September 27, 2024 • 17 mins
Buck Sexton is joined by Mark Simone, host of the Mark Simone Show, to dive into the scandal surrounding New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Buck and Mark discuss the mayor's federal indictment and the severe corruption allegations involving illegal donations, tampered documents, and more. Mark reveals insider details on how this could shake up New York politics, potentially affecting officials across the city and state. They also touch on the timing of the investigation, Adams' clash with President Biden, and speculate on who could replace Adams if he’s forced to step down.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buck Brief. Mark Simon, mister
New York, joins us once again. He is the host
of the Mark Simon's Show Marx Simone Podcast seven to
ten wo r N y see dominating the New York
City ratings.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Doing quite well.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Mark, Always great to have you, perfect topic for you,
walk me through. I know the basics and a lot
of the audience will have heard some of the basics
of the Adams situation. But I mean, let's start with this.
How bad is it as you see it? You know,
I'm hearing a lot of different things from people. The
mayor of New York federal indictment is he Is he
in big trouble or is he going to be able
(00:57):
to figure out a way to fight this?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, he's in huge trouble. On a scale of one
to ten, this is like Dave Portnoy would give this
a nine point two. This is big, big trouble. This
is not going to go well. All kinds of corruption now, yuh,
taking free trips, free hotel rooms. That might not sound
like the worst thing to a lot of people, but
it's totally illegal donations from foreign countries, which is illegal.
(01:20):
They were then disguised through straw donors laundered that's illegal.
Then apparently he tampered with emails documents to cover all
that up. That's illegal. So they got him on endless
charges here, and they've also gone after a whole bunch
of people in city Hall. Somebody's gonna decide to talk
and be the rat. So he's got real problems.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So like what happened, for example, with the police commissioner, right,
I mean he just got he resigned and he's on investigation.
Aren't there There's a whole constellation of senior New York
City officials who are either on investigation just resigned under pressure.
Are they all we think, involved in the same same situation,
(02:05):
same stuff?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, well all these commissions. Now, the funniest thing is
the police commissioner, it's totally separate. That's his own problem.
That's him and his brother, if the allegations are true,
shaking down nightclub owners, taking in tons of money. But
that police commissioner a few years ago was Eric Adams,
driver and a lot of people wondered why he was
(02:27):
suddenly the PC that had something to do with it. So,
if all these allegations are true, the corruption with Adams,
he brought with him a whole gang of guys that
are very questionable and put them into various offices. He's
got big deputy commissioners whose phones have been seized there
under investigation. And from what I hear, this is gonna
(02:49):
spread very wide, not just through the city, but this
could reach the state, This could reach Albany, and there
could be a lot of names tied into this.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Now you've got very good sources in New York mark
and in city government. I mean, have you seen this
one coming for a while, and at this scale with Adams?
I mean I've heard whispers of Adams's Adams grupt, But
you know the Blasio was a communist, right, I mean,
people say these things about people that don't like in office.
I didn't have any particular visibility into whatever Adams was doing.
(03:22):
Was this a surprise to you when this came out
or did you know, Oh, it's just a matter of time.
And why do you think it came out?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, I don't want to take credit but I told
everybody vote for Courteously. He was running against Adams. There
was always always these corruption rumors about Eric Adams. He
left the police department on very bad terms. He was
under investigation, it was going to a departmental trial. He
was going to get convicted, but he quit first before
(03:48):
he got convicted. And most of that police department years,
I believe he was in personnel. That's an area you
go into where you have a lot of influence. You
can move people from precinct to precinct. So he didn't
do a lot of actual on the street police work.
And as far as the timing of this, I know
he says it was all Joe Biden, and that could
(04:10):
be a factor. It all began when he went after
Joe Biden for the migrants. He started speaking out. He
was on his way to Washington to confront Biden and
they stopped him at the airport and took his devices.
