FULL SHOW: Hilton Hotel controversy; Will the USA obtain Greenland?

Was the Hilton Hotel involved in housing ICE Victims in its hotels throughout the country without ICE agents being aware? Mark explains. The CBS Evening News is facing criticism from left-wing critics right now, under CEO Bari Weiss, for allegedly making the structure of the newscasts more centrist, rather than being too far left or too far right.  Mark interviews Steve Forbes, Chairman of Forbes Media. Steve discusses why rolling back regulations on electric vehicles (EVs) will greatly benefit car companies. He also shares his picks for who should serve on the Federal Reserve Board as Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s term comes to an end this year. If President Trump succeeds in securing oil from Latin America and possibly Greenland, the USA could see very low gas prices. Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of January 6th. Mark explains why he believes Democrats are wrong to be angry about that day, arguing that the violence could not have been prevented and questioning its characterization as an insurrection. Meanwhile,18 million people tuned in to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve last week! Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is not planning to leave his job, despite reports that he would not seek reelection. Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Mark and Ann discuss the ongoing financial fraud controversy in Minnesota, examining how financial matters have been mishandled in the state both historically and in recent years. Is Governor Tim Walz to blame? Ann also shares her concerns about New York City, especially as the new Mayor Mamdani’s administration gets underway. She notes that Mayor Mamdani has appointed longtime housing activist Cea Weaver as the new director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, signaling a strong focus on tenant protections in his agenda.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's only about three hundred more weeks of him to
get through, and then you'll be fine. Got to keep
clearing my throat. I'm not sick, I just my nose
has been stuffed up for a week and a half.
It's just this ridiculously cold weather. It's gonna be in
the forties today, fifties later this week in Alaska. Remember

(00:21):
the Remember a couple weeks ago we had all that
snow on a Friday. Remember Bridgeport seven inches long, Island
seven inches. It was harm seven inches through this weather Alaska.
This is just the past couple of days. Seven feet
of snow, seven feet of snow. You know here, if
you get an inch, there's already a school closings immediately Alaska.

(00:44):
You got to get to about ten feet before they
close the schools there. So we'll get to Venezuela, we'll
get to Greenland, we'll get to Tim Waltz, we'll get
to CBS News. They're getting a lot of flat. They've
been cleaning up the evening News, trying to make it
less corrupt, and they're getting a lot of fla. Hey,
we'll get to that crazy George Conway who's running for
Congress we'll get to mom. Donnie Hey. Speaking of getting

(01:06):
a lot of flack, this Hilton story did not get
a lot of coverage. But you know, there's Hilton is
a great hotel chain. You got Hilton hotels all over
the place, and there's one in the Minnesota where you know,
ICE when they go into these cities, you don't realize
all the logistics that are required. And I forget arresting
the criminals, the criminal illegals, just the logistics of getting

(01:31):
them all there. If you want to send one hundred
ICE agents there, you got to move them there. All
their equipment, everything, their vehicles, everything has to be moved there.
And then you got to find a hotel for them
to stay in. So in every city they have to
book one hundred hotel rooms. Although well, government likes to
waste money. But although it might be you know, they

(01:51):
double up, so it's fifty hotel rooms, two in a room, whatever.
But in Minneapolis they used here it is again in Minneapolis,
they used a Hilton hotel to have the ICE agents stay, well,
the local Hilton hotel employees. You know, it's a Minnesota
and they were crazy left wing, childish democrats, woke democrats,

(02:15):
so they found out these were Ice people coming to
stay in the hotel, so they canceled the reservation and
informed Ice that they were not welcome to stay in
this Hilton hotel. Well, you can't do that, of course,
that's ridiculous. Now, it's not the fault of Hilton the corporation.
It's these employees in this local hotel, and it turns

(02:38):
out it's not owned by Hilton. You know, many of
these hotels are owned and built by Hilton, but a
lot of these hotels you stay in were just built
by the local guy who built a hotel and then
he makes a deal with Hilton to come in and
run it and put their name on it. It's a
franchise you can buy, so you can build yourself a
beautiful hotel and then you get Marriott to be the

(02:59):
name on it and run it. You have to make
a partnership franchise agreement with them. In this case, it
was Hilton. So Hilton looked into this and they immediately
withdrew the franchise. They fired this local owner and hotel.
They took their name off the hotel. They will have
nothing to do with this hotel anymore. It's against their
policy to discriminate against people because of their race, or

(03:20):
because you don't like the way they look, or you
don't like their politics. You can't discriminate and refuse to
give them a room. So Hilton has withdrawn the franchise.
They will have nothing to do with Hotel anymore. So now,
of course, the left wing cooks are all going after Hilton,
denouncing Hilton, writing about Hilton. Here's one of these left
wing cooks. Hilton was trying to protect people from government

(03:44):
thugs who separate people from their families. They separate families.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
First of all, every law enforcement agency in the world
separates families. The New York City police separate families. The
Minneapolis police separate whenever anybody's arrested. If they arrest a woman,
say a mother, and they arrest her and have to
arrest her, take her in handcuff her, take her to jail.
That you can't bring your kids with you. You're separated.

(04:10):
The kids have to stay with a relative or something,
or if there's nobody, they go into child services. But
every law enforcement agency separates families. Every arrest, families are separated.
So Hilton getting a lot of flack. Now, you know,
who else is getting a lot of flax. CBS News
because the new woman in charge, Barry Weiss, decided to

(04:33):
clean up the corruption over there and try to make
it a little more fair and balanced. So normally you
watch the CBS Evening News, all they do is denounce
the President, denounce the administration, call them all kinds of names.
Whatever they do, it's awful. So the new CBS News
under Berry Weiss, they put in a new anchor. This
guy's pretty good. It's off to a rough, rocky start,

(04:55):
but he's pretty good. He'll he'll slowly, you know, he
actually get some pretty good ank. This David Muher, you know,
might be a little slanted, but he's a sharp look
and it's a great newscast. The ABC Evening News and
the new NBC News anchor. I can't remember his name,
Tom Yamas. That's his name, Tom Yamas. He's actually I
like Lester Holdy was a nice guy. Totally corrupt on

(05:17):
the air, totally biased, but he's a nice guy. This
guy's sharper, better, quicker, and the same thing with CBS.
This guy's pretty good. But they've decided to make the
newscast fair. So every night they'll go after the Trump
administration a little with the language because it's still being
written by CBS newswriters. But they'll be fair, they'll put
the other side. On the first night of this new guy,

(05:40):
he gave Pete Hegxith three segments on the New three
segments on the Evening News to respond. And then it
was Marco Rubio one night. They brought him on live
and whatever they said bad about Trump, they put on Rubio,
let him respond. And then Christy Nome, whatever the attack was,
they then put went to her, put her on live
on the news and let her respond. That's the fair

(06:01):
thing to do, so you're supposed to do so. CBS
News getting all kinds of flak from left wing critics
now attacking them like crazy. Here's one the call says it.
Now it's become Fox News light. They're shilling for the administration,
just giving the other the other side of chance to respond.
That's shilling for the administration. So uh, changes are happening.

