December 3, 2025 • 34 mins
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had a positive transition meeting with current Mayor Eric Adams. CNN fact-checked President Trump’s last 2025 cabinet meeting; Mark analyzes what’s accurate. Mark takes your calls. Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. The Left tried to push Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn to flip Tennessee to blue, but she lost the election. Ann discusses whether aggressive tactics by the Dems will help them win the midterms. The liberal media is pressuring Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over his alleged mishandling of war crimes involving drugs and weapons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's more marks alone on seven to ten wo wash.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, so what's the day today, December third? It's only
December third. I walk in the lobby. There's a Christmas
tree in the lobby of the building. There's a wreath,
there's a come up here to the sixth floor. I
get off the elevator, there's a Christmas tree. They walk
by Light FM. There's Christmas music all the time. It's everywhere. Yesterday,
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walking over the Fox, the long sixth Avenue, the candy
canes are up, the big candy canes, the big ornaments
are up. The tree on top of the Marquis at
Radio City Music Hall. Tonight they light the tree and
Rockefeller Center. You know Bryant Park, beautiful Bryant Park. But
that's become a big deal, that tree. They had their
tree lighting ceremony last night. A lot of people showed up.
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It's not as big as the Rockefeller Center thing. They
don't have, you know, seventeen famous singers singing there, but
they're getting there year by year by year. So be
careful if you're driving tonight, avoid Midtown Manhattan Rockefeller Center.
It will be massive gridlock everywhere. Steve Whitkoff our negotiator
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and Jared Kushner, who wasn't of much use in the
first term of Trump, but this time around he's very
useful when it comes to these negotiations. He was brilliant
at settling things as much as you can between Israel
and Arab countries. He was very good in the first term.
So he and Witkoff are a good team. They do
the negotiating Israel, Hamas that sort of. But they're now
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working on peace in Ukraine, settling that war. Looks like
they got a ways to go. But they had a
big meeting with Putin yesterday. Putin always, always, always will
keep you waiting. Don't you hate people that are always
late for something. They're just scatterbrain, they're flaky. They're late.
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You're waiting for them forty minutes. And it's different with Putin. Deliberate.
It's deliberate. It's to put you in your place. It's
psychological warfare. He does even if it's the most important
international meeting, the president's envoys are coming from the He'll
keep you waiting deliberately. It's to just psyche you out.
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Now it doesn't work because if you're wick cough and
you're Jared. You know he does this all the time.
You know he's going to keep you waiting an hour
and a half. It's just normal. This is what he does.
It's not personally does it to everybody. So they knew
and they went and just had a nice lunch. What
they waited for the guy, and then he shows up.
You see the picture of him at the big negotiating table.
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This is in Russia, Moscow. It's a white table and no, no,
didn't look right. It looked like a table. Betty Crocker
would even arouse. It's just something not very tough about it.
But they're all sitting around the table. And at twelve
thirty they began the conversation, Now, what you want to
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talk to Putin? Who wants to talk to Putin? Do
you look at that guy when you see the video,
you say to yourself, Yeah, I'd love to sit down
with that guy. It looks like the most unpleasant thing
you could do is talk to this guy. But they
sat down with them at twelve thirty and the meeting,
which was not very successful. They were not able to
come to agreement. In fact, there was much disagreement. They
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didn't make much progress. It made little progress, but not much.
The meeting lasted five hours? Five hours? How the hell
did these guys do it? If I were you know,
Steve Whitcoff is a wealthy guy, a big successful builder.
It does all kinds of work all over America, New York,
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Palm Beach, Miami's Building building. To who that wants to
give all that up and go sit in a room
with Putin for five hours? Five hours of talking to Putin?
You can't even talk right to him. He's got an interpreter.
You know, I think he speaks English, but he pretends
he doesn't. Uses the interpreter. It gives him extra time
to hear your question and think of an answer. But
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so wit Coffin, Jared Kushner had to bring their own interpreter.
So when you see all these people at the table,
a couple of them are interpreters. A couple of them
are aids to Putin. So who the hell would want
to do this? Sit there and talk to Putin for
five hours? And be honest, you got a choice. You
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have to do one or two things. You're gonna have
a delayed flight and you'll have to sit at the
gate for three hours or talk to Putin for five hours,
which would you choose? Of course, you sit at the gate.
I can look at my phone, I can watch movies,
I can listen to podcasts. There'll be a snack bar there.
You could do a lot of Who the hell was?
I talked to Putin for five hours, So there were
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like twenty eight points. Putin was okay with the two
or three of them, but there were a lot of them.
He said, we just can't compromise on it. But they're
they're making some progress and they'll eventually get this done eventually. Now,
Trump will not go to the meeting until they're close.
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And that's why you use wid Coffin. Jarrett. You don't
embarrass yourself by coming out empty handed five times in
a row. So you'll let these guys get it very,
very very close, and then you show up Cabinet meeting yesterday.
It was pretty interesting, the war crimes hoax, all these
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guys like Chuck Schumer trying to make it suddenly they're
war crime experts.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
If Trump were to order an attack on land, that
would be an act of war and Congress would invoke
the War Powers Act. It's Congress's prerogative to go to
war and I hope Republicans will defend that role.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
This is just Schumer, a big blowharder, doesn't know what
he's talking about. Obama was famous for drone strikes on land,
blowing up people all over the place, Afghanistan or Iraq, wherever,
hundreds of hundreds, hundreds of drone strikes. Do you know
when they did the Osama bin Laden raid, they were
going to go into his house and get him. You know,
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the actual orders from Obama were to shoot him and
kill him. And this was all discussed ahead of time. Well,
what if he surrenders. They were told to shoot him
and kill him. They were given the order not to
take him alive. Now, if he comes out of his
bedroom and you're there, you could say, well I shot
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because I didn't he might have a bomb on him.
So it actually was discussed, what if he comes out
of his bedroom totally naked. We know he can't possibly
have a weapon or a bomb on him. They were
told to shoot him and kill him. They were ordered
not to take him alive. Now I imagine the reason
for that order is they didn't want to get him
alive and bring him back here because they'd have to
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try him and that trial would have a security nightmare,
all kinds of controversies. They were told, make sure you
kill him, no matter what. So even if he's asleep
and he doesn't wake up, you got to shoot him.
So but again, that's war. That's what you do in
a war. You shoot to kill all the time. And
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even a police shooting a mob hit whatever it is,
you don't fire one bullet and say, well, huh, the
guy survived. How about that. No, you shoot a bunch
of shots and make sure they're dead. So this war
crime hoax, they'll try it for another couple of weeks.
It'll go nowhere. Then they'll give up. Big cabinet meeting
yesterday the CNN CNN if anybody still watches that, their
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big thing was fact checking the cabinet meeting. The CNN
fact checker checker. Trump told thirteen whoppers in the cabinet
unbelievable lies that he told. Let's see what the thirteen are.
He claimed that the tariffs have brought in eighteen trillion dollars.