This is about seven months ago, So he could be
right that it's the Justice Department, you know, him being
a target, but he may also happen to be very
(04:31):
guilty at the same time.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
My sense, Mark I'll put this to you is and look,
I'm open to persuasion either way on this one. But
among Democrats, you can kind of be a made guy,
right Like Hunter Biden was a made guy.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
For a while.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He's doing all kinds of crazy stuff and knew he
was going to get away with it because Daddy was
so important and so connected. And I think Adams may
have been a made guy Mayor of New York City,
black guy Democrat. I mean, you know, there's a lot
that I think the Democrat Party generally would have backed him,
you know, would have been willing to back him up
and from the very high level. But once he went
(05:06):
at Joe Biden, I feel like he's not a made
guy anymore. So then the corruption that he has. I
don't think he's innocent, but the corruption he's engaged and
all of a sudden, do you see what I'm saying,
It's like they pull away the the invulnerability cloak.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, this is the same thing with Menendez. When he
started criticizing Joe Biden, that's when the investigation started. So
I'm sure it was a weaponized dj combined with the
fact that you're looking for dirt on him. It didn't
take too long to find stuff. By the way, the
timing of this. They've been doing this for eight months.
Why all of a sudden the announcement last night about
(05:43):
nine o'clock, Why that's when the Kamala Harris interview has
taking place. They released it just at the interview, maybe
because they knew it would stink, and they wanted to
distract from the interview, and they didn't want much coverage
after the interview ended, because then this dominated the news.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I think that's I think that's an excellent point because
I'm just thinking of myself, Mark. I was there on
the couch watching the the kam Kamala.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Interview, and it was it was we'll get to this
in a second.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was preposterous, like it was as bad, every bit
as bad as every one on the right said it
was going to be. But then all of a sudden,
my phone's blown up. Oh look at this, Adams, Adams, Adams.
The timing is uncanny, And I think that's a very
very important point. Let's get into the interview from Kamala
Harris here in just a second. The first step from
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Stephanie Rule goes on Bill marshow says Kamala shouldn't have
to answer any questions to the press. Really, and then
a few days later she sits down as the person
that's asking the tough questions of Kamala.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I who thought this was a good idea?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, I was reading the New York Times review of
this interview. Even they admitted it was just ridiculous. It
was just a fluffy nonsense. You know, when she started
talking about housing, we need a holistic approach to housing.
It's got to be holistic. What interviewer wouldn't say, what
does that mean? You got to be so corrupt to
(07:55):
not even ask what she's talking about? Tell? And she
used that word seven times and still Stephanie Rule never
asked her what holistic housing is. And that's just one
example of a ridiculous softball interview. You can go on
mister Rogers and have a tougher interview than that. It
was just awful.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And I think that it's interesting that when we complain,
I think rightfully that Kamala isn't doing any interviews every
time she does when we go, well, we all know
why she's not doing interviews. She's not compelling at all.
How confident are you feeling right now about Trump's chances
going to this election?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Very? Very If the election were right now, he wins,
He wins big in all the swing states. We still
got thirty nine days to go, so that's right now.
Anything can happen. Coming up Tuesdays, the debate with Vance
and Waltz. Whatever you think of Vance, he's a great talk,
a great debater. He'll just I think, wipe out Waltz.
That'll help. I bet there's another Trump interview. He says,
(08:50):
absolutely not, but that's just him negotiating. There'll be another debate.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, I think you're certainly right about the Walls vance showdown.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I agree with you. I think Trump is ahead right now.
I think the Kamala team knows it. And if Trump
just if it just sort of stays focused and stays
on track from here election day, I think we're going
to have a very good result. I'm wondering in New York,
are there any congressional races that you're seeing where we
could get some upset where a Republican takes a seat
(09:20):
that Democrats were counting on, or you know, what are
the races in New York that you're watching closely.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, looks good. There was Esposito. We were counting on
this guy, Republican to hold that seat. But they've come
up with a girlfriend on the payroll, the wife on
the payroll, girlfriend, no show job. It looks bad. But
I don't know why he doesn't do this. He should
point out that's how Kamala got started. Kamala was the
(09:47):
girlfriend on the Willie Brown gravy train there, so he
should point that out. And I don't know the term
about ethics investigation. I don't know if a lot of
congress people want to push that because they love to
stick people on the payroll, so they might let that
one go. So that's an important race.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That's an important absolutely. And who do you think do
you think Adams is going to resign? I meant to
ask you this when we're talking about Adams. You you
think he's not going to make it through his term.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, he's not going to resign. He doesn't want to resign.
He needs to raise money for a defense fund. As
long as you're the mayor, the owners will give you money.
