Mark Interviews Political Consultant Ed Rollins.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 710 W OR's Mark Simone show continues now. |
| 0:07.3 | Well, let's talk to the dean himself. |
| 0:09.7 | Ed Rollins, the greatest political consultant of all. |
| 0:12.9 | And it's good to have him back with us. |
| 0:14.2 | Ed Rollins, how you doing? |
| 0:16.2 | Good morning, Mark. |
| 0:17.0 | A lot of changes in the world in the day. |
| 0:18.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.4 | Let me ask you something about, I don't know, like eight years ago, Trump is the first time he's getting, and I think things are going crazy against Trump. I said, has this ever been crazier than this? Well, let me ask you now, is this a hell of a lot crazier than even the first Trump term? Yes, it is. For a variety of reasons. |
| 0:38.3 | One, his team around him is going to basically do what he wants where the first time I think people argued, |
| 0:44.3 | people around him had more experience and he did argue certain things he shouldn't do. |
| 0:48.3 | He now has an agenda. |
| 0:49.3 | This is what he wants to do and he's moving forward on it and everybody's getting in line. |
| 0:52.3 | Now, I think the critical thing here is he has to be careful but still no strategy and the contrast between what israel just did |
| 1:01.6 | yesterday and with iran is a long year-long implemented strategy we don't have a long range strategy |
| 1:08.1 | our strategy is today tomorrow next, lunch, the big bill. |
| 1:12.9 | And I think to a certain extent, the president's got two years here to really a year |
| 1:17.0 | and a half to get enough on the books and enough change that he can re-elect this Congress. |
| 1:22.5 | If not, obviously, the last two years of this administration, it'll be very, very tough. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.8 | Well, the midterms obviously very important. but the Democrats with the protesting, the flames, |
| 1:31.7 | the blowing up, that's not going to help them in the midterms, is it? |
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