Speaker 1: Ah, you know, hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1: I'm usually on our big flagship station w o R
Speaker 1: in New York. I'm not a little disoriented because I'm
Speaker 1: on vacation for two weeks. You know, I'm taking two
Speaker 1: weeks off end of the year Christmas break. But I
Speaker 1: didn't think I could take two full weeks off. I mean, Linda,
Speaker 1: could you go without working for two weeks.
Speaker 2: I'd missed it too much. Mark, you can't go that long.
Speaker 1: No, you can't not work for two weeks. So I
Speaker 1: figured I did a you know, I did Cudlow yesterday,
Speaker 1: not liberals. Yeah, so yeah, I'm not that left wing.
Speaker 1: So I can't just sit around and do nothing. So
Speaker 1: and this is the most listened to radio show in
Speaker 1: the world, So who's going to say, no, you come
Speaker 1: fill in for Sean Hannity. And we got you know,
Speaker 1: I came. You don't just walk in and go on
Speaker 1: the air. You got to do a preparation. We had
Speaker 1: to go over the Linda had the menu for what
Speaker 1: they were ordering lunch. I had to pick something.
Speaker 2: The most important part of the day was you getting
Speaker 2: your lunch order in. I said, oh my god, Mark,
Speaker 2: do you want to be a to the launch or yes?
Speaker 1: Well, but she never has a simple thing like it's pizza,
Speaker 1: you want cheese or pepperoni. It's always someplace with four
Speaker 1: thousand items on.
Speaker 2: This doesn't want to eat healthy.
Speaker 1: I know, but you got to scroll through. How about salads?
Speaker 1: There's four hundred salads and you got to look through.
Speaker 1: Oh actually I forgot the chicken case of deea but
Speaker 1: that's okay, that's okoy. See I told you I wasn't
Speaker 1: ready to come back. I've been actually I've been on
Speaker 1: vacation for like five six days already. Really yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm not used to working. You always wear those glasses.
Speaker 1: I never say with glasses before? Oh yeah, oh really
Speaker 1: I am. I never saw your words. She looks like
Speaker 1: it's like Chuck Schumer. Now with the glasses.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I think I'll be leaving. You can do
Speaker 2: this on your own. She'll be fine, very nice, class fine, Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, Uh get easy, Romeo. It's only three oh eight.
Speaker 1: Oh my, you mean I got two hours in like
Speaker 1: fifty two.
Speaker 2: Minutes more hours of my stink?
Speaker 1: I know, no, no, no, we'll be fine. We got
Speaker 1: lots of great guests. We got Hey, there's actually a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about. You would think Chris's week, nothing's happening,
Speaker 1: but plenty is happening. And Christmas Eve is tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Right, Wow, did you go to confession before our Lord?
Speaker 1: And yeah, I actually went to the confession and I
Speaker 1: said to the priest you first.
Speaker 2: You're a mess. Better, you're gonna get cold. Brother.
Speaker 1: It's a joke. It's a joke. So, uh, everybody will
Speaker 1: tell you New York is dying. Everybody's leaving, you know,
Speaker 1: with Mom Johnny getting elected, Socialism New York has finished.
Speaker 1: It's over. Go outside where we are right now, Try
Speaker 1: to walk down the sidewalk. It is so crowded in
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all from Europe, they're used to it.
Speaker 1: No, there's plenty of Americans. So you know, this is
Speaker 1: the busiest Christmas tourist season ever. You right now cannot
Speaker 1: get a hotel room in New York. It's absolutely impossible.
Speaker 1: It is packed. And you're saying, well that's tourists. Well,
Speaker 1: now go try to rent an apartment in New York
Speaker 1: right now. Apartment rentals are through the roof. There's no
Speaker 1: apartments left to rent. People coming rental means people just
Speaker 1: moving here. And as far as apartment sales, a record
Speaker 1: amount of closing last month. So people are not running away.
Speaker 2: Are you sure they're not just making their last run
Speaker 2: in before Mom Donnie takes over.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be that bad. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things. You know. He is a crazy socialist,
Speaker 1: but we had one before. His name was Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's way worse than Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 1: Come don't count on. Deblasio is pretty bad. And everybody
Speaker 1: in this new Mom Donnie administration are former Deblasio. The
Speaker 1: same people, same deputy mayors, same everything. It'll be very similar,
Speaker 1: although it'll be different this time because Trump is president
Speaker 1: and there's things he can do to counter everything Mam
Speaker 1: Donnie does, even if Mom Donnie plays around with the
Speaker 1: police force or crime. We have a great US attorney
Speaker 1: Southern District that's New York. His name is Jay Clayton.
