November 25, 2025 • 16 mins
Tomorrow is expected to be one of the busiest days of the year, with experts predicting it could even break records as the busiest Thanksgiving travel day in history. With airports bracing for large crowds, some are wondering if dressing more casually while traveling might actually foster greater respect and empathy among passengers. In other news, the Trump Administration is appealing the dismissed cases against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who faced allegations of mortgage fraud, and former FBI Director James Comey, who was accused of lying to Congress.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now this is the Mark Simon.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Show on sevent ten. Hey, so what's the day Tuesday?
All right, Now, everybody's kind of leaving. I'm actually taking
the rest of the week off. But everybody's kind of fleeing,
leaving radio TV. You know, you watch Fox or whatever,
you while you notice all the hosts are gone. They're
on the C list guests, same thing, MSNBC. Everybody's leaving,
(00:29):
you know, some late night TV reruns. Everybody takes off
the rest of the week. The President will leave later
today and head to mar A Lago. I think you
can turn that off now, we don't need a whole soundtrack.
The President will go to mar A Lago later today.
They actually have the tree's delivered to the White House.
(00:51):
There's a tree ceremony, and I think he does that
pardoning the Turkey. In fact, last year's a turkey part.
And yeah, they should check see if that's auto pen
on that. So that's today, and then late in the day,
actually about I think five six o'clock, the President will
leave head tomorrow A Lago, arrive there around nine pm
(01:12):
tonight and he'll be there until Sunday night. So he's
taking the rest of the week off. Hey, we'll get
to call me and Letitia James what this means as
far as their case. We'll get to the MAMDANNI meeting.
We're getting more and more detail on exactly what happened there.
We'll get to everybody loves Raymond. We'll get to Times
Square in New Year's Eve, we'll get to the MAMDANNI
(01:35):
transition team and more. Now, today's Tuesday. Tomorrow's the big
travel day. Most people will travel tomorrow. It's going to
be the busiest Thanksgiving travel season ever. It's expected that
eighty two million people will be traveling. That's by train,
(01:57):
car playing. Eighty two million people traveling this Thanksgiving. Now
the good news, air traffic controllers are all back to work.
Everything's back full schedule. Everything's back up to speed with
air traffic control. But tomorrow's the biggest travel day of airlines.
They call it their super Bowl. Here's the airline spokesman.
(02:18):
It's going to be a busy week for us, the airlines,
the travel sector in general, airports, TSA, FAA, Especially for us,
this week is our super Bowl. All right, I think
our super Bowl is a little more exciting than yours.
But okay, now, hey, Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary. I
(02:38):
don't know what got them on this kick, but you
know they've been having a lot of trouble on airplanes
with the rowdy passengers, fights breaking out, people half naked,
people with bare feet, putting them up on the seat
like bare feet right next to somebody else's head. And
it's been absolutely disgusting years and years ago. You know,
you're back and watch mad Men when Don Draper has
(02:59):
to fly somewhere. You know, everybody on the plane has
a suit and tie. The stewardesses are all beautiful, well dressed,
and they're serving lobster and champagne. And the cart comes
down the island. They're carving this this juicy steak. This
was airline travel back then, back in the fifties and
sixties was Pan America, and it was the most elegant
(03:20):
way to travel. Everybody was dressed beautifully. It was first
class all the way. Now what happened, Well, truth is,
airline travel was expensive back then. You know, you paid
today's in today's dollars, You were pay thousands of dollars
for the airplane ticket. So and then things got cheap.
(03:40):
You know, remember it was the first one was People's
Express wherever. I think that was the first one in
the seventies where you could fly for like sixty eight bucks.
All of a sudden, it's very cheap. And then there
were more cheap airlines, and then the real airlines had
to start competing, so they had to bring down the
ticket prices. So now it's cost nothing the fly. You
gotta fly to Florida and back, it's two hundred dollars
(04:02):
around trip, whereas back in the Don Draper days it
was four thousand, five thousand. So back then you had
all the wealthy, you know, well dressed of people on planes,
and the people with the cheap tickets were all on
greyhound buses. But now the airlines got cheaper than the
greyhound buses. So everybody's a slob on the airlines. But Duffy,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants to go back to that
(04:25):
golden age of air travel where people dress up in
a suit and tie, and he thinks if you're dressed up,
that would change your behavior. He's probably right. You know,
if you're dressed up, you behave a little differently. You know,
you got to go to a wedding or funeral, and
people that never get dressed up or suddenly in a
suit and tie and it stiffens him up. They behave
a little better.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
But here's Duffy maybe dressing with some respect, you know,
whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt.
