let's say it was three years ago because she
was still a press secretary. She was actually really friendly
at the party, myself and our pal Emily Campanna.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
We had a beer, we took a picture. It was
kind of goofy.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
The next night, I saw her at the dinner itself
when the cameras were on, and she gave me a
look that only Nicole has seen from oj. Okay, this
was not a friendly look with the cameras on, and
I was like, oh, I get it. This is kind
of pro wrestling, you know what I'm saying, buddies in
the locker room, but when the cameras come on, it's

(20:35):
a whole thing. So is my read on her accurate
to the best of your knowledge, or would you rather.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Not see it?

Speaker 5 (20:41):
So in my experience. First of all, my experience with
jen Psaki is like three eras of Jensaki ago when
we were both at CNN. I found her fine to
work with, Like we disagreed on air, but it wasn't crazy,
it wasn't weird, and I found her to be the
first version that you encountered most of the time when
I was working with her. Now if I ran into

(21:02):
her now, who knows.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Get out of here?

Speaker 4 (21:05):
I actually am.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
I'm sort of surprised by Look, when you're the press secretary,
you do what you gotta do, right, Like that's like
kind of the gig. But as a primetime host, she
doesn't have to talk about the death thing. It's a
weird road to go down. I don't know why you
want to become that person. I guess there's danger for
that and all of us in politics, because everybody loses

(21:27):
their mind eventually, But this one seems particularly unprofessional and gross.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
We took it to Mary Catherine Ham over the zoom.
It's not safe to have her in studio. It's a lot,
it's alive. We don't have that kind of insurance. This
is like, go on, man, I can't. But yes, that
was my same takeaway. And when I saw her leaning
in because she was like, you know, we'll never know,
I'm like, yeah, we will, like, well know, but this
is what I wonder because there were, you know, several

(21:55):
outlets who kind of leaned into this a little bit.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Is there this exors size.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
And image rehabilitation in that certain concerned factions of the
media want to now look like they're doing their due
diligence when we have an elderly president, if only because
it's pretty well widely regarded fact that they didn't the
last time around. Do you think that's part of the motivation,
not that they legitimately thought he was dead or they
were trying to mock rak and spread the conspiracy so

(22:20):
much as they were just trying to look like they
were doing the due diligence.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
I don't think they care.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
I mean, yeah, good it does us for you guys
to turn on the investigative burners now.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
For four years.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
No, this is selective application of journalistic curiosity, right, And
they know that a lot of their audience was spending
Labor Day, weekend down this rabbit hole trying to figure out.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Ways in which the president could be deceased.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
I don't know, by the way, I don't know how
game that out for me, how that works out for
them with President Advance. But whatever they knew, they were
down that rabbit hole. I don't think they have any
interest in having corrected their behavior from the Biden era
or doing better in the future. I think they have
an interest in mostly their partisan INDs, and that means
like pretending that Donald Trump, who gave a three hour

(23:09):
presser slash cabinet meeting two days before he was golfing
for two days over a holiday weekend, that that guy's
on death store, Like that's what they're invested in, and
it's stupid and it was stupid for them to ignore Biden. Look,
I think we should talk openly about Trump's health.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
He's an older guy.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
He's probably being treated for routine maladies of older folks.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
He also works twenty seven hours a.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Day, so like it's the guy's on the roof for
the White House, like it's undercover boss.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, check it out the shingles or something like that.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
He's doing like three construction projects and Ukraine Russia and you.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Know he's just had a flyover for the Polish president
out front. He's a gadget guy, you know what I mean,
Like I don't hang out with Trump, and like if
Trump lived in the suburbs, you know those houses you
go over where you're gonna see the new TV and
something they did to the fish tank before you even
have a beer. Yes, yeah, that's definitely that is definitely Trump.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
You're not.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Actually, I'm actually medium surprised that in the Oval office
there's not like a doorway that opens up to reveal
the resolute desk, like it's.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Coming like a like a reality show. That would be cool.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I've been reliably informed that he's a regular listener. So
if anybody around the country sees a fish tank or
a new door in the Oval, you could thank Mary Cassa.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Oh do you know what? I think they could improve
over there.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
And he actually would be very interested in this at
the cabinet meetings, which I think are fantastic because I
like that radical open like just let everybody go and
we get to see what's happening live, which we never
got in the last administration.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
The lighting's not good in that room.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's a good point. That's a good yo.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
TV people, my TV staff, which I resent this twofold
because they lose it.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
They're like, look at the light of you can't Sey's face.
They get mad.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
It's all shadowy.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Yeah, it's like and Trump is great at TV and
normally everything looks wah, but that that particular room needs
more lights.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Amen. Mary Catherine Ham's on the line, not just a star,
also a director.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Stage manager, stage manager to the stars. Mary Catherine Ham,
do you know the last time I saw you in person?
It's a good story. We were at Kennedy's with the
great Guy Benson. It ended this is my actual last
civilian cab ride. Me and Guy Benson had to take
a cab back to Fox Okay, and I was in
the back of a yellow cab with Guy Benson. He's

