Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Jennifer Harrison | Victims Rights New York on the President's Public Safety Visit to Nassau County
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here she is Miss Victims Rights New York. My dear friend,
- 0:03Speaker 1: Jennifer Harrison. Jennifer, good morning, sweetheart, how are you.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Good morning? Thank you. I got so nervous when I
- 0:09Speaker 2: tried to call in and it said the station has restrictions,
- 0:13Speaker 2: you can't get through, and I said, oh my god,
- 0:14Speaker 2: Andrew CMO.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Finally funny see, you are another pain in the assting
- 0:21Speaker 1: that whole thing because I actually jumped on the Cuomo
- 0:25Speaker 1: bandwagon ten days, not ten weeks, not ten months, and
- 0:29Speaker 1: you and Janis and all the people who are victimized
- 0:32Speaker 1: by Andrew Cuomo stuck with Curtis Sliwa. And as it
- 0:36Speaker 1: turns out, I'm not going to knock you because Cuomo
- 0:38Speaker 1: did destroy the state. But I think you're all starting
- 0:41Speaker 1: to find out Jonas would admit this, I hope you will,
- 0:44Speaker 1: that curtis not exactly a good guy.
- 0:49Speaker 2: You know, I heard what he said in its entirety yesterday,
- 0:53Speaker 2: and I'm not happy with the fact that he called,
- 0:56Speaker 2: you know, three thousand victims and the people that have
- 1:00Speaker 2: more people that have lost their lives ever since nine
- 1:02Speaker 2: to eleven, two thousand one that you know, saw our losers.
- 1:08Speaker 2: But he did go on to say that you know
- 1:10Speaker 2: this guy is the duly elected mayor, so turn your backs.
- 1:13Speaker 1: And he didn't say that. He didn't say that. He
- 1:15Speaker 1: said I wouldn't stop you from doing that. I also
- 1:18Speaker 1: played the question after from Alissa Russo. She said, well,
- 1:22Speaker 1: how's the mayor doing? And he said, you know what,
- 1:26Speaker 1: it's a nice change from Eric Adams, A nice change.
- 1:30Speaker 1: You guys need to stop you Jonas everybody. I don't
- 1:33Speaker 1: care that you thought he was there for you guys.
- 1:35Speaker 1: He wasn't. He's got Cuomo derangement syndrome and he spends
- 1:39Speaker 1: his days and nights hating on Andrew Cuomo. You guys
- 1:43Speaker 1: were just pawns in his game, and that is still obvious.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Who else in this city is sucking up to Mom
- 1:49Speaker 1: Donnie more than Curtis?
- 1:52Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean I heard that he wants to
- 1:54Speaker 2: run again. I sincerely hope that he doesn't. You know,
- 1:57Speaker 2: we need somebody serious in there that's going to a
- 2:00Speaker 2: fight like hell to take the city back and wrong
- 2:03Speaker 2: a lot of the awful wrongs that have been done,
- 2:06Speaker 2: you know, since the Blasio got in there. So I
- 2:10Speaker 2: really hope that he doesn't run. I will not be
- 2:12Speaker 2: supporting him again.
- 2:12Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Jen Harrison, my one of
- 2:15Speaker 1: my favorite ride here down in Florida. So I was
- 2:18Speaker 1: under the impression that this valley that I'll be going
- 2:20Speaker 1: to with Bruce Blakeman later on today welcoming President Trump
- 2:24Speaker 1: back to Nassau County. I thought this was yours victims' rights,
- 2:28Speaker 1: and you guys were heavily involved. You may be, I
- 2:30Speaker 1: don't know what's what's the lowdown with what's going on
- 2:33Speaker 1: in Nassau County or a suppa county girl in Nashau
- 2:36Speaker 1: County this afternoon.
