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Speaker 1: been indicted. Apparently he was partying like crazy in La

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Speaker 1: the Grammy Awards this Sunday night. The parties have already begun.

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Speaker 1: He was out there all night partying. The night ended

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Speaker 1: this is not it's not just Donald Trump deciding to

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Speaker 1: voted to indict Don Lemon for there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: laws he violated in that church. Now, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people worried that this will make Don Lemon into a

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Speaker 1: huge martyr that he'll be on every You know, he's

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly he'll be all over MSNBC and CNN, and there'll

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Speaker 1: be a GoFundMe that could raise millions and millions. He's

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Speaker 1: hired the top lawyer you could hire in a matter

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Speaker 1: that this will make Don Lemmon not only a martyr,

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Speaker 1: career for him. The Justice Department right now is releasing

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Speaker 1: more Epstein files. We explained last hour. There's five million

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Speaker 1: pages that need to be read and gone through with

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Speaker 1: we're talking. Last time, Monica Crowley was with this telling

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Speaker 1: us about this two hundred and fiftieth Birthday of America.

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Speaker 1: The whole year is going to be big, big events

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Speaker 1: celebrating America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, and if she

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Speaker 1: listed all the events, I realized, as miserable as Democrats are, now,

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Speaker 1: as angry, crazy, miserable as the Democrats are, this year's

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Speaker 1: going to be tough on them, very tough on them.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're not into flag waving or you know,

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Speaker 1: Fourth of July. They don't like that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's not their favorite day. So when the whole year

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Speaker 1: this is not going to be the National Prayer Service.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are not going to be flocking to that. What's

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Speaker 1: the other one? The National State Fair that's not big

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Speaker 1: with Democrats at the White House in Washington. The events

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Speaker 1: the Fourth of July and Democrats, I don't like this stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's a miserable day for them. Fourth of July with

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Speaker 1: rough year for your Democratic friends. As this stuff starts

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Speaker 1: still got till May before his term is over. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you're done as the FED chairman, you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: we're going to miss this snowstorm. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: there in this snow. Hey, the Milania movie opens today.

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Speaker 1: You should go see it. It's in fifteen hundred theaters today.

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Speaker 1: They had the first screening at the White House, big

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Speaker 1: And then there were two after parties, big bashes afterwards

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Speaker 1: why would Malania get forty million from Amazon for this film? Well,

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Speaker 1: the shutdown looms, they're trying to make some kind of deal.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you got crazy, angry Chuck Schumer, who's at

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Speaker 1: the end of a very mediocre career right now. Schumer

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Speaker 1: ice in Minnesota, and all that is an excuse. You

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Speaker 4: Caucus is unified over three main legislative objectives. First, we

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Speaker 4: want to end roving patrols. We need to tighten the

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Speaker 4: with state and local law enforcement. Second, we want to

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Speaker 4: enforce accountability. Third, we want masks off. Body cameras on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, this is all a big mess of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Body cameras on. Yeah, I would agree with that. Masks off.

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Speaker 1: If they can see the face, they can identify the person.

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Speaker 1: They will then go to the well the ICE agents

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Speaker 1: That's literally what would happen. That's that's why the masks. Now,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to take the masks off. A proposal.

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Speaker 1: The compromise will be every agent will have a number

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Speaker 1: who it is. So that's the way they'll do that. Now,

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Speaker 1: body cams. That's actually going to work against the protesters.

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Speaker 1: ice agents. Hopefully the shutdown doesn't happen. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: it'll get straightened out. Now Here in New York budget crisis,

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Speaker 1: of control. It's absolutely ludicrous that this one city has

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you know the idea of the budget cuts.

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Speaker 1: It's not that you're going to hurt any services or

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Speaker 1: seriously look at cutting stuff. I know he wants to

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Speaker 1: raise taxes, but he doesn't have the power to do it.

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Speaker 1: He's got to go to the governor. She's running for reelection,

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Speaker 1: so she's got to be careful. Well, you got to

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Speaker 1: go to the city council. And as I'm telling you yesterday,

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Speaker 1: we got a new city council speaker who's a moderate.

