January 9, 2026 • 16 mins
Julie Menin, a Jewish leader and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has been elected as New York City Council Speaker and will be working alongside Mayor Mamdani. In other news, Luigi Mangione, accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, may avoid jail time depending on upcoming legal proceedings in New York City.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now more Mark Simone on seven ten r.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey. Luckily it's Friday already, first week of twenty twenty six,
done and lots to get to. This hour, we'll get
to Bruce Blakeman. He should be the next governor. We'll
talk to him coming up later this hour. Kathy Hochel
will look like she will head to the left, far
to the left, trying to get the nomination. She's closing
(00:32):
up to Mom Donnie. She's somehow decided that to win,
she's got to be over there with Mom Donnie, get
his support his voters, which might be fine in New
York City, but I don't know, you've got a lot
of them up state. Remember, Bruce Blakeman just won a
big election in Nassau County second time, and if you
look at the makeup of Nassau County, it's very similar
(00:54):
to the makeup of New York State. Demographics, party, all
that sort of stuff. So excellent shot. He's far more
qualified to be governor than Kathy Hochalist. So we'll talk
to him later this hour. By the way, he gets
inaugurated for the second term on Monday, big inauguration ceremony.
Mom Donnie, of course just being Mom Donnie. He's doing
(01:17):
lots of interviews. I don't know if he does any work.
There's no sign of him actually doing anything as mayor.
The good news about Mom Donnie. People have said, I
don't want to say who, but they've said a couple
of things. One, he doesn't really do anything. It's all talk.
He just gets out there and he talks, and he
talks a mile a minute, and he does one interview
after another, and it's a pointing people, and they talk
(01:39):
and he talks and they talk, but nobody ever actually
does anything. The other thing is people say they believe
he's not a very courageous person. He's basically a kind
of a coward. So these big, big controversial things he's proposing,
he may never actually pull the trigger on and may
never actually do any of them, but he does love
(01:59):
to I never saw I do so many interviews. Yesterday
he's talking a good morning, good day in New York,
Hello Schenectany. He's talking to New York, anywhere and everywhere,
talking about anything and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
For too many years, the relationship between Albany and City
Hall has been defined by dysfunction and discourse, by feuds,
and by factionalism, petty grievances have interfered with the work
of serving the people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But again it's just talk. You just get up there
and you're talking. For too many years. You talk like this,
and you sound like you're making some important point and
nobody's listening, and meantime you're getting nothing done. And then
of course there's all his left wing stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Obviously that's not an opinion that I share.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And oh, Alby, you know what this is. This is
he appointed this woman to run housing, real left wing cook.
Now you just have to accept this. Mondani is basically
the third term of Deblasio, and it's the same as Deblasi.
You point a bunch of left wing cooks who just
say left wing cookie things, and everybody looks at their
Twitter from three years ago and they can't believe the
(03:03):
things that they said. And this woman he appointed to
run housing. You go back and look at her Twitter.
I think she took it down a couple of days ago,
but when people looked at her Twitter from two years ago,
three years ago, she's tweeting all kinds of nonsense. She said,
owning a home is white supremacy. Nobody should be allowed
to have private property. I mean, all this Unamerican nonsense,
(03:24):
crazy stuff. So Mom Donnie was asked about her.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Obviously, that's not an opinion that I share. And I
made the decision to have her as our executive director
of the Mayor's Office to protect tenants, not because of
her comments, but because of her work. She is someone
who has won significant victories for tenants, not just in
New York City, but across the entirety of the state
formative part of what was an upstate downstate coalition, and
we've seen her already hard at work in this past week.
