December 10, 2025 • 34 mins
President Trump launched his nationwide campaign rally focused on affordability and his economic agenda last night in the Pennsylvania Poconos. According to his administration’s finance team, Trump’s proposed tax cuts are designed to put more money in Americans’ pockets. Meanwhile, Democrats continue to use the term “affordability” as a way to dismiss the President’s economic plan. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Monica Crowley, the Chief of Protocol of the United States. Monica discusses keeping pace with President Trump’s energetic and fast-moving agenda. She shares that many deals and strategic initiatives are being developed behind the scenes to help Make America Great Again. Additionally, she mentions that renovations have shaped the Kennedy Center's appearance.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now on the Voice of New York The Mark Simone
Show on sevent ten wo.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
May, we got a lot to get to today, well,
and it's another cold date. It's a little better today,
you know, I think everybody's complaining some cold yesterday to day,
the dop cold. I think I'm gonna take up smoking
because I've noticed that if if you smoke, they don't
even feel the cold. It could be ten below zero.
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As you can walk towards this building, the smokers are
all up front smoking. You know, they all sneak out
they have a cigarette. Could be fifty below zero, ten
feet they're still out there on the sidewalk smoking. So
what's today Wednesday? When we're almost through this week, we
got a lot to get to. We'll get to the
Somali community and the billions missing in Minnesota. We'll get
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to affordability, We'll get to that crazy brad Lander, and
we'll get to you know, congestion. Pricing is now celebrating
it's one year anniversary. It's coming up on one year.
The yelling and screaming about it has died down a bit.
I guess people just starting to accept it. It's probably
going to be here forever. It doesn't go away.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's like when they raise the symptoms, they don't raise
your maintenance or your property. Text. It's what they call
an assessment to fund something, a little assessment while we
need it. It never goes away. These things never ever
go away. President Trump went to Pennsylvania last night for
the rally. He's been in the White House now for
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about eleven months, and a lot of times they start
to do these things for two reasons. One, you're not
getting your message across because the media is so corrupt,
and they've focus grouped prices, and that's how they came
up with the word affordability. It tested the best in
focus groups, so Democrats used it successfully in the elections
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in November, and the media just goes crazy attacking Trump
on affordability. It's all a bit of a hoax because
the fact is in the eleven months that he's been there,
prices have come down quite a bit. Inflation has been
cut in half, which is pretty good in ten months.
He always said it would take a year, year and
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a half to get it down. Now, remember the big
beautiful bill that he passed with all the tax cuts,
all that stuff has not taken effect yet. Although they
got it passed this year, it doesn't kick in until January,
so you'll see a huge change in January. Everybody will
be getting more money in their paychecks in January because
the bill will begin January first. The tax cuts now again,
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prices are already down. Inflation hit nine percent at one
time under Biden. The average under Biden was five percent.
It's now two and a half, so he's cut inflation
in half already. Food prices are down. They'll point to
a couple of things, like beef prices. What about beef,
that's the reason for the beef prices being way up.
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You can thank Joe Biden and the Democrats for that.
I don't know if you remember, but about two years
ago they started this war on cows, claiming that cows
caused climate change. I forget how they came up with
that or how they explained it, but they went after
the cattle industry in the Green scheme, and as a result,
the cattle industry had to cut back the size of
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herds and all that stuff. So there are less cattle,
less cows, less beef. Now they have to get that back.
It's just like with oil, where they cut back drilling,
there was less oil out there and made the price
go up. And the same thing with cattle. We had
a lot less cattle than we usually have. So Trump
administration has changed all that. It'll take again. It takes
more than a few months. It's going to take a
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year to get the cattle herds back up to where
they were, and that brings down the price. So it
was in Pennsylvania to do the rally to get the
message out about afford But wages are up since he
took office. Wages are up, prices are down. You got
to get that across, although it's tough because fake news
will just keep yelling that there's a terrible affordability crisis.
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It really isn't. It's a lot better. I mean, if
you call this an affordability crisis, what did you call
two years ago when it was five times worse. So
now the other reason you do the rallies is a
president who is a great speaker, great performer. When he
gets elected. Now he goes into the White House and
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he's in the White House and that's it, and he speaks.
It's in a room with a podium to people he knows.
And after a while you start to get well, it's
like your caged animal. You need to get out there.
They saw this with Reagan, and they realized they had
to get him out there. Let him give him a
big audience, give him thousands of people out there, let
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him do rallies, let him do speeches. It's like a
great performer, comedian, singer. You gotta let him go out
on stage. You gotta let him get out there. So
they started to do these rallies for Reagan for no reason,
just because he needed it. He needed the energy from
the crowds, needed to get out of the White House,
get back in touch with the people. So every couple
of weeks they set up something for Reagan, usually close
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by so he could get there fast and get home fast,
and not California, nearby, Maryland, Pennsylvania. So they need to
do this with Trump. He needs to get out there,
get back on stage, get back to performing for audiences.
So you'll see more of these. He did an hour
and a half last night. I know the fake news
will tell you he's got no energy, can't stay awake.
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He did an hour and a half, a lot longer
than he's supposed to do. He was kind of all
over the map. So he didn't, you know, always say
you got to stay on message, and well, Trump's not
going to do that. The coverage of it, of course,
is bad because that's the way they do things. He
talked about affordability, He talked in great detail about what
he would do about it, and a couple of times
he made some jokes. So if you're watching the fake news,
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all they would say is he ridiculed affordability. He made
fun of the problem of affordability. Was totally inaccurate portrayal
of what happened. So you'll see more of these rallies. Hey,
yesterday had some special elections. The interesting one was Miami
mayoral election. Special election had a runoff. The Democrat won.
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Now that's unusual, usually it's a Republican in Miami. It's
the first time a Democrat has won in thirty years
in Miami. So if you're watching the fake news, they'll
tell you this is a bad sign for the midterms.
This is a bad barometer what's going to happen in
the midterms. The fact that the Democrat won in Miami,
of all places where Democrats never win, this is a
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bad sign for a well, I think you got to
look at more detail at this race. Nobody showed up
to vote. There was no turnout. The total votes thirty six,
which is unheard of. That's incredibly low. So nobody showed
up to vote. That's how the Democrat got in. Now,
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as we've talked about here in New York, they got
the same problem in Miami. There really is not much
of a Republican party machine. One thing about the Democrats.
They have a strong party with infrastructure, lots of bodies,
and what they call the ground game, which is crucial.
Boots on the ground that get turnout, get people out
to the polls. You know, door knockers, people working phone banks,
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people you know, knocking on doors. You need this kind
of stuff. Democrats have that same thing we have in
New York. Same problem in Miami. Republicans nothing public party
is there, three people, part time nothing. Democrats have a
massive amount of people on the ground to get turnout.
