December 9, 2025 • 17 mins
President Trump’s ambitious “Big Beautiful Bill” aims to boost Americans’ finances by introducing significant tax cuts. As part of a nationwide push for affordability, Trump is visiting the Poconos today to kick off a campaign rally focused on easing financial burdens for citizens.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
it all means. Hey, smart simone on sevent teno long. Okay,
we've a lot to get to today. Jimmy Kimmel gets
the biggest insult imaginable. We'll get to that. We'll get
to way. Do you hear what the Democrats are gonna
unleash on President Trump? Next, we'll get to that. We'll
(00:23):
get to the Ukraine, We'll get to CBS News a
lot of changes. We'll get to Bruce Blakeman big announcement
this morning. Have a freezing cold outside, colder than Hillary
Clinton's smile out there. It is freezing. But you got
to give credit to those smokers. I don't care how
cold it is when I come there. They are in
(00:45):
front of the building out there, going out there to smoke,
standing out there in the freezing cold. You see the
smoke coming out of their mouth and they haven't even
lit the cigarette yet. It's just the freezing cold. So
let me just tell you this before anything else. Here's
what you're gonna hear the next couple of days. They're
getting ready to unleash this. The Democrats are going to
go after President Trump for mortgage fraud. They think they
(01:09):
got him on mortgage fraud. I don't know, maybe they
got some who knows. But they've uncovered documents from the nineties.
They had to go back thirty years to find this.
But apparently at the time, in the mid nineties, President
Trump had mar A Lago then and he was spending
a lot of time in Palm Beach, and he started
(01:32):
to buy houses near mar A Lago as they came
on the market. A couple of nice houses came on
the market, and he bought two of these houses, and
he got mortgages from Merrill Lynch and apparently he declared
them his primary residence. They would both be his primary residents.
So Democrats, they can't investigate anything. You could steal eight
(01:53):
billion dollars in fraud in Minnesota, in that Somalia, the
fraud homeless scheme. They won't investigate it. The New York
Times won't even mention it. NBC, abccbist, they won't even
look at it. They won't. But these Democrats have been
going through every document in the history of Donald Trump.
(02:14):
They went back to the nineties to find these mortgage documents.
They think they got them on mortgage fraud. Exactly the
same thing as Letitia James. I don't know. I don't
think so. Merrill Lynch, which is now owned by Bank
of America, it's been contacted by the Democrats and asked
for copies of this mortgage, and they said it's forty
(02:38):
years ago. Now, thirty years ago. It's thirty years ago,
thirty two years ago. They said, we don't even keep these,
we don't keep the documents. Thirty two years we don't
even have to have. So, well, you're gonna start hearing
about this mortgage fraud by Donald Trump. Let's see if
this amounts to anything. Let's see if the documents are real.
Let's see if any of this actually pans out. The
President will be going to the Poconos later today. Why
(03:01):
is that. I think there's a casino there. He's going
to he's going to talk about affordability, He's going to
talk about the get to remember. The one thing that's
really going to make a difference for everybody are these
tax cuts, biggest tax cuts in history, and they haven't
kicked in yet. They don't start till January. So everybody,
because of the tax cuts, gets a huge wage increase
(03:23):
starting in January. A smaller tax bill. It'll make a
huge difference in the economy. Now, if this is what
we're going through right now, the economy is pretty good
right now, It's actually pretty good. Don't buy the fake news.
Wages are actually rising all year long. Wages have been
rising at a much faster pace. Prices have been going
down all year, and that's what you want. That's how
(03:46):
you get back to normal. Remember, you had the worst
inflation under Biden, worst inflation in fifty years. Actually, some
say the worst inflation in history for middle class consumers.
So you can't expect that to get fixed in ten.
It could take a year and a half to fix that.
But great progress has been made again, Wages are rising fast,
(04:06):
prices are coming down. So if right now what we
got is an affordability crisis, that means we had five
times the affordability crisis under Biden. And the same media
never mentioned it, never even brought it up. But he'll uh.
One of the things who told me about this last week.
One of the things they've decided is that the president
(04:27):
has to go back into campaign mode. He's going to
need to do that a lot in twenty twenty six.
For the midterms, but they've decided he'd better start doing
it now. One of the problems is he redid the
White House, and it's beautiful. If you look at the
Oval Office, he made it so palatial and so ornate,
with the gold all over the walls and just incredible.
