December 15, 2025 • 32 mins
Actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were tragically killed over the weekend by their son, according to reliable sources. Mark provides the latest updates on the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. With the midterm elections approaching, Republicans are expected to campaign aggressively to make their case for reelection. The GOP faces criticism for failing so far to stop the rise in healthcare premiums, which could affect their chances in 2026. Ed also shares insights on what aspiring Presidential candidates should be doing now to prepare for 2028.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here comes the Mark Simone Show on seven Wall. Well, oh,
we got a lot to get to today, a lot
of things happening. We bring you all the latest on
Rob Reiner, on Brown University, on Australia, and then we'll
get to of course Trump, the political stuff. We'll get
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to all of that coming up. We'll get to New York,
we'll get to the tourists, we'll get to Epstein, we'll
get to twenty twenty eight, and all sorts of stuff
to talk about. The Rob Reiner well, you know, it's
the whole weekend was strange. It wasn't much of a
big news weekend, and then all of a sudden you
had Australia the terrible shooting. Then you had Brown University
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the terrible shooting, and you had these two things just
taking everybody's attention, and then all of a sudden, the
Rob Reiner situation. Here's the latest on Rob Reiner. He
lives in Brentwood. This is about a mile and a
half from Ojay's house where Nicole Simpson was killed and
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almost stabbed. Wasn't she decapitated? So this is another stabbing
in Brentwood in the same neighborhood. Now, Rob Reiner has
a big, huge house in Brentwood, but it's sort of
a compound, and on the grounds is another couple buildings.
One is a guest house. And Rob Reiner had three
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kids with the wife Michelle. But remember he had previously
been married to Penny Marshall, and he had another child.
He had a daughter with Penny Marshall, and that daughter
lived in the guest house. And the police are not
revealing much of anything right now, they're keeping very quiet.
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Later today they'll have a press conference and maybe explain
some of this. But here's what I've heard, again, not confirmed,
but the daughter's in the guest house. This is yesterday.
It's a Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, and she hears incredibly
loud arguing in the main house, real arguing, and at
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some point later she goes over to check and finds
Rob Reiner, her father, and her stepmother dead. Calls police
immediately they show up. There's recording these nine to one
one calls that I think there was a fire department
of something that responded first, calling for more back up,
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and then the police show up. She tells them about
the arguing. She believes it was the son Nick, son
of Rob Reiner, who's thirty two years old. Now, this
son is a very, very troubled son. Drug addiction, mental,
all kinds of mental problems. He'd been so bad with
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the drug addiction. Seventeen times in rehabit didn't work. He
ended up homeless on the street and Texas, homeless, in Maine,
homeless all over the place. I knew Rob Briiner. I
didn't know the kid, but if you look at any
picture of the kid, his eyes look a little psycho,
a little crazy. And I don't know the situation of
how this all started with the drugs and everything, but
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he just spiraled out of control and it was so hopeless.
There was absolutely no saving this kid. I'm sure Rob
b Reiner tried, and at one point he came back
to Los Angeles. They thought they straightened him out, and
he made a movie about his drug addiction and about
his rehab and all of that stuff. But I guess
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this went crazy again and there was no hope for
this kid. So it looks like he was the one
in this crazy, loud argument with the parents and then
stabbed them and slit their throats again. This is a
mile and a half from where Oj slit the throats
of the wife and Ron Brown. But now from what
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I've heard the police, this is not confirmed, but police
have taken the kid into custody. He's thirty two. The
son's name is Nick. They have earlier an hour or
two ago taking him into custody, So that would indicate
they have the evidence they need, or they think they
have the evidence that he's guilty. So it was a
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terrible scene at the home yesterday, Police all over the place,
the crime tape up close. Friends of Rob Brner, Billy Crystal,
Larry David was seen coming to the house leaving crying upset.
So there'd be a press conference of some kind. They'll
announce something later today. But apparently the son is in
custody and we'll see what happens. So you got that
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going on. You also got Brown University terrible situation. Now,
the first reports indicated it was some sort of something
to do with anti Semitism, anti Semitic attack, small Jewish
community at Brown University, but a lot of people there
are also saying with a very small conservative bunch of
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people at Brown University, students and some are not so
sure this was anti semitism. It might have been anti conservatism.
One of the people shot turns out to be the
president's student, but the president of the Republican Club at
Brown University. So it could be anti semitism as a motive,
but there could also be an anti conservative attack. We'll see.
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It's the Providence police department, not the sharpest police department
on Earth, and Brown University very prominent university. I'm not
a big fan of their security director. You know, a
lot of times you're a university, when you hire a
security director, you hire somebody with incredible law enforcement experience ex. Police,
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X FBI, something like that. This guy his whole life
was campus security. You'll see somewhere in his bio he
was a policeman, a police captain. It was campus police forces.
So he's not a guy with any real law enforcement experience.
He spent his whole life in campus police departments, then
becoming a campus security director other universities and Brown hired
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him a couple of years ago. So he's the security director.
And you know, it may not have been anything. There
might not have been anything anybody else could have done
to protect this campus. But you got that going on
then you got the awful, horrific Australia shooting. It was
a Muslim terrorist attack. The shooters a father and son,
both Muslim terrorists, at this beach in Australia, using one
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of those assault rifle you know, you know the kind
that Chuck Schumer and the others yell about. Remember whenever
there's a shooting with one of those rifles, all they
do is scream for more gun laws. They act as
if gun laws would prevent shootings. Now nobody has tougher
gun laws than Chicago, and they have more shootings than
any place in America. The problem with the thinking gun
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laws as a solution is shooters a c maniacs, criminals
who don't follow laws. They don't get a law book
and look it up to see if it's okay to
do what they're doing. So in this situation, nobody, nobody
in the world, no country, had tougher gun laws than
in Australia. They've been passing gun laws since nineteen ninety six.
Huge gun laws, tremendous gun laws. So it has nothing
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to do with stopping shootings. It was a horrible situation.
You got one guy who was a hero who hid
between two parked cars waited for the right moment. The
video is amazing. He runs out, tackles the shooter with
the rifle, somehow wrestles the gun away from him and
stops the shooter makes him lie down. However, remember there
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was a second shooter, the Sun, who sees what's going
on and shoots the hero, hitting him twice. But the
hero has just had surgery. It looks like he'll be okay.
He's doing well. It looks like he'll survive and be
just fine. So an incredible hero in Austria, an amazing
act of bravery. He said to he was with somebody
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else and he said, I'm not going to survive this.
He decided he would go tackle the shooter and stop
and he said, I'm not going to come out of
this alive. Tell my family this. And that's a but
an amazing, amazing situation. So things could develop this morning.
