Mark interviews columnist Liz Peek.
The Mark Simone Show
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4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. New York. |
| 0:02.0 | Mark Simone on W.O.R. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, the brilliant columnist, Liz Peek, and of course you see her all over television, but, you know, besides the columns, she should also go to her site, Lizpeak.com. |
| 0:14.0 | Every day, the best news and analysis. |
| 0:16.8 | And when you go to Lizpeak.com, sign up for the daily newsletter. The news will come to you every day. Write free, write to your email, Liz Peek.com. Liz Peek, how you doing? I'm terrific. Thank you. Lots going on, Mark. Hey, it's one year today. The inauguration of Donald Trump was one year ago. First year today, what do you think? Have you ever seen anything |
| 0:38.4 | as busy as this first year? No. To say that the president has been a bold and energetic |
| 0:45.5 | leader, I think vastly understates the accomplishments that he has rolled up in his first year. |
| 0:52.4 | I mean, it's really pretty unbelievably remarkable. |
| 0:55.4 | All the while, remember, seeing the press on a daily basis, handling phone, you know, handling |
| 1:02.9 | interviews and conversations with, let's face it, mostly hostile press, but I actually |
| 1:10.7 | wrote a column about it uh today and just |
| 1:14.4 | here here's just a sampling of what he's accomplished so we boosted the recruitment for our |
| 1:20.5 | military dismantled uh DEI and a lot of the climate agenda pushed NATO to up their spending for their own defense tossed overboard a lot of the climate agenda, pushed NATO to up their spending for their own defense, |
| 1:30.3 | tossed overboard a lot of regulations that Joe Biden put in place that really slow down our |
| 1:35.3 | country's progress, challenged our woke universities in a very constructive way, got rid of |
| 1:42.1 | Nicola Maduro, the head of Venezuela, defended women's sports, |
| 1:47.0 | significantly derailed Iran's nuclear program, oversaw a whole bunch of health initiatives from |
| 1:53.0 | RFK Jr., like getting rid of artificial food dyes, shrunk the bureaucracy, which I think is |
| 1:59.0 | unbelievably important, the federal bureaucracy, |
| 2:02.5 | and pushed through a massive reconciliation bill that lowered taxes and that was basically had it not passed, |
| 2:10.9 | you were going to have this major tax cliff at the end of last year. |
| 2:15.2 | So that's just some of it. |
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