December 2, 2025 • 33 mins
The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly considering new indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, following the recent dismissal of charges against both individuals. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. He discusses why some believe Democrats are attempting to gain control of numerous cities across the country, including figures like Zohran Mamdani. The way people consume media may play a significant role in shaping voters’ decisions in upcoming elections. California Governor Gavin Newsom could be a contender in the 2028 presidential election, and the economy should be a key issue for future candidates.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're ahead of the game just for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's marks alone on sevent tenors.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, not too bad here. It's a little light rain
right now around the Tri State area. Someplaces getting snow
and all that first storm of winter. Now, let me
just point out these long range forecasts. You know, it
says what kind of winter we're gonna have. It's gonna
be the coldest winter ever, it's gonna be the snowiest
winter ever. It's gonna be you see that every year.
Don't take those seriously. They mean absolutely nothing. Farmers Almanac,
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their predictions have been wrong ninety percent of the times. Now,
don't even take any real serious weather forecast or meteorologists
will tell you can't do the seasonal forecasts. It's absolutely impossible.
If there's no logical way of forecast an entire season.
You know, for instance, they forecast it this would be
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one of the worst hurricane seasons ever. It turned out
to be the lightest hur season ever. So season forecasts,
don't take it seriously. Let's see Bill O'Reilly was talking
about this. This is very important. Let's get back to this.
Bill O'Reilly pointing out that there's a big problem coming
for Comy and coming for Leticia James. Now, they got
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the charges against Komy and Letitia James. They both got
their charges dismissed by a left wing judge who did
not rule on the charges. They found no problem with
the charges. What they found was that the US attorney
was improperly appointed or something. She's an interim US attorney
and she'd been there past a deadline. So on the
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technicality of the appointment of the US attorney, that's how
it got tossed out. Now they can appeal that and
probably win that. But what we're hearing is they're not
going to appeal it. They're going to just simply file
all new charges now. But Bill O'Reilly was talking about
there's a big trap being laid for Leticia James. Currently,
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there are seven thousand illegal aliens who are out and
out criminals, I mean really bad criminals, accused of murder,
of actually well up more than accused. They've actually committed
crimes like murder, rape, child pornography, armed robbery. It's a
terrible list. I mean, these are dangerous, dangerous, convicted criminals,
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and they're illegal. There's seven thousand of them. They're locked
up in New York. But the problem is they all
get led out. They get led out all the time.
But Ice wants to come in and arrest these seven
thousand illegals. They're totally illegal migrants. They're here illegally, and
they've been convicted of very, very serious crimes. But here
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in New York you got crazy Alvin Bragg the district attorney,
who doesn't put him in prison. And then because of
the awful job Andrew Cuomo did as governor, he did
horrible things. One of the things he did was he
changed up the parole board. The governor appoints me to
the parole board. So he started appointing real left wing coops,
filled the parole board, left wing cooks. They let everybody
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out of prison. They've let out forty three cop killers,
and they're letting out these illegals like crazy. These are dangerous,
dangerous criminals who are here illegally, and they're letting them
out into the streets. So here's the deal with Letitia James.
Ice has sent Letitia James a letter demanding that she
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turn over all seven thousand illegal aliens to them. Some
of them are in prison. It'd be very easy to
go to the prison and take them and deport them.
Ice wants to deport these seven thousand illegals and get
them out of the country. It's up to Letitia James
to hand them over. She's received the letter from the
Department of Homeland Security. So, as Bill O'Reilly pointed out,
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if she refuses to do this, she may be in
criminal jeopardy. They may be able to charge her criminally
for that and come after her. Now her defense will
be that her hands are tied by New York's sanctuary laws.
Believe it or not, New York has these crazy sanctuary
laws that you're not allowed to do this, even if
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it's a dangerous criminal rape, child pornography, murder, got convicted
in jail. You're not allowed to deport them. You're not
allowed to cooperate with Ice. That's this crazy New York
sanctuary law. Now you're saying, who would sign such a ridiculous,
crazy law? Let me see, Oh, here it is. Andrew
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Cuomo signed that law. Another horrible thing Andrew Cuomo did
to New York. Nobody did more damage to New York state.
No governor ever did more damage than Andrew Croomo with
his no bail, no jail with his close the prisons,
let the prisoners out, redo the parole board. And now
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with this crazy sanctuary law, seven thousand dangerous murdering, killing
illes that cannot be deported because of the sanctuary law
because you're not allowed to cooperate with thanks to Andrew Cuomo,
who's making noise about running again. So horrible, horrible situation,
but it could put Letitia James in legal jeopardy once again. Also,
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they can just go back and charge her again for
the mortgage fraud. The documents are pretty clear on that,
so I don't see how she avoids It's now the
only thing Comy has going for him is there is
a statue of limitations. They might be might be past it.
Mom Donnie getting ready to take over the transition team.
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Mom Donnie's been very busy lately with important matters, protesting
with the Starbucks baristas. Now I see the only good
thing about Mom Donnie. Deblasia was bad. You know, a
left wing kok socialist, Mom Donnie, I mean Deblasio too
left wing socialist Kouk. But the good news is he
never came to work. He was more interested in going
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to Brooklyn every day. I remember that he'd sit in
that coffee shop all day, and then he'd go to
the gym, Chopi City Hall for an hour, go to sleep,
take a nap, go home mom. Donnie seems to keep
himself busy with nonsense. You know, you're about to take
over in New York City, you'd think you'd be in
meetings around the clock trying to figure out, especially if
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you're brand new. If you've been in government before, it's
a little easier. But if you've never been in government
running a city or estate, and you've never had an
actual job, you'd think you'd be studying day and night
for what you're about to do. But he's busy with
other little silly things. He's out there marching for oppressed
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workers where you say, well, cotton fields, picking fruit, somewhere
in a sweatshop. No Starbucks baristas. He's out protesting with
the Starbucks baristas. He's fighting for them. Apparently this barista
stuff is pretty serious. I don't know what the issue is,
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but they're only getting like thirty dollars an hour. They
want thirty five. And then some of them say it's
the scheduling when they are Starbucks barista. Here's one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
They do tend to just positively schedule you right now,
we want to fight for fair consistency and obviously a
living working schedule and wage.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, that's it. They're haphazardly scheduling the baristas. Now, are
you going to Starbucks? You see these baristas. Mostly you
can't stand them because they take forever and they can
never wait on you. They could be six people behind
the counter, but two of them are on the phone,
one of them's changing filters on the machine, another one's
busy hauling a box, or they can't think the way.
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So nobody has any sympathy for these baristas and the
hap hazard scheduling. Well, it doesn't sound like the cruelest
thing I have ever heard, But mom Donnie is out
there protesting with him here he is.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The struggle those workers have is that not enough people
know about their fight, not enough people know what they
are being forced to accept. So the more that you
can bring that awareness, the more that you can bring
that attention, the easier it is for workers to demand
the bare minimum. And that is what I will continue
to do as the next mayor of the city.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
He is fighting for those baristas. How do you like that. Now,
First of all, this guy's a socialist. This guy's worried
about affordability. You're at a place where they charge fourteen dollars
for a cup of coffee. You should be mad at
all of them, these baristas. You want affordability, get rid
of Starbucks. First of all, don't go to Starbucks anywhere.
