January 5, 2026 • 16 mins
Mark provides the latest updates on CBS’s rebranding. Tonight, a new national news anchor was scheduled to debut, but that may be postponed. Mark also discusses how the US military is currently well-positioned to respond to any emerging crises.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mark Simon Show on.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Or Well, I'm back way too long a vacation. Every
host was gone for two weeks. That today everybody back
to normal. Everybody's back. You know, it's nice to get
away a nice, quiet vacation. As I was saying, the
President of the United States, Donald Trump, very unusual. Normally
(00:28):
a president takes a break, a vacation. Bush would go
to the ranch, the ranch, quiet, peaceful, roaring fire, quiet
on the ranch, Joe Biden, would you know some billionaire
oligarch would lend him the house on Nantucket? He goes,
(00:48):
sit there on Nantucket? Is it Martha's vineyard? Even quieter?
Martha's vineyard? Roaring fire, snow outside, quiet, Trump on vacation
goes tomorrow a lago. That place Christmas Week is a
billion people all crammed into. It's the most crowded, chaotic,
(01:10):
noisy place you've ever seen. It's just a total circus
going on there around the clock. Now that's the way
he is. In fact, after two weeks there, I watched
him last night fly back to the White House. The
helicopter landed on the lawn and he walked into the
White House. The White House for him is getting away.
The White House was peace and quiet for him, compared
(01:33):
to the unbelievably chaotic Mara A Lago, just packed with people.
You hear all these people, you see them on Instagram.
Who went tomorrow Lago for the New Year's Eve party
or for Christmas dinner? Or you see him there in
the dining looks so nice and beautiful, and you think,
quite a wonderful Where do he actually go there? You know,
(01:57):
you know, just pull up to the door and get
out of the car in the valley whisks your car away.
It's not that simple. You pull up like four blocks
away to a checkpoint where the Secret Service, the FBI,
guns big massive machine guns in their hand and dogs everywhere,
take your car apart for twenty minutes. You have to
(02:18):
open the hood, you have to open the trunk. They
have to look They literally look through your engine. They
inspect every inch of your car inside. They even get
under your car. They have a long pole with a
mirror that they slip under your car. They look at everything.
This takes forever. This is not to mention frisking you,
searching you, checking all your identity. This is like a
(02:39):
forty minute process. It makes tsa at the airport look
like a breeze. This is just to get into Borrow Lago.
It's just it's a crazy place. But we're glad everybody's back.
So the CBS Evening News has a brand new anchor
and tonight was supposed to be his big debut. But
(03:00):
then Saturday night, the Maduro capture takes place. This is
big breaking news. So they decided the new anchor, I
tell you his name, but who the hell can remember it?
And why remember it? The last three anchors of the
CBS Evening News actually in pay for the last five
of them. Nobody remembers anyway. But he decided he would
anchor the Saturday night Evening News, that he would move
(03:22):
it up and that would be his debut, and it
was quite shocking. You know. They got this new Barry
Weiss who took over CBS News claims she's going to
clean up the corruption is CBS News is the dirtiest,
most corrupt, slanted, partisan, misleading, biased news organization. She claims
(03:43):
she would clean it up. Well, there was evidence of that.
Saturday Night, the CBS Evening News with the new guy.
I think his name is David something, who the hell
knows but he took over, and the big story that
consumed the whole half hour newscast was the Maduro capture.
And of course it's CBS News, you know the way
they write the news there, it's kind of slanted, implying
(04:05):
that this was something that shouldn't happen, this Maduro capture.
But then he said, with us live now is Secretary
of Defense Pete Hegzith. And then he put hexithon and
let him talk for seven minutes. They had to do commercial.
He said, can you hold on and come back with us?
And then they brought him back in the next segment
for seven minutes, and then at the end they said
(04:27):
we have to go, but for commercial, can you hang
on again? And he hung on through the second commercial
break and was back for a third segment. Now, this
is the major spokesman of the Trump administration on this matter,
the Secretary of Defense. So this is quite a change
for CBS News to give him airtime and let him
(04:47):
give his point of view in the administration's point of
view for about twenty minutes. You never would have seen
that on the old CBS News. So if this is
an indication of change, if this guy tonight is going
to keep doing that. Make it actually a fair, unbiased newscast.
