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Speaker 1: The Mark Simon Show.

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Speaker 2: Onor Well, it's Friday, it's the final week. This is

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Speaker 2: the last seven days of winter and then it's spring.

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Speaker 2: Got that daylight saving time light out till seven, seven

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Speaker 2: to fifteen some nights. Well, we got a lot to

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Speaker 2: get to this hour, so we'll get to Iran in

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Speaker 2: a moment. To just update you on the crazy mayor.

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Speaker 2: This Mom Donnie is absolutely nuts. I mean, we knew

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Speaker 2: he was like a left wing socialist, antisemitic, all have

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Speaker 2: been on top of that, He's just nuts the things

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Speaker 2: he does. I mean it's just in the first few weeks.

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Speaker 2: He's only been here two months. Just look at some

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Speaker 2: of the things he said. Remember the terrible shooting of

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Speaker 2: the the nutjob, crazy maniac is out there, shoots the cop.

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Speaker 2: Mom Donnie rushes to the hospital to visit the shooter,

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Speaker 2: not the cop. We've never seen that before ever in history.

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Speaker 2: Goes to the hospital, visits the purp and make sure

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Speaker 2: he's okay. Have you ever heard of anything like that.

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Speaker 2: You're the mayor, this is your cop. You're a policeman

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Speaker 2: who was shot. You're supposed to visit him. You're not

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Speaker 2: supposed to go visit the purp. The shooter in the hospital.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely insane. Then he invites the worst guy in the world,

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Speaker 2: that terrorist supporter Khalil Mam, Mama, whatever his name is, Khalil,

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Speaker 2: who's at Colombia leading this anti Semitic, anti Israel charge.

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Speaker 2: There's this awful October seventh Holocaust that takes place in Israel.

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Speaker 2: Khalil supports it, he believes in it. Horrible, horrible guy.

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Speaker 2: Thank god the United States decided to deport this guy.

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Speaker 2: You can't get a green card visa. You can't be

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Speaker 2: given a green card to come to the US of

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Speaker 2: visa to come here and then try to just destroy

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Speaker 2: everything and everybody. And if it's about freedom of speech,

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Speaker 2: you got to say on your application, this is what

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Speaker 2: you stand for, that when you get here, you're going

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Speaker 2: to lead protests against Israel, against this, against it. But

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Speaker 2: he didn't say any He lied on his application, so

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Speaker 2: they were going to deport him. They had him detained,

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Speaker 2: he was in custody. You get a left wing wacko

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Speaker 2: judge who lets him out, which is not that's bad enough.

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Speaker 2: Then you get the mayor invites him to Gracie Mansion

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Speaker 2: to have dinner there. It's absolutely insane. Mom, Donnie's still

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Speaker 2: getting flak for that. Yesterday, tried to explain it.

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Speaker 1: When he was detained by ice agents, flown to Louisiana

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Speaker 1: and held in an ice facility, and he was held

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Speaker 1: there for months and the only charge that was levied

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Speaker 1: against him was the exercising of his First Amendment rights.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually no, it was leading all kinds of terrible disruptions.

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Speaker 2: And you know, if you hate us that much, don't

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Speaker 2: come here. Don't come here. You know, if you love

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Speaker 2: Hamas that much, go over there, go join them. But this,

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Speaker 2: Mam Donnie's just one crazy thing after another. Now the latest,

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Speaker 2: you know, there was some flack over the homeless. He

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Speaker 2: remember how bad things got in the month of February.

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Speaker 2: Remember that cold spell were like temperature the real field

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Speaker 2: temperature was like minus ten degrees. It was unbelievably cold.

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Speaker 2: And Mamdani orders the cops and all the agencies, don't

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Speaker 2: bother the homeless. If they want to stay out in

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Speaker 2: seventeen died out in the streets. So you got to

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Speaker 2: do something. You know, we have these shelters, and the

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Speaker 2: problem is you got politicians running and politicians whether it's

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Speaker 2: tablasi or types like that. They're just totally incompetent. I

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Speaker 2: mean they're nice guys. They can make a nice speech,

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Speaker 2: but they're not managers. They don't know how to run anything.

