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Fmr. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) | 05-25-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the morning entertaining and informative on
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  Speaker 2: And I understand we're going to have Peter Kinkome on
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  Speaker 2: with us right now, Dominic, why don't you bring him in?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Congressman, so nice to chat with you on this
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  Speaker 3: Memorial Day twenty twenty six. Jake Novaki, of course, mister
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  Speaker 3: cassamatinis myself, Dominic Carter. How are you doing this morning, Congressman?
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  Speaker 4: Don't I'm doing fine. I have a photo. Always be
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  Speaker 4: talking to you Tuesday afternoon. But today is an added pleasure,
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  Speaker 4: but serious in today's Memorial Day, and probably no one
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  Speaker 4: does more to honor veterans in New York and w
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  Speaker 4: ABC and John and the entire crew there, And it
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  Speaker 4: really is an important in these days that we have
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  Speaker 4: that we stand by institutions, and no institutions more important
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  Speaker 4: than the military who defend our country in time of war,
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  Speaker 4: who keeps the peace. And just to me, is it's
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  Speaker 4: so important that we not forget. I know the people
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  Speaker 4: like the barbecue's in different events on Memorial Lay, but
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  Speaker 4: really what it comes down to mostly is honoring those
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  Speaker 4: who made the ultimate sacrifice and also on a slightly
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  Speaker 4: separate issue. If I could, let me give Governor David
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  Speaker 4: Patterson tremendous credit for speaking out against the governor and
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  Speaker 4: the state legislature and supporting ICE and supporting the rights
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  Speaker 4: of CAT executives like Bruce Plateman to enter into agreements
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  Speaker 4: cooperation agreements between the police and ICE. And John, you
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  Speaker 4: know you're always say where the comments end's Democrats? Well
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  Speaker 4: there's one right now. What David Patterson has done. He's
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  Speaker 4: always been a great guy, but to do it today
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  Speaker 4: it really takes a lot of guts because his party
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  Speaker 4: has gone so far to the left and he's really
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  Speaker 4: taking them on on this issue. And again, he's a
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  Speaker 4: true Democrat, but he's more importantly, he's a true American.
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  Speaker 2: Well with David Patterson. Governor Pattison made it to the
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  Speaker 2: a big article on New York Post based what he
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  Speaker 2: talked about on my show at the Cat's round Table
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  Speaker 2: yesterday morning. And maybe I'll have justin, maybe we'll have
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  Speaker 2: Governor Patterson call in and see how he feels about things.
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  Speaker 2: After Peter King when the look I was remember the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party Congressman William fitz Ryan gave me the congressional
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  Speaker 2: nomination to West point, uh you got. I mean, there
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of great Democrats, but the Democratic Socialist Party,
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Socialist Party on their own can only get
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  Speaker 2: two percent of the vote. They have they decided let's
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  Speaker 2: use our money, whether or ever wherever it's coming from,
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  Speaker 2: foreign money, wherever it's coming from, to take over the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party and then we have a chance of winning.
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  Speaker 2: And the Democratic Party has has a lot of soul searching.
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  Speaker 2: I even had on Friday, Doug Shan was on our show,
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  Speaker 2: and the Democratic Party has to go back to normal.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you mentioned Doug shown he's a great guy, and
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  Speaker 4: that's why some people just attack Democrats. My parents are Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: Then he was came from Democratic backgrounds, and you think
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  Speaker 4: of Democrats that ed catch Joe Leberman. You couldn't Shoe Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't find better people than those. But again, right now,
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  Speaker 4: this party, the latest today is gone so far the left.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not here to make a big partisan argument
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  Speaker 4: versus to say that in times when it appears that
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  Speaker 4: at least one party has gone way off the cliff,
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  Speaker 4: there are good people like David Pattison out there hopefully
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  Speaker 4: can bring it back and we can have really intelligent
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  Speaker 4: political debates, and that's some of the insanity that's going
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  Speaker 4: on today. And also you're talking before the talk Sappier
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  Speaker 4: about Bruce Blakeman. I think Bruce has an outstanding chance
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  Speaker 4: to win. When I look at the polls and they
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  Speaker 4: say that Capi Hoope was winning by thirteen or fourteen points,
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  Speaker 4: the fact is, to me, the key number is of
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  Speaker 4: favorable numbers. They're usually around forty five and forty six.