All right, about that, that's Trump. They brought in like
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eight trillion. But you know Trump, if it's eight trillion,
I'll tell you it's eighteen trillion. If it was eighteen trillion,
he would have told you it was thirty trillion. All right.
They got him on that, But he's right in what
he's saying. He's absolutely correct. The tariffs have brought in fortune.
He's exaggerating the number. He claimed grocery prices are down.
They're up two point seven percent year over year. That's
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actually a bit of a lie because their overall grocery
prices are down. There are certain things that have gone up,
way up, and that's brought the whole average up. But
overall grocery prices are down. So they're wrong about that one. Well,
technically they might be right, but they're misleading you. He
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claimed these cutting prescription drug prices by five hundred to
nine hundred percent. These numbers make no mathematical sense. That
be below zero, it'd be like less than zero. Okay,
they got him on that, but he had he has
brought the prices of drugs down. He's exaggerating the number again,
but that's him, the salesman. He does that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
He claimed every military attack on the drug smuggling boat
saves an average of twenty five thousand lives. Experts say
this number makes no sense. Well, first of all, they're
not you know, CNN, they find the dumbest, worst, slanted
or biased or totally fabricating eccid. Plenty of people's lives
were saved by getting rid of the fentanyl and the cocaine. Obviously,
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lives were saved blown up these drug boats. Okay, it
might not be twenty five thousand. How would you know
exactly how many lives are saved per boat? But he's
absolutely right, and he's saying you're just quibbling about the
he's exaggerating numbers. Yeah, that could be. Uh, what else?
He has stopped inflation in its tracks? Okay, there's still
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He has brought inflation down. It was nine percent at
one point under Biden, Biden's average inflation for the four
years five point two percent. It's now three percent and dropping.
So he clearly has brought it down, stopped it dead
in his tracks. Okay, maybe that's too much. These are
the whoppers of claiming he told he claimed he inherited
the worst inflation of all time. All right, it was
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horrifying under Biden. Nine percent, horrifying number, horrifying. But they're
arguing there that's not the old time high. It was
higher somewhere in the history of a marriage. Okay, that could be.
But he's still right about what he's saying. He's gotten
it right. You're just talking about exaggeration. He claimed the
end of eight Wars. Well, the list includes two wars
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that weren't actually wars. Listen, he's great at ending these wars.
He can't argue they go on and on. It's basically
all the same thing. Uh, let's see, Yeah, they're all
the same thing. He's absolutely right everything he's saying. He's
just if you wanted to argue that he's exaggerating, yeah,
you could, of course he is. Yesterday, Mom Donnie met
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with r Adams. They had a big meeting at City Hall.
These two guys can't stand each other. It was sort
of cordial. Uh, Mom, Donnie was trying you know. I
give him credit this, Mom Donnie. He always tries to
say something nice. He tries to be positive. He meets
with Trump, it's very positive. He can't stand Adam. They
don't get along, but he leaves and tries to praise
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him somehow.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I've appreciated the mayor's work on City of Yes. I
also think the trash containerization has been a good step
forward in the way in which we handle garbage across
the city. And these are things that I deserve, that
New Yorkers deserve to have be built on as opposed
to be discarded.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay, the guy's mayor of New York for four years?
Four years? What can you praise him on? I got
to come up with something he did rail four years?
What did he do? Rev Ah? The trash containerization? What
the That's where they put the new trash can with
a lid that closes. This is what he did with
trash cans have lids that closes. They say the number
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of rats are down because it's in the airtight trash contail. Okay,
that's very good, But this is your main accomplishment of
four years. Not good?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
How did you go there?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It went well.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I appreciated the conversation that I had with with Mayor
Adams and his team, and we focused on how to
make this as smooth as possible of a transition and
how to continue.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
To serve New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Are right, Look, I think it is possible to be
fair and honest in your assessment of an administration. I've
obviously made my critiques clear I also think that there
are good things that this administration has done. I think
these are the two examples on City of Yes and containerization.
And I also have appreciated the work the Commissioner Tish
has done in reducing crime across the five boroughs. And
that's a critical part of why I decided to retain it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh, there you go. So when you think back on
Adams and his legacy, it's that trash can containerization.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What a program the City of Yes What is that?
I don't know, some program you did. Hey, here's the
big question. Does Mom Donnie move into Gracie Mansion? You
don't have to, you know, Bloomberg didn't. Of course. Now
in the case of Bloomberg, he has two massive town
house is cut together to become one enormous town house.
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Gracie Mansion looks like a ghetto apartment, looks like a
housing project apartment compared to his house. So he never
left his house. He stayed in his house. And Ed
Koch had a really nice apartment in Greenwich Village. He
would go back there every weekend. He'd like to stay there.
So Mom Donnie lives in Brooklyn in an apartment. No
not for I think he lives in Long Island City
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or a story of somewhere like a queen's. But will
he move into Gracie Mansion.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That's the decision I haven't yet made. The meeting came
about as just part of a typical transition, a transition
where we're looking to have a conversation with the current
mayor about what it looks like to have a smooth
transfer between this administration and the next administration. I've appreciated
the work of his staff and ensuring that it continues
to be smooth.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So yeah, he said he has thought of staying in
his apartment. He has a massive security detail now as
the incoming mayor, a full security detail. But they're saying
you can't live in the apartment anymore because it's in
an apartment building. It'd be too hard to guard you
in that apartment building, and if we could, it'd be
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totally disruptive to everybody else coming and going out of
that building. So he's probably gonna have to leave and
go to Gracie Mansion. Hey, you know what was the
most interesting thing. This was not at this press conference,
but last night he goes on New York One on
that Errol Lewis show. Errol Lewis very nice guy, the
most slanted biased media person in the world, but a
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nice guy. And he said something interesting on that show.
But because it's New York, one three people saw it,
so you probably never heard about this. This is why
you never don't hear about this. He revealed on the
show that he and Trump still talk after that meeting
at the White House. They've spoken to each other on
the phone a few times. They kept in touch. That's fascinating.
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In fact, after the shooting of the National Guards woman mom,
Donnie said he called Trump to express his sympathies for
that woman, and they had talked about He said, they've
talked a few times. Very interesting stuff. Hey, in New Jersey,
you know McGreevy, remember Governor McGreevy, a nice guy left
in a bit of a scandal. But he lost last
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night to this guy Solomon. So McGreevy, like Cuomo, thought
he could make some quote comeback, but apparently not. He lost,
and he you know, that's the end of him politically.
I want to say from my heart, I congratulate counselmen
now mayor like James Solomon. Yeah, mcgreevy's a good guy,
but you know it's it's the wrong kind of democrat.
(15:33):
The Democrats if today hate the old establishment Democrats. Uh,
they like these Trump haters. This Solomon kind of the
mission is clear.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
The work begins tonight, and the work and we have
to do is make Jersey City affordable.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And so I say tonight, and so that's how this
guy won. If you're today's Democrat, just yell affordability, affordability, affordability.
