December 12, 2025 • 34 mins
Department of Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem was challenged on Capitol Hill yesterday by Democrats regarding her handling of ICE. Today, we also remember the legendary music icon Frank Sinatra on what would have been his 110th birthday. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews pollster John McLaughlin. John breaks down the latest behind-the-scenes poll numbers, focusing on the 2026 gubernatorial race in NYC. United States Representative Elise Stefanik is currently trailing Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, while Governor Kathy Hochul could face a serious challenge ahead. There are also concerns that President Trump’s approval rating polls may be manipulated against him.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Mark Simone show. R.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, it's Friday. It's less than two weeks the Christmas Day?
Can you believe it? And uh, three weeks from today
it'll be the new year. It'll be the first full
day of the mom Donnie administration. Three weeks from today.
All Right, calm down, it's gonna be like Deblasio. We
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got through eight years of that. We'll get through a
couple of years of Mom Donnie and all right, it
wasn't great under Deblasio, but we got through it. We'll
get through this too. So hey, you know this guy Thompson.
We're talking about Democrats. They're just nuttier and nuttier and nuttier, crazier,
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more far left. Every year, it's just they get worse
and worse. So they're having hearings yesterday in Congress, and
Christinome is there to testify about deportation, about ice. Christy
Nome is testifying in the course. The Democrats with the
TV cameras on, they want to, you know, create some
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viral moments, so they're yelling and screaming, you got this
crazy left wing. Dan Goldman from New York yelling at Christineomas.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
As if you're Department of Courts.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Isn't that correct?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
The asylum program was broken under the.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
List Chairman, I will reclaim my time. She's not answering
the question, but the obvious answer is that yes, if
you follow a lawful pathway.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Asylum is a lawful pathway.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
If you have an open asylum case, you are here lawfully.
But the problem that we are seeing around the country
is that you are not following the law. Don't tell
us to change the law. If you don't like the
asylum system, you changed the asylum law.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
This is the problem. He shouldn't allow cameras on these things.
Here's a guy just carrying on for just crazy theatrics
for the camera. He's a smart guy. Goldman needs to
be far left wing kook, but he's a smart guy.
But he's just carrying on for the camera. He has
no interest in her answer. He's not even listening to
her answer. In fact, he's as soon as she talks,
he's just waiting to jump in again and talk. And
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he's yelling and screaming and huffing and puffing for the camera.
And he's going and you you just carrying on because
he wants to be on the news. Seriously, they should
not allow cameras for these things. But you could also
make the case, you know what, you should have the
cameras there because some of these Democrats are so incredibly
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stupid that you need to capture it on camera. Listen
to this Democrat, Congressman Thompson. This guy is just an
IQ of maybe maybe a I mean, he's just the
dumbest left wing Democrats. So he's going after Christy Nome
and he gets to the terrible assassination of two National
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Guard troops in Washington, d C. This Muslim terrorist shoots
two National Guards and one is a woman, kills her,
shoots her in the head. Listen to this Thompson discussed
the incident with Christy Noman. Listen to his you won't
believe the words he uses.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Amount of secretary of you and a gentleman from c
n CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the
National guardsman being.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Keel You think that was an unfortunate accident.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I mean he's a terrorist. Wait wait, look, I'll get
it straight.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
And then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Look was Sam, will you direct the witness to allow
me to ask my question?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It was an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's hard to believe a guy this dumb has any
kind of a job. But how the hell is a
guy this dumb a congressman. Listen to it again and
now it is Christine Noman. It takes her a second
to even process what he said that you can't believe
be setting in this dumb it's a Muslim terrorist assassinating
a National guardswoman.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Madam secretary of you and a gentleman from CTS n
CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National
guardsman and kill.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You think that was an unfortunate accident, I mean it's
a terrorist.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Wait wait, look, I'll get it straight.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Then you can shot our National guardsman in the.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Head, looks Sam, will you direct witness to allow me
to ask my question?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's an unbelievable Here is the founding father's coming back
to life and finding out this this is an actual cause.
Oh I'm laughing. It's not funny. Mike Johnson.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I'm very privileged in honor today to have my family
with me.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I like, oh, this is this is Christy Notman as
she's testifying, and of course you have a nut job
or two have got into the chamber and they're going
to approach this. Why they shouldn't allow these cameras in there.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Actually, I'm very privileged in honor today to have my
family with me. I'd like to introduce them to you.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
An importations.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Disruptions of congressional business is a violation of law.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
It is a criminal offense under federal law.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Audience members are advised to take.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Their seats and maintain order. Of course, we'll get a
desk appearance ticket and that's it and it's over with.
It's not like January sixth, where if this were the Democrats,
they would put this guy in solitary confinement, convict him
for twenty years. He basically did what everybody on January
sixth did. But in this case, it'll be a desk
appearance ticket. What does Curtis call that suppeiance ticket? You
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don't even have to answer it. So you get these
lunatics and then I take the governor of Illinois. The
problem is you get these really raging lunatics in office,
and then the otherwise smart people start behaving them like
that you know, Pritzker, who's a billionaire of businessman, has
to act like a nut to be a successful Democrat.
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So he's fighting Ice. They're trying to come in and
get illegal criminals and gang members off the street. He's
trying to block it. He's trying to stop it.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
The Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign
of cruelty and intimidation and abuse at the hands of
ICE and Border Patrol agents. Together, we're sending a message
to Donald Trump, to Christy Gnome, to Gregory Bavino, and
anyone else seeking to terrorize our people. Your divisiveness and
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your brutality are not welcome here.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, the messages you leave our criminals alone, leave our
gang members there. Of course Holman has to respond, talk
about terrorizing.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Why don't he talk to the victims of illego crime?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Won't he do?
Speaker 9 (07:08):
I've done and talk to the angel moms and dad
who buried their children because they were killed by someone's
not supposed to be here. While't he talked to, you know,
called the ICE office and talk to people that are
involved with voice victims of immigration crime and hear their stories.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
They're the ones that are terrorized.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Like Tom Holman. But give up. You can't explain an
he can't explain anything to these lunatics. They don't want
to hear it. Here's another guy, I Q eighty five.
Maybe this is a congressman. He's going to impeach Pete Hexath.
Listen to this guy.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
I introduced articles to impeach Secretary Pete Hexath for murder
and conspiracy to murder, and reckless and unlawful mishandling of
classified information exactly are not just reprehensible but illegal as well.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I know you're saying, what an idiot, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Why is?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's not going to go anywhere, you know, don't get
yourself to Sky'll get on the view, He'll get on
MS whatever they call it. He'll get on CNN. Hey,
some bad news. They tried once again to indict Letitia James.
It went before a grand jury, this time in Alexandria, Virginia.
The grand jury refused to indict. That's tough and a
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second time. Second time a grand jury didn't indict. Usually
pretty easy to get a grand jury to go along.
So this is not looking good here. First you had
a judge. Now you could say, well, they'll bring it again.
