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Democrats may use President Trump’s ballroom as a talking point to criticize him, claiming he’s out of touch with affordability issues impacting Americans. Mark interviews John Carney, Editor of Breitbart Business News. Zohran Mamdani’s proposed policies in NYC could make finding an apartment harder and increase prices. There’s an argument that President Trump and the GOP have an opportunity to counter the Democrats’ messaging about an affordability crisis, highlighting Trump’s plans, tariffs, and the “Big Beautiful Bill” to cut taxes and potentially boost the economy. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had a positive transition meeting with current Mayor Eric Adams. CNN fact-checked President Trump’s last 2025 cabinet meeting; Mark analyzes what’s accurate. Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. The Left tried to push Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn to flip Tennessee to blue, but she lost the election. Ann discusses whether aggressive tactics by the Dems will help them win the midterms. The liberal media is pressuring Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over his alleged mishandling of war crimes involving drugs and weapons.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now sevenor Presents the Mark Simone Show.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, we got a lot to get to. We'll get
to the war crimes hoax. We'll get to Mom Donnie,
some interesting developments there. We'll get to the Russia Ukraine meetings.
We'll get to the Cabinet meeting. We'll get to Oh,
yesterday's election, of course, a couple of the interesting elections.
What does it mean for the mid terms. We'll get

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to Christmas. Today's one of those gridlock alert days. This
is a regular thing now. We keep hearing the other
day was a gridlock alert day. Today's a gridlock alert day.
I thought congestion pricing was supposed to fix all of that.
Apparently it doesn't do much. We still have gridlock alert days.
Christmas tree lighting is tonight Rockefeller Center. That's where you'll

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see some gridlock. That is an absolute snarled up mess
around that tree lighting. So that's tonight at Rockefeller Center.
So just avoid that area completely if you're driving, even
if you're walking, it's tough to walk around there. The
sidewalks is so packed. So has get to the elections.
A special election in Tennessee. This was an interesting election.

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Nashville is the district is pretty much covering Nashville, Tennessee.
You know what, they call it, music City, the country
music capital of the world. So they had a Mom
Donnie running. It's a woman, but as we've been telling you,
there's about twenty six other Mom Donni's ready to be
launched by Democrats. And she was just like Mom Donnie
on paper, a total disaster, horrible past, horrible things she

(01:35):
said in her past, I mean, crazy socialist nonsense on paper,
no chance to win anything. But like Mom Donnie in
person and online and social media and on camera, charming,
got a nice smile, got a nice personality, lots of energy, young, energetic, charming,

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just like a Mom Donnie. And she did very, very well.
She made it a real race. It was supposed to
be no contest at all, but she made it very close.
Republicans panicked and came in with millions of dollars trying
to save that race. And then the Republican Matt Van
Epps one easily. It turns out by nine points. But

(02:20):
you're gonna hear the fake news try to make it
sound like it's a real nightmare. For it's a warning
sign for Republicans. Why Trump won that district by twenty
two points. That's a tremendous loss of points for the
But not really. That's Trump and this Republican candidate, Matt
Van Epps, he's good, but he's a boring, drab sort

(02:41):
of a guy. How's he going to get the numbers
Trump gets? And no local candidate's gonna get Trump numbers.
Trump gets Trump numbers. So Van Epps did just fine.
But again, you're gonna have a lot more of these candidates.
And it's a strange phenomenon, but these mom Donnie types.
This woman in the color the AOC of Tennessee, she's

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running for Congress in the district that is Nashville, Tennessee.
She comes right out and says, I hate Nashville. She
even said I hate country music. She hates Nashville. She
hates country music. That's their main industry, country music. That's
why they call it music. City tourism is the number
one industry. But it doesn't matter to Democratic voters. You
see the same thing here with Mam Donnie hates capitalism.

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That's our main industry in New York, Wall Street, financial world,
hedge funds, that's the main industry of New York years ago,
it was other stuff. It was like the garment center,
but that's all gone. So now the main industry of
New York is the financial business. And Mam Donnie runs
saying he hates them, he can't stand them. So you're
going to see a lot of this. Now you're going
to see somebody run for mayor of Detroit. He says,

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I hate cars. You're going to see this all the time.
These Democratic voters don't care. Can show them how bad
the candidate is. Look what they said in the past.
Look at this. Look how they never worked, they never
had it they did. The Democratic voters don't care. Doesn't
matter long as the person yells the word affordability all
the time. That's all you gotta do is just keep

(04:12):
saying affordability, affordability, affordability. Now, there's nobody on earth less
qualified to do something about affordability than Zoron, Mamdannie or
this woman in Tennessee. What's your name is it? Afton Bane?
That's another name nobody can pronounce like Mam Donnie. So
they all got weird names, no resume. They've said crazy

(04:35):
kookie things in the past, but they look good, they
sound good, and they keep saying affordability, So Democrats vote
for them. You got two things going on. They're voting
on just knee jerk emotional voting, affordability I'll vote for
or they just hate Trump so much they'll vote for
anybody who they think hates Trump. And if you get

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one of these socialists, one of these affordability young no resume,
they must really hate Trump, I'll vote for them. So
Democrats going crazy to vote for this stuff. What does
it mean for the midterms, Well, it's going to be
a factor in the midterms. If these kind of voters
are going to turn out in droves to vote for
anybody they think hates Trump, that's a problem for Republicans

(05:19):
in the midterms. Now, the good news is it's a
year away. You got plenty of time. There's a couple
of groups that do the research for the Democratic Party
and then it's distributed to everybody and they all jump
on it. One of them came up with the word
affordability a while back, and that's why, all of a sudden,
in every race they're all using the word affordability. This

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is very, very coordinated. There's a couple of these groups,
big monstrous organizations that do incredible intense research focus groups
studying people that they come up with the stuff, and
then there's other groups K Street that distribute it. They
have these morning conference calls and they have these things
that go to every Democrat telling him what words, what phrases,

(06:03):
what sentences to say. So one of them is a Navigator.
Navigator does incredible research done. Then the other thing they've
come up with a Navigator is not only is affordability working,
it's growing. The momentum behind this affordability affordability they are
finding in their studying studying people. The ballroom is a

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good issue to use on this people. When when you
talk to these people, well, what do you mean affordability
voters they're terrified of the prices going up and they
can't afford groceries, or they can't afford their medicine, and
really terrified that they won't be able to afford their healthcare,
that they'll lose their healthcare, this kind of stuff. So

(06:44):
they're finding in this latest round of studying you can
use the ballroom on that that while you're terrified of
being able to buy groceries and pay your health care,
he's building a ballroom and look at all the gold
he's putting up all over the walls, and this vers
sie like ballroom. This is the last thing in the
world you want to see when it's an affordability crisis.
So expect to see a lot of ballroom stuff coming

(07:07):
in the next few weeks, maybe the next few months.
They're going to start using the ballroom as a major issue.
You know, Trump is like some sort of emperor, some
sort of king in a palace while you can't afford
your groceries. The ballroom it's symbolic, it's not real. I mean,
first of all, the ballroom isn't costing taxpayers anything. It's

