October 23, 2025 • 31 mins
Andrew Cuomo outperformed in last night's NYC mayoral debate, with all candidates exchanging tough challenges. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. Health insurance premiums are at risk of rising if a solution isn't resolved in the government shutdown. The stock market is at an all-time high.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now on the Voice of New York Kates Mark Simone
show on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, it was quite a mare old debate last night.
We will get to that. We'll go over in great detail.
We'll get to the latest meltdown from the Democrats. The
trumpt derangement syndrome has them going nuts over the White
House ballroom. This is but the weirdest, most bizarre meltdown
they've had so far. We'll get to Ice in New York,
(00:32):
and we'll get to Robert de Niro and a whole
lot more coming up. Last night's debate was much better
than the first debate. It was New York one, which
most people don't see, and it was Eron Lewis's the
most biased, the left wing guy in the world. Everybody
thinking he should have accused himself, but he was good,
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He behaved himself and he was better than those Channel
four moderators. He let people talk, so good job. And
then the other one was a de Brian Lear's, very
very left wing sort of guys doing this, but they
were good, they behaved themselves and it was a well
done debate. Now who won the debate, Well, Curtis was
the best there was no question about that. If he
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just went on content, Curtis clearly way ahead of him.
But but a lot of people think Como won the
debate because he's usually terrible in debates. He's not a
good debater, and he stinks in these debates. In the
first two debates he had with Mom Donnie, the primary debates,
he was just awful. But last night he surprised everybody.
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Was pretty good in the debate. He wasn't as good
as Curtis on content, but in style and confidence, he's
learning to talk a little faster. Last night he surprised everybody,
and some analysts actually think he won, even though Curtis
was better and content wise, he won by not stinking,
by actually holding his own own with Mom Donnie. Curtis
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had the best lines in the debate.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I get a good belly laughs. All right, I'll keep practice.
I get a good belly laugh. Every time I hear
you say free fair in the subways. Half the people
don't pay you anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
How about fair enhorcement.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now, the problem with these debates, it's three people. If
it were two debates, you know, you think back to
Hillary and Trump, You think back to the one debate
that absolutely turned a race around that was Reagan against Carter.
Reagan was on track to lose. He just wiped out
Carter in that debate. And it was but the key
to that was it was two people. It was one
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on one. When you put three people in there, it
changes the whole mix. And the moderators were very careful
to try to keep the spotlight off Curtis. They focused
on Cuomo. They focused on Mom Donnie as if they
were the two major party candidates. Remember it's Cuomo who's
the third party candidate. It's Sliwa who's the major party candidate.
He's the Republican candidate. Mom Downey's the Democratic candidate. Should
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have been the two of them head to head. They
put Cuomo in even though he's a third party candidate,
because he's high in the polls. But it kind of
screws up the debate for Curtis. You don't get it.
They just tried not to give him too much time.
But every time they went to him, he was great
content wise, position wise, issues wise, most voters would agree
with Curtis, so on content he won. But Cuomo surprised everybody,
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but not being as bad as he usually is in debates.
He's more a Curtis.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I've taken this subway almost every day of my life
since I was five. The worst time was the summer
of twenty seventeen, the summer of hell.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Angewel Cuomo, when you were running.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
The subway, says, stuffs ahead of the I don't trust
you with anything.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well that's a good point. I don't know how much
that registered with everybody. But when Cuomo was governor, the
governor runs the subways. The MTA is controlled by the governor.
It's his chairman. He has the most seats on the board.
And twenty seventeen Cuomo screwed up the subways. I don't
know if you remember that, but all the subways were
late trains can't It was real mess. The reason for
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that is he was trying to score political points with
the subway by putting all the money into new cars,
new trains. Remember you would depose with the look at
this new train car, state of the art car. What
He completely screwed up the subway system by using it
as a piggy bank to take money out of there.
So they didn't have enough money, and it got so bad,
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and the outcry was so huge. He had a beg
Joe Loader to come back. The old MTA commissioner, who's
the best guy at fixing the subways. He came back
right away and I talked to him privately about it,
and he told me the real problem when you drain
the money out of there, use it as a piggy
bank for other projects. They're not spending the money where
it needs to be spent. You don't want to spend
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it on new subway cars. It's not what you need.
Most important thing, pumps, switches, fans, the things that make
the trains run, the little stuff. So Loda put that
all back. It took a few months, but he got
the subways back to normal. But Cuomo did screw it
up back then. He made a lot of disastrous moves
as governor. That's the problem now. The opening of the debate
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was great, Mam Donnie, really, Mam Donnie. As summer argument
didn't have a great night because he had to be
evasive on a lot of things, some of his more
controversial stuff. So he was evasive a lot through the debate.
But he's slick, and he's a fast talker, and me,
you talk really fast. People might not notice how evasive
you are. But he really went after Cuomo.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Andrew Cuomo will spend much of tonight attacking me.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
He is a.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Desperate man, lashing out because he knows that the one
thing he's always cared about, power is now slipping away
from him.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well yeah, If he doesn't win this, I don't know
where he goes next. Of course, they kept hitting Mam
Donnie on experience.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I did see this.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
You have never had a job, You've never accomplished anything.
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or
qualify k.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
For eight and a half million lives.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
You don't know how to run a government, you don't
know how to handle an emergency.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
The issue is that we have all experienced your experience.
The issue is that we experienced you take me five
million dollar book deal while you sent seniors to their
deaths and nursing homes.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, that's the problem with Cuomo's argument. He was good
last night. But when you say, you know, you gotta
have experience, what if there's a health crisis, Well, we
had one of with Cuomo and he was terrible. He
was awful. He killed people in the nursing homes, and
you know, when it comes to crime. He really screwed
up our criminal system with his no bail, no jail
and all that stuffy. But he's right about mom Donnie.
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We've never ever ever elected somebody who's twelve years old,
only been a citizen five minutes, never had a job.
It's unheard of. As Curtis said last night.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Sure on your resume could fit on a cocktail napkin,
and Andrew your failures could fill a public school library
in New York City.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's a good point. But it was quite a debate.
Trump was an issue for somehow in this debate.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I will fight him every single step of the way.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He has no respect for him.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
He thinks he's a kid, and he's gonna knock him
on his tookis ye.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So, but Curtis got very emotional at some point. You know,
Mamdanie obviously would stink on crime. We saw Cuomo was
really bad on crime as governor, the no bail, no jail,
the closing the prisons, the taking away the qualified immunity
from cops. So Curtis got very emotional there.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So how can both of you look at me? I
almost launched my oldest son to gang violence. And the
perpetrators went to family court and got a little pet
on the wrist and was sent home to do it
again and again.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah. I mean, it's a great moments in that debate.
If you haven't seen it, it's on YouTube, you can
you can go watch it. There as more on Trump,
and we.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
First just heard from the Republican candidate for mayor, and
then we heard from Donald Trump's puppet himself, Andrew Cuomo.