There's going to be press conferences in La more details
about Rob Reiner. But from we know, the Sun is
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in custody. It looks like he is the stabber. It's
a horrible, horrible situation. I knew Rob Reiner. He was
a very nice guy. I know he was a crazy
left wing nut politically, but I had a million conversations
with him. Never once talked about politics. We loved We
would talk about old show business and old comedians and
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Sid Caesar and Dick Van Dyke Show and that kind
of stuff. But he's like a lot of Hollywood people,
he just got into the cult. You know, they sit
there and they watch MSNBC all day and they believe
everything they're hearing. They think all this crazy stuff is true.
You know, it's like people who listen to those flying
saucer shows in the middle of the night, which are great,
they're entertaining, but these people start to believe it. They
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think there's flying saucers everywhere. So it's the same thing
with the MSNBC crowd. And then they got all these
echo chambers where you know, it's reinforced from MSNBC. Then
they watch Colbert, they watch the crazy ABC Sunday shows.
They think Trump is a crook, a maniac, a dying,
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he's a lunatic, he's a dictator. They start to believe
all this stuff. Listen, there's stuff you could not like
about Trump. I understand that, but you know, if they
ever stepped away from all that and got out of
the echo chamber. These Trump derangement syndrome idiots, they might
realize Trump is actually one of the most fascinating guys
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in history. You know, there's a at a party yesterday,
a left wing nut, very prominent left wing nut, comes
over to me and he said, you know, I was
I remember you. It was a dinner party a couple
of years ago, and you were telling everybody Trump is
the most successful man in history. And I thought you
were crazy. I said, well, but I laid it out.
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He conquers the business world. He then conquers publishing. He'd
be four best sellers. He goes into television, a total
amateur conquers that has the number one show on television.
He goes into politics. You know, usually a total amateur
tries to run for mayor or congres This guy tries
to run for the president. Total amateur wins, beats the
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Clinton machine and the Bush machine, to go on and
on listing. I said, you can't name another guy, anybody
who's conquered like all six of these things. And the
guy said, well, yeah, you might be. I don't know,
you might be so anyway, And then I tried to
explain to him. I said, you know, if you guys
would stop hating him, going nuts with your rage, and
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start studying this guy, you could learn stuff from him.
You really could learn a lot about how to succeed,
how to do well. It's a more interesting story besides
making up stuff about he's dying or he's a mania,
a crook's. Instead of making up all this stuff, it's
actually a fascinating story to cover. We've never seen anything
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like this. A president that works like nineteen hours a day,
a president that holds like seventeen press conferences a day,
a president that's flying all over the place, having a
million it's fascinating. And just to study this guy's whole
life and how he did things, how he got so
successful at everything. You think back a year and a
half ago. The guy's on trial in four different cities.
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Can you imagine if you were on trial. Imagine if
you had been brought into court they put you on trial,
you wouldn't sleep at night, you wouldn't be able to
you'd be under so much. This guy's in four trials
in four cities. Looks like he's going to go to
jail forever. He's going to get convicted six thousand times.
Guy didn't even blink, didn't even flinch, fights right through that.
Can you imagine you're standing there in a it hits
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you in the head, takes part of your ear off,
and all he can think to do is jump up
and pump his fist and y'll fight. I mean, it's
a guy to study. You could hate him, but study
this guy. You could learn a lot from this guy.
What else James Comer. They're having these hearings in Congress
about Epstein. They've allowed some people to submit written statements
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about what they had to do with Epstein. In the
case of Bill Clinton, he's demanding that Bill Clinton come
testify in person. Hillary and Bill. I don't think Hillary
knows much about Epstein. Other you might know something, but
it's Bill that was really involved. But the Clintons apparently
are adamant they will not come and testify, and they
may have to at some point, but they're going to
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fight this like crazy not to come and testify. They
know it's a circus, it's a theatrical show to get
you know, cameras there to get Bill Clinton under oath testifying.
So they don't want to do that. Now, remember left
wing media will not show Clinton testifying. They'll show you
one second clip. You know, there's a deposition in the
Monica Lewinsky case. You can go on YouTube and see it.
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A deposition where they go into graphic detail, graphic detail
about the sex he had with Monica Lewinsky. You wouldn't
believe the detail. And Clinton's right on camera having to
talk about this. You know, left wing media, they never
showed it, never showed it. If that was Trump, you'd
be seeing it all day and night. It'd be primetime specials. Clinton,
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they buried it, So if he testifies, they'll bury this testimony. Now,
he could try to avoid testifying, but remember the last
two guys that tried that were Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
and they were sent to prison for not showing up
in person to testify. So the last two, now they
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were Trump people, but they were sent to prison. So
that's the precedent that's been set. So Clinton had better
show for this testimony. Hey, we're kind of keeping the secret,
but I just saw a press release went out. I'm
taking the last two weeks of the year off. Next
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week I'll be off, and the week after two weeks
I'll be off. It'll be the Christmas break.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I hate to take that much time off, but you
get you know, you have all these vacation days. You
got to use them. So I'll be taking the last
two weeks off. It'll be the Christmas break. I guess
I can say it. There's a press release that went out.
It's been announced. Guess who's going to fill in for
me for two weeks. Curtis Lee. Curtis will be here
for two weeks doing the show. That'll be great. He
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hasn't been heard on radio in a while. He had
to go off the air course to run for mayor,
and he's mad at his old station. I don't know
what will happen there, but you'll be able to hear
Curtis next week and the week after. Two weeks he'll
be filling in for me. You know, for many, many,
many many years he had the number one morning radio show,
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morning talk show in New York City. So that'll be
great to hear them again. That's coming up. Hey, if
you're saying I gotta get out of New York, who
the hell wants to live here anymore? It's too cold,
the snow, it's awful here maybe I'll move to Florida,
Maybe I'll move to North Carolina. Go walk around the
streets of New York in the next week or two
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and look at the tourists. Normally I'm not here on
the weekends, but I was here yesterday. I had to
go a lot of Christmas parties. But all over the
place yesterday, the tourists are everywhere, and they've paid a
fortune to come to New York. You know, if you
come to New York right now at Christmas time, hotel
rates are huge. You can't even get a hotel room
right now. But watch these tourists, Watch them with their kids,
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watch them walking around looking at everything we take for granted.
Watch them look at it with just their eyes light up.
They can't believe the things they're seeing, stuff they've only
seen on Instagram. Not just the tree, but all the
great restaurants, hotels, stores, the streets. They just they paid
a fort to come here. So don't take it for granted.
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Don't get it's terrible. It was freezing cold yesterday, wash snow,
black ice. They were walking around so thrilled to be here,
thrilled to be here. Don't take it for granted. You
should really be thrilled that you're in the middle of
New York City. You know, people take things for granted.