Speaker 1: This guy has said he will step in and go
Speaker 1: after the criminals on He can do that too. The
Speaker 1: Feds can actually go on the streets arrest criminals left
Speaker 1: and right, shoplifters, muggers, robbers, drug dealers. They have the
Speaker 1: power to do that, and people forget when Rudy Giuliani
Speaker 1: was the mayor, he would one day week I think
Speaker 1: it was Wednesday. He called it Federal Day. You'd have
Speaker 1: the Feds come in and arrest everybody. And there's a
Speaker 1: reason for that. You know, if you arrest somebody here
Speaker 1: in New York, they'll go before one of these lunatic
Speaker 1: liberal judges or our lunatic district attorney. He'll just let
Speaker 1: him out. But when the Feds arrest him, goes to
Speaker 1: a federal court where they are sent away. So it's
Speaker 1: not as bad as and count on Donald Trump to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on mom Donnie. And apparently they've kept
Speaker 1: the relationship up. They talk on the phone once every
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. They've kept in touch and uh, what
Speaker 1: you look at me like that for he'll keep an
Speaker 1: eye on this.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I have to say, I did
Speaker 2: not know that Rudy Giuliani did that. So that was
Speaker 2: actually very Was it every week?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think every Wednesday was fed Day and so.
Speaker 2: That was the day that all the criminals stayed home.
Speaker 2: If you watch that's why they made it the day
Speaker 2: for theater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you watch Blue Bloods it's in one episode
Speaker 1: where this is really there's a criminal who he got
Speaker 1: a mut unity and a plea deal, he got witness
Speaker 1: whatever he got. There was no way to arrest this guy.
Speaker 1: The NYPD could not touch this guy. So they come
Speaker 1: back and they arrest him with a couple of the detectives.
Speaker 1: He says, you can't don't don't you know, you can't
Speaker 1: think this. These are federal guys. They're not part of
Speaker 1: the deal, and the Feds took them away.
Speaker 2: So well, man, I hope they start that up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can do that, but a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: is going on. Hey, the Epstein Files, this is the
Speaker 1: greatest thing in the world because every time they release
Speaker 1: another thirty thousand things, there's one picture at Trump and
Speaker 1: all the left wing on television go, aha, we got him.
Speaker 1: It's always the same though. With Donald Trump's picture, he's
Speaker 1: in a suit and tie. He's in a ballroom with
Speaker 1: three hundred people. It's usually it's a ballroom he owns.
Speaker 1: It's either the plaza he owned at the time or
Speaker 1: mar A Lago. It's in a ballroom at a party
Speaker 1: that he happened to be at. Whenever it's Bill Clinton,
Speaker 1: there's four thousand pictures. He's in a bathing suit, he's naked,
Speaker 1: he's in a hot dub, he's in a massage room,
Speaker 1: he's in a swimming pool, eight girls. And I heard
Speaker 1: one of these CNN idiots tried to well, you know,
Speaker 1: many people have taken pictures of Bill Clinton. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: an event with clothes on, not naked and hot up
Speaker 1: with him. So you're not going to get Trump on this.
Speaker 1: He has nothing to do with Epstein. It's fair. I
Speaker 1: can explain the whole thing. I was there for a
Speaker 1: lot of this late nineties. Epstein was a very wealthy guy.
Speaker 1: He went down to Florida, bought a house in Palm Beach.
Speaker 1: When you're a very wealthy guy in Palm Beach, one
Speaker 1: of the first things you do is join mar A Lago.
Speaker 1: And when you own the hotel, the club, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and you find out there's a new zillionaire in town
Speaker 1: just joined. He's at a party. You say hello, You're
Speaker 1: nice to him, you you knowvite him to some other events.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. And then very shortly into this
Speaker 1: relationship he found out some terrible things about Epstein. He
Speaker 1: went after a young girl in the clubhouse, who turns
Speaker 1: out was the daughter of a member. So he banned him.
Speaker 1: That was it. Fought with him, never talked to him again.
Speaker 1: This is a million years ago. Meantime. Look at the
Speaker 1: pictures of Bill Clinton. He's got dark hairr he's got
Speaker 1: light hair, he's got white hairs. Are going on for
Speaker 1: like thirty years with Bill Clinton, and they keep catching people.
