Speaker 1: George Burrello, our state senator from Chautaqua, Chautauqua, where I
Speaker 1: spent a summer as a seven year old and lost
Speaker 1: almost all my clothes.
Speaker 2: Time in Chautauqua too, did What haven't you been?
Speaker 1: My parents rented a house near the big amphitheater there,
Speaker 1: beautiful spot. Unbeknownst to them, there was a big organ
Speaker 1: in that amphitheater and someone was practicing it, usually very
Speaker 1: late at night. But you know, actually I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: my time there, Senator, but I did lose a number
Speaker 1: of my items from the day camp, and my mother
Speaker 1: is still very upset about this. If you find a
Speaker 1: blue windbreaker from nineteen seventy seven, please call me.
Speaker 3: Is a Star Wars wind breaker?
Speaker 4: Perhaps it was, No, I wish it were. But it's
Speaker 4: a beautiful area there. Forty nine years ago, yeah, about.
Speaker 1: Forty almost forty nine years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, would
Speaker 1: have been forty nine years ago. But a fun fact
Speaker 1: also from the Jamestown area, Lucille Ball, Correct's correct.
Speaker 3: Yes, In fact, we have the National Comedy Center in
Speaker 3: downtown Jamestown. It is an amazing place. If you have
Speaker 3: not been to Western New York, go to Jamestown go
Speaker 3: to the National Comedy Center and every year in early
Speaker 3: August we had the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival with a
Speaker 3: list comedians. We had Jerry Seinfeld, actually this year Jerry Seinfeld,
Speaker 3: you know, Sebastian Mescalco. A list comedians in the little
Speaker 3: community of Jamestown, New York. It's an amazing place.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: One of my freedom two fifty the decisions that made
Speaker 1: America features was on Lucille Ball because she was an
Speaker 1: incredibly smart businesswoman.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: So, first, when she was still married to Desi Arnez,
Speaker 1: they decided to create a production company to create I
Speaker 1: Love Lucy, and then that was kind of sold to
Speaker 1: see so, in other words, she took control of it.
Speaker 1: And then when they got divorced, she became the first
Speaker 1: woman to run a real studio in Hollywood, and that
Speaker 1: studio was responsible for, oh, a couple of little things
Speaker 1: like Star Trek Mission Impossible that no one else would
Speaker 1: have produced.
Speaker 6: She remaned the name of the company, does he loop right?
Speaker 4: Well she is dead, yeah, nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 5: You're not going to murder anyone today, right? You murdered
Speaker 5: Linda yesterday?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of the fact that we immediately corrected it.
Speaker 1: We didn't even go to commercial break.
Speaker 6: I accidentally clashed my head and I said, she dead.
Speaker 2: No, No, he's a murderer. I'm telling you sadly.
Speaker 1: She is suffering from an incredibly rare disease that is incurable.
Speaker 1: We certainly are praying for her. But yes, I apologize
Speaker 1: once again. She's one of my favorite singers and for
Speaker 1: some reason, I guess I thought she had passed away.
Speaker 1: But Linda Rossid is still with us and makes she
Speaker 1: get better.
Speaker 5: Well, listen, today's our last day here Earth Wind and Fire,
Speaker 5: and I just want to say good morning to everyone.
Speaker 5: It's been an incredible week filling in for SIT and
Speaker 5: friends said, thank you for trusting us with your audience.
Speaker 5: Anytime you need to take off, we're ready to take
Speaker 5: over again.
Speaker 4: Well you know, there you go. Listen.
Speaker 1: One of the big things that people are talking about
Speaker 1: here in New York City this morning is this decision
Speaker 1: by the city to freeze the rent which look obviously
Speaker 1: rents are very high in the city. We're not being
Speaker 1: I do believe there's time for compassion. But if you
Speaker 1: think this is compassionate to the tenants, anything longer than
Speaker 1: this one year. You're being very foolish. Their rent wal echeck.
Speaker 6: You know what would be fair?
Speaker 7: And I'm telling this that every business person out there,
Speaker 7: and you know, I understand you know, uh, the socialists
Speaker 7: want to play the violin that. Oh say you were
Speaker 7: doing something for you? All right, you want to reduce
Speaker 7: the rents, you want to reduce price increases. Well, why
Speaker 7: don't you reduce the real estate taxes to compensate for
Speaker 7: not being able to raise the.
Speaker 4: Rents and the water charges are going up?
Speaker 2: John, hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 5: Don't increase the expenses and lower the rent It makes
Speaker 5: no sense.
Speaker 6: Low.
Speaker 7: If you want to lower the rents, will lower the rents,
Speaker 7: lower the real estate taxes.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean it makes sense, right, of course, this
Speaker 6: is common sense. George Burrello.
Speaker 7: You you're a state senator, but you're a businessman too.
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, you know, New York City's unique, right,
Speaker 3: You've got this huge amount of people in a very
Speaker 3: small space essentially, and rents are high. It's it's it's
Speaker 3: a supply and demand thing. But what you're doing is
Speaker 3: you're you're basically saying we're gonna limit your ability to
Speaker 3: care for these properties, to do the upkeep that you need.
Speaker 3: And also as you as you said, John, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of other expenses here, uh, and a lot of
Speaker 3: them are burden burdens on the property owners. And uh,
Speaker 3: you know, look at you want to know who the
Speaker 3: worst landlord in New York City is nitscha, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: The New York City Housing Authority is the worst. It's
Speaker 3: a slum lord, the biggest slum lord in the city.
Speaker 3: So what's being done about that? And you're gonna drive
Speaker 3: more people out of the private property business, And that's
Speaker 3: what they want. They want to confiscate property. This is
Speaker 3: the socialist agenda. And you do that by death, by
Speaker 3: a thousand cuts. We're not gonna let you make money.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna, you know, do let you do the
Speaker 3: things you need to do. We're gonna convert your buildings,
Speaker 3: uh to all electric at huge expenses. So you want
Speaker 3: to save you want to make a rent more affordable,
Speaker 3: let's not. Let's not make everybody convert their buildings to
Speaker 3: all electric, which is gonna be a huge cost.
Speaker 1: Us apply and demand if you want the price of
Speaker 1: something that where demand isn't isn't elastic. I mean, people
Speaker 1: are gonna want to live in a house, right or
Speaker 1: an apartment. That's not gonna change. You have to increase
Speaker 1: supply that period. And you're not going to increase supply
Speaker 1: by raising the costs and all the regulatory barriers, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the only people who really have
Speaker 1: the money in the capital to build more are the
Speaker 1: higher end builders. So what you do is let them
Speaker 1: build more, because then the higher end now will become
Speaker 1: a little less expensive and although and it will trickle down.
Speaker 1: That's the way that works. If you tell everyone, hey,
Speaker 1: we'll let you build in New York City, but it's
Speaker 1: got to be two hundred dollars a month round, I
Speaker 1: know it's gonna build.
Speaker 5: I have a different take on this whole thing here.
Speaker 5: I think that the socialists are playing the cards right.
Speaker 5: I believe that wealthy people should play their cards now right.
Speaker 5: The pr card, the public relations, the public not only
Speaker 5: the public relations card, the human the human side of
Speaker 5: a billionaire, of a multi millionaire.
Speaker 2: You know, if you want few buildings.
Speaker 5: Lower the rents a little bit and write it off,
Speaker 5: write it off. Because it's legal to do that. You know,
Speaker 5: I bought a truck cost me around ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: I was gonna sell it. Instead, I'm gonna donate it
Speaker 5: to one of WABC's advertisers who does a lot of
Speaker 5: good things there.
Speaker 2: What's the name cars for Kids?
Speaker 5: Right, I'm gonna call cars for Kids, and I'm gonna
Speaker 5: donate the truck.
Speaker 6: And I'm gonna write it off.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: It's simple. So let's hit them back harder than they
Speaker 5: hit us.
Speaker 1: You make a good point, but not everyone has the
Speaker 1: income to write off, you know that.
Speaker 4: That's the thing.
Speaker 5: No, I'm talking about them, talking about the big guys,
Speaker 5: the guys.
Speaker 6: Listen.
Speaker 5: You got a Mott Haven in the Bronx. You know
Speaker 5: they built that up tremendously. You have like seventy eight
Speaker 5: thousand apartments and they're all empty. Why because the rents
Speaker 5: are too high. People in that area can't afford it,
Speaker 5: and the gentrifiers haven't gotten there yet. The socialists have
Speaker 5: not gotten to my right. So those landlords should lower
Speaker 5: the rents, make them affordable, rather than four thousand, charge
Speaker 5: two thousand and write the rest off.