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I got a friend who's a big comedian. He's appearing
on cruise ships, luxury cruise ships. They pay him a
lot of money, and when you're the star performer, they
give you the most beautiful stateroom. Everything is free, meals everything.
This is going on for weeks, he's on different ships.
Calls me. Every wants to kill himself. Once I got
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to get out of it. It's the worst. I can't
stand that said. You know, everybody else in the ship
saved up for years to afford this cruise. It's the
dream vacation, and you're complaining that people start to take
things for granted. Friend of mine's a travel agent, you know,
and you're a big travel agent. The top hotels of
the world will fly you over there. It's they call
it something site inspection or something super luxury hotel in Europe.
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You have to go stay there for a few days.
They fly you on the finest first class airline, biggest hotel.
They take it. All the top restaurants. So you know,
as a travel consultant, you can tell everybody they call
me from there. Oh God, I got to go to
another hotel.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I just want to go home. This is a dream
vacation for you, and they're complaining about it. So it's
the same thing with New York. Stop complaining. Go out
today and look at all the tourists and the wonderment
in their eyes as they look around in New York. Hey,
we'll take some calls.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Next.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
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Speaker 1 (17:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Now back to the Mark Simone show on wo WAW. Hey,
let's take some calls. Go to Liz in White Planes. Liz,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Hi, Mark, I'm great. Before I start, I just want
to say, have a great two weeks off. You will
be missed for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know, I often hear you talk kind of brag
about Jimmy Fayle's show. Yeah, and I was thinking I
didn't want to listen to three hours of company, but
he has a great political show.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, it's on every night on nine o'clock. You're on
seven ten, W nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Really, really a great show.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
People should know.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
This nine o'clock tonight, nine to midnight, every weeknight on
w o R. It's a great, great show. Let's go
to Vince in Florida. Vince, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Good morning. You know the two shooters I just read
in Australia which is almost impossible to get a gun
owned guns legally, which reminded me of the story that
happened here in Fort Pierce. I just moved down here.
I'm at a gun store and he tells me the shooter,
Olmar Mateen, the guy that killed the fifty kids in
the nightclub, went to that gun store, tried to buy guns.
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They overheard him on the phone and they I'm selling
him guns. They gave the owner his background information. The
owner called the FDI two weeks before the shooting.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
This was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You hear a lot of these guys came down there.
You hear a lot of these kind of stories where
they could have caught the guy. They didn't catch the guy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
They didn't catch them, and the FBI denied anything.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
In the other they call the FBI for you, Hey,
yeah you got you got a lot of crazy people
down there in Florida and nothing personal, but you know
what I mean, I don't know if it's no heat
or what it is. Yeah, no, no, I'm just saying
you got a lot of crazy people down there in Florida. Yeah,
how many? Per cappity got more crazy incidents there with
guns and things than than anywhere else. Let's go to
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Virginia in massive Peakua Virginia.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
How you doing, Bhie Mark.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Merry Christmas. And I'm so happy. Oh my god, I'm
so excited.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'm sorry about me.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
I'm so happy to hear the Curtisy. I'm a new listener.
I'm actually a new listener. Yes, I'm happy about YouTube.
I am a new listener. I used to listen to
w w ABC for Curtis.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
We were only and it's he's just he's funny, he's
on point about everything. He's a sworn man and driving
to work this morning. Like I said, a new listener,
I've been listening about a week and just to hear
that Curtis is coming on WORE, which people have been
talking about online. It's just like the best early Christmas
gifts ever.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And uh, well, you got to hear lots of lots
of Curtis. He'll be filling in for me for two weeks. Yeah,
oh wait a minute, December twenty second through. I think
I'm off Friday. That might be Ken Risotto. But next
week you'll get Curtis. Next week you'll get Curtis for
two weeks.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
It's just it's really good because I know that he's
you know, you guys will maybe he'll find a spot
or whatever. I really like the station. I'm enjoying everything
that I'm hearing, and it's just really refreshing to have
people of station that doesn't insult their listeners and cold
the morons and the fact that Curtis is going to
be on and you know.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
This minute, I call people morons.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
No, I mean there are people deservedly.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I only call mons morons. I don't care regular people though,
but no, I know, Hey, we're glad to have you
as a listener. Thanks, thanks for coming on board. Be
listening for Curtis. Next week. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Good morning, Marc, Good morning Mara. As you pointed out
earlier in the show, there's no country in the world
that has more restrictive gun or no perhaps New Zealand,
where you can't even own a p shooter. This demonstrates
that when you restrict guns like that and to the people,
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the legal people, like they did in Australia. They even
confiscated rifles in Australia, and in the NRA magazine they
showed you this mountain, this pile of all the guns
they confiscated. Then only the criminals could get them, because
criminals have a different mindset. Legit people, when they can't
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get something, they can't get a gun, all right, that's it,
the end of the story. But criminals they will find
one way or another to get a gun. And I
heard a commentator used to come on your show last
night say that there've even been studies that show when
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the more legal guns there are in a town and
a place, the less crime there is. This poor Soob
had to jump the guy with his bare hands and
he managed to pull the gun away from him. Imagine
if that guy, the shooter was a little bit swifter,
he could have turned around and killed that guy who
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took the gun out of his hand. That's why I
hope now they get rid of Australia's president, get somebody
who's got common sense, like Donald Trump, because even though
their prime minister is a conservative, the guy's out of
his mind for doing what he did. Any criminal. I mean,
if I wanted to get Doug, please, don't let me
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talk if.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I want no, no, no, don't say it, Vincent, don't
say it. You know, I mean a good point though,
what I mean, I know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
But Vincent, excellent, Gonna have bit.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
All right, Vincent, great call, Thanks for colling. Oh when
we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
If anybody says to you, well, what's gonna happen next year,
who's going to win the midterms, It's a totally invalid question.
We'll go into why coming up next on seven to
ten w R.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Wow, you're listening to the Mark Simone Show on WR.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, let's turn to the dean himself, the greatest political
consultant the Hall, Ed Rollins. He's run more campaign successful
campaigns than anybody, Ed Rollins, How you doing.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Good morning, Mark?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Are you I'm good?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You probably get this all the time. People say, oh,
what's gonna happen in the midterms, So who's going to
win the midterm? Predicting that is like predicting the twenty
twenty eighth Super Bowl. I mean, the landscape is going
to change between now and then, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It's going to change dramatically. And then I think, here's
what does happen though, I can sort of go through
a fifty year street. Members go home and the holidays
and their family gets all together, and they basically they
do I really want to do this for another two
years or four years? Do any of them ambitious or
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eden senators? Do I want to do? Do you want
to run for another re election? So oftentimes in January
there's a number that's say thank you very much, I've
had enough of this, or I'm going to run for
something else. As of right now, they're fifty three members
who announced that they're not going to run for election.