(03:47):
She's someone who has been a core part of our
efforts to coordinate rental ripoff hearings across the city, as
well as informing tenants of their rights in a city
where oftentimes they're not made aware of them.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, that's all you got to do, is if you
want to be a Mom Donney type of Mary, you
just talk very fast and you sound like you know
what you're talking about, and you says say things like
she has made incredible strides and she's done she's gotten
so much accomplished with housing. Well, if that were true,
you wouldn't have a housing problem. You just ran saying
it's all out of control and terrible. So what strides
did she make? But you ask Mom, Donnie. He can
(04:19):
talk for an hour on any subject, two hours if
he happens to know something about it. But here he
is on Venezuela. He called the President.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, I wanted to make clear to the President directly
that these were the thoughts that I had, and they
were also the thoughts that I was about to share
with the world. And this is not just an action
taken by a federal administration abroad. It's also an action
that then implicates New York City because right now, Nicholas
mother Roa is here in New York City, and my
job as the Mayor of New York City is to
ensure that any federal action has a limited impact, if any,
(04:47):
on the day to day lives of New Yorker.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You really don't. I'm looking at the window right now
in mid towm Manhattan, and all these people walking around,
they don't seem to be worried about Maduro. Here's in
New York. He's actually in Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Detentions.
He's in federal custody, in the federal system. Again, I'm
looking at everybody else. There's a million people walking around
out there. They don't seem concerned about it. They don't
seem to be worrying about it. Now, here's the good
(05:12):
news about this whole mom, Donnie mess. The city council
speaker's in charge of the city council really has a
lot of power, at least as much as the mayor.
And some would argue the city council speaker has more
power than the mayor. Well, with the crazy left wing,
kooky mayor, and of course you got a lot of
crazy left wing cooks on the city council. Somehow they
(05:34):
just elected a normal, moderate, common sense woman. Her name
is Menon. She is the new city council speaker. She's
not a left wing cook, very normal, very sane, very rational.
And again, the city council has at least as much
power as the mayor. Some would argue more. But here
she is. We obviously now she's also Jewish. With the
(05:57):
anti Semitic mayor, you've got a Jewish city council speaker
who will do everything to protect the Jewish community.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
We obviously need to protect the First Amendment right to
peacefully protest. That is SACRISANCT. But what we cannot have
is a situation which we've had in New York and
we saw it at Parky Synagogue where people were trying
to worship that evening and they felt intimidated and harassed.
We are going to be doing legislation to create safe
(06:23):
perimeters around all houses of worship and around schools so
that yes, of course people can peacefully protest, that's sacrisanc.
But what you cannot do is intimidate and harass people
as they're trying to go to school, go to their
house of worship. So we're really going to be aggressive
about that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah. So in a way, things might be better right
now than with the Blasi because with the Blasio you
had a left wing kookie mayor and you had a
left wing kookie city council speaker. But now yea half
of the half of the duo is saying rational and
somebody alike men, and is the new city council speaker. Now,
(07:01):
as I say, Mom, Donnie's like the third term of Deblasio.
And one thing about the Blasio, it was bad, but
we got through it just fine. It wasn't survivable like
Deblasio and de Blasi was the same way, kind of lazy,
didn't really do anything, loved to talk a lot, was
greatest speeches. Oh remember to Blasio never came to work.
(07:21):
He would wake up and go to Brooklyn to that
Jimmy like. He'd be in that gym for a couple hours.
Then there was a little cafe coffee shop. He'd go
in there for a couple hours. He would show up
at city Hall about four o'clock, take a nap for
half an hour, and then leave and that was about it.
Mom Donnie likes to be at city Hall, and he
loves doing interviews, and he talks real fast and just
keeps answering that you can ask him anything. And then
(07:43):
they come up with these ideas. The one thing about
these left wing types, these mom Donnie, they've got a
million ideas from a program for the homeless, they got
a program for this, they got pre K, they got daycare,
all these ideas, nothing ever really happens. They just talk
about it. The universe pre k.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Not only when we make pre K truly universal, but
expand this care to include all two and three year
olds across the city. As the governor said, we will
deliver two care by working in partnership with childcare providers,
especially home based providers.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, they're cheering and cheering, love that universal pre K,
not just pre K, universal pre K, and they get
all excited. And then just like in Minnesota, whenever they
do this stuff, these left wing Democrat programs a couple
of years ago is by an Alviso billions missing, billions
of dollars missing in pre k. Remember the the Blasio
(08:45):
Thrive NYC to help the homeless. A billion dollars went missing.
And of course the media is a Democrat. They never
looked to see what happened to it. Yeah, it's Minnesota.