Speaker 1: I have an even more capitalist idea Fernando and Senator
Speaker 1: Barella and John. I think you know, one of the
Speaker 1: things that's incredibly valuable about a city like New York City,
Speaker 1: and there's very few other places like this anywhere in
Speaker 1: this country, is you have massive potential foot traffic by
Speaker 1: your retail property. And I know Amazon is taking over
Speaker 1: a lot of things, but foot traffic is even more
Speaker 1: valuable because of that. If I had that kind of
Speaker 1: money to invest in new buildings and things like that,
Speaker 1: one of my great public relations move would be to
Speaker 1: have lower rents but for the tenants, for the people
Speaker 1: living there, but for retailers. I can say, listen, I'm
Speaker 1: guaranteeing you a large building where there's going to be
Speaker 1: a lot of foot traffic to your store, and make
Speaker 1: my money back with the commercial rep You know what.
Speaker 2: Just write the whole thing off.
Speaker 5: Give them, give them businesses that give them boldegas, give
Speaker 5: them supermarkets that they can come in and shop to,
Speaker 5: give them restaurants.
Speaker 2: You know what are you going to do?
Speaker 5: You donate to causes where people steal eighty percent of
Speaker 5: your donation. You know there are organizations not for profits.
Speaker 5: You donate one thousand dollars, they use eighty eighty eight
Speaker 5: hundred dollars for their expenses, and they spend twenty thousand
Speaker 5: on what their mission is.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about a free market thing that's happening
Speaker 1: without any socialism, that is also helping our consumers this morning,
Speaker 1: and that is the price of oil, where we just
Speaker 1: briefly dip to the sixty eight dollars a barrel level.
Speaker 4: All the way. I mean, almost half of what it was.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of months ago, a month and a
Speaker 1: half ago, whatever it was when we were at one twenty.
Speaker 1: And the national average for one gallon of gas now
Speaker 1: at three dollars and ninety cents. That's thirty five out
Speaker 1: of the last thirty six days it's gone down. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't like these speculators when they drive the price up,
Speaker 1: but they've been driving it down fast. And July fourth,
Speaker 1: next weekend, I think we're going to see a handle
Speaker 1: much lower than three ninety by fast enough.
Speaker 5: They're not lowering fast enough, and the President is right
Speaker 5: in saying that they're not lowering.
Speaker 2: It fast enough.
Speaker 1: But it is lower. We can at least we have
Speaker 1: good on that. And you know, this is not free.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people say freeze the prices.
Speaker 1: If frozen the price at four, we'd be stealing money
Speaker 1: from our own people right now.
Speaker 4: So let it keep going down.
Speaker 1: Whether you think it's going down fast enough is a
Speaker 1: different argument, but definitely we're talking about But still, look
Speaker 1: where at sixty you know, we're probably gonna get back
Speaker 1: down to sixty eight in a few minutes.
Speaker 4: This is a good development.
Speaker 1: And even though Iran attacked once again, what did we
Speaker 1: all say when the when the agreement was made, not
Speaker 1: if Iran will break it, it's just when they'll break it.
Speaker 1: And they attacked a commercial ship in the Strait of
Speaker 1: horn Moves yesterday afternoon. Going into the evening, oil shot
Speaker 1: up briefly, but then they.
Speaker 7: Thought that let's get distrained. We straightened it that last
Speaker 7: night at five o'clock.
Speaker 4: You did good.
Speaker 7: The truth is that it's not day probably a single
Speaker 7: you know, and we had Katie mcfallin on last night.
Speaker 7: It's probably a single individual that had an extra drone.
Speaker 7: You can't eliminate. It wasn't a massive attack. It was
Speaker 7: one drone, one cargo ship. There's always gonna be how
Speaker 7: do you say.
Speaker 6: It in the Brooklyn Show? You a schmuck or schmuck.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's always gonna be a schmuck somewhere that has
Speaker 7: one drone left.
Speaker 6: And what's the start of coms?
Speaker 1: Does this all the time, by the way, one person
Speaker 1: fires a rocket sometimes and that's it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you're never gonna you can never get one
Speaker 7: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I agree, you know, one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: But you know what happens.
Speaker 4: The markets agree with you too.
Speaker 6: They forged the price of will the dollars up two
Speaker 6: dollars right back down. You know how much money that is?
Speaker 6: Two dollars.
Speaker 2: They messed up your prediction.
Speaker 4: They messed up from time nothing to my going back.
Speaker 7: Okay, but but this is what it is. So I
Speaker 7: tell all people that kneeling in the markets, don't panic
Speaker 7: over nonsense.
Speaker 6: Guys. You know, stuff happens, and stuff is always gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Well, the markets are always worried about something. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: if you go to the gas, if you go to
Speaker 1: the gas pump in most of the I mean down
Speaker 1: to three seventy by me. And I told you if
Speaker 1: you asked me about a mid grade yesterday for an now,
Speaker 1: because I don't do mid grade, I do.
Speaker 2: Thee Yeah, yeah, I don't know you cheese.
Speaker 1: I texted you yesterday and I think I said it
Speaker 1: was only four oh six for mid grade at my stations.
Speaker 5: Now, you shop around for gas, you drive a mile
Speaker 5: to save a gallon.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't understand.
Speaker 7: I know those people that drive two miles spend twenty
Speaker 7: cents in in extra fuel, but they saved twelve cents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's Jake.
Speaker 4: No, No, I got I have principle where I live.
Speaker 4: I actually had.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, you know, Jake, I've gotta confess I do
Speaker 5: the same thing I should have gotten.
Speaker 2: I gotta I know where the.
Speaker 5: Cheapest gas stations are, and if it's three four miles
Speaker 5: away from me, I still go.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't do the psychologically ten.
Speaker 5: Cents that you spend on let's say twenty gallons, it's
Speaker 5: two dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, No, what I what I do is
Speaker 1: something similar to that, which is, I know the cheapest
Speaker 1: gas station in my neighborhood, and I make sure that
Speaker 1: when I'm near that area anyway. For another thing, that's
Speaker 1: when I fill up, no matter how much. So even
Speaker 1: if I have only a quarter of a tank left
Speaker 1: to fill up, I'll go.
Speaker 5: Then you don't drive that much you know what, I
Speaker 5: follow the lead from the cab drivers. The cab drivers
Speaker 5: know exactly where to go and when to go and
Speaker 5: when to go, and they do their thing the right way.
Speaker 2: So listen.
Speaker 5: Cab drivers should be listening to WABC every morning so
Speaker 5: that they get the latest on gas prices, on oil prices,
Speaker 5: so that they get the latest on who's here.
Speaker 2: In the studios.
Speaker 5: You know they I guarantee you that they are so
Speaker 5: happy that thunder, I mean, earth, wind and fire are
Speaker 5: here this week.
Speaker 2: But you know what, we're.
Speaker 5: Turning over the studio to sit again.
Speaker 4: Stay.
Speaker 1: Senator George Morella is with us as well in studio,
Speaker 1: and Senator, you know, we had you on the phone
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago to talk about the Republican
Speaker 1: Party in the state where you're one of the spokesmen for.
Speaker 1: So you know, Fernando and I talked about something just
Speaker 1: off the year before the show started, which with some
Speaker 1: of these socialist candidates winning these congressional primaries, which I
Speaker 1: think is very frightening, especially this Daria V. Chevalier, who
Speaker 1: says she wants to wipe her hands with the American flag.
Speaker 1: She's viciously anti Semitic and I'll say that Sid would
Speaker 1: say the same. I know he would say the same.
Speaker 1: Could somebody like Andreano Spai who lost this primary, would
Speaker 1: you know, just as a political expert like yourself, Senator Burrello,
Speaker 1: should he run as an independent in the general election?
Speaker 6: Do what doing?
Speaker 2: Andrew Cuomo?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as a Republican I love to see him
Speaker 3: do that because that'll split the vote and put it
Speaker 3: in the hands of the Republicans. So, okay, give them
Speaker 3: a chance for Republican strategy. But look, it was not
Speaker 3: just congressional candidates. Yeah, we had candidates in the Senate,
Speaker 3: in the Assembly.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I know people, everybody focuses on DC and and
Speaker 3: and Congress, and certainly it's very important, but your everyday life,
Speaker 3: it's far more impacted by by what happens in Albany
Speaker 3: than what happens in Washington. And the people that were
Speaker 3: that won these primaries in a very low turnout, by
Speaker 3: the way, very low, you know, ten percent of the
Speaker 3: registered Democrats in some cases. So and by the way,
Speaker 3: this is from the party of you know, voter suppression
Speaker 3: and you know so, but yet they're they're they're making
Speaker 3: decisions on one in tent of their of their voters.
