December 9, 2025 • 16 mins
Mark discusses the ongoing bidding war between Paramount and Netflix for the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., sharing his belief that Paramount will ultimately emerge victorious. He also comments on the increasing challenges President Trump faces from left-wing judges and criticizes the Senate tradition of the blue slip, echoing the President’s view that it’s an outdated and ineffective practice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark Simone on sevent ten w R. Well, another freezing
cold data today. It's just I like to walk outside.
I like to walk for miles outside. But it was
not easy yesterday or today. You can hear. No, it's good.
(00:20):
You get used to it. It's a fun walking out
there in the cold. Your nose goes crazy and you
can't take anywhere. But and I saw Sean Hannity yesterday.
You know, he's in Florida now, but he came to
New York and they get that Florida look. He's got
that Florida look, which is like the perfect sun tan,
and you know they look more relaxed. I guess that's good.
(00:43):
I don't know. I don't want the perfect sun tan.
I don't want to look that relaxed. I like to
have that New York you know, that freezing cold face
and uh yeah, all riled up, kind of New York attitude.
But he looked great, and of course you can him
here today three to six on WOR. Let's see now
(01:06):
in Chicago, they got snow and everything, so Ice agents
were there going after a dangerous criminal who's an illegal alien.
He got in under Biden and he was in fact
and the Biden reministration. They actually did have this guy
was so bad and such a criminal. They did arrest
him at the border and he had entered the country illegally.
(01:27):
This is twenty twenty three in the Biden years. But
the Biden deministration released them. They released them. They even
granted him temporary protected status. So he's a dangerous criminal
gang member. He's from that TDA trend to AGUAD. He's
a gang, I mean, the most violent, awful gang. He's
a member of the gang. So he's in Chicago. They're
(01:47):
there to arrest him. They got him on a traffic stop.
Ice was going to arrest the guy at this traffic stop.
So what he did was he smashed his car into
one of the ICE agency vehicles, which made it careene
into a tree. I mean, this is like a blue
Blood's chase scene. He then fled on foot after the crash.
(02:10):
ICE agents chased him. He barricaded himself into a stranger's apartment. Now,
if you didn't know, I think you could tell this
as a criminal. You know, normally on a traffic stop,
you stop. This guy instead drives his car right into
their car and makes him crash into a tree. He
jumps out of his car, runs runs into a stranger's
(02:31):
apartment and barricades himself in there. I think you can
be pretty sure this is a criminal. So ICE is
trying to go after this guy. But it's Chicago, and
a large crowd forms outside and starts throwing things at
the ICE agents start throwing rocks, snowballs, other projectiles. Well,
but you do have the police in Chicago that says
(02:53):
local police refuse to assist or do anything. That's Chicago
for you. This is the Democrats of today. And you know,
if that were your neighborhood, this guy's a may remember
the most dangerous gang. His behavior on a traffic stop
gives you an idea what he's like. Wouldn't you want
that guy removed from your neighborhood. Would you want him
(03:14):
to still live around the block from you. No, But
they're fighting the ICE agents to stop them from taking
this guy away. You know President Trump got you didn't
get the Nobel Peace Prize that he's so deserved, but
he got the FIFA World Cup FIFA Peace Prize. They
decided to award him one. That's nice, not for CNN.
(03:36):
Jake Tapper goes on CNN yesterday attacking, viciously attacking FIFA,
calling their peace prize a joke, ridiculous, it's not legitimate.
This guy, this Jake Tapper, who tries to occasionally pass
himself off as a journalist. He tries to pretend he's
doing some sort of a news show, going into a
(03:57):
tirade denouncing FIFA, attacking their peace prize. What does this
have to do with doing the news on CNN. I
don't know. But CNN is part of Warner Brothers and
Discovery at the company that's going to be taken over
by Netflix, but probably not. Netflix won the bidding at
(04:19):
almost thirty one dollars a share, which means it would
take over Warner Brothers, which includes CNN, includes HBO, includes
the biggest movie studio in Hollywood, all sorts of stuff.