Hopefully they will, but you got to be careful. You know,
you do this too many times. It looks like you're
grand jury shopping. And even the CNN guy here has
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a point.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is over. We have never I can point to
no case in the last twenty years where you've had
a case thrown out by a judge, then you had
a grand jury refused to indict it, which is very
hard to do. Then you had a second grand jury
a week later refused to re re indict it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, but if you look at all the stuff she's done,
you could tell this is a one sleazy woman. They'll
find something, they'll they'll get her on something before they're done. Hey,
remember a George Soros is a company bought a lot
of radio groups and radio stations and radio companies. It
was a couple of years ago. They got FCC approval.
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It was Biden at the time. So the Soros Fund
owns a lot of radio. Everybody worried, well they try
to tamper with conservative radio. That kind of swell. You know,
they bought a lot of AM stations. They just shut
one of them down. It's in Miami. It's a Spanish station.
But it's a conservative Spanish station. It's conservative stuff for
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the Spanish community in Miami. The Soros group just shut
it down, just took it off the air, claiming for
financial reasons. They took well, very important voice in the
Miami Spanish community, a conservative voice though, so they just
shut it down. It's gone, As I said, Mom, Donnie,
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two weeks, three weeks from yesterday, takes office. Three weeks
from yesterday, Mom, Donnie takes office, they'll have the inauguration.
It looks like Adams is not going to go. He's
making quite a stink about not going. Says he hasn't decided,
but it sounds like he's not going. That's unusual. There's
always always always the previous mayor there. That'll be unusual.
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He'll be sworn in. I guess that night he goes
to Gracie Mansion to stay there for the first night.
He's the youngest mayor ever. He also, you know, he
has no kids. I'm trying to think, oh, ed Kotch,
but him, I guess ed Coach was the only other
mayor that didn't have kids. If we ever had a
mayor with no children ed Cotch, Uh, Mom, Donnie, I
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think that. But you know, Mom Donnie hasn't been married
very long. He just got married beginning of the year,
February he got married. Yeah, he's only been married like
ten months to this seemingly a nice woman. And he's
got to be nuts. You's married to Mom Downie. But
they met on the dating app Hinge. Hinge is a
very good app. And I notice, you know, normally if
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you're a dating app, you do some advertising promote yourself.
That's a pretty good coup. Hey, you the mayor of
New York met his wife on Hinge. I notice they're
not using it for any kind of advertise. I guess
they don't even they don't want to be tied to
Mom Donnie. Hey, it's Frank Sinatra's one hundred and tenth
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birthday today. It's a big day. December twelfth, the birthday
of Frank Sinatra. He was the greatest singer ever in
the history of music, the biggest star of the twentieth century.
You don't realize how big this guy was and how long.
You know, you could be really big for ten years,
twenty years. You know, you look at the beat, you
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know they were really only there. I mean they came
to America in sixty four, but they broke up in
nineteen seventies, so it was really six years. It was
really sixty two because they were very big in Europe first,
but that's eight years. So that was it. You know,
Sinatra was like on top of the world, performing all
over the world for decades and decades. You know, when
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he started, Herbert Hoover was president and when he stopped,
Bill Clinton was president. That's a long long run of
being on top. He was very good at evolving, at
changing himself. There were different Sinatras every decade. He was
the boys singer with the bow tie Little Frankie in
the forties. Then he came back in the fifties as
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the older nightclub pal Joey singer. And then in the
sixties he was the rat pack Las Vegas guy, and
then you know, that didn't work out, and that was huge,
but then in the seventies it wasn't working, so he
switched and he did what a lot of these singers
have to realize. Billy Joel figured it out, McCartney figured
it out. He got to stop trying to be the contemporary,
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churning out top forty hits kind of a guy. And
switch as you get older and become the elder Statesman,
where all you do is you just travel the world
doing these big, grand concerts, these big events the Elder
states and doing concerts, and that's it. And that's what
he did for the last twenty years very successfully. Sinatra
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was you know, he lived in California, but he also
really more than half the time he lived in New
York right over there of the Waldorf Apartment thirty three A.
How's that for a memory. But he loved New York.
He was out all night. Wherever he was in the world,
he'd be out all night. In fact, when Sinatra would
invite you to dinner, you'd bring sunglasses because it might
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be noon by the time you got home. It would
just go all night long. Dinner was huge. It was
always thirty people, forty people. Sometimes said I'd see a
guy and he'd be all excited. Frank invited me to
dinner tonight, and the guy was so thrilled. I didn't
have the heart to tell him, dinner's forty people. You're
gonna be like fourteen seats away. And that guy would say,
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I mean, I was thinking about what I want to
talk about with him, and I didn't have the heart
to tell him, you're not going to get a word
in all night. He's going to talk NonStop. You won't
get to say anything. But it was always fun. It
was always incredible, and he was an incredible tipper. You know.
He would this that famous story. He was leaving the
place and he gave the doorman. He said to the doorman,
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what's the biggest tip you ever got? And the doorman
said one hundred dollars. That was a fortune back then.
So Sinatra said one hundred dollars, He's two hundred. Doorman
couldn't believe it. And a Sinatra's leaving, he turned around,
he says, hey, who gave you the hundred? He goes
you did a few months ago. So he had to
keep topping his own record. But he was just an
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unbelievable guy, the most generous guy in the world. All
these great you know there was he had beautiful art
all over his house, beautiful, incredible, very expensive paintings. And
there was the violinist Eleanor Slotkin who played on a
lot of his records, Eleanor Slatkin, And he saw her
in the house at a party. She'd come to a
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big dinner party. She was staring at one painting and
he said, you like that? She said, oh what, I
love that painting. So anyway, they went into the dinner
and all that, and hours later she's leaving and gets
into her car and there's the painting wrapped up in
the back seat of her car. That's the way. It
was just very very generous and incredible guy. You know,
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if you haven't done it in a while, go back
and start listening to Sinatra music. I'm sure you do
now and then, but seriously listen to it. Go go
on wherever you get your music, and just listen to
we small hours of the morning. Go listen to the
whole album or only the Lonely or any of those.
We'll take some calls. Next eight we'll talk to the
world's greatest polster in a few moments, see where Trump
really stands and what the real issues are, and we'll
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take some calls. Next eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten is the number eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
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Now back to Mark Simone on WOR.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Hey, let's say some calls. Let's go to h Randall
and Maryland Randall.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
How you doing, I'm good Mark. Do you remember a
theatre critic that used to be on WOR in the
mornings by m.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
O'Brien Jack O'Brien. Yes, yes, he was actually a big
writer for was it the Daily News of the World
Telegram on one of those things and Jack O'Brien, Yeah,
used to anyway, the show was called Critics Circle. I
actually knew the guy. It was very late in his life.
Not the nicest guy in the world. I never really
liked him.
Speaker 12 (17:01):
But go ahead, Well, well about Sinatra? He had some
kind of feud or he hated Sinatra.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, Jack O'Brien, he was this guy, could have a
feud with anybody. If you met him for two minutes,
you'd hate the guy. I mean, he just not a
nice guy. I'd argue about anything and everything.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Can I tell you you know the man? I didn't.
But can I tell you my favorite Sinatra quote?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Go ahead?