Duncan Downut's much better coffee. Also, I know they don't
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have a foam pumpkin termasous flavored lot. Okay, but they
got better coffee. Just get a regular cup of coffee
and go to work. And then you got all these
local ones. Now there's like a hundred of these. You know,
there's another chain called Gregory's. Gregory's. It's a guy from Granwich, Connecticut.
He started it there and now they're opening all over
the place, much better than Starbucks. And what's that one
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over there, Blue Pointers whatever it's called tur across the street.
There's a bunch of those Blank Street. There's a whole
much better. Stay the hell out of Starbucks. And if
you're a socialist, what are you having anything to do
with a place that charges twenty seven dollars for coffee? So,
but Mam Donnie's fighting for them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
These are not demands of greed. These are demands for decency.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I don't know if it's forty dollars for a cup
of coffee. Who's robbin? Who there? Do you hear about
this clothing store and soho that got robbed. It's not
a regular clothing store. It's a special second hand clothing
store's it doesn't even have a storefront. It's up on
the second floor of an office building. And people like
Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton and all these rappers go
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there because they have the most one of a kind
pieces in the world. A lot of them are vintage,
but not regular vintage. They were worn by some celebrity.
So they have these very special blue jeans that are
very special, different, unique with the stuff all over them
in stones. And so the guy was showing this pair
of blue jeans is worth fifty thousand. This pair of
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blue jeans is seventy five thousand. I'm not kidding. So
it got robbed last night. Thieves broke in and you
can see the surveillance video. They I guess there was
a fire escape or something. They got up the fire
escape and they broke through the second story window with big,
hefty trash bags and they just kept throwing all the
clothes in these trash bags. Then they go to the
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window and throw the bags down to the street where
a guy would pick them up, throw them in the
van that they had waiting, and eventually they got like
ten trash bags full of clothes and drove off. But
it was worth two million dollars. So the owners on
TV talking about he got robbed and what a robbery.
But then he's showing the stuff. He has seventy five
thousand for a pair of jeans. This guy should be
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arrested for robbery. Who the hell's robbing? Who's seventy five
thousand for a pair of jeans? But that's so that's
what goes on. And Mom, Donnie, he hasn't said a
word about the casinos. That's a good sign though, that
means they've probably gotten to him. You know, one thing
about these big, big, big business guys, these big real
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estate guys, they whine and complain, but they know how
to get to a new mayor really really fast, and
they're pretty good at that. So you never know the
same thing happened to Blaso. It was bad, but we
got through it just fine. You'll probably get through mom
Downey just fine. Hey, so we're talking about Mark Kelly
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and the sinking the drug cartel boats Venezuela. Now they're
going to hold hearings in Congress and go after this.
Mark Kelly thinks he'll be like Tom Cruise in these
hearings and that you know, the general who did the
bombing of these boats is going to be like Jack Nicholson,
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and Democrats feel like they'll be Tom Cruise, going did
you order the code red? And that the guy will
just blow up and go You're damn right, I did.
It's not gonna happen. Nothing dramatic is going to happen.
President Trump on all this.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
We consider of Venezuela to be not a very friendly country.
They send millions of people, really, and probably a number
in excess of that, and a lot of those people
shouldn't be in our country, from jails, from gangs, from
drug dealers, from all of the people that came into
our country shouldn't have been in our country. Closing a
lot of problem.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Does your warning need that an airstrike is eminent?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Or should we not read.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It that way?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
You don't read anything into it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah. Now the reason for this. You got to remember,
if you were going to go after the drug cartels,
you would do it at the border. You would try
to get them coming across the border. Well, the border's
closed now, it's been closed all year. There's no coming
across the border. So they've switched to the sea. They're
doing it by boat. So that's why you got to
go after him here. The border's gone. They've eliminated that.
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So now they're going after the drug cartels exactly the
same as everybody else did, only now they're using the sea,
and that's where you got to go after them. So
it'll continue, and it's a good thing. Democrats. We'll go
nuts defending these cartel dealers, which will eventually backfire on them.
Of course, Hey, Matt Lower looking to make a comeback.
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Apparently Matt Lower has been talking to people he wants
back in. He's like like Richie Apriol, you know when
he got out of jail, tone, I want back in,
I want to get back my I want to get
my action back on my sha. So but the problem
is Matt Lower total outcast. And you know, he was
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never that great. It's not like he had a lot
to say. I mean, a nice looking guy. He had
a nice charming way about him. A good looking guy.
Although now he's older, and although I saw him recently,
looks good. He looks good, always wears a great suit.
But I think they're way past Matt Lawer Today's show wise.
First of all, they don't pay that kind of money anymore.
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Very few people watch network TV anymore. And it's a
whole new generation, you know. Now it's Jenna hager Bush,
whatever the hell her name is. But he wants back in,
and he kind of in what he was saying, sort
of hinted he knows maybe he'll never get back on
network television. Maybe he's just damaged goods and he can't
get back on. So he said, I'd like to get
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back on the media, get to the media in some
he said, if not TV, in some capacity. So that's
him acknowledging he might not be able to get a
TV job. I don't know, has enough time passed, you know,
like Lewis c K seems to be okay again, Kevin
Spacey seems to be okay again. You can start putting
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these guys back. I don't know, And if it's not
if not TV, what does that mean? Does that mean
he'll end up like those idiots Jim Acosta, Don Lemon
doing a podcast from at home from their living room
with the glasses on, doing the podcast from home, split
screen zoom podcast. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The problem is a lot of these people do these
They got nothing to say. You know, if you just
said to Sean Hannity, all the guests canceled on the
TV show. If you said to Sean Hannity, there's no guests,
they all canceled, you'll have to talk for a half hour.
Well he could do that without blinking. He could entertain
you for a half hour, telling stories, talk and going
over the new He does it on the radio for
three hours, no problem. He could fill in a half
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hour without blinking. It would be interesting, funny. But if
you're Don Lemon or you're Matt Lower, you've never had
a talk in your life, You've never done a show.
All you do is read a teleprompter or interview people
as a reporter. So that's all it's When they do
these podcasts, they have to have a guest. Every second
there has to be a guest. You never see him
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just alone talking in the camera for a half hour
because they would have no clue how to do it.
I think Matt Lower has the same problem, so he'd
have to do guests because I mean, he could talk
for thirty seconds, but that's about it and then you'd
fall asleep. But he'd have to have guests. So who's
going to do the Matt Lower Podcast? Well, you know
who the first app is, so it'll be Al Roker
will be the first guest. Second guest will be Katie Couric.
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Who else would do it with Matt Lauer? I don't know. Oh,
Brian Gumbel. He'll get Brian gumble there's friends. Anyway, we'll
take some calls in a minute. Eight hundred three to
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show on War. Did you know there were casino protesters?
A you know, hey, this casino's bringing a lot of money.
Casino protesters. No, no casino, no casina. I don't know.
