FULL SHOW: MSNBC name change, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump's meeting.

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Mark Simone

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC is changing its name to "MS NOW" due to NBCUniversal's spinoff. Today is the big day at the White House for President Trump as he meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a potential deal. Zelensky was told to wear a suit or not have a meeting. Mark interviews New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. Michael isn't too confident about what could happen over the war with Russia and Ukraine. Democrats may be scared if Mamdani wins in the NYC mayoral race; he could be the face of the party. Newsmax has settled a defamation lawsuit with voting company Dominion over its alleged lies about the 2020 election. Today is the meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump to try to reach a peace deal in the Russia-Ukraine war. More immigration centers and immigrants have been removed from the country over the last week. Mark interviews restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo. There's a new building coming to Grand Central in Manhattan. What could it be? The Eleven Madison Park restaurant is thinking of moving away from most vegan products and moving towards a non-vegan style.

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0:00.0	You just heard the news.
0:02.6	Now you'll find out what it all means.
0:05.6	It's Mark Simone on 710 W-O-R.
0:11.0	What it means?
0:12.0	I don't know what it means.
0:13.5	We got a lot to get to today.
0:15.3	It's the final two weeks of summer.
0:18.4	Yeah, I hate to say that.
0:19.7	Summer actually goes until September 22nd, but it's really till Labor Day, and then it's not the same anymore. So we'll get to the summit. We'll get to the fake news coverage. We'll get to Mom Dani. We'll get to Adam Schiff and Letitia James. Looks like they are going to get indicted. We'll get to, well, we've got all kinds of things to get to today. We'll get to D.C.
0:38.4	And news just announced this morning, MSNBC, that fake news network was tossed out by NBC. NBC wants
0:48.3	nothing to do with MSNBC anymore. It's an embarrassment. It's a problem, it's a crazy lunatic network, so they have thrown
0:57.5	MSNBC the hell out of the company.
1:01.6	That happened many months ago.
1:03.1	They've also been told to get out of the building.
1:05.3	They're looking for space now, for their own space.
1:08.1	And they've also been told, get NBC out of your name.
1:12.4	You can't use the phrase NBC anymore.
1:15.1	Get it out of the name.
1:17.2	So I guess they hired, well, you used to be to hire one of these big consulting companies
1:21.4	to come up with a new name.
1:23.1	You hire a marketing company.
1:25.6	They don't make any money over there.
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