(06:25):
And remember this is only the first year of Donald Trump.
Give them two three years and we'll see what happens. Now,
all this Greenland talk, you know, I feel bad for
the Democrats. This is costing them a fortune. You know,
they all had to go out and buy Ukrainian flags
to wave around. And then all the trouble in Israel
they had and they had to go out and you know,

(06:46):
get rid of the flags. They had to go out
and buy a Hamas flags and Palestinian flags to wave around.
I mean every second they got to buy a new flat.
Then ice they had, all these liberals had to go
buy Mexican flags, and now they all got to go
buy Venezuelan flags. You know, they're spending a fortune on flags.
Had I known this was going to happen, I would
have bought stock and flag companies a couple of years ago.

(07:09):
But it just you go into any left wing kook
woke democrats home, there's a closet now filled with different flags. Hey,
by the way, a lot of this stuff, these protests
are funded organized. They're not organic or natural. Many of
them paid for by Soros and those other oligarchs. The
Democrat oligarchs like Soros fund them. Nicole what's his name,

(07:32):
Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman. So the president and the administration
for they've hinted at this, but for the first time
ever they said they're looking at going after them harmit.
Dillon and others in the Department of Justice now talking
about conspiracy charges against them. When you see what looks
supposed to be just an organic protest that happened all

(07:53):
of a sudden over Venezuela, they all two hundred of them,
have all the same equipment. They have the same exact
signs from the same printer, and they're real high quality,
glossy printed signs, really expensive. Well, so this is all
being funded by these Soros type zillionaires. But now they're
talking about rico charges, conspiracy charges funding protests, so finally

(08:19):
something may be done about that. So the Venezuela talk.
Now here's the other thing. The President talking about Greenland
taking over Greenland, hinting at the military go in there
and sees Greenland. He's not going to do that. It's
not going to be the military. First of all, the
military seizing Greenland. A boy Scout troop could take over
Greenland in about half an hour. I mean, it would

(08:41):
take twenty minutes to seize Greenland. So what he wants
is to buy it from Denmark. Denmark owns Greenland. And
there was a time a while back where they were
actually kind of interested in talking about it because the
price was going to be billions of dollars for Greenland
and they needed the money. Denmark's economy in trouble, a big, huge, huge,

(09:03):
huge deficit and debt. Well, one of the things that
saved them was that ozempic because apparently some of the
original whatever it is from ozempic made in Greenland in Denmark,
and they've made a fortune off it, which made up
a lot of their deficit. But US wants Greenland, they'd
like to buy it. They'd like to work out an

(09:23):
agreement to buy it and pay for it and then
own it. But that's the reason for all this invasion
military to it's just negotiating, just negotiating. There's no chance
of actually invading Greenland or taking it over. But it's
a very valuable thing for the US. It's very important,
crucial military base for US, crucial as far as shipping lanes.

(09:44):
It has all kinds of defense strategic reasons why we
need to have Greenland. Also, it's filled with valuable minerals
and stuff. So it's a win win to take Greenland.
And Denmark really doesn't need it for any defense purposes
or strategic purposes or military base purposes, and then there's
always the fear for all those same reasons that the

(10:05):
Russia or somebody else could take it over President Trump.
You know, remember Joe Biden, remember him, And maybe once
a year he tried to do a press conference and
they'd call on three people where they were already picked beforehand,
questions and answers written out right in front of Joe.
And they had to put a big card with the

(10:27):
reporter's name so Joe could call on him, and the
reporter's picture so he'd recognize them. And they used a
real big font you know, so Joe could see it.
Those are the old days. Now it's President Trump every
two seconds of press conference, anytime he's walking in the hall,
anytime the reporter's there, he'll answer questions, he'll talk to
them on They all have a cell number. They can

(10:47):
call him anytime. Hundreds and hundreds of these reporters have
a cell number. Even this crazy Joe Scarborough, right after
Venezuela or the Greenland stuff started, he said he called
the President Trump and talked to him for twenty minutes Greenland.
I mean, that's how open he is. He'll talk to
Joe Scarborough on the phone for twenty minutes. But wherever
he is, you immediately can talk to him. He'll answer questions.

(11:11):
You see, even when he's on the plane, he'll come
out of the private cabin and answer questions for a
half hours. So anyway, the whole thing is it's a
winning situation in Venezuela. And he talked about that, you
got to win the midterms. Oh, okay, the midterms. Now
this is the other thing. How does this affect the midterms? Well,
gas prices will come down even more. They've come down dramatically. Hey,

(11:35):
By the way, it's another side issue. Gas has come
down to two fifty a gallon, two seventy five a gallon.
It was four dollars under Joe bidden It's now two
fifty everywhere except New York, and except California. It's two
fifty everywhere you go in the country. Two seventy five.
In New York it's still four dollars, four to fifty.

(11:55):
California it's five. Nobody is you have totally corrupt meat.
Otherwise they'd be all over these two governors at demanding
to know why they haven't let the gas prices come down.
The reason hasn't come down here, the state will just
add the taxes to make up for it and keep it.
So gas prices are way down all over America with Venezuela.

(12:16):
Now we're going to get fifty million gallons immediately of
their oil. That'll bring down prices even more. A lot
of the drilling that started is starting to kick in.
So also, you're going to have the tax cuts take
effect now finally, since New Year's Day, they're now in effect.
People to get more money in their paychecks. So that's
going to help Republicans in the midterm, and that's important.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
You got to win the midterms because if we don't
win the midterms, it's just going to be I mean,
they'll find a reason to impeach me.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, there'll be an impeachment a week. But on the
other hand, when they do their remember first term was
an impeachment once every year, every spring. This will be
every month, and then they'll totally devalue the whole idea
of impeachment will mean nothing after a while. Now, the
only time bomb there is a healthcare costs. Obamacare turns
out to be totally unworkable. In fact, they called it

(13:11):
the Affordable Care Act. All it did was drive prices
up like crazy, which was to be expected. Anytime you
take anything out of the private sector and have the
government run it, it gets much more expensive. And it
got so out of control that they had to start
giving subsidies to pay for it. It's the Affordable Care Act,
but it's so unaffordable you have to have a government
subsidy to be able to afford it. So that expired.

(13:34):
Now they're going to have possible you know, one of
those shutdown talk things again at the end of the month.
Democrats want to just keep the subsidy going forever, just
subsidize it. President Trump, being a logical businessman types as well,
why don't we fix it so it actually is affordable,

(13:54):
privatize a lot of it, make it more efficient, get
all the crazy, you know, crazy corruption and complication out
of it, and make it simple. And I mean, that's
the logical thing to do. But Democrats don't want that.
So healthcare will be crucial in the midterms. We could
have had healthcare good healthcare.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Obamacare is bad and the people understand it's bad, and
the premiums are horrible. But one thing I've learned, I've
learned a lot about healthcare. I found healthcare so sort
of like, not of tremendous interest, but it was very important.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, so again all day long. You can talk to him.
Reporters can talk to him anytime, ask him anything. Now
he's a more important issue. You know how he does
that dance and aver there's music, he starts dancing. So
he was asked about that. This is interesting. Now, his wife,
Malania is a very dignified, very elegant woman, and there
he is dancing, and he was asked about it.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
My wife hates when I do this, she said. You know,
she's a very classy person. Right, she said, it's so presidential,
he said, but I did become president somebody she hates
when I dance. I said, everybody wants darling. It's not presidential.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, okay, that's true, but ninety percent of what he
does isn't presidential. He breaks all the rules and he
knows how to do it and be successful at it.
But I can understand her saying that.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
She said, could you imagine after you are dancing? She
said that to me, and I said, there's a long
history that perhaps she doesn't know. Because he was an
elegant fellow, even as a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Right, yeah, but again, I've known Donald Trump, I don't know,
thirty five years and the decades before he was president.
It was all the same thing as a top big
business guy in New York real estate. Everybody in that
world was why does he have to be Why does
he have to do that? Why does he have to
behave like it? You know how to back? Doesn't he know?