Joe Peshi, Robert de Niro might come out and see
you there. I wouldn't protest the casino too much. Anyway,
Let's go to Wendy in Long Island. Wendy, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Oh yeah, hey, then good morning. Yes, So I don't
really know. I don't know. All the fuss is about
the Jowbucks employees. You see the benefit these people get, okay, college, health, fertility.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, the only thing. The thing through the years, I
don't know about now, but Starbucks has lied to me
a number of times through the years. You know, they'll
tell you every employee has stock, and every employee has this.
Every then you go ask the employees. They don't have
any of that. So you got to be careful.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
That's something to strike about. But you don't put all that.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Noise in the What is all that noise in the background? Uh?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, I got my head stain on.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Where are you Are you at home?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Well? No, I'm still a working person. Oh okay, all right,
you have my undivided attention there.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Where are you in Long Island?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
So we're out here in Brentwood and uh sunny Brentwood
and it's a nice day in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, Well, thanks for calling. It's raining here and let's
go to Michael on the East side. Michael, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Hey, Mark, you Mike morning Vitamins. I was about the
casino awards. Yes, I read a.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Sound like one of those guys at the slot machine
with a couple of quarters.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
No Eatumm, twenty dollars, twenty dollars rep back correct table,
but many events. I read all the way down at
the end of the article it said either each casino
has to give five hundred million or five hundred thousand.
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I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's five hundred million, believe it or not. They've been
approved to get a casino license. Now you got to
buy the license, whether it's a fee, you pay a
fee to get your license. The fees five hundred million.
So three casinos, that's one point five billion in revenue
right away. And then that's not to mention twenty three
thousand jobs will be created and billions of dollars supposedly
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in revenue coming in every year. Let's go to Daniel
in Long Island. Daniel, how you doing?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Good morning, Mark, Mark. I have a about the second
bombing of the boats. Yes, you know, just every time
I hear the headline, I just can't help think that
we had I think we had captured and then released
some terrorists in the Middle East, and they came back
later with a real axe to grind and did some
real damage. I mean, you know you're going to bomb
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the boat, bomb the boat exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You see, That's what I was saying, Good call, Daniel, Yeah, yeah,
I see. I think for most people they don't understand
the issue. What is the democratic thinking here? One bomb
blowing up the boat, that's okay. Two that's being pushy.
That's a little pushy. So I would assume when these
planes fly over the boat, they are there to blow
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the whole thing up. Just blow at the smithereens, just
blow it out of the water and that's it. So
if that's your mission, why would you object to the
second bomb? You know, it's like if a guy, God
forbid takes out a gun and shoot somebody, that's like
the police saying, well, all right, you shot him once,
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but you didn't have to shoot him twice. That's that
second bullet. We're resting here for the second bullet. Let's
go to Aerin in Indianapolis. Erin, How you doing good.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Boarding, Mark? I have a grife about these Narco boats. Yes,
you have it. Yet had a boat with Greta Thunberg.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
All right, I don't know. I guess it's supposed to
be some sort of joke. Maybe in Indianapolis, I got
some big les. Let me ask you a better question.
You're in Indiana. Is it snowing there?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Yes? It is and very cold, and.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You got a lot of snow on the ground.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Uh, not that much, maybe two or three inches right
around there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh okay, thanks for calling. Makes me feel better. Two
or three inches on the go. Got nothing here. It's
a little torizzling a little. See. That's the thing. When
you get you live there, two or three inches is nothing.
You feel that it's nothing. If this were Manhattan, two
or three inches, everything would close for two days.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
When we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us.
The Dean himself will not to talk about. We'll get
to twenty twenty six, the elections. We'll get to why
all these crazy left wing democrats are taken over. It's
not just mom, Donnie, it's happening all over the place.
We'll get to that and more. Just ahead on seven
to ten. WR. You're listening to you are well, Let's
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talk to the Dean himself. The greatest campaign manager and
the best analyst of all Ed Rollins. How you doing I'm.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Doing well, thank you to thankscooting and had a wonderful day.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'll lead it too, Yeah, definitely. Hey, we're talking with
this before twenty twenty six summer saying could be the
most important election ever for Democrats. It's the final last
chance to stop Donald Trump. If he gets both houses
again and has complete control of Congress, it's smooth sailing.
They've got to take Congress back to stop them and
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peach them whatever they want to do. What do you
think thing, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Think that's their goal obviously. And the reality is the
numbers aren't very good for nobody and the political business today.
The Congress numbers are terrible. But the reality is Republicans
are running in the whole show. So they've got to
somehow breakthrough here what happens. And then having run the
congressional races as a chairman of the Congressional for medical
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chairman and having gone to a big term election when
I was White House political director, these are straining elections
and they start now. We don't have a year to
get ready. We have a couple of months to get ready,
and what occurs as members start doing their own polls,
and the vast majority of members of the most important
thing is getting reelected. They don't care about anybody else.
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They care about the president to a certain extent Republicans,
but at the end of the day, if they start
doing badly, they're going to do everything they can to
get themselves reelected, which may not be what the president wants.
So we've got a lot of chaos. The budget bills
aren't going to get through the very quick that Dune
yesterday said he's start gonna trouble. We're gonna have trouble
get the budget bills through. They made a promise on
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the healthcare and the publicans problem for years of healthcare
is we don't have an alternative. Uh, it's Obamacare. And
so we've got some real fights ahead of us. And
and I just would urge the president to stay consistent
on a few subjects here and not be traveling all
over the world and not get us an war. And
you can in other parts of the world. Yeah, star wars.
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We won't. We don't have wars.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But you're the expert, and you know we don't have
much time. But when you say we don't how much time.
It's a year from now. Can't anything and everything change
by then.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
So it won't change. The reality is, you know, the
economy may get a little stronger. Hopefully if that does that,
it can turn it around. But everything is kind of
in play now. And budget. The next big battles here
are the budget battles, and we control that process. So
we've got to make sure whatever it takes to get
to get them through. And the country sees the Congress
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working the Congress. Don't see the Congress working in particularly
the House getting things done. The reality is load against
the majority that's there. We've got a big election today
in Tennessee. Tennessee seven. Yeah, this is where the president
carried by twenty six points. Shouldn't even be a competitive race,
but it's dead did even according to the pools that
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I've seen. So we lose this. It's sort of the
process keeps feeding itself, and what happens they eat themselves.
They basically say, okay, our here's our plan for the years.
We're we're going to do ten things, five things, whatever
the number is, and then you stick with it. Unfortunately,
the numbers are so small. Both the sun and the
House that a defection of five six seats anywhere changes
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the tenement dramatically.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, can you explain to us this crazy phenomenon of
these new Democratic candidates. They're all coops, you know, like
mom Donnie. Well, this woman in Tennessee, she doesn't like
country music and she's at her districts in Nashville. I mean,
how did the Democrat ends up with these kooky people?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well, I've seen her on TV. I don't know her
at all, but she's she's pretty pretty charismatic, and I
think that's part of it. They say what they say,
what they want, they say what they think they want,
and it's pretty much running against Republicans running against Trump
as much promoting themselves. Obviously, Mondabi was different, but bon
Dabi didn't run on his own record. Nabi, and we
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didn't do a very good job with laying out what
he really is. He really is a socialist comments whatever
term you want to use. It's all what the vast
majority of New York is or how the vast majority
of people in the country are.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, but mon done the same thing on paper, the
worst candidate in the world. But you're right, he's charismatic
on TV and online social and media and the.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Way things are now, you know, has their own independent
way of getting their news. They don't they don't watch
television walks they used to. They don't watch the news shows.