So it was a tiny little turnout and Democrats want
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so don't take it as much of a sign of anything. Hey,
Jimmy Kimmel, last Night special guest David Letterman is returned
to late night TV, and he looked like the old
Letterman with the suits and the tie and those shiny
socks and the loafers, but still with the white beard.
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You know, if you're a kid watching Jimmy Kimmel, you know,
you wouldn't know who Letterman is, and with that beard,
you must have thought this is Santa Claus or something
coming up. Although if you're a kid, you're not going
to be watching Jimmy Kimmel. These late night shows. Average
age of the viewers is sixty three years old on
the late night shows now most of them just talk
about politics these late night shows. Instead of fun stuff.
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It's all political and when you do that, you get
a much older audience. Average age of msnbcviewer I think
is sixty seven now. But Letterman on Kimmel, you know,
he was very big in late night TV on CBS,
in fact, beating Jane Leno at times. But then about
halfway through his run on CBS, Letterman started to get
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political and it was pretty obvious he was a very
left wing guy, so he lost half his audience. If
you remember, he was doing very well on CBS against
the Tonight Show, and then as he got political and
went far to the left, he started to lose audience,
and it went way down and started dropping and dropped
almost in half after a couple of years. So that
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was the end, and that's when New it was time
to go, and CBS started looking around. But they made
the mistake of going with another left wing guy. You
want a guy in the middle. You know, if you
kind of make fun of everybody, you can do very well,
as Greg Guttfeld proved by getting bit. He has more
viewers than Kimmel, Fallon and Colbert combined every night. He's
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the king of late night now. So but the point is,
Letterman came out and he went really crazy with the
Trump derangement syndrome. I mean really going after Trump with
the hysterical, hyperbolic, vicious attacks on him. Now, the other
thing he did, he came on and he congratulate Jimmy Kimmel.
He said, you have just been re signed. You know,
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they tried to throw you off the air, they tried
to get rid of you. They're pushing together, can get
you fired. Yet you just signed. You signed a big
new contract. And the audience cheered and went crazy for
this big new contract. Well, they're totally conning the audience.
Kimmel did not get a big new contract, and he fact,
he got the most insulting contract literally in the history
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of late night TV. Every contract to re sign your
late night host, it's always five years, always five years.
In case of a big, big name like a Carson
or in Oprah, it'd be a ten year contract. Kimmel
was resigned to a one year extension, which is the
worst insult. That's when you really don't like somebody or
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you really don't think you're going to keep a one
year extension. They tried to do that to Carson in
ninety one, and that's the reason he left. That's where
he made the decision it was time to go and
quit because he realized what an insult that is. So
Kimmel has not been resigned to a big new contract.
The reason they'll only do a one year extension. This
is the way they're not stuck with you, and if they
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have to fire you tomorrow, they don't have to pay
out very much. They do only have to pay out
for eleven months or ten months, which they would do anyway.
So it's basically not even really a renewal, huge insult
to Kimmel. Letterman knows that and was just totally conning
the audience with his nonsense. So, hey, Brad Lander, you
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know that is he was the controller, a real left
wing cook. He's no longer the controller. His term is
up and he's going to run for Congress. He's trying
to win Dan Goldman's seat. Now, this doesn't make any
difference to anybody. Dan Goldman also a far left kok
So if it's Lander Goldman, who cares. But Lander is
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trying to run on something. Accomplishments. He tries to in
this commercial list his accomplishments. He doesn't have any. So
what could he possibly come up with. Well, he mentioned
the fact that he got arrested fighting ice. That's the accomplishment.
Remember there was an ice proceeding going on in the
courtroom and Lander tried to burst in and they told
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him he can't come in right now, and he didn't listen,
and he came in and they had to arrest him
and take him out. He was being disorderly. He was
totally guilty of disorderly conduct. Governor Hokeel was called and
ran right down to the courthouse and got him released
in her custody. But he's just a clown, just a
silly guy, far left guy. He is one of the
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reasons we have Mom Donnie as mayor. He worked hard
to get Mom Donnie elected. You remember, there was a
primary and Lander was running against Mom Donni. But then
at some point he decided to join the Mom Donnie team.
They got together, they pulled their voters, he endorsed Mom Donne.
He got him through that primary, and so they were
very close. There were teammates on this whole thing, and
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then something went wrong there and Mom Donnie cut off Lander.
After all this happened, you figured Brad landerby a big
part of the administration. They had some kind of breakup,
some kind of fight, and Mom Donnie cut Lander off completely.
So apparently Lander too reprehensible even for Mom Donnie, so
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he was cut off. Now he's running for this seat.
He's a big, blowhard showboat. He's like a George Santos,
kind of one stunt after another trying to get publicity.
Problem with Dan Goldman. Besides being a far left kook,
he's kind of a quiet guy. I don't think he
can compete with all the stunts. So who knows. Lander
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may have a shot against him. You know, the most
fascinating thing is Minnesota, the Somali community where this fraud
took place. Whenever, whenever Democratic leaders start yelling him programs
for the homeless, money seems to disappear. You know, the
great thing about the green scheme, the climate change, it
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was billions in contracts to hand out billions. So that's
why Democrats love that climate change green scheme stuff. That's
what it's called the green steam scheme. You give out
massive contracts to companies in exchange for huge donations and
whatever you needed. Well, a lot of Democrats, especially locally
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mayors and those sorts, I've realized the homeless scheme is
much better. The problem with the green scheme when you
give out a contract, it's to a company in Colorado
that makes windmills or something, and they found with the homeless,
the money doesn't leave the community. You're still giving out
massive contracts, but you're giving them out right in your
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neighborhood to people you know. So the money comes back
to you in a lot more ways and a lot faster.
So you remember, Bill de Blasio and his wife set
up this crazy program when he was mayor called Thrive NYC.
And it was helped the homeless. And if you actually
asked him, well, what exactly show me the program. Well,
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it's yoga for homeless, Yoga for homeless, literally, that was
one of the programs. So a billion dollars was handed out.
After it was all over, everybody looked for the money
or what happened, and they couldn't They couldn't find it.
