Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Nicole Malliotakis | New York District 11 Congresswoman Offers Reaction to ICE-Involved Shooting of Illegal Immigrant Criminal in NYC
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Nicole Melotakis is not Italian. She's Greek and Cuban, I think.
- 0:04Speaker 1: But she'll claim she's like 5%. They got this, you know,
- 0:07Speaker 1: people do this thing. I've never done it. I won't
- 0:09Speaker 1: do it. They go online and it tells you the
- 0:11Speaker 1: percentage of all the different ethnicities that you belong to.
- 0:15Speaker 1: And like everybody belongs to everybody. You notice that? Remember
- 0:18Speaker 1: when Tiger Woods was first designated as Cablan Asian? And
- 0:22Speaker 1: that was a huge deal. Cablan Asian? What is that?
- 0:25Speaker 1: He's a black golfer. No, he's not. No, he's not.
- 0:29Speaker 1: He's part Caucasian, he's part black, and he's part Asian.
- 0:33Speaker 1: He went around telling people he was Kablan Asian. Now,
- 0:36Speaker 1: everybody's everything.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Wow.
- 0:38Speaker 1: You didn't know that? I forgot about that. Yeah, that
- 0:40Speaker 1: was a big deal. Like John, for example, this morning
- 0:43Speaker 1: just said I'm 20% Italian. He's already told me he's
- 0:47Speaker 1: 6% Jewish. Next he's going to tell me he's 4% Kenyan.
- 0:49Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to sell that one,
- 0:51Speaker 1: John Katzmatidis. No way. Nicole Maliotakis is our great congresswoman
- 0:57Speaker 1: out of Brooklyn and Staten Island. Good morning, Nicole. How
- 1:00Speaker 1: are you?
- 1:01Speaker 2: Good morning, Sid. How are you?
- 1:03Speaker 1: I'm good.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Happy Columbus Day.
- 1:05Speaker 1: You too. You got Italian in you?
- 1:08Speaker 2: You know, no, I'm Greek and Cuban.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Right.
- 1:12Speaker 2: And the Cubans are actually from Spain. But, you know,
- 1:15Speaker 2: Greece and Italy are so close and so similar. And,
- 1:19Speaker 2: you know, I grew up, obviously, with a lot of
- 1:21Speaker 2: Italian-American friends, being that I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn,
- 1:26Speaker 2: which is the largest population of Italian-Americans outside of Italy
- 1:30Speaker 2: or Italians outside of Italy.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Wow.
- 1:32Speaker 2: We have one of the largest populations, the largest, supposedly,
- 1:35Speaker 2: in the country. And that's very exciting. So, you know, obviously,
- 1:39Speaker 2: you come to my district. I take you to a
- 1:41Speaker 2: great Italian restaurant. We have so many of them.
- 1:44Speaker 1: So come on over. No, you don't.
- 1:47Speaker 3: We do.
- 1:48Speaker 2: A lot of them are owned by Albanians, believe it
- 1:50Speaker 2: or not.
- 1:50Speaker 1: I love the Albanians. They're my favorite people.
- 1:53Speaker 2: And they run some of the best Italian restaurants in
- 1:56Speaker 2: the district.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Give me one. Give me the name of one great
- 2:00Speaker 1: Italian restaurant.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Don't make me choose here. But look, Bocelli has always
- 2:03Speaker 2: been one of my favorites. we have so many of them,
- 2:07Speaker 2: but like on Highland Boulevard, you can go anywhere. But
- 2:10Speaker 2: what I will say is this, I guarantee that I
- 2:13Speaker 2: have the best panini in America, in my district. And
- 2:17Speaker 2: I would say that would be Royal Crown, best panini
- 2:19Speaker 2: in America. The paninis are amazing. You should come and
- 2:22Speaker 2: try one.
- 2:23Speaker 1: No, not true. Panino Rustico in my neighborhood, Robbie Sestito's
- 2:28Speaker 1: place is the best panini and it's in Rockaway. So
- 2:31Speaker 1: that's not true. All right.
- 2:32Speaker 2: I think we should do a taste off. What do
- 2:33Speaker 2: you think?
- 2:34Speaker 1: I'd love to do that. By the way, Nicole, I
- 2:37Speaker 1: heard you ripped up the dance floor on Saturday night
- 2:40Speaker 1: at the Columbus Day dinner, like you and Maria Bartiromo
- 2:43Speaker 1: doing the worm and Margot Katzenmattini's. What went on there?