Forty three of those are House members, the other tenor
US Senators. And I think to a certain extent that
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the recruitment is going to go on now is because
Democrats do think they're going to win this House easily,
and there's a possibility they're going to win the Senate.
They're out there recruiting anxiously. What we're trying to do
is that the president team has to do is to
sort of make sure that the vulnerable incomes are getting
ready for run for reelection. It's the year long fo
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This seems like a year is a long time, but
it's not in politics. And so they leave Christmas. You'll
probably see in January an other ten or fifteen members,
thank you very much. I've had a nice career, and
they start became our retirement, and then you fill on
the blanks and you begin begin in February to start
running and running hard. The president's agenda ahead of him
is an aggressive one and it's a tough one getting
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the budgets through and what have you. And the origins
are so small that he has both the House and
the Senate. But his task is tough.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So when you say some people may leave Congress, I
don't need this anymore. Let me leave. What do they
do that They can make a lot of money, right,
lobbying or something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
So some can, some very few members go back home.
They all promise they're going to go back home. Some
you know, people say, well, you know, when you decide
to quit, come work for me, and some just you know,
decide this is not what it's not what I want
to spend my time. This sort of been a very
frustrating year if you were bubbled them to be in
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the Congress and you get the big bill best which
obviously normally you have lots of builds that you passed,
but they combine it all on one thing, so there's
not a lot of activity, and you know they want
they want home for a period of time. They getting
beat up for that a certain extent. So so I
would say when I was the chairman of the Congression Committee,
to the chairman, people said say, why don't you run
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for Congress? I say, thank you very much. I might
be behind the scenes. I don't want to. I don't
want to spend my day arguing with four hundred thirty
five other people every day. And I think to a
certain extent, that's that's where a lot of members may be.
Once that numbers changed and altered in the sense we
know how many running, and then the race is going
to begin.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Hey, ed Relands. If the healthcare, if they don't fix
the healthcare situation, put a patch on it or something,
healthcare costs are going to go nuts. It's the fault
of Obama and Obamacare. But isn't aren't there Republicans going
to get blamed for it.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Oh yes, absolutely, there's no question Republicans going to We've
not had a just an healthcare plan in twenty years.
We used to have some real experts on it when
Bob Dole was the leader, because of his only personal
healthcare every problems over the years, he knew a lot
about healthcare. He had a chief of staff, Sheila Burke,
was a nurse who do a lot about healthcare. We
(27:17):
don't have a lot of experts now. And you know
our premise of you know, let's have saving those accounts
to what have you? If I gave you a two
thousand dollars savings account, which is what the new Gingrish
plan was, you'll go from that real quick, first time
you can, to a doctor, and if there's anything that
happens to you, you know the astronomical. So not only
(27:39):
will twenty two million people be affected by this, the
reality is their costs will go up dramatically. Those who
can afford a lot of Americas going to say I
can't afford it. I'm just not gonna and that creates
a real chaos. The best courted Republicans can do is
extend this thing for year subsidies. Democrats aren't going to
(27:59):
do because obviously they want they want to get to
the next election with the rise and prices and what
have you. So I think, to a certain extent, we've
got we've got a couple of months here real chaos
with those those here solutions. I would say, this point
in time, we're not We're not going to the healthcare
is not going to get fisted a short period of time.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, I'm not an expert, but uh, just common sense.
I would think if you let the government take over healthcare,
the cost is going to go way up. It wouldn't
that be true?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Absolutely well, to a certain extent, the government does pay
them the past. If you are in health care today
and it's you know, I don't I don't think that
Kennedy is ready to do that, start care of pills,
the units versus president. I don't think it's order to
do that. And President's got a lot a lot of
less play, I think to a certain extent, but most
Americans are going to suffer measurably about it, because even
(28:50):
if even if you have health insurance today been a
private company, because of the burden of I mean, twenty
two million people from the Obamacare program. He's got to
find there or reach a're gonna be well. Healthcare rates
are not going down. They haven't gone down a long
long time. And it's an expensive entity and there's a
lot of people that are experts on it who are
(29:10):
not very happy with what we have.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, Ed Rowlins, if you want to run in twenty
twenty eight, Gavin Newsom or whoever, if you want to
run in twenty twenty eight, what should you be doing now?
Is there anything you can really do now for that?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Sure, you can raise money, line up your supporters, your
line up your team. I mean there's four or five
of them that are running right now. And what you
try and do is you tap into easy advantage of
the midterm elections to go out and made friends around
the country in key states. You know, I think Gavin
Newson's going to do is just continue to beat up
on Trump and fight with Trump, and that seems to
(29:45):
be working for him. He is a mess of the state.
In California. No one's talking about the best in californiaybody's
talking about whatever great job he's doing. Beat that by
the president. Yeah, the same thing in Illinois. So my
sense is those who are going to run, it's going
to be four or five at least. Uh, some new
governors that maybe will have some political ambition beyond where
they are. It's gonna be a full field.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, in the old days that Reagan came from California
and one, but nowadays it's been a one party state
for so long. Guys like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, they've
never been tested in two party states. So aren't isn't
name body from California canna have a problem trying to
run nationally?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Well, but he moved out. You moved out of the California.
Why you haven't had any competitions in California is they
basically created a system. Instead of a Republican or a
Democrat winning the nominations and running against each other, the
top two get nominated. Uh. So it could be two
Democrats running against each other, uh and two Republicans. It's
(30:44):
never happened that way. But the reality is kind of
the one party system. So the reality is he doesn't
want to talk about California. He wants to talk about nationally.
What what Trump has not done as opposed to what
he has done and he's you know, he's I don't
get it, but he's a arismatic figures got a fifty
four to fifty five percent of brewery in California, which
(31:04):
is pretty mess and whose California has not been in
play since, you know, since Bush and eighty eight. You know,
it's a it's a hard stage for us to win,
and I think to cird extent east to an easy
state force.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, and Rollin's brilliant as always, keep up the great work,
and we'll talk again soon in wonderful holiday.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And have they honka to all your business stuff there?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
All right? Thanks, take care, uh hey, don't forget coming
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Speaker 4 (31:51):
Wor mister New York, Hey, that's marks alone seven ten wo.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Well, we got a lot to get to in the
next hour. Looks like the FBI has foiled a terrorist
attack for New Year's Eve. We'll get to that coming up.