- 2:38Speaker 2: Well, we are heavily involved, and I have a feeling
- 2:43Speaker 2: that there are going to be some victims speaking, which is,
- 2:47Speaker 2: you know, quite an overwhelming moment, said, I mean you,
- 2:50Speaker 2: you know you said that the love of my life
- 2:52Speaker 2: was murdered. People don't know this, but it was by
- 2:55Speaker 2: a New York State parole and his two gang member brothers.
- 2:59Speaker 2: This is twenty one years ago, and back then, you know,
- 3:02Speaker 2: the media wanted to interviews when it was first happening,
- 3:06Speaker 2: but nobody cared when these three gang member brothers and
- 3:10Speaker 2: a New York State paroli basically got away with it
- 3:13Speaker 2: due to an incompetent prosecutor giving a sweetheart plea deal.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Nobody cared that my life was destroyed, that my heart
- 3:20Speaker 2: was shattered into so many pieces that it would never
- 3:24Speaker 2: be repaired even after all this time, and that two
- 3:27Speaker 2: killers were walking free will one would only serve five
- 3:31Speaker 2: and a half years for killing my boyfriend, and the
- 3:33Speaker 2: New York State PAROLEI completely freesid, you know, never even
- 3:38Speaker 2: violated for parole, even though he crossed state lives. And
- 3:41Speaker 2: since then, twenty one years ago, nothing has gotten better,
- 3:44Speaker 2: only progressively worse. You know, bail reform Less is More,
- 3:48Speaker 2: which was written by a gang member too and signed
- 3:50Speaker 2: by Kathy Hochel. You know, monsters who killed children can
- 3:53Speaker 2: get a clean slate. And if Kathy Hochel gets elected,
- 3:57Speaker 2: it's there's going to be a mandate for the Socialists
- 3:59Speaker 2: and the Commune in Albany to pass even more laws
- 4:02Speaker 2: that release even more monsters. And no one is face
- 4:06Speaker 2: in this country, in this country because of New York's
- 4:09Speaker 2: soft on crime policies. I mean, ask Leeke and Riley's family.
- 4:12Speaker 2: She was murdered by somebody who was released in New York.
- 4:15Speaker 2: So this is a very overwhelming moment because you know,
- 4:19Speaker 2: for all these years, we've been screaming from the rooftops
- 4:21Speaker 2: about these reforms, and nobody has listened. Nobody has cared.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Now Kathy Hopel, not Tis James, not any of the
- 4:28Speaker 2: merry band of idiots in Albany, nobody has cared about
- 4:31Speaker 2: the victims. While they put criminal after criminal after criminal,
- 4:35Speaker 2: gang members, murderers, rapists right on stage with them, right
- 4:40Speaker 2: in our faces. And thanks to President Trump, victims are
- 4:43Speaker 2: finally being heard.
- 4:45Speaker 1: You know you mentioned they'll be victims speaking today in
- 4:47Speaker 1: all likelihoods. So what's going on today? A very similar
- 4:51Speaker 1: thing happened in Rockland County under Mike Lawler about two
- 4:55Speaker 1: months ago. And I was there for that, and this
- 4:58Speaker 1: young beautiful girl shot Gorman, eighteen year old college student.
- 5:03Speaker 1: She was in Chicago with her two girlfriends, going to
- 5:06Speaker 1: look at the Northern lights and she was shot in
- 5:08Speaker 1: the back, murdered, shot in the back by an illegal.