You could turn on TV any day of the week
and you will hear Donald Trump share that his pick
for mayor is Andrew Cuomo. And he wants Andrew Cuomo
to be the mayor, not because it will be good
for New Yorkers, but because it will be good for him.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Now, Trump's not an Andrew Cuomo fan, but he just
doesn't like Curtis. He's never like Curtis. He doesn't like Curtis.
He's also remember he's far away. He's not here in
New York watching everything day and night. He's in Washington.
He's president. He's very busy, so he's not real up
close on this election. But he just thinks Cuomo's the
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better shot, and that's why he's been pushing Cuomo. And
when you see these guys out there like Bill Ackman
and these other billionaires. Bill Ackman's a good example. They're
all out there fighting for Cuomo. The reason is this
is Trump. Trump is using them to do this. Trump
is on the phone with guys like Bill Ackman day
and night. He's had them come down to Washington for lunch,
for dinner. He's pressuring them like crazy to get Curtis
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out of the race. Do everything they can, and they're
doing this. They're really going crazy trying to get Curtis out.
It's not because they care that much about the about Cuomo.
It's just they want to ingratiate themselves with Trump. They
need other stuff from Trump. So he's been really pushing them,
really pushing them for weeks now. From what I've heard
last night and the night before in conversations, he's starting
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to admit and in fact, earlier this week he started admitting,
I don't know if Cuomo's not a great candidate. I
don't know if Cuomo can do it. So he might
be easing the pressure on these guys, but we'll see again.
Cuomo had a good night last night. Good night. He
was strong in the debate.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
And I also know that the jobs we create in
the building of that housing should be good jobs as well.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Answer, what is your opinion?
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Job?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Come on, yes, what is your opinion?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Know?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So true may be a politician. They're pointing out what
I was about to question. My question to you was.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Do you support the three ballid amendment questions?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I have not yet taken a position on those ballot questions.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
What a shocker.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Now that was a problem a few times, several times
on a ballot issue or some issue, he just wouldn't
take a position. Now in New York you got things
like New York one or Channel four that they're the
most left wing, bias slanted. So the problem is they
won't be all over him. They should be following him
around demanding he said he needs to think about it.
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They should be demanding you think about it and give
him an answer. They should be all over the campaign
demanding an answer. But again they're very slanted. They won't
do it. Here's what he.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Says, that taking five years to build affordable housing is
the sign of an incompetent government. By his own words,
that means he must have led an incompetent government.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
The governor doesn't build housing in New York City, not
if it's you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It's a good point, you know, if the problem is
lack of housing, if the problem is affordability, well, Democrats
have been the whole place for fifteen years. They've been
controlling the legislature of the city Council, the mayor's office,
city Hall, the governors. They controlled everything. So if it's
such a crisis, get rid of them, get another party,
try somebody else.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
There are jurisdictions.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
The governor doesn't pick up trash, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Run the fire department.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That's what the mayor does. The mayor bills housing.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
The state allocates funding for localities, and I allocated more
funding for housing than any governor in the history of
the State of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, you know, but again he yells all this stuff.
But if that's the case, how come we have such
a crisis.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
You have never had a job, you've never accomplished anything.
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or
qualification for eight and a half million lives. You don't
know how to run a government, you don't know how
to handle an emergency, and you've literally never proposed a
bill on anything that you're now talking about in your campaign.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
All right, but so you hear that, Oh was good
last night. He had a good debate. He was very good.
Not like the slow talker from the first debates in
the primary, he just was awful against Mom Donnie. Mam
Donnie just wiped him out. But he was good last night.
He had a good night. So we'll see if that doesn't.
You know, one of the big problems with this race,
we haven't had any polling at all. You know, you
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see it sometimes in the news, you'll see some poll
it's just some junk pole, some college poll, some tiny
polling company, nobody ever heard of. These aren't These are
totally worthless. These polls. I wouldn't trust him for a second.
A couple of them done by Cuomo people disguised, you know,
as somebody else, but I wouldn't. So we have never
had any real polling in the last few weeks, and
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we've had no polling after the first debate or the
second debate, so we really don't know anything. Kind of
flying blind, So we'll see what happened. You know, what's
interesting all the people that are pushing Cuomo, you know,
the Bill Ackman gotta get Cuomo. We can't have done.
We got. They don't like Cuomo at all. You don't
think much of them. They don't think he'd be great.
It's just that they hate Mam Donnie. They just think
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Mom Donnie is so bad. We'll settle. We'll settle for Cuomo,
who you can't stand. And Cuomo was on the morning
show this morning here at w R. He was here
and he admitted to that. Litsten to him, talk to
Larry Mente. He actually admitted, nobody really likes him. They
just hate Mam Donnie Moore.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
If you're saying you will only vote for me because
you dislike Zoron Moore, it's not flattering.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, well there you go, no kidding. Anyway, we got.
We'll get back to the mirror debate. Well, we've got
lots to say about it. We'll get to that. We'll
get to we'll get to the ballroom meltdown. It's hysterical
this and it's a silly thing for Democrats. They're going
crazy over the ballroom. You know, they destroyed the East Wing.
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They're taking down part of the East Wing, but they'll
put it right back with a ballroom attached to it.
And I don't know why they're doing this because it's
not like the federal government building. And if the government
built it, this ballroom would take ten fifteen years. This
is Trump building it. He'll have it finished in four
or five months, and it will look magnificent. It looks
so beautiful that you'll sound nuts that you were complaining
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about it. You know, you know what's in the east wing.
You know, you saw they knocked down the wall and
half the east wing. You know what that was. You
know what's in the east wing? Nothing? Really. It does
have the first Lady's office in it, but that's two
three rooms. You know, you can move that to somewhere
else in the building very easily. But what's the big
stuff in the east wing. The biggest thing in there
is the calligraphy office. Seriously, it's a big, huge calligraphy center,
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and that's where they do the place cards for the
dinner and the invitations. So that's what got knocked out there.
But this is nothing. This construction nothing compared to what's
been done in the White House before nineteen forty eight.
