November 19, 2025 • 31 mins
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch will remain on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s team when he takes office in January 2026. ABC news reporter Mary Bruce upset President Trump during a Saudi Arabia press conference in the Oval Office yesterday by asking hard-hitting questions. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews NY State Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz. Jake discusses his concerns with Zohran Mamdani’s policies and urges Republicans to develop new policy solutions beyond just opposing Democrats and Socialists. He worked closely with Mamdani during his time as an Assemblyman.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
it all means. He smarts amone on seven to ten.
Wo Well, it's big developments happening with the mayor of
Mom Donnie. Mayor elect Mom Donnie, with Donald Trump, woop
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with Epstein. We'll get to all of that coming up.
It's hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week, a week
from tomorrow. It's Thanksgiving. Unbelievable because you walk down the hall.
You can tell because there's a Thanksgiving buffet down there
by Elvis Durant Studio, by Jim Kurr Studio, there's a
whole Christmas buffet and we have to It's tons and tons.
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It goes on for miles these buffets, and everybody's eating
like crazy because we have to finish this be for
today's lunch buffet, which begins in the two hours, that's why.
And then then we do this all day long with
these buffets in front of every studio up and down
the hall. It's all buffets. And then we do features
on why an obesity problem. So we got a lot
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to get to. Let's start with the great news. Mayor
elect Mom Donnie. You know you're gonna have to get
used to saying mayor Mom Donnie. But he's agreed to
and Jessica Tish's agreed to stay. She will be the
police commissioner under Mom Donnie. That's reassuring to a lot
of people. They've had a series of meetings. They had
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phone calls over the weekend, which is a good sign.
If you have all these meetings in person and then
it turns into phone calls, it means you've done the
hard stuff. You got that out of the way, and
the phone calls he usually just follow up. So she
will stay on as the police commissioner. Now she made
some agreements with him. She's not gonna just stay on,
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you know, good faith. They're gonna have to. He's gonna
have to actually agree to stuff. So he's agreed to
basically her alone. This is a key thing. He's got
these crazy programs with his social workers taken over instead
of police. They've made an agreement that the police department
will stay the police department. She will run that. Whatever
silly stuff he wants to do with the social workers,
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that'll be separate. It'll be a department of Community safety
that he will run. They will focus with the social
workers on the homeless and mentally ill. They'll just deal
with that. They'll leave the police department alone. The police
department will deal with actual crime. That's one agreement they've made.
I don't know all the others, but they've agreed on
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a lot of stuff. So she will stay. That's very important.
It's very very good news. Jessica Tish will stay on. Now,
some people say, well, we don't know, it might just
be a couple of months. You might just stay and
then leaving three I don't think so, you know, she's
not going to do that. She would either stay or leave.
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If she's staying, it's because they read on the right stuff.
She's got good, solid agreements with him. If she's staying,
it's going to be for a while. It'll be Remember,
police commissioners generally serve a very long time, you know.
Not everybody's Ray Kelly. He was the greatest police commissioner
in history. So that was like, I think, eighteen years.
But he's Babe Ruth. That's not normal. But normally a
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police commissioner, a good police commissioner stays a few years.
It's not one year, it's a number of years, four years,
three years, four years, five years, something like that. It
was only under Eric Adams we had the police Commissioner
of the month. How many do we have under Adams?
I mean, I don't think those Jeopardy guys could even
get that name. All the Eric Adams police commissioners. It's
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not easy. Let me think he shot suwell m Who
is the McDermott Dermott Dermot Shay. That's another one. O'Neill.
What was O'Neill's first name, James O'Neill. That's three. Oh,
Eddie Caban that's four. Who is the guy that was
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there briefly? Very nice guy was his name? Donnelly? He
was just there temporarily. He came in for a few months,
but a very good guy. Donnelly. That's five. And Jessica Tish.
That's six, six police commissioners in four years. It's embarrassing,
it's awful. So I think if she's agreed to stay,
it's gonna be for a while. Now. That's the most
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important thing about mom. Donnie whatever nonsense, crazy stuff he
wants to do. Fine, But as long as the streets
are safe, that kind of fixes everything. Safe streets you
pretty much help every situation. If the streets are safe,
businesses flourish, if the streets are safe, tourists keep coming here.
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That's very important for our economy. So he's Jessica Tish
will stay. That's important. Outside of that, he's gonna have
all these all the crazy people he's appointed, they're all
from the Deblasio administration, the same exact deputy mayors, first
deputy mayor. They're all from the Blasio administration. So you'll
basically get a repeat of that. It wasn't bad, and
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we got through it. We got through eight years of that.
We'll get through four years of Mom Donnie. It might
only be one year. You know, you're going to get
a new governor, probably a year from now, and that
governor can remove the mayor. They have the power to
remove the mayor. It's happened before FDR removed Jimmy Walker
the mayor. So that's good news. Now. The only bad
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part of this Tish thing, Mam Donnie does not want
Ice coming in here arresting illegals, and many of these
illegals are the worst criminals, So you want him arrested
and taken out here. Jessica Tish may have agreed with
him not to cooperate with ice. That's I don't know,
but that's the only problem. Hocal apparently is recruited a
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number of big Wall Street exec top Wall Street names,
big business guys, people that know Trump, and she's put
together of this group. She wants them to go to
Donald Trump and convince him to not send the National
Guardian to protect people. Now, if Jessica Tish is here
and doing a good job, there'd be no reason to
send the National Guard in. But if there is a problem,
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of course you'd want him to send the National guard.
Why would you turn away anything that's going to give
you a public safety Why would you turn away any
law enforcement, public safety anything. And also bear in mind,
you remember a few years ago when there was the
crime was getting out of control. What did Kathy Hokeel do.
Nobody remembers this. She sent the National Guard in. Remember
she put him in all the subways, So she sent
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the National Guarden. She thought it was a good thing
to do. But that's the hypocrisy. Democrats are famous for
President Trump meeting with the Saudi Prince yesterday. Saudi leaders,
a lot of people didn't like this. You know, you
don't want to have two cozy relationship between a president
and the Saudis, and they looked like reporters were asking
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about the Trump organization has all kinds of business interests
in Saudi Arabia. They're building hotels and apartments and this
looks pretty sleazy, but he pointed out they've been doing
that anyway, long before he was president. They were building
over there, and they're building all over the world. In fact,
the amount of building they're doing in Saudi Arabia is
a lot less than they're doing in Europe or anywhere else. Hey,
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the greatest moment was Trump and this ABC reporter. You know,
it's funny. ABC News. ABC the network attacks Trump twenty
four to seven for ten years. They call them every
name in the world. They insult them with everything he'm
insult them with. All they do is attack and insult
Donald Trump twenty four to seven for ten years without
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it never stops. If he insults him once, it's an
international incident all of a sudden, ABC News is the
worst thing that's ever happened. But this is yesterday. They
got the Saudi crown prints. They're in the Oval Office.
