January 8, 2026 • 36 mins
Mark provides the latest updates on the tragic killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother and widow, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. They discuss the potential benefits of sourcing oil from Venezuela, exploring how this could lower fuel and oil prices in the U.S. The conversation also turns to Mayor Mamdani’s socialist housing proposal in New York City, questioning whether offering housing “first dibs” to nonprofits and select groups could disrupt the city’s real estate market.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You just heard the news.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now you'll find out what it all means. Hey, smart
simone on seven ten. Woah, Well, lots to get to today.
We'll get over Minnesota, Zuppruterer like by frame. We'll get
to crazy Kathy Hoko, We'll get to Mom Donnie, We'll
get to Greenland. Anybody remember Maduro. He'll be forgotten about now.
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You won't hear about him again for a month. All
you can to hear about is Minnesota. He's gonna be
sitting in the Brooklyn Detention Center looking at the TV
NonStop Minnesota coverage. Maduro will be saying, well, what happened
to me? They forget about me? That he's forgotten about.
We'll get to Nick Reiner, his lawyer quit Minnesota. You're
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gonna hear about this now for the next month. It's
gonna be rough because you got really, really, really bad
public officials in Minnesota. You got a crazy left wing
mayor who obviously you know, you got the nuttiest governor
in America, Tim Waltz. They've been trying to rile this
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thing up. In fact, if anybody caused this, it's well
the whole left wing attack Ice movement, but especially in Minnesota,
where the governor Waltz is called the Ice the Gestapo
and they're snatching up people off the streets. And the
mayor's been just as bad. Even yesterday after this horrible incident,
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he just tries to rile things up talking about Ice.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And I have a message for Ice to Ice get
out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You see, you're not supposed to do that if you're
a mayor. Now, it's a kind of thing Trump might
do where he doesn't act presidential and he'll use the
F word or something like it and then all hell
breaks loose. But when the Democrat does it, it's just fine.
Have you heard anybody any mainstream of fake news media?
Have they complained about this guy's language?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And I have a message for Ice to Ice get
out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So but it's Democrats, So it's weapons grade hypocrisy. They're
not going to go after this guy, but he just
went on and on trashing Ice.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They are already trying to spin this as an action
of self defense. Having seen the video of myself, I
want to tell everybody directly that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Is this is a totally reckless, irresponsible mayor who's going
to get people killed over this Now, what are you
supposed to do. You're supposed to wait till you have
more facts. You know, you're speaking an hour after the
whole thing. You haven't had a chance to really go
over the video or talk to anybody. Tom Homan, believe
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it or not, was the voice of reason. This is
the kind of thing you're supposed to say right after
the incident. What good is it to do right now?
To me?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Prejudge the Fact's what happened to say without giving law
enforced professional for the j FPI or the local police there,
give them time to look at all the talk to
all the witnesses, talk to the officers, and make an
educated decision. What occurred today?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do, now, Christy Nome, Yeah,
she went too far too She declared it immediately domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It was an active domestic terrorism. What happened was our
ice officers were out in an enforcement action. They got
stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that
is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle,
and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and
attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, Now the woman is a criminal, an absolute criminal,
resisting arrest and all sorts of stuff, all sorts of
criminal acts. Had there been no shooting, the woman would
be in jail right now and getting charged with about
nine things. She was a criminal at that moment based
on her behavior. But domestic terrorist, I don't know about that.
And what is Christynome doing wearing that cowboy hat on camera?
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It looks a little, doesn't it. But here's here are
the facts. Remember, everybody goes nuts after an incident like this.
Everybody goes totally tribal, and one tribe goes to their
extreme right and one tribe goes to the extreme left.
The facts. They keep showing you the video where it
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looks like the woman has brushed by the cop and
is about to drive away, and it looks like there
was no reason to shoot, and he's shooting into the side,
into the passenger and the driver's window on the side,
where all you know, she would have driven away, and
you'd think, well, you don't have to shoot her. If
you had to really catch her. These ice guys all
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have vehicles. They could have caught her. But they're not
showing you two videos and that's the problem. If you
watch network news or mainstream stuff, they're not showing you
two specific videos that were taken from the front. One
of them is up on my Twitter if you want
to see it. But there are two videos taken from
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the front that they deliberately don't show you. And if
you look at the ones taken from the front, she
clearly hits the ice agent with her car. She hits him,
and the reason in those other videos it looks like
he was on the side of her car is when
she hit him, it knocked him to the side of
the car. But she does hit him with the car.
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He gets knocked to the side, and the first Shotty fires,
it looks like the car was still coming at him
because the first shot, the first bullet hole is through
the front windshield, and that's going to be crucial in
the case. If the bullet goes to the front windshield,
he clearly was defending himself. If it goes to the
side windshield, well that seems unnecessary to keep shooting. But
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once you start firing, you're firing. And it turns out
there's one report and this is why that ice officer
might have been so quick and jumpy it turns out
there's one report that this ice officer in a previous
incident somewhere else where same thing, left wing hooks were
trying to terrorize the Ice agents, the same officer was
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hit by a car and dragged by the car. And
another so you could see where this guy be really
afraid of getting dragged by a car again or killed
by a car. So it'll go to a federal court.
He will not be charged with anything because if you
look at the videos from the front, she hits him
with the car. She does absolutely hit him with the car,
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and then he fires. Now, you're not supposed to under normal,
say NYPD normal police department rules, not supposed to fire
into a car like that unless it's coming right at you,
and in the videos from the front, it's coming right
at him. Now. The other thing is the state of
Minnesota or the local city of Minneapolis may try to
charge him locally and put him in a left wing,
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crazy left wing kind of court where he'll get convicted.
But I don't know that they could. I guess they
could charge him, I don't know if they could ever
get him into custody. He will not return to Minnesota, obviously,
and there's no way they're going to extra item. But
it's gonna this is all you're gonna hear about for us.
It's like George Floyd. George Floyd was different though, because
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when you watch that cop with the knee on the neck,
you can't see in any way why that was necessary.
You just can't see it. They had the guy, uh
handcuffed in the car, even when they had him on
the ground handcuffed. No matter how much he was flopping
around or whatever he was doing, you can't see why
you would put your knee on his neck and hold
it there for that. You just can't see it. But
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if you look at the videos of the front of
this car, you can see why this guy got crazy
and might have started a fire because she does hit
him with her car. Now you got crazy left wing
fake news cranking it up this morning. You know all
those reuters AP they're the ones that supply everybody. And
if you look at the headlines they were sending out,
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it was the most slanted, biased stuff. The headline was
mother of a six year old a poet new to Minneapolis. Gun. Yes,
she was a mother of a six year old. And
that's what a lot of these stories that they were doing.
If you're watch in the MS, whatever the hell it
is a lot. She was a mother. There's now a
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six year old without her mother. A six year old
child has lost her mother. Well, it's a very very
tragic situation. You imagine losing your mother. But on the
other hand, can you imagine your mother getting an suv
and driving into an ice operation and try to stop
them with her car. I can't imagine my mother. I
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don't think you could picture your mother driving into the
middle of an ice operation. And we do know from witnesses,
we absolutely know that for that whole day she had
been terrorizing the ice operation, trying to block them, stop them,
harass them, troll them. I can't imagine my mother. I'm
sure you can't imagine your mother doing that. And if
it got to the point where it's going on forever,
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you're harassing the Ice agents, blocking them, and at some
point they told you get out of the car. Do
you know anybody who if the cops told you, all right,
step out of the car, who wouldn't. And then if
they demanded you get out of the car, do you
know anybody that would back up a little and then
hit the accelerator and speed up, trying to hit them.