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Is it when he was freshed about this mob connections
early on? Right he says, any of the checks were
always good?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You know, Well, it's too much to get into the
whole mob thing. He wasn't the mob singer he was
made out to me. He loved the mob he romanticized
that he chased after these mobs tos. He loved hanging
out with him. There were other guys in the music,
other famous singers who were so mob connected, way beyond Sinatra.
But Sinatra liked to play it up a lot. Let's
go to Dave in Chicago. Hey, how you doing, good.
Speaker 13 (18:02):
Morning, Mark.
Speaker 12 (18:02):
I'm doing very well.
Speaker 13 (18:03):
Thank you, Mark. I have a couple of Frank Sinatra questions,
if I may go ahead. I know he had a
record label called Reprise Records. The Night, Yeah, I heard,
I had heard that he did not like the song.
And the second question is regarding the rat Pack. I
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had heard that Angie Dickinson was a member. Is this true?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes, she was in the movie Ocean's Eleven. She was
a member of the rat Pack Strangers in the Night. Yes,
he did hate that song. He didn't like my Way,
couldn't stand it. Hated paul Anka. Despite anything paul Anka,
I tell you, Sinatra was not a big Paul Anka fan. Uh.
In fact, it's the concert for the Americas you can
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get the video the concert for the America's whenever it
was big TV special and we're going to film the concert.
He had to do Strangers in the Night. He hated
the song. But if you get the concert for the America's,
he does Strangers in the Night and at the end
people are applauding and applauding. You see him go over
and say something to Vinnie Falcone, the pianist and conductor.
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And I said the Falcon, what did he say to you?
And he said he went over and said, that's the
worst Fens song ever written. He didn't he said the
actual ef word. So I went back and I got
you can barely hear it, but if you turn it
up real loud, put your ear right up there, you
can hear him say that to Vinnie Fellcone. Let's go
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to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Good morning, Mark, I'm okay, Good morning Marah. Mark. You
may remember the theater critic of the New York Times,
Andrew Saris.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, yeah, I didn't know him. I know the name.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, he lived in my building, but he was more
lived in my apartment building.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
There's more of a film critic wasn't.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He he was I was very young when he lived
in my house. But anyway, he lived in my house
when my well, when my family owned building. What I
wanted to say is, it would be easy to bring
a case against Letitia James in New York because here
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it's black and white. It was in Virginia. But here,
First off, we would go to Brooklyn because she owns
the property in Brooklyn and she listed it as a
four family. It's a five family. And also there's here.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well you're also you're right about the law, but you
can't bring the case in New York. You got New
York judges, new York jury's they'll never do anything.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But though't they have the same crooked problem in Virginia.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Mind? Yeah apparently, But in New York, forget it. You
know that case she brought against Sinatra, not Sinatra Trump,
the case she brought against Trump. No judge jury anywhere
in the world would allow that, no ac court room,
but only here in New York, crazy left wing judges.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, you're you're right, bout you're right. Probably it would
be like a lead balloon here. But I just thought,
because maybe with the insurance company, because you.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Gotta get it anytime you're in a New York court,
new York judge, New York jurors, for get it. You
got no shot that's topped.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Unfortunately, you're probably right marked.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, great call, Thanks for Colin. We'll break for
the news, get caught up on everything, and then we'll
talk to the greatest polster in the world. You're being
bombarded with fake polls right now, ap, those kind of
crazy left wing slanted place we'll get the we'll get
the real story. L let's see what kind of what
he thinks about Bruce Blakeman, who's going to be governor.
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We'll get to that too, coming up next on seven
to ten w R, The.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Mark Simone Show on WR.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well, you know, you see all these public polls, these junkie, cheap,
little flimsy poles. But let's talk to the greatest pollster
in the world. I mean, the real poles are behind
the scenes, the ones the candidates use pay a fortune for.
But here's here's the best pollster on earth, John McLaughlin.
His website McLachlan online dot com.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But he's been the pollster for presidents, prime minister's, premiers, senators,
all over the world. John McLaughlin, how you doing.
Speaker 14 (22:06):
I'm doing well because that's a very very nice introduction.
But as well as having survived three presidential campaigns with
President Trump where he made his polster look good, I'll
accept it, all right. He credit goes to him and
the other the other elected officials work force.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
So well, I just take the polls. We'll get to
him in a moment. Let's start with the governor's race
here in New York next year. Bruce Blakeman, elis Stephonic.
To me, they're both very popular. I think Blakeman would
be the better choice because he's what he does right
now is he's a governor. He's the governor of Nasau County.
She's a legislator, he's a governor. But where does it
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stand pole wise?
Speaker 12 (22:47):
Well exactly.
Speaker 14 (22:48):
I mean, well, first of all, there's only been one
poll that was a serious poll that was put out there,
and that was the Cien Pol. And the cen Pol
had Congresswoman Stephonic losing by twenty points and had her
upside down. She was twenty eight favorable, thirty six unfavorable.
They didn't even put Bruce in it. So even though
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you know Kathy Hochel is very beatable. She's not popular
and most people when somebody knew the congresswoman was losing
to her by twenty points. And I worked for Lee's
Eldon last time. At some point we hit a wall
with forty seven percent, but it was close enough that
we gained congressional seats in New York. And the bad
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part about this is somebody like Bruce. Let me tell
you about Bruce. The election he had in Nassau County
was defied the national trends where he got re elected
with twelve percent in an eight point Democrat county because
he's cut taxes and he's kept the taxes low. Plus
he hired hundreds of more police and worked with ice
and it's the safest county in America. So Bruce, like
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in Nassau County, in our post election surveyce well, the
voters gave him a twelve point you know, landslide and
a carry through the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Rest of the ticket.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
He brought all these other Republicans in with them, and
the rest of the state they were losing, like fifty
Republican county legislators upstate, they were, you know, they taking
losses in Syracuse and other places. And you know, even
like in Stuffic we lost Riverhead and so there's there's
we need somebody like Bruce who can win among Hispanic votes.
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He won among Hispanic votes, he won among Asian voters,
he won among Jewish voters. I mean in New York,
you have to get thirty five percent of the vote
in New York City to win President Trump. You know,
got thirty percent. Zeldon got thirty percent. But the Lease
is not getting that. And a lease, you know is
the Bayport is if you get if you can't win
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the New York suburbs and you can't win New York
enough vote in New York City, you know, the Adirondacks
aren't going to make it up so upstate, you know,
well the Republicans are fighting for existence upstate because the
other thing Uncle did was she moved a lot of
the idye elections. He's town supervisors, a county legates, studies.
They moved into the even year behind the governor's race.
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So not only will we have trouble trying to like
defeat Laura Gillen in the Democrat in in CD four
Nasaux County or Tom Swasey in Nasau County Uh, you
might have Republicans like Nicole Mally Takas, Nicololoda, my one
of my favorite, Mike Waller. Uh an upstate, You're gonna
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have a lot of problems trying to get the Congress.