Truman gutted the entire White House, literally gutted it. All
that was left was the exterior walls. They gutted the
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entire White House and rebuilt it. So but there's a
million Check out my Twitter. There's a picture up there
of like twelve different times, twelve different presidents where you
see massive wrecking balls and cranes tearing up parts of
the White House. Done all the time. But anyway, we'll
get back to that. We'll take some calls in a minute.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
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Speaker 2 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now back to the Mark Simon Show on woor Ah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well, let's take some calls. Let's go to Diane in Illinois. Diane,
how you doing.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
I'm doing good, Mark, good morning.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Hey.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
You know I was looking at the price tag that'll
bollow you his fa port three hundred and seventy six million,
and that's just basketball court. Trump is building a nine
hundred seat ballroom for three hundred million. What would Obama's
basketball court? What would that translate into money wise in
the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, No, Trump is always pointing that out when the
government builds a building like that new terminal at LaGuardia
twenty four billion private sector. If they had done it
eight hundred million. They just overspent. Like Trump said in
the they said how much would a wall cost on
the border, and he said whatever, he said one two billion,
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and he pointed to the Senator. He goes, twelve billion
if these guys did it. Yeah, Obama spent exactly three
hundred and eighty million to build a basketball court.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
And Trump dies, But I guess, but in my what
would three hundred and seventy six million translate into dollars
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Five, Probably four hundred and fifty million, So like half
a billion dollars to build a basketball court. Thanks for calling, Diane.
You know it's the same thing. This is all started
a million years ago with the woman rink, member of
the woman rank. The city was up till like twenty
five million. This is back in the eighties. That's like
one hundred million today. So and it went on for years,
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and Trump finally spoke out public. He said, it's just
a slab of concrete. It doesn't cost anything. He got
no fight with Koch, and Trump said, I'll build it
in a few weeks. For a few hundred thousand, I'll
pay for it. And then Kotch called his bluff and
he did it. That's the difference between government doing something
in the private sector. Let's go to Christine in Long Island. Christine,
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how you doing?
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But wait a minute, my market, I've listened to you
for decades.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh my god, Well, I hope you were taking time
out for meals and everything.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
My question is this and what has Turan Mandami's done
as an assemblyman? He was in for five years, I believe,
and months ago I heard that he posted one bill,
but I don't know if it ever passed.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No, he did nothing there. But that's not than usual
most of these assembly people. It's like part time work
for them. They show up once in a while, most
of them don't do it or anything.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
Voters pick this up.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Last month, a voter called in from Idaho sang, what
has this man done? Nobody talks about what has he
actually done?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, imagine if you had actual, actual media instead of biased,
corrupt media, they would be covering this constantly. Where are
you in Long Island.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
I'm in ROCKFLA.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, you're gonna vote for Bruce Blakeman I hope absolutely
all right. And Ann Donnelly's running for DA. Bruce Blakeman
the best county executive in America. Make sure you vote
for him. Let's go to Denise and Staten Island. Denise,
how you doing, holl good morning?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
More tell you good?
Speaker 11 (18:45):
I wanted to ask you if you could point.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Out that at last night's debate. First of all, I'm
a big supporter of Courteslila, and I will be early
voting for him Saturday morning. I'm on the South Shore
area of Staten Island. But I'd like you to point
out some time today if you could one point that
Curtis Sliema made last night and the room fell silent,
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and the.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Other two just that point.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
He's mentioned how billions were coming into New York are
being paid for legal immigrants. Well every day New York
citizens were sufferings financially.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Once he's made that point, everybody makes that point all
the time, all that money wasted on the illegals that
could have been taking care of New Yorkers. Let's go
to Mike in New Jersey. Mike, how you doing, Mark?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Good?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Good? I'll tell you the thing like this, Curtis is
probably the best carrying we've had in a very long time.
A man had spent decades of his life fighting crime.
You know, he volunteered to do that. And he also
said the homeless he dealt with a lot of crazy people. Yes,
he very dedicated self, was individual and he has these
articulate he has.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Ideas familiar, familiar with Curtis.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I get it. In the end of the day, they
want to blame Curtis. If God forbid, this guy's are
on Winds wins. This is a societal issue. There's not
Curtis leeless problems.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
No Curtis belongs in the race. Everything you said is correct.
If you want to blame somebody, blame Cuomo. What the
hell is he doing in this race? Why did he
even show up for this Curtis? Everything you just said
is correct. And Clomo's never even lived in New York City.
He's from the suburbs. You know, every mayor who's run
for mayor of New York lives in New York City.
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Is the first time we've ever had a mayor who
spent his entire adult life not living in New York City,
living in the suburbs. We've had mayors born out of town.
You know. Mike Bloomberg was from Massachusetts. David Dinkins grew
up in New Jersey, but they all lived in New
York City their entire adult life. One more real fast,
Let's go to Katie and Chappaqua.
Speaker 13 (20:49):
Katie, how you doing, Hi, Mark, I have a comment
about the debate, and then I have a question. So
I watched it online and you know, on the side
there's check comments and there it was really fun, I
mean almost There was lots and lots of support for
Curtis and mostly criticism for Cuomo and Mandani. And then
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I wanted to ask you, like, how in the world
could it be asking Curtis to drop out when he's
the only Republican and he's against two Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, well, you know, most people are not asking him
to be out. That Trump has recruited some of these
public figures, some billionaires like Bill Ackman to be all
over the airwaves telling Curtis to drop out. But if
you talk to actual voters, they don't want Curtis to
drop out. You can't. You can't have a major party
candidate dropout. They had Cuomo not been in the race,
it would have been a whole different story. Culomo was
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like a third party candidate who just showed up here
because he had nowhere else to go. But you got
to give him credit. He had a good debate last night.
He was strong in that debate last night. Hey, when
we come back, Steve Moore will be with us. We
hope we'll see.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I want to talk to him. A lot of big
economic things to talk. We'll get to that next on
seven to ten. Wor Welcome back to the Mark Simone
Show seven, Jen Woor. Well, Steve Moore, the great economists.
You should get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle. You
love it, of course, read all his columns. And he
runs the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and every day they
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It'll come right to your email. A lot of people
read this. Go to Unleash Prosperity dot com. Steve Moore,
how you doing.
Speaker 14 (22:35):
Hey, Mark, you're doing well. Thanks for having me. What
a tumultuous week. The government is still shut down.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
I thought this would last a couple of days. It's
been several weeks now it's causing more and more disruption.
I don't know if you've been traveling at all, but
there's a you know, a lot of delays at the
airports and so on. So we got to get this
thing settled. But Republicans cannot cave in here. I mean,
we're trying to slice just a little bit of the
cost of our government, and the Democrats won't even allow it.
Two cents saving out of every dollar that we're spending,
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two cents out of every dollar.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
So if you listen to Chuck Schumer, it's healthcare premiums.
Everybody's going to die. I what is the truth about
this fight with the healthcare.
Speaker 14 (23:13):
Well, I think the real villain here. I mean, this
is a teachable lesson for all of us that remember
it was fifteen years ago that we passed Obamacare. In fact,
I was just looking on Fox News and they were
sapping up they showed a you know, a clip of
Obama signing the Obamacare law. Do you remember, Mark, what
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the name of the Obamacare.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Law was, the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 14 (23:39):
I mean, how ironic. I mean, all that's happened since
we pasked the quote Affordable Care Actors that healthcare gets
more and more and more expensive. Report the other day
that the average family is now paying thirty thousand dollars
a year what on health insurance because it's just so
expensive now and so and by the way, some of
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that is employed paid by their employers, but it's it's
a giant it's a giant tax on the American economy.