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Speaker 1: good check and balance on on mom, Donnie. So the

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Speaker 1: Luigi Manngi own cases, it's in court today and the

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Speaker 1: those were the charges that would have brought the death penalty. Now,

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Speaker 1: video of him just deliberately assassinating this guy for no

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Carl, Yorktown, Heights. Carl,

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Speaker 1: how you doing all right?

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Speaker 8: Good speak you Mark? Mark over in New Yorktown. Our

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Speaker 8: We're not coming down yet.

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Speaker 1: Oh, because New York State is every time the price

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Speaker 1: a lot of snow up there, Carl.

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Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, we had about between fifteen and eighteen.

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Speaker 8: It's still digging out the sidewalks.

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Speaker 1: All right, Carl, Thanks for calling. Yorktown Height's a very

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Speaker 1: nice place. Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich

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Speaker 1: how you doing.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks, Maul. We're getting two to four inches of

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Myrtle Beach. Where's that? South Carolina?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, South Carolina, North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Until you go down there to get away from this weather.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in Inland where your buddy Joe Bartler lives, he's

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Speaker 2: by that part of South Carolina. Whoa yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer continues to just show what a complete idiot

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Speaker 2: if you saw this. I saw posted somewhere that some

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Speaker 2: anything or knew anything about that. No, but no acting

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Speaker 1: Well, obviously they want to people. You know. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: And you wonder, how the hell did that guy stay there?

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Speaker 1: How does he get reelected donor service? That's what he's

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Speaker 1: even the Republican donors love they as they'll tell you,

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Speaker 1: I can wake that guy up at two in the morning.

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Speaker 1: He'll do whatever I need. That's Chuck Schumer. That's that's

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Speaker 1: been his main business for all these years. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Bob Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good?

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Speaker 2: Mark?

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 7: Hey, I'm I'm surprised that there's not more hope law

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Speaker 7: about the MTA making history about like the one point

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Speaker 7: project at Mundani and Cochal could take to find out, like, geez,

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Speaker 7: so much overtime? What's going on over there? All the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's total waste, fraud, bloat. New York

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Speaker 1: State budget, New York City budget. You know, Florida is

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Speaker 6: How do you doing?

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Speaker 2: Mark?

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Speaker 6: Thank You've been taking the well with respect to Minneapolis,

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Speaker 6: something that doesn't make sense. It's cold as there than here.

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Speaker 6: Why are they getting into confrontation spraying with fire hoses?

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, the cold is helped. There was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be a vicious, violent weekend protest. The cold

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Speaker 1: do spray them, but they spray them with that it's

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Speaker 1: not I know what it is, mace or some chemical.

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Speaker 6: And they get the hell out of Dodge quick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, yeah, but there's a lot of videos online

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Speaker 1: It's like a cannon. They use it. That stuff great stuff.

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Speaker 1: go to Uh, let's go to line too. How you doing,

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Speaker 1: I'm good?

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Speaker 6: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 9: I'm calling about accessor ride.

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Speaker 1: Wor Yes, you sound very gentle. What are you calling about?

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Speaker 9: Access? The issues with accessor ride? They left me stranded

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Speaker 1: What's accessor right?

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Speaker 9: Uh, it's a transfer empty transferrace transportation for disabled.

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Speaker 1: Oh, and what happened they didn't show up.

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Speaker 9: They didn't show up Wednesday night or last night. Wow,

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Speaker 9: I was standing out Nicole twenty five minutes last night

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Speaker 1: Well, sorry to hear that. You're okay now, I hope

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Speaker 1: everything you got home?

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Speaker 9: Okay, I got home. I just take accessorize. I had

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Speaker 1: Oh all right, Well that's a terrible story. I hope

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen again. Thanks for calling. Yeah, that's the

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Speaker 1: that's a horrible story there. Hey, when we come back,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Gasparino will be with us, the best business reporter

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Speaker 1: on Earth. Lots to talk to him about coming up

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Speaker 1: next on seven to ten wor.