They've made some agreements to help the US, to help
our businesses and a lot of big good business leaders
have flown in, Tim Cook of Apple, all these big
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tech guys everything. They're all there. Elon Musk came back
to the White House for this. It's very important, and
they're trying to talk about what they're going to do
together and hopefully they make some kind of an agreement
over protecting Israel and all of that. So it's all
good stuff. But the ABC reporter can't stop. She's asking
about remember the guy that was killed, Koshogi, and she's
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asking about Epstein. This is in the middle of this
positive thing. So Trump gets mad, but this is great.
He really tells her off. I love listening to this.
Take a listen. That will fight it out.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
For Congress to release the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Why not just do it now?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with a man
who's highly respected asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just
a terrible question. And you could even ask that same
exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you over
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at ABC. You're gonna psych it. You're a terrible person
and a terrible reporter. As far as the Epstein Files is,
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
him out of my club many years ago because I
thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I
would turn out to be right. But you know who
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does have? Bill Clinton? Larry Somemmers, who ran Harvard, was
with him every single night, every single weekend. They lived together.
They went to his island many times. I never did
Andrew Weissman here. All these guys were friends of his.
You don't even talk about those people. You just keep
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going on the Epstein files. And what the Epstein is
is a Democrat hoax to try and get me not
to be able to talk about the twenty one trillion
dollars that I talked about today. It's a hoax.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I just got a little report and I put it
in my pocket. Of all the money that he's given
to Democrats, he gave me none, zero, no money to me,
but he gave money to democrats. And people are wise
to your hoax. And ABC's your company, your crappy company
is one of the perpetrators.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
And I'll tell you something.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'll tell you something.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I think the license should be taken away from ABC
because your news is so fake and is so wrong,
and we have a great commissioner, a chairman who should
look at that, because I think when you come in
and when you're ninety seven percent negative to Trump and
then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means
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obviously your news is not credible and you're not credible
as a reporter. So I've answered your question. You should
go and look at the Democrats who received money from Epstein,
who spent their time. Larry Summers was with them all
the time, that creep of the fun. This guy was
with him all the time. What's his name? Read Hoffman.
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I don't know read Hoffman, but I know he spends
a lot of money in the radical left. Read Hoffman,
in my opinion, should be under investigation. He's a sleevesbag
and those are the people, but they don't get any press,
they don't get any news. And you're not after the
radical left because you're a radical left network. But I
think the way you ask a question, with the anger
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and the meanness is terrible.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You ought to go back and learn how to be
a reporter no more. So that's pretty good. But let's
break that down. Now, he threatens the licenses of ABC.
You're not supposed to do that. But if they are
broadcasting false information and distorting the news, and they have
been caught doing that, remember the George Stephanoppolis false accusations,
and the ABC had to pay Trump fifteen million quietly
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and not so quietly to settle it. So you're not
supposed to threaten their license, but if they are distorting
the news, you are supposed to take the license away.
And let's read how it's an interesting guy, this guy
reid hoffin this techzillionaire. He funds a lot of stuff.
He funded the Egen Carroll lawsuit against Trump, which will
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nobody believes that most people think is just total hoax,
But he funded that. God are all the best lawyers.
But it's a good question, he brings up if he
has nothing to do with Epstein for twenty years, he
hasn't the twenty one years, he has nothing to do
with Epstein, no kindection. A million years ago in two
thousand and four, he found out about Epstein, and the
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young girls threw him out of mar A Lago, banned
him from the club, there's a million witnesses to this,
people that work there, people that were members there, so
everybody knew about it back then. I knew about it
because he's one of the people that warned me years ago,
twenty years ago, stay the hell away from Epstein, bad guy.
Except for twenty one years he stayed away from him
while Democrats got closer and closer and closer to Epstein.
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And he's right, why aren't they, Why aren't they outside
of Bill Clinton's house demanding some answers? Or Larry Summers?
He was the former Treasury secretary to Obama Clinton. He
was an advisor and economic advisor to Joe Biden during
this recent presidency, and president of Harvard. Now, why aren't they?
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Why aren't they bothering Larry Summers and making him explain this? Now,
Summers put out statements saying he's ashamed of his close
relationship with Epstein, and apparently Summer's cheating on his wife
like crazy and using Epstein as his dating coach. You
can see it in the emails and texts. He's now
resigned from every board he's on, He's resigned from everything,
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still works for Harvard, but and it turns out that
Epstein over these last twenty years has been a major
Democratic donor. Hasn't given a penny to Trump, But major
Democratic donor. If they hate this guy so much, why
are they taking his money? Why are they letting him
from their campaigns? It's a very good question, you know,
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when these files come out. First of all, there's not
that much in the fire. The Epstein files don't have
all the juicy stuff in him. The juicy stuff is
in the texts and emails, and those are coming from
the Epstein estate. But Trump asked some good questions, why
why aren't they going after these people? And this current
Democratic congresswoman what's her name? Plasket? Stacey Plaskett very close
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to Epstein, and while she's in the hearings grilling Michael Cohen,
she's texting back and forth with Epstein during the hearings
to get his advice on what to say next and
what So, how come reporters never bother her? Somebody did
ask the Stacey Plasket Well, oh no, it was Caitlin Collins.
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She was on CNN. So she said to Hakim Jeffreys,
how come you're not mad at Stacey Plaskett for being
so close to Epstein. They're texting back and forth during
the hearings on Trump, and Epstein says, well, she has
not violated any law. Okay, it's not illegal, but it's
certainly inappropriate. It's not illegal to go to Epstein's house
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and hang out with him, but it's totally inappropriate. You know,
George Stephanopolis having dinner with Epstein at his house, Katie
Couric having dinner with Epstein at his house. Why aren't
more people asking them about all this? Trump has nothing
to do with Epstein. I love Good Day in New York.
It's a great shows on Channel five every morning. And
they got this political guy that does the political pieces.
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His name is Robert Moses. He's a cute guy. I
like him, but he's the most slanted partisan. So when
Trump said he had nothing to do with Epstein.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
him out of my club many years ago because I
thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I
would turn out to be right.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So when Robert Moses does the story with this clip,
he actually said President Trump tried to claim that he
had nothing to do with Epstein about biased language. He
tried to claim he did. This is all well known
to people. Again, there are a million witnesses to be
They never tell you this part of it. He tried
to claim, you could easily find a dozen witnesses right
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now that know about how this did happen twenty one
years ago. Threw him the hell out of mar Alago.