(04:48):
It looks like Versailles. It looks incredible, and it's good
because when you bring in foreign leaders, this is the
impression you want to make. You don't want it to
look like a cold municipal building. You want it to
look really impressive because the these foreign leaders, they work
in palaces, they work in the most unbelievable luxurious place,
so you can't have them come here and think you're
(05:09):
working in this dumpy building. So that's why he did that.
It makes sense, But there's been a side effect to
this psychologically. You know, people always thought of him as just,
you know, kind of the blue collar billionaire. You know,
you remember him on the garbage truck during the campaign,
remember him working in McDonald's. Even the rallies, they were
always in a blue collar sort of aerials areas. You know,
(05:31):
they're at in a middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania. They're
in Wildwood, New Jersey. They weren't in fancy places, so
he looked like a real man of the people in
those settings. But now all you see is him in
this Gold Oliver or Nate gold Oval office. It makes
him look it's king like the setting. So they decided
he'd better get back on the campaign trail. People better
(05:53):
see him back in these regular settings, blue collar settings,
you know, out there with the people. So he goes
to the Pokes around six o'clock tonight, he'll make a
speech there, casinos there. I so imagine it's going to
also focus on no tax on tips, which will make
a huge difference for a lot of people. So that's
(06:13):
tonight he'll you'll see more of that coming up. Pete
hag Ziff, I think that's I think they're starting to
figure out that's going nowhere. I think they're starting to
realize it's not going to work. It's not going any place.
You can look at the you know, they keep fighting
to release the videos. It it's like the Epstein files.
There's always something the Trump administers holds back just to
(06:34):
taunt these people. You know, it's like a little baby,
hold something in front of him and as he reaches
you pull it away. It's what they're doing in the
Democratic Party. They chase this Epstein files. There's nothing in
these Epstein files that you don't already know. And the
same thing with this video. There's nothing in the video
you don't already know. And the problem is, if you
look at the video, Democrats look ridiculous with their fishing boat.
(06:55):
Theory fishing boat. I'm looking at the video. This boat
has for the most powerful outboard motors on the back
of it, and those four would cost about one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. And when you see the video
with the four outboards, super high powered outboards going, this
boat is going like one hundred and eighty miles through
the water in the middle of the night. That's not
(07:17):
a fishing boat. No fishing boat needs to go one
hundred eighty miles an hour. It just looks ridiculous. It's
clearly a drug boat. So they'll fight for these videos.
Eventually they'll get released, and then the Democrats will look stupid.
And I think they realized the hecks of stuff. They've
tried it. It's not going to work. It's going nowhere.
They keep asking Trump about whatever he wants to do
is okay with.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He now says it's under review. Are you ordering the
secretary to release that full video?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Whatever he decides, he's okay with me. So every boat
we knock out of the water, every boat we saved
twenty five thousand American lives. That was a boat loaded
up with drugs. I saw the video. They were trying
to turn the boat back to where it could float,
and we didn't want to see that.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, I remember everything they accused Trump of, every horrible,
awful scandal thing they find. It's common practice for every president.
Obama was blowing up people all over the world with
his drones and in the process killed a lot of
innocent civilians. If you go to my Twitter, you will
find video up there today. It's Obama making a speech.
(08:21):
Apparently it was slict a little flak about all the
civilians he was blowing up while going after Narco terrorists.
He was, you know, you can't help it. You're gonna
hit some civilians. Remember once even bombed a wedding. So
it's a video of Obama saying, look, it's terrible that
civilians are getting killed during these bombings. He said, something
(08:41):
will haunt us for the rest of our lives. But
it has to be done because we're saving millions of
lives by and if we have to lose a few
citizens in the process, it's going to have So now
this is Obama. Remember he said Democrat, So this was
considered very noble of him. He was so noble to
say this. Now Trump does exactly the same thing. He's
a war criminal, he's a Nazi. He's this that. Hey,
(09:04):
Bruce Blakeman announced he was on Fox and Friends. It
was said that he would announced today. He should have
known that he's going on Fox and Friends that he
would do it there. I think he surprised everybody. We're
expecting an announcement later today, but this morning on Fox and Friends,
the biggest, most watched morning show, Blakeman announced, I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Very honored and proud that I'm going to be on
Fox and Friends with you right now to announce that
I'm running for governor of the state of New York.