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  Speaker 4: She's head of Bruce like forty six thirty four. In
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  Speaker 4: politics long enough to know if you're the incumbent and
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  Speaker 4: you've been in office for four or five years and
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  Speaker 4: you can't get fifty percent of people who say they're
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  Speaker 4: for you, that means those that's firt ground for Bruce
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  Speaker 4: to make up, and a lot of those people are
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  Speaker 4: there's some chances they're looking somewhere else. I think Bruce's
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  Speaker 4: campaign he's so hunt He's may get tremendous in roads.
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  Speaker 4: So I definitely can see Bruce winning in November.
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  Speaker 2: He has a good shot. He has a good shot.
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  Speaker 2: Were trying to reach him this morning and have him
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  Speaker 2: come on later on. If you reach him, Peter, let
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  Speaker 2: him know that we're trying to reach him. And you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And he was at the breakfast
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday morning, and you've spoken to that breakfast many
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  Speaker 2: many times. And you know what I said, Bruce Bakman,
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  Speaker 2: You made Nassau County the safest county in America. I
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  Speaker 2: think there's two thousand, five hundred and fifty eight counties
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  Speaker 2: in America. Was the safest of the two thousand, five
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty eight whatever it is. And what would
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  Speaker 2: you do with with New York? And they said, make
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  Speaker 2: it the safest state in America?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's no nonsense with Bruce. I mean, the fact
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  Speaker 4: is he's increased the number of police officers but not
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  Speaker 4: raised taxes. And anytime there's demonstrations, any of the anti
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  Speaker 4: ICE demonstrations or whatever, the police under Pat Ryder and
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  Speaker 4: Bruce Blakeman, they sat out the line. You see, you
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  Speaker 4: cannot cross this line. You're going to demonstrate you doing
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  Speaker 4: here and nowhere else, and if they do, they get
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  Speaker 4: arrested and its strictly enforced. Also, the police are working
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  Speaker 4: very closely with ICE going after criminal illegal emigrants. Not
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  Speaker 4: just going after illegal immigrants, but those are criminal records
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  Speaker 4: where ICE needs assistants. The initial police are there to
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  Speaker 4: give that assistance and cooperate and work with them. And
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  Speaker 4: who doesn't want these people off the streets? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: who wants to have whether you're illegal or illegal, if
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  Speaker 4: you're a criminal, if you have a record, you're a
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  Speaker 4: sex trafficker, if you're a rapist, if you're a murderer,
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  Speaker 4: if you're a bank robber, who wants you on the street.
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  Speaker 4: So that's me in some ways. It's any we were
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  Speaker 4: having these conversations ten ten years ago, people wouldn't know
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  Speaker 4: what we're talking about. Again, these are the issues that
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  Speaker 4: have just developed and unfortunately have taken over. It's absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still trying to figure out why they want to
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  Speaker 2: close Rikers Island and spend fourteen billion dollars building jails
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  Speaker 2: in your local community in the Bronx and Queens and
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  Speaker 2: Staten Island to put their foot down. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: about Staten Island, Manhattan and Chinatown, and I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: can't figure out the city doesn't have any money and
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  Speaker 2: they want to spend fourteen billion dollars in jails and
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  Speaker 2: reduce the jail population. Gets possible and he reconsiled from
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight thousand down to four thousand. What are you
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  Speaker 2: going to do let more criminals on the streets.
