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Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show on seventeen wor well, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's Friday the thirteenth. We got a three day weekend

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Speaker 1: coming up. You got five weeks until spring, that's all,

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Speaker 1: just five weeks. Spring training is already underway right now

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Speaker 1: as we speak. You know, we have a US Attorney

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Speaker 1: of the Southern District. That's the big one, the Southern District.

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Speaker 1: That's Jay Clayton, doing an excellent job. But there's a

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Speaker 1: Northern District which goes, you know from here upstate. The

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Speaker 1: US Attorney for the Northern District had been a great

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Speaker 1: guy who everybody. Everybody loved this guy doing a great job.

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Speaker 1: John Sarcone. He's the US Attorney for the Northern District.

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Speaker 1: He was not confirmed, he was appointed, but Sarcone is

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Speaker 1: considered a great US attorney. Everybody's happy when they think

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Speaker 1: he's doing a great job. Well, you got these crazy

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Speaker 1: left wing judges here in New York. So they ruled

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Speaker 1: that he can't be the US attorney because he hasn't

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Speaker 1: been confirmed yet, and there's a temporary The judges decided

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Speaker 1: to all appoint their own US attorney for the Northern District,

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Speaker 1: and they chose somebody and made him the US Attorney

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Speaker 1: for the Northern District, and day one President Trump fired

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Speaker 1: him and said, judges don't pick US attorneys. The President does.

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Speaker 1: So I think what Sarcone did was he made himself

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Speaker 1: the number two guy just to make sure he's still there,

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Speaker 1: because everybody thinks he's doing a great job. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: the President will reappoint him as the US attorney. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you know the beautiful Waldorf Astoria, the Waldorf Hotel, one

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Speaker 1: of the great landmarks in New York. Members closed for

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Speaker 1: like ten years while they were rebuilding it and took forever,

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Speaker 1: and then it reopened about six months ago, and it's spectacular.

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Speaker 1: I don't like some of the changes, but it's spectacular inside.

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Speaker 1: It's up for sale now. I don't know why they

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Speaker 1: spent all these years rebuilding it just to sell it.

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Speaker 1: But half the building is now apartments condos, which you

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Speaker 1: can buy a condo, but you could also buy the

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Speaker 1: whole building if you want. It's for sale one billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see who buys it. New York

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Speaker 1: is as hot as ever, despite despite Mom, Donnie and

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Speaker 1: Hokeel and all of that. It's despite them, it's doing well.

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Speaker 1: Apartment sales high end through the roof apartment rentals is

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Speaker 1: as big as ever. In fact, there's no inventory left,

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Speaker 1: so people are buying stuff here. The Waldorf may easily sell,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. So we got this crazy Mom Donnie running things,

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Speaker 1: and you got crazy Kathy Hokele, who really is becoming

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Speaker 1: just as bad as as Mom Donnie. That's why you

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Speaker 1: need Bruce Blakeman to be governor. He'll be with us

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Speaker 1: later this hour. We'll talk to me about that. But

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Speaker 1: you got to get rid of Hockle. You can't get

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Speaker 1: rid of Mom Donnie for three and a half more years,

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Speaker 1: but you can get rid of Hokele and get a

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Speaker 1: real governor in there, a good, common sense, Bruce Blakeman

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Speaker 1: type of governor. But Mom Donnie's up there in Albany

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Speaker 1: wants to raise taxes. There's no reason at all for

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Speaker 1: raising taxes. We got a budget gap twelve billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The budget is double what it's supposed to be. It's

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Speaker 1: all waste, fraud, bloat, it's double. You can cut the

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Speaker 1: budget in half, just like that half twelve billion dollar gap.

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Speaker 1: Cut it in half, and then we got a sixty

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Speaker 1: five billion dollar surplus just like that, cut it in half.

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Speaker 1: Florida's budget is half of ours New York States, but

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Speaker 1: just cut it in half. So there's Mom Donnie testifying

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Speaker 1: about the rich, the rich, the rich, the rich.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're going to continue to advocate for a variety

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Speaker 2: of options. We believe the two of them that are

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Speaker 2: the most straightforward and critically important are increased taxes on

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Speaker 2: the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations.

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Speaker 1: On the tax of corporations. Do you remember the tariffs?

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Speaker 1: Remember how crazy the Democrats got about the tariffs. They

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Speaker 1: were yelling the scream and how bad tariffs are. They're

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Speaker 1: putting tariffs on themselves. These are tariffs. That's a tariff

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Speaker 1: when you tax the corporate tax is already the highest

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Speaker 1: in the world. American corporate tax is higher than any

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Speaker 1: place else in the world. They want to increase it.

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Speaker 1: That's a tariff on a business. You know, when you

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Speaker 1: put a ten percent tariff on a business, the business

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Speaker 1: doesn't pay the ten percent. You know, some of it's

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Speaker 1: paid by the exporter overseas, some of it's paid by

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Speaker 1: the middleman. Maybe the business has to pay two percent

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Speaker 1: of the ten percent. But when you put a ten

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Speaker 1: So when he talks about taxing these corporations, it just

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Speaker 1: means a tariff. It just means the price of every

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Speaker 1: product goes up. And when he talks about taxing the rich,

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Speaker 1: some of them leave. And they're the ones that pay

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Speaker 1: all the taxes here. The top one percent pays like

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Speaker 3: New York, asking for a two percent raise in personal

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Speaker 3: income taxes on the most affluent New Yorkers, someone earning

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Speaker 1: Maybe, but they don't want to contribute twenty thousand more

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Speaker 1: because you just waste it. You know, for every dollar

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Speaker 1: it is totally wasted on bloat, fraud, waste. They just

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Speaker 1: don't want to waste their money. So he keeps fighting

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Speaker 1: for it. In Albany, they keep arguing with him, keep

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Speaker 1: fighting him, Well, we.