And you know the reality years that people go on
and they're charismatic and they say, oh, no, I'm just
against Trump. Trump's doing all these bad things. I'm going
to change that. And whether he is or is and
is not always relevant. It's the perception. And the perception
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right now is there's too many fights going on. You
can't be fighting with Navy seals. He can't be fighting
with the astronauts. Get the job done. And the president
needs to focus on that in the White House states
to focus on that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So you can have the worst reckor in the world.
But as long as you're charismatic, does that mean Gavin
Newsom has a great shot in twenty twenty eight he has.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
He should not even be in the game. This guy
has been recalled to be called as the worst record
of anybody in California and modern history of the state's
in terrible, terrible shape, and yet he's in the elections.
He Couplic School get a fifty four percent of brewery
on Californians. So he's certainly got a base to run on,
(26:54):
and he's not going to run on his record. He's
going to run on against against Trump. In my sense,
that's with all these it's all going to be against Trump,
and Trump basically has got to be very discipline in
his message. He's got the strongest party he's ever anybody's
ever had, but they're going to start up evacuating if
they don't see him turning this back around it. It's
all about the economy, all about the economy. The rest
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of it is.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What does that mean discipline in his message? You mean
talk less, don't tweet every two seconds, do a little.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Less, don't tweet every two seconds, and don't let everybody
else talk. Basically, pick who you're going to have out
there doing what's the message of the day. If the
message of the day right today is we care about
what happens to these you know the guy's gonna shout
out on the boat, that's a story, and then have
your message down, stay on the message. Don't let people
want and there's too many people that are independent and
(27:46):
know what you're going to say. I've always ard with
his strategy clients or whether it's political lines, write it out.
Here's what we're going to say, here's how long we're
going to say it. Here's where the kinds of the
shows are going to go on and make sure that
everybody's hearing from us the same message. You're not fifteen
different messages.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, but you know, when you get a private sector
billionaire running, well, you had, you ran the Ross Pero campaign,
the private sector billionaire business guy. It's hard to tell
them things, isn't it. They don't listen, do they.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
They don't listen. They don't listen. I finally said it
Pero one day. So you're just trying to run a
traditional campaign. I said, no, I'm not just trying to
run a campaign tradition.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
But they became billionaires, so they must know something.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Right, They do know something, and they should stay on
the line where they know something. That's good. Let let
people understand politics and communications do that. Yeah, so you're communicating,
You're every day, every day, You're out communicating your message
every day in your basics, talking about the things that
matter to you, anything matter to your viewers. If all
of a sudden tomorrow you are going out there and
saying you know, we just got of like to the
greatest mayor in the world in New York. Let's get
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them a shot. Your ears will start clicking off. That
switches best. Yeah, you got to stay consistent in your
message who you are and what you are.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah. But but you know, even like the take the Venezuela,
the boats people are basically common sense. Don't they realize, Hey,
these guys are defending drug dealers. Well, we can't defend
the drug cartels.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
We haven't. We haven't proved the case yet. We need
to go prove the case. And I would argue at
this point in time, this is serious. If they if
they charge the Secretary of Defense whenever he wants to
call as you call the world ward. But at the
end of the day, he's not a very good communicator.
He may not be a very good Secretary of Defense.
He may have made a big mistake here. And for
some reason, when it's been the Christmas holidays talking about
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that we've murdered two guys hang on the side of
a boat. We think they were trying to do is
we don't know that for sure? And the Congress is
calling for hearings. He's got to cooperate with the hearings.
What are you gonna do, Sit down and get a strategy,
get a plan. There's no strategy in this White house
right now.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
All right, Well, good stuff, Ed Rollins, always great talking you.
Thanks for the great analysis. Keep up the good work,
and we'll talk against him. Take care or interesting stuff. Yeah. Hey,
we've got a lot to I get to throughout the day,
all sorts of stuff to cover. We didn't get to
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the Tim Waltz fraud either. That is pretty amazing, that fraud,
Tim Waltz. You know, this happens with these democrats. Look
at de Blasio when he was in office with his
wife's crazy program Thrive NYC, which were these crazy centers,
was like yoga for the homeless. Somehow a billion dollars
(30:26):
got put into that and then went missing. The billion
dollars disappeared. To this day, nobody knows where it went.
And by the way, the program itself never opened. The
single center never got a single program done, still hasn't
to this day. The billion disappeared. That's what happens when
you get these democratic socialists. Now look at the Minnesota
(30:46):
where you got Tim Waltz in charge, same exact sort
of thing. It also happens to be a billion dollars
went missing. A bunch of crazy programs in Minnesota, same
kind of left wing cook nonsense programs. The billion dollars
is missing. Tim Waltz cannot seem to explain for a
second what happened to the money, will not even take
(31:07):
responsibility for it. People have asked him over and over
and over again. He can't explain it. Same thing happened
with the Blasia. Luckily it's he's a left wing guy.
They don't push him to our bit.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
Waltz, do you.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically, we have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a place he.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Goes on and on. It's basically a no no. He
will not take responsibility for it. Hey, I don't forget
Tonight at nine excellent news show Jimmy Fayala, very funny,
interesting show every night nine o'clock. Here on seven to ten, woor.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
News breaks out in every show.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Mark Simone on sevent ten.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Warn well, I'll be on Hudlow later today on the
Fox Business Network around four point thirty. It looks like
it's gonna keep raining. It's gonna keep raining probably till
about seven eight o'clock tonight. So hey, it's Giving Tuesday. Look,
it's enough with this stuff. I don't want to be
(32:14):
told what to do every day. They're telling you it's
Black Friday, you got to go shop today. Next day,
small business Saturday. You told what to do, and now
you gotta go to a small business. It's cyber Monday.
It's Giving Tuesday. You know what, I'll give whatever day
I want. I go online every day and buy something
on Amazon. It's always cyber day. Stop telling us what
(32:36):
to do. They've got to stop with this. It's Giving Tuesday.
It's great that you should give to charity any day
you want. It doesn't have to be today. It doesn't
have to be Tuesday. So the lighting the tree tomorrow night,
whether it should be better, then that's good news. Apple
is now the biggest selling I've a big selling phone
(32:56):
in the world. Samsung was the number one phone. Androids
were than iphoned for the first time, past sales of
androids and iPhone now the biggest selling phone in the world.
Remind me tomorrow we'll get to the You know they
got the folding Samsung. Well, now there's the trifold. It
folds into three panels. Anyway, we'll get to that tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's marks alone on sevent tenors.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, not too bad here. It's a little light rain
right now around the Tri State area. Someplaces getting snow
and all that first storm of winter. Now, let me
just point out these long range forecasts. You know, it
says what kind of winter we're gonna have. It's gonna
be the coldest winter ever, it's gonna be the snowiest
winter ever. It's gonna be you see that every year.