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Speaker 7: More Mark Simone on seven.

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Speaker 1: Well, Charlie Gasparino, the best business reporter on Earth. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you see him on the Fox Business Network and you

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Speaker 6: I just read that Don Lemon got arrested.

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Speaker 1: Well it's it's it's great, But aren't you worried that

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Speaker 6: And I don't know Don Lemon will screw up anything.

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Speaker 6: Normal human being. I'd be like yeah times, like once

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Speaker 6: It's just so stupid. I don't I don't quite understand it.

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Speaker 1: You know, Well, if you read the lie, it's pretty specific.

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Speaker 6: was so part of it, and just I wonder I

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Speaker 6: was giving him advice to do this stupid stuff because

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Speaker 6: it's really dumb. I mean, it's really really dumb. And

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Speaker 6: I don't think and this is why I don't think

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Speaker 6: he'll be a martyr on this mark. It's so stupid.

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Speaker 6: Even left these in the media will say it's stupid

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Speaker 6: what he did.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's a good point, Uh, Kevin, wash, Are

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Speaker 1: we happy with this? I am.

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Speaker 6: I think this is a great choice. I mean, so

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Speaker 6: I wrote a story I don't remember. It was a

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Speaker 6: couple of about a month ago that a bunch of

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Speaker 6: CEOs went to Trump and said, listen, if you're gonna

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Speaker 6: go there, do not pick you know, if you can

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Speaker 6: get rid of Howell, do not pick ascid Kevin has

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Speaker 6: and Kevin Hassen's a nice guy's a smart guy, but

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Speaker 6: he's way too much of a cheerleader. I mean, well,

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Speaker 6: you kind of need somebody that is seen as independent

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Speaker 6: because you know, whether we like it or not, we

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Speaker 6: sell a lot of debt. You know, we're still running

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Speaker 6: two trillion dollar budget deficits. If the FED is seen

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Speaker 6: as not independent, someone that's gonna FED share is gonna,

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Speaker 6: you know, on the phone with Trump juice in the

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Speaker 6: economy whenever Trump wants. You know, people are just not

453
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Speaker 6: gonna buy your debt because it's gonna inflation is gonna erode.

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Speaker 6: It's it's uh, it's buying it's it's it's that's been advantage.

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Speaker 6: So you you need someone that that's kind of like

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Speaker 6: in the middle. And Kevin Walsh really is an independent guy.

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Speaker 6: He's a long time inflation hawk. Got that back up.

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Speaker 6: My guess is he will agree with Trump and lower

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Speaker 6: short term rates fast. Uh, he will do other things

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Speaker 6: to mitigate the inflation impact of that, which is you know,

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Speaker 6: unwinding the Fed's massive ballad sheet. It controlled. It holds

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Speaker 6: all these assets and he needs to sell them. That

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Speaker 6: will keep that will keep the lid on interest rates.

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Speaker 6: And I think it's and I know the guy just

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Speaker 6: pull disclosure. I know my life. I've known a few years.

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Speaker 6: Really smart, decent man. I mean, this is a good

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Speaker 6: a good choice, really good.

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Speaker 1: Well that's that's good here. But do we want to

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Speaker 1: fed trim in the talkish?

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Speaker 6: It depends on the hawk is Well, you do you

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Speaker 6: like inflation?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not not crazy about it.

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Speaker 6: No, So I mean, inflation is probably the worst thing

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Speaker 6: for one of the worst things for an economy because

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Speaker 6: it really destroys the social fabric. If you're an average

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Speaker 6: person and you work like really hard, but you still

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Speaker 6: can't afford food, which inflation gives you. And that's kind

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Speaker 6: of the problem that Biden had. And by extent eris

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Speaker 6: you know, you've got a real societal problem. And I

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Speaker 6: and I think that's what he's good at. I mean,

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Speaker 6: I think he'll understand that there is a dual mandate.