We'll get to the latest on Rob Reiner and all
these terrible shootings this weekend. We'll get to Frank Sinatra
and a whole lot more coming up in the In
the next hour, we'll get to New York and how
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(32:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here comes the Mark Simone Show on seven Wall. Well, oh,
we got a lot to get to today, a lot
of things happening. We bring you all the latest on
Rob Reiner, on Brown University, on Australia, and then we'll
get to of course Trump, the political stuff. We'll get
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to all of that coming up. We'll get to New York,
we'll get to the tourists, we'll get to Epstein, we'll
get to twenty twenty eight, and all sorts of stuff
to talk about. The Rob Reiner well, you know, it's
the whole weekend was strange. It wasn't much of a
big news weekend, and then all of a sudden you
had Australia the terrible shooting. Then you had Brown University
(00:45):
the terrible shooting, and you had these two things just
taking everybody's attention, and then all of a sudden, the
Rob Reiner situation. Here's the latest on Rob Reiner. He
lives in Brentwood. This is about a mile and a
half from Ojay's house where Nicole Simpson was killed and
(01:05):
almost stabbed. Wasn't she decapitated? So this is another stabbing
in Brentwood in the same neighborhood. Now, Rob Reiner has
a big, huge house in Brentwood, but it's sort of
a compound, and on the grounds is another couple buildings.
One is a guest house. And Rob Reiner had three
(01:27):
kids with the wife Michelle. But remember he had previously
been married to Penny Marshall, and he had another child.
He had a daughter with Penny Marshall, and that daughter
lived in the guest house. And the police are not
revealing much of anything right now, they're keeping very quiet.
(01:48):
Later today they'll have a press conference and maybe explain
some of this. But here's what I've heard, again, not confirmed,
but the daughter's in the guest house. This is yesterday.
It's a Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, and she hears incredibly
loud arguing in the main house, real arguing, and at
(02:09):
some point later she goes over to check and finds
Rob Reiner, her father, and her stepmother dead. Calls police
immediately they show up. There's recording these nine to one
one calls that I think there was a fire department
of something that responded first, calling for more back up,
(02:30):
and then the police show up. She tells them about
the arguing. She believes it was the son Nick, son
of Rob Reiner, who's thirty two years old. Now, this
son is a very, very troubled son. Drug addiction, mental,
all kinds of mental problems. He'd been so bad with
(02:51):
the drug addiction. Seventeen times in rehabit didn't work. He
ended up homeless on the street and Texas, homeless, in Maine,
homeless all over the place. I knew Rob Briiner. I
didn't know the kid, but if you look at any
picture of the kid, his eyes look a little psycho,
a little crazy. And I don't know the situation of
how this all started with the drugs and everything, but
(03:12):
he just spiraled out of control and it was so hopeless.
There was absolutely no saving this kid. I'm sure Rob
b Reiner tried, and at one point he came back
to Los Angeles. They thought they straightened him out, and
he made a movie about his drug addiction and about
his rehab and all of that stuff. But I guess
(03:33):
this went crazy again and there was no hope for
this kid. So it looks like he was the one
in this crazy, loud argument with the parents and then
stabbed them and slit their throats again. This is a
mile and a half from where Oj slit the throats
of the wife and Ron Brown. But now from what
(03:57):
I've heard the police, this is not confirmed, but police
have taken the kid into custody. He's thirty two. The
son's name is Nick. They have earlier an hour or
two ago taking him into custody, So that would indicate
they have the evidence they need, or they think they
have the evidence that he's guilty. So it was a
(04:17):
terrible scene at the home yesterday, Police all over the place,
the crime tape up close. Friends of Rob Brner, Billy Crystal,
Larry David was seen coming to the house leaving crying upset.
So there'd be a press conference of some kind. They'll
announce something later today. But apparently the son is in
custody and we'll see what happens. So you got that
(04:41):
going on. You also got Brown University terrible situation. Now,
the first reports indicated it was some sort of something
to do with anti Semitism, anti Semitic attack, small Jewish
community at Brown University, but a lot of people there
are also saying with a very small conservative bunch of
(05:02):
people at Brown University, students and some are not so
sure this was anti semitism. It might have been anti conservatism.
One of the people shot turns out to be the
president's student, but the president of the Republican Club at
Brown University. So it could be anti semitism as a motive,
but there could also be an anti conservative attack. We'll see.
(05:25):
It's the Providence police department, not the sharpest police department
on Earth, and Brown University very prominent university. I'm not
a big fan of their security director. You know, a
lot of times you're a university, when you hire a
security director, you hire somebody with incredible law enforcement experience ex. Police,
(05:46):
X FBI, something like that. This guy his whole life
was campus security. You'll see somewhere in his bio he
was a policeman, a police captain. It was campus police forces.
So he's not a guy with any real law enforcement experience.
He spent his whole life in campus police departments, then
becoming a campus security director other universities and Brown hired
(06:10):
him a couple of years ago. So he's the security director.
And you know, it may not have been anything. There
might not have been anything anybody else could have done
to protect this campus. But you got that going on
then you got the awful, horrific Australia shooting. It was
a Muslim terrorist attack. The shooters a father and son,
both Muslim terrorists, at this beach in Australia, using one
(06:35):
of those assault rifle you know, you know the kind
that Chuck Schumer and the others yell about. Remember whenever
there's a shooting with one of those rifles, all they
do is scream for more gun laws. They act as
if gun laws would prevent shootings. Now nobody has tougher
gun laws than Chicago, and they have more shootings than
any place in America. The problem with the thinking gun
(06:57):
laws as a solution is shooters a c maniacs, criminals
who don't follow laws. They don't get a law book
and look it up to see if it's okay to
do what they're doing. So in this situation, nobody, nobody
in the world, no country, had tougher gun laws than
in Australia. They've been passing gun laws since nineteen ninety six.
Huge gun laws, tremendous gun laws. So it has nothing
(07:21):
to do with stopping shootings. It was a horrible situation.
You got one guy who was a hero who hid
between two parked cars waited for the right moment. The
video is amazing. He runs out, tackles the shooter with
the rifle, somehow wrestles the gun away from him and
stops the shooter makes him lie down. However, remember there
(07:44):
was a second shooter, the Sun, who sees what's going
on and shoots the hero, hitting him twice. But the
hero has just had surgery. It looks like he'll be okay.
He's doing well. It looks like he'll survive and be
just fine. So an incredible hero in Austria, an amazing
act of bravery. He said to he was with somebody
(08:05):
else and he said, I'm not going to survive this.
He decided he would go tackle the shooter and stop
and he said, I'm not going to come out of
this alive. Tell my family this. And that's a but
an amazing, amazing situation. So things could develop this morning.
There's going to be press conferences in La more details
about Rob Reiner. But from we know, the Sun is
(08:26):
in custody. It looks like he is the stabber. It's
a horrible, horrible situation. I knew Rob Reiner. He was
a very nice guy. I know he was a crazy
left wing nut politically, but I had a million conversations
with him. Never once talked about politics. We loved We
would talk about old show business and old comedians and
(08:48):
Sid Caesar and Dick Van Dyke Show and that kind
of stuff. But he's like a lot of Hollywood people,
he just got into the cult. You know, they sit
there and they watch MSNBC all day and they believe
everything they're hearing. They think all this crazy stuff is true.