Don't take those seriously. They mean absolutely nothing. Farmers Almanac,
(00:33):
their predictions have been wrong ninety percent of the times. Now,
don't even take any real serious weather forecast or meteorologists
will tell you can't do the seasonal forecasts. It's absolutely impossible.
If there's no logical way of forecast an entire season.
You know, for instance, they forecast it this would be
(00:55):
one of the worst hurricane seasons ever. It turned out
to be the lightest hur season ever. So season forecasts,
don't take it seriously. Let's see Bill O'Reilly was talking
about this. This is very important. Let's get back to this.
Bill O'Reilly pointing out that there's a big problem coming
for Comy and coming for Leticia James. Now, they got
(01:18):
the charges against Komy and Letitia James. They both got
their charges dismissed by a left wing judge who did
not rule on the charges. They found no problem with
the charges. What they found was that the US attorney
was improperly appointed or something. She's an interim US attorney
and she'd been there past a deadline. So on the
(01:39):
technicality of the appointment of the US attorney, that's how
it got tossed out. Now they can appeal that and
probably win that. But what we're hearing is they're not
going to appeal it. They're going to just simply file
all new charges now. But Bill O'Reilly was talking about
there's a big trap being laid for Leticia James. Currently,
(02:01):
there are seven thousand illegal aliens who are out and
out criminals, I mean really bad criminals, accused of murder,
of actually well up more than accused. They've actually committed
crimes like murder, rape, child pornography, armed robbery. It's a
terrible list. I mean, these are dangerous, dangerous, convicted criminals,
(02:23):
and they're illegal. There's seven thousand of them. They're locked
up in New York. But the problem is they all
get led out. They get led out all the time.
But Ice wants to come in and arrest these seven
thousand illegals. They're totally illegal migrants. They're here illegally, and
they've been convicted of very, very serious crimes. But here
(02:44):
in New York you got crazy Alvin Bragg the district attorney,
who doesn't put him in prison. And then because of
the awful job Andrew Cuomo did as governor, he did
horrible things. One of the things he did was he
changed up the parole board. The governor appoints me to
the parole board. So he started appointing real left wing coops,
filled the parole board, left wing cooks. They let everybody
(03:07):
out of prison. They've let out forty three cop killers,
and they're letting out these illegals like crazy. These are dangerous,
dangerous criminals who are here illegally, and they're letting them
out into the streets. So here's the deal with Letitia James.
Ice has sent Letitia James a letter demanding that she
(03:27):
turn over all seven thousand illegal aliens to them. Some
of them are in prison. It'd be very easy to
go to the prison and take them and deport them.
Ice wants to deport these seven thousand illegals and get
them out of the country. It's up to Letitia James
to hand them over. She's received the letter from the
Department of Homeland Security. So, as Bill O'Reilly pointed out,
(03:50):
if she refuses to do this, she may be in
criminal jeopardy. They may be able to charge her criminally
for that and come after her. Now her defense will
be that her hands are tied by New York's sanctuary laws.
Believe it or not, New York has these crazy sanctuary
laws that you're not allowed to do this, even if
(04:12):
it's a dangerous criminal rape, child pornography, murder, got convicted
in jail. You're not allowed to deport them. You're not
allowed to cooperate with Ice. That's this crazy New York
sanctuary law. Now you're saying, who would sign such a ridiculous,
crazy law? Let me see, Oh, here it is. Andrew
(04:33):
Cuomo signed that law. Another horrible thing Andrew Cuomo did
to New York. Nobody did more damage to New York state.
No governor ever did more damage than Andrew Croomo with
his no bail, no jail with his close the prisons,
let the prisoners out, redo the parole board. And now
(04:54):
with this crazy sanctuary law, seven thousand dangerous murdering, killing
illes that cannot be deported because of the sanctuary law
because you're not allowed to cooperate with thanks to Andrew Cuomo,
who's making noise about running again. So horrible, horrible situation,
but it could put Letitia James in legal jeopardy once again. Also,
(05:17):
they can just go back and charge her again for
the mortgage fraud. The documents are pretty clear on that,
so I don't see how she avoids It's now the
only thing Comy has going for him is there is
a statue of limitations. They might be might be past it.
Mom Donnie getting ready to take over the transition team.
(05:38):
Mom Donnie's been very busy lately with important matters, protesting
with the Starbucks baristas. Now I see the only good
thing about Mom Donnie. Deblasia was bad. You know, a
left wing kok socialist, Mom Donnie, I mean Deblasio too
left wing socialist Kouk. But the good news is he
never came to work. He was more interested in going
(05:59):
to Brooklyn every day. I remember that he'd sit in
that coffee shop all day, and then he'd go to
the gym, Chopi City Hall for an hour, go to sleep,
take a nap, go home mom. Donnie seems to keep
himself busy with nonsense. You know, you're about to take
over in New York City, you'd think you'd be in
meetings around the clock trying to figure out, especially if
(06:19):
you're brand new. If you've been in government before, it's
a little easier. But if you've never been in government
running a city or estate, and you've never had an
actual job, you'd think you'd be studying day and night
for what you're about to do. But he's busy with
other little silly things. He's out there marching for oppressed
(06:39):
workers where you say, well, cotton fields, picking fruit, somewhere
in a sweatshop. No Starbucks baristas. He's out protesting with
the Starbucks baristas. He's fighting for them. Apparently this barista
stuff is pretty serious. I don't know what the issue is,
(07:01):
but they're only getting like thirty dollars an hour. They
want thirty five. And then some of them say it's
the scheduling when they are Starbucks barista. Here's one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
They do tend to just positively schedule you right now,
we want to fight for fair consistency and obviously a
living working schedule and wage.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, that's it. They're haphazardly scheduling the baristas. Now, are
you going to Starbucks? You see these baristas. Mostly you
can't stand them because they take forever and they can
never wait on you. They could be six people behind
the counter, but two of them are on the phone,
one of them's changing filters on the machine, another one's
busy hauling a box, or they can't think the way.
(07:42):
So nobody has any sympathy for these baristas and the
hap hazard scheduling. Well, it doesn't sound like the cruelest
thing I have ever heard, But mom Donnie is out
there protesting with him here he is.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The struggle those workers have is that not enough people
know about their fight, not enough people know what they
are being forced to accept. So the more that you
can bring that awareness, the more that you can bring
that attention, the easier it is for workers to demand
the bare minimum. And that is what I will continue
to do as the next mayor of the city.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
He is fighting for those baristas. How do you like that. Now,
First of all, this guy's a socialist. This guy's worried
about affordability. You're at a place where they charge fourteen dollars
for a cup of coffee. You should be mad at
all of them, these baristas. You want affordability, get rid
of Starbucks. First of all, don't go to Starbucks anywhere.