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Even if she wasn't trying to hit them, what else
would she be doing. Well, she'd be trying to flee.
But if you are told to get out of the
car by the cops and then you attempt to flee,
you've left the category of a normal citizen. You're now
a criminal evading arrest. So President Trump was asked about
the video. He said it was very upsetting to him.
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He said, it's hard to watch. It is a terrible, terrible,
tragic video, very tough to watch, and it's just going
to get worse and worse and worse. And again, if
you go to my Twitter, you can see the video
from the front. This is the one they don't show you.
It's taken from in front of the car. You can
see the car hit the officer and knock him to
the side. Also, remember when you're watching these videos and
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it looks like, let's say you believe the first one
was justified. First shot, the car hits him, first shot
is through the front windshield. The obviously he's in front
of the car. She's trying to hit him. If you're
saying to yourself, okay, well, I could see that, But
then why did he keep firing into the side of
the car. Why the second third? Well, remember you're watching
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the video slowed down. The video is very, very very
slowed down, so it's like twelve seconds. In twelve seconds,
a lot of time to think. But in real life,
if you watch the video full speed, it's like a
tenth of a second. There's no time to think after
the first shot. And again, the way it works in
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police departments, you're not supposed to shoot to wound or
just try to hit him in the arm. Once you're shooting,
you're shooting right at them. And once you start pulling
the trigger, you might pull it a few times. So
then you got all the left wing people jumping in
on this. Here's mom Donnie, who well, of course can't
shut up about it all day.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
This is one part of what has been a year
full of cruelty. And we know that when ICE agents
attack immigrants, they attack every single one of us across
this country.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
No, here's the problem. It has never been an ICE
agent attacking an immigrant. They're not going after immigrants, they're
going after illegals, illegals who snuck into the country though,
and this is so insulting to immigrants that the left wing,
the mom donnis these are the backbone of America, immigrants
who've come here and are working to lump them in
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with illegals. It's so cruel of Mamdanni.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And this is a city and will always be a
city that stands up for immigrants across the Five.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Boroughs, absolutely, but not illegals. Immigrants not illegals. That's the
problem with the Democrats. It's all a blur. They can't
they just can't see it.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
So I can't speak to what the President will do.
I can tell you, however, what I've also said to
him directly, which is that I believe that these raids
are cruel and inhumane and they do nothing to actually
serve the interests of public safety.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I don't know about that. If you look at
who they've arrested, ninety nine percent of them are actual
criminals committing crimes on the street. Many of them are vicious,
violent gang members. So taking them off the street is
a good thing and does serve the interest of it.
And of course he's a crazy left wing Democrat, so
they don't understand why taking criminals off the street is
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a good thing.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
And what New Yorkers want to see is a city
that they are safe in, a city that they can
also feel comfortable leaving their home in.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah. Now, let me think, how would you create a
city that people feel safe in and people would feel
comfortable leaving their home in. Well, I would think step
number one, get the criminals off the street. Arrest all
the criminals and take them off the street. Why would
you not feel safe in your own city. Why would
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you not feel safe leaving your home? Well, because you
think there might be a criminal out there. That guy
over there, it might be a criminal. This guy might
be a criminal. You're worried about criminals. Arrest them, lock
them up. It goes back to Andrew Cuomo with us
let them all run loose, close the prisons. Remember he
bragged about closing prisons, letting them all out, no bail,
no jail, let them just let them out, let him out.
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That's when you don't feel safe.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I have made it clear to everyone within my city
government and that extends to NYPD, that we are going
to uphold our sanctuary city policies. We are going to adhere.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Now, what does that mean sanctuary city? What is the
actual definition of sanctuary city. It means if you're an
illegal criminal who snuck in, their attitude is let them go.
I don't bother the guy that's a sanctuary city to them.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
That is why one of the eleven executive orders that
we signed was to repeal the previous administration's order to
allow for collaboration with ICE on Riker's Island.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Now you've got illegal gang members who are in Rykers Island.
ICE is the official organization that's supposed to do something
about that. You don't want to cooperate with them. Again,
this is left wing crazy, left wing socialists. This is
a Cuomo kind of no bail, no jail, closed the prison.
This is just nuts. It's the reason Democrats are now
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at the lowest approval rating in history. Even hey, also
on my Twitter, take alarly this clip from CNN the
other day where they put up the poll numbers. Even
on CNN, they had to show that Democrats are at
the lowest approval rating they've ever been in in their lives.
Now why because you know, as crazy as you think
Trump is with his the way he talks, the way
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things he does, He's why does he do this? Why
does he have to do that he's not presidential, he's
acting crazy. Well, for all of that, as Stephen A.
Smith pointed out, he's still to most people, he looks
a lot more normal than Democrats. What he's doing with
all his craziness is much much, much more normal than Democrats,
who think it's okay to illegal aliens, gang members roam
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the streets, and they think it's okay for even if
you're just a mother and a housewife or whatever you are,
to get in your suv and driving it right into
the ice operation and try to block them, then try
to drive your car at him, and then try to
evade arrest and speed away. It's not okay. It never was,
it never will be. So we'll get back to Minnesota.
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We'll talk about it throughout the morning. Hey, Nick Reiner
lost his lawyer. It's a top, top, top criminal attorney
in Los Angeles, handle a lot of big cases. He quit.
He's dropped out. Alan Jackson said he had no choice
but to quit the case. When asked why, he said
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he's legally prohibited from publicly explaining why. So, whatever the
reason is, there's still that attorney client privilege. Whatever craziness
is there, he can't say it. He did say, Nick
Reiner's not guilty of murder. I think what he means
there obviously is. But I think what he means there
is that it was drug induced from all the psychotropic
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drugs he's on, or that he was mentally ill or deranged,
or that it's not actual murder. Reiner was in court,
Nick Reiner, the crazy kid, and he was smirking and
smiling at the judge. He needs a new lawyer, so
he needs time. Next court date February twenty third, So
it's like a month and a half before you'll see
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this guy again. And we've got lots to get to
this morning. He will take some calls next. Eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten, did
Mark on Demand by setting a preset for his podcast
on the iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark Simone on
wor Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Rich
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in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Hey, Thanks, Mark, good to talk to you again. You
know this thing Minnesota was gonna happen. The Dems wanted
this to happen. They've been calling for this kind of
action for a year and a half now, and he
knew what was going to happen. And all these people,
these politicians jumped in front of a microphone before they
had any facts. And now they're going to write and
burn down Minneapolis, just like they did after Floyd or
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whatever his name was. It's just discussing. The press just
sits by and does absolutely nothing about it.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Can help.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Actually, they do a lot. They go crazy trying to
rile everybody. You're right in the offices of CNN and
MS now in the New York Times, when this video
came in, they actually said to themselves, great, this is great.
We can use this. We can use this for months. Now,
let's go to Mara in Nevada. Mara, how you doing Mark?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
This is starting my forty sixth year of having you
in my life.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
And you know what, the best thing was six months
ago I met you and rugged you was a few
months ago into my life.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, Mara and Vincent came to New York. They went
to the legendary Patsy's restaurant.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Yes, and he's been in my life. We took at
least every week.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wow, that's great. And if you go to my Instagram,
you can see a picture of Vincent and Mara at Patsy's.