(07:28):
privately funded and it's something they actually do need. They've
talked about it for years. But they're going to start
using it against Trump. Here's the first round New York
Times doing a story about the ballroom. Every story about
the ballroom is negative. Of course, it's too big, it's
to this, it's too that. It screws up the White
House grounds. It's me. He said he wouldn't tear down

(07:50):
anything of the building. Well I guess he did. But
you know it's fine. There was nothing in what the
party tore down had nothing in it. First lady's office.
You can easily move her to somewhere else. And the
main thing in there was the calligraphy office. They do
the the you know, the little place cards for dinner
and sometimes the invitations. It's not vital government work. But

(08:13):
now this New York Times expose is pretty frightening. It's
pretty frightening. It goes on and on about the terrible
problems now with this ballroom. According to this New York
Times article, there have been disagreements between Trump and the
contractor and Trump and the architect. Now, if you're one

(08:34):
of these crazy old ladies who watches MSNBC and reads
the New York Times and hates Trump, and you run
around yelling about this is perfect, We'll talk about this
all this, he's not getting along. Even the architect has
arguing with him, even the contractors are. Of course, you
can't ever explain to him reality that this is perfectly normal. Everybody,

(08:54):
when you're doing remodeling, when you're remodeling your bathroom, your kitchen,
building a house, this is perfectly normal. About eleven times
in the process you fight with the contractor about something,
you disagree with the architect about something. It's perfectly normal.
And then it goes on to say that Trump has
The reason they're going so crazy is Trump's behavior has

(09:16):
been unbelieved. It was supposed to be a five hundred
seat ballroom, then it grew to six hundred and fifty seats.
Next he wanted a nine hundred and ninety nine seat ballroom.
Now he's talking about room for thirteen hundred. That way
they could host the inaugural. Yeah, it's a pretty good idea.
I like that. So they go on and on the
size of the prodg' raising alarms. People working on the

(09:36):
ballroom have been told they don't need to follow permitting, zoning,
or code requirements. Why this is outrageous, Trump pointing out
since it's on the White House grounds, it's not subject
to local Washington DC permit requirement. Well, he's probably right,
that makes perfect sense. So this goes on in a
but they never explained in the article. This is not

(09:59):
like Baraco bomb. I'm trying to tell these guys what
to do. This is one of the greatest builders in
the history of the world, and out of all the
great builders in America right now, nobody has more experience
building ballrooms than this guy. In fact, the architect who
they think is some god you should bow down to.
Apparently he's never built a ballroom in his life. He's

(10:20):
done cathedrals and he's done with work in Washington, but
he's never actually done it. But Trump is the world
expert on building ballrooms. So they don't point this out
in this article. I would have total confidence in what
he's doing here. But you're gonna hear a lot more
about the ballroom. They're gonna make this a big thing now.
They're going to continue with the war crimes hoax for

(10:41):
a while, hoping that works. If that doesn't work, they'll
go to the ballroom. Here's Trump on the ballroom.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
We're building one of the great I think maybe the
greatest ballroom. We needed it for one hundred and fifty years.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
They've been asking. You see that the.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Trucks and cranes and excavators in the background, and you
hear them, And every time I hear them, I love
to sound.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
He said that once. I heard him say that on that.
You know when when when you're a home and they're
doing construction next door, you're in your apartment, they're doing construction.
Oh god, that noise, Oh my god, when's this gonna
you just hate that noise. He loves that sound. Construction.
It's music to him. It's the thing he loves most
in life, construction. So he enjoys hearing the noise outside

(11:26):
of the oval office. But so they may use the ballroom.
Once the war crimes hoax will die out. The war
crimes hoax, they think they got them here. These are
war crimes.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
First off, you're gonna you decided you're gonna blow up
that boat with drugs on it and drug cartel members.
It's a boat filled with drug cartel and drugs. You've
decided you will blow it up. You will kill them
all and blow it up. So you fire a bomb.
I guess they fire a few bombs and if there's
anything left, you fire another bomber. Well, that sounds perfectly

(11:58):
normal to me. I'm not a milletry guy, but I'm
not an expert. But if you talk to the top
generals of the world, the jack Keanes sort of guys,
they'll tell you it's perfectly normal. You hit it with bombs,
and you keep hitting it until you're absolutely certain everything
is gone. Like when they went to take out the
Iran nuclear reactors. You don't drop one bomb and that's it.

(12:20):
You keep remember you remember the videos, they just get
bombinan and bombinan and bombited until they were absolutely sure
they got everything. That's the way you do it. So
there's no war crime here. You're going to see all
these fake news. It's these Martha raddits as if she
knows what she's talking about. It violates the Geneva and
there's an enemy combatant and you're not allowed to kill

(12:42):
an enemy combatant. When did this rule happen? Now? You
remember during the Obama administration he was doing it as
drone strikes. There were drone strikes all the time in Afghanistan,
in Iraq, and very often he killed civilians. We know this.
He killed a lot of Sivillians accidentally with the drone
strikes and sometimes on purpose because they were near what

(13:04):
they target was, so they took him out. And you
remember the one time he hit a wedding with one
of the drones, blew up a wedding, killed a lot
of people. But of the millions of times that killed civilians,
and of course the same fake news didn't care I
mention a word about it. There's even a hearing actually
if you go to my Twitter you can see the video.

(13:24):
There's a great hearing. This is from the Biden administration
where the drone strike killed a bunch of civilians, innocent civilians,
and Mark Kelly seditious. Mark Kelly is interviewing the general
about it and he explains, yes, we did kill the civilians.
And Mark Kelly said, okay, my next question is and
that just moves right on. He couldn't care less let

(13:45):
it go, turned the other way. But that's the way
they're the hypocrisy democrats are famous for. So when the
war crimes hoax fizzles out because people aren't buying it,
nobody cares. They'll move on to the ballroom now right now.
They're also trying the health and Trump. He didn't doze off,
but there were one time and Pete Hegsath, I think

(14:06):
it was Pete Heggsath's going a little long. Trump closed
his eyes, so they showed the video. Look at this,
his eyes are closed. He fell asleep in the cabin
at me. This is all, but watch it carefully. Go
watch the video for yourself. There's a couple of times
you see Pete Hegsett made some kind of joke and
you can see Trump's laughing. His eyes are closed, but
he's laughing. He's reacting to everything he's saying. But they

(14:26):
love talking about his health and how bad he is.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
If I go one day, I had one day where
I didn't do a news conference.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
There's something wrong with the president.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Few people are crazy. I'll let you know with there's
something wrong. There will be someday that's gonna happen to
all of us. But right now I think I'm sharper
than I was twenty five years ago. But who the
hell does I took By the way I took my
physical I got old a's everything.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, but uh, he's very funny yesterday.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
But you always find something new, like is he in
good health? Biden was great, but he's Trump did good health.
I said, here, I do for news conferences a day.
I guess questions from very intelligent lunatics.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
I always give.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I give them the right edges. There's never a scandal,
there's never a problem. I give you engines that solve
you a little problem.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Now he's in great health, of course, And the cabinet
meeting was pretty interesting. We'll go over that cabinet meeting
a little later. But you know a lot of people
think Trump has to go back to campaign mode. Like
we were talking about the affordability, even though it's a
fake issue. I mean, you want affordability, it's fake in
that these Democrats couldn't possibly do anything about it. This