The Republicans the Congress reelected, and uh, Bruce changes the
whole makeup of the race. He's running on a positive record,
a positive view. He's definitely a Trump Conservative. He had
we had President Trump out at the Ryder Cup in
Nassau County during the campaign, and it was it was
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turned into like a between Bruce and President Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It was like a USA rally.
Speaker 14 (25:58):
It was like a Trump campaign rally. And you know
so and President Trump after he visited his job, a
rule in Nasal County was sixty seven percent.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
So Blakely would be the best governor. There's no better choice.
But people say you can't win a Republican, cannot win
in New York City as mayor Republican. And I'm starting
to think we haven't had a Republican governor in twenty years,
have we?
Speaker 14 (26:21):
And no George for Taki that was it's I mean
he served three terms and and and Bruce is a
lot like George where you know, he has that personal appeal.
I mean, President Trump says, you know, Bruce is out
of central casting. He's very likable and and like that,
Siena pol I cided, I mean, Elise's twenty eight favorable,
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thirty six unfairbles, she's already that negative in New York
State among the voters that nowhere but a Republican.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
A Republican can win New York.
Speaker 14 (26:48):
Right, definitely, a Republican could win New York because in
that same poem referring to most voters want somebody new
for governor, and you know, well they want somebody new,
but they're saying, well, least isn't it. So let's let's
give Bruce some time to build some support and show
he could potentially beat Kathy Hockel. So you know that's uh,
(27:14):
you know, we need change in New York. And uh,
definitely right, you're you're familiar with you know, I mean
and no with with Mayor elect Mundai. Uh, you're going
to need a governor to be a check of balance,
particularly if the legislature gives in on him, like Bruce
has pointed out that Kathy Hochele now wants to raise
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the corporate tax in New York from seven percent to
eleven percent. Well, that'll be passed on to consumers. That
won't be good for cost of living.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
He could, and could you guys start using the word tariffs.
I love to do that. When they talk about raising
the corporate tax, it's a tariff. So Democrats want to
now put tariffs on the corporations in New York. It's
the same thing.
Speaker 14 (27:53):
The difference is no tariffs are on you know, that's
on foreign things coming back to the United States. With
this is domestic. This is your jobs in New York.
The people that you might work for in New York.
If they get if their corporate taxes go from seven
to eleven here, they go to Texas and Florida and
Tennessee and you know it's it's not good. So they
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you know, we could lose jobs because of them, and
then the prices get passed on and so hey, we
need we need some like Bruce to stop that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, no, definitely, Bruce Blakeman. Hey, I'm watching The Morning
Joe this morning. Apparently Donald Trump has the worst poll
numbers ever. He's dying, He's gonna be u the lowest.
What's the real truth?
Speaker 14 (28:39):
We had and it's on our website. The day before Thanksgiving,
we put out a national survey. We put out a
monthly national survey, and President Trump has a fifty job
approval forty six disapprove among likely voters, people that will
show up next November and vote for members of Congress
and Senate. And you know, I think it could be
it could be higher, but we've got we've got to
(29:01):
sell them that they you know, ironically, that the economy
is doing better. Economy and inflation are still the top issues.
And Biden is responsible for most of the inflation he's
dealing with right now. But President Trump had a great
night on Tuesday night when he was out in uh
Pennsylvania talking about the fact that wages are now growing
(29:22):
faster than the rate of inflation. And you know, the
tax cuts, the no tax cuts on tips, on overtime,
on Social Security, they don't kick in till January. So
when they start kicking in, you know, our friends like
Larry Kudlow, Steve Moore that you know very well, Steve Forbes,
that's when you'll get even better growth in the economy.
(29:42):
And uh so, I think that'll that will help us
next year. So that we can keep keep the House
and keep the Senate in uh in Washington, and President
Trump will be out on the campaign trail doing what
he did on Tuesday night, talking about the real facts
about how how the economy is in better shape than
I think, as you said, Joe Scarborough or whatever they said,
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you know, I mean before they go back to Connecticut
and their dry limbos and stuff like that. So but
we think we need to I mean, President Trump is
going to make it better for working class voters. And
this affordability issues. As Bruce Blakeman showed us in Nasau,
Democrats can't be for affordability when they want to raise
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your taxes. I mean, how that's the least affordable thing.
If the four years of biding inflation to pay higher
taxes in every Democrat for Congress or for Senate voted
for to let the Trump tax cuts lapse, which would
eraise taxes two or three thousand dollars on every American.
And we can't afford that, and Pal's not lower and
(30:48):
interest rates fast enough, because mortgage rates are still high,
credit card rates are still high. We got to get
rid of him, and we got to look at Trump
tax cuts work and friends like Larry Culloo Tellmas, we're
gonna have a boom this year.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, and next year. Actually, starting January, the big beautiful
bill kicks in. Everybody's going to notice a big difference
in their paychecks starting in January. Well, John McLoughlin, great stuff.
People can go to your website. What can they see
up there? At McLaughlan online dot com.
Speaker 14 (31:17):
McLachlan online dot com. You will find the National survey
that I spoke about, and you'll you'll see that. And
then we actually have a history of surveys on that
that go way back, the ones that had Trump beating
Kamala Harris and beating Joe Biden before that. But the press,
the media didn't say that was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, well, everybody go check it out. And you had
it right. Well, thanks to you. But he's the best
poster on earth. He's the real polls, not the fake public,
but the best poster on earth. And John McLoughlin's website
is McLaughlin online dot com. Check it out, John McLaughlin,
thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care. He
(31:56):
don't forget coming up at noon. You got Buck Sexton
and Clay Travis excellent show. Sean Hannity the most listened
to radio show in America at three, Jesse Kelly at six,
You got Jimmy Fayla nine o'clock every night. It's a very,
very very good show. You got Me ten to noon.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Hey.
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Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's more ore mister New York on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And they just released the whole batch of Epstein photographs.
You can find him online. Woody Allen looks very chumy
with Epstein. Pictures of Woody Allen in Epstein's dining room
at home in his house and Bill Gates at his house,
Steve Bannon and Epstein's office. Two of them alone. Now
there's a couple of Trump pictures, they'll say, Aha, there's
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Trump with Epstein. But you'll notice all the Trump pictures,
he's obviously at a party with hundreds of people. Oh
there's a picture of him with six women. Yeah, it's
obviously the party. They're all dressed up and they got
those Hawaiian lays around their neck. It's obviously some kind
of party. And he's there. Everybody's dressed up there in
a big ballroom or something. So it's not that significant.
(33:31):
And again, I know people have seen every inch of
every Epstein file and they all say the same thing.
There's nothing in there. You don't already know. There's no
names in there you I already haven't heard about. So
it's really I mean, it's an interesting story, but there's
nothing coming there. Hey, we're out of time. I'll be
back Monday ten to noon. And if you're a podcast listener,
(33:53):
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you get the regular show and then if you're a
podcast listener, is an extra show, a bonus segment you
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You're listening to the Mark Simone show. R.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, it's Friday. It's less than two weeks the Christmas Day?
Can you believe it? And uh, three weeks from today
it'll be the new year. It'll be the first full
day of the mom Donnie administration. Three weeks from today.
