December 24, 2025 • 33 mins
Mark Simone jumps in for Sean Hannity during Hannity's Christmas break and admits its jarring to stumble back into work mode mid-vacation. With Linda, he kicks off the hour with light, holiday-week banter about studio routines, lunch orders, the clock on the show, and the fact that Christmas Eve is just a night away.
Then Simone pivots to his case that Christmas week hasn't slowed the news cycle or New York City. Pushing back on the familiar NYC is dying narrative, he argues the city feels packed: a booming tourist crush, scarce hotel rooms, strong rental demand, and active apartment closings. In his telling, the streets are crowded and the market signals don't match the doom talk.
From there, the conversation moves to city politics and public safety. Simone warns that a new New York administration could look a lot like the de Blasio era, pointing to staffing he says overlaps with that previous team. But he suggests the equation changes with Donald Trump in the White House, arguing federal enforcement could be used to bypass what he describes as an overly lenient local system. He highlights Southern District U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton as a figure he believes could bring more cases federally reviving, he says, a Giuliani-era idea of a weekly Federal Day, a concept Linda notes she hadn't heard before (and which they connect to *Blue Bloods*).
Simone closes with the Epstein files and the media fight over what they mean. He contends coverage leans heavily on images of Trump at large public events, while he contrasts that with what he describes as a deeper archive involving Bill Clinton. Simone claims Trumps interactions were limited to social encounters after Epstein joined Mar-a-Lago, and says Trump later banned Epstein after learning of alleged misconduct at the club. He also points to the sheer volume of Epstein-related material and notes recent releases that he says include prominent liberal figures, including Larry Summers and Noam Chomsky.
A holiday-week episode that starts in studio small talk and ends in big, hard-edged debates about whether New York is thriving or failing, what tough on crime looks like in practice, and how power, politics, and the Epstein story continue to collide.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, you know, hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
I'm usually on our big flagship station w o R
in New York. I'm not a little disoriented because I'm
on vacation for two weeks. You know, I'm taking two
weeks off end of the year Christmas break. But I
didn't think I could take two full weeks off. I mean, Linda,
(00:20):
could you go without working for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'd missed it too much. Mark, you can't go that long.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
No, you can't not work for two weeks. So I
figured I did a you know, I did Cudlow yesterday,
not liberals. Yeah, so yeah, I'm not that left wing.
So I can't just sit around and do nothing. So
and this is the most listened to radio show in
the world, So who's going to say, no, you come
fill in for Sean Hannity. And we got you know,
(00:46):
I came. You don't just walk in and go on
the air. You got to do a preparation. We had
to go over the Linda had the menu for what
they were ordering lunch. I had to pick something.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The most important part of the day was you getting
your lunch order in. I said, oh my god, Mark,
do you want to be a to the launch or yes?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, but she never has a simple thing like it's pizza,
you want cheese or pepperoni. It's always someplace with four
thousand items on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This doesn't want to eat healthy.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I know, but you got to scroll through. How about salads?
There's four hundred salads and you got to look through.
Oh actually I forgot the chicken case of deea but
that's okay, that's okoy. See I told you I wasn't
ready to come back. I've been actually I've been on
vacation for like five six days already. Really yeah, so
I'm not used to working. You always wear those glasses.
(01:29):
I never say with glasses before? Oh yeah, oh really
I am. I never saw your words. She looks like
it's like Chuck Schumer. Now with the glasses.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm sorry. I think I'll be leaving. You can do
this on your own. She'll be fine, very nice, class fine, Yeah,
all right, Uh get easy, Romeo. It's only three oh eight.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh my, you mean I got two hours in like
fifty two.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Minutes more hours of my stink?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know, no, no, no, we'll be fine. We got
lots of great guests. We got Hey, there's actually a
lot to talk about. You would think Chris's week, nothing's happening,
but plenty is happening. And Christmas Eve is tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Right, Wow, did you go to confession before our Lord?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And yeah, I actually went to the confession and I
said to the priest you first.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're a mess. Better, you're gonna get cold. Brother.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's a joke. It's a joke. So, uh, everybody will
tell you New York is dying. Everybody's leaving, you know,
with Mom Johnny getting elected, Socialism New York has finished.
It's over. Go outside where we are right now, Try
to walk down the sidewalk. It is so crowded in
New York.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, they're all from Europe, they're used to it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, there's plenty of Americans. So you know, this is
the busiest Christmas tourist season ever. You right now cannot
get a hotel room in New York. It's absolutely impossible.
It is packed. And you're saying, well that's tourists. Well,
now go try to rent an apartment in New York
right now. Apartment rentals are through the roof. There's no
apartments left to rent. People coming rental means people just
(02:59):
moving here. And as far as apartment sales, a record
amount of closing last month. So people are not running away.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Are you sure they're not just making their last run
in before Mom Donnie takes over.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think it'll be that bad. And there's a
lot of things. You know. He is a crazy socialist,
but we had one before. His name was Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh my god, he's way worse than Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Come don't count on. Deblasio is pretty bad. And everybody
in this new Mom Donnie administration are former Deblasio. The
same people, same deputy mayors, same everything. It'll be very similar,
although it'll be different this time because Trump is president
and there's things he can do to counter everything Mam
Donnie does, even if Mom Donnie plays around with the
police force or crime. We have a great US attorney
(03:46):
Southern District that's New York. His name is Jay Clayton.
This guy has said he will step in and go
after the criminals on He can do that too. The
Feds can actually go on the streets arrest criminals left
and right, shoplifters, muggers, robbers, drug dealers. They have the
power to do that, and people forget when Rudy Giuliani
was the mayor, he would one day week I think
(04:07):
it was Wednesday. He called it Federal Day. You'd have
the Feds come in and arrest everybody. And there's a
reason for that. You know, if you arrest somebody here
in New York, they'll go before one of these lunatic
liberal judges or our lunatic district attorney. He'll just let
him out. But when the Feds arrest him, goes to
a federal court where they are sent away. So it's
not as bad as and count on Donald Trump to
(04:28):
keep an eye on mom Donnie. And apparently they've kept
the relationship up. They talk on the phone once every
couple of weeks. They've kept in touch and uh, what
you look at me like that for he'll keep an
eye on this.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, first of all, I have to say, I did
not know that Rudy Giuliani did that. So that was
actually very Was it every week?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah? I think every Wednesday was fed Day and so.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That was the day that all the criminals stayed home.
If you watch that's why they made it the day
for theater.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, if you watch Blue Bloods it's in one episode
where this is really there's a criminal who he got
a mut unity and a plea deal, he got witness
whatever he got. There was no way to arrest this guy.
The NYPD could not touch this guy. So they come
back and they arrest him with a couple of the detectives.
He says, you can't don't don't you know, you can't
think this. These are federal guys. They're not part of
the deal, and the Feds took them away.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So well, man, I hope they start that up.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, we can do that, but a lot of stuff
is going on. Hey, the Epstein Files, this is the
greatest thing in the world because every time they release
another thirty thousand things, there's one picture at Trump and
all the left wing on television go, aha, we got him.
It's always the same though. With Donald Trump's picture, he's
in a suit and tie. He's in a ballroom with
(05:38):
three hundred people. It's usually it's a ballroom he owns.