Even a missus Deblasio and the husband admitted they don't
know where the money went. They can't find it, they
can't keep track of it. Well, you got Minneapolis, you
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got these Somali leaders, a elon Omars, these types they
set up the same thing. Programs are the homeless, and
if you were running a homeless type program, they would
give you money out of all these funds, government funds,
taxpayer funds, federal funds. And they started passing out money
and it's all gone. Nobody can find it. And it
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looks like first a billion, then they said it's probably
two billion. Now they think it might be as much
as eight billion has been stolen from taxpayers has disappeared
into this homeless scheme. And this is one of the
great great scandals of the news media fake news. You'll
notice you're not seeing any coverage of this if we
had legitimate, actual media, if CBSABC, NBC were legitimate, they'd
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be all over this. They would dispatch a whole team
of reporters, go to Minneapolis, don't leave until you found
out what happened, get to the bottom of this. The
New York Times, the Washington Post. They'd be sending reporters.
There's no coverage, no mention of it. They don't want
you to know about it. So this is what democrats do. Now,
they've got these homeless schemes where you get to handout
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money left and right. Now, Mom Donnie gets elected, what's
he talking about setting up a homeless program, setting up
a massive program to handout massive contracts on the So
we had imagine it's the same exact scheme, and that's
what will happen here. And we've already got some good
homeless programs. He's canceling them because they basically don't hand
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out massive contracts to anybody. So it's going to be
interesting to see what happens now, Mom Donnie takes over.
I know you're hearing everybody's fleeing, everybody's leaving New York
with this not true. I'm sure you can find somebody
that's leaving New York. But the best thing to do
is look at real estate sales. As far as apartments condos,
sales are up up dramatically in the last month. Now,
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sometimes that always happens year end, but you had eight
hundred and seventy six contracts signed the last month. It'll
take the super high end, very expensive, multi zillion dollar apartments.
You had nine contracts signed last week. That's a lot
and the better things. Check the rental market. That's people
coming in. Rentals in New York City are through the roof.
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In fact, right now it's very tough to rent an
apartment because rentals are going crazy. So people are moving
in despite mom. Donnie. Anyway, we've got a lot to
get to. We'll take some calls in a moment. Eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone show I wr.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Hey, Let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven Tennis. Peter, Peter and Harlem. He's always
angry about something, Peter, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I'm not angry, always angry about something? Wait, let me
say something number one, you didn't tell the audience. Two
questions are on, hang up, you didn't tell the audience
who's written those expensive apartment and the fact that they
might even be red Chinese or our enemy. Secondly, well,
we got.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To go.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Super super luxury apartments in New York very often are
a lot of Chinese people, a lot of Arab people,
a lot of the Middle Eastern people, a lot of Russians.
One of the reasons is, especially China and those places,
they don't trust their own government, and they got to
park money somewhere just in case they have to flee,
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so they'll buy like a one hundred million dollar apartment
in New York. That way, they got an asset. It's there.
You know, if they have to leave China, they can
sell it. And you know, they bought up all the
apartments in New York that way, and then they ran
the apartments to buy. That's one reason you cannot buy
a rolex right now. Certain watches, Paddock Philippe and a
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Rolex there's like a three year waiting list because a
lot of the same people they had to park their
assets somewhere, so they start buying up every watch in
the world too. That's why there's a massive waiting list.
Let's go to Phyllis in Brooklyn, Phillis. How you doing
all right?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Good morning. I was just wondering a conversation you had
with Saulius today. You know about the documentary this Snai
your Enterprises was preparing. I believe you were part of it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Now, Oh you're talking about it's actually Fox News or
Fox Nation. It's a big, massive Sinatra documentary. They interviewed
everybody in the world. Yeah, I'm on it too. Have
you seen it? Do you know where it is?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I don't. That's why I'm calling.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well. I remember when I did it. I said once
it's coming out, and they said in the fall, I
don't think it's out yet, but it's coming soon, and
it will be again, it's not out yet, it's coming out,
but it's at these guys that did this documentary, they
were younger guys, but they really knew what they were doing.
And I know they went to Patsy's and interviewed everybody there,
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and they interviewed me for like three hours, and they
were I was telling them everybody who would know everything
about Sinatra. It's given them all the names to interview.
Every time I mentioned anybody that we already did them.
We already did them. We just got done. So they
interviewed everybody. They were very thorough. Big Sinatra documentary. I
don't know if it's Fox News or Fox Nation, but
it'll be coming out soon. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
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how you doing.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yes, Mike, that's not your thing.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Should be great.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Thomas Saul, the famous economist, once said affordable housing is
housing you can afford. And it sounds kind of flippant,
but that's the truth. I mean, nobody could afford to
live in Manhattan, you know, or any big city. It's
expensive to live there. And I think it's great that
the president is out making his case, but where are
the other Republicans? You know, where are those months? Why
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aren't they speaking up? I mean Trump speaks every day
to the media and makes his case every day for
hours on end, you know, every every news you know,
every every day, see another news conference from the from
the office there, and you know, where are the other
Republicans out there?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah? Well, it's Trump is right about the hoax. He
doesn't explain it that well. But the whole thing is
especially affordable housing. You know, there's places where you're not
gonna have affordable housing because they're very well the areas,
and you can yell and scream. You know, if you
went to Southampton, right on the water on what's at
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the lane there, whatever lane, metal lane, further lane, whatever
it is right on the water in Southampton, every house
is like eighty million dollars. You could stand there and
say why isn't there affordable housing because it's not supposed
to be. If you go to the next town up,
if you go to Riverhead, there's plenty of affordable housing.
It just there's very, very very expensive neighborhoods. There's very
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poor neighborhoods, and there's everything in between. Speaking of the Hampton,
there's an affordable housing crisis fight out. I'll tell you
about this the next start. It's a good illustration. But
if you go to Long Island, you go anywhere in
Long Island, you go to Garden City, it's expensive. They
don't have any affordable housing, but they don't need to
because you go ten blocks that way, you're in Hempstead
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and there's plenty of affordable housing. You're not supposed to
have affordable housing everywhere. It's okay to have a wealthy neighborhood,
a middle class neighborhood, a poorer neighbor It happens. So
we'll get into this in the next hour when we
come back. Our old buddy Monica Crowley, now the Chief
Protocol Officer of the United States. We'll talk to her
next on seven to ten w R. Mister New York.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
He's on the case the mar Simone Show on.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hey, we knew her when she was just Monica Crowley.
She is now the Chief of Protocol of the United
States of America. She is the Ambassador Monica Crowley, Madam Ambassador.