But I don't think Netflix is going to end up
with it. I think this deal's going to fall through
and paramount the original bidder who had been too low.
(04:39):
I think in the end they'll end up with it.
I think they'll end up with it because Warner Bros.
Might have agreed to the Netflix takeover, might have signed
off on it, but that was the people that run it.
That wasn't the shareholders, and the shareholders are upset. They
felt it should have gotten a higher price. They still
(05:00):
think it should have been more like thirty five dollars
this year, not thirty. So they're pushing to have this
deal undone shareholders of a big say in this. President
Trump has indicated he'd rather have Paramount. He's close to
friends with the Paramount CEO, the Ellisons also friends with
the Netflix. But Netflix the bid was too low. They
(05:22):
may have to increase it, but it may also just
go to Paramount. They may end up taking it over. Now,
how can you do that when they already made an
agreement with the other Well, they would have to break
the Netflix agreement. And there's a penalty clause of two
point eight billion. But if Paramount agrees to pay the penalty,
then that solves that problem right there. And you're talking
(05:44):
about an eighty five billion dollar deal, So two point
eight billion is just a tiny percentage. So I think
they're going to think, I bet your Paramount ends up
with it. Now there's all fake news is going after
Paramunt saying they've made some sort of deal with Trump
promised to make radical changes at Sea. Well, first of all.
CNN is a tiny, little nothing part of this company.
(06:05):
It's not doesn't make any real revenue for the company.
It gets no ratings, it has no viewers. And by
the way, if anybody bought the company, the first thing
you would logically do is make radical changes. At CNN.
You'd look at it and say, wait a minute, you're
in last place and you have no ratings. Of course
you got to make radically. You can't do what you
can't keep doing what you're doing. You're in last place
(06:27):
and nobody's watching. You've got to make changes. So any
logical owner would have to have to make some changes there. Hey,
over at CBS News, they're getting rid of the anchors
on the nightly network News. It's Maurice du Bois and
who's the other guy, John Dickerson. Two nice guys. They're
very the competent, but they're not major league anchor people.
(06:50):
They're not you know, Brian Williams, they're not David mw or.
They're not in that league. Maurice du Bois with the
local channel two anchor John Dickerson is like a third
string face the nation kind of a host. So they're
gonna they've already picked a guy. It's somebody from CBS
News whose name I can't remember. He's on one of
(07:12):
day I think he's on the morning show. He's a
very good looking anchor. He said. I think they've decided
let's copy David Muir because that's the number one show
on television, the ABC Evening News with David Muir, number
one show in all of television primetime everything. Why, well,
it's different from the other evening news shows in that
(07:33):
it's slicker. It's really fast moving at disc keeps moving.
It's not that political. It's political, but there's a million
other things. It kind of looks like TMZ or Entertainment Tonight.
It really moves, and the anchor is just a really handsome,
good looking guy. It's very you know, slick. It's much slicker.
So I think they've decided to go in that direction.
So they got a new anchor whose name I don't remember.
(07:56):
I could look it up, but what's the difference. You're
not gonna remember his name either, but he looks very good.
He looks like David Muir. So they'll probably get some
producers in there, could make it faster, tighter, good looking anchor,
so the little copy, David Muir, that's a good idea.
It makes sense. Barry Weiss is now running CBS News
is going to slowly but surely change everything there. They're
(08:17):
going to change all the sixty minutes people. She wants
to get rid of what they call the programs older correspondence.
They're all like eighty five years old, so expect them all,
one by one to get taken out. Scott Pelly, Leslie Stall,
Bill Whittaker, so they'll all go. And now she's already
(08:39):
made a big higher ABC News Matt Gutman, you know,
the reporter Matt Gutman. She's very high on him. She
wants him to take quote a major role at CBS.
He'll be the new host of forty eight hours. Well
she hadn't said host, but she'll be the big part
of big star of forty eight hours. Noman's reporter with
(09:01):
a lot of experienced international correspondent, all sorts of stuff,
but his real thing is he's a crime expert, real crime.