It's either the plaza he owned at the time or
mar A Lago. It's in a ballroom at a party
that he happened to be at. Whenever it's Bill Clinton,
there's four thousand pictures. He's in a bathing suit, he's naked,
he's in a hot dub, he's in a massage room,
he's in a swimming pool, eight girls. And I heard
one of these CNN idiots tried to well, you know,
(06:01):
many people have taken pictures of Bill Clinton. Yeah, at
an event with clothes on, not naked and hot up
with him. So you're not going to get Trump on this.
He has nothing to do with Epstein. It's fair. I
can explain the whole thing. I was there for a
lot of this late nineties. Epstein was a very wealthy guy.
He went down to Florida, bought a house in Palm Beach.
(06:23):
When you're a very wealthy guy in Palm Beach, one
of the first things you do is join mar A Lago.
And when you own the hotel, the club, whatever it is,
and you find out there's a new zillionaire in town
just joined. He's at a party. You say hello, You're
nice to him, you you knowvite him to some other events.
That's what it was. And then very shortly into this
relationship he found out some terrible things about Epstein. He
(06:45):
went after a young girl in the clubhouse, who turns
out was the daughter of a member. So he banned him.
That was it. Fought with him, never talked to him again.
This is a million years ago. Meantime. Look at the
pictures of Bill Clinton. He's got dark hairr he's got
light hair, he's got white hairs. Are going on for
like thirty years with Bill Clinton, and they keep catching people.
(07:06):
First of all, I have a lot of photos on
my phone, at my computer, I'm like twenty thousand. I
look at this Epstein stuff. He had like four hundred
thousand pictures on his computer. Do you know anybody with
four hundred thousand pictures? You know that first patchy released
was ninety thousand, and that was just a tip of
the iceberg. But you're seeing all these liberal icons. There's
Larry Summers and a thousand pictures. And then we see
(07:28):
Noam Chomsky, you know, the great beloved Harvard left wing kook.
There he is all over Epstein. So one left wing
guy after another's being destroyed. They just released another thirty
thousand of today there's a picture of Trump in a
suit and tie in a ballroom at a party. And again, ah,
he got him this time, Never gonna get him. On
(07:49):
anything forget about it. And I love when he you know,
he's doing a great job running things, but also when
he really puts his mind to it. What did I
do to make them really insane? What can I do?
I know he watched his MSNBC and CNN, and as
mad as they are, you this, what can I do
to even get him matter? You know, when you're in
(08:10):
the zoo and you want to hit the bars of
the cage and get the tigers.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I don't actually know anything about that. What is what's
happening when you go to the zoo?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
People do that? You see kids do that? All they
look at that, look at anything. He does that. He's
grown up, bro, No, I don't do I'm just in people.
But he comes up with things like renaming the Kennedy Center,
calling it the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedycy. They
went berserk. Now these are the same Democrats. I remember
four years ago they had to rename every They renamed
every park, every military base, every street. Guy named George
(08:42):
Floyd Boulevard. They're renaming everything in the world, depending BLM
all over the streets. We didn't say a word, Nobody
said it. Don't he renames the Kennedy Center. They go insane,
and he had a there is a right for him
to do that. The Kennedy Center apparently crumbling, falling apart.
He took a tour of the building after coming back
(09:04):
to office, and he's an expert in this. He's looking
inside the building everywhere. It's crumbling, it's not being taken
care of. He had to bring in a lot of
crews fix the building, save the building. And I know
they go crazy. He put in his own board and
they're booking more right wing kind of bit and they're
getting nuts. Look at the numbers, attendance numbers, ticket sales,
(09:25):
everything is way up at the Kennedy Center. So you
can put his name on it. Now, you could make
the argument, if you're a crazy left winger, that well,
he's not the type of person who should be on
a performing arts center. He's not his character. Hey, we
didn't complain about John F. Kennedy, who's, as Moe Green said,
banging cocktail waitresses two at.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
A time, not for nothing. Wow three o'clock. But you know,
there's also this idea that Donald Trump has a legacy
in the performing arts world, whether it was putting on
Miss America, whether it was holding brand events, whether it
was TV shows.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You actually had the number one TV show in America.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I mean there is a little bit of background there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, so you might say, well, somebody dignified like John F. Kennedy.
I love John F. Kennedy, but this guy's with Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I was going to say, let's talk to Marylyn about
how dignified he is.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
There's a long list of names. Hey, there's one that
just did a podcast. We didn't even know about. Mimi Something,
who tells this story. She was young, like nineteen, working
in the White House. The President United States said would
you like a tour of the residents, and, according to her,
takes her upstairs. They're in the bedroom and.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Mimi Alfred was nineteen years old when she was seduced
by President John F. Kennedy. She has now written a
tell all.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Oh yeah, but she was on some podcast. There's audio
of it. She said, I lost my virginity that day,
and well, it's a presidential order. What are you going
to do? I mean, gross, no, But you imagine you're nineteen,
it's the president the United States, You're in the white
and remember you had that swimming pool where he had.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
He was young. I mean, I will say he was
a young president. It wasn't like you know other presidents prior.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He had a father, Joe Kennedy, who was like eighty
and doing the same exact stuff all the time. But
he had a swimming pool and there were two let's
just say. I can't say there were hookers, but there
were two young women who were put on staff and
they basically were in the pool with them all day.
Pixie and Dixie or they had some names like that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That sounds about right, Yeah, yeah, so we call them escorts.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Think we're close to escorts. But if you can put
Kennedy's name out, you can put Trump's name on the building,
and then hey good. For sixty minutes, they did a
piece on the prison in Al Salvador where they take
the ice people, about how conditions are bad there. It's violent,
it's dangerous, and they were going to go after Trump
(11:52):
with this piece, and well, first of all, why would
it be so violent because these people are in it.
I think that prooves right there. What kind of people
they are? You put them in all in one place
and they're killing each other. But sixty minutes did a
piece on it, and the new head of City CBS News,
Berry Weiss, looks at it and she's right. She said,
you didn't ask anybody from the Trump administration of comment.
There's no balance here. It's an old story. The New
(12:14):
York Times did this two months ago, and apparently she
put it on hold. She said, it'll run, but we're
gonna interview people in the White House, get the other side,
make it a fair piece. Well, apparently almost everybody at
sixty minutes is going to walk out. They're gonna quit.
They're so you know, up in arms that they're journalists. Meantime,
in Minnesota, you got the biggest fraud in taxpayer history,
(12:37):
nine billion now missing. How many reporters are sixty minutes
sent to cover this? I have the exact number here, zero. None. Now,
if I were running a news show and I found
out somebody somewhere in America just stole nine billion from taxpayers,
wouldn't you send a reporter there? Wouldn't you say, Hey,
this is a good story, not for sixty minutes. The
(12:59):
most corrupt? Are they the most? Well? Maybe ABC the Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Show I just called even straight across.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I love that everywhere I didn't the only still watches
what do they call it? ABC Sunday? Whatever it is
with George Stephanopolis.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
He's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
He's never on every week I watch It's Jonathan carl
Or that the old weather beaten old Martha Radditts. Though
Georg Stephanopps comes in like two three times a year.