You gotta scroll.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Back like a great day, Mark Darling, you put a
smile on my face. I'm very very old. So let's
see how long you could be doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
A spring chicken, as they used to say.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Okay, I need.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
All right, Mara, thanks for calling. Let's go to Tony
and White Plains.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Tony, how you doing, yeah, Mark, Mark, Those hypocris over
there in the other station, ABC.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh, don't pick on them, they're all nice people.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Yeah, Well, they's a reason why they got Zoron, because
especially talatso over there, Dominic.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Carter, I don't pick friends of mine, don't pick.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
On them, I know. But he started from day one.
Kurts came when you know, you know why he kept
saying that, because he was afraid if Curtis did win.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
No, no, no, you know why they kept saying that.
They convinced themselves of that. You know, you can't get
mad at somebody for their.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Dat.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
They had a reason why he got zor On, and
they're saying that, Well, if you got.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
To blame somebody for Zorn, you gotta blame Andrew Cuomo
This is all his fault. He came along and it
didn't just start with the election season. He started about
two years ago, working on the whole crowd there, the
whole Upper East Side, the Hampton's Palm Beach. He was
whining and dining all these donors, these big they're nice people,
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the big donors, but they're the dumbest people in the
world when it comes to politics. They always backed the
wrong but he convinced them that only he can win.
I don't know how the hell he convinced. It's pretty
It's a fascinating thing to study. Here's the guy who
just got run out of office with the police chasing him.
Here's the guy who left and resigned in disgrace. Two
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years later, he's convincing them he could be elected. That's
like Nixon two years after Watergate, thinking he can run again.
Give Elliott Spitzers credit. At least he's a classy guy
about it. He got run out of office with the
criminal kind of things hanging around over his head. He
knows he can't run again, but Cuomo convinced that he
could run again. He completely screwed up the Democratic primary
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by scaring Eric Adams out of it. Had he not
had been no Cuomo, Eric Adams would have run for reelection,
would have been in the primary, probably could have won
the Democratic primary. He can out Cuomo's the world's worst debater.
He got beaten to a pulp by Mamdani in two debates.
Adams would have done better. He's not the most articulate
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guy in the world, but he can be charming in
those debates. He probably would have got the nomination and
that would have been the end of it. Let's go
to Bob in Montville, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good?
Speaker 11 (20:46):
Mard Thanks a lot, But I don't want to like
keep loading up on the Somalians. But you know, in
Maine there is a very similar problem, but probably worse.
You know, a few years ago there was that mass
shooting there, people murdered. Yeah, all the money that was
collected gofund me was directed to Somalian NGOs there.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh yeah, no, it's bad everywhere. Effect people think California
may set the all time record for this kind of fraud.
They haven't started to look into it yet, and they
think Illinois got a huge, huge number. When it comes
to this kind of fraud, it's all over the place,
and the Somalians in the fraud schemes of Minnesota are
so thrilled about this shooting yesterday because it gets them
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off the front page for a while. Let's go to Grace,
Rockland County. Grace. How you doing?
Speaker 12 (21:34):
Hi? I'm also at a town to.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Tell you you that's so loud that people sleep in
here hold of town.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
Oh okay, I project I was a New York City
school teacher.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Listen, that's a South school teacher talks. You walk in
and say welcome to class.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
Yes, you got to get wake them up. Let me
tell you because they have still not Okay, what I
want to say?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Are you sure you were a school teacher?
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Of course? I was a Winter Hunt. I graduated with Honest.
Come on, because I sound like a homie doesn't mean
I'm not refine and ed.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh you're very fine. In fact, I can't believe you
went the Hunter. I was thinking Oxford, Cambridge or something.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
No, no, no, no. I was a child of an immigrant.
I went to Hunter. Okay, what I'm calling about is this.
I feel sorry the woman got killed, but she and
her partner should have worried about not putting themselves in danger.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
No, actually one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
She's married to a woman, and the woman, the partner said,
this is all my fault. I shouldn't have brought her
into this situation. I shouldn't have brought her to this protest. Right.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
I'm glad you said that, But the thing is, as
a mother, you do not put yourself in that kind
of danger. I feel very sorry, but unfortunately you report yoursel.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now, Grace, where do you live in Rockland County?
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Oh, I'm in I'm in Clarkstown.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now, Clarkstown's a beautiful small town. When you talk like
that in town? Can they tell you from New York? Yes?
I don't see. What's the regular Sherlock Holmes that they
figured it out.
Speaker 12 (23:06):
I don't really care what anybody says you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You're very charming.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
I want to say something my accent when you were
when you were up the line, you gave me one
hundred and fifty dollars because I had the most I
don't know, offensive accent or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Coll Who did that? Who did that? I did?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (23:29):
I got three gift cards from me. Yeah, from the station.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You want to contest for the worst accent?
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh well you're a nice woman. Grace, call again. Don't
don't thank you.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
And you're very good and I think you're great.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You're great too, don't keep calling us. Thanks for calling. Hey.
When we come back, we're hoping to talk to Steve Moore.
We'll see coming up next on seven to ten w
r R s Mark Simone. Joe continues, Now, well, Steve,
brilliant economist Steve Moore. Of course you see them all
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over television. Read his columns. Is one coming in the
Wall Street Journal, and make sure you get his book
is brilliant book, The Trump Economic Miracle. If you really
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Unleash Prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, how you.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Doing well, Mark, I'm doing great. Twenty twenty six is
off to a rip roar and start. We've seen amazing
gains in the stock market. We've seen, you know, an
incredible military operation that will go down in the annals
of history. Is one of the most flawless operations ever
We liberated thirty million people in Venezuela, a very humanitarian mission.
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And look, I think in places coming down, jobs are
going up, peas going up. It's going to be a
blockbuster year.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, you know, Venezuela is fascinating. There's no better example
of the uselessness of socialism. He decides to go socialist.
Everybody's starving to death. It's horrible. They're sitting on three
hundred billion barrels of oil there seventeen seas. Why was
he in these drug things? Why didn't he just become
an oil baron?
Speaker 7 (25:23):
You know, we had something in how you mentioned our
hotline thank you and by the way, that's free. Folks
just go to on least past thirty to kind of
get that for free. But on Monday we had an
item that got a lot of attention, which we just
we just walked people through with charts. What had happened
to Venezuela since they went communists back in around two
thousand and This was a country, It was barely middle
(25:43):
class country. They had, as you said, they have trillion
dollars of oil resources. First of all, they've cut their
oil production by two thirds. The one thing that they
were getting money from They couldn't even run the oil wells,
and so you had the poverty rate in Venezuela is
seventy five to eighty percent. What seventy five to eighty
(26:06):
percent of people in Venezuela living in public This is
a country, by the way, that has as much oil
as Saudi Arabia. I don't see a lot of poverty
in Saudi Arabia, do you. Everybody's rich in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
And so the.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Eight million people have left, they lost a quarter of
their citizens. You've seen inflation, you know, it's so funny, Mark,
you know, we I don't know funny is the right word,
but you know in the US will have three or
four percent in place. Oh my god, plays out of control.
You know what inflationary? Wasn't that is the way that
five hundred percent? What five hundred percent inflation? So people
(26:43):
stopped using the currency. You know, the only thing they
could trade in was dollars, So they destroyed their currency.