Duncan Downut's much better coffee. Also, I know they don't
(08:32):
have a foam pumpkin termasous flavored lot. Okay, but they
got better coffee. Just get a regular cup of coffee
and go to work. And then you got all these
local ones. Now there's like a hundred of these. You know,
there's another chain called Gregory's. Gregory's. It's a guy from Granwich, Connecticut.
He started it there and now they're opening all over
the place, much better than Starbucks. And what's that one
(08:55):
over there, Blue Pointers whatever it's called tur across the street.
There's a bunch of those Blank Street. There's a whole
much better. Stay the hell out of Starbucks. And if
you're a socialist, what are you having anything to do
with a place that charges twenty seven dollars for coffee? So,
but Mam Donnie's fighting for them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
These are not demands of greed. These are demands for decency.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I don't know if it's forty dollars for a cup
of coffee. Who's robbin? Who there? Do you hear about
this clothing store and soho that got robbed. It's not
a regular clothing store. It's a special second hand clothing
store's it doesn't even have a storefront. It's up on
the second floor of an office building. And people like
Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton and all these rappers go
(09:38):
there because they have the most one of a kind
pieces in the world. A lot of them are vintage,
but not regular vintage. They were worn by some celebrity.
So they have these very special blue jeans that are
very special, different, unique with the stuff all over them
in stones. And so the guy was showing this pair
of blue jeans is worth fifty thousand. This pair of
(10:00):
blue jeans is seventy five thousand. I'm not kidding. So
it got robbed last night. Thieves broke in and you
can see the surveillance video. They I guess there was
a fire escape or something. They got up the fire
escape and they broke through the second story window with big,
hefty trash bags and they just kept throwing all the
clothes in these trash bags. Then they go to the
(10:22):
window and throw the bags down to the street where
a guy would pick them up, throw them in the
van that they had waiting, and eventually they got like
ten trash bags full of clothes and drove off. But
it was worth two million dollars. So the owners on
TV talking about he got robbed and what a robbery.
But then he's showing the stuff. He has seventy five
thousand for a pair of jeans. This guy should be
(10:45):
arrested for robbery. Who the hell's robbing? Who's seventy five
thousand for a pair of jeans? But that's so that's
what goes on. And Mom, Donnie, he hasn't said a
word about the casinos. That's a good sign though, that
means they've probably gotten to him. You know, one thing
about these big, big, big business guys, these big real
(11:06):
estate guys, they whine and complain, but they know how
to get to a new mayor really really fast, and
they're pretty good at that. So you never know the
same thing happened to Blaso. It was bad, but we
got through it just fine. You'll probably get through mom
Downey just fine. Hey, so we're talking about Mark Kelly
(11:27):
and the sinking the drug cartel boats Venezuela. Now they're
going to hold hearings in Congress and go after this.
Mark Kelly thinks he'll be like Tom Cruise in these
hearings and that you know, the general who did the
bombing of these boats is going to be like Jack Nicholson,
(11:48):
and Democrats feel like they'll be Tom Cruise, going did
you order the code red? And that the guy will
just blow up and go You're damn right, I did.
It's not gonna happen. Nothing dramatic is going to happen.
President Trump on all this.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
We consider of Venezuela to be not a very friendly country.
They send millions of people, really, and probably a number
in excess of that, and a lot of those people
shouldn't be in our country, from jails, from gangs, from
drug dealers, from all of the people that came into
our country shouldn't have been in our country. Closing a
lot of problem.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Does your warning need that an airstrike is eminent?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Or should we not read.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It that way?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
You don't read anything into it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah. Now the reason for this. You got to remember,
if you were going to go after the drug cartels,
you would do it at the border. You would try
to get them coming across the border. Well, the border's
closed now, it's been closed all year. There's no coming
across the border. So they've switched to the sea. They're
doing it by boat. So that's why you got to
go after him here. The border's gone. They've eliminated that.
(12:49):
So now they're going after the drug cartels exactly the
same as everybody else did, only now they're using the sea,
and that's where you got to go after them. So
it'll continue, and it's a good thing. Democrats. We'll go
nuts defending these cartel dealers, which will eventually backfire on them.
Of course, Hey, Matt Lower looking to make a comeback.
(13:09):
Apparently Matt Lower has been talking to people he wants
back in. He's like like Richie Apriol, you know when
he got out of jail, tone, I want back in,
I want to get back my I want to get
my action back on my sha. So but the problem
is Matt Lower total outcast. And you know, he was
(13:30):
never that great. It's not like he had a lot
to say. I mean, a nice looking guy. He had
a nice charming way about him. A good looking guy.
Although now he's older, and although I saw him recently,
looks good. He looks good, always wears a great suit.
But I think they're way past Matt Lawer Today's show wise.
First of all, they don't pay that kind of money anymore.
(13:52):
Very few people watch network TV anymore. And it's a
whole new generation, you know. Now it's Jenna hager Bush,
whatever the hell her name is. But he wants back in,
and he kind of in what he was saying, sort
of hinted he knows maybe he'll never get back on
network television. Maybe he's just damaged goods and he can't
get back on. So he said, I'd like to get
(14:13):
back on the media, get to the media in some
he said, if not TV, in some capacity. So that's
him acknowledging he might not be able to get a
TV job. I don't know, has enough time passed, you know,
like Lewis c K seems to be okay again, Kevin
Spacey seems to be okay again. You can start putting
(14:33):
these guys back. I don't know, And if it's not
if not TV, what does that mean? Does that mean
he'll end up like those idiots Jim Acosta, Don Lemon
doing a podcast from at home from their living room
with the glasses on, doing the podcast from home, split
screen zoom podcast. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The problem is a lot of these people do these
They got nothing to say. You know, if you just
said to Sean Hannity, all the guests canceled on the
TV show. If you said to Sean Hannity, there's no guests,
they all canceled, you'll have to talk for a half hour.
Well he could do that without blinking. He could entertain
you for a half hour, telling stories, talk and going
over the new He does it on the radio for
three hours, no problem. He could fill in a half
(15:21):
hour without blinking. It would be interesting, funny. But if
you're Don Lemon or you're Matt Lower, you've never had
a talk in your life, You've never done a show.
All you do is read a teleprompter or interview people
as a reporter. So that's all it's When they do
these podcasts, they have to have a guest. Every second
there has to be a guest. You never see him
(15:41):
just alone talking in the camera for a half hour
because they would have no clue how to do it.
I think Matt Lower has the same problem, so he'd
have to do guests because I mean, he could talk
for thirty seconds, but that's about it and then you'd
fall asleep. But he'd have to have guests. So who's
going to do the Matt Lower Podcast? Well, you know
who the first app is, so it'll be Al Roker
will be the first guest. Second guest will be Katie Couric.
(16:07):
Who else would do it with Matt Lauer? I don't know. Oh,
Brian Gumbel. He'll get Brian gumble there's friends. Anyway, we'll
take some calls in a minute. Eight hundred three to
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show on War. Did you know there were casino protesters?
A you know, hey, this casino's bringing a lot of money.
Casino protesters. No, no casino, no casina. I don't know.
