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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 2: January 6th Anniversary.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of January 6th. Mark explains why he believes Democrats are wrong to be angry about that day, arguing that the violence could not have been prevented and questioning its characterization as an insurrection. Meanwhile,18 million people tuned in to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve last week! Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is not planning to leave his job, despite reports that he would not seek reelection. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Mark and Ann discuss the ongoing financial fraud controversy in Minnesota, examining how financial matters have been mishandled in the state both historically and in recent years. Is Governor Tim Walz to blame? Ann also shares her concerns about New York City, especially as the new Mayor Mamdani’s administration gets underway. She notes that Mayor Mamdani has appointed longtime housing activist Cea Weaver as the new director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, signaling a strong focus on tenant protections in his agenda.

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0:00.0

Democrats and Trump haters would like to make that like a national thing every year, like, you know, 9-11 where the whole country stops to remember, or they want to make it like a Pearl Harbor kind of. It's not going to work.

0:13.1

Those of you that don't remember, January 6th was that terrible trespassing incident at the Capitol, remember.

0:20.0

But here's the Democrats are now, you know, all the universities have been corrupted.

0:25.5

Many of our high schools, you got all these left-wing teachers, you got all this left-wing

0:30.7

propaganda being taught in schools now.

0:33.5

And this is why you get people that, younger people, that will vote for Mamdani. 20, 30 years of being indoctrinated in these left-wing classrooms.

0:41.5

Well, now they want to add January 6th to the history books and have that taught in every classroom.

0:47.5

Now, of course, they're not going to teach the whole story, as Democrats do or fake news does.

0:53.7

They'll just give you three or four pieces of the puzzle and leave out 98% of it.

0:58.6

So they won't tell you that President Trump offered 10,000 troops and urged them to take the 10,000 troops to guard the capital that day.

1:08.0

It was just another demonstration like the other 275 that had

1:12.5

happened that whole summer in America, but Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of D.C. decided not to

1:19.8

accept the offer of the 10,000 troops. They were told 400,000 demonstrators would show up.

1:26.8

They turned down the 10,000 troops. And by the way,

1:30.3

demonstrations of that size were taking place all the time in Washington when Trump was president.

1:35.6

Once a member at the Lincoln Memorial, and he surrounded it with troops with machine guns,

1:40.6

and nobody got near the Lincoln Memorial. The worst one was when Democratic protesters tried to take the White House,

1:48.0

tried to come over the fence. Remember Trump put out those tweets.

1:51.7

If you do come over the fence, you're going to see the most vicious dogs you've ever seen.

1:55.3

But he surrounded the place with troops. There was still a hell of a battle at the White House fence.

2:00.2

Over 200 law enforcement

2:01.6

ended up in the hospital after that. But January 6th, it was just another one of those, not as

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