And he hosted that podcast, True Crime podcast that was
top rated. And I think that's what she wants for
forty eight hours. You know when it comes to all
these podcasts, Well, now there's a million big podcasts, but
(09:21):
you know in the beginning, the biggest podcast where those
crime podcasts. Remember, that's what everybody would listen to. They
would tell you, well, you gotta listen to this. It's
a ten part series about remember the killing by the
River in Utah ten years No, I don't, but they
would listen to this ten part podcast on it. So
that's what this guy specializes in. She thinks forty eight
(09:42):
hours should be doing that. She's probably right. So he'll
be Matt Gutman of ABC News, big big, major hire.
But slowly but surely she'll change everything over there at
CBS and get rid of all those people over there.
Let's see the Ukraine. Zelensky says he is not interested
(10:03):
in giving up any territory at all. Well, that throws
a huge monkey wrench into the peace talks, because that
was the big part of it. Both sides have to
make some concessions. One is Ukraine would have to concede
a little territory, but uh uh, he says, absolutely no.
This is all probably just negotiating and in the end
you'll have to give up something. It's going to take
(10:24):
longer than we thought. A lot of people thought it
might get done by the end of the year. But
that's not gonna happen. Hey, Alina Habba has to step
down as the US attorney. You know the way this
works because you hear this all the time when the
fake news gets in the middle of it because a
Trump appointed judge ruled that, or the a Trump appointed
(10:44):
US attorney. Well, when you hear a Trump appointed judge,
it had nothing to do with Trump. He didn't know
the judge. He didn't pick the judge. What usually happens
is even with US attorneys, it's normally the case that
I mean sometimes Trump will pick a US attorney, you know,
like the district here in New York. But most of
the time when you need to pick judges or US attorneys,
(11:05):
the local senators, the state senators picked the person. The
two senators of the state, they recommend them the president
ninety eight percent of the time. The President goes along
with it. Very rarely do they object. It's called a
blue slip. The senators of the state have to pick
the person. So they didn't pick Alina Habba. The Senate
will not confirm her. That's why it's not going to work.
(11:27):
And Trump talked about this dumb blue slip thing they have.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You've got a blue slip thing. That's horrible. It's a
horrible thing. It makes it impossible to appoint the judge
or US attorney and it's a shame and the Republicans
should be ashamed of themselves that they allow us to
go on because I can't appoint a US attorney that's
not a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I mean sometimes it makes sense because Trump wouldn't
know any of these people, and he's so far removed
from the state or whoever the president is. He's you
let the local people recommend. But it's a problem if
you got like a sleazy, slimy Chuck Schumer doing the picking.
Or look at Connecticut you got the two dirtiest, sleaziest
senators Chris Murphy and that lying rotten Bloominthal. Can you
(12:09):
imagine leaving up to them to pick a US attorney.
But that's the system.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I think I know why they did that, to protect
their ass Okay, and that's why they did that, But
it should be done away with. I want to be
able to appoint great that most highly educated, the most
respected people. They can't keep that Jebs.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, no, he may be right. That's why they always
are careful who the senators want to pick it. They
pick somebody they know who will never come after them,
and that's the idea. So fake news goes after Alena
hobbit This is there's no experience, he's never been a prosecutor. Never. Well,
that's pretty normal for US attorneys. Remember Chris Christy was
the US attorney. He'd never been in the court room
in his life when he was appointed US attorney. Never
(12:52):
wasn't a prosecutor when he was appointed. He's a big,
big campaign donor in Bundler. So as a reward, they
made a US attorney with no experience as a prosecutor.
Haba was a major partner to major law firm where
she did it was civil litigation, but a lot of
that was about white collar crime, fraud, that sort of stuff.