By the way, the insurance companies are one of.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
The villains here. They're in on this.
Speaker 14 (24:10):
They're all for expanding Obama Care subsidies because the money
goes right into their pockets. But what they're basically saying
is we want to make sure that people were not
even eligible for Medicare and Medicaid get the get the benefits.
Because you know, we're so we're so rich with cash
in Washington, we can be passing around free money. It's
really it's really quite outrageous. And we if we if
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the Republicans came in here, we might as well just say, Okay,
we're going to run two trillion dollar efforts from now
until forever.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, let me issu you something. You know, they announced
the terrorists. Everybody says that's going to crash the whole market.
They announce shutdown. It's going to crash the whole market.
Russian sanctions is going to crash the whole market. Market
is fine, it's setting new records all the time. Why
is that?
Speaker 14 (24:50):
This is that it is unbelievable. By the way, just
give you some context here. You know the forty let's see,
forty five years ago that Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Do you know what the Dow Jones Industrial average was
back then?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
There sixth though.
Speaker 14 (25:10):
Not even close, my friends, it was one thousand. What
to think about that, it was one thousand. You can
look it up, the Dows at one thousand.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Now here we are.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
Forty five years later, after the Reagan Revolution and the
Trump Revolution, and it is at forty forty six thousand
last time I checked. So we've seen the biggest period
of wealth creation in the history of civilization.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Here.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
It's an incredible success story of the American economy. And
we need to get more and more Americans invested in
the market because that's how you make Maybe you make
money is you save and you invest. But now we're
in a situation, as you said, remember Paul Krugman, all
these people when when a Trump was elected both in
twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four. Oh my god, Armageddon's coming.
(25:53):
We're all going to die. The sock market's going to crash.
It's going to be another, you know, another nineteen twenty
nine crash. Gee, where is it then? Because you're right,
the market, the stock market, the Dow Jones, the Nasdaq,
the S and P five hundred, and the Russell two
thousand are at all time highs. Thank you Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Wow. So these Wall Street guys, I guess they know
what they're doing. So that indicate that it's a very
very stable economy no matter what sanctions or whatever happens.
I start say thing, Emma, the fact that the stock
market is holding it, it just means that it's a
very rock solid, steady economy underneath everything.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
Well it is. I mean, look, the stock market is
very valatile, you know, and it could crash by two
thousand points from how you never know. But so I
don't want to get too carried away of the market.
But there is a lot of confidence in the American
economy right now, and I think that is a result
of the fact that all of this investment capital is
coming into the country because of Trump. You know, Trump
isn't attracting hundreds and hundreds of billions. He says trillions.
(26:56):
I don't know if it's trillions, but it's yeah. And
you know that's a lot of money. And if you
think all that money is coming to the American economy,
then of course what do you want to do. You
want to get in front of that. You want to
invest before that, right, yeah, and so you know that
that's what you need to do is be confident in
the American economy. Look, I think we need a new
(27:17):
FED chairman. You and I have talked about this because
we got a guy who doesn't know what he's doing
in jer own Powell. But how about this?
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Why is it that Larry Kudlow? Isn't it?
Speaker 14 (27:26):
No we need because then we lose this show? Yeah, yeah,
with you and I are regulars on them. By the way, Mark,
you always do a great job on that show. I
always enjoy watching you. And what are you on this week?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
By the way, you out to Actually I was just
on yesterday, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (27:41):
Yesterday, you got yesterday? Okay, this is yesterday. But anyway,
so what about Laugher? What about Steve Forbes. What about
somebody who actually knows something about the economy and knows
how to make because you know, we've had such a
volatile Why did we have twenty three percent increase in
prices under Biden? Well, partly because we spent so much money,
partly because we have a FED chairman who knows not
he doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, the other thing that causes a great economy.
We're doing very well as far as energy. We're improving
on our energy.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Oh my god, what a success story this is, I.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
Mean, our energy we are. I was just listening to
Chris Wright, who was a good friend of mine, by
the way. He's the new Energy Secretary doing a fantastic shop,
and he was making this point that we made in
the Hotline last week that the United States is now
producing more oil, gas and coal than any other time
in American history. So we're becoming an energy powerhouse again.
(28:36):
The problem is, Mark, if I may, You and I
are both old enough to remember the seventies and eighties
when Opek had at the blade at our neck and
they could throw the American economy into recession by you know,
increasing or decreasing the amount of oil they were producing.
So we were completely hostage to the Arab nations and
to you know, the OPEC countries, many of which are
(28:58):
not very favorable in the United States. Well, we how
did we get out of that crisis we started? You know,
we had the shale oil revolution, which made America the
number one produced oil and we broke the back of
the cartel. Now why do I say that, because now
we have a situation with minerals, precious minerals, the critical
minerals we need for our national defense, for our advanced manufacturing,
(29:19):
for our microchips. And guess where we're getting the minerals
from where? China? How crazy is that we have twelve
trillion dollars of mineral resources right below our feet in
the mountains of West Virginia and the mountains of the
Dakotas and then Utah and Colorado. We have to be
(29:44):
returning to a mining powerhouse, just as we were for
the you know, for the first one hundred and fifty
years of our country. So we we should be mined.
Just as Trump says, drill, baby drill, I say, mine,
baby mine.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I don't know that sounds like too much common sense,
that's right, exactly pretty.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
Much to do it. And we got a great interior
secretary and.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Doug Bergham, I love the guy.
Speaker 14 (30:07):
Why would we want? You know, by the way, there's
two countries I misspoke. There's two countries where we get
our minerals from now China, you know what.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
The other one is India Russia?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Russia. Oh even worse, Seeve, those are.
Speaker 14 (30:19):
Two friendly countries in the United States. How stupid is that?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Well?
Speaker 14 (30:23):
I think sometimes I think people in Washington take stupid
pills every morning. Oh you know what, we want them
to be dependent on us. We don't want to be
dependent on them.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well, Steve Moore, a lot of wisdom, a lot of
common sense. Hey, everybody, subscribe to his common sense, right,
it's a lot. Subscribe to the hotline. It is the
best daily briefing in analysis. Go to Unleash Prosperity dot com.
It's free. Just sign up for it, and of course
read Steve Moore's book, The Trump Economic Miracle watch them
all over television. Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Okay, Miles, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Talk to you, Sam, right, take care, hey, and don't
forget Buck and Clay. They do a very good show.
It's every day right here at noon, right after this show,
right after the noon news on seven ten WOR.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
This is the Mark Simon Show on seventen WR.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Well, let's take a break through the news, get caught
up on everything. Then in the next hour we'll go
over the mayor Old debate, We'll get to the ballroom
meltdown by the Left and more coming up on seven
to ten WOIR
Now on the Voice of New York Kates Mark Simone
show on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, it was quite a mare old debate last night.
