Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Peter King | Former Congressman | 06-04-26
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- 0:11Speaker 2: I say this all the time, and I'm being sincere
- 0:14Speaker 2: in my lifetime. I'm fifty nine. That's a long time.
- 0:17Speaker 2: He's one of the two greatest politicians I've ever seen
- 0:20Speaker 2: in our state, King Juliani Giuliani King. However you measure
- 0:24Speaker 2: it up, Peter King is right at the very top.
- 0:28Speaker 2: But the reason why Peter is such a great New
- 0:30Speaker 2: Yorker goes above and beyond his Congress days on Long Island.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Now he's the god bother him and Joe Cairo of
- 0:37Speaker 2: all the new candidates Homeland Security. It's because Pete is
- 0:41Speaker 2: a real New Yorker. Yes, dad was a cop, the
- 0:45Speaker 2: hale thing, you know. And he loves the sports teams.
- 0:49Speaker 2: And you cannot make sports a periphery story in New
- 0:55Speaker 2: York and succeed, You just can't. And Pete loves the teams,
- 0:59Speaker 2: the Mets Giants. But Pete has left basketball behind. They
- 1:06Speaker 2: turned them off. They turned me off too. Going back
- 1:09Speaker 2: to the Bubble Championship in Covid, Lebron James, but I
- 1:13Speaker 2: never left. Same thing with the NFL, so I never left,
- 1:16Speaker 2: but Pete left. So I wonder, great New Yorker nixt
- 1:20Speaker 2: to in the NBA finals. You almost got to come back,
- 1:23Speaker 2: don't you. Let's find out, Pete King, are you excited
- 1:27Speaker 2: about this or do you stay with your mindset of
- 1:30Speaker 2: I left the NBA. I don't care.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited for New York and I don't want
- 1:36Speaker 3: to be ringing in other people's parades. But I just
- 1:37Speaker 3: can't get back in. But let me tell you something
- 1:39Speaker 3: I was thinking. I was actually just yesterday. I was
- 1:42Speaker 3: a Nick fan back in the early fifties when they
- 1:44Speaker 3: had Harry Gallop and sweet Water Clifton Laps. It was
- 1:47Speaker 3: the coast anyway. You're sure you how things have changed,
- 1:50Speaker 3: but one hundreds of grand, we'd take it now to
- 1:51Speaker 3: two thousand, It's say it. My recollection is in the
- 1:54Speaker 3: early fifties, the Knicks and Lakers were in the finals
- 1:58Speaker 3: the NBA, but the circus was in the garden. And
- 2:01Speaker 3: they've played the championship series in the National God Armory
- 2:04Speaker 3: on twenty sixth Streets and the sixty ninth Regiment Armory.
- 2:08Speaker 3: That's how sports would changed.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Wow.
- 2:10Speaker 3: So it was great players, Carl Ron, Connie Simmons, Vinnie Builla,
- 2:14Speaker 3: Dick Maguire, all of them they were and Judge Miken
- 2:17Speaker 3: with the Lakers, they were playing in the National God
- 2:19Speaker 3: Army in twenty sixth Street, which couldn't have held by
- 2:21Speaker 3: them a few thousand people.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Wow, that is a great story. That's cool. Thank you
- 2:25Speaker 2: for telling me that. George Mike and he started with
- 2:27Speaker 2: the Minneapolis Lakers before they even moved to Los Angeles. Well,
- 2:31Speaker 2: I keep getting asked this question. I was on Joe
- 2:33Speaker 2: Pabot PAGs. He's a big time radio guy, number seven
- 2:37Speaker 2: in the country according to Talkers Magazine. He's best friends
- 2:40Speaker 2: with Hannity. Used to be a Long Island guy. Ironically,
- 2:42Speaker 2: he lives in San Antonio, Texas. And he called me
- 2:45Speaker 2: yesterday because I've kind of become the anti mom Donnie
- 2:49Speaker 2: face all over the country. They know, you want to
- 2:51Speaker 2: bring on a guest who's gonna kill Mam Donnie, you
- 2:53Speaker 2: call Sid. So I was. I was talking to Joe
- 2:56Speaker 2: pas yesterday and he said to me, he said, Sid,
- 2:59Speaker 2: the city's a it's divided. You know. The mayor just
- 3:02Speaker 2: hates just about hates everybody. You know, if the Knicks win,
- 3:06Speaker 2: can it bring the city together? Now, my answer was sure.