All Right, calm down, it's gonna be like Deblasio. We
(00:31):
got through eight years of that. We'll get through a
couple of years of Mom Donnie and all right, it
wasn't great under Deblasio, but we got through it. We'll
get through this too. So hey, you know this guy Thompson.
We're talking about Democrats. They're just nuttier and nuttier and nuttier, crazier,
(00:55):
more far left. Every year, it's just they get worse
and worse. So they're having hearings yesterday in Congress, and
Christinome is there to testify about deportation, about ice. Christy
Nome is testifying in the course. The Democrats with the
TV cameras on, they want to, you know, create some
(01:15):
viral moments, so they're yelling and screaming, you got this
crazy left wing. Dan Goldman from New York yelling at Christineomas.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
As if you're Department of Courts.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Isn't that correct?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
The asylum program was broken under the.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
List Chairman, I will reclaim my time. She's not answering
the question, but the obvious answer is that yes, if
you follow a lawful pathway.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Asylum is a lawful pathway.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
If you have an open asylum case, you are here lawfully.
But the problem that we are seeing around the country
is that you are not following the law. Don't tell
us to change the law. If you don't like the
asylum system, you changed the asylum law.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
This is the problem. He shouldn't allow cameras on these things.
Here's a guy just carrying on for just crazy theatrics
for the camera. He's a smart guy. Goldman needs to
be far left wing kook, but he's a smart guy.
But he's just carrying on for the camera. He has
no interest in her answer. He's not even listening to
her answer. In fact, he's as soon as she talks,
he's just waiting to jump in again and talk. And
(02:26):
he's yelling and screaming and huffing and puffing for the camera.
And he's going and you you just carrying on because
he wants to be on the news. Seriously, they should
not allow cameras for these things. But you could also
make the case, you know what, you should have the
cameras there because some of these Democrats are so incredibly
(02:48):
stupid that you need to capture it on camera. Listen
to this Democrat, Congressman Thompson. This guy is just an
IQ of maybe maybe a I mean, he's just the
dumbest left wing Democrats. So he's going after Christy Nome
and he gets to the terrible assassination of two National
(03:11):
Guard troops in Washington, d C. This Muslim terrorist shoots
two National Guards and one is a woman, kills her,
shoots her in the head. Listen to this Thompson discussed
the incident with Christy Noman. Listen to his you won't
believe the words he uses.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Amount of secretary of you and a gentleman from c
n CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the
National guardsman being.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Keel You think that was an unfortunate accident.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I mean he's a terrorist. Wait wait, look, I'll get
it straight.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
And then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Look was Sam, will you direct the witness to allow
me to ask my question?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It was an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's hard to believe a guy this dumb has any
kind of a job. But how the hell is a
guy this dumb a congressman. Listen to it again and
now it is Christine Noman. It takes her a second
to even process what he said that you can't believe
be setting in this dumb it's a Muslim terrorist assassinating
a National guardswoman.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Madam secretary of you and a gentleman from CTS n
CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National
guardsman and kill.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You think that was an unfortunate accident, I mean it's
a terrorist.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Wait wait, look, I'll get it straight.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Then you can shot our National guardsman in the.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Head, looks Sam, will you direct witness to allow me
to ask my question?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's an unbelievable Here is the founding father's coming back
to life and finding out this this is an actual cause.
Oh I'm laughing. It's not funny. Mike Johnson.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I'm very privileged in honor today to have my family
with me.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I like, oh, this is this is Christy Notman as
she's testifying, and of course you have a nut job
or two have got into the chamber and they're going
to approach this. Why they shouldn't allow these cameras in there.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Actually, I'm very privileged in honor today to have my
family with me. I'd like to introduce them to you.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
An importations.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Disruptions of congressional business is a violation of law.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
It is a criminal offense under federal law.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Audience members are advised to take.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Their seats and maintain order. Of course, we'll get a
desk appearance ticket and that's it and it's over with.
It's not like January sixth, where if this were the Democrats,
they would put this guy in solitary confinement, convict him
for twenty years. He basically did what everybody on January
sixth did. But in this case, it'll be a desk
appearance ticket. What does Curtis call that suppeiance ticket? You
(06:00):
don't even have to answer it. So you get these
lunatics and then I take the governor of Illinois. The
problem is you get these really raging lunatics in office,
and then the otherwise smart people start behaving them like
that you know, Pritzker, who's a billionaire of businessman, has
to act like a nut to be a successful Democrat.
(06:22):
So he's fighting Ice. They're trying to come in and
get illegal criminals and gang members off the street. He's
trying to block it. He's trying to stop it.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
The Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign
of cruelty and intimidation and abuse at the hands of
ICE and Border Patrol agents. Together, we're sending a message
to Donald Trump, to Christy Gnome, to Gregory Bavino, and
anyone else seeking to terrorize our people. Your divisiveness and
(06:53):
your brutality are not welcome here.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, the messages you leave our criminals alone, leave our
gang members there. Of course Holman has to respond, talk
about terrorizing.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Why don't he talk to the victims of illego crime?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Won't he do?
Speaker 9 (07:08):
I've done and talk to the angel moms and dad
who buried their children because they were killed by someone's
not supposed to be here. While't he talked to, you know,
called the ICE office and talk to people that are
involved with voice victims of immigration crime and hear their stories.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
They're the ones that are terrorized.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Like Tom Holman. But give up. You can't explain an
he can't explain anything to these lunatics. They don't want
to hear it. Here's another guy, I Q eighty five.
Maybe this is a congressman. He's going to impeach Pete Hexath.
Listen to this guy.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
I introduced articles to impeach Secretary Pete Hexath for murder
and conspiracy to murder, and reckless and unlawful mishandling of
classified information exactly are not just reprehensible but illegal as well.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I know you're saying, what an idiot, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Why is?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's not going to go anywhere, you know, don't get
yourself to Sky'll get on the view, He'll get on
MS whatever they call it. He'll get on CNN. Hey,
some bad news. They tried once again to indict Letitia James.
It went before a grand jury, this time in Alexandria, Virginia.
The grand jury refused to indict. That's tough and a
(08:29):
second time. Second time a grand jury didn't indict. Usually
pretty easy to get a grand jury to go along.
So this is not looking good here. First you had
a judge. Now you could say, well, they'll bring it again.
Hopefully they will, but you got to be careful. You know,
you do this too many times. It looks like you're
grand jury shopping. And even the CNN guy here has
(08:50):
a point.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is over. We have never I can point to
no case in the last twenty years where you've had
a case thrown out by a judge, then you had
a grand jury refused to indict it, which is very
hard to do. Then you had a second grand jury
a week later refused to re re indict it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, but if you look at all the stuff she's done,
you could tell this is a one sleazy woman. They'll
find something, they'll they'll get her on something before they're done. Hey,
remember a George Soros is a company bought a lot
of radio groups and radio stations and radio companies. It
was a couple of years ago. They got FCC approval.