I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better,
which encourage us, encourages us to maybe behave all a
little better.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now, he's absolutely right. Of course, he's insane, he's crazy.
Nobody's going to do this, nobody, nobody's going to do this.
You're not gonna get anybody to do Hey, you go
to a funeral. Now, people are in sweatsuits. If people
just don't dress up anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Tomorrow will be the busiest day. There'll be fifty two
thousand flights tomorrow as Americans board aircraft fly across the country.
Maybe they're going to go to sporting events, they're going
on vacation, or hopefully they're going to spend time with
their families.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now you go to the hottest restaurant in Manhattan, the
most expensive, hottest, everybody is dressed like a slob. Now,
there are certain restaurants that required a jacket and tie,
you know, the Twenty one Club, the Four Seasons, Let's cirque,
you had to wear a jacket and tie. You'll notice
they're all clothed and out of business. It doesn't work
in today's world. You're not I mean, I like to
(05:44):
get dressed up, but you're you're not going to convince
everybody to put on a suit and tie to get
on the plane.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I hate to say it, but nowadays people somewhere they
got one suit and one tie and it's only for
a funeral or if they got to go to court. For
a lot of people, especially these badly behaved people, the
only time they're going to wear a suit is when
they're the defendant on trial. And speaking of trials, the
Ca Mey case and the Letitia James case both thrown
(06:12):
out by a left wing judge. They will bring back
the cases. They will be appealed. You know, Comy was
out there doing his victory dance. He should probably stop
that because it is going to get appealed. Definitely.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Sure, we'll be taking all available legal action, including an
immediate appeal, to hold Letitia James and James Comy accountable
for their unlawful conduct.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now they will be on trial. This here's the thing.
Remember when it first happened, call me put out that video.
You know, Comy is this weirdo, pompous, sanctimonious guy, and
he put out this video. I am innocent, Let's go
to trial. I want to try this to show you
how innoson.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I am.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Let's go to trial. Well, they got no court and
he didn't argue the case at all. All they did
was try to find some technical difficulty with the prosecutor
to get the case dismissed on a technicality, and that's
how the judge threw it out. So there was no
ruling of any kind on Komy's guilt or Letitia James's guilt. Nothing.
This was strictly the technical stuff about the prosecutor that
(07:19):
you have to be confirmed by the Senate. This prosecutor
was appointed as an interim prosecutor, interim temporary prosecutor. So
they argued that it was she had used up her
allotted one hundred and twenty day interim appointment and then
she was beyond one hundred and twenty day. It's just
silly nonsense, but that's how got turned out. Now they
(07:41):
can simply get another prosecutor, which would be easy to do.
They could do that, they could have somebody else to
do the case. The only problem with Komy there is
a statute of limitations, and I think we just went
past it, so they'd have to But it was in
the middle of this trial. So normally you could argue
(08:01):
to get a grace period, a six to eight month
grace period on that statute of limitations. The judge can
deny it. In fact, in the ruling, this was a
Bill Clinton, left wing Comy lovin swamp judge who in
the decision puts something in there about I don't feel
this this case would have a grace period apply to
(08:23):
it for statute of limitations. So this judge was doing
everything to protect Call me Comy was again doing his
victory dance all over TV yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm grateful that the court ended the case against me,
which was a prosecution based on malevolence and incompetence and
a reflection of what the Department of Justice has become
under Donald Trump, which is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh god, it's heartbreaking. Oh my god. There are a
couple of cases you could argue that maybe it's a weaponisation.