Never spoke to him again. Anyway. We'll get back to Epstein,
We'll get back to Mom, Donnie. Lots more to get to.
We'll get to Hochel and more coming up. We'll take
some calls next. Eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten is the number, eight hundred three two one
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zero seven ten. Yeah, more marks alone on sevent ten.
Listen to that. I guess I have to just accept it.
It's the holiday season. Like I think, it's still the
end of summer, it's still early fall. I guess I
have to accept it's Thanksgiving, It's Christmas season out in
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the hall, this Christmas trees, this Christmas music, got a
Christmas buffet. I just have to accept it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I know that's go to stake some calls. Let's go
to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing, Good.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, that SoundBite you played from the
press conference is really underscores the problem that Trump has
not only with the media, but with the Republican Party,
who just cower every time they have a chance to
get somebody's you know.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Watch and advice, they fall back on, well, it's not
technically illegal, so they won't censure that congress woman who's
texting with Epstein during the during the hearings, you know,
because it wasn't technically illegal.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
And meanwhile they then.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
They fall back on, well, Trump should release everything. But
you know, if Trump releases all this Epstein stuff, they'll
drag him in front of the court and they say
he jeopardized the lives of the accused and the and
the victims, and then that would become a UNO watch show.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It's calling.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, a bigger problem is once he releases everything, they'll
claim it's not everything. And you may have I've seen
these Jeffrey Eckstein victims. It's about a dozen women holding
this press conference. The Democratic consultants have got a hold
of these women staging these press conferences where they go
on and on and on. But you'll notice there's a
dozen victims. Not one of them not one of them
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has ever seen Donald Trump or mentioned Donald Trump. Or
that's the problem with this Epstein stuff. It's going to
implicate some Democrats. Larry Summers has already had his public
life destroyed by the handful of texts and emails that
came out. Wait till it all comes out, You're going
to see a lot of major Democrats, their donors, their cabinet,
a lot of these people are going to be ruined
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when this stuff comes out. Let's go to Lou and
Queen's Lou, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hey, Mark, you said it, be careful about opening up
Pandora's box. That's what this is going to turn into.
But I wanted to draw your attention to a fascinating
story in the Internal.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well we'll be the judge of that. If it's in
the Wall Street Journal, how fascinating can it be. That's
usually that thing. That paper has news from like three
weeks ago all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, this is all news. It's about during the show
of Iran. I didn't know it. The Israelis and the
Iranians were working together to put together their whole water system,
you know, their water supply and everything else, and it
was working perfectly.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Of course, the Iatola came to power, the Iranian engineers
along with the Israelis all went to Israel.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, they're having a big water crisis in Iran. In fact,
it's so bad they to believe they may have to
evacuate Iran. They've already moved people into concentrated areas where
they'd still have some water. But there's a tremendous water
shortage occurring in Iran. I said, this is what I
mean about the Wall Street Journal. This is this story
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from two weeks ago. That's just in there. Now, let's
go to Rob in Franklin Square. Rob, how you doing hy?
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Good morning Markia. You know, I don't think it was
a good call for the President to have that press
conference with with the Crown Prince, with the because uh,
you know, you know, with this couple building and the
death of Kosholgi, he should have known that that they
were gonna he was gonna be asked questions about him.
You know, maybe he's been better off not having uh
you know.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well that's taken the easy way. In the smart way.
He never does that. He likes to whatever the toughest
way to do it is. That's the way he always
likes to do it. Yeah. No, he never hides from
anything or anybody. Probably, you know, if you get somebody
who's out of line like that, you should probably just
ban them for two weeks, put them in the penalty box,
like no ABC News allowed in the White House for
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two weeks. Just try that. Maybe they'll learn how to
behave a little better. Let's go to Joe in Long Island.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Joe, how you doing, Hey, Mark, You're the best as always.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Just two quick things.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I think I've heard that Trump was actually an FBI
in forman in two thousand and nine against EV's team.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And no, no, no, no, not true. Not true.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Yeah, and then but he actual he did give them
some information.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not true. You saw that on some website, right, not true? Okay,
not true the FBI of two thousand and nine. That
was Camian Company and not big Trump fans. Yeah. Now,
Trump broke up with him twenty one years ago, had
nothing to do with him since. But he was very
close to Democrats. Now he was. I didn't know him
that well. I don't know what his politics were, but
he was in the middle of the Upper East Side
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of Manhattan and the circles he traveled in It was
mostly Democrats in those circles. Had there been more Republicans around,
well maybe he would have known more Republicans. But you know,
when you're trying to immerse yourself in the world of
politics in New York City, you're gonna end up knowing
a lot more Democrats than Republicans. Hey, when we come back,
I want to talk to this guy. He's an assemblyman
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from New York actually from Oyster Bay. Jake Blumenkrantz. He
served with Mom Donnie in the Assembly. He's a Republican,
but you know, he can give us some insight into
Mam Donnie and maybe he can explain to us what
the hell's going on with this socialism and Mom Donnie.
This could be interesting. We'll get to this next on
seven to ten WR.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Marximo on sevent ten WR.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Hey, Jake blumen Krantz, very popular assemblyman State Assembly. He's
from Oyster Bay. You might have seen a lot of
him on television and everywhere lately, served with Mamdani. Can
give us some insight into that whole phenomenon. And he's
with us right now. Jake blumin Krantz, how you doing good?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Hey. Also, you're a young guy. How old are you?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I am twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Twenty nine, and you're in the State Assembly. Mamdannie is
thirty four. We're seeing more and more of this. What
is this new phenomenon of all these very young public servants.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Look, I think when you see issues go unaddressed by
establishment candidates on either side of the aisles, as a
young person, you got to step in and you got
to say this isn't right. We have solutions, we have answers,
and in reality my answers and may Or Elect mondonni'sncaers
are different. But I think that the sentiment that things
need to change is the same.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, but we're used to these Sheldon Silver, Chuck Schumer,
old men with the glasses all flogged up kind of
people in the government. But it's good to see. Hey,
tell us about Mandannie. You served with Mam Donnie. What
did you think of him back then? I do.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
He's been an assemblyment with me since I started. Interesting character.