We will get to that. We'll go over in great detail.
We'll get to the latest meltdown from the Democrats. The
trumpt derangement syndrome has them going nuts over the White
House ballroom. This is but the weirdest, most bizarre meltdown
they've had so far. We'll get to Ice in New York,
(00:32):
and we'll get to Robert de Niro and a whole
lot more coming up. Last night's debate was much better
than the first debate. It was New York one, which
most people don't see, and it was Eron Lewis's the
most biased, the left wing guy in the world. Everybody
thinking he should have accused himself, but he was good,
(00:54):
He behaved himself and he was better than those Channel
four moderators. He let people talk, so good job. And
then the other one was a de Brian Lear's, very
very left wing sort of guys doing this, but they
were good, they behaved themselves and it was a well
done debate. Now who won the debate, Well, Curtis was
the best there was no question about that. If he
(01:16):
just went on content, Curtis clearly way ahead of him.
But but a lot of people think Como won the
debate because he's usually terrible in debates. He's not a
good debater, and he stinks in these debates. In the
first two debates he had with Mom Donnie, the primary debates,
he was just awful. But last night he surprised everybody.
(01:39):
Was pretty good in the debate. He wasn't as good
as Curtis on content, but in style and confidence, he's
learning to talk a little faster. Last night he surprised everybody,
and some analysts actually think he won, even though Curtis
was better and content wise, he won by not stinking,
by actually holding his own own with Mom Donnie. Curtis
(02:03):
had the best lines in the debate.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I get a good belly laughs. All right, I'll keep practice.
I get a good belly laugh. Every time I hear
you say free fair in the subways. Half the people
don't pay you anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
How about fair enhorcement.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now, the problem with these debates, it's three people. If
it were two debates, you know, you think back to
Hillary and Trump, You think back to the one debate
that absolutely turned a race around that was Reagan against Carter.
Reagan was on track to lose. He just wiped out
Carter in that debate. And it was but the key
to that was it was two people. It was one
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on one. When you put three people in there, it
changes the whole mix. And the moderators were very careful
to try to keep the spotlight off Curtis. They focused
on Cuomo. They focused on Mom Donnie as if they
were the two major party candidates. Remember it's Cuomo who's
the third party candidate. It's Sliwa who's the major party candidate.
He's the Republican candidate. Mom Downey's the Democratic candidate. Should
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have been the two of them head to head. They
put Cuomo in even though he's a third party candidate,
because he's high in the polls. But it kind of
screws up the debate for Curtis. You don't get it.
They just tried not to give him too much time.
But every time they went to him, he was great
content wise, position wise, issues wise, most voters would agree
with Curtis, so on content he won. But Cuomo surprised everybody,
(03:28):
but not being as bad as he usually is in debates.
He's more a Curtis.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I've taken this subway almost every day of my life
since I was five. The worst time was the summer
of twenty seventeen, the summer of hell.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Angewel Cuomo, when you were running.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
The subway, says, stuffs ahead of the I don't trust
you with anything.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well that's a good point. I don't know how much
that registered with everybody. But when Cuomo was governor, the
governor runs the subways. The MTA is controlled by the governor.
It's his chairman. He has the most seats on the board.
And twenty seventeen Cuomo screwed up the subways. I don't
know if you remember that, but all the subways were
late trains can't It was real mess. The reason for
(04:10):
that is he was trying to score political points with
the subway by putting all the money into new cars,
new trains. Remember you would depose with the look at
this new train car, state of the art car. What
He completely screwed up the subway system by using it
as a piggy bank to take money out of there.
So they didn't have enough money, and it got so bad,
(04:32):
and the outcry was so huge. He had a beg
Joe Loader to come back. The old MTA commissioner, who's
the best guy at fixing the subways. He came back
right away and I talked to him privately about it,
and he told me the real problem when you drain
the money out of there, use it as a piggy
bank for other projects. They're not spending the money where
it needs to be spent. You don't want to spend
(04:53):
it on new subway cars. It's not what you need.
Most important thing, pumps, switches, fans, the things that make
the trains run, the little stuff. So Loda put that
all back. It took a few months, but he got
the subways back to normal. But Cuomo did screw it
up back then. He made a lot of disastrous moves
as governor. That's the problem now. The opening of the debate
(05:14):
was great, Mam Donnie, really, Mam Donnie. As summer argument
didn't have a great night because he had to be
evasive on a lot of things, some of his more
controversial stuff. So he was evasive a lot through the debate.
But he's slick, and he's a fast talker, and me,
you talk really fast. People might not notice how evasive
you are. But he really went after Cuomo.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Andrew Cuomo will spend much of tonight attacking me.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
He is a.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Desperate man, lashing out because he knows that the one
thing he's always cared about, power is now slipping away
from him.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well yeah, If he doesn't win this, I don't know
where he goes next. Of course, they kept hitting Mam
Donnie on experience.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I did see this.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
You have never had a job, You've never accomplished anything.
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or
qualify k.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
For eight and a half million lives.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
You don't know how to run a government, you don't
know how to handle an emergency.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
The issue is that we have all experienced your experience.
The issue is that we experienced you take me five
million dollar book deal while you sent seniors to their
deaths and nursing homes.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, that's the problem with Cuomo's argument. He was good
last night. But when you say, you know, you gotta
have experience, what if there's a health crisis, Well, we
had one of with Cuomo and he was terrible. He
was awful. He killed people in the nursing homes, and
you know, when it comes to crime. He really screwed
up our criminal system with his no bail, no jail
and all that stuffy. But he's right about mom Donnie.
(06:38):
We've never ever ever elected somebody who's twelve years old,
only been a citizen five minutes, never had a job.
It's unheard of. As Curtis said last night.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Sure on your resume could fit on a cocktail napkin,
and Andrew your failures could fill a public school library
in New York City.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's a good point. But it was quite a debate.
Trump was an issue for somehow in this debate.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I will fight him every single step of the way.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He has no respect for him.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
He thinks he's a kid, and he's gonna knock him
on his tookis ye.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So, but Curtis got very emotional at some point. You know,
Mamdanie obviously would stink on crime. We saw Cuomo was
really bad on crime as governor, the no bail, no jail,
the closing the prisons, the taking away the qualified immunity
from cops. So Curtis got very emotional there.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So how can both of you look at me? I
almost launched my oldest son to gang violence. And the
perpetrators went to family court and got a little pet
on the wrist and was sent home to do it
again and again.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah. I mean, it's a great moments in that debate.
If you haven't seen it, it's on YouTube, you can
you can go watch it. There as more on Trump,
and we.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
First just heard from the Republican candidate for mayor, and
then we heard from Donald Trump's puppet himself, Andrew Cuomo.
