AN INTELLIGENCE DEPT. WITH NO INTELLIGENCE, ELON’S TWITTER TAKEOVER AND WHO REALLY KILLED JFK？
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
179.08405
Summary
On this episode of The Great America Show, host Lou Dobbs is joined by Mark Simone, host of The Mark Simone Show on WOR, a nationally syndicated radio talk show, to discuss the latest in the McCarthy and Cheney scandals.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show. Welcome to the show,
00:00:06.280
and of course, we'll be talking politics and about many of the absurdities of our life here
00:00:11.500
in America as well. Those subjects often can be one and the same. These are indeed difficult
00:00:17.720
times. America isn't a perfect place in perfect harmony, as we've all noticed. But it's also true
00:00:24.220
that we sometimes are the partial architects of our mistakes, conflicts, and sometimes misery.
00:00:30.920
For example, who do we blame for Joe Biden? So many people share some responsibility,
00:00:37.700
starting, of course, with Joe Biden himself, his wife, Jill, who insists on being called Dr. Jill,
00:00:44.120
the puppet masters who decided to put them in the White House, the Marxist Dems, and the liberal
00:00:50.340
wing of the Republican Party, the RINOs, closer to Dems than the GOP, but still, they're in the
00:00:57.520
party, and usually party leaders. We don't have many leaders, true leaders in Washington,
00:01:03.780
but we still prize them when they emerge or burst into view like Elon Musk. Elon Musk is saving Twitter
00:01:11.540
and free speech at the same time. But the Marxists left within Twitter are not at all grateful for
00:01:18.220
their salvation. They're in what is the right phrase here? Buttercup meltdown at the prospect of no
00:01:25.560
longer being employed by an authoritarian Marxist left force in America's body politic. They can't
00:01:32.920
seem to celebrate freedom of speech, fair, and balance. They want to destroy Republicans and
00:01:39.440
conservatives, period, full stop. They will no longer be, of course, warriors for American authoritarianism.
00:01:46.960
They'll have to settle now for being employees of the most successful businessman in history.
00:01:53.220
Brilliant, a free spirit, an original mind, and responsible for founding and managing SpaceX,
00:01:59.820
the most successful private space launch company in history, and Tesla, the most successful electric
00:02:06.900
vehicle manufacturing company in the world, ever. Elon is also the richest man in the world.
00:02:14.180
Do you notice I call a man I never met by his first name? He is also unpretentious, highly relatable,
00:02:21.720
and has an always on display sense of humor that makes you forget that Elon Musk is also a man
00:02:29.200
who not only has made history, but is now a historical figure. Edison, J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller,
00:02:37.380
Carnegie, Ford, and Musk, or if you prefer, Elon. And now he's in a battle with the federal bureaucracy
00:02:46.140
and the Marxist left. And he, as far as I know, is a political agnostic, but an American citizen who knows
00:02:53.720
his rights, his history, and also his place in history. And that place is getting bigger, it seems,
00:03:00.520
every year. That's great for Elon and America. And speaking of great Americans, our guest today
00:03:08.160
is my favorite radio talk show host, a broadcasting legend who hosts the Mark Simone Show on WOR,
00:03:15.960
syndicated nationally, but who we call Mr. New York, because that's who he is. Mark, great to have you
00:03:22.680
back with us on the Great America Show. And now the great Mark Simone. Mark, great to have you with us
00:03:29.380
again. Good to have you on the Great America Show. Great to be on. I listen all the time. Well, thank you
00:03:35.280
for that. We appreciate it so much. And I want to start with this, I don't know what to call it, this sort
00:03:41.800
of dissonance in the universe for the Republican Party. Kevin McCarthy, everything that keeps coming out
00:03:49.000
about him, the audio tapes. You wonder why in the world anybody hasn't already escorted him out of
00:03:56.300
the building that is the figurative building, where the GOP house members live, and removing from
00:04:04.640
leadership. What do you think? Who's going to remove them? They're all just as bad. They're all horrible.
00:04:12.320
I love the way they make this the biggest story, the opening story on the news, this explosive recording,
00:04:19.000
if there's a conversation of Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney, you can't even stay awake, let alone be
00:04:23.820
explosive. I mean, who's going to listen to that? I got to be honest. It's exactly what I expected out
00:04:29.900
of Kevin McCarthy. He panicked. He told her whatever she wanted to hear. That's the swamp. They say
00:04:34.980
whatever they got to say to sit in power. Well, and now you're hurting my feelings because we started
00:04:42.040
with Kevin McCarthy, just like everybody else did, says Mark Simone. That's hurtful. That's hurtful,
00:04:49.500
Mark. It's also true. I am really taken by the story, though, because I really didn't expect,
00:04:57.860
you know, whatever he did with Liz Cheney. I personally, I could care less. She is a Democrat,
00:05:04.200
and he's a treacherous rhino, which is worse than, I think, a Democrat many times. So that doesn't
00:05:12.880
surprise me. What does surprise me is the sort of fourth-grade nonsense talking about, well,
00:05:19.420
what did he say? And, oh, no, we can't have that. And he said this. And talking about Louis
00:05:24.600
Gohmert doing this or that. There isn't anything Louis Gohmert has ever said that wasn't, you know,
00:05:31.180
interesting and sometimes provocative, but it's not exactly something you'd want to burn a building
00:05:37.180
down over. And in this case, the Capitol, because he is a good guy, a great American. And he can be
00:05:45.540
funny as the Dickens. Kevin McCarthy hasn't got a sense of humor anywhere in his soul.