So Haba actually qualified. Yeah, Alena Habba says she's stepping
(13:14):
down as US Attorney for the District of New Jersey
after the courts disqualified her.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Do you have any comment on that? If she's got disqualified,
you've got a blue slip thing. That's horrible. It's a
horrible thing. It makes it impossible to appoint a judge
or US attorney. And it's a shame, and the Republicans
should be ashamed of themselves that they allowed us to
go on.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You know, fake news does that a lot if they
don't like so if they don't like Pete Hagsith, you
hear that a lot. And he was never qualified to
be Secretary of Defense. You hear these senators, these low
lifes on these talking heads. He should have been a
point in the first place. He had no qualifications. He
has more qualifications to be Secretary of Defense than half
of the secretaries of Defense we've had. Many of them
(13:57):
had no experience. You know that Chuck Hagel was congressman
all his life and less aspen. He was a college
professor when he was appointed secretary to most of these
secretary defenses don't have a lot of exits. Had a
lot of military experience when he got appointed. So Matt
Lower wants to more talk about this comeback than Matt
(14:20):
Lower come back. Now he's apparently it's the girlfriend pushing this.
The girlfriend is also a publicist, so she wants him
to come back. And since she's a publicist, she knows
how to plant all these stories, all over the place,
trying to engineer this comeback, come back for what. I
don't know what. He's going to come back to the
Today Show, I don't think so he can't take him
(14:40):
back there. I mean, it's a cuomo trying to make
a comeback. You left in disgrace, you left under a
cloud of terrible scandal, and in the case of Matt Lower,
it was real scandal, real sexual harassment stuff, real problems.
So who's going to bring him back? And for what reason?
You know, you know, if it's like Lewis c k well,
(15:04):
you know, there's the reason to bring him back. Guy.
The guy was funny. He was really funny and a
lot of stuff, had a lot of talent. So maybe
he's a question mark on this guy, but boy was
he good. Let's bring him back? Or Kevin Spacey, you know,
why would you bring this guy?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Because he was pretty talented. Watch him in what's the
TV show? He did House the Cards or other stuff.
Guy's really talented. No, let's maybe you bend the role
that we'll bring him back because he's really talented. In
case of Matt Lower, you can't say he's really talented.
He's I mean, he was a pleasant guy. He was
nice looking. You know, he's older now, he's not so
(15:42):
hot looking anymore. And he's basically he would read the teleprompter.
I mean, he's not a talented guy. I mean, there's
no Matt Lower videos going viral because he was so brilliant.
I mean, to bend the rules for him, I don't
think so. I don't know. We'll take some calls in
a minute. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
(16:02):
is the number. Oh, we'll get to Frank Sinatra coming up,
but we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten
Mark Simone on sevent ten w R. Well, another freezing
cold data today. It's just I like to walk outside.
I like to walk for miles outside. But it was
not easy yesterday or today. You can hear. No, it's good.
(00:20):
You get used to it. It's a fun walking out
there in the cold. Your nose goes crazy and you
can't take anywhere. But and I saw Sean Hannity yesterday.
You know, he's in Florida now, but he came to
New York and they get that Florida look. He's got
that Florida look, which is like the perfect sun tan,
and you know they look more relaxed. I guess that's good.
(00:43):
I don't know. I don't want the perfect sun tan.
I don't want to look that relaxed. I like to
have that New York you know, that freezing cold face
and uh yeah, all riled up, kind of New York attitude.
But he looked great, and of course you can him
here today three to six on WOR. Let's see now
(01:06):
in Chicago, they got snow and everything, so Ice agents
were there going after a dangerous criminal who's an illegal alien.
He got in under Biden and he was in fact
and the Biden reministration. They actually did have this guy
was so bad and such a criminal. They did arrest
him at the border and he had entered the country illegally.
(01:27):
This is twenty twenty three in the Biden years. But
the Biden deministration released them. They released them. They even
granted him temporary protected status. So he's a dangerous criminal
gang member. He's from that TDA trend to AGUAD. He's
a gang, I mean, the most violent, awful gang. He's
a member of the gang. So he's in Chicago. They're
(01:47):
there to arrest him. They got him on a traffic stop.
Ice was going to arrest the guy at this traffic stop.
So what he did was he smashed his car into
one of the ICE agency vehicles, which made it careene
into a tree. I mean, this is like a blue
Blood's chase scene. He then fled on foot after the crash.