That's why they're going crazy. Another reason they're going crazy
over this shooting. It gets that Sama childcare, daycare, eighteen
billion missing, gets it out of the headlines, gets it
out of the news. Everybody forgets about it for a minute.
(09:07):
Luigi Manngioni going to court today, the big day in court.
There'll be a big fight, and his attorney's well, the
first thing you're trying to do is get the death
penalty off the table. That's the one thing.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The other thing is they think they can get some
of the evidence tossed out that got him arrested, although
I doubt that. Now here's the problem. A lot of
these experts that hunt for fugitive say, this kid was
really stupid about a lot of things. You know, it
was right out there, look out the window, right across
the street. Right there, that's where he shot the guy,
right across the street, the New York Kilton. It's on
(09:43):
the corner where the New York Kilton is. And we're
iHeart right here across the street. But you know, on
that corner in Manhattan, there's a surveillance camera everywhere, every inch.
It's true of all of Manhattan, all the New York City.
They got surveillance cameras everywhere. So if you shoot it
on that corner, there's going to be video of you
from every angle shooting the guy. So they got him there.
(10:06):
The other thing is if you're fugitive and you're on
the lamb, if you're like a David Jansen fugitive, if
you're a Harrison Ford fugitive fleeing and you're in these
little small towns, you're supposed to go into these little
mom and pop places. If you got to get some food,
you're not supposed to go into McDonald's and he made
a huge mistake. He wasn't thinking. You know, if you
(10:28):
go into a McDonald's, this is a big national chain.
You know, you can go to any McDonald's anywhere in America.
They all look the same. And one thing they put
in all the McDonald's is extremely tight surveillance. They've got
cameras everywhere, every angle, so you can it's easy to
be on surveillance cameras if you're in McDonald's. You go
(10:49):
into a little mom and pop general store, they're probably
not so sophisticated tech wise. But he went into McDonald's
where there was a ton of surveillance cameras on him,
and you know, he's using a credit card every so
it just did make sense. It was easy to catch him.
The locals caught him. The people in McDonald's thought he
looked like the shooter, you know, with that one big
(11:11):
unibrow eyebrow, and the he's kind of a distinctive looking guy.
So they called the police. The police came arrested him.
So they're trying to get that tossed out and that
somehow he was illegally arrested, or that he had the
wrong evidence. I don't know what they're going to argue,
but they're gonna try. Hey, by the way, the vice
president of great press conference yesterday, Vice President Vance. But
(11:34):
they've also announced, you got this Somali fraud, and it
looks like it's going to be even worse in California,
even worse in Illinois. So they've announced the Department of
Justice is creating a whole new Assistant Attorney General whose
only focus will be on this fraud. Start with Minnesota,
go after them, then go to California, then go to
(11:56):
these other states. So he'll be one attorney general assistant
Attorney General, just focused on this fraud, on doing something
about it and try to stop it. And by the way,
we would, Mam Donnie. You know, he went after Trump
like crazy on Venezuela, attacked him Trump was asked about it.
He's done a lot of interviews. So he did a
great hour on Hannity last night. You'll probably hear it
(12:18):
on the Hannity Radio show today here on wor he
did a New York Times. I don't know why he
does this The New York Times. These people hate his guts,
but he brought him into the Oval Office game a
couple hours of his time. But they said, what about
Mam Donnie attacking you like crazy on Venezuela? And he
actually said, you know, the guy was here. We got
along great. I was really nice to him. And Trump says, quote,
(12:41):
he's got a great personality. He's a nice guy. His
policies are not good, but who knows, maybe he changes.
But he said the way he attacked me, I thought
the guy would wait at least three or four weeks
before going after me. We just had a great time together.
I thought it would take him a few weeks before
he goes. But nope, he didn't wait at all, went
right after him. Now you know who Jamie Diamond is.
