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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 1: Larry Mendte Fills In For Mark Simone.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

President Biden makes a surprise visit to Ukraine earlier today. In addition your taxpayer dollars may be used to extend the help, that President Biden wants to possibly give Ukraine. The downside to this, does Biden understand what kind of financial situation we are in in the USA? Should he continue to help Ukraine or put money into fixing our economy in the United States? Larry Mendte takes your calls on this topic. Pediatric Cardiologist Dr. Mitchel Alpert, joins Larry to talk about a 12 year old boy that passed away, playing football in Newark, NJ. This sparks the question, should CPR treatment be mandatory for schools to teach, and for sports in school?

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0:00.0

So the president makes a surprise visit to Ukraine to promise undying support.

0:08.0

Undying is the key word.

0:10.0

Undying support and billions of more of your money for the war effort.

0:17.0

This week, of course, is the one-year anniversary of the war, and he'd already announced he was going to be in Poland this week, but today was a surprise.

0:24.2

Even the press corps was kept in the dark.

0:28.5

He made the visit for the one-year anniversary.

0:31.5

That's what he claims.

0:33.0

That and the fact that he needs the optics of strength at a time when his own party is questioning

0:40.3

if he is too old to run for re-election.

0:43.3

And, of course, his approval numbers are still in the tank.

0:47.3

After a Chinese balloon, of all things, embarrassed him for a week.

0:52.3

He needed a win. He needed a win.

0:56.9

He needed to show strength.

1:05.0

And that's why I am certain that he walked through a city square in Kiev.

1:11.4

I think it was staged all the way down to the air raid signals.

1:22.3

Yeah, that just, that went off at about six seconds into his walk.

1:30.8

From the time he hit the ground through his meeting and a news conference, no air raid signals.

1:38.3

He walks outside, and as I said, after a few seconds, he walks through the door, and he walks into the square, and there's a band playing in the background in tribute to fallen soldiers after one year.

1:46.0

And then the air raid signals go off.

1:48.7

And I don't know if you saw it, but nobody flinched.

1:53.7

Now, I understand if you've been in Ukraine for the past year,

1:57.3

if you've been in Kiev for the past year,

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