You could maybe argue a couple of these cases, Well,
they call me. There were a thousand cases that were
no doubt. Weapon is a total weaponization. This guy made
up the whole Russia hoax, total weaponization. Look called me
(09:09):
one after everybody and anybody. Uh So it's I mean,
that's the irony of this whole thing that he's being
accused of doing. Uh he's accusing Trump of doing what
he's the most guilty of in the history of the FBI,
worse than j Edgar Hoover.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
This case mattered to me personally, obviously, but it matters
most because a message has to be sent that the
President of the United States cannot use the Department of
Justice to target his political enemies.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No, that's call me's job. Let him do that.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't care what your politics are. You have to
see that as fundamentally Unamerican and a threat to the
rule of law that keeps all of us free.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah. I've met call me a few times. He actually
talks like this, believe it or not. When you meet
him just socially, he's like the sanctimonious Hello. Oh, he's
very She's this very serious, pompous voice. So the case
will come back. Now in the case of Letitia James.
There's no statute of limitations problem, that case will proceed.
(10:10):
She's absolutely If you look at the paperwork, it looks
like she's absolutely guilty of mortgage frauds. So her they
got I don't see how they don't end up convicting her.
She's going to have a real problem. But call me.
They got to go over all these technicalities. Hey, if
you watch fake news NBCCBSABC, MSNBC, if you watch the
(10:30):
fake news networks, they'll give you this stuff about the
prosecutor who has no experience as a prosecutor. She was
appointed prosecutor without any experience as a prosecutor. She has
no prosecutorial experience. They keep making a big point out
of this, but because it's fake news, they never point
out that that's not unusual. Many many US attorneys that
are appointed have no experience as a prosecutor. It's pretty
(10:53):
I mean, many of them do, but many of them don't.
You know what good example is Chris Christy. He was
never a prosecutor. He was appointed US attorney with no
experience as a prosecutor. In fact, he'd just been a
regular corporate lawyer. He'd never even been in a courtroom
before when he was made US attorney. And if you
watch him on that Sunday Morning show, you know he's
(11:14):
always giving you that. You know, as a prosecutor. As
a former prosecutor, I can tell you well, he became
a prosecutor just because he was a big donor, bundler
for George W. Bush And the reward was US attorney
in New Jersey. Never been a prosecutor. It's not unusual.
Happens all the time. So we'll see where that case goes.
Nothing will happen till after Thanksgiving. This everybody's going away. Hey,
(11:37):
the Trump Mam Donnie meeting, all right, here's so we're
learning more and more about this meeting. It was broken
by He doesn't want his name mentioned. It's a big, big, big, big,
big New York business name, huge business name who had
a very good relationship with Mom Donnie. Big business guy.
(11:58):
He broke at the meeting. He admits it was Mam
Donnie who wanted the meeting. A top Mam Donnie inner
circle person approached him to see if he could set
up the meeting. He talked with the President, he talked
with the White House. They were open to the meeting.
And they agreed to it. Now, one of the conditions
(12:21):
was that Mam Donnie, they asked that he not come
in there and if there were a press conference afterwards
starts spewing his left wing nonsense. He agreed not to
do that to keep it, keep it in check, and
they agreed to the meeting, so it took place. Now, apparently,
the why would Mamdani reach out and pull strings trying
(12:41):
to get a meeting with the president. Why was it
so important him, Well, apparently after he got elected. One
of the things that happens is you meet with the
current mayor, the current city hall people, the current governor,
the current government. You meet with them and they show
you the books. Basically, they show you everything, all the
(13:01):
inside stuff, the files, the secrets. So he's looking through
the financials of it and he realizes New York has
a huge budget problem. Then if he wants to do
any of these programs, pay for even a few of them,
he's going to have a problem. And he also under law,
now you have to balance the city budget. You can't
go into debt. So he was briefed on the budget
(13:25):
and he saw that a major part of it is
seven point five billion in federal aid. There's no way
you can get that budget to work without that seven
point five billion in federal aid to the city. So
he saw it was crucial. The whole budget is going
to face a seventeen billion dollar budget deficit in the
(13:46):
next fiscal year. You have to balance that according to
the law. So he absolutely has to have that federal money.
If Trump cuts off the federal money, he is dead.