Why is his name still on the show. But hey,
we got a lot to talk about today. We got
a lot of great guests to get to a interesting
governor's race here in New York. We'll go over that.
You're going to be you can find this very interesting.
(13:38):
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Speaker 2 (13:58):
And maybe you'll look it up on the break and
give it up the right way that would be.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
In you'll find me. He's got a check mark on it. Anyway,
we had a lot to get to. Mark Simone here
for Sean.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Hannedy exposing the Pelosi Party's chaos and corruption all day
every day.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
This is the Sean Anity Show.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You're gonna play Christmas music every time, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's actually I like that great. We love Christmas music
because you get to hear all they Martin next, Yeah,
well you get to hear all these people. You know,
people never hear them otherwise you hear Andy Williams, Bing Crosby,
all these all these people once a year the Pearl
Lives Pearls.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I stand by that selection.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What song did he have?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Holly Jolly Baby, Oh jolly Christies?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Of course? Yeah, Oh he was all right, but uh,
Nat king.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Cole, you know these Matt King Cole, Karen Carpenter, Ben Crosby,
Danny Kay, the Andrew Sister.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Danny. Oh, he was a horrible guy.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Listen, if we went through a reactor for how nice
they were, we wouldn't like anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's very confusing, you know, like you see Rob Reiner
on television, Vicious on Trump, vicious Fish. But I knew him.
He was the sweetest, nicest, most wonderful guy in real life.
We should talk about this later because it's not just
there's a lot of people. They're really nice people, friends
of yours, they're relatives, it's wonderful one. Then you bring
up Trump in there like screaming maniac. It's it's they
(16:04):
call it Trump's Arrangement Center. But it's more than that.
It's like a weird Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing. Hey,
there's going to be a very interesting governor's race here
in New York. John McLaughlin is the best polster in
the world, and we'll talk to him next. He knows
a lot about that, and we'll talk about the midterms
and a whole lot more. It's Mark Simone here for
(16:25):
Sean Hannity. We got a lot coming up. You can't
(16:56):
always get what you want, but you can get Shawn
Hannity online at hannity dot Com. Hey, it's Mark Simone
here for Sean Hannity. We got a lot to get
to today. But first let's get to the greatest poster
in the world. Now, there's two kinds of poles. There's
public polls. You see them in the newspaper, you see
them on TV. These are cheap, flimsy polls. They take
(17:19):
a few hundred people, not very carefully selected, and they're
they're not that accurate. But then if you're a candidate,
you get the real polls. These are much much, much
more accurate. It's not two hundred people. They get like
twenty thousand carefully selected people, an exact model, electric, real
serious polling. Now, the best in the world is John McLaughlin.
(17:41):
His website is McLaughlan online dot com. Of course you
know his cousin, Linda McLaughlin.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So his favorite cousin. You'll aout that part the absolute
asking yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Actually no relation, but John mclochlin the best poster in
the world. John McLaughlin, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the introduction,
as well as Donald Trumps president and having done all
his campaigns, quite happy to accept. So it's like, and
by the way, there has to be a distant cousin
with Linda. Yeah, she's definitely on the smart side of
the family. So it's like she does it, but she
(18:17):
does a great job. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and Donald Trump is usual used as polster, as
have premiers, presidents, prime ministers all over the world. Lots
of people. Hey, now there's a governor's race. We have
a terrible governor, Kathy Hochel, ineffective and competent Democrat as
you're going to run them against the least Stephonic, but
we all we likely stephonic. But she's a legislator, she's
(18:40):
great running a hearing, interrogation, but none of these skills
coming to play as a governor. The other candidate was
Bruce Blakeman, who is a manager who really is a governor.
He's the county executive of Nassau County, best county executive
in America, and that's basically being a governor. He's phenomenal
at it. So what do you think he's now the
candidate as far as you know, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, having pulled for Bruce, he's done a great job.
Phenomenal And you're exactly right about Bruce. Where I mean,
Nassau County's right next to New York City and it's
bigger than eight states in terms of population. So he's
been running that county for the last four years, and
you know, to win in New York is really tough
as a Republican. But like Pataki was able to win
(19:24):
against Crawl and then serve three terms, Bruce is very
similar and he's very likable. He also he just won
reelection where while Republicans were losing in New Jersey and
Virginia and upstate where they lost like fifty county legislatives upstate,
and they lost races in Syracuse and other places. Nasal County,
they swept everything. It's an eight point Democrat county and
(19:46):
Bruce won by twelve points. It was a blowout, and
he carried the whole ticket to DA, the clerk, the controller,
every town office in Hampstead, Hempstead's Awards town of like
eight hundred thousand people, the Bay North Hampstead. The Republicans
swept everything, and it was because they ran on a
(20:08):
record of cutting taxes that was their affordability issue. Bruce
actually cut taxes that held them the same for four years, frozen.
And he also hired hundreds of law enforcement officers so
that it was named the safest county in America by
US News and Wall Report. So on the issues that
New Yorkers really care about most. He's got a great
record like a governor, as you're pointing out. And he
(20:31):
also did a lot of other good things, like you know,
he took the mass off the kids after COVID. He did,
you know, he kept men out of girls' sports and
county facilities and and he's really done a great job
as county executive and he's earned i mean, President Trump
support him. He's earned a you know, a lot of
(20:53):
support of because he had to run for reelection this
year and by the way, four year years ago, when
he was running against the citting county executive who was
popular at the time but greased taxes and the Democrats
are trying to bring in Cassas Bail, Bruce was down
twenty four points.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, it was pault.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Delivered to him and it didn't face him at all.
He's you know, he's an experience. He's a candidate where
he's run for office before. He's down twenty four points,
he worked really hard. He ended up winning that race
because he stood against Karsas Bail and he stood against
higher taxes. And what the great thing is now he
got reelected because he kept his word, which is refreshing
(21:32):
in politics.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So yeah, and he's a great, great guy. Known him
for years. You can tell everybody what a great guy
is to And when he ran for county executives against
a woman who it was the same thing like you're
hearing now, Oh nobody's going to beat her. She's the Democrat,
it's impossible to beat her, and she was a very nice,
likable woman, Laura Curran, unlike the screechy Kathy Huckel. So
(21:55):
this should be actually easier for Bruce Flakeman to win,
shouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's certainly I wouldn't say easier, but it's it's certainly
he's well positioned to win this because the race he
just came off, you know, he basically was he was
taking like a quarter of the Democrats. He took a
third of the African American vote, he won Hispanic voters,
he won Asian voters, Chinese, Indian, Korean voters, he won
(22:22):
among independent men but also independent women, and he won
among Jewish voters. And it's a very diverse county that
reflects the state. So New York four years ago, leez
Elden ran a good race, but we kind of got
frozen in New York City where we only got thirty
percent of the vote. So you know, Bruce has the
ability to get more than that by by getting more
(22:43):
votes in Queens in the Bronx and Seattle boroughs and
also Brooklyn. But he also could do well upstate too,
because you know they're not going to want somebody who
who raised his taxic like Hokle said, because he's trying
to keep Mandami happy. Who's that going to be the mayor,
the new big government socialist mayor in New York City.
