The Great America Saturday Show： June 28, 2025
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Trump strikes Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran says this is only the beginning of attacks on the United States. President Trump says no more U.S. military action in the Middle East. Israel ramps up its attacks on Iran as well. Marco Rubio on Face the Nation.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
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Happy Monday, a very eventful weekend over in the Middle East here for America and for
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President Trump going ahead, launching strike missions on multiple Iranian nuclear facilities,
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at least facilities that we believe to have nuclear capabilities, enriched uranium, and
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It's a very successful mission for America, for this country.
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The B-2 bombers making the trip over 30 hours over to Iran and back to America.
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Thank God for the men and women that serve this country on a daily basis and for everything
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God bless our members of the military here at home and those abroad.
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Now, earlier this afternoon, at least 10 missiles were launched at the U.S. military base in
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Missiles were aimed at the Al-Yadid base in Qatar, which is America's largest base in the Middle
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Missiles were launched just after 1230 Eastern time, but those missiles were intercepted
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with no injuries or deaths reported, according to Qatari officials.
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Iran's armed forces said the attack on the U.S. bases were carried out by the Revolutionary
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Guards Corps, announcing that they, quote, warn our enemies that the era of hit and runs
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Now, Al-Yadid's air base is heavily fortified by a multitude of air defenses, which have
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been on alert since the tensions escalated over the weekend.
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Donald Trump's attacks were on three Iranian nuclear plants.
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It was called Operation Hammer, which I said they significantly say that they damaged those
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Now, the problem with Al-Yadid in Qatar is it's home to just over 10,000 U.S. troops.
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That's the base that I'm sure you all remember.
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President Trump visited just a few months ago on his Middle East trip.
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It houses over 100 U.S. military planes as well.
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Qatar's version of the Golden Dome stopped all of those rockets from running through.
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But Iran is saying that this is only the beginning of attacks for them, and they will not let America
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No, not one person, not one Iranian, not one Iranian official was hurt, killed, or anything
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The missile strikes, I should say, they were all targeted at Iranian nuclear facilities.
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So it's war on now, and we see, not literally, but hopefully not literally, what happens next
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They've just given over their nuclear weapons and played fair.
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But Israel now ramping up their attacks, their missile strikes on Iran, and unrelenting on
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them as well, as they've shown to be a big ally in the Middle Eastern region.
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President Trump saying this afternoon that he does not want any more U.S. military engagement
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According to some senior White House officials, I don't think President Trump has any intention
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of troops on the ground or any more missile strikes.
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It's up to Iran, rather Israel now, to do the job that they wanted to do.
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The reason Israel needed America in this mission was to get to those nuclear facilities that
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America is the only nation that has that bunker buster technology where the missile hits on
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the surface and has the capability to travel 200 plus feet underground to hit those facilities.
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So if you're looking at pictures of the aftermath of the bombing from America in Iran, you're
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not going to see much because those missiles penetrate the ground.
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And as I said, they'll travel 200 plus feet underground and absolutely explode once they hit
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So what does that mean for us here now at home?
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Kristi Noem issuing a nationwide terrorism alert for America this afternoon says that all Americans
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need to be on guard, all Americans need to be on alert, as Iran is saying their sleeper
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cells here in America will be activated as they say that they're going to unrelent on
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America for partaking in this fight to get them to give up their nuclear weapons.
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Over the weekend, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.
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And apparently these TV hosts don't really know much about what they're talking about.
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Marco Rubio was forced to give her, I guess, a little school lesson on Iran on their nuclear
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weapons program and on what it means for Iran having nuclear weapons.
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Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader
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They have everything they need to build a weapon.
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That is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessments.
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I know that better than you know that, and I know that that's not the case.
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But I'm asking you whether the order was given.
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And the people who say that, it doesn't matter if the order was given.
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They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons.
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Why would you bury things in a mountain, 300 feet under the ground?
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The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons
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They're trying to build an ICBM so they can one day put a warhead on it.