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Speaker 6: It's inflation first in the context of full employment. He

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Speaker 6: understands that. And if you want to spur the economy,

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Speaker 6: that's where you got fiscal policy coming out of the

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Speaker 6: White House. And I think this is kind of what

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Speaker 6: with the FED lost track of the FED under power,

487
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Speaker 6: became like part of the the sort of the fabric

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Speaker 6: of fiscal policy and and White House policy, and he

489
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Speaker 6: can't be it engaged in ESG and DEI and all

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Speaker 6: these radical leftist clauses. And I think, you know, I

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Speaker 6: think Warsh understands. I know he understands that. So I

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Speaker 6: think he will he will give Trump what he wants,

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Speaker 6: lower short term interest rates, which I don't understand why

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Speaker 6: he's so obsessed with that, because the short term interest

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Speaker 6: rates really mean little. It's the ten year that means

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Speaker 6: a lot. And that's all based on plation expectations. That's

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Speaker 6: where all the consumer rates are pegged off.

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Speaker 2: Him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, be that as it may. He'll play the game

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Speaker 6: and he'll do it. Well. I guess, all right.

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Speaker 1: That's good to hear. Hey, mom Donnie has been in

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Speaker 1: office now for two three weeks and a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are saying, well, it seems okay, nothing bad, But

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Speaker 1: how do you read the mom Donnie situation?

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, he's a horrible moron.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a good analysis, but.

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Speaker 6: Literally, right, he doesn't. He didn't want the tops to

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Speaker 6: get rid of the homeless guys off the streets and

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Speaker 6: some zero weather or guess what they died. I mean,

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Speaker 6: the guy is a complete idiot. If he was this

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Speaker 6: was anybody when when an R next to its name,

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Speaker 6: the New York Times would be running front page stories

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Speaker 6: about how he needs to be the one thing. I

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Speaker 6: wrote about this in the Post today, and I've been

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Speaker 6: writing about this a lot. There's a lot that he

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Speaker 6: can't do because of a guy named Hugh Carry, a

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Speaker 6: former governor, a guy named Felix Roat and who is

518
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Speaker 6: a former financier the public but you know, you know,

519
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Speaker 6: dedicate his life the civic work in New York City

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Speaker 6: and basically bringing the city back after the financial crisis

521
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Speaker 6: of the seventies. They created a structure where you can't

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Speaker 6: run budget deficits or else you lose control of the budget.

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Speaker 6: The state takes it over. It's almost impossible going to

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Speaker 6: the fold. Don olders get first DIBs on tax revenues

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Speaker 6: even before it goes to pay all these programs. You

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Speaker 6: can raise taxes, but you need the state to raise

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Speaker 6: for you. In many ways. If you lose population because

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Speaker 6: you raise taxes and the state agrees to it. Well,

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Speaker 6: guess what then you have budget deficits. And if you

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Speaker 6: run a deficit the end of the year, because you

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Speaker 6: you will lose control of the budget. It goes to

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Speaker 6: the state. So all those handcuffs are on even a

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Speaker 6: comedie like Mandami. Oh, I think even in unis ball

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Speaker 6: bond crisis. By the way, you need debt in New

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Speaker 6: York City is very I just wrote about this is

536
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Speaker 6: very is very flat right now. I mean the price

537
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Speaker 6: is our movement. It's they're high, They're up a little bit. Anyway,

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Speaker 6: that's where we are right now. It'll be interest to

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Speaker 6: see what he does. I mean, I mean Mandami, even

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Speaker 6: when it doesn't come to taxes and all, that can

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Speaker 6: really rerek havoc on the city and culturally in somebody

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Speaker 6: other ways. Obviously, I just worry about these ice protests

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Speaker 6: coming to New York and every soon because you have

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Speaker 6: the same sort of political dynamic as you have in Minnesota.