(23:05):
She's talking about raising the corporate tax from seven percent
to eleven percent in New York State, and Bruce came
out against that instantly because that would drive jobs away
from New York and upstate. You can't afford to lose
any more jobs, whether it's Buffalo or you know, Plattsburgh
or Syracuse. I mean, you just can't the southern tier.
(23:25):
You can't afford to lose these jobs. So Bruce is
already you know, he's challenging on her record. He wants
to run on against her record. You know, he'll compare
his record versus hers on taxes, on jobs, on crime,
and his certainly have new ideas to you know, improve
education in the state and as well as handle some
(23:46):
of these homeless and mental health issue problems. And so
I think I think we can have a really good
campaign going on this year.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah. Hey, these Democrats like as you mentioned, Kathy Hochele
or Mom Donnie Bernie s all these ye p eased
corporate taxes. Increased corporate taxes. Do they realize that's a tariff.
It's basically the same thing as through having tariffs. So
it's democrat tariffs.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean, you raise taxes on a business, they'll just
pass it on to the consumer. But the other part
what's worse than New Yorker. What we've seen is they
leave New York. They're more than happy to go. They
could go to New Jersey, they could go to Georgia
and North Carolina, they can go to Tennessee, Florida, Texas.
How many jobs are we lost to Texas? So so
(24:30):
that's you know that it's just not a good idea.
And by the way, you go upstate New York, you know,
you go to Buffalo and Rochester, et cetera. You know,
you're looking at downtown and say where you know, where's
the business is gone, where's carrier gone, Where's where's in Syracuse,
where's you know, Xerox, Kodak, et cetera. Go over the
border to Toronto. Toronto, the corporate tax in Canada is
(24:52):
like fifteen percent, and New York, you know, you have
a twenty one percent federal tax. And then New York
they're want to raise it eleven on time that who wow,
there's more jobs. They'll they'll go out of the country again.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Hey, well, let's talk about midterms. This is very important
the midterms now. I think it's is it kind of
crazy to predict anything now because it's like asking who's
going to win the super Bowl in twenty twenty seven.
I mean, who knows. I mean, it's anything could change
between now and the midterms or am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, I mean it's close. We have a new national
poll that we just posted today where the Republicans are
down by a point forty forty six to forty five.
But that's really close. That's in the margin er even
for a national poll of a thousand plus a minus
three percent. So you're going to have a close midterm
election that's focused on you know, maybe fifty sixty seventy seats.
(25:44):
But you know, you got, like you said, you've got
ten months and ten and a half months to decide
that election, and there's going to be a lot of
things that a lot of factors. The good news is
Donald Trump has a his job ringing we have him
a fifty percent job and it's holding from and again
we do a thousand likely voters modeled after national elections,
(26:05):
not like these other polls where they have adults and
illegal immigrants and whomever in the polls, but that don't
like Trump or so that's a poll of likely voters,
and you're looking at a year for now, and it's close.
But I mean, the economy is starting to grow. And
one of the things, one of the most important things
(26:26):
we found in the survey was that a lot they
don't know the facts. They think the economy's getting worse
because they don't know the facts. And President Trump was
censored in the speech that he made this week. I mean,
they literally cut out the graphs showing lower inflation under Trump,
showing higher wages under Trump, showing lower gas prices. I mean,
(26:46):
the networks, a whole bunch of them, wouldn't I mean,
the President of the United States does a national address
and they won't let them show the graphs. They censored
it out, and it was just absolutely ridiculous. But when
they learned of the facts that the economy is growing,
et cetera, they they're more likely to say the economy
(27:07):
is getting better sixty one to thirty three. But right
now they're not getting those facts. And it's a real
challenge because we had to do that in his campaign
in twenty twenty four. I mean, they were trying to sense.
I mean in twenty twenty Biden. I believe Biden won
because they censored us. And there was with that Hunter
Biden laptop. We did a post election poll and I've
(27:30):
talked about on the show with Sean and Linda before,
where among the Biden voters, thirty six percent were not
aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story. And if they
were aware enough would have changed that Donald Trump would
have won the election. And that was Media Research Center
Broke Brempozel published that, and that was a survey that
we did. And you know, they're trying it again. They're
(27:52):
going to I mean literally, they want to censor. They
want to censor the Trump record so that the Democrats
retake Congress.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean, but this is going to be the roughest
race ever because they've got to stop him this time.
They can't let him have two more years of Congress
on his side, so they're going to do everything to
stop him. Now, what can President Trump do? What did
he do to counter this?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Go directly to people, I mean, first of all. One
of the things he always did was and again he'd
been inside the Belway in Washington. He's running the government.
You got to get that back out to the fetal.
He's got to do his rallies, he's got to go
out there for the candidates's and and when he goes
out there, it generates a lot of like untraditional media coverage.
(28:34):
People go to these things, and the Trump campaign had
it down to the science. When you go to that,
you sign up with your email, We get your cell phone,
we text you, we email you, we send you a
lot of information. You send that out to your friends,
whether it's Facebook, et cetera. But they they hear the
president's message. They hear that he wants to you know,
he wants to lower taxes. You'll know that that the
(28:57):
tax got he passed is going to save you money.
You should get a refund back if you're paying taxes.
Most Americans will, and there'll be no tax on tips,
no tax on overtime, no tax you'll get tax credits
for security, so security, so you know, those kinds of
things where people get the real facts, that changes. That's
(29:18):
how we won the election. That's how we won the
popular vote and swept the battleground states. Are just getting
out there directly to the people.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, you know people. And I realized, I said, well,
not everybody's going to watch the rally. But as you
point out, that's interesting. They collect the email the phone
number of every single person at every rally and that
in the end, that could be millions of people in
the end, right.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Oh, it's tens of millions of people. And they and
what they do is they you know, they they send
it not just the ones who attend. Like remember when
he came to Madison Square Garden, anybody who want anybody
who wanted to get inside had to sign up via
email or tax So we got that information. Same thing
when you know, Blakeman had the Nassau County, Nassau County,
(29:59):
they the Nassau Coliseum rally was great, great event, and
we had that information and we could go directly to
the voters and give them the truth that you wouldn't
have to be censored by the press. So it was
a tough lesson to learn. In twenty twenty when they
said the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real and John Brennan
and the gang were saying, oh, it's Russian disinformation. Now
(30:22):
that we know that it's totally not true what they said,
thanks to Tulsey GABBARTT and thanks to John Ratcliff, they've
shown us what, you know, what frauds they were. So
we just have to get the facts out to the
feel of that. The economy today, the GDP it's over
four percent, hasn't been this high in years, and the
(30:42):
economic growth is going and they're growing. You're now having
wages grow again faster than the rate of inflation, which
is what people need to get to, you know, feel
better that you know, they to recover from the four
years of Biden inflation.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah. Well, John McLaughlin, great stuff. You can take a
look at this website McLachlan online dot com and if
you ever need the best polster on earth, it's John
McLachlan and great stuff. We'll talk again soon. Thanks for
being with us.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Merry Christmas, Mark, thank you. Merry Christmas, Linda.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Thanks for being with us. Take care. Are we allowed
to say Merry Christmas? We have to say happy holidays? Absolutely,
Merry Christmas. There you go. So I hear Christmas music
behind me again? It's you switched songs there right, it
was Paul McCartney. Then it was oh, it's all a
blurry all these Christmas. We love Christmas. Hey, we'll take
(31:35):
some calls next eight hundred nine four one. Sean is
the number, Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Man for America, great for edited fake news, sad jobbles
finds the truth for you and me, Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Ah again with the Christmas music. It's getting me.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Mark, did you know that we are only two days
away from Christmas? Hence the inspiration that makes us play
said Christmas music?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Well, I know they got those radio stations where the
last four weeks of the year they play nothing but
Christmas music twenty four to seven. And whenever I'm at
one of them, all the DJs are like, like, I
guys can't tell anything. We love it, but yeah, hey,
I love Frank Sinatra. Bid Yeah, wudn't with him twenty
four to seven for a month?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Speaking of which, you have Fox Nation, you know the
Fox streaming service. Absolutely, there's a new documentary about Sinatra
called Something Sinatra Icon. It's phenomenal. I'm even in it.