Speaker 1: First of all, I have a lot of photos on
Speaker 1: my phone, at my computer, I'm like twenty thousand. I
Speaker 1: look at this Epstein stuff. He had like four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand pictures on his computer. Do you know anybody with
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand pictures? You know that first patchy released
Speaker 1: was ninety thousand, and that was just a tip of
Speaker 1: the iceberg. But you're seeing all these liberal icons. There's
Speaker 1: Larry Summers and a thousand pictures. And then we see
Speaker 1: Noam Chomsky, you know, the great beloved Harvard left wing kook.
Speaker 1: There he is all over Epstein. So one left wing
Speaker 1: guy after another's being destroyed. They just released another thirty
Speaker 1: thousand of today there's a picture of Trump in a
Speaker 1: suit and tie in a ballroom at a party. And again, ah,
Speaker 1: he got him this time, Never gonna get him. On
Speaker 1: anything forget about it. And I love when he you know,
Speaker 1: he's doing a great job running things, but also when
Speaker 1: he really puts his mind to it. What did I
Speaker 1: do to make them really insane? What can I do?
Speaker 1: I know he watched his MSNBC and CNN, and as
Speaker 1: mad as they are, you this, what can I do
Speaker 1: to even get him matter? You know, when you're in
Speaker 1: the zoo and you want to hit the bars of
Speaker 1: the cage and get the tigers.
Speaker 2: I don't actually know anything about that. What is what's
Speaker 2: happening when you go to the zoo?
Speaker 1: People do that? You see kids do that? All they
Speaker 1: look at that, look at anything. He does that. He's
Speaker 1: grown up, bro, No, I don't do I'm just in people.
Speaker 1: But he comes up with things like renaming the Kennedy Center,
Speaker 1: calling it the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedycy. They
Speaker 1: went berserk. Now these are the same Democrats. I remember
Speaker 1: four years ago they had to rename every They renamed
Speaker 1: every park, every military base, every street. Guy named George
Speaker 1: Floyd Boulevard. They're renaming everything in the world, depending BLM
Speaker 1: all over the streets. We didn't say a word, Nobody
Speaker 1: said it. Don't he renames the Kennedy Center. They go insane,
Speaker 1: and he had a there is a right for him
Speaker 1: to do that. The Kennedy Center apparently crumbling, falling apart.
Speaker 1: He took a tour of the building after coming back
Speaker 1: to office, and he's an expert in this. He's looking
Speaker 1: inside the building everywhere. It's crumbling, it's not being taken
Speaker 1: care of. He had to bring in a lot of
Speaker 1: crews fix the building, save the building. And I know
Speaker 1: they go crazy. He put in his own board and
Speaker 1: they're booking more right wing kind of bit and they're
Speaker 1: getting nuts. Look at the numbers, attendance numbers, ticket sales,
Speaker 1: everything is way up at the Kennedy Center. So you
Speaker 1: can put his name on it. Now, you could make
Speaker 1: the argument, if you're a crazy left winger, that well,
Speaker 1: he's not the type of person who should be on
Speaker 1: a performing arts center. He's not his character. Hey, we
Speaker 1: didn't complain about John F. Kennedy, who's, as Moe Green said,
Speaker 1: banging cocktail waitresses two at.
Speaker 2: A time, not for nothing. Wow three o'clock. But you know,
Speaker 2: there's also this idea that Donald Trump has a legacy
Speaker 2: in the performing arts world, whether it was putting on
Speaker 2: Miss America, whether it was holding brand events, whether it
Speaker 2: was TV shows.
Speaker 1: You actually had the number one TV show in America.
Speaker 2: I mean there is a little bit of background there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you might say, well, somebody dignified like John F. Kennedy.
Speaker 1: I love John F. Kennedy, but this guy's with Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, let's talk to Marylyn about
Speaker 2: how dignified he is.
Speaker 1: There's a long list of names. Hey, there's one that
Speaker 1: just did a podcast. We didn't even know about. Mimi Something,
Speaker 1: who tells this story. She was young, like nineteen, working
Speaker 1: in the White House. The President United States said would
Speaker 1: you like a tour of the residents, and, according to her,
Speaker 1: takes her upstairs. They're in the bedroom and.
Speaker 2: Mimi Alfred was nineteen years old when she was seduced
Speaker 2: by President John F. Kennedy. She has now written a
Speaker 2: tell all.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but she was on some podcast. There's audio
Speaker 1: of it. She said, I lost my virginity that day,
Speaker 1: and well, it's a presidential order. What are you going
Speaker 1: to do? I mean, gross, no, But you imagine you're nineteen,
Speaker 1: it's the president the United States, You're in the white
Speaker 1: and remember you had that swimming pool where he had.