(13:05):
He's the chairman of JP Morgan Chase. He's considered the
best CEO in America, top CEO. He's the greatest CEO
obviously in banking. Guess what he made last year? What
would you pay a guy like that? They had a
great year JP Morgan Chase. What do you think they'd
pay him? Well, last year he made seven one hundred
(13:27):
and seventy million dollars. Seven one hundred and seventy million dollars. Nah,
that sounds like a lot, but hey, after taxes, it's
only five hundred million. So now, actually there's a big
asterisk on this. They didn't pay him that He made
about I think twenty five million in salary, which is
normal for a big CEO of a major corporation. You know,
(13:48):
if they trust you with a eight hundred billion dollar
company and you've got to run it, that's what you
get paid. And most of this money was he had
stock options. You know, if you really want to be fair,
pay the guy with stock options. That way, if he
makes the stock go up, he makes money. If he
screws up and the stock goes down, he loses money. Well,
(14:10):
JP Morgan Chase had the greatest year ever. I think
they were the biggest stock in America, up thirty four
percent for the year, major stock up thirty four percent
for the year. So that's how he made that money. Now,
what would that mean JP Morgan Chase going up thirty
four percent? I don't know. I mean, I don't have
the numbers in front of me. But let's say that
(14:31):
means an extra three hundred billion. So if you made
somebody three hundred billion, hey, I guess you could get
paid seven hundred and seventy million. So I know you're
supposed to get mad at him. You know, in California
they hate these people. They in fact, they want to
have a five percent tax on all these billionaires, a
(14:51):
one time In other words, they would take five percent
of their money, not their income, all the money they
have in the bank, everything. Just see he's five percent
of it, a one time tax, five percent. They're trying
to get this passed. Now. Some billionaires have already left.
About six billionaires, major figures, Peter Thiel, others have moved
(15:14):
out of the state. They've left because they don't want
to pay Let's say you got twenty billion your tax,
there would be one billion. You'd have to hand over
write a check for one billion. So they're rather than
pay it, they're leaving. Six of them. There's a couple
of is staying. The Navidia chairman said he has no
(15:34):
plans to leave the big another billionaires, a real estate guy, Sobrato.
He's staying put. But he said he doesn't expect this,
but this thing to pass. He doesn't think it'll pass. Hey, Now,
the other thing is if you leave, like all these
guys just left right now, they're going to pay this,
they're saying. When they pass this tax. It'll be retroactive.
Even if you left, you still have to pay it. However,
(15:57):
good luck trying to collect that if the person is gone.
We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three two one
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Now more Mark Simone on seven ten r.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey. Luckily it's Friday already, first week of twenty twenty six,
done and lots to get to. This hour, we'll get
to Bruce Blakeman. He should be the next governor. We'll
talk to him coming up later this hour. Kathy Hochel
will look like she will head to the left, far
to the left, trying to get the nomination. She's closing
(00:32):
up to Mom Donnie. She's somehow decided that to win,
she's got to be over there with Mom Donnie, get
his support his voters, which might be fine in New
York City, but I don't know, you've got a lot
of them up state. Remember, Bruce Blakeman just won a
big election in Nassau County second time, and if you
look at the makeup of Nassau County, it's very similar
(00:54):
to the makeup of New York State. Demographics, party, all
that sort of stuff. So excellent shot. He's far more
qualified to be governor than Kathy Hochalist. So we'll talk
to him later this hour. By the way, he gets
inaugurated for the second term on Monday, big inauguration ceremony.
Mom Donnie, of course just being Mom Donnie. He's doing
(01:17):
lots of interviews. I don't know if he does any work.
There's no sign of him actually doing anything as mayor.
The good news about Mom Donnie. People have said, I
don't want to say who, but they've said a couple
of things. One, he doesn't really do anything. It's all talk.
He just gets out there and he talks, and he
talks a mile a minute, and he does one interview
after another, and it's a pointing people, and they talk
(01:39):
and he talks and they talk, but nobody ever actually
does anything. The other thing is people say they believe
he's not a very courageous person. He's basically a kind
of a coward. So these big, big controversial things he's proposing,
he may never actually pull the trigger on and may
never actually do any of them, but he does love
(01:59):
to I never saw I do so many interviews. Yesterday
he's talking a good morning, good day in New York,
Hello Schenectany. He's talking to New York, anywhere and everywhere,
talking about anything and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
For too many years, the relationship between Albany and City
Hall has been defined by dysfunction and discourse, by feuds,
and by factionalism, petty grievances have interfered with the work
of serving the people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But again it's just talk. You just get up there
and you're talking. For too many years. You talk like this,
and you sound like you're making some important point and
nobody's listening, and meantime you're getting nothing done. And then
of course there's all his left wing stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Obviously that's not an opinion that I share.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And oh, Alby, you know what this is. This is
he appointed this woman to run housing, real left wing cook.