Speaker 1: You know, making a which this day afternoon in the
Speaker 1: middle of the summer is a form of voter suppression
Speaker 1: by Democrats.
Speaker 3: And that and by the way, that was when when
Speaker 3: Democrats took control, that was one of the things they changed.
Speaker 3: They moved the primaries from September to June, and and
Speaker 3: then also having to collect signatures on petitions. Uh in
Speaker 3: you know in February and March, which where I live,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's pretty darren cold.
Speaker 1: September eleventh, the day of the attack, was a primary
Speaker 1: day here in New York. People forget that they had
Speaker 1: to redo it, but yes, it used to be in September,
Speaker 1: and it was a little bit more in people's minds
Speaker 1: and conscious people were art it's school, kids were at school.
Speaker 1: I mean, the regular day, day to day stuff. Where
Speaker 1: you represent. Let's get a little bit more local, because
Speaker 1: all politics is local. You represent said we you know,
Speaker 1: we made our jokes about to talk on my Missy
Speaker 1: clothing and Jamestown.
Speaker 4: All what I mean.
Speaker 6: You know, beautiful country.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful country. You have a lot of celebrities
Speaker 1: who own property around there and things like that. But
Speaker 1: and that's great maybe for some some things, but what
Speaker 1: are the major economic issues there that that that might
Speaker 1: resonate for for everyone us around the country. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is our chance to kind of tap into a
Speaker 1: non city type of politics and economics.
Speaker 3: You know, most of New York State is rural. The
Speaker 3: number one industry in New York State, believe or not,
Speaker 3: is agriculture. People think it's financed, but it's actually agricultures. Yes, yeah, well,
Speaker 3: you know, grapes. So, you know, our concerns are like
Speaker 3: everyone else, the loss of population, the fact that our
Speaker 3: children are leaving. You know, I speak a lot at
Speaker 3: schools and I speak to you know, your government that
Speaker 3: Buffalo area.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: So I mean, I mean how many people were in
Speaker 6: Buffalo forty years ago and how many are now?
Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot less.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and I'll tell you this. You know, the the
Speaker 3: the population loss state in general, but it's been particularly
Speaker 3: hard in upstate New York. You know, and people still
Speaker 3: there's no jobs there. That's really not true. We have jobs,
Speaker 3: we don't have we don't have people have the skills
Speaker 3: to fill the jobs that are open. We need more
Speaker 3: people that are in the trades, you know, people that
Speaker 3: are there welders and plumbers and carpenters. There's a severe
Speaker 3: shortage of these, and we're trying to push back in
Speaker 3: the sense of trying to get kids into the stem
Speaker 3: and steam. Look, I come from a family of plumbers,
Speaker 3: my father and my grandfather. You know, I didn't want
Speaker 3: to go into the plumbing business. My grandfather, my father,
Speaker 3: they wanted me to go to college. We've been telling
Speaker 3: kids that from now for forty years. And look what
Speaker 3: we have now. We have a shortage of people in
Speaker 3: the skilled trades. And you know, Microw talks about this
Speaker 3: all the time, you know, and we don't have so
Speaker 3: we have jobs, but we're telling people is don't go
Speaker 3: to work. Don't go to work. It's okay, you can
Speaker 3: live off the tax payers. The biggest expense I spent
Speaker 3: ten years in county government. I was also a county
Speaker 3: executive of Chautauqua County before I was a senator. The
Speaker 3: biggest expense by far for county government, which is property
Speaker 3: property tax payers, is welfare. It's Medicare. Excuse me, it's Medicaid.
Speaker 3: It's the fact that we have the safety net in
Speaker 3: New York State. People doesn't what they understand what that means,
Speaker 3: so the federal government limits you to five years of
Speaker 3: being on welfare. After five years, the federal government will
Speaker 3: no longer fund it. Then we go into states like
Speaker 3: New York that have what they call the safety net,
Speaker 3: which means forever you can live on welfare, multi generational
Speaker 3: families that have been on welfare. Imagine somebody who you're
Speaker 3: trying to tell a kid to go to work who's
Speaker 3: never seen his parents or grandparents work. That's the problem
Speaker 3: that we have, and that's a problem, you know, particularly here.
Speaker 1: I want to hit I want to hit on so
Speaker 1: a couple of things, both good news and bad news.
Speaker 1: The thing about the children leaving, now, this is something
Speaker 1: that is very much one of the undercurrents of the
Speaker 1: whole migrant crisis thing. People are asking me all the time,
Speaker 1: what is somebody Somali's going to Minnesota and Maine for well,
Speaker 1: I used to work in Maine. Fana is going to
Speaker 1: make fun of me bang or Man I lived and
Speaker 1: work there. That is an aging population. The children are leaving,
Speaker 1: and you better believe that there are businesses and even
Speaker 1: and government people as well who are well. They might
Speaker 1: be illegal, they may not be, but it's least it's
Speaker 1: warm bodies coming into our population. Is there a is
Speaker 1: there something like that going on? But before you answer
Speaker 1: that question, Buffalo, to answer John's question, the population is
Speaker 1: less than half of what it was in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 4: So it's half less than half.
Speaker 3: That's a big dumb And we also lost you know,
Speaker 3: that used to be a steel city as well, like Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: a lot of stills, car industry and those all those
Speaker 3: all left.
Speaker 1: But Buffalo is having a lot is still having a
Speaker 1: lot of a business resurgence because the electric power there
Speaker 1: is relatively cheaper because of Niagara Falls. So first the
Speaker 1: bitcoin miners plowed into Buffalo, bought vacant buildings and put
Speaker 1: bitcoin mining servers into a lot of buildings. Now, because
Speaker 1: of AI, Buffalo is seeing a tremendous I mean, I
Speaker 1: have some classmates of mine in high school who are
Speaker 1: buying every building they can buy in Buffalo.
Speaker 4: Same thing in Cleveland. So there is hope, right, there's hope.
Speaker 3: That well there was until they passed an AI moratorium
Speaker 3: here you know, at the end of session. Okay, you know,
Speaker 3: here's no other you know, so AI is the new boogeyman. Okay,
Speaker 3: Data centers they don't want data centers. Now, who's they?
Speaker 3: They are, quite frankly, the socialists, the people on the
Speaker 3: left that are in charge. You know, we passed this
Speaker 3: moratorium because we don't have enough power. Yeah, we don't
Speaker 3: have power because we have horrible energy policy here in
Speaker 3: New York State. We don't enough power because you know,
Speaker 3: we've shut down reliable baseload power. So who's the new
Speaker 3: boogeyman data centers? Yeah, and so so all all those speculators,
Speaker 3: we've basically outlawed their ability to employ people, to create jobs.
Speaker 3: You know, there's there's a talk of a data center
Speaker 3: in my district this that could create one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five high paying jobs in a very poor rural area.
Speaker 3: It's going to provide needed funding to complete a major
Speaker 3: water project, and it's gonna be transformational. But right now,
Speaker 3: if the governor science is more to warm, it's gonna
Speaker 3: you know, that's it.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be done.
Speaker 1: And State Senator Bauh, you know who is paying the
Speaker 1: money in these anti data center campaigns, China.
Speaker 4: China's right.
Speaker 3: That's the part that you know, you know, look at
Speaker 3: over the years, we've had a lot of useful idiots
Speaker 3: here in the United States, and the new useful idiot
Speaker 3: is the one who's who's standing up and rallying against
Speaker 3: these things. And by the way, you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's pro I'm not trying to be
Speaker 3: a pro data center, but i am pro growth. Also,
Speaker 3: we don't have the ability in New York State forces
Speaker 3: down the throats of our rural communities all these boondogle
Speaker 3: green energy projects, wind and solar and battery storage. We
Speaker 3: have the Office of Renewable Energy Siting o RES, which
Speaker 3: can come into a community and just roll over local opposition,
Speaker 3: local zoning laws. They can they can cancel rollover DC regulations,
Speaker 3: you know, wetland regulations. Because you know, that's the crisis
Speaker 3: that we're trying to address here, which is again it's
Speaker 3: just an investment scam, is what it really is. But
Speaker 3: yet with data centers, which are a much smaller footprint,
Speaker 3: which are going to create much more economic impact, we're
Speaker 3: going to shut those down. That's the hypocrisy.