Speaker 2: He was young. I mean, I will say he was
Speaker 2: a young president. It wasn't like you know other presidents prior.
Speaker 1: He had a father, Joe Kennedy, who was like eighty
Speaker 1: and doing the same exact stuff all the time. But
Speaker 1: he had a swimming pool and there were two let's
Speaker 1: just say. I can't say there were hookers, but there
Speaker 1: were two young women who were put on staff and
Speaker 1: they basically were in the pool with them all day.
Speaker 1: Pixie and Dixie or they had some names like that.
Speaker 2: That sounds about right, Yeah, yeah, so we call them escorts.
Speaker 1: Think we're close to escorts. But if you can put
Speaker 1: Kennedy's name out, you can put Trump's name on the building,
Speaker 1: and then hey good. For sixty minutes, they did a
Speaker 1: piece on the prison in Al Salvador where they take
Speaker 1: the ice people, about how conditions are bad there. It's violent,
Speaker 1: it's dangerous, and they were going to go after Trump
Speaker 1: with this piece, and well, first of all, why would
Speaker 1: it be so violent because these people are in it.
Speaker 1: I think that prooves right there. What kind of people
Speaker 1: they are? You put them in all in one place
Speaker 1: and they're killing each other. But sixty minutes did a
Speaker 1: piece on it, and the new head of City CBS News,
Speaker 1: Berry Weiss, looks at it and she's right. She said,
Speaker 1: you didn't ask anybody from the Trump administration of comment.
Speaker 1: There's no balance here. It's an old story. The New
Speaker 1: York Times did this two months ago, and apparently she
Speaker 1: put it on hold. She said, it'll run, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna interview people in the White House, get the other side,
Speaker 1: make it a fair piece. Well, apparently almost everybody at
Speaker 1: sixty minutes is going to walk out. They're gonna quit.
Speaker 1: They're so you know, up in arms that they're journalists. Meantime,
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, you got the biggest fraud in taxpayer history,
Speaker 1: nine billion now missing. How many reporters are sixty minutes
Speaker 1: sent to cover this? I have the exact number here, zero. None. Now,
Speaker 1: if I were running a news show and I found
Speaker 1: out somebody somewhere in America just stole nine billion from taxpayers,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you send a reporter there? Wouldn't you say, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is a good story, not for sixty minutes. The
Speaker 1: most corrupt? Are they the most? Well? Maybe ABC the Sunday.
Speaker 2: Show I just called even straight across.
Speaker 1: I love that everywhere I didn't the only still watches
Speaker 1: what do they call it? ABC Sunday? Whatever it is
Speaker 1: with George Stephanopolis.
Speaker 2: He's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: He's never on every week I watch It's Jonathan carl
Speaker 1: Or that the old weather beaten old Martha Radditts. Though
Speaker 1: Georg Stephanopps comes in like two three times a year.
Speaker 1: Why is his name still on the show. But hey,
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about today. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of great guests to get to a interesting
Speaker 1: governor's race here in New York. We'll go over that.
Speaker 1: You're going to be you can find this very interesting.
Speaker 1: Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Hey, make sure you
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Speaker 1: we had a lot to get to. Mark Simone here
Speaker 1: for Sean.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna play Christmas music every time, aren't you.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: That's actually I like that great. We love Christmas music
Speaker 1: because you get to hear all they Martin next, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you get to hear all these people. You know,
Speaker 1: people never hear them otherwise you hear Andy Williams, Bing Crosby,
Speaker 1: all these all these people once a year the Pearl
Speaker 1: Lives Pearls.
Speaker 2: I stand by that selection.
Speaker 1: What song did he have?
Speaker 2: Holly Jolly Baby, Oh jolly Christies?
Speaker 1: Of course? Yeah, Oh he was all right, but uh,
Speaker 1: Nat king.
Speaker 2: Cole, you know these Matt King Cole, Karen Carpenter, Ben Crosby,
Speaker 2: Danny Kay, the Andrew Sister.
Speaker 1: Danny. Oh, he was a horrible guy.
Speaker 2: Listen, if we went through a reactor for how nice
Speaker 2: they were, we wouldn't like anybody.
Speaker 1: It's very confusing, you know, like you see Rob Reiner
Speaker 1: on television, Vicious on Trump, vicious Fish. But I knew him.
Speaker 1: He was the sweetest, nicest, most wonderful guy in real life.
Speaker 1: We should talk about this later because it's not just
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people. They're really nice people, friends
Speaker 1: of yours, they're relatives, it's wonderful one. Then you bring
Speaker 1: up Trump in there like screaming maniac. It's it's they
Speaker 1: call it Trump's Arrangement Center. But it's more than that.