You can always do little favors for them. So he'll
hang in there as long as he can.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Tell me this. Who do you think the next mayor
of New York's going to be?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, if he goes, the public Advocate takes over, there
has to be a special election within eighty days. Every
Democrat will jump in. There's the controller, Scott Stringer, there's
this Brad Landers, the controller, former controller Scott Stringer. All
these old Democrats will jump in. Christine Quinn. Andrew Cuomo
is circling around like a vulture, and we'd love to
(10:49):
see Curtis sliwa. He'd be good if there's a special
runoff election. There's no party labels, it's nonpartisan. So Curtis
had a problem last time being labeled a Republican. A
lot of New Yorkers just won't vote for a Republican.
But in this race he would not have any party label,
which would give him a much better shot.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Interesting, does Andrew Cuomo have a real shot? You think,
I mean, just being honest about it, you think he
could he could pull this off.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, he's got all the name recognition, great talking. Yeah,
he's got a great cheff for about two days until
they start running the commercials. He's the guy that signed
the no Bail, no Jail and held a press conference
saying this is much needed reform, this will be great.
He's the guy that personally brought back congestion pricing, pushed
it through. He's the guy that picked Kathy Hochel, who's
not a great governor. Of course, the nursing home that
(11:39):
so much stuff against him.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Let's let's let's come in here in a second, talk
about Trump's security going forward. You know, I just spoke
to Senator Rampaul, who's the ranking Republican on the Homeland
Security Commission, about this with the Secret Service foul ups
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assassination attempts on President Trump. Secret Service looks horrible in
the first one, not a whole lot better in the
(12:57):
second one. They didn't sweep the perimeter. They didn't give
them the proper security there either. They're saying now they've
escalated it, so Trump is now treated like a presidential
you know, presidential level security, which obviously he should have
been all along.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Do you feel better about this? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, I saw it with my own eyes. He was
here last week. I was at Trump Tower, his presidential
level security, the big dump trucks of sand all around
the building, everything, every kind of protection you could have.
So hopefully he's got that wherever he is. Problem with
the Secret Service, obviously we wonder about Joe Biden and
majorcus if they're I don't know what motivation they have
(13:36):
for not giving them full security, but who knows. Secret
Service half of their resources goes to looking for counterfeiting,
fighting counterfeitters, fighting financial fraud. That should all be moved
to the FBI. Secret Service should just focus on protection.
That would free up half of their agents. That's what
they should do. Besides more funding, get all those other
(13:56):
tasks to the FBI. And out of the Secret Service.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
How is it possible that? Wow?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I guess we know it's possible, but it is remarkable
to me. Nonetheless, Mark that here we are normally did
President Trump have two assassination attempts.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Again against him?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He took a five to five six round through the
ear at a in a field in Butler, Pennsylvani War
who's having a rally, and he just somehow you don't
even you know, in the general news media ecosystem, it says,
though none of this even happened. The most recent one
was what a week ago?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, but you know, the public sees it and we
don't ever want this to happen, but they see that
he's dodging bullets, Kamala is dodging interviews. It's really impressive.
I mean, you know the guy, and we know how
tough he is, but to watch a guy take that
bullet through his ear and then play golf a few
hours later. This is one tough guy. And people are
(14:49):
looking for that right now. They're looking for a tough,
tough leader, and foreign leaders are looking at that and
seeing that toughness.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, I totally totally agree. Mark. You think we're going
to take control of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, I think we got a good shot. I think
all these poles, you know, Trump tends to underpole anyway,
all these poles kind of gets slanted. So I think
this is going to be a much bigger victory than
anybody's predicting. And I think big coattails. Doug McCormick and
Pennsylvania was not a great candidate last time around, really
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blossom much better candidate. I think we take that house.
I think it's going to be a very very good November.
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Speaker 3 (16:26):
Mark Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Is there any hope at all that the election of
New York is going to be closer than anticipated for
pres I know you had said when it was Biden
that Trump can win, can Trump close the gaping up
with Kamalo, that they'll be at least a little bit
of a shock for Democrats in New York state.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, I predicted he would win New York. Now, thank
you for the asterisk that was with Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Biden He's I think he's going to do very.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well in New York. I wouldn't be shocked if he won,
because he's alienated the Jewish vote here, completely lost him
and it's an influential vote. And we have a thing
here called the Al Smith Dinner, which Kamala has refused
to go to. That's unheard of for a candidate. It's
a very big important thing to the Catholic community. It's
an a big snub to the Catholic Church. And remember
(17:16):
the Hispanic population mostly Catholics, so she's alienated in the Catholics,
the Jews, Hispanics with this, I think that's going to
help Trump and crime, inflation, taxes, it's horrible in New York.