You could turn on TV any day of the week
and you will hear Donald Trump share that his pick
for mayor is Andrew Cuomo. And he wants Andrew Cuomo
to be the mayor, not because it will be good
for New Yorkers, but because it will be good for him.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Now, Trump's not an Andrew Cuomo fan, but he just
doesn't like Curtis. He's never like Curtis. He doesn't like Curtis.
He's also remember he's far away. He's not here in
New York watching everything day and night. He's in Washington.
He's president. He's very busy, so he's not real up
close on this election. But he just thinks Cuomo's the
(08:36):
better shot, and that's why he's been pushing Cuomo. And
when you see these guys out there like Bill Ackman
and these other billionaires. Bill Ackman's a good example. They're
all out there fighting for Cuomo. The reason is this
is Trump. Trump is using them to do this. Trump
is on the phone with guys like Bill Ackman day
and night. He's had them come down to Washington for lunch,
for dinner. He's pressuring them like crazy to get Curtis
(08:59):
out of the race. Do everything they can, and they're
doing this. They're really going crazy trying to get Curtis out.
It's not because they care that much about the about Cuomo.
It's just they want to ingratiate themselves with Trump. They
need other stuff from Trump. So he's been really pushing them,
really pushing them for weeks now. From what I've heard
last night and the night before in conversations, he's starting
(09:22):
to admit and in fact, earlier this week he started admitting,
I don't know if Cuomo's not a great candidate. I
don't know if Cuomo can do it. So he might
be easing the pressure on these guys, but we'll see again.
Cuomo had a good night last night. Good night. He
was strong in the debate.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
And I also know that the jobs we create in
the building of that housing should be good jobs as well.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Answer, what is your opinion?
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Job?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Come on, yes, what is your opinion?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (09:51):
Know?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So true may be a politician. They're pointing out what
I was about to question. My question to you was.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Do you support the three ballid amendment questions?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I have not yet taken a position on those ballot questions.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
What a shocker.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Now that was a problem a few times, several times
on a ballot issue or some issue, he just wouldn't
take a position. Now in New York you got things
like New York one or Channel four that they're the
most left wing, bias slanted. So the problem is they
won't be all over him. They should be following him
around demanding he said he needs to think about it.
(10:30):
They should be demanding you think about it and give
him an answer. They should be all over the campaign
demanding an answer. But again they're very slanted. They won't
do it. Here's what he.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Says, that taking five years to build affordable housing is
the sign of an incompetent government. By his own words,
that means he must have led an incompetent government.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
The governor doesn't build housing in New York City, not
if it's you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It's a good point, you know, if the problem is
lack of housing, if the problem is affordability, well, Democrats
have been the whole place for fifteen years. They've been
controlling the legislature of the city Council, the mayor's office,
city Hall, the governors. They controlled everything. So if it's
such a crisis, get rid of them, get another party,
try somebody else.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
There are jurisdictions.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
The governor doesn't pick up trash, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Run the fire department.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That's what the mayor does. The mayor bills housing.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
The state allocates funding for localities, and I allocated more
funding for housing than any governor in the history of
the State of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, you know, but again he yells all this stuff.
But if that's the case, how come we have such
a crisis.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
You have never had a job, you've never accomplished anything.
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or
qualification for eight and a half million lives. You don't
know how to run a government, you don't know how
to handle an emergency, and you've literally never proposed a
bill on anything that you're now talking about in your campaign.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
All right, but so you hear that, Oh was good
last night. He had a good debate. He was very good.
Not like the slow talker from the first debates in
the primary, he just was awful against Mom Donnie. Mam
Donnie just wiped him out. But he was good last night.
He had a good night. So we'll see if that doesn't.
You know, one of the big problems with this race,
we haven't had any polling at all. You know, you
(12:19):
see it sometimes in the news, you'll see some poll
it's just some junk pole, some college poll, some tiny
polling company, nobody ever heard of. These aren't These are
totally worthless. These polls. I wouldn't trust him for a second.
A couple of them done by Cuomo people disguised, you know,
as somebody else, but I wouldn't. So we have never
had any real polling in the last few weeks, and
(12:40):
we've had no polling after the first debate or the
second debate, so we really don't know anything. Kind of
flying blind, So we'll see what happened. You know, what's
interesting all the people that are pushing Cuomo, you know,
the Bill Ackman gotta get Cuomo. We can't have done.
We got. They don't like Cuomo at all. You don't
think much of them. They don't think he'd be great.
It's just that they hate Mam Donnie. They just think
(13:02):
Mom Donnie is so bad. We'll settle. We'll settle for Cuomo,
who you can't stand. And Cuomo was on the morning
show this morning here at w R. He was here
and he admitted to that. Litsten to him, talk to
Larry Mente. He actually admitted, nobody really likes him. They
just hate Mam Donnie Moore.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
If you're saying you will only vote for me because
you dislike Zoron Moore, it's not flattering.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, well there you go, no kidding. Anyway, we got.
We'll get back to the mirror debate. Well, we've got
lots to say about it. We'll get to that. We'll
get to we'll get to the ballroom meltdown. It's hysterical
this and it's a silly thing for Democrats. They're going
crazy over the ballroom. You know, they destroyed the East Wing.
(13:58):
They're taking down part of the East Wing, but they'll
put it right back with a ballroom attached to it.
And I don't know why they're doing this because it's
not like the federal government building. And if the government
built it, this ballroom would take ten fifteen years. This
is Trump building it. He'll have it finished in four
or five months, and it will look magnificent. It looks
so beautiful that you'll sound nuts that you were complaining
(14:21):
about it. You know, you know what's in the east wing.
You know, you saw they knocked down the wall and
half the east wing. You know what that was. You
know what's in the east wing? Nothing? Really. It does
have the first Lady's office in it, but that's two
three rooms. You know, you can move that to somewhere
else in the building very easily. But what's the big
stuff in the east wing. The biggest thing in there
is the calligraphy office. Seriously, it's a big, huge calligraphy center,
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and that's where they do the place cards for the
dinner and the invitations. So that's what got knocked out there.
But this is nothing. This construction nothing compared to what's
been done in the White House before nineteen forty eight.