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And you know in the intelligence assessment that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold
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How do you know what the intelligence assessment says?
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And that's why I was asking you if you know something more from March.
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But that's also an inaccurate representation of it.
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They are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.
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So why would you enrich uranium at 60% if you don't intend to one day use it to take
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Why do you have 8,000 short-range missiles and 2,000 to 3,000 mid-range missiles that you
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They have everything they need for a nuclear weapon.
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They have the highly enriched uranium that is stored.
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That's all we need to see, especially in the hands of a regime that's already involved
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in terrorism and proxies and all kinds of things around.
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They are the source of all this stability in the Middle East.
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And they were censured at the IAEA for that enrichment and for violating their non-proliferation
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I was simply asking if we had intelligence that there was an order to weaponize, because
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you said weaponization ambitions, which implies they weren't doing it.
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Well, we have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon.
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It sounds like she's working for the Iranian government.
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Who is she to question what the Secretary of State or what the President of the United States
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They don't have to reveal what they have intel on.
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Their job is to keep the best interests of the United States and the American citizens
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You have Margaret Brennan out there questioning him as if, who are you to do this to launch a
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And I question who Margaret Brennan worked for.
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Later this week, members of the Western NATO ally group will be meeting in The Hague and
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As the Trump effect has taken place, NATO nations have agreed to an increase in defense spending
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As it looks like, things are going to get a little interesting over in Europe, whether
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it be with Russia, Iran, or over out to the Middle East with Iran.
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NATO now decides they need to start ramping up defense because it might get into a little
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And then you all remember President Trump said, you're not paying your fair share.
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America is not going to be there to bail you out or to save you.
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Our guest today, I wanted to bring down the mood a little bit on this Monday and try to
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start out on a lighter note as we've all been deeply engaged in heavy news and everything
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that's been going on in America, as I said, over in the Middle East.
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He's the king of New York radio, the great Mark Simone.
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Mark, as always, it's great to have you on the Great America Show.
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It goes till Wednesday and then it restarts again on Thursday.
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I'd say I'm going to implement something just like that.
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I think it's good for it's good for the the working mind.
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So while you were out partying over the weekend, enjoying great meals, it looks like as you
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It was a quiet weekend over in the Middle East, it seems, for for Iran.
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We were all out, you know, having a cocktail, enjoying our weekend.
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And boom, all of a sudden, 10 o'clock on Saturday night.
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We should have noticed the president goes away for the weekend, always returns on Sunday night.
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He's going to return Saturday afternoon at three or four o'clock meeting in the situation
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So I think we should have known something by by that.
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And I, you know, it was probably the most successful military operation ever in history.
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Nobody can find anything that went wrong anywhere in this mission.
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I know they like to try to, like, take out Pete Hegseth because he was on a signal chat
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But you've got to give him credit for running this operation.
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This is like Reggie Jackson's three home runs in one game World Series.
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You know, people give Hegseth a lot of crap because he's a former TV personality, right?
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He did, you know, you know, he wasn't just some TV personality who's now running the Pentagon.
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We see this thing running, Mark, with no leaks.
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I won't say who, but they had informed me that President Trump didn't want to spook anybody out by not going to Morristown.
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Apparently, they knew they were doing this last week.
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Didn't want to spook anybody out by not going to Morristown to Bedminster.
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So he went there and then came back so that they didn't realize things were going on on Friday.
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We also saw the stealth bombers out flying missions over Missouri, going left, going right, west, east.
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All the while, they were already on their way, the ones that were going to land the strikes, over in Iran.
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And, I mean, we should have all noticed when he left on Saturday afternoon.
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There was a big MAGA dinner fundraiser or something Friday night.
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You know, can you imagine trying to do this a year ago with Lloyd Austin and Kamala Harris in the room?
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You saw what kind of military operation that was.
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Lloyd Austin would have came in with his face shield and the cover on it looking like Darth Vader.
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You know, I'm not so happy now that we're looking like we're possibly going to go to war with Iran.