(16:01):
So this has been gone on his whole life. He's
perfected this system of breaking all the rules. His instincts
are great. He makes it work. Hey, coming up, we'll
get to George Conway, this crazy nutjob Democrat wants to
run for Congress here in New York. We'll get to
that and more. Coming up, we'll take some calls. Next
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is

(16:23):
the number. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Go to Adam in New Jersey. Adam, how you doing? Adam?

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah? We did wake you did? We?

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (16:37):
No?

Speaker 6 (16:38):
No, no, no no no how are you?

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Let me check? Not bad anytime? Just jump in whenever
you feel like it.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
Okay, run am I on there ready or.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
It sounds like around something, but.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
All right, So this is Mark.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Let me see Mark. Listen.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
I'm glad you're there. But I heard that China and
Russia have already pay Venezuela and oil right for the
fields for oil rights in the fields of Venezuela. Did
they get their money back or what's your thoughts on that?

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well, I don't think it's like Amazon where you can
just send it back and get the refined.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
No.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Well, there's another reason we went into Venezuela. You have
all sorts of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, everybody in there
doing god knows what it was like the axis of
evil all over again. That's another reason to break all
that up. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how
you doing.

Speaker 7 (17:35):
Good morning, Mark.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yes, Mike.

Speaker 7 (17:37):
The Democrats are very good at controlling the language. So
there's always the equal such and such, you know, the
Act and the fair so and so law. And affordability
is the current one. And the funny thing is, you
know what's not as affordable as it once was? Everything?
I mean, you know, you watched Andy Grifford Show, and
you know a haircut was fifty cents last time I

(17:58):
went to get a haircut down here far seventeen dollars
and it's a number two once around the head. You know,
it's like, you know, not even any.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, no, that's true of old TV. You know, you
watch a TV show from nineteen sixty and the guy says,
I'll give you a five hundred dollars. You know, you
don't realize that's like ten thousand today. So but no,
that's a good point. Yeah, this affordability is an interesting thing. Obviously,
it's always about the economy. You remember when Bill Clinton
ran and carvill famously said, it's the economy, stupid, It's

(18:27):
always the economy. But Democrats last year did extensive testing
with focus groups, seriously, and they came on the word
affordability in the focus groups and it tested through the roof.
So they zero it in on that word affordability, affordability.
And it's not that they're so good at messaging. It's

(18:48):
just the corruption where the every inch of media, anchors, newspaper,
they're all in cahoots with them. And if they drill
it into your head over and over and over and
you start to believe it, affordability crisis. If that's all
you see day and night, everywhere you turn, affordability crisis.
You'll start to think there's an affordability crisis. You know,

(19:09):
they did that with Curtis in the race.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know, Curtis had as good a chance as Mam
Donnie in the beginning. I mean, if you look at
these two guys on paper, Mam Donnie never had a
job twelve years old. I mean, on paper, this guy
has no chance. But they kept doing that over and over.
Twenty four to seven. All you heard was Curtis can't win.
CURTI Yeah, well Curtis is great, but he can't win.
He can't win, he can't win. Well, after a while
people start to believe this. Let's go to uh, let's

(19:34):
go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 8 (19:36):
I'm doing good, Mark, Mark. Every time I hear his
word affordability, I'm going to say, the government is the first,
the first person that causes uh unaffordability in the City
of New York. Like this latest bonehead idea that got
the city Council a couple of months ago pass this law.

(20:00):
It wasn't veto proof. They passed this law that if
you're going to sell you if you have a private
building and you're gonna sell it, you have to offer
it to one of sixteen nonprofit agencies that the city's
gonna tell you. You have to offer it to them first,
and if den if they don't want it, you could

(20:21):
sell it privately. And even then, if you're in before
you go into contract, you have to offer it to
these sixteen probably not nonprofit communist agencies. Well, I spoke
actually to a lawyer about this, and this is totally unconstitutional.
The problem is is the New York City courts are

(20:43):
all rigged with these left wing nut jobs. So it's
gonna that's.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
What happened to Donald Trump. And let me ask you
a question. You're a smart guy. You could be in
any business you want. Why would anybody be a owner
of an apartment building or a landlord? It's got to
be the most difficult, troubled, the kind of way, just
NonStop problems, isn't it?

Speaker 9 (21:01):
Mark?

Speaker 8 (21:02):
These days? It is especially Mandami the other day appointed
this so called tenants rights advocate. Her name is CEA Weaver,
and she actually went on the air in an interview
and says, we have to rethink private property rights.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh yeah, no, I'll give me a better one. Let
me see here's an actual quote for her home ownership
is a weapon of white supremacy exactly.

Speaker 8 (21:28):
And then she goes on to say that we're going
to attack white neighborhoods more than minority neighborhood so forth
and so on. I actually spoke to a lawyer about
this and he did tell me this is totally unconsciousness.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
It is, but you know, it's New York. But we
got to go for the news with great call. We'll
get back to that woman and some of her crazy
Mondannie just put her in charge of housing. Well, we'll
get to her in the next hour. But you know,
we bring you the smartest people on earth will do
that in the moment. Steve Forbes will be with us.
He can explain a lot of this stuff in a
very rational way with the Steve Forbes next on seven

(22:08):
to ten wo r Steve Forbes, of course, the chairman,
editor in chief Forbes Media. Also, you know he's the
best selling author. You should get his latest book, Inflation.
There is no better book on the subject. Just go
to Amazon. You can get it there. Inflation, excellent book.
Steve Forbes, How are you.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Doing fine?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Thanks?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
How are you in this new year? Lots happening. Seems
like the year's half over already with everything that's going on.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, speaking of hey, we're talking about affordability. Democrats found
that word through focus groups, affordability. But it has improved
a lot in the last year, hasn't it.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
The real progress is being made. One of the things
I think the Trump President Trump and his team underestimated
was how big of a mess they were actually inherited
from the Biden administration. But when you go down the
list of what they've done and what I hope they're
going to be doing this year, it's impressive. One of
the most boring subjects in the world, of course, is regulation.