Truman gutted the entire White House, literally gutted it. All
that was left was the exterior walls. They gutted the
(15:09):
entire White House and rebuilt it. So but there's a
million Check out my Twitter. There's a picture up there
of like twelve different times, twelve different presidents where you
see massive wrecking balls and cranes tearing up parts of
the White House. Done all the time. But anyway, we'll
get back to that. We'll take some calls in a minute.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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Speaker 1 (15:33):
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Now.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now back to the Mark Simon Show on woor Ah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well, let's take some calls. Let's go to Diane in Illinois. Diane,
how you doing.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
I'm doing good, Mark, good morning.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Hey.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
You know I was looking at the price tag that'll
bollow you his fa port three hundred and seventy six million,
and that's just basketball court. Trump is building a nine
hundred seat ballroom for three hundred million. What would Obama's
basketball court? What would that translate into money wise in
the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, No, Trump is always pointing that out when the
government builds a building like that new terminal at LaGuardia
twenty four billion private sector. If they had done it
eight hundred million. They just overspent. Like Trump said in
the they said how much would a wall cost on
the border, and he said whatever, he said one two billion,
(16:31):
and he pointed to the Senator. He goes, twelve billion
if these guys did it. Yeah, Obama spent exactly three
hundred and eighty million to build a basketball court.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
And Trump dies, But I guess, but in my what
would three hundred and seventy six million translate into dollars
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Five, Probably four hundred and fifty million, So like half
a billion dollars to build a basketball court. Thanks for calling, Diane.
You know it's the same thing. This is all started
a million years ago with the woman rink, member of
the woman rank. The city was up till like twenty
five million. This is back in the eighties. That's like
one hundred million today. So and it went on for years,
(17:08):
and Trump finally spoke out public. He said, it's just
a slab of concrete. It doesn't cost anything. He got
no fight with Koch, and Trump said, I'll build it
in a few weeks. For a few hundred thousand, I'll
pay for it. And then Kotch called his bluff and
he did it. That's the difference between government doing something
in the private sector. Let's go to Christine in Long Island. Christine,
(17:29):
how you doing?
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But wait a minute, my market, I've listened to you
for decades.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh my god, Well, I hope you were taking time
out for meals and everything.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
My question is this and what has Turan Mandami's done
as an assemblyman? He was in for five years, I believe,
and months ago I heard that he posted one bill,
but I don't know if it ever passed.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No, he did nothing there. But that's not than usual
most of these assembly people. It's like part time work
for them. They show up once in a while, most
of them don't do it or anything.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
Voters pick this up.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Last month, a voter called in from Idaho sang, what
has this man done? Nobody talks about what has he
actually done?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, imagine if you had actual, actual media instead of biased,
corrupt media, they would be covering this constantly. Where are
you in Long Island.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
I'm in ROCKFLA.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, you're gonna vote for Bruce Blakeman I hope absolutely
all right. And Ann Donnelly's running for DA. Bruce Blakeman
the best county executive in America. Make sure you vote
for him. Let's go to Denise and Staten Island. Denise,
how you doing, holl good morning?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
More tell you good?
Speaker 11 (18:45):
I wanted to ask you if you could point.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Out that at last night's debate. First of all, I'm
a big supporter of Courteslila, and I will be early
voting for him Saturday morning. I'm on the South Shore
area of Staten Island. But I'd like you to point
out some time today if you could one point that
Curtis Sliema made last night and the room fell silent,
(19:07):
and the.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Other two just that point.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
He's mentioned how billions were coming into New York are
being paid for legal immigrants. Well every day New York
citizens were sufferings financially.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Once he's made that point, everybody makes that point all
the time, all that money wasted on the illegals that
could have been taking care of New Yorkers. Let's go
to Mike in New Jersey. Mike, how you doing, Mark?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Good?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Good? I'll tell you the thing like this, Curtis is
probably the best carrying we've had in a very long time.
A man had spent decades of his life fighting crime.
You know, he volunteered to do that. And he also
said the homeless he dealt with a lot of crazy people. Yes,
he very dedicated self, was individual and he has these
articulate he has.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Ideas familiar, familiar with Curtis.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I get it. In the end of the day, they
want to blame Curtis. If God forbid, this guy's are
on Winds wins. This is a societal issue. There's not
Curtis leeless problems.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
No Curtis belongs in the race. Everything you said is correct.
If you want to blame somebody, blame Cuomo. What the
hell is he doing in this race? Why did he
even show up for this Curtis? Everything you just said
is correct. And Clomo's never even lived in New York City.
He's from the suburbs. You know, every mayor who's run
for mayor of New York lives in New York City.
(20:29):
Is the first time we've ever had a mayor who
spent his entire adult life not living in New York City,
living in the suburbs. We've had mayors born out of town.
You know. Mike Bloomberg was from Massachusetts. David Dinkins grew
up in New Jersey, but they all lived in New
York City their entire adult life. One more real fast,
Let's go to Katie and Chappaqua.
Speaker 13 (20:49):
Katie, how you doing, Hi, Mark, I have a comment
about the debate, and then I have a question. So
I watched it online and you know, on the side
there's check comments and there it was really fun, I
mean almost There was lots and lots of support for
Curtis and mostly criticism for Cuomo and Mandani. And then
(21:11):
I wanted to ask you, like, how in the world
could it be asking Curtis to drop out when he's
the only Republican and he's against two Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, well, you know, most people are not asking him
to be out. That Trump has recruited some of these
public figures, some billionaires like Bill Ackman to be all
over the airwaves telling Curtis to drop out. But if
you talk to actual voters, they don't want Curtis to
drop out. You can't. You can't have a major party
candidate dropout. They had Cuomo not been in the race,
it would have been a whole different story. Culomo was
(21:41):
like a third party candidate who just showed up here
because he had nowhere else to go. But you got
to give him credit. He had a good debate last night.
He was strong in that debate last night. Hey, when
we come back, Steve Moore will be with us. We
hope we'll see.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I want to talk to him. A lot of big
economic things to talk. We'll get to that next on
seven to ten. Wor Welcome back to the Mark Simone
Show seven, Jen Woor. Well, Steve Moore, the great economists.
You should get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle. You
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runs the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and every day they
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It'll come right to your email. A lot of people
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Speaker 14 (22:35):
Hey, Mark, you're doing well. Thanks for having me. What
a tumultuous week. The government is still shut down.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
I thought this would last a couple of days. It's
been several weeks now it's causing more and more disruption.
I don't know if you've been traveling at all, but
there's a you know, a lot of delays at the
airports and so on. So we got to get this
thing settled. But Republicans cannot cave in here. I mean,
we're trying to slice just a little bit of the
cost of our government, and the Democrats won't even allow it.
Two cents saving out of every dollar that we're spending,
(23:04):
two cents out of every dollar.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
So if you listen to Chuck Schumer, it's healthcare premiums.
Everybody's going to die. I what is the truth about
this fight with the healthcare.
Speaker 14 (23:13):
Well, I think the real villain here. I mean, this
is a teachable lesson for all of us that remember
it was fifteen years ago that we passed Obamacare. In fact,
I was just looking on Fox News and they were
sapping up they showed a you know, a clip of
Obama signing the Obamacare law. Do you remember, Mark, what
(23:33):
the name of the Obamacare.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Law was, the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 14 (23:39):
I mean, how ironic. I mean, all that's happened since
we pasked the quote Affordable Care Actors that healthcare gets
more and more and more expensive. Report the other day
that the average family is now paying thirty thousand dollars
a year what on health insurance because it's just so
expensive now and so and by the way, some of
(23:59):
that is employed paid by their employers, but it's it's
a giant it's a giant tax on the American economy.
