Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Mike Lawler | New York District 17 Congressman Speaks on the Democrat Party's Continued Betrayal of Israel
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We're not breaking news that Lawler, along with Jordan Neely,
- 0:05Speaker 1: who tried to kill people on a subway, both love
- 0:07Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. Why were you dressed up last week as
- 0:11Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, Mike? What was that about?
- 0:15Speaker 2: Compare me to Jordan Neely.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Jesus. You both love Michael Jackson.
- 0:20Speaker 2: He, I was, uh, I, I dressed up. It was
- 0:23Speaker 2: his birthday. So I put on the, uh, thriller jacket
- 0:26Speaker 2: just to say happy birthday and solidarity. No, people were
- 0:29Speaker 2: making fun of my, uh, tire in one of my
- 0:33Speaker 2: TV ads saying that my clothes were too tight. So
- 0:37Speaker 2: I was making a little joke about.
- 0:39Speaker 1: The jacket being a little tight. They have no sense
- 0:44Speaker 1: of humor, these idiots. What do you think is worse?
- 0:47Speaker 1: Mike Lawler dressing up as Michael Jackson or Governor Kathy
- 0:52Speaker 1: Hochul dressing up like a Muslim during Ramadan?
- 1:00Speaker 2: Kathy... Listen, she, uh, she, she will go down as
- 1:05Speaker 2: one of the most incompetent people to ever hold public office. And, uh,
- 1:12Speaker 2: it's just, it's unfortunate that she is the governor of
- 1:15Speaker 2: the state of New York.
- 1:17Speaker 1: It is more unfortunate that she's the governor. I'm Donnie's
- 1:20Speaker 1: the mayor. Was it even for you?
- 1:23Speaker 2: Uh, they're both equally as bad.
- 1:26Speaker 1: I know. So what is, uh, what else is going
- 1:29Speaker 1: on with your friends in Congress? You know, If people
- 1:32Speaker 1: are worried about the Republicans losing the Senate, here's our
- 1:36Speaker 1: saving grace. And if I'm wrong, correct me, Mike. Our
- 1:39Speaker 1: saving grace is John Fetterman. He is so angry, so
- 1:43Speaker 1: angry that your colleagues, the House Democrats, one by one,
- 1:49Speaker 1: all of them, vote against bills to support Israel that
- 1:53Speaker 1: he's considering shifting parties. And if he does, we automatically,
- 1:58Speaker 1: for the most part, I should say, retain the Senate.
- 2:01Speaker 1: What is going on? It's not just the DSAs or
- 2:04Speaker 1: the progressives, even the old timers. Every Democrat votes against
- 2:09Speaker 1: supporting Israel. What is that all about?
- 2:11Speaker 2: Listen, I've been saying this for months. If you look
- 2:16Speaker 2: at the Democratic Party today, Schumer and Jeffries stand for nothing.
- 2:24Speaker 2: The only thing they care about is gaining power. They
- 2:29Speaker 2: have no platform. If you ask anybody, what is it
- 2:33Speaker 2: that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are running on? Nobody
- 2:38Speaker 2: could answer the question other than to say they hate Trump. Okay.
- 2:43Speaker 2: If I asked you what Bernie Sanders, AOC, Zoran Mamdani,
- 2:47Speaker 2: and the band of Mary Nitwits was running on, you'd
- 2:51Speaker 2: be able to rattle off at least 10 things. Okay.
- 2:55Speaker 2: whether it's defund the police, abolish ICE, raise taxes by
- 3:00Speaker 2: $ 4 trillion, government takeover of health care, sanctuary states.
- 3:06Speaker 1: All right.
- 3:07Speaker 2: You can run through the litany of the policies that
- 3:09Speaker 2: these people support. Now, a lot of it, you know,
- 3:12Speaker 2: government run grocery stores, seizing the means of production.
- 3:18Speaker 1: These are phrases.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Right? They're good at putting together little pithy phrases that
- 3:24Speaker 2: people can remember. But this is the platform that the
- 3:28Speaker 2: Democratic Party has embraced. And even if the socialists aren't
- 3:34Speaker 2: winning every single primary, the fact is that this is
- 3:40Speaker 2: the mainstream of the Democratic Party today. And so many
- 3:44Speaker 2: of my colleagues are petrified of of losing a primary.
- 3:49Speaker 2: They're petrified of this base of radicals. And so they
- 3:55Speaker 2: are taking positions and shifting positions. And one of the
- 3:59Speaker 2: biggest shifts has been on support for the state of Israel.