You know, it's like people who listen to those flying
saucer shows in the middle of the night, which are great,
they're entertaining, but these people start to believe it. They
(09:10):
think there's flying saucers everywhere. So it's the same thing
with the MSNBC crowd. And then they got all these
echo chambers where you know, it's reinforced from MSNBC. Then
they watch Colbert, they watch the crazy ABC Sunday shows.
They think Trump is a crook, a maniac, a dying,
(09:30):
he's a lunatic, he's a dictator. They start to believe
all this stuff. Listen, there's stuff you could not like
about Trump. I understand that, but you know, if they
ever stepped away from all that and got out of
the echo chamber. These Trump derangement syndrome idiots, they might
realize Trump is actually one of the most fascinating guys
(09:51):
in history. You know, there's a at a party yesterday,
a left wing nut, very prominent left wing nut, comes
over to me and he said, you know, I was
I remember you. It was a dinner party a couple
of years ago, and you were telling everybody Trump is
the most successful man in history. And I thought you
were crazy. I said, well, but I laid it out.
(10:13):
He conquers the business world. He then conquers publishing. He'd
be four best sellers. He goes into television, a total
amateur conquers that has the number one show on television.
He goes into politics. You know, usually a total amateur
tries to run for mayor or congres This guy tries
to run for the president. Total amateur wins, beats the
(10:34):
Clinton machine and the Bush machine, to go on and
on listing. I said, you can't name another guy, anybody
who's conquered like all six of these things. And the
guy said, well, yeah, you might be. I don't know,
you might be so anyway, And then I tried to
explain to him. I said, you know, if you guys
would stop hating him, going nuts with your rage, and
(10:54):
start studying this guy, you could learn stuff from him.
You really could learn a lot about how to succeed,
how to do well. It's a more interesting story besides
making up stuff about he's dying or he's a mania,
a crook's. Instead of making up all this stuff, it's
actually a fascinating story to cover. We've never seen anything
(11:14):
like this. A president that works like nineteen hours a day,
a president that holds like seventeen press conferences a day,
a president that's flying all over the place, having a
million it's fascinating. And just to study this guy's whole
life and how he did things, how he got so
successful at everything. You think back a year and a
half ago. The guy's on trial in four different cities.
(11:39):
Can you imagine if you were on trial. Imagine if
you had been brought into court they put you on trial,
you wouldn't sleep at night, you wouldn't be able to
you'd be under so much. This guy's in four trials
in four cities. Looks like he's going to go to
jail forever. He's going to get convicted six thousand times.
Guy didn't even blink, didn't even flinch, fights right through that.
Can you imagine you're standing there in a it hits
(12:00):
you in the head, takes part of your ear off,
and all he can think to do is jump up
and pump his fist and y'll fight. I mean, it's
a guy to study. You could hate him, but study
this guy. You could learn a lot from this guy.
What else James Comer. They're having these hearings in Congress
about Epstein. They've allowed some people to submit written statements
(12:23):
about what they had to do with Epstein. In the
case of Bill Clinton, he's demanding that Bill Clinton come
testify in person. Hillary and Bill. I don't think Hillary
knows much about Epstein. Other you might know something, but
it's Bill that was really involved. But the Clintons apparently
are adamant they will not come and testify, and they
may have to at some point, but they're going to
(12:44):
fight this like crazy not to come and testify. They
know it's a circus, it's a theatrical show to get
you know, cameras there to get Bill Clinton under oath testifying.
So they don't want to do that. Now, remember left
wing media will not show Clinton testifying. They'll show you
one second clip. You know, there's a deposition in the
Monica Lewinsky case. You can go on YouTube and see it.
(13:08):
A deposition where they go into graphic detail, graphic detail
about the sex he had with Monica Lewinsky. You wouldn't
believe the detail. And Clinton's right on camera having to
talk about this. You know, left wing media, they never
showed it, never showed it. If that was Trump, you'd
be seeing it all day and night. It'd be primetime specials. Clinton,
(13:29):
they buried it, So if he testifies, they'll bury this testimony. Now,
he could try to avoid testifying, but remember the last
two guys that tried that were Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
and they were sent to prison for not showing up
in person to testify. So the last two, now they
(13:50):
were Trump people, but they were sent to prison. So
that's the precedent that's been set. So Clinton had better
show for this testimony. Hey, we're kind of keeping the secret,
but I just saw a press release went out. I'm
taking the last two weeks of the year off. Next
(14:10):
week I'll be off, and the week after two weeks
I'll be off. It'll be the Christmas break.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I hate to take that much time off, but you
get you know, you have all these vacation days. You
got to use them. So I'll be taking the last
two weeks off. It'll be the Christmas break. I guess
I can say it. There's a press release that went out.
It's been announced. Guess who's going to fill in for
me for two weeks. Curtis Lee. Curtis will be here
for two weeks doing the show. That'll be great. He
(14:37):
hasn't been heard on radio in a while. He had
to go off the air course to run for mayor,
and he's mad at his old station. I don't know
what will happen there, but you'll be able to hear
Curtis next week and the week after. Two weeks he'll
be filling in for me. You know, for many, many,
many many years he had the number one morning radio show,
(14:57):
morning talk show in New York City. So that'll be
great to hear them again. That's coming up. Hey, if
you're saying I gotta get out of New York, who
the hell wants to live here anymore? It's too cold,
the snow, it's awful here maybe I'll move to Florida,
Maybe I'll move to North Carolina. Go walk around the
streets of New York in the next week or two
(15:17):
and look at the tourists. Normally I'm not here on
the weekends, but I was here yesterday. I had to
go a lot of Christmas parties. But all over the
place yesterday, the tourists are everywhere, and they've paid a
fortune to come to New York. You know, if you
come to New York right now at Christmas time, hotel
rates are huge. You can't even get a hotel room
right now. But watch these tourists, Watch them with their kids,
(15:42):
watch them walking around looking at everything we take for granted.
Watch them look at it with just their eyes light up.
They can't believe the things they're seeing, stuff they've only
seen on Instagram. Not just the tree, but all the
great restaurants, hotels, stores, the streets. They just they paid
a fort to come here. So don't take it for granted.
(16:03):
Don't get it's terrible. It was freezing cold yesterday, wash snow,
black ice. They were walking around so thrilled to be here,
thrilled to be here. Don't take it for granted. You
should really be thrilled that you're in the middle of
New York City. You know, people take things for granted.