(15:43):
guy like Zoron Mamdani or this woman that ran in
Tennessee could never ever ever do anything about affordability. They
wouldn't know how to do. They wouldn't begin to know
how to So they went to Trump before the midterms,
go back into campaign mode. You know, he was different
in the campaign. Now he's in the oval office and
it's very ornate. That's the other problem. It was nice

(16:04):
to make it all gold and look unbelievably, unbelievably luxurious,
and it looks like a palace, but that kind of
reinforces the dictator king kind of thing. He made it
look like a palace, so psychologically it made him look
more like a king. They wanted to go back into
campaign mode. Remember when we got in the garbage truck

(16:25):
and he drove the garbage truck. Remember when he worked
in McDonald's. That's where he looked like he was really
in touch. So he's got to do more of that. Also,
people are advising him, you got to do more. Go
back to those podcasts, the Joe Rogan type podcasts, that
kind of stuff, you know, those blue collar, down to
earth kind of podcasts. More of that, more driving the
garbage truck. So you might see more of that coming

(16:47):
at some point to counter all of this stuff. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten. Is the number eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's a marshamore.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Robert in Westchester. Robert,
how you doing all right?

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Mark? And good morning? Thank you for taking my call. Mark.
I don't know if you remember when that atrocity of
a pull out happened under the Biden administration when we will.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Don't know if I remember it? What am i? Joe Biden?
Of course I remember it right before you tell us
everything we already know. Is there a point?

Speaker 5 (17:30):
The point is right after that Milly said, after they
killed seven.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, no, we know the whole story. Everybody's familiar with it.
What is the point?

Speaker 5 (17:40):
The point is where's the media went? They didn't counce
on Biden or anybody. They didn't.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh, I don't know if you heard, but the media
is slanted. They defend Democrats, they cover up from Democrats,
and they go after anything Trump, if it's Biden, they'll
defend them like crazy, cover up anything. Yeah, Millie was
the absolute worst. All they do was to defend this guy.
Let's go to Vic in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Vic.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
How you doing. I'm doing great, Mark.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
I got a question, where were the Democrats for the
Biden administration with affordability when we had nine point fio.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Again, it's Democrats and everything they do is okay, they're right,
they're always inflation was nine percent? You never heard him
mentioned affordability. Now in the defense of Democrats, they didn't
get that study yet. That focus group stuff didn't come
out yet. It came out later. And they see these

(18:36):
They pay a fortune of these groups navigators one. There's
a whole bunch of them. It's not a polling thing.
It's not like some little college poll with a couple
of guys with iPads. I mean this. Yere massive research
groups that go out and they research and they find
out what what deep down people are and then they
find the right word. And they found that word affordability.

(18:57):
And that's why all these different races all over the country,
of a sudden, they got the same word affordability. It's
all coordinated. Let's go to Stuart in South Carolina. Stuart,
how you.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
Doing, hey, Mark, Carol. You know, as far as that
election in Tennessee, there's a couple of points there. You know,
you're right, it was an off season election. And the
other problem is I live in a smaller southern town
right to Augusta, and for decades I never knew any liberals.
They are here in droves now, and I think that's

(19:26):
what happened in Tennessee. They're they're fleeing the north and
then voting in the same way they did up north
and destroying the new place that they lived.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, yeah, good point. Nashville was a little, tiny, medium
sized town and then a million people descend. It's now
one of the biggest, most thriving cities in America. But
you're right, all liberals came in exactly. Yeah, all right, Well,
so what was worse when you had Locus or when
you have all these liberals coming in?

Speaker 6 (19:52):
You know, everybody here was friendly. You could not pass
anybody without somebody saying Hello, and now people won't even
look you in the eye. They just look down. They
wore dark clothes like they do up in New York.
And I feel like I'm in downtown Brooklyn. You don't
hear the Southern accent here anymore. Yeah, you just it's

(20:12):
very New York now and it's changed politics quite a bit,
and it's really scaring the heck ass. So with ma'm donnie.
I was afraid that a lot of people are going
to be moving down here now, yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'm afraid. So you're gonna get more of them. They're
going to be all out of the place, all right,
Thanks for calling, Stuart. Yeah, if you watch the Andy
Griffith Show today, it'd be a whole different show. Actually,
you know what, that would be an actual good idea
for a sitcom. You bring back the Andy Griffith Show,
only his town is getting overrun by hipsters from Brooklyn
and New Yorkers and people from Long Island changing everything.

(20:47):
Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing, Good.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Morning, Mark, I'm okay, Good morning Mara, Stuart. I live
in downtown Brooklyn and it's even worse than you think.
I mean, it is.

Speaker 8 (21:02):
These liberals here are absolutely horrible and I'm sorry to
hear that they're bringing the liberal cancer down down South.
Mark uh the news media to fake news media don't
seem to realize or they don't want to report on it.
It's not affordability, it's unaffordability created by democratic politicians. The

(21:28):
property taxes and the fees run through everything like Montezuma's revenge.
These are the liberal news media in this country. Should
go query some of the world leaders in Europe because
I've seen the affairs that they have in the ballrooms
in Europe, and probably they're saying, thank god Donald Trump's

(21:53):
in office, because we're sick of having to go to
the bedroom import of sans.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Sit on plastic chair.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
What Vincent is talking about, Believe it or not, but
Vincent is startingment believe or not. That East Room of
the White House didn't hold very many people, so when
it had a big event, they had to do it
in a tent on the lawn and the guests had
to use porta potties.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
Can you imagine porter partties compared to the Palace of Versailles.
Because Mark, I've seen and I've actually been in some
of these Italian ballrooms in these palaces. Donald Trump is
doing the right thing rather than spending two hundred and
fifty million dollars on some cheesy basketball court like Barack Obama.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, you know, you're absolutely right, Vincent, a great call.
The ballroom is a good act. Can you imagine you're
the president of France. You come to a major dinner
at the White House and it's in a tent on
the lawn and you have to go to a porter
body like you're at a wedding and hunting and this
is so Trump is absolutely right. Hey, when we come back,
here's a great guest. John Carney is one of the

(22:56):
best brightest guys on the economy in the world. He's
the editor of Breitbart Business Digest. But he is the
smartest guy. You'll love him. He'll be with us next
on seven to ten.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Wr here's more marksimone on seven to ten.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Woor Well, Hey, how do we pick our guests? We
just bring you the smartest people on earth and John
Carney brilliant. He is the business editor of Breitbart News
the Business Digest. By the way, you should sign up
for that daily newsletter, the Breitbart Business Digest Newsletter. Excellent stuff.
He writes that with Breitbart editor in chief Alex Marlow.