(02:10):
ICE agents chased him. He barricaded himself into a stranger's apartment. Now,
if you didn't know, I think you could tell this
as a criminal. You know, normally on a traffic stop,
you stop. This guy instead drives his car right into
their car and makes him crash into a tree. He
jumps out of his car, runs runs into a stranger's
(02:31):
apartment and barricades himself in there. I think you can
be pretty sure this is a criminal. So ICE is
trying to go after this guy. But it's Chicago, and
a large crowd forms outside and starts throwing things at
the ICE agents start throwing rocks, snowballs, other projectiles. Well,
but you do have the police in Chicago that says
(02:53):
local police refuse to assist or do anything. That's Chicago
for you. This is the Democrats of today. And you know,
if that were your neighborhood, this guy's a may remember
the most dangerous gang. His behavior on a traffic stop
gives you an idea what he's like. Wouldn't you want
that guy removed from your neighborhood. Would you want him
(03:14):
to still live around the block from you. No, But
they're fighting the ICE agents to stop them from taking
this guy away. You know President Trump got you didn't
get the Nobel Peace Prize that he's so deserved, but
he got the FIFA World Cup FIFA Peace Prize. They
decided to award him one. That's nice, not for CNN.
(03:36):
Jake Tapper goes on CNN yesterday attacking, viciously attacking FIFA,
calling their peace prize a joke, ridiculous, it's not legitimate.
This guy, this Jake Tapper, who tries to occasionally pass
himself off as a journalist. He tries to pretend he's
doing some sort of a news show, going into a
(03:57):
tirade denouncing FIFA, attacking their peace prize. What does this
have to do with doing the news on CNN. I
don't know. But CNN is part of Warner Brothers and
Discovery at the company that's going to be taken over
by Netflix, but probably not. Netflix won the bidding at
(04:19):
almost thirty one dollars a share, which means it would
take over Warner Brothers, which includes CNN, includes HBO, includes
the biggest movie studio in Hollywood, all sorts of stuff.
But I don't think Netflix is going to end up
with it. I think this deal's going to fall through
and paramount the original bidder who had been too low.
(04:39):
I think in the end they'll end up with it.
I think they'll end up with it because Warner Bros.
Might have agreed to the Netflix takeover, might have signed
off on it, but that was the people that run it.
That wasn't the shareholders, and the shareholders are upset. They
felt it should have gotten a higher price. They still
(05:00):
think it should have been more like thirty five dollars
this year, not thirty. So they're pushing to have this
deal undone shareholders of a big say in this. President
Trump has indicated he'd rather have Paramount. He's close to
friends with the Paramount CEO, the Ellisons also friends with
the Netflix. But Netflix the bid was too low. They
(05:22):
may have to increase it, but it may also just
go to Paramount. They may end up taking it over. Now,
how can you do that when they already made an
agreement with the other Well, they would have to break
the Netflix agreement. And there's a penalty clause of two
point eight billion. But if Paramount agrees to pay the penalty,
then that solves that problem right there. And you're talking
(05:44):
about an eighty five billion dollar deal, So two point
eight billion is just a tiny percentage. So I think
they're going to think, I bet your Paramount ends up
with it. Now there's all fake news is going after
Paramunt saying they've made some sort of deal with Trump
promised to make radical changes at Sea. Well, first of all.
CNN is a tiny, little nothing part of this company.
(06:05):
It's not doesn't make any real revenue for the company.
It gets no ratings, it has no viewers. And by
the way, if anybody bought the company, the first thing
you would logically do is make radical changes. At CNN.
You'd look at it and say, wait a minute, you're
in last place and you have no ratings. Of course
you got to make radically. You can't do what you
can't keep doing what you're doing. You're in last place
(06:27):
and nobody's watching. You've got to make changes. So any
logical owner would have to have to make some changes there. Hey,
over at CBS News, they're getting rid of the anchors
on the nightly network News. It's Maurice du Bois and
who's the other guy, John Dickerson. Two nice guys. They're
very the competent, but they're not major league anchor people.
(06:50):
They're not you know, Brian Williams, they're not David mw or.