00:05:52.260
Yeah. So we don't know what was really going on because this is being leaked out by these left-wing
00:05:56.740
reporters. Maybe there's just as much audio of Kevin McCarthy in another conversation saying,
00:06:01.020
we love Donald Trump. He could never resign. He should stay. I have a feeling he just tells
00:06:05.200
anybody what they want to hear. It depends who's on the phone, but they're selectively leaking out
00:06:09.720
what they want to leak out. Well, that's, that is absolutely true. And they are left-wing
00:06:14.880
reporters indeed. But at the same time, we have a few problems in the Republican side, even without
00:06:22.280
McCarthy. Do you think he should resign? Tell me, can you, do you want to get into this one?
00:06:27.280
Well, you know, I, I, again, I'm not a big fan, but, uh, uh, who are you going to replace them
00:06:33.900
with? I mean, who's, who would you trust in that job in the Congress? Uh, that was the thing about
00:06:38.160
Donald Trump. He wasn't from the swamp. He wasn't a politician. He said what he thought. You, at least,
00:06:42.920
you know, where he stood on everything. These guys, you don't know where they stand on anything.
00:06:46.760
Uh, I like Rand Paul. I like a few of these guys because at least they're honest, love them or hate
00:06:52.360
them. At least they're honest. Yeah. I agree with you about Rand Paul. I agree with you about, I agree
00:06:57.340
that, uh, Jim Jordan is in that, uh, that Jordan. Yeah. He's a terrific guy, uh, and would make a
00:07:03.560
wonderful speaker. Uh, if somebody told me, uh, who I wouldn't want his name bandied around, uh, he said
00:07:11.260
he doesn't think that, uh, that, uh, that Jordan would take on that job because of all of the people
00:07:17.980
he had have to manage. Uh, he thinks that'd be a very frustrating job for, for Jim Jordan,
00:07:23.280
which is, which would be, I'm sure for anyone. I, it's just what it is, but we've got to have leaders
00:07:28.520
who are principled, who've got some guts, uh, who represent the, the, the American people.
00:07:34.440
What does McCarthy represent? He represents the democratic party. Uh, that's not a very fair
00:07:39.980
negotiation when, when he and, and house speaker Pelosi get together. Uh, yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.
00:07:46.380
And yes, ma'am is about all that you would hear from him. Yeah. It's a thankless job. You know,
00:07:51.100
if you're the president or governor, you're the CEO, you order these people around there,
00:07:55.880
your employees, they do what you tell them to do. If you're in the Congress, you have no power over
00:07:59.840
anybody. You got to beg and plead for votes. You got to maneuver and pander and do all that stuff.
00:08:04.840
I don't know how anybody survives in that job. Look at the guys that last the longest Chuck Schumer.
00:08:09.380
Does anybody know what he stands for? He doesn't even know. He doesn't even care. He'd just say
00:08:14.840
whatever he's got to say to stay there. Oh, you are so right. I've had a few experiences with, uh,
00:08:20.900
uh, Senator Schumer and he is, he is quite a, uh, he's quite a boy. Uh, he, I don't know that he's
00:08:29.260
a model for much of anything though. Uh, he's a model for total insincerity. He puts on a cheap sport
00:08:36.220
coat, those little glasses, and he reads the index cards at his press conference and goes home.
00:08:41.440
He disappears. Have you noticed he's not around for it? I I I'm not really sure he it's as if he's
00:08:48.440
letting Mitch McConnell do all the talking because, uh, that means his job will be safe because
00:08:53.380
McConnell is sinking the Republican boat and floating the, the democratic boat. Uh, how could
00:08:59.920
you do better than that? Yeah. He's like me in school, sitting in the back of the class and hope
00:09:04.120
the teacher doesn't see you just stay out of the way. Let it all go rolling by. Well, let's talk
00:09:11.860
about, uh, the president's reaction to all of this. Uh, his reaction is it's frankly reminiscent of
00:09:18.680
Mark Simone's. He says McCarthy does Trump is fine and quietly moves to tamp down the fallout after
00:09:26.420
damaging audio revealing January six views. Uh, it was a lot more than that, but that really is the
00:09:32.500
essence of it. What do you think? Well, yeah, I mean, obviously this was leaked for one purpose
00:09:38.040
to make it look like there's a civil war in the Republican party and Donald Trump isn't going to
00:09:42.200
let these liberal reporters have that kind of satisfaction. Uh, and I'm sure Kevin McCarthy was
00:09:47.280
on the phone with them one second later, apologizing, and they've got some kind of agreement between the
00:09:52.320
two of them. So, uh, I, I think, uh, McCarthy is useful to Trump right now, uh, until there's a big
00:10:00.400
takeover in November, then everything changes. Yeah. I, I just, as I'm sitting here watching this
00:10:07.080
campaign unfold, I'm worrying about whether or not the Republicans have got the wave strength that
00:10:12.700
they're supposed to, according to the strategist and the pollsters. And at the same time, Trump not,
00:10:19.440
uh, accepting McCarthy. I mean, that's terrible. And some of the endorsements that Trump is making,
00:10:25.380
I really have serious questions about, uh, your reaction to endorsements on primary candidates by
00:10:33.080
a president. Well, uh, you know, his argument is, uh, they may not be what you want in the primary,
00:10:39.460
but I'm picking who can win in the general. And in some cases, there's just a law, you know,
00:10:43.740
he's always been close to Dr. Oz. There's a, there's a loyalty there to him. And, uh, J.D. Vance,
00:10:50.500
he's got his reasons why he likes him. Uh, you know, one thing about Trump, you can never, ever,
00:10:55.660
ever figure it out. It's like, uh, uh, you know, it's, it's like something, one of those animals,
00:11:02.160
it just never stops moving. You never know what direction it's going to go in next. Uh, it's just
00:11:06.680
to fool you, but, uh, uh, his endorsements are still important. He hasn't turned the race around
00:11:11.200
in Pennsylvania though. Oz still, uh, neck and neck or trailing him depending on the poll. So we'll see
00:11:17.180
if that endorsement really means anything there. Yeah, that's, it's a strange, it's a strange
00:11:22.380
circumstance there. You've got several candidates splitting the vote a little more there. I think
00:11:27.120
than people expected, uh, Kathy Burnett up against the, uh, the two guys that, you know, the powerhouses
00:11:33.500
in their own right, uh, wall street and, uh, uh, and you know, Dr. Oz on television, it's really an
00:11:41.580
interesting race. And it, and as you say, there's, there's no clear, uh, uh, winner here
00:11:46.900
and a lot of surprises could still lay in wait. I think that, I think that, uh, primary
00:11:51.940
is, uh, early May. Uh, yeah, we'll see. They had the first debate. It wasn't great. And
00:11:58.860
you know, if you're a Pennsylvania resident, you love your state, you realize the two top
00:12:02.940
candidates, neither of them been in Pennsylvania for 40 years. One's a Washington swamp guy.
