Speaker 1: I'm going out.
Speaker 2: This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast. John kat
Speaker 2: Matititi's good morning, Boss, How are you?
Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning. The sun is shining and it's
Speaker 1: a terrible day to leave to him.
Speaker 2: I know it was gorgeous in Westampton last night. I'm
Speaker 2: sure it's even pretty where you were. The good news
Speaker 2: is you'll be back this weekend. That's the good news.
Speaker 2: But everybody was talking about your last night. I mean
Speaker 2: Mark Schneier. I know he's your rabbi and your six
Speaker 2: percent Jewish. He really loves you, John.
Speaker 1: Well, his dad was. He is one of my best
Speaker 1: friends for thirty thirty five years. I've been on his
Speaker 1: board for thirty thirty five years. I now worked. You
Speaker 1: know Rabbi Schneier, he's ninety six years old and his
Speaker 1: mind is one hundred and ten percent.
Speaker 2: He's at the park Park East Synagogue.
Speaker 1: He's still there, yes, and his daughter is helping him
Speaker 1: run that operation now. And I know she's going down
Speaker 1: to Washington to talk about with the deputy. She has
Speaker 1: a meeting and the Deputy Attorney General based on hate
Speaker 1: crime on the twenty seventh and twenty eighth, who wants
Speaker 1: me to be with her. I'm gonna try. We'll see.
Speaker 1: And Mark Schneier does a great job in Long Island
Speaker 1: and the worldwide. He both for them, both daughter and son.
Speaker 1: Mark Schneier and his daughter, they learned very well from
Speaker 1: their father and they're doing great jobs.
Speaker 2: They really are. So I've you know, John, I'm not
Speaker 2: just finally with Bruce Blakeman. He's not just on the show,
Speaker 2: not justin dorsing Home. I'm taking a very active role
Speaker 2: in his campaign. We talk every day, a couple of
Speaker 2: times a day. My son Gabriel. As you know, John
Speaker 2: works for Blakeman in his office as an intern, and
Speaker 2: I really want him to win. So I know you
Speaker 2: had Kathy Hunkle speak at those great breakfasts you got
Speaker 2: but on I saw the videos look like a huge event.
Speaker 2: Julie Mennon was there and many many other public officials
Speaker 2: at this big breakfast on Saturday morning. How did it
Speaker 2: go with the current governor?
Speaker 1: Well, she is the governor, and not only usually we
Speaker 1: have the entire back part of the restaurant for about
Speaker 1: eighty to one hundred people, we had both sides of
Speaker 1: the restaurant this time, and she had to speak from
Speaker 1: the middle of the restaurant. Look, and I had warned
Speaker 1: everybody that was coming the week before, Look, she is
Speaker 1: the governor. No matter where you like her, you don't
Speaker 1: like her. You got to be civilized. And we had
Speaker 1: a lot of important people there.
Speaker 2: We had.
Speaker 1: People flew up from Palm Beach. The bishop from Palm
Speaker 1: Beach came up to give a prayer.
Speaker 2: I saw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the Julie men and Mosere, like you said,
Speaker 1: now the only time in our little nervous Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the Lieutenant governor Betsy McCoy. You remember what she
Speaker 1: did to Governor Protacky when when when Governor Patacy was
Speaker 1: giving his inaugural speech or whatever, she stood up next
Speaker 1: to him. Yep, Well, five minutes into Governor hoko speech, Well,
Speaker 1: Betsy lookaway gets up and stands four feet away, four
Speaker 1: feet away from the governor. I started. I started looking
Speaker 1: at the at the Governor's husband and the tough to
Speaker 1: Green and uh and Todd Shapiro, and I said, what
Speaker 1: are we getting ourselves into? Now? I must say everybody
Speaker 1: was civilized and Betsy McCoy was civilized. McCoy is all
Speaker 1: about I argue, argue with everybody. I disagreed different policies,
Speaker 1: but be civilized to each other.
Speaker 2: I think Betsy McCoy's wanning for governor in Connecticut anyway.
Speaker 1: Right, No, she had to pull out, so she there's
Speaker 1: a technicality in she pulled out because of a technicality
Speaker 1: in god connecticutte but looks she's a smart lady and
Speaker 1: but she did the right thing and was very civilized.
Speaker 2: Did Governor Hunkle walk up to you and say, please
Speaker 2: send my regards to your morning show host?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: You know, you know what I enjoyed this morning. I
Speaker 2: knew that was the answer. What I enjoyed this morning
Speaker 2: was I know you're still close with the former Vice
Speaker 2: president Mike Pence, and I played a cut earlier today
Speaker 2: something I've been saying, you know it, John, for a
Speaker 2: long time. There is no such thing anymore as a
Speaker 2: common sense democrat. It's a unicorn. It's a cute saying
Speaker 2: that don't exist. This one. His name is John Betterman.
Speaker 2: So I was really happy to see. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: people serving now, not retired people like Governor David Patterson.