- 2:47Speaker 2: Well, of course, you know, Maria wanted to get the
- 2:49Speaker 2: dance floor started at the Columbus Citizen Foundation dinner. I
- 2:52Speaker 2: was proud to be her guest. And we went and
- 2:55Speaker 2: had a fantastic time. And we roped in Margot Katsimatidis.
- 2:59Speaker 2: So here was Maria at the Columbus Citizen Foundation dancing
- 3:02Speaker 2: with two Greeks.
- 3:03Speaker 1: I love that. I actually texted her.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Well, Margot's not Greek, but Greek by marriage.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Right. That's right. That's right. I texted Maria yesterday morning.
- 3:10Speaker 1: I did. And I said... Man, I miss you. I
- 3:13Speaker 1: can't watch TV on Sundays. I'm sorry. I won't watch
- 3:17Speaker 1: Campo Stuppi and what's the other one? Hurt and Jenkins
- 3:21Speaker 1: because they banned me for calling Mom Donnie a terrorist.
- 3:23Speaker 1: I'm done with them. And nobody else is really that good.
- 3:25Speaker 1: I mean, Maria Bartiromo was so far and away. I
- 3:29Speaker 1: mean this. The best on Sunday mornings. There's nobody close.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Maybe Shannon Bream is a distant second. But my whole
- 3:37Speaker 1: Sunday morning news shows, since she's gone, I don't watch.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Well, not only that, but I had the routine of
- 3:44Speaker 2: waking up in the morning. Of course, when I wasn't
- 3:45Speaker 2: listening to Sid, I was watching Mornings with Maria.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Yes.
- 3:50Speaker 2: But what I loved about her show is she covered everything.
- 3:52Speaker 2: She covered politics. She covered the financial markets. She covered
- 3:55Speaker 2: foreign affairs. She covered what was going on in D.C.
- 3:58Speaker 2: I mean, she just was the best briefing you could
- 4:01Speaker 2: get in the morning was Maria Bartiromo. And so I
- 4:03Speaker 2: think a lot of us are... Real sad that we
- 4:06Speaker 2: don't have her on TV anymore. But look, I know
- 4:09Speaker 2: her and I know that she's going to do just fine.
- 4:12Speaker 2: And there's a lot of good stuff that'll be coming down.
- 4:15Speaker 2: And she'll be continuing to be a real voice, important
- 4:18Speaker 2: voice in this country and a great journalist.
- 4:21Speaker 1: She's going to be the lead anchor for 60 Minutes
- 4:22Speaker 1: and work for Barry Weiss. She's going to be great.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Well, we'll see.
- 4:28Speaker 1: You're good. You see, name, rank, serial number, Malleotakis gives
- 4:33Speaker 1: you nothing. She knows all the answers. She gives you nothing.
- 4:36Speaker 1: I love that. So let me ask you this, Nicole,
- 4:38Speaker 1: because you're about as smart as they get. Let's say
- 4:41Speaker 1: you don't like ice. It's dumb, okay? Six or seven people.
- 4:45Speaker 1: And look, when one person gets shot or murdered, it's
- 4:47Speaker 1: a terrible thing. I don't want to minimize anybody getting
- 4:49Speaker 1: shot or murdered. But whoever was injured or shot or murdered,
- 4:54Speaker 1: if you want to use that term, In terms of
- 4:57Speaker 1: the ICE situation, they were all there. They were anarchist lunatics.
- 5:02Speaker 1: They weren't dragged out of their homes. They weren't dragged
- 5:04Speaker 1: out of churches or schools. You know, pretty and good.
- 5:08Speaker 1: This creep in New York a couple days ago, he
- 5:10Speaker 1: tried to... rammed the police car. So they're all doing
- 5:13Speaker 1: things that they should not have been doing. Again, doesn't
- 5:15Speaker 1: mean you shoot them or kill them, but that's the fact.
- 5:18Speaker 1: When you compare that six or seven people to the thousands,
- 5:23Speaker 1: you know this is true, Nicole, to the thousands of
- 5:26Speaker 1: of murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug addicts that we've removed from
- 5:32Speaker 1: our country. Why would anybody have a problem with ICE?
- 5:36Speaker 1: And if you do, why does that mean you want
- 5:39Speaker 1: to put a dangerous criminal with a long rap sheet
- 5:42Speaker 1: like Oscar Belgell back on the streets, which the mayor
- 5:46Speaker 1: tried to convince Trump and Mark Wayne Boland to do?
- 5:49Speaker 1: And they said no. Why would the mayor do that,
- 5:52Speaker 1: making our streets less safe?