They put everybody in poverty. Their their homicide ran rate
went up by about one thousand percent. It's one of
the most unsafe. It was, at least until our troops
came in One of the most unsafe. Caracas was one
of the most unsafe cities in the world. On and
on and on. They destroyed it. And now, you know,
(27:06):
let's keep our fingers crossed and pray that they can
get those oils bickets going again. And they should be
a rich country and if they do it right, they will.
But it requires what Milton Friedman told us is, you know,
free markets are the way to go. And Vince Nellie Poland,
you may have seen Poland. We had some story on
this Poland when exactly, you know, when they became free
(27:27):
and the Berlin Wall came down. They've had one of
the fastest growing economies over the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, I think you pointed out they Polish economy is
now as big as Japan's economy.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Incredible. I mean, it's just unbelievable what's happened there because
of their free So this is not complicated. You know,
a boy, New York could use some free market capitalism.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
But I mean the latest I'm reading, Mark is that
they're talking about like putting so many restrictions on rental
properties in New York City. Nobody he's going to build
another apartment building for twenty years there.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, now he points this housing director. She took down
her whole twitter attack. It's crazy, she took it down.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
She had tweeted home ownership as white supremacy.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
So yeah, well, you know what, You're not gonna have
any homeownership in New York because there's not going to
be any homes to buy. I mean, who would buy
under these kind of conditions? Who would build a new
apartment building in New York? Now?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You know, but you watch this Mondonnie talk. He seems
like a very smart young guy. Very smart. Why is
he so? Why did they get so crazy with this socialism?
Why do they become irrational over it?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
You know, it's a real indictment of our education system
because Mundonnie is well educated, he's well spoken, he's not
a dummy. He just has really really crazy ideas. And
you ask the question, where did they come from? I
think they came from the you know, the faculty lounges
at these crazy universities.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I do. Yeah. I don't think he can use the
phrase well educated anymore, because if you go to these
places you're not well educated. You come out Yeah exactly.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Yeah, he's he has let me say he's got a
lot of years of education, but I don't think he
has any you know, common sense. And I think we
have to do a real soul search as a country
about what are what are universities and schools teaching kids?
Because by the way that you know, the people who
were most enamored by Mandami were the young people in
New York.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Wow. But you point out in the hotline this week,
you look at cities like Dallas or Miami, they're just booming.
They're attracting business like that crazy. Why can't everybody see that?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Yeah, I mean in the Dallas mayor. By the way,
they've a new mayor. He's African American. He's an African
American Republican, and he's basically saying, hey, you know Wall Street,
you know, if you're fed up with the high taxes
and high regulations, we're open for business here. We now
have a Texas Stock Exchange. Why not come here. Dallas
(29:58):
is out of one hundred thousand tinnancial service jobs in
just the last ten years. So they are building Wall
Street South and New York better, you know, stop taxing
the people who create the wealth in that city, or
they're going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, Hey, are you going to take the big bull
you know in front of Wall Street and Ukraine and
and you know, transport that to Dallas.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I mean, look, I say this facetiously, but as you know,
I worked for ten years at the Wall Street Journal.
I love New York City. New York City is the
most important city in the world, arguably, and we cannot
allow it to to go.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah. Now, the other thing goes on with these socialists.
Money disappears like crazy Somalia fraud. And what about this
green green scheme, this climate green scheme that took billions
and zillions, and will we ever get it back? And
we ever have clought back?
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Are you talking about the thing in Washington State?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah? All of it?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Yeah, which went? I mean the whole thing. I mean,
we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on climate change
and none of it has changed the temperature by one
hundredth of a degree, So it has had no impact whatsoever.
But people are getting really, really rich off of this,
and so fortunately Trump is really starting to defund a
(31:18):
lot of the cheap programs because they don't work. And finally,
the American people are onto this scam. So the best
way to by the way, the more you know, we
can produce natural gas, which is Venezuela has a lot
of that, Oklahoma has a lot of Texas, natural gas
is the best way to reduce carbon emissions. So rise
the left against natural gas production.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah. Also, you know, look at the New York City.
You know the charge you an extra couple bucks for
congestion pricing. We're sitting on a ton of natural gas,
aren't we here in New York State? That would pay
for everything.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
Oh yeah, you know, New York should be one of
the major oil and gas producers in the world. You're
right there on the shale formation. And you know, I've
said this many times. In Pennsylvania, they you know, go
down and they go horizontally underneath New York and suck
out your oil so they get the money. You don't.
That's pretty stupid for New York to outlaw. You know.
(32:13):
That'd be like Texas saying we're not going to drow
for oil anymore. See, that would be a smart policy.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It's like Maduro, let's not bother with that oil underneath us.
So yeah, we'll speak more great stuff. Now, the Committee
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Yeah, it's fun. And in bed way you mentioned I
thought you were talking about I had them today that
they had a program in Washington State that was supposed
to reduce by eight million tons of carbon emissions and
it turned out to only eighty thousand, so they were
off by.
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Speaker 7 (33:15):
Well we're doing something on this. How about this idea
index capital gains taxes for inflation, so you pay only
the tax on you know, you're after inflation gain. And
we think that will spurl out of new housing coming
on the market. And so keep stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
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Speaker 3 (34:13):
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
HI. Hang on, just looking at the text. Oh, Sean
Hannity heading to DC going to do a big interview
with President Trump. You'll see that, of course, hearing on
the radio here on w or you'll see it on
Fox News Channel at nine o'clock. Hey, this new CBS
Evening News. The anchor, pretty sharp looking guy, Tony Nobody's
(34:43):
every you know his name? Tony debuded the moon over
it is, but the way they promote things. You know,
there's an opposition leader in Venezuela, the woman who won
the Nobel Prize, who's the opposition leader who may take
over there. I'm watching CBS Evening News and he's going
to interview her. So they're promoting it all day, and
then when he opens the CBS Evening News, he said,
(35:04):
an exclusive interview with the opposition leader, whatever her name, is,
an exclusive interview. And I'm thinking to myself, I just
saw on Hannity last night. She did a half hour
on Sean Hannity's show. They keep saying exclusive. The just
earlier this week, I'm watching the MS now they said
tonight at nine, exclusive interview with Nancy Pelosi. Anytime I
(35:27):
put on TV, day or night, there's Nancy Pelosi. She's
on everything. She's on every show everywhere. What was the
other one the other night, an exclusive interview with Gavin Newsom. Yeah,
he's hard to he's hard to get out in public.
Gavin Newsom's on everything every second. It never stops. So anyway,
it's gonna be a beautiful day to day. Actually, today
(35:48):
will be the nicest day of the year so far.
It's gonna be fifty actually, real feel will be like
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rain looks like rain for the whole weekend. So today,
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You just heard the news.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now you'll find out what it all means. Hey, smart
simone on seven ten. Woah, Well, lots to get to today.
We'll get over Minnesota, Zuppruterer like by frame. We'll get
to crazy Kathy Hoko, We'll get to Mom Donnie, We'll
get to Greenland. Anybody remember Maduro. He'll be forgotten about now.
(00:25):
You won't hear about him again for a month. All
you can to hear about is Minnesota. He's gonna be
sitting in the Brooklyn Detention Center looking at the TV
NonStop Minnesota coverage. Maduro will be saying, well, what happened
to me? They forget about me? That he's forgotten about.