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But I think it's come to the point now where we've had no choice.
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And I think there's no better group of people than to lead us through what's going to happen next.
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Then our commander in chief right now and Donald Trump.
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Then Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe on the intel side of things.
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You know, it's just a bombing mission, a bombing raid to take something out.
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We had a bombing raid on Yemen, on Somalia, on Syria, Iraq, Pakistan.
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I think in 2016 alone, Obama dropped like 20 something thousand bombs over the course of his presidency.
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But we saw this afternoon Iran, of course, launching six missiles over at Al-Yadad in Qatar, where we have 10,000 American troops stationed over 100 military aircrafts.
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All were protected by their version of the Golden Dome, the Iron Dome, whatever the heck you want to call it.
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But they are, you know, they're not going to just sit back and let this fly, even though it seems to me that Donald Trump sort of gave them a little bit of a heads up to say, hey, get your people out of there.
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We just don't want you guys to have nuclear weapons.
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Yeah, and I imagine there was nobody living anywhere near the nuclear facilities.
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Also, you know, people say, well, they were probably just they might have used the energy just for the domestic energy or if they bury it 300 feet under a mountain, they're letting you know it's something evil.
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If it was anything with any legitimate purpose, it would have been above ground where everybody could see it.
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You know, everyone's saying, oh, well, Iran was this close to having a nuclear weapon 25 years ago and then 10 years ago and then five years ago.
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Everything's just been a lie with these people.
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I'm sure you remember a few years ago when they they caught those servicemen on the boat.
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They put them on their hands and knees behind their back.
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They have, you know, people say, well, Donald Trump didn't negotiate in good faith because Israel was bombing them while he was negotiating.
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And I think it speaks measures, Mark, that not one person in that region wants anything to do with them.
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Well, you know, some people have to remember the history we've had over the last couple of decades with Iran.
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They blew up our barracks and killed 240 Marines.
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But they've attacked our bases 350 times over the last bunch of years.
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And I know in the Biden administration, after attack number 350, some generals went to the Biden White House to say, we've got to respond.
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Of course, Biden was completely in a fog and never gave him an answer on it.
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CNN is reporting, Mark, this thing's going to last two years.
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I can't imagine Donald Trump getting locked up into this interesting situation for two years.
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But the interesting part about it, Mark, is that a new poll out today from YouGov shows that 85 percent of Americans don't want any sort of conflict or war with Iran.
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Well, I think he knows whenever you see a poll, look in the metrics first, see who was in the poll.
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The metrics are usually totally skewed and slanted.
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You know, you're supposed to use likely voters.
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Sometimes it just says adults, which means whoever the hell they wanted to use.
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Sometimes they just go in the faculty lounge and do the poll in there.
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You know, everybody has to remember this is a very tough period for Democrats.
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Remember, they all had to go out and buy Palestinian flags to wave around.
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Then they all had to run out and get Mexican flags.
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Now they all got to run out and buy Iranian flags.
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But like I said, there's no better person, I think, than to bring us through the situation right now than Donald Trump.
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The thing that scares the heck out of me, Mark, is that you've here now is the term sleeper cells right in America.
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This morning, we find out more than 700 Iranian nationals illegally entered the U.S.
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or released into the country by the Biden administration, according to new data from the Center Square for Border Patrol agents.
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Does that scare the heck out of you, Mark, that there's possibly thousands of illegal Iranians in this country?
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And we live in New York, which is probably the main focal point of any sort of attack that would happen in America.
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But if they told you this two weeks ago, you'd be just as concerned, too, that all these sleeper cells were here.
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If they're here, they're not sent just in case.
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I know intelligence people are saying this time they're worried about government buildings, government targets, that sort of stuff.
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And, you know, most things are much better protected now, especially here in New York.
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Yeah, like I said, I'm not comfortable with the situation we're in, but I'm comfortable that Donald Trump is the man at the helm because there's no smarter, better person to do that.