(25:29):
the last human being I've been a passenger in a
taxi with. And at the time I was still a
licensed cab driver. So do you think to some extent
there's like Guy Benson and his own prosperity rubbed off
on me and was the difference maker, or do you
think it was the naked pictures of the high level
executives that I possess.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
I'm gonna go with Guy. Really it was Guy.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, spoken like a woman who hasn't seeing the pictures.
I'm kidding, stop it, give me this one. I have
a theory. There's a lot of people Democratic Party. I'd
put Pritsker in this category. I would put Newsom in
this category. Yeah, and maybe a bless his heart, Brandon Johnson.
There are a lot of people that are trying to
kind of fail up right now by becoming the face
of a Trump resistance. Yes, and I think that's a

(26:11):
lot of what Chicago's about. Definitely what Newsom was doing
with the all caps. Do you think that's a strategy
here and that that's why there's like this. They're kind
of human shielding the idea of the guard coming in
and lowering crime potentially. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
So unfortunately for people who need the Democratic Party to
be semi functional, they do like to award people who
are failing like that's what they do.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
And so I'm not sure how they I don't know.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
I don't think they know how to get out of
that loop. They're just like, Oh, Newsom has a D
next to his name. They're for good California Liberal, They're
for good, but their elites don't get past that ever
to realize that they're not delivering a product that works.
I will I will give Governor wes Moore of Maryland
some credit because he stumbled on this one when he

(26:58):
said Democrats do not have a messaging problem, they have.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
A results problem. Now, I would.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Also point out that wes Moore, who had a bridge
destroyed by a giant ship in his state in twenty
twenty four, it took fifteen months to start demo on.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
The broken bridge, not rebuild a bridge. So I would
suggest that he's part of the results problem. But the
fact that they're recognizing that is good.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
By the way, that means that wes Moore won't be rewarded.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
It'll be pritz Garten.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
He's enough out of you, wes Moore. What are you
doing here? That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Pretend we're great. That's what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's all we need. Give me this.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Mary Catherine Ham has Muriel Bowser found Jesus late in
the service, and that she's inviting the guard to stick around,
or she's still trying to kind of straddle that line
and really not credit the Trump initiative with helping the
city like where is she in this?

Speaker 5 (27:51):
I think this is what happened with that. She was
very open at the beginning. You remember her messaging at
the beginning. She was like, look, we do have a
problem that we're working on. We're trying to get ourselves
in a better situation. We welcome some help here and there,
you know, like maybe some some negotiation about who goes
where and what kind of jobs they do. Then in
the middle she was like, this is authoritarian. I think

(28:12):
the national conversation got to her when she said this
is authoritarian. And then a couple weeks later, a bunch
of constituents who are actually having their lives improved called
her and were like, no, no, no, this is working,
and she was like, oh, maybe I should stick with this.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I think that's what happened. I think that is the
actual accurate timeline.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Because you have to play, you know in radio, when
you're playing the sound bites every day, we've watched this
progression and we got to an executive voderash and I
was like, wait, where is the this is what Hitler did?

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Lady, Yeah, and apparently this is what Hitler did.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Lady went to brunch and her friends were like, you know,
I didn't get chased once on the way here.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Well that's the thing, right, It's like, look, do I
have not so much in DC as in other cities,
but like, do we want to observe the constitutional restrictions
for what the federal.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Government can do in these areas and do that properly? Yes?

Speaker 5 (29:03):
But for normal people who aren't walking through all of that,
they're like, I don't know, zero murders seems better than
four a week.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
It's such a simple metric. So I had this argument
in my yard last week because my buddy's like, so
what do we do now?

Speaker 1 (29:18):
You just come out of the train. Are you just
gonna see a soldier the rest of your life? I'm like,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'm like, but if the alternative is no one died
for twelve days, I'm like, I'd rather see the soldier
than the dead guy.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Well, and like I do think it will be temporary.
But I came through Union Station the other day and
it was kind of lovely, and it was actually, I
should quintessentially American because you come outside and you do
see the National Guard and they're very politely and kindly
standing there just doing their jobs, minding their business, and
then in front of them is a giant row of
lefties saying that they're fascists. And I'm like, well, they're

(29:52):
not fascisting very well because you guys are just standing
out here yet lanes and now the only annoying thing
about going in and out of Union Station is the
people yelling about the fascism. It's not the crime, it's
not the overdoses, it's not the you know, watch your
step where you for human feces and all that stuff.
So look, I don't think it's gonna be forever, but
the idea that presence of military and law enforcement doesn't

(30:16):
prevent crime is crazy. They were making the argument it's
going to make more crime. I know, I don't think
that's true, guys, I don't think that's true.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't know who these people are that they always say, like, oh,
it inflames tensions if you send the guard in, like
I behave pretty well when the military show, who are
these people?

Speaker 5 (30:33):
All?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Right?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well?