- 4:04Speaker 2: And it is because at the base of their party,
- 4:08Speaker 2: they hate Israel and they hate Jews. And it is frankly,
- 4:15Speaker 2: embarrassing some of my colleagues who have shifted their positions.
- 4:20Speaker 2: And it's sad. It really is sad. It is sad
- 4:23Speaker 2: for our country. It is sad for the direction of
- 4:27Speaker 2: our country. This is a choice election. Donald Trump is
- 4:32Speaker 2: going to be out of office in just over two years.
- 4:37Speaker 2: But this is about the future direction of this country
- 4:39Speaker 2: and whether or not we remain a capitalist constitutional republic
- 4:45Speaker 2: or go down the route of socialism and communism and Marxism.
- 4:50Speaker 2: And I, for one, will do everything in my power
- 4:53Speaker 2: to stop it. People, you know, think, oh, you know,
- 4:57Speaker 2: Waller's running against a moderate. She's not a moderate. She
- 5:02Speaker 2: agrees with them on sanctuary state policy. She supports Kathy
- 5:07Speaker 2: Hochul's new law that bans local law enforcement from cooperating
- 5:12Speaker 2: with federal immigration officials for the purpose of turning over
- 5:16Speaker 2: criminal illegal aliens. Kathy Hochul has released over 7,000 convicted
- 5:22Speaker 2: criminals back out onto the streets since Donald Trump took
- 5:25Speaker 2: office last year, including murderers, rapists, drug dealers, gangbangers, gun traffickers.
- 5:32Speaker 2: She doesn't give a shit. She doesn't care if American citizens,
- 5:36Speaker 2: if New Yorkers get killed on the street, doesn't care
- 5:40Speaker 2: because that doesn't meet her political needs with this radical base.
- 5:46Speaker 2: She doesn't care. If people get hurt, that's the fundamental truth,
- 5:51Speaker 2: because there's no logical explanation for why you wouldn't turn
- 5:55Speaker 2: over criminal illegal aliens. You want to argue about civil enforcement,
- 6:00Speaker 2: knock yourself out. But criminal illegal aliens, you refuse to
- 6:05Speaker 2: turn them over. You have to be mentally ill to
- 6:08Speaker 2: support that policy.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Oh, you're right. And the civil enforcement is nonsense, too.
- 6:12Speaker 1: I had Tom Holman in studio here a couple of
- 6:14Speaker 1: days ago. She keeps yelling and screaming about grabbing kids
- 6:17Speaker 1: out of school and barging into churches.
- 6:20Speaker 2: It has not happened.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Never happens. Never happens. So she's a filthy liar on
- 6:25Speaker 1: top of everything else. So, look, I spent three days,
- 6:28Speaker 1: and we missed you this year. You were there last year.
- 6:30Speaker 1: We did miss you in Vegas with a whole bunch
- 6:32Speaker 1: of your colleagues, a bunch of folks that are trying
- 6:35Speaker 1: to win you. You know, like Mike Rogers trying to
- 6:37Speaker 1: beat El Sayed in that Senate race in Michigan. Jim Banks,
- 6:42Speaker 1: even people like Craig Goldman, our friend there in Texas,
- 6:45Speaker 1: who you and I had dinner with on Hanukkah. And
- 6:49Speaker 1: a lot of them are a lot more confident today
- 6:54Speaker 1: than they were a month ago about the chances of
- 6:58Speaker 1: us retaining power. The House. There's a lot of folks
- 7:02Speaker 1: think we retain the Senate. We're going to lose the House,
- 7:05Speaker 1: including Rich Lowry yesterday. We're going to lose the House.
- 7:08Speaker 1: What do you think, Mike?
- 7:10Speaker 2: I fundamentally agree. Look, if I hold my seat and
- 7:14Speaker 2: I'm going to hold my seat, then we have a very,
- 7:19Speaker 2: very good chance of keeping control of the House. My
- 7:22Speaker 2: seat determined the outcome in 22. It determined the outcome
- 7:26Speaker 2: in 24. It'll determine the outcome in 20. Yes.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Your seat may be the most important of all, but
- 7:32Speaker 1: a lot of people are telling me also that that
- 7:34Speaker 1: little Petri Swazi battle is a big one.
- 7:37Speaker 2: No question. Look, all of these seats in New York
- 7:42Speaker 2: can play a vital role. Janine Driscoll running against Laura Gillen,
- 7:47Speaker 2: Pete Oberacher running against Josh Riley. These seats are all
- 7:52Speaker 2: in play. They're tough. We know that. It's New York.