Joe Peshi, Robert de Niro might come out and see
you there. I wouldn't protest the casino too much. Anyway,
Let's go to Wendy in Long Island. Wendy, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Oh yeah, hey, then good morning. Yes, So I don't
really know. I don't know. All the fuss is about
the Jowbucks employees. You see the benefit these people get, okay, college, health, fertility.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, the only thing. The thing through the years, I
don't know about now, but Starbucks has lied to me
a number of times through the years. You know, they'll
tell you every employee has stock, and every employee has this.
Every then you go ask the employees. They don't have
any of that. So you got to be careful.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
That's something to strike about. But you don't put all that.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Noise in the What is all that noise in the background? Uh?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, I got my head stain on.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Where are you Are you at home?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Well? No, I'm still a working person. Oh okay, all right,
you have my undivided attention there.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Where are you in Long Island?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
So we're out here in Brentwood and uh sunny Brentwood
and it's a nice day in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, Well, thanks for calling. It's raining here and let's
go to Michael on the East side. Michael, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Hey, Mark, you Mike morning Vitamins. I was about the
casino awards. Yes, I read a.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Sound like one of those guys at the slot machine
with a couple of quarters.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
No Eatumm, twenty dollars, twenty dollars rep back correct table,
but many events. I read all the way down at
the end of the article it said either each casino
has to give five hundred million or five hundred thousand.
(18:29):
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's five hundred million, believe it or not. They've been
approved to get a casino license. Now you got to
buy the license, whether it's a fee, you pay a
fee to get your license. The fees five hundred million.
So three casinos, that's one point five billion in revenue
right away. And then that's not to mention twenty three
thousand jobs will be created and billions of dollars supposedly
(18:52):
in revenue coming in every year. Let's go to Daniel
in Long Island. Daniel, how you doing?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Good morning, Mark, Mark. I have a about the second
bombing of the boats. Yes, you know, just every time
I hear the headline, I just can't help think that
we had I think we had captured and then released
some terrorists in the Middle East, and they came back
later with a real axe to grind and did some
real damage. I mean, you know you're going to bomb
(19:20):
the boat, bomb the boat exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You see, That's what I was saying, Good call, Daniel, Yeah, yeah,
I see. I think for most people they don't understand
the issue. What is the democratic thinking here? One bomb
blowing up the boat, that's okay. Two that's being pushy.
That's a little pushy. So I would assume when these
planes fly over the boat, they are there to blow
(19:44):
the whole thing up. Just blow at the smithereens, just
blow it out of the water and that's it. So
if that's your mission, why would you object to the
second bomb? You know, it's like if a guy, God
forbid takes out a gun and shoot somebody, that's like
the police saying, well, all right, you shot him once,
(20:06):
but you didn't have to shoot him twice. That's that
second bullet. We're resting here for the second bullet. Let's
go to Aerin in Indianapolis. Erin, How you doing good.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Boarding, Mark? I have a grife about these Narco boats. Yes,
you have it. Yet had a boat with Greta Thunberg.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
All right, I don't know. I guess it's supposed to
be some sort of joke. Maybe in Indianapolis, I got
some big les. Let me ask you a better question.
You're in Indiana. Is it snowing there?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Yes? It is and very cold, and.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You got a lot of snow on the ground.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Uh, not that much, maybe two or three inches right
around there.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh okay, thanks for calling. Makes me feel better. Two
or three inches on the go. Got nothing here. It's
a little torizzling a little. See. That's the thing. When
you get you live there, two or three inches is nothing.
You feel that it's nothing. If this were Manhattan, two
or three inches, everything would close for two days.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
When we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us.
The Dean himself will not to talk about. We'll get
to twenty twenty six, the elections. We'll get to why
all these crazy left wing democrats are taken over. It's
not just mom, Donnie, it's happening all over the place.
We'll get to that and more. Just ahead on seven
to ten. WR. You're listening to you are well, Let's
(21:25):
talk to the Dean himself. The greatest campaign manager and
the best analyst of all Ed Rollins. How you doing I'm.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Doing well, thank you to thankscooting and had a wonderful day.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'll lead it too, Yeah, definitely. Hey, we're talking with
this before twenty twenty six summer saying could be the
most important election ever for Democrats. It's the final last
chance to stop Donald Trump. If he gets both houses
again and has complete control of Congress, it's smooth sailing.
They've got to take Congress back to stop them and
(21:58):
peach them whatever they want to do. What do you
think thing, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Think that's their goal obviously. And the reality is the
numbers aren't very good for nobody and the political business today.
The Congress numbers are terrible. But the reality is Republicans
are running in the whole show. So they've got to
somehow breakthrough here what happens. And then having run the
congressional races as a chairman of the Congressional for medical
(22:22):
chairman and having gone to a big term election when
I was White House political director, these are straining elections
and they start now. We don't have a year to
get ready. We have a couple of months to get ready,
and what occurs as members start doing their own polls,
and the vast majority of members of the most important
thing is getting reelected. They don't care about anybody else.
(22:45):
They care about the president to a certain extent Republicans,
but at the end of the day, if they start
doing badly, they're going to do everything they can to
get themselves reelected, which may not be what the president wants.
So we've got a lot of chaos. The budget bills
aren't going to get through the very quick that Dune
yesterday said he's start gonna trouble. We're gonna have trouble
get the budget bills through. They made a promise on
(23:05):
the healthcare and the publicans problem for years of healthcare
is we don't have an alternative. Uh, it's Obamacare. And
so we've got some real fights ahead of us. And
and I just would urge the president to stay consistent
on a few subjects here and not be traveling all
over the world and not get us an war. And
you can in other parts of the world. Yeah, star wars.
(23:26):
We won't. We don't have wars.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But you're the expert, and you know we don't have
much time. But when you say we don't how much time.
It's a year from now. Can't anything and everything change
by then.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
So it won't change. The reality is, you know, the
economy may get a little stronger. Hopefully if that does that,
it can turn it around. But everything is kind of
in play now. And budget. The next big battles here
are the budget battles, and we control that process. So
we've got to make sure whatever it takes to get
to get them through. And the country sees the Congress
(24:00):
working the Congress. Don't see the Congress working in particularly
the House getting things done. The reality is load against
the majority that's there. We've got a big election today
in Tennessee. Tennessee seven. Yeah, this is where the president
carried by twenty six points. Shouldn't even be a competitive race,
but it's dead did even according to the pools that
(24:23):
I've seen. So we lose this. It's sort of the
process keeps feeding itself, and what happens they eat themselves.
They basically say, okay, our here's our plan for the years.
We're we're going to do ten things, five things, whatever
the number is, and then you stick with it. Unfortunately,
the numbers are so small. Both the sun and the
House that a defection of five six seats anywhere changes
(24:47):
the tenement dramatically.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, can you explain to us this crazy phenomenon of
these new Democratic candidates. They're all coops, you know, like
mom Donnie. Well, this woman in Tennessee, she doesn't like
country music and she's at her districts in Nashville. I mean,
how did the Democrat ends up with these kooky people?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well, I've seen her on TV. I don't know her
at all, but she's she's pretty pretty charismatic, and I
think that's part of it. They say what they say,
what they want, they say what they think they want,
and it's pretty much running against Republicans running against Trump
as much promoting themselves. Obviously, Mondabi was different, but bon
Dabi didn't run on his own record. Nabi, and we
(25:26):
didn't do a very good job with laying out what
he really is. He really is a socialist comments whatever
term you want to use. It's all what the vast
majority of New York is or how the vast majority
of people in the country are.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, but mon done the same thing on paper, the
worst candidate in the world. But you're right, he's charismatic
on TV and online social and media and the.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Way things are now, you know, has their own independent
way of getting their news. They don't they don't watch
television walks they used to. They don't watch the news shows.
