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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Ed breaks down what President Donald Trump has to do at the State of the Union tomorrow night to seal the deal for his party. Trump has to show a lot of class tomorrow and not come out as nasty. The cost of a possible war in the Middle East could cost Americans tons of money.

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0:00.0

His job?

0:01.9

Make it all make sense.

0:04.1

He's Mark Simone on 710 WOR.

0:09.4

Hey, let's talk to the dean himself.

0:11.9

Ed Rollins, of course, he's run a million campaigns.

0:14.7

He's worked in a lot of White Houses.

0:16.4

Nobody knows this stuff better.

0:17.8

Ed Rollins, how you doing?

0:20.3

Good, Mark.

0:22.5

The weather being terrible,

0:28.8

all of us on the East Coast here. Yeah. It's a mess. Hey, tomorrow night's State of the Union speech. What does the President need to accomplish in that speech? It's a very big speech.

0:34.3

There's a lot of things on his plate. He just explained to the American public

0:38.6

how I was going to bring the government back into functioning, especially with the weather

0:43.2

and what have you in FEMA and the Homeland Security stuff being out. Secondly, he's got

0:49.1

to explain to the American public and he's going to do anything in Iran. This is a chance for

0:53.0

him to do that uh set to set the

0:55.2

tone and say i want peace and why i want peace if that's the case the third thing that he needs

1:01.1

to really deal on is is clearly uh convincing people that this tariff plan was was correct and he's got

1:09.1

obviously out of the court his rule that he can't use this particular provision

1:13.6

why he wants to continue to move that ball forward to a certain extent it's a terrible time for

1:21.6

members of congress which is another element here because the new provisions that he has, he can put some of the provisions,

1:29.4

some of the terrorists back in, but in five months the Congress has to approve it. Five months is

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