(23:32):
But he's a brilliant guy on the economy, on business
from Breitbart, John Carney, how you doing very good?

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Doug's mark?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Hey anytime? So the election in Tennessee, the election wherever
you look. Affordability. They keep using this word affordability. Affordability. Now,
how do Democrats run every inch of New York for
fifteen years and then tell you there's an affordability crisis
and they'll fix it.

Speaker 9 (23:58):
That's a great question. Look, the plans that the Democrats have,
particularly in New York and Mandami, won't make New York
any more affordable. In fact, his plan to freeze rents
will actually make it much harder for anybody to find
an apartment in New York because guess what happens when

(24:19):
a landlord can't raise the rent. It means that somebody
who otherwise would move out stays in the apartment forever.
I have friends who live in rent controlled apartments that
they inherited from their grandparents. Yeah, I mean, like literally,
they're like real estate royalty in New York. And it's
funny that a socialist is putting this in place. But

(24:42):
that's what it creates is people who never let go
of their apartments.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Hey, so when you get to the midterms, I know
you could give me statistics and prove things are getting better.
But Democrats in the fake news, they've done a good
job of creating the illusion that we're in a crisis
as far as inflation and prices. What does the president
need to do to counter that?

Speaker 9 (25:03):
So one thing that the Trump and the Republicans have
an advantage, which is time is on their side. Right now,
inflation is running around three percent, but it's coming down.
We've seen the price of gasoline come down a lot
over the last two months, sheeper gasoline. The inflation continuing

(25:25):
to come down. I think by the time we get
to say, like next summer, so that which is around
when people start to decide how they're going to vote.
Right the people don't decide really on the election day.
They decide sometime, you know, a few months ahead of time.
By the time we get to next summer, I think
actually that this sure, the media will still talk about affordability,

(25:50):
but people won't be feeling it the way they are
right now. Right now, they're still dealing with basically the
hangover of Biden. Inflation prices went up a lot, but
as we get further and further away from that, inflation
will continue to come down and people's sort of anger
over how high prices already are will fade a little bit.

(26:11):
So a big time is on their side. So really,
all they need to do is stay the course, don't
freak out, and frankly, don't give it into this word affordability.
If you're talking about affordability as a Republican, you're losing.
You need to talk about opportunity, You need to talk
about growth. Affordability is Frankly, Donald Trump's right when he

(26:35):
called it a con job. It is a It is
a phrase that they never used when inflation is running
at nine percent under Biden. Now it's a crisis because
the media has made it one.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
It's a con job. But it's a good one. It works,
you know it is.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
It's working.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
But people have to realize as far as the big
beautiful bill, nothing is kicked in yet, right, What changes
now in January with that bill?

Speaker 5 (27:01):
That's right?

Speaker 9 (27:01):
So one o the We're going to see a couple
changes that are very important. One is the no tax
on tips, which will be a very big deal. You know,
if you are working in a service job and you
are paid primarily in tips, this is a huge tax
cut for you. So we're going to see that kick in. Also,
there will be no tax on additional income if you're

(27:24):
collecting Social Security, that will be important. The other thing
that has already started to kick in, and we're going
to see it even more as we get into the
new year is the automatic depreciation of capital investments. Now,
I know that sounds really wonky and nerdy, but what

(27:45):
it means is that businesses can actually invest and write
off right away the full expense of the new machinery
they buy, the new factory they build. That's a big
deal and it will encourage a lot more investment. And
when you get that kind of investment, you increase productivity,

(28:06):
which will then actually increase employment as well. So I
think actually the job market, which has been a little
shaky today we got a shaky report from the from ADP,
I think we're actually going to see the job markets
start to pick up a lot too, and that will
assuage people's fears about the economy as well.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, also, you have a new FED chairman coming, But
how much difference is that going to make and the
role of the FED seems to be a little crazy
right now. It shouldn't have this kind of importance, should it.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (28:37):
In a perfect world, we wouldn't care so much who
the FED chairman is. I think actually one of the
legacies of Jerome Powell has been a over highlighting of
the FED chairman. He looked.

Speaker 10 (28:53):
Back in You know when under Paul Volker or Alan Greenspan,
nobody knew what the FED was doing because they didn't
even have conferences and when they got called before Congress
they were talk in riddles.

Speaker 9 (29:03):
I'm not sure we need to go back to that.
But Bernanke when he was FED chairman, sat behind a
desk when he held this press conferences. It was kind
of like doing office hours with a professor. One of
the innovations of Jerome Powell was to stand in front
of a podium like he is the President of the
United States and basically bigest speech. I think the next

(29:26):
FED chairman, if I had one request, there would be
no more podium. Sit behind a desk. Again, don't act
like a politician, don't act like you're the most important
person in the world. Sit behind a desk, talk academically,
don't give a speech.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, that's a good point, hey, John Carney. Now let
me ask some Democrats will complain about tariffs to tariffs
raised the prices tariffs. It's a burden on the consumer
because they'll pay the take, don't they? Then the Democrats
aren't they proposing tariffs when they talk about a corporate
tax increase. Isn't that the same thing, the same effect
as a tariff.

Speaker 9 (30:02):
It's actually not just the same effect. It's the same
exact thing. The consumers don't pay tariffs, right. The first
person who pays a tariff is the person who is
importing a good That is a company, it's Walmart, it's Target,
it's a big business that is importing the goods those are.

(30:22):
That's who pays the tariff. It is a form of
a corporate tax. So when Democrats say, oh, you know
that that tax will be passed on to consumers, which,
by the way, it really hasn't been. What we businesses
have been telling us actually in all of their earnings
that they're actually having a really hard time trying to
pass it on to consumers. Who's paying it is it's

(30:44):
coming out of the bottom line of businesses or the
manufacturers abroad are lowering their price to keep themselves competitive
in the US. But a raise of corporate tax somehow,
the Democrats think, will mysteriously not be passed on. So
they say that the tariff will be, but the corporate
text won't. Their point really doesn't make much sense. And

(31:07):
if anything, a corporate tax is more likely to be
passed on to consumers because it can't be paid at
all by a foreign manufacturer. There's nobody to push it
back onto, so it will be paid by both consumers
and investors. Actually, which you know are is the same
thing you know people. It will come out of people's

(31:28):
four one ks, the retirement plans. That's who ends up
paying the corporate tax.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Wow. Very good explanation, Saya. So tariff's easier on the consumer.
Corporate tax boom hits the consumer immediately, absolutely, John Carney,
great having you on. Let's do it again soon and
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on wor.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
HEI.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
We got a lot to get to in the next hour.
We'll get some mom Donnie, there's some interesting developments there.
We'll get to Hey, the Trump accounts for little kids,
new babies. This is a brilliant idea. That's why it'll
get no coverage at all. But it's a great idea.
So we got a lot to get to in the
next hour. With today, it's Wednesday, already Wednesday tree lighting tonight.