I think what I'd say to anyone who asked me
that question is he means what he says, and he
says what he means. He's an ideological guy, and he
believes a lot of the rhetoric that he Espouses' unfortunate
as a Jewish legislator to see someone like him rise
so prominently because he introduced legislation like not on My Dime,
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which would effectively empower the AG's office to hurt Jewish
charities and not for profits for supporting Israel, among many
other very dangerous pieces of legislation. Yeah, in a new
place of power, we're gonna have to see what he's
gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, you were two young guys up in all being
in the Assembly. Did you have any a lot of
personal interaction with him.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Yeah, we did interact quite a bit, and I'd say
he's a very cordial person. But at the end of
the day, my concern with him is his policy proposals
and his incorrect solutions to the correct problems. We do
have a problem with affordability, but I don't think the free, free,
free parade is one that is either effective or going
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to solve the problems he hopes to solve.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You might get some naive voters, but Mom, Donnie, as
bad as he is, seems like a very high IQ
sort of a guy. Why wouldn't a guy like that
know the history of socialism and its failures.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Well, he might be not necessarily looking at its failures,
but populism at large is what is a play in
his campaign. He's telling people what they want to hear.
They want to hear that your rent will go down.
They want to hear that groceries are too expensive. I
think he's tapping into the affordability message in a way
that people appreciate. My problem with it is, you're right,
he is not paying attention to the rest of the
history of socialism. It's very easy to win O for
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voters when you have a message like that, but it's
very hard to govern.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, Jake Blumenkrantz, you're an assemblyman. You're a Republican up
there in Albany, in the Assembly with very few Republicans
up there. How does it feel? How tough is it
being a Republican in that legislature.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
It's always an uphill battle because they have a supermajority,
a veto proof supermajority right now and at the end
of the day, even if the governor doesn't feel compelled
to pass many of his agenda points, if he manages
to convince enough of our colleagues in the Assembly and
Senate to do what he wants to do. Her hands
will be tied, and that'll be a big question for
her as she runs for reelection this year.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah. Hey, but this socialism, this Mondanni, it's not just him,
there's a bunch of them all over the country. What
is this socialism creeping into democratic politics?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
So the DSA is an organization, the Democratic Socialists of
America that continues to have a pernicious effect on the
Democratic Party. They are on the rise in New York State.
In many races in the city, we don't even run
Republican candidates because there's none a enough voters that and
there's not enough candidates that we have to run, which
allows them to take a hold and combat the Democrats
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from the far left. And it's become a race left
with no finish line.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, all right, let me get back to we're talking
with Assemblyman Jake Blumenkrantz. You said Mandani means what he says.
Can we at least hope maybe it's he's a lot
of talk but not much action, And maybe it won't
be as bad as we think.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I think with any mayor who has as as strong
proposals as mister Mandami does. There will be questions as
to what is possible and what is impossible, and I
think that comes with participation from the state legislature. Let's
see if there are commer heads up north in Albany
than there are in the city, and that would determine
whether or not he's able to really fulfill much of his
promises or not.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah. Now he's appointed his first deputy mayor. It's a
guy named Dean Fulahan, who was Deblasio's first deputy mayor.
But this is problem with this fullahand he apparently is
very plugged in up there in Albany, to the legend
and can get things done. Did you ever have any
dealings with them?
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I never, personally don't them. But I'd say that mister
Mondombe is going to play a really smart Albany game,
and that's a really dangerous thing for New Yorkers and
for many who are concerned that his policies are detrimental
to us and the problems that he hopes to solve.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
All right, well, you're not exactly cheering this up, but
that's okay. We want you to be honest.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I don't mean to paint a bleak picture. But I
do think that we as Republicans, we need to win
on the battlefield of ideas with new ideas. We can't
just say no, his policies are bad. We need to
truly propose and try it and act real change for
the sake of affordability. People are struggling out there. People
can't afford their groceries. We do need to come up
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with the proposals that work and fight against ones that don't.
But at the end of the day, if we don't
have new messaging and new ideas and new voices coming
into the fray, it'll be a difficult task.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
But you look at this affordability crisis across America. It
seems to always be in the blue cities, and the
Democrat solutions usually lead to this crisis. So how do
you message that, How do you make that clear that
they pretty much caused.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
You have to be you have to be tactful, and
you have to realize that sometimes even in urban areas,
the logic can prevail. Mayor Bloomberg Grant as a Republican
who was a fiscal conservative who wanted to rain in
some of the spending to be a prolific builder and
we saw that, and we saw the city in sort
of a golden age, and it's important we want to
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try and focus on bringing ourselves back to those times
and bring ourselves back to the ideas of safety and
affordability as paramount.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah. Hey, it tell us about serving in the Assembly.
How is that that? Is it full time when you're
an assemblyman or is it a part time thing? You're
not there every day.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
We're up there for about six months a year, and
it comes down to making sure that our budget priorities
are in place and making sure we're getting what we
need for our communities. And we work closely in a
bipartisan way to do that when we can as part
of the minority caucus. But we have, we still managed
to get some great accomplishments done that.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
We're just fighting the good fight, all right, Well, good stuff.
And you're an Oyster Bay right, I love Oyster Bay,
great town.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yes, beautiful Long Island absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, all right, well, good luck, keep up the good fight.
You're one of the few Republicans up there in all
beneath Jake bloom And Grants, thanks for being.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
With us, Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
All right, take care, all right, that that wasn't the
most encouraging thing. But way we want him to be honest,
you know, I keep I want to think it, Mom,
Donnie's going to be like the Blasio who was bad.
But it wasn't as bad as we thought it might be.
Because remember the good thing about the Blasio. Well here's
the only difference. The good thing about the Blasi he
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just never showed up for work. Remember he would go
to the gym. He'd wake up like nine in the morning,
go to the gym till noon. Then he went to
that coffee place in Brooklyn, hang out there, cho up
in city Hall about three o'clock, take a nap, wake
up and leave and go home. It was about his
whole day. The only problem with this, mom, younger, more
energetic guy, he might actually be doing stuff all day
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and night.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The good news is he's never had a job in
his life. He's never been an executive, he's never been
a manager, So that hopefully means he won't know how
to execute anything or get anything actually done. The bad
news is he's got all these exta Blasio people running
city Hall, first deputy mayor dean fullhand. These guys actually
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know how to execute. So anyway, the good news is
Jessica Tish will stay as police commissioner. We're assuming that
they had a number of conversations. We're assuming she wouldn't
have agreed if this is just going to be a
couple of months, So you can probably assume she'll be
there for at least a year or two or three.
So that's the good news. Anyway, Buck and Clay are
coming up at noon. You don't want to miss them
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Speaker 1 (31:19):
Hey, you know it's funny. They announced that today is
the first gridlock alert day of the season. Gridlock alert day,
what was yesterday? What was the day before? It's goodlock
every day, but for some reason, gridlock alert day today.
Just bear that in mind. Hey, we'll be back in
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We'll get to the NFL's latest scheme, and we'll get
back to Mom Donnie, and we'll get to there's some
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Wo Well, it's big developments happening with the mayor of
Mom Donnie. Mayor elect Mom Donnie, with Donald Trump, woop
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with Epstein. We'll get to all of that coming up.