Nobody knows what that all. It means afford Christmas Jersey City,
it's all Wall Street guy's hedge fund pee. Yes, certain places,
they are always going to be expensive. You know, if
you move to Beverly Hills, it's not that affordable. So
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if you go to the wealthiest place in the world
in the middle of Manhattan, the Upper East Side, it's
very expensive. So you can go there and yell about affordability.
But there's going to be places that are expensive. So hey,
tonight the tree lighting. It's the Christmas season. Have you
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oh you know what else is great book? Great gift
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a book called Under Siege's actually number one on Amazon.
It is a riveting book about what the family went through. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three
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two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
His job, make it all makes sense. He's marks them
oone on sevent tenor.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Jan
and Long Island. Jan.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
How you doing, I'm doing fine?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Hell are you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Let me check? Not bad?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Okay, I'm glad to hear it always. So I'm calling
because Charlie Kirk wrote a book that was kind of
I think he called it The College Hoax or something
like that. I actually had the book and it was
the first of its kind that I ever saw, you know,
and it was I think it's only a couple of
years old or something like that. And all of a sudden,
(18:28):
I'm hearing on a couple of different stations I listened
to OR and ABC that there's this other guy that's
got an anti college book out.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Well, psychologe, we've been doing that here for a few years.
It's just a lot of people don't need to go
to college. In fact, tech schools would be a much
better idea for a lot of kids. You don't. We've
had university professors tell us they agree that forty percent
of their students don't belong in some supid IVY league college,
go to a tech school, learn a real skill.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Ye I've been hearing that on the right, but this
was in a book by Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
All Right, we got that part. But it's a good
idea for a lot of kids tech school. Hey. Also,
you send the kid to college for four years, it's
going to be a two hundred and fifty thousand. If
you go to tech school, it's like one tenth of that. Also,
you get out of college with your Ivy League philosophy degree,
and you're going to go back and live in your parents'
house for ten years. You get out of tech school,
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they'll put you to work the next day. They'll get
your job right away. Let's go to Shannon in Belmore. Shannon,
how you doing.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Good morning, Mark. I wonder if you could tell me
what was behind Trump willing to release the Honduran drug lord.
I can't understand that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh well, you're going to see a lot of He
just pardoned a little while ago a lawmaker in Texas
who was convicted of bribery. Sometimes he just thinks the
guy did enough punishment a part, But a lot of
times it's somebody a donor or a big a member
of Congress who calls you and asks you for this
as a favor.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
So you know money was involved.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, not with Trump, but it's a favor to somebody
you need to do a favor for. It's a good question.
You know, there's a guy in Long Island got convicted
of uh, swindling people. You know, you got, I know,
some kind of financial white collar crime. And the guy
was a convicted sentenced to prison. So Trump just pardoned him. Now,
a lot of times that's a favorite. You know, if
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you got the right friends, you can get yourself a pardon.
If you're a major, major, major donor, you listen, I
need a favor. They'll look over the pardon and if
it's uh, if it's not too outrageous, they'll give it
to you. It's a favorite of the donor. But many,
many times it's a major figure in Congress or in
government calls you. You know, if a major congress has
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got somebody in this district, that's usually the case. Somebody
in the district they need a pardon. And this happens
with the Democrat Republican presidents do need to get this
guy pardon now. They then weighed, how do I need
this congressman. Yeah, I'm gonna need him for about twenty
different votes. I'm gonna need his vote, so they'll do
the favor for you. It happens all the time. Now,
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it's really outrageous. They'll say they can't do it, but
you know, the most glaring example was Mark Rich, the
financier who got caught in all kinds of crime, and
he's so bad that he fled the country. There's no
way he's gonna even try to beat these charges. He fled.
He went to Switzerland and they were chasing him all
over the world. They tried to arrest him in Israel.
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They tried to arrest him here, but they could. They're
chasing this guy. He's a fugitive on the lamb. But
the Rich family massive donors to the Clinton's massive donors,
so they wanted the hard husband pardon. And it was
so outrageous. Clinton waited till like his last day in
office and then did the When he did the Mark
Rich pardon, somebody in the Justice Department has to sign off.
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Everybody refused to sign off. They finally found one guy
who was willing to signed that part, who was a
junior guy named Eric Holder, who was later rewarded with
the Attorney General. Hey, when we come back, and Culter
will be with us next. Lots to talk to her
about coming up in a moment on seven to ten
wor Here's.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
More of the Mark Simone show on wor.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well and Culture. The best selling author and the great
columnists also does a lot of speeches all over the country.
In fact, if you're in Massachusetts tomorrow night, she'll be
speaking at MIT of all places, six o'clock MIT, and
she's with us right now. And Culter, how you doing fantastic?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
How are you Marximon?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Good? You know, I do a lot of speeches, but
it's always in some normal place. Mit. You got to
sound pretty smart there, I know.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I hope they don't ask me any math questions.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So that's pretty good. Now, all over America they got
and we heard this is going to happen. The Democrats
have like twenty five other Mam Donnie's. They're going to run.
They run this woman in Tennessee. It was another Mam
donnie no resume history of saying crazy things, but charming
great on social media, an influencer. What is this? Who
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are these Democrats voting for these people?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Well? Luckily not enough to elect her. Your listeners, being
normal people probably don't know this, but I bet you do.
All week on MSNBC, they've been pushing this progressive woman
and you know this was going to be a test
for Trump, and here it was. It's in Tennessee represented
by a Republican. Now, this isn't going to be big tests,
(23:43):
big test. You know, they don't set something up as
a big test unless they're expecting to win. So they
were pushing this woman like mad. And she lost last
night by ten points. So I was listening to the
coverage today and I don't know CNN or MSNBC. I
have a new definition of a close election. It's where
a Republican wins by ten points. But apparently that was
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that was a nail bider.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But what is this all about? Voting for people that
have no resume on paper? They stink. But they keep
yelling this word affordability and it sounds good. But if
you know, like in New York, Democrats have run every
inch of New York for fifteen years. If there's an
affordability crisis, why would you vote for them? Yes?
Speaker 7 (24:31):
And unless it is Democrats with their idiotic laws and
regulations making things more expensive, as with run control, as
with Obamacare, mostly what people are talking about. I mean,
I mean, Trump is right, this is just a word
they use. It's like for years, I don't know, I
don't doubt politicians run on this anymore, but years, for decades,
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every every single presidential candidate would run on bringing people together. Okay,
those are words, and affordability is a word. What you're
talking about is inflation or democratic policies. That's what makes
things expensive. I mean, as we've discussed, there's been no
matter how liberal the economist is, just economists after economists
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after economists has pointed out, rent control goes into effect,
housing prices go through the roof. And every place there
is rent control, in New York City and San Francisco,
in you know, small burghs, throughout the nation, every place
rent control is in effect, the housing is out of
reach for normal people. Thomas All writes a lot about this.