Speaker 1: It's like a weird Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing. Hey,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a very interesting governor's race here
Speaker 1: in New York. John McLaughlin is the best polster in
Speaker 1: the world, and we'll talk to him next. He knows
Speaker 1: a lot about that, and we'll talk about the midterms
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more. It's Mark Simone here for
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity. We got a lot coming up. You can't
Speaker 1: always get what you want, but you can get Shawn
Speaker 1: Hannity online at hannity dot Com. Hey, it's Mark Simone
Speaker 1: here for Sean Hannity. We got a lot to get
Speaker 1: to today. But first let's get to the greatest poster
Speaker 1: in the world. Now, there's two kinds of poles. There's
Speaker 1: public polls. You see them in the newspaper, you see
Speaker 1: them on TV. These are cheap, flimsy polls. They take
Speaker 1: a few hundred people, not very carefully selected, and they're
Speaker 1: they're not that accurate. But then if you're a candidate,
Speaker 1: you get the real polls. These are much much, much
Speaker 1: more accurate. It's not two hundred people. They get like
Speaker 1: twenty thousand carefully selected people, an exact model, electric, real
Speaker 1: serious polling. Now, the best in the world is John McLaughlin.
Speaker 1: His website is McLaughlan online dot com. Of course you
Speaker 1: know his cousin, Linda McLaughlin.
Speaker 2: So his favorite cousin. You'll aout that part the absolute
Speaker 2: asking yourself.
Speaker 1: Actually no relation, but John mclochlin the best poster in
Speaker 1: the world. John McLaughlin, how you doing.
Speaker 3: It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the introduction,
Speaker 3: as well as Donald Trumps president and having done all
Speaker 3: his campaigns, quite happy to accept. So it's like, and
Speaker 3: by the way, there has to be a distant cousin
Speaker 3: with Linda. Yeah, she's definitely on the smart side of
Speaker 3: the family. So it's like she does it, but she
Speaker 3: does a great job. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Donald Trump is usual used as polster, as
Speaker 1: have premiers, presidents, prime ministers all over the world. Lots
Speaker 1: of people. Hey, now there's a governor's race. We have
Speaker 1: a terrible governor, Kathy Hochel, ineffective and competent Democrat as
Speaker 1: you're going to run them against the least Stephonic, but
Speaker 1: we all we likely stephonic. But she's a legislator, she's
Speaker 1: great running a hearing, interrogation, but none of these skills
Speaker 1: coming to play as a governor. The other candidate was
Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, who is a manager who really is a governor.
Speaker 1: He's the county executive of Nassau County, best county executive
Speaker 1: in America, and that's basically being a governor. He's phenomenal
Speaker 1: at it. So what do you think he's now the
Speaker 1: candidate as far as you know, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, having pulled for Bruce, he's done a great job.
Speaker 3: Phenomenal And you're exactly right about Bruce. Where I mean,
Speaker 3: Nassau County's right next to New York City and it's
Speaker 3: bigger than eight states in terms of population. So he's
Speaker 3: been running that county for the last four years, and
Speaker 3: you know, to win in New York is really tough
Speaker 3: as a Republican. But like Pataki was able to win
Speaker 3: against Crawl and then serve three terms, Bruce is very
Speaker 3: similar and he's very likable. He also he just won
Speaker 3: reelection where while Republicans were losing in New Jersey and
Speaker 3: Virginia and upstate where they lost like fifty county legislatives upstate,
Speaker 3: and they lost races in Syracuse and other places. Nasal County,
Speaker 3: they swept everything. It's an eight point Democrat county and
Speaker 3: Bruce won by twelve points. It was a blowout, and
Speaker 3: he carried the whole ticket to DA, the clerk, the controller,
Speaker 3: every town office in Hampstead, Hempstead's Awards town of like
Speaker 3: eight hundred thousand people, the Bay North Hampstead. The Republicans
Speaker 3: swept everything, and it was because they ran on a
Speaker 3: record of cutting taxes that was their affordability issue. Bruce
Speaker 3: actually cut taxes that held them the same for four years, frozen.