But it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You're in it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, it's not documentary, Fox Nation,
Ah, you know, hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
I'm usually on our big flagship station w o R
in New York. I'm not a little disoriented because I'm
on vacation for two weeks. You know, I'm taking two
weeks off end of the year Christmas break. But I
didn't think I could take two full weeks off. I mean, Linda,
(00:20):
could you go without working for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'd missed it too much. Mark, you can't go that long.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
No, you can't not work for two weeks. So I
figured I did a you know, I did Cudlow yesterday,
not liberals. Yeah, so yeah, I'm not that left wing.
So I can't just sit around and do nothing. So
and this is the most listened to radio show in
the world, So who's going to say, no, you come
fill in for Sean Hannity. And we got you know,
(00:46):
I came. You don't just walk in and go on
the air. You got to do a preparation. We had
to go over the Linda had the menu for what
they were ordering lunch. I had to pick something.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The most important part of the day was you getting
your lunch order in. I said, oh my god, Mark,
do you want to be a to the launch or yes?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, but she never has a simple thing like it's pizza,
you want cheese or pepperoni. It's always someplace with four
thousand items on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This doesn't want to eat healthy.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I know, but you got to scroll through. How about salads?
There's four hundred salads and you got to look through.
Oh actually I forgot the chicken case of deea but
that's okay, that's okoy. See I told you I wasn't
ready to come back. I've been actually I've been on
vacation for like five six days already. Really yeah, so
I'm not used to working. You always wear those glasses.
(01:29):
I never say with glasses before? Oh yeah, oh really
I am. I never saw your words. She looks like
it's like Chuck Schumer. Now with the glasses.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm sorry. I think I'll be leaving. You can do
this on your own. She'll be fine, very nice, class fine, Yeah,
all right, Uh get easy, Romeo. It's only three oh eight.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh my, you mean I got two hours in like
fifty two.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Minutes more hours of my stink?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know, no, no, no, we'll be fine. We got
lots of great guests. We got Hey, there's actually a
lot to talk about. You would think Chris's week, nothing's happening,
but plenty is happening. And Christmas Eve is tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Right, Wow, did you go to confession before our Lord?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And yeah, I actually went to the confession and I
said to the priest you first.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're a mess. Better, you're gonna get cold. Brother.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's a joke. It's a joke. So, uh, everybody will
tell you New York is dying. Everybody's leaving, you know,
with Mom Johnny getting elected, Socialism New York has finished.
It's over. Go outside where we are right now, Try
to walk down the sidewalk. It is so crowded in
New York.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, they're all from Europe, they're used to it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, there's plenty of Americans. So you know, this is
the busiest Christmas tourist season ever. You right now cannot
get a hotel room in New York. It's absolutely impossible.
It is packed. And you're saying, well that's tourists. Well,
now go try to rent an apartment in New York
right now. Apartment rentals are through the roof. There's no
apartments left to rent. People coming rental means people just
(02:59):
moving here. And as far as apartment sales, a record
amount of closing last month. So people are not running away.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Are you sure they're not just making their last run
in before Mom Donnie takes over.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't think it'll be that bad. And there's a
lot of things. You know. He is a crazy socialist,
but we had one before. His name was Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh my god, he's way worse than Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Come don't count on. Deblasio is pretty bad. And everybody
in this new Mom Donnie administration are former Deblasio. The
same people, same deputy mayors, same everything. It'll be very similar,
although it'll be different this time because Trump is president
and there's things he can do to counter everything Mam
Donnie does, even if Mom Donnie plays around with the
police force or crime. We have a great US attorney
(03:46):
Southern District that's New York. His name is Jay Clayton.
This guy has said he will step in and go
after the criminals on He can do that too. The
Feds can actually go on the streets arrest criminals left
and right, shoplifters, muggers, robbers, drug dealers. They have the
power to do that, and people forget when Rudy Giuliani
was the mayor, he would one day week I think
(04:07):
it was Wednesday. He called it Federal Day. You'd have
the Feds come in and arrest everybody. And there's a
reason for that. You know, if you arrest somebody here
in New York, they'll go before one of these lunatic
liberal judges or our lunatic district attorney. He'll just let
him out. But when the Feds arrest him, goes to
a federal court where they are sent away. So it's
not as bad as and count on Donald Trump to
(04:28):
keep an eye on mom Donnie. And apparently they've kept
the relationship up. They talk on the phone once every
couple of weeks. They've kept in touch and uh, what
you look at me like that for he'll keep an
eye on this.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, first of all, I have to say, I did
not know that Rudy Giuliani did that. So that was
actually very Was it every week?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah? I think every Wednesday was fed Day and so.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That was the day that all the criminals stayed home.
If you watch that's why they made it the day
for theater.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, if you watch Blue Bloods it's in one episode
where this is really there's a criminal who he got
a mut unity and a plea deal, he got witness
whatever he got. There was no way to arrest this guy.
The NYPD could not touch this guy. So they come
back and they arrest him with a couple of the detectives.
He says, you can't don't don't you know, you can't
think this. These are federal guys. They're not part of
the deal, and the Feds took them away.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So well, man, I hope they start that up.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, we can do that, but a lot of stuff
is going on. Hey, the Epstein Files, this is the
greatest thing in the world because every time they release
another thirty thousand things, there's one picture at Trump and
all the left wing on television go, aha, we got him.
It's always the same though. With Donald Trump's picture, he's
in a suit and tie. He's in a ballroom with
(05:38):
three hundred people. It's usually it's a ballroom he owns.
It's either the plaza he owned at the time or
mar A Lago. It's in a ballroom at a party
that he happened to be at. Whenever it's Bill Clinton,
there's four thousand pictures. He's in a bathing suit, he's naked,
he's in a hot dub, he's in a massage room,
he's in a swimming pool, eight girls. And I heard
one of these CNN idiots tried to well, you know,
(06:01):
many people have taken pictures of Bill Clinton. Yeah, at
an event with clothes on, not naked and hot up
with him. So you're not going to get Trump on this.
He has nothing to do with Epstein. It's fair. I
can explain the whole thing. I was there for a
lot of this late nineties. Epstein was a very wealthy guy.
He went down to Florida, bought a house in Palm Beach.