- 5:56Speaker 2: It's clear that our mayor and our governor, Kathy Hochul,
- 5:59Speaker 2: are putting criminals before law-abiding citizens, illegal immigrants before law-abiding citizens.
- 6:05Speaker 2: And what they don't tell you in these press conferences
- 6:08Speaker 2: and news briefings that they have is that the guy
- 6:11Speaker 2: was a convicted criminal. He was associated with a real
- 6:14Speaker 2: dangerous gang, a gang that has attacked police in the past.
- 6:19Speaker 2: He had multiple arrests on his record. He was in custody,
- 6:23Speaker 2: by the way, New York City custody, in 2023 and 2025.
- 6:27Speaker 2: They could have peacefully just transferred him over to ICE,
- 6:30Speaker 2: but they chose to release him back onto the streets
- 6:32Speaker 2: so he can commit more crimes, including peddling poison to
- 6:36Speaker 2: our children. And that is what they failed to tell you.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Because of the bail laws, because of the sanctuary policies,
- 6:44Speaker 2: he was on our streets to commit more crime. Just like...
- 6:48Speaker 2: We saw illegal immigrants stab an NYPD detective last week.
- 6:54Speaker 2: And they were also, he was also in our custody.
- 6:57Speaker 2: One of them had a detainer out for his arrest.
- 7:00Speaker 2: And what happened? New York released him back onto our streets.
- 7:03Speaker 1: By the way, they released him and he stabbed the
- 7:05Speaker 1: cop seven times. I don't remember. I don't remember Mayor
- 7:09Speaker 1: Mamdani holding a press conference. I don't remember Hassan Piker
- 7:14Speaker 1: or Chevalier or the rest of these low lives and
- 7:16Speaker 1: losers coming out and worrying about the cop. Isn't that interesting?
- 7:20Speaker 1: You know, the bad guy stabs a cop. They said nothing.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Not a word. Right.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Nothing.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Nothing. And they said nothing, Sid. You remember 80-year-old Air
- 7:29Speaker 2: Force veteran Richard Williams shoved on a subway track.
- 7:32Speaker 3: Of course.
- 7:33Speaker 2: That guy who shoved him on a track and killed
- 7:35Speaker 2: him was also somebody who had prior arrest and was released.
- 7:38Speaker 2: So these are who our Democrats here in New York
- 7:42Speaker 2: are protecting. There's no way they can prove me wrong here.
- 7:48Speaker 2: They can't.
- 7:50Speaker 1: And by the way, let me remind you that she
- 7:51Speaker 1: doesn't live in the city. It's not Mamdani's territory, but
- 7:56Speaker 1: he's Mr. New York. He's the mayor, Sheridan Gorman. She's
- 7:59Speaker 1: in Lawler's District, shot in the back in Chicago. They
- 8:02Speaker 1: live in New York. Not a word from the mayor,
- 8:05Speaker 1: Richard Williams, Sheridan Gorman. But, oh, my God, some gang
- 8:09Speaker 1: member gets shot. He survived. And the five-year-old, thank God,
- 8:12Speaker 1: wasn't injured. And they're making this like it's the worst
- 8:15Speaker 1: thing ever. Abolish ICE. And now the DSA wants the
- 8:20Speaker 1: police commissioner, who I love and think is doing a
- 8:22Speaker 1: great job, they want them to fire Jessica Tisch.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's not also forget that Lake and Riley
- 8:29Speaker 2: killed in Georgia. That murderer was actually released from a
- 8:32Speaker 2: New York City prison as well.
- 8:34Speaker 1: That was Eric Adams.
- 8:35Speaker 2: We can go on and on, Sid. I could be
- 8:36Speaker 2: on the whole four hours with you, and we could
- 8:38Speaker 2: talk about all these American citizens who were killed by
- 8:40Speaker 2: illegal immigrants, let in by Joe Biden, and housed by
- 8:43Speaker 2: sanctuary cities across the country. But the fact is, is
- 8:47Speaker 2: you're right. Now, they also want, you know, my opponent
- 8:50Speaker 2: was just on CBS yesterday calling for ICE to be abolished. Um, I,
- 8:55Speaker 2: and just so we're clear over the last few months,
- 8:57Speaker 2: ice has removed. convicted murderers, rapists, sex offenders, drug traffickers,
- 9:05Speaker 2: violent offenders off our streets. And yet the city and
- 9:09Speaker 2: state has denied thousands of detainer requests for convicted criminals.
