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Skipping the Correspondent's Dinner - April 28th, Hour 3

Mark Simone, Host of the #1 Morning Show in NYC knows all things about  black tie affairs and the “very important people” at these types of events.  And there was a ton to see on Saturday night at the WH Correspondents dinner, which our President wisely skipped.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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As we get into some of the other news of the day we have not gotten into, look, everyone likes football.
And if you're a football fan, you can't deny that Bill Belichick's been one of the best coaches in NFL history.
And anyway, he goes on what is usually meant to be.
And I'd been featured on this thing years and years ago, CBS Sunday morning.
And anyway, he's now going to go back to coaching.
This time he's in the college ranks, North Carolina.
He's going to be coaching for.
And anyway, what should be a pretty fluffy interview?
A couple of minor questions.
One that went really viral.
Now, he's 73 years old.
I don't really care too much about his personal life.
That's his business.
And he's dating a 24-year-old girl, which has raised a lot of eyebrows and it's gotten a lot of media attention.
And anyway, in the middle of this interview, the interviewer asks a simple question.
Well, how'd you guys meet?
A lot of people have shown a lot of interest in this.
And here's how the answer came out.
Jordan Hudson, his creative muse, as he writes in his book.
Make sure that that's the Jordan was a constant presence during our interview.
You have Jordan right over there.
Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship.
They've got an opinion about your private life.
It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.
How do you deal with that?
Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks.
Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right.
How did you guys meet?
Not talking about this.
No?
No.
It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.
Though Hudson has recently posted about it on Instagram.
You join InstaFace, as you put it.
I love that.
There's some great pictures of you and Jordan where you're a fisherman and she's a mermaid.
It's charming.
It's a different side of you.
What's the reaction been like?
What's it been like to have these different sort of photos?
There's another one where you're doing, I know you're not into meditation or yoga or Pilates, but you're balancing Jordan on your feet and she's doing kind of the Titanic pose.
Yes, so I'm on some of those social media platforms, but I honestly don't follow them.
I'm on them.
I guess somebody posted it, but not even aware what you're talking about.
Also, but it's kind of quintessentially, you know, Belichick, and as much as he gives these short answers, he's known for it when he was an NFL coach, just wouldn't answer questions, hated talking to the press.
And then it came up the topic of Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, is not mentioned a single time in the book at all.
And then he just said, well, it's about my life lessons in football and really more about the ones that I experienced directly.
I don't know how Robert Kraft gets totally ignored in this book, but he did.
And anyway, here to weigh on this and some of the other random issues of the day is our friend Mark Simone, host of the number one morning show, New York City, on our affiliate AM710WOR.
How are you, sir?
I'm great.
Hey, thank you for the mayoral endorsement a couple weeks ago.
Oh, you heard about that, huh?
Oh, I think you'd be great.
What do you think?
I can't go into politics.
I love talking about it.
I don't want to have a meeting with the Water Commission.
I don't want to go to a town hall.
You don't want the background check.
You don't need that in your life.
You don't want the harassment.
And I don't know if anybody's capable of fixing that city that you're so in love with.
I love it.
It's the center of the universe.
It was the center.
It used to be the greatest city in the world.
I used to declare it the greatest city in the world, and it's gone to hell in a handbasket.
And even you can't deny it.
And I know you live in a bubble in New York because thank God you make enough money that you can live in a bubble.
But you got to admit that place has changed drastically for the worst.
I'm looking at the window right now.
The streets are packed.
The restaurants are packed.
There's traffic.
It's great here.
You take the subway?
Yeah, sometimes.
A qualifier, sometimes.
Only if I have to.
If I can't get an Uber or the traffic is that bad that it forces me down into the rat-infested subway system.
Oh, even the rats are afraid to go in there anymore.
That's probably true.
And you're making my point by saying that.
I'm kidding.
All right.
What did you make?
Did you watch this Belichicker thing?
I was like, what is this?
This is bizarre.
You see this all the time.
The guy is the toughest guy in the world.
He's screaming at Tom Brady.
He's toe-to-toe with Robert Kraft.
He's fighting with the referee.
But this 12-year-old is telling him what to do, ordering my rounds, yelling at him.
Don't answer that.
Don't do that.
Well, in fairness, I think she's 23 years old.
So let's be fair.
23.
23, of course.
But she all makes a big difference.
She's already like a Dr. Joe Biden.
She's taking control of the interview.
Actually, she's 24.
I stand correct.
I'm correcting myself.
He's 73.