- 3:09Speaker 2: I remember nine to eleven brought the city together. That
- 3:12Speaker 2: shouldn't be the question. The question is how long will
- 3:15Speaker 2: it last? What do you think I would help?
- 3:19Speaker 3: First, as I said, I'm not into it. I used
- 3:21Speaker 3: to be. I really used to be used. I lived
- 3:24Speaker 3: and died with the nineteen seventy next nineteen seventy three
- 3:27Speaker 3: Knicks with Barnette, go to that, the whole list, Kessie Russell,
- 3:32Speaker 3: Mike Reared, and you know, not just the superstars. All
- 3:34Speaker 3: those guys were great. Having said that it can if
- 3:38Speaker 3: the mayor knew how to play it the right way.
- 3:39Speaker 3: I mean I was not a John Lindsay fan, but
- 3:41Speaker 3: when the Mets won in nineteen sixty nine, Doc got
- 3:44Speaker 3: Lindsay reelected as mayor, they were able to bring the
- 3:46Speaker 3: city together. Certainly nine to eleven the other way, Rudy
- 3:50Speaker 3: Giuliani Brough brought the city back. So great moments a
- 3:53Speaker 3: great victory, and moments are great. Tragedy can bring the
- 3:57Speaker 3: city together if the mayor how would play it the
- 4:01Speaker 3: right way. But nobody believes he's a real New Yorker.
- 4:03Speaker 3: Nobody believes that it's hot and soul is there. I mean,
- 4:07Speaker 3: there's just no I haven't seen anything real about this
- 4:10Speaker 3: guy at all, except except his love of socialism. The
- 4:14Speaker 3: anti Semitism. It's there. And let me just go off
- 4:17Speaker 3: a topic a little bit here. I really wish President
- 4:20Speaker 3: Trump were not saying not say mandame. He's a nice guy.
- 4:23Speaker 3: I know he's not a nice guy. I need to
- 4:24Speaker 3: do his economics. He could be a socialist, he could
- 4:27Speaker 3: be all that. That wouldn't cause me to dislike him.
- 4:29Speaker 3: I would oppose him. But he's an anti Semite. He's
- 4:31Speaker 3: anti American. I don't know how you can say a
- 4:34Speaker 3: guy like that is nice when he's talking about the
- 4:36Speaker 3: global into FAMA, when he's silent, when there's when they're
- 4:40Speaker 3: tearing the Columbia campus apart and they're riding in the
- 4:43Speaker 3: streets and they're attacking synagogues. I mean, this is a
- 4:45Speaker 3: so anyway, that's my own No.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Listen, you know I feel the same way I talked
- 4:50Speaker 2: about at six o'clock this morning. And you also know, Pete,
- 4:52Speaker 2: because you and I are very close that I've texted
- 4:55Speaker 2: Trump time and time again. When I got in trouble
- 4:59Speaker 2: a couple of months ago, and all the Democrats came
- 5:01Speaker 2: at me, every one of them, from Letitia James to
- 5:03Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer to Kathy Holkel to build the Blasio to
- 5:07Speaker 2: even morons like Richie Torres. And I ended up apologizing
- 5:10Speaker 2: to the mayor the next day. You know that was
- 5:13Speaker 2: all based upon a message I had sent to Trump
- 5:17Speaker 2: where I said, stop saying he's a nice guy, and
- 5:19Speaker 2: he did it again yesterday. I am with you one
- 5:22Speaker 2: hundred percent. I couldn't love this president anymore than I do,
- 5:26Speaker 2: and he loves me. But I don't get it in
- 5:29Speaker 2: this need he's compelled to tell us he knows that
- 5:34Speaker 2: real new Yorkers, Jewish new Yorkers hate this guy. It's
- 5:38Speaker 2: the last thing we want to hear. Can't he just
- 5:40Speaker 2: say I'm rooting for him, I'm gonna try to help him.