I'm seeking the Republican and Conservative nominations. We want to
put New York first. We want to make it more affordable,
we want to make New York safer, and we want
to make people in New York happy again.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Now, Blakeman is the greatest county executive in America by far.
County executive is like a governor. He's the governor of
the county, so he's obviously extremely qualified to be governor.
He'll do a phenomenal job. He's proven that in the
last four years. All he's got to do is the
same exact thing for the whole state. And that's what
he was talking doing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We're gonna win. We're gonna win because in Nassau County,
which is a mirror image of New York State, the
demographics are almost the same. I got almost a third
of the African American vote, when most Republicans only get
like nine percent. I got fifty six percent of the
Hispanic American votes. I got independent women, I've got independent men,
crossover democrats. We won by thirty six thousand votes in
(10:22):
a county with one hundred and ten thousand more Democrats.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, now people will sit well. At least the phonic
you know, y's great, at least the funds. She's a
fighter's yeah, yeah she is. But Blakeman has a track
record of actual, real accomplishment as a governor of Nassau County.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Real accomplishment I'm ready for the fight, and I'm going
to fight for New Yorkers. I'm going to make sure
that we do have economic prosperity. I'm fighting for your
children and your grandchildren so that they have a bright future.
We're going to create prosperity. We're going to make New
York safer. We're going to make it the Empire state again.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, I was watching. He was on a bunch of
TV shows this morning. One of these shows they thought
they had him. You know, you say to fix the state,
you'll do better than care. What would you do that,
Kathy Hokal hasn't done name one thing. Well, he rattled
up like twelve right away that were all great, I'll
get rid of no bail, no jail, I'll do this,
I'll do that. Now what does Trump do? President Trump
(11:14):
has been backing a last staphonic for this, but he
loves Bruce Blakeman, and well we's asked about it, Colors,
at least is among those who is running for you, Governor.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Bruce Blakeman, who you also know are you planning on
making any endorsements for?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
He's great and she's great. They're both great people. We
have a lot of great people at the Republican Party. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Now Trump loves them both, but he's known Blakeman a
lot longer. And let's put it this way. If he
didn't know these two people, if he had no idea
who they were, and Trump was the CEO and had
to hire somebody to run New York, and he brought
these two strangers, and he would go with blake and
he would look at their records and say, well, they're
(12:01):
both good. But you're a legislator, and you are brilliant
at legislating and at hearings in the Congress, you're great.
But Blakeman is a manager, he's a governor, and he's
got a track record. He's got the experience doing exactly
the stuff this job needs. You don't at least defint.
So that's I don't know what he does. Because the
(12:24):
other problem is they've promised at least deefonic all sorts
of stuff over the last year. You know, do this,
do that, and we'll you know, we'll So he's got
a problem there, but Trump will figure it out, and
I would assume in the end he's going to back
Bruce Blakeman. So anyway, we'll get back to that Now
the other thing is the Republican Party. There's a New
York Republican Party. They say, well, it's at least dephonic,
(12:47):
we're not having a primary. But this Republican Party, they're
very nice people in New York. But the party is
like a little tiny thing with three people in it,
and they don't raise much money. They're not much of
a force in New York at all, as you saw
in the mayoral race. They're not much of a force.
So Blakeman has a Republican Party in Nasau County that's
actually raised more money than the state Republican Party, that's
(13:10):
probably more powerful. So that's going to count for a lot.
Uh Ooh. Jimmy Kimmel, Now this is supposed to make
him look good. You know, there was tremendous controversy. He
was suspended, he was going to get fired. They were
getting rid of them. They were going to fire him.
They didn't fire him, They kept them. ABC brought them back.
(13:32):
Everything's great, you're back. Well, this the whole idea of
this thing now was to make it look like Jimmy
Kimmel is all set. You're going to see the headlines
all over the fake news late night host Jimmy Kimmel
has been re signed signs a big new contract with
ABC to continue as the late night host. Now you're thinking, wow,
(13:57):
everything's great, they re signed him. Not really, not really.
This is one of the greatest hoaxes ever. Fake news
not reporting this. They signed them to the most insulting
contract in the history of late night. Nobody has ever
been insulted like this in late night TV. When you
sign a contract, a television contract, it's always five years.
(14:20):
It's a five year contract. Sometimes it's ten years, like
in the case of Oprah, it would be a ten
year deal. When you're really big and established for years,
like Regis would get like a ten year deal. But
it's always a five year deal. Network always wants that.