How you doing?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Hi, Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
I'm doing well, although I have to say keeping up
with President Trump is quite the project.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh I don't know. I was read in the New
York Times. Apparently he's cognitive. Whatever he's falling asleep, he
can find.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
I mean, you know, the propagandaize coming from the mainstream
media just never stop.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
It is the exact opposite.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
You know, you would think that if they wanted to
lie about President Trump, and they have for the last
eleven years since he became a leader and a candidate
and a president. But you would think that it would
have like some semblance of believability. This is like President
Trump literally never sleeps.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
He is going around the clock.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
There is no such thing as a day off, there
is no such thing as a weekend.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
It is NonStop with him. And it is all geared to.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
The American people, to bringing America back, making America great again,
getting our economy back on track, which is why he
was back doing a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday. It is
about securing peace around the world, to make sure that
conflicts around the world are minimized and ended, which brings
greater prosperity to their regions, to the world, and to
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the United States. The man never stops.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
If they weren't so corrupt, it's a more fascinating story.
They could be reporting that no president ever behaved like this.
Usually it's a press conference two weeks from Monday. Nobody's
ever had four hundred press conferences a day, or just
events around the clock. But and do you sometimes not
even know where you're going to be, what city. The
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way he moves and keeps moving, it is nonsense.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Every day I wake up Mark and I'm like, okay,
what kind of adventure is going to be coming out
me today and it really is an adventure.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Every day is a blessing.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
But I have to say at the end of last week, I,
in the space of seventy two hours, Mark I went
from dealing with the President of Rwanda to the president
of FIFA and FIFA legends to Jane Simmons of Kiss.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, tell us about it.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Really in seventy two hours. It's just extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, tell us about the Kennedy Center looked really great.
That's Sunday night ceremony.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Oh, absolutely amazing. So on Thursday last week, the President
presided over Peacedale between the presidents of Rwanda and the
Congo and that conflict has been going on for thirty
five years, so he brokeer that peace deal and we
did that. And then on Friday at the Kennedy Center,
we hosted FIFA for the twenty twenty sixth final draw
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for the World Cup next year, which President Trump heroically
brought to the United States back in his first term.
So we did that on Friday, and then all weekend
we celebrated at the Kennedy Center for the Kennedy Center Honors,
which was taped on Sunday, and it's going to air,
I believe, on December twenty third on CBS, so the
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rest of the country will get to see what we
saw live on Sunday night. And it was just magical.
We had so many acts that are just purely American hunts,
like George Street and Kiss and Gloria gainor Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
It was just absolutely magical to see all of these
phenomenal acts get their due.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Michael Crawford of course, get their due with tributes and
then tribute performances. So I encourage everybody to watch on
December twenty third on CBS because.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
You will love the show.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
But really, Mark, that's another project that President Trump has
taken under and turned around. He has saved the Kennedy Center,
which is one of America's great cultural institutions.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
He has saved it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, you know, a lot of stuff is going on.
People don't realize. Apparently the infrastructure was crumbling at the
Kennedy Center. He had to fix that. He's fixed up
every inch of the White House, the entrance to this,
the that, not to mention the ballroom and all that.
But the boy he doesn't get any credit for that.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
He really, no, he doesn't, but I'll tell you he will.
He will because he really believes said our capital city, Washington,
d C. Should be a sparkling gem. And that is
why he is moving on all fronts to turn our
capital city into that shining city on a hill that
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Ronald Reagan talked about when he talked about America. But
President Trump really believes that the entire country will follow
suit if our capital is cleaned up and made safe.
And that's why we have the National Guard on the streets.
And we had that horror happened right around Thanksgiving where
we had two National guardsmen shot and one unfortunately passed away.
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One is struggling for his life still.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
But he has.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Actually ratcheted up the National Guard present since that horrific shooting.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Now is incredibly safe, much safe for them where you
were sparkling. And it does extend were institutions as well,
like the Kennedy Center. He has done all of that
while turning the US economy around, while brokering peace deals
around the world.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Again, the man never stops for good.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Hey, Now, Monica Crowley as Chief of Protocol, all the
world leaders come to the White House, they first meet
with you, and we see you greet them, and you're
sitting with them and you're talking with them. What do
you notice they all have in common, all the different
world leaders, as.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Far as that's a really yeah, that's a really interesting question.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Mark, thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yes, I mean my office and I've got an absolutely
phenomenal team.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
I cannot do any of this without them. They are
just incredible.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
And what we do is manage the diplomatic engagements for
the President, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State.
So I am I am obviously hooked to the President
and these world leaders.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
And I have to say.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
That most of them, not all, but the vast majority
of these world leaders.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
First of all, they.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
When they come in, they all have a sense of
awe of the President and the White House in America.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They all understand where they are, and.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Even if they're meeting with the president elsewhere, like President
Putin of Russia met with President Trump in Alaska, so
not in the White House, but there is a fundamental
understanding that they are dealing with the world's superpower. And
President Trump is one of the few presidents in recent
history to understand the importance of American leverage and knows
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how to use it. He knows he's sitting atop the
world's superpower militarily, economically, diplomatically, politically, culturally, and he leverages it,
and he knows how to leverage it. This is why,
you know, coming out of his business background is so invaluable.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
But these worlds leaders understand, and I would.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Say almost all of them have said to me and
to others, you know, even if we disagree with President
Trump on policy, even if we have serious policy differences
with the administration with the United States, we all appreciate
a strong American president. They all appreciate that he is
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strong and that he tells them the truth.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Now, they may not like the truth, they may.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Not like what they're hearing from him, they may disagree right,
and they may want to counter it, but they all
understand that having a strong American hand in the White House,
sitting atop the country, they know exactly where they stand.
They don't have to waste time guessing what does the
president believe, where's American policy going? They know exactly where
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they stand, and then they can operate from there, and
they all appreciate that more than you know.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Wow, well, hey, we only got about thirty seconds left.
You got the most important, glamorous job. But tell the truth,
you miss us, You miss New York. You miss the
radio and TV, don't you.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Well, I am so blessed to be in this job,
and I thank God every day, and I thank the
President for having the confidence in me to do this job.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
It is incredibly important, and I'm just so grateful. But
I am a New Yorker.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
So while I'm in DC doing this job, while President
Trump is in office, as long as they will have me,
I am still a New York girl. And I pray
and hope that we will survive the Mondommie years, and
that he will he will moderate, because you know, New
York City is the capitalist gem, the cultural gem of
this country, and it cannot go the way of a
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San Francisco or a Seattle or Portland. It cannot be gutted.
And so I hope him pray that. Well you're all there,
you guys, Every New Yorker will work hard to save
our city.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
All right, Well, Monica craw keep up the great work. Hey,
next time we'll talk about this coming year. You got
the biggest events and coming this next year. But great job,
Monica Crowley Ambassador Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol of the
United States. You're doing a great job. Thanks for being
with us.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Thank you so much much, Mark, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
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Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, Hey, we got a lot to get to it
in the next hour. You know, I'm here every day
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
May, we got a lot to get to today, well,
and it's another cold date. It's a little better today,
you know, I think everybody's complaining some cold yesterday to day,
the dop cold. I think I'm gonna take up smoking
because I've noticed that if if you smoke, they don't
even feel the cold. It could be ten below zero.