It's very possible. Good shot, he wins New York.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Alrighty Mark Somon, everybody missing New York go check out
his podcast and certainly listen to him on a seven
to ten WR ten am Eastern time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Mark. Always good to see you man, Thank you so
much
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buck Brief. Mark Simon, mister
New York, joins us once again. He is the host
of the Mark Simon's Show Marx Simone Podcast seven to
ten wo r N y see dominating the New York
City ratings.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Doing quite well.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Mark, Always great to have you, perfect topic for you,
walk me through. I know the basics and a lot
of the audience will have heard some of the basics
of the Adams situation. But I mean, let's start with this.
How bad is it as you see it? You know,
I'm hearing a lot of different things from people. The
mayor of New York federal indictment is he Is he
in big trouble or is he going to be able
(00:57):
to figure out a way to fight this?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, he's in huge trouble. On a scale of one
to ten, this is like Dave Portnoy would give this
a nine point two. This is big, big trouble. This
is not going to go well. All kinds of corruption now, yuh,
taking free trips, free hotel rooms. That might not sound
like the worst thing to a lot of people, but
it's totally illegal donations from foreign countries, which is illegal.
(01:20):
They were then disguised through straw donors laundered that's illegal.
Then apparently he tampered with emails documents to cover all
that up. That's illegal. So they got him on endless
charges here, and they've also gone after a whole bunch
of people in city Hall. Somebody's gonna decide to talk
and be the rat. So he's got real problems.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So like what happened, for example, with the police commissioner, right,
I mean he just got he resigned and he's on investigation.
Aren't there There's a whole constellation of senior New York
City officials who are either on investigation just resigned under pressure.
Are they all we think, involved in the same same situation,
(02:05):
same stuff?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, well all these commissions. Now, the funniest thing is
the police commissioner, it's totally separate. That's his own problem.
That's him and his brother, if the allegations are true,
shaking down nightclub owners, taking in tons of money. But
that police commissioner a few years ago was Eric Adams,
driver and a lot of people wondered why he was
(02:27):
suddenly the PC that had something to do with it. So,
if all these allegations are true, the corruption with Adams,
he brought with him a whole gang of guys that
are very questionable and put them into various offices. He's
got big deputy commissioners whose phones have been seized there
under investigation. And from what I hear, this is gonna
(02:49):
spread very wide, not just through the city, but this
could reach the state, This could reach Albany, and there
could be a lot of names tied into this.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Now you've got very good sources in New York mark
and in city government. I mean, have you seen this
one coming for a while, and at this scale with Adams?
I mean I've heard whispers of Adams's Adams grupt, But
you know the Blasio was a communist, right, I mean,
people say these things about people that don't like in office.
I didn't have any particular visibility into whatever Adams was doing.
(03:22):
Was this a surprise to you when this came out
or did you know, Oh, it's just a matter of time.
And why do you think it came out?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, I don't want to take credit but I told
everybody vote for Courteously. He was running against Adams. There
was always always these corruption rumors about Eric Adams. He
left the police department on very bad terms. He was
under investigation, it was going to a departmental trial. He
was going to get convicted, but he quit first before
(03:48):
he got convicted. And most of that police department years,
I believe he was in personnel. That's an area you
go into where you have a lot of influence. You
can move people from precinct to precinct. So he didn't
do a lot of actual on the street police work.
And as far as the timing of this, I know
he says it was all Joe Biden, and that could
(04:10):
be a factor. It all began when he went after
Joe Biden for the migrants. He started speaking out. He
was on his way to Washington to confront Biden and
they stopped him at the airport and took his devices.
This is about seven months ago, So he could be
right that it's the Justice Department, you know, him being
a target, but he may also happen to be very
(04:31):
guilty at the same time.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
My sense, Mark I'll put this to you is and look,
I'm open to persuasion either way on this one. But
among Democrats, you can kind of be a made guy,
right Like Hunter Biden was a made guy.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
For a while.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He's doing all kinds of crazy stuff and knew he
was going to get away with it because Daddy was
so important and so connected. And I think Adams may
have been a made guy Mayor of New York City,
black guy Democrat. I mean, you know, there's a lot
that I think the Democrat Party generally would have backed him,
you know, would have been willing to back him up
and from the very high level. But once he went
(05:06):
at Joe Biden, I feel like he's not a made
guy anymore. So then the corruption that he has. I
don't think he's innocent, but the corruption he's engaged and
all of a sudden, do you see what I'm saying,
It's like they pull away the the invulnerability cloak.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, this is the same thing with Menendez. When he
started criticizing Joe Biden, that's when the investigation started. So
I'm sure it was a weaponized dj combined with the
fact that you're looking for dirt on him. It didn't
take too long to find stuff. By the way, the
timing of this. They've been doing this for eight months.