- 7:56Speaker 2: It's expensive. My race is going to cost $ 60 million.
- 8:01Speaker 2: But fundamentally, they're all in play. The NRCC is focused
- 8:06Speaker 2: on them. All three of those candidates are on the
- 8:10Speaker 2: targeted seat list. So I think we absolutely can pick
- 8:16Speaker 2: up seats here in New York. But fundamentally, we have
- 8:21Speaker 2: a very clear path. The map favors us. And not
- 8:24Speaker 2: only does the map favor us, the money favors us.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Democrats have no money. The DNC is in debt. They're broke.
- 8:34Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up because as we get
- 8:37Speaker 1: set to jet set to Dallas next week, the Republicans,
- 8:39Speaker 1: that's me. I'm a Republican. I say we like a
- 8:41Speaker 1: football fan. As we get set to jet set to Dallas,
- 8:44Speaker 1: guess what, Mike Lawler? The Democrats would love to do it,
- 8:48Speaker 1: but they can't. You know why? Because you just said it.
- 8:50Speaker 1: They're broke.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Well, not only are they broke, but frankly, I don't
- 8:56Speaker 2: know that they necessarily want to put all their crazy
- 8:58Speaker 2: people front and center promoting these policies that are deeply unpopular.
- 9:04Speaker 1: Well, they kind of are this weekend. They are doing
- 9:06Speaker 1: that in Chicago, led by Hassan Panker. Again, they didn't invite.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Biden or Harris. So they kind of are getting all
- 9:12Speaker 1: these crazies together for a big socialist convention in Chicago
- 9:16Speaker 1: this weekend. But you're right, as a party, it's not
- 9:19Speaker 1: a good idea for them to show this to the country.
- 9:23Speaker 1: In fact, it's a bad idea.
- 9:24Speaker 2: What are you going to do? Prop Chuck Schumer up
- 9:27Speaker 2: out there to rally the troops? You know, with his
- 9:30Speaker 2: glasses on the brim of his nose?
- 9:32Speaker 1: I know.
- 9:32Speaker 2: We need to win! I'm going to send a strongly
- 9:37Speaker 2: worded letter!
- 9:39Speaker 1: Come on.
- 9:40Speaker 2: I mean, good God.
- 9:40Speaker 1: No, no, you know, I mentioned Chicago this weekend, and
- 9:43Speaker 1: I have to tell you that Bruce Blakeman did a
- 9:46Speaker 1: great job on Long Island when Trump came to town,
- 9:48Speaker 1: but so did you. Your rally in Rockland County was amazing,
- 9:52Speaker 1: and I think the first time I ever really cried
- 9:55Speaker 1: hard at a rally was yours, and it was when
- 9:59Speaker 1: you guys invited me. the Gorman family up on stage
- 10:02Speaker 1: and beautiful Sheridan Gorman talking about Chicago was murdered there,
- 10:07Speaker 1: even though she comes from Westchester. And I know her
- 10:11Speaker 1: parents just yesterday were furious with the Chicago police and
- 10:17Speaker 1: the Illinois police all of the Illinois authorities, and still,
- 10:22Speaker 1: still nobody in that city, nobody in this city in
- 10:26Speaker 1: a Democrat position has said a word, Mike Lawler, about
- 10:30Speaker 1: Sheridan Gorman. That's awful.
- 10:32Speaker 2: I have to tell you, this has enraged me to
- 10:37Speaker 2: no end. This family has been through it. It is horrible.
- 10:44Speaker 2: I saw them just about a week, a little over
- 10:47Speaker 2: a week ago. and spent quite a bit of time
- 10:50Speaker 2: with them. Obviously, they spoke at the event in Rockland County.
- 10:55Speaker 2: They came and testified before Congress. They were treated horribly
- 11:00Speaker 2: by the Democrats, Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin. And by
- 11:04Speaker 2: the way, this week, again, same thing. Another father whose
- 11:09Speaker 2: daughter was made permanently disabled by an illegal immigrant went
- 11:17Speaker 2: off on the same Democrats, Jayapal, Raskin, Nadler, because they
- 11:22Speaker 2: don't care. They don't care. They show total disdain for
- 11:27Speaker 2: anybody who pushes back against these crazy policies, open borders,
- 11:31Speaker 2: sanctuary states. Why are we letting people stay in this
- 11:37Speaker 2: country who are committing crimes? I don't, for the life
- 11:39Speaker 2: of me, understand it. Nobody can articulate a rational, coherent
- 11:43Speaker 2: thought behind it. And the Gorman family has been so
- 11:47Speaker 2: mistreated by the authorities in Chicago, the elected officials there,
- 11:56Speaker 2: the prosecutors there. They don't want to push too hard on.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Sheridan Gorman's killer's ties to gangs. I mean, it's crazy.