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Speaking of New York, Mark, we've got a mayoral race coming up very soon.
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And we've got this stupid thing called rank choice voting in New York where you vote for as many people as you want.
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And then the last person, because they don't want to hurt any feelings, gets thrown off.
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But then the second place person, he gets to stay on and they do it all over again to be all nice, nice.
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I can't say his name, we'll call him Zohan, I think is part of his name, running against Andrew Cuomo of all people.
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Andrew Cuomo, it seems to me, Mark, is like the Hillary Clinton of New York politics, just won't go away.
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Zohan now taking, it looks like a little bit of a lead in the rank choice voting against Cuomo.
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And if you're worried about a far left crazy person, that's Cuomo.
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He may campaign as a moderate, but he governs as a far left crazy.
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He's the guy that pushed in and gave us the no bail, no jail.
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He's the guy that closed the prisons, let the prisoners out.
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He redid the parole board, loaded it up with left wing kooks who let out everybody.
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He's the guy that took away qualified immunity from the police, which is why we can't hire any cops right now.
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I mean, I could go on and on with 20 of the most far left crazy things.
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And that's without even getting to the nursing home disaster and all that other stuff.
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A speech yesterday talked about how ICE has to stop wearing masks.
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Obviously, they're evil or why would they be wearing masks?
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Didn't he tell us that we needed to wear masks, all of us?
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You know, apparently now his big thing is the senior citizen vote.
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He's lost a lot of the younger voters to the other guys.
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Now, this could be the only candidate in history, I hate to say this, but who actually probably killed 10,000 of his potential voters and has lost them.
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So there's a we had early voting for a couple of weeks, and that's usually young voters in front of him here in the early voting.
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So Cuomo is totally dependent on Election Day voting.
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And tomorrow, Election Day is a heat wave, hundred and something degrees.
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So I don't know if his seniors are going to turn out for him on Election Day.
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But that opens the door, Mark, we were talking before the show for maybe the first time we get a Republican mayor.
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At that time, we didn't know that much about him.
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Yeah, you're going to have, let's say Cuomo loses a Democratic nomination.
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You have the Democratic Mamdani, Cuomo running as an independent, Eric Adams running as an independent, and then Curtis.
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So those other guys might split up the whole vote.
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And when it comes to crime fighting, nobody is stronger on that than Curtis Sliwa.
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And if he gets a fair debate this time, he could get that across to people.
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And it's not just, I say California all the time because it's something that's always on the radar.
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But we here in New York have our own problems too, Mark.
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Do you think the New York voters are smart enough?
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Now, I'm from Staten Island, Mark, which is the only Republican stronghold in New York City, the only Republican member of Congress from New York City.
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So my people out here, they're good people, Mark, but you've got those Marxists in the city, the Wall Streeters, the elites who just, Mark, they're so dumb.
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And my sister, I love her to death, but she's a Democrat and she lives in the city.
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And, you know, I'll ask her, I'll say, what about these people who get mugged?
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And I'm like, well, are you supposed to wait until it happens to you?
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She's a brilliant person, but I'm like, are you this dumb that it has to happen to you in order for you to, like, open your eyes to what is going on in New York?
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Yeah, well, the problem is it's a generational thing too.
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You know, Cuomo got so desperate over the weekend, he brought in Bill Clinton.
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And by the way, Hillary refused to endorse him.
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I don't know what that's all about, but Bill Clinton did these robocalls for him.
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You know, 30-something voters, Bill Clinton is a relic from the past.
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And then he brought in Clyburn, James Clyburn, to endorse.
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This is the guy that told us to vote for Biden.
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So I don't know what credibility he could have.
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So the only good news is older voters turn out in much higher percentages than younger voters.
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You have to imagine, Mark, the older voters, like you said, have some sort of animus towards them that they killed their husbands, their wives, you know, whatever.
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During COVID, I mean, nobody's – this is what's wrong with this country, Mark, is that nobody's talking about what this man did during COVID.