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Speaker 4: Can't keep raising taxes and have people fleeing. You're talking

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Speaker 4: about free busting, free childcare, you know, so that's pretty ambitious,

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Speaker 4: and state is in serious fiscal trouble as well.

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Speaker 1: I have a big consort bequaus of your philosophy. So

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Speaker 1: do you have any consort about that.

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Speaker 2: I am confident that people will continue to stay in

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Speaker 2: the city. There's no doubt in my mind that what

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, when he's socialists, when they start in with all

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Speaker 1: their stuff, the end result is always the working people suffer.

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Speaker 1: The rich will never suffer. They can move, they can

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Speaker 1: do whatever they want, they can pay the tax if

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Speaker 1: they want. It's always the working people whenever you do

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Speaker 1: this Soviet style suff whenever you do this socialist of

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Speaker 1: the lower and middle income classes that get hit the

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Speaker 1: hardest by it. So you'll see that. You'll see that

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Speaker 1: happen mom. Donnie announced he's going to try out his

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Speaker 1: the first one, one route will become free. He's going

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Speaker 1: of a free bus. Then if you look at the

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Speaker 1: fine print, it's a cost of the program will be

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight million dollars. Well, how's that freeze?

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Speaker 1: The rest of us have to pay one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy eight million. It's not free. There's no free bus.

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Speaker 1: It just means taxpayers pay for it. It means ninety

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Speaker 1: eight percent of taxpayers pay for two percent to ride

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Speaker 4: In Albany, increasing taxes risks alienating and driving away businesses

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Speaker 4: that create jobs and people who disproportionately pay a lot

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Speaker 4: in our taxes that fund our public schools, our police

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Speaker 4: are sanitation. We need to be competitive. That's why we

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Speaker 1: The lot on taxes. There you go, good, But like

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Speaker 1: talking to a tree stump there, he's not listening. But

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Speaker 1: the good news is he does not have the power

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Speaker 1: to raise taxes. Governor has more power up there. That's

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Speaker 1: why you got to get rid of a hkal. She's

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Speaker 1: just as bad as Mom Donnie. Now. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if she really was deep down in her heart, but

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Speaker 1: she's decided to become a left wing wacko. She needs

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Speaker 1: Mom Donnie support. Bruce Blakeman is a tough candidate against her.

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Speaker 1: She knows she's got a tough race. He's gonna need

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Speaker 1: the mom Donnie Army at voting time. That's why she

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Speaker 1: started so left wing. Look at her on ICE. She's

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Speaker 1: just making up all this nonsense, yelling and screaming about ICE.

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Speaker 1: She says, this is her quote, we have a bloated

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Speaker 1: agency dedicated to taking people off our streets without any cause.

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Speaker 1: Just an out and out lie. She's just out and

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Speaker 1: out lying. Now, No, there's no ICE agents taking people

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Speaker 1: out without cause. You know, they've rounded up four hundred

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the governor's race later this hour. Bruce

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Speaker 1: Blakeman will be with us. Hey, I got to ask

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Speaker 1: him about this because so Hochel Blakeman is obviously very

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Speaker 1: Nassau County. So she goes out there to campaign and

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Speaker 1: then she mentions it later. She says, I was in

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Speaker 1: She's supposed to say on Long Island. Not I was

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Speaker 1: in Long Island. But sometimes I say in Long Island. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll ask he's the leader of Long Island. We'll ask

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Speaker 1: him later this hour. I think it's okay to say

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Speaker 1: in Long Island. Janine Piro, you know, she lives in Rye,

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Speaker 1: New York. She was in her hometown of Rye, beautiful

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Speaker 1: Johnny's Steakhouse, great stuff in Rye. But she fell right

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Speaker 1: This is last August, So she is suing con Edison.

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Speaker 1: There was a large block sticking out of the roadway.

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Speaker 1: Probably got a pretty good lawsuit. And if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get sued, I would say the worst person to get

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Speaker 1: sued by is the former District Attorney of West Cheshire,

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Speaker 1: the current District Attorney of Washington, DC. A great judge,

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Speaker 1: great attorney, Probably the worst person you can get sued by. Hey,

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Speaker 1: CBS News, more layoffs are coming. Yeah, they just did

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Speaker 1: as much as fifteen percent of the workforce. So CBS News,

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Speaker 1: They offered this buyout plan, and apparently a bunch of

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Speaker 1: and they don't want to go middle of the road

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Speaker 1: balance news. They don't want to do that. One of them,

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Speaker 1: when leaving, put out this letter to everybody about how

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Speaker 1: horrible what's happening is. She said, I don't even know

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Speaker 1: else she's saying in this letter. She said, they're prioritizing

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Speaker 1: a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has

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Speaker 1: been described as heterodox journalism. What the hell does that mean?

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Speaker 1: I gotta have a dictionary just to read this letter.

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Speaker 1: What the hell's a heterodox I don't know. So very

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Speaker 1: excellence we seek to sustain is hindered by fear and uncertainty.

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Speaker 1: They they just want to stop the fake news. They

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Speaker 1: want to stop the bias, the slanted stuff. She quote

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Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite, who once said to critics, if this is

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Speaker 1: Walter Kronkite. He was a wonderful guy, and he was

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