Now you just have to accept this. Mondani is basically
the third term of Deblasio, and it's the same as Deblasi.
You point a bunch of left wing cooks who just
say left wing cookie things, and everybody looks at their
Twitter from three years ago and they can't believe the
(03:03):
things that they said. And this woman he appointed to
run housing. You go back and look at her Twitter.
I think she took it down a couple of days ago,
but when people looked at her Twitter from two years ago,
three years ago, she's tweeting all kinds of nonsense. She said,
owning a home is white supremacy. Nobody should be allowed
to have private property. I mean, all this Unamerican nonsense,
(03:24):
crazy stuff. So Mom Donnie was asked about her.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Obviously, that's not an opinion that I share. And I
made the decision to have her as our executive director
of the Mayor's Office to protect tenants, not because of
her comments, but because of her work. She is someone
who has won significant victories for tenants, not just in
New York City, but across the entirety of the state
formative part of what was an upstate downstate coalition, and
we've seen her already hard at work in this past week.
(03:47):
She's someone who has been a core part of our
efforts to coordinate rental ripoff hearings across the city, as
well as informing tenants of their rights in a city
where oftentimes they're not made aware of them.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, that's all you got to do, is if you
want to be a Mom Donney type of Mary, you
just talk very fast and you sound like you know
what you're talking about, and you says say things like
she has made incredible strides and she's done she's gotten
so much accomplished with housing. Well, if that were true,
you wouldn't have a housing problem. You just ran saying
it's all out of control and terrible. So what strides
did she make? But you ask Mom, Donnie. He can
(04:19):
talk for an hour on any subject, two hours if
he happens to know something about it. But here he
is on Venezuela. He called the President.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, I wanted to make clear to the President directly
that these were the thoughts that I had, and they
were also the thoughts that I was about to share
with the world. And this is not just an action
taken by a federal administration abroad. It's also an action
that then implicates New York City because right now, Nicholas
mother Roa is here in New York City, and my
job as the Mayor of New York City is to
ensure that any federal action has a limited impact, if any,
(04:47):
on the day to day lives of New Yorker.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You really don't. I'm looking at the window right now
in mid towm Manhattan, and all these people walking around,
they don't seem to be worried about Maduro. Here's in
New York. He's actually in Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Detentions.
He's in federal custody, in the federal system. Again, I'm
looking at everybody else. There's a million people walking around
out there. They don't seem concerned about it. They don't
seem to be worrying about it. Now, here's the good
(05:12):
news about this whole mom, Donnie mess. The city council
speaker's in charge of the city council really has a
lot of power, at least as much as the mayor.
And some would argue the city council speaker has more
power than the mayor. Well, with the crazy left wing,
kooky mayor, and of course you got a lot of
crazy left wing cooks on the city council. Somehow they
(05:34):
just elected a normal, moderate, common sense woman. Her name
is Menon. She is the new city council speaker. She's
not a left wing cook, very normal, very sane, very rational.
And again, the city council has at least as much
power as the mayor. Some would argue more. But here
she is. We obviously now she's also Jewish. With the
(05:57):
anti Semitic mayor, you've got a Jewish city council speaker
who will do everything to protect the Jewish community.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
We obviously need to protect the First Amendment right to
peacefully protest. That is SACRISANCT. But what we cannot have
is a situation which we've had in New York and
we saw it at Parky Synagogue where people were trying
to worship that evening and they felt intimidated and harassed.
We are going to be doing legislation to create safe
(06:23):
perimeters around all houses of worship and around schools so
that yes, of course people can peacefully protest, that's sacrisanc.
