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December 5, 2025 13 mins
Mark Simone talks about how some people think Jessica Tisch may not be the best choice for NYC police commissioner; the push to get the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge renamed back to the Tappan Zee Bridge; Letitia James should be disbarred; what the Bidens did over the Thanksgiving weekend; President Trump wants to invalidate the auto-pen pardons; Jen Psaki criticizes the questions people ask Trump; commentor George Will's op-ed against Pete Hegseth and New York increasing the number of points on your license for traffic tickets.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the special bonus segment
just for you podcast listeners and extra show every week.
So everybody's happy that Jessica Tish will stay on as
the police commissioner. People think that's the ideal situation. It's
very good, and I'll take her over anybody, Mom, Donnie
might choose. But there are some people saying, you know,

(00:22):
she's not the greatest police commiss she's good. She's not
Ray Kelly, She's not. I mean, there are some problems
with the police department. For instance, Central Park. The numbers
are getting bad there. Central Park goers are wary as
serious assaults and sex crimes skyrocketed in twenty twenty five,

(00:43):
many of them saying I don't want to walk alone anymore.
Serious assaults went up fifty eight percent in Central Park. Yeah,
just this year, while reports of sex crimes other than
rape shot up one hundred and fifty percent arding NYPD data. Also,
there have been nineteen felony assaults in the park this year,

(01:05):
up from twelve the year before. Tom Morris, superintendent at
a building near the park, placed the blame for the
crime search on city and state politicians. Yeah, so you
know you can't just blame the police department of the
Police Commissioner. As he points out, it's the no cash,
no bail that Cuomo stuck us with. It's no bail.

(01:26):
It's a revolving door, and it's the same criminals over
and over again, and every time they arrest somebody, it's
a guy who's done this a million times before and
just gets You can arrest them all you want, but
they keep getting released. Now. The other thing is that
Park East Synagogue situation was just terrible. Worshippers coming to

(01:47):
the most prominent synagogue in New York, the Park East Synagogue,
and the protesters are all over them. It got really
out of control and it's just terrorI basically Muslim terrorism.
They were terrorizing the worshippers Parky Synagogue. Well, but a
lot of people are saying about Jessica Diish, well, where

(02:08):
was she on that? Why didn't you have better control
of that situation. She went to the synagogue the next
day and apologized to them, saying, we didn't handle this right.
We should have made sure the protesters were on the
other side of the street, far away and barricaded so
they couldn't get near you. The rule on. This is
because people will say, well, you have to allow protesting,

(02:31):
you can't not allow it. It's freedom of speech. But
the rule is as long as they have sight and sound,
in other words, you can put them wherever you have
to put them, as long as they can see who
they're protesting and hear them. So you could put them
even a block away, but you put them across the
street and keep them there so they can't get near
enough to really terrorize or menace the worshippers. But they

(02:52):
didn't do that in this case. So now this was
Manhattan North, that's the command that was in charge of this.
So apparently the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau is interviewing the
commanders of Manhattan North, focusing on who from the borough
command should have been overseeing the scene, who should have
been making sure the protesters were properly contained and far

(03:16):
enough away so they couldn't terrorize the people going in there.
But again some people are saying, where was Jessica Tish
on this? And you know, this past weekend there was
a protest at the Apple store fifty ninth and fifth,
the main Apple store, and it looked pretty ugly. They
were screaming and yelling and again terrorizing people at the

(03:38):
Apple store. But they weren't across the street like they
should have been barricaded across the street now in defense
of the NYPD. Across the street right now is a
construction site all boarded up so you can't get anybody
in there. But they should not have been allowed to
get two feet away from people trying to shop at
the Apple store. So some people are just saying, Jessica Tish.