Speaker 3: And he also hired hundreds of law enforcement officers so
Speaker 3: that it was named the safest county in America by
Speaker 3: US News and Wall Report. So on the issues that
Speaker 3: New Yorkers really care about most. He's got a great
Speaker 3: record like a governor, as you're pointing out. And he
Speaker 3: also did a lot of other good things, like you know,
Speaker 3: he took the mass off the kids after COVID. He did,
Speaker 3: you know, he kept men out of girls' sports and
Speaker 3: county facilities and and he's really done a great job
Speaker 3: as county executive and he's earned i mean, President Trump
Speaker 3: support him. He's earned a you know, a lot of
Speaker 3: support of because he had to run for reelection this
Speaker 3: year and by the way, four year years ago, when
Speaker 3: he was running against the citting county executive who was
Speaker 3: popular at the time but greased taxes and the Democrats
Speaker 3: are trying to bring in Cassas Bail, Bruce was down
Speaker 3: twenty four points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pault.
Speaker 3: Delivered to him and it didn't face him at all.
Speaker 3: He's you know, he's an experience. He's a candidate where
Speaker 3: he's run for office before. He's down twenty four points,
Speaker 3: he worked really hard. He ended up winning that race
Speaker 3: because he stood against Karsas Bail and he stood against
Speaker 3: higher taxes. And what the great thing is now he
Speaker 3: got reelected because he kept his word, which is refreshing
Speaker 3: in politics.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and he's a great, great guy. Known him
Speaker 1: for years. You can tell everybody what a great guy
Speaker 1: is to And when he ran for county executives against
Speaker 1: a woman who it was the same thing like you're
Speaker 1: hearing now, Oh nobody's going to beat her. She's the Democrat,
Speaker 1: it's impossible to beat her, and she was a very nice,
Speaker 1: likable woman, Laura Curran, unlike the screechy Kathy Huckel. So
Speaker 1: this should be actually easier for Bruce Flakeman to win,
Speaker 1: shouldn't it.
Speaker 3: It's certainly I wouldn't say easier, but it's it's certainly
Speaker 3: he's well positioned to win this because the race he
Speaker 3: just came off, you know, he basically was he was
Speaker 3: taking like a quarter of the Democrats. He took a
Speaker 3: third of the African American vote, he won Hispanic voters,
Speaker 3: he won Asian voters, Chinese, Indian, Korean voters, he won
Speaker 3: among independent men but also independent women, and he won
Speaker 3: among Jewish voters. And it's a very diverse county that
Speaker 3: reflects the state. So New York four years ago, leez
Speaker 3: Elden ran a good race, but we kind of got
Speaker 3: frozen in New York City where we only got thirty
Speaker 3: percent of the vote. So you know, Bruce has the
Speaker 3: ability to get more than that by by getting more
Speaker 3: votes in Queens in the Bronx and Seattle boroughs and
Speaker 3: also Brooklyn. But he also could do well upstate too,
Speaker 3: because you know they're not going to want somebody who
Speaker 3: who raised his taxic like Hokle said, because he's trying
Speaker 3: to keep Mandami happy. Who's that going to be the mayor,
Speaker 3: the new big government socialist mayor in New York City.
Speaker 3: She's talking about raising the corporate tax from seven percent
Speaker 3: to eleven percent in New York State, and Bruce came
Speaker 3: out against that instantly because that would drive jobs away
Speaker 3: from New York and upstate. You can't afford to lose
Speaker 3: any more jobs, whether it's Buffalo or you know, Plattsburgh
Speaker 3: or Syracuse. I mean, you just can't the southern tier.
Speaker 3: You can't afford to lose these jobs. So Bruce is
Speaker 3: already you know, he's challenging on her record. He wants
Speaker 3: to run on against her record. You know, he'll compare
Speaker 3: his record versus hers on taxes, on jobs, on crime,
Speaker 3: and his certainly have new ideas to you know, improve
Speaker 3: education in the state and as well as handle some
Speaker 3: of these homeless and mental health issue problems. And so
Speaker 3: I think I think we can have a really good
Speaker 3: campaign going on this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, these Democrats like as you mentioned, Kathy Hochele
Speaker 1: or Mom Donnie Bernie s all these ye p eased
Speaker 1: corporate taxes. Increased corporate taxes. Do they realize that's a tariff.
Speaker 1: It's basically the same thing as through having tariffs. So
Speaker 1: it's democrat tariffs.
Speaker 3: I mean, you raise taxes on a business, they'll just
Speaker 3: pass it on to the consumer. But the other part
Speaker 3: what's worse than New Yorker. What we've seen is they
Speaker 3: leave New York. They're more than happy to go. They
Speaker 3: could go to New Jersey, they could go to Georgia
Speaker 3: and North Carolina, they can go to Tennessee, Florida, Texas.