She's 24.
Yeah, 24.
But you're definitely at Dr. Jill Biden.
She's like deciding what questions he'll answer.
And why can't you say where you met?
That's a common question.
Yeah, I mean, that's not a particularly hard question.
We're not going to say.
And then it turns out, I guess she'd given the answer previously, which makes it bizarre that they didn't want to talk about it.
Yeah, she said they met.
He came to her school and they met there.
And I guess it was a recess or something.
But no, actually, he signed a book and put a nice note to her.
But good for him if he's happy with her.
That's what I say.
I mean, I understand people's obsession.
I mean, that is a pretty significant age difference.
There's no doubt about it.
And however, if they're happy, they're happy.
End of story as far as I'm concerned.
The answer about Robert Kraft, look, you can't interpret it any other way than it for what it is, clearly a snub against Robert Kraft.
Things didn't end particularly well.
Now they're disagreeing over how it came to an end.
Kraft had claimed he fired Belichick.
Belichick's saying it was a mutual decision.
I would imagine Kraft fired him.
Yeah, I would think so.
You're fired.
I quit.
I mean, it probably sounds like one of those moments.
Yeah, it's like the producer of 60 Minutes kind of deal.
You can't fire me.
I quit five minutes ago.
But ever since Belichick and Brady are gone, the Patriots, it's never been the same.
I think we all agree it was Brady and nothing else that propelled them.
What did you make of, and I've never been a fan of how 60 Minutes does its program.
I don't know if I ever told you this.
60 Minutes, during Trump's first term, they wanted to do a feature on me.
And Leslie Stahl even went as far as to ask Trump himself to intervene and ask me.
And Bill Schein, also, who was working in the Trump White House at the time, asked him, you know, if they could convince me to do it.
And I'm like, well, I don't like how they do interviews because what they do is they'll interview you for a lengthy period of time.
Then they build this whole narrative around the interview.
They pick out only those portions that work for them.
I call it edited fake news.
I'll never forget.
I gave Ted Koppel over an hour of my time.
And on the same show that Belichick was on, CBS News Sunday morning, it does this whole thing.
You're dangerous for America, and you're good at what you do.
And then when I gave a really good answer, they clipped that and they didn't run any of it.
So it pisses me off.
So I said I'd do live to tape.
They said no.
So I said, forget it.
I'm not doing it.
Did I make the right decision?
Absolutely.
This radio show has a much bigger audience than 60 Minutes.
Much bigger.
What do you need to be on 60 Minutes for?
They should be trying to get on your show if they want some publicity.
But, you know, I was watching Scott Pelley, and he talked about the producer of 60 Minutes, how CBS was interviewing.
Let me play it so everyone knows what you're talking about, but told that thought.
They'll pick it up right there.
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Okay.
So now you have all of these, the inmates are running the asylum at MSDNC.
You can call, you basically accuse your management of being racist and not get fired.
And now you could take on your new owner as Scott Pelly's doing.
And I would argue there's probably a certain amount of risk to it.
So maybe give him A-plus for courage.
But you know what?
He doesn't own the network.
They do.
And you work at the pleasure of the people that own the network at the end of the day.
And, you know, if that's the battle, the hill you want to die on, then die on that hill.
Well, I just, I think it's the opposite.
I think he gets an F because he made this whole speech about how the guy showed such principle.
It's the right thing to do to Quentin.
He was heroic to do it.
And then Scott Pelly doesn't quit if he really believes it.
That's a great point, too.
I mean, if you want to stand in solidarity, walk out of the door with him.
He did the right thing, but we're not going to do the right thing.
We want to get paid.
Yeah, we want to get paid.
I don't want to lose my job.
I'm not getting hired anywhere else.
That's for sure.
All right.
So I don't know if you're following the NFL draft and this controversy.
I've always been a big fan of Deion Sanders.
I think Deion Sanders, I mean, Neon Deion, he's just a character, but he also has, I think, shown himself to be a really good coach.
And he'd been coaching his son, Shador Sanders, who was expected to go in the first round of the NFL draft.
Didn't make it.
I think he came in at, what, 144, something like that.
And I think the fifth round of the draft.
And he was picked by Cleveland, who even in the draft picked a previous, picked a quarterback earlier, one before him.
And they have Joe Flacco also, you know, on their roster.
I think he's quarterback number four.
That's going to be a pretty crowded quarterback room.
And I don't know what the reason why is.
I really don't.
It seemed odd to me based on his success and just looking at statistics.