Speaker 1: Out of all money, Fernando, this is I mean that
Speaker 1: you're the people that you're always so much in connection with,
Speaker 1: the podego owners, the cab drivers and things like that
Speaker 1: they may this is a world that they may not
Speaker 1: be able to really truly understand as far as like
Speaker 1: these data centers and the fact that if we don't
Speaker 1: get the power, we're not going to have the gas
Speaker 1: station or the food coming from. You know, agriculture is
Speaker 1: the number one and those pdegos need to get those
Speaker 1: fruits and vegetables from somewhere.
Speaker 5: They do and listen, we're always shopping around for where
Speaker 5: to where where we can buy stuff for less? Right, Uh, Jamestown?
Speaker 5: How far is Jamestown? Senator from from New York City?
Speaker 6: New York City.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a I'll be finding out in a few.
Speaker 2: Minutes because IM gonna be I'm oh, you've been in
Speaker 2: the city.
Speaker 3: I've been in the city here, but I do actually
Speaker 3: drove this trip, but it's a it's a good six
Speaker 3: and a half seven hours. It's it's a long way
Speaker 3: from New York City, and again, New York's a huge state.
Speaker 1: When you listen to w ABC on the radio, the
Speaker 1: drive is much shorter it is, and I've got I
Speaker 1: have the app on my phone so i can listen
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 4: Probably by the.
Speaker 1: End of Brian kill Neeeds Show, you'll be you'll be
Speaker 1: back home something like that. But no, that's a that's
Speaker 1: an important factor.
Speaker 6: Look, you know, Judge Weinberg has entered the studios.
Speaker 4: All rise the Judge.
Speaker 9: I have his seat, favorite Senator, how are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're on, You're on, judge, Judge, we were just
Speaker 1: talking about this rent freeze decision.
Speaker 9: Totally illegal, totally illegal.
Speaker 7: And but hey said, no, I mean all jumping around.
Speaker 7: I mean, uh, the the only person on the board, Judge,
Speaker 7: tell us about the person on the board.
Speaker 9: The person on the board is a the way the
Speaker 9: board is constituted, you have representatives from landlords, from tenants
Speaker 9: and so called independence. And what happened was a number
Speaker 9: of Adams people resigned. Mundommie packed the board with his people.
Speaker 9: They were forced to resign.
Speaker 6: That hurt. That that may.
Speaker 9: That may, that may may not be. But but let's
Speaker 9: let's be clear. They did resign and Mondomie did pack
Speaker 9: the board. So what happened was he had this one lawyer,
Speaker 9: her name was Christina Smith, she's the landlord representative, and
Speaker 9: she said that this was an unfair practice. They never
Speaker 9: looked at the conditions that the landlords were facing, that
Speaker 9: this was a hardship to them. They never did what
Speaker 9: they had to do lawfully, that this whole process, in
Speaker 9: fact of hearing the vote last night, it was all
Speaker 9: it was all fix is all nonsense. It's all charade.
Speaker 9: It was a predetermined result, and she does not want
Speaker 9: to be part of this charade or this.
Speaker 7: Right now, let me ask you before you came, what
Speaker 7: I said was if the city wants to reduce rents
Speaker 7: or reduce increases, then then you should reduce real estate taxes.
Speaker 7: Of course they're doing the opposite now increasing real estate tax.
Speaker 9: Your but listen very carefully because your answer something. Because
Speaker 9: the Housings are from Mondomie's made perfectly clear. She's anti landlord,
Speaker 9: anti capitalists. She wants to seize the private properties. What
Speaker 9: they've done is they created the sham Commission about so
Speaker 9: called bad landlords.
Speaker 6: So what they're gonna do.
Speaker 9: What they're gonna do is gonna use this. Do you
Speaker 9: have more kinds of finds? Drive them out of business.
Speaker 9: They can't make their expenses, they will abandon the properties
Speaker 9: and the city will take it over. Now, let me
Speaker 9: ask you a question, bad landlord, what's the worst landlord
Speaker 9: than the housing said?
Speaker 1: That exactly happened to be a husted when it comes
Speaker 1: acidic capitalist, and I don't like having a board. I
Speaker 1: don't even like the board in the first place, even
Speaker 1: if it's stacked with better people. I don't like the idea.
Speaker 1: But the free market decide. All right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break right now. This is the last day of
Speaker 1: the Cats and Company takeover of Sid and Friends in
Speaker 1: the morning. We're gonna make the most of it. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of really great guests coming up, and
Speaker 1: we are going to continue to show you why it
Speaker 1: is not compassionate.
Speaker 4: To have the government so called freeze rents.
Speaker 10: And Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red
Speaker 10: Apple Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: A lot of news going on again today. We're you know,
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned Venezuela, which was, of course a huge
Speaker 1: top story and can remains that. Those twin earthquakes on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: By the way, one of the picture former picture for
Speaker 1: the Mets was in the worst basically placed you can
Speaker 1: possibly be when an earthquake happens, Osemhia. He was in
Speaker 1: an elevator. You really don't want to be in an
Speaker 1: elevator when there's a massive earthquake.
Speaker 4: But he marrived his life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it turned out okay for him, relatively so,
Speaker 1: of course. But right now the death tolls something around
Speaker 1: three hundred, a little bit, but there are still thousands,
Speaker 1: thousands missing. There's going to be a lot of humanitarian
Speaker 1: aid requests and discussions about what's going on in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Venezuela's lucky that the United States
Speaker 1: has its hands around it right now, because it's going
Speaker 1: to make it a lot easier.
Speaker 5: The United States has his hand its hands around any
Speaker 5: disaster around the world.
Speaker 1: But even before this has asked the fact that we
Speaker 1: extradited Maduro the the illegal dictator of Venezuela.
Speaker 4: I can't say that enough.
Speaker 1: I can't stand when the mainstream media calls him the president,
Speaker 1: like he was elected by the electoral college or something.
Speaker 7: He was.
Speaker 5: Never call him the president, Yeah, the dictate, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Why don't we just call him el Hefe or you know,
Speaker 1: the patron or whatever you want to call him.
Speaker 4: But he was not a real legitimate leader.
Speaker 1: And uh so, the United States is a little bit
Speaker 1: more involved in Venezuela than it would have been a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago. And I think that this is
Speaker 1: something that could end up saving lives. The fact that
Speaker 1: we're there now, there's not as many hoops to jump
Speaker 1: through to get the aid to get there. And America's
Speaker 1: allies a number of countries that are very good at
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff setting up field hospitals will have
Speaker 1: an e your time getting there. So there is a
Speaker 1: blessing something, a blessing involved with you.
Speaker 5: Know, the Venezuelan community here in New York, predominantly in Astoria,
Speaker 5: Long Island City, that general area.
Speaker 2: You know, we are here at WABC.
Speaker 5: Whatever you guys need, just reach out and we will
Speaker 5: support whatever efforts you have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and make it clear, you know, come on Fernando's Show,
Speaker 1: No Excuses at six pm, come on my programs at
Speaker 1: any program here and let us know what is needed.
Speaker 4: Because a lot of people we hear about him. What
Speaker 4: do I send money? Do I send supplies?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do I send you know, do I tell my
Speaker 1: friends who do these kinds of relief work. It's important
Speaker 1: And again, just as we were saying yesterday, it was
Speaker 1: so interesting John yesterday that we were hearing from so
Speaker 1: many people. Many of our guests who were talking about
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly talked about this, how if you go to
Speaker 1: the in the public school system, today and even a
Speaker 1: lot of the private schools, they teach our children about
Speaker 1: how terrible America is, how horrible a country this is.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, no one denies that we're
Speaker 1: the most charitable country in the world. No one denies
Speaker 1: that we motivate and mobilize quicker than anybody else. And
Speaker 1: that is why this story is doubly important, because the
Speaker 1: United States people are so charitable, and we are so
Speaker 1: willing to help, and we are able to do it,
Speaker 1: and most importantly for Nanda, we have the means with
Speaker 1: which to make that happen. It's not just a wish
Speaker 1: upon a star. We have the Peace Corps, we have
Speaker 1: these mobile hospitals that can be set up. We use
Speaker 1: the military for humanitarian aid all the time. The National
Speaker 1: Guard mostly does humanitarian aid. You know, for those of
Speaker 1: you who think they're just they're just there to back
Speaker 1: back us up in Iraq or whatever, that's not true.
Speaker 1: So it's it's you know, at the same day that
Speaker 1: we're hearing about how much America is hated, and it
Speaker 1: produces candidates like this Dariya Chevelia who hate America and
Speaker 1: want to wipe their hands on an American flag, like
Speaker 1: a napkin. We are reminded that this is a great country,
Speaker 1: charitable country.