We'll get to Nick Reiner, his lawyer quit Minnesota. You're
(00:47):
gonna hear about this now for the next month. It's
gonna be rough because you got really, really, really bad
public officials in Minnesota. You got a crazy left wing
mayor who obviously you know, you got the nuttiest governor
in America, Tim Waltz. They've been trying to rile this
(01:08):
thing up. In fact, if anybody caused this, it's well
the whole left wing attack Ice movement, but especially in Minnesota,
where the governor Waltz is called the Ice the Gestapo
and they're snatching up people off the streets. And the
mayor's been just as bad. Even yesterday after this horrible incident,
(01:29):
he just tries to rile things up talking about Ice.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And I have a message for Ice to Ice get
out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You see, you're not supposed to do that if you're
a mayor. Now, it's a kind of thing Trump might
do where he doesn't act presidential and he'll use the
F word or something like it and then all hell
breaks loose. But when the Democrat does it, it's just fine.
Have you heard anybody any mainstream of fake news media?
Have they complained about this guy's language?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And I have a message for Ice to Ice get
out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So but it's Democrats, So it's weapons grade hypocrisy. They're
not going to go after this guy, but he just
went on and on trashing Ice.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They are already trying to spin this as an action
of self defense. Having seen the video of myself, I
want to tell everybody directly that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Is this is a totally reckless, irresponsible mayor who's going
to get people killed over this Now, what are you
supposed to do. You're supposed to wait till you have
more facts. You know, you're speaking an hour after the
whole thing. You haven't had a chance to really go
over the video or talk to anybody. Tom Homan, believe
(02:43):
it or not, was the voice of reason. This is
the kind of thing you're supposed to say right after
the incident. What good is it to do right now?
To me?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Prejudge the Fact's what happened to say without giving law
enforced professional for the j FPI or the local police there,
give them time to look at all the talk to
all the witnesses, talk to the officers, and make an
educated decision. What occurred today?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do, now, Christy Nome, Yeah,
she went too far too She declared it immediately domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It was an active domestic terrorism. What happened was our
ice officers were out in an enforcement action. They got
stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that
is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle,
and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and
attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, Now the woman is a criminal, an absolute criminal,
resisting arrest and all sorts of stuff, all sorts of
criminal acts. Had there been no shooting, the woman would
be in jail right now and getting charged with about
nine things. She was a criminal at that moment based
on her behavior. But domestic terrorist, I don't know about that.
And what is Christynome doing wearing that cowboy hat on camera?
(03:59):
It looks a little, doesn't it. But here's here are
the facts. Remember, everybody goes nuts after an incident like this.
Everybody goes totally tribal, and one tribe goes to their
extreme right and one tribe goes to the extreme left.
The facts. They keep showing you the video where it
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looks like the woman has brushed by the cop and
is about to drive away, and it looks like there
was no reason to shoot, and he's shooting into the side,
into the passenger and the driver's window on the side,
where all you know, she would have driven away, and
you'd think, well, you don't have to shoot her. If
you had to really catch her. These ice guys all
(04:40):
have vehicles. They could have caught her. But they're not
showing you two videos and that's the problem. If you
watch network news or mainstream stuff, they're not showing you
two specific videos that were taken from the front. One
of them is up on my Twitter if you want
to see it. But there are two videos taken from
(05:00):
the front that they deliberately don't show you. And if
you look at the ones taken from the front, she
clearly hits the ice agent with her car. She hits him,
and the reason in those other videos it looks like
he was on the side of her car is when
she hit him, it knocked him to the side of
the car. But she does hit him with the car.
(05:22):
He gets knocked to the side, and the first Shotty fires,
it looks like the car was still coming at him
because the first shot, the first bullet hole is through
the front windshield, and that's going to be crucial in
the case. If the bullet goes to the front windshield,
he clearly was defending himself. If it goes to the
side windshield, well that seems unnecessary to keep shooting. But
(05:44):
once you start firing, you're firing. And it turns out
there's one report and this is why that ice officer
might have been so quick and jumpy it turns out
there's one report that this ice officer in a previous
incident somewhere else where same thing, left wing hooks were
trying to terrorize the Ice agents, the same officer was
(06:05):
hit by a car and dragged by the car. And
another so you could see where this guy be really
afraid of getting dragged by a car again or killed
by a car. So it'll go to a federal court.
He will not be charged with anything because if you
look at the videos from the front, she hits him
with the car. She does absolutely hit him with the car,
(06:25):
and then he fires. Now, you're not supposed to under normal,
say NYPD normal police department rules, not supposed to fire
into a car like that unless it's coming right at you,
and in the videos from the front, it's coming right
at him. Now. The other thing is the state of
Minnesota or the local city of Minneapolis may try to
charge him locally and put him in a left wing,
(06:46):
crazy left wing kind of court where he'll get convicted.
But I don't know that they could. I guess they
could charge him, I don't know if they could ever
get him into custody. He will not return to Minnesota, obviously,
and there's no way they're going to extra item. But
it's gonna this is all you're gonna hear about for us.
It's like George Floyd. George Floyd was different though, because
(07:08):
when you watch that cop with the knee on the neck,
you can't see in any way why that was necessary.
You just can't see it. They had the guy, uh
handcuffed in the car, even when they had him on
the ground handcuffed. No matter how much he was flopping
around or whatever he was doing, you can't see why
you would put your knee on his neck and hold
it there for that. You just can't see it. But
(07:31):
if you look at the videos of the front of
this car, you can see why this guy got crazy
and might have started a fire because she does hit
him with her car. Now you got crazy left wing
fake news cranking it up this morning. You know all
those reuters AP they're the ones that supply everybody. And
if you look at the headlines they were sending out,
(07:51):
it was the most slanted, biased stuff. The headline was
mother of a six year old a poet new to Minneapolis. Gun. Yes,
she was a mother of a six year old. And
that's what a lot of these stories that they were doing.
If you're watch in the MS, whatever the hell it
is a lot. She was a mother. There's now a
(08:11):
six year old without her mother. A six year old
child has lost her mother. Well, it's a very very
tragic situation. You imagine losing your mother. But on the
other hand, can you imagine your mother getting an suv
and driving into an ice operation and try to stop
them with her car. I can't imagine my mother. I
(08:32):
don't think you could picture your mother driving into the
middle of an ice operation. And we do know from witnesses,
we absolutely know that for that whole day she had
been terrorizing the ice operation, trying to block them, stop them,
harass them, troll them. I can't imagine my mother. I'm
sure you can't imagine your mother doing that. And if
it got to the point where it's going on forever,
(08:54):
you're harassing the Ice agents, blocking them, and at some
point they told you get out of the car. Do
you know anybody who if the cops told you, all right,
step out of the car, who wouldn't. And then if
they demanded you get out of the car, do you
know anybody that would back up a little and then
hit the accelerator and speed up, trying to hit them.
(09:16):
Even if she wasn't trying to hit them, what else
would she be doing. Well, she'd be trying to flee.
But if you are told to get out of the
car by the cops and then you attempt to flee,
you've left the category of a normal citizen. You're now
a criminal evading arrest. So President Trump was asked about
the video. He said it was very upsetting to him.
(09:38):
He said, it's hard to watch. It is a terrible, terrible,
tragic video, very tough to watch, and it's just going
to get worse and worse and worse. And again, if
you go to my Twitter, you can see the video
from the front. This is the one they don't show you.