- 12:12Speaker 2: But this is the system that we are living under
- 12:15Speaker 2: right now. And it's why this election is so important.
- 12:19Speaker 2: And it's why I talk about this issue. Look, my
- 12:23Speaker 2: wife's an immigrant. I believe in immigration. I believe it
- 12:27Speaker 2: is important to the family.
- 12:29Speaker 1: Hold on. What do you mean? Not only do you
- 12:31Speaker 1: believe in immigration, I love your wife. She's a lovely lady.
- 12:33Speaker 1: But according to a lot of the critics on my page,
- 12:36Speaker 1: you know, you and I are friends. You're all about amnesty.
- 12:40Speaker 2: I am not. But the fundamental thing to me is
- 12:45Speaker 2: you have to have a legal system that works. You
- 12:50Speaker 2: have to enforce the law. You have to be able
- 12:53Speaker 2: to secure the border, deport criminal illegal aliens in sanctuary states.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Requiring proof of citizenship to vote is not a controversial concept,
- 13:06Speaker 2: especially when you have states like New Jersey registering illegal
- 13:10Speaker 2: immigrants onto the voter rolls and sending them ballots. These
- 13:15Speaker 2: are common sense measures, and yet the Democrats are opposed
- 13:18Speaker 2: to every single one of them. My opponent, Kate Conley,
- 13:22Speaker 2: like I said, supports sanctuary states. It's crazy. She supports
- 13:27Speaker 2: raising taxes by $ 4 trillion. She supports a government takeover
- 13:31Speaker 2: of our healthcare system. These are not normal policies, but
- 13:37Speaker 2: it is the mainstream view of the Democratic Party today.
- 13:41Speaker 2: So To your point, I think you're going to see
- 13:45Speaker 2: next week not only Republicans talk about what we've accomplished
- 13:50Speaker 2: over these past two years and what it is that
- 13:53Speaker 2: we've delivered for the American people, but you're going to
- 13:56Speaker 2: hear from folks like the Gorman family who are going
- 13:59Speaker 2: to talk about the very real impact of these policies
- 14:03Speaker 2: on their family.
- 14:05Speaker 1: I know they're coming to Dallas. I've been told that already,
- 14:07Speaker 1: which is terrific. And I love those people. I really do.
- 14:11Speaker 2: One more.
- 14:12Speaker 1: You know, my community got hammered in terms of the
- 14:14Speaker 1: losses on 9-11, my community particularly, in Bell Harbor and Rockaway,
- 14:22Speaker 1: Nassau County, too. But you guys took a pretty good beating, too,
- 14:25Speaker 1: up there in Rockaway County. And I saw you with
- 14:28Speaker 1: Peter Alexander, who... I became kind of friendly with years
- 14:31Speaker 1: ago because I was very close with Chuck Todd. And
- 14:34Speaker 1: the one thing that me and Pete Alexander have in
- 14:36Speaker 1: common is both of our first children were girls named Ava.
- 14:39Speaker 1: And that's about it. His daughter's Ava. My daughter's Ava.
- 14:42Speaker 1: And he kept coming after you about President Trump not
- 14:45Speaker 1: coming to New York. And you kept saying, look, he's
- 14:48Speaker 1: going to the Pentagon. I want him in New York.
- 14:49Speaker 1: But that's his choice. He wanted you to call out
- 14:52Speaker 1: President Trump. You didn't want to do it. I'll ask
- 14:55Speaker 1: you the same thing. What are your thoughts on President
- 14:57Speaker 1: Trump not coming here? a week from today?
- 15:01Speaker 2: Look, I think it's the 25th anniversary. It's obviously a
- 15:09Speaker 2: powerful moment, and certainly for these families that lost so
- 15:14Speaker 2: much that day, and for our 9-11 first responders, many
- 15:19Speaker 2: of whom we continue to lose on an annual basis.
- 15:23Speaker 2: due to 9-11 health-related illnesses. This is going to be
- 15:27Speaker 2: a very poignant, you know, day of remembrance. And, you know,
- 15:32Speaker 2: I think it's important for the president, obviously, to be
- 15:37Speaker 2: part of it. He's going to be at the Pentagon.