It protects them too, because if you get, you know,
when you're really big, well for five years, you got
your salary locked in. You won't be able to hold
(14:41):
them up up for more money. They just resigned Kimmel
to a one year extension. It's not a new contract,
it's a one year extension. That is the most insulting
thing you can do to somebody. It's really insulting. Nobody
has ever had this happen in late night it's always
a five year contract. Now, once in a while, you
(15:01):
get a host who doesn't want five years, he'll beg
for a three year contract. That way, he's got a
little flexibility. But the only other time this ever happened
in the history of late night TV was Johnny Carson,
and it's the reason he left the Tonight Show. He
was so insulted by it he left the Tonight Show.
It was nineteen ninety one. Carson every five years would
(15:23):
sign a new contract, and it was a ritual. Every
five years, he and his manager, Ed hook Stratton, his agent,
would go to a nice restaurant in Beverly Hills called
the Grill, which was a big business lunch kind of place.
They would go to the Grill, Hook Stratton and Carson
and have lunch with the NBC executives who would bring
the new five year contract. They would sign it, have
(15:46):
a cordial lunch, and that was it. And that's all
he had to do with NBC every five years. Well,
in ninety one, they went to the lunch to sign
the new five year contract and the NBC executive said, Shannie,
what would you think of a one year contract? And Carson,
with decades of experience in show business, knew exactly what
(16:09):
that meant, and he calculated real fast in his head
that this was the biggest insult. They were trying to
push him out, which is actually kind of what they
were So, without blinking, without hesitating, he said, well, to
tell you the truth, we actually came here to tell
you I'm resigning. I'm leaving the Tonight Show. Hook Stratton stunned,
but he played along quickly. He goes, yes, that's why
(16:30):
we are here to tell you we're leaving, which really
shook up the NBC executive. But Carson said, yeah, that's it.
We decided this, and we came here to tell you
I'm going to leave the Tonight Show. If you want
me to do this final year, we'll do one final year.
But he left because there was nothing more insulting than
a one year extension instead of a real contract. So
(16:50):
Kimmel has received the biggest insult you can receive. Carson
quit over it. Kimmel will not have the courage or
the principle to quit over it. So but it is insulting. Anyway,
we got a lot to get to today. We'll take
some calls in a moment. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three two
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one zero seven ten
You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
it all means. Hey, smart simone on sevent teno long. Okay,
we've a lot to get to today. Jimmy Kimmel gets
the biggest insult imaginable. We'll get to that. We'll get
to way. Do you hear what the Democrats are gonna
unleash on President Trump? Next, we'll get to that. We'll
(00:23):
get to the Ukraine, We'll get to CBS News a
lot of changes. We'll get to Bruce Blakeman big announcement
this morning. Have a freezing cold outside, colder than Hillary
Clinton's smile out there. It is freezing. But you got
to give credit to those smokers. I don't care how
cold it is when I come there. They are in
(00:45):
front of the building out there, going out there to smoke,
standing out there in the freezing cold. You see the
smoke coming out of their mouth and they haven't even
lit the cigarette yet. It's just the freezing cold. So
let me just tell you this before anything else. Here's
what you're gonna hear the next couple of days. They're
getting ready to unleash this. The Democrats are going to
go after President Trump for mortgage fraud. They think they
(01:09):
got him on mortgage fraud. I don't know, maybe they
got some who knows. But they've uncovered documents from the nineties.
They had to go back thirty years to find this.
But apparently at the time, in the mid nineties, President
Trump had mar A Lago then and he was spending
a lot of time in Palm Beach, and he started
(01:32):
to buy houses near mar A Lago as they came
on the market. A couple of nice houses came on
the market, and he bought two of these houses, and
he got mortgages from Merrill Lynch and apparently he declared
them his primary residence. They would both be his primary residents.
So Democrats, they can't investigate anything. You could steal eight
(01:53):
billion dollars in fraud in Minnesota, in that Somalia, the
fraud homeless scheme. They won't investigate it. The New York
Times won't even mention it. NBC, abccbist, they won't even
look at it. They won't. But these Democrats have been
going through every document in the history of Donald Trump.
(02:14):
They went back to the nineties to find these mortgage documents.
