October 9, 2025 • 15 mins
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the 1st phase of a peace deal put in place by President Trump to release Israeli hostages.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here comes the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Wr Hey, it's a Thursday. We got a lot to
get to, big, big, big deal in the peace deal
in the Mideast. We'll get to that, the Nobel Prize,
We'll get to the Yankees, We'll get to the stock market.
We'll get to the New Jersey debate. Last night, people
think Mikey Cheryl has seen some real trouble in the
(00:28):
internal polls. She seemed to change her tone and change
a lot of stuff for last night's debate. And the
same thing for Cuomo. He's getting desperate. There was a
major shocking flip flop from Cuomo. We'll get to that
coming up. And well, let's start with Israel the Middle East.
(00:48):
The peace deal looks like it's done. It looks like
it'll get signed over the weekend. President Trump planning to
go to Egypt to sign this bill.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I may go there sometime towards the end of the week,
maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see. But there's a
very good chance to Negotiations are going along very well.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It looks like it's done. Hamas will release the hostages.
They'll start with the living hostages, believed to be about twenty.
They'll release them immediately. They'll release the remaining hostages, the
bodies of the other hostages. Israel's going to give up
something like nineteen hundred prisoners. All right, that's not great,
but you got to do that. The deal looks pretty good.
(01:36):
President Trump. Tomorrow's Friday, he goes to get his annual
physical Walter Reed Medical Center, and then after that is
expected to head to the Middle East Saturday or Sunday.
It's an amazing accomplishment. It's certainly worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Even in Gaza. Even in Gaza they're cheering him on
the streets of Gaza and screaming Nobel Prize for Trump
(02:00):
can't get it because the Nobel Prize is a totally
corrupt award. It's the most slanted partisan, a left wing
liberal award. If you look at the list of who
was denied a Nobel Prize, it's amazing, from Gandhi to
all sorts of people. But if you go to the
Nobel Prize for literature, some of the greatest figures in
(02:21):
literature were denied the Nobel Prize, from Mark Twain to Tolstoy,
to It's an endless list, and it was always because
they weren't they weren't liberal enough, they didn't like their politics.
It's the most political award in the world, and the
most fascinating thing about it is to this day the
Nobel Prize has this incredible reputation, totally undeserved. It's just
(02:44):
a wacky partisan award, yet they still have this prestige
the Nobel Prize. You know, the worst economist in the
history of the world was Paul Krugman the New York Times,
that bug eyed weirdo who got everything wrong. Every prediction, forecast,
everything he ever wrote turned out to be totally wrong.
(03:05):
He has the Nobel Prize for economics. So you remember
when they were trying to go after Trump and they
put out a letter from this signed by thirteen Nobel
Prize winners. Well, right there, you knew it was a
slanted partisan the word. Yet somehow, you know, a lot
of people's minds, it has this prestigious reputation. So the
Nobel Prize comes out tomorrow. There's no chance of Trump
(03:27):
getting it because he's not left wing wacko. Also, I
would assume it's coming out tomorrow. This was decided long ago.
They're not picking the winner tonight. So it comes out tonight.
Tomorrow will be the announcement. It means absolutely nothing. It's
the silliest towards but the Israel peace Deal unbelievable. And
(03:48):
you know when you talk about the art of the deal,
and sometimes Democrats will say, well, where's the great negotiator? Well,
here it was, Here it was, and there's nobody savvier
at this stuff, and Benjamin Netanyahu gets somehow Trump got
leverage over net and Yahoo and strategically carefully over the
last few weeks and months, somehow it kind of boxed
(04:08):
him in a little, so he went along with this.
Sometimes it's just luck in some of these deals. But
even Democrats looking at this privately saying this was all skill,
not luck, And a lot of credit goes to Jared Kushner,
normally useless when it comes to the White House, but here,
this is what he was meant to do. This is
where he excelled. Steve Whitkoff the same, and Trump pointing
(04:31):
out Mike Huckabee was a big, big part of this process.
Hu could be the ambassador to Israel. You wouldn't think
he would be so Israel savvy, but he's spent a
lot of time there over the years. It's something that
means a lot to him. So he was great at this.