Speaker 3: How many jobs are we lost to Texas? So so
Speaker 3: that's you know that it's just not a good idea.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you go upstate New York, you know,
Speaker 3: you go to Buffalo and Rochester, et cetera. You know,
Speaker 3: you're looking at downtown and say where you know, where's
Speaker 3: the business is gone, where's carrier gone, Where's where's in Syracuse,
Speaker 3: where's you know, Xerox, Kodak, et cetera. Go over the
Speaker 3: border to Toronto. Toronto, the corporate tax in Canada is
Speaker 3: like fifteen percent, and New York, you know, you have
Speaker 3: a twenty one percent federal tax. And then New York
Speaker 3: they're want to raise it eleven on time that who wow,
Speaker 3: there's more jobs. They'll they'll go out of the country again.
Speaker 1: Hey, well, let's talk about midterms. This is very important
Speaker 1: the midterms now. I think it's is it kind of
Speaker 1: crazy to predict anything now because it's like asking who's
Speaker 1: going to win the super Bowl in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows. I mean, it's anything could change
Speaker 1: between now and the midterms or am I wrong?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's close. We have a new national
Speaker 3: poll that we just posted today where the Republicans are
Speaker 3: down by a point forty forty six to forty five.
Speaker 3: But that's really close. That's in the margin er even
Speaker 3: for a national poll of a thousand plus a minus
Speaker 3: three percent. So you're going to have a close midterm
Speaker 3: election that's focused on you know, maybe fifty sixty seventy seats.
Speaker 3: But you know, you got, like you said, you've got
Speaker 3: ten months and ten and a half months to decide
Speaker 3: that election, and there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 3: things that a lot of factors. The good news is
Speaker 3: Donald Trump has a his job ringing we have him
Speaker 3: a fifty percent job and it's holding from and again
Speaker 3: we do a thousand likely voters modeled after national elections,
Speaker 3: not like these other polls where they have adults and
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants and whomever in the polls, but that don't
Speaker 3: like Trump or so that's a poll of likely voters,
Speaker 3: and you're looking at a year for now, and it's close.
Speaker 3: But I mean, the economy is starting to grow. And
Speaker 3: one of the things, one of the most important things
Speaker 3: we found in the survey was that a lot they
Speaker 3: don't know the facts. They think the economy's getting worse
Speaker 3: because they don't know the facts. And President Trump was
Speaker 3: censored in the speech that he made this week. I mean,
Speaker 3: they literally cut out the graphs showing lower inflation under Trump,
Speaker 3: showing higher wages under Trump, showing lower gas prices. I mean,
Speaker 3: the networks, a whole bunch of them, wouldn't I mean,
Speaker 3: the President of the United States does a national address
Speaker 3: and they won't let them show the graphs. They censored
Speaker 3: it out, and it was just absolutely ridiculous. But when
Speaker 3: they learned of the facts that the economy is growing,
Speaker 3: et cetera, they they're more likely to say the economy
Speaker 3: is getting better sixty one to thirty three. But right
Speaker 3: now they're not getting those facts. And it's a real
Speaker 3: challenge because we had to do that in his campaign
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four. I mean, they were trying to sense.
Speaker 3: I mean in twenty twenty Biden. I believe Biden won
Speaker 3: because they censored us. And there was with that Hunter
Speaker 3: Biden laptop. We did a post election poll and I've
Speaker 3: talked about on the show with Sean and Linda before,
Speaker 3: where among the Biden voters, thirty six percent were not
Speaker 3: aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story. And if they
Speaker 3: were aware enough would have changed that Donald Trump would
Speaker 3: have won the election. And that was Media Research Center
Speaker 3: Broke Brempozel published that, and that was a survey that
Speaker 3: we did. And you know, they're trying it again. They're
Speaker 3: going to I mean literally, they want to censor. They
Speaker 3: want to censor the Trump record so that the Democrats
Speaker 3: retake Congress.
Speaker 1: I mean, but this is going to be the roughest
Speaker 1: race ever because they've got to stop him this time.
Speaker 1: They can't let him have two more years of Congress
Speaker 1: on his side, so they're going to do everything to
Speaker 1: stop him. Now, what can President Trump do? What did
Speaker 1: he do to counter this?
Speaker 3: Go directly to people, I mean, first of all. One
Speaker 3: of the things he always did was and again he'd
Speaker 3: been inside the Belway in Washington. He's running the government.
Speaker 3: You got to get that back out to the fetal.
Speaker 3: He's got to do his rallies, he's got to go
Speaker 3: out there for the candidates's and and when he goes
Speaker 3: out there, it generates a lot of like untraditional media coverage.