- 5:43Speaker 2: I want to save New York City. But he keeps
- 5:45Speaker 2: saying it. He did it again yesterday, and I would
- 5:48Speaker 2: tell Trump right to his base today, I've done it before.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Stop saying it. He keeps saying he's a nice guy,
- 5:53Speaker 2: He's a good guy. I'm with you one hundred percent, Pete.
- 5:56Speaker 2: President Trump needs to stop that nonsense because the very
- 6:00Speaker 2: core of his heart. Trust me, he doesn't believe that.
- 6:03Speaker 3: I know that. I mean he's got people's a lot
- 6:08Speaker 3: less than that, I'll tell you. But also I mean
- 6:10Speaker 3: just the pure politics of it right now, Bruce Flakman
- 6:13Speaker 3: is a great candidate. You see so much going for him.
- 6:16Speaker 3: But his main weapon is Man Dommie. I mean he
- 6:18Speaker 3: can point to Mendomie opening campaigns. You exaggerate, you try
- 6:21Speaker 3: to sort of make your enemy worse than he is.
- 6:24Speaker 3: But Bruce Brikman can say that if he's the governor,
- 6:26Speaker 3: he can point to Man Dommie as being the threat
- 6:28Speaker 3: and is face in New York. This is gonna make
- 6:30Speaker 3: belief is real. You need Driscoll. I mean, she lives
- 6:35Speaker 3: right on the New York City border. She saw all
- 6:37Speaker 3: those illegals being high love just several peopure. You know
- 6:41Speaker 3: where she lives. They have community meetings how to protect
- 6:44Speaker 3: themselves during that whole time when all the illegals have
- 6:47Speaker 3: been put in station hotels right on the national border.
- 6:50Speaker 3: So Bruce knows firsthand what it is to fighting off
- 6:54Speaker 3: the bad guys.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Well, Bruce, then Bruce, then you're right. So Bruce needs
- 6:57Speaker 2: to step it up because I'm going to tell you
- 6:58Speaker 2: already know this people, But in case you just tuned
- 7:00Speaker 2: into me, you don't know this. You know what Bruce
- 7:03Speaker 2: is gonna be on Monday night, sitting right next to
- 7:05Speaker 2: President Trump at Madison Square Garden in that Dolan box
- 7:10Speaker 2: Game three. So we're gonna come home either tied at one,
- 7:13Speaker 2: which is still good, maybe up to nothing. That would
- 7:15Speaker 2: be amazing. But our friend Bruce, who I spoke to
- 7:18Speaker 2: again yesterday. Speak to Bruce every day like you do
- 7:20Speaker 2: every day. He's gonna be sitting next to Trump. He
- 7:22Speaker 2: needs to tell the president, mister President, please, He's not
- 7:28Speaker 2: a nice guy. He's a scumbag. He hates everybody. Forget
- 7:32Speaker 2: about the Jews, he hates the Christians. He wasn't there
- 7:35Speaker 2: when Ronald Hicks was installed after Dolan. He hates the
- 7:38Speaker 2: cops unless you're a Muslim. And he can scream in
- 7:41Speaker 2: Shadah in Shadah on Hot ninety seven, which made me nauseous.
- 7:45Speaker 2: He doesn't care about you. So Bruce needs to sit
- 7:48Speaker 2: with Trump on Monday. Pete, you need to tell him
- 7:50Speaker 2: this and tell him that.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Andruce, by the way, he is really killing himself in
- 7:55Speaker 3: this campaignish everywhere. I was with him last night at
- 7:57Speaker 3: Jaina's campaign kick off. The guy is he should be exhausted.