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  Speaker 4: It makes absolutely no sense. And that's what John, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you were saying before. To straighten out the voting, we
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  Speaker 4: do have to and that is an issue. But really
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  Speaker 4: we have to get people to understand who they're voting
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  Speaker 4: for and do they understand what they're doing. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: men DOMI. Whether or not every vote was legal or not,
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  Speaker 4: the fact is he had a tremendous amount of votes
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  Speaker 4: in the less election. And again, how many people really
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  Speaker 4: support these policies, I mean, they're hard to find. And
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  Speaker 4: yet right now he is the mayor. And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: even questioning his integrity or anything else. I think he's
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  Speaker 4: very committed to what he believes in. I just think
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  Speaker 4: his ideas are dangerous in New York, dangerous for the
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  Speaker 4: people in the neighborhoods, people in the communities, people who
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  Speaker 4: want to have the type of peace and tranqu tranquility
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  Speaker 4: and order that we had when we had Juliati and
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  Speaker 4: Bloomberg as our mayor. I think of anything, and we
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  Speaker 4: took it for granted. Things went so well for all
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  Speaker 4: those years after really tough years. But once those guys
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  Speaker 4: come in and what they did. They turned the whole
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  Speaker 4: city around, and you'd never even thought about walking down
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  Speaker 4: the street or taking the subway. That's all I'm saying now.
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  Speaker 5: Congressoon King, I'm Jake Novak, your former constituents still on
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  Speaker 5: Nasau County, and you talked about these crazy policies. I'm
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  Speaker 5: sorry to say this, but it seems to me very
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  Speaker 5: logical why they're pursuing these ruinous policies. I follow the
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  Speaker 5: money with this Act Blue and these other organizations. It's
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  Speaker 5: clear to me, sir, that our foreign enemies have become
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  Speaker 5: the primary funders for the Democratic Party. That's why they're pursued.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, anyone could tell you don't empty the jails.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone can tell you you don't foster anti Semitism. These
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  Speaker 5: are the things that have destroyed civilizations throughout history. And
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  Speaker 5: it's our enemies who want these policies. And suddenly we're
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  Speaker 5: finding out that it's foreign based donors through Act Blue
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  Speaker 5: or whatever organization that are donating the money. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 5: I see a straight line, how about you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a straight line. I know
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  Speaker 4: it's an influence, and I think that what every money
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  Speaker 4: they do get they're able to maximize it because it's
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  Speaker 4: used primarily in primaries. And that's really as I as
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  Speaker 4: the Democratic Party is concerned, both parties, you're lucky fifteen
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  Speaker 4: percent of the people come out to vote in the primary.
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  Speaker 4: So a view of the money to generate support. If
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  Speaker 4: you can just get eight nine percent of the voters
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  Speaker 4: to come out and they're on your side, you're going
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  Speaker 4: to win a big primary election. And there's also the
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  Speaker 4: fact that the more extreme voters come out in the primaries.
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  Speaker 4: So I view the money to find out where they are,
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  Speaker 4: who they are, and get them out here. No doubt
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  Speaker 4: funding is an issue. But on the other hand, still
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  Speaker 4: in the general election, I mean, you're fifteen percent of
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  Speaker 4: New Yorker's vote for Ben Domie. That all camping through
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  Speaker 4: foreign money, allot of us because people does have lost
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  Speaker 4: interest or don't care, or for some reason willing to
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  Speaker 4: look the other way, or somehow think there's something clever
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  Speaker 4: about it, like, for instance, how and I'm not Jewish
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  Speaker 4: and I looked into into other people's religions, but how
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  Speaker 4: can such a large percentage of Jewish voters vote for
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  Speaker 4: someone like Mendomi, who, by his own statements is anti Israel,
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  Speaker 4: certainly very critical of Jews, and he says it's not
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  Speaker 4: anti Semitism, but you know, all the buzzwords are there.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a combination of things. Funding is one of them.
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  Speaker 4: But also just for some reason, whether it's videos on
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  Speaker 4: social media, well it's because of your poorer education system.
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  Speaker 4: But so many people are just to be out of
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  Speaker 4: tush to what they should be concerned about.
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  Speaker 5: Congress and Peter King, we have to take a quick break,
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  Speaker 5: but can you stick with us for a while, because
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  Speaker 5: you just opened up another candid worms that we've got
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  Speaker 5: to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 6: Please stick with us again.