(23:08):
It's not the kind of thing that has people really aroused,
but it's been a huge drain, huge burden on American
manufacturing and what they've done and things like with evs.
You know, if they make these regulations permanent through legislation,
the auto industry is going to have a revival and
renaissance that we haven't seen since the nineteen fifties and

(23:28):
nineteen sixties in terms of new designs and new ways
of doing things instead of everything looking like a jelly
bean because of government regulations. So they're doing really really
important things. Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to
be saved through a deregulation. The tax cut is a
savior of preserving the twenty seventeen tax cuts, but also
the big write offs for investment in manufacturing and businesses

(23:52):
today is going to kick in. And one of the
things they're talking about, which I hope they'll do Mark,
is have a second reconciliation bill and cut personal income
tax rates, cut the corporate rate, which President Trump wanted
to do from twenty one to fifteen percent, cut the
capital gains, which that should be a no brainer. It's
good for investment but also instantly raises revenue. So some

(24:14):
things are moving in the right way, and a big
battle coming up again. Another boring subject monetary policy is
the Federal Reserve. Getting somebody in there who will fundamentally
re rechange, change the way the Federal Reserve operates on.
The FED operates on the assumption the prosperity causes inflation.
They have an allergy to a vigorous, growing economy, and

(24:36):
that's got to be changed because that's been a dead
weight for decades.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
But how crucial is the Fed nowadays you know, you
can't rate cut your way to prosperity, can you.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
No, But what you can do is have rates actually
set by the marketplace. What the FED is doing now
is a form of rent control. We know what that's
done in New York, and we'll do even more. But
you know, they used to talk about renting the money.
So when you're borrowing the money, you're renting it, and
the Federal Reserve is setting the rental rates instead of
letting the market do it. So the key thing is

(25:08):
not to have the FED come up the financial markets,
which is done with their artificial coming around with interest rates,
and go for a stable dollar. That's why I hope
Treasury Secretary Besson and President Trump say they want a strong,
stable dollar. They want the dollar to remain a reserve
currency where you have to have a stable and trustworthy
So I hope they get the FED in the right direction.

(25:30):
And I'll make a prediction even though I'm probably wrong,
but you never make money going with the crowd. In
terms of the head of the FED, I think a
good thing would be to send Scott Besson over to
the FED.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
He's got the.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Strength and knows what needs to be done and have
Kevin Hassett, I'll go to the Treasury Department.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh well, listen, you know more about this than I.
But Scott Besson's a great Treasury secretary and there's oh
yes he is. YEA other people could be great FED chairman.
Look who I'm talking to, Warp, You'd be perfect for it,
but you.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Got I'm an agitator now.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
But is it your top guy? If it's Scott Besston,
wouldn't need be more valuable as a Treasury secretary than
a FED chairman.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think he would be. Actually, well, the reason I
would like him at the FED is that one, he's
got a fixed term, and he would not. I think
he's because of his background in finance and the success
in finance. There's no way they can capture him, no
way they can buffalo him the way they did Jerome Powell.

(26:37):
And I think he would.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Also know how to ask the right questions.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
That's key, and have the and not be intimidated by PhDs.
They're over three hundred there now they should be uber drivers,
but they're they're at the FED right now mucking things up,
and and so I think Besson would have the strength
to really turn things over We've already seen what Lee's
Eldon's done at the EPA in terms of deregulation, and

(27:07):
the tread of the Energy team with this administration's phenomenal, right,
and Bergham's that that's going to pay real dividends and
already is at the pump. And by the way, by
the way, the lower price of gas line somehow doesn't
make the headlines the way it does when the Democrats
are in and prices are going up and gets ignored.

(27:30):
Prices are going down and the media ignores it. But
with winner right with us, boy, people want those low rates,
you know.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Part of the problem though I don't know how they
managed to do it, but as the price has dropped
a lot on gas here in New York and in California,
they kept the price way up there at four dollars
a gallon, which is where most of the reporters in
the media live, so they haven't felt the effect yet.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, that's a good point. And but you know, since
they pride themselves and being a great journalist, they should
ask the question why and the answer is thing called tax.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Steve Forth, let me ask you about Venezuela. It was
a booming economy for many years, and then Chavez and
Maduro come in with their socialism and screw it up.
What's the potential for the economy in Venezuela with the
right leader.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
The potential is phenomenal. We all know about their oil reserves,
and it will take time to get the fields back up.
They've been erecked and that takes time. But one of
the things I hope we do before we have a
new democratic elected government. There is a couple of things.
One is keep out the International Monetary Fund the IMF.

(28:46):
They always recommend higher taxes and currency devaluations with triggers inflation.
So keep out the IMF and know what they should
do do in Venezuela is since nobody pays attention to
their bullovar currency anymore toilet paper, is it dollarize it?
Malay should have done that in Argentina, the President of Argentina.

(29:07):
But dollarize the Venezuelan economy. They're always already using dollars
informally anyway, so make it formal and then put in
a low rate tax system and by golly, you'd see
you've got millions of people who left Venezuela. They would
bring capital back you'd see domestic capital being created again.
And there you said, they have an entrepreneurial spirit, and

(29:30):
you could see that economy not revived just because of oil,
but doing other things. And you have a success in Venezuela.
You've got a new president of Chile to get that
country back on track. Hopefully Malay gets it right with
the currency. In Argentina. You have those three countries booming.
By golly, that changes everything, not just in Latin America,

(29:50):
but as a model for other countries around the world.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Hey, Steve Forbes, what's your outlook forecast for New Jersey
with another crazy Democrat governor? Oh man, You.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Know, whenever you talk, whenever you talk to a financial advisor,
the first thing they say to me, they're more polite
than I'm about to be to myself.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
You idiot.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Why he's saying in the state of New Jersey, that's
one of the most misgoverned states in the Union. And
the sad thing is years ago, Larry Cudlow and I
did a tax program for Christy Whitman when she became governor,
and we helped get through big cuts in the state
income tax rate. And one of the things we learned
back then was New Jersey was once the most prosperous

(30:39):
state in the country, grew faster than the rest of
the country, recovered faster than the rest of the country,
and high taxes and regulation killed what had been a
booming economy, always doing better than the national average. And
that can be brought back again. That's why the pharmaceutical
industry is based in New Jersey and other industries, and.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
The policy wrecked it.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
And that's what is so frustrating as we see real
life examples of before and after. And yet and yet
people continue to talk about the need for re education centers.
Maybe for economics, I don't know, but well, it's sad
because the potential is enormous, but people and capital are

(31:24):
moving elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well I would laugh at you, but we just elected
Kathy Hokele and Mamdani So I'm who am I to
But yes, Steve Forbes great to talk to you. Everybody
should get his book. His latest book is Inflation. No
better book on the subject inflation. Just go to Amazon
and get Steve Forbes's book, read his columns, watch them
on television. Of course, Forbes one of the great media

(31:48):
companies in America, in the world Steve Forbes, thanks for
being with us.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Thank you, and keep up your a great fight, especially
now that we've got a communist running the great New
York Venezuela. Throw it gets loss of communist.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
And we gave one. Well. Thanks for reminding us, Steve Forbes,
have a great new year. Thanks for being with us,
you too, Thank you. Mark, take care. Hey, don't forget
Bucking Clay coming up at noon today. They do an
excellent show every day twelve noon. Then you got the
most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity three o'clock.
You got Jesse Kelly at six. And if you heard
the new Jimmy Fayala show every night at nine, it

(32:26):
is excellent on seven to ten. Wor Hey, the awards
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It's the iHeartRadio Music Awards coming back to Fox March
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(32:48):
Don't miss it tomorrow morning at nine. Mark Simone n
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call it. Also follow me on Instagram and all of
that stuff coming up in the next hour. We'll get
to thus lliest guy in the world, Tim Watts. It
will also get to this crazy George Conway. He wants
to be our congressman. Democrats and Trumpeters would like to

(33:08):
make that like a national thing every year, like you know,
nine to eleven where the whole country stops to remember,
or they want to make it like a Pearl Harbor
kind of. It's not going to work those of you
that don't remember January sixth, was that terrible trespassing incident
at the Capitol. I remember. But here's the Democrats are now.