(09:30):
It was Biden at the time. So the Soros Fund
owns a lot of radio. Everybody worried, well they try
to tamper with conservative radio. That kind of swell. You know,
they bought a lot of AM stations. They just shut
one of them down. It's in Miami. It's a Spanish station.
But it's a conservative Spanish station. It's conservative stuff for
(09:50):
the Spanish community in Miami. The Soros group just shut
it down, just took it off the air, claiming for
financial reasons. They took well, very important voice in the
Miami Spanish community, a conservative voice though, so they just
shut it down. It's gone, As I said, Mom, Donnie,
(10:11):
two weeks, three weeks from yesterday, takes office. Three weeks
from yesterday, Mom, Donnie takes office, they'll have the inauguration.
It looks like Adams is not going to go. He's
making quite a stink about not going. Says he hasn't decided,
but it sounds like he's not going. That's unusual. There's
always always always the previous mayor there. That'll be unusual.
(10:33):
He'll be sworn in. I guess that night he goes
to Gracie Mansion to stay there for the first night.
He's the youngest mayor ever. He also, you know, he
has no kids. I'm trying to think, oh, ed Kotch,
but him, I guess ed Coach was the only other
mayor that didn't have kids. If we ever had a
mayor with no children ed Cotch, Uh, Mom, Donnie, I
(10:56):
think that. But you know, Mom Donnie hasn't been married
very long. He just got married beginning of the year,
February he got married. Yeah, he's only been married like
ten months to this seemingly a nice woman. And he's
got to be nuts. You's married to Mom Downie. But
they met on the dating app Hinge. Hinge is a
very good app. And I notice, you know, normally if
(11:19):
you're a dating app, you do some advertising promote yourself.
That's a pretty good coup. Hey, you the mayor of
New York met his wife on Hinge. I notice they're
not using it for any kind of advertise. I guess
they don't even they don't want to be tied to
Mom Donnie. Hey, it's Frank Sinatra's one hundred and tenth
(11:39):
birthday today. It's a big day. December twelfth, the birthday
of Frank Sinatra. He was the greatest singer ever in
the history of music, the biggest star of the twentieth century.
You don't realize how big this guy was and how long.
You know, you could be really big for ten years,
twenty years. You know, you look at the beat, you
(12:00):
know they were really only there. I mean they came
to America in sixty four, but they broke up in
nineteen seventies, so it was really six years. It was
really sixty two because they were very big in Europe first,
but that's eight years. So that was it. You know,
Sinatra was like on top of the world, performing all
over the world for decades and decades. You know, when
(12:23):
he started, Herbert Hoover was president and when he stopped,
Bill Clinton was president. That's a long long run of
being on top. He was very good at evolving, at
changing himself. There were different Sinatras every decade. He was
the boys singer with the bow tie Little Frankie in
the forties. Then he came back in the fifties as
(12:45):
the older nightclub pal Joey singer. And then in the
sixties he was the rat pack Las Vegas guy, and
then you know, that didn't work out, and that was huge,
but then in the seventies it wasn't working, so he
switched and he did what a lot of these singers
have to realize. Billy Joel figured it out, McCartney figured
it out. He got to stop trying to be the contemporary,
(13:09):
churning out top forty hits kind of a guy. And
switch as you get older and become the elder Statesman,
where all you do is you just travel the world
doing these big, grand concerts, these big events the Elder
states and doing concerts, and that's it. And that's what
he did for the last twenty years very successfully. Sinatra
(13:29):
was you know, he lived in California, but he also
really more than half the time he lived in New
York right over there of the Waldorf Apartment thirty three A.
How's that for a memory. But he loved New York.
He was out all night. Wherever he was in the world,
he'd be out all night. In fact, when Sinatra would
invite you to dinner, you'd bring sunglasses because it might
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be noon by the time you got home. It would
just go all night long. Dinner was huge. It was
always thirty people, forty people. Sometimes said I'd see a
guy and he'd be all excited. Frank invited me to
dinner tonight, and the guy was so thrilled. I didn't
have the heart to tell him, dinner's forty people. You're
gonna be like fourteen seats away. And that guy would say,
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I mean, I was thinking about what I want to
talk about with him, and I didn't have the heart
to tell him, you're not going to get a word
in all night. He's going to talk NonStop. You won't
get to say anything. But it was always fun. It
was always incredible, and he was an incredible tipper. You know.
He would this that famous story. He was leaving the
place and he gave the doorman. He said to the doorman,
(14:35):
what's the biggest tip you ever got? And the doorman
said one hundred dollars. That was a fortune back then.
So Sinatra said one hundred dollars, He's two hundred. Doorman
couldn't believe it. And a Sinatra's leaving, he turned around,
he says, hey, who gave you the hundred? He goes
you did a few months ago. So he had to
keep topping his own record. But he was just an
(14:57):
unbelievable guy, the most generous guy in the world. All
these great you know there was he had beautiful art
all over his house, beautiful, incredible, very expensive paintings. And
there was the violinist Eleanor Slotkin who played on a
lot of his records, Eleanor Slatkin, And he saw her
in the house at a party. She'd come to a
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big dinner party. She was staring at one painting and
he said, you like that? She said, oh what, I
love that painting. So anyway, they went into the dinner
and all that, and hours later she's leaving and gets
into her car and there's the painting wrapped up in
the back seat of her car. That's the way. It
was just very very generous and incredible guy. You know,
(15:41):
if you haven't done it in a while, go back
and start listening to Sinatra music. I'm sure you do
now and then, but seriously listen to it. Go go
on wherever you get your music, and just listen to
we small hours of the morning. Go listen to the
whole album or only the Lonely or any of those.
We'll take some calls. Next eight we'll talk to the
world's greatest polster in a few moments, see where Trump
really stands and what the real issues are, and we'll
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take some calls. Next eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten is the number eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
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Now back to Mark Simone on WOR.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Hey, let's say some calls. Let's go to h Randall
and Maryland Randall.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
How you doing, I'm good Mark. Do you remember a
theatre critic that used to be on WOR in the
mornings by m.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
O'Brien Jack O'Brien. Yes, yes, he was actually a big
writer for was it the Daily News of the World
Telegram on one of those things and Jack O'Brien, Yeah,
used to anyway, the show was called Critics Circle. I
actually knew the guy. It was very late in his life.
Not the nicest guy in the world. I never really
liked him.
Speaker 12 (17:01):
But go ahead, Well, well about Sinatra? He had some
kind of feud or he hated Sinatra.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, Jack O'Brien, he was this guy, could have a
feud with anybody. If you met him for two minutes,
you'd hate the guy. I mean, he just not a
nice guy. I'd argue about anything and everything.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Can I tell you you know the man? I didn't.
But can I tell you my favorite Sinatra quote?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Go ahead?
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Is it when he was freshed about this mob connections
early on? Right he says, any of the checks were
always good?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You know, Well, it's too much to get into the
whole mob thing. He wasn't the mob singer he was
made out to me. He loved the mob he romanticized
that he chased after these mobs tos. He loved hanging
out with him. There were other guys in the music,
other famous singers who were so mob connected, way beyond Sinatra.