Speaker 4 (30:34):
And also then they're mad.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Then they're mad when the guard is out picking up
trash because they're like, oh, look this is useless.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Oh did you want them in flaming tensions because I think.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
This seems okay, just like yanking people out of cars,
all right, As someone who does commute, spend a lot
of time between New York and DC and you know
these stations. Well, settle a beef with myself and the
Transportation Secretary, Sewan Duffy.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Now I'm going to give you a caveat here. Okay.
Duffy's a good friend of the show.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
He used the guest the show quite a bit before
he went and did the cabinet thing. And an ongoing
source of contention in our friendship is that I should
have been the Transportation secretary because I have a taxi license.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
And the big case for Duffy is he at Congress
blah blah blah, bord of uber who cares. Okay, but
they always say, you know, Duffy had nine kids, and
you gotta get nine kids around. That's mass transit, if
ever there was some. But would you not argue as
a parent nine kids can be placated oftentimes with like
an iPad. I was driving around time travelers, pantless hobbits,
people from planets you've never heard of. Wouldn't you say

(31:32):
that I had the more adverse clientele first and foremost.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Uh, here's what I will say. Okay, I think you're
more qualified than Pete Boudaget was.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Ah, such a diplomat. All right, So a whold lot
what I've done here. I'm I'm still gonna get you
on the record with this Duffy thing, and I'm gonna
text them the answer.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
So Duffy comes to New York last week and it says,
we're you know, we're gonna rehab Penn Station. We give
it a nice workover. It's gonna be gorgeous, gonna be
similar to what we're doing with Union Station. We're gonna
let Amtrak run it. We're gonna sink so money, We're
gonna do it right. And he said, you know, I
know Trump's Station has a nice ring to it, but
that's a conversation we can have down the road when
we get this done. But he has floated the idea

(32:12):
of naming it after Trump.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
So far, so good.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
But as someone who has commuted in and out of
Penn Station, which you have correct quite frequently, as we
all know, Okay, isn't it if you consider the amount
of drugs and prostitution on the seventh Avenue side of
Penn Station alone.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Should it not be named after Hunter Biden?

Speaker 4 (32:32):
This is another train station named after a Biden.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
I think it lines up. I guess if you clean
it up. If you clean it up, it goes Trump.
That's all I don't I don't have an answer. But
this is the kind of hard hitting journalism you signed
up for. Mary Catherine. You have successfully opiated the masses
with your wit and wisdom yet again.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
No, no, for real, thank you for this.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
There was a there was a seven hundred point IQ
gap in this conversation and it was only evident like
three times in twelve minus.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
And so hey, you know I can play down. I
can play down.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, yeah, that's enough. I'll play one more for the
road to get around. Get her out of here. I'll
see a student.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Actually the best Bye, guys, It is the great Mary
Catherine Ham.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
You know who. You love her. She's all over your
channel here at Fox News. We're back after this. It's
the fastest part of your workday.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Bottom of the ninth on Fox Across America with Jimmy Phala.
All kinds of stuff going on on the TV side
Martha McCallum show. I'll be on Jesse Waters Thursday Night, Hannity,
Friday Night, of course, Saturday, Fox News Saturday Night with
Jimmy Fayala. And that's a big deal. It's a big deal.
We're fired up, and then we're going back out on

(33:41):
the road in November. My son started his senior year
high school today. Lincoln made it to the twelfth grade.
That's kind of a big deal. And his varsity football
season is underway. They don't have their first game for
about two weeks, but the link Man will start sneaking
on and giving us some Friday previews and maybe he
might even get on earlier in the week, depended on
this practice schedule. You know, in the old days, he

(34:02):
was you know, he could call in. He had like
a study hole at eighth period. Last year he was
calling into the show during eighth period when he was
supposed to be in school.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Because that's kind of quality.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Parent I am. But you know a lot of you
guys have met my kid, met my wife. We have
a real relationship on this show. So when we go
back out on the road, I usually bring him and
Lincoln's going to be opening for me a couple of
those dates in November. So if you want to see
the fail as an action, Foxacross America dot Com. That's
also where you can get tickets to be in the
live studio audience for Fox News Saturday Night. And the

(34:33):
thing is, you know this particular week because there's a
lot of crazy NFL football starts on Sunday. We've got
a college full throttle now, there's a lot going on,
So we make the show happen a little bit later
in the week. Like sometimes I can get on here
on a Tuesday and tell you who's going to be
on the show. Right now, I don't even know if
I'm booked. I have no idea. I know I'm the host.
I don't know if I made the cut though, I

(34:54):
don't know that I'll be on, but somebody will be there.
So we're excited about that. And all I will say
with the new cycle we're working with right now, there's
another apparently there's a second controversy surrounding Sidney Sweeney that
they're going to make me talk about with Martha McCallum,
which is fascinating. But apparently Sidney Sweeney is playing a

(35:17):
ballerina in a new ad where she's just in like
a tou tou in a set of leckings. And now
they're saying that, you know, this should have went to
a real ballerina. How dare you just putting on the
costume doesn't make you a ballerina. Well, then maybe tell
that to all the weirdo guys out there who think
putting on a wig makes them a Woman's some food

(35:43):
for thought on the way out the door. But I'm
going to get real food now the show is over.
We'll see tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
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