(33:29):
You know all the universities have been corrupted, many of
our high schools. You got all these left wing teachers.
You got all this left wing propaganda being taught in
schools now, and this is why you get people that younger,
people that will vote for Mom. DONI twenty thirty years
of being indoctrinated in these left wing classrooms. Well, now
they want to add January sixth to the history books

(33:51):
and have that taught in every classroom. Now. Of course,
they're not going to teach the whole story as Democrats
do or fake news they'll just give you three or
four pieces of the puzzle and leave out ninety eight
percent of it, so they won't tell you that. President
Trump offered ten thousand troops and urged them to take
the ten thousand troops to guard the capital that day.

(34:14):
It was just another demonstration like the other two hundred
and seventy five that had happened that whole summer in America.
But Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of DC decided not
to accept the offer of the ten thousand troops. They
were told four hundred thousand demonstrators would show up. They
turned down the ten thousand troops. And by the way,

(34:37):
demonstrations of that size were taking place all the time
in Washington when Trump was president. Once remember at the
Lincoln Memorial, and he surrounded it with troops with machine
gun and nobody got near the Lincoln Memorial. The worst
one was when Democratic protesters tried to take the White House,
tried to come over the fence. Remember Trump put out
those tweets if you do come over the fence, you're

(34:59):
going to see them vicious dogs you've ever seen. But
he surrounded the place with troops. There was still a
hell of a battle at the White House fence. Over
two hundred law enforcement ended up in the hospital after that.
But January sixth, it was just another one of those,
not as bad as the one at the White House.
But Nancy Pelosi made the decision that she would try

(35:20):
to guard the building with just the building security guys,
the Capitol Hill Police, which that's basically it is the
security guys at the building instead of actual troops and
Capitol police. They're nice, but they there's only a couple
of hundred of them, and they can't control four hundred
thousand demonstrators, so they'll leave that out of the discussion.

(35:43):
In fact, Nancy Pelosi to this day denies it, although
there's video of her admitting to it that night that
she turned it down and this is all her fault.
But she'll deny it, and they'll teach the fake version
of January sixth, they'll say, they'll just keep using the
word insurrection. It was an insurrection. Meantime, they arrested twelve
hundred of those demonstrators, not a single one has been
charged with insurrection. And remember they charged these guys with

(36:07):
everything they could hit him with. Each one got hit
with twelve charges nineteen charges twenty anything they could charge
him with, and nobody got charged with insurrection. But we'll
see see what happens if they can stop that from
going into the history books. Hey, TV ratings for the
year twenty twenty five, you know the New Year's Eve
show on ABC, which was Dick Clark's rocking New Year's

(36:30):
Eve for years now, it's Ryan Seacrest did pretty well.
Got eighteen million viewers in today's broadcast TV world. That
is enormous. That's huge, huge, and got seventeen million the
year before, so it was a definite increase. It went up.
Andy Cohen, of course, looked ridiculous, getting drunk out of

(36:52):
his mind, going into a drunken rant about Eric Adams,
and then Adams was asked about it the next day.
What say to Andy Cohen, who called you all kinds
of names, and he said, I got my response is
two letters, and you thought it must be f you
or something like my response is two letters AA, which

(37:16):
was a great response. And now Adam's tweeting about Andy
Cohen alcoholics anonymous. So it is a problem. You know,
people get drunk on New Year's Eve, but if you're
on live television, in front of eighteen million people. You'd
think you'd have a little discipline not to get that drunk.
But it was a big night for ABC with the

(37:38):
eighteen million viewers. Fox News had one of the best
years ever. Four point one million viewers was the average.
That's like way beyond any other cable network. Four point
one million viewers. Biggest show of the year was The
Five and Jesse Waters and of course Hannity. Those are
the three biggest shows. MSNBC, CNN a bad year. Not

(38:03):
a lot. The most watched telecast of twenty twenty five
number one, right the super Bowl? Number two. Tracker The
hell is Tracker? I don't know. It's one of those
drama shows. I know, I do know. It's about that
whatever he is, a detective, whatever he is, who tracks
down missing people. Nineteen episodes, but it did really well.

(38:23):
The NFL was the biggest thing on television all year.
If you take the top hundred one hundred things of
twenty twenty five, forty five of them almost half were
NFL games. That's really the only thing keeping broadcast TV alive.
Ratings are down dramatically. Everything in broadcast TV ratings are

(38:44):
way down, But the NFL doing really well. Tim Waltz,
you know, he said he will not seek reelection, and
I don't blame him. If eighteen billion was stolen right
under your nose in your own state, you got no
business seeking reelection. By the way, way the attorney general
of Minnesota, that left wing kook, Keith Ellison, Why hasn't

(39:05):
he resigned? If you're the attorney general and eighteen billion
was stolen right into your nose and you didn't catch it,
why hasn't he resigned? Now people are calling for Waltz
to resign immediately. He won't seek reelection, but people are
saying this is so bad, this scandal so horrifying, that
he should resign immediately. He refuses to do that.

Speaker 10 (39:26):
I'm not going anywhere, and you can make all your
requests for me to resign over my dead body will
that happen. I will fight this thing till the very
end to make this state better. And the question that
I think they need to decide is is when did
the guy in the White House resign? Anytime I get
drug into being next to Donald Trump? God help me,
I don't want to be judged against that guy.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Now, Apparently in private, they told him he should resign,
and he threw a temper tantrument and went nuts, and
then he The rest of that speech was this whole
thing about every minute I spend on my own political
interests is a minut and that I can't spend defending
the people in Minnesota against the criminals who prey on
our generosity. Well, I think if eighteen billion went missing,

(40:08):
we could agree he's not very good at that. Anyway,
he is suffering. I mean, you don't want to make
fun of a guy with medical problems. He is suffering
from Trump derangement syndrome. Game's over for him now. It
was all me. I was the bad guy or whatever.

Speaker 10 (40:24):
Well, put up or shut up now and tell us
what you're going to do to make this state better.
Answer these tough questions, quit hiding behind this and expect
for the next eleven months for me to ride you
like you've never been ridden.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
I don't know what that means. But what's Trump going
to do about it? Well, right now they're going in
and arresting the criminals who stole the eighteen billion, not million,
eighteen billion. They're arresting them one by one. This is
like the Bernie Madoff cleanup. You know, they had to
go after everybody, but then they had to claw back
the money. Well, the fans are starting to do that.