(06:23):
When you're a very wealthy guy in Palm Beach, one
of the first things you do is join mar A Lago.
And when you own the hotel, the club, whatever it is,
and you find out there's a new zillionaire in town
just joined. He's at a party. You say hello, You're
nice to him, you you knowvite him to some other events.
That's what it was. And then very shortly into this
relationship he found out some terrible things about Epstein. He
(06:45):
went after a young girl in the clubhouse, who turns
out was the daughter of a member. So he banned him.
That was it. Fought with him, never talked to him again.
This is a million years ago. Meantime. Look at the
pictures of Bill Clinton. He's got dark hairr he's got
light hair, he's got white hairs. Are going on for
like thirty years with Bill Clinton, and they keep catching people.
(07:06):
First of all, I have a lot of photos on
my phone, at my computer, I'm like twenty thousand. I
look at this Epstein stuff. He had like four hundred
thousand pictures on his computer. Do you know anybody with
four hundred thousand pictures? You know that first patchy released
was ninety thousand, and that was just a tip of
the iceberg. But you're seeing all these liberal icons. There's
Larry Summers and a thousand pictures. And then we see
(07:28):
Noam Chomsky, you know, the great beloved Harvard left wing kook.
There he is all over Epstein. So one left wing
guy after another's being destroyed. They just released another thirty
thousand of today there's a picture of Trump in a
suit and tie in a ballroom at a party. And again, ah,
he got him this time, Never gonna get him. On
(07:49):
anything forget about it. And I love when he you know,
he's doing a great job running things, but also when
he really puts his mind to it. What did I
do to make them really insane? What can I do?
I know he watched his MSNBC and CNN, and as
mad as they are, you this, what can I do
to even get him matter? You know, when you're in
(08:10):
the zoo and you want to hit the bars of
the cage and get the tigers.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I don't actually know anything about that. What is what's
happening when you go to the zoo?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
People do that? You see kids do that? All they
look at that, look at anything. He does that. He's
grown up, bro, No, I don't do I'm just in people.
But he comes up with things like renaming the Kennedy Center,
calling it the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedycy. They
went berserk. Now these are the same Democrats. I remember
four years ago they had to rename every They renamed
every park, every military base, every street. Guy named George
(08:42):
Floyd Boulevard. They're renaming everything in the world, depending BLM
all over the streets. We didn't say a word, Nobody
said it. Don't he renames the Kennedy Center. They go insane,
and he had a there is a right for him
to do that. The Kennedy Center apparently crumbling, falling apart.
He took a tour of the building after coming back
(09:04):
to office, and he's an expert in this. He's looking
inside the building everywhere. It's crumbling, it's not being taken
care of. He had to bring in a lot of
crews fix the building, save the building. And I know
they go crazy. He put in his own board and
they're booking more right wing kind of bit and they're
getting nuts. Look at the numbers, attendance numbers, ticket sales,
(09:25):
everything is way up at the Kennedy Center. So you
can put his name on it. Now, you could make
the argument, if you're a crazy left winger, that well,
he's not the type of person who should be on
a performing arts center. He's not his character. Hey, we
didn't complain about John F. Kennedy, who's, as Moe Green said,
banging cocktail waitresses two at.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
A time, not for nothing. Wow three o'clock. But you know,
there's also this idea that Donald Trump has a legacy
in the performing arts world, whether it was putting on
Miss America, whether it was holding brand events, whether it
was TV shows.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You actually had the number one TV show in America.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I mean there is a little bit of background there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, so you might say, well, somebody dignified like John F. Kennedy.
I love John F. Kennedy, but this guy's with Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I was going to say, let's talk to Marylyn about
how dignified he is.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
There's a long list of names. Hey, there's one that
just did a podcast. We didn't even know about. Mimi Something,
who tells this story. She was young, like nineteen, working
in the White House. The President United States said would
you like a tour of the residents, and, according to her,
takes her upstairs. They're in the bedroom and.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Mimi Alfred was nineteen years old when she was seduced
by President John F. Kennedy. She has now written a
tell all.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Oh yeah, but she was on some podcast. There's audio
of it. She said, I lost my virginity that day,
and well, it's a presidential order. What are you going
to do? I mean, gross, no, But you imagine you're nineteen,
it's the president the United States, You're in the white
and remember you had that swimming pool where he had.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
He was young. I mean, I will say he was
a young president. It wasn't like you know other presidents prior.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
He had a father, Joe Kennedy, who was like eighty
and doing the same exact stuff all the time. But
he had a swimming pool and there were two let's
just say. I can't say there were hookers, but there
were two young women who were put on staff and
they basically were in the pool with them all day.
Pixie and Dixie or they had some names like that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That sounds about right, Yeah, yeah, so we call them escorts.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Think we're close to escorts. But if you can put
Kennedy's name out, you can put Trump's name on the building,
and then hey good. For sixty minutes, they did a
piece on the prison in Al Salvador where they take
the ice people, about how conditions are bad there. It's violent,
it's dangerous, and they were going to go after Trump
(11:52):
with this piece, and well, first of all, why would
it be so violent because these people are in it.
I think that prooves right there. What kind of people
they are? You put them in all in one place
and they're killing each other. But sixty minutes did a
piece on it, and the new head of City CBS News,
Berry Weiss, looks at it and she's right. She said,
you didn't ask anybody from the Trump administration of comment.
There's no balance here. It's an old story. The New
(12:14):
York Times did this two months ago, and apparently she
put it on hold. She said, it'll run, but we're
gonna interview people in the White House, get the other side,
make it a fair piece. Well, apparently almost everybody at
sixty minutes is going to walk out. They're gonna quit.
They're so you know, up in arms that they're journalists. Meantime,
in Minnesota, you got the biggest fraud in taxpayer history,
(12:37):
nine billion now missing. How many reporters are sixty minutes
sent to cover this? I have the exact number here, zero. None. Now,
if I were running a news show and I found
out somebody somewhere in America just stole nine billion from taxpayers,
wouldn't you send a reporter there? Wouldn't you say, Hey,
this is a good story, not for sixty minutes. The
(12:59):
most corrupt? Are they the most? Well? Maybe ABC the Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Show I just called even straight across.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I love that everywhere I didn't the only still watches
what do they call it? ABC Sunday? Whatever it is
with George Stephanopolis.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
He's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
He's never on every week I watch It's Jonathan carl
Or that the old weather beaten old Martha Radditts. Though
Georg Stephanopps comes in like two three times a year.
Why is his name still on the show. But hey,
we got a lot to talk about today. We got
a lot of great guests to get to a interesting
governor's race here in New York. We'll go over that.
You're going to be you can find this very interesting.
