October 6, 2025 • 32 mins
MSNBC will begin taking away any resources affiliated with NBC News starting this week. NBC spun off the network in August of 2025. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin. Michael believes that Hamas' strategy is to continue to negotiate with Israel until politicians in power get tired of them, pushing back on a deal to release the hostages. If Curtis Sliwa drops out of the mayoral race in NYC, will that give Zohran Mamdani more votes over candidate Andrew Cuomo
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now on the Voice of New York So Mark Simone
show on seven ten, wor Hey, it's one day. We
got a lot to get to. We'll get to Gaza,
We'll get to the shutdown. We'll get to Portland, We'll
get to MSNBC, Taylor Swift, Mark Sanchez, We'll get to
(00:23):
Netflix has seven big problems. We got lots to talk
about today. We'll get to the mayoral race throughout the program.
There's all kinds of myths in this mayoral race. WI
if only Eric Adams would drop out, that would help Cuomo,
then Cuomo could well. First of all, Eric Adams did
drop out. You'll see this coming the polling pretty soon.
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This is the myth that people don't get. If Eric
Adams were to drop out, which he did, the votes
don't go to Cuomo. He might pick up a couple,
but half those Adams votes will go to Mom Donnie.
It's not going to change much.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
He keeps saying Curtis, if only Curtis would get out.
If Curtis gets out, the votes are not going to
Andrew Cuomo. Curtis's voters aren't switching to Andrew Cuomo. They
hate Andrew Cuomo. At best, they'll just stay home. That'll
be it. So these getting these people to drop out
will not affect the race. But we'll get to the
mayor race in detail coming up. President Trump, looks like
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tomorrow's the end. Well, tomorrow is the anniversary of October seventh,
two year anniversary. It looks like the deal is going
to happen. Now Hamas is holding out. You gotta remember
Hamas the most awful, evil, treacherous, dirtiest, filthiest snakes. So
when you make an agreement with them, I don't know
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what that's going to do in the long run. It
may get the hostages out right away, that'll be good.
Benjamin Nighttya who had to really really be pressured into
it by Donald Trump basically screaming at him, stop being
according to this exchange, stop being so f a negative.
It's a win. Take it. You're not going to ever
do any better than this. And it looks like it's
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a pretty good deal. And if there's delays, that's okay too.
Let Israel go in there and keep finishing up the job.
But we'll see what happens. It'll happen probably in the
next couple of days. Hey, the government shutdown. You know,
it's fascinating if you watch the news, if you watch anything,
even the left left, left wing Morning Joe type shows.
(02:22):
The government shutdown was like the twenty seventh story buried
somewhere half an hour into the show. It's not even
a story anymore. You had that Hakeem Jeffreys all over
television and Schumer yelling everybody's gonna die. This is the
worst crisis. Everybody's gonna die. Then Friday they said, we're
off for the weekend. We'll see you next week, and
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they left for the weekend. If everybody's gonna die, but
we're taking a couple of days off, be back next week.
It's a strange, and you can blame Republicans for that too.
They should have been demanding a vote every second. But
the government shutdown is not affecting everybody. It'll drag on,
it doesn't mean much. Do you remember where you were
December twenty eighteen. No, Well, that was when we had
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the longest government shutdown ever, thirty five days. You don't
even remember it. You've been through literally a dozen shutdowns.
You don't remember any of them. So don't worry about it.
What else is going on? This is great news. MSNBC
has been thrown out of NBC. NBC wants nothing to
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do with MSNBC. They've been told they get the hell
out of the building, get that peacock off your logo,
take our name out of there. It's going step by
step by step. So this week is when they pull
away all of NBC news access from MSNBC. You know,
MSNBC tries to they make it look like there's some
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sort of a news network. It's just very, very very
left wing site. Some call it a propaganda site, but
it's extremely slanted pro Democrat stuff. But because they can
keep switching now our NBC News correspondent and then they
can put the NBC News logo, people get the impression
of watching some sort of a news network. It's not
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in any way a news network. So this is the
week they'll start taking away every resource of NBC News.
They will not be able to cut to an NBC
News correspondent or say NBC News. They'll have to hire
their own correspondents. They've also they're getting tossed out of
the building over there in Rockefeller Center. They're moving to
(04:31):
temporary studios in Times Square. They by the end of
the year. Have to stop saying MSNBC. The new name
will be ms NOW And we've finally been told what
the now will stand for. Ms NOW will stand for.
This is ridiculous. It will stand for my Source News
(04:53):
Opinion World. Huh, what the hell does that mean? My
source news world. This is how bad things are over there.
This is all they could come up with. This, They
had a month to work on. This My source News
Opinion World doesn't even make any sense. So, hey, this
just happened. Moments ago. Gallaine Maxwell had gone to the
(05:15):
Supreme Court to get her conviction overturned. Supreme Court turned
her down, So that's it as far as getting the
conviction overturned. Supreme Court rejected her bid to do that. Hey,
the Charlie Kirk shooter apparently the assassin. They've absolutely confirmed
everything about him being there. I guess he didn't take
(05:37):
his cell phone, you know, they would have a GPS
tracker in it, but they were able to confirm it.
The campus. College campuses don't have great security, but they
do have great surveillance video, and they've used the surveillance video.
They've tracked the shooter every inch of the way. They
know exactly what he did. Apparently came a couple hours
before the shooting, walked around, scoped out the whole area,
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have to change his clothes to all that black, and
then came back and that's when it happened. They've also
got his footprints. He was wearing these Converse sneakers, which
they have and they absolutely match all the footprints on
the roof and everywhere. So it looks like a sure
conviction for this guy. You know, normally if you have
an assassination, there's NonStop coverage of the assassin. Remember Lee
(06:23):
Harvey Oswald, do it delve into all these reports and
stories about Oswald has passed his life, his family is
This same thing happened with Sir Hans Sirhan and James
Earl Ray. But because these are Republicans that are targets,
no coverage, no coverage the Trump shooting in Pennsylvania. Have
you ever heard one word about the assassin, instant cover up,
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not a word about it, nothing, not even mentioned second
Trump shooter. Not a word of coverage about who the
guy is or anything about him. And the same thing
with this Charlie kirkshooter, no coverage at all. Speaking of
no coverage. Here's the most uncovered story, no coverage at
all of this from mainstream media. There's a Virginia race,
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governor's race, attorney general's race, and the Democratic candidate Attorney
General j Jones gets caught calling for assassination, endorsing assassination
of Republicans. They find his text messages where he's talking
about certain Republicans and he says things like two bullets
in the head for this guy and one bullet for
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his family. Literally just talking about assassination, endorsing assassinations. So
everybody calling, well not everybody, but Republicans calling for this
Jay Jones to drop out of the race, and not
a word from Democrats about it. Democrats should be condemning
this kind of stuff, this calling for assassination. Nothing from them.