- 8:01Speaker 3: But I tell you, I don't know if he's running
- 8:03Speaker 3: on adrenaline and what of it is. But he's been
- 8:05Speaker 3: campaigning all day, all night, everywhere, up and down the state,
- 8:08Speaker 3: all over you know, the Five boroughs, Long Island, upstate, everywhere.
- 8:12Speaker 3: And he's a great form. But again that sort of
- 8:14Speaker 3: undermines his argument when he say, you let me governor,
- 8:17Speaker 3: I'm gonna stop mandomic. And then you know, Donald Trumps
- 8:19Speaker 3: said that Dame's a nice guy. He's not a nice guy.
- 8:22Speaker 3: And yeah, we can have real differences on issues. The
- 8:25Speaker 3: fact that these are socialists. I wouldn't hate him for that.
- 8:27Speaker 3: I disagree with him. But when he's out there anti semises,
- 8:30Speaker 3: the anti American, anti cop and just dividing race against race,
- 8:34Speaker 3: going after middle income homeowners, Yeah, we know the reason
- 8:38Speaker 3: that because he thinks they're you know, they're all white.
- 8:40Speaker 3: That's basically the guy saying race war, class war. It's terrible,
- 8:44Speaker 3: the worst thing ever for the City of New York.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Can't argue the worst thing ever. I want to get
- 8:48Speaker 2: to the Iran conflict. Presidents spoke yesterday and he said
- 8:52Speaker 2: things are going great. And you know, Pete, you've been
- 8:55Speaker 2: around a long time. You've seen a lot of wars.
- 8:57Speaker 2: You were involved in homeland security, very important part of
- 9:00Speaker 2: that too. You did a tremendous job. I don't know, Pete.
- 9:03Speaker 2: I maybe I'm not a historian like you and Bernard were.
- 9:05Speaker 2: But usually when there's a ceasefire, you don't strike each
- 9:09Speaker 2: other every day. I say that jokingly because it's a joke.
- 9:12Speaker 2: It really is a joke. At this point, we have
- 9:14Speaker 2: a ceasefire and we bomb each other every day. Israel
- 9:17Speaker 2: and Lebanon they've got a ceasefire and they bomb each
- 9:20Speaker 2: other every day. Now, Congress comes out yesterday and they
- 9:25Speaker 2: vote to limit Trump's war powers. Here and you knew
- 9:29Speaker 2: the regularly the same names, Warren Davidson out of Ohio,
- 9:32Speaker 2: Tom Barrett out of Michigan, Bryan Fitzpatrick out of Pennsylvania,
- 9:36Speaker 2: and of course the worst of all, thank god he's
- 9:38Speaker 2: leaving Thomas Massey out of Kentucky, plus every Democrat. What
- 9:42Speaker 2: do you think about Congress deciding yesterday to limit Trump's
- 9:46Speaker 2: war powers.
- 9:48Speaker 3: It's really bad for him. Even if you have issues
- 9:50Speaker 3: with the war, the president is in very delicate, sensitive negotiations,
- 9:55Speaker 3: and I can say you a ran is watching every
- 9:57Speaker 3: word being said in the United States Congress. They that
- 10:00Speaker 3: just strengthens trrends and against the president, and listen, I
- 10:04Speaker 3: can understand some frustration. The fact is, wars are never easy.
- 10:07Speaker 3: I think the president thought this was gonna be easy,
- 10:09Speaker 3: and I was, it's going to be tough. But he
- 10:10Speaker 3: can I think he's willing to hang on the age.
- 10:12Speaker 3: Women can take the hits on it. But you can
- 10:14Speaker 3: have Congress undermined him if they want to talk to
- 10:16Speaker 3: him behind the scenes. If they want to do that,
- 10:18Speaker 3: that's one thing, but there comes a time when you
- 10:21Speaker 3: have to put the country first. And I don't know
- 10:23Speaker 3: what they thought they were achieving by letting the world
- 10:26Speaker 3: know that a majority of Congress disagrees with the president.