(33:45):
It's going to be a mess traffic wise around Rockefeller Center.
Just remember that's actually a good luck alert day today. Now,
don't go away. We'll be back with another hour ago
right after the news on seven to ten wor.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Here's more Mark Simone on seven ten.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, so what's the day today? December third? It's only
December third. I walk in the lobby. There's a Christmas tree.
In the lobby of the building. There's a wreath, there's
a come up here to the sixth floor. I get
off the elevator, there's a Christmas tree. They walk by
Light FM. There's Christmas music all the time. It's everywhere. Yesterday,

(34:26):
walking over the Fox, the long sixth Avenue, the candy
canes are up, the big candy canes, the big ornaments
are up. The tree on top of the Marquee at
Radio City Music Hall. Tonight they light the tree and
Rockefeller Center. You know, Bryant Park, beautiful Bryant Park. But
that's become a big deal, that tree. They had their
tree lighting ceremony last night. A lot of people showed up.

(34:49):
It's not as big as the Rockefeller Center thing. They
don't have, you know, seventeen famous singers singing there, but
they're getting there year by year by year. So be
careful if you're driving tonight void Midtown Manhattan, Rockefeller Center,
it will be massive gridlock everywhere. Steve Whitkoff, our negotiator

(35:09):
and Jared Kushner, who wasn't of much use in the
first term of Trump, but this time around he's very
useful when it comes to these negotiations. He was brilliant
at settling things as much as you can between Israel
and Arab countries. He was very good in the first term.
So he and Witkoff are a good team. They do
the negotiating Israel, Hamas that sort of. But they're now

(35:32):
working on peace in Ukraine, settling that war. Looks like
they got a ways to go. But they had a
big meeting with Putin yesterday. Putin always, always, always will
keep you waiting. Don't you hate people that are always
late for something. They're just scatterbrain, they're flaky, they're late.

(35:52):
You're waiting for them forty minutes. And it's different with Putin.
It's deliberate. It's deliberate. It's to put you in your place.
It's cyclogical warfare. He does even if it's the most
important international meeting, the president's envoys are coming from the
He'll keep you waiting deliberately. It's to just psyche you out.

(36:12):
Now it doesn't work because if you're wi cough and
you're Jared, you know he does this all the time.
You know he's going to keep you waiting an hour
and a half. It's just normal. This is what he does.
It's not personally does it to everybody? So they knew
and they went and just had a nice lunch. What
they waited for the guy and then he shows up.
You see the picture of him at the big negotiating table.

(36:35):
This is in Russia Moscow. It's a white table and
didn't look right. It looked like a table. Betty Crocker
would even roused. It's just something not very tough about it.
But they're all sitting around the table. And at twelve
thirty they began the conversation, Now, would you want to

(36:56):
talk to Putin? Who he wants to talk to Putin?
You look at that guy. When you see the video,
you say to yourself, yeah, I'd love to sit down
with that guy. It looks like the most unpleasant thing
you could do is talk to this guy. But they
sat down with him at twelve thirty. And the meeting,
which was not very successful. They were not able to
come to agreement. In fact, there was much disagreement. They

(37:17):
didn't make much progress. It made little progress, but not much.
The meeting lasted five hours, five hours. How the hell
did these guys do it? If I were you know,
Steve Whitcoffin is a wealthy guy, a big successful builder.
It does all kinds of work all over America, New York,

(37:38):
Palm Beach, Miami's Building building. Who that wants to give
all that up and go sit in a room with
Putin for five hours? Five hours of talking to Putin?
You can't even talk right to him. He's got an interpreter,
you know. I think he speaks English, but he pretends
he doesn't. Uses the interpreter. It gives himn extra time
to hear your question and think of an answer. But

(37:59):
so whit Coffin, Jared Kushner had to bring their own interpreter.
So when you see all these people at the table,
a couple of them are interpreters. A couple of them
are aids to Putin. So who the hell would want
to do this? Sit there and talk to Putin for
five hours? And be honest, you got a choice. You

(38:22):
have to do one or two things. You're gonna have
a delayed flight and you'll have to sit at the
gate for three hours or talk to Putin for five hours.
Which would you choose? Of course, you sit at the gate.
I can look at my phone, I can watch movies,
I can listen to podcasts. There'll be a snack bar there.
You could do a lot of who the hell was?
I talked to Putin for five hours, so there were

(38:43):
like twenty eight points. Putin was okay with the two
or three of them, but there were a lot of them.
He said, we just can't compromise on it. But they're
they're making some progress and they'll eventually get this done eventually. Now,
Trump will not go to the meeting until they're close.

(39:04):
And that's why you use wid coffin.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Jarrett.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
You don't embarrass yourself by coming out empty handed five
times in a row. So you'll let these guys get
it very, very very close, and then you show up
Cabinet meeting yesterday. It was pretty interesting, the war crimes hoax,
all these guys like check Schumer trying to make it

(39:27):
suddenly they're war crime experts.

Speaker 11 (39:28):
If Trump were to order an attack on land, that
would be an act of war and Congress would invoke
the War Powers Act. It's Congress's prerogative to go to war,
and I hope Republicans will defend that role.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
This is just Schumer, a big blowharder, doesn't know what
he's talking about. Obama was famous for drone strikes on land,
blowing up people all over the place. Afghanistan or Iraq
where every hunundreds of hundreds, hundreds of drone strikes. Do
you know when they did the Osama bin Laden raid,
they were going to go into his house and get him.

(40:10):
You know, the actual orders from Obama were to shoot
him and kill him. And this was all discussed ahead
of time. Well, what if he surrenders. They were told
to shoot him and kill him. They were given the
order not to take them alive. Now, if he comes
out of his bedroom and you're there, you could say,
well I shot because I didn't he might have a

(40:33):
bomb on him. So it actually was discussed, what if
he comes out of his bedroom totally naked, We know
he can't possibly have a weapon or a bomb on him.
They were told to shoot him and kill him. They
were ordered not to take him alive. Now I imagine
the reason for that order is they didn't want to
get him alive and bring him back here because they'd

(40:53):
have to try him and that trial would have been
a security nightmare, all kinds of controversies. They were told,
and make sure you kill him no matter what. So
even if he's asleep and he doesn't wake up, you
got to shoot him. So but again, that's war. That's
what you do in a war. You shoot to kill
all the time. And even a police shooting a mob

(41:17):
hit whatever it is, you don't fire one bullet and say, well, huh,
the guy survived. How about that. No, you shoot a
bunch of shots and make sure they're dead. So this
war crime hoax, they'll try it for another couple of weeks.
It'll go nowhere. Then they'll give up. Big cabinet meeting
yesterday the CNN CNN if anybody still watches that, their
big thing was fact checking the cabinet meeting. The CNN