It's hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week, a week
from tomorrow. It's Thanksgiving. Unbelievable because you walk down the hall.
You can tell because there's a Thanksgiving buffet down there
by Elvis Durant Studio, by Jim Kurr Studio, there's a
whole Christmas buffet and we have to It's tons and tons.
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It goes on for miles these buffets, and everybody's eating
like crazy because we have to finish this be for
today's lunch buffet, which begins in the two hours, that's why.
And then then we do this all day long with
these buffets in front of every studio up and down
the hall. It's all buffets. And then we do features
on why an obesity problem. So we got a lot
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to get to. Let's start with the great news. Mayor
elect Mom Donnie. You know you're gonna have to get
used to saying mayor Mom Donnie. But he's agreed to
and Jessica Tish's agreed to stay. She will be the
police commissioner under Mom Donnie. That's reassuring to a lot
of people. They've had a series of meetings. They had
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phone calls over the weekend, which is a good sign.
If you have all these meetings in person and then
it turns into phone calls, it means you've done the
hard stuff. You got that out of the way, and
the phone calls he usually just follow up. So she
will stay on as the police commissioner. Now she made
some agreements with him. She's not gonna just stay on,
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you know, good faith. They're gonna have to. He's gonna
have to actually agree to stuff. So he's agreed to
basically her alone. This is a key thing. He's got
these crazy programs with his social workers taken over instead
of police. They've made an agreement that the police department
will stay the police department. She will run that. Whatever
silly stuff he wants to do with the social workers,
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that'll be separate. It'll be a department of Community safety
that he will run. They will focus with the social
workers on the homeless and mentally ill. They'll just deal
with that. They'll leave the police department alone. The police
department will deal with actual crime. That's one agreement they've made.
I don't know all the others, but they've agreed on
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a lot of stuff. So she will stay. That's very important.
It's very very good news. Jessica Tish will stay on. Now,
some people say, well, we don't know, it might just
be a couple of months. You might just stay and
then leaving three I don't think so, you know, she's
not going to do that. She would either stay or leave.
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If she's staying, it's because they read on the right stuff.
She's got good, solid agreements with him. If she's staying,
it's going to be for a while. It'll be Remember,
police commissioners generally serve a very long time, you know.
Not everybody's Ray Kelly. He was the greatest police commissioner
in history. So that was like, I think, eighteen years.
But he's Babe Ruth. That's not normal. But normally a
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police commissioner, a good police commissioner stays a few years.
It's not one year, it's a number of years, four years,
three years, four years, five years, something like that. It
was only under Eric Adams we had the police Commissioner
of the month. How many do we have under Adams?
I mean, I don't think those Jeopardy guys could even
get that name. All the Eric Adams police commissioners. It's
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not easy. Let me think he shot suwell m Who
is the McDermott Dermott Dermot Shay. That's another one. O'Neill.
What was O'Neill's first name, James O'Neill. That's three. Oh,
Eddie Caban that's four. Who is the guy that was
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there briefly? Very nice guy was his name? Donnelly? He
was just there temporarily. He came in for a few months,
but a very good guy. Donnelly. That's five. And Jessica Tish.
That's six, six police commissioners in four years. It's embarrassing,
it's awful. So I think if she's agreed to stay,
it's gonna be for a while. Now. That's the most
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important thing about mom. Donnie whatever nonsense, crazy stuff he
wants to do. Fine, But as long as the streets
are safe, that kind of fixes everything. Safe streets you
pretty much help every situation. If the streets are safe,
businesses flourish, if the streets are safe, tourists keep coming here.
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That's very important for our economy. So he's Jessica Tish
will stay. That's important. Outside of that, he's gonna have
all these all the crazy people he's appointed, they're all
from the Deblasio administration, the same exact deputy mayors, first
deputy mayor. They're all from the Blasio administration. So you'll
basically get a repeat of that. It wasn't bad, and
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we got through it. We got through eight years of that.
We'll get through four years of Mom Donnie. It might
only be one year. You know, you're going to get
a new governor, probably a year from now, and that
governor can remove the mayor. They have the power to
remove the mayor. It's happened before FDR removed Jimmy Walker
the mayor. So that's good news. Now. The only bad
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part of this Tish thing, Mam Donnie does not want
Ice coming in here arresting illegals, and many of these
illegals are the worst criminals, So you want him arrested
and taken out here. Jessica Tish may have agreed with
him not to cooperate with ice. That's I don't know,
but that's the only problem. Hocal apparently is recruited a
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number of big Wall Street exec top Wall Street names,
big business guys, people that know Trump, and she's put
together of this group. She wants them to go to
Donald Trump and convince him to not send the National
Guardian to protect people. Now, if Jessica Tish is here
and doing a good job, there'd be no reason to
send the National Guard in. But if there is a problem,
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of course you'd want him to send the National guard.
Why would you turn away anything that's going to give
you a public safety Why would you turn away any
law enforcement, public safety anything. And also bear in mind,
you remember a few years ago when there was the
crime was getting out of control. What did Kathy Hokeel do.
Nobody remembers this. She sent the National Guard in. Remember
she put him in all the subways, So she sent
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the National Guarden. She thought it was a good thing
to do. But that's the hypocrisy. Democrats are famous for
President Trump meeting with the Saudi Prince yesterday. Saudi leaders,
a lot of people didn't like this. You know, you
don't want to have two cozy relationship between a president
and the Saudis, and they looked like reporters were asking
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about the Trump organization has all kinds of business interests
in Saudi Arabia. They're building hotels and apartments and this
looks pretty sleazy, but he pointed out they've been doing
that anyway, long before he was president. They were building
over there, and they're building all over the world. In fact,
the amount of building they're doing in Saudi Arabia is
a lot less than they're doing in Europe or anywhere else. Hey,
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the greatest moment was Trump and this ABC reporter. You know,
it's funny. ABC News. ABC the network attacks Trump twenty
four to seven for ten years. They call them every
name in the world. They insult them with everything he'm
insult them with. All they do is attack and insult
Donald Trump twenty four to seven for ten years without
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it never stops. If he insults him once, it's an
international incident all of a sudden, ABC News is the
worst thing that's ever happened. But this is yesterday. They
got the Saudi crown prints. They're in the Oval Office.