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It's it's the most basic economic principle. Restrict the supply
prices go up.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, they're the ones.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
I mean, the healthcare thing just drives me absolutely nuts.
Yet everybody knew this. That's why every single Republican voted
against Obamacare. As I think I've said before, when republic
can say we're going to fix something, we fix it,
and then we lose it as an issue to run on.
When Democrats say they're going to fix something, they got
an issue until the end of time. They just make
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things worse.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
H you know, like they go crazy about tariffs. Tariffs
are the worst thing. They hate tariffs, but then they
put on more tariffs than anybody. They call it the
corporate tax increase, but that's the same thing. It's a
teriff on of business.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
So oh, that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
How do they get away with this? But well, I
know how there's no media to expose it. But it's
never going to change. So what does this mean for
the midterms?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Well, as I keep warning you, my friends, your listeners,
midterms generally go against the party in power, which is
why I don't know why the Trump administration hasn't done
this yet. I've surely talked about it on your program before.
So the census is taken in twenty twenty under Donald
Trump in twenty twenty one. The year after a census,
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they always go back check do we make any mistakes?
Do we get this right? They do spot checks that
sort of thing. Under the Biden administration, they realized, oh
my gosh, we made a lot of mistakes, and they
ended up taking away I met, about ten congressional seats
from Republicans and giving them to the Blue States. They
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counted the Blue states as being much bigger and about
ten on each side, and Red states as being much smaller.
So I don't know Ron de Santis should sue. This
is the administration finding its own mistake. Why can't the
Trump administration say fix the mistake? I mean, that gives
us ten seats right there, and other than that, it's
(27:41):
probably going to be a blowout against us, especially looking
at what I didn't think. I didn't think there was
any way California could squeeze any more Democrat seats out
of that state, but apparently they have. So Democrats are
they have an auto pickup of five states in California.
And this isn't like some tricky, you know, remandering trick.
It's just it's just following the Constitution and creating congressional
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districts the way they are supposed to be created. So
I really think Trump has got to get on that.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, but again, you got this new breed of Democrats,
no resume saying crazy things, but they just look good
on social media and they're great influencers. And are there
any Republicans who have encountered that who can do the
same trick.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
I hate to sound snobbish, but I think most Republican
voters are smarter. They really are Democrats. We deserve stupid
voters too. I mean, I don't know we're getting some now,
but but Democrats really have a lock on the stupid voters.
And I am not referring to, you know, young people.
I don't think it's just young people. A lot of
young people are are very thoughtful. But well, I guess
(28:52):
I am referring to my gender. A lot of especially women,
especially you know identity politics types. They they they they
know nothing, they think nothing. They go along with the crowd.
Groupthink is very powerful.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah. So hey, the other issue, this war crimes hoax,
you know, is some terrible war crimes taking place?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Well, Democrats get away with this defending these coke boats,
these narco boats.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I wanted
to make two points about that. One is it's funny
listening to liberal media they're trying to get hag Seth
to you know, quote take responsibility as if as if
that's that's okay, and then we'll all go away. You
say you're responsible. The media plays this trick a million times.
(29:46):
I was just thinking of tweeting out hag sas do
not quote take responsibility. This is what they did to
rum Fells over Abu Grab. They run this campaign. You
just got to take response. Be a man here. They
did it with the first George Bush on you gotta
raise taxes and he broke his read my lips pledge.
And the final thing second thing and only thinks is
(30:06):
probably running out of time, is I don't care what
they do to these Venezuelan boats. I mean, since the
end of Reagan. This is the first time in my
life the American military has been used to protect American lives,
not alives in the Middle East, not lives in Afghanistan,
not lives in the Balkans. For the first time, the
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military is being used to protect America. So I don't
care what you do.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
That's a very good point, excellent point. Hey, So if
you're in Massachusetts, we got a lot of listeners there
and culture is speaking tomorrow night at MIT. Aren't they
kind of left wing kooks there? How are you going
to speak to them?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Well, I'm hoping some of your listeners will come. You
sign up on Google. It's linked on my Twitter feed,
and I happen to notice on the Google page they're
apparently not releasing the undisclosed lowation until I don't know
a few hours before the speech, but it obviously will
be near MIT, and I think all marksman own listeners
(31:09):
should come so I could at least get some some
smart questions that don't involve Mas.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, it's a bunch of left wing cooks there at MIT,
but it's quite a beautiful.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Campus and probably fewer left wing cooks because remember they
were the first college to well first get rid of
the SAT and then immediately bring it back.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, it's a beautiful campus and it's right on the
Charles River. You hat a beautiful view and you'll have
a good time there talking to those eggheads. But it's
a great unit. It's on one of our great universities.
So tomorrow, yeah and Culter at MIT six o'clock. Just
go to her Twitter. You can get the place to
sign up for it, and of course follow on Twitter.
Make sure you follow on substack it's Andculter dot substack
(31:54):
dot com and Culter. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Good to talk to you Mark soon.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All right, take care. Hey, don't forget tonight. You got
Buck and Clay coming up at noon today. But don't
forget tonight. Every night excellent news show Jimmy Fayla. It's fascinating,
it's funny. It's a very entertaining show nine to midnight
every night on seven to ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Give WR o bre said on the iHeart Radio app
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Speaker 2 (32:34):
You know that crazy Olivia Nuzzy, the one writing the book.
She was that reporter got involved with RFK Junior. Claimed
they were texting and sexting back and forth and then
apparently carrying on with some other people here and there.
So she wrote a book, big Exposation's going to take
down RFK Junior. You know she's a vanity fair writer.
(32:56):
She's going to expose. Oh, she's gonna tell the unbelievable book. Well,
it came out on Amazon this is the first week.
It's a total disaster, a complete bomb. First week you're
supposed to have your best week. It's in twelve thousandth place,
twelve thousand, one hundred something, twelve thousandth place on Amazon.
And you'll notice the fake news, the ms NOW, MSNBC.
(33:19):
They're not really giving her a lot of coverage. So
the book completely fizzled. Vanity Fair I think has gotten
rid of her, so you won't see much more of her.
That should be pretty much the end of her. Hey,
we're out of time. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon.
And remember, you can listen to the show anytime you want.
If you can't listen ten to noon, or you miss
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it wherever you get your podcast. Hey, don't forget the
tree lighting Rockefeller Center. It's tonight at three o'clock. It's
a gridlock alert day today. And also remember that tree lighting.
It's TV at seven o'clock, but they start the whole
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thing early, like three o'clock, four o'clock, so it's going
to be a traffic nightmare in midtown because of that.
So if you're driving, don't come anywhere near Midtown tonight.