Why all of a sudden the announcement last night about
(05:43):
nine o'clock, Why that's when the Kamala Harris interview has
taking place. They released it just at the interview, maybe
because they knew it would stink, and they wanted to
distract from the interview, and they didn't want much coverage
after the interview ended, because then this dominated the news.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I think that's I think that's an excellent point because
I'm just thinking of myself, Mark. I was there on
the couch watching the the kam Kamala.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Interview, and it was it was we'll get to this
in a second.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was preposterous, like it was as bad, every bit
as bad as every one on the right said it
was going to be. But then all of a sudden,
my phone's blown up. Oh look at this, Adams, Adams, Adams.
The timing is uncanny, And I think that's a very
very important point. Let's get into the interview from Kamala
Harris here in just a second. The first step from
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Stephanie Rule goes on Bill marshow says Kamala shouldn't have
to answer any questions to the press. Really, and then
a few days later she sits down as the person
that's asking the tough questions of Kamala.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I who thought this was a good idea?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, I was reading the New York Times review of
this interview. Even they admitted it was just ridiculous. It
was just a fluffy nonsense. You know, when she started
talking about housing, we need a holistic approach to housing.
It's got to be holistic. What interviewer wouldn't say, what
does that mean? You got to be so corrupt to
(07:55):
not even ask what she's talking about? Tell? And she
used that word seven times and still Stephanie Rule never
asked her what holistic housing is. And that's just one
example of a ridiculous softball interview. You can go on
mister Rogers and have a tougher interview than that. It
was just awful.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And I think that it's interesting that when we complain,
I think rightfully that Kamala isn't doing any interviews every
time she does when we go, well, we all know
why she's not doing interviews. She's not compelling at all.
How confident are you feeling right now about Trump's chances
going to this election?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Very? Very If the election were right now, he wins,
He wins big in all the swing states. We still
got thirty nine days to go, so that's right now.
Anything can happen. Coming up Tuesdays, the debate with Vance
and Waltz. Whatever you think of Vance, he's a great talk,
a great debater. He'll just I think, wipe out Waltz.
That'll help. I bet there's another Trump interview. He says,
(08:50):
absolutely not, but that's just him negotiating. There'll be another debate.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, I think you're certainly right about the Walls vance showdown.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I agree with you. I think Trump is ahead right now.
I think the Kamala team knows it. And if Trump
just if it just sort of stays focused and stays
on track from here election day, I think we're going
to have a very good result. I'm wondering in New York,
are there any congressional races that you're seeing where we
could get some upset where a Republican takes a seat
(09:20):
that Democrats were counting on, or you know, what are
the races in New York that you're watching closely.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, looks good. There was Esposito. We were counting on
this guy, Republican to hold that seat. But they've come
up with a girlfriend on the payroll, the wife on
the payroll, girlfriend, no show job. It looks bad. But
I don't know why he doesn't do this. He should
point out that's how Kamala got started. Kamala was the
(09:47):
girlfriend on the Willie Brown gravy train there, so he
should point that out. And I don't know the term
about ethics investigation. I don't know if a lot of
congress people want to push that because they love to
stick people on the payroll, so they might let that
one go. So that's an important race.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That's an important absolutely. And who do you think do
you think Adams is going to resign? I meant to
ask you this when we're talking about Adams. You you
think he's not going to make it through his term.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, he's not going to resign. He doesn't want to resign.
He needs to raise money for a defense fund. As
long as you're the mayor, the owners will give you money.
You can always do little favors for them. So he'll
hang in there as long as he can.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Tell me this. Who do you think the next mayor
of New York's going to be?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, if he goes, the public Advocate takes over, there
has to be a special election within eighty days. Every
Democrat will jump in. There's the controller, Scott Stringer, there's
this Brad Landers, the controller, former controller Scott Stringer. All
these old Democrats will jump in. Christine Quinn. Andrew Cuomo
is circling around like a vulture, and we'd love to
(10:49):
see Curtis sliwa. He'd be good if there's a special
runoff election. There's no party labels, it's nonpartisan. So Curtis
had a problem last time being labeled a Republican. A
lot of New Yorkers just won't vote for a Republican.
