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Peter King | Former Congressman Says Cooperation with I.C.E. Means a Safer New York State · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The greatest congressman new york has ever had.
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  Speaker 2: That's the hell kick of an intro for peter king is.
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  Speaker 1: That a good that's a good intro but it's true.
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  Speaker 2: He can't complain no more complaints.
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  Speaker 1: He was uh you know uh democrats love him republicans
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  Speaker 1: love him i mean he's loved by.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody and he was briefly my congressman there's a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of redistricting for a while he was my congressman when
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  Speaker 2: i was i still live in nassau county uh peter
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  Speaker 2: king joining us Congressman, we're talking about this. We're still reverberating,
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  Speaker 2: not only through this newsroom and this studio, but just
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  Speaker 2: all throughout New York, the fact that the governor of
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  Speaker 2: this state and the state has passed this law that
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  Speaker 2: local police departments cannot cooperate with ICE, even when they're
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  Speaker 2: going after child molesters, murderers, etc.
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  Speaker 3: etc.
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  Speaker 2: It is an insane law, and Bruce Blakeman had to
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  Speaker 2: comply with it, and he's of course, joining in a
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit to try to get it overturned. But Peter King,
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  Speaker 2: this is what I want to pose to you, because
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  Speaker 2: this is the whole narrative about ICE is false. I
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  Speaker 2: did the math last week, Congressman. ICE is engaging, encountering
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  Speaker 2: more than 1,700 people a day, arresting, detaining, putting their
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  Speaker 2: hands on them. The fact that we've had so few,
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  Speaker 2: and it is few based on those numbers, incidents of
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  Speaker 2: killings or other types of violence is an incredible record.
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  Speaker 2: The NYPD would kill, no pun intended, for a record
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  Speaker 2: like that. ICE has been maligned and smeared. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's the most humane law enforcement group ever in American history.
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  Speaker 2: What say you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, basically, I agree with you. And I think what
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul has done, it's absolutely disastrous. Bruce Voigtman in
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  Speaker 3: Nassau County, entered into an agreement between the Nassau County
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  Speaker 3: Police and ICE where they would cooperate. And also he
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  Speaker 3: actually had a number of Nassau police officers deputized to
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  Speaker 3: work with ICE, actually work with ICE. As a result
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  Speaker 3: of that, we've had absolutely zero incidents in Nassau County.
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  Speaker 3: No acts of violence, nothing. There's total cooperation between the two.
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  Speaker 3: And there's been no raids into schools or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's worked, and it's important, and I think it's over 2,000
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  Speaker 3: illegal criminals were actually taken from Nassau County and deported
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  Speaker 3: because of the cooperation between the Nassau police and ICE.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned those acts of violence. The fact is, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not making excuses for anything went wrong, but the fact is,
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  Speaker 3: take the two cases in Minneapolis. In that instance, the governor,
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  Speaker 3: the mayor, they were not cooperating with ICE. They were
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  Speaker 3: actually encouraging people to rebel, to resist, to carry on.
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  Speaker 3: And you had the incident where an ICE agent as
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  Speaker 3: a woman, when she was told to stop, somebody takes
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  Speaker 3: her off in a car aimed in his direction. Whether
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  Speaker 3: she was going to hit him or not, he didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: The fact is that was a human reaction and also,
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  Speaker 3: I think, a legitimate law enforcement reaction for him to fire. Now,
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  Speaker 3: whether or not that was 100% correct, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: but it was instigated by the violence on the street
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  Speaker 3: and by that person coming at the ICE agents. Similarly
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  Speaker 3: with the person who was shot when he was wrestling
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  Speaker 3: with the ICE officers on the ground. He came there
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  Speaker 3: to disrupt it. He was carrying a weapon. And in
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  Speaker 3: that confusion, he was shot. I don't think it was
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  Speaker 3: going on a while before he was shot. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think anyone thinks that they intentionally shot him. As he
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  Speaker 3: was going around, a gun went off, and they saw
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  Speaker 3: his gun, and they shot in defense. Now, maybe that
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  Speaker 3: was not 100% right, but it would not have happened otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: if there had been cooperation between the police officers and ICE,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't think anyone thinks that those ICE agents
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  Speaker 3: were in there intending to kill anyone that day. So
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. Overall, they've done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: One thing that I agree with John Cassidy, and actually
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things I agree with John on, but
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  Speaker 3: on this one, I think it would be more effective
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  Speaker 3: if ICE focused more just on going after criminals. And
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  Speaker 3: because we've had people, we have 15, 20 years, the
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  Speaker 3: part of the community, their children, the part of the community.
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  Speaker 3: And basically, to me, I don't see any gain by
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  Speaker 3: going after them now. But are we? Are we?