They think they got them on mortgage fraud. Exactly the
same thing as Letitia James. I don't know. I don't
think so. Merrill Lynch, which is now owned by Bank
of America, it's been contacted by the Democrats and asked
for copies of this mortgage, and they said it's forty
(02:38):
years ago. Now, thirty years ago. It's thirty years ago,
thirty two years ago. They said, we don't even keep these,
we don't keep the documents. Thirty two years we don't
even have to have. So, well, you're gonna start hearing
about this mortgage fraud by Donald Trump. Let's see if
this amounts to anything. Let's see if the documents are real.
Let's see if any of this actually pans out. The
President will be going to the Poconos later today. Why
(03:01):
is that. I think there's a casino there. He's going
to he's going to talk about affordability, He's going to
talk about the get to remember. The one thing that's
really going to make a difference for everybody are these
tax cuts, biggest tax cuts in history, and they haven't
kicked in yet. They don't start till January. So everybody,
because of the tax cuts, gets a huge wage increase
(03:23):
starting in January. A smaller tax bill. It'll make a
huge difference in the economy. Now, if this is what
we're going through right now, the economy is pretty good
right now, It's actually pretty good. Don't buy the fake news.
Wages are actually rising all year long. Wages have been
rising at a much faster pace. Prices have been going
down all year, and that's what you want. That's how
(03:46):
you get back to normal. Remember, you had the worst
inflation under Biden, worst inflation in fifty years. Actually, some
say the worst inflation in history for middle class consumers.
So you can't expect that to get fixed in ten.
It could take a year and a half to fix that.
But great progress has been made again, Wages are rising fast,
(04:06):
prices are coming down. So if right now what we
got is an affordability crisis, that means we had five
times the affordability crisis under Biden. And the same media
never mentioned it, never even brought it up. But he'll uh.
One of the things who told me about this last week.
One of the things they've decided is that the president
(04:27):
has to go back into campaign mode. He's going to
need to do that a lot in twenty twenty six.
For the midterms, but they've decided he'd better start doing
it now. One of the problems is he redid the
White House, and it's beautiful. If you look at the
Oval Office, he made it so palatial and so ornate,
with the gold all over the walls and just incredible.
(04:48):
It looks like Versailles. It looks incredible, and it's good
because when you bring in foreign leaders, this is the
impression you want to make. You don't want it to
look like a cold municipal building. You want it to
look really impressive because the these foreign leaders, they work
in palaces, they work in the most unbelievable luxurious place,
so you can't have them come here and think you're
(05:09):
working in this dumpy building. So that's why he did that.
It makes sense, But there's been a side effect to
this psychologically. You know, people always thought of him as just,
you know, kind of the blue collar billionaire. You know,
you remember him on the garbage truck during the campaign,
remember him working in McDonald's. Even the rallies, they were
always in a blue collar sort of aerials areas. You know,
(05:31):
they're at in a middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania. They're
in Wildwood, New Jersey. They weren't in fancy places, so
he looked like a real man of the people in
those settings. But now all you see is him in
this Gold Oliver or Nate gold Oval office. It makes
him look it's king like the setting. So they decided
he'd better get back on the campaign trail. People better
(05:53):
see him back in these regular settings, blue collar settings,
you know, out there with the people. So he goes
to the Pokes around six o'clock tonight, he'll make a
speech there, casinos there. I so imagine it's going to
also focus on no tax on tips, which will make
a huge difference for a lot of people. So that's
(06:13):
tonight he'll you'll see more of that coming up. Pete
hag Ziff, I think that's I think they're starting to
figure out that's going nowhere. I think they're starting to
realize it's not going to work. It's not going any place.
You can look at the you know, they keep fighting
to release the videos. It it's like the Epstein files.
There's always something the Trump administers holds back just to
(06:34):
taunt these people. You know, it's like a little baby,
hold something in front of him and as he reaches
you pull it away. It's what they're doing in the
Democratic Party. They chase this Epstein files. There's nothing in
these Epstein files that you don't already know. And the
same thing with this video. There's nothing in the video
you don't already know. And the problem is, if you
look at the video, Democrats look ridiculous with their fishing boat.
(06:55):
Theory fishing boat. I'm looking at the video. This boat
has for the most powerful outboard motors on the back
of it, and those four would cost about one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. And when you see the video
with the four outboards, super high powered outboards going, this
boat is going like one hundred and eighty miles through
the water in the middle of the night. That's not
(07:17):
a fishing boat. No fishing boat needs to go one
hundred eighty miles an hour. It just looks ridiculous. It's
clearly a drug boat. So they'll fight for these videos.