It's taken from in front of the car. You can
see the car hit the officer and knock him to
the side. Also, remember when you're watching these videos and
(10:02):
it looks like, let's say you believe the first one
was justified. First shot, the car hits him, first shot
is through the front windshield. The obviously he's in front
of the car. She's trying to hit him. If you're
saying to yourself, okay, well, I could see that, But
then why did he keep firing into the side of
the car. Why the second third? Well, remember you're watching
(10:22):
the video slowed down. The video is very, very very
slowed down, so it's like twelve seconds. In twelve seconds,
a lot of time to think. But in real life,
if you watch the video full speed, it's like a
tenth of a second. There's no time to think after
the first shot. And again, the way it works in
(10:42):
police departments, you're not supposed to shoot to wound or
just try to hit him in the arm. Once you're shooting,
you're shooting right at them. And once you start pulling
the trigger, you might pull it a few times. So
then you got all the left wing people jumping in
on this. Here's mom Donnie, who well, of course can't
shut up about it all day.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
This is one part of what has been a year
full of cruelty. And we know that when ICE agents
attack immigrants, they attack every single one of us across
this country.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
No, here's the problem. It has never been an ICE
agent attacking an immigrant. They're not going after immigrants, they're
going after illegals, illegals who snuck into the country though,
and this is so insulting to immigrants that the left wing,
the mom donnis these are the backbone of America, immigrants
who've come here and are working to lump them in
(11:34):
with illegals. It's so cruel of Mamdanni.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And this is a city and will always be a
city that stands up for immigrants across the Five.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Boroughs, absolutely, but not illegals. Immigrants not illegals. That's the
problem with the Democrats. It's all a blur. They can't
they just can't see it.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
So I can't speak to what the President will do.
I can tell you, however, what I've also said to
him directly, which is that I believe that these raids
are cruel and inhumane and they do nothing to actually
serve the interests of public safety.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I don't know about that. If you look at
who they've arrested, ninety nine percent of them are actual
criminals committing crimes on the street. Many of them are vicious,
violent gang members. So taking them off the street is
a good thing and does serve the interest of it.
And of course he's a crazy left wing Democrat, so
they don't understand why taking criminals off the street is
(12:25):
a good thing.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
And what New Yorkers want to see is a city
that they are safe in, a city that they can
also feel comfortable leaving their home in.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah. Now, let me think, how would you create a
city that people feel safe in and people would feel
comfortable leaving their home in. Well, I would think step
number one, get the criminals off the street. Arrest all
the criminals and take them off the street. Why would
you not feel safe in your own city. Why would
(12:58):
you not feel safe leaving your home? Well, because you
think there might be a criminal out there. That guy
over there, it might be a criminal. This guy might
be a criminal. You're worried about criminals. Arrest them, lock
them up. It goes back to Andrew Cuomo with us
let them all run loose, close the prisons. Remember he
bragged about closing prisons, letting them all out, no bail,
no jail, let them just let them out, let him out.
(13:20):
That's when you don't feel safe.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I have made it clear to everyone within my city
government and that extends to NYPD, that we are going
to uphold our sanctuary city policies. We are going to adhere.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Now, what does that mean sanctuary city? What is the
actual definition of sanctuary city. It means if you're an
illegal criminal who snuck in, their attitude is let them go.
I don't bother the guy that's a sanctuary city to them.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
That is why one of the eleven executive orders that
we signed was to repeal the previous administration's order to
allow for collaboration with ICE on Riker's Island.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Now you've got illegal gang members who are in Rykers Island.
ICE is the official organization that's supposed to do something
about that. You don't want to cooperate with them. Again,
this is left wing crazy, left wing socialists. This is
a Cuomo kind of no bail, no jail, closed the prison.
This is just nuts. It's the reason Democrats are now
(14:21):
at the lowest approval rating in history. Even hey, also
on my Twitter, take alarly this clip from CNN the
other day where they put up the poll numbers. Even
on CNN, they had to show that Democrats are at
the lowest approval rating they've ever been in in their lives.
Now why because you know, as crazy as you think
Trump is with his the way he talks, the way
(14:43):
things he does, He's why does he do this? Why
does he have to do that he's not presidential, he's
acting crazy. Well, for all of that, as Stephen A.
Smith pointed out, he's still to most people, he looks
a lot more normal than Democrats. What he's doing with
all his craziness is much much, much more normal than Democrats,
who think it's okay to illegal aliens, gang members roam
(15:06):
the streets, and they think it's okay for even if
you're just a mother and a housewife or whatever you are,
to get in your suv and driving it right into
the ice operation and try to block them, then try
to drive your car at him, and then try to
evade arrest and speed away. It's not okay. It never was,
it never will be. So we'll get back to Minnesota.
(15:27):
We'll talk about it throughout the morning. Hey, Nick Reiner
lost his lawyer. It's a top, top, top criminal attorney
in Los Angeles, handle a lot of big cases. He quit.
He's dropped out. Alan Jackson said he had no choice
but to quit the case. When asked why, he said
(15:48):
he's legally prohibited from publicly explaining why. So, whatever the
reason is, there's still that attorney client privilege. Whatever craziness
is there, he can't say it. He did say, Nick
Reiner's not guilty of murder. I think what he means
there obviously is. But I think what he means there
is that it was drug induced from all the psychotropic
(16:09):
drugs he's on, or that he was mentally ill or deranged,
or that it's not actual murder. Reiner was in court,
Nick Reiner, the crazy kid, and he was smirking and
smiling at the judge. He needs a new lawyer, so
he needs time. Next court date February twenty third, So
it's like a month and a half before you'll see
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this guy again. And we've got lots to get to
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wor Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Rich
(16:54):
in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Hey, Thanks, Mark, good to talk to you again. You
know this thing Minnesota was gonna happen. The Dems wanted
this to happen. They've been calling for this kind of
action for a year and a half now, and he
knew what was going to happen. And all these people,
these politicians jumped in front of a microphone before they
had any facts. And now they're going to write and
burn down Minneapolis, just like they did after Floyd or
(17:19):
whatever his name was. It's just discussing. The press just
sits by and does absolutely nothing about it.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Can help.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Actually, they do a lot. They go crazy trying to
rile everybody. You're right in the offices of CNN and
MS now in the New York Times, when this video
came in, they actually said to themselves, great, this is great.
We can use this. We can use this for months. Now,
let's go to Mara in Nevada. Mara, how you doing Mark?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
This is starting my forty sixth year of having you
in my life.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
And you know what, the best thing was six months
ago I met you and rugged you was a few
months ago into my life.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, Mara and Vincent came to New York. They went
to the legendary Patsy's restaurant.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Yes, and he's been in my life. We took at
least every week.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wow, that's great. And if you go to my Instagram,
you can see a picture of Vincent and Mara at Patsy's.
You gotta scroll.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Back like a great day, Mark Darling, you put a
smile on my face. I'm very very old. So let's
see how long you could be doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
A spring chicken, as they used to say.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Okay, I need.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
All right, Mara, thanks for calling. Let's go to Tony
and White Plains.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Tony, how you doing, yeah, Mark, Mark, Those hypocris over
there in the other station, ABC.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh, don't pick on them, they're all nice people.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Yeah, Well, they's a reason why they got Zoron, because
especially talatso over there, Dominic.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Carter, I don't pick friends of mine, don't pick.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
On them, I know. But he started from day one.
Kurts came when you know, you know why he kept
saying that, because he was afraid if Curtis did win.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
No, no, no, you know why they kept saying that.