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  Speaker 2: Because I see no evidence that ICE is in any
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  Speaker 2: way really targeting people like you just mentioned. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's every time we find out, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: get the initial report, Congressman King, that, oh, they took
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  Speaker 2: a 15 guy who's been working as a busboy. And
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  Speaker 2: then it turns out that he had, you know, had
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  Speaker 2: six wives. A child molestation thing. I mean, I'm seeing
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  Speaker 2: no evidence that we're targeting these more innocent illegals. None.
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  Speaker 3: No, actually, over the last several months, a majority of
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  Speaker 3: those taken have not had criminal records. That's reality. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what happens sometimes is you go into a place and
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  Speaker 3: there's four illegals and there's three illegals and they all
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  Speaker 3: get picked up. I understand that. But I think that
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  Speaker 3: they should try to fine-tune them. That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I think, like, I, for instance, know of cases in
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  Speaker 3: Astro County where there are people right now who feel
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  Speaker 3: that they, in fact, they've been warned, they've been told
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to cooperate. But they've been here for years,
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  Speaker 3: and they have established families and roots. So, again, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying that's the majority, but they're having more of
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  Speaker 3: those cases recently. But overall, ICE has done their job.
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  Speaker 3: They've done their job. And in those instances where there
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  Speaker 3: have been violence, if there have been, cooperation between local
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  Speaker 3: authorities and police with ICE that would not have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there was a big— Congressman King, there was a big
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  Speaker 1: report over the weekend in the Hamptons. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: live in Suffolk County on weekends. And that some— you know, Cohen, Michael?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That club in Riverhead, was it? Not Riverhead. In Sag Harbor?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a club in the Sag Harbor area where
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  Speaker 4: they— They had to close. Yeah, they had to close
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  Speaker 4: simply because— Most of the help has now been either
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  Speaker 4: they self-deported or they've been taken.
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  Speaker 3: Well, actually, in reality, we have to adjust to the
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  Speaker 3: fact that there are a number of businesses that have
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  Speaker 3: relied on immigrants and are not here legally. And now,
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  Speaker 3: to play it safe, they are self-deporting and the businesses
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  Speaker 3: are being cut short. Now, we have to adjust to that.
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  Speaker 3: And the one way to do it is have more
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  Speaker 3: legal immigration, have more guest worker visas, that type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: But we had a situation where you had, what, 10, 15,
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  Speaker 3: 20 million, whatever it was, illegals coming in. The situation
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  Speaker 3: got out of control. And right now we're, like, reconstituting.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's going to be some growing pains
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  Speaker 3: with that. There's going to be some innocent people caught
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  Speaker 3: up in it. But overall, it's the important thing to
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  Speaker 3: do to get it done. And, again, I would just
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  Speaker 3: try to fine-tune it more. As far as to me,
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  Speaker 3: the best way, if you want to ensure that there's
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  Speaker 3: no real violence, is to have the local police cooperating
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  Speaker 3: with ICE, which is what Bruce Blakeman had done in
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  Speaker 3: Nassau County. That was to everyone's benefit. Hochul was caved
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  Speaker 3: in to the Manjami progressives, to the left wing of
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  Speaker 3: her party.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Congressman, why then is Blakeman not out there every
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  Speaker 4: single second of the day going ahead and promoting that
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  Speaker 4: again and again and again and again? I feel almost
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  Speaker 4: sometimes as if Jake Novak is doing it more than
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  Speaker 4: anybody else. Or I should really say John.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big state, and there's a lot of issues.
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  Speaker 3: And Bruce does talk about it quite a bit. He
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  Speaker 3: talks about it. But also, as he's traveling around the state,
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  Speaker 3: he's in upstate New York. There's various issues there. Parts
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  Speaker 3: of upstate New York are actually impoverished, and he's trying
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  Speaker 3: to address those issues. He's trying to address the various
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement issues around the state. He, again, has so
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  Speaker 3: many different constituencies to reach out to. Now, he's not
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  Speaker 3: changing his message, but he has to, again, address the
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  Speaker 3: issues that concern those people. But again, I'd say in
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  Speaker 3: almost every speech, I mean, the media may not be
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  Speaker 3: highlighting it, but almost every speech I've given, I've heard
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  Speaker 3: him give, he does talk about ICE. He talks about
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  Speaker 3: the cooperation. He talks about the reasons why Nassau County
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  Speaker 3: has the lowest crime rate of any county in the
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  Speaker 3: entire United States. So, again, there's a lot of issues
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  Speaker 3: to talk about, but he does talk about ICE. He's
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  Speaker 3: never hid from it. He had a major news conference
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  Speaker 3: on it just the other day with Commissioner Ryder and
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  Speaker 3: the county legislature. So, again, it's a big state. There's
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  Speaker 3: tough issues, but he's never hid. Never shied away from
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  Speaker 3: the ICE issue.