Speaker 2: You know what she's not.
Speaker 5: She's still not a shoe in. She's a shoe in
Speaker 5: for the Democratic Socialist part.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But we have a candidate, Colomo Williams, who's a Republican
Speaker 5: running against her.
Speaker 4: Okay, you mean in that county.
Speaker 5: If the Republicans get behind him, it's possible that he does.
Speaker 6: We had a big discussion last night.
Speaker 7: The Democrats have to get behind him, the common sense Democrats,
Speaker 7: the black community has to get here.
Speaker 1: Here's James Carville saying that the Democrats, if Chevalier does
Speaker 1: win the general election, shouldn't see her in their caucus.
Speaker 4: Here's James Carvill. Listen to this.
Speaker 2: You can you hear this?
Speaker 11: Okay, come on, let's get real. And by the way,
Speaker 11: two of them, I don't think are even Democrats just
Speaker 11: shival lady. I don't They should not seat her in
Speaker 11: the caucus for her views totally against anything that any
Speaker 11: Democrat has. We believe in pluralism. She doesn't even believe
Speaker 11: in interracial daty. I mean, I don't think there's a
Speaker 11: place in the party. By the way, I'm not.
Speaker 6: Sure she wants.
Speaker 11: She wants to be a Democrat.
Speaker 4: You've lost, James Carville, You've lost, You've lost them.
Speaker 7: No, I think James Carvill has lost it completely, has
Speaker 7: lost that. He's right here, but he you know, you
Speaker 7: notice the words he uses. He fools the people. I
Speaker 7: want everybody to notice it.
Speaker 6: He fooled. We won't shouldn't sit it in the caucus.
Speaker 6: Doesn't mean anything, John Key, John is absolute.
Speaker 9: The key is you don't let her take a seat
Speaker 9: in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 4: But you can't.
Speaker 6: You don't have the right to do that. Actually, you
Speaker 6: do have the right to You don't give me a break.
Speaker 9: The House has the right to not seat somebody we're
Speaker 9: not qualified. The senator and the senator, yes, they don't have.
Speaker 6: To see somebody.
Speaker 4: Listen, it's a pre exposure.
Speaker 7: If you're take an IQ test with some of these
Speaker 7: people that got elected, I mean, are you going to
Speaker 7: convince people.
Speaker 6: In that that seen him.
Speaker 9: The fact is I would make the effort not to
Speaker 9: see her. And by the way, that story, I don't
Speaker 9: know if you folks have talked about it yet, but
Speaker 9: there's a story I don't know the validity of which
Speaker 9: is that there was foreign money went I into that
Speaker 9: campaign coming out of general.
Speaker 4: Have it right here.
Speaker 1: I have the SoundBite right here now for him. And
Speaker 1: we've been talking about Judge. To answer your question, we've
Speaker 1: been talking about for money. And when we talk about
Speaker 1: for money, uh, getting into our election is completely illegal.
Speaker 1: We've been thinking it's Connor or Iran or China. Well,
Speaker 1: it turns out this is a German Man, a member
Speaker 1: of the German government, explaining how they spent a lot
Speaker 1: of money on New York's elections.
Speaker 6: Listen to this.
Speaker 12: RLS NYC is part of the International Network, a Luxembourg
Speaker 12: foundation with Oxmook stift on RLS. RLS is a Berlin
Speaker 12: based foundation associated with Germany's Left Party, which is currently
Speaker 12: the third strongest party in the national parliament, the Bundestag.
Speaker 1: So the third largest party in Germany is funding illegally
Speaker 1: candidates as Democrats Socialist in New York City.
Speaker 7: You know what I keep saying, America is under attack
Speaker 7: and we have to wake up.
Speaker 4: And it's attacking not just with bombs or with drugs,
Speaker 4: but also with money.
Speaker 6: Let's find out what you do.
Speaker 7: The FBI needs a separate division just to go after
Speaker 7: these people and say enough is enough, because we're under attack.
Speaker 9: John's right, and let's find out how this money moved.
Speaker 9: Did she know about it? Did her campaign people know
Speaker 9: about it?
Speaker 7: Who's gonna invest wet that investigated? And look and not
Speaker 7: a fact. You know, somebody very close to me investigated.
Speaker 6: Act Blue. Okay. Act Blue was the big thing.
Speaker 7: Hundreds of millions of dollars came in to get get
Speaker 7: congress people elected, Democratic congress people.
Speaker 6: A person.
Speaker 7: You take a person that never that never ran for anything,
Speaker 7: and she got thirty five million dollars for me blue.
Speaker 2: Who's in jail?
Speaker 7: Okay, nobody's in jail. Okay, okay. But the FBI needs
Speaker 7: a separate division. And we have to America. This is
Speaker 7: a different kind of war that's being waged on America
Speaker 7: and the people have to realize it and center Brella.
Speaker 7: I was at your event last night where you had
Speaker 7: the Republican state chair people, and tell people what I
Speaker 7: said last night.
Speaker 3: You tell well, first of all, you get you really
Speaker 3: lit up the room. Thank you for being there. But
Speaker 3: you know you ended with that we cannot demonize all
Speaker 3: the Democrats. But you did say and I think this
Speaker 3: is an important point is people came to this country
Speaker 3: like our ancestors, your grandfathers. They came here to be
Speaker 3: Americans because they loved America. They came here for opportunity,
Speaker 3: you know, my ancestors. And this is the story of America.
Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't you know, prior to America, how
Speaker 3: you were born was determined what your life was going
Speaker 3: to be. Okay, not in America. It doesn't matter where
Speaker 3: you were born, whether you have money, whether you have
Speaker 3: the right last name, you can be a success. Okay,
Speaker 3: and you know, mister Catsmeatidiz, you're the perfect example of that.
Speaker 3: But we have an insurgency. That's what this really is.
Speaker 3: It's an insurgency here in the United States. And the
Speaker 3: insurgency is those folks that are here because they don't
Speaker 3: like America. And that's what you're seeing with some of
Speaker 3: these candidates.
Speaker 6: And what happened was.
Speaker 7: You weren't here the last few days after listen, Bill
Speaker 7: Clinton was a pro America, loved America president. After the
Speaker 7: next president after that, President Obama, next Democratic president, that's Democrat.
Speaker 7: That's that's where it started. That's where it started being
Speaker 7: anti American. And we were talking about it the last
Speaker 7: few days that seventy percent of the Democrats maybe more.
Speaker 6: I don't know. Loved America pre President Obama? And now
Speaker 6: what is it?
Speaker 7: Down to twenty nine? And the number was even high?
Speaker 7: Who loved America under attack? How is it under attack?
Speaker 7: It's under attack by political means. But what's happening? Foreign
Speaker 7: money going into our political system? Number two drugs, Yes,
Speaker 7: they are feeding drugs and killing our kids.
Speaker 4: I'm not for profit, but to kill us.
Speaker 7: One hundred thousand dollars. One hundred thousand Americans died every
Speaker 7: year in twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five.
Speaker 7: I mean, stop already.
Speaker 4: It's like two Vietnam Wars every year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no more than that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just fifty nine thousand died in Vietnam.
Speaker 7: It's like a seven thirty seven going down every day. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 7: So you got drugs, you got foreign influences in these
Speaker 7: paid actors that that that create scenes, and all the
Speaker 7: broadcasting companies broadcasted and America thinks it's their way of life.
Speaker 5: This is all making sense to me personally right now.
Speaker 5: It's coming together, and it's coming together here at the
Speaker 5: sid Rosenberg Show, and it's amazing.
Speaker 2: You show, Earth Wind and Fire. Listen, this is coming together.
Speaker 6: The immigrants will create a new show like that. You know,
Speaker 6: the influx, the influence, wind and fire.
Speaker 4: Listen, and we'll start it in September.
Speaker 5: Listen, the influx of immigrants, the influx of foreign money
Speaker 5: all comes together and it makes sense.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 2: You know, all these illegal immigrants that came.
Speaker 5: During Obama and Biden and all of that, plus all
Speaker 5: that foreign money coming in.
Speaker 2: Now they're putting it to use with the people that came.
Speaker 6: Into the country.
Speaker 7: Listen, all these schmucky Democrats that were attacking President Trump
Speaker 7: for shooting down the Venezuelan boats that were bringing drugs
Speaker 7: to America, Give me a brain.