They've made some agreements to help the US, to help
our businesses and a lot of big good business leaders
have flown in, Tim Cook of Apple, all these big
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tech guys everything. They're all there. Elon Musk came back
to the White House for this. It's very important, and
they're trying to talk about what they're going to do
together and hopefully they make some kind of an agreement
over protecting Israel and all of that. So it's all
good stuff. But the ABC reporter can't stop. She's asking
about remember the guy that was killed, Koshogi, and she's
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asking about Epstein. This is in the middle of this
positive thing. So Trump gets mad, but this is great.
He really tells her off. I love listening to this.
Take a listen. That will fight it out.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
For Congress to release the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Why not just do it now?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with a man
who's highly respected asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just
a terrible question. And you could even ask that same
exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you over
(09:05):
at ABC. You're gonna psych it. You're a terrible person
and a terrible reporter. As far as the Epstein Files is,
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
him out of my club many years ago because I
thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I
would turn out to be right. But you know who
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does have? Bill Clinton? Larry Somemmers, who ran Harvard, was
with him every single night, every single weekend. They lived together.
They went to his island many times. I never did
Andrew Weissman here. All these guys were friends of his.
You don't even talk about those people. You just keep
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going on the Epstein files. And what the Epstein is
is a Democrat hoax to try and get me not
to be able to talk about the twenty one trillion
dollars that I talked about today. It's a hoax.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I just got a little report and I put it
in my pocket. Of all the money that he's given
to Democrats, he gave me none, zero, no money to me,
but he gave money to democrats. And people are wise
to your hoax. And ABC's your company, your crappy company
is one of the perpetrators.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
And I'll tell you something.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'll tell you something.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I think the license should be taken away from ABC
because your news is so fake and is so wrong,
and we have a great commissioner, a chairman who should
look at that, because I think when you come in
and when you're ninety seven percent negative to Trump and
then Trump wins the election in a landslide, that means
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obviously your news is not credible and you're not credible
as a reporter. So I've answered your question. You should
go and look at the Democrats who received money from Epstein,
who spent their time. Larry Summers was with them all
the time, that creep of the fun. This guy was
with him all the time. What's his name? Read Hoffman.
(11:05):
I don't know read Hoffman, but I know he spends
a lot of money in the radical left. Read Hoffman,
in my opinion, should be under investigation. He's a sleevesbag
and those are the people, but they don't get any press,
they don't get any news. And you're not after the
radical left because you're a radical left network. But I
think the way you ask a question, with the anger
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and the meanness is terrible.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You ought to go back and learn how to be
a reporter no more. So that's pretty good. But let's
break that down. Now, he threatens the licenses of ABC.
You're not supposed to do that. But if they are
broadcasting false information and distorting the news, and they have
been caught doing that, remember the George Stephanoppolis false accusations,
and the ABC had to pay Trump fifteen million quietly
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and not so quietly to settle it. So you're not
supposed to threaten their license, but if they are distorting
the news, you are supposed to take the license away.
And let's read how it's an interesting guy, this guy
reid hoffin this techzillionaire. He funds a lot of stuff.
He funded the Egen Carroll lawsuit against Trump, which will
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nobody believes that most people think is just total hoax,
But he funded that. God are all the best lawyers.
But it's a good question, he brings up if he
has nothing to do with Epstein for twenty years, he
hasn't the twenty one years, he has nothing to do
with Epstein, no kindection. A million years ago in two
thousand and four, he found out about Epstein, and the
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young girls threw him out of mar A Lago, banned
him from the club, there's a million witnesses to this,
people that work there, people that were members there, so
everybody knew about it back then. I knew about it
because he's one of the people that warned me years ago,
twenty years ago, stay the hell away from Epstein, bad guy.
Except for twenty one years he stayed away from him
while Democrats got closer and closer and closer to Epstein.
(12:53):
And he's right, why aren't they, Why aren't they outside
of Bill Clinton's house demanding some answers? Or Larry Summers?
He was the former Treasury secretary to Obama Clinton. He
was an advisor and economic advisor to Joe Biden during
this recent presidency, and president of Harvard. Now, why aren't they?
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Why aren't they bothering Larry Summers and making him explain this? Now,
Summers put out statements saying he's ashamed of his close
relationship with Epstein, and apparently Summer's cheating on his wife
like crazy and using Epstein as his dating coach. You
can see it in the emails and texts. He's now
resigned from every board he's on, He's resigned from everything,
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still works for Harvard, but and it turns out that
Epstein over these last twenty years has been a major
Democratic donor. Hasn't given a penny to Trump, But major
Democratic donor. If they hate this guy so much, why
are they taking his money? Why are they letting him
from their campaigns? It's a very good question, you know,
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when these files come out. First of all, there's not
that much in the fire. The Epstein files don't have
all the juicy stuff in him. The juicy stuff is
in the texts and emails, and those are coming from
the Epstein estate. But Trump asked some good questions, why
why aren't they going after these people? And this current
Democratic congresswoman what's her name? Plasket? Stacey Plaskett very close
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to Epstein, and while she's in the hearings grilling Michael Cohen,
she's texting back and forth with Epstein during the hearings
to get his advice on what to say next and
what So, how come reporters never bother her? Somebody did
ask the Stacey Plasket Well, oh no, it was Caitlin Collins.
(14:43):
She was on CNN. So she said to Hakim Jeffreys,
how come you're not mad at Stacey Plaskett for being
so close to Epstein. They're texting back and forth during
the hearings on Trump, and Epstein says, well, she has
not violated any law. Okay, it's not illegal, but it's
certainly inappropriate. It's not illegal to go to Epstein's house
(15:06):
and hang out with him, but it's totally inappropriate. You know,
George Stephanopolis having dinner with Epstein at his house, Katie
Couric having dinner with Epstein at his house. Why aren't
more people asking them about all this? Trump has nothing
to do with Epstein. I love Good Day in New York.
It's a great shows on Channel five every morning. And
they got this political guy that does the political pieces.
(15:28):
His name is Robert Moses. He's a cute guy. I
like him, but he's the most slanted partisan. So when
Trump said he had nothing to do with Epstein.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw
him out of my club many years ago because I
thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I
would turn out to be right.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So when Robert Moses does the story with this clip,
he actually said President Trump tried to claim that he
had nothing to do with Epstein about biased language. He
tried to claim he did. This is all well known
to people. Again, there are a million witnesses to be
They never tell you this part of it. He tried
to claim, you could easily find a dozen witnesses right
(16:12):
now that know about how this did happen twenty one
years ago. Threw him the hell out of mar Alago.
Never spoke to him again. Anyway. We'll get back to Epstein,
We'll get back to Mom, Donnie. Lots more to get to.
We'll get to Hochel and more coming up. We'll take
some calls next. Eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten is the number, eight hundred three two one
(16:33):
zero seven ten. Yeah, more marks alone on sevent ten.