(40:59):
You know a lot of these ring leaders of this fraud,
and it was just an out and out fraud scheme
by these Somalis in Minnesota. Many of them took the
money and bought mansions and Porsches and luxury goods and
all sorts of expensive real estate. Well here's one. One
woman was convicted. The court is now federal charges. The

(41:20):
court is now clawing back everything, making her sell the houses,
the Porsche, the cars, the Rolls Royces and getting the
money back. So it takes a while. You know, with
the Bernie Madoff stuff, that was like fifty billion, but
they got back like thirty billion of it. So they'll
get they'll probably get back nine billion of this money.
They'll claw it back slowly but surely. And that's what

(41:41):
you do about it. Oh, I forget George Conway. Now,
this guy is going to be great. We are so
lucky that he has come to New York and he's
going to run for the Gerald Nadler, a congressional seat
that's open. Now you might be saying well, what if
he wins. He's a left wing crazy, yeah, but so
as Nadler. So it's no change at all. And that

(42:03):
district in New York, you're always going to get a
left wing cook, so you might as well get this
guy because he's so silly and such a clown. George Conway.
He was married at one time to Kelly and Conway,
who's great, and you might say, well, how could that be. Well,
back then, you know, he was one of the most
brilliant lawyers in New York, brilliant attorney, a very successful guy,

(42:24):
and then he was married to her. But we've seen
this happen before where somebody goes nuts. And Conway was
hanging around with all the big Conservatives and Republicans, George
Conway and then at some point we've seen it with
other people. They they just snap, they just go nuts,
and all of a sudden they become a left wing
cook with Trump derangement syndrome. But he's going to run

(42:46):
for this seat on the west side of Manhattan. Now
you might be saying to yourself, wait a minute, he
lives in Maryland, he doesn't even live here. Well, he's
a Democrat. You can do whatever the hell you want
when you're a Democrat, and he's got raised money, and
he's got his first campaign ads, the George Conway campaign
is underway.

Speaker 11 (43:04):
As one of the ads, we have a corrupt president,
a mendacious president, a criminal president whose masked agents are
disappearing people from our streets, who's breaking international law, and
he's running our federal government like a mob protection rocket.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
This is why this guy's going to be great. This hysterical,
hyperbog nonsense. And he's mendacious, which I think is bad.
I don't know exactly what it is, but it's bad.
You don't want to be mendacious. He's disappearing people, it's
called arresting people. I love the and it's a violation
of international law. You're going to hear this a lot

(43:43):
from Democrats, especially with Venezuela. He's violated international law. Nobody
knows what the hell he's talking about. There's no such
thing as international law. Nobody knows what they're referring to.
Where's this international law you're talking about. There is no
national law. The only thing you could point to. I
asked Greg Jarrett, the great legal extorid, what the hell

(44:05):
are they talking about? The international law, he said, maybe
they're talking about the UN Charter United Nations, but they're
not a law enforcement agency. They have no law, they
have no authority, they have no standing at all. So
there's no such thing as international law. But the commercial
goes on.

Speaker 11 (44:22):
He doesn't like me. I don't like what he's done
to our great country, and now I'm running for Congress
to take the fight directly back to him.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
On your behalf, you go. He does not like what
he's done to this country. But Joe Biden, he always
was thrilled about that. Thrilled. But this guy's going to
be great. We're so lucky to get him here. This
is so good for us. We're going to have nothing
but amusement from this. George Conway, you remember, he's the
guy that ran that crazy Lincoln project with the same thing.

(44:52):
Nothing he did work because it was all too over
the top hysterical.

Speaker 12 (44:55):
I don't intend to be doing this when I'm sixty
six or sixty seven or sixty eight. You know, I'm
kind of like a special teams player. I want to
do this for one reason, and that is to help
get this our governmental system back on track with something
back to normal.

Speaker 11 (45:14):
At least back toward normal.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
There you go. His idea normal was Joe Biden, you know,
the great stephen A. Smith. Let me see if I
can find that quote. It's a very important point because
a lot of these Democrats are going nuts and screaming
and yelling. Stephen A. Smith is a Democrat, but he
he's like Bill Maher occasional bouts of common sense. But

(45:36):
he stunned a Democratic audience by explaining to them because
they can't get how Donald Trump gets elected. But Stephen A.
Smith explained to him that for all the things they
hate about Donald Trump, to normal voters, to most normal voters,
they think Trump is a lot closer to normal than
today's Democrats are. And you could look at Trump and say,

(45:58):
he's doing things that's not presidential. Why you behave like
that way? Well, whatever he does, it's a lot more
normal than Democrats are. Right now, Hey, there's a new phenomenon.
I don't like this at all. You know. You know
the restaurant Carbone. It opened I don't know about ten
years ago in the village Carbone, an Italian restaurant. It's
sort of it was just a gimmick actually for younger

(46:22):
you know, the whole new generation. It was like old
school red sauce Italian food. But to these younger people,
they'd never seen that. I mean, you could go to
Patsy's and it's much better there, but they never saw
anything like Carbone and the checker tablecloths. I never saw
anything like that. So it took off. It became huge.
And when you become the hottest trendiest restaurant. Then in

(46:46):
the old days, you were the hottest trendiest restaurant. Anybody
would come to New York. I gotta go there. I
want to. Well, now they opened. When you're at the
trendiest place, you opened everywhere. Then there was Carbone Miami,
then there was Carbone, Paris, Carbone, Los Angeles. Car Bone
now it's just opening in the Bellagio. So the reason
for this, you get these big hedge fund guys, and

(47:07):
whenever it's the hottest restaurant in the world. You know,
if you want to always get a table, you bribe
the maitre d us. But if you really want to
get treated well, you get friendly with the owner and
you offer to put up millions and millions and millions
to open some more restaurants. That's why you see like
Avre on sixtieth Street that became a big hotspot. Next
thing you know, there's an Ova on fiftieth Street. Next

(47:29):
thing you know, there's Anavora over here. Next thing you know,
there's one in Beverly Hills. There's one in Miami. But
this phenomenon is spreading everywhere, and it's not good. Everything
is becoming a chain now. For instance, Sally's Pizza New Haven,
There's Frank Peppi's, Sally's. These were like the two. You

(47:49):
drive to New Haven just to have these pizzas that
everybody's saying are the best in the world. Well, next
thing you know, Frank Peppy's opening everywhere everywhere. There's one
in the Fairfield, one in Stanford, there's one here, there's
one in Yonkers, there's one. They're all over the place.
There's a couple of them in Florida, they're in Nashville there.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
The other one is sally. Sally's just announced they're opening
two one hundred and fifty of them, two one hundred
and fifty of them. Now, the problem is everybody would
go to New Haven because it was such phenomenal pizza.
When you open two hundred and fifty of them. You're
not gonna have the same pizza everywhere. It's not possible.
It doesn't work. And they're all doing this. You know,

(48:30):
in Queens and Utopia Boulevard. For a million years, Utopia
Bagels they were always the best bagels in your People
would drive out there just to go to Utopia Bagels.
They were so amazing. Then they opened one in Manhattan
and it's always the same story. It's not as good
as the original. Now there's four in New York City.
Now they're opening all over. Now, there's gonna be one

(48:51):
in London, they're opening here, they're opening. They've got to
stop this stuff. These are like our finest food things,
and they're all becoming franchises. Now. McDonald's can figure out
how to do it, but these people can't. It doesn't work.
It's diluting the whole thing. Even the top restaurants of
the world that John, George, Danielle, all these guys. Now

(49:12):
instead of one restaurant, they got seventy five, and they're
not the same quality. You can't. You can't have seventy
five be the same quality. It's gotta stop. Hey, we'll
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Speaker 8 (50:33):
Doing all right?