Not only do all his programs disappear. Anything he wants
to do is going without the federal money. But he's
got a major budget crisis. He could have a shortfall
(14:07):
of as much as eight billion dollars. So that's why
he's got to make sure that federal money doesn't stop.
It's the only thing that keeps his administration alive. So
that's why he wanted the meeting. That's why he wants
to get along with Trump. Trump wants the meeting because
he wants me. You know, like any crazy person you're
(14:27):
dealing with, Kim Jong un or Putin or whoever, you
want to meet with them, try to work something out
with them. Trump is playing nice for now, but he
can go, you know, rough at any time. So they
want to work out something with the keep deporting the illegals,
the criminal illegals and all that. He wants the police.
Trump wants the police force to be top notch here
(14:50):
in New York, total law enforcement. So if mont Donnie,
you know, doesn't do the right thing on either of those,
Trump can stop the turn off the money flow, and
Mom Donnie will be in huge financial trouble. So he
agreed to a lot of things. He agreed not to
antagonize Trump. Next year they're going to have this big,
(15:11):
big budget problem. So that's the reason it all took place.
They got off to a good start. Now Trump can
go nasty at any point if he wants. Mam Donnie
really doesn't have any leverage on this, As Trump said
Tola Zelenski, you don't have the cards right now. So
Mam Donnie will probably be most important thing is of
(15:32):
the crime situation. He will leave the police department alone.
We hope that's the one thing he agreed with Trump
on leave the police department alone, let him clean up
the crime. Anyway, we'll get back to that. We'll get
to the Ukraine. It looks like there's going to be
a peace deal. As crazy as that peace plan was,
as pro Russia as that police plan was. Looks like
(15:53):
they're working something out. You may have an agreement within
a week. Meetings are taking place as we speak. We'll
get to hey. New Year's Eve, they unveiled the new ball.
You know, every fifteen twenty years they do a new ball.
You know, the ball drops on New Year's Eve. It
used to be light bulbs, then it became LEDs, and
then when all digital. The new ball, this one is huge.
(16:19):
It's twelve feet in diameter. It's much much, much bigger
than the other balls, be much more visible. It's all circles.
The old one was triangles. It's all circles, so it
can do amazing effects. It's on display in times square
if you want to go look at it. Anyway, we've
got a lot to get to. We'll take some calls. Next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
(16:43):
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
Now this is the Mark Simon.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Show on sevent ten. Hey, so what's the day Tuesday?
All right, Now, everybody's kind of leaving. I'm actually taking
the rest of the week off. But everybody's kind of fleeing,
leaving radio TV. You know, you watch Fox or whatever,
you while you notice all the hosts are gone. They're
on the C list guests, same thing, MSNBC. Everybody's leaving,
(00:29):
you know, some late night TV reruns. Everybody takes off
the rest of the week. The President will leave later
today and head to mar A Lago. I think you
can turn that off now, we don't need a whole soundtrack.
The President will go to mar A Lago later today.
They actually have the tree's delivered to the White House.
(00:51):
There's a tree ceremony, and I think he does that
pardoning the Turkey. In fact, last year's a turkey part.
And yeah, they should check see if that's auto pen
on that. So that's today, and then late in the day,
actually about I think five six o'clock, the President will
leave head tomorrow A Lago, arrive there around nine pm
(01:12):
tonight and he'll be there until Sunday night. So he's
taking the rest of the week off. Hey, we'll get
to call me and Letitia James what this means as
far as their case. We'll get to the MAMDANNI meeting.
We're getting more and more detail on exactly what happened there.
We'll get to everybody loves Raymond. We'll get to Times
Square in New Year's Eve, we'll get to the MAMDANNI
(01:35):
transition team and more. Now, today's Tuesday. Tomorrow's the big
travel day. Most people will travel tomorrow. It's going to
be the busiest Thanksgiving travel season ever. It's expected that
eighty two million people will be traveling. That's by train,
(01:57):
car playing. Eighty two million people traveling this Thanksgiving. Now
the good news, air traffic controllers are all back to work.
Everything's back full schedule. Everything's back up to speed with
air traffic control. But tomorrow's the biggest travel day of airlines.