(00:30):
As you can walk towards this building, the smokers are
all up front smoking. You know, they all sneak out
they have a cigarette. Could be fifty below zero, ten
feet they're still out there on the sidewalk smoking. So
what's today Wednesday? When we're almost through this week, we
got a lot to get to. We'll get to the
Somali community and the billions missing in Minnesota. We'll get
(00:53):
to affordability, We'll get to that crazy brad Lander, and
we'll get to you know, congestion. Pricing is now celebrating
it's one year anniversary. It's coming up on one year.
The yelling and screaming about it has died down a bit.
I guess people just starting to accept it. It's probably
going to be here forever. It doesn't go away.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's like when they raise the symptoms, they don't raise
your maintenance or your property. Text. It's what they call
an assessment to fund something, a little assessment while we
need it. It never goes away. These things never ever
go away. President Trump went to Pennsylvania last night for
the rally. He's been in the White House now for
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about eleven months, and a lot of times they start
to do these things for two reasons. One, you're not
getting your message across because the media is so corrupt,
and they've focus grouped prices, and that's how they came
up with the word affordability. It tested the best in
focus groups, so Democrats used it successfully in the elections
(02:00):
in November, and the media just goes crazy attacking Trump
on affordability. It's all a bit of a hoax because
the fact is in the eleven months that he's been there,
prices have come down quite a bit. Inflation has been
cut in half, which is pretty good in ten months.
He always said it would take a year, year and
(02:21):
a half to get it down. Now, remember the big
beautiful bill that he passed with all the tax cuts,
all that stuff has not taken effect yet. Although they
got it passed this year, it doesn't kick in until January,
so you'll see a huge change in January. Everybody will
be getting more money in their paychecks in January because
the bill will begin January first. The tax cuts now again,
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prices are already down. Inflation hit nine percent at one
time under Biden. The average under Biden was five percent.
It's now two and a half, so he's cut inflation
in half already. Food prices are down. They'll point to
a couple of things, like beef prices. What about beef,
that's the reason for the beef prices being way up.
(03:06):
You can thank Joe Biden and the Democrats for that.
I don't know if you remember, but about two years
ago they started this war on cows, claiming that cows
caused climate change. I forget how they came up with
that or how they explained it, but they went after
the cattle industry in the Green scheme, and as a result,
the cattle industry had to cut back the size of
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herds and all that stuff. So there are less cattle,
less cows, less beef. Now they have to get that back.
It's just like with oil, where they cut back drilling,
there was less oil out there and made the price
go up. And the same thing with cattle. We had
a lot less cattle than we usually have. So Trump
administration has changed all that. It'll take again. It takes
more than a few months. It's going to take a
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year to get the cattle herds back up to where
they were, and that brings down the price. So it
was in Pennsylvania to do the rally to get the
message out about afford But wages are up since he
took office. Wages are up, prices are down. You got
to get that across, although it's tough because fake news
will just keep yelling that there's a terrible affordability crisis.
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It really isn't. It's a lot better. I mean, if
you call this an affordability crisis, what did you call
two years ago when it was five times worse. So
now the other reason you do the rallies is a
president who is a great speaker, great performer. When he
gets elected. Now he goes into the White House and
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he's in the White House and that's it, and he speaks.
It's in a room with a podium to people he knows.
And after a while you start to get well, it's
like your caged animal. You need to get out there.
They saw this with Reagan, and they realized they had
to get him out there. Let him give him a
big audience, give him thousands of people out there, let
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him do rallies, let him do speeches. It's like a
great performer, comedian, singer. You gotta let him go out
on stage. You gotta let him get out there. So
they started to do these rallies for Reagan for no reason,
just because he needed it. He needed the energy from
the crowds, needed to get out of the White House,
get back in touch with the people. So every couple
of weeks they set up something for Reagan, usually close
(05:19):
by so he could get there fast and get home fast,
and not California, nearby, Maryland, Pennsylvania. So they need to
do this with Trump. He needs to get out there,
get back on stage, get back to performing for audiences.
So you'll see more of these. He did an hour
and a half last night. I know the fake news
will tell you he's got no energy, can't stay awake.
(05:41):
He did an hour and a half, a lot longer
than he's supposed to do. He was kind of all
over the map. So he didn't, you know, always say
you got to stay on message, and well, Trump's not
going to do that. The coverage of it, of course,
is bad because that's the way they do things. He
talked about affordability, He talked in great detail about what
he would do about it, and a couple of times
he made some jokes. So if you're watching the fake news,
(06:04):
all they would say is he ridiculed affordability. He made
fun of the problem of affordability. Was totally inaccurate portrayal
of what happened. So you'll see more of these rallies. Hey,
yesterday had some special elections. The interesting one was Miami
mayoral election. Special election had a runoff. The Democrat won.
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Now that's unusual, usually it's a Republican in Miami. It's
the first time a Democrat has won in thirty years
in Miami. So if you're watching the fake news, they'll
tell you this is a bad sign for the midterms.
This is a bad barometer what's going to happen in
the midterms. The fact that the Democrat won in Miami,
of all places where Democrats never win, this is a
(06:48):
bad sign for a well, I think you got to
look at more detail at this race. Nobody showed up
to vote. There was no turnout. The total votes thirty six,
which is unheard of. That's incredibly low. So nobody showed
up to vote. That's how the Democrat got in. Now,
(07:09):
as we've talked about here in New York, they got
the same problem in Miami. There really is not much
of a Republican party machine. One thing about the Democrats.
They have a strong party with infrastructure, lots of bodies,
and what they call the ground game, which is crucial.
Boots on the ground that get turnout, get people out
to the polls. You know, door knockers, people working phone banks,
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people you know, knocking on doors. You need this kind
of stuff. Democrats have that same thing we have in
New York. Same problem in Miami. Republicans nothing public party
is there, three people, part time nothing. Democrats have a
massive amount of people on the ground to get turnout.
So it was a tiny little turnout and Democrats want
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so don't take it as much of a sign of anything. Hey,
Jimmy Kimmel, last Night special guest David Letterman is returned
to late night TV, and he looked like the old
Letterman with the suits and the tie and those shiny
socks and the loafers, but still with the white beard.