Speaker 2: It is ridiculous, Give me a break. Ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Finally they got that boat has there's enough vetinol or
Speaker 7: drugs to kill ten thousand.
Speaker 4: Kids, oh more than that, and.
Speaker 7: We shoot it down, and the Democrats say, oh, let's
Speaker 7: put trumpet jail.
Speaker 6: I mean, give me a break.
Speaker 1: And guess where their funding is coming from some of
Speaker 1: these drug cartels. You know again, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: almost nothing is said.
Speaker 7: In China gang were funding the Mexican gangs to bring
Speaker 7: the fetanoyl in and somebody. Historians say the Chinese were
Speaker 7: getting even before the opio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean you use by the way, you
Speaker 1: know we joke around in here. You think that Jews
Speaker 1: played the victim card a lot, or Black Spans. The
Speaker 1: Chinese government plays the victim card better than anybody. They
Speaker 1: believe everyone has victimized them for hundreds of years and
Speaker 1: that thus they have no moral obligations to anyone, and
Speaker 1: that includes Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain, France and
Speaker 1: John's exactly right. You know this isn't like the Miami
Speaker 1: vice drug dealer of the eighties. The Chinese supplying this,
Speaker 1: They're not looking to make money off of this, They're
Speaker 1: looking to kill us, exactly right.
Speaker 6: That's it now.
Speaker 9: The Mexican cart tells are earning money business yea, Chinese, the.
Speaker 4: Chinese and the killing business.
Speaker 1: And you know it's it's all kidding aside this and
Speaker 1: you know this isn't anything new our founding fathers, but
Speaker 1: even after that understood with the creation of some of
Speaker 1: our fell apartments exactly the different ways that a country
Speaker 1: can be attacked. It's not just with bombs and with guns.
Speaker 1: The Secret Service used to be very much involved in
Speaker 1: combating counterfeiting because if you put counterfeit currency into into
Speaker 1: an economy, you destroy that economy. I thought one of
Speaker 1: the worst decisions, speaking of George W. Bush worst decisions,
Speaker 1: was putting the Secret Service under the under the auspices
Speaker 1: of the Homeland Security Department.
Speaker 4: That was a terrible thing.
Speaker 1: The Treasury Department is not perfect, but compared to the
Speaker 1: other agencies in DC, it's pretty darn good. And I
Speaker 1: wanted this Secret Service to remain part of Treasury.
Speaker 7: That's what I still don't understand. I mean, I want
Speaker 7: every American actor to know this. This IRS executive director
Speaker 7: was the.
Speaker 4: Name under Obama. Under Obama, Lewis Learning Lowist Learner.
Speaker 7: Tell the people what she did. She she never went
Speaker 7: to jail, and she never spent and she never got fined.
Speaker 4: And I say you, I was running Larry Cutlers Show.
Speaker 1: It seem to see when the scandal broke, Lowis Learner
Speaker 1: was deliberately going after right wing organizations that were legitimately
Speaker 1: not for profit andwganizing them, taking away they're not for profit,
Speaker 1: their tax status, et cetera, et cetera. And it was
Speaker 1: proven beyond a shadow of doubt that she was doing
Speaker 1: this for political reasons. She and we thought at the
Speaker 1: Cutlow Show. This is going to be a big ratings grabber.
Speaker 1: We thought everyone was going to pay attention. Well they didn't.
Speaker 1: She got away with it. She was never prosecuted. She's
Speaker 1: fine and dandy now and she was just a tip
Speaker 1: of the iceberg.
Speaker 4: John. There were a lot of other people that it was.
Speaker 9: Worse about what happened with Loewis Lerner.
Speaker 6: She was born.
Speaker 9: Before the Congressional committee, she read a statement saying how
Speaker 9: wonderful she was and denying everything. Then when they started
Speaker 9: to ask your questions, she took the Fifth Amendment. Now,
Speaker 9: let me give you some basic Fifth Amendment law. As
Speaker 9: soon as you give up any information, you say anything,
Speaker 9: you've waived the privilege. And they never went after her
Speaker 9: for contempt of Congress, and they should have.
Speaker 1: Nobody on this panel takes the Fifth including for Nanda Mateo.
Speaker 1: We're going to hear from him when we come back
Speaker 1: after this time.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to explode. We should skip the commercial breaks here, Sid.
Speaker 10: And Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple podcast Network.
Speaker 4: All joking aside.
Speaker 1: Really, we have a lot of listeners who because the
Speaker 1: Sit in Friends show in Israel is around lunchtime and
Speaker 1: it's a good time to sit down. Israeli still sit
Speaker 1: down and read a paper, listen to the radio. They
Speaker 1: actually do that in that country. They don't eat at
Speaker 1: their desks so much. It's not a thing. And Sid
Speaker 1: met a lot of our listeners there, so he wasn't
Speaker 1: exactly taking time off from WABC. But I'm here with
Speaker 1: John cas Matteite's our owner operator for Nando Matteo, Judge
Speaker 1: Richard Weinberg, and our special guest today, State Senator George
Speaker 1: Verroh is also a spokesman for the Republican Party and
Speaker 1: state senator. We were just talking in the break. James
Speaker 1: Carbon might say.
Speaker 4: It's just three, it's just rad destractually, I might come out.
Speaker 4: But the fact is.
Speaker 1: These primary results are creating more traction for Jakim Jeffries
Speaker 1: and Senator Schumer to be replaced as Democrat leaders in
Speaker 1: the House and Senate, respectively. I don't think that that's
Speaker 1: too far fetch. People might look at those guys and
Speaker 1: say they're the old guard.
Speaker 3: Well, there's no doubt about. First of all, Schumer has
Speaker 3: had a target on his back for a long time.
Speaker 3: You know, AOC obviously wants that job. Of course, she
Speaker 3: thinks she can be president. You know, she's not qualified
Speaker 3: to run anything. But that being said, you know, look,
Speaker 3: the Democrat Party, on top of moving far to the
Speaker 3: left and on top of becoming you know, socialist, is
Speaker 3: also a huge and identity politics. It's about the color
Speaker 3: of your skin. It's about what your religion is. It's
Speaker 3: about your gender or your gender fluidity, which.
Speaker 6: Isn't a thing.
Speaker 3: You know, this is what the Democrat Party to come about. So,
Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer, you're an old, straight white guy. You're a
Speaker 3: dinosaur in the party. You are an endangered species. And
Speaker 3: now so and this is the stuff he's supported. Okay,
Speaker 3: he has been all behind this woke agenda, this DEI.
Speaker 3: He's pushed all of that, and now he's gonna become
Speaker 3: a victim of.
Speaker 4: It, creating a monster.
Speaker 1: No, but what about Hakim Jeffries. He's a relatively young
Speaker 1: African American man. Why is he a Fernanda? Why is
Speaker 1: he under the gun?
Speaker 5: You know how King Jeffries is like a follower. Really
Speaker 5: he's he may be one day the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 5: which you know, I really don't. I hope it doesn't.
Speaker 4: Happen, God forbid. Got to learn that term.
Speaker 5: So why should he be so listen. My my take
Speaker 5: on Hakeem Jeffries is he's very like insecure. He's lost
Speaker 5: a huge chunk of his power here in New York City.
Speaker 5: It seems like if Zorn Mandami is really the leader
Speaker 5: of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialist Party here
Speaker 5: in New York, and it's time for Jeffries and Schumer
Speaker 5: to really open up for you know, for someone new
Speaker 5: to come.
Speaker 1: In well as a Republican or mostly I'm not really
Speaker 1: a Republican operative.
Speaker 4: I'm certainly not an elected.
Speaker 1: Official, but as a conservative, I would like for the
Speaker 1: American people to see who the Democrats really are, and
Speaker 1: the Democrats are not Truck. I mean, listen, Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: is one of my least favorite people in Congress. He
Speaker 1: sat next he sat next city in my high school
Speaker 1: graduation because I was did he elbow you no? But
Speaker 1: back then, Chuck Schumer had the loudest voice, by the way,
Speaker 1: in DC. The man never needed a microphone. It's not
Speaker 1: as loud anymore, thank god. But I'd really dislike him,
Speaker 1: his policies. I don't know him personally, so I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say anything personal about it.
Speaker 9: What we need to know about Chuck Schumer, is that
Speaker 9: the Obama deal that he cut with Iran, which sold
Speaker 9: out America, Western civilization, our allies in the Middle East.
Speaker 9: He let it happen, right, He could have stopped it.