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  Speaker 5: It's John Kats, Matiti's, Jake Novak and Dominic Carter in
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  Speaker 5: for Sid and Friends this morning on this Memorial Day.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be right back with Congressman Peter King, and we
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  Speaker 5: have Congressman, former Congressman Peter King on the line.
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  Speaker 6: And in Congressman King, we were.
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  Speaker 5: Talking about the New York race, the Bruce Blakeman situation,
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  Speaker 5: and of course a lot of listeners and if certainly
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  Speaker 5: you understand this, whenever you have a state wide race
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  Speaker 5: in New York, it's always downstate versus upstate. There's always
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  Speaker 5: that diconomy. And when you have a downstate candidate, and
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  Speaker 5: even though he's not from the city, Bruce Blakeman is
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  Speaker 5: Nasau County. He is a downstate candidate. Usually it's a
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  Speaker 5: hard sell upstate. But Congress, I think he's got a
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  Speaker 5: great He can go to Rochester, he can go to Buffalo,
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  Speaker 5: he can go to he can go to Anianta and say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: I'm your demand to defend you from this mayor in
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  Speaker 5: New York City who's going after your tax money too.
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  Speaker 6: I'm the guy who can defend you.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't he have a better selling point than some of
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  Speaker 5: his fellow of Republicans in the past.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he really does because he can say listen,
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  Speaker 4: I'm on the front lines. Literally, Bruce is like the
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  Speaker 4: border patrol here is Nesro County is right on the
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  Speaker 4: border of New York City, and we saw in the
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  Speaker 4: previous years what's happened is crime can come across the
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  Speaker 4: border when they were trying to when you had many
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  Speaker 4: illegal immigrants who are being stationed in locations right on
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  Speaker 4: the border. And so no, he can say I deal
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  Speaker 4: directly with every day. I know what it's all about.
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  Speaker 4: This isn't just some philosophical issue. I'm right there. I
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  Speaker 4: can carry that fight out. And Bruce has been all
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  Speaker 4: over by upstate New York. And it's again he's not
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  Speaker 4: getting all the coverage. Maybe he needs down here because
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  Speaker 4: people say to me, Bruce has to spend I'm upstate.
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  Speaker 4: He's all over the place up state, plus doing his
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  Speaker 4: jobs county executive, plus being heavily involved in New York
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  Speaker 4: City and around. So Bruce is genuinely running a statewide
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  Speaker 4: campaign and he's putting everything into it. Also, I can
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  Speaker 4: put another plug. Janin's Driscolo's running for Congress. She lives
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  Speaker 4: in the National County section of Bellrows, which is literally
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  Speaker 4: right on the Queen's border. Parslow was like for true
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  Speaker 4: into Queens, so she sees it every day. She's a
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  Speaker 4: son who's the NYPD. She's again very much involved. And
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  Speaker 4: so we get now with candidates who can speak with
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  Speaker 4: authority about what it means to live so close to
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  Speaker 4: a socialist maya who is not standing with the police.
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  Speaker 4: So now, but Bruce is I don't know if anyone,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Bruce is in this all the way. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, a lot of candidates you get the nomination
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  Speaker 4: in may or June or whatever it happens to be.
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  Speaker 4: Then they take your time and they come back up
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  Speaker 4: to Labor Day. Bruce has been going on this really
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  Speaker 4: since really almost since the last election. He's been day
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  Speaker 4: in and day out, going everywhere he can to get
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  Speaker 4: the vote out at His measures should resonate as much
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  Speaker 4: upstate as it does in that Suffer County and down
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  Speaker 4: a Queens in that island.
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  Speaker 5: I really agree with you, Congressman. I'm so tired of
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  Speaker 5: people telling me the same thing. Oh, he's not running
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  Speaker 5: a hard enough campaig. I mean, honestly, it's like every
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  Speaker 5: back seater, backbencher saying that they could do a better job.
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  Speaker 6: I think he's working pretty hard. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Congressman, let me ask you this question.