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Speaker 6: Minnesota have a bunch of leftists, like really crave and leftists,

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Speaker 6: including a moron as Governor Tim Watson almost became our

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Speaker 6: vice president, you know, Aggan, on these violent leftist protesters,

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Speaker 6: you can see someone like Mandami doing the same because

549
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Speaker 6: that he's cut from that cloth cloth as. By the way,

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Speaker 6: these protesters aren't people. They aren't just like protesting. These

551
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Speaker 6: are trained, near militia style trained leftist anarchists. So I

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Speaker 6: think I'm worried about that coming to the city more

553
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Speaker 6: than even like him raising taxes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we should stop using the word protester.

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Speaker 1: That implies you're standing there across the street with a

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Speaker 1: sign and yelling, but when you're spitting in their face,

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Speaker 1: they're kicking the tail light out of their car. That

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Speaker 1: that's behind a protester, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean you saw the one that was shot right, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I mean the Americans die. That guy was out of

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Speaker 6: his mind. I mean he's a crazy protester. I mean,

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Speaker 6: and by the way, who shows up You know, I can't.

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Speaker 6: I want to respect the dead Alex Pretty or Predo,

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Speaker 6: whatever his name is. Yeah, I see, you nerves were

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Speaker 6: supposed to electively. This guy came a lot, came. He

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Speaker 6: was He had two backup rounds on a concealed weapon

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Speaker 6: when he was getting an attacking cops. What does that

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Speaker 6: tell you? I mean, that's that's pretty pretty wild. If

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Speaker 6: you asked me very aggressive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you saw police carrying out an operation,

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Speaker 1: who has the nerve to go over there and try

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Speaker 1: to stop it? Interfere with it? That takes a hell

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Speaker 1: of a lot of.

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Speaker 6: Nerve, which a loaded weapon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what is that? Charlie Gasperino, great talk. And Hey,

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Speaker 1: if anybody out there doesn't have the book, go woke,

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Speaker 1: go broke. Uh, get this book. You're gonna love it.

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Speaker 1: And are you doing TV today?

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Speaker 6: No, because I'm barely They already got back my voice.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay. Well, otherwise, you see him all over the

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Speaker 1: Fox Business Network doing the great reporting, read his columns

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Speaker 1: New York Post, and make sure you follom on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: He is one of the best tweeters on earth. Charlie

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00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: Gasparino at Twitter. Charlie, thanks for being with us. Take care. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot coming up today. You got Buck

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Speaker 1: on seven to ten wor.

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Speaker 7: Mark Simo.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Now, remember earlier in the program, we were talking

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Speaker 1: about the Epstein files, and I said, there's five point

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Speaker 1: two million pages and they've got four hundred lawyers at

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department reviewing them. You can't just release these files.

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Speaker 1: You got to review them carefully and make sure you

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Speaker 1: remove any thing that identifies the victims, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So they had to go through five point two million pages.

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Speaker 1: That's what's taken so long. But as we speak, the

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Speaker 1: Justice Department has just released three point five million pages.

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Speaker 1: That's about two thirds of what's left. So all that's

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Speaker 1: left is about thirty percent. But today, right now, they're

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Speaker 1: releasing three point five million pages of the Epstein file.

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Speaker 1: This will include at least two thousand videos and one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty thousand images that these are pictures, all

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Speaker 1: of which were taken by Epstein. Now, I take a

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Speaker 1: lot of pictures. I'm a big photographer. All day long,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking pictures of anything and everything. And if you

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Speaker 1: look at my Instagram, I'm always putting a picture. I

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Speaker 1: just love taking pictures. But I looked on my phone

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Speaker 1: to see how many pictures I have and this is

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Speaker 1: for years. It's like it's only about twenty thousand pictures.

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Speaker 1: You know, how would anybody take a one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty thousand pictures? And this is just one batch altogether,

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Speaker 1: there's something like almost a million pictures. Who could take

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Speaker 1: that many pictures? But if you want to start going

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Speaker 1: through them, they're out there today. Hey, we're out of time.

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Speaker 1: No snow. It looks like no snow from Manhattan or

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Speaker 1: within about fifty miles of Manhattan. So that's good news.

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