- 15:39Speaker 2: I do wish he was coming to New York, but
- 15:42Speaker 2: you can't be everywhere all at once. The vice president
- 15:45Speaker 2: will be coming to New York. This whole thing about
- 15:49Speaker 2: giving speeches. I mean, nobody's ever given a speech at
- 15:52Speaker 2: ground zero on 9-11. It is a day for the families. And,
- 15:57Speaker 2: you know, I will be attending ceremonies all throughout my district.
- 16:03Speaker 2: I do it every year. We have dozens of ceremonies.
- 16:06Speaker 2: I try to go to as many as I can
- 16:10Speaker 2: because it's important that we remember what happened that day.
- 16:15Speaker 2: This was a terrorist attack by radical Islamic extremists. It
- 16:21Speaker 2: was not an accident. It wasn't a terrible event. It
- 16:26Speaker 2: was a terrorist attack. And I think it's important that
- 16:30Speaker 2: we recognize that. I think it's important we remember those
- 16:35Speaker 2: we lost. You know, Sid, over 100 million Americans have
- 16:40Speaker 2: been born since 9-11, meaning they weren't born on 9-11.
- 16:47Speaker 2: They didn't experience it. They don't know truly what happened.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Our children. We both have kids. Our children.
- 16:54Speaker 2: No question. And so it's important that we recognize this moment.
- 17:00Speaker 2: I said the other day to somebody on a separate
- 17:06Speaker 2: radio interview, I have one community that still does a
- 17:10Speaker 2: Pearl Harbor Day remembrance ceremony.
- 17:15Speaker 3: One.
- 17:16Speaker 2: And when you think about You know, how many of
- 17:20Speaker 2: our World War II heroes, you know, are no longer
- 17:23Speaker 2: with us. We're coming to the end. And, you know,
- 17:29Speaker 2: how few people remember. And I think 9-11 is one
- 17:34Speaker 2: of those days. It defined our country. It certainly defines
- 17:37Speaker 2: New York. And it is something that we should always,
- 17:41Speaker 2: you know, not only put aside the politics, but always remember.
- 17:46Speaker 2: take a moment to reflect and remember. And, you know,
- 17:51Speaker 2: as elected officials, as leaders in this country, we need
- 17:56Speaker 2: to do everything in our power to ensure that never
- 17:58Speaker 2: happens again.
- 17:59Speaker 1: And never forget, like you just said, that we seem
- 18:02Speaker 1: to have forgotten Pearl Harbor because lots of people died
- 18:05Speaker 1: and no one can really, no one was here to
- 18:06Speaker 1: see it. You got to hope 60 years from now,
- 18:09Speaker 1: that's not the case with this date. That's why education
- 18:12Speaker 1: is so important. And our damn schools need to stop
- 18:15Speaker 1: teaching our kids every day about civil rights and slavery
- 18:19Speaker 1: and maybe once in a while dive into the Holocaust
- 18:22Speaker 1: or dive into 9-11. I don't know. Just an idea. Anyway, Michael,
- 18:26Speaker 1: come on again next week because you are a huge
- 18:29Speaker 1: figure in this city. I want you on, obviously, on
- 18:31Speaker 1: this week of remembrance. You did an amazing job today.
- 18:35Speaker 1: I love you.
- 18:36Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I'll just say on the last point
- 18:38Speaker 2: you made, look, education is paramount, and it's critically important
- 18:43Speaker 2: that we teach our nation's history and global history. And
- 18:48Speaker 2: that people understand events, whether it was slavery, whether it
- 18:53Speaker 2: was the Holocaust or 9-11. I've introduced legislation in the
- 19:00Speaker 2: state legislature and in Congress to require 9-11 be taught
- 19:03Speaker 2: in schools. It is critical. It is critical.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Good for you. Oh, one more thing on the way out, Michael,
- 19:08Speaker 1: for people who want to help you out. I know
- 19:10Speaker 1: you're going to win this. I know you are. But
- 19:12Speaker 1: just in case I want to throw you a couple
- 19:13Speaker 1: of bucks, how do they do that?
- 19:15Speaker 2: They should go to LawlerForCongress.com, LawlerForCongress.com, or text Mike to 85007.
- 19:22Speaker 2: All right, Mike.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Enjoy your three-day weekend.
- 19:24Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Sid. You're the best.
- 19:26Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next week. I love you. Mike
- 19:28Speaker 1: Lawler right there, the king of Rockland County, Mr.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Salt.
- 19:31Speaker 1: He's going to win. We need him. He is a huge, huge,
- 19:36Speaker 1: huge member of Congress. the house, my friend Mike Lawler.
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