Eventually they'll get released, and then the Democrats will look stupid.
And I think they realized the hecks of stuff. They've
tried it. It's not going to work. It's going nowhere.
They keep asking Trump about whatever he wants to do
is okay with.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
He now says it's under review. Are you ordering the
secretary to release that full video?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Whatever he decides, he's okay with me. So every boat
we knock out of the water, every boat we saved
twenty five thousand American lives. That was a boat loaded
up with drugs. I saw the video. They were trying
to turn the boat back to where it could float,
and we didn't want to see that.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, I remember everything they accused Trump of, every horrible,
awful scandal thing they find. It's common practice for every president.
Obama was blowing up people all over the world with
his drones and in the process killed a lot of
innocent civilians. If you go to my Twitter, you will
find video up there today. It's Obama making a speech.
(08:21):
Apparently it was slict a little flak about all the
civilians he was blowing up while going after Narco terrorists.
He was, you know, you can't help it. You're gonna
hit some civilians. Remember once even bombed a wedding. So
it's a video of Obama saying, look, it's terrible that
civilians are getting killed during these bombings. He said, something
(08:41):
will haunt us for the rest of our lives. But
it has to be done because we're saving millions of
lives by and if we have to lose a few
citizens in the process, it's going to have So now
this is Obama. Remember he said Democrat, So this was
considered very noble of him. He was so noble to
say this. Now Trump does exactly the same thing. He's
a war criminal, he's a Nazi. He's this that. Hey,
(09:04):
Bruce Blakeman announced he was on Fox and Friends. It
was said that he would announced today. He should have
known that he's going on Fox and Friends that he
would do it there. I think he surprised everybody. We're
expecting an announcement later today, but this morning on Fox and Friends,
the biggest, most watched morning show, Blakeman announced, I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Very honored and proud that I'm going to be on
Fox and Friends with you right now to announce that
I'm running for governor of the state of New York.
I'm seeking the Republican and Conservative nominations. We want to
put New York first. We want to make it more affordable,
we want to make New York safer, and we want
to make people in New York happy again.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Now, Blakeman is the greatest county executive in America by far.
County executive is like a governor. He's the governor of
the county, so he's obviously extremely qualified to be governor.
He'll do a phenomenal job. He's proven that in the
last four years. All he's got to do is the
same exact thing for the whole state. And that's what
he was talking doing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We're gonna win. We're gonna win because in Nassau County,
which is a mirror image of New York State, the
demographics are almost the same. I got almost a third
of the African American vote, when most Republicans only get
like nine percent. I got fifty six percent of the
Hispanic American votes. I got independent women, I've got independent men,
crossover democrats. We won by thirty six thousand votes in
(10:22):
a county with one hundred and ten thousand more Democrats.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah, now people will sit well. At least the phonic
you know, y's great, at least the funds. She's a
fighter's yeah, yeah she is. But Blakeman has a track
record of actual, real accomplishment as a governor of Nassau County.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Real accomplishment I'm ready for the fight, and I'm going
to fight for New Yorkers. I'm going to make sure
that we do have economic prosperity. I'm fighting for your
children and your grandchildren so that they have a bright future.
We're going to create prosperity. We're going to make New
York safer. We're going to make it the Empire state again.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, I was watching. He was on a bunch of
TV shows this morning. One of these shows they thought
they had him. You know, you say to fix the state,
you'll do better than care. What would you do that,
Kathy Hokal hasn't done name one thing. Well, he rattled
up like twelve right away that were all great, I'll
get rid of no bail, no jail, I'll do this,
I'll do that. Now what does Trump do? President Trump
(11:14):
has been backing a last staphonic for this, but he
loves Bruce Blakeman, and well we's asked about it, Colors,
at least is among those who is running for you, Governor.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Bruce Blakeman, who you also know are you planning on
making any endorsements for?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
He's great and she's great. They're both great people. We
have a lot of great people at the Republican Party. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Now Trump loves them both, but he's known Blakeman a
lot longer. And let's put it this way. If he
didn't know these two people, if he had no idea
who they were, and Trump was the CEO and had
to hire somebody to run New York, and he brought
these two strangers, and he would go with blake and
he would look at their records and say, well, they're
(12:01):
both good. But you're a legislator, and you are brilliant
at legislating and at hearings in the Congress, you're great.