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You know, if you're a kid watching Jimmy Kimmel, you know,
you wouldn't know who Letterman is, and with that beard,
you must have thought this is Santa Claus or something
coming up. Although if you're a kid, you're not going
to be watching Jimmy Kimmel. These late night shows. Average
age of the viewers is sixty three years old on
the late night shows now most of them just talk
about politics these late night shows. Instead of fun stuff.
(08:37):
It's all political and when you do that, you get
a much older audience. Average age of msnbcviewer I think
is sixty seven now. But Letterman on Kimmel, you know,
he was very big in late night TV on CBS,
in fact, beating Jane Leno at times. But then about
halfway through his run on CBS, Letterman started to get
(08:58):
political and it was pretty obvious he was a very
left wing guy, so he lost half his audience. If
you remember, he was doing very well on CBS against
the Tonight Show, and then as he got political and
went far to the left, he started to lose audience,
and it went way down and started dropping and dropped
almost in half after a couple of years. So that
(09:19):
was the end, and that's when New it was time
to go, and CBS started looking around. But they made
the mistake of going with another left wing guy. You
want a guy in the middle. You know, if you
kind of make fun of everybody, you can do very well,
as Greg Guttfeld proved by getting bit. He has more
viewers than Kimmel, Fallon and Colbert combined every night. He's
(09:41):
the king of late night now. So but the point is,
Letterman came out and he went really crazy with the
Trump derangement syndrome. I mean really going after Trump with
the hysterical, hyperbolic, vicious attacks on him. Now, the other
thing he did, he came on and he congratulate Jimmy Kimmel.
He said, you have just been re signed. You know,
(10:02):
they tried to throw you off the air, they tried
to get rid of you. They're pushing together, can get
you fired. Yet you just signed. You signed a big
new contract. And the audience cheered and went crazy for
this big new contract. Well, they're totally conning the audience.
Kimmel did not get a big new contract, and he fact,
he got the most insulting contract literally in the history
(10:25):
of late night TV. Every contract to re sign your
late night host, it's always five years, always five years.
In case of a big, big name like a Carson
or in Oprah, it'd be a ten year contract. Kimmel
was resigned to a one year extension, which is the
worst insult. That's when you really don't like somebody or
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you really don't think you're going to keep a one
year extension. They tried to do that to Carson in
ninety one, and that's the reason he left. That's where
he made the decision it was time to go and
quit because he realized what an insult that is. So
Kimmel has not been resigned to a big new contract.
The reason they'll only do a one year extension. This
is the way they're not stuck with you, and if they
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have to fire you tomorrow, they don't have to pay
out very much. They do only have to pay out
for eleven months or ten months, which they would do anyway.
So it's basically not even really a renewal, huge insult
to Kimmel. Letterman knows that and was just totally conning
the audience with his nonsense. So, hey, Brad Lander, you
(11:32):
know that is he was the controller, a real left
wing cook. He's no longer the controller. His term is
up and he's going to run for Congress. He's trying
to win Dan Goldman's seat. Now, this doesn't make any
difference to anybody. Dan Goldman also a far left kok
So if it's Lander Goldman, who cares. But Lander is
(11:57):
trying to run on something. Accomplishments. He tries to in
this commercial list his accomplishments. He doesn't have any. So
what could he possibly come up with. Well, he mentioned
the fact that he got arrested fighting ice. That's the accomplishment.
Remember there was an ice proceeding going on in the
courtroom and Lander tried to burst in and they told
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him he can't come in right now, and he didn't listen,
and he came in and they had to arrest him
and take him out. He was being disorderly. He was
totally guilty of disorderly conduct. Governor Hokeel was called and
ran right down to the courthouse and got him released
in her custody. But he's just a clown, just a
silly guy, far left guy. He is one of the
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reasons we have Mom Donnie as mayor. He worked hard
to get Mom Donnie elected. You remember, there was a
primary and Lander was running against Mom Donni. But then
at some point he decided to join the Mom Donnie team.
They got together, they pulled their voters, he endorsed Mom Donne.
He got him through that primary, and so they were
very close. There were teammates on this whole thing, and
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then something went wrong there and Mom Donnie cut off Lander.
After all this happened, you figured Brad landerby a big
part of the administration. They had some kind of breakup,
some kind of fight, and Mom Donnie cut Lander off completely.
So apparently Lander too reprehensible even for Mom Donnie, so
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he was cut off. Now he's running for this seat.
He's a big, blowhard showboat. He's like a George Santos,
kind of one stunt after another trying to get publicity.
Problem with Dan Goldman. Besides being a far left kook,
he's kind of a quiet guy. I don't think he
can compete with all the stunts. So who knows. Lander
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may have a shot against him. You know, the most
fascinating thing is Minnesota, the Somali community where this fraud
took place. Whenever, whenever Democratic leaders start yelling him programs
for the homeless, money seems to disappear. You know, the
great thing about the green scheme, the climate change, it
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was billions in contracts to hand out billions. So that's
why Democrats love that climate change green scheme stuff. That's
what it's called the green steam scheme. You give out
massive contracts to companies in exchange for huge donations and
whatever you needed. Well, a lot of Democrats, especially locally
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mayors and those sorts, I've realized the homeless scheme is
much better. The problem with the green scheme when you
give out a contract, it's to a company in Colorado
that makes windmills or something, and they found with the homeless,
the money doesn't leave the community. You're still giving out
massive contracts, but you're giving them out right in your
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neighborhood to people you know. So the money comes back
to you in a lot more ways and a lot faster.
So you remember, Bill de Blasio and his wife set
up this crazy program when he was mayor called Thrive NYC.
And it was helped the homeless. And if you actually
asked him, well, what exactly show me the program. Well,
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it's yoga for homeless, Yoga for homeless, literally, that was
one of the programs. So a billion dollars was handed out.
After it was all over, everybody looked for the money
or what happened, and they couldn't They couldn't find it.
Even a missus Deblasio and the husband admitted they don't
know where the money went. They can't find it, they
can't keep track of it. Well, you got Minneapolis, you
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got these Somali leaders, a elon Omars, these types they
set up the same thing. Programs are the homeless, and
if you were running a homeless type program, they would
give you money out of all these funds, government funds,
taxpayer funds, federal funds. And they started passing out money
and it's all gone. Nobody can find it. And it
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looks like first a billion, then they said it's probably
two billion. Now they think it might be as much
as eight billion has been stolen from taxpayers has disappeared
into this homeless scheme. And this is one of the
great great scandals of the news media fake news. You'll
notice you're not seeing any coverage of this if we
had legitimate, actual media, if CBSABC, NBC were legitimate, they'd
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be all over this. They would dispatch a whole team
of reporters, go to Minneapolis, don't leave until you found
out what happened, get to the bottom of this. The
New York Times, the Washington Post. They'd be sending reporters.