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If it were a Republican, they'd be in jail right now, facing 700 years.
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Yeah, the idea that people just tested positive with the virus, the idea of sending them into the nursing homes is possibly the single stupidest decision ever made by an elected official.
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Sex scandals he had to – he was cited by the Ethics Committee for the $5 million he took for that fake book that nobody read.
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And as Mamdani went after him in the debate and said, I never had to resign in disgrace.
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I've never sued a woman for her gynecological records.
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The list of closed Indian Point, our nuclear plant, that's 25% of our energy.
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I have to assume you're probably Italian, right, Mark?
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Your name ends – our rule of thumb as New Yorkers, if your name ends in a vowel, you're probably somewhat Italian.
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So you remember when his thing came out and he was touching the women, grabbing the women?
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No, when you're grabbing women and 13 sexual harassment accusers, you've got to make up whatever thing you can make up.
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I mean, if that's all he could come up with, I think that proves that something was really, really wrong.
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But he had a 22-year-old staffer come into his office, started asking her about her love life and would she go out with an older guy.
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Let's take a trip now a few thousand miles to the west of California where things aren't going much better.
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By the way, their governor there in California has had an affair with – I think it was his campaign manager or something back in the day, Gavin Newsom.
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These people are – why can't you just be a normal person?
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You can be a Democrat and just be a regular – you don't have to be a weirdo.
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Not all of them, but, you know, an overall majority.
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They all have these weird secret lives that they're living.
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So, now, Gavin Newsom is termed out for governor.
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We find out over the weekend that Kamala Harris, her presidential aspirations, even though she's leading in all polls, don't really look so bright.
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She's now looking at taking a run for governor and perhaps not president.
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Well, when you say leading in all polls, there is no opponent right now.
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But until somebody, you know, emerges, the polls don't mean anything.
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But once you leave California and try to run nationally, you've got no shot at all.
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This was different years ago, you know, in the Reagan days because it was a two-party state.
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She's got no shot for president, as she's already demonstrated for us.
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That's how she got to be, you know, an attorney general, senator.
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Just getting the nomination guarantees you a victory.
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I guess, you know, it's not only the men, Mark.
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But how does Kamala Harris run for anything, Mark, with the track record that she has as vice president?
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She stole the nomination from him, backstabbed him.
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I can stand Biden, but I don't think what they did to him was right.
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But stealing the nomination from him is very undemocratic for a group of people, Mark, that told us for years that the Republican Party were threats to democracy.
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Yeah, but, you know, right now there's no leader of the Democratic Party.
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And we had another mayoral candidate here in New York, Brad Lander, who's going nowhere.
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Go attack some ICE people, you know, block an ICE raid.
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I love to see, Mark, these people finally some sort of justice being administered.
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If they didn't go after Donald Trump, you wouldn't see, I think, any of this stuff happening today.
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They started it with the whole lawfare against it.
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Now these people are actually committing crimes.
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And you've got that congresswoman from New Jersey who's actually facing federal felonies for what she did in the ICE facility.
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He's had a lot of talents, but there's one in particular.
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He can bring out the absolute worst in his opponents.
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He can get them opposing ICE and law enforcement.
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Look now, he's going to have them defending Iran.
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He's got them waving Mexican flags and blowing up Tesla.
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You know, they spent 10 years telling you you have to have an electric car.
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He's amazing at bringing out the worst in his opponent.
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They have even this Iran strike, which it's logical.
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And then they got back to being crazy and opposing it.
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But they have no idea how to respond to anything.
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Well, taco night is canceled now because it's asinine.
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Nancy Pelosi, one of them, of course, going after Trump, wasn't happy about the raids.
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By the way, this was her tweet on Saturday night.
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Tonight, the president ignored the Constitution by unilaterally engaging our military without congressional authorization.
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I join my colleagues in demanding answers from this administration on this operation, which endangers American lives.
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It risks further escalation and dangerous destabilization of the the area.
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I commend POTUS, who was Barack Obama at the time, for his leadership.