So that will that will happen most likely over the
weekend hostages. First release of the release of all the
(04:53):
living hostages expected on Monday. So you got this fat
slob governor of the Illinois Pritzker, This Ralph Cramdon looking guy,
huffing and puffing. What it's all about? Really, he wants
to be a twenty twenty eight candidate. He has no
shot at all because he has no personality, nothing, nothing
(05:17):
interesting about him. He's kind of a troll like to
look at. So he's got no shot at all, especially
against a Gavin Newsom or other slick, smart candidates with personality.
He's got no shot at all. But he's trying to
get there, and he thinks by being the biggest Trump
fighter in the world. He's a little nutty when he
gets into Trump fighting. Remember the convention. He got up
(05:40):
there and he said he opened with and he got
huge applause. He said he's going to talk about Trump.
He said, time out of here from a real billionaire,
and the audience applauded, implying Trump's not a real billionaire. Well,
at the time, Pritzker worth about one billion, Trump worth
about seven billions. I don't know what the hell he's
talking about. And then here he is yesterday. But he
(06:01):
just doesn't want He wants to keep that crime in Chicago.
There's a lot of killing. It's a killing field. Thirty
five forty people shot every weekend in Chicago. He wants
to keep it that way. He's demented, literally unhinged.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And this is somebody who's so insecure that he lashes out,
pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
He isn't going to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Taco Trump always chickens out. It's back to taco. I
think I think that's kind of been proven wrong. Now
Pritzker keeps arguing, you cannot send troops national Guard or military.
You can't send troops into an American city state. The
federal government can never do that. And if they do that,
(06:47):
it's the worst violation of the cont it's the total
end of democracy. You cannot do that. Well, of course
you can, and it's been done before in riots in
all sorts of situations. Nineteen sixty seven, Ryot Johnson said,
troops into cities done all the time. I'll give you
the best example was John F. Kennedy. Back then, it
(07:08):
was horrible, horrible segregation, and black students couldn't go to
college in Mississippi and Georgia and Atlanta. You remember of
those governors, those awful governors, Lester Maddocks and George Wallace
and others who would stand in the doorway of the
school blocking it so black kids couldn't attend college. Well,
Kennedy sent troops in lots and lots and lots of
(07:30):
troops to integrate those colleges. It was a big deal
in nineteen sixty one, sixty two, massive amounts of troops
sent in. Now, of course it was Kennedy. He's a Democrat,
so there was nothing but applause. And he was a hero.
And these same Democrats told you this is the most heroic,
wonderful thing any president's ever done. But now, if the
president sends in troops, it's the end of our democracy.
(07:53):
It's a crime, it's a but again, the incredible hypocrisy
democrats are famous for. So hey, they had that mayoral
forum yesterday at the New York Athletic Club, the beautiful,
prestigious New York Athletic Club, one of the city's finest
private clubs. And it was private. But we're starting to
(08:15):
see some of the video and we're starting to hear
from some of the people that weren't there. And it
was all business leaders. All these business leaders, a lot
of them basically said, when it came to Mom Donnie,
it was a lot of double talk. It was dancing
around the questions, skated through generalities. One person said, went
(08:37):
out of his way to slam President Trump over and
over again. Other attendees said, listen, he had tremendous energy
and youth, but nothing of substance. There was no substance,
and it didn't make us feel like he could do
the job. Curtis, they liked, They said he In some
cases there were surprise he had such detailed knowledges of
(08:59):
economic He's been working with great, great economic team Larry
Kudlow and others advising him. They said, yeah, he was.
There was a lot of clarity on how he would
deal with crime and all that. So they like Curtis.
Now when it comes to Cuomo, now, this crowd was
(09:19):
a lot of Democrats, and it wasn't so much what
Cuomo was saying, but a number of people in the
crowd said they were quite surprised, quite shocked. They hadn't
seen him speak in person in a long long time.
They said, there was a little shocked. He looked very old,
he lacked energy. Here's one said, I hadn't seen him
in a while, and I was quite disturbed by it.
(09:41):
Another attendee found Cuomo living in the past, seemed to
be more focused on things in the past than talking
about the future. Other comments, here's this Catherine Wilde, she
warns this business partnership. She's a real wacko. She's praising
a Zora and Mamdani. I rest my case, total whacka
(10:02):
Mamdonnie's positions have become more substantive and realistic. No need
to read the rest of her statement. She's a nutty character. Uh,
Andrew Cuomo shocked everybody with a major flip flop. Years ago.
You remember about was it five six years ago? There
was this whole thing about closing Rikers Island. Rikers Island
(10:26):
is the big prison that's on an island. It's Rikers Island.