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The only Democrat that commented on had tried to defend it, said, well,
it was a private conversation. But even the Sunday shows
would not cover this story. One of the panelists sorts
a very end to meet the press brought it up
and the subject was quickly changed. But it's amazing what
they will not cover. They just bury this stuff. There's
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another story you'll never see. You you won't read this anywhere.
Netflix stock is plunging because of their pro trans stuff.
They've been promoting transgender stuff, offending a lot of the audience.
It's no need to promote this, but I don't know why,
but Netflix has been doing it. The stock is plunging
as a result. You got to get that book, Charlie
(08:39):
Gasprino's book, Go Woke, Go Broke. Read the book. It's
not going to help any company to go woke. Chub
Insurance that's considered the finest insurance company, Chubb. You know,
you got all your regular insurance companies, but there's AIG
is very good and all that, but when Chubb is
like the gold standard, nobody gives better coverage than Chubb.
(09:02):
It's expensive. You gotta pay a lot more. And they
turned down a lot of people. It's not easy to
get them. But now they're under fire. They got a
new chairman apparently trying to take them woke. Chubb becoming woke.
Now watch this or you got the greatest insurance company
there is. Watch watch this guy. I'll ruin this company
with his woke nonsense. Hey speaking in which Jane Goodall,
(09:22):
well he hears these wonderful things about Jane Goodall. Look
at her parting words were her final words. She'd like
to send Musk up in one of his spaceships with
Trump putin and net Yahoo. In other words, this is
what she These are the people she hates in life,
Musk Trump, Putin, Okay, I can understand Putin, but net Nyaho.
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That's the final words from Jane Goodall. So don't nominate
her for sainthood just yet. Hey, mom, Donnie is in Uganda,
his home country. He's a citizen of Uganda. You know,
besides the political nonsense of Mom Donnie, have we ever
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had a mayoral candidate who is just a little kid,
he's thirty four years old. This would be his first job.
Have we ever had a mayoral candidate who just became
a citizen a few minutes ago, became a citizen just
a couple of years ago, has dual citizenship. I mean,
of course, you got a total corruption of the media,
no coverage of this, Nobody going after any of this.
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But he was in Uganda, and there's a woman there
who is backing this legislation to have you put in
jail for being gay. If you're gay, you go to prison.
That's it. And here he was smiling and hugging her
and arm around her, smiling for a picture. Now, of
course he's now being asked about it. I was in
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the airport, she came up to me. I didn't know
who she was. Yeah, nobody's buying that. Hey, they're going
back to this is when you're really getting weak. They're
going back to attacking anybody who doesn't pronounce his name correctly.
If you don't say mom, donnie. Remember the debates Cuomo
couldn't pronounce his name, kept saying Mandammy or whatever. Uh,
I like the Al Sharpton pronounce You remember Al Sharpton
(11:09):
called him man Danny. But there's a whole flak now.
But if you don't get his name right, take a listen.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The President reserves the right to get involved in racist
or not get involved in racist, although he has gone
as hard as say he absolutely does not want to
see uh.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Zimdamidami Zoron Mandami Mandami zoron Mundami.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
His name is Zorn Mandanie.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Mister Mandami.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He's very good on Twitter and with videos, but he
actually produces nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The name is Mam Donnie, m A M D A N.
I you should learn how to say it because we
got to get it right.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh, calm down, and when you're really weak, deep down.
This is what Kamala Harris did. Remember you got yelled
at if you didn't pronounce your name correctly. I still
don't know it. Kamala, Kamala, Kamala. If you say Kamala,
you were practically run out of the country. It was
the worst thing in the world. And everybody mispronounced her name.
Obama mispronounced her name. You know, when she was sworn
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in as vice president, was just a soda my air
that swore her in. And if you go back and
check the swearing in, listen to the swearing in. She says, Kamela.
She gets it wrong. So but you can't worry about this.
Here's mom Donnie about this subject.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
What I take offense to is not someone's initial mispronunciation
of my name. What I take offense to is the repeated,
intentional Like Andrew Cuomo, this is someone who has made
it a part of his politics to deny even the
basic modicum of dignity to me as someone who is
running in the same race. And I think what is
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so troubling is not what it means for me as
an individual. But it's the fact that this is the
experience of so many.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, I see you. Sounds a little pompous and pious.
I don't think he's trying to take your dignity away.
I think he just honestly doesn't know how the hell
to pronounce your name. So hey. Saturday Night Live debuted
the season. This is season fifty one. There wasn't mom Donnie,
or as Al Sharpton would say, mam dammy. There was
a character based on him New York.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
New York candidate Zoran Mam Donnie ran an uh.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Well.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
He ran an ad during an episode of Golden Bachelor,
in which he said, New York, will you accept this roles?
Not to be outdone, Andrew Cuomo ran an ad in
which he said, Hanker.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
All right, it's not that funny, but for Saturday Night Live,
it's funny. You know, in the year three, it wouldn't
have made it into the final cut, but Saturday Night
in life not so funny anymore. That makes it now.
Eric Adams, New York.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Maya Eric Adams has ended his re election bid, citing
an official reason. Citing an official reason of too much.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Swagger for y'all. Again, that wouldn't have made it into
the final cut year three, two twenty six. But it's
now you're fifty one. They'll run out of gas. They're
running on fumes, and that's about as good as a guess. Now, hey,
they had Bad Bunny as the host this past week.
You know, he's really not bad that Bad Bunny. Musically
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he's great and as far as I mean he's not
a brilliant stand up comedian with the monologue, but the sketches,
the guy was great. He's got a lot of charm.
He's The argument is he shouldn't be the super Bowl halftime.
You could make that case. He's not big enough to
be the super Bowl halftime. He's big enough to be
a host of Saturday Night Live because ninety percent of
the time when you watch that in Night Live, you
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know you know you're getting older when you don't know
who the musical guests are. You know you're getting much
older when you don't know who the hosts are. So
but usually NFL halftime he's like the biggest star, like
the top tier. He's big Bad Bunny, but he's not
absolute top two. I mean, it really should have been
Taylor Swift this year. But I guess I guess you
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got too big to even be the NFL halftime show. Hey,
we'll take some calls next. Michael Goodman will be with
us in a few minutes. Scott Shannon will be with
us later. We'll talk about the Taylor Swift release and
what it's actually done, and we'll take some calls next.