It will be an absolute mess. So I'll be back
tomorrow ten to noon and I'll talk to you then
every weekday, ten to noon right here on seven ten
wor
Here's more marks alone on seven to ten wo wash.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, so what's the day today, December third? It's only
December third. I walk in the lobby. There's a Christmas
tree in the lobby of the building. There's a wreath,
there's a come up here to the sixth floor. I
get off the elevator, there's a Christmas tree. They walk
by Light FM. There's Christmas music all the time. It's everywhere. Yesterday,
(00:29):
walking over the Fox, the long sixth Avenue, the candy
canes are up, the big candy canes, the big ornaments
are up. The tree on top of the Marquis at
Radio City Music Hall. Tonight they light the tree and
Rockefeller Center. You know Bryant Park, beautiful Bryant Park. But
that's become a big deal, that tree. They had their
tree lighting ceremony last night. A lot of people showed up.
(00:52):
It's not as big as the Rockefeller Center thing. They
don't have, you know, seventeen famous singers singing there, but
they're getting there year by year by year. So be
careful if you're driving tonight, avoid Midtown Manhattan Rockefeller Center.
It will be massive gridlock everywhere. Steve Whitkoff our negotiator
(01:13):
and Jared Kushner, who wasn't of much use in the
first term of Trump, but this time around he's very
useful when it comes to these negotiations. He was brilliant
at settling things as much as you can between Israel
and Arab countries. He was very good in the first term.
So he and Witkoff are a good team. They do
the negotiating Israel, Hamas that sort of. But they're now
(01:36):
working on peace in Ukraine, settling that war. Looks like
they got a ways to go. But they had a
big meeting with Putin yesterday. Putin always, always, always will
keep you waiting. Don't you hate people that are always
late for something. They're just scatterbrain, they're flaky. They're late.
(01:56):
You're waiting for them forty minutes. And it's different with Putin. Deliberate.
It's deliberate. It's to put you in your place. It's
psychological warfare. He does even if it's the most important
international meeting, the president's envoys are coming from the He'll
keep you waiting deliberately. It's to just psyche you out.
(02:16):
Now it doesn't work because if you're wick cough and
you're Jared. You know he does this all the time.
You know he's going to keep you waiting an hour
and a half. It's just normal. This is what he does.
It's not personally does it to everybody. So they knew
and they went and just had a nice lunch. What
they waited for the guy, and then he shows up.
You see the picture of him at the big negotiating table.
(02:39):
This is in Russia, Moscow. It's a white table and no, no,
didn't look right. It looked like a table. Betty Crocker
would even arouse. It's just something not very tough about it.
But they're all sitting around the table. And at twelve
thirty they began the conversation, Now, what you want to
(03:00):
talk to Putin? Who wants to talk to Putin? Do
you look at that guy when you see the video,
you say to yourself, Yeah, I'd love to sit down
with that guy. It looks like the most unpleasant thing
you could do is talk to this guy. But they
sat down with them at twelve thirty and the meeting,
which was not very successful. They were not able to
come to agreement. In fact, there was much disagreement. They
(03:21):
didn't make much progress. It made little progress, but not much.
The meeting lasted five hours? Five hours? How the hell
did these guys do it? If I were you know,
Steve Whitcoff is a wealthy guy, a big successful builder.
It does all kinds of work all over America, New York,
(03:41):
Palm Beach, Miami's Building building. To who that wants to
give all that up and go sit in a room
with Putin for five hours? Five hours of talking to Putin?
You can't even talk right to him. He's got an interpreter.
You know, I think he speaks English, but he pretends
he doesn't. Uses the interpreter. It gives him extra time
to hear your question and think of an answer. But
(04:02):
so wit Coffin, Jared Kushner had to bring their own interpreter.
So when you see all these people at the table,
a couple of them are interpreters. A couple of them
are aids to Putin. So who the hell would want
to do this? Sit there and talk to Putin for
five hours? And be honest, you got a choice. You
(04:25):
have to do one or two things. You're gonna have
a delayed flight and you'll have to sit at the
gate for three hours or talk to Putin for five hours,
which would you choose? Of course, you sit at the gate.
I can look at my phone, I can watch movies,
I can listen to podcasts. There'll be a snack bar there.
You could do a lot of Who the hell was?
I talked to Putin for five hours, So there were
(04:46):
like twenty eight points. Putin was okay with the two
or three of them, but there were a lot of them.
He said, we just can't compromise on it. But they're
they're making some progress and they'll eventually get this done eventually. Now,
Trump will not go to the meeting until they're close.
(05:08):
And that's why you use wid Coffin. Jarrett. You don't
embarrass yourself by coming out empty handed five times in
a row. So you'll let these guys get it very,
very very close, and then you show up Cabinet meeting yesterday.
It was pretty interesting, the war crimes hoax, all these
(05:29):
guys like Chuck Schumer trying to make it suddenly they're
war crime experts.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
If Trump were to order an attack on land, that
would be an act of war and Congress would invoke
the War Powers Act. It's Congress's prerogative to go to
war and I hope Republicans will defend that role.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
This is just Schumer, a big blowharder, doesn't know what
he's talking about. Obama was famous for drone strikes on land,
blowing up people all over the place, Afghanistan or Iraq, wherever,
hundreds of hundreds, hundreds of drone strikes. Do you know
when they did the Osama bin Laden raid, they were
going to go into his house and get him. You know,
(06:14):
the actual orders from Obama were to shoot him and
kill him. And this was all discussed ahead of time. Well,
what if he surrenders. They were told to shoot him
and kill him. They were given the order not to
take him alive. Now, if he comes out of his
bedroom and you're there, you could say, well I shot
(06:35):
because I didn't he might have a bomb on him.
So it actually was discussed, what if he comes out
of his bedroom totally naked. We know he can't possibly
have a weapon or a bomb on him. They were
told to shoot him and kill him. They were ordered
not to take him alive. Now I imagine the reason
for that order is they didn't want to get him
alive and bring him back here because they'd have to
(06:57):
try him and that trial would have a security nightmare,
all kinds of controversies. They were told, make sure you
kill him, no matter what. So even if he's asleep
and he doesn't wake up, you got to shoot him.
So but again, that's war. That's what you do in
a war. You shoot to kill all the time. And
(07:19):
even a police shooting a mob hit whatever it is,
you don't fire one bullet and say, well, huh, the
guy survived. How about that. No, you shoot a bunch
of shots and make sure they're dead. So this war
crime hoax, they'll try it for another couple of weeks.
It'll go nowhere. Then they'll give up. Big cabinet meeting
yesterday the CNN CNN if anybody still watches that, their
(07:40):
big thing was fact checking the cabinet meeting. The CNN
fact checker checker. Trump told thirteen whoppers in the cabinet
unbelievable lies that he told. Let's see what the thirteen are.
He claimed that the tariffs have brought in eighteen trillion dollars.
All right, about that, that's Trump. They brought in like
(08:02):
eight trillion. But you know Trump, if it's eight trillion,
I'll tell you it's eighteen trillion. If it was eighteen trillion,
he would have told you it was thirty trillion. All right.
They got him on that, But he's right in what
he's saying. He's absolutely correct. The tariffs have brought in fortune.
