"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."
"I get 15 hours a week of live radio on Sirius XM, but I get one hour which is really more like 40 minutes of programming on CNN. It's four different segments and that's it."
"I said, 'Well, can you tell me what it is? Because it sounds pretty big if you're trying to cajole me into a pre-tape'. And he said that he couldn't."
The event with Ramaswamy comes weeks after Smerconish hosted a similar event with 2024 Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The SiriusXM host has said he wants to host as many potential candidates as possible.
"There's universal praise for Kaitlan Collins and appropriately so. Even the people who are most upset at this event having transpired, go to great lengths to say 'But she did wonderful'."
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."