- 5:11Speaker 1: Turns out she's from Yorkville there in Mike Lawler's I
- 5:16Speaker 1: guess neighborhood, part of his constituent class. So at this
- 5:20Speaker 1: rally for Mike Lawler, Sheridan Gorman's sister and parents spoke. Now,
- 5:26Speaker 1: you gotta understand there's thousands of people sitting there. President
- 5:30Speaker 1: Trump is up on stage. He brought him up, and
- 5:33Speaker 1: when her mother spoke, there was not a dry eye
- 5:37Speaker 1: in the house. I've asked law her time and time
- 5:39Speaker 1: again to get her on this program. It was painful
- 5:43Speaker 1: as she talked about her baby, eighteen year old girl
- 5:46Speaker 1: being shot in the back and murdered by an illegal
- 5:50Speaker 1: So those are always tough moments to watch, especially when
- 5:55Speaker 1: you're sitting there right in front of the stage. And
- 5:58Speaker 1: I think you're right, there'll be victims today, and correct
- 6:00Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. But isn't one of the potential
- 6:03Speaker 1: victims somebody very close to you.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not. I'm not allowed to talk about it yet,
- 6:09Speaker 2: but you know, I do talk to Jessica Gorman. So
- 6:12Speaker 2: if she hasn't been on the show, I'll reach out
- 6:14Speaker 2: to her and see if she wants to come on,
- 6:16Speaker 2: because as many people as possible need to really hear
- 6:19Speaker 2: her story. And you know, my heart just breaks for
- 6:21Speaker 2: her because I know that her life is never going
- 6:25Speaker 2: to be the same. And I mean, you know, I
- 6:27Speaker 2: buried Kevin, the love of my life, but if it
- 6:29Speaker 2: was JJ, I mean, you would be going to my
- 6:32Speaker 2: funeral too. I mean, you know said, I'm turning forty
- 6:35Speaker 2: nine this year. I just realize I'm kind of going
- 6:38Speaker 2: through a midlife crisis because I realized that next year, shit,
- 6:41Speaker 2: I'm gonna be fifty. Sorry. And you know, I'm having
- 6:45Speaker 2: a really hard time with it now because there's a
- 6:47Speaker 2: whole new wave of emotions all these years later that sorry,
- 6:54Speaker 2: I'm realizing exactly what was taken from me. You know,
- 6:58Speaker 2: I don't have anybody to reflect on the life that
- 7:01Speaker 2: we shared together at fifty years old, or the life
- 7:04Speaker 2: that we built. You know, I'm alone, and you know,
- 7:08Speaker 2: I see all these other people, you know, raising their
- 7:11Speaker 2: kids and saying, you know, like look at what we did,
- 7:14Speaker 2: Like can you believe we're fifty and making jokes and stuff,
- 7:17Speaker 2: And I don't have that. Well, the killers who did
- 7:21Speaker 2: this to me and Kevin and who took that from
- 7:24Speaker 2: me are enjoying all of those moments and creating those lives,
- 7:28Speaker 2: and it sucks. You know, this is something that never
- 7:31Speaker 2: goes away, and it's something that's never going to go
- 7:33Speaker 2: away for the Gorman family. It's never going to go
- 7:36Speaker 2: away for any of the victims that I work with,
- 7:39Speaker 2: or you know, in New York, across the country and
- 7:42Speaker 2: we all see the same thing that you know, the
- 7:44Speaker 2: victims that are going to be on Staege today, Jessica Gorman,
- 7:48Speaker 2: any of the victims that speak that we put in
- 7:51Speaker 2: front of the judiciary committees with Jim Jordan, you know,
- 7:54Speaker 2: we're all willing to relive our pain and share our
- 7:58Speaker 2: stories so that you and your families and whoever is
- 8:01Speaker 2: listening at that moment don't ever have to go through this.
- 8:06Speaker 2: What we endure every day and what other people endure
- 8:10Speaker 2: every day is just completely unbearable and I don't wish
- 8:13Speaker 2: it on anybody. And these tragedies were completely preventable. So
- 8:19Speaker 2: if you don't want to be me, if you don't
- 8:22Speaker 2: want to be the victims who are going to tell
- 8:23Speaker 2: their heartbreaking stories on stage today, if you don't want
- 8:26Speaker 2: to be Jessica Gorman, if you don't want to be
- 8:29Speaker 2: any of the other mothers that I work with, you
- 8:31Speaker 2: need to really get out and vote your way out
- 8:34Speaker 2: of this because your lives depend on it. Because they
- 8:37Speaker 2: really do. These gumbags are not the party of JFK.