That'll be interesting. See what now, it could be a
(05:09):
formula really works. It'll take a while for word to
get around. It's not so corrupt anymore, but who knows,
it may take off in viewership.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The other thing is apparently Trump knew that they're going
to clean up the CBS Evening News because the Maduro
raid took place in the middle of the night and
it was secret. Congress nobody got told about the raid.
It was total secrecy when it happened. But CBS News
was given the story first by the administration. They broke
(05:39):
the story before anybody because the administration gave it to them.
That's a pretty big thing for a news organization to
be handed that big story before anybody else. But the
President did it, so apparently he has some faith in
CBS News. Now, the Sunday morning shows, they went right
back to total corruption. They went right back to putting
(06:00):
on people you shouldn't put on. Chuck Schumer has no
business being put on any Sunday morning show. He's not
going to run for reelection. He's totally irrelevant. He's a sad,
tired old Willie Lowman kind of an old politician on
his way out, but there he was huffing and puffing
on the morning shows.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
If they want to do what's good for the American people,
it should not be some escapade in Venezuela. It should
be focusing on lowering the cost of living that Americans
are struggling with every week and tell us it's the
most important issue they face.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, actually, he has been lowering the cost every week.
The actual statistics back that up. And an escapade getting
rid of this drug terrorist kingpin Narco. It's not an escapade.
And we do have video. I think it's up on
my Twitter if you want to look at it. For
the last few years, Chuck Schumer has been demanding we
get rid of Maduro. He's been screaming that we have
(06:51):
to get rid of Maduro. The whole thing is comical. Now.
The other thing they tried arguing is this process argument
that because it is it's totally legal, you can go
in there and seize Maduro. We did it with Noriega,
we did it with in fact, let me see, there's
a whole list here, how many times every president, every
(07:11):
single president has run these sort of operations you don't
need there's nothing to do with the War Powers Act.
You don't need to get congressional approval. You don't even
need to notify them. You can go through the whole list.
Jimmy Carter Iran nineteen eighty Remember the operation in the
middle of the night landing the helicopters going in to
capture the hostages and get them back. That was Jimmy Carter,
(07:32):
and didn't notify Congress. Ronald Reagan bombing of Tripoli, bombing
of Benghazi, you didn't have to notify Congress. George H. W.
Bush Panama invasion, Iraq airstrikes. You didn't need to get
any approval or notify them. Bill Clinton did it in Bosnia,
he did it in Iraq, he did it in Kosovo.
(07:54):
George W. Bush launched drone strikes at invasions in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia.
Didn't have to inform Congress. Barack Obama did it in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen.
Joe Biden did it in Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. In
fact were still there with the astor. See, you don't
(08:15):
need to inform anybody, You don't need to deal with
Congress on it. You don't. The War Powers Act was
created in the seventies by a bunch of left wing people,
and basically it says, you can do whatever the hell
you want for ninety days. After ninety days, you're supposed
to inform us. Schumer again, I.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Still have not been briefed. We've had some content with
the administration in that we've asked them for the Gang
of Eight briefing and the oil congressmen and all senators briefing,
but we've gotten no information from them.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Who the hell would brief you, Why would it be
brief you? Who would even talk to you, to look
at you? And it was not an invasion, you know
the CBS and ABC though Sunday Morning shows it's an
invasion of Venezuela. Rubio just fought back.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
It wasn't necessary because this is not an invasion. We
didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation. This
is a law enforcement operation. He was arrested on the
ground in Venezuela by FBI agents, read his right and
removed from the country.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, President Trump, Congress as the tendency to leak, this
would not be good if they leaked.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
General I think it would have been maybe a very
different result.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, could you imagine briefing? Can you imagine would you
trust Hakim Jeffries. You remember when Pete Hexath went on
signal and they said this is dangerous discussing an upcoming
military operation on signal. Why somebody could find out what
would be more dangerous putting on signal chat or telling
Hakeem Jeffries about it. But remember, the Democrats have demanded
(09:39):
four years. They have demanded. You can go to my
Twitter the videos all up there of all the Democrats
demanding the Trump removed Maduro.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I did have conversations with him, and I said, and
he also, he didn't just remove me.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Gave Maduro many, many many chances to leave on his own.