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On Qaddafi's horrific brutality against his own people.
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I'm amazed they don't know how to back problems from all this flip flopping.
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I mean, you know, Schumer a week ago put out a video attacking Trump for threatening Iran, but not doing anything.
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And he wanted to investigate why nothing happened after the threat.
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But that's all they do is flip flop and go crazy.
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Whatever he wants them to be for, just attack it.
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And they got to remember, same thing in the media, attacking Trump, criticizing him, no longer means anything.
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And it wasn't just the Democrats that Donald Trump has managed to do that to.
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I was saying I was at a dinner last night and I brought up the same point.
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Was it 16 candidates on that stage to self implode every single one of them?
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Usually politicians, Mark, they're very reserved.
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You can all but like spit on them, literally spit on them.
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He's got losing his mind that Donald Trump pulled him ugly.
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He's got Marco Rubio going crazy because he told Marco Rubio because he's very short.
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A man who was a professional politician, family professional.
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And Mark, every single one of these people on that stage self imploded.
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And he's managed to do it to the Republicans and the Democrats.
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Yeah, and he's like a B2 bomber with pinpoint accuracy.
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He can find the critique that nobody thought of.
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And then you start to realize, yeah, the guy is kind of a still a kid.
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So before we move on to what happens in 2028 with these people, the L.A. riots, which I think are still going on a little bit to the best of my knowledge, are going to cost $30 million plus an additional million and a half dollars to clean up.
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No, actually, I don't think they should clean up because they always have something in L.A.
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But there was no point because they were going to have the riots.
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And there's going to be something else in two months.
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You know, leave it until you get a Republican in there.
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Then clean it up when, you know, nothing else is coming down the line.
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You've got a really good, you know, I've actually never even thought of that.
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That's a very valiant and brilliant, brilliant point.
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Yeah, it's the one square mile where the fire wasn't.
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I hope to God that Donald Trump doesn't give these people a dollar to let them wallow in their own mess that they've created on their own.
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So you've got Kamala maybe running for governor.
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You've got J.B. Pritzker, who's like the Chris Christie of Democrats.
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You got Wes Moore, who is, you know, the left wing Democrat, but it's pretty good on the on the stump there.
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Josh Shapiro, probably the smartest and the best of the bunch.
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Being Jewish might be a problem in some ways for, you know, the Democratic nomination.
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He's he's copied Obama's speaking style, which is a great one.
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You got J.B. Pritzker, who you can't be a big, fat Ralph Cramden looking guy.
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You know, something actually spooked me out about Mark Cuban when I found out that he was being vetted possibly for vice president for Kamala.
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And he wanted no part of the process makes me wonder if Mark Cuban's living some sort of secret life that he's worried about coming out.
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You see these people throwing stones when they're living in glass houses themselves to somehow protect themselves.
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Then when the truth comes out, they're in big trouble.
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All those names you listed, you know, I can't think of one of them who's remotely qualified.
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But then again, we had Joe Biden and Kamala Harrison.
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It only makes me think of one name, Mark, and it's Hillary Clinton.
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Do you think Hillary, the gift that keeps on giving, comes back to look at 2028?
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Problem with Hillary Clinton, when she was at her peak, she ran and she got beaten by a rookie.
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And a total amateur with no experience in politics beats her.
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So if you if you can't win in those situations and she's like that old woman in Sunset Boulevard, you know, trying to make a comeback, it's it's it's not going to work.
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And if you can't win at 55 and then you lose again at 65 or whatever she is, what is she, 80 now?
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It pains me to say, Mark, she's the I can't stand her.
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But she's literally the smartest one out of every single one of those people that I think we've mentioned.
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She's the only one who's really had a real job in her life in the sense of her political career.
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But she's the smartest one of all these people.
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What does that tell us that that that's Hillary Clinton?
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But you go back and watch the debates with Trump.