But what you cannot do is intimidate and harass people
as they're trying to go to school, go to their
house of worship. So we're really going to be aggressive
about that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah. So in a way, things might be better right
now than with the Blasi because with the Blasio you
had a left wing kookie mayor and you had a
left wing kookie city council speaker. But now yea half
of the half of the duo is saying rational and
somebody alike men, and is the new city council speaker. Now,
(07:01):
as I say, Mom, Donnie's like the third term of Deblasio.
And one thing about the Blasio, it was bad, but
we got through it just fine. It wasn't survivable like
Deblasio and de Blasi was the same way, kind of lazy,
didn't really do anything, loved to talk a lot, was
greatest speeches. Oh remember to Blasio never came to work.
(07:21):
He would wake up and go to Brooklyn to that
Jimmy like. He'd be in that gym for a couple hours.
Then there was a little cafe coffee shop. He'd go
in there for a couple hours. He would show up
at city Hall about four o'clock, take a nap for
half an hour, and then leave and that was about it.
Mom Donnie likes to be at city Hall, and he
loves doing interviews, and he talks real fast and just
keeps answering that you can ask him anything. And then
(07:43):
they come up with these ideas. The one thing about
these left wing types, these mom Donnie, they've got a
million ideas from a program for the homeless, they got
a program for this, they got pre K, they got daycare,
all these ideas, nothing ever really happens. They just talk
about it. The universe pre k.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Not only when we make pre K truly universal, but
expand this care to include all two and three year
olds across the city. As the governor said, we will
deliver two care by working in partnership with childcare providers,
especially home based providers.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, they're cheering and cheering, love that universal pre K,
not just pre K, universal pre K, and they get
all excited. And then just like in Minnesota, whenever they
do this stuff, these left wing Democrat programs a couple
of years ago is by an Alviso billions missing, billions
of dollars missing in pre k. Remember the the Blasio
(08:45):
Thrive NYC to help the homeless. A billion dollars went missing.
And of course the media is a Democrat. They never
looked to see what happened to it. Yeah, it's Minnesota.
That's why they're going crazy. Another reason they're going crazy
over this shooting. It gets that Sama childcare, daycare, eighteen
billion missing, gets it out of the headlines, gets it
out of the news. Everybody forgets about it for a minute.
(09:07):
Luigi Manngioni going to court today, the big day in court.
There'll be a big fight, and his attorney's well, the
first thing you're trying to do is get the death
penalty off the table. That's the one thing.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The other thing is they think they can get some
of the evidence tossed out that got him arrested, although
I doubt that. Now here's the problem. A lot of
these experts that hunt for fugitive say, this kid was
really stupid about a lot of things. You know, it
was right out there, look out the window, right across
the street. Right there, that's where he shot the guy,
right across the street, the New York Kilton. It's on
(09:43):
the corner where the New York Kilton is. And we're
iHeart right here across the street. But you know, on
that corner in Manhattan, there's a surveillance camera everywhere, every inch.
It's true of all of Manhattan, all the New York City.
They got surveillance cameras everywhere. So if you shoot it
on that corner, there's going to be video of you
from every angle shooting the guy. So they got him there.
(10:06):
The other thing is if you're fugitive and you're on
the lamb, if you're like a David Jansen fugitive, if
you're a Harrison Ford fugitive fleeing and you're in these
little small towns, you're supposed to go into these little
mom and pop places. If you got to get some food,
you're not supposed to go into McDonald's and he made
a huge mistake. He wasn't thinking. You know, if you
(10:28):
go into a McDonald's, this is a big national chain.
You know, you can go to any McDonald's anywhere in America.
They all look the same. And one thing they put
in all the McDonald's is extremely tight surveillance. They've got
cameras everywhere, every angle, so you can it's easy to
be on surveillance cameras if you're in McDonald's. You go
(10:49):
into a little mom and pop general store, they're probably
not so sophisticated tech wise. But he went into McDonald's
where there was a ton of surveillance cameras on him,
and you know, he's using a credit card every so
it just did make sense. It was easy to catch him.
The locals caught him. The people in McDonald's thought he
looked like the shooter, you know, with that one big
(11:11):
unibrow eyebrow, and the he's kind of a distinctive looking guy.
So they called the police. The police came arrested him.