(03:59):
They like her. She's good, not exactly the perfect police commissioner. Hey,
there's a big movement now. I like this. They're putting
together a petition many many thousands and thousands of names,
a big push now to get the bridge the name
restored once again. Call it the tapan Z Bridge. The

(04:21):
Governor Mario M. Cuomo bridge looks like it could. This
is possible, This might work. They might get it back
to the tap and Ze Bridge. Now. Remember it was
Andrew Cuomo, the shady governor we had back then, who
renamed the bridge, like in the middle of the night,
he stuck it into some bill. He bypassed the long
standing naming normal conditions and erased a meaningful part of

(04:45):
the region's cultural and linguistic history. The protesters say Cuomo's
decision got all kinds of residents upset, more than one
hundred thousand people signing a petition at the time to
keep the original name of the bridge. But again he
snuck through in the middle of the night, sneaking it
into some bill. So far, the petition has a couple

(05:05):
thousand signatures. They're trying to get more. They're going to
go to the Senate and Assembly introduced new legislation to
change the name. Governor Holkel would have to sign off
on that. She's the biggest coward in the world. Now,
we like Mario Cuomo, it'd be nice to name something
after him, but I don't know, and just call it

(05:26):
the Mario Cuomo Bridge. If the name on the signs
is so ridiculously long, the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. Well,
I don't know. So we'll see if this movement picks
up steam and they can get it back. Leticia James,
the Attorney General, expected to be hit with new indictments.
But you know, the New York Bar Association is pretty corrupt,

(05:47):
left wing, totally corrupt, left wing, totally partisan. Now, Rudy
Giuliani was accused of some stuff, and they immediately removed
his law license. They disbarred him. I guess it's not
perm it, but they temporarily took away his law license,
which is ridiculous. So Letitia James is facing serious criminal charges.

(06:09):
So there are people going to the New York Bar
Association with the they want her license renewed. Requests have
been submitted that she'd be investigated for illegal and dishonest conduct, fraud, misrepresentation,
and that the Bar Association should take her law license
away again. It's the most slanted left wing thing the

(06:30):
New York Bar. So don't expect anything to happen soon.
You know, the Biden's Joe Biden, Jill Biden. They spent
Thanksgiving in Nantucket. Ohok ad this what the hell is
this story about? Jill Biden? Former First Lady Jill Biden
spotted popping into a Nantucket lingerie shop on Black Friday.

(06:54):
I don't know, you make up your own jokes here?
What the he? I mean, if you're married to Joe Biden,
do you really need lingerie? I mean, do you think
no matter what you wore, no matter what you did,
you're with Joe Biden? You think anything could happen. I
he'd like intravenous viagra or something. Actually, probably need jumper
cables this guy. I mean, I can't imagine anything goes

(07:14):
on there, but who knows who it was for. But
she was spotted shopping at Ladybird Lingerie of Nantucket in
the historic district. What are they doing in Nantucket? Well,
these are the two biggest freeloaders in the world, Joe
and Jill Biden. Typical of Democrats. When they're on vacation,
do they spend the whole year attacking the multi billionaires

(07:37):
billionaires of the They're not paying any taxes, they don't
pay their fairs. They go after the billionaires all year.
And then when they're going on vacation, where do they
go right to the billionaire's house and stay with them.
In this case, it's David Rubinstein, the chairman of the
Carlisle Group, founder of the Carlisle Group. He's got a
lot of houses everywhere. One of his houses is a
thirty four million dollar mansion. It's actually a compound on Nantucket,

(08:00):
and every time the Bidens want a vacation, he lends
him the house. So if you don't like these billionaires,
you shouldn't like Joe Biden because he's sure gets chummy
with them, staying in Rubinstein's house for their vacation. They've
been doing this every year. Hey, Also, President Trump's saying
now that any of these pardons that were signed with

(08:22):
an auto pen are not valid. I think there's about
nine hundred and thirty five of them they've already identified.
So they're going to invalidate these pardons, which is pretty good,
good idea, and a lot of them are these Fauci
and Slee's ball swamp types. This, of course, will outrage
the Democrats, the fake news will go nuts. And then

(08:44):
it's good because one of the reasons he does this,
like calling the Somalia people garbage and going one of
the reasons he does this. He gets them all riled up.
Now they'll go after him for repealing the pardons, but
it'll bring it back into the news and it'll get
people looking at it and they'll realize how sleazy some
of these pardons were. So it sounds outrageous. Why does

(09:06):
he have to do that? It's too outrageous because it's
to get everybody talking about it again. So hey, look
at this, Jen Saki MSNBCMS Now and Katie Kurak complain
that Trump is getting too many softball questions from Sinca
fans in the press. Unlike presidents in the past, He's