00:12:08.060
The other's a TV doctor and they just showed up a month ago run. So I don't know what that
00:12:12.560
says about Pennsylvania. That says the, you know, that they've got some itinerant politicians.
00:12:19.320
Uh, well, it'll be fun to see what happens, but you know, looking over at Ohio, a lot of
00:12:25.940
fun there. That's unexpected. I think, and I'm pretty sure the president's surprised by the
00:12:30.680
strength of the opposition to his endorsement of JD Vance. I mean, it is a real, it is a real
00:12:37.080
pot boiler of a story and it's, it's not going to get any better because, uh, the, the state
00:12:45.500
over half, over half of their delegates to the Republican national committee and convention
00:12:51.840
are the ones saying, please, Mr. President, don't interfere in this. We're pushing, uh,
00:12:57.660
Josh Mandel, a very popular candidate at running ahead in the polls, uh, until he threw his
00:13:04.800
endorsement behind JD Vance. And they're very upset. And, uh, and I'm talking with the, one of
00:13:11.020
his lawyers on television and she's, you know, she's insisting that this isn't top down politics.
00:13:17.820
And I'm suggesting that this is telling the grassroots to go to hell when you've got this
00:13:22.220
going on your thoughts. Well, you know, there's another factor. And I love Donald Trump. He was a
00:13:26.620
great president. It's got so many qualities, but everybody's got their flaws and he was never,
00:13:31.840
uh, the very best at picking people, you know, uh, Jeff Sessions, for example, uh, Rex Tellerson,
00:13:39.000
well, you get the picture. I mean, there were some strange choices at all points in his political
00:13:43.740
career. And there's a little of that going on here. Yeah, I, I think you're right. And I,
00:13:48.640
and I said to his lawyer, I said very straightforwardly, you know, he's, I love his politics. Uh, excuse me.
00:13:56.780
I love his policies, but I don't love his politics because he seems to get the, the personnel part,
00:14:03.280
just sometimes just a little, uh, upside down. And I can't figure it till this is a smart,
00:14:09.360
smart guy, obviously a great, uh, a great guy. Uh, and sometimes I don't think he can read people
00:14:17.020
the best. Well, he was kind of like that in his own company. There was some strange
00:14:20.840
hirings there, but it was because he was kind of a one-man show. He was hands-on and ran everything
00:14:25.880
himself. So, uh, that's why he was able to get away with it. Government. It's a different story.
00:14:30.840
Yeah, absolutely. It's a different story. I want to turn to another, a different story,
00:14:35.040
if you will. The department of Homeland security is creating, are you ready for this? I'm sure you're
00:14:41.200
aware of it. I didn't know we still had that department. It's still there. Well, they,
00:14:45.500
they have a, I think they have a one day work week. Uh, but when it comes to border security,
00:14:51.120
certainly an immigration, but they've set up this disinformation governance board to fight
00:14:56.080
misinformation. And you think to yourself, what agency besides the intelligence, uh, group and the
00:15:03.140
FBI, uh, and the white house to put out more, uh, misinformation than Homeland security for crying
00:15:10.820
out loud. Your reaction? Uh, you know, uh, you grow up just admiring all these people, the CIA and our
00:15:17.880
intelligence and our FBI, but over the last few years, you look at our FBI directors, uh, you look
00:15:23.380
at our intelligence, uh, CIA, they seem to get everything wrong. How come we didn't know that
00:15:27.940
Putin's army was a primitive and, uh, uh, like a little league army. We don't know anything in
00:15:33.460
department of Homeland security. People are coming in left and right from everywhere. Uh, we don't know
00:15:38.760
what's going on half the time. The ports are all clogged up. You'd think the, uh, Homeland security
00:15:42.480
would be concerned about that too. Uh, so I, I really don't have a lot of faith. I mean,
00:15:47.640
it's a tribute to this country that we survive these bumbling agencies.