He's exaggerating the number. He claimed grocery prices are down.
They're up two point seven percent year over year. That's
(08:24):
actually a bit of a lie because their overall grocery
prices are down. There are certain things that have gone up,
way up, and that's brought the whole average up. But
overall grocery prices are down. So they're wrong about that one. Well,
technically they might be right, but they're misleading you. He
(08:47):
claimed these cutting prescription drug prices by five hundred to
nine hundred percent. These numbers make no mathematical sense. That
be below zero, it'd be like less than zero. Okay,
they got him on that, but he had he has
brought the prices of drugs down. He's exaggerating the number again,
but that's him, the salesman. He does that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
He claimed every military attack on the drug smuggling boat
saves an average of twenty five thousand lives. Experts say
this number makes no sense. Well, first of all, they're
not you know, CNN, they find the dumbest, worst, slanted
or biased or totally fabricating eccid. Plenty of people's lives
were saved by getting rid of the fentanyl and the cocaine. Obviously,
(09:32):
lives were saved blown up these drug boats. Okay, it
might not be twenty five thousand. How would you know
exactly how many lives are saved per boat? But he's
absolutely right, and he's saying you're just quibbling about the
he's exaggerating numbers. Yeah, that could be. Uh, what else?
He has stopped inflation in its tracks? Okay, there's still
(09:53):
He has brought inflation down. It was nine percent at
one point under Biden, Biden's average inflation for the four
years five point two percent. It's now three percent and dropping.
So he clearly has brought it down, stopped it dead
in his tracks. Okay, maybe that's too much. These are
the whoppers of claiming he told he claimed he inherited
the worst inflation of all time. All right, it was
(10:17):
horrifying under Biden. Nine percent, horrifying number, horrifying. But they're
arguing there that's not the old time high. It was
higher somewhere in the history of a marriage. Okay, that could be.
But he's still right about what he's saying. He's gotten
it right. You're just talking about exaggeration. He claimed the
end of eight Wars. Well, the list includes two wars
(10:39):
that weren't actually wars. Listen, he's great at ending these wars.
He can't argue they go on and on. It's basically
all the same thing. Uh, let's see, Yeah, they're all
the same thing. He's absolutely right everything he's saying. He's
just if you wanted to argue that he's exaggerating, yeah,
you could, of course he is. Yesterday, Mom Donnie met
(10:59):
with r Adams. They had a big meeting at City Hall.
These two guys can't stand each other. It was sort
of cordial. Uh, Mom, Donnie was trying you know. I
give him credit this, Mom Donnie. He always tries to
say something nice. He tries to be positive. He meets
with Trump, it's very positive. He can't stand Adam. They
don't get along, but he leaves and tries to praise
(11:20):
him somehow.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I've appreciated the mayor's work on City of Yes. I
also think the trash containerization has been a good step
forward in the way in which we handle garbage across
the city. And these are things that I deserve, that
New Yorkers deserve to have be built on as opposed
to be discarded.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay, the guy's mayor of New York for four years?
Four years? What can you praise him on? I got
to come up with something he did rail four years?
What did he do? Rev Ah? The trash containerization? What
the That's where they put the new trash can with
a lid that closes. This is what he did with
trash cans have lids that closes. They say the number
(11:54):
of rats are down because it's in the airtight trash contail. Okay,
that's very good, But this is your main accomplishment of
four years. Not good?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
How did you go there?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It went well.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
I appreciated the conversation that I had with with Mayor
Adams and his team, and we focused on how to
make this as smooth as possible of a transition and
how to continue.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
To serve New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Are right, Look, I think it is possible to be
fair and honest in your assessment of an administration. I've
obviously made my critiques clear I also think that there
are good things that this administration has done. I think
these are the two examples on City of Yes and containerization.
And I also have appreciated the work the Commissioner Tish
has done in reducing crime across the five boroughs. And
that's a critical part of why I decided to retain it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh, there you go. So when you think back on
Adams and his legacy, it's that trash can containerization.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What a program the City of Yes What is that?
I don't know, some program you did. Hey, here's the
big question. Does Mom Donnie move into Gracie Mansion? You
don't have to, you know, Bloomberg didn't. Of course. Now
in the case of Bloomberg, he has two massive town
house is cut together to become one enormous town house.
(13:05):
Gracie Mansion looks like a ghetto apartment, looks like a
housing project apartment compared to his house. So he never
left his house. He stayed in his house. And Ed
Koch had a really nice apartment in Greenwich Village. He
would go back there every weekend. He'd like to stay there.
So Mom Donnie lives in Brooklyn in an apartment. No
not for I think he lives in Long Island City
(13:26):
or a story of somewhere like a queen's. But will
he move into Gracie Mansion.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
That's the decision I haven't yet made. The meeting came
about as just part of a typical transition, a transition
where we're looking to have a conversation with the current
mayor about what it looks like to have a smooth
transfer between this administration and the next administration. I've appreciated
the work of his staff and ensuring that it continues
to be smooth.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So yeah, he said he has thought of staying in
his apartment. He has a massive security detail now as
the incoming mayor, a full security detail. But they're saying
you can't live in the apartment anymore because it's in
an apartment building. It'd be too hard to guard you
in that apartment building, and if we could, it'd be
(14:07):
totally disruptive to everybody else coming and going out of
that building. So he's probably gonna have to leave and
go to Gracie Mansion. Hey, you know what was the
most interesting thing. This was not at this press conference,
but last night he goes on New York One on
that Errol Lewis show. Errol Lewis very nice guy, the
most slanted biased media person in the world, but a
(14:30):
nice guy. And he said something interesting on that show.
But because it's New York, one three people saw it,
so you probably never heard about this. This is why
you never don't hear about this. He revealed on the
show that he and Trump still talk after that meeting
at the White House. They've spoken to each other on
the phone a few times. They kept in touch. That's fascinating.
(14:50):
In fact, after the shooting of the National Guards woman mom,
Donnie said he called Trump to express his sympathies for
that woman, and they had talked about He said, they've
talked a few times. Very interesting stuff. Hey, in New Jersey,
you know McGreevy, remember Governor McGreevy, a nice guy left
in a bit of a scandal. But he lost last
(15:12):
night to this guy Solomon. So McGreevy, like Cuomo, thought
he could make some quote comeback, but apparently not. He lost,
and he you know, that's the end of him politically.
I want to say from my heart, I congratulate counselmen
now mayor like James Solomon. Yeah, mcgreevy's a good guy,
but you know it's it's the wrong kind of democrat.
(15:33):
The Democrats if today hate the old establishment Democrats. Uh,
they like these Trump haters. This Solomon kind of the
mission is clear.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
The work begins tonight, and the work and we have
to do is make Jersey City affordable.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And so I say tonight, and so that's how this
guy won. If you're today's Democrat, just yell affordability, affordability, affordability.