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
the number eight hundred three to two one zero seven
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his podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Now back to Mark Simone on wor.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Diane in Illinois. Diane,
how you doing.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I'm doing really good. Mark. Hey, because I live in Illinois,
I can't vote in your mayoral election. But I love
New York. It's a wonderful city. I'm a little confused though,
you said that this month Donny Guy just became a
citizen a group of Uganda. But I see commercials where
he brags about being a kid growing up in New
York City.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, no, he's only came here in recent years. He
only became a citizen. I think five six years ago. Uh,
he'd ben't here much longer, but he's from you Ganda.
They still have a home, and you got how many
people you know have a weekend home in Uganda? So short,
all right, Diane, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh
(16:15):
Rich Myrtle beach Rich. How you doing pretty good?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Thanks? You know, when I found out that the Obamas
were going to be part owners or get money from Netflix,
I was never given Netflix up any of my hard
earned money ever. But as you think any of this
has to do with Elon Musk home for the boycott
of Netflix and why they're going down a tube s Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, no, no, that definitely helped, definitely helps stock is
plunging Netflix in trouble. This. I don't know why they
got so involved in promoting transgender nonsense. I don't know
why they why.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The kids from I saw a post in Peter King
talk about my Donnie this. I I'm Donnie's that, but
one of these Republicans doing to come in and try
to get people to vote Republican, because, like you've mentioned
many times, if you only get a twenty percent turnout,
I'm Donnie wins. If you get fifty percent of more,
Curtis might actually win this thing.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, I turn out Curtis wins. Yeah, you're right. That's
that's the main problem. The Republican Party in New York
is a tiny thing. It's a little tiny thing. The
Democrats have a massive ground game. Ground game is the key.
That's the teams that people that go out and get
to knock on doors and get voters and then on
election day they bring them to the polls. The Democrats
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have like sixty thousand in that army, that ground game.
Republicans nothing, nothing, No, there's barely a Republican Party in
New York. That's really the problem. Let's go to Chris
and Manhattan. Chris, how you doing.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I'm good. Thanks Mark. Listen, you said before that if
Curtis were to drop out, people wouldn't vote for Cuomo. Noo, no.
But I don't want Mandamie and I want I want
Curtis to win, but I don't think Curtis can wins.
Was between Monday.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, well, there's one thing we know for a fact,
because we've already there's one thing we absolutely know. We've
tested it. Cuomo cannot beat mom don We tried it
in the primary. He got wiped out in two debates.
He got wiped out in the way, so we know
for a fact he can't beat Mom Donnie. Now you're
gonna have it. Yeah, there's Curtis, and you'll have a
debate October sixteenth. That'll be Curtis's shot to change the
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whole dynamic by.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Just Curtis for the record.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, well, so you gotta remember, if we know Clomo
can't beat Mom Donnie, we already tried that. That's how
you got stuck with Mom Donnie because Cuomo was so
weak against him in the debates. But if Curtis were
to drop out, none of those votes would go to Cuomo,
none of them. There's no Curtis. We're talking about normal people,
we're talking about rational saying people, But nobody would go
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to Curtis. Voter is not going to switch to Cuomo.
You know, when Adams dropped out, we find that half
those voters went to Mom Donnie. So it's not about
everybody dropping out. Anybody was going to be for Cuomo.
It's already for Cuomo, and it's all people that just
got bulldozed by Cuomo. He can't We've tried him against
Mam Donnie you know, Mam Donnie started out in the
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primary as zero at zero. Once she had two debates
with Cuomo, he went to forty points and he just
Cuomo is so weak as a debater. Let's go to
Joel in Florida. Joel, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Good morning, Mark. I hope you had a good weekend
and watch you have a good week Short of the
loss of revenue, in your opinion, is there anything that
can occur that could make the mainstream media the non
woke as woke as they have been.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
New ownership, new ownership, and it's gonna that'll take time,
but a good question you got. CBS now has a
new owner, David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison. He's taken
over CBS. He's brought in a new This is now
confirmed by the Way today it will be Barry Weiss,
the new director of CBS News. She's from the New
York Times. But she's a sane, rational, old fashioned moderate
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sort of a Democrat, and she does not like the
slanted news coverage. She will clean up CBS News. You'll
see a mutiny, You'll see a lot of people leave.
He has done this with CBS now. He's trying to
get Warner Brothers Discovery, which would include CNN. He would
then clean up CNN. He saw Musk do it with Twitter.
He cleaned up Twitter. It was the most biased left
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wing censoring, crazy place, banning Trump, banning conservatives. Musk bought it,
cleaned it up. So you'll see CBS get cleaned up next.
And if he gets a hold of CNN, you'll see
that get cleaned up. Let's go to Joanne in New Jersey. Joanne,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Are you familiar with jimash the singer from Kazakhstan who
played messas Square Going last night?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Yes, What do you think be the next Michael Jackson?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
No? No, you got a little at least good, but
you still got a ways to you don't. It's it's
like everybody was the next Beatles, now everybody's the next
Michael Jackson. It doesn't really work that way. Let's go
to Richard and Bayshore. Richard, how you doing?
Speaker 9 (21:04):
I'm doing well? Marked this when the total value of
all the savings from the upcoming shutdown cuts or tallied,
I think a good political move would be to apply
some portion of that money right away to an increase
in the cola that's coming for Social Security. Make it
a bonus cola. And this way people can see what
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their money can be used for instead of all this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, I know, there's a lot of plans. But also
with the deficit, the trade deficit, money, the tariff money,
let's talk about both these things. Take that money. Let's
talk about a rebate check. Send every body, well it'd
be everybody, like under two hundred thousand a year. Send
everybody a check for five thousand dollars. Now, some are
arguing with Trump, don't send these rebate checks. Pay down
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the deficit with it, pay down the debt with it.
I think people rather have the check. We were always
going to have this debt. We live with it. You
can pay it down. Yeah. Bill Clinton brought the debt
on almost the deficit down to nothing. But it just
pops right back up. But you will get something. You
will profit heavily off the shutdown. Hey, when we come back,
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we'll talk to Michael Goodwin next. Lots to talk to
him about on seven to ten wor mister New York.
