Hour 1: Larry Mendte Fills In For Mark Simone.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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. |
| 1:45.8 | 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. |
| 1:47.8 | And then the air raid signals go off. |
| 1:53.2 | And I don't know if you saw it, but nobody flinched. |
| 1:57.3 | Now, I understand if you've been in Ukraine for the past year, |
| 1:58.7 | if you've been in Kiev for the past year, you're getting used to the air raid signals. |
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