10am Monologue

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Mark talks about President Trump possibly being the one who sealed the deal with holdouts on voting for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House by reaching out to them on Friday.

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0:00.0	Well, we've got lots to get to today.
0:01.8	We'll get to the whining little crybaby Harry.
0:04.1	We'll get to, there's a big fight here in New York about that.
0:08.2	This is one of the most important crime problems.
0:10.2	We'll get to that coming up.
0:11.5	We'll get to Donald Trump finally goes after Howard Stern.
0:14.5	We'll get to the border, the wall, Joe Biden.
0:17.7	We'll get to Congress.
0:20.4	The House meets today. First session
0:22.4	of the House with the new speaker
0:24.3	Kevin McCarthy. Hey, Joe Bartlett.
0:26.8	He got it done. How about
0:28.8	that? Well,
0:30.3	he was persistent.
0:32.2	Well, let's be honest. What it really was
0:34.5	on Friday, he lost 14
0:36.6	ballots. You got to give him credit. He didn't lose any of his votes. The 200 and whatever he had there, he hung on to those votes, but he couldn't pick up the last six that he needed. But Friday, for the first time, Donald Trump got involved. I know last week he put out a letter endorsing McCarthy, but it wasn't a real
0:57.8	endorsement and everybody knew that. It was just a formality. And all these guys who were holding out
1:02.6	are friends of Trump. They speak to Trump. Trump calls them and they noticed after letter, Trump never
1:08.6	called them and never worked the phones,
1:11.1	never tried to get anybody to vote for McCarthy until Friday night.
1:16.2	He finally jumped in, actually during the day Friday, and started calling them and pushing them to vote.
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