00:15:51.980
Well, and we spend untold black budgets, but billions and billions, tens of billions of dollars
00:15:59.240
every year, uh, to get back assessments from our intelligence services, but they never seem to know
00:16:05.560
anything. We're, we're sitting there with perfect imagery come from our satellites, showing us,
00:16:11.140
uh, one line of trucks, one line of tanks all across the border, uh, with between Ukraine and
00:16:18.400
Russia. Now they've got 200,000 troops there from Belarus to Moldova and still no word. As a matter
00:16:25.700
of fact, they're all arguing in the white house about when the invasion comes, then the invasion
00:16:29.980
comes, uh, after it's, it was the strangest three or four months I've ever seen looking at all that
00:16:38.100
buildup and the United States doesn't do a thing. It's almost like the United States. And by the
00:16:43.180
United States, I mean this white house, the Biden white house and the genius military leaders and
00:16:48.920
the Pentagon wanted a war. I, I, and the intelligence agencies, it doesn't, nothing else seems to make
00:16:55.560
sense. Yeah. You know, you talk to people on the inside and they tell you the intelligence department
00:16:59.520
actually has no intelligence. All they have is technology. All they have is satellites. They
00:17:03.600
can count how many tanks they can count, uh, soldiers, see where they are, but they don't
00:17:08.120
know anything. They don't know when they're going to move. They don't know that they're all young kids
00:17:11.820
and they're conscripts and there's an alcohol problem and they don't have a proper command
00:17:15.880
structure. So we don't know what's going on there. We can just look from above and count things,
00:17:19.960
but we have no idea on movement on a strategy. We just, our intelligence knows nothing.
00:17:25.340
When you first heard about the invasion, did you think, okay, this is going to take about three
00:17:31.280
days. This is the vaunted remnants of the Soviet era, uh, uh, military and it's going, I, I, you
00:17:38.680
know, feeling very sorry for the Ukrainians because this is going to be over in, in days. Uh, not
00:17:45.200
certainly no one dreamed this thing was going to go three months, at least none of the military
00:17:48.860
analysts I talked with. Yeah. Cause we didn't know anything, you know, I don't go by me. I used to
00:17:53.800
watch those military parades in front of the Kremlin with the way they would march. And those
00:17:57.780
tanks were so impressive. Now you see them in the field, rockets in the field, the tires don't work.
00:18:03.880
There's so much corruption. The tires weren't made properly. They're all blowing out. They tried to
00:18:08.220
come in on four fronts. They couldn't manage the supply lines. They don't have a commander. They
00:18:12.760
don't have sergeants. They don't have any, uh, colonels or captains. So when the, uh, convoy got bogged
00:18:18.420
down, the general himself has to get out and walk up to the front. And that's why all these generals got
00:18:23.300
bombed. They're right there in the front, getting, uh, in the middle of everything. So we had no idea
00:18:28.240
about all this. Obviously we don't have any spies that know anything about that army.
00:18:33.080
And if you don't have human, human, human intelligence, I like to do that. Just to show
00:18:39.560
I've been to Washington once or twice. Uh, what, what is the point of this? What is that budget buying?
00:18:46.300
Uh, but you know, more nonsense and more spying on presidents and attempts. They spent more time
00:18:53.160
trying to overthrow Donald Trump than they ever considered, uh, spending to overthrow Putin or
00:18:58.940
Xi Jinping. I mean, how crazy is that? Well, then I'm watching these news reports about Putin's mental
00:19:03.960
condition, his physical condition. Look at the way he holds the desk. He's shaking the media covering
00:19:08.940
this left and how, how come they don't do this with Joe Biden? The guy's bumping into walls,
00:19:12.420
doesn't know where he is. Let's hear about his medical condition.
00:19:18.100
You're exactly right. I mean, if they gave the same treatment to Biden, he'd be out of there in a
00:19:23.360
week. Uh, but they're not going to do that because they don't have anybody, uh, doctoring picture
00:19:28.560
of pictures for Biden or do they, I don't know. Maybe they do. Uh, this left wing, uh, Twitter war
00:19:36.540
that is, uh, that, uh, Elon Musk has launched is, is, is really funny to watch because all of these
00:19:44.320
little buttercup daffodil sensitive, who knows what, uh, noun to throw in there, uh, let alone
00:19:52.680
pronoun, uh, for those folks, they're crying, they're weeping. Uh, the lawyer, their top lawyer for
00:20:00.460
Twitter is the deal is done is breaks down in tears for crying out loud. These are the people
00:20:06.280
banning, suspending, crushing lives and, and existence on Twitter with, with abandon. And
00:20:12.880
suddenly now they're going to get a big check because of a change of control and a takeover
00:20:17.480
is a Elon Musk takes it private and they're balling. They're balling Mark. What am I going to make of
00:20:24.200
that? That's the fun part of it. Now we're going to go into phase two, which is they're going to try
00:20:29.120
to, they're going to try to Donald Trump, Elon Musk. They're going to try to take him out.
00:20:33.280
They're going to paint him as a racist. They're going to try to make him a criminal. They're
00:20:36.540
going to try to indict him. You know, they started the first day by saying he doesn't pay his fair
00:20:40.800
share. He doesn't pay taxes. Uh, he paid 11 billion last year. That's the single biggest payment
00:20:45.840
ever in American history. Right. So, uh, now they've started the racist stuff. They're looking for
00:20:51.040
racist things in his past. Uh, they'll do what they did to Trump. They'll, the attorney generals
00:20:56.760
will go after him. Uh, the white house will go after him, the justice department, the sec,
00:21:01.080
the FTC, they'll send everything after him and try to criminalize him. And I hope he's,
00:21:05.420
I hope I'm sure he's a smart guy. I'm sure he knows that. And I'm sure he's ready for it.
00:21:09.260
This is not a fair fight just to be very straightforward about this. Uh, Elon Musk versus
00:21:15.420
the sec. Are you kidding me? Those are nothing more than left-wing activists. And they're married
00:21:21.420
to various people in the, uh, in the FBI who've got some interesting backgrounds.
00:21:26.980
This is, you know, people should think about this. I think Mark, remember the first volley
00:21:33.140
from, from Elon Musk on Twitter's management and their resistance to his buyout, which he did very
00:21:41.580
nicely put a real nice number on it. A number that company wouldn't see in his stock, uh, you know,
00:21:46.840
for years. And guess what the, what he did, he laid out the fact that the entire board of directors
00:21:54.560
aside from the CEO, and of course, Jack Dorsey, uh, had like 50 shares of stock between them.