They call it their super Bowl. Here's the airline spokesman.
(02:18):
It's going to be a busy week for us, the airlines,
the travel sector in general, airports, TSA, FAA, Especially for us,
this week is our super Bowl. All right, I think
our super Bowl is a little more exciting than yours.
But okay, now, hey, Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary. I
(02:38):
don't know what got them on this kick, but you
know they've been having a lot of trouble on airplanes
with the rowdy passengers, fights breaking out, people half naked,
people with bare feet, putting them up on the seat
like bare feet right next to somebody else's head. And
it's been absolutely disgusting years and years ago. You know,
you're back and watch mad Men when Don Draper has
(02:59):
to fly somewhere. You know, everybody on the plane has
a suit and tie. The stewardesses are all beautiful, well dressed,
and they're serving lobster and champagne. And the cart comes
down the island. They're carving this this juicy steak. This
was airline travel back then, back in the fifties and
sixties was Pan America, and it was the most elegant
(03:20):
way to travel. Everybody was dressed beautifully. It was first
class all the way. Now what happened, Well, truth is,
airline travel was expensive back then. You know, you paid
today's in today's dollars, You were pay thousands of dollars
for the airplane ticket. So and then things got cheap.
(03:40):
You know, remember it was the first one was People's
Express wherever. I think that was the first one in
the seventies where you could fly for like sixty eight bucks.
All of a sudden, it's very cheap. And then there
were more cheap airlines, and then the real airlines had
to start competing, so they had to bring down the
ticket prices. So now it's cost nothing the fly. You
gotta fly to Florida and back, it's two hundred dollars
(04:02):
around trip, whereas back in the Don Draper days it
was four thousand, five thousand. So back then you had
all the wealthy, you know, well dressed of people on planes,
and the people with the cheap tickets were all on
greyhound buses. But now the airlines got cheaper than the
greyhound buses. So everybody's a slob on the airlines. But Duffy,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants to go back to that
(04:25):
golden age of air travel where people dress up in
a suit and tie, and he thinks if you're dressed up,
that would change your behavior. He's probably right. You know,
if you're dressed up, you behave a little differently. You know,
you got to go to a wedding or funeral, and
people that never get dressed up or suddenly in a
suit and tie and it stiffens him up. They behave
a little better.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
But here's Duffy maybe dressing with some respect, you know,
whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt.
I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better,
which encourage us, encourages us to maybe behave all a
little better.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now, he's absolutely right. Of course, he's insane, he's crazy.
Nobody's going to do this, nobody, nobody's going to do this.
You're not gonna get anybody to do Hey, you go
to a funeral. Now, people are in sweatsuits. If people
just don't dress up anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Tomorrow will be the busiest day. There'll be fifty two
thousand flights tomorrow as Americans board aircraft fly across the country.
Maybe they're going to go to sporting events, they're going
on vacation, or hopefully they're going to spend time with
their families.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now you go to the hottest restaurant in Manhattan, the
most expensive, hottest, everybody is dressed like a slob. Now,
there are certain restaurants that required a jacket and tie,
you know, the Twenty one Club, the Four Seasons, Let's cirque,
you had to wear a jacket and tie. You'll notice
they're all clothed and out of business. It doesn't work
in today's world. You're not I mean, I like to
(05:44):
get dressed up, but you're you're not going to convince
everybody to put on a suit and tie to get
on the plane.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I hate to say it, but nowadays people somewhere they
got one suit and one tie and it's only for
a funeral or if they got to go to court. For
a lot of people, especially these badly behaved people, the
only time they're going to wear a suit is when
they're the defendant on trial. And speaking of trials, the
Ca Mey case and the Letitia James case both thrown
(06:12):
out by a left wing judge. They will bring back
the cases. They will be appealed. You know, Comy was
out there doing his victory dance. He should probably stop
that because it is going to get appealed. Definitely.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Sure, we'll be taking all available legal action, including an
immediate appeal, to hold Letitia James and James Comy accountable
for their unlawful conduct.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now they will be on trial. This here's the thing.
Remember when it first happened, call me put out that video.