- 9:14Speaker 2: And so ICE has to go out and find these
- 9:16Speaker 2: people now. I mean, if they don't want ICE on
- 9:18Speaker 2: the street, all they need to do is turn over
- 9:20Speaker 2: the criminals. Just turn them over when you have them
- 9:22Speaker 2: in your custody. Don't release them back on the street.
- 9:24Speaker 1: Nice and easy. You said your competitor? I remember when
- 9:27Speaker 1: Max Rose ran against you and actually sat with Max
- 9:30Speaker 1: at a Teddy Atlas event and whatever. But you have
- 9:33Speaker 1: a competitor? Like, whoever this is, you're going to kill them. Like,
- 9:36Speaker 1: who is this?
- 9:37Speaker 2: Well, look, I think people need to not take any
- 9:40Speaker 2: election for granted. We lost this seat in the last
- 9:44Speaker 2: midterm in 2018. That's when Max Rose snuck in. And
- 9:47Speaker 2: that's when AOC and the Socialist Squad snuck in. So
- 9:50Speaker 2: let's make sure everyone votes. I think for Staten Island
- 9:53Speaker 2: and Brooklyn, it is so incredibly important for two reasons.
- 9:56Speaker 2: You have to vote. Why? Because we really have a
- 9:58Speaker 2: chance to get Bruce Blakeman in there. Last time, Staten
- 10:01Speaker 2: Island did not perform as much as they should have
- 10:03Speaker 2: for Lee Zeldin. We need to maximize the vote out
- 10:07Speaker 2: of this district. That's number one. And then number two,
- 10:10Speaker 2: they are always trying to redistrict and steal our district.
- 10:13Speaker 2: And they're going to try again next year. So we
- 10:15Speaker 2: need to win by such a large margin that they
- 10:18Speaker 2: recognize that they can't just gerrymander and play with the
- 10:22Speaker 2: lines to steal this seat because we are going to
- 10:26Speaker 2: continue to vote in a Republican member of Congress from
- 10:30Speaker 2: the city, from Staten Island and Brooklyn. So I think
- 10:33Speaker 2: there's two important things here. Number three, we want to
- 10:35Speaker 2: keep the House, right? I mean, that is probably maybe
- 10:38Speaker 2: even more important than the other things. I think electing
- 10:41Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman is probably the most important out of all this,
- 10:43Speaker 2: and we don't want to continue down this ridiculous path
- 10:46Speaker 2: we're on with Kathy Hochul.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Right, that's true. And you know, Lawler's got his big
- 10:50Speaker 1: race in Rockland County, and you've got Mike Lepetri and
- 10:54Speaker 1: Janine Driscoll on Long Island, and I'm not going to
- 10:56Speaker 1: mention every single race, obviously, but You know, listen, Nicole,
- 11:00Speaker 1: the people I talk to on this show, they're very
- 11:02Speaker 1: smart people, and some do lean right. Some, in fact,
- 11:06Speaker 1: are just outright Republicans, and they are not very confident
- 11:11Speaker 1: we're going to retain the House. They think we got
- 11:13Speaker 1: a shot to retain the Senate, but they're not very
- 11:16Speaker 1: confident we're going to retain the House. I hate that,
- 11:19Speaker 1: but that's how they feel. What do you think?
- 11:22Speaker 2: Well, there's no doubt that it's tough. I mean, I've
- 11:24Speaker 2: been supporting many of my colleagues around the country who
- 11:28Speaker 2: are in really tough races. I think that we need
- 11:31Speaker 2: to do a better job of reminding people what things
- 11:34Speaker 2: were like just two years ago with Joe Biden. Look,
- 11:37Speaker 2: you had the $ 5 gas prices, but you also had
- 11:39Speaker 2: the 9% inflation. You had the open border. You had
- 11:42Speaker 2: millions of people coming into this country unchecked that were
- 11:45Speaker 2: wreaking havoc on streets everywhere. of New York and other
- 11:48Speaker 2: cities across the country. Let's not forget thousands of crimes, 16,000
- 11:52Speaker 2: crimes as a matter of fact, where the perpetrator traced
- 11:55Speaker 2: back to the shelter that they were forcing us to house.