- 10:29Speaker 3: And we know the Democrats. Was Biden with the president,
- 10:32Speaker 3: they'd be supporting the war completely. That'ship of critical be right,
- 10:35Speaker 3: though Republicans that switch over on that was if somebody
- 10:38Speaker 3: was a confirmed passifist, that's one thing, but we know
- 10:42Speaker 3: these guys aren't, especially someone like Davidson is a conservative
- 10:46Speaker 3: from Ohio. I don't know what he's trying to prove
- 10:48Speaker 3: on this. You know there's the major tail of Greens,
- 10:51Speaker 3: they are that type. But to me, it's really something
- 10:55Speaker 3: a mistake here. And I think that also, And I'm
- 10:59Speaker 3: not trying to be Monday Morning quarterback or second guests,
- 11:02Speaker 3: because I support us being in Iran. I'm just surprised
- 11:05Speaker 3: that there wasn't a better plan to keep Iran from
- 11:08Speaker 3: closing the straight to her moves right, I mean, it
- 11:10Speaker 3: wasn't that kind. They just seemed to do it overnight.
- 11:13Speaker 3: I'm military ary did everything. And also I think this
- 11:16Speaker 3: maybe is the time to try to again behind the
- 11:18Speaker 3: scenes work with the Allies, because some of those NATO
- 11:21Speaker 3: countries do very good mind sweeping abilities. Ukraine is very
- 11:25Speaker 3: good as far as fighting off the drones and especially
- 11:28Speaker 3: the mines and drones that have been used to close
- 11:31Speaker 3: the straits. But we can't be running away. At the
- 11:34Speaker 3: same time, these people criticize the president and also listen,
- 11:38Speaker 3: the average person out there trying to make a living.
- 11:40Speaker 3: Paying you five dollars a gallon for gas is a lot.
- 11:43Speaker 3: I understand that, but also in wartime there are certain sacrifices.
- 11:47Speaker 3: I think if the president I agree with you, he
- 11:49Speaker 3: shouldn't be saying it's a ceasefire because it's not there.
- 11:53Speaker 3: Straight with the American people say, listen, this is something
- 11:55Speaker 3: we throw up. We're going to hang on there. We're
- 11:57Speaker 3: tough people, We're going to win. This is more involved
- 12:00Speaker 3: than just the short term. It's it's shaving your children
- 12:03Speaker 3: and grand children. Yeah, but the.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Problem is, Look, that's true. In the beginning. I'm with you.
- 12:08Speaker 2: I was enthusiastic about it, and I think we did
- 12:10Speaker 2: a great job. It's a mess. It's a mess, just
- 12:14Speaker 2: trust me. You know, you've heard Tacopina on this show.
- 12:17Speaker 2: You've heard other people that speak to it. The Pentagon
- 12:21Speaker 2: was stuck. Anybody who tells you differently is just a
- 12:24Speaker 2: Trump cheerleader, which I am. I'm I mean, I'm as
- 12:27Speaker 2: big a sick event as there is. But we're not winning.
- 12:30Speaker 2: We're not close to winning. This thing is not close
- 12:33Speaker 2: to being over. There are three or four major things
- 12:36Speaker 2: that we want and Iran is not anything to comply
- 12:38Speaker 2: with at least two of them, maybe three of them.
- 12:41Speaker 2: So the idea that don't worry, it's going to be
- 12:43Speaker 2: over soon and prices are coming down. If you ask
- 12:46Speaker 2: the average American, they're starting to think this could look
- 12:48Speaker 2: like Iraq or afghanis stand quicker than this thing being
- 12:50Speaker 2: over anytime soon. So it's a mess, that's the truth.