(16:24):
I got a friend who's a big comedian. He's appearing
on cruise ships, luxury cruise ships. They pay him a
lot of money, and when you're the star performer, they
give you the most beautiful stateroom. Everything is free, meals everything.
This is going on for weeks, he's on different ships.
Calls me. Every wants to kill himself. Once I got
(16:46):
to get out of it. It's the worst. I can't
stand that said. You know, everybody else in the ship
saved up for years to afford this cruise. It's the
dream vacation, and you're complaining that people start to take
things for granted. Friend of mine's a travel agent, you know,
and you're a big travel agent. The top hotels of
the world will fly you over there. It's they call
it something site inspection or something super luxury hotel in Europe.
(17:10):
You have to go stay there for a few days.
They fly you on the finest first class airline, biggest hotel.
They take it. All the top restaurants. So you know,
as a travel consultant, you can tell everybody they call
me from there. Oh God, I got to go to
another hotel.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I just want to go home. This is a dream
vacation for you, and they're complaining about it. So it's
the same thing with New York. Stop complaining. Go out
today and look at all the tourists and the wonderment
in their eyes as they look around in New York. Hey,
we'll take some calls.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Next.
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Now back to the Mark Simone show on wo WAW. Hey,
let's take some calls. Go to Liz in White Planes. Liz,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Hi, Mark, I'm great. Before I start, I just want
to say, have a great two weeks off. You will
be missed for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know, I often hear you talk kind of brag
about Jimmy Fayle's show. Yeah, and I was thinking I
didn't want to listen to three hours of company, but
he has a great political show.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, it's on every night on nine o'clock. You're on
seven ten, W nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Really, really a great show.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
People should know.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
This nine o'clock tonight, nine to midnight, every weeknight on
w o R. It's a great, great show. Let's go
to Vince in Florida. Vince, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Good morning. You know the two shooters I just read
in Australia which is almost impossible to get a gun
owned guns legally, which reminded me of the story that
happened here in Fort Pierce. I just moved down here.
I'm at a gun store and he tells me the shooter,
Olmar Mateen, the guy that killed the fifty kids in
the nightclub, went to that gun store, tried to buy guns.
(18:58):
They overheard him on the phone and they I'm selling
him guns. They gave the owner his background information. The
owner called the FDI two weeks before the shooting.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
This was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You hear a lot of these guys came down there.
You hear a lot of these kind of stories where
they could have caught the guy. They didn't catch the guy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
They didn't catch them, and the FBI denied anything.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
In the other they call the FBI for you, Hey,
yeah you got you got a lot of crazy people
down there in Florida and nothing personal, but you know
what I mean, I don't know if it's no heat
or what it is. Yeah, no, no, I'm just saying
you got a lot of crazy people down there in Florida. Yeah,
how many? Per cappity got more crazy incidents there with
guns and things than than anywhere else. Let's go to
(19:37):
Virginia in massive Peakua Virginia.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
How you doing, Bhie Mark.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Merry Christmas. And I'm so happy. Oh my god, I'm
so excited.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'm sorry about me.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
I'm so happy to hear the Curtisy. I'm a new listener.
I'm actually a new listener. Yes, I'm happy about YouTube.
I am a new listener. I used to listen to
w w ABC for Curtis.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
We were only and it's he's just he's funny, he's
on point about everything. He's a sworn man and driving
to work this morning. Like I said, a new listener,
I've been listening about a week and just to hear
that Curtis is coming on WORE, which people have been
talking about online. It's just like the best early Christmas
gifts ever.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And uh, well, you got to hear lots of lots
of Curtis. He'll be filling in for me for two weeks. Yeah,
oh wait a minute, December twenty second through. I think
I'm off Friday. That might be Ken Risotto. But next
week you'll get Curtis. Next week you'll get Curtis for
two weeks.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
It's just it's really good because I know that he's
you know, you guys will maybe he'll find a spot
or whatever. I really like the station. I'm enjoying everything
that I'm hearing, and it's just really refreshing to have
people of station that doesn't insult their listeners and cold
the morons and the fact that Curtis is going to
be on and you know.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
This minute, I call people morons.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
No, I mean there are people deservedly.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I only call mons morons. I don't care regular people though,
but no, I know, Hey, we're glad to have you
as a listener. Thanks, thanks for coming on board. Be
listening for Curtis. Next week. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Good morning, Marc, Good morning Mara. As you pointed out
earlier in the show, there's no country in the world
that has more restrictive gun or no perhaps New Zealand,
where you can't even own a p shooter. This demonstrates
that when you restrict guns like that and to the people,
(21:34):
the legal people, like they did in Australia. They even
confiscated rifles in Australia, and in the NRA magazine they
showed you this mountain, this pile of all the guns
they confiscated. Then only the criminals could get them, because
criminals have a different mindset. Legit people, when they can't
(21:55):
get something, they can't get a gun, all right, that's it,
the end of the story. But criminals they will find
one way or another to get a gun. And I
heard a commentator used to come on your show last
night say that there've even been studies that show when
(22:15):
the more legal guns there are in a town and
a place, the less crime there is. This poor Soob
had to jump the guy with his bare hands and
he managed to pull the gun away from him. Imagine
if that guy, the shooter was a little bit swifter,
he could have turned around and killed that guy who
(22:36):
took the gun out of his hand. That's why I
hope now they get rid of Australia's president, get somebody
who's got common sense, like Donald Trump, because even though
their prime minister is a conservative, the guy's out of
his mind for doing what he did. Any criminal. I mean,
if I wanted to get Doug, please, don't let me
(22:59):
talk if.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I want no, no, no, don't say it, Vincent, don't
say it. You know, I mean a good point though,
what I mean, I know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
But Vincent, excellent, Gonna have bit.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
All right, Vincent, great call, Thanks for colling. Oh when
we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
If anybody says to you, well, what's gonna happen next year,
who's going to win the midterms, It's a totally invalid question.
We'll go into why coming up next on seven to
ten w R.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Wow, you're listening to the Mark Simone Show on WR.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, let's turn to the dean himself, the greatest political
consultant the Hall, Ed Rollins. He's run more campaign successful
campaigns than anybody, Ed Rollins, How you doing.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Good morning, Mark?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Are you I'm good?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You probably get this all the time. People say, oh,
what's gonna happen in the midterms, So who's going to
win the midterm? Predicting that is like predicting the twenty
twenty eighth Super Bowl. I mean, the landscape is going
to change between now and then, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It's going to change dramatically. And then I think, here's
what does happen though, I can sort of go through
a fifty year street. Members go home and the holidays
and their family gets all together, and they basically they
do I really want to do this for another two
years or four years? Do any of them ambitious or
(24:17):
eden senators? Do I want to do? Do you want
to run for another re election? So oftentimes in January
there's a number that's say thank you very much, I've
had enough of this, or I'm going to run for
something else. As of right now, they're fifty three members
who announced that they're not going to run for election.