He's on the Game, The mar Simone Show on seventeen
wor Well, Michael Goodwin, the finest columnist in America. You
can read them every Sunday and every Wednesday in the
New York Post. All his columns are up on the
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New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Good morning, Mark?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Thank you? Hey. What was that famous saying the Palestinians
never miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yes, one of my favorite lines, and I think we
could say with confidence it seems to be applying here
in the current situation.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So I don't know you've disagreement. It's I think it's
the best you could get right now. And congratulations of
President Trump for pushing it. But we've done this way,
haven't we been down this road before? And it never
holds up.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well, Look, I think the even line that you mentioned
is certainly applies. The Palestinians and the Hamas in particular,
want to be the skunk at the garden party here
when you have so many endorsers of this deal, enthusiastic
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endorsers Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, even cutter, you would
think that would create the momentum. And certainly President Trump
and Steve Whitcoffin Gared Koshner, who did the negotiations, thought
that they had pretty much a water tight deal twenty
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points and beginning with the hostage release and the broad agreemond.
I think Mark was with a great achievement, achievement in
and of itself, and Hamas meant what I believe was
a false signal on Friday that it would it would
(24:13):
move on the hostage release. It was ready to do that,
and then it said but and the butt seems to
go on endlessly. It is calling for renegotiating what looks
to me like the heart of the deal. Otherwise. Now,
I think a hostage release would be a great thing
in and of itself if there were an exchange. But
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if that doesn't work, why would any of the other
pieces of work, which ultimately get to disarmament of Hamas
and civil administrators and no role for Hamas in the governance.
So if they can't even complete the first step, there's
no hope of them completing the other steps. So I
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think that that's why this thing has been bogged down
and you get yet a new round of negotiations. I
think that the Hamas strategy is just to negotiate this
till everybody gets tired of it and then walk away
from it. I don't think they want peace. I don't
think they want a settlement because it's the end of
their power.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, you know, even I guess the end result of
all this thing would be a two state solution. Didn't
We just try a two state solution for twenty years
and look how it ended.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah, I mean, Gaza was a two state solution, right.
It was a Palestinian state, and it became a terrorist state,
and that's what it remains. And to the of course,
great detriment and deaths of many civilians there who either
went along or had no choice but to go along
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with the Hamas rule. And so we're coming up tomorrow, right,
is the two year anniversary of October seventh. Horrors of
that day and all all of what we have witnessed
sins can be traced back to that decision by Hamas
to invade, to take the hostages, to slaughter innocent civilians
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month mostly of the twelve hundred Israelis they killed, most
of them were civilians. And so this is the fruits
of that poison tree. And Hamas doesn't seem ready to
let go.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, Well, we'll see what happens, It's gonna be an
interesting week with that. Hey, let me ask you about
the mayoral race this. You know, it looks like people
are starting to think when Adams dropped out, half those
votes might go to Cuomo and half might go to Mamdani.
And there's this myth that if Curtis drops out, suddenly
Cuomo will get all those votes. Most of these Curtis
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voters are not going to Cuomo. They'll pretty much just
stay home. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Look, I think that Cuomo probably benefited more from the
Atoms withdrawal, or will I should say when the votes
are actually tabulating. I mean Adams was running at about
ten percent in the polls. Half of that, of course,
will be five points for Cuomo. I suspect it'll be
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more than that because it won't just be the Adams voters.
But I think the net effect of Adams dropping out
is it makes Cuomo look like has an easier path
to the election. Now, obviously you're right that if Fleawah
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stays in and he's there's no reason to think he's
going to change his mind. Yet I still think it's
going to end up with Mam Donnie winning. There's no
way that either one of them can top mom Donni
who I think alone, because I think he's probably got
a floor of somewhere around forty percent, and so people
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are going to divide the remaining sixty percent. Neither one
of them is going to get there the way it
looks now.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah. Now the other thing is, you know, uh de Blasio,
people like that get elected because you got eighteen percent
twenty percent turnout and just the uh the left turns out.
If you could get back to the good old days
of seventy five eighty percent turnout, don't you think that
could make a difference.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Well, yes, a turnout could could swamp the you know
all these predictions. I mean, it is worth noting marked
that when Rudy Giuliani and David Dinkins had their rematch
in nineteen ninety three, where Giuliani won, there were on
the order of one point eight to one point nine
(28:45):
million votes cast. In more recent and more recent elections,
there have been one point one million votes. Think about that.
The city has grown dramatically since nineteen ninety three, by
probably close to a million people, and yet the voting
totals are still far less. And so if you were
(29:07):
to get a big turnout, that the perils of a
big turnout are that there's enthusiasm, more enthusiasms for Mom
Donnie than there is anyone else, and so a big
turnout could could actually mean more Mam Donnie voters. So
I think absent a two person race, Mam Donni looks
(29:31):
like inevitable from this point of view.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Well, we'll see what happens. The only thing that could
change the course of things might be the debate October sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
That's true, And look, I think Cuomo has done a
better job of He's been more active and jumping on
these things with Mam Donnie. Some of the things Mamdani.
You know that the Post covered today of Mamdani with
the Ugandan leader who hates gays, you have, you know,
with the whole issue of globalizing into fada. So there's
(30:06):
just there's just a lot. There are a lot of
ghosts or in Mam Donnie's closets, and I think they
could really hurt him, and I think Cuomo is doing
a better job of bringing them out and seizing on
it and highlighting it. So it really as a warning
to Mam Donnie voters. Look, this is what you're buying
this is this is the guy you're supporting. Really you
(30:29):
want this guy? Uh, particularly the young people on the left.
I mean you want to you want to get you
want to be in bed with some guy who who
who hangs around the people who hate and persecute gays?
Is that Is that what the New Revolution is about?
I don't think so. So. I think the question is
can Mam Donnie survive what's probably going to be a
(30:52):
NonStop attack for the next month.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. You ever go read
his comments in Yesterday's New York Post. It's up on
the website about Hamas and Israel. It's a great column
and you can read them every Sunday every Wednesday in
the New York Post. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
With us my place for Mark.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Thank you, Take care Hey. Coming up in the next hour, Oh,
Scott Shannon will be with us. In the next hour.
We'll get to Taylor Swift, we'll get that Mark Sanchez story.
We'll go over that, and we'll get to the mayoral
race again, and we'll get to New Jersey. We'll get
to Donald Trump and the Navy speech boy that drove
the left Nuts yesterday. We'll get to that. Coming up,
(31:33):
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Now on the Voice of New York So Mark Simone
show on seven ten, wor Hey, it's one day. We
got a lot to get to. We'll get to Gaza,
We'll get to the shutdown. We'll get to Portland, We'll
get to MSNBC, Taylor Swift, Mark Sanchez, We'll get to
(00:23):
Netflix has seven big problems. We got lots to talk
about today. We'll get to the mayoral race throughout the program.