By the way, the insurance companies are one of.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
The villains here. They're in on this.
Speaker 14 (24:10):
They're all for expanding Obama Care subsidies because the money
goes right into their pockets. But what they're basically saying
is we want to make sure that people were not
even eligible for Medicare and Medicaid get the get the benefits.
Because you know, we're so we're so rich with cash
in Washington, we can be passing around free money. It's
really it's really quite outrageous. And we if we if
(24:30):
the Republicans came in here, we might as well just say, Okay,
we're going to run two trillion dollar efforts from now
until forever.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, let me issu you something. You know, they announced
the terrorists. Everybody says that's going to crash the whole market.
They announce shutdown. It's going to crash the whole market.
Russian sanctions is going to crash the whole market. Market
is fine, it's setting new records all the time. Why
is that?
Speaker 14 (24:50):
This is that it is unbelievable. By the way, just
give you some context here. You know the forty let's see,
forty five years ago that Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Do you know what the Dow Jones Industrial average was
back then?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
There sixth though.
Speaker 14 (25:10):
Not even close, my friends, it was one thousand. What
to think about that, it was one thousand. You can
look it up, the Dows at one thousand.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Now here we are.
Speaker 14 (25:18):
Forty five years later, after the Reagan Revolution and the
Trump Revolution, and it is at forty forty six thousand
last time I checked. So we've seen the biggest period
of wealth creation in the history of civilization.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Here.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
It's an incredible success story of the American economy. And
we need to get more and more Americans invested in
the market because that's how you make Maybe you make
money is you save and you invest. But now we're
in a situation, as you said, remember Paul Krugman, all
these people when when a Trump was elected both in
twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four. Oh my god, Armageddon's coming.
(25:53):
We're all going to die. The sock market's going to crash.
It's going to be another, you know, another nineteen twenty
nine crash. Gee, where is it then? Because you're right,
the market, the stock market, the Dow Jones, the Nasdaq,
the S and P five hundred, and the Russell two
thousand are at all time highs. Thank you Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Wow. So these Wall Street guys, I guess they know
what they're doing. So that indicate that it's a very
very stable economy no matter what sanctions or whatever happens.
I start say thing, Emma, the fact that the stock
market is holding it, it just means that it's a
very rock solid, steady economy underneath everything.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
Well it is. I mean, look, the stock market is
very valatile, you know, and it could crash by two
thousand points from how you never know. But so I
don't want to get too carried away of the market.
But there is a lot of confidence in the American
economy right now, and I think that is a result
of the fact that all of this investment capital is
coming into the country because of Trump. You know, Trump
isn't attracting hundreds and hundreds of billions. He says trillions.
(26:56):
I don't know if it's trillions, but it's yeah. And
you know that's a lot of money. And if you
think all that money is coming to the American economy,
then of course what do you want to do. You
want to get in front of that. You want to
invest before that, right, yeah, and so you know that
that's what you need to do is be confident in
the American economy. Look, I think we need a new
(27:17):
FED chairman. You and I have talked about this because
we got a guy who doesn't know what he's doing
in jer own Powell. But how about this?
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Why is it that Larry Kudlow? Isn't it?
Speaker 14 (27:26):
No we need because then we lose this show? Yeah, yeah,
with you and I are regulars on them. By the way, Mark,
you always do a great job on that show. I
always enjoy watching you. And what are you on this week?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
By the way, you out to Actually I was just
on yesterday, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (27:41):
Yesterday, you got yesterday? Okay, this is yesterday. But anyway,
so what about Laugher? What about Steve Forbes. What about
somebody who actually knows something about the economy and knows
how to make because you know, we've had such a
volatile Why did we have twenty three percent increase in
prices under Biden? Well, partly because we spent so much money,
partly because we have a FED chairman who knows not
he doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, the other thing that causes a great economy.
We're doing very well as far as energy. We're improving
on our energy.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Oh my god, what a success story this is, I.
Speaker 14 (28:13):
Mean, our energy we are. I was just listening to
Chris Wright, who was a good friend of mine, by
the way. He's the new Energy Secretary doing a fantastic shop,
and he was making this point that we made in
the Hotline last week that the United States is now
producing more oil, gas and coal than any other time
in American history. So we're becoming an energy powerhouse again.
(28:36):
The problem is, Mark, if I may, You and I
are both old enough to remember the seventies and eighties
when Opek had at the blade at our neck and
they could throw the American economy into recession by you know,
increasing or decreasing the amount of oil they were producing.
So we were completely hostage to the Arab nations and
to you know, the OPEC countries, many of which are
(28:58):
not very favorable in the United States. Well, we how
did we get out of that crisis we started? You know,
we had the shale oil revolution, which made America the
number one produced oil and we broke the back of
the cartel. Now why do I say that, because now
we have a situation with minerals, precious minerals, the critical
minerals we need for our national defense, for our advanced manufacturing,
(29:19):
for our microchips. And guess where we're getting the minerals
from where? China? How crazy is that we have twelve
trillion dollars of mineral resources right below our feet in
the mountains of West Virginia and the mountains of the
Dakotas and then Utah and Colorado. We have to be
(29:44):
returning to a mining powerhouse, just as we were for
the you know, for the first one hundred and fifty
years of our country. So we we should be mined.
Just as Trump says, drill, baby drill, I say, mine,
baby mine.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I don't know that sounds like too much common sense,
that's right, exactly pretty.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
Much to do it. And we got a great interior
secretary and.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Doug Bergham, I love the guy.
Speaker 14 (30:07):
Why would we want? You know, by the way, there's
two countries I misspoke. There's two countries where we get
our minerals from now China, you know what.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
The other one is India Russia?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Russia. Oh even worse, Seeve, those are.
Speaker 14 (30:19):
Two friendly countries in the United States. How stupid is that?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Well?
Speaker 14 (30:23):
I think sometimes I think people in Washington take stupid
pills every morning. Oh you know what, we want them
to be dependent on us. We don't want to be
dependent on them.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well, Steve Moore, a lot of wisdom, a lot of
common sense. Hey, everybody, subscribe to his common sense, right,
it's a lot. Subscribe to the hotline. It is the
best daily briefing in analysis. Go to Unleash Prosperity dot com.
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Speaker 6 (30:54):
Okay, Miles, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Talk to you, Sam, right, take care, hey, and don't
forget Buck and Clay. They do a very good show.
It's every day right here at noon, right after this show,
right after the noon news on seven ten WOR.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
This is the Mark Simon Show on seventen WR.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Well, let's take a break through the news, get caught
up on everything. Then in the next hour we'll go
over the mayor Old debate, We'll get to the ballroom
meltdown by the Left and more coming up on seven
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