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  Speaker 3: So we spoke about this earlier in terms of you
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  Speaker 3: got this guy twenty one years old running around talking
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  Speaker 3: about his Jesus. The Secret Service had wanted him locked
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  Speaker 3: up before or at least a mental watch the latest
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  Speaker 3: shooting at the White House. What I'm trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 3: Congressman King, is real simple. Why can't we just get
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  Speaker 3: as a country, get more psychiatric beds and open up
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  Speaker 3: these hospitals Because you've got to lock these nuts up.
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  Speaker 2: Is that simple, Domy.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you one hundred percent. We need more
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  Speaker 4: psychiatric beds, we need more attention to mental health. And
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  Speaker 4: also we have to tell judges and those were evaluating
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  Speaker 4: people to realize that you're not doing anyone a favor
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  Speaker 4: by putting mental patients out on the street too soon.
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  Speaker 4: Now again, you know, their excuse for me was so
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  Speaker 4: backed up there's no room. Well that's really no excuse overall.
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  Speaker 4: So we have to provide more facilities, get more attention
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  Speaker 4: to it, and also tell judges and those who are
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  Speaker 4: making these evaluations to be strict in how they do it. It's, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the danger of having here's somebody right near
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  Speaker 4: the White House, so they know it is a mental
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  Speaker 4: patient who was mentally ill. And it was really only
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  Speaker 4: a matter of time before this happened. And I'm surprised
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  Speaker 4: this happened more often because there are people out there
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  Speaker 4: unfortunately suffering from mental illness. And you know it was
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  Speaker 4: because we can't keep every mental patient locked up forever.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's unfair. But on the other hand, you can't
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  Speaker 4: go so far as you're being so loose and relaxed
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  Speaker 4: and putting people out of the street. You know, they
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  Speaker 4: don't belong there. So as it is, now, this guy
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  Speaker 4: is dead and it's some of the person who wounded,
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  Speaker 4: and he could have been an overall catastrophe if the
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  Speaker 4: Secret Service hadn't done his job.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I mean, let's talk about our current mayor second
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  Speaker 2: Peter and a lot of people get me on television
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  Speaker 2: and other radio shows to talk about that. There's two ways.
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  Speaker 2: And you know we gave him. I gave him a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a break and say the first hundred
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  Speaker 2: days is not enough. He's only thirty four years old.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what happens the first one hundred and fifty days.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to be coming up on that, and
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  Speaker 2: Jake you and Dominic you ring in on it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I really think that he's playing the violin to his supporters.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, is it a violin?
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  Speaker 2: Is it him? Is he going to have any common
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  Speaker 2: sense and that's what the determination has to be on
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fiftieth day?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would think not. And I think that these
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  Speaker 4: are not mistakes. He is a committed socialist. I think
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  Speaker 4: he's very intelligent. I think he's honest to his ideology,
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  Speaker 4: and I think he intends, you know, to implement it.
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  Speaker 4: He knows what he wants to do, and he's putting
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  Speaker 4: people and keep positions all around to implement those policies.
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  Speaker 4: So far, on one strong point, definitely there has been
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  Speaker 4: Jessica SISIs our police commissioner. But in other situations, like
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  Speaker 4: you know, the way he wants to tax the rich
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  Speaker 4: he calls it, which is just going to drive the
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  Speaker 4: tax space out of New York City. He's committed to that.
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  Speaker 4: He believes in that. That is so it's hardcore left
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  Speaker 4: wing socialist economics, and he believes in it. It's been
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  Speaker 4: a catastrophe everywhere it's working, they've implemented it in the world.
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  Speaker 4: But he wants to try it and try it. He
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  Speaker 4: wants to implement it. He believes in it strongly. So
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  Speaker 4: I am not optimistic going forward.