(41:40):
fact chucker checker. Trump told thirteen whoppers in the cabinet
unbelievable lies that he told. Let's see what the thirteen are.
He claimed that the tariffs have brought in eighteen trillion dollars.
All right, they're right about that. That's Trump. They brought
in like eight trillion. But you know Trump, if it's
eight trillion, I'll tell you it's eighteen trillion. If it

(42:03):
was eighteen trillion, he would have told you it was
thirty trillion. All right. They got him on that. But
he's right in what he's saying. He's absolutely correct. The
tariffs have brought in a fortune. He's exaggerating the number.
He claimed grocery prices are down. They're up two point
seven percent year over year. That's actually a bit of
a lie because their overall grocery prices are down. There

(42:26):
are certain things that have gone up, way up, and
that's brought the whole average up. But overall grocery prices
are down. So they're wrong about that one. Well, technically
they might be right, but they're misleading you. He claimed
these cutting prescription drug prices by five hundred to nine

(42:47):
hundred percent. These numbers make no mathematical sense. That be
below zero, it'd be like less than zero. Okay, they
got him on that, But he has brought the prices
of drugs down. He's exaggerating the number again, but that's him,
the salesman. He does that. He claimed every military attack

(43:07):
on the drug smuggling boat saves an average of twenty
five thousand lives. Experts say this number makes no sense. Well,
first of all, they're not you know, at CNN they
find the dumbest, worst, slanted or biased or totally fabricating accident.
Plenty of people's lives were saved by getting rid of
the fentanyl and the cocaine. Obviously, lives were saved blown

(43:29):
up these drug boats. Okay, it might not be twenty
five thousand. How would you know exactly how many lives
are saved per boat. But he's absolutely right, and he's saying,
you're just quibbling about the he's exaggerating numbers. Yeah, that
could be. Uh, what else, he has stopped inflation in
its tracks. Okay, there's still He has brought inflation down.

(43:50):
It was nine percent at one point under Biden, Biden's
average inflation for the four years five point two percent.
It's now three percent and dropping. So it clearly has
brought it down, stopped it dead in his tracks. Okay,
maybe that's too much. These are the whoppers, the claiming
he told He claimed he inherit the worst inflation of
all time. All right, it was horrifying under Biden nine percent,

(44:15):
horrifying number, horrifying. But they're arguing there that's not the
old time high. It was higher somewhere in the history
of a marriage. Okay, that could be, but he's still
right about what he's saying. He's gotten it right. You're
just talking about exaggeration, he claimed the end of eight wars. Well,
the list includes two wars that weren't actually wars. Listen,

(44:37):
he's great at ending these wars. He can't argue they
go on and on. It's basically all the same thing. Uh,
let's see, Yeah, they're all the same thing. He's absolutely
right everything he's saying. He's just if you wanted to
argue that he's exaggerating, yeah, you could, of course he is. Yesterday, Mom,
Donnie met with Eric Adams. They at a big meeting
at City Hall. These two guys can't stand each other. Uh,

(45:01):
it was sort of cordial. Mom Donnie was trying. You know.
I give him credit this, Mom Donnie. He always tries
to say something nice. He tries to be positive. He
meets with Trump, it's very positive. He can't stand at him.
They don't get along, but he leaves and tries to
praise him somehow.

Speaker 12 (45:17):
I've appreciated the mayor's work on city Yes, I also
think that trash containerization has been a good step forward
in the way in which we handle garbage across the city.
And these are things that I deserve. That new Yorkers
deserve to have be built on as opposed to be discarded.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Okay, the guy's mayor of New York for four years?
Four years? What can you praise him onnd I got
to come up with something he did rail four years?
What did he do? Rep Ah, the trash containerization? What
the That's where they put the new trash can with
a lid that closes. This is what he did with
trash cans have lids that closes. They say the number

(45:51):
of rats are down because it's in the airtight trash
contaentl Okay, that's very good. But if this is your
main accomplishment of four years, not good, how do you
go in there?

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (46:00):
I appreciated the conversation that I had with Mayor Adams
and his team, and we focused on how to make
this as smooth as possible of a transition and how
to continue to serve New Yorkers. You're right, Look, I
think it is possible to be fair and honest in
your assessment of an administration. I've obviously made my critiques clear.
I also think that there are good things that this
administration has done. I think these are the two examples

(46:22):
on City of Yes and containerization. And I also have
appreciated the work the Commissioner Tish has done in reducing
crime across the five boroughs, and that's a critical part
of why I decided to retain it.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Oh, there you go. So when you think back on
Adams and his legacy, it's that trash can containerization.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
What a program the City of Yes, what is that?
I don't know, some program you did. Hey, here's the
big question. Does Mom Donnie move into Gracie Mansion? You
don't have to, you know, Bloomberg didn't. Of course. Now
in the case of Bloomberg, he has two massive town
houses cut together to become one enormous town has. Gracie

(47:01):
Mansion looks like a ghetto apartment, looks like a housing
project apartment compared to his house. So he never left
his house. He stayed in his house. And Ed Koch
had a really nice apartment in Greenwich Village. He would
go back there every weekend. He'd like to stay there.
So Mom Donnie lives in Brooklyn in an apartment. No,
not for I think he lives in Long Island City

(47:22):
or a story of somewhere like the Queen's. But will
he move into Gracie Mansion.

Speaker 12 (47:26):
That's the decision I haven't yet made. The meeting came
about as just part of a typical transition, a transition
where we're looking to have a conversation with the current
mayor about what it looks like to have a smooth
transfer between this administration and the next administration. I've appreciated
the work of his staff and ensuring that it continues
to be smooth.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
So yeah, he said he has thought of staying in
his apartment. He has a massive security detail now as
the incoming mayor, a full security detail. But they're saying
you can't live in the apartment anymore because it's in
an apartment building. It'd be too hard to guard you
in that apartment building, and if we could, it'd be

(48:03):
totally disruptive to everybody else coming and going out of
that building. So he's probably gonna have to leave and
go to Gracie Mansion. Hey, you know what was the
most interesting thing. This was not at this press conference,
but last night he goes on New York One on
that Errol Lewis show. Errol lewis very nice guy, the
most slanted biased media person in the world, but a

(48:26):
nice guy, and he said something interesting on that show.
But because it's New York, one three people saw it,
so you probably never heard about this. This is why
you never don't hear about this. He revealed on the
show that he and Trump still talk after that meeting
at the White House. They've spoken to each other on
the phone a few times. They kept in touch. It's fascinating.

(48:46):
In fact, after the shooting of the National Guards woman mom,
Donnie said he called Trump to express his sympathies for
that woman, and they had talked about He said, they've
talked a few times. Very interesting stuff. Hey, in New Jersey,
you know McGreevy, remember Governor McGreevy, a nice guy, left
in a bit of a scandal. But he lost last

(49:08):
night to this guy Solomon. So McGreevy, like Cuomo, thought
he could make some qut of comeback, but apparently not.
He lost and he you know, that's the end of
him politically. I want to say from my heart, I
congratulate councilmen now Mayor elect James Solomon.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Mcgreevy's a good guy, but you know it's it's the
wrong kind of Democrat. The Democrats if today hate the
old establishment democrats. Uh, they like these Trump haters. This
Solomon kind of the mission is clear.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
The work begins tonight, and the work and we have
to do is make Jersey City affordable.

