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The Mark Simone Show

Mark talks with Political Strategist Ed Rollins

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Ed Rollins talks about Donald Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard in DC and why it is not smart for Democrats to fight against this move. Ed also discusses Trump’s plan to meet with Putin in Alaska in an attempt to end the war in Ukraine. Ed goes over the NYC Mayoral race and how all of the candidates stack up against each other.

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0:00.0

Now, nobody has run more campaigns or more successful campaigns than he has.

0:04.4

So let's talk to him about all of this.

0:06.3

Ed Rollins, how you doing?

0:08.4

Doing well, thank you. Good morning.

0:09.8

Hey, the idea of cleaning up the crime in D.C., I know Democrats have to beat up Trump for everything he does,

0:15.7

but aren't they a little crazy attacking him on this one?

0:18.6

Shouldn't they go along with this one?

0:21.5

They should just, he has 30 days which he can do whatever he wants and not go to the Congress.

0:26.5

And obviously, if he goes to the Congress, they probably will support his program.

0:31.6

But I think the reality is any law and order issue is a good issue for Trump and a bad issue for Democrats.

0:39.7

And so my sense is that he will gain an measure of people by this.

0:43.4

They're actually talking in Congress, Democrats, about blocking him somehow, but that's not

0:48.4

going to help him in the midterms, is it?

0:50.4

It's not going to help in the midterms.

0:51.5

And the reality is, you know, what he does want to do is he doesn't want to have an armed camp there for the next year.

0:57.7

He wants to go ahead and have some quick hits, and he's going to do that quickly.

1:00.8

He's kind of overwhelming the political system there.

1:04.0

And I think to a certain extent, if you get some bad guys, which they already picked up some last night,

1:09.0

and put the focus on the fact that the system

1:11.8

where young, young kids don't end up in jail and end up in social media type program as

1:18.2

opposed to, you know, it's a good issue for Trump. And, you know, whether the city is as corrupt

1:24.6

as he says or is a perception.

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