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But Mark, you know, honestly, if either you were on a stage with Donald Trump,
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we would probably go into some sort of meltdown, too, because he has that control over people where it's like you can be the smartest, best debater.
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Ted Cruz is perhaps one of the best and smartest people in the Senate, one of the best debaters.
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Well, he knows he knows besides how to brand people.
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He can walk into a room, look at somebody, know exactly what their weakness is.
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He was very academically smart, very experienced in political dialogue.
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So in that debate, he said, I'm going to take her right into the mud.
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And he's bringing up Juanita Broderick and every.
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And he said, this is one area where she's not comfortable and she doesn't know how to she doesn't speak this language.
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And that's how he just screwed her up in that debate.
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Mark, before we wrap, we've got a few weeks till July 4th, which is when Donald Trump wants that big, beautiful bill passed.
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Whatever the big controversy was with him, it looks a little smaller now, thanks to Iran.
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But, you know, the economists I trust, Larry Kudlow, Steve Moore, they're giving it a B plus.
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You know, as Reagan said, I'll take half a loaf now.
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You know, whatever you do here, it's not the final thing.
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They don't like the flag and hot dogs and parades.
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Was it July 4th where Chuck Schumer posted that picture grilling, Mark, and it was a raw hamburger on the grill and he had cheese on it?
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Yeah, because, again, they've never seen a barbecue.
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These people are so, Mark, every time I see something crazy, I say to myself, could it get any worse than it already is?
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It's just something crazier happens after what I've previously seen was crazy.
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Yeah, again, Donald Trump, incredible talent for bringing out the absolute worst than an opponent.
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That was one reason for the military parade because he knows Democrats get nauseous when they see the military.
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They get sick looking at this and it just made them look even sillier.
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I don't know if you saw, but when he was at the G7 in Canada, he went to go take a picture with Carney and his wife, the new leader of good old Canada.
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And Trump gets up there and you could tell Carney's wife was not happy to see Trump.
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Trump gets up there to take a picture and he looks at Carney and he whispers to him, you see that military parade we had yesterday?
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And he goes, they all said it was going to rain, a raindrop in the sky.
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And you could tell he's sitting there and, you know, he's passive aggressive and the wife's sitting there passive aggressive.
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But this is how he gets inside of people's heads to figure out where they're thinking, where they're at and can catch them completely off guard.
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Now that I think about it, they rigged the polls.
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I bet the weather forecasters rigged the weather forecast trying to make it sound like it'd be rain.
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He's also got the 250th anniversary of America.
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This will make Democrats even more nauseous when they see all this stuff.
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Celebrating the country, the flag, all of this.
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That military parade, that's the no kings parade because it's because of that military we don't have a king.
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If Donald Trump were a king, he would have stayed in office on January 2021 when Joe Biden was sworn in as president or acting president of the United States, I should say.
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He's never even done anything, Mark, that exhibits that he's going to be a king.
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When asked if he wants to run again in 2028, even though he can't, he says no.
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Well, anytime he makes a move now, he's in court for five weeks trying to fight it.
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If he puts on the television, they're insulting him like crazy.
00:42:51.440
Mark, as always, it's a delight to talk to you, and it's excellent to start out our Monday here on the Great America Show with you on the show.
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I like to try to bring down the temperature a little bit with everything going on, and you always do a terrific job at doing it.
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Where can the audience find you, Mark, and your message for New York and for America?
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You just go to my website, MarkSimone.com, or if you're on, just go on iHeart.
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You can get my show live, or you can get the podcast.
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You can listen any time, iHeart, or any place you get podcasts, you'll find my podcast.
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You've got three more great years, and it's enough time to clean up a lot of stuff.
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Mark Simone, host of The Mark Simone Show, the king of New York when it comes to radio.
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Thanks, everybody, for being with us today here on The Great America Show.
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We hope to see you back here tomorrow for The Great America Show, where our quest for
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truth, justice, and the American way continues.
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Folks, we'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place.
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Until then, may God bless you, may God bless America, and may God bless the great Blue Dobbs.