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  Speaker 2: So he's not going to I said them, you have
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  Speaker 2: to use your intelligence to realize you're either going to
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  Speaker 2: be on the edge of disaster or the edge of success.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, well, you know, I mean it's up to
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  Speaker 2: him that he But the other part of it, I
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  Speaker 2: think he really believes that his future depends on the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: type of people who's been attracting for the last few years.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Dominic any thoughts, I'm not a fan at all.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I agree with the assessment the Congressman just made. He
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: really is carrying out what he truly believes. He's a disaster.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know how to pull my bunches. He is
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: a disaster. He's one of the worst things that ever
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: happened to New York. It is terribly offensive what he's
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: doing with the Jewish community almost every day.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: What is he doing with the black community? I understand,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you know, you're maybe under Mayor Adams, you had too
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: many blacks, and you did, and you did, and now
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: you have too little. You know.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I was a fan of Mayor Adams in the beginning.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I really wished him the best. One of the biggest
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: mist that he made during his tenure two mistakes, and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: then I let congressmen and Jake the follow up. Two
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: mistakes when he fell into the trap that Governor Abbott
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: said for him on the migrants, welcome in those migrants
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: here to New York. That was the beginning of the
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: end for him. And the second mistake he made is
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: you've when you're elected Mayor, you've got to go to
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: a certain degree with establishment for lack of a better
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: term right now, and I know his heart he wanted
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: to bring in qualified African American and Latinos into city government.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: But you've got to make sure that these people are
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: properly vetted. He had too many people around him that frankly,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: it's not that we're crooks under investigation. Police commissioner had
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: to step down, Deputy mayor under fire. You know, I
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: still would take Eric Adams any day over, Mam Donnie.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I agree with you enough.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I do think one of the biggest mistakes he made, though,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: was not letting commission A Kishan Su do her job.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Absolutely she would have been an outstanding commissioner as is now.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: But other than that, and also in Akishan was a
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: commissioner too many of Eric Adams his cronies and friends
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: were trying to call the shots, interfering with the job
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: she was doing. But like you, I like Eric Adams.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: I think he meant well. I just think that he
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: didn't realize the enormity of the job and voting people
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: that were friends of his. He trusted them and he
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: shouldn't have.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: And that happens to a lot Jake Dongrad with your question.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: That happens to a lot of politicians. We saw the
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: same thing in the last term of Ed Koch, you know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: with people that he trusted, and we know how that ended,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Congressman King. But and Jake, I want to turn over
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: to you, but I'm just not a fan at all.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: So I guess in the next segment, mister Katsamatis can
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: tell me, because I have no desire to meet this guy.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I think he's a straight up con man. Mom, Donnie,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: he can tell me what it was like to sit
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: face to face with this guy.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: But go ahead, Jake, you know again.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: But the thing that hits me the most you said it, John,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: is when you say thirty four years old and no
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: disrespect to younger folks and things like that. But I
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: don't know. Communists are no communist. Anti Semite are no
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: anti Semite. If any thirty four year old can really
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: grasp this position. You know, one of the good things
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: you can say about the United States is we have
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: a pretty old age for adulthood in this country. In
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: other words, unlike some of these impoverished countries where it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: twelve years old. You got to be like a soldier
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: and provide for your family. In this country, even people
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: who are lower middle class aren't necessarily thrown into adulthood
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: that young. My point is, this is someone who doesn't,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: in my opinion, understand that these theories are things that
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: you pass around in a college classroom, aren't real. He
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: hasn't had enough of real life.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Four years old is too young for that job. Yeah,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: are enough life experiences. And the chance I gave him Dominic,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: and the chance I gave him Jay and Peter was
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the fact is, you are an intelligent guy. You gotta
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: make up your mind and it's up to him. I mean,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that's the chance I gave him. And if he's gonna fail,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: he's gonna fails.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: He's already turned the business community completely against him.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: He really pissed off the not only the small business community.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And maybe we'll have Fernando Mattel talk about that later
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and the big business community. The Griffiths of King Griffiths,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: of the Well. Jamie Diamond himself said, we have thirty
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: three thousand employees uh In uh In J. P. Morgan
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and now we're down to like twenty five thousand, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: he's building in Texas. And I understand now he's building Tampa.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Saint Pete Right.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Congress and Peter King, thank you so much for joining us.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Have a meaningful Memorial Day, as I know you will
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: very much.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: And I've been texting Bruce Boykman trying to get a
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: hold of them. John wantsim and when John wants people,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: they end up showing up.
• 22:10
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