Political strategist Ed Rollins joins Mark for an interview.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's more Mark. |
| 0:02.7 | It's the Mark Simone show on 710 WOR. |
| 0:07.6 | Well, let's turn to the dean himself, the greatest political analyst of all. |
| 0:10.9 | Boy, he's run a million campaigns. |
| 0:12.7 | He's run the most successful campaigns of all. |
| 0:15.2 | Ed Rollins, how you doing? |
| 0:17.8 | Pretty good, Mark. |
| 0:18.5 | How are you? |
| 0:19.0 | Good. |
| 0:19.3 | A lot of activity going on in the world. I want to be sitting in a White House today. Well, let me ask you, as the veteran of a lot of White House, these protests all over the streets, all this video, all this stuff we're watching. Is this hurting or helping the president? Right now it's undefined. I mean, I think some of the things he's doing are very beneficial to the country. Some of the things are distracting. I mean, his mission has got to be, now we're really in the middle of the start of the midterms. He's got to basically give his party something to run on. And it has to be something that they're not going to win on battling Venezuela or changing |
| 0:57.2 | Iranian results or what have it. |
| 0:59.8 | It's going to be the economy and particularly health care. |
| 1:03.1 | And he's got to focus on that. |
| 1:05.1 | I mean, the sidebar things like getting rid of Powell and what have you are part of the |
| 1:09.5 | job of the president, obviously, |
| 1:11.3 | but at the end of the day, it's not what people want. |
| 1:13.4 | People right now want you to know you care about me, and you promised you were going to fix |
| 1:18.4 | the economy for me, and that's what members of Congress going to have to deal with. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.8 | They used to call that in Washington the Green Bay Diner Test. |
| 1:26.2 | In other words, if you went to Green Bay |
| 1:27.5 | Wisconsin into a diner was anybody talking about this and if they're not it's |
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