Iran Tensions and Fan Violence Raise Concerns

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0:30 Speaker 2 Sunday morning, Well, every Sunday, Governor David Patterson is with us to give us his opinion and his pulse of what’s going on in our city, state, country, the world. Well, Governor Pattison, what do you have in mind this Sunday morning.

0:44 Speaker 3 Well, let’s probably start with the biggest issue and one that affects most people, not just in this country but around the world, and that will be the peace talks in Iran. Now, if I were president, and I’m not suggesting that I should be, but I would have gotten rid of the mediation tactics of Pakistan who announce all Thursday,

1:08 how they have brought the parties together and everything’s being worked out, even probably the reason that President Trump at one thirty on Thursday afternoon said that the agreement has been reached and everyone’s rolling along, and then Iran comes in and basically says they didn’t agree to any of these things. And I think it’s a lesson for all

1:32 of us. John, It’s not just a lesson for the president. I think because we grow up in this great society where you can vote for people in elections, where you can go to schools of your choice, where you can compete in athletic competitions and become superstars like the Knicks, that we are shielded from the rest of the world.

1:52 Much of it is still living in the thirteenth century. In others, the idea that you ask someone to do something, they say they’ll do it, and then they lie in your face is the is the reason that we just can’t go forward understanding how bad it is trying to negotiate with entities like Iran and Uh.

2:15 Speaker 2 All those phones going off all the time, you.

2:17 Speaker 3 Know, UH calling to get me off the air.

2:22 Speaker 2 And Governor, I mean, I understand, but the problem in Iran is the way we talked about it the other day, and we talked about it last week, that there’s two factions in Iran. There are the intellectuals and there are the ones that want war, war, war, And depending on which day it is and which which portion of the

2:47 UH Iran UH of the Democrats or Republicans are the chimpanzees and the gorillas over whoever the two factions are in in Iran and who whoever I guess President Trump is negotiating with.

3:03 Speaker 3 Usually in these types of conflicts, it’s the side that is more prone toward violence or advocating war, or wanting to launch different types of weapons against the other countries. They’re the crowd that usually wins. And the reason is because the people who think about it, like you said, the intellectuals, they don’t actually have the facility to execute

3:28 what they’re thinking.

3:31 Speaker 2 Understood. And the price, you know, the prices are starting to go down again. But they should have never been WTI, which is the crude all in North America. North America never had any problems. There was no reason it should be one hundred dollars a barrel.

3:47 Speaker 3 No, there’s no reason that it should be. And I think that was what was driving a lot of people to think that we actually had a negotiating position. But when you’ve got Iran still playing games with the not just how they make the weapons, but the uh, the minerals and what they used to actually do, that is

4:09 a real uh problem because it’s hard to keep an eye on what someone else is doing when you don’t live there. And I think that’s why this exasperating condition condition is marching inexorably on and right now there’s no one has thought of a solution to us.

4:29 Speaker 2 Well. Bottom line is when the war is over, when the strait of Hormus is open, uh, what happens is it goes uh. Crude oil goes back to normal price, Gasoline goes back to normal price. And when there’s no excuse and you have a new fact, Chairman, that the price of gasoline is down, guess what, interest rates will

4:52 start to go down. But they the people have been keeping interest rates high, are using the temper price of one hundred dollars a barrel as an excuse not to go down.

5:05 Speaker 3 And that’s a shame, John, because really the business community is the one that’s the worst hurt when the prices go up along with consumer the.

5:14 Speaker 2 Consumers hurt, the people that buy gasoline every day to go to work or hurt. And that’s that’s what’s going on, and it’s wrong. The price of a crew all should not be that high. The world crude all produces I’m making an extra well, I don’t know the exact number. Well, let’s say four hundred billion, you know, a week a day.

5:46 I don’t know what it is. But they are cleaning up, and you know who’s getting poorer, The consumer is getting poorer. And there’s no reason the price should be at that point.

5:57 Speaker 3 Well, said John Now On another subject right here in New York City, the continuation of the National Basketball Association Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs. And this is the biggest week for the NBA because they were really could even couldn’t find a network to televise their final games ten or fifteen years ago. But

6:21 what’s kind of unfortunate is even when the home teams have won, and I really mean the Knicks, the bad behavior of individuals outside of Madison Square Garden and all up and down the streets, attacking the police, you know, beating up people of the other team’s uniform on and in this case, it was New York Knicks fans administering

6:45 that punishment. We’re going to have to insist, I think more and more, and I’m glad to see that Mayor Mumdonie didn’t just stand aside like nothing was going on. He did do some things to try to the lower the intensity of the situation. And I think that the owners of the Knicks and others have got to understand

7:08 that this cannot keep happening.

7:10 Speaker 2 Well, thank you so much, Governor Patterson, and let’s let’s talk again real soon.

7:15 Speaker 3 I hope so