There's all kinds of myths in this mayoral race. WI
if only Eric Adams would drop out, that would help Cuomo,
then Cuomo could well. First of all, Eric Adams did
drop out. You'll see this coming the polling pretty soon.
(00:43):
This is the myth that people don't get. If Eric
Adams were to drop out, which he did, the votes
don't go to Cuomo. He might pick up a couple,
but half those Adams votes will go to Mom Donnie.
It's not going to change much.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
He keeps saying Curtis, if only Curtis would get out.
If Curtis gets out, the votes are not going to
Andrew Cuomo. Curtis's voters aren't switching to Andrew Cuomo. They
hate Andrew Cuomo. At best, they'll just stay home. That'll
be it. So these getting these people to drop out
will not affect the race. But we'll get to the
mayor race in detail coming up. President Trump, looks like
(01:17):
tomorrow's the end. Well, tomorrow is the anniversary of October seventh,
two year anniversary. It looks like the deal is going
to happen. Now Hamas is holding out. You gotta remember
Hamas the most awful, evil, treacherous, dirtiest, filthiest snakes. So
when you make an agreement with them, I don't know
(01:38):
what that's going to do in the long run. It
may get the hostages out right away, that'll be good.
Benjamin Nighttya who had to really really be pressured into
it by Donald Trump basically screaming at him, stop being
according to this exchange, stop being so f a negative.
It's a win. Take it. You're not going to ever
do any better than this. And it looks like it's
(02:00):
a pretty good deal. And if there's delays, that's okay too.
Let Israel go in there and keep finishing up the job.
But we'll see what happens. It'll happen probably in the
next couple of days. Hey, the government shutdown. You know,
it's fascinating if you watch the news, if you watch anything,
even the left left, left wing Morning Joe type shows.
(02:22):
The government shutdown was like the twenty seventh story buried
somewhere half an hour into the show. It's not even
a story anymore. You had that Hakeem Jeffreys all over
television and Schumer yelling everybody's gonna die. This is the
worst crisis. Everybody's gonna die. Then Friday they said, we're
off for the weekend. We'll see you next week, and
(02:42):
they left for the weekend. If everybody's gonna die, but
we're taking a couple of days off, be back next week.
It's a strange, and you can blame Republicans for that too.
They should have been demanding a vote every second. But
the government shutdown is not affecting everybody. It'll drag on,
it doesn't mean much. Do you remember where you were
December twenty eighteen. No, Well, that was when we had
(03:07):
the longest government shutdown ever, thirty five days. You don't
even remember it. You've been through literally a dozen shutdowns.
You don't remember any of them. So don't worry about it.
What else is going on? This is great news. MSNBC
has been thrown out of NBC. NBC wants nothing to
(03:28):
do with MSNBC. They've been told they get the hell
out of the building, get that peacock off your logo,
take our name out of there. It's going step by
step by step. So this week is when they pull
away all of NBC news access from MSNBC. You know,
MSNBC tries to they make it look like there's some
(03:49):
sort of a news network. It's just very, very very
left wing site. Some call it a propaganda site, but
it's extremely slanted pro Democrat stuff. But because they can
keep switching now our NBC News correspondent and then they
can put the NBC News logo, people get the impression
of watching some sort of a news network. It's not
(04:11):
in any way a news network. So this is the
week they'll start taking away every resource of NBC News.
They will not be able to cut to an NBC
News correspondent or say NBC News. They'll have to hire
their own correspondents. They've also they're getting tossed out of
the building over there in Rockefeller Center. They're moving to
(04:31):
temporary studios in Times Square. They by the end of
the year. Have to stop saying MSNBC. The new name
will be ms NOW And we've finally been told what
the now will stand for. Ms NOW will stand for.
This is ridiculous. It will stand for my Source News
(04:53):
Opinion World. Huh, what the hell does that mean? My
source news world. This is how bad things are over there.
This is all they could come up with. This, They
had a month to work on. This My source News
Opinion World doesn't even make any sense. So, hey, this
just happened. Moments ago. Gallaine Maxwell had gone to the
(05:15):
Supreme Court to get her conviction overturned. Supreme Court turned
her down, So that's it as far as getting the
conviction overturned. Supreme Court rejected her bid to do that. Hey,
the Charlie Kirk shooter apparently the assassin. They've absolutely confirmed
everything about him being there. I guess he didn't take
(05:37):
his cell phone, you know, they would have a GPS
tracker in it, but they were able to confirm it.
The campus. College campuses don't have great security, but they
do have great surveillance video, and they've used the surveillance video.
They've tracked the shooter every inch of the way. They
know exactly what he did. Apparently came a couple hours
before the shooting, walked around, scoped out the whole area,
(06:00):
have to change his clothes to all that black, and
then came back and that's when it happened. They've also
got his footprints. He was wearing these Converse sneakers, which
they have and they absolutely match all the footprints on
the roof and everywhere. So it looks like a sure
conviction for this guy. You know, normally if you have
an assassination, there's NonStop coverage of the assassin. Remember Lee
(06:23):
Harvey Oswald, do it delve into all these reports and
stories about Oswald has passed his life, his family is
This same thing happened with Sir Hans Sirhan and James
Earl Ray. But because these are Republicans that are targets,
no coverage, no coverage the Trump shooting in Pennsylvania. Have
you ever heard one word about the assassin, instant cover up,
(06:45):
not a word about it, nothing, not even mentioned second
Trump shooter. Not a word of coverage about who the
guy is or anything about him. And the same thing
with this Charlie kirkshooter, no coverage at all. Speaking of
no coverage. Here's the most uncovered story, no coverage at
all of this from mainstream media. There's a Virginia race,
(07:09):
governor's race, attorney general's race, and the Democratic candidate Attorney
General j Jones gets caught calling for assassination, endorsing assassination
of Republicans. They find his text messages where he's talking
about certain Republicans and he says things like two bullets
in the head for this guy and one bullet for
(07:31):
his family. Literally just talking about assassination, endorsing assassinations. So
everybody calling, well not everybody, but Republicans calling for this
Jay Jones to drop out of the race, and not
a word from Democrats about it. Democrats should be condemning
this kind of stuff, this calling for assassination. Nothing from them.
(07:52):
The only Democrat that commented on had tried to defend it, said, well,
it was a private conversation. But even the Sunday shows
would not cover this story. One of the panelists sorts
a very end to meet the press brought it up
and the subject was quickly changed. But it's amazing what
they will not cover. They just bury this stuff. There's
(08:17):
another story you'll never see. You you won't read this anywhere.