He gave him plenty of the exit packages that were
quite the pro profitable for him, but he turned him
all down.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I did have conversations with him, and I said, uh,
you got to surrender. And I actually thought he was
pretty close to doing so, but now he wished she did.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah. Now here's a couple of things. You know what's interesting.
All the Democrats, of course, being just children. They're all
just childish knee jerk, you know, whatever Trump does, they
hate it. They start screaming and whining and pouting, and
they did that all you know who didn't say a
word about this Maduro thing. You know who's not even
mentioned it. Gavin Newsom, who is appears to be the
(10:37):
leading candidate in twenty twenty, and he's kept quiet about it.
He knows to stay out of it. Now he is
going to be the big guest. If you're a left
wing cook, this is a big night for you because
tonight and they're announcing it all day long tonight on
Rachel Madow. Exclusive. It says right there on the screen
(10:58):
right now, it says coxclusive interview with Gavin Newsom. Exclusive
interview with Gavin Newsom. I can't go five minutes without
seeing Gavin Newsom on a radio show, a podcast, a
TV show. He's on forty thousand shows a day. But
this is an exclusive with Gavin Newsom. Now let's see
if she asked him about Maduro and he's forced to
(11:20):
comment about it. Now, here's the problem. Tim Waltz is,
as Howie Carr said, sleeping with the fishes. Tim Waltz
is dead politically, he's gone. He will not seek reelection.
He announced that an hour ago. He will not seek reelection.
He can't run for reelection. His political career is over
because of the Somalia fraud, which is massive. Everybody says
(11:44):
Gavin Newsom has the same problem about to explode in California,
and if that's the case, he'll suffer the same fate
that Tim Waltz suffered. He will not be able to
run and that'll be the end of him. So this
is going to be interesting to keep an eye on.
Now when it comes to Venezuela. The only scary part
(12:04):
when the Trump administration says, well, we'll run of Venezuela,
and everybody's, oh my god, this is a rack all
over again. This is a raq. We're gonna get bogged. Now.
There's a lot of differences here, many differences. First of all,
it's not a rack. This country does not resemble a rack.
When we took over Iraq, we had destroyed every inch
of government. There was nothing there. In the case of Venezuela,
(12:27):
the government is still fully functioning. Government still exists. We
just took out one guy, We did not touch the government.
It's still there, still functioning. The other difference is a raq,
the chaos came from the warring factions, the different tribes,
the different groups all fighting with each other the civil war.
This is not the case in Venezuela. There's only one
(12:50):
group of people. There aren't different tribes. There's unity in
the population. That's the other year.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The other difference is people in Iraq, believe it or not,
they loved Sadam Hussein. People in Venezuela hated Maduro. They're
all thrilled that he's gone. The other difference is in Iraq,
we were there on the ground occupying the country. There's
no such thing. In Venezuela. We are not there. We
don't have a single soldier on the ground there. We're
doing it from offshore on lots of ships. We got
(13:18):
lots of planes, drones, missiles. Also that we can do
whatever we need to from there. We're not on the ground.
You remember they always all weekend they're bringing up the
pottery barn rule. That was Colin Powell that started that.
When we went into a Raq, you know, or we invaded.
He always said, you got to remember the pottery barn rule.
(13:39):
You break it, you own it. If you break it,
you own it. He kept talking about this pottery barn rule.
It was all a myth. He just made that up.