Nobody knows what that all. It means afford Christmas Jersey City,
it's all Wall Street guy's hedge fund pee. Yes, certain places,
they are always going to be expensive. You know, if
you move to Beverly Hills, it's not that affordable. So
(16:13):
if you go to the wealthiest place in the world
in the middle of Manhattan, the Upper East Side, it's
very expensive. So you can go there and yell about affordability.
But there's going to be places that are expensive. So hey,
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It is a riveting book about what the family went through. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three
(17:41):
two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
His job, make it all makes sense. He's marks them
oone on sevent tenor.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Jan
and Long Island. Jan.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
How you doing, I'm doing fine?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Hell are you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Let me check? Not bad?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Okay, I'm glad to hear it always. So I'm calling
because Charlie Kirk wrote a book that was kind of
I think he called it The College Hoax or something
like that. I actually had the book and it was
the first of its kind that I ever saw, you know,
and it was I think it's only a couple of
years old or something like that. And all of a sudden,
(18:28):
I'm hearing on a couple of different stations I listened
to OR and ABC that there's this other guy that's
got an anti college book out.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Well, psychologe, we've been doing that here for a few years.
It's just a lot of people don't need to go
to college. In fact, tech schools would be a much
better idea for a lot of kids. You don't. We've
had university professors tell us they agree that forty percent
of their students don't belong in some supid IVY league college,
go to a tech school, learn a real skill.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Ye I've been hearing that on the right, but this
was in a book by Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
All Right, we got that part. But it's a good
idea for a lot of kids tech school. Hey. Also,
you send the kid to college for four years, it's
going to be a two hundred and fifty thousand. If
you go to tech school, it's like one tenth of that. Also,
you get out of college with your Ivy League philosophy degree,
and you're going to go back and live in your parents'
house for ten years. You get out of tech school,
(19:23):
they'll put you to work the next day. They'll get
your job right away. Let's go to Shannon in Belmore. Shannon,
how you doing.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Good morning, Mark. I wonder if you could tell me
what was behind Trump willing to release the Honduran drug lord.
I can't understand that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh well, you're going to see a lot of He
just pardoned a little while ago a lawmaker in Texas
who was convicted of bribery. Sometimes he just thinks the
guy did enough punishment a part, But a lot of
times it's somebody a donor or a big a member
of Congress who calls you and asks you for this
as a favor.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
So you know money was involved.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, not with Trump, but it's a favor to somebody
you need to do a favor for. It's a good question.
You know, there's a guy in Long Island got convicted
of uh, swindling people. You know, you got, I know,
some kind of financial white collar crime. And the guy
was a convicted sentenced to prison. So Trump just pardoned him. Now,
a lot of times that's a favorite. You know, if
(20:28):
you got the right friends, you can get yourself a pardon.
If you're a major, major, major donor, you listen, I
need a favor. They'll look over the pardon and if
it's uh, if it's not too outrageous, they'll give it
to you. It's a favorite of the donor. But many,
many times it's a major figure in Congress or in
government calls you. You know, if a major congress has
(20:51):
got somebody in this district, that's usually the case. Somebody
in the district they need a pardon. And this happens
with the Democrat Republican presidents do need to get this
guy pardon now. They then weighed, how do I need
this congressman. Yeah, I'm gonna need him for about twenty
different votes. I'm gonna need his vote, so they'll do
the favor for you. It happens all the time. Now,
(21:11):
it's really outrageous. They'll say they can't do it, but
you know, the most glaring example was Mark Rich, the
financier who got caught in all kinds of crime, and
he's so bad that he fled the country. There's no
way he's gonna even try to beat these charges. He fled.
He went to Switzerland and they were chasing him all
over the world. They tried to arrest him in Israel.
(21:32):
They tried to arrest him here, but they could. They're
chasing this guy. He's a fugitive on the lamb. But
the Rich family massive donors to the Clinton's massive donors,
so they wanted the hard husband pardon. And it was
so outrageous. Clinton waited till like his last day in
office and then did the When he did the Mark
Rich pardon, somebody in the Justice Department has to sign off.
(21:54):
Everybody refused to sign off. They finally found one guy
who was willing to signed that part, who was a
junior guy named Eric Holder, who was later rewarded with
the Attorney General. Hey, when we come back, and Culter
will be with us next. Lots to talk to her
about coming up in a moment on seven to ten
wor Here's.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
More of the Mark Simone show on wor.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well and Culture. The best selling author and the great
columnists also does a lot of speeches all over the country.
In fact, if you're in Massachusetts tomorrow night, she'll be
speaking at MIT of all places, six o'clock MIT, and
she's with us right now. And Culter, how you doing fantastic?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
How are you Marximon?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Good? You know, I do a lot of speeches, but
it's always in some normal place. Mit. You got to
sound pretty smart there, I know.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I hope they don't ask me any math questions.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So that's pretty good. Now, all over America they got
and we heard this is going to happen. The Democrats
have like twenty five other Mam Donnie's. They're going to run.
They run this woman in Tennessee. It was another Mam
donnie no resume history of saying crazy things, but charming
great on social media, an influencer. What is this? Who
(23:17):
are these Democrats voting for these people?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Well? Luckily not enough to elect her. Your listeners, being
normal people probably don't know this, but I bet you do.
All week on MSNBC, they've been pushing this progressive woman
and you know this was going to be a test
for Trump, and here it was. It's in Tennessee represented
by a Republican. Now, this isn't going to be big tests,
(23:43):
big test. You know, they don't set something up as
a big test unless they're expecting to win. So they
were pushing this woman like mad. And she lost last
night by ten points. So I was listening to the
coverage today and I don't know CNN or MSNBC. I
have a new definition of a close election. It's where
a Republican wins by ten points. But apparently that was
(24:08):
that was a nail bider.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But what is this all about? Voting for people that
have no resume on paper? They stink. But they keep
yelling this word affordability and it sounds good. But if
you know, like in New York, Democrats have run every
inch of New York for fifteen years. If there's an
affordability crisis, why would you vote for them? Yes?
Speaker 7 (24:31):
And unless it is Democrats with their idiotic laws and
regulations making things more expensive, as with run control, as
with Obamacare, mostly what people are talking about. I mean,
I mean, Trump is right, this is just a word
they use. It's like for years, I don't know, I
don't doubt politicians run on this anymore, but years, for decades,
(24:54):
every every single presidential candidate would run on bringing people together. Okay,
those are words, and affordability is a word. What you're
talking about is inflation or democratic policies. That's what makes
things expensive. I mean, as we've discussed, there's been no
matter how liberal the economist is, just economists after economists
(25:14):
after economists has pointed out, rent control goes into effect,
housing prices go through the roof. And every place there
is rent control, in New York City and San Francisco,
in you know, small burghs, throughout the nation, every place
rent control is in effect, the housing is out of
reach for normal people. Thomas All writes a lot about this.
(25:35):
It's it's the most basic economic principle. Restrict the supply
prices go up.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, they're the ones.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
I mean, the healthcare thing just drives me absolutely nuts.