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Speaker 2: You know, they'll tell you, well, the shelter's not safe,

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Speaker 2: shelter is infested with rat. Well if that's the case,

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Speaker 2: go fix it. That happens all the time. You know.

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Speaker 2: When guys like Trump are the great builders of New York.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes they buy an old building and they you know,

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Speaker 2: that's how the meatpacking district started. When the great Irwin Cohen,

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Speaker 2: he bought the old Chelsea Market, it was all run down.

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Speaker 2: He ended up creating the meatpacking District, the most spectacular

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Speaker 2: thing in the world. But he used to tell me

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Speaker 2: when he bought it, it was disgusting. It was filled

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Speaker 2: and it was a crack then. So if he had

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Speaker 2: the Diplasio approach, he'd say, oh, the boy, we can't

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Speaker 2: go in there. Nothing we can do. No, they went

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Speaker 2: a lot of cops and a thousand exterminators and you

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Speaker 2: could do that with these shelters, if they're that bad,

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Speaker 2: fix them. It's that if that were Rudy Giuliani, he'd

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Speaker 2: and then you'd run the shelters. They're not safe. Put

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Speaker 2: some cops in there, make them sick. But politicians can't

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Speaker 2: figure that out. So what do you do with the homeless? Well, Mom,

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Speaker 2: Donnie just signed a contract yesterday for two billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: This is coming out of our paychecks, a contract for

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Speaker 2: two billion dollars to put the homeless in hotels. You

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Speaker 2: remember they did this with the illegals that came here.

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Speaker 2: Remember they Watson Hotel right up there on fifty seven

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Speaker 2: eight hundred dollars a night rooms. That's where they put

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Speaker 2: these illegal aliens. We paid for it out of our paychecks.

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Speaker 2: So now they're going to put the homeless in hotels.

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Speaker 2: They're even closing the men's shelter. It's two hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty beds there can hold two hundred and fifty residents

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Speaker 2: on thirtieth Street, they're closing it. You could house people

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Speaker 2: there for a lot less money, but they're going to

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Speaker 2: spend two billion on hotel rooms. It's absolutely ridiculous. If

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Speaker 2: you ever tried to get a hotel room in Manhattan,

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Speaker 2: it's very expensive. It's a lot of money for hotel Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: You ever said, you know, I think we'll stay in

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Speaker 2: Manhattan one night. Dan, you look at the rates eight

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Speaker 2: hundred a night, one thousand a night. He said, I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to spend that. But here's the homeless getting

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Speaker 2: it for free. Now, why would you give a two

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Speaker 2: billion dollar contract to these hotels? Well, he may be stupid,

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Speaker 2: but he's like a real politician. Now he's getting to

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Speaker 2: be a real sleazy, corrupt politician. The reason you do that,

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Speaker 2: it's the big Hotel Association, which is one of the

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Speaker 2: biggest donors in politics, one of the biggest special interest

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Speaker 2: groups in New York, the Hotel Association. That's why politicians

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Speaker 2: love to give them multi billion dollar contracts. Multi billion

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Speaker 2: dollar contracts. Now here's the other problem, besides the fact

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Speaker 2: that you're overpaying like crazy to house the homeless. When

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Speaker 2: you give a billion dollar contracts, something happened during the

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Speaker 2: migrant crisis. When you when you take thousands and thousands

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Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of hotel rooms off the market, So

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Speaker 2: you're cutting down on the available number of hotel rooms

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Speaker 2: for tourists. And when you cut down the inventory, it

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Speaker 2: drives the price way up. So if it's eight hundred

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Speaker 2: to double on the hotels that are still on the markets.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely insane. Only an idiot would do that, or a

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Speaker 2: The Hotel Association is one of them. I mean, not

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Speaker 2: their fault, but they're big, big, huge donors. They take

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Speaker 2: care of politicians. And it's not just them, a lot

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Speaker 2: politicians because they make big, big, big donations. Let's get

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Speaker 2: to the Nancy Guthrie case. There's a name you don't

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Speaker 2: hear anymore, Nancy Guthrie. Go watch your TV twenty four

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Speaker 2: Did everybody just give up. Well, that crazy sheriff, his

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Speaker 2: name is Nanos, that local sheriff who looked like a