Listen to that. I guess I have to just accept it.
It's the holiday season. Like I think, it's still the
end of summer, it's still early fall. I guess I
have to accept it's Thanksgiving, It's Christmas season out in
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the hall, this Christmas trees, this Christmas music, got a
Christmas buffet. I just have to accept it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I know that's go to stake some calls. Let's go
to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing, Good.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, that SoundBite you played from the
press conference is really underscores the problem that Trump has
not only with the media, but with the Republican Party,
who just cower every time they have a chance to
get somebody's you know.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Watch and advice, they fall back on, well, it's not
technically illegal, so they won't censure that congress woman who's
texting with Epstein during the during the hearings, you know,
because it wasn't technically illegal.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
And meanwhile they then.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
They fall back on, well, Trump should release everything. But
you know, if Trump releases all this Epstein stuff, they'll
drag him in front of the court and they say
he jeopardized the lives of the accused and the and
the victims, and then that would become a UNO watch show.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It's calling.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, a bigger problem is once he releases everything, they'll
claim it's not everything. And you may have I've seen
these Jeffrey Eckstein victims. It's about a dozen women holding
this press conference. The Democratic consultants have got a hold
of these women staging these press conferences where they go
on and on and on. But you'll notice there's a
dozen victims. Not one of them not one of them
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has ever seen Donald Trump or mentioned Donald Trump. Or
that's the problem with this Epstein stuff. It's going to
implicate some Democrats. Larry Summers has already had his public
life destroyed by the handful of texts and emails that
came out. Wait till it all comes out, You're going
to see a lot of major Democrats, their donors, their cabinet,
a lot of these people are going to be ruined
(18:39):
when this stuff comes out. Let's go to Lou and
Queen's Lou, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hey, Mark, you said it, be careful about opening up
Pandora's box. That's what this is going to turn into.
But I wanted to draw your attention to a fascinating
story in the Internal.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well we'll be the judge of that. If it's in
the Wall Street Journal, how fascinating can it be. That's
usually that thing. That paper has news from like three
weeks ago all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, this is all news. It's about during the show
of Iran. I didn't know it. The Israelis and the
Iranians were working together to put together their whole water system,
you know, their water supply and everything else, and it
was working perfectly.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Of course, the Iatola came to power, the Iranian engineers
along with the Israelis all went to Israel.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, they're having a big water crisis in Iran. In fact,
it's so bad they to believe they may have to
evacuate Iran. They've already moved people into concentrated areas where
they'd still have some water. But there's a tremendous water
shortage occurring in Iran. I said, this is what I
mean about the Wall Street Journal. This is this story
(19:51):
from two weeks ago. That's just in there. Now, let's
go to Rob in Franklin Square. Rob, how you doing hy?
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Good morning Markia. You know, I don't think it was
a good call for the President to have that press
conference with with the Crown Prince, with the because uh,
you know, you know, with this couple building and the
death of Kosholgi, he should have known that that they
were gonna he was gonna be asked questions about him.
You know, maybe he's been better off not having uh
you know.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well that's taken the easy way. In the smart way.
He never does that. He likes to whatever the toughest
way to do it is. That's the way he always
likes to do it. Yeah. No, he never hides from
anything or anybody. Probably, you know, if you get somebody
who's out of line like that, you should probably just
ban them for two weeks, put them in the penalty box,
like no ABC News allowed in the White House for
(20:38):
two weeks. Just try that. Maybe they'll learn how to
behave a little better. Let's go to Joe in Long Island.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Joe, how you doing, Hey, Mark, You're the best as always.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Just two quick things.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I think I've heard that Trump was actually an FBI
in forman in two thousand and nine against EV's team.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And no, no, no, no, not true. Not true.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Yeah, and then but he actual he did give them
some information.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not true. You saw that on some website, right, not true? Okay,
not true the FBI of two thousand and nine. That
was Camian Company and not big Trump fans. Yeah. Now,
Trump broke up with him twenty one years ago, had
nothing to do with him since. But he was very
close to Democrats. Now he was. I didn't know him
that well. I don't know what his politics were, but
he was in the middle of the Upper East Side
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of Manhattan and the circles he traveled in It was
mostly Democrats in those circles. Had there been more Republicans around,
well maybe he would have known more Republicans. But you know,
when you're trying to immerse yourself in the world of
politics in New York City, you're gonna end up knowing
a lot more Democrats than Republicans. Hey, when we come back,
I want to talk to this guy. He's an assemblyman
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from New York actually from Oyster Bay. Jake Blumenkrantz. He
served with Mom Donnie in the Assembly. He's a Republican,
but you know, he can give us some insight into
Mam Donnie and maybe he can explain to us what
the hell's going on with this socialism and Mom Donnie.
This could be interesting. We'll get to this next on
seven to ten WR.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Marximo on sevent ten WR.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Hey, Jake blumen Krantz, very popular assemblyman State Assembly. He's
from Oyster Bay. You might have seen a lot of
him on television and everywhere lately, served with Mamdani. Can
give us some insight into that whole phenomenon. And he's
with us right now. Jake blumin Krantz, how you doing good?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Hey. Also, you're a young guy. How old are you?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I am twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Twenty nine, and you're in the State Assembly. Mamdannie is
thirty four. We're seeing more and more of this. What
is this new phenomenon of all these very young public servants.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Look, I think when you see issues go unaddressed by
establishment candidates on either side of the aisles, as a
young person, you got to step in and you got
to say this isn't right. We have solutions, we have answers,
and in reality my answers and may Or Elect mondonni'sncaers
are different. But I think that the sentiment that things
need to change is the same.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, but we're used to these Sheldon Silver, Chuck Schumer,
old men with the glasses all flogged up kind of
people in the government. But it's good to see. Hey,
tell us about Mandannie. You served with Mam Donnie. What
did you think of him back then? I do.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
He's been an assemblyment with me since I started. Interesting character.
I think what I'd say to anyone who asked me
that question is he means what he says, and he
says what he means. He's an ideological guy, and he
believes a lot of the rhetoric that he Espouses' unfortunate
as a Jewish legislator to see someone like him rise
so prominently because he introduced legislation like not on My Dime,
(23:44):
which would effectively empower the AG's office to hurt Jewish
charities and not for profits for supporting Israel, among many
other very dangerous pieces of legislation. Yeah, in a new
place of power, we're gonna have to see what he's
gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, you were two young guys up in all being
in the Assembly. Did you have any a lot of
personal interaction with him.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Yeah, we did interact quite a bit, and I'd say
he's a very cordial person. But at the end of
the day, my concern with him is his policy proposals
and his incorrect solutions to the correct problems. We do
have a problem with affordability, but I don't think the free, free,
free parade is one that is either effective or going
(24:24):
to solve the problems he hopes to solve.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You might get some naive voters, but Mom, Donnie, as
bad as he is, seems like a very high IQ
sort of a guy. Why wouldn't a guy like that
know the history of socialism and its failures.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Well, he might be not necessarily looking at its failures,
but populism at large is what is a play in
his campaign. He's telling people what they want to hear.