But Sinatra liked to play it up a lot. Let's
go to Dave in Chicago. Hey, how you doing, good.
Speaker 13 (18:02):
Morning, Mark.
Speaker 12 (18:02):
I'm doing very well.
Speaker 13 (18:03):
Thank you, Mark. I have a couple of Frank Sinatra questions,
if I may go ahead. I know he had a
record label called Reprise Records. The Night, Yeah, I heard,
I had heard that he did not like the song.
And the second question is regarding the rat Pack. I
(18:24):
had heard that Angie Dickinson was a member. Is this true?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes, she was in the movie Ocean's Eleven. She was
a member of the rat Pack Strangers in the Night. Yes,
he did hate that song. He didn't like my Way,
couldn't stand it. Hated paul Anka. Despite anything paul Anka,
I tell you, Sinatra was not a big Paul Anka fan. Uh.
In fact, it's the concert for the Americas you can
(18:48):
get the video the concert for the America's whenever it
was big TV special and we're going to film the concert.
He had to do Strangers in the Night. He hated
the song. But if you get the concert for the America's,
he does Strangers in the Night and at the end
people are applauding and applauding. You see him go over
and say something to Vinnie Falcone, the pianist and conductor.
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And I said the Falcon, what did he say to you?
And he said he went over and said, that's the
worst Fens song ever written. He didn't he said the
actual ef word. So I went back and I got
you can barely hear it, but if you turn it
up real loud, put your ear right up there, you
can hear him say that to Vinnie Fellcone. Let's go
(19:31):
to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Good morning, Mark, I'm okay, Good morning Marah. Mark. You
may remember the theater critic of the New York Times,
Andrew Saris.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, yeah, I didn't know him. I know the name.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, he lived in my building, but he was more
lived in my apartment building.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
There's more of a film critic wasn't.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He he was I was very young when he lived
in my house. But anyway, he lived in my house
when my well, when my family owned building. What I
wanted to say is, it would be easy to bring
a case against Letitia James in New York because here
(20:09):
it's black and white. It was in Virginia. But here,
First off, we would go to Brooklyn because she owns
the property in Brooklyn and she listed it as a
four family. It's a five family. And also there's here.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well you're also you're right about the law, but you
can't bring the case in New York. You got New
York judges, new York jury's they'll never do anything.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But though't they have the same crooked problem in Virginia.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Mind? Yeah apparently, But in New York, forget it. You
know that case she brought against Sinatra, not Sinatra Trump,
the case she brought against Trump. No judge jury anywhere
in the world would allow that, no ac court room,
but only here in New York, crazy left wing judges.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, you're you're right, bout you're right. Probably it would
be like a lead balloon here. But I just thought,
because maybe with the insurance company, because you.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Gotta get it anytime you're in a New York court,
new York judge, New York jurors, for get it. You
got no shot that's topped.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Unfortunately, you're probably right marked.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, great call, Thanks for Colin. We'll break for
the news, get caught up on everything, and then we'll
talk to the greatest polster in the world. You're being
bombarded with fake polls right now, ap, those kind of
crazy left wing slanted place we'll get the we'll get
the real story. L let's see what kind of what
he thinks about Bruce Blakeman, who's going to be governor.
(21:28):
We'll get to that too, coming up next on seven
to ten w R, The.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Mark Simone Show on WR.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well, you know, you see all these public polls, these junkie, cheap,
little flimsy poles. But let's talk to the greatest pollster
in the world. I mean, the real poles are behind
the scenes, the ones the candidates use pay a fortune for.
But here's here's the best pollster on earth, John McLaughlin.
His website McLachlan online dot com.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But he's been the pollster for presidents, prime minister's, premiers, senators,
all over the world. John McLaughlin, how you doing.
Speaker 14 (22:06):
I'm doing well because that's a very very nice introduction.
But as well as having survived three presidential campaigns with
President Trump where he made his polster look good, I'll
accept it, all right. He credit goes to him and
the other the other elected officials work force.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
So well, I just take the polls. We'll get to
him in a moment. Let's start with the governor's race
here in New York next year. Bruce Blakeman, elis Stephonic.
To me, they're both very popular. I think Blakeman would
be the better choice because he's what he does right
now is he's a governor. He's the governor of Nasau County.
She's a legislator, he's a governor. But where does it
(22:45):
stand pole wise?
Speaker 12 (22:47):
Well exactly.
Speaker 14 (22:48):
I mean, well, first of all, there's only been one
poll that was a serious poll that was put out there,
and that was the Cien Pol. And the cen Pol
had Congresswoman Stephonic losing by twenty points and had her
upside down. She was twenty eight favorable, thirty six unfavorable.
They didn't even put Bruce in it. So even though
(23:09):
you know Kathy Hochel is very beatable. She's not popular
and most people when somebody knew the congresswoman was losing
to her by twenty points. And I worked for Lee's
Eldon last time. At some point we hit a wall
with forty seven percent, but it was close enough that
we gained congressional seats in New York. And the bad
(23:31):
part about this is somebody like Bruce. Let me tell
you about Bruce. The election he had in Nassau County
was defied the national trends where he got re elected
with twelve percent in an eight point Democrat county because
he's cut taxes and he's kept the taxes low. Plus
he hired hundreds of more police and worked with ice
and it's the safest county in America. So Bruce, like
(23:55):
in Nassau County, in our post election surveyce well, the
voters gave him a twelve point you know, landslide and
a carry through the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Rest of the ticket.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
He brought all these other Republicans in with them, and
the rest of the state they were losing, like fifty
Republican county legislators upstate, they were, you know, they taking
losses in Syracuse and other places. And you know, even
like in Stuffic we lost Riverhead and so there's there's
we need somebody like Bruce who can win among Hispanic votes.
(24:26):
He won among Hispanic votes, he won among Asian voters,
he won among Jewish voters. I mean in New York,
you have to get thirty five percent of the vote
in New York City to win President Trump. You know,
got thirty percent. Zeldon got thirty percent. But the Lease
is not getting that. And a lease, you know is
the Bayport is if you get if you can't win
(24:47):
the New York suburbs and you can't win New York
enough vote in New York City, you know, the Adirondacks
aren't going to make it up so upstate, you know,
well the Republicans are fighting for existence upstate because the
other thing Uncle did was she moved a lot of
the idye elections. He's town supervisors, a county legates, studies.
They moved into the even year behind the governor's race.
(25:10):
So not only will we have trouble trying to like
defeat Laura Gillen in the Democrat in in CD four
Nasaux County or Tom Swasey in Nasau County Uh, you
might have Republicans like Nicole Mally Takas, Nicololoda, my one
of my favorite, Mike Waller. Uh an upstate, You're gonna
(25:30):
have a lot of problems trying to get the Congress.
The Republicans the Congress reelected, and uh, Bruce changes the
whole makeup of the race. He's running on a positive record,
a positive view. He's definitely a Trump Conservative. He had
we had President Trump out at the Ryder Cup in
Nassau County during the campaign, and it was it was
(25:53):
turned into like a between Bruce and President Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It was like a USA rally.