You know, Comy is this weirdo, pompous, sanctimonious guy, and
he put out this video. I am innocent, Let's go
to trial. I want to try this to show you
how innoson.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I am.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Let's go to trial. Well, they got no court and
he didn't argue the case at all. All they did
was try to find some technical difficulty with the prosecutor
to get the case dismissed on a technicality, and that's
how the judge threw it out. So there was no
ruling of any kind on Komy's guilt or Letitia James's guilt. Nothing.
This was strictly the technical stuff about the prosecutor that
(07:19):
you have to be confirmed by the Senate. This prosecutor
was appointed as an interim prosecutor, interim temporary prosecutor. So
they argued that it was she had used up her
allotted one hundred and twenty day interim appointment and then
she was beyond one hundred and twenty day. It's just
silly nonsense, but that's how got turned out. Now they
(07:41):
can simply get another prosecutor, which would be easy to do.
They could do that, they could have somebody else to
do the case. The only problem with Komy there is
a statute of limitations, and I think we just went
past it, so they'd have to But it was in
the middle of this trial. So normally you could argue
(08:01):
to get a grace period, a six to eight month
grace period on that statute of limitations. The judge can
deny it. In fact, in the ruling, this was a
Bill Clinton, left wing Comy lovin swamp judge who in
the decision puts something in there about I don't feel
this this case would have a grace period apply to
(08:23):
it for statute of limitations. So this judge was doing
everything to protect Call me Comy was again doing his
victory dance all over TV yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm grateful that the court ended the case against me,
which was a prosecution based on malevolence and incompetence and
a reflection of what the Department of Justice has become
under Donald Trump, which is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh god, it's heartbreaking. Oh my god. There are a
couple of cases you could argue that maybe it's a weaponisation.
You could maybe argue a couple of these cases, Well,
they call me. There were a thousand cases that were
no doubt. Weapon is a total weaponization. This guy made
up the whole Russia hoax, total weaponization. Look called me
(09:09):
one after everybody and anybody. Uh So it's I mean,
that's the irony of this whole thing that he's being
accused of doing. Uh he's accusing Trump of doing what
he's the most guilty of in the history of the FBI,
worse than j Edgar Hoover.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
This case mattered to me personally, obviously, but it matters
most because a message has to be sent that the
President of the United States cannot use the Department of
Justice to target his political enemies.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
No, that's call me's job. Let him do that.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't care what your politics are. You have to
see that as fundamentally Unamerican and a threat to the
rule of law that keeps all of us free.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah. I've met call me a few times. He actually
talks like this, believe it or not. When you meet
him just socially, he's like the sanctimonious Hello. Oh, he's
very She's this very serious, pompous voice. So the case
will come back. Now in the case of Letitia James.
There's no statute of limitations problem, that case will proceed.
(10:10):
She's absolutely If you look at the paperwork, it looks
like she's absolutely guilty of mortgage frauds. So her they
got I don't see how they don't end up convicting her.
She's going to have a real problem. But call me.
They got to go over all these technicalities. Hey, if
you watch fake news NBCCBSABC, MSNBC, if you watch the
(10:30):
fake news networks, they'll give you this stuff about the
prosecutor who has no experience as a prosecutor. She was
appointed prosecutor without any experience as a prosecutor. She has
no prosecutorial experience. They keep making a big point out
of this, but because it's fake news, they never point
out that that's not unusual. Many many US attorneys that
are appointed have no experience as a prosecutor. It's pretty
(10:53):
I mean, many of them do, but many of them don't.
You know what good example is Chris Christy. He was
never a prosecutor. He was appointed US attorney with no
experience as a prosecutor. In fact, he'd just been a
regular corporate lawyer. He'd never even been in a courtroom
before when he was made US attorney. And if you
watch him on that Sunday Morning show, you know he's
(11:14):
always giving you that. You know, as a prosecutor. As
a former prosecutor, I can tell you well, he became
a prosecutor just because he was a big donor, bundler
for George W. Bush And the reward was US attorney
in New Jersey. Never been a prosecutor. It's not unusual.
Happens all the time. So we'll see where that case goes.