It's the perfect place for a prison. It's on an island.
You're gonna have a more secure location. And it's a
very big island. There's enormous space there. Rikers Island is
a number of buildings. You couldn't ask for a better
set up for a prison. Lots of buildings, there's room
to build more buildings, all sorts of stuff. All of
(10:47):
a sudden, there was a proposal to close down Rikers Island. Well,
what are you gonna do for a prison? Well, they'll
build five other prisons. They'll build one in each borough,
which didn't seem to make any sense. It would make
more sense they have one big central prison. And why
would you put a prison into each neighborhood in different boroughs?
Who in Queen's wants the prison in their neighborhood? Why
(11:10):
would anybody in the Bronx want a prison in their neighborhood.
Why would it? Was a ridiculous idea. Where did it
come from? By the way, Cuomo, this is what he
was talking about yesterday. He says, we got to stop
this plan to close Rikers Island. It's crazy to close
Rikers Island. It's wacko. Why would you do it? We
(11:30):
must stop this plan. Well, here's the problem. It was
his plan. He's the one that proposed it. He's the
one that started it. So a lot of people think
he saw some internal polling that was frightening him, that
he's got absolutely no shot with Democrats. Democrats just don't
like him. That's how he got wiped out in the primary.
(11:51):
So they think he's trying now to appeal to moderates, independents, Republicans.
But here's the guy who was the guy that came
up with this plan to close Rikers Island. Now he's
against it.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
We should rebuild new, state of the art jails on
Rikers Island, provide free bus service, and use those existing
sites for housing and commercial development.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, everybody said that all along. You're the one that
wanted to close it.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Let's make a major start by stopping a major debacle,
which is the new jail construction to replace Rikers Island.
The writing is on the wall. It promises to be
New York City's big Ditch. It is already years late,
big is over budget and obsolete.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Geez talking about how horrible it is. It's his plan,
it was his idea, it's his plan. He's the one
that did it. It's an incredible flip flop. Now I
should point out there's another factor to this, because you say, well,
what if you got the big prison and you don't
need the other five, and it's on an island, no
place more secure, why would you ever want to close it?
(13:01):
Why would you ever want to move it? Well, a
lot of people think the real reason is there were
big developers that wanted that island. They wanted to build condos,
They want to put casinos, want they had all kinds
of plans and they were making massive donations to politicians
to get Rikers Island turned over to them because it's
(13:23):
the only major island around Manhattan that has a nice,
big bridge. You could drive right to it, you know,
Governor's Island. When they took the military base away. They
tried to sell Governor's Island to developers, condos, apartment but
nobody wanted it because you can't drive there, you'd have
to take a ferry. They tried to sell it to
a casino operators, MGM Grand and others all turned it down.
(13:47):
They can't have high rollers taking a ferry. They wanted
it didn't have a bridge. Rikers Onland the only island
with a bridge, and it's big, and it's kind of bridge.
So that's the real reason a lot of people think Cuomo,
de Blasio and the rest, we're all trying to come
up with this island to hand it over to developers.
But big, big, big flip flop for Cuomo. Here's Mom
(14:08):
Donnie on all of this.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Andrew Cuomo's proposal to take that which is broken, that
which is morally bankrupt, that which is a stain on
our city, and to keep it open. It's a betrayal
(14:29):
not only of the law as it stands today, but
also of what New Yorkers actually want.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Now you'll notice Mom Donnie, who was always a very
fast talker. Mom Donny always talked a mile a minute.
You notice Mom Donny is now talking slow. Now Cuomo
always does that, But Coloma's not that bright. Mom Donnie's
very sharp. Why is he's suddenly talking so slow. People
think he's getting very nervous in the last four weeks,
very worried about making a flub or saying the wrong thing.
(14:56):
He's being very careful when he speaks. It's New York City,
and New York City's famous for nayoral races, where the
whole thing can turn around in the last four or
five weeks. It's happened before. Here's Curtis on all this.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In twenty nineteen, he has a press conference, we must
close Reich his island. Two weeks ago he once again
reiterated he should have been closed a long time ago.
Where would he have put the inmates back then? You
can't trust Cuomo. He's the flip flop guy.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
He is quite a flip flopper, and you gotta give
him credit the gall of this guy. I got pathological huts,
but just flip flop on this thing. Anyway. We'll get
to the New Jersey governor's race. They had the final
debate last night. We got a lot to get to
coming up. We'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
(15:46):
three two one zero seven ten
Fly from Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here comes the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Wr Hey, it's a Thursday. We got a lot to
get to, big, big, big deal in the peace deal
in the Mideast. We'll get to that, the Nobel Prize,
We'll get to the Yankees, We'll get to the stock market.