Speaker 5 (50:34):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (50:35):
Mark, You remember Nancy Pelosi got caught on an open
mic in the backseat of her car talking to her daughter,
and in that conversation she Pelosi took the blame for
not having the National Guard.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Yeah, she turned down the ten thousand troops. And in
that documentary, her daughter was throwing the car in the
car the camera was running. She said, this is all
my fault. I should have taken the troops. So very good.
Well what do you do down there in Tennessee, Steve.

Speaker 9 (51:03):
I'm retired.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
No, And what do you do all day?

Speaker 9 (51:07):
I just listened to you and everybody else on top radio.
That's my What's what I do all day? All kind
of programs.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
All right, that's a good occupation. I like that. That
makes you a very smart person down there. Just hey,
I did that on vacation for a couple of days.
Just listen to talk radio all day. You'll learn a lot.
Let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel, how you doing.

Speaker 14 (51:29):
Good morning, Mark. We're talking about January sixth to one
person when not talking about is Ashley Babbitt.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
Yeah, in the.

Speaker 14 (51:36):
Old person that killed her was still working. In fact,
was promoted and subsequent to her desk. She was not
a quoted any military owned I.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Know it's a it's a very important thing. Ashley Babbitt
was murdered in cold blood by a Capitol Hill policeman.
She's one of the protesters January sixth. But she's a military,
veteran war hero. She's a protester. But they will come
in through the window she's coming through and that officer
takes out his gun and just shoots her, just shoots

(52:05):
her in cold blood. And he's still there. A lot
of people are talking to the present about this. Something
should be done to this guy, at least fire him,
get him off the Capitol Hill Police. But a lot
of people in Congress have been defending this guy now
one reason, and this guy has a history of very
reckless behavior with his gun. It was an incident once
at his house where he just started firing at cars.

(52:26):
I mean, he should be removed. But a lot of
people in Congress, big Congress people are afraid to go
after anybody in the Capitol Hill Police because they're the
Capitol Hill Police. They've seen a lot, they know a
lot of secrets about these guys, so nobody wants to
get them on the You know against them, because they

(52:48):
know a lot of stuff. Let's go to Blauvelt in Florida. Blauvelt,
how you doing.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
Baux Simone, how are you sir?

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Welcome back?

Speaker 5 (52:55):
Hey? That police officer sure that you were just talking
about he should he should be in jail. Yes, on
this midterms, the mid trest coming up there. R and
DC should hire Trump's son Baron and all his friends
and get all these videos of all these democrats in
Trump didn't take out MDUA the first year.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
It's already there. It's been there for the whole week.
It's already there. But it's already. I don't mean to
confuse you with reality. It's already there. It's been all
over Twitter since Saturday. It's all over Twitter. The White
House has already put it out.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
In fact, if you go to any White House site,
Trump's site, all that videos up there, Schumer demanding we
get rid of Maduro, of Chris Murphy doing it. The
video is already all over the place and has been
for days. Let's go to Bill in Hackensack, Bill, how
you doing good? Thank you?

Speaker 15 (53:45):
Mark, by the way, the one name the Democrats will
never mention, aside from tampon, Tim Wolfs is Ashley Babbitt,
and thank you for mentioning her name. That innocent woman
who was five foot four Air Force veteran, Ashley Babbitt
gunned down, murdered and yes.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
By that awful Capitol hillcop who should be a lot
of people are talking to the President constantly about going
after this guy, finally getting some justice for Ashley Babbott.
Let's go to Mike in New Jersey. Mike, how you doing?

Speaker 16 (54:18):
Yeah, Hi, Mark, I enjoy your show.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Thanks.

Speaker 16 (54:20):
My good question. The Affordable Care Act. My son is
being hammered his premiums of Skyrocket and we just don't
know what to do his coverage. Obviously he can't afford.
There's no subsidies anymore. Is there anything you can suggest,
as Trump have anything in the works? Well, Congress doing anything?

Speaker 1 (54:37):
That's the problem. This will all come up at the
end of the month when they'll have to vote to
continue the subsidies. It's over that issue that the government
shut down happened last time, it could happen again. I
would imagine in the end, because you've got midterms coming up,
the President will sort of agree to continue that subsidy
for a while his plan is much better instead of
the constant subsidizing this Unaffordable Care Act, fix it, fix it.

(55:01):
A lot of it'll be privatizing, and the whole system
is totally government corrupt, you know, which means you know,
you get an MRI, they charge you three eight hundred
dollars for it. Meantime there's another person getting an MRI
somewhere else where it's eight hundred dollars. It's all of
these ridiculous finaggling the problem to the Affordable Care Act.

(55:21):
It was just a gift to insurance agencies to charge
whatever the hell they want to charge. It needs to
be cleaned up. So they'll probably have to extend the
subsidies for the rest of this year while they figure
out how to fix this Affordable Care Act. Hey, when
we come back and culter, we'll be with us next
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(55:42):
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Speaker 9 (55:51):
How you doing fantastic?

Speaker 4 (55:53):
How are you mark some of it? Miss talking to
you last couple.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Yeah, but what a first week of twenty twenty six.
Look all that's happened in one week. You got rid
of Tim wats I, Dureau everything. What do you think
I know?

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Yeah, Chrump's not letting the grass grow under his feet.
We have a short amount of time. I think it's fantastic.
I have a column coming out on it later. I
want to go back to the era of a semi
competent CIA, which we haven't had recently but may have now,
installing puppet governments throughout Latin America. They're obviously incapable of

(56:28):
governing themselves, and things were going great when the CIA
and the State Department and John Foster Dulles were running things,
knocking out the incompetence, I mean the problem. George Pennon,
the legendary diplomat, Yeah, went took a tour through Latin America,
knowing the strategic importance to the US He's and basically concluded,

(56:50):
these people are incapable of governing themselves. We should take
all measures. This is this is this will be a
problem for the US. We shouldn't worry about democratic niceties
that we would not accept in this country. And that
was followed up until liberals got the idea that's oh no,
they're just as good at self governance as we are. Well,

(57:12):
obviously they aren't. Over and over again you get the
same pattern. I mean Venezuela for example, which I've written
about a few times. It was the people, i e.
Peasants who keep voting for these communists who promised to
steal from the rich and give them all their money,
which they proceed to do, and then the country is

(57:33):
out of money. They can't get loyal out of the ground. No,
there has to be a paternalistic relationship to between the
United States and Latin America. And it's weird that the
media is acting as if we have no idea what
this means to install the world be running things. No,
no boots on the ground, no nation building. We just

(57:56):
have our own, our own US ruler to save the
people from themselves.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Yeah, but who are we to complain about their governing.
We just elected Kathy Hockel and Mom Donnie, So who
are we to talk?