And you know the reality years that people go on
and they're charismatic and they say, oh, no, I'm just
against Trump. Trump's doing all these bad things. I'm going
to change that. And whether he is or is and
is not always relevant. It's the perception. And the perception
(26:08):
right now is there's too many fights going on. You
can't be fighting with Navy seals. He can't be fighting
with the astronauts. Get the job done. And the president
needs to focus on that in the White House states
to focus on that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So you can have the worst reckor in the world.
But as long as you're charismatic, does that mean Gavin
Newsom has a great shot in twenty twenty eight he has.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
He should not even be in the game. This guy
has been recalled to be called as the worst record
of anybody in California and modern history of the state's
in terrible, terrible shape, and yet he's in the elections.
He Couplic School get a fifty four percent of brewery
on Californians. So he's certainly got a base to run on,
(26:54):
and he's not going to run on his record. He's
going to run on against against Trump. In my sense,
that's with all these it's all going to be against Trump,
and Trump basically has got to be very discipline in
his message. He's got the strongest party he's ever anybody's
ever had, but they're going to start up evacuating if
they don't see him turning this back around it. It's
all about the economy, all about the economy. The rest
(27:16):
of it is.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What does that mean discipline in his message? You mean
talk less, don't tweet every two seconds, do a little.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Less, don't tweet every two seconds, and don't let everybody
else talk. Basically, pick who you're going to have out
there doing what's the message of the day. If the
message of the day right today is we care about
what happens to these you know the guy's gonna shout
out on the boat, that's a story, and then have
your message down, stay on the message. Don't let people
want and there's too many people that are independent and
(27:46):
know what you're going to say. I've always ard with
his strategy clients or whether it's political lines, write it out.
Here's what we're going to say, here's how long we're
going to say it. Here's where the kinds of the
shows are going to go on and make sure that
everybody's hearing from us the same message. You're not fifteen
different messages.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, but you know, when you get a private sector
billionaire running, well, you had, you ran the Ross Pero campaign,
the private sector billionaire business guy. It's hard to tell
them things, isn't it. They don't listen, do they.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
They don't listen. They don't listen. I finally said it
Pero one day. So you're just trying to run a
traditional campaign. I said, no, I'm not just trying to
run a campaign tradition.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
But they became billionaires, so they must know something.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Right, They do know something, and they should stay on
the line where they know something. That's good. Let let
people understand politics and communications do that. Yeah, so you're communicating,
You're every day, every day, You're out communicating your message
every day in your basics, talking about the things that
matter to you, anything matter to your viewers. If all
of a sudden tomorrow you are going out there and
saying you know, we just got of like to the
greatest mayor in the world in New York. Let's get
(28:49):
them a shot. Your ears will start clicking off. That
switches best. Yeah, you got to stay consistent in your
message who you are and what you are.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah. But but you know, even like the take the Venezuela,
the boats people are basically common sense. Don't they realize, Hey,
these guys are defending drug dealers. Well, we can't defend
the drug cartels.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
We haven't. We haven't proved the case yet. We need
to go prove the case. And I would argue at
this point in time, this is serious. If they if
they charge the Secretary of Defense whenever he wants to
call as you call the world ward. But at the
end of the day, he's not a very good communicator.
He may not be a very good Secretary of Defense.
He may have made a big mistake here. And for
some reason, when it's been the Christmas holidays talking about
(29:30):
that we've murdered two guys hang on the side of
a boat. We think they were trying to do is
we don't know that for sure? And the Congress is
calling for hearings. He's got to cooperate with the hearings.
What are you gonna do, Sit down and get a strategy,
get a plan. There's no strategy in this White house
right now.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
All right, Well, good stuff, Ed Rollins, always great talking you.
Thanks for the great analysis. Keep up the good work,
and we'll talk against him. Take care or interesting stuff. Yeah. Hey,
we've got a lot to I get to throughout the day,
all sorts of stuff to cover. We didn't get to
(30:05):
the Tim Waltz fraud either. That is pretty amazing, that fraud,
Tim Waltz. You know, this happens with these democrats. Look
at de Blasio when he was in office with his
wife's crazy program Thrive NYC, which were these crazy centers,
was like yoga for the homeless. Somehow a billion dollars
(30:26):
got put into that and then went missing. The billion
dollars disappeared. To this day, nobody knows where it went.
And by the way, the program itself never opened. The
single center never got a single program done, still hasn't
to this day. The billion disappeared. That's what happens when
you get these democratic socialists. Now look at the Minnesota
(30:46):
where you got Tim Waltz in charge, same exact sort
of thing. It also happens to be a billion dollars
went missing. A bunch of crazy programs in Minnesota, same
kind of left wing cook nonsense programs. The billion dollars
is missing. Tim Waltz cannot seem to explain for a
second what happened to the money, will not even take
(31:07):
responsibility for it. People have asked him over and over
and over again. He can't explain it. Same thing happened
with the Blasia. Luckily it's he's a left wing guy.
They don't push him to our bit.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
Waltz, do you.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically, we have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a place he.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Goes on and on. It's basically a no no. He
will not take responsibility for it. Hey, I don't forget
Tonight at nine excellent news show Jimmy Fayala, very funny,
interesting show every night nine o'clock. Here on seven to ten, woor.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
News breaks out in every show.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Mark Simone on sevent ten.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Warn well, I'll be on Hudlow later today on the
Fox Business Network around four point thirty. It looks like
it's gonna keep raining. It's gonna keep raining probably till
about seven eight o'clock tonight. So hey, it's Giving Tuesday. Look,
it's enough with this stuff. I don't want to be
(32:14):
told what to do every day. They're telling you it's
Black Friday, you got to go shop today. Next day,
small business Saturday. You told what to do, and now
you gotta go to a small business. It's cyber Monday.
It's Giving Tuesday. You know what, I'll give whatever day
I want. I go online every day and buy something
on Amazon. It's always cyber day. Stop telling us what
(32:36):
to do. They've got to stop with this. It's Giving Tuesday.
It's great that you should give to charity any day
you want. It doesn't have to be today. It doesn't
have to be Tuesday. So the lighting the tree tomorrow night,
whether it should be better, then that's good news. Apple
is now the biggest selling I've a big selling phone
(32:56):
in the world. Samsung was the number one phone. Androids
were than iphoned for the first time, past sales of
androids and iPhone now the biggest selling phone in the world.
Remind me tomorrow we'll get to the You know they
got the folding Samsung. Well, now there's the trifold. It
folds into three panels. Anyway, we'll get to that tomorrow.
(33:18):
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