Speaker 13 (49:47):
And so I say tonight.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
So that's how this guy won. If you're today's Democrat,
just yell affordability, affordability, afford to building. Nobody knows what
that all. It means, afford to building. First of it's
Jersey City. It's all Wall Street, hedge fund pee.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Yah.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Certain places they are always going to be expensive. You know,
if you move to Beverly Hills, it's not that affordable.
So if you go to the wealthiest place in the
world in the middle of Manhattan, the Upper East Side,
it's very expensive. So you can go there and yell
about affordability. But there's going to be places that are expensive.
So hey, tonight the tree lighting. It's the Christmas season.

(50:21):
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(50:43):
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(51:04):
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(51:27):
is a riveting book about what the family went through. Hey,
we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 6 (51:39):
His job, make it all makes sense.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
He's marked the oone on sevent tenor.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Well, let's take some calls eight hundred three, two, one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Jan
and Long Island.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
Jan.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
How you doing.

Speaker 14 (51:58):
I'm doing fine. How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Let me check? Not bad?

Speaker 14 (52:04):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (52:04):
I'm glad to hear it. Always said I'm calling because
Charlie Kirk wrote a book that was kind of I
think he called it the.

Speaker 14 (52:10):
College Hoax or something like that. I actually had the
book and it was the first of its kind that
I ever saw, you know, and it was I think
it's only a couple of years old or something like that.
And all of a sudden, I'm hearing on a couple
of different stations I listened to OR and ABC that
there's this other guy that's got an anti college book.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
App well, psychologe. We've been doing that here for a
few years. It's just a lot of people don't need
to go to college. In fact, tech schools would be
a much better idea for a lot of kids. We've
had university professors tell us they agree that forty percent
of their students don't belong in some super ivy league
called go to a tech school, learn a real skill.

Speaker 15 (52:54):
I've been hearing that on the radio, but this was
in a book by Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
We got that part. But it's a good idea for
a lot of kids tech school. Hey, Also, you send
the kid to college for four years, it's going to
be a two hundred and fifty thousand. If you go
to tech school, it's like one tenth of that. Also,
you get out of college with your Ivy League philosophy degree,
and you're going to go back and live in your parents'
house for ten years. You get out of tech school,
they'll put you to work the next day. They'll get

(53:21):
your job right away. Let's go to Shannon in Belmore. Shannon,
how you doing.

Speaker 16 (53:28):
Good morning, Mark. I wonder if you could tell me
what was behind Trump willing to release the Honduran drug lord.
I can't understand that.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Oh well, you're going to see a lot of He
just pardoned a little while ago a lawmaker in Texas
who was convicted of bribery. Sometimes he just thinks the
guy did enough punishment a part, But a lot of
times it's somebody a donor or a big member of
Congress who calls you and asks you for this as
a favor. So you know was involved, Yeah, not with Trump,

(54:04):
but it's a favor to somebody you need to do
a favor for. It's a good question. You know, there's
a guy in Long Island got convicted of uh, swindling people.
You know, you got, i know, some kind of financial
white collar crime. And the guy was a convicted sentenced
to prison. So Trump just pardoned him. Now, a lot
of times that's a favorite. You know, if you got

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the right friends, you can get yourself a pardon. If
you're a major, major, major donor, you listen, I need
a favor. They'll look over the pardon and if it's uh,
if it's not too outrageous, they'll give it to you.
It's a favorite of the donor. But many, many times
it's a major figure in Congress or in government calls you.

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You know, if a major congress has got somebody in
his district, that's usually the case. Somebody in the district
they need a pardon. And this happens with the Democrat
Republican presidents. Do I need to get this guy pardon?

Speaker 5 (54:57):
Now?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
They then weighed, how mu do I need this congressman? Yeah,
I'm gonna need him for about twenty different votes. I'm
gonna need his vote. So they'll do the favor for you.
It happens all the time. Now it's really outrageous. They'll
say they can't do it, but you know, the most
glaring example was Mark Rich, the financier who got caught
in all kinds of crime, and he's so bad that

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he fled the country. There's no way he was gonna
even try to beat these charges. He fled. He went
to Switzerland and they were chasing him all over the world.
They tried to arrest him in Israel. They tried to
arrest him here, but they could. They're chasing this guy.
He's a fugitive on the lamb. But the Rich family
massive donors to the Clinton's massive donors, so they wanted

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to her husband pardon and it was so outrageous. Clinton
waited till like his last day in office and then
did the When he did the Mark Rich pardon, somebody
in the Justice partment has to sign off. Everybody refused
to sign off. They finally found one guy who was
willing to sign that pardon. It was a junior guy
named Eric Holder, who was later rewarded with the Attorney General. Hey,

(56:02):
when we come back and culture will be with us
next lots to talk to her about coming up in
a moment on seven to ten WR.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Here's more of the Mark Simone Show on WR.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Well and Culture. The best selling author and the great
columnists also does a lot of speeches all over the country.
In fact, if you're in Massachusetts tomorrow night, she'll be
speaking at MIT of all places, six o'clock MIT, and
she's with us right now. And Culter, how you doing fantastic?

Speaker 13 (56:35):
How are you Marximone?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Good? You know, I do a lot of speeches, but
it's always in some normal place. Mit. You got to
sound pretty smart there, I know.

Speaker 13 (56:45):
I hope they don't ask me any math questions.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
So that's pretty good. Now, all over America they got
and we heard this was going to happen. The Democrats
have like twenty five other mom Donnis, they're going to run.
They run this woman in Tennessee. It was another mom
Donnie no resume, history of saying crazy things but charming,
great on social media, an influencer. What is this? Who

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are these Democrats voting for these people?

Speaker 13 (57:17):
Well, luckily not enough to elect her. Your listeners, being
normal people, probably don't know this, but I bet you do.
All week on MSNBC, they've been pushing this progressive woman.
And you know this was going to be a test
for Trump, and here it was. It's in Tennessee represented
by a Republican. Now this is going to be big tests,

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big test. You know, they don't set something up as
a big test unless they're expecting to win. So they
were pushing this woman like mad. And she lost last
night by ten points. So I was listening to the
coverage today and I don't know CNN or MSNBC. I
have a new definition of a close election. It's where
a Republican wins by ten points. But apparently that was

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now a nail bider.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
But what is this all about? Voting for people that
have no resume on paper? They stink. But they keep
yelling this word affordability and it sounds good. But if
you know, like in New York, Democrats have run every
inch of New York for fifteen years. If there's an
affordability crisis, why would you vote for them?

Speaker 13 (58:26):
Yes, and unless it is Democrats with their idiotic laws
and regulations making things more expensive, as with run control,
as with Obamacare. Mostly what people are talking about, I mean,
I mean Trump is right. This is just a word
they use.