They're not in that league. Maurice du Bois with the
local channel two anchor John Dickerson is like a third
string face the nation kind of a host. So they're
gonna they've already picked a guy. It's somebody from CBS
News whose name I can't remember. He's on one of
(07:12):
day I think he's on the morning show. He's a
very good looking anchor. He said. I think they've decided
let's copy David Muir because that's the number one show
on television, the ABC Evening News with David Muir, number
one show in all of television primetime everything. Why, well,
it's different from the other evening news shows in that
(07:33):
it's slicker. It's really fast moving at disc keeps moving.
It's not that political. It's political, but there's a million
other things. It kind of looks like TMZ or Entertainment Tonight.
It really moves, and the anchor is just a really handsome,
good looking guy. It's very you know, slick. It's much slicker.
So I think they've decided to go in that direction.
So they got a new anchor whose name I don't remember.
(07:56):
I could look it up, but what's the difference. You're
not gonna remember his name either, but he looks very good.
He looks like David Muir. So they'll probably get some
producers in there, could make it faster, tighter, good looking anchor,
so the little copy, David Muir, that's a good idea.
It makes sense. Barry Weiss is now running CBS News
is going to slowly but surely change everything there. They're
(08:17):
going to change all the sixty minutes people. She wants
to get rid of what they call the programs older correspondence.
They're all like eighty five years old, so expect them all,
one by one to get taken out. Scott Pelly, Leslie Stall,
Bill Whittaker, so they'll all go. And now she's already
(08:39):
made a big higher ABC News Matt Gutman, you know,
the reporter Matt Gutman. She's very high on him. She
wants him to take quote a major role at CBS.
He'll be the new host of forty eight hours. Well
she hadn't said host, but she'll be the big part
of big star of forty eight hours. Noman's reporter with
(09:01):
a lot of experienced international correspondent, all sorts of stuff,
but his real thing is he's a crime expert, real crime.
And he hosted that podcast, True Crime podcast that was
top rated. And I think that's what she wants for
forty eight hours. You know when it comes to all
these podcasts, Well, now there's a million big podcasts, but
(09:21):
you know in the beginning, the biggest podcast where those
crime podcasts. Remember, that's what everybody would listen to. They
would tell you, well, you gotta listen to this. It's
a ten part series about remember the killing by the
River in Utah ten years No, I don't, but they
would listen to this ten part podcast on it. So
that's what this guy specializes in. She thinks forty eight
(09:42):
hours should be doing that. She's probably right. So he'll
be Matt Gutman of ABC News, big big, major hire.
But slowly but surely she'll change everything over there at
CBS and get rid of all those people over there.
Let's see the Ukraine. Zelensky says he is not interested
(10:03):
in giving up any territory at all. Well, that throws
a huge monkey wrench into the peace talks, because that
was the big part of it. Both sides have to
make some concessions. One is Ukraine would have to concede
a little territory, but uh uh, he says, absolutely no.
This is all probably just negotiating and in the end
you'll have to give up something. It's going to take
(10:24):
longer than we thought. A lot of people thought it
might get done by the end of the year. But
that's not gonna happen. Hey, Alina Habba has to step
down as the US attorney. You know the way this
works because you hear this all the time when the
fake news gets in the middle of it because a
Trump appointed judge ruled that, or the a Trump appointed
(10:44):
US attorney. Well, when you hear a Trump appointed judge,
it had nothing to do with Trump. He didn't know
the judge. He didn't pick the judge. What usually happens
is even with US attorneys, it's normally the case that
I mean sometimes Trump will pick a US attorney, you know,
like the district here in New York. But most of
the time when you need to pick judges or US attorneys,
(11:05):
the local senators, the state senators picked the person. The
two senators of the state, they recommend them the president
ninety eight percent of the time. The President goes along
with it. Very rarely do they object. It's called a
blue slip. The senators of the state have to pick
the person. So they didn't pick Alina Habba. The Senate
will not confirm her. That's why it's not going to work.