Netflix stock is plunging because of their pro trans stuff.
They've been promoting transgender stuff, offending a lot of the audience.
It's no need to promote this, but I don't know why,
but Netflix has been doing it. The stock is plunging
as a result. You got to get that book, Charlie
(08:39):
Gasprino's book, Go Woke, Go Broke. Read the book. It's
not going to help any company to go woke. Chub
Insurance that's considered the finest insurance company, Chubb. You know,
you got all your regular insurance companies, but there's AIG
is very good and all that, but when Chubb is
like the gold standard, nobody gives better coverage than Chubb.
(09:02):
It's expensive. You gotta pay a lot more. And they
turned down a lot of people. It's not easy to
get them. But now they're under fire. They got a
new chairman apparently trying to take them woke. Chubb becoming woke.
Now watch this or you got the greatest insurance company
there is. Watch watch this guy. I'll ruin this company
with his woke nonsense. Hey speaking in which Jane Goodall,
(09:22):
well he hears these wonderful things about Jane Goodall. Look
at her parting words were her final words. She'd like
to send Musk up in one of his spaceships with
Trump putin and net Yahoo. In other words, this is
what she These are the people she hates in life,
Musk Trump, Putin, Okay, I can understand Putin, but net Nyaho.
(09:43):
That's the final words from Jane Goodall. So don't nominate
her for sainthood just yet. Hey, mom, Donnie is in Uganda,
his home country. He's a citizen of Uganda. You know,
besides the political nonsense of Mom Donnie, have we ever
(10:04):
had a mayoral candidate who is just a little kid,
he's thirty four years old. This would be his first job.
Have we ever had a mayoral candidate who just became
a citizen a few minutes ago, became a citizen just
a couple of years ago, has dual citizenship. I mean,
of course, you got a total corruption of the media,
no coverage of this, Nobody going after any of this.
(10:26):
But he was in Uganda, and there's a woman there
who is backing this legislation to have you put in
jail for being gay. If you're gay, you go to prison.
That's it. And here he was smiling and hugging her
and arm around her, smiling for a picture. Now, of
course he's now being asked about it. I was in
(10:47):
the airport, she came up to me. I didn't know
who she was. Yeah, nobody's buying that. Hey, they're going
back to this is when you're really getting weak. They're
going back to attacking anybody who doesn't pronounce his name correctly.
If you don't say mom, donnie. Remember the debates Cuomo
couldn't pronounce his name, kept saying Mandammy or whatever. Uh,
I like the Al Sharpton pronounce You remember Al Sharpton
(11:09):
called him man Danny. But there's a whole flak now.
But if you don't get his name right, take a listen.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The President reserves the right to get involved in racist
or not get involved in racist, although he has gone
as hard as say he absolutely does not want to
see uh.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Zimdamidami Zoron Mandami Mandami zoron Mundami.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
His name is Zorn Mandanie.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Mister Mandami.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He's very good on Twitter and with videos, but he
actually produces nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The name is Mam Donnie, m A M D A N.
I you should learn how to say it because we
got to get it right.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh, calm down, and when you're really weak, deep down.
This is what Kamala Harris did. Remember you got yelled
at if you didn't pronounce your name correctly. I still
don't know it. Kamala, Kamala, Kamala. If you say Kamala,
you were practically run out of the country. It was
the worst thing in the world. And everybody mispronounced her name.
Obama mispronounced her name. You know, when she was sworn
(12:08):
in as vice president, was just a soda my air
that swore her in. And if you go back and
check the swearing in, listen to the swearing in. She says, Kamela.
She gets it wrong. So but you can't worry about this.
Here's mom Donnie about this subject.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
What I take offense to is not someone's initial mispronunciation
of my name. What I take offense to is the repeated,
intentional Like Andrew Cuomo, this is someone who has made
it a part of his politics to deny even the
basic modicum of dignity to me as someone who is
running in the same race. And I think what is
(12:47):
so troubling is not what it means for me as
an individual. But it's the fact that this is the
experience of so many.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, I see you. Sounds a little pompous and pious.
I don't think he's trying to take your dignity away.
I think he just honestly doesn't know how the hell
to pronounce your name. So hey. Saturday Night Live debuted
the season. This is season fifty one. There wasn't mom Donnie,
or as Al Sharpton would say, mam dammy. There was
a character based on him New York.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
New York candidate Zoran Mam Donnie ran an uh.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Well.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
He ran an ad during an episode of Golden Bachelor,
in which he said, New York, will you accept this roles?
Not to be outdone, Andrew Cuomo ran an ad in
which he said, Hanker.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
All right, it's not that funny, but for Saturday Night Live,
it's funny. You know, in the year three, it wouldn't
have made it into the final cut, but Saturday Night
in life not so funny anymore. That makes it now.
Eric Adams, New York.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Maya Eric Adams has ended his re election bid, citing
an official reason. Citing an official reason of too much.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Swagger for y'all. Again, that wouldn't have made it into
the final cut year three, two twenty six. But it's
now you're fifty one. They'll run out of gas. They're
running on fumes, and that's about as good as a guess. Now, hey,
they had Bad Bunny as the host this past week.
You know, he's really not bad that Bad Bunny. Musically
(14:14):
he's great and as far as I mean he's not
a brilliant stand up comedian with the monologue, but the sketches,
the guy was great. He's got a lot of charm.
He's The argument is he shouldn't be the super Bowl halftime.
You could make that case. He's not big enough to
be the super Bowl halftime. He's big enough to be
a host of Saturday Night Live because ninety percent of
the time when you watch that in Night Live, you
(14:36):
know you know you're getting older when you don't know
who the musical guests are. You know you're getting much
older when you don't know who the hosts are. So
but usually NFL halftime he's like the biggest star, like
the top tier. He's big Bad Bunny, but he's not
absolute top two. I mean, it really should have been
Taylor Swift this year. But I guess I guess you
(14:58):
got too big to even be the NFL halftime show. Hey,
we'll take some calls next. Michael Goodman will be with
us in a few minutes. Scott Shannon will be with
us later. We'll talk about the Taylor Swift release and
what it's actually done, and we'll take some calls next.
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
the number eight hundred three to two one zero seven
(15:20):
ten in Mark on Demand by setting up presead for
his podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Now back to Mark Simone on wor.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Diane in Illinois. Diane,
how you doing.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I'm doing really good. Mark. Hey, because I live in Illinois,
I can't vote in your mayoral election. But I love
New York. It's a wonderful city. I'm a little confused though,
you said that this month Donny Guy just became a
citizen a group of Uganda. But I see commercials where
he brags about being a kid growing up in New
York City.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, no, he's only came here in recent years. He
only became a citizen. I think five six years ago. Uh,
he'd ben't here much longer, but he's from you Ganda.