Speaker 9 (58:44):
It's like for years.

Speaker 13 (58:46):
I don't know, I had doubt politicians run on this anymore,
but years, for decades, every every single presidential candidate would
run on bringing people together. Okay, those are words, and
affordability is a word.

Speaker 6 (58:59):
What you're talking about.

Speaker 13 (59:00):
Is inflation or democratic policies. That's what makes things expensive.
I mean, as we've discussed, there's been no matter how
liberal the economist is, just economists after economists after economists
has pointed out, rent control goes into effect, housing prices
go through the roof. And every place there is rent control,
in New York City and San Francisco, in small burghs

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throughout the nation, every place rank control is in effect,
the housing is out of reach for normal people. Thomas
Moll writes a lot about this. It's the most basic
economic principle. Restrict the supply prices go up. Yeah, they're
the ones. I mean. The healthcare thing just drives me

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absolutely nuts. Yet everybody knew this. That's why every single
Republican voted against Obamacare. As I think I've said before,
when Republicans say we're going to fix something, we fix it,
and then we lose it as an issue to run on.
When Democrats say they're going to fix something they got
an issue until the end of time is they just
make things worse.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Yeah, you know, like they go crazy about tariffs. Tariffs
are the worst thing. They hate tariffs, but then they
put on more tariffs than anybody. They call it a
corporate tax increase, but that's the same thing. It's a
teriff on of business.

Speaker 13 (01:00:18):
So uh oh, that's a great point.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
How do they get away with this? But well, I
know how there's no media to expose it. But it's
never going to change. So what does this mean for
the midterms?

Speaker 13 (01:00:32):
Well, as I keep warning you, my friends, your listeners,
midterms generally go against the party in power, which is
why I don't know why the Trump administration hasn't done
this yet. I've surely talked about it on your program before.
So the census is taken in twenty twenty under Donald
Trump in twenty twenty one. The year after a census,

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they always go back and check, do we make any mistakes?
Do we get this right? They do spot check that
sort of thing. Under the Biden administration they realized, oh
my gosh, we made a lot of mistakes, and they
ended up taking away I met about ten congressional seats
from Republicans and giving them to the Blue States. They

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counted the Blue states as being much bigger and about
ten on each side, and Red states as being much smaller.
So I don't know Ron de Santis should sue. This
is the administration finding its own mistake. Why can't the
Trump administration say fix the mistake? I mean, that gives
us ten seats right there, and other than that, it's

(01:01:37):
probably going to be a blowout against us, especially looking
at what I didn't think. I didn't think there was
any way California could squeeze any more Democrat seats out
of that state, but apparently they have. So Democrats are
they have an auto pickup of five states in California.
And this isn't like some tricky, you know, jerrymandering trick.
It's just it's just following constitution and creating congressional districts

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the way they are supposed to be created. So I
really think Trump has got to get on that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Yeah, but again, you got this new breed of Democrats
no resume saying crazy things, but they just look good
on social media and they're great influencers. And are there
any Republicans who can counter that? Who can do the
same trick.

Speaker 13 (01:02:25):
I hate to sound snobbish, but I think most Republican
voters are smarter. They really are Democrats. We deserve stupid
voters too. I mean, I don't know we're getting some now,
but but Democrats really have a lock on the stupid voters.
And I am not referring to, you know, young people.
I don't think it's just young people. A lot of
young people are are very thoughtful. But well, I guess

(01:02:49):
I am referring to my gender. A lot of especially women,
especially you know, identity politics types. They they they know nothing,
they think nothing, They go along with the crowd. Group
think is very powerful.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Yeah. So hey, the other issue, this war crimes hoax,
you know, is some terrible war crimes taking place?

Speaker 12 (01:03:15):
Is this?

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Well, Democrats get away with this defending these coke boats,
these narco boats.

Speaker 13 (01:03:21):
Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I wanted
to make two points about that. One is it's funny
listening to liberal media. They're trying to get hag sas
to you know, quote take responsibility, as if as if
that's that's okay, and then we'll all go away. You
say you're responsible. The media plays this trick a million times.

(01:03:42):
I was just thinking of tweeting out hag sas do
not quote take responsibility. This is what they did to
rum Fells over Abu Grab. They run this campaign, you
just got to take response. Be a man here. They
did it with the first George bush On on you
gotta raise taxes and he broke his read mind lift pledge.
And the final thing, second thing and only thinks is

(01:04:03):
probably running out of time, is I don't care what
they do to these Venezuelan boats. I mean, since the
end of Reagan. This is the first time in my
life the American military has been used to protect American lives,
not alives in the Middle East, not lives in Afghanistan,
not lives in the Balkans. For the first time the

(01:04:25):
military is being used to protect America. Though I don't
care what you do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
That's a very good point, excellent point. Hey, So, if
you're in Massachusetts, we got a lot of listeners there
and culture is speaking tomorrow night at MIT. Aren't they
kind of left wing kooks there? How are you going
to speak to them?

Speaker 13 (01:04:45):
Well, I'm hoping some of your listeners will come. You
sign up on Google it's linked on my Twitter feed,
and I happen to notice on the Google page they're
apparently not releasing the undisclosed location until I don't know
a few hours before this speech, but it obviously will
be near MIT, and I think all marks and my
own listeners should come so I could at least get

(01:05:07):
some some smart questions that don't involve math.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Well, it's a bunch of left wing cooks there at MIT,
but it's quite a beautiful.

Speaker 13 (01:05:15):
Campus, and probably fewer left wing cooks because remember they
were the first college to well first get rid of
the SAT and then immediately bring it back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yeah, it's a beautiful campus and it's right on the
Charles River. You hat a beautiful view and you'll have
a good time there talking to those eggheads. But it's
a great unit. It's on one of our great universities.
So tomorrow, yeah and Culter at MIT six o'clock. Just
go to her Twitter. You can get the place to
sign up for it, and of course follow on Twitter.
Make sure you follow on substack. It's Andculter dot substack

(01:05:51):
dot com and Culter thanks for being with us.

Speaker 13 (01:05:54):
Good to talk to you Mark soon. Bye bye all take.

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Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
You know that crazy Olivia Nuzzy, the one writing the book.
She was that reporter got involved with RFK Junior. Claimed
they were texting and sexting back and forth and then
apparently carrying on with some other people here and there.
So she wrote a book, big Exposation's going to take
down RFK Junior. You know she's the Vanity Fair writer.

(01:06:52):
She's going to expose. Oh, she's gonna tell the unbelievable book. Well,
it came out on Amazon. This is the first week.
It's a total disaster, a complete bomb. First week. You're
supposed to have your best week. It's in twelve thousandth place,
twelve thousand, one hundred something, twelve thousandth place on Amazon,
and you'll notice the fake news, the ms NOW, MSNBC.

(01:07:15):
They're not really giving her a lot of coverage. So
the book completely fizzled. Vanity Fair I think has gotten
rid of her, so you won't see much more of her.
That should be pretty much the end of her. Hey,
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