00:22:03.580
And they're supposed to be representing the shareholders to have aligned interest with
00:22:07.740
a shareholder, uh, and be managing that company, that CEO. And clearly that's one of the reasons
00:22:15.320
that that place has been so dysfunctional for so many years and has been a disaster.
00:22:20.260
The stock is a disappointment to wall street and all investors. It is, uh, it's like a sinecure
00:22:25.880
for left wing, uh, uh, pencil neck, uh, buttercups. I don't know what to say about it. It's just
00:22:33.180
for them to be crying about it on top of that. Really? Really? Well, you know, when you say
00:22:39.240
board of directors, most people are picturing a Lee Iacocca, Warren Buffett. You ever see the
00:22:43.060
board of directors? It's a bunch of 26 year olds in t-shirts in San Francisco that, uh, they're not,
00:22:49.380
they're no match for the greatest entrepreneur in American history, uh, Elon Musk. And I know that
00:22:54.320
Jack Dorsey is his secret consultant Dorsey, not happy about he's the founder of Twitter and he's
00:22:59.980
not happy about what happened. Well, they've treated, you know, I look, I've got no sympathy
00:23:04.120
for Jack Dorsey. He's a left winger to the highest degree and has made some beautiful mistakes in his
00:23:11.040
day, uh, amongst them, the treatment, uh, the treatment of the New York post, uh, the, the
00:23:17.240
banning, uh, uh, everyone who touched that story, uh, on Hunter Biden and the laptop, the steel
00:23:24.280
curtain came down from Silicon Valley through, uh, every corporate owned news outlet in the
00:23:30.760
country. I mean, he's not a, he's not a, uh, a wonderful exemplary model, uh, for fair and
00:23:36.800
balanced and, uh, objective, uh, you know, impartial, uh, platforms. But on the other
00:23:44.060
hand, uh, to see what they've done to this company, uh, they have one guy who could fix
00:23:51.160
it. And as direct Dorsey said it very well, he, he said that Elon Musk is the singular,
00:23:58.760
the singular choice that he would make to save that company. And I think he's exactly
00:24:03.800
right. There's just no, it's just, it's not a, it's not a
00:24:06.800
fair fight. It's also a whole network of stuff. Uh, Democrats created this whole infrastructure
00:24:12.360
of nonsense. You know, they created these fact-checking sites that are totally rigged
00:24:16.500
and totally biased. PolitiFact, uh, factcheck.org. Somebody's got to get in there and straighten
00:24:21.540
those out. Even the Washington post, uh, uh, fact checker, they're just ridiculously biased
00:24:27.400
and they use that as a excuse to take you off Twitter or Facebook still uses. They'll put
00:24:32.580
up the thing from the fact-checking site. You lied and that's it. You're off.
00:24:36.100
He's, he's, he's got to do something about those two, uh, buy those. And, uh, by the
00:24:40.880
way, Disney is, I think it's only 165 billion. He could buy that and still have 75 billion
00:24:47.580
And that would sure please the people in Florida because they're, they've had a belly
00:24:50.840
full of the management of Disney now after poor Bob Chapik was talked into, uh, by the,
00:24:57.720
uh, the woke crowd to get involved in parental rights. That's by the way, one of the great
00:25:02.860
tells right now in this highly nuanced media of ours. If you, if they refer to the law in
00:25:09.920
Florida, as they don't say gay law, that means they're lefties to the bone. Uh, if they refer
00:25:16.340
to it as parental rights, that means they're traditional, they're conservative and on the
00:25:21.220
side of truth, justice, and the American way, as we are on this podcast. Uh, I think it's,
00:25:27.600
I think it's in some ways hilarious to watch what is happening with the impact of
00:25:32.960
wokeness on America. Yeah. You know, there's one Twitter employee, there's a place where
00:25:38.060
they're all posting their comments, but this Twitter employee identifies himself. Here it
00:25:42.300
is as a, he's a non-binary transgender and plural person. Now I don't know what the hell
00:25:48.780
that is. I have no idea. How do you explain that to a six-year-old in school? I had enough
00:25:53.900
trouble with algebra. I would never understand this. Well, by the way, that's what would have
00:25:59.340
been going on. They would have been explaining that in school in Florida, uh, for young people,
00:26:05.500
five to nine, having discussions about, uh, gender and sex. Uh, who wants that? What parent in his or
00:26:15.040
her right mind wants a teacher explaining that to their children? It's just, it's insane. They're years
00:26:22.760
away from the age of reason, let alone, uh, you know, uh, you know, simple algebra, uh, what in
00:26:29.980
the world would they want to do? Uh, how can they even justify it? It's beyond to me comprehension.
00:26:36.180
A good rule is if any adult anywhere talks to your six-year-old about anything, sex or sexuality,
00:26:42.980
call the police immediately. We have laws already to cover it. It's well said. Uh, so where do we end up
00:26:50.360
with, uh, with Twitter? Because I have to tell you, I've had a bunch of followers added. Uh, I have,
00:26:57.980
uh, over 2 million, uh, followers on Twitter, but we've, we've been getting them in, uh, by, I don't
00:27:06.440
know, I guess five or 6,000 every, uh, every, I don't know, three to five hours. It's been amazing.
00:27:13.580
Yeah. It's not just you. It turns out it's everybody. I've been gaining a thousand every two
00:27:17.120
everybody has been getting their followers back, which is conclusive, absolute proof that they were
00:27:22.760
tampering with, uh, everything. And they used to argue that they're Russian bots. Has anybody ever
00:27:27.640
actually seen a Russian bot? And, uh, if there was such a thing as a Russian bot, why would I be
00:27:32.720
following it? Who would be following it? Yeah. And I, I've never quite understood that either.