- 12:55Speaker 3: I agree. I think the present answer to find a
- 12:57Speaker 3: way to say that. But she'll be hopeful of this
- 12:59Speaker 3: same time, and I think it's going to evolve somewhat
- 13:02Speaker 3: of a change of military strategy. We have to find
- 13:05Speaker 3: a way to counter the drones in the in the
- 13:06Speaker 3: streets of her moves and give it to those minds.
- 13:08Speaker 3: I think we can do it with allies, but it's
- 13:11Speaker 3: going to be tough to do. But now if we
- 13:13Speaker 3: if we do back down, that's just going to create
- 13:16Speaker 3: more trouble in the future, certainly and Jodan in those countries.
- 13:19Speaker 3: So there's no easy answer. We can't keep saying you're right,
- 13:22Speaker 3: it's going to be great by September, everyone's going to
- 13:25Speaker 3: be at the lowest gas prices. Ever it's not. It's
- 13:27Speaker 3: going to This is a tough haul and we got
- 13:29Speaker 3: to find a way to get get out of it
- 13:31Speaker 3: in a way that preserves our integrity in the Middle
- 13:34Speaker 3: East and also weakens Zran because otherwise they now have
- 13:38Speaker 3: this wholever they can shut down. Even if there's a
- 13:40Speaker 3: totally agreement tomorrow six months now they all, let's say,
- 13:43Speaker 3: in October, right for election, they can shut down the
- 13:46Speaker 3: straights of Home moves again. We have to find a
- 13:48Speaker 3: way to counter that. With all the weaponry we have,
- 13:50Speaker 3: with all the talent we have, We're putting men on
- 13:52Speaker 3: the moon and everything else. We have to find a
- 13:54Speaker 3: way to keep the lousy straights of Hermos open.
- 13:57Speaker 2: We should know it. The forty seven year is that
- 13:59Speaker 2: when Uranian guy signs a piece of paper, you can
- 14:04Speaker 2: wipe your rents with it. It doesn't mean anything, you know
- 14:06Speaker 2: what I mean. Obama and John Kerry were dumb enough
- 14:08Speaker 2: to believe they were going to comply the I think
- 14:11Speaker 2: one day they complied one day. So I don't care
- 14:14Speaker 2: what the Ranians are greed to. You just said it.
- 14:16Speaker 2: We may do a deal, maybe a little better than
- 14:18Speaker 2: Obama's deal. Maybe everybody's bad, and there's still they're still
- 14:23Speaker 2: gonna go backwards in a couple of months. That's your
- 14:25Speaker 2: safest bet. Okay, you like the Knicks over the Spurs.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Your safest bet is, no matter what happens here, despite
- 14:32Speaker 2: President Trump's best efforts, and Trump is the best ever,
- 14:35Speaker 2: he's the best ever, you will not comply. You're amazing
- 14:39Speaker 2: every time you're on this show. I miss you even
- 14:41Speaker 2: more in Congress and and all that, and I love you.
- 14:44Speaker 3: You said this serious, just you just mentioned Bernie's name.
- 14:50Speaker 3: What a great guy.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he loved you so much, Pete. He used
- 14:53Speaker 2: to say, long live the King. Remember that, Long lived
- 14:56Speaker 2: the King and we were all great whatever.
- 15:00Speaker 3: When I miss Bernie would call me first down to Washington.
- 15:03Speaker 3: You couldn't hear what was going on. Then, you couldn't
- 15:05Speaker 3: have no idea, but I'm Bernie would chip you off
- 15:07Speaker 3: on what to say.
- 15:08Speaker 2: He was the best with that. He did the same
- 15:10Speaker 2: thing with Phil Sims because Sims of call in and
- 15:11Speaker 2: go what kind of moon is he in today? And
- 15:13Speaker 2: Bernie would go, what do you think? Phil? Peter? I
- 15:16Speaker 2: love your great job, buddy. That was a great conversation.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Thank you so much. All right, buddy, take can the
- 15:21Speaker 2: great congressman, terrific politician, even a better human being? My
- 15:25Speaker 2: dear friend, Peter.
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