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Jan in Long Island, NY, called Mark to discuss a great book the late great Chzrlie Kirk wrote about speaking politics on college campuses. Shannon in Bellmore, NY, wants to know why President Trump released the Honduran drug lord.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
His job, make it all make sense.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
He's marks amone on seventor. 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. How you doing.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm doing fine. How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let me check? Not bad?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Okay. I'm glad to hear as 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 only I think it's only a couple of
years old or something like that. And all of a sudden,

(00:45):
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 (00:54):
Well, it's an 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.
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 3 (01:14):
No, I've been hearing that on the radio, but this
was in a book by Charlie kirk All.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
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,
they'll put you to work the next day. They'll get

(01:42):
your job right away. Let's go to Shannon in Belmore. Shannon,
how you doing.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Good morning, Mark. I wonder if you could tell me
what was behind Trump willing to release the Honduran drug lord.
I can't under stand that.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh, well, you're gonna see a lot of he just
pardoned a little while ago a lawmaker in Texas was
convicted of bribery. Uh. Sometimes he just thinks the guy
did enough punishment a part, But a lot of times
it's somebody a donor or a big member of Congress,
who calls you and asks you for this as a favor.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So you know, uh, money was involved.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, not with Trump, but it's a favor to somebody.
You need to do a favor. Ford, 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

(02:45):
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

(03:07):
got somebody in this district, that's usually the case, somebody
in their district they need a pardon. And this happens
with the Democrat Republican presidents. I need to get this
guy pardon. Now. They then weigh it, 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,

(03:28):
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.

(03:49):
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 Clintons, massive donors,
so they want to her 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.

(04:11):
Everybody refused to sign off. They finally found one guy
who was willing to sign that pardon. It was a
junior guy named Eric Holder. Who was later rewarded with
the Attorney General. Hey, when we come back, Ann Coulter
will be with us next. Lots to talk to her
about coming up in a moment on seven to ten
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