There's no coverage, no mention of it. They don't want
you to know about it. So this is what democrats do. Now,
they've got these homeless schemes where you get to handout
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money left and right. Now, Mom Donnie gets elected, what's
he talking about setting up a homeless program, setting up
a massive program to handout massive contracts on the So
we had imagine it's the same exact scheme, and that's
what will happen here. And we've already got some good
homeless programs. He's canceling them because they basically don't hand
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out massive contracts to anybody. So it's going to be
interesting to see what happens now, Mom Donnie takes over.
I know you're hearing everybody's fleeing, everybody's leaving New York
with this not true. I'm sure you can find somebody
that's leaving New York. But the best thing to do
is look at real estate sales. As far as apartments condos,
sales are up up dramatically in the last month. Now,
(17:31):
sometimes that always happens year end, but you had eight
hundred and seventy six contracts signed the last month. It'll
take the super high end, very expensive, multi zillion dollar apartments.
You had nine contracts signed last week. That's a lot
and the better things. Check the rental market. That's people
coming in. Rentals in New York City are through the roof.
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In fact, right now it's very tough to rent an
apartment because rentals are going crazy. So people are moving
in despite mom. Donnie. Anyway, we've got a lot to
get to. We'll take some calls in a moment. Eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone show I wr.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Hey, Let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven Tennis. Peter, Peter and Harlem. He's always
angry about something, Peter, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I'm not angry, always angry about something? Wait, let me
say something number one, you didn't tell the audience. Two
questions are on, hang up, you didn't tell the audience
who's written those expensive apartment and the fact that they
might even be red Chinese or our enemy. Secondly, well,
we got.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To go.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Super super luxury apartments in New York very often are
a lot of Chinese people, a lot of Arab people,
a lot of the Middle Eastern people, a lot of Russians.
One of the reasons is, especially China and those places,
they don't trust their own government, and they got to
park money somewhere just in case they have to flee,
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so they'll buy like a one hundred million dollar apartment
in New York. That way, they got an asset. It's there.
You know, if they have to leave China, they can
sell it. And you know, they bought up all the
apartments in New York that way, and then they ran
the apartments to buy. That's one reason you cannot buy
a rolex right now. Certain watches, Paddock Philippe and a
(19:35):
Rolex there's like a three year waiting list because a
lot of the same people they had to park their
assets somewhere, so they start buying up every watch in
the world too. That's why there's a massive waiting list.
Let's go to Phyllis in Brooklyn, Phillis. How you doing
all right?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Good morning. I was just wondering a conversation you had
with Saulius today. You know about the documentary this Snai
your Enterprises was preparing. I believe you were part of it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Now, Oh you're talking about it's actually Fox News or
Fox Nation. It's a big, massive Sinatra documentary. They interviewed
everybody in the world. Yeah, I'm on it too. Have
you seen it? Do you know where it is?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I don't. That's why I'm calling.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well. I remember when I did it. I said once
it's coming out, and they said in the fall, I
don't think it's out yet, but it's coming soon, and
it will be again, it's not out yet, it's coming out,
but it's at these guys that did this documentary, they
were younger guys, but they really knew what they were doing.
And I know they went to Patsy's and interviewed everybody there,
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and they interviewed me for like three hours, and they
were I was telling them everybody who would know everything
about Sinatra. It's given them all the names to interview.
Every time I mentioned anybody that we already did them.
We already did them. We just got done. So they
interviewed everybody. They were very thorough. Big Sinatra documentary. I
don't know if it's Fox News or Fox Nation, but
it'll be coming out soon. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
(21:03):
how you doing.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yes, Mike, that's not your thing.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Should be great.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Thomas Saul, the famous economist, once said affordable housing is
housing you can afford. And it sounds kind of flippant,
but that's the truth. I mean, nobody could afford to
live in Manhattan, you know, or any big city. It's
expensive to live there. And I think it's great that
the president is out making his case, but where are
the other Republicans? You know, where are those months? Why
(21:31):
aren't they speaking up? I mean Trump speaks every day
to the media and makes his case every day for
hours on end, you know, every every news you know,
every every day, see another news conference from the from
the office there, and you know, where are the other
Republicans out there?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah? Well, it's Trump is right about the hoax. He
doesn't explain it that well. But the whole thing is
especially affordable housing. You know, there's places where you're not
gonna have affordable housing because they're very well the areas,
and you can yell and scream. You know, if you
went to Southampton, right on the water on what's at
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the lane there, whatever lane, metal lane, further lane, whatever
it is right on the water in Southampton, every house
is like eighty million dollars. You could stand there and
say why isn't there affordable housing because it's not supposed
to be. If you go to the next town up,
if you go to Riverhead, there's plenty of affordable housing.
It just there's very, very very expensive neighborhoods. There's very
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poor neighborhoods, and there's everything in between. Speaking of the Hampton,
there's an affordable housing crisis fight out. I'll tell you
about this the next start. It's a good illustration. But
if you go to Long Island, you go anywhere in
Long Island, you go to Garden City, it's expensive. They
don't have any affordable housing, but they don't need to
because you go ten blocks that way, you're in Hempstead
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and there's plenty of affordable housing. You're not supposed to
have affordable housing everywhere. It's okay to have a wealthy neighborhood,
a middle class neighborhood, a poorer neighbor It happens. So
we'll get into this in the next hour when we
come back. Our old buddy Monica Crowley, now the Chief
Protocol Officer of the United States. We'll talk to her
next on seven to ten w R. Mister New York.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
He's on the case the mar Simone Show on.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hey, we knew her when she was just Monica Crowley.
She is now the Chief of Protocol of the United
States of America. She is the Ambassador Monica Crowley, Madam Ambassador.
How you doing?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Hi, Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
I'm doing well, although I have to say keeping up
with President Trump is quite the project.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh I don't know. I was read in the New
York Times. Apparently he's cognitive. Whatever he's falling asleep, he
can find.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
I mean, you know, the propagandaize coming from the mainstream
media just never stop.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
It is the exact opposite.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
You know, you would think that if they wanted to
lie about President Trump, and they have for the last
eleven years since he became a leader and a candidate
and a president. But you would think that it would
have like some semblance of believability. This is like President
Trump literally never sleeps.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
He is going around the clock.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
There is no such thing as a day off, there
is no such thing as a weekend.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
It is NonStop with him. And it is all geared to.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
The American people, to bringing America back, making America great again,
getting our economy back on track, which is why he
was back doing a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday. It is
about securing peace around the world, to make sure that
conflicts around the world are minimized and ended, which brings
greater prosperity to their regions, to the world, and to
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the United States. The man never stops.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
If they weren't so corrupt, it's a more fascinating story.