One anonymous coach, which I don't put a lot of credibility in, said he was the worst person he ever interviewed prior to a draft.
I don't know if that's true or not or that he's difficult.
People are looking for excuses, but there's a lot of anger about this.
What are your thoughts?
Well, I never, I love football.
I could watch it all day, but I can't watch the NFL draft.
I love baseball, but I'm not going to watch the NFL players meeting, the Major League Baseball Players meeting.
And the track record on this thing stinks.
You see some of the greatest players in the history of the world, and they were the 15th round draft pick.
And you see first-round picks that have a terrible career.
So it doesn't mean anything.
It's like getting in that baseball hall of fame.
You can name the greatest players who they wouldn't put in for 20 years.
It's like all the wrong people deciding.
You know, it's like broadcasting executives.
They never really know.
Guys like you know what to do and what to say.
Well, again, I would say you've had a very successful broadcasting career yourself, Mr. Simone.
I think you're doing pretty well there.
Quick break right back more with our friend Mark Simone on the other side.
Then your call's coming up, 800-941-Sean as we continue.
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When I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
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All right.
So I don't think I've been to an event in New York City where I don't run into you and Curtis Sleewa.
I don't think so.
I can't think of one.
And I never went to too many events in New York City, which makes it, to me, strange, odd, and kind of bizarre.
And often, like, I kind of pride myself on the fact that I've never been to a White House correspondence dinner.
And I have no desire to ever go to one because I don't like most of those people, and they don't like me.
And I would never want to waste a Saturday night.
Anyway, it took place this weekend.
You had the president of the White House Correspondent Association.
We're not an enemy of the people.
Everyone stands and claps.
And meanwhile, they peddled conspiracy theories and lies about Donald Trump going on since the moment he came down the escalator.
And Alex Thompson, Axio's reporter, then called out the media for reporting on Biden's cognitive decline.
They didn't just miss the story.
They missed it on purpose.
They missed it because collectively, as legacy media, they wanted Biden to be Trump.
Yeah, and Nixon should have used that excuse for Watergate.
Yeah, I missed the break-in.
I don't know how I missed it.
The White House Correspondence Dinner years ago was a big event.
Giants were there.
You'd walk in and you'd see Newt Gingrich talking to Ted Kennedy.
You'd see Tim Russett talking to Larry King.
You go in now and it's Jim Acosta and Don Lemon.
It's like an unemployment office with these guys there.
People you've never heard, you don't care about.
Even the deist, a comedian.
You don't know who any of these people are anymore.
And the big table buyers that buy four or five tables, New York Times, Washington Post.
So I'm hearing they had a lot of trouble filling the tables.
You know, it used to be people at Eggs.
This could be maybe the final year or two of this dinner.
It's going to have to shrink down or go away.
Wow.
I mean, and you didn't go this year?
No, I didn't even watch it.
I just watched the highlights later.
And when Thompson was making that speech about fighting for democracy, or whatever that was, we're doing the right thing and not covering up.
You know, there was no applause.
There was a little applause at the end.
It was probably the waiters, like the working people.
The only ones in the room with any common sense.
But it's, and the guy that runs this correspondence association, standing up there with his big, pompous speeches, he's the guy that marginalized them.
He's the guy that had them go totally biased off the wall.
So they were taking, you know, the ability to pick the White House pool or who sits where at the briefing, they lost that.
All because of that guy.
I don't know why they don't throw him out of that organization.
Well, it is kind of pathetic.
I mean, it just shows this is how out of touch they are, and they're still out of touch today.
Mark Simone, appreciate it.
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So I know the media, 100 days, and I go back to what I brought up earlier in the program here: we have President Trump that has done more good for this country in his first 100 days than Biden did in four years.
And Biden has left nothing but a mess.
And, you know, to celebrate, the media wants to just declare the Trump presidency over, and he's a failure.
And as Matt Towery pointed out, and he's the pollster, Insider Advantage, he said, don't be fooled by these polls.
He goes, you know, following up what Newt Gingrich was right on target about when he noted the issues raised by John McLaughlin, that the polling of Donald Trump and his approval ratings, the recent polling that they want to say is, oh, he's lost the country.
He is not.
Add to that the fact that the president's approval ratings are not really in decline.
If you take the current presidential job performance on Real Clear Politics, the pollsters who were more accurate in 24 and end up with an average disapproval that's a point or so above the margin of error.
For example, Ras Musen shows a presidential approval rating.
There's been no major drop for Trump in their surveys, just marginal fluctuations.
