Mr. New York,

Mark Simone.

710 W.O.R.

Well, hey, do we have Liz Peek?

Yep.

We're getting there.

The great columnist, Liz Peake,

we'll talk to her about all sorts of stuff coming up.

Now, the caller before said something about the fire truck uh at the airport

la guardia that got hit by the plane uh not being a new york city fire department well so i've checked

apparently uh port authority fire handles fires that's port authority fire trucks but they're backed up

by the new york fire department so and just in massive coincidence, I'm emcing a lunch today for the fire commissioner, so I'll get you a definite answer on that. We'll bring it to you tomorrow. But with us right now, Liz Peek, the brilliant columnist, and you see her all over television, you read her columns on foxnews.com, Thehill.com.

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Liz Peek.com. Liz Peek, how you doing?

I'm terrific. Thank you. How about you? I'm good. I Peek.com. Liz Peek, how you doing? I'm terrific. Thank you. How about you?

I'm good. I'm good. Where do we even start? The shutdown, the three-hour lines, the four-hour lines at the airport. Who's going to get the blame for all of this? I think everyone is getting blamed

for this. Honestly, Mark, I mean, I think Republicans are taking the brunt of it,

even though it is Democrats who basically have shut down the government

by refusing to fund DHS,

but Republicans are refusing to fund part of DHS,

the Transportation Security Administration, which mainly is responsible for all

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