Speaker 4 (58:11):
Yes, well, New York should sit this one out.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
And Mom Donnie just put this woman in charge of
housing and apparently one time she said home ownership is
white supremacy, and we must see.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
Private press read in the New York Post. She owns
a one point seven million dollar home in Tennessee. So
at least there's no hypocrisy from the left. No, not ever,
But wow, that is this is this is not going
to be good for housing in New York. It probably,
as we've discussed before, these run control measures just invariably

(58:52):
drive up the price of housing and limit the supply.
As you have landlords who were forced to just walk
away from their properties when the taxes and maintenance fees
are more than what they are allowed to charge and
rent by law. I mean, how long are they supposed
to keep losing money every month? They just walk away

(59:14):
and there goes there goes more housing.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Yeah, hey, don't you feel bad for the left wing,
the Democrats right now, these liberals, because remember they had
to all go out and buy Ukrainian flags. Then they
had to go buy Hamas flags. Then they had to
buy Mexican flags, Then they had to get Somali flags.
Now they got to go get Venezuelan flags.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
It's rough, as I prefer it to. I love when
they have these leftist protests and you know they'll have
one sharp George Soros type instructing them all go buy
an American flag.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Yeah, for Republican it's easy. Just buy one American flag.
You're except for life. That's all you need.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
They probably have their American flags if they're republic Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
And what about Tim wats Is that the silliest guy
you've ever seen? Did you ever think it would be
over this fast for him?

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Not totally surprised. Man, he was a boob from the
moment he he showed up. Uh, it's it's it's a maybe.
It teams a bit annoying that. I mean, you did
almost become the vice president of the United States. All
of this was known when he was running. There were

(01:00:29):
there were surprisingly enough liberal administrators of these government programs,
well you know, regular Minnesotans who were trying to be
whistleblowers and being retaliated against out of Minnesota. This was
a story there for the taking. Uh, I guess, I
guess you and I read about it and and and
talked about it a little bit. It was showing up

(01:00:53):
on Twitter and in conservative publications like Breitbart, not in
the detail we have now. But when was the mainstream
media going to get around to covering this about the
possible next vice president of the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
I think never was the date they had picked. But hey,
the other thing I'm watching every left wing fake news
they're all keep saying about Venezuela, it's a violation of
international law. Nobody can figure out where the hell is
this international law they're talking about. Where does that exist?
There is no law in.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
The imaginations of small children and liberals like Santa Claus
and the Easter Bunny. There is no such thing as
international law, international laws. Whatever the United States says international
law is so yes, it is hilarious when liberals go
around wailing about the violations of something that doesn't exist. Yeah,

(01:01:48):
tell us what? Tell us what Santa Claus says?

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Next?

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Yeah, so, what are we going to do here in
New York with Mom Donnie? You know, this is going
to get out of control.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
It's not looking good so far. I mean, I mean,
there was I had some I don't know if it's
it's hope or if it just seems kind of logical
that he doesn't seem like a like a half wit
the way Tim Waltz does, so I kind of. I mean,
when he decided to keep and announce before the election

(01:02:22):
that he was going to keep the Police Commissioner Jessica Tish.
I thought, okay, well he does at least know his
entire mayoralty will go to hell if if he unleashes
criminals on the citizenry. And I thought maybe it would
be a lot of left wing talk, but he would maintain,
you know, just to to satisfy his it's not particularly

(01:02:47):
astute base, but then actually do a decent job running
the city. No, it does not look like that at all,
Mark Simone.

Speaker 17 (01:02:56):
He seems to really believe he's going to put all
DEI and left incompetence in important government positions and know
that really does not vode well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Well, but it's just the third term of Deblasio. All
these same people were in the Deblasio administration. It was bad,
but we got through it. So we'll get through this,
won't we.

Speaker 4 (01:03:19):
Well, it is New York City, and New York City
it's a hard city to wreck. And all I can
say is that's what we thought for many years about
the most beautiful state in the Union, California. But you know,
let Democrats put their minds to it, they can wreck anything.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
So you know, they always love this socialism and you
could point out it's never worked anywhere in the world.
The last ten thousand times it failed. But don't they
also ever notice that whenever they do these big programs,
billions of dollars go missing. Deblasio lost a billion dollars
in that fake program. We just saw eighteen billion go
missing in Minnesota. Don't they ever notice all the money

(01:03:57):
goes missing?

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
Hilarious? Yeah, I was just looking. I was just on
Twitter before calling in to my friend Mickey Cows and
tweeted out something about this Minnesota fraud, and his very
left wing brother tweeted back at him, saying, you know,
this is the fault of conservatives that this program had
been I've been government run, we never would have had

(01:04:19):
this fraud. This is simultaneously with two hundred billion being
stolen from the COVID relief funds.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
No, it's just it's just off. Hey year old buddy
George Conway is coming to New York. He didn't live here,
but he's running for Jerry Nadler's congressional seat. Do you
think he has any chance?

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Well, it elected. Jerry Nndler can't say I really have
my finger on the pulse of those voters. I don't know.
It's very very strange. George and I weirdly enough, we're
best friends for a long time. I introduced him to
his wife. There was no daylight between our positions. And

(01:05:05):
I don't know a lot of people Trump just just broken.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Yeah, that's true. There are people that just I was
when Trump came along, they just went off the deep end.
There's a bunch of them.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
But that's straight. He's not the only one of my friends.
And it's one thing. I mean, you know, I have
my I have my complaints with Trump. There's a lot
to complain about there. But when you have people who
have been had certain certain and like I said, Georgs
and the only one a certain worldview, you know, anti crime,

(01:05:37):
for example, anti public violence, anti communism, and just because
I don't know, they don't like Trump again, lots to
dislike there. They suddenly slip on every single position they've
ever held, believed, argued written about. It's a very strange

(01:06:00):
phenomenon and I've seen it, I'd say a handful of times.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Yeah. Well, and Culter, great talking to you. Glad you're back,
and everybody check out her Twitter and make sure you
sign up at substack and get her new column. You
can get interviews, podcasts, Everything and Culture dot Substack dot
com and Culter. Thanks for being with us.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Good to talk you, Mark Simone.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Bye, right, take care. I don't forget Buck and Clay Boy.
I love their show. It's every day noon to three
and it's coming up right after the news on seven
to ten WR. There's no such thing as international law.
When they say Trump is violated international law. So if
you went to any left wing kook and you try
to justify that comment, all they can point to is well,

(01:06:43):
some countries have treaties and agreements with each other, okay,
but that's not international law. And there is the United
Nations a charter, but they have no authority over anything.
There's a couple of international courts, but nobody recognizes and
they have no juristic or authority over anything. There is
no international law to violate. Hey, we're out of time.

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