The pollsters that were less accurate in 24 and earlier Trump cycles have Trump down by an average of double digits.
And two of the most, the other most accurate pollsters, Insider Advantage, Trafalgar, have not polled during the recent Real Clear Politics performance cycle.
Why would anyone expect these pollsters?
They don't like Donald Trump.
Period.
End of sentence.
Now, at the end of 100 days, you also get to judge other people.
And that would be the Democratic Party, the party of petulance, the party of anger that is now the party of radical extremism.
The party of sit-ins, the party of singing, the party of F-bombs, the party of bingo paddles, the party that can't stand for moms that lost their children, and a young man that beats cancer.
That has been their first 100 days.
That's their legacy.
And have accomplished absolutely nothing except just reverting to form, which is 24-7.
I hate Trump.
You know, this was part of the sit-in yesterday, and there wasn't a whole lot of people that even showed up for it.
Did you see how pathetic this was, Linda?
This was pathetic.
They're always pathetic.
They're pathetic standing still and where they're supposed to be.
So when they gather, it's even more ridiculous.
There wasn't a lot of them.
Let's play it.
I will build this world from love.
I will build this world from love.
Watch your best.
Yadadai Sit-ins, singing, F-bombs, bingo paddles, petulance, anger, radicalism.
It's been a great 100 days for the Democrats, but you would think they just want to declare the Trump presidency over because they still have not come to grips with the fact that they got their asses kicked pretty badly.
All right, let's get to our phones.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, so the president moving forward earlier today, 85 miles of new border wall construction that the president's just announced, the spotlights of arrests of criminal illegals, and by the way, displaying their faces on the White House lawn.
The president signing executive orders now targeting sanctuary cities.
And, you know, that's only one area of success that he's had.
And he's put in motion, you know, all of his policies that will be transformational to cut reduced $150 billion in identified waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
Not a small task.
Deportations, not a small task.
Securing the border, not a small task.
Putting in place all the pieces of the puzzle needed for energy dominance.
Not a small task.
Getting rid of the Department of Education, transformational.
Now initiating peace in Europe and the Middle East.
Very heavy, heavy lifts, but he's at least willing to attempt to tackle it, take it on, and hopefully will bear fruit.
It would be good for the world if it bears fruit.
All right, back to our phones as we say hi to Sharon is in Kentucky.
Hey, Sharon, how are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, I'm doing great.
I'm so happy to talk to you.
Happy to talk to you.
What's going on?
Your show since the first time that Trump run for office, when he was in Louisville, I was there.
He only come here once.
Louisville, Kentucky, he was with me.
I don't know if you remember the first time he run.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
Watched your show.
It is always true.
What you say comes to pass.
And I myself was born in a Democrat.
I worked for the government.
I was a building inspector for new construction.
When I retired, I run for office.
I had at one time my own campaign, you know, my own voting area, you know, where people come and voted, you know, precinct.
And they had been taking people to court.
They took a little bit of nobody like me when I was going to run for cancel.
The guy had been in since the beginning in Louisville downtown.
The first thing they did when I filled out the paperwork, I got in the mail that I filled it out wrong and I couldn't run.
Oh, wow.
Take Trump.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They do that.
I'm a nobody, okay?
But that was the first thing they did to a woman.
I was running against a man.
He'd been in there for 12 or more years.
And yeah, the first thing they did was go downtown and try to scare me.
But because I'd worked for the system and had to go to court on zoning and building stuff, I knew how to work the court system and could go do it myself.
But everybody that ever run against me.
And that's the same way they did Trump.
We're so lucky to have Trump.
The American people love him.
Listen, the most amazing thing that I can tell you about Donald Trump is with all that they've done to this man and all that they put him through, especially from the years, you know, 2021 through until the election, they had, he put all his chips on the table, rolled the dice, and said, okay, it's either going to be the White House or the big house.
And he did it.
And he did it because he loves the country.
And he was willing.
He could have had, you know, he could have left after 2021 and he could have just led his life and played golf and lived the life of a multi-billionaire and traveled the world and do whatever it is that he wanted to do.
And he didn't want to do that.
And you got to give the guy credit.
He's willing to put it all on the line for the country he loves.
And that's what makes him unique.
He's not like any conventional politician.
I think people are looking for the conventional politician or the establishment politician or the institutionalist.
He's the opposite of that.
I mean, he is an iconoclast.
He's a disruptor.
He will break things.
He looks at everything anew.
And so I think that it's beneficial.