- 8:41Speaker 2: They are the party of Mom Danni. They are the
- 8:45Speaker 2: party that supports terrorists. They are the party that wants
- 8:48Speaker 2: to release murderers and rapists, the child killers. They are
- 8:53Speaker 2: the party that hates our country. They want to release
- 8:56Speaker 2: serial killers, they want to kill Jews, and they want
- 9:00Speaker 2: to globalize the Antifada. And that's the truth. It comes
- 9:03Speaker 2: out of their mouths that you know it as well
- 9:05Speaker 2: as I do. And these people have no place in
- 9:08Speaker 2: our society, let alone our government.
- 9:11Speaker 1: I agree, not just a DSA members, but all Democrats
- 9:14Speaker 1: outside of Fetterman. They're all bad because they're allowing this
- 9:16Speaker 1: to happen and they're not standing up to it, none
- 9:19Speaker 1: of them, not Schumer, not Jeffreys, all the moderates, common sense,
- 9:24Speaker 1: stop it. It is a disgusting party. Now I can
- 9:27Speaker 1: make you feel a little better. You're turning fifty this year.
- 9:31Speaker 1: In April, I'm turning sixty. You want to talk about
- 9:34Speaker 1: feeling old, Oh my god, I'm going to be sixty.
- 9:37Speaker 1: But just to go back on what you said and
- 9:39Speaker 1: not too make you feel worse. But the truth is, Jen,
- 9:43Speaker 1: you're a very very smart girl. You're a beautiful girl.
- 9:46Speaker 1: You're physically very very attractive, and you never had anybody else.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Kevin was murdered twenty one years ago. I'm sure you've
- 9:53Speaker 1: been in your fair share of dates, but you really
- 9:55Speaker 1: never have fallen in love again.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Have you?
- 9:58Speaker 3: No?
- 9:58Speaker 2: And I have had release ships. I mean I have
- 10:00Speaker 2: JJ obviously, you know. And yeah, and well.
- 10:06Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that a relationship that could mean one
- 10:08Speaker 1: night of tequila, you know, No, that it wasn't.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Okay, I don't do those things should so yeah, so
- 10:18Speaker 2: I'm a good girl. But yeah, I've had relationships. But
- 10:22Speaker 2: you know, Kevin was the love of my life. And
- 10:25Speaker 2: his belief in me and his faith in me and
- 10:27Speaker 2: his support of me and the things that we went
- 10:29Speaker 2: through together. Not that I've ever compared, but when you
- 10:33Speaker 2: have something like that, I mean, I I woke up
- 10:36Speaker 2: when he died. You know, our souls were connected somehow.
- 10:40Speaker 2: And when you have something like that, you know you
- 10:45Speaker 2: can't settle for anything else. And and I hope that
- 10:48Speaker 2: I do find somebody you know that I could I
- 10:50Speaker 2: could share the rest of my life with. But you know,
- 10:54Speaker 2: I'm not going to settle for for anything that that
- 10:56Speaker 2: is not you know, not right or not good. I mean,
- 10:59Speaker 2: it's it doesn't have to be, you know that way.
- 11:03Speaker 2: And again I'm not comparing, but you know, I'm not
- 11:05Speaker 2: going to settle. So so you're.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Down in Florida today, you can be able to watch
- 11:09Speaker 1: what's happening. I know you're a Suffer County girl, Shorty
- 11:11Speaker 1: Long Island, but we'll be able to watch what's happening
- 11:14Speaker 1: in Nashville County today.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Down in Florida, I will be watching very closely, and
- 11:18Speaker 2: you know, I might send you a text or two too,
- 11:20Speaker 2: like I did when you know I do that you
- 11:22Speaker 2: were crying, of all people when Jessica spoke at that rally.
