Mark interviews journalist Liz Peek.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to meet with President Trump soon to discuss the future of NYC - a conversation that could help ease tensions between them. There is speculation about whether Governor Kathy Hochul will lose a reelection bid due to pressure from Mamdani's progressive policies.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
He's more marks, So mark'simone show on seventeen wor Well.
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besides all the TV. You can also check out her websites.
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great stories every day, lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak dot com.

(00:23):
Check it out, Liz Peak.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
How you doing, good morning, I'm terrific. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
How about you? I'm good. Let's see President Trump says
he will meet with Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie says he'll
go to Washington meet with him. How do you think
that would go?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Look, I think that's actually a good idea on both
of their parts. To have New York City basically be
orphaned or estranged from the mothership, the federal mothership doesn't
really help anybody, right. I can't imagine that Mom Donnie
and Donald Trump will have much in common or much
common ground, let's put it that way. But I think

(01:02):
it's a good idea. And look, it's one of the
first things that this radical thirty four year old anti
Semite has said that makes them sound like a slightly
normal person. So that's very welcome, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
They do have something in common. They're both were of
these outsiders who came in and just crushed these political
dynasties and beat them. Do you think you know Trump
could be good one on one sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yes he can, Yes he can. But Mark, yes, I've
seen this idea before that they have in common, that
they're outsiders. Let's remember that Donald Trump had decades of
actual work experience, actually built things, created wealth, and in
the process, let's face that, worked with a lot of

(01:49):
city governments and municipalities and state governments in trying to
get various projects underway, get them completed, et cetera. Mom
Donnie has zero of any value whatsoever. All he has
is a big smile, uh, and you know, a resume
as a community activist. I don't put them in the

(02:09):
same boat at all.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, you know, no, it sounds perfect. You know, there's
a lot of other mom Donnie's out there getting ready
to go. And there's a couple other cities where they
got a Mom Donnie type, somebody with no work experience,
lives in their parents' basement running and Bill Mahra's a
Friday night is warning the Democrats stop with this stuff.
But where are the elder Democrats the party elders, where

(02:33):
are they on this?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's It's astounding, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
We had Julian Epstein on the Democrats strategists this morning
on Mornings with Maria and as he said, Trump occupies
the middle. Now that's what that's what's making Democrats crazy.
That is why they have gone so far to the left.
And I've said this for months. I mean, if Trump
is in the middle on taxes, regulation, energy policy, immigration,

(03:02):
gender issues, et cetera, where does that leave the Democrats.
It either leaves them basically working with Trump, which they
refuse to do because they've conjured up such hatred of
this president that they cannot be seen as collaborators, if
you will, or it drives some extreme left policies, which again,

(03:24):
and that says what I've Stein said too. It may
work in New York, it may work in Seattle or
San Francisco. They're not going to work in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa,
these states where Frankly, house seats are up for grabs
in purple districts, I mean, are they really and in
those parts of the country, are they going to want

(03:45):
to elect a socialist? I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Even at Kathy Huckel. She said, you'd assume she's the
middle of the road type, and she's the governor that's
bigger than the mayor. How does she get so intimidated
by this Mum Donnie that she seems to want to
go along with his nonsense.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's it's just it's not just Kathy Hokeel. It's every
New York Democrat right now is being primaried by someone
on the left, and that includes Kathy Hochel. Her Lieutenant
Governor Antonio Delgado, who no one's ever heard of, may
end up giving her a real fight because Mam Donnie

(04:24):
likes him. They've you know, they've been campaigning together, and
he's far left like Mam Donnie. Kathy Hochel is in
a terrible position because idiotically she gave von Donnie her endorsement,
so she basically alienated all moderate Democrats in her party.
And now if she basically says, well, I endorsed him,

(04:44):
but I'm not going to really go along with any
of his program, what does that make her out to be?
What makes her out to be a completely insincere political animal,
which is exactly what she is. So she will blow
with the wind. She is a book governor, and frankly,
I think Elis Fronk has a very good chance of

(05:04):
beating her if she's the candidate. I'm not sure she
will be the candidate, but we'll see. I mean, she
doesn't have a backbone mark and right now you need
some senior Democrats with backbones, who are moderates, who can
call out a socialist for being bad for the country, frankly,
like Bill Maher is doing. I mean, who would have

(05:24):
funk it. He's the guy that's saying to a pretty
big audience, socialism doesn't work. This is what he just
said over the weekend, I guess or Friday. Socialism doesn't work.
It has failed every place that's been tried. Look at Venezuela,
formerly one of the richest countries on Earth, now one
of the poorest in South America. You know, just common sense, folks,

(05:47):
and history, things that apparently are not in great supply
on the left right now.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Hey, litsz pick if you're watching the Sunday shows, Oh
you hear about? Is this affordability crisis? What an affordability crisis?
How come during Biden when inflation was nine percent, I
never heard a word about this affordability crisis.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Why now, Yeah, it's rich, isn't it. I think Democrats
fastened on this only after mom Donnie did so kudos
to him for giving them sort of a lifeline here.
And yeah, things are expensive, mainly because they went up.
Eighty seven percent of the increase in prices over the
last five years came under Joe Biden. And yet to

(06:26):
your point, that was mostly ignored by the mainstream media.
But it is pretty rich because if you look at
the top ten cities in terms of cost of living,
they are all run and have been run for decades
by Democrats. Democrats brand mark is high costs, high taxes,
high regulatory burdens, high union labor costs, you name it.

(06:50):
They are imposing enormously high costs on the general public
and have for a decade or more. And then you
add on to this layer of green energy, which is
also expensive, and you know, you have a recipe for
extremely inflated cost of living. And to try and tag

(07:11):
that on Republicans where we are talking lower taxes, lower regulation,
fewer impediments to building, which by the way, means better
building costs because time is money and construction, you know,
It is just astounding that they have been able to
hijack this issue. We can't let that stand.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Very good point. Yeah, the affordability crisis seems to only
be taking place in blue cities and states. So yeah, well, yes,
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Speaker 2 (08:11):
With us, Thank you, Mark for having me. Always just
a pleasure.

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