And, you know, let's give this a little bit of time to take root.
And I'm pretty confident that his policies, if implemented correctly, are going to bear a lot of fruit for the country.
And we need it.
We absolutely need it.
Anyway, Sharon, Kentucky, God bless you.
You sound like a fighter yourself.
We need more people like you.
That's for sure.
Let's go to Rick and Maryland.
Hey, Rick, how are you?
Thanks, Sean.
By the way, I was a listener and a fan of yours back in the Harry Cohn's day.
So I've been listening to you.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
I hope I haven't changed too much.
I'm just getting whiter hair.
That's true.
I want to talk about the Grove City decision.
I don't know if all your listeners know about it, but it essentially said that the federal government can control and make you do what they want to do, but only for the department where they have some funds going to.
And then back in 1987, they passed the law that says, nope, that has to be the whole university or college.
So essentially now, colleges have to, if the government says jump, you have to jump or they can cut off your funds.
And this includes Pell.
Well, the president's well within his bounds to cut off funding for Harvard.
Frankly, I don't think we should be funding any of these universities, especially those with massive endowments like they have.
You know, and you hear Chuck Schumer say, they're cutting cancer research.
People are going to die.
No, that's not, that's not how it works.
That's where the private sector comes in.
That's where all these companies, you know, the evil pharmaceutical companies, they do invest a fortune.
They're not all evil to come up with medicines to cure human conditions that otherwise aren't going to get cured.
So there's.
Another thing is, and people don't realize, you know, these 529 student savings plans that are tax-free, they even, the IRS declared that that is federal aid, so they're affected.
Two colleges in the country, as far as I know, Grove City and Hillsdale, do not accept any funds at all.
For sure, I know does not.
But yeah, there are plenty of colleges that don't because they don't want the hand of the federal government influencing their educational model and paradigm, and I applaud them for it.
Right.
Grove City, my son was a graduate from Grove City, set up their own 529 program.
They set up their own loan program.
They did everything.
And if they find out that you took one penny, one penny, from the federal government, they will kick you out of that college no sooner than you can say, Jack Pratt.
Listen, now, I did pay for all the college that I went to, and I did at one point take out a loan.
I needed a little extra money, and I had 10 years to pay off my debt.
And I never once thought that any taxpayer should be financially responsible for debt that I signed on for willingly myself.
That's the way we did it with our daughter and our son.
Harvard should go grow city.
I mean, if they don't like- Oh my gosh, $53 billion in an endowment.
They- They don't need money from nurses and hardworking Americans and guys that work on, you know, on the line building cars.
I mean, it's just not fair.
Or mechanics or anybody in the trades.
They don't need our money.
And yet they want it.
They demand it.
Now they're suing to get it.
And I hope they lose and lose big time.
Well, it turns out that Grove City, and I know for a fact Hillsdale doesn't accept any grant money.
They go out and seek from private enterprise money to do research.
So Harvard is just crying crocodile tears because if they cut off the grants, they could go out to any company in the world and get grants for it.
It's just a bunch of BS.
And I hope Trump continues doing what he's doing and forces killing.
No, he's not going to stop.
There's nothing that they're going to say that's going to make him stop.
Right, if it comes to the Supreme Court, he's going to win because there's precedent.
There's precedent.
The Grove City decision and the, I guess it's the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
They have all the precedent in the world.
And especially even in, you look at the sanctuary cities, there's precedent to that because remember when the 55 mile an hour speed limit was put into effect, the federal government threatened to take away their tax money for highways.
So there's precedent in that.
Well, I appreciate the call, my friend.
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Let's say hi to Eric of my free state of Florida.
Eric, how are you?
Oh, hi, Sean.
Thank you for doing a great job every day.
I've noticed that the system of checks and balances in our government seems to be totally inequitable.
I mean, how is it possible that a low district court judge could stop an executive order of the highest executive official in the land?
I mean, if the system were equitable, then only the highest branch of the judiciary, namely the Supreme Court, could issue an injunction against the highest executive official.
It doesn't seem to make any sense.
Makes no sense.
I think Congress needs to act to make sure that these low-level judges do not have the power to usurp the constitutional authority granted to the commander-in-chief and the president of our country.
It's got to stop.
But this is the typical tactic of the left when they lose an election and they're out of power and they're not in control of anybody.
This is what they do.
They depend on activists, liberal, leftist judges, and judge shopping as a means of thwarting, you know, the constitutional authority of the president.
It's got to stop.
And I think we'll get there.
I really do.
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