There's no such thing. You know, if you go into
pottery barn today and accidentally break something, you don't have
to buy it. There's no pottery barn rule that if
you break something in the store you own it. The
(13:59):
rules fall it never ever ever existed. Hey, the Giant
season is over. The Jets season is over. Thank god. Now.
I don't know how I got swept up in this,
but everybody kept talking about the Bills Jets game yesterday,
New York Jets, Buffalo Bills. Bruce Blakeman, who should be
the next governor. He's the best choice for governor, Bruce Blakeman.
(14:20):
I'm watching his Instagram. He's I'm flying up to Buffalo.
I didn't realize he's such a big Buffalo fan, has
been for years. In fact, he was wearing this Buffalo
T shirt that his sun bought him years ago. He
was such a Buffalo fan. But he flew up there
for the game and all these people telling him to
the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets big game. Yes,
I'm all hyped up. I can't wait to watch as well.
(14:40):
I got home late. I had to miss the first
half of the game, so I put it on quickly. Oh,
I want to watch this game. I forgot it's the Jets.
What the hell am I rushing home for? Soon as
I put it on in the middle of the game,
it's like thirty eight nothing, Buffalo Bills are a head.
It's the Jets. They're not gonna what game. There was
nothing competitive by the end. I think the Jets got
(15:01):
one touchdown. It was like seventy five to two or something.
This game. The Jets the worst team in the world.
Woody Johnson is a wonderful guy. He's a great guy.
I know him. I love Woody Johnson. Worst owner in
the history of sports, single worst owner ever in the
history of sports. I've never seen anybody so bad at
(15:25):
running anything. It's Woody Johnson and the Jets. It's just horrible.
And there are plenty of people saying a mechanism needs
to be created in the NFL to take a team
away from an owner if he's ever this bad, and
taking away would mean force him to sell, which is fine.
You know, he paid six hundred million for the team.
(15:46):
It's now worth like nine billions, so if he took
it away and made him sell it great. He'd make
a great profit, be better for everybody. And then the
Giants they're a little better. They didn't have a good season.
What were they four and eleven and four and thirty
or something like that, but they won the last couple
of games. Big mistake. They should have lost them deliberately,
because now you would have had a first choice in
(16:08):
the draft. Now you got like fourth choice in the draft.
So anyway, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten
The Mark Simon Show on.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Or Well, I'm back way too long a vacation. Every
host was gone for two weeks. That today everybody back
to normal. Everybody's back. You know, it's nice to get
away a nice, quiet vacation. As I was saying, the
President of the United States, Donald Trump, very unusual. Normally
(00:28):
a president takes a break, a vacation. Bush would go
to the ranch, the ranch, quiet, peaceful, roaring fire, quiet
on the ranch, Joe Biden, would you know some billionaire
oligarch would lend him the house on Nantucket? He goes,
(00:48):
sit there on Nantucket? Is it Martha's vineyard? Even quieter?
Martha's vineyard? Roaring fire, snow outside, quiet, Trump on vacation
goes tomorrow a lago. That place Christmas Week is a
billion people all crammed into. It's the most crowded, chaotic,
(01:10):
noisy place you've ever seen. It's just a total circus
going on there around the clock. Now that's the way
he is. In fact, after two weeks there, I watched
him last night fly back to the White House. The
helicopter landed on the lawn and he walked into the
White House. The White House for him is getting away.
The White House was peace and quiet for him, compared
(01:33):
to the unbelievably chaotic Mara A Lago, just packed with people.
You hear all these people, you see them on Instagram.
Who went tomorrow Lago for the New Year's Eve party
or for Christmas dinner? Or you see him there in
the dining looks so nice and beautiful, and you think,
quite a wonderful Where do he actually go there? You know,
(01:57):
you know, just pull up to the door and get
out of the car in the valley whisks your car away.
It's not that simple. You pull up like four blocks
away to a checkpoint where the Secret Service, the FBI,
guns big massive machine guns in their hand and dogs everywhere,
take your car apart for twenty minutes. You have to
(02:18):
open the hood, you have to open the trunk. They
have to look They literally look through your engine. They
inspect every inch of your car inside. They even get
under your car. They have a long pole with a
mirror that they slip under your car. They look at everything.