Nothing will happen till after Thanksgiving. This everybody's going away. Hey,
(11:37):
the Trump Mam Donnie meeting, all right, here's so we're
learning more and more about this meeting. It was broken
by He doesn't want his name mentioned. It's a big, big, big, big,
big New York business name, huge business name who had
a very good relationship with Mom Donnie. Big business guy.
(11:58):
He broke at the meeting. He admits it was Mam
Donnie who wanted the meeting. A top Mam Donnie inner
circle person approached him to see if he could set
up the meeting. He talked with the President, he talked
with the White House. They were open to the meeting.
And they agreed to it. Now, one of the conditions
(12:21):
was that Mam Donnie, they asked that he not come
in there and if there were a press conference afterwards
starts spewing his left wing nonsense. He agreed not to
do that to keep it, keep it in check, and
they agreed to the meeting, so it took place. Now, apparently,
the why would Mamdani reach out and pull strings trying
(12:41):
to get a meeting with the president. Why was it
so important him, Well, apparently after he got elected. One
of the things that happens is you meet with the
current mayor, the current city hall people, the current governor,
the current government. You meet with them and they show
you the books. Basically, they show you everything, all the
(13:01):
inside stuff, the files, the secrets. So he's looking through
the financials of it and he realizes New York has
a huge budget problem. Then if he wants to do
any of these programs, pay for even a few of them,
he's going to have a problem. And he also under law,
now you have to balance the city budget. You can't
go into debt. So he was briefed on the budget
(13:25):
and he saw that a major part of it is
seven point five billion in federal aid. There's no way
you can get that budget to work without that seven
point five billion in federal aid to the city. So
he saw it was crucial. The whole budget is going
to face a seventeen billion dollar budget deficit in the
(13:46):
next fiscal year. You have to balance that according to
the law. So he absolutely has to have that federal money.
If Trump cuts off the federal money, he is dead.
Not only do all his programs disappear. Anything he wants
to do is going without the federal money. But he's
got a major budget crisis. He could have a shortfall
(14:07):
of as much as eight billion dollars. So that's why
he's got to make sure that federal money doesn't stop.
It's the only thing that keeps his administration alive. So
that's why he wanted the meeting. That's why he wants
to get along with Trump. Trump wants the meeting because
he wants me. You know, like any crazy person you're
(14:27):
dealing with, Kim Jong un or Putin or whoever, you
want to meet with them, try to work something out
with them. Trump is playing nice for now, but he
can go, you know, rough at any time. So they
want to work out something with the keep deporting the illegals,
the criminal illegals and all that. He wants the police.
Trump wants the police force to be top notch here
(14:50):
in New York, total law enforcement. So if mont Donnie,
you know, doesn't do the right thing on either of those,
Trump can stop the turn off the money flow, and
Mom Donnie will be in huge financial trouble. So he
agreed to a lot of things. He agreed not to
antagonize Trump. Next year they're going to have this big,
(15:11):
big budget problem. So that's the reason it all took place.
They got off to a good start. Now Trump can
go nasty at any point if he wants. Mam Donnie
really doesn't have any leverage on this, As Trump said
Tola Zelenski, you don't have the cards right now. So
Mam Donnie will probably be most important thing is of
(15:32):
the crime situation. He will leave the police department alone.
We hope that's the one thing he agreed with Trump
on leave the police department alone, let him clean up
the crime. Anyway, we'll get back to that. We'll get
to the Ukraine. It looks like there's going to be
a peace deal. As crazy as that peace plan was,
as pro Russia as that police plan was. Looks like
(15:53):
they're working something out. You may have an agreement within
a week. Meetings are taking place as we speak. We'll
get to hey. New Year's Eve, they unveiled the new ball.
You know, every fifteen twenty years they do a new ball.
You know, the ball drops on New Year's Eve. It
used to be light bulbs, then it became LEDs, and
then when all digital. The new ball, this one is huge.
(16:19):
It's twelve feet in diameter. It's much much, much bigger
than the other balls, be much more visible. It's all circles.
The old one was triangles. It's all circles, so it
can do amazing effects. It's on display in times square
if you want to go look at it. Anyway, we've
got a lot to get to. We'll take some calls. Next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
(16:43):
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
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