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Speaker 2: real bumbling and competent from the beginning. Besides bumbling and incompetent,

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Speaker 2: is starting to look sleezier and sleezier and sleezier, and

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Speaker 2: stuff is coming out about this guy. Way in the

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Speaker 2: past in his career, he's lied on his resume. In

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Speaker 2: earlier jobs he had, he got brought up on charges

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Speaker 2: for all sorts of crap, so he's not the most

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Speaker 2: reputable guy in the world. And then Yesterday makes this

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Speaker 2: bizarre statement, because what happened to Nancy Garthrie? Why have

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Speaker 2: So this sheriff yesterday says, well, he thinks he knows

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Speaker 2: why she was targeted. In fact, he warns the suspect

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Speaker 2: why is he telling us? Why would you make such

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Speaker 2: a real, weird, mysterious statement like that. You're the sheriff.

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Speaker 2: I think I know what happened, and let us know.

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Speaker 2: Tell us there are some people, now this sounds a

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Speaker 2: he was involved somehow, or that he knew the people involved,

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Speaker 2: something like that. I have no evidence of that, and

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Speaker 2: it sounds crazy to me, but there are some people

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Speaker 2: that crazy Muller Report. This is hard to believe, but

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Speaker 2: ten years ago Democrats got so upset about Trump getting

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Speaker 2: elected that they've concocted one of the worst hoaxes ever

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Speaker 2: on the American public. It was the Russia collusion hoax.

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Speaker 2: They actually tried to convince people that Trump was some

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Speaker 2: He and Putin, they were colluding on stealing the election,

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Speaker 2: and they tried to convince everybody that Trump didn't win,

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Speaker 2: Russia actually tampered with the election. Now, you always get

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Speaker 2: some election denying through the years, Kennedy, Nixon, there's elections

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Speaker 2: brought up. There's a bunch of examples. Kerry claimed that

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Speaker 2: the election, and it led to the Mueller investigation, the

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Speaker 2: Mueller witch hunt, which spent one hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 2: any Russian collusion. Nothing. They found no evidence of Russia

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Speaker 2: with they found that Russian bots or something spent one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand on Facebook ads. Now that is absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 2: It's nothing. The campaigns each spent like two three hundred

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Speaker 2: It is not going to do anything to affect anything

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Speaker 2: in the election. So the whole thing was a hoax. Well,

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Speaker 2: now the Department of Justice, going through the Muller report,

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Speaker 2: was the story about Russia was blackmailing Trump because there

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Speaker 2: was a video of his stay in a Moscow hotel

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Speaker 2: golden showers that remember that, this ridiculous, preposterous story about

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Speaker 2: this ridiculous video tape. It never happened, there's no video,

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Speaker 2: but they said it was a Russian intelligence agent They

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Speaker 2: this tape, Russian intelligence agent that was to help create

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Speaker 2: this whole Russia connection. Well they've corrected it now because

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Speaker 2: his name is here, it turns out he's not Russian.

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Speaker 2: He was an American, and he's originally a Georgie, but

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Speaker 2: he's an American and he wasn't Russian, had nothing to

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Speaker 2: by the Department of Justice, first time we're ever hearing

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Speaker 2: about that. Hey, you know, taxes in New York. They

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Speaker 2: keep wanting to raise taxes. They keep wanting to raise

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Speaker 2: taxes on the rich, raise taxes on everybody because they

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Speaker 2: keep claiming, we just don't have enough money. The budget,

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Speaker 2: the budget, we're short of money, we have a short

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Speaker 2: New York City Council wants to boost its own budget

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Speaker 2: by ten percent ten percent. It's one hundred and fifteen

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Speaker 2: million a year. What the hell would cost one hundred

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Speaker 2: seven new jobs city council. They got a meeting room,

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Speaker 2: they want to add fifth fifty seven new jobs legal

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Speaker 2: People are fleeing New York. It's absolutely not true. There

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Speaker 2: little inventory. So don't fall for all that stuff. Now

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Speaker 2: people are moving out of Washington State. This is what

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Speaker 2: which is probably the most famous Washington State company, well

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Speaker 2: day before that tax starts, because you know, if you've

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Speaker 2: Why would you want to give it to some sleezeball

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