They convinced themselves of that. You know, you can't get
mad at somebody for their.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Dat.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
They had a reason why he got zor On, and
they're saying that, Well, if you got.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
To blame somebody for Zorn, you gotta blame Andrew Cuomo
This is all his fault. He came along and it
didn't just start with the election season. He started about
two years ago, working on the whole crowd there, the
whole Upper East Side, the Hampton's Palm Beach. He was
whining and dining all these donors, these big they're nice people,
(19:32):
the big donors, but they're the dumbest people in the
world when it comes to politics. They always backed the
wrong but he convinced them that only he can win.
I don't know how the hell he convinced. It's pretty
It's a fascinating thing to study. Here's the guy who
just got run out of office with the police chasing him.
Here's the guy who left and resigned in disgrace. Two
(19:52):
years later, he's convincing them he could be elected. That's
like Nixon two years after Watergate, thinking he can run again.
Give Elliott Spitzers credit. At least he's a classy guy
about it. He got run out of office with the
criminal kind of things hanging around over his head. He
knows he can't run again, but Cuomo convinced that he
could run again. He completely screwed up the Democratic primary
(20:14):
by scaring Eric Adams out of it. Had he not
had been no Cuomo, Eric Adams would have run for reelection,
would have been in the primary, probably could have won
the Democratic primary. He can out Cuomo's the world's worst debater.
He got beaten to a pulp by Mamdani in two debates.
Adams would have done better. He's not the most articulate
(20:35):
guy in the world, but he can be charming in
those debates. He probably would have got the nomination and
that would have been the end of it. Let's go
to Bob in Montville, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good?
Speaker 11 (20:46):
Mard Thanks a lot, But I don't want to like
keep loading up on the Somalians. But you know, in
Maine there is a very similar problem, but probably worse.
You know, a few years ago there was that mass
shooting there, people murdered. Yeah, all the money that was
collected gofund me was directed to Somalian NGOs there.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh yeah, no, it's bad everywhere. Effect people think California
may set the all time record for this kind of fraud.
They haven't started to look into it yet, and they
think Illinois got a huge, huge number. When it comes
to this kind of fraud, it's all over the place,
and the Somalians in the fraud schemes of Minnesota are
so thrilled about this shooting yesterday because it gets them
(21:29):
off the front page for a while. Let's go to Grace,
Rockland County. Grace. How you doing?
Speaker 12 (21:34):
Hi? I'm also at a town to.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Tell you you that's so loud that people sleep in
here hold of town.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
Oh okay, I project I was a New York City
school teacher.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Listen, that's a South school teacher talks. You walk in
and say welcome to class.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
Yes, you got to get wake them up. Let me
tell you because they have still not Okay, what I
want to say?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Are you sure you were a school teacher?
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Of course? I was a Winter Hunt. I graduated with Honest.
Come on, because I sound like a homie doesn't mean
I'm not refine and ed.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh you're very fine. In fact, I can't believe you
went the Hunter. I was thinking Oxford, Cambridge or something.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
No, no, no, no. I was a child of an immigrant.
I went to Hunter. Okay, what I'm calling about is this.
I feel sorry the woman got killed, but she and
her partner should have worried about not putting themselves in danger.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
No, actually one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
She's married to a woman, and the woman, the partner said,
this is all my fault. I shouldn't have brought her
into this situation. I shouldn't have brought her to this protest. Right.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
I'm glad you said that, But the thing is, as
a mother, you do not put yourself in that kind
of danger. I feel very sorry, but unfortunately you report yoursel.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now, Grace, where do you live in Rockland County?
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Oh, I'm in I'm in Clarkstown.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now, Clarkstown's a beautiful small town. When you talk like
that in town? Can they tell you from New York? Yes?
I don't see. What's the regular Sherlock Holmes that they
figured it out.
Speaker 12 (23:06):
I don't really care what anybody says you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You're very charming.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
I want to say something my accent when you were
when you were up the line, you gave me one
hundred and fifty dollars because I had the most I
don't know, offensive accent or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Coll Who did that? Who did that? I did?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (23:29):
I got three gift cards from me. Yeah, from the station.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You want to contest for the worst accent?
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh well you're a nice woman. Grace, call again. Don't
don't thank you.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
And you're very good and I think you're great.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
You're great too, don't keep calling us. Thanks for calling. Hey.
When we come back, we're hoping to talk to Steve Moore.
We'll see coming up next on seven to ten w
r R s Mark Simone. Joe continues, Now, well, Steve,
brilliant economist Steve Moore. Of course you see them all
(24:06):
over television. Read his columns. Is one coming in the
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(24:28):
Unleash Prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, how you.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Doing well, Mark, I'm doing great. Twenty twenty six is
off to a rip roar and start. We've seen amazing
gains in the stock market. We've seen, you know, an
incredible military operation that will go down in the annals
of history. Is one of the most flawless operations ever
We liberated thirty million people in Venezuela, a very humanitarian mission.
(24:55):
And look, I think in places coming down, jobs are
going up, peas going up. It's going to be a
blockbuster year.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, you know, Venezuela is fascinating. There's no better example
of the uselessness of socialism. He decides to go socialist.
Everybody's starving to death. It's horrible. They're sitting on three
hundred billion barrels of oil there seventeen seas. Why was
he in these drug things? Why didn't he just become
an oil baron?
Speaker 7 (25:23):
You know, we had something in how you mentioned our
hotline thank you and by the way, that's free. Folks
just go to on least past thirty to kind of
get that for free. But on Monday we had an
item that got a lot of attention, which we just
we just walked people through with charts. What had happened
to Venezuela since they went communists back in around two
thousand and This was a country, It was barely middle
(25:43):
class country. They had, as you said, they have trillion
dollars of oil resources. First of all, they've cut their
oil production by two thirds. The one thing that they
were getting money from They couldn't even run the oil wells,
and so you had the poverty rate in Venezuela is
seventy five to eighty percent. What seventy five to eighty
(26:06):
percent of people in Venezuela living in public This is
a country, by the way, that has as much oil
as Saudi Arabia. I don't see a lot of poverty
in Saudi Arabia, do you. Everybody's rich in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
And so the.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Eight million people have left, they lost a quarter of
their citizens. You've seen inflation, you know, it's so funny, Mark,
you know, we I don't know funny is the right word,
but you know in the US will have three or
four percent in place. Oh my god, plays out of control.
You know what inflationary? Wasn't that is the way that
five hundred percent? What five hundred percent inflation? So people
(26:43):
stopped using the currency. You know, the only thing they
could trade in was dollars, So they destroyed their currency.
They put everybody in poverty. Their their homicide ran rate
went up by about one thousand percent. It's one of
the most unsafe. It was, at least until our troops
came in One of the most unsafe. Caracas was one
of the most unsafe cities in the world. On and
on and on. They destroyed it. And now, you know,
(27:06):
let's keep our fingers crossed and pray that they can
get those oils bickets going again. And they should be
a rich country and if they do it right, they will.