- 11:58Speaker 2: Do we want to go back to that? And not
- 12:00Speaker 2: only that, the Republicans delivered Middle class tax cuts. We
- 12:04Speaker 2: refunded 88% of seniors in America, got the taxes they
- 12:07Speaker 2: paid on Social Security, refunded to them. And that was
- 12:10Speaker 2: a provision that I actually wrote. It was my law
- 12:13Speaker 2: that was part of that working families tax package. We
- 12:16Speaker 2: were able to expand the child tax credit, the standard deduction.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Those things would have been cut in half had the
- 12:22Speaker 2: Democrats taken control. They wanted to have a $ 4 to
- 12:24Speaker 2: $ 5 trillion tax increase. Every bracket across the income levels
- 12:30Speaker 2: would have been increased. That's what would have happened. So
- 12:33Speaker 2: we not only were able to stop that and provide
- 12:35Speaker 2: actual relief and deliver on the tips and the overtime
- 12:39Speaker 2: deductions as well, but we secured the border. We stopped
- 12:43Speaker 2: the craziness that was going on. America's cities right now
- 12:46Speaker 2: are seeing a real decline in crime. Murder rate is
- 12:51Speaker 2: at a record low.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Why?
- 12:52Speaker 2: Because of the work that President Trump has done in
- 12:55Speaker 2: getting rid of criminals and taking them off our streets
- 12:58Speaker 2: and out of our country. That is a Indisputable. So
- 13:02Speaker 2: I think that we just need to get out there
- 13:04Speaker 2: and continue to talk about that. The trillions in private
- 13:07Speaker 2: investment that are coming to this country, repatriating manufacturing, pharmaceutical, automobile,
- 13:13Speaker 2: tech industry. We're seeing that return because of President Trump
- 13:18Speaker 2: and the work that we've done in the tax package
- 13:20Speaker 2: as well. Um, and look, I think that the G we,
- 13:24Speaker 2: we know that the GDP is growing as a result
- 13:26Speaker 2: of the, of that package as well. So we just
- 13:28Speaker 2: got to give it a little time. It takes a
- 13:30Speaker 2: while to undo the mess that Joe Biden left us with.
- 13:34Speaker 2: I think if we tell people, look, this is where
- 13:36Speaker 2: we're at and this is, we're moving in the right direction. Uh,
- 13:38Speaker 2: they should vote Republican unless they want to go back
- 13:40Speaker 2: to the chaos we had, uh, under Joe Biden.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Yeah, some do. That's how much they hate Trump. Final
- 13:47Speaker 1: 60 seconds. The DOJ this morning, this is great news,
- 13:52Speaker 1: raided the Washington, D.C. residence of Ilhan Omar because she is, well,
- 13:59Speaker 1: they suspect she committed fraud. She married her brother. Sorry, Omar, baby.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Not legal here in the United States. Maybe that's okay
- 14:06Speaker 1: in Somalia. What are your thoughts on the raid on
- 14:10Speaker 1: Omar's residence?
- 14:12Speaker 2: Well, I think these members of Congress need to be
- 14:15Speaker 2: held accountable. I mean, there's a lot of bad things
- 14:18Speaker 2: that have been going on from these trips to Cuba,
- 14:22Speaker 2: siding with the communist regime against the United States of America.
- 14:25Speaker 2: What you've just mentioned here, which is obviously an immigration-related crime,
- 14:32Speaker 2: there is a lot of shadiness that's happening. And I
- 14:34Speaker 2: am concerned about the next crop that's going to be
- 14:36Speaker 2: coming in. We're going to Have somebody from the Bronx
- 14:40Speaker 2: who calls for no cops, no borders, wipes her hands
- 14:43Speaker 2: with the American flag. We're going to have a guy
- 14:45Speaker 2: who's a character witness for the blind sheik who was
- 14:48Speaker 2: convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. I mean,
- 14:52Speaker 2: I'm very concerned about these people having access to American
- 14:56Speaker 2: intelligence and what they could do with that information. Because
- 14:59Speaker 2: these are not people that love this country. And it's really,
- 15:03Speaker 2: really concerning. So if you live in these districts, obviously
- 15:06Speaker 2: get out and vote. At the end of the day,
- 15:10Speaker 2: we get the government we elect, and unfortunately, we may
- 15:13Speaker 2: elect some of these really dangerous people to the United
- 15:16Speaker 2: States House of Representatives.
- 15:19Speaker 1: True story. Nicole Maliotakis, I love you. You're great. You
- 15:21Speaker 1: know you're great, and I love you, and thank you
- 15:23Speaker 1: for hopping on this morning. You're going to win and
- 15:25Speaker 1: continue to do a great job for Staten Island, Brooklyn,
- 15:28Speaker 1: all of New York, and this whole country. God bless you, Nicole.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend. Take care.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Bye, sweetheart.
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- 16:03Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?