They could be reporting that no president ever behaved like this.
Usually it's a press conference two weeks from Monday. Nobody's
ever had four hundred press conferences a day, or just
events around the clock. But and do you sometimes not
even know where you're going to be, what city. The
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way he moves and keeps moving, it is nonsense.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Every day I wake up Mark and I'm like, okay,
what kind of adventure is going to be coming out
me today and it really is an adventure.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Every day is a blessing.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
But I have to say at the end of last week, I,
in the space of seventy two hours, Mark I went
from dealing with the President of Rwanda to the president
of FIFA and FIFA legends to Jane Simmons of Kiss.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, tell us about it.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Really in seventy two hours. It's just extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, tell us about the Kennedy Center looked really great.
That's Sunday night ceremony.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Oh, absolutely amazing. So on Thursday last week, the President
presided over Peacedale between the presidents of Rwanda and the
Congo and that conflict has been going on for thirty
five years, so he brokeer that peace deal and we
did that. And then on Friday at the Kennedy Center,
we hosted FIFA for the twenty twenty sixth final draw
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for the World Cup next year, which President Trump heroically
brought to the United States back in his first term.
So we did that on Friday, and then all weekend
we celebrated at the Kennedy Center for the Kennedy Center Honors,
which was taped on Sunday, and it's going to air,
I believe, on December twenty third on CBS, so the
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rest of the country will get to see what we
saw live on Sunday night. And it was just magical.
We had so many acts that are just purely American hunts,
like George Street and Kiss and Gloria gainor Sylvester Stallone.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
It was just absolutely magical to see all of these
phenomenal acts get their due.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Michael Crawford of course, get their due with tributes and
then tribute performances. So I encourage everybody to watch on
December twenty third on CBS because.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
You will love the show.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
But really, Mark, that's another project that President Trump has
taken under and turned around. He has saved the Kennedy Center,
which is one of America's great cultural institutions.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
He has saved it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, you know, a lot of stuff is going on.
People don't realize. Apparently the infrastructure was crumbling at the
Kennedy Center. He had to fix that. He's fixed up
every inch of the White House, the entrance to this,
the that, not to mention the ballroom and all that.
But the boy he doesn't get any credit for that.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
He really, no, he doesn't, but I'll tell you he will.
He will because he really believes said our capital city, Washington,
d C. Should be a sparkling gem. And that is
why he is moving on all fronts to turn our
capital city into that shining city on a hill that
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Ronald Reagan talked about when he talked about America. But
President Trump really believes that the entire country will follow
suit if our capital is cleaned up and made safe.
And that's why we have the National Guard on the streets.
And we had that horror happened right around Thanksgiving where
we had two National guardsmen shot and one unfortunately passed away.
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One is struggling for his life still.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
But he has.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Actually ratcheted up the National Guard present since that horrific shooting.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Now is incredibly safe, much safe for them where you
were sparkling. And it does extend were institutions as well,
like the Kennedy Center. He has done all of that
while turning the US economy around, while brokering peace deals
around the world.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Again, the man never stops for good.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Hey, Now, Monica Crowley as Chief of Protocol, all the
world leaders come to the White House, they first meet
with you, and we see you greet them, and you're
sitting with them and you're talking with them. What do
you notice they all have in common, all the different
world leaders, as.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Far as that's a really yeah, that's a really interesting question.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Mark, thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yes, I mean my office and I've got an absolutely
phenomenal team.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
I cannot do any of this without them. They are
just incredible.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
And what we do is manage the diplomatic engagements for
the President, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State.
So I am I am obviously hooked to the President
and these world leaders.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
And I have to say.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
That most of them, not all, but the vast majority
of these world leaders.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
First of all, they.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
When they come in, they all have a sense of
awe of the President and the White House in America.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
They all understand where they are, and.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Even if they're meeting with the president elsewhere, like President
Putin of Russia met with President Trump in Alaska, so
not in the White House, but there is a fundamental
understanding that they are dealing with the world's superpower. And
President Trump is one of the few presidents in recent
history to understand the importance of American leverage and knows
(30:42):
how to use it. He knows he's sitting atop the
world's superpower militarily, economically, diplomatically, politically, culturally, and he leverages it,
and he knows how to leverage it. This is why,
you know, coming out of his business background is so invaluable.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
But these worlds leaders understand, and I would.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Say almost all of them have said to me and
to others, you know, even if we disagree with President
Trump on policy, even if we have serious policy differences
with the administration with the United States, we all appreciate
a strong American president. They all appreciate that he is
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strong and that he tells them the truth.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Now, they may not like the truth, they may.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Not like what they're hearing from him, they may disagree right,
and they may want to counter it, but they all
understand that having a strong American hand in the White House,
sitting atop the country, they know exactly where they stand.
They don't have to waste time guessing what does the
president believe, where's American policy going? They know exactly where
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they stand, and then they can operate from there, and
they all appreciate that more than you know.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Wow, well, hey, we only got about thirty seconds left.
You got the most important, glamorous job. But tell the truth,
you miss us, You miss New York. You miss the
radio and TV, don't you.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Well, I am so blessed to be in this job,
and I thank God every day, and I thank the
President for having the confidence in me to do this job.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
It is incredibly important, and I'm just so grateful. But
I am a New Yorker.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
So while I'm in DC doing this job, while President
Trump is in office, as long as they will have me,
I am still a New York girl. And I pray
and hope that we will survive the Mondommie years, and
that he will he will moderate, because you know, New
York City is the capitalist gem, the cultural gem of
this country, and it cannot go the way of a
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San Francisco or a Seattle or Portland. It cannot be gutted.
And so I hope him pray that. Well you're all there,
you guys, Every New Yorker will work hard to save
our city.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
All right, Well, Monica craw keep up the great work. Hey,
next time we'll talk about this coming year. You got
the biggest events and coming this next year. But great job,
Monica Crowley Ambassador Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol of the
United States. You're doing a great job. Thanks for being
with us.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Thank you so much much, Mark, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
All right, Merry Christmas. Take care. Hey, don't forget. Coming
up at noon, it's Buck Sexton and Clay Travis with
an excellent show. And then you got the most listened
to radio show in America, Sean Hannity at three, Jesse
Kelly at six, and you should be listening now every
night at nine, we got a fabulous new show. Every
night at nine, it's Jimmy Fayla. On seven to ten WOR.
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Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, Hey, we got a lot to get to it
in the next hour. You know, I'm here every day
ten to noon. If you can listen live, or if
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