Speaker 9: And the legislative process business is center knows is something
Speaker 9: called being let off the hook. So when you have
Speaker 9: enough votes to get something through, so he let you
Speaker 9: vote the other way so you can go back to
Speaker 9: your constituents. Look at me, I vote against it. The
Speaker 9: fact of the matter is he was the leader of
Speaker 9: the Democrats. He could have said, no, mister President, this
Speaker 9: is a bad deal. It's bad for America, it's bad
Speaker 9: for Western civilization. But Schumer went into the tank. Let
Speaker 9: Obama cut that deal with Carrie, the worst deal. And
Speaker 9: President Trump has to unravel that worst deal that threatens Western.
Speaker 1: And judge there were some Democrats, including my congresswoman at
Speaker 1: the time, Kathleen Rice, who were courageous enough to say
Speaker 1: that she basically lost her job because of it. She
Speaker 1: stood up to Obama on the Iron Deals, she stood
Speaker 1: up to Pelosi on getting new blood into the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: She's she's not in politics anymore so.
Speaker 6: Democrat, and nobody even knows her name. Anymore. I've forgotten
Speaker 6: her name completely until.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was a yawning good why moderate Democrat.
Speaker 7: That's why people say I want to run for Congress
Speaker 7: to make a difference. The leadership makes the decisions, and
Speaker 7: people have to realize that the leadership makes the decisions,
Speaker 7: and everybody goes down long for the ride. Otherwise, what
Speaker 7: happened to Kathleen Rice happens to them.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're ex communicated from you don't get.
Speaker 1: And there's no such thing as a non religious person.
Speaker 1: The most religious people I meet every day are far
Speaker 1: left Democrats who don't want to have a conversation, who
Speaker 1: don't want I mean, I had much easier time growing
Speaker 1: up in the South among evangelical Christians, and I do
Speaker 1: talking to some environmental radicals or some of these anti
Speaker 1: Israel radicals who are.
Speaker 4: Absolutely like religion. They're true, true believer. I'm a member
Speaker 4: of their true remaining cult in the world. I gave
Speaker 4: it the office. I know a cult.
Speaker 1: I know it's a member of a cult when I
Speaker 1: see one. And these people are like, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 5: They don't do business, do they for Listen, Jake, when
Speaker 5: we had hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, landing in
Speaker 5: New York City. Chuck Schumer was the head of the
Speaker 5: US said it the majority. What did he do to
Speaker 5: help the Adams administration? Right, what did he do to
Speaker 5: bring funding to New York? What did he do to
Speaker 5: help New York City? No one's asked that question.
Speaker 9: He'll cover it up for the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if he covered up, you know what, he
Speaker 2: doesn't belong in New York.
Speaker 1: City and state Senator George BURRELLO, he's still supposed to
Speaker 1: be the Senator of New York State.
Speaker 4: Did he do anything for your districts, for your part
Speaker 4: of the state.
Speaker 3: Well, when it comes to these kind of things. Also,
Speaker 3: you start talking about the Miagrant crisis. You had literally
Speaker 3: had people that were flown here on private jets by
Speaker 3: the Biden administration. And then they go after you know,
Speaker 3: the governor Texas for putting some people on a bus.
Speaker 3: But that accounted for you know, I think the number
Speaker 3: was thirty or forty percent of the total. Most of
Speaker 3: those folks were brought here by the Biden administration. They
Speaker 3: chose to come here, uh you purposely?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So, and where was Chuck Schumer just to stand at
Speaker 3: the you know, at the tents of.
Speaker 2: The state and say stop, you're hurting our city.
Speaker 7: They did the opposite. They stood at the bus come on,
Speaker 7: we come on in, Come on in coffee, and here's
Speaker 7: an extra coffee. Here's your phone, and here's yourself. Here's
Speaker 7: your cell phone, and here's a credit card, and here's.
Speaker 2: A four hundred dollars room of hotel where you're gonna stay.
Speaker 3: I mean, and let's not forget the nng o's okay,
Speaker 3: all these government into organizations that came in here and
Speaker 3: created a lot of chaos. They told these folks, look,
Speaker 3: if they're not giving you cultural appropriate food, you throw
Speaker 3: it back in their face. I mean, you know, we
Speaker 3: we wasted. I can't tell you how many millions of
Speaker 3: pounds of food that went to waste here in New
Speaker 3: York State.
Speaker 6: We won't need it.
Speaker 9: Yes, if you walk by the Rooseveant Hotel just a
Speaker 9: few blocks from the studio and you saw what was
Speaker 9: going on there, they made it a third.
Speaker 2: World It was a disaster.
Speaker 1: Also the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side of
Speaker 1: some of these and by some of the hotel owners
Speaker 1: were okay with it because with the COVID, you know,
Speaker 1: the COVID lockdowns. They wanted to make some of their
Speaker 1: money back. I mean they just they twisted the knife
Speaker 1: there in a way. We got to take a break.
Speaker 1: We got a lot coming up. In the next half hour.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from kat manor McFarland. We also hear
Speaker 1: from Ari Fleischer, the former White House spokesperson, and Nana
Speaker 1: Mateo is going to remind us that he has a
Speaker 1: show with six pm on.
Speaker 10: No Excuses, Sid and Friends in the morning on the
Speaker 10: Red Apple podcast.
Speaker 7: Net work for disclosure purposes. He's been my chief of
Speaker 7: staff in the last ten years. And George, we've been
Speaker 7: talking about the FBI between the six o'clock hour and
Speaker 7: the seven o'clock hour, and we said that America is
Speaker 7: under attack. We have drugs coming in from all over
Speaker 7: the place, one form of attack, another form of attack,
Speaker 7: politics wise, money, foreign money possibly coming in affecting one elections.
Speaker 7: But we're under attack in so many different ways than
Speaker 7: we were thirty years ago, twenty years ago. And you're
Speaker 7: with the FBI, you run the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation. Besides,
Speaker 7: you talk to all law enforcement. Give us your evaluation, Johnny,
Speaker 7: you can't be more right. And it's been going on
Speaker 7: for years, this whole foreign influence of America. It goes
Speaker 7: on a number of different levels. You know, you have
Speaker 7: the campaigns. You know, they've been influencing campaigns with money,
Speaker 7: not to say influence with voting, but money, and and
Speaker 7: it's it's a it's an American problem on both sides,
Speaker 7: you know. And the problem is the problem is, and
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be real frank here, the politicians like the money.
Speaker 13: They need the money. The way campaigns are run, money
Speaker 13: is essential to get elected. And we see it here
Speaker 13: and they don't. You know, they're not really keen on
Speaker 13: attacking the money. I'm telling you right now because we've
Speaker 13: experienced this personally and it has to be done.
Speaker 6: We have to.
Speaker 13: They're attacking us on money levels. Economically, they're attacking us.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 13: New York City is a perfect example. The reason the
Speaker 13: prices are so high in New York City is because
Speaker 13: foreign money. I'll give you an example. I have a
Speaker 13: son who's looking to change apartments in Manhattan. I was,
Speaker 13: I was at open house yesterday. I was the only
Speaker 13: English English weak in person looking at that apartment. And
Speaker 13: that apartment, as of this morning, has gone up almost
Speaker 13: one thousand dollars in rent in the bidding war on rents,
Speaker 13: and it's foreigners that are pushing it up because they
Speaker 13: come here with a lot of money. All the rich
Speaker 13: foreigners are coming here. But that's good for you know,
Speaker 13: that's good for economy. So you can't fight that. But
Speaker 13: when it comes to elections, I'm telling you they are
Speaker 13: influencing and and their influence in both sides that they
Speaker 13: want us to kill each other and they and they're succeeding.
Speaker 13: The hate is that the is running rapid right now
Speaker 13: and they successfully pitted American against American. Yeah, it's and
Speaker 13: it's we got to all wake up soon because you know,
Speaker 13: writing everything is Democrat, Republican, Democrat Republican. No, we're Americans.
Speaker 13: Nobody's voting American first. Everybody's voting party first because they're
Speaker 13: trying to keep that power. And I don't know when
Speaker 13: we wake up, but if we don't wake up soon,
Speaker 13: I'm telling you we're gonna lose our country. And what
Speaker 13: you guys are saying is true. We're gonna we lose
Speaker 13: our country and they're laughing at us.
Speaker 1: George Bevanzailas, I wonder if you could help me dig
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper into this when you talked about
Speaker 1: you because you mentioned the candidates needing the money because
Speaker 1: the way campaigns are expensive. But did you ever see
Speaker 1: evidence of what I also think is going on here,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, a candidate gets all this money
Speaker 1: and campaign funds, but the way that they can turn
Speaker 1: that into personal funds is they hire friends and relatives
Speaker 1: as their campaign staff. There was a Republican Tom Delay
Speaker 1: who got nailed for this. He put his wife and
Speaker 1: his daughter as his campaign chairman, so and paid them
Speaker 1: ridiculous salaries. So this isn't just about oh, I have
Speaker 1: an expensive campaign and I want to run a relection.