This takes forever. This is not to mention frisking you,
searching you, checking all your identity. This is like a
(02:39):
forty minute process. It makes tsa at the airport look
like a breeze. This is just to get into Borrow Lago.
It's just it's a crazy place. But we're glad everybody's back.
So the CBS Evening News has a brand new anchor
and tonight was supposed to be his big debut. But
(03:00):
then Saturday night, the Maduro capture takes place. This is
big breaking news. So they decided the new anchor, I
tell you his name, but who the hell can remember it?
And why remember it? The last three anchors of the
CBS Evening News actually in pay for the last five
of them. Nobody remembers anyway. But he decided he would
anchor the Saturday night Evening News, that he would move
(03:22):
it up and that would be his debut, and it
was quite shocking. You know. They got this new Barry
Weiss who took over CBS News claims she's going to
clean up the corruption is CBS News is the dirtiest,
most corrupt, slanted, partisan, misleading, biased news organization. She claims
(03:43):
she would clean it up. Well, there was evidence of that.
Saturday Night, the CBS Evening News with the new guy.
I think his name is David something, who the hell
knows but he took over, and the big story that
consumed the whole half hour newscast was the Maduro capture.
And of course it's CBS News, you know the way
they write the news there, it's kind of slanted, implying
(04:05):
that this was something that shouldn't happen, this Maduro capture.
But then he said, with us live now is Secretary
of Defense Pete Hegzith. And then he put hexithon and
let him talk for seven minutes. They had to do commercial.
He said, can you hold on and come back with us?
And then they brought him back in the next segment
for seven minutes, and then at the end they said
(04:27):
we have to go, but for commercial, can you hang
on again? And he hung on through the second commercial
break and was back for a third segment. Now, this
is the major spokesman of the Trump administration on this matter,
the Secretary of Defense. So this is quite a change
for CBS News to give him airtime and let him
(04:47):
give his point of view in the administration's point of
view for about twenty minutes. You never would have seen
that on the old CBS News. So if this is
an indication of change, if this guy tonight is going
to keep doing that. Make it actually a fair, unbiased newscast.
That'll be interesting. See what now, it could be a
(05:09):
formula really works. It'll take a while for word to
get around. It's not so corrupt anymore, but who knows,
it may take off in viewership.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The other thing is apparently Trump knew that they're going
to clean up the CBS Evening News because the Maduro
raid took place in the middle of the night and
it was secret. Congress nobody got told about the raid.
It was total secrecy when it happened. But CBS News
was given the story first by the administration. They broke
(05:39):
the story before anybody because the administration gave it to them.
That's a pretty big thing for a news organization to
be handed that big story before anybody else. But the
President did it, so apparently he has some faith in
CBS News. Now, the Sunday morning shows, they went right
back to total corruption. They went right back to putting
(06:00):
on people you shouldn't put on. Chuck Schumer has no
business being put on any Sunday morning show. He's not
going to run for reelection. He's totally irrelevant. He's a sad,
tired old Willie Lowman kind of an old politician on
his way out, but there he was huffing and puffing
on the morning shows.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
If they want to do what's good for the American people,
it should not be some escapade in Venezuela. It should
be focusing on lowering the cost of living that Americans
are struggling with every week and tell us it's the
most important issue they face.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, actually, he has been lowering the cost every week.
The actual statistics back that up. And an escapade getting
rid of this drug terrorist kingpin Narco. It's not an escapade.
And we do have video. I think it's up on
my Twitter if you want to look at it. For
the last few years, Chuck Schumer has been demanding we
get rid of Maduro. He's been screaming that we have
(06:51):
to get rid of Maduro. The whole thing is comical. Now.
The other thing they tried arguing is this process argument
that because it is it's totally legal, you can go
in there and seize Maduro. We did it with Noriega,
we did it with in fact, let me see, there's
a whole list here, how many times every president, every
(07:11):
single president has run these sort of operations you don't
need there's nothing to do with the War Powers Act.