00:27:37.860
A Russian bot, but there are no Chinese bots. Come on, come on. You know, there are no Iranian bots.
00:27:44.100
I don't, I don't mind buying all that. You can't keep putting it all on Russia. I know it's the thing
00:27:49.760
to do in America for the last seven years, Russian bots, Russian hoaxes. It's all, you know, it's all
00:27:56.080
good. Meanwhile, China is taking over the world. Uh, but let's worry about Russia right now. Uh, what
00:28:03.040
do you make, you know, since we're in such a light mood here, why don't we turn to the Ukrainian,
00:28:07.300
uh, well, it's the Russian war on Ukraine, not the Ukrainian war, uh, to seize the Linsky. Now he
00:28:14.820
is, you know, I, I get a kick out of the guy. He's telling people how it is. Uh, he's talking to, uh,
00:28:21.280
Blinken, the secretary of state, uh, and Austin, the secretary of defense is saying, don't you come
00:28:26.940
over here empty-handed? He's, he's telling them, bring me the goodies right now. That's it.
00:28:33.720
There wasn't a, it wasn't a threat. It wasn't an ultimatum. It was the only channel available to
00:28:39.020
them. Uh, come on over and we're going to have fun with whatever you bring me. Uh, and, and
00:28:44.760
apparently that's exactly what he got. Yeah. Well, Zelensky is Churchill in a t-shirt. He is an
00:28:50.140
incredible, uh, courageous hero. And he knows that Blinken is a mediocre middle management, uh,
00:28:57.040
worthless guy as in, uh, Lloyd Austin. You saw what a great job they did with the Afghan withdrawal.
00:29:02.440
They're two bumbling idiots. And I understand what he was saying. He's saying, don't come over here
00:29:07.340
and think you're going to get some credit for a photo opportunity. If you don't have weapons,
00:29:11.140
I'm not going to say anything nice about you after you leave. So, uh, and they should be giving
00:29:15.540
him weapons. We have as much at stake here as anybody else does. Yeah. And Blinken, I was told by a lot of
00:29:23.560
people who knew that Blinken shouldn't have even been in the national security team, uh, that he was just,
00:29:29.760
just not up to par, uh, as a talent, uh, Lloyd Austin. I haven't heard anyone say, you know,
00:29:37.160
I'm sure glad he went out and got Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense. I feel safer. Uh, and I
00:29:42.600
think one of the reasons is he speaks in cliches, uh, Lloyd Austin actually said yesterday that he,
00:29:50.980
he wanted everybody to understand that in nuclear war, no one wins. Uh, I, I thought that was one of the
00:29:58.580
interesting statements. I don't, you mean unleashing nuclear weapons on both countries
00:30:05.300
without limit. Uh, it's not good for us. Okay. Uh, it just is the secretary of defense. I want to
00:30:11.880
know how you're going to stop those guys and win that war. I don't want to be told, uh, we're starting
00:30:17.040
out with mutually assured destruction. You tell me how you're going to win and why you have spent the
00:30:22.300
last 50 years, not knowing, learning how to win. Well, let's bear in mind, this is a guy, uh, in
00:30:28.680
Afghanistan where there was no fighting of any kind. All he had to do was withdraw lost. Even that he
00:30:35.300
couldn't win. He made a mess of that. How do you screw that up? And he hadn't even been in the job
00:30:40.600
for a year. I mean, this is a guy who, as you say, he lost and Biden, he was in a hurry,
00:30:49.900
what I don't quite get though is Ukraine because they knew when they started asking Ukraine to join
00:30:58.400
NATO back in the fall of 2021, that that was a red line for Vladimir Putin and that he had said
00:31:07.900
he won't stand for it. And they kept telling Ukraine, come on in and join NATO. And, and Blinken says,
00:31:15.240
no, we don't believe that had anything to do with it, but he has no other explanation for what
00:31:20.420
caused Putin to cross the invade that country. Yeah. I mean, we don't have any actual working
00:31:27.620
media here. If we did, they'd be all over this. Uh, you could find 10 reasons that, uh, the Biden
00:31:32.760
administration caused this. Hey, not to mention, speaking of Afghanistan, we left 78 billion in
00:31:37.840
state-of-the-art weapons there. Uh, when it just put a half a tank of gas in those planes,
00:31:42.640
we could have flown them over to Ukraine at the time. We could have just given that all to Ukraine
00:31:46.380
and what a difference that would have made in this fight. Absolutely. And, uh, I, I just, I,
00:31:54.760
I can't believe that there's no energy expended by that media at all. We know now, thanks to the
00:32:00.640
reporting, the New York post Miranda Devine, uh, and of course the great Peter Schweitzer, uh,
00:32:06.980
and his book, uh, red handed, uh, on the Chinese Biden corruption. It's why isn't there more reporting
00:32:15.440
on the Biden corruption? Well, it's pretty obvious what happened. You know, Biden's in the history of
00:32:21.780
all these lies, one lie after this is his single greatest lie that he never talked to his son's
00:32:27.640
business partners. We've got a picture of them playing golf together. You spend four hours on a
00:32:32.260
golf course with somebody who don't talk about business. Uh, we now find out the story about
00:32:36.120
the business partner coming to the white house 19 times. Isn't true. It was actually 27 times.
00:32:41.620
If you do have any guy that's ever come to your office 27 times that you didn't talk business with.
