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0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is Governor David Pattison and he’s with us every Sunday morning to find out where the heck we are in democratic politics or the world. Governor Pattison Way the heck lolli Well John.

0:15 Speaker 2 In the last three weeks, we’ve had a pretty tumultuous period, starting with the October seventh attackle on Hamas by the forces of evil from you know and others. And then when it Israel prize to defend itself. They tell them that they keep firing, they’re going to kill hostages. Then they release a few hostages, so they treated well to

0:41 get them to say that they really weren’t bad people. So we went through that. We’ve had four votes for the Speaker of the House. They finally selected Congressman Michael Johnson from Louisiana. You have to go back to the to the nineteenth century to find someone who had been in the House for a shorter period of time and

1:01 became the speaker. But hopefully this will provide some direction to try and get the debt straightened out over the next month. And then we had a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night, which opens the door to the fact that this particular individual did seek mental health. He spent two weeks in a mental health facility and they

1:31 let him out. But they don’t have any red flags. They can’t take his guns away from him. But we’ll be curious to find out if they ever even asked him if he’d give up his weapons because he said he was hearing voices. I mean, you could regress in a heartbeat when you’ve had that kind of mental problem.

1:49 But in all of this, Mayor Adams has made the statement, we are out of room relating to New York City’s ability to pick up a cost for migrant care, and he assesses the cost itself at three hundred and ninety four dollars a day for each household per day, and that translates into two hundred and forty five million dollars

2:17 that’s been spent since his migrant crisis started. And he is in a position right now where he’s talking about bringing out tents for migrants, which is really the last safety net. I mean, after a tent, you’re just sitting on the ground by yourself. And at the same time, he’s legally required to provide service to if there’s public

2:41 homelessness so he’s in a between a rock and a hard place. And Adams, I really think deserves some compliment here from all New Yorkers because he’s gone against what has been basically the policy that has existed in New York City politics of you know, always finding a place for immigrants or migrants or homeless or people with mental

3:08 health difficulties. He’s the one who’s coming out and saying we have no place for them. And other than help that he’s received from Governor Hochel, which is very good, but not nearly enough New York City. After all these other situations that have gone on in the past weeks, including the protests in New York City, New York City

3:27 has got a whole lot of problems right now.

3:30 Speaker 1 I understand. And somebody had said to Governor Hockle and to David Pattison, you can’t invite eight billion people that are on Earth to New York. So he’s absolutely you know, the governor and the mayor is right, you can’t invite everybody.

3:49 I think Mayor Adams has done far beyond the call of duty already. So I mean, you know, they shouldn’t accept the buses.

3:57 Speaker 2 And I like