Speaker 2: So it was nice to see Tom Cotton say that
Speaker 2: same exact thing with Mark Levin on Saturday Night and
Speaker 2: listening to Mike Pence with you. He kind of said
Speaker 2: the same thing. He said, Look, Republicans aren't perfect, They're
Speaker 2: not perfect, but the Democrats have completely lost their minds.
Speaker 1: They have completely lost their minds. And I am so
Speaker 1: much disappointed in major major people in the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: endorsing that lunatic in Michigan and that lunatic in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That's gonna run. And I mean, all we want is
Speaker 1: common sense. And I think the only way that the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is going to learn that is they lose
Speaker 1: forty nine states. Secord did in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: Remember that Reagan? Yeah, you're too younger, No I remember, no, No, no,
Speaker 2: I was, I was seventeen. It was Ronald Reagan, and
Speaker 2: I do remember it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll tell you that. But nobody's well, somebody got
Speaker 1: up yesterday. I don't know. I didn't read the story.
Speaker 1: I sort of headlined some common sense. Democrats put up
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars to to fight the Democratic Socialist Committee,
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Socialist Committee is not that big. But
Speaker 1: guess what they know how to wage war?
Speaker 2: Yeah, great point, exactly what?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they know how to wage war, and they
Speaker 1: know how to go up to weak Democrats looked him
Speaker 1: in the eye and said, we're gonna take you down. Okay,
Speaker 1: you were you Remember what I did to that guy
Speaker 1: that tried to pick it my home?
Speaker 2: You were great, You were great.
Speaker 1: I took him, I grabbed his arm, I held on
Speaker 1: to it. I said, make sure they take make sure
Speaker 1: they take the photograph of us, because the fake your
Speaker 1: recognition equipment. We'll know in five minutes who the hell
Speaker 1: you really are.
Speaker 2: You were great that there. I were standing right next
Speaker 2: to you outside your home when you did that. But
Speaker 2: you're you're actually very good because you were stern in
Speaker 2: your point, but you're also very very friendly, and you
Speaker 2: cooled down that temperature. John to your credit, literally in
Speaker 2: five minutes. I was impressed. I thought I was gonna
Speaker 2: get a little hectic there, but you did an excellent job, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, brings me to this one of the
Speaker 2: things I enjoy most on the station. It's a new feature.
Speaker 2: I'm not patronizing you, I'm not blowing smoke your way.
Speaker 2: I really enjoy the Cat's Corner. I really enjoyed a lot.
Speaker 2: It's great stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, we've put it out and the entire the Salem
Speaker 1: Network is running it. Countrywide and we're running it. And
Speaker 1: you know what the cat's corner is saying in one
Speaker 1: minute or less, common sense, and that's where we were
Speaker 1: trying to put through common sense in one minute or
Speaker 1: less and it's important now. Sick. Whenever you're out in
Speaker 1: the Hamptons again, we always would love to have you
Speaker 1: speak at the the breakfast that we have Governor's Presidents
Speaker 1: Vice President Sie one time or another.
Speaker 2: I'd love to I'll be honored. I'm serious, I would
Speaker 2: love to do that. I'd be honored to speak at
Speaker 2: your event. You've got the biggest names in the country. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I would love to do that. I
Speaker 2: will be back in the Hamptons again, maybe even this weekend,
Speaker 2: maybe even Friday, but I'll talk to you about that
Speaker 2: in the office later on. John, one more for you.
Speaker 2: We're only a cup. Thank you for that invite. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that. Only a couple of weeks away from nine
Speaker 2: to eleven, and you know, I've got a couple of
Speaker 2: really brave men coming up in about forty minutes. Both
Speaker 2: lost their wives murdered back on nine to eleven. And
Speaker 2: we have this incredible galop every year that ABC puts
Speaker 2: on it's the highlight of the year. It's always beautiful
Speaker 2: Chipriani's and this year it just so happens it falls
Speaker 2: on that exact night. I know we're gonna honor Governor Pataki,
Speaker 2: but tell all the folks out there what it's going
Speaker 2: to be like nine to eleven with us at the
Speaker 2: Galla coming up that Friday night.
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna have the most spectacular gala of the
Speaker 1: last five years. Over all the people that came the
Speaker 1: last five years, this gala is going to be even
Speaker 1: more spectacular. We're celebrating the five years. We're celebrating the
Speaker 1: leadership of Governor Pataki at that period of time that
Speaker 1: he helped bring New York back and rebuild all those
Speaker 1: buildings that are there now. And he had the courage
Speaker 1: to make sure he put up the state's money to
Speaker 1: have the World Trade Center rebuilt again. And we're honoring
Speaker 1: Cardinal Dolan for the last was it sixteen or eighteen
Speaker 1: years providing moral leadership to our city and our state,
Speaker 1: and he became a national figure. And religious politics is
Speaker 1: religious politics, you know, you know, he still has the
Speaker 1: title of Cardinals even though he's not in the seat
Speaker 1: of power, but people love him and uh and and
Speaker 1: don't forget it is nine to eleven. We have a
Speaker 1: very many VIPs going to be in New York that day.
Speaker 1: I am not allowed, for security reasons, to say who
Speaker 1: else may show up that day