Yet everybody knew this. That's why every single Republican voted
against Obamacare. As I think I've said before, when republic
can say we're going to fix something, we fix it,
and then we lose it as an issue to run on.
When Democrats say they're going to fix something, they got
an issue until the end of time. They just make
(26:09):
things worse.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
H you know, like they go crazy about tariffs. Tariffs
are the worst thing. They hate tariffs, but then they
put on more tariffs than anybody. They call it the
corporate tax increase, but that's the same thing. It's a
teriff on of business.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
So oh, that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
How do they get away with this? But well, I
know how there's no media to expose it. But it's
never going to change. So what does this mean for
the midterms?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Well, as I keep warning you, my friends, your listeners,
midterms generally go against the party in power, which is
why I don't know why the Trump administration hasn't done
this yet. I've surely talked about it on your program before.
So the census is taken in twenty twenty under Donald
Trump in twenty twenty one. The year after a census,
(26:59):
they always go back check do we make any mistakes?
Do we get this right? They do spot checks that
sort of thing. Under the Biden administration, they realized, oh
my gosh, we made a lot of mistakes, and they
ended up taking away I met, about ten congressional seats
from Republicans and giving them to the Blue States. They
(27:20):
counted the Blue states as being much bigger and about
ten on each side, and Red states as being much smaller.
So I don't know Ron de Santis should sue. This
is the administration finding its own mistake. Why can't the
Trump administration say fix the mistake? I mean, that gives
us ten seats right there, and other than that, it's
(27:41):
probably going to be a blowout against us, especially looking
at what I didn't think. I didn't think there was
any way California could squeeze any more Democrat seats out
of that state, but apparently they have. So Democrats are
they have an auto pickup of five states in California.
And this isn't like some tricky, you know, remandering trick.
It's just it's just following the Constitution and creating congressional
(28:06):
districts the way they are supposed to be created. So
I really think Trump has got to get on that.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, but again, you got this new breed of Democrats,
no resume saying crazy things, but they just look good
on social media and they're great influencers. And are there
any Republicans who have encountered that who can do the
same trick.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
I hate to sound snobbish, but I think most Republican
voters are smarter. They really are Democrats. We deserve stupid
voters too. I mean, I don't know we're getting some now,
but but Democrats really have a lock on the stupid voters.
And I am not referring to, you know, young people.
I don't think it's just young people. A lot of
young people are are very thoughtful. But well, I guess
(28:52):
I am referring to my gender. A lot of especially women,
especially you know identity politics types. They they they they
know nothing, they think nothing. They go along with the crowd.
Groupthink is very powerful.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah. So hey, the other issue, this war crimes hoax,
you know, is some terrible war crimes taking place?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Well, Democrats get away with this defending these coke boats,
these narco boats.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I wanted
to make two points about that. One is it's funny
listening to liberal media they're trying to get hag Seth
to you know, quote take responsibility as if as if
that's that's okay, and then we'll all go away. You
say you're responsible. The media plays this trick a million times.
(29:46):
I was just thinking of tweeting out hag sas do
not quote take responsibility. This is what they did to
rum Fells over Abu Grab. They run this campaign. You
just got to take response. Be a man here. They
did it with the first George Bush on you gotta
raise taxes and he broke his read my lips pledge.
And the final thing second thing and only thinks is
(30:06):
probably running out of time, is I don't care what
they do to these Venezuelan boats. I mean, since the
end of Reagan. This is the first time in my
life the American military has been used to protect American lives,
not alives in the Middle East, not lives in Afghanistan,
not lives in the Balkans. For the first time, the
(30:28):
military is being used to protect America. So I don't
care what you do.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
That's a very good point, excellent point. Hey, So if
you're in Massachusetts, we got a lot of listeners there
and culture is speaking tomorrow night at MIT. Aren't they
kind of left wing kooks there? How are you going
to speak to them?
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Well, I'm hoping some of your listeners will come. You
sign up on Google. It's linked on my Twitter feed,
and I happen to notice on the Google page they're
apparently not releasing the undisclosed lowation until I don't know
a few hours before the speech, but it obviously will
be near MIT, and I think all marksman own listeners
(31:09):
should come so I could at least get some some
smart questions that don't involve Mas.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, it's a bunch of left wing cooks there at MIT,
but it's quite a beautiful.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Campus and probably fewer left wing cooks because remember they
were the first college to well first get rid of
the SAT and then immediately bring it back.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, it's a beautiful campus and it's right on the
Charles River. You hat a beautiful view and you'll have
a good time there talking to those eggheads. But it's
a great unit. It's on one of our great universities.
So tomorrow, yeah and Culter at MIT six o'clock. Just
go to her Twitter. You can get the place to
sign up for it, and of course follow on Twitter.
Make sure you follow on substack it's Andculter dot substack
(31:54):
dot com and Culter. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Good to talk to you Mark soon.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All right, take care. Hey, don't forget tonight. You got
Buck and Clay coming up at noon today. But don't
forget tonight. Every night excellent news show Jimmy Fayla. It's fascinating,
it's funny. It's a very entertaining show nine to midnight
every night on seven to ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Give WR o bre said on the iHeart Radio app
to hear Mark Simone and all the WOR hosts in
an instance, go back to the Marximo Show on WR.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You know that crazy Olivia Nuzzy, the one writing the book.
She was that reporter got involved with RFK Junior. Claimed
they were texting and sexting back and forth and then
apparently carrying on with some other people here and there.
So she wrote a book, big Exposation's going to take
down RFK Junior. You know she's a vanity fair writer.
(32:56):
She's going to expose. Oh, she's gonna tell the unbelievable book. Well,
it came out on Amazon this is the first week.
It's a total disaster, a complete bomb. First week you're
supposed to have your best week. It's in twelve thousandth place,
twelve thousand, one hundred something, twelve thousandth place on Amazon.
And you'll notice the fake news, the ms NOW, MSNBC.
(33:19):
They're not really giving her a lot of coverage. So
the book completely fizzled. Vanity Fair I think has gotten
rid of her, so you won't see much more of her.
That should be pretty much the end of her. Hey,
we're out of time. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon.
And remember, you can listen to the show anytime you want.
If you can't listen ten to noon, or you miss
(33:40):
a day or you miss an hour, you can always
hear it. Just get the podcast. That way, you can
listen to the show anytime you want. Dare Night, get
it wherever you get your podcast. Hey, don't forget the
tree lighting Rockefeller Center. It's tonight at three o'clock. It's
a gridlock alert day today. And also remember that tree lighting.
It's TV at seven o'clock, but they start the whole
(34:00):
thing early, like three o'clock, four o'clock, so it's going
to be a traffic nightmare in midtown because of that.
So if you're driving, don't come anywhere near Midtown tonight.
It will be an absolute mess. So I'll be back
tomorrow ten to noon and I'll talk to you then
every weekday, ten to noon right here on seven ten
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