Forty three of those are House members, the other tenor
US Senators. And I think to a certain extent that
(24:39):
the recruitment is going to go on now is because
Democrats do think they're going to win this House easily,
and there's a possibility they're going to win the Senate.
They're out there recruiting anxiously. What we're trying to do
is that the president team has to do is to
sort of make sure that the vulnerable incomes are getting
ready for run for reelection. It's the year long fo
(25:00):
This seems like a year is a long time, but
it's not in politics. And so they leave Christmas. You'll
probably see in January an other ten or fifteen members,
thank you very much. I've had a nice career, and
they start became our retirement, and then you fill on
the blanks and you begin begin in February to start
running and running hard. The president's agenda ahead of him
is an aggressive one and it's a tough one getting
(25:23):
the budgets through and what have you. And the origins
are so small that he has both the House and
the Senate. But his task is tough.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So when you say some people may leave Congress, I
don't need this anymore. Let me leave. What do they
do that They can make a lot of money, right,
lobbying or something like that.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
So some can, some very few members go back home.
They all promise they're going to go back home. Some
you know, people say, well, you know, when you decide
to quit, come work for me, and some just you know,
decide this is not what it's not what I want
to spend my time. This sort of been a very
frustrating year if you were bubbled them to be in
(25:59):
the Congress and you get the big bill best which
obviously normally you have lots of builds that you passed,
but they combine it all on one thing, so there's
not a lot of activity, and you know they want
they want home for a period of time. They getting
beat up for that a certain extent. So so I
would say when I was the chairman of the Congression Committee,
to the chairman, people said say, why don't you run
(26:21):
for Congress? I say, thank you very much. I might
be behind the scenes. I don't want to. I don't
want to spend my day arguing with four hundred thirty
five other people every day. And I think to a
certain extent, that's that's where a lot of members may be.
Once that numbers changed and altered in the sense we
know how many running, and then the race is going
to begin.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Hey, ed Relands. If the healthcare, if they don't fix
the healthcare situation, put a patch on it or something,
healthcare costs are going to go nuts. It's the fault
of Obama and Obamacare. But isn't aren't there Republicans going
to get blamed for it.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Oh yes, absolutely, there's no question Republicans going to We've
not had a just an healthcare plan in twenty years.
We used to have some real experts on it when
Bob Dole was the leader, because of his only personal
healthcare every problems over the years, he knew a lot
about healthcare. He had a chief of staff, Sheila Burke,
was a nurse who do a lot about healthcare. We
(27:17):
don't have a lot of experts now. And you know
our premise of you know, let's have saving those accounts
to what have you? If I gave you a two
thousand dollars savings account, which is what the new Gingrish
plan was, you'll go from that real quick, first time
you can, to a doctor, and if there's anything that
happens to you, you know the astronomical. So not only
(27:39):
will twenty two million people be affected by this, the
reality is their costs will go up dramatically. Those who
can afford a lot of Americas going to say I
can't afford it. I'm just not gonna and that creates
a real chaos. The best courted Republicans can do is
extend this thing for year subsidies. Democrats aren't going to
(27:59):
do because obviously they want they want to get to
the next election with the rise and prices and what
have you. So I think, to a certain extent, we've
got we've got a couple of months here real chaos
with those those here solutions. I would say, this point
in time, we're not We're not going to the healthcare
is not going to get fisted a short period of time.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, I'm not an expert, but uh, just common sense.
I would think if you let the government take over healthcare,
the cost is going to go way up. It wouldn't
that be true?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Absolutely well, to a certain extent, the government does pay
them the past. If you are in health care today
and it's you know, I don't I don't think that
Kennedy is ready to do that, start care of pills,
the units versus president. I don't think it's order to
do that. And President's got a lot a lot of
less play, I think to a certain extent, but most
Americans are going to suffer measurably about it, because even
(28:50):
if even if you have health insurance today been a
private company, because of the burden of I mean, twenty
two million people from the Obamacare program. He's got to
find there or reach a're gonna be well. Healthcare rates
are not going down. They haven't gone down a long
long time. And it's an expensive entity and there's a
lot of people that are experts on it who are
(29:10):
not very happy with what we have.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, Ed Rowlins, if you want to run in twenty
twenty eight, Gavin Newsom or whoever, if you want to
run in twenty twenty eight, what should you be doing now?
Is there anything you can really do now for that?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Sure, you can raise money, line up your supporters, your
line up your team. I mean there's four or five
of them that are running right now. And what you
try and do is you tap into easy advantage of
the midterm elections to go out and made friends around
the country in key states. You know, I think Gavin
Newson's going to do is just continue to beat up
on Trump and fight with Trump, and that seems to
(29:45):
be working for him. He is a mess of the state.
In California. No one's talking about the best in californiaybody's
talking about whatever great job he's doing. Beat that by
the president. Yeah, the same thing in Illinois. So my
sense is those who are going to run, it's going
to be four or five at least. Uh, some new
governors that maybe will have some political ambition beyond where
they are. It's gonna be a full field.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, in the old days that Reagan came from California
and one, but nowadays it's been a one party state
for so long. Guys like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, they've
never been tested in two party states. So aren't isn't
name body from California canna have a problem trying to
run nationally?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Well, but he moved out. You moved out of the California.
Why you haven't had any competitions in California is they
basically created a system. Instead of a Republican or a
Democrat winning the nominations and running against each other, the
top two get nominated. Uh. So it could be two
Democrats running against each other, uh and two Republicans. It's
(30:44):
never happened that way. But the reality is kind of
the one party system. So the reality is he doesn't
want to talk about California. He wants to talk about nationally.
What what Trump has not done as opposed to what
he has done and he's you know, he's I don't
get it, but he's a arismatic figures got a fifty
four to fifty five percent of brewery in California, which
(31:04):
is pretty mess and whose California has not been in
play since, you know, since Bush and eighty eight. You know,
it's a it's a hard stage for us to win,
and I think to cird extent east to an easy
state force.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, and Rollin's brilliant as always, keep up the great work,
and we'll talk again soon in wonderful holiday.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And have they honka to all your business stuff there?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
All right? Thanks, take care, uh hey, don't forget coming
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(31:49):
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Wor mister New York, Hey, that's marks alone seven ten wo.
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Well, we got a lot to get to in the
next hour. Looks like the FBI has foiled a terrorist
attack for New Year's Eve. We'll get to that coming up.
We'll get to the latest on Rob Reiner and all
these terrible shootings this weekend. We'll get to Frank Sinatra
and a whole lot more coming up in the In
the next hour, we'll get to New York and how
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