They want to hear that your rent will go down.
They want to hear that groceries are too expensive. I
think he's tapping into the affordability message in a way
that people appreciate. My problem with it is, you're right,
he is not paying attention to the rest of the
history of socialism. It's very easy to win O for
(25:01):
voters when you have a message like that, but it's
very hard to govern.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, Jake Blumenkrantz, you're an assemblyman. You're a Republican up
there in Albany, in the Assembly with very few Republicans
up there. How does it feel? How tough is it
being a Republican in that legislature.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
It's always an uphill battle because they have a supermajority,
a veto proof supermajority right now and at the end
of the day, even if the governor doesn't feel compelled
to pass many of his agenda points, if he manages
to convince enough of our colleagues in the Assembly and
Senate to do what he wants to do. Her hands
will be tied, and that'll be a big question for
her as she runs for reelection this year.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah. Hey, but this socialism, this Mondanni, it's not just him,
there's a bunch of them all over the country. What
is this socialism creeping into democratic politics?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
So the DSA is an organization, the Democratic Socialists of
America that continues to have a pernicious effect on the
Democratic Party. They are on the rise in New York State.
In many races in the city, we don't even run
Republican candidates because there's none a enough voters that and
there's not enough candidates that we have to run, which
allows them to take a hold and combat the Democrats
(26:07):
from the far left. And it's become a race left
with no finish line.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, all right, let me get back to we're talking
with Assemblyman Jake Blumenkrantz. You said Mandani means what he says.
Can we at least hope maybe it's he's a lot
of talk but not much action, And maybe it won't
be as bad as we think.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I think with any mayor who has as as strong
proposals as mister Mandami does. There will be questions as
to what is possible and what is impossible, and I
think that comes with participation from the state legislature. Let's
see if there are commer heads up north in Albany
than there are in the city, and that would determine
whether or not he's able to really fulfill much of his
promises or not.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah. Now he's appointed his first deputy mayor. It's a
guy named Dean Fulahan, who was Deblasio's first deputy mayor.
But this is problem with this fullahand he apparently is
very plugged in up there in Albany, to the legend
and can get things done. Did you ever have any
dealings with them?
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I never, personally don't them. But I'd say that mister
Mondombe is going to play a really smart Albany game,
and that's a really dangerous thing for New Yorkers and
for many who are concerned that his policies are detrimental
to us and the problems that he hopes to solve.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
All right, well, you're not exactly cheering this up, but
that's okay. We want you to be honest.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I don't mean to paint a bleak picture. But I
do think that we as Republicans, we need to win
on the battlefield of ideas with new ideas. We can't
just say no, his policies are bad. We need to
truly propose and try it and act real change for
the sake of affordability. People are struggling out there. People
can't afford their groceries. We do need to come up
(27:42):
with the proposals that work and fight against ones that don't.
But at the end of the day, if we don't
have new messaging and new ideas and new voices coming
into the fray, it'll be a difficult task.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
But you look at this affordability crisis across America. It
seems to always be in the blue cities, and the
Democrat solutions usually lead to this crisis. So how do
you message that, How do you make that clear that
they pretty much caused.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
You have to be you have to be tactful, and
you have to realize that sometimes even in urban areas,
the logic can prevail. Mayor Bloomberg Grant as a Republican
who was a fiscal conservative who wanted to rain in
some of the spending to be a prolific builder and
we saw that, and we saw the city in sort
of a golden age, and it's important we want to
(28:28):
try and focus on bringing ourselves back to those times
and bring ourselves back to the ideas of safety and
affordability as paramount.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah. Hey, it tell us about serving in the Assembly.
How is that that? Is it full time when you're
an assemblyman or is it a part time thing? You're
not there every day.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
We're up there for about six months a year, and
it comes down to making sure that our budget priorities
are in place and making sure we're getting what we
need for our communities. And we work closely in a
bipartisan way to do that when we can as part
of the minority caucus. But we have, we still managed
to get some great accomplishments done that.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
We're just fighting the good fight, all right, Well, good stuff.
And you're an Oyster Bay right, I love Oyster Bay,
great town.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yes, beautiful Long Island absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, all right, well, good luck, keep up the good fight.
You're one of the few Republicans up there in all
beneath Jake bloom And Grants, thanks for being.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
With us, Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
All right, take care, all right, that that wasn't the
most encouraging thing. But way we want him to be honest,
you know, I keep I want to think it, Mom,
Donnie's going to be like the Blasio who was bad.
But it wasn't as bad as we thought it might be.
Because remember the good thing about the Blasio. Well here's
the only difference. The good thing about the Blasi he
(29:42):
just never showed up for work. Remember he would go
to the gym. He'd wake up like nine in the morning,
go to the gym till noon. Then he went to
that coffee place in Brooklyn, hang out there, cho up
in city Hall about three o'clock, take a nap, wake
up and leave and go home. It was about his
whole day. The only problem with this, mom, younger, more
energetic guy, he might actually be doing stuff all day
(30:05):
and night.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The good news is he's never had a job in
his life. He's never been an executive, he's never been
a manager, So that hopefully means he won't know how
to execute anything or get anything actually done. The bad
news is he's got all these exta Blasio people running
city Hall, first deputy mayor dean fullhand. These guys actually
(30:26):
know how to execute. So anyway, the good news is
Jessica Tish will stay as police commissioner. We're assuming that
they had a number of conversations. We're assuming she wouldn't
have agreed if this is just going to be a
couple of months, So you can probably assume she'll be
there for at least a year or two or three.
So that's the good news. Anyway, Buck and Clay are
coming up at noon. You don't want to miss them
(30:48):
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Set another for Mark's podcast to hear him anytime now
back to Mark Simone on WOR.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Hey, you know it's funny. They announced that today is
the first gridlock alert day of the season. Gridlock alert day,
what was yesterday? What was the day before? It's goodlock
every day, but for some reason, gridlock alert day today.
Just bear that in mind. Hey, we'll be back in
the next hour. We got a lot to get to.
We'll get to the NFL's latest scheme, and we'll get
back to Mom Donnie, and we'll get to there's some
(31:41):
more Epstein stuff to delve into. We'll get to all
of that. Don't forget. I'm here every day ten to noon,
but also you could listen anytime day or night. Just
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