(11:27):
And Trump talked about this dumb blue slip thing they have.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You've got a blue slip thing. That's horrible. It's a
horrible thing. It makes it impossible to appoint the judge
or US attorney and it's a shame and the Republicans
should be ashamed of themselves that they allow us to
go on because I can't appoint a US attorney that's
not a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I mean sometimes it makes sense because Trump wouldn't
know any of these people, and he's so far removed
from the state or whoever the president is. He's you
let the local people recommend. But it's a problem if
you got like a sleazy, slimy Chuck Schumer doing the picking.
Or look at Connecticut you got the two dirtiest, sleaziest
senators Chris Murphy and that lying rotten Bloominthal. Can you
(12:09):
imagine leaving up to them to pick a US attorney.
But that's the system.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I think I know why they did that, to protect
their ass Okay, and that's why they did that, But
it should be done away with. I want to be
able to appoint great that most highly educated, the most
respected people. They can't keep that Jebs.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, no, he may be right. That's why they always
are careful who the senators want to pick it. They
pick somebody they know who will never come after them,
and that's the idea. So fake news goes after Alena
hobbit This is there's no experience, he's never been a prosecutor. Never. Well,
that's pretty normal for US attorneys. Remember Chris Christy was
the US attorney. He'd never been in the court room
in his life when he was appointed US attorney. Never
(12:52):
wasn't a prosecutor when he was appointed. He's a big,
big campaign donor in Bundler. So as a reward, they
made a US attorney with no experience as a prosecutor.
Haba was a major partner to major law firm where
she did it was civil litigation, but a lot of
that was about white collar crime, fraud, that sort of stuff.
So Haba actually qualified. Yeah, Alena Habba says she's stepping
(13:14):
down as US Attorney for the District of New Jersey
after the courts disqualified her.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Do you have any comment on that? If she's got disqualified,
you've got a blue slip thing. That's horrible. It's a
horrible thing. It makes it impossible to appoint a judge
or US attorney. And it's a shame, and the Republicans
should be ashamed of themselves that they allowed us to
go on.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You know, fake news does that a lot if they
don't like so if they don't like Pete Hagsith, you
hear that a lot. And he was never qualified to
be Secretary of Defense. You hear these senators, these low
lifes on these talking heads. He should have been a
point in the first place. He had no qualifications. He
has more qualifications to be Secretary of Defense than half
of the secretaries of Defense we've had. Many of them
(13:57):
had no experience. You know that Chuck Hagel was congressman
all his life and less aspen. He was a college
professor when he was appointed secretary to most of these
secretary defenses don't have a lot of exits. Had a
lot of military experience when he got appointed. So Matt
Lower wants to more talk about this comeback than Matt
(14:20):
Lower come back. Now he's apparently it's the girlfriend pushing this.
The girlfriend is also a publicist, so she wants him
to come back. And since she's a publicist, she knows
how to plant all these stories, all over the place,
trying to engineer this comeback, come back for what. I
don't know what. He's going to come back to the
Today Show, I don't think so he can't take him
(14:40):
back there. I mean, it's a cuomo trying to make
a comeback. You left in disgrace, you left under a
cloud of terrible scandal, and in the case of Matt Lower,
it was real scandal, real sexual harassment stuff, real problems.
So who's going to bring him back? And for what reason?
You know, you know, if it's like Lewis c k well,
(15:04):
you know, there's the reason to bring him back. Guy.
The guy was funny. He was really funny and a
lot of stuff, had a lot of talent. So maybe
he's a question mark on this guy, but boy was
he good. Let's bring him back? Or Kevin Spacey, you know,
why would you bring this guy?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Because he was pretty talented. Watch him in what's the
TV show? He did House the Cards or other stuff.
Guy's really talented. No, let's maybe you bend the role
that we'll bring him back because he's really talented. In
case of Matt Lower, you can't say he's really talented.
He's I mean, he was a pleasant guy. He was
nice looking. You know, he's older now, he's not so
(15:42):
hot looking anymore. And he's basically he would read the teleprompter.
I mean, he's not a talented guy. I mean, there's
no Matt Lower videos going viral because he was so brilliant.
I mean, to bend the rules for him, I don't
think so. I don't know. We'll take some calls in
a minute. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
(16:02):
is the number. Oh, we'll get to Frank Sinatra coming up,
but we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three two
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