Speaker 14 (25:58):
It was like a Trump campaign rally. And you know
so and President Trump after he visited his job, a
rule in Nasal County was sixty seven percent.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
So Blakely would be the best governor. There's no better choice.
But people say you can't win a Republican, cannot win
in New York City as mayor Republican. And I'm starting
to think we haven't had a Republican governor in twenty years,
have we?
Speaker 14 (26:21):
And no George for Taki that was it's I mean
he served three terms and and and Bruce is a
lot like George where you know, he has that personal appeal.
I mean, President Trump says, you know, Bruce is out
of central casting. He's very likable and and like that,
Siena pol I cided, I mean, Elise's twenty eight favorable,
(26:41):
thirty six unfairbles, she's already that negative in New York
State among the voters that nowhere but a Republican.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
A Republican can win New York.
Speaker 14 (26:48):
Right, definitely, a Republican could win New York because in
that same poem referring to most voters want somebody new
for governor, and you know, well they want somebody new,
but they're saying, well, least isn't it. So let's let's
give Bruce some time to build some support and show
he could potentially beat Kathy Hockel. So you know that's uh,
(27:14):
you know, we need change in New York. And uh,
definitely right, you're you're familiar with you know, I mean
and no with with Mayor elect Mundai. Uh, you're going
to need a governor to be a check of balance,
particularly if the legislature gives in on him, like Bruce
has pointed out that Kathy Hochele now wants to raise
(27:34):
the corporate tax in New York from seven percent to
eleven percent. Well, that'll be passed on to consumers. That
won't be good for cost of living.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
He could, and could you guys start using the word tariffs.
I love to do that. When they talk about raising
the corporate tax, it's a tariff. So Democrats want to
now put tariffs on the corporations in New York. It's
the same thing.
Speaker 14 (27:53):
The difference is no tariffs are on you know, that's
on foreign things coming back to the United States. With
this is domestic. This is your jobs in New York.
The people that you might work for in New York.
If they get if their corporate taxes go from seven
to eleven here, they go to Texas and Florida and
Tennessee and you know it's it's not good. So they
(28:17):
you know, we could lose jobs because of them, and
then the prices get passed on and so hey, we
need we need some like Bruce to stop that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, no, definitely, Bruce Blakeman. Hey, I'm watching The Morning
Joe this morning. Apparently Donald Trump has the worst poll
numbers ever. He's dying, He's gonna be u the lowest.
What's the real truth?
Speaker 14 (28:39):
We had and it's on our website. The day before Thanksgiving,
we put out a national survey. We put out a
monthly national survey, and President Trump has a fifty job
approval forty six disapprove among likely voters, people that will
show up next November and vote for members of Congress
and Senate. And you know, I think it could be
it could be higher, but we've got we've got to
(29:01):
sell them that they you know, ironically, that the economy
is doing better. Economy and inflation are still the top issues.
And Biden is responsible for most of the inflation he's
dealing with right now. But President Trump had a great
night on Tuesday night when he was out in uh
Pennsylvania talking about the fact that wages are now growing
(29:22):
faster than the rate of inflation. And you know, the
tax cuts, the no tax cuts on tips, on overtime,
on Social Security, they don't kick in till January. So
when they start kicking in, you know, our friends like
Larry Kudlow, Steve Moore that you know very well, Steve Forbes,
that's when you'll get even better growth in the economy.
(29:42):
And uh so, I think that'll that will help us
next year. So that we can keep keep the House
and keep the Senate in uh in Washington, and President
Trump will be out on the campaign trail doing what
he did on Tuesday night, talking about the real facts
about how how the economy is in better shape than
I think, as you said, Joe Scarborough or whatever they said,
(30:05):
you know, I mean before they go back to Connecticut
and their dry limbos and stuff like that. So but
we think we need to I mean, President Trump is
going to make it better for working class voters. And
this affordability issues. As Bruce Blakeman showed us in Nasau,
Democrats can't be for affordability when they want to raise
(30:26):
your taxes. I mean, how that's the least affordable thing.
If the four years of biding inflation to pay higher
taxes in every Democrat for Congress or for Senate voted
for to let the Trump tax cuts lapse, which would
eraise taxes two or three thousand dollars on every American.
And we can't afford that, and Pal's not lower and
(30:48):
interest rates fast enough, because mortgage rates are still high,
credit card rates are still high. We got to get
rid of him, and we got to look at Trump
tax cuts work and friends like Larry Culloo Tellmas, we're
gonna have a boom this year.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, and next year. Actually, starting January, the big beautiful
bill kicks in. Everybody's going to notice a big difference
in their paychecks starting in January. Well, John McLoughlin, great stuff.
People can go to your website. What can they see
up there? At McLaughlan online dot com.
Speaker 14 (31:17):
McLachlan online dot com. You will find the National survey
that I spoke about, and you'll you'll see that. And
then we actually have a history of surveys on that
that go way back, the ones that had Trump beating
Kamala Harris and beating Joe Biden before that. But the press,
the media didn't say that was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, well, everybody go check it out. And you had
it right. Well, thanks to you. But he's the best
poster on earth. He's the real polls, not the fake public,
but the best poster on earth. And John McLoughlin's website
is McLaughlin online dot com. Check it out, John McLaughlin,
thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care. He
(31:56):
don't forget coming up at noon. You got Buck Sexton
and Clay Travis excellent show. Sean Hannity the most listened
to radio show in America at three, Jesse Kelly at six,
You got Jimmy Fayla nine o'clock every night. It's a very,
very very good show. You got Me ten to noon.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
By the way, if you're a podcast listener, don't forget.
You can you know, if you can't hear the show
ten to noon, if you can't listen live, you can
hear this show anytime, day or night, whenever you want.
Just get the podcast and don't forget. If you're a
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(32:33):
you can get the podcasts anywhere wherever you get podcasts,
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Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's more ore mister New York on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And they just released the whole batch of Epstein photographs.
You can find him online. Woody Allen looks very chumy
with Epstein. Pictures of Woody Allen in Epstein's dining room
at home in his house and Bill Gates at his house,
Steve Bannon and Epstein's office. Two of them alone. Now
there's a couple of Trump pictures, they'll say, Aha, there's
(33:06):
Trump with Epstein. But you'll notice all the Trump pictures,
he's obviously at a party with hundreds of people. Oh
there's a picture of him with six women. Yeah, it's
obviously the party. They're all dressed up and they got
those Hawaiian lays around their neck. It's obviously some kind
of party. And he's there. Everybody's dressed up there in
a big ballroom or something. So it's not that significant.
(33:31):
And again, I know people have seen every inch of
every Epstein file and they all say the same thing.
There's nothing in there. You don't already know. There's no
names in there you I already haven't heard about. So
it's really I mean, it's an interesting story, but there's
nothing coming there. Hey, we're out of time. I'll be
back Monday ten to noon. And if you're a podcast listener,
(33:53):
remember there'll be a bonus segment tomorrow, so you know,
you get the regular show and then if you're a
podcast listener, is an extra show, a bonus segment you
can hear only on the podcast. But otherwise I'll be
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