They still have a home, and you got how many
people you know have a weekend home in Uganda? So short,
all right, Diane, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh
(16:15):
Rich Myrtle beach Rich. How you doing pretty good?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Thanks? You know, when I found out that the Obamas
were going to be part owners or get money from Netflix,
I was never given Netflix up any of my hard
earned money ever. But as you think any of this
has to do with Elon Musk home for the boycott
of Netflix and why they're going down a tube s Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, no, no, that definitely helped, definitely helps stock is
plunging Netflix in trouble. This. I don't know why they
got so involved in promoting transgender nonsense. I don't know
why they why.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The kids from I saw a post in Peter King
talk about my Donnie this. I I'm Donnie's that, but
one of these Republicans doing to come in and try
to get people to vote Republican, because, like you've mentioned
many times, if you only get a twenty percent turnout,
I'm Donnie wins. If you get fifty percent of more,
Curtis might actually win this thing.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, I turn out Curtis wins. Yeah, you're right. That's
that's the main problem. The Republican Party in New York
is a tiny thing. It's a little tiny thing. The
Democrats have a massive ground game. Ground game is the key.
That's the teams that people that go out and get
to knock on doors and get voters and then on
election day they bring them to the polls. The Democrats
(17:23):
have like sixty thousand in that army, that ground game.
Republicans nothing, nothing, No, there's barely a Republican Party in
New York. That's really the problem. Let's go to Chris
and Manhattan. Chris, how you doing.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I'm good. Thanks Mark. Listen, you said before that if
Curtis were to drop out, people wouldn't vote for Cuomo. Noo, no.
But I don't want Mandamie and I want I want
Curtis to win, but I don't think Curtis can wins.
Was between Monday.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, well, there's one thing we know for a fact,
because we've already there's one thing we absolutely know. We've
tested it. Cuomo cannot beat mom don We tried it
in the primary. He got wiped out in two debates.
He got wiped out in the way, so we know
for a fact he can't beat Mom Donnie. Now you're
gonna have it. Yeah, there's Curtis, and you'll have a
debate October sixteenth. That'll be Curtis's shot to change the
(18:13):
whole dynamic by.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Just Curtis for the record.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, well, so you gotta remember, if we know Clomo
can't beat Mom Donnie, we already tried that. That's how
you got stuck with Mom Donnie because Cuomo was so
weak against him in the debates. But if Curtis were
to drop out, none of those votes would go to Cuomo,
none of them. There's no Curtis. We're talking about normal people,
we're talking about rational saying people, But nobody would go
(18:40):
to Curtis. Voter is not going to switch to Cuomo.
You know, when Adams dropped out, we find that half
those voters went to Mom Donnie. So it's not about
everybody dropping out. Anybody was going to be for Cuomo.
It's already for Cuomo, and it's all people that just
got bulldozed by Cuomo. He can't We've tried him against
Mam Donnie you know, Mam Donnie started out in the
(19:02):
primary as zero at zero. Once she had two debates
with Cuomo, he went to forty points and he just
Cuomo is so weak as a debater. Let's go to
Joel in Florida. Joel, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Good morning, Mark. I hope you had a good weekend
and watch you have a good week Short of the
loss of revenue, in your opinion, is there anything that
can occur that could make the mainstream media the non
woke as woke as they have been.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
New ownership, new ownership, and it's gonna that'll take time,
but a good question you got. CBS now has a
new owner, David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison. He's taken
over CBS. He's brought in a new This is now
confirmed by the Way today it will be Barry Weiss,
the new director of CBS News. She's from the New
York Times. But she's a sane, rational, old fashioned moderate
(19:55):
sort of a Democrat, and she does not like the
slanted news coverage. She will clean up CBS News. You'll
see a mutiny, You'll see a lot of people leave.
He has done this with CBS now. He's trying to
get Warner Brothers Discovery, which would include CNN. He would
then clean up CNN. He saw Musk do it with Twitter.
He cleaned up Twitter. It was the most biased left
(20:18):
wing censoring, crazy place, banning Trump, banning conservatives. Musk bought it,
cleaned it up. So you'll see CBS get cleaned up next.
And if he gets a hold of CNN, you'll see
that get cleaned up. Let's go to Joanne in New Jersey. Joanne,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Are you familiar with jimash the singer from Kazakhstan who
played messas Square Going last night?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Yes, What do you think be the next Michael Jackson?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
No? No, you got a little at least good, but
you still got a ways to you don't. It's it's
like everybody was the next Beatles, now everybody's the next
Michael Jackson. It doesn't really work that way. Let's go
to Richard and Bayshore. Richard, how you doing?
Speaker 9 (21:04):
I'm doing well? Marked this when the total value of
all the savings from the upcoming shutdown cuts or tallied,
I think a good political move would be to apply
some portion of that money right away to an increase
in the cola that's coming for Social Security. Make it
a bonus cola. And this way people can see what
(21:24):
their money can be used for instead of all this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, I know, there's a lot of plans. But also
with the deficit, the trade deficit, money, the tariff money,
let's talk about both these things. Take that money. Let's
talk about a rebate check. Send every body, well it'd
be everybody, like under two hundred thousand a year. Send
everybody a check for five thousand dollars. Now, some are
arguing with Trump, don't send these rebate checks. Pay down
(21:48):
the deficit with it, pay down the debt with it.
I think people rather have the check. We were always
going to have this debt. We live with it. You
can pay it down. Yeah. Bill Clinton brought the debt
on almost the deficit down to nothing. But it just
pops right back up. But you will get something. You
will profit heavily off the shutdown. Hey, when we come back,
(22:10):
we'll talk to Michael Goodwin next. Lots to talk to
him about on seven to ten wor mister New York.
He's on the Game, The mar Simone Show on seventeen
wor Well, Michael Goodwin, the finest columnist in America. You
can read them every Sunday and every Wednesday in the
New York Post. All his columns are up on the
(22:31):
New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Good morning, Mark?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Thank you? Hey. What was that famous saying the Palestinians
never miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yes, one of my favorite lines, and I think we
could say with confidence it seems to be applying here
in the current situation.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So I don't know you've disagreement. It's I think it's
the best you could get right now. And congratulations of
President Trump for pushing it. But we've done this way,
haven't we been down this road before? And it never
holds up.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well, Look, I think the even line that you mentioned
is certainly applies. The Palestinians and the Hamas in particular,
want to be the skunk at the garden party here
when you have so many endorsers of this deal, enthusiastic
(23:31):
endorsers Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, even cutter, you would
think that would create the momentum. And certainly President Trump
and Steve Whitcoffin Gared Koshner, who did the negotiations, thought
that they had pretty much a water tight deal twenty
(23:53):
points and beginning with the hostage release and the broad agreemond.