But in this race he would not have any party label,
which would give him a much better shot.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Interesting, does Andrew Cuomo have a real shot? You think,
I mean, just being honest about it, you think he
could he could pull this off.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, he's got all the name recognition, great talking. Yeah,
he's got a great cheff for about two days until
they start running the commercials. He's the guy that signed
the no Bail, no Jail and held a press conference
saying this is much needed reform, this will be great.
He's the guy that personally brought back congestion pricing, pushed
it through. He's the guy that picked Kathy Hochel, who's
not a great governor. Of course, the nursing home that
(11:39):
so much stuff against him.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Let's let's let's come in here in a second, talk
about Trump's security going forward. You know, I just spoke
to Senator Rampaul, who's the ranking Republican on the Homeland
Security Commission, about this with the Secret Service foul ups
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assassination attempts on President Trump. Secret Service looks horrible in
the first one, not a whole lot better in the
(12:57):
second one. They didn't sweep the perimeter. They didn't give
them the proper security there either. They're saying now they've
escalated it, so Trump is now treated like a presidential
you know, presidential level security, which obviously he should have
been all along.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Do you feel better about this? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, I saw it with my own eyes. He was
here last week. I was at Trump Tower, his presidential
level security, the big dump trucks of sand all around
the building, everything, every kind of protection you could have.
So hopefully he's got that wherever he is. Problem with
the Secret Service, obviously we wonder about Joe Biden and
majorcus if they're I don't know what motivation they have
(13:36):
for not giving them full security, but who knows. Secret
Service half of their resources goes to looking for counterfeiting,
fighting counterfeitters, fighting financial fraud. That should all be moved
to the FBI. Secret Service should just focus on protection.
That would free up half of their agents. That's what
they should do. Besides more funding, get all those other
(13:56):
tasks to the FBI. And out of the Secret Service.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
How is it possible that? Wow?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I guess we know it's possible, but it is remarkable
to me. Nonetheless, Mark that here we are normally did
President Trump have two assassination attempts.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Again against him?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He took a five to five six round through the
ear at a in a field in Butler, Pennsylvani War
who's having a rally, and he just somehow you don't
even you know, in the general news media ecosystem, it says,
though none of this even happened. The most recent one
was what a week ago?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, but you know, the public sees it and we
don't ever want this to happen, but they see that
he's dodging bullets, Kamala is dodging interviews. It's really impressive.
I mean, you know the guy, and we know how
tough he is, but to watch a guy take that
bullet through his ear and then play golf a few
hours later. This is one tough guy. And people are
(14:49):
looking for that right now. They're looking for a tough,
tough leader, and foreign leaders are looking at that and
seeing that toughness.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, I totally totally agree. Mark. You think we're going
to take control of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, I think we got a good shot. I think
all these poles, you know, Trump tends to underpole anyway,
all these poles kind of gets slanted. So I think
this is going to be a much bigger victory than
anybody's predicting. And I think big coattails. Doug McCormick and
Pennsylvania was not a great candidate last time around, really
(15:23):
blossom much better candidate. I think we take that house.
I think it's going to be a very very good November.
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Speaker 3 (16:26):
Mark Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Is there any hope at all that the election of
New York is going to be closer than anticipated for
pres I know you had said when it was Biden
that Trump can win, can Trump close the gaping up
with Kamalo, that they'll be at least a little bit
of a shock for Democrats in New York state.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, I predicted he would win New York. Now, thank
you for the asterisk that was with Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Biden He's I think he's going to do very.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well in New York. I wouldn't be shocked if he won,
because he's alienated the Jewish vote here, completely lost him
and it's an influential vote. And we have a thing
here called the Al Smith Dinner, which Kamala has refused
to go to. That's unheard of for a candidate. It's
a very big important thing to the Catholic community. It's
an a big snub to the Catholic Church. And remember
(17:16):
the Hispanic population mostly Catholics, so she's alienated in the Catholics,
the Jews, Hispanics with this, I think that's going to
help Trump and crime, inflation, taxes, it's horrible in New York.
It's very possible. Good shot, he wins New York.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Alrighty Mark Somon, everybody missing New York go check out
his podcast and certainly listen to him on a seven
to ten WR ten am Eastern time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Mark. Always good to see you man, Thank you so
much
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Thanks for having me.
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