- 11:25Speaker 2: I think I text you then too, But I really
- 11:28Speaker 2: I don't know how much time we have, but I
- 11:29Speaker 2: really just want to say I was just watching Fox
- 11:31Speaker 2: News and homicides are down in d C forty three
- 11:36Speaker 2: point nine percent. They're down in Memphis. You know, another
- 11:40Speaker 2: astronomical number. I forget the exact number, but that's thanks
- 11:44Speaker 2: to President Trump and his administration and him sending the
- 11:47Speaker 2: National Garden. You know, people like Todd Blanche, Janine Pierro Harmeat,
- 11:51Speaker 2: Dylan Leo Terrell, all the Republicans in charge, like Jim Jordan,
- 11:55Speaker 2: who holds hearings on a constant basis and asked me,
- 12:00Speaker 2: do you have anybody that wants to speak out? You know,
- 12:03Speaker 2: Thank God, for these people. They're finally hearing us, the victims,
- 12:06Speaker 2: and people are finally caring in a big way. So
- 12:09Speaker 2: you know, President Trump, everyone I mentioned, they're saving lives,
- 12:12Speaker 2: they care about victims. I really cannot thank the President
- 12:16Speaker 2: enough for everything that he's doing for us, even though
- 12:19Speaker 2: he doesn't know me personally yet, you know, I really
- 12:23Speaker 2: what he's doing is tremendous. And the fact that he
- 12:25Speaker 2: cares enough to give everybody hugs and put them on stage,
- 12:29Speaker 2: I just really cannot speak enough about it.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Well, he is beautiful, so usually on the way out here,
- 12:33Speaker 1: Jennifer Harrison, the courageous and awesome. I love us so much,
- 12:37Speaker 1: Jen Harrison. When you're on you mentioned your organization and
- 12:41Speaker 1: you text me five minutes later and go see they're
- 12:44Speaker 1: texting me and emailing me from Mexico, from Canada, from
- 12:48Speaker 1: all these crazy cities and crazy states. So let's do
- 12:52Speaker 1: that again. Tell everybody where they can help you out
- 12:54Speaker 1: with this tremendous cause today.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Okay, it's Victims Rights Reform Council dot or you could
- 13:00Speaker 2: just google me Jennifer Harrison victims right. And it's so
- 13:04Speaker 2: funny because as we speak, I have notifications. Let's give
- 13:08Speaker 2: some people. Some shout outs from Sarasota, Florida. My phone
- 13:13Speaker 2: went off the Bronx Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Sarah's another Sarasota, Florida, Plainfield,
- 13:19Speaker 2: New Jersey, West Hampsted, New York, New York, New York.
- 13:22Speaker 2: So people are listening you from all over.
- 13:25Speaker 1: That's great. Well listen, you really are terrific and we
- 13:28Speaker 1: all love you here and the President will know you
- 13:30Speaker 1: one day. I can promise you that keep up the
- 13:33Speaker 1: great work and I'll shall here from you later on
- 13:36Speaker 1: this afternoon. Jen Harrison, you're a hero. Thank you so much.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Thank you, and just make sure you give me your
- 13:41Speaker 2: loved ones an extra hug today and appreciate every moment
- 13:44Speaker 2: that you have with them.
- 13:47Speaker 1: Good advice. We'll talk to you soon, Okay, Shot Hunt,
- 13:50Speaker 1: Thank you bye. Jennifer Harrison. Right there, and my son
- 13:54Speaker 1: is actually going with me to the event today with
- 13:57Speaker 1: President Trump. He's an intern for Bruce Blakeman and he's
- 14:00Speaker 1: become Bruce's go to guy, right hand man. I'm sorry,
- 14:03Speaker 1: Chris Boyle, we love you Chris Boyle. But Gabriel is
- 14:06Speaker 1: now Bruce Blateman's right hand man, so he's going to
- 14:09Speaker 1: be at this rally today and my daughter who he
- 14:12Speaker 1: dropped off at University of Pennsylvania Law School two weeks ago,
- 14:15Speaker 1: he's coming home this weekend too, so that's good advice.
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- 14:49Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here.