00:32:46.820
And, uh, we, we have a picture of Joe Biden going to the cafe Milano, the big hotspot in Washington,
00:32:52.780
DC to meet the 12 business partners in a back room for two hours. He says he didn't know who they,
00:32:58.720
who could they have been, uh, Hunter's classmates. They're all 20 years older and they don't even
00:33:03.140
speak English. He didn't know who they were. Well, I love this. Uh, the, the Biden, Joe Biden's
00:33:11.640
ethics disclosure omits $5.1 million in a tax filing. And they just noticed this, there's $5 million
00:33:21.180
missing. And as somebody said, you know, the big guy is supposed to get 10%. So that could be 50
00:33:30.480
million in the family coffers right there, uh, represented. And we've got a four year investigation
00:33:37.760
going in Delaware where the issue is tax evasion. Uh, it's still no answer. Do you think the Biden
00:33:46.920
surname has anything to do with it? Yeah. Uh, you know, he's a public servant for almost 50 years
00:33:53.220
on a public servant salary. He's not a wealthy guy. You got to have a lot of money to have a $5
00:33:57.860
million error in your reporting to be off by that much. Uh, and you know, this has been going on for
00:34:04.080
years. He's a Congressman. He's a Senator on a Senator's salary for years. Yet somehow he bought
00:34:10.560
the DuPont mansion, the DuPont estate in Delaware and lived there. Nobody ever asked him how he afforded
00:34:15.860
the DuPont estate and then his beach house. He's been profiting. You know, most guys leave office
00:34:22.240
and then start to make millions. He figured out how to do it without leaving office by using his two
00:34:27.160
brothers and using his son as a bag man. Uh, and, and the media just looked the other way for decades
00:34:32.160
on this for decades. And they're still looking the other way. And people are accepting the idea that
00:34:38.780
this investigations could go four years and everybody's accepting bill Barr's statement that he
00:34:44.620
didn't want to intervene in the election of 2020, even though he knew Biden was lying through his
00:34:51.620
teeth and knew the state of that investigation. Uh, how do you rationalize that Mark? How can it be
00:34:59.260
rationalized? Uh, he says he didn't want to intervene. He changed the course of history for crying out
00:35:05.200
loud. Yeah. You know, you look back on history. Uh, it's cause he's a Democrat. What if Nixon had been a
00:35:11.060
Democrat, Woodward and Bernstein wouldn't never have done anything? They would have written a story
00:35:15.820
about how the Watergate didn't seem to have good locks on their doors. And, uh, why did that door
00:35:19.620
open? Uh, you know, I always ask about John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. How come it never
00:35:24.180
got reported? Well, it was a different era. No, it's cause it was a Democrat. If that was Richard
00:35:28.800
Nixon, it would have been on the front page the next day. It's, it's all based on the partisan nonsense.
00:35:35.400
Which makes you wonder, you know, who was it who really killed JFK? Was it a Democrat? Uh, because
00:35:41.920
for crying out loud, we still don't really know. Was it one bullet, two bullets, three bullets and
00:35:47.660
who fired it for what direction this after years and years of so-called investigation, I don't know
00:35:53.960
how many books, how many documentaries, we still don't know the answer to who killed.
00:35:59.900
Oh, I think we do. I've studied this carefully. Definitely Oswald. Definitely the three bullets
00:36:05.000
in the, uh, had three of the greatest reporters standing there at the time, McNeil,
00:36:10.340
Lair, uh, Bob Schieffer standing right there. And from that moment, investigated every, you know,
00:36:15.260
McNeil said he jumped over the, uh, wall where he ran up the grassy knoll jumped over the wall.
00:36:20.340
He said, there was nobody there. Nobody. Why did he run there? Uh, cause he's people turned
00:36:26.180
and looked as if the shots came from there. Ah, and he was in the car behind. So he ran up
00:36:31.420
there and looked, and there was nobody there. Well, I mean, that just tells us that somebody
00:36:35.840
was faster than Robin McNeil, uh, in a sprint up a hill. Well, but he got, he got over the wall
00:36:41.860
and it was apparently an enormous open area with train tracks and there was nobody in sight.
00:36:46.220
Did he, did you ever notice those sewer, uh, sewers and the manhole covers?
00:36:52.480
Uh, Oh, this is what happens when you get up. Did you ever check that out? Did you ever look
00:36:58.600
at the drain on the side of the curb from which they think the rifle might've been pointed as they
00:37:04.580
came around the curve at, uh, delays square. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a clear shot. Some people
00:37:11.400
say, uh, you know, I've actually stood in that. I've stood in that window. You ever gone up to that
00:37:15.920
window and look down? I can't say I've ever been up to that window. Oh, it's not a, it looks in
00:37:20.020
pictures. Like it's some long, it's very close. Yeah. It's not very far. And that window is very
00:37:25.360
low. And, uh, there's the famous 1968 CBS test where they put 10 people up there and gave them
00:37:31.140
Oswald's rifle and they were able to duplicate the shots. Yeah. Which way did the president's head
00:37:36.240
jerk back on the, on the shot there? Oh, here we go. Didn't it go backwards? I can't remember for
00:37:44.740
sure, but I think it went backwards. Suddenly I'm in an Oliver Stone movie now.
00:37:50.020
Well, you volunteered expertise. I just want to see where we go here.
00:37:55.740
Again, you got, uh, the great secret service agent, Jerry, um, um, what's his name was right
00:38:00.580
there looking at it. And, uh, he, it, it seemed like it came from a hit. He turned to look at that
00:38:06.480
window. Uh, McNeil is on the car right behind. He thought it came from there. And they do say if you
00:38:11.180
can shoot from behind and there's some kind of, uh, whatever that effect is that makes the head go
00:38:15.140
back. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh, you know, but we don't really know what happened to his brain because his
00:38:22.180
brain was missing when they got to the final, uh, autopsy in DC, right? Uh, Clint Hill, that was the
00:38:28.480
secret service agent. Well, that's the brain. It's once you get to DC, you're in the swamp. Who
00:38:31.900
knows what's going to happen? Things laptop isn't real things vanish. Well, you know, we're here now.