(13:38):
Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Hey, make sure you
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Speaker 2 (13:58):
And maybe you'll look it up on the break and
give it up the right way that would be.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
In you'll find me. He's got a check mark on it. Anyway,
we had a lot to get to. Mark Simone here
for Sean.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Hannedy exposing the Pelosi Party's chaos and corruption all day
every day.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
This is the Sean Anity Show.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You're gonna play Christmas music every time, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's actually I like that great. We love Christmas music
because you get to hear all they Martin next, Yeah,
well you get to hear all these people. You know,
people never hear them otherwise you hear Andy Williams, Bing Crosby,
all these all these people once a year the Pearl
Lives Pearls.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I stand by that selection.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
What song did he have?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Holly Jolly Baby, Oh jolly Christies?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Of course? Yeah, Oh he was all right, but uh,
Nat king.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Cole, you know these Matt King Cole, Karen Carpenter, Ben Crosby,
Danny Kay, the Andrew Sister.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Danny. Oh, he was a horrible guy.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Listen, if we went through a reactor for how nice
they were, we wouldn't like anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's very confusing, you know, like you see Rob Reiner
on television, Vicious on Trump, vicious Fish. But I knew him.
He was the sweetest, nicest, most wonderful guy in real life.
We should talk about this later because it's not just
there's a lot of people. They're really nice people, friends
of yours, they're relatives, it's wonderful one. Then you bring
up Trump in there like screaming maniac. It's it's they
(16:04):
call it Trump's Arrangement Center. But it's more than that.
It's like a weird Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing. Hey,
there's going to be a very interesting governor's race here
in New York. John McLaughlin is the best polster in
the world, and we'll talk to him next. He knows
a lot about that, and we'll talk about the midterms
and a whole lot more. It's Mark Simone here for
(16:25):
Sean Hannity. We got a lot coming up. You can't
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always get what you want, but you can get Shawn
Hannity online at hannity dot Com. Hey, it's Mark Simone
here for Sean Hannity. We got a lot to get
to today. But first let's get to the greatest poster
in the world. Now, there's two kinds of poles. There's
public polls. You see them in the newspaper, you see
them on TV. These are cheap, flimsy polls. They take
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a few hundred people, not very carefully selected, and they're
they're not that accurate. But then if you're a candidate,
you get the real polls. These are much much, much
more accurate. It's not two hundred people. They get like
twenty thousand carefully selected people, an exact model, electric, real
serious polling. Now, the best in the world is John McLaughlin.
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His website is McLaughlan online dot com. Of course you
know his cousin, Linda McLaughlin.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So his favorite cousin. You'll aout that part the absolute
asking yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Actually no relation, but John mclochlin the best poster in
the world. John McLaughlin, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the introduction,
as well as Donald Trumps president and having done all
his campaigns, quite happy to accept. So it's like, and
by the way, there has to be a distant cousin
with Linda. Yeah, she's definitely on the smart side of
the family. So it's like she does it, but she
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does a great job. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and Donald Trump is usual used as polster, as
have premiers, presidents, prime ministers all over the world. Lots
of people. Hey, now there's a governor's race. We have
a terrible governor, Kathy Hochel, ineffective and competent Democrat as
you're going to run them against the least Stephonic, but
we all we likely stephonic. But she's a legislator, she's
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great running a hearing, interrogation, but none of these skills
coming to play as a governor. The other candidate was
Bruce Blakeman, who is a manager who really is a governor.
He's the county executive of Nassau County, best county executive
in America, and that's basically being a governor. He's phenomenal
at it. So what do you think he's now the
candidate as far as you know, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, having pulled for Bruce, he's done a great job.
Phenomenal And you're exactly right about Bruce. Where I mean,
Nassau County's right next to New York City and it's
bigger than eight states in terms of population. So he's
been running that county for the last four years, and
you know, to win in New York is really tough
as a Republican. But like Pataki was able to win
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against Crawl and then serve three terms, Bruce is very
similar and he's very likable. He also he just won
reelection where while Republicans were losing in New Jersey and
Virginia and upstate where they lost like fifty county legislatives upstate,
and they lost races in Syracuse and other places. Nasal County,
they swept everything. It's an eight point Democrat county and
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Bruce won by twelve points. It was a blowout, and
he carried the whole ticket to DA, the clerk, the controller,
every town office in Hampstead, Hempstead's Awards town of like
eight hundred thousand people, the Bay North Hampstead. The Republicans
swept everything, and it was because they ran on a
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record of cutting taxes that was their affordability issue. Bruce
actually cut taxes that held them the same for four years, frozen.
And he also hired hundreds of law enforcement officers so
that it was named the safest county in America by
US News and Wall Report. So on the issues that
New Yorkers really care about most. He's got a great
record like a governor, as you're pointing out. And he
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also did a lot of other good things, like you know,
he took the mass off the kids after COVID. He did,
you know, he kept men out of girls' sports and
county facilities and and he's really done a great job
as county executive and he's earned i mean, President Trump
support him. He's earned a you know, a lot of
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support of because he had to run for reelection this
year and by the way, four year years ago, when
he was running against the citting county executive who was
popular at the time but greased taxes and the Democrats
are trying to bring in Cassas Bail, Bruce was down
twenty four points.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, it was pault.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Delivered to him and it didn't face him at all.
He's you know, he's an experience. He's a candidate where
he's run for office before. He's down twenty four points,
he worked really hard. He ended up winning that race
because he stood against Karsas Bail and he stood against
higher taxes. And what the great thing is now he
got reelected because he kept his word, which is refreshing
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in politics.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So yeah, and he's a great, great guy. Known him
for years. You can tell everybody what a great guy
is to And when he ran for county executives against
a woman who it was the same thing like you're
hearing now, Oh nobody's going to beat her. She's the Democrat,
it's impossible to beat her, and she was a very nice,
likable woman, Laura Curran, unlike the screechy Kathy Huckel. So
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this should be actually easier for Bruce Flakeman to win,
shouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's certainly I wouldn't say easier, but it's it's certainly
he's well positioned to win this because the race he
just came off, you know, he basically was he was
taking like a quarter of the Democrats. He took a
third of the African American vote, he won Hispanic voters,
he won Asian voters, Chinese, Indian, Korean voters, he won
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among independent men but also independent women, and he won
among Jewish voters. And it's a very diverse county that
reflects the state. So New York four years ago, leez
Elden ran a good race, but we kind of got
frozen in New York City where we only got thirty
percent of the vote. So you know, Bruce has the
ability to get more than that by by getting more
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votes in Queens in the Bronx and Seattle boroughs and
also Brooklyn. But he also could do well upstate too,
because you know they're not going to want somebody who
who raised his taxic like Hokle said, because he's trying
to keep Mandami happy. Who's that going to be the mayor,
the new big government socialist mayor in New York City.
(23:05):
She's talking about raising the corporate tax from seven percent
to eleven percent in New York State, and Bruce came
out against that instantly because that would drive jobs away
from New York and upstate. You can't afford to lose
any more jobs, whether it's Buffalo or you know, Plattsburgh
or Syracuse. I mean, you just can't the southern tier.
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You can't afford to lose these jobs. So Bruce is
already you know, he's challenging on her record. He wants
to run on against her record. You know, he'll compare
his record versus hers on taxes, on jobs, on crime,
and his certainly have new ideas to you know, improve
education in the state and as well as handle some
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of these homeless and mental health issue problems. And so
I think I think we can have a really good
campaign going on this year.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah. Hey, these Democrats like as you mentioned, Kathy Hochele
or Mom Donnie Bernie s all these ye p eased
corporate taxes. Increased corporate taxes. Do they realize that's a tariff.