We'll get to the New Jersey debate. Last night, people
think Mikey Cheryl has seen some real trouble in the
(00:28):
internal polls. She seemed to change her tone and change
a lot of stuff for last night's debate. And the
same thing for Cuomo. He's getting desperate. There was a
major shocking flip flop from Cuomo. We'll get to that
coming up. And well, let's start with Israel the Middle East.
(00:48):
The peace deal looks like it's done. It looks like
it'll get signed over the weekend. President Trump planning to
go to Egypt to sign this bill.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I may go there sometime towards the end of the week,
maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see. But there's a
very good chance to Negotiations are going along very well.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It looks like it's done. Hamas will release the hostages.
They'll start with the living hostages, believed to be about twenty.
They'll release them immediately. They'll release the remaining hostages, the
bodies of the other hostages. Israel's going to give up
something like nineteen hundred prisoners. All right, that's not great,
but you got to do that. The deal looks pretty good.
(01:36):
President Trump. Tomorrow's Friday, he goes to get his annual
physical Walter Reed Medical Center, and then after that is
expected to head to the Middle East Saturday or Sunday.
It's an amazing accomplishment. It's certainly worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Even in Gaza. Even in Gaza they're cheering him on
the streets of Gaza and screaming Nobel Prize for Trump
(02:00):
can't get it because the Nobel Prize is a totally
corrupt award. It's the most slanted partisan, a left wing
liberal award. If you look at the list of who
was denied a Nobel Prize, it's amazing, from Gandhi to
all sorts of people. But if you go to the
Nobel Prize for literature, some of the greatest figures in
(02:21):
literature were denied the Nobel Prize, from Mark Twain to Tolstoy,
to It's an endless list, and it was always because
they weren't they weren't liberal enough, they didn't like their politics.
It's the most political award in the world, and the
most fascinating thing about it is to this day the
Nobel Prize has this incredible reputation, totally undeserved. It's just
(02:44):
a wacky partisan award, yet they still have this prestige
the Nobel Prize. You know, the worst economist in the
history of the world was Paul Krugman the New York Times,
that bug eyed weirdo who got everything wrong. Every prediction, forecast,
everything he ever wrote turned out to be totally wrong.
(03:05):
He has the Nobel Prize for economics. So you remember
when they were trying to go after Trump and they
put out a letter from this signed by thirteen Nobel
Prize winners. Well, right there, you knew it was a
slanted partisan the word. Yet somehow, you know, a lot
of people's minds, it has this prestigious reputation. So the
Nobel Prize comes out tomorrow. There's no chance of Trump
(03:27):
getting it because he's not left wing wacko. Also, I
would assume it's coming out tomorrow. This was decided long ago.
They're not picking the winner tonight. So it comes out tonight.
Tomorrow will be the announcement. It means absolutely nothing. It's
the silliest towards but the Israel peace Deal unbelievable. And
(03:48):
you know when you talk about the art of the deal,
and sometimes Democrats will say, well, where's the great negotiator? Well,
here it was, Here it was, and there's nobody savvier
at this stuff, and Benjamin Netanyahu gets somehow Trump got
leverage over net and Yahoo and strategically carefully over the
last few weeks and months, somehow it kind of boxed
(04:08):
him in a little, so he went along with this.
Sometimes it's just luck in some of these deals. But
even Democrats looking at this privately saying this was all skill,
not luck, And a lot of credit goes to Jared Kushner,
normally useless when it comes to the White House, but here,
this is what he was meant to do. This is
where he excelled. Steve Whitkoff the same, and Trump pointing
(04:31):
out Mike Huckabee was a big, big part of this process.
Hu could be the ambassador to Israel. You wouldn't think
he would be so Israel savvy, but he's spent a
lot of time there over the years. It's something that
means a lot to him. So he was great at this.
So that will that will happen most likely over the
weekend hostages. First release of the release of all the
(04:53):
living hostages expected on Monday. So you got this fat
slob governor of the Illinois Pritzker, This Ralph Cramdon looking guy,
huffing and puffing. What it's all about? Really, he wants
to be a twenty twenty eight candidate. He has no
shot at all because he has no personality, nothing, nothing
(05:17):
interesting about him. He's kind of a troll like to
look at. So he's got no shot at all, especially
against a Gavin Newsom or other slick, smart candidates with personality.