00:38:38.260
I, I, I really, I laugh at people who worry about the JFK conspiracy like I do. Uh, and so,
00:38:45.720
you know, you and I are good friends for a reason. We both are fascinated by it. Uh, and, uh, you think
00:38:51.860
we've got a conclusion and I think, uh, I'll keep an open mind about where it is. It's, uh, it's a,
00:38:58.320
it's a fascinating story and good fun to talk about just like it is. Uh, do you believe in UFOs?
00:39:04.260
Uh, not really. No. I mean, you know, well, that was Mark made careful because I had the,
00:39:11.220
the, the, uh, yeah, I saw what happened in the last flight. I'm going to be careful here.
00:39:15.880
But if you came, uh, 20,000 light years from another planet, why would you just go to like
00:39:20.660
Montana? When you come to New York or you'd see all those lights on in Los Angeles,
00:39:24.960
wouldn't you go there? Why do they always go the middle of nowhere? Well, I've got a Harvard
00:39:28.820
professor on my side this time. Uh, he is, he's, he's asking for an investigation into the crash
00:39:36.460
in the ocean, uh, of a, uh, what is a perceived, uh, asteroid meteor. You can get depending on how
00:39:46.540
big it is and everything else we'll find out, but it's cylindrical, uh, in shape, broad shape. I mean,
00:39:52.820
it's rough and it looks like a piece of stone, but it is arguably cylindrical. And the question is
00:40:00.240
why not? And they believe it came from, uh, uh, uh, outside the solar system. If so, it is the first
00:40:07.040
one that we will know of. And there's a question about it. Is it a probe? This professor says,
00:40:13.840
not me, is it a probe? Uh, was it a relay station of some sort or was it perhaps a vehicle?
00:40:22.820
Of some kind. There are other possibilities, but those are the three principles. And he wants an
00:40:28.060
investigation. He wants to use a magnet to pick it up off the ocean's floor. So what do you think?
00:40:33.980
I think if you've got that kind of technology that you can go to another solar system,
00:40:39.140
what the hell would you want to hear? What, what would be interesting to this earth? Uh,
00:40:44.400
again, you wouldn't go to the middle of nowhere. You wouldn't, if you're that sophisticated in your
00:40:48.460
technology, you're not going to crash in the ocean. Wait a minute. Can you imagine the sheer
00:40:52.100
delight for any extraterrestrial when he or she says, take me to your leader? And they show that
00:40:59.100
show him Joe Biden bouncing into another wall. I mean, it would be, I, that would just be a moment
00:41:05.660
where, you know, the poor extraterrestrials would say, you know, this is not worth it.
00:41:10.480
We're going home right now. Uh, well, if they did come here, I get, you know, obviously you'd go to,
00:41:16.580
you'd look down and you'd see New York city. You'd go eat every illegal alien ends up right in the
00:41:20.780
New York city or Los Angeles. Uh, these people have another solar system and end up in the ocean.
00:41:25.340
They, they, they wouldn't just come for a second and crash and more would happen if it was real.
00:41:30.720
Well, you know, you and I are going to have to travel up to Cambridge and talk to that Harvard
00:41:34.200
professor because he wants to spend some taxpayer money on it. And I think it's our duty to either
00:41:39.620
support him or prevent further waste of government money. I've always found it's a good rule. If
00:41:49.300
Our new Haven, uh, two really dangerous places. Uh, you know, think about it. How many of our judges
00:41:56.720
and our presidents have come from Harvard or Yale? It is, they ought to, you know, here's, I have a
00:42:03.800
a step towards solution on the rotten leadership that the country is experiencing right now.
00:42:10.440
Why don't we ban, ban Harvard, maybe the entire Ivy league, uh, Harvard, but certainly Harvard and
00:42:19.660
New Haven. And by the way, anytime a man claims to have been a professor at the university of
00:42:25.460
Pennsylvania, uh, uh, perhaps like Joe Biden did, we could ban that too. Penn would probably have to
00:42:32.220
be included. What do you think? Uh, yeah, we, I remember when Biden, uh, uh, the last appointment,
00:42:37.420
he said, now we have real diversity on the Supreme court. You got the 12, nine justices all from
00:42:42.640
Harvard and Yale. That's not diversity. If you took the top criminal lawyers in the country,
00:42:46.860
you'll notice they're all from Brooklyn college, uh, Hofstra, none of them are from Harvard
00:42:50.780
or the university of Texas, you know, one or the other, but, you know, it's been great fun talking
00:42:56.980
with you. I appreciate it so much, Mark, uh, you're dropping by and, uh, uh, uh, we always
00:43:02.000
give our guests the last word. So here you go. Well, I love this podcast. I listen
00:43:08.060
all the time. It's great stuff and keep it up. Well, thank you very much, Mark. And
00:43:13.020
you're a good friend, a great American, uh, an immense talent, uh, a broadcasting
00:43:18.480
legend and Mr. New York. Thanks so much. God bless Mark Simone, a great American
00:43:27.300
friend and friend tomorrow here will be our guest, John McLaughlin, great GOP strategist
00:43:33.640
and pollster. You'll have with him his new latest political poll to give us a penetrating
00:43:39.820
insight into the current state of the body politic in America. Please join us right here
00:43:45.680
tomorrow till then. God bless you and God bless America.