Speaker 3: People go to these things, and the Trump campaign had
Speaker 3: it down to the science. When you go to that,
Speaker 3: you sign up with your email, We get your cell phone,
Speaker 3: we text you, we email you, we send you a
Speaker 3: lot of information. You send that out to your friends,
Speaker 3: whether it's Facebook, et cetera. But they they hear the
Speaker 3: president's message. They hear that he wants to you know,
Speaker 3: he wants to lower taxes. You'll know that that the
Speaker 3: tax got he passed is going to save you money.
Speaker 3: You should get a refund back if you're paying taxes.
Speaker 3: Most Americans will, and there'll be no tax on tips,
Speaker 3: no tax on overtime, no tax you'll get tax credits
Speaker 3: for security, so security, so you know, those kinds of
Speaker 3: things where people get the real facts, that changes. That's
Speaker 3: how we won the election. That's how we won the
Speaker 3: popular vote and swept the battleground states. Are just getting
Speaker 3: out there directly to the people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know people. And I realized, I said, well,
Speaker 1: not everybody's going to watch the rally. But as you
Speaker 1: point out, that's interesting. They collect the email the phone
Speaker 1: number of every single person at every rally and that
Speaker 1: in the end, that could be millions of people in
Speaker 1: the end, right.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's tens of millions of people. And they and
Speaker 3: what they do is they you know, they they send
Speaker 3: it not just the ones who attend. Like remember when
Speaker 3: he came to Madison Square Garden, anybody who want anybody
Speaker 3: who wanted to get inside had to sign up via
Speaker 3: email or tax So we got that information. Same thing
Speaker 3: when you know, Blakeman had the Nassau County, Nassau County,
Speaker 3: they the Nassau Coliseum rally was great, great event, and
Speaker 3: we had that information and we could go directly to
Speaker 3: the voters and give them the truth that you wouldn't
Speaker 3: have to be censored by the press. So it was
Speaker 3: a tough lesson to learn. In twenty twenty when they
Speaker 3: said the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real and John Brennan
Speaker 3: and the gang were saying, oh, it's Russian disinformation. Now
Speaker 3: that we know that it's totally not true what they said,
Speaker 3: thanks to Tulsey GABBARTT and thanks to John Ratcliff, they've
Speaker 3: shown us what, you know, what frauds they were. So
Speaker 3: we just have to get the facts out to the
Speaker 3: feel of that. The economy today, the GDP it's over
Speaker 3: four percent, hasn't been this high in years, and the
Speaker 3: economic growth is going and they're growing. You're now having
Speaker 3: wages grow again faster than the rate of inflation, which
Speaker 3: is what people need to get to, you know, feel
Speaker 3: better that you know, they to recover from the four
Speaker 3: years of Biden inflation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, John McLaughlin, great stuff. You can take a
Speaker 1: look at this website McLachlan online dot com and if
Speaker 1: you ever need the best polster on earth, it's John
Speaker 1: McLachlan and great stuff. We'll talk again soon. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being with us.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, Mark, thank you. Merry Christmas, Linda.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. Take care. Are we allowed
Speaker 1: to say Merry Christmas? We have to say happy holidays? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. There you go. So I hear Christmas music
Speaker 1: behind me again? It's you switched songs there right, it
Speaker 1: was Paul McCartney. Then it was oh, it's all a
Speaker 1: blurry all these Christmas. We love Christmas. Hey, we'll take
Speaker 1: some calls next eight hundred nine four one. Sean is
Speaker 1: the number, Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Speaker 5: Man for America, great for edited fake news, sad jobbles
Speaker 5: finds the truth for you and me, Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1: Ah again with the Christmas music. It's getting me.
Speaker 2: Mark, did you know that we are only two days
Speaker 2: away from Christmas? Hence the inspiration that makes us play
Speaker 2: said Christmas music?
Speaker 1: Well, I know they got those radio stations where the
Speaker 1: last four weeks of the year they play nothing but
Speaker 1: Christmas music twenty four to seven. And whenever I'm at
Speaker 1: one of them, all the DJs are like, like, I
Speaker 1: guys can't tell anything. We love it, but yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: I love Frank Sinatra. Bid Yeah, wudn't with him twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven for a month?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, you have Fox Nation, you know the
Speaker 1: Fox streaming service. Absolutely, there's a new documentary about Sinatra
Speaker 1: called Something Sinatra Icon. It's phenomenal. I'm even in it.
Speaker 1: But it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2: You're in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not documentary, Fox Nation,