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  Speaker 2: Peter King, let's talk a little bit about Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned it, how she's selling out. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's amazing how they just won't put the safety of U.S. citizens,
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  Speaker 2: and in this case, New York citizens, first. And I
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  Speaker 2: have to think it's more than just pressure she's getting.
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  Speaker 2: She's already... She's already the Democrat nominee. She's already the governor.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't have to worry about that aspect of it.
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  Speaker 2: Why does she need to cave so much to Zoran
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani and the left? Is there something else going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Is she yet another Democrat getting funding either directly or
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  Speaker 2: indirectly from our enemies who want to undermine the country?
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  Speaker 2: Because to me, her poll numbers would go up if
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  Speaker 2: she said the same thing you just said. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: tweak things a little bit. Instead, I think she's putting
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  Speaker 2: herself in peril. Why do they do these things?
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  Speaker 3: I tell you, I'm very surprised. John may recall back
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  Speaker 3: when she was becoming governor, when it was obvious Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Cuomo was going to have to step down, I was
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  Speaker 3: telling people I thought Kathy Hochul would actually do a
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  Speaker 3: good job. She was on my committee in Washington when
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  Speaker 3: I was chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. She had
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  Speaker 3: won a special election upstate, and she served a year
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  Speaker 3: and a half on the committee before she lost, but
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  Speaker 3: she was there for a year and a half. And
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  Speaker 3: she was actually a very moderate Democrat. She was not
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  Speaker 3: one of the crazies. I had some real crazies on
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  Speaker 3: the committee. She was not allied with them at all.
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  Speaker 3: She was reasonable to talk to. Her husband was a
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  Speaker 3: big law enforcement prosecutor upstate. And then she became governor.
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  Speaker 3: And it was like overnight she went first to the
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  Speaker 3: left of Cuomo. It's hard to explain. I have no
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  Speaker 3: evidence of any mysterious money coming in. Whether it is
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  Speaker 3: or is not, but I think she's living in a
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  Speaker 3: bubble of people around her, all these left people. And
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. To me, if you had a reasonable.
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  Speaker 3: intelligent Democrat, a Joe Lieberman, an Ed Koch, people like that,
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  Speaker 3: who could step outside their party when they had to,
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  Speaker 3: she would win support. But I just figured she's in
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  Speaker 3: this bubble. She's somehow, as a lot of somebody, trapped
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  Speaker 3: into it. But I can't, maybe it is a psychiatrist
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  Speaker 3: who explained it.
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  Speaker 4: Congressman, I think the only thing she cares about is
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  Speaker 4: re-election and winning the re-election. She's willing to do whatever
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  Speaker 4: it's going to take or what she thinks it's going
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  Speaker 4: to take in order to effectuate that win.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Jake was saying, though, if she steps out
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  Speaker 3: of that for a moment, if we realize that would
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  Speaker 3: be easy for her to get reelected, if she didn't
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  Speaker 3: take some of these crazy left-wing positions. She has the
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  Speaker 3: nomination now. She has the party. She will have enough
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  Speaker 3: funding to get through this campaign. So she has what
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  Speaker 3: she needs. If she took more middle-of-the-road stands and more
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  Speaker 3: moderate stands, if she stood more with the police, if
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  Speaker 3: she stood.
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  Speaker 1: More with the police.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe Jake Novak should actually give her a call and
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  Speaker 4: give her some advice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Peter King, that's why I say my alter ego
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  Speaker 2: is Jake Novak. Unelect, unemployable... political consultant, because I give
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  Speaker 2: good advice. Apparently, to be a successful political consultant in America,
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  Speaker 2: you have to give bad advice. But Peter King, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. You didn't need a political
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  Speaker 2: consultant to give you good advice. You knew on your own.
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  Speaker 2: But thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: I had John McLaughlin, by the way, the best in
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  Speaker 3: the country.
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  Speaker 1: John is great, except he didn't tell me that I
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  Speaker 1: was losing Manhattan when I ran for mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well.
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  Speaker 1: He told Rob Ryan, but he didn't tell me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's it. And his punishment is he has to
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  Speaker 2: show up on this channel every time we ask him
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  Speaker 2: now because that's the way it works. Peter King, thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Peter.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for your service to the country and
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  Speaker 2: to my former congressional district. I got redistricted out of
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  Speaker 2: your jurisdiction for a while there, but it was great
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  Speaker 2: while it lasted.
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  Speaker 4: What the heck is going on here?