You don't need to get congressional approval. You don't even
need to notify them. You can go through the whole list.
Jimmy Carter Iran nineteen eighty Remember the operation in the
middle of the night landing the helicopters going in to
capture the hostages and get them back. That was Jimmy Carter,
(07:32):
and didn't notify Congress. Ronald Reagan bombing of Tripoli, bombing
of Benghazi, you didn't have to notify Congress. George H. W.
Bush Panama invasion, Iraq airstrikes. You didn't need to get
any approval or notify them. Bill Clinton did it in Bosnia,
he did it in Iraq, he did it in Kosovo.
(07:54):
George W. Bush launched drone strikes at invasions in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia.
Didn't have to inform Congress. Barack Obama did it in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen.
Joe Biden did it in Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. In
fact were still there with the astor. See, you don't
(08:15):
need to inform anybody, You don't need to deal with
Congress on it. You don't. The War Powers Act was
created in the seventies by a bunch of left wing people,
and basically it says, you can do whatever the hell
you want for ninety days. After ninety days, you're supposed
to inform us. Schumer again, I.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Still have not been briefed. We've had some content with
the administration in that we've asked them for the Gang
of Eight briefing and the oil congressmen and all senators briefing,
but we've gotten no information from them.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Who the hell would brief you, Why would it be
brief you? Who would even talk to you, to look
at you? And it was not an invasion, you know
the CBS and ABC though Sunday Morning shows it's an
invasion of Venezuela. Rubio just fought back.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
It wasn't necessary because this is not an invasion. We
didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation. This
is a law enforcement operation. He was arrested on the
ground in Venezuela by FBI agents, read his right and
removed from the country.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, President Trump, Congress as the tendency to leak, this
would not be good if they leaked.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
General I think it would have been maybe a very
different result.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, could you imagine briefing? Can you imagine would you
trust Hakim Jeffries. You remember when Pete Hexath went on
signal and they said this is dangerous discussing an upcoming
military operation on signal. Why somebody could find out what
would be more dangerous putting on signal chat or telling
Hakeem Jeffries about it. But remember, the Democrats have demanded
(09:39):
four years. They have demanded. You can go to my
Twitter the videos all up there of all the Democrats
demanding the Trump removed Maduro.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I did have conversations with him, and I said, and
he also, he didn't just remove me.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Gave Maduro many, many many chances to leave on his own.
He gave him plenty of the exit packages that were
quite the pro profitable for him, but he turned him
all down.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I did have conversations with him, and I said, uh,
you got to surrender. And I actually thought he was
pretty close to doing so, but now he wished she did.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah. Now here's a couple of things. You know what's interesting.
All the Democrats, of course, being just children. They're all
just childish knee jerk, you know, whatever Trump does, they
hate it. They start screaming and whining and pouting, and
they did that all you know who didn't say a
word about this Maduro thing. You know who's not even
mentioned it. Gavin Newsom, who is appears to be the
(10:37):
leading candidate in twenty twenty, and he's kept quiet about it.
He knows to stay out of it. Now he is
going to be the big guest. If you're a left
wing cook, this is a big night for you because
tonight and they're announcing it all day long tonight on
Rachel Madow. Exclusive. It says right there on the screen
(10:58):
right now, it says coxclusive interview with Gavin Newsom. Exclusive
interview with Gavin Newsom. I can't go five minutes without
seeing Gavin Newsom on a radio show, a podcast, a
TV show. He's on forty thousand shows a day. But
this is an exclusive with Gavin Newsom. Now let's see
if she asked him about Maduro and he's forced to
(11:20):
comment about it. Now, here's the problem. Tim Waltz is,
as Howie Carr said, sleeping with the fishes. Tim Waltz
is dead politically, he's gone. He will not seek reelection.
He announced that an hour ago. He will not seek reelection.