I think Mark was with a great achievement, achievement in
and of itself, and Hamas meant what I believe was
a false signal on Friday that it would it would
(24:13):
move on the hostage release. It was ready to do that,
and then it said but and the butt seems to
go on endlessly. It is calling for renegotiating what looks
to me like the heart of the deal. Otherwise. Now,
I think a hostage release would be a great thing
in and of itself if there were an exchange. But
(24:38):
if that doesn't work, why would any of the other
pieces of work, which ultimately get to disarmament of Hamas
and civil administrators and no role for Hamas in the governance.
So if they can't even complete the first step, there's
no hope of them completing the other steps. So I
(24:59):
think that that's why this thing has been bogged down
and you get yet a new round of negotiations. I
think that the Hamas strategy is just to negotiate this
till everybody gets tired of it and then walk away
from it. I don't think they want peace. I don't
think they want a settlement because it's the end of
their power.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, you know, even I guess the end result of
all this thing would be a two state solution. Didn't
We just try a two state solution for twenty years
and look how it ended.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah, I mean, Gaza was a two state solution, right.
It was a Palestinian state, and it became a terrorist state,
and that's what it remains. And to the of course,
great detriment and deaths of many civilians there who either
went along or had no choice but to go along
(25:51):
with the Hamas rule. And so we're coming up tomorrow, right,
is the two year anniversary of October seventh. Horrors of
that day and all all of what we have witnessed
sins can be traced back to that decision by Hamas
to invade, to take the hostages, to slaughter innocent civilians
(26:13):
month mostly of the twelve hundred Israelis they killed, most
of them were civilians. And so this is the fruits
of that poison tree. And Hamas doesn't seem ready to
let go.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, Well, we'll see what happens, It's gonna be an
interesting week with that. Hey, let me ask you about
the mayoral race this. You know, it looks like people
are starting to think when Adams dropped out, half those
votes might go to Cuomo and half might go to Mamdani.
And there's this myth that if Curtis drops out, suddenly
Cuomo will get all those votes. Most of these Curtis
(26:47):
voters are not going to Cuomo. They'll pretty much just
stay home. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Look, I think that Cuomo probably benefited more from the
Atoms withdrawal, or will I should say when the votes
are actually tabulating. I mean Adams was running at about
ten percent in the polls. Half of that, of course,
will be five points for Cuomo. I suspect it'll be
(27:15):
more than that because it won't just be the Adams voters.
But I think the net effect of Adams dropping out
is it makes Cuomo look like has an easier path
to the election. Now, obviously you're right that if Fleawah
(27:36):
stays in and he's there's no reason to think he's
going to change his mind. Yet I still think it's
going to end up with Mam Donnie winning. There's no
way that either one of them can top mom Donni
who I think alone, because I think he's probably got
a floor of somewhere around forty percent, and so people
(28:00):
are going to divide the remaining sixty percent. Neither one
of them is going to get there the way it
looks now.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah. Now the other thing is, you know, uh de Blasio,
people like that get elected because you got eighteen percent
twenty percent turnout and just the uh the left turns out.
If you could get back to the good old days
of seventy five eighty percent turnout, don't you think that
could make a difference.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Well, yes, a turnout could could swamp the you know
all these predictions. I mean, it is worth noting marked
that when Rudy Giuliani and David Dinkins had their rematch
in nineteen ninety three, where Giuliani won, there were on
the order of one point eight to one point nine
(28:45):
million votes cast. In more recent and more recent elections,
there have been one point one million votes. Think about that.
The city has grown dramatically since nineteen ninety three, by
probably close to a million people, and yet the voting
totals are still far less. And so if you were
(29:07):
to get a big turnout, that the perils of a
big turnout are that there's enthusiasm, more enthusiasms for Mom
Donnie than there is anyone else, and so a big
turnout could could actually mean more Mam Donnie voters. So
I think absent a two person race, Mam Donni looks
(29:31):
like inevitable from this point of view.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Well, we'll see what happens. The only thing that could
change the course of things might be the debate October sixteenth.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
That's true, And look, I think Cuomo has done a
better job of He's been more active and jumping on
these things with Mam Donnie. Some of the things Mamdani.
You know that the Post covered today of Mamdani with
the Ugandan leader who hates gays, you have, you know,
with the whole issue of globalizing into fada. So there's
(30:06):
just there's just a lot. There are a lot of
ghosts or in Mam Donnie's closets, and I think they
could really hurt him, and I think Cuomo is doing
a better job of bringing them out and seizing on
it and highlighting it. So it really as a warning
to Mam Donnie voters. Look, this is what you're buying
this is this is the guy you're supporting. Really you
(30:29):
want this guy? Uh, particularly the young people on the left.
I mean you want to you want to get you
want to be in bed with some guy who who
who hangs around the people who hate and persecute gays?
Is that Is that what the New Revolution is about?
I don't think so. So. I think the question is
can Mam Donnie survive what's probably going to be a
(30:52):
NonStop attack for the next month.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. You ever go read
his comments in Yesterday's New York Post. It's up on
the website about Hamas and Israel. It's a great column
and you can read them every Sunday every Wednesday in
the New York Post. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
With us my place for Mark.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Thank you, Take care Hey. Coming up in the next hour, Oh,
Scott Shannon will be with us. In the next hour.
We'll get to Taylor Swift, we'll get that Mark Sanchez story.
We'll go over that, and we'll get to the mayoral
race again, and we'll get to New Jersey. We'll get
to Donald Trump and the Navy speech boy that drove
the left Nuts yesterday. We'll get to that. Coming up,
(31:33):
we'll get to Portland and Chicago and more. Just ahead
on seven to ten WR.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Mark Simo, The Issues you really care about?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
On seven ten WR.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well, Hey, New York Yankees, I don't know what that
was all about. First game in Toronto was like eleven
and nothing. Second game in Toronto ninety seven and nothing
is It's like watching the New York Jets. I don't
know what the heck happened Game three. The Yankees could
be eliminated in Game three. It's tomorrow night, not tonight.
(32:09):
Tomorrow night, eight o'clock at Yankee Stadium. Down two games.
This is not good. Hey, Coming up in the next hour,
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(32:30):
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