He's got no shot at all. But he's trying to
get there, and he thinks by being the biggest Trump
fighter in the world. He's a little nutty when he
gets into Trump fighting. Remember the convention. He got up
(05:40):
there and he said he opened with and he got
huge applause. He said he's going to talk about Trump.
He said, time out of here from a real billionaire,
and the audience applauded, implying Trump's not a real billionaire. Well,
at the time, Pritzker worth about one billion, Trump worth
about seven billions. I don't know what the hell he's
talking about. And then here he is yesterday. But he
(06:01):
just doesn't want He wants to keep that crime in Chicago.
There's a lot of killing. It's a killing field. Thirty
five forty people shot every weekend in Chicago. He wants
to keep it that way. He's demented, literally unhinged.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And this is somebody who's so insecure that he lashes out,
pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
He isn't going to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Taco Trump always chickens out. It's back to taco. I
think I think that's kind of been proven wrong. Now
Pritzker keeps arguing, you cannot send troops national Guard or military.
You can't send troops into an American city state. The
federal government can never do that. And if they do that,
(06:47):
it's the worst violation of the cont it's the total
end of democracy. You cannot do that. Well, of course
you can, and it's been done before in riots in
all sorts of situations. Nineteen sixty seven, Ryot Johnson said,
troops into cities done all the time. I'll give you
the best example was John F. Kennedy. Back then, it
(07:08):
was horrible, horrible segregation, and black students couldn't go to
college in Mississippi and Georgia and Atlanta. You remember of
those governors, those awful governors, Lester Maddocks and George Wallace
and others who would stand in the doorway of the
school blocking it so black kids couldn't attend college. Well,
Kennedy sent troops in lots and lots and lots of
(07:30):
troops to integrate those colleges. It was a big deal
in nineteen sixty one, sixty two, massive amounts of troops
sent in. Now, of course it was Kennedy. He's a Democrat,
so there was nothing but applause. And he was a hero.
And these same Democrats told you this is the most heroic,
wonderful thing any president's ever done. But now, if the
president sends in troops, it's the end of our democracy.
(07:53):
It's a crime, it's a but again, the incredible hypocrisy
democrats are famous for. So hey, they had that mayoral
forum yesterday at the New York Athletic Club, the beautiful,
prestigious New York Athletic Club, one of the city's finest
private clubs. And it was private. But we're starting to
(08:15):
see some of the video and we're starting to hear
from some of the people that weren't there. And it
was all business leaders. All these business leaders, a lot
of them basically said, when it came to Mom Donnie,
it was a lot of double talk. It was dancing
around the questions, skated through generalities. One person said, went
(08:37):
out of his way to slam President Trump over and
over again. Other attendees said, listen, he had tremendous energy
and youth, but nothing of substance. There was no substance,
and it didn't make us feel like he could do
the job. Curtis, they liked, They said he In some
cases there were surprise he had such detailed knowledges of
(08:59):
economic He's been working with great, great economic team Larry
Kudlow and others advising him. They said, yeah, he was.
There was a lot of clarity on how he would
deal with crime and all that. So they like Curtis.
Now when it comes to Cuomo, now, this crowd was
(09:19):
a lot of Democrats, and it wasn't so much what
Cuomo was saying, but a number of people in the
crowd said they were quite surprised, quite shocked. They hadn't
seen him speak in person in a long long time.
They said, there was a little shocked. He looked very old,
he lacked energy. Here's one said, I hadn't seen him
in a while, and I was quite disturbed by it.
(09:41):
Another attendee found Cuomo living in the past, seemed to
be more focused on things in the past than talking
about the future. Other comments, here's this Catherine Wilde, she
warns this business partnership. She's a real wacko. She's praising
a Zora and Mamdani. I rest my case, total whacka
(10:02):
Mamdonnie's positions have become more substantive and realistic. No need
to read the rest of her statement. She's a nutty character. Uh,
Andrew Cuomo shocked everybody with a major flip flop. Years ago.
You remember about was it five six years ago? There
was this whole thing about closing Rikers Island. Rikers Island
(10:26):
is the big prison that's on an island. It's Rikers Island.
It's the perfect place for a prison. It's on an island.