But it requires what Milton Friedman told us is, you know,
free markets are the way to go. And Vince Nellie Poland,
you may have seen Poland. We had some story on
this Poland when exactly, you know, when they became free
(27:27):
and the Berlin Wall came down. They've had one of
the fastest growing economies over the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, I think you pointed out they Polish economy is
now as big as Japan's economy.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Incredible. I mean, it's just unbelievable what's happened there because
of their free So this is not complicated. You know,
a boy, New York could use some free market capitalism.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
But I mean the latest I'm reading, Mark is that
they're talking about like putting so many restrictions on rental
properties in New York City. Nobody he's going to build
another apartment building for twenty years there.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, now he points this housing director. She took down
her whole twitter attack. It's crazy, she took it down.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
She had tweeted home ownership as white supremacy.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
So yeah, well, you know what, You're not gonna have
any homeownership in New York because there's not going to
be any homes to buy. I mean, who would buy
under these kind of conditions? Who would build a new
apartment building in New York? Now?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You know, but you watch this Mondonnie talk. He seems
like a very smart young guy. Very smart. Why is
he so? Why did they get so crazy with this socialism?
Why do they become irrational over it?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
You know, it's a real indictment of our education system
because Mundonnie is well educated, he's well spoken, he's not
a dummy. He just has really really crazy ideas. And
you ask the question, where did they come from? I
think they came from the you know, the faculty lounges
at these crazy universities.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I do. Yeah. I don't think he can use the
phrase well educated anymore, because if you go to these
places you're not well educated. You come out Yeah exactly.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Yeah, he's he has let me say he's got a
lot of years of education, but I don't think he
has any you know, common sense. And I think we
have to do a real soul search as a country
about what are what are universities and schools teaching kids?
Because by the way that you know, the people who
were most enamored by Mandami were the young people in
New York.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Wow. But you point out in the hotline this week,
you look at cities like Dallas or Miami, they're just booming.
They're attracting business like that crazy. Why can't everybody see that?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Yeah, I mean in the Dallas mayor. By the way,
they've a new mayor. He's African American. He's an African
American Republican, and he's basically saying, hey, you know Wall Street,
you know, if you're fed up with the high taxes
and high regulations, we're open for business here. We now
have a Texas Stock Exchange. Why not come here. Dallas
(29:58):
is out of one hundred thousand tinnancial service jobs in
just the last ten years. So they are building Wall
Street South and New York better, you know, stop taxing
the people who create the wealth in that city, or
they're going to be gone.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, Hey, are you going to take the big bull
you know in front of Wall Street and Ukraine and
and you know, transport that to Dallas.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I mean, look, I say this facetiously, but as you know,
I worked for ten years at the Wall Street Journal.
I love New York City. New York City is the
most important city in the world, arguably, and we cannot
allow it to to go.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah. Now, the other thing goes on with these socialists.
Money disappears like crazy Somalia fraud. And what about this
green green scheme, this climate green scheme that took billions
and zillions, and will we ever get it back? And
we ever have clought back?
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Are you talking about the thing in Washington State?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah? All of it?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Yeah, which went? I mean the whole thing. I mean,
we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on climate change
and none of it has changed the temperature by one
hundredth of a degree, So it has had no impact whatsoever.
But people are getting really, really rich off of this,
and so fortunately Trump is really starting to defund a
(31:18):
lot of the cheap programs because they don't work. And finally,
the American people are onto this scam. So the best
way to by the way, the more you know, we
can produce natural gas, which is Venezuela has a lot
of that, Oklahoma has a lot of Texas, natural gas
is the best way to reduce carbon emissions. So rise
the left against natural gas production.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah. Also, you know, look at the New York City.
You know the charge you an extra couple bucks for
congestion pricing. We're sitting on a ton of natural gas,
aren't we here in New York State? That would pay
for everything.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
Oh yeah, you know, New York should be one of
the major oil and gas producers in the world. You're
right there on the shale formation. And you know, I've
said this many times. In Pennsylvania, they you know, go
down and they go horizontally underneath New York and suck
out your oil so they get the money. You don't.
That's pretty stupid for New York to outlaw. You know.
(32:13):
That'd be like Texas saying we're not going to drow
for oil anymore. See, that would be a smart policy.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It's like Maduro, let's not bother with that oil underneath us.
So yeah, we'll speak more great stuff. Now, the Committee
to Unleashed Prosperity, which you put together. It's a great
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know how you guys write that. It's really good stuff
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Speaker 7 (32:40):
Yeah, it's fun. And in bed way you mentioned I
thought you were talking about I had them today that
they had a program in Washington State that was supposed
to reduce by eight million tons of carbon emissions and
it turned out to only eighty thousand, so they were
off by.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Well that's this daily briefing has the best analysis of
the stories you know, and it has all these stories
you don't know about. But it's free. Just go sign
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Speaker 7 (33:15):
Well we're doing something on this. How about this idea
index capital gains taxes for inflation, so you pay only
the tax on you know, you're after inflation gain. And
we think that will spurl out of new housing coming
on the market. And so keep stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I like it, and get Steve Moore's book, The Trump
Economic Miracle. It's excellent Steve Moore a miracle. You're gonna
have to do a volume two and a couple of years.
All right, Mark, thanks for being with us. Take care
the great Steve Moore. And that is the best daily
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unleash prosperity dot com sign up for the hotline. Hey,
(33:53):
don't forget Buck and Clay at noon today. I love
listening to them every day twelve noon. Then you got
the most listened to radio show in America. Sean Hannity,
got Jesse Kelly at six and Jimmy Fayla does the
best show. It's funny, it's interesting every night at nine.
And he'll be with us in the next hour here
on seven to ten WR.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
The Mark Simone Show on sevenr.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
HI. Hang on, just looking at the text. Oh, Sean
Hannity heading to DC going to do a big interview
with President Trump. You'll see that, of course, hearing on
the radio here on w or you'll see it on
Fox News Channel at nine o'clock. Hey, this new CBS
Evening News. The anchor, pretty sharp looking guy, Tony Nobody's
(34:43):
every you know his name? Tony debuded the moon over
it is, but the way they promote things. You know,
there's an opposition leader in Venezuela, the woman who won
the Nobel Prize, who's the opposition leader who may take
over there. I'm watching CBS Evening News and he's going
to interview her. So they're promoting it all day, and
then when he opens the CBS Evening News, he said,
(35:04):
an exclusive interview with the opposition leader, whatever her name, is,
an exclusive interview. And I'm thinking to myself, I just
saw on Hannity last night. She did a half hour
on Sean Hannity's show. They keep saying exclusive. The just
earlier this week, I'm watching the MS now they said
tonight at nine, exclusive interview with Nancy Pelosi. Anytime I
(35:27):
put on TV, day or night, there's Nancy Pelosi. She's
on everything. She's on every show everywhere. What was the
other one the other night, an exclusive interview with Gavin Newsom. Yeah,
he's hard to he's hard to get out in public.
Gavin Newsom's on everything every second. It never stops. So anyway,
it's gonna be a beautiful day to day. Actually, today
(35:48):
will be the nicest day of the year so far.
It's gonna be fifty actually, real feel will be like
fifty two degrees most of the day to day. Tomorrow
rain looks like rain for the whole weekend. So today,
get out, walk around today and enjoy that. What's gonna
be the best weather for the whole year so far. Anyway, Hey,
in the next hour, Jimmy Fayla will be with us.
(36:10):
Jimmy Fayla coming up. Uh Hey, check out my Instagram. Oh,
I had dinner with Curtis last night. It was pretty interesting. Anyway,
it's pictures up on Instagram if you want to take
a look at it. Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. And
don't forget Jimmy Fayler tonight at nine. It's an excellent show.
If you haven't listened yet, give it a try nine
(36:31):
to midnight. But he'll be with us in the next hour.
So we've got that and a lot more just ahead.
I'm here every day ten to noon, right here on
seven to ten. WR
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