He can't run for reelection. His political career is over
because of the Somalia fraud, which is massive. Everybody says
(11:44):
Gavin Newsom has the same problem about to explode in California,
and if that's the case, he'll suffer the same fate
that Tim Waltz suffered. He will not be able to
run and that'll be the end of him. So this
is going to be interesting to keep an eye on.
Now when it comes to Venezuela. The only scary part
(12:04):
when the Trump administration says, well, we'll run of Venezuela,
and everybody's, oh my god, this is a rack all
over again. This is a raq. We're gonna get bogged. Now.
There's a lot of differences here, many differences. First of all,
it's not a rack. This country does not resemble a rack.
When we took over Iraq, we had destroyed every inch
of government. There was nothing there. In the case of Venezuela,
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the government is still fully functioning. Government still exists. We
just took out one guy, We did not touch the government.
It's still there, still functioning. The other difference is a raq,
the chaos came from the warring factions, the different tribes,
the different groups all fighting with each other the civil war.
This is not the case in Venezuela. There's only one
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group of people. There aren't different tribes. There's unity in
the population. That's the other year.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The other difference is people in Iraq, believe it or not,
they loved Sadam Hussein. People in Venezuela hated Maduro. They're
all thrilled that he's gone. The other difference is in Iraq,
we were there on the ground occupying the country. There's
no such thing. In Venezuela. We are not there. We
don't have a single soldier on the ground there. We're
doing it from offshore on lots of ships. We got
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lots of planes, drones, missiles. Also that we can do
whatever we need to from there. We're not on the ground.
You remember they always all weekend they're bringing up the
pottery barn rule. That was Colin Powell that started that.
When we went into a Raq, you know, or we invaded.
He always said, you got to remember the pottery barn rule.
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You break it, you own it. If you break it,
you own it. He kept talking about this pottery barn rule.
It was all a myth. He just made that up.
There's no such thing. You know, if you go into
pottery barn today and accidentally break something, you don't have
to buy it. There's no pottery barn rule that if
you break something in the store you own it. The
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rules fall it never ever ever existed. Hey, the Giant
season is over. The Jets season is over. Thank god. Now.
I don't know how I got swept up in this,
but everybody kept talking about the Bills Jets game yesterday,
New York Jets, Buffalo Bills. Bruce Blakeman, who should be
the next governor. He's the best choice for governor, Bruce Blakeman.
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I'm watching his Instagram. He's I'm flying up to Buffalo.
I didn't realize he's such a big Buffalo fan, has
been for years. In fact, he was wearing this Buffalo
T shirt that his sun bought him years ago. He
was such a Buffalo fan. But he flew up there
for the game and all these people telling him to
the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets big game. Yes,
I'm all hyped up. I can't wait to watch as well.
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I got home late. I had to miss the first
half of the game, so I put it on quickly. Oh,
I want to watch this game. I forgot it's the Jets.
What the hell am I rushing home for? Soon as
I put it on in the middle of the game,
it's like thirty eight nothing, Buffalo Bills are a head.
It's the Jets. They're not gonna what game. There was
nothing competitive by the end. I think the Jets got
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one touchdown. It was like seventy five to two or something.
This game. The Jets the worst team in the world.
Woody Johnson is a wonderful guy. He's a great guy.
I know him. I love Woody Johnson. Worst owner in
the history of sports, single worst owner ever in the
history of sports. I've never seen anybody so bad at
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running anything. It's Woody Johnson and the Jets. It's just horrible.
And there are plenty of people saying a mechanism needs
to be created in the NFL to take a team
away from an owner if he's ever this bad, and
taking away would mean force him to sell, which is fine.
You know, he paid six hundred million for the team.
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It's now worth like nine billions, so if he took
it away and made him sell it great. He'd make
a great profit, be better for everybody. And then the
Giants they're a little better. They didn't have a good season.
What were they four and eleven and four and thirty
or something like that, but they won the last couple
of games. Big mistake. They should have lost them deliberately,
because now you would have had a first choice in
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the draft. Now you got like fourth choice in the draft.
So anyway, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
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