Speaker 1: It's also about lining their pockets.
Speaker 13: Personally one hundred percent. And that's happening a lot. And
Speaker 13: you know, and again we we gotta, we gotta have
Speaker 13: gained the stomach to go against this. We have to,
Speaker 13: you know, and like you, everybody's been saying, but saying
Speaker 13: it all week here until somebody goes to jail, You're
Speaker 13: not gonna stop it.
Speaker 6: George.
Speaker 7: You've been in law enforcement for over thirty years, you know,
Speaker 7: retired plus after retirement.
Speaker 6: Why, I mean, why doesn't anybody go to jail? I
Speaker 6: mean I don't understand it.
Speaker 13: That John, That that is something has baffled me for years,
Speaker 13: and a lot of it is you know, you know,
Speaker 13: I don't want to make excuses, but a lot of
Speaker 13: it has to do with the prosecution. You know, you
Speaker 13: can investigate all you want. If they're not going to
Speaker 13: prosecute it, then you're wasting your time. We got to
Speaker 13: get an appetite, like, for example, what's going on now
Speaker 13: with the Medicaid fraud, the healthcare fraud that's been going
Speaker 13: on for years, that's been now they finally have put
Speaker 13: a really good fusion team together to go after that,
Speaker 13: and we're getting a lot of results. They need to
Speaker 13: do the same for the foreign influence of our country.
Speaker 7: Oh well, well, I want to say, Judge Richard Weinberg,
Speaker 7: you've been in law enforcement for one hundred years too.
Speaker 2: I mean, have you seen one hundred years?
Speaker 6: But you look great.
Speaker 4: I'm killing the people and making them older. That's what's
Speaker 4: going on here on this.
Speaker 9: I went yesterday seventy eight to one hundred.
Speaker 7: Judge, Yes, sir, have you seen a significant decrease of
Speaker 7: fraud situations going to.
Speaker 9: Jail When my first job out of law squid is
Speaker 9: a law clerk to federal judge and had an official
Speaker 9: corruption unit. And you go into the office and you
Speaker 9: see the pictures of all the politicians literally, George and John.
Speaker 9: They had these people's pictures there, and they're always looking
Speaker 9: at them to see if there's a way of making
Speaker 9: a case. And as George points out, unless the US
Speaker 9: attorneys or the state ags or the das think they
Speaker 9: have a slam down case, they're not going to go
Speaker 9: for it because they're worried about their win loss record
Speaker 9: and they don't want to expend resources unless they know
Speaker 9: they can they can win.
Speaker 7: It's like the FBI in other day said to me
Speaker 7: when they have that case situate with the former chief
Speaker 7: of staff to the mayor, Eric Adams, is unless we
Speaker 7: think we have a ninety five percent chance of.
Speaker 6: Convicting, we don't take the case, you know.
Speaker 13: And that's something that's in the federal system doesn't like
Speaker 13: they take chances, especially in the corruption arena, because if
Speaker 13: you don't win, it works against you, then it's like, oh,
Speaker 13: they're going after them because it's a politics. So the
Speaker 13: you know what, yep, politician being a politicians become big business.
Speaker 13: Do a do a net worth of a person before
Speaker 13: they go in, especially in this city here with some
Speaker 13: of these people, and then look at them. You know,
Speaker 13: ten twenty years later, you know the money the may
Speaker 13: and they're not making on their salaries, salaries.
Speaker 9: In Congressman House, the Center. Look at the presidents, Yeah,
Speaker 9: look at the presidence. How do these people walk out
Speaker 9: of the presidency multimillion dollars.
Speaker 4: Except Trump who actually, after his first term was lost,
Speaker 4: had lost money.
Speaker 9: But the fact of the matter is this was camerack
Speaker 9: cash cash cow.
Speaker 2: Listen, politics is the most business.
Speaker 7: Harry Truman, Harry Truman took the train back after he became.
Speaker 6: Tro back.
Speaker 9: He actually.
Speaker 2: He wasn't born.
Speaker 1: The David McCullough book talks also about how even after
Speaker 1: he was president, he turned down lucrative offers Toyota offered
Speaker 1: Truman at the time. This is like nineteen sixty millions
Speaker 1: of dollars to endorse Toyota, and he wouldn't do it.
Speaker 9: And he wouldn't eve write it. Last he would't even
Speaker 9: write a book to make money.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 13: Books They formed these foundations, yeah, right, foundations, retirement life.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Read all David mcculla's books. By the way, the Truman
Speaker 1: book a very good one.
Speaker 4: Look, we also have tax laws.
Speaker 1: When Richard Nixon was vice president and lost the presidency
Speaker 1: in nineteen six the election nineteen sixty, he donated, quote
Speaker 1: donated his vice presidential papers, which, in my opinion, in
Speaker 1: the public property.
Speaker 4: He's doing it in his office.
Speaker 1: By he donated into the National Archives and wrote off
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty dollars five hundred thousand dollars and basically
Speaker 1: never paid personal taxes almost ever again because of that,
Speaker 1: because that was his deduction carried over year over year.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are so many scams, Fernando. If it's
Speaker 1: if we're electing, to believe me, the dirty people will
Speaker 1: find dirty ways.
Speaker 5: You know, Listen, there's a lot of very honest elected officials.
Speaker 2: You know, we have years right here, Sator.
Speaker 6: Senator.
Speaker 4: By the way, all of the silverware has been counted,
Speaker 4: set at a barrella.
Speaker 14: You're in the clear.
Speaker 4: You're in the clear now.
Speaker 5: So you know, listen, I ran for mayor of New
Speaker 5: York City and I had to raise money, and to
Speaker 5: be quite honest with you, I was very careful about
Speaker 5: how I accepted money and who I accepted it from.
Speaker 5: Why Because I have a lot more to lose personally,
Speaker 5: I'm a very wealthy person. Not as wealthy as John,
Speaker 5: but I'm wealthy and I've worked very hard my entire life. Right,
Speaker 5: I don't have a high school. I never graduated high
Speaker 5: school because I was working to help some want my family.
Speaker 5: But a lot of the poor politicians like es Bayat
Speaker 5: to name a few, and these people that run in
Speaker 5: these poor neighborhoods, they need money and they're gonna take
Speaker 5: money from whoever gives it to them. And if they
Speaker 5: don't get caught, they got away with it. And most
Speaker 5: of them get away with it. But you know, the
Speaker 5: key to success when you're running for office is cash.
Speaker 2: It's money.
Speaker 5: They take cash, they take bonds, they take food stamps,
Speaker 5: don't take whatever you give them.
Speaker 9: You have even worse system in New York City, and
Speaker 9: now you have in New York State this so called
Speaker 9: campaign financial laws, which most to make the system more
Speaker 9: honest public. Yeah, it's awful, It's absolutely awful. New York
Speaker 9: City is a to one, so you encourage people who
Speaker 9: have no chance at all and have no message and
Speaker 9: no intention to serve the people running e to one money,
Speaker 9: which is exactly why after Curtis Sleeber made all that money,
Speaker 9: all that deal, having all his friends and family on
Speaker 9: the payroll when he ran for mayor, when he should
Speaker 9: have gotten out of the race. Stop mont DOMI I've
Speaker 9: announced that I'm running for mayor next time out.
Speaker 6: I get some of that.
Speaker 5: Speaking about Curtis, you know, rest in peace, Curtis, Sit
Speaker 5: in company.
Speaker 2: Have you underground, my friend? And with this show this week,
Speaker 2: you're done.
Speaker 1: Last word to State Senator George Verrella, who has not
Speaker 1: taken any of our money in the last few minutes.
Speaker 9: That's exactly they paid for the cup of coffee I
Speaker 9: did did.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's all any other campaign contribution. Last word to you, Well, look,
Speaker 3: you know there is no doubt that that money influences
Speaker 3: things in politics.
Speaker 6: It has to.
Speaker 3: But the system is set up that way, including the
Speaker 3: public campaign finance system. Okay, there are a lot of
Speaker 3: people that profit at the at the expense the taxpayers
Speaker 3: and the people, because whether the person wins or loses,
Speaker 3: they make profit. This was designed for consultants to profit.
Speaker 3: That's really what it comes down to.
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