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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Former Prince Andrew has been arrested over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Mark explains that this arrest highlights Prince Andrew's strategy of passing information worldwide. More details are emerging about how the search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, is progressing. Expanded internet information may help move the case forward. Zohran Mamdani's last-resort plans for New York City’s budget could potentially drive many residents out of the city. Mark interviews columnist Liz Peek. Was Jeffrey Epstein operating as a massive blackmailer? Democrats are considering holding their own State of the Union-style address next week to counter the Trump administration’s official address and criticize Donald Trump’s assessment of the country. President Donald Trump may consider military action against Iran after diplomatic talks reportedly failed to produce a deal for either side. Stephen Colbert allegedly told his audience a lie that CBS's lawyers prevented him from airing an interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. Mark interviews Jimmy Failla, weeknight host on WOR. Did Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert hurt late-night television? Jimmy argues that Colbert should devote more time to comedy to keep audiences laughing, while Jimmy Fallon takes a different, lighter approach. Did Prince Andrew get arrested for hiding information?

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0:00.0	live from midtown manhattan here comes the mark simone show on seven 10 w o r hey now there's some days where you go
0:14.0	what am i going to talk about today this is not one of those days there's great stuff to get to uh today
0:18.7	we'll get to prince andrew arrested we'll get to the Guthrie story.
0:22.0	We'll get to Stephen Colbert, crazy little Mayor Mamdani. We'll get to Iran and a whole lot more
0:28.6	just ahead. Hey, here's some good news. First of all, spring, four weeks from now, daylight savings
0:35.8	time, two weeks from now.
0:38.5	Here's some great news.
0:42.9	This is the first day that alternate side parking is back.
0:46.7	That means the snow problem is officially over.
0:51.2	Now, when the snow was piled up everywhere and you couldn't, there were no parking spaces.
0:54.1	They had to suspend that alternate side of the street parking.
1:04.0	I don't know, whatever the hell that is. You've got to keep moving your car. But it's back. They put it back in effect this morning, which means officially the snow crisis is over.
1:12.2	And yesterday was complaining about all the garbage piled up on the street here. It's gone today. So things are moving along. As far as garbage and snow,
1:17.3	the rest of the city, total disaster with Mom Donnie. We'll get to him in a moment. The big breaking news this morning, Prince Andrew was arrested at 8 a.m., at British time 8 a.m., which
1:24.4	would have been in the middle of the night here, but we all woke up to find
1:30.3	out that Prince Andrew had been arrested. Now, King Charles, Prince William, they all say they
1:36.9	didn't know about it, they weren't told about it, that this arrest was strictly the government doing
1:42.9	this, strictly the government involved in the arrest of Prince Andrew.
1:46.9	Now, it has to do with the Epstein files, but it's not about sex. It's not about underage women.
1:52.5	It's about passing along state secrets. Now, a guy like Epstein trades in a lot of stuff,
2:08.1	and one reason, you know, he had all these billionaires and all these big business guys and foreign leaders all hanging around them. In some cases, they enjoyed some of the women, but in many of these cases, they were around Epstein because he could get them stuff, information.
2:16.6	And apparently, uh, Eustin because he could get them stuff, information.
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