(09:26):
not getting tough questions. It's more of a Kremlin esque
press courts beyond it's parody. They say, now, this happens
now and then, and you wonder, you look at this Jensaki,
as much as you can't stand her, she seems to
be a very intelligent woman. Same thing with Katie Kirk
seems to be very intelligent. And then you wonder, how

(09:47):
could they say anything so ridiculously stupid? Anytime you put
on any anytime you are watching television, there's the president
and there's the press. They ask him the most insulting, disgusting,
outrageous questions. He's gotten it. How many fights have you
seen him get into it the press because the question
was so rough and tough. So what the hell are
they talking about? Have you ever once ever seen one

(10:10):
of these things where they ask him nice questions? Never?
So I don't know what the hell they're talking about now.
Jen Saki, former Biden a spokesperson, of course, a left
wing kook. The problem is. Katie Kirk for years tried
to come across as a normal TV host anchor, charming fun.
Now you find out she's as much of a left

(10:30):
wing kook as any of these people, maybe even worse.
You know, so they you think it's all fake news
now and back then it was better. You realize these
were all fake news slanted left wing kooks too. They
just try to keep it quiet. You remember George Will.
You used to like George Will. You remember he'd be
on the Sunday Morning Show with David Brinkley, wore the

(10:51):
bow tie, he would conservative, Republican, very intelligent, very scholarly,
and oh, you know, you'd love this George Will. Wheneveryone
could watch George Will. But he turned out to be
a complete cook. It was Bill O'Reilly that first exposed him.
You know, nobody knew how bad this George Will was.
What a deep state swamp creature this guy was till

(11:13):
one night he was on with O'Reilly. They got no fight.
O'Reilly really went after him, kind of exposed him, and
that was the end of him. They got rid of
him at Fox. But here he is, he's a real swampka.
He writes a big op ed this week George Will
pete Hexath a war criminal without a war Scathing op
ed no operational necessity justified Hexath de facto order to

(11:38):
kill two survivors, clinging to this's how bad this George
Will is. He's defending drug cartel, drug smugglers now as
an obliterated US forces near Venezuela. Trump's strikes on foreign boats.
I've raised bipartisan alarms. Heggs of the course, did nothing wrong.

(11:58):
It's a war. There's It's never been a rule in
the history of war. Nobody knows where the Democrats came
up with this. You're only allowed one shot. You get
the fire once and if you don't hit everybody, that's it.
You're not allowed to fire again. That's it. You only
get one shot, no more. Nobody else can. You can't
do another. It is the most ridiculous thing in the world.

(12:18):
Can you imagine. I mean, when you see the police
in a shooting, if you're going to fire, if you're
can try to kill the guy or shoot at him,
you start shooting, it's out one shot. The only time
I ever saw that, Dirty Harry. Maybe remember Clint East
with some of those movies he was so good. He
would take the gun slowly, aim at fire one shot,
get the guy right now. But that was dirty, Harry.

(12:39):
In real life, you fire multiple shots. Hey, we'll talk.
We don't have much time, but we'll talk about this
during the week. If you're a driver, they're changing the
points system. You know, if you get a speeding ticket
or this ticket or that, you could get points on
your license. You get a certain number of points and
you could lose your license or get it suspended. They're increasing,
they're trying to keep this quiet. They're increasing the points system.

(13:02):
They're adding points, you know, like speeding used to be
three points, now it's going to be four points. Using
your cell phone used to be five points, now it'll
be six points. They're doing this with all these things,
adding them a number of points you'll get, and they're
trying to change it. You know right now, if you
get eleven points in eighteen months, you'll face suspension. Well

(13:23):
actually they're changing it to ten points in twenty four months,
lowering the number of points. It is not good, not good. Anyway,
we're out of time, but you can listen to me
live Monday through Friday ten to noon, or if you're
a podcast listener, We really appreciate it. Thanks a lot,
and there's always a bonus segment on the weekends, so
have a great weekend. Talk to your Monday ten to noon.

(13:46):
Mark Simone here, Thanks for listening.
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