So they're trying to get that tossed out and that
somehow he was illegally arrested, or that he had the
wrong evidence. I don't know what they're going to argue,
but they're gonna try. Hey, by the way, the vice
president of great press conference yesterday, Vice President Vance. But
(11:34):
they've also announced, you got this Somali fraud, and it
looks like it's going to be even worse in California,
even worse in Illinois. So they've announced the Department of
Justice is creating a whole new Assistant Attorney General whose
only focus will be on this fraud. Start with Minnesota,
go after them, then go to California, then go to
(11:56):
these other states. So he'll be one attorney general assistant
Attorney General, just focused on this fraud, on doing something
about it and try to stop it. And by the way,
we would, Mam Donnie. You know, he went after Trump
like crazy on Venezuela, attacked him Trump was asked about it.
He's done a lot of interviews. So he did a
great hour on Hannity last night. You'll probably hear it
(12:18):
on the Hannity Radio show today here on wor he
did a New York Times. I don't know why he
does this The New York Times. These people hate his guts,
but he brought him into the Oval Office game a
couple hours of his time. But they said, what about
Mam Donnie attacking you like crazy on Venezuela? And he
actually said, you know, the guy was here. We got
along great. I was really nice to him. And Trump says, quote,
(12:41):
he's got a great personality. He's a nice guy. His
policies are not good, but who knows, maybe he changes.
But he said the way he attacked me, I thought
the guy would wait at least three or four weeks
before going after me. We just had a great time together.
I thought it would take him a few weeks before
he goes. But nope, he didn't wait at all, went
right after him. Now you know who Jamie Diamond is.
(13:05):
He's the chairman of JP Morgan Chase. He's considered the
best CEO in America, top CEO. He's the greatest CEO
obviously in banking. Guess what he made last year? What
would you pay a guy like that? They had a
great year JP Morgan Chase. What do you think they'd
pay him? Well, last year he made seven one hundred
(13:27):
and seventy million dollars. Seven one hundred and seventy million dollars. Nah,
that sounds like a lot, but hey, after taxes, it's
only five hundred million. So now, actually there's a big
asterisk on this. They didn't pay him that He made
about I think twenty five million in salary, which is
normal for a big CEO of a major corporation. You know,
(13:48):
if they trust you with a eight hundred billion dollar
company and you've got to run it, that's what you
get paid. And most of this money was he had
stock options. You know, if you really want to be fair,
pay the guy with stock options. That way, if he
makes the stock go up, he makes money. If he
screws up and the stock goes down, he loses money. Well,
(14:10):
JP Morgan Chase had the greatest year ever. I think
they were the biggest stock in America, up thirty four
percent for the year, major stock up thirty four percent
for the year. So that's how he made that money. Now,
what would that mean JP Morgan Chase going up thirty
four percent? I don't know. I mean, I don't have
the numbers in front of me. But let's say that
(14:31):
means an extra three hundred billion. So if you made
somebody three hundred billion, hey, I guess you could get
paid seven hundred and seventy million. So I know you're
supposed to get mad at him. You know, in California
they hate these people. They in fact, they want to
have a five percent tax on all these billionaires, a
(14:51):
one time In other words, they would take five percent
of their money, not their income, all the money they
have in the bank, everything. Just see he's five percent
of it, a one time tax, five percent. They're trying
to get this passed. Now. Some billionaires have already left.
About six billionaires, major figures, Peter Thiel, others have moved
(15:14):
out of the state. They've left because they don't want
to pay Let's say you got twenty billion your tax,
there would be one billion. You'd have to hand over
write a check for one billion. So they're rather than
pay it, they're leaving. Six of them. There's a couple
of is staying. The Navidia chairman said he has no
(15:34):
plans to leave the big another billionaires, a real estate guy, Sobrato.
He's staying put. But he said he doesn't expect this,
but this thing to pass. He doesn't think it'll pass. Hey, Now,
the other thing is if you leave, like all these
guys just left right now, they're going to pay this,
they're saying. When they pass this tax. It'll be retroactive.
Even if you left, you still have to pay it. However,
(15:57):
good luck trying to collect that if the person is gone.
We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three two one
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