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I'm doing well. They got a beautiful day going on here in New York, so I'm just going to stay positive, Mark. That's like you.

Hey, I keep pointing out to the audio, Epstein. There's no client list. He didn't have any

clients. He wasn't running a sex business. There was stuff going on, but there's no client list.

And what about this stuff that he was a Mossad agent working for Israel?

Is there any truth to that?

Well, I mean, listen, you know, anyone who says for sure they know it would have to be in Mossad

or CIA, and I don't think that they would go around saying so.

But no, I really don't think so.

Look, was Jeffrey Epstein knowledgeable about a lot of potential

serious criminal activity? I believe he was a great Gatsby, someone that very, very wealthy people

set up just to be the guy who was the face of and the name on the place and the things that they

wanted to, you know, to kind of do as if they were going somewhere else, what really was their

property and their situation. But right, it wasn't like he was calling up customers and things like that. People were coming to this island that was supposedly his, which I don't think really was. I think he was set up as a proxy by other people. And a lot of the criminal activity was going on, of all kinds, probably. And of course, there would be people interested in that information. The former Prime Minister of Visornaftali Bennett, who was Prime Minister for a very brief period, if you remember, in 2021, 2022, he came out undeniably today and said, listen, Mossad reported to me when I was the prime minister, and this guy was never our employee.

Of course, the conspiracy theorists are saying, like, well, maybe you're mincing words. You know, there's just no denial that it'll be good enough for these people. I think there's a lot of terrible and criminal stuff connected to all of this, but the idea that there's an open and shut evidence list. It seems kind of silly. Like, why would anyone do that? I mean, your average bookie in the Bronx knows not to put that stuff on paper.

You know, why would anyone do that? I mean, your average bookie in the Bronx knows not to put that stuff on paper. You know, why would it be people smarter than that? So it's never going to be a definitive list. That I feel very confident in saying. But, you know, there probably is some evidence of criminal activity. It's going to be much harder to prove. And if the Justice Department comes out and starts accusing people without solid evidence, and they can throw their hope of prosecutions down the drain. So I think they're trying to be careful. Hey, this idea of a deal with Hamas, a peace deal, I don't like that at all. What would the deal be? How would you even trust these people? Well, look, it's not working out. I mean, we keep talking. This is, by the way, the same way people talk about a two-state solution. Well, if we could only make a deal, as if, as if the other side was rational as we are, they're not. So we keep talking about this deal, this hypothetical deal where Hamas will release the hostages, and then we keep talking about all these other things. But it's ridiculous. They're not going to release the hostages until they're completely destroyed Hamas. That's going to be what it takes. They might release some, as they have so far this year, but they're never going to give up all of it. You've made this point, Mark, about like, that's all they've got in their corner. That's their only chip in the game. And the idea that they're somehow going to be negotiated into their own suicide. You know, they like strapping suicide bombs on some of their followers, but they don't do it. Their leaders don't do it. So, you know, that's really ludicrous. It's not going to happen. They need to be totally, totally, they have to be really complete unconditional surrender. That's got to be the only offer. And the Israeli people need to understand. Again, easy for me to say, my loved ones aren't hostages. But I can say this from a 30,000-foot view. When you're fighting a war against an enemy that's holding hostages, you can't let the hostages be what stops you from defeating an enemy because they'll just take more. And I know it's excruciating and it's terrible. And these people should not become the final dead, you know, dead victims of this war. But honestly, the war will never end if this can, if we're just continuing to expect the hostages to be voluntarily handed over. That's not going to happen. Not the last of them. They'll at least keep some. We know that.

Hey, this just moments ago, President Trump's saying, he's had it with Russia. He's nearly signed a deal to give hundreds of billions of dollars of arms to Ukraine, put

100% tariff on Russia. Is it maybe the best thing? Just let this war go on forever? Keep just keep Russia busy with

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