You're gonna have a more secure location. And it's a
very big island. There's enormous space there. Rikers Island is
a number of buildings. You couldn't ask for a better
set up for a prison. Lots of buildings, there's room
to build more buildings, all sorts of stuff. All of
(10:47):
a sudden, there was a proposal to close down Rikers Island. Well,
what are you gonna do for a prison? Well, they'll
build five other prisons. They'll build one in each borough,
which didn't seem to make any sense. It would make
more sense they have one big central prison. And why
would you put a prison into each neighborhood in different boroughs?
Who in Queen's wants the prison in their neighborhood? Why
(11:10):
would anybody in the Bronx want a prison in their neighborhood.
Why would it? Was a ridiculous idea. Where did it
come from? By the way, Cuomo, this is what he
was talking about yesterday. He says, we got to stop
this plan to close Rikers Island. It's crazy to close
Rikers Island. It's wacko. Why would you do it? We
(11:30):
must stop this plan. Well, here's the problem. It was
his plan. He's the one that proposed it. He's the
one that started it. So a lot of people think
he saw some internal polling that was frightening him, that
he's got absolutely no shot with Democrats. Democrats just don't
like him. That's how he got wiped out in the primary.
(11:51):
So they think he's trying now to appeal to moderates, independents, Republicans.
But here's the guy who was the guy that came
up with this plan to close Rikers Island. Now he's
against it.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
We should rebuild new, state of the art jails on
Rikers Island, provide free bus service, and use those existing
sites for housing and commercial development.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, everybody said that all along. You're the one that
wanted to close it.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Let's make a major start by stopping a major debacle,
which is the new jail construction to replace Rikers Island.
The writing is on the wall. It promises to be
New York City's big Ditch. It is already years late,
big is over budget and obsolete.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Geez talking about how horrible it is. It's his plan,
it was his idea, it's his plan. He's the one
that did it. It's an incredible flip flop. Now I
should point out there's another factor to this, because you say, well,
what if you got the big prison and you don't
need the other five, and it's on an island, no
place more secure, why would you ever want to close it?
(13:01):
Why would you ever want to move it? Well, a
lot of people think the real reason is there were
big developers that wanted that island. They wanted to build condos,
They want to put casinos, want they had all kinds
of plans and they were making massive donations to politicians
to get Rikers Island turned over to them because it's
(13:23):
the only major island around Manhattan that has a nice,
big bridge. You could drive right to it, you know,
Governor's Island. When they took the military base away. They
tried to sell Governor's Island to developers, condos, apartment but
nobody wanted it because you can't drive there, you'd have
to take a ferry. They tried to sell it to
a casino operators, MGM Grand and others all turned it down.
(13:47):
They can't have high rollers taking a ferry. They wanted
it didn't have a bridge. Rikers Onland the only island
with a bridge, and it's big, and it's kind of bridge.
So that's the real reason a lot of people think Cuomo,
de Blasio and the rest, we're all trying to come
up with this island to hand it over to developers.
But big, big, big flip flop for Cuomo. Here's Mom
(14:08):
Donnie on all of this.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Andrew Cuomo's proposal to take that which is broken, that
which is morally bankrupt, that which is a stain on
our city, and to keep it open. It's a betrayal
(14:29):
not only of the law as it stands today, but
also of what New Yorkers actually want.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Now you'll notice Mom Donnie, who was always a very
fast talker. Mom Donny always talked a mile a minute.
You notice Mom Donny is now talking slow. Now Cuomo
always does that, But Coloma's not that bright. Mom Donnie's
very sharp. Why is he's suddenly talking so slow. People
think he's getting very nervous in the last four weeks,
very worried about making a flub or saying the wrong thing.
(14:56):
He's being very careful when he speaks. It's New York City,
and New York City's famous for nayoral races, where the
whole thing can turn around in the last four or
five weeks. It's happened before. Here's Curtis on all this.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In twenty nineteen, he has a press conference, we must
close Reich his island. Two weeks ago he once again
reiterated he should have been closed a long time ago.
Where would he have put the inmates back then? You
can't trust Cuomo. He's the flip flop guy.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
He is quite a flip flopper, and you gotta give
him credit the gall of this guy. I got pathological huts,
but just flip flop on this thing. Anyway. We'll get
to the New Jersey governor's race. They had the final
debate last night. We got a lot to get to
coming up. We'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
(15:46):
three two one zero seven ten
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