It's basically the same thing as through having tariffs. So
it's democrat tariffs.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean, you raise taxes on a business, they'll just
pass it on to the consumer. But the other part
what's worse than New Yorker. What we've seen is they
leave New York. They're more than happy to go. They
could go to New Jersey, they could go to Georgia
and North Carolina, they can go to Tennessee, Florida, Texas.
How many jobs are we lost to Texas? So so
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that's you know that it's just not a good idea.
And by the way, you go upstate New York, you know,
you go to Buffalo and Rochester, et cetera. You know,
you're looking at downtown and say where you know, where's
the business is gone, where's carrier gone, Where's where's in Syracuse,
where's you know, Xerox, Kodak, et cetera. Go over the
border to Toronto. Toronto, the corporate tax in Canada is
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like fifteen percent, and New York, you know, you have
a twenty one percent federal tax. And then New York
they're want to raise it eleven on time that who wow,
there's more jobs. They'll they'll go out of the country again.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Hey, well, let's talk about midterms. This is very important
the midterms now. I think it's is it kind of
crazy to predict anything now because it's like asking who's
going to win the super Bowl in twenty twenty seven.
I mean, who knows. I mean, it's anything could change
between now and the midterms or am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, I mean it's close. We have a new national
poll that we just posted today where the Republicans are
down by a point forty forty six to forty five.
But that's really close. That's in the margin er even
for a national poll of a thousand plus a minus
three percent. So you're going to have a close midterm
election that's focused on you know, maybe fifty sixty seventy seats.
(25:44):
But you know, you got, like you said, you've got
ten months and ten and a half months to decide
that election, and there's going to be a lot of
things that a lot of factors. The good news is
Donald Trump has a his job ringing we have him
a fifty percent job and it's holding from and again
we do a thousand likely voters modeled after national elections,
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not like these other polls where they have adults and
illegal immigrants and whomever in the polls, but that don't
like Trump or so that's a poll of likely voters,
and you're looking at a year for now, and it's close.
But I mean, the economy is starting to grow. And
one of the things, one of the most important things
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we found in the survey was that a lot they
don't know the facts. They think the economy's getting worse
because they don't know the facts. And President Trump was
censored in the speech that he made this week. I mean,
they literally cut out the graphs showing lower inflation under Trump,
showing higher wages under Trump, showing lower gas prices. I mean,
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the networks, a whole bunch of them, wouldn't I mean,
the President of the United States does a national address
and they won't let them show the graphs. They censored
it out, and it was just absolutely ridiculous. But when
they learned of the facts that the economy is growing,
et cetera, they they're more likely to say the economy
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is getting better sixty one to thirty three. But right
now they're not getting those facts. And it's a real
challenge because we had to do that in his campaign
in twenty twenty four. I mean, they were trying to sense.
I mean in twenty twenty Biden. I believe Biden won
because they censored us. And there was with that Hunter
Biden laptop. We did a post election poll and I've
(27:30):
talked about on the show with Sean and Linda before,
where among the Biden voters, thirty six percent were not
aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story. And if they
were aware enough would have changed that Donald Trump would
have won the election. And that was Media Research Center
Broke Brempozel published that, and that was a survey that
we did. And you know, they're trying it again. They're
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going to I mean literally, they want to censor. They
want to censor the Trump record so that the Democrats
retake Congress.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean, but this is going to be the roughest
race ever because they've got to stop him this time.
They can't let him have two more years of Congress
on his side, so they're going to do everything to
stop him. Now, what can President Trump do? What did
he do to counter this?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Go directly to people, I mean, first of all. One
of the things he always did was and again he'd
been inside the Belway in Washington. He's running the government.
You got to get that back out to the fetal.
He's got to do his rallies, he's got to go
out there for the candidates's and and when he goes
out there, it generates a lot of like untraditional media coverage.
(28:34):
People go to these things, and the Trump campaign had
it down to the science. When you go to that,
you sign up with your email, We get your cell phone,
we text you, we email you, we send you a
lot of information. You send that out to your friends,
whether it's Facebook, et cetera. But they they hear the
president's message. They hear that he wants to you know,
he wants to lower taxes. You'll know that that the
(28:57):
tax got he passed is going to save you money.
You should get a refund back if you're paying taxes.
Most Americans will, and there'll be no tax on tips,
no tax on overtime, no tax you'll get tax credits
for security, so security, so you know, those kinds of
things where people get the real facts, that changes. That's
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how we won the election. That's how we won the
popular vote and swept the battleground states. Are just getting
out there directly to the people.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, you know people. And I realized, I said, well,
not everybody's going to watch the rally. But as you
point out, that's interesting. They collect the email the phone
number of every single person at every rally and that
in the end, that could be millions of people in
the end, right.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Oh, it's tens of millions of people. And they and
what they do is they you know, they they send
it not just the ones who attend. Like remember when
he came to Madison Square Garden, anybody who want anybody
who wanted to get inside had to sign up via
email or tax So we got that information. Same thing
when you know, Blakeman had the Nassau County, Nassau County,
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they the Nassau Coliseum rally was great, great event, and
we had that information and we could go directly to
the voters and give them the truth that you wouldn't
have to be censored by the press. So it was
a tough lesson to learn. In twenty twenty when they
said the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real and John Brennan
and the gang were saying, oh, it's Russian disinformation. Now
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that we know that it's totally not true what they said,
thanks to Tulsey GABBARTT and thanks to John Ratcliff, they've
shown us what, you know, what frauds they were. So
we just have to get the facts out to the
feel of that. The economy today, the GDP it's over
four percent, hasn't been this high in years, and the
(30:42):
economic growth is going and they're growing. You're now having
wages grow again faster than the rate of inflation, which
is what people need to get to, you know, feel
better that you know, they to recover from the four
years of Biden inflation.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah. Well, John McLaughlin, great stuff. You can take a
look at this website McLachlan online dot com and if
you ever need the best polster on earth, it's John
McLachlan and great stuff. We'll talk again soon. Thanks for
being with us.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Merry Christmas, Mark, thank you. Merry Christmas, Linda.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Thanks for being with us. Take care. Are we allowed
to say Merry Christmas? We have to say happy holidays? Absolutely,
Merry Christmas. There you go. So I hear Christmas music
behind me again? It's you switched songs there right, it
was Paul McCartney. Then it was oh, it's all a
blurry all these Christmas. We love Christmas. Hey, we'll take
(31:35):
some calls next eight hundred nine four one. Sean is
the number, Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Man for America, great for edited fake news, sad jobbles
finds the truth for you and me, Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Ah again with the Christmas music. It's getting me.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Mark, did you know that we are only two days
away from Christmas? Hence the inspiration that makes us play
said Christmas music?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Well, I know they got those radio stations where the
last four weeks of the year they play nothing but
Christmas music twenty four to seven. And whenever I'm at
one of them, all the DJs are like, like, I
guys can't tell anything. We love it, but yeah, hey,
I love Frank Sinatra. Bid Yeah, wudn't with him twenty
four to seven for a month?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Speaking of which, you have Fox Nation, you know the
Fox streaming service. Absolutely, there's a new documentary about Sinatra
called Something Sinatra Icon. It's phenomenal. I'm even in it.
But it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You're in it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, it's not documentary, Fox Nation,
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