But Blakeman is a manager, he's a governor, and he's
got a track record. He's got the experience doing exactly
the stuff this job needs. You don't at least defint.
So that's I don't know what he does. Because the
(12:24):
other problem is they've promised at least deefonic all sorts
of stuff over the last year. You know, do this,
do that, and we'll you know, we'll So he's got
a problem there, but Trump will figure it out, and
I would assume in the end he's going to back
Bruce Blakeman. So anyway, we'll get back to that Now
the other thing is the Republican Party. There's a New
York Republican Party. They say, well, it's at least dephonic,
(12:47):
we're not having a primary. But this Republican Party, they're
very nice people in New York. But the party is
like a little tiny thing with three people in it,
and they don't raise much money. They're not much of
a force in New York at all, as you saw
in the mayoral race. They're not much of a force.
So Blakeman has a Republican Party in Nasau County that's
actually raised more money than the state Republican Party, that's
(13:10):
probably more powerful. So that's going to count for a lot.
Uh Ooh. Jimmy Kimmel, Now this is supposed to make
him look good. You know, there was tremendous controversy. He
was suspended, he was going to get fired. They were
getting rid of them. They were going to fire him.
They didn't fire him, They kept them. ABC brought them back.
(13:32):
Everything's great, you're back. Well, this the whole idea of
this thing now was to make it look like Jimmy
Kimmel is all set. You're going to see the headlines
all over the fake news late night host Jimmy Kimmel
has been re signed signs a big new contract with
ABC to continue as the late night host. Now you're thinking, wow,
(13:57):
everything's great, they re signed him. Not really, not really.
This is one of the greatest hoaxes ever. Fake news
not reporting this. They signed them to the most insulting
contract in the history of late night. Nobody has ever
been insulted like this in late night TV. When you
sign a contract, a television contract, it's always five years.
(14:20):
It's a five year contract. Sometimes it's ten years, like
in the case of Oprah, it would be a ten
year deal. When you're really big and established for years,
like Regis would get like a ten year deal. But
it's always a five year deal. Network always wants that.
It protects them too, because if you get, you know,
when you're really big, well for five years, you got
your salary locked in. You won't be able to hold
(14:41):
them up up for more money. They just resigned Kimmel
to a one year extension. It's not a new contract,
it's a one year extension. That is the most insulting
thing you can do to somebody. It's really insulting. Nobody
has ever had this happen in late night it's always
a five year contract. Now, once in a while, you
(15:01):
get a host who doesn't want five years, he'll beg
for a three year contract. That way, he's got a
little flexibility. But the only other time this ever happened
in the history of late night TV was Johnny Carson,
and it's the reason he left the Tonight Show. He
was so insulted by it he left the Tonight Show.
It was nineteen ninety one. Carson every five years would
(15:23):
sign a new contract, and it was a ritual. Every
five years, he and his manager, Ed hook Stratton, his agent,
would go to a nice restaurant in Beverly Hills called
the Grill, which was a big business lunch kind of place.
They would go to the Grill, Hook Stratton and Carson
and have lunch with the NBC executives who would bring
the new five year contract. They would sign it, have
(15:46):
a cordial lunch, and that was it. And that's all
he had to do with NBC every five years. Well,
in ninety one, they went to the lunch to sign
the new five year contract and the NBC executive said, Shannie,
what would you think of a one year contract? And Carson,
with decades of experience in show business, knew exactly what
(16:09):
that meant, and he calculated real fast in his head
that this was the biggest insult. They were trying to
push him out, which is actually kind of what they
were So, without blinking, without hesitating, he said, well, to
tell you the truth, we actually came here to tell
you I'm resigning. I'm leaving the Tonight Show. Hook Stratton stunned,
but he played along quickly. He goes, yes, that's why
(16:30):
we are here to tell you we're leaving, which really
shook up the NBC executive. But Carson said, yeah, that's it.
We decided this, and we came here to tell you
I'm going to leave the Tonight Show. If you want
me to do this final year, we'll do one final year.
But he left because there was nothing more insulting than
a one year extension instead of a real contract. So
(16:50):
Kimmel has received the biggest insult you can receive. Carson
quit over it. Kimmel will not have the courage or
the principle to quit over it. So but it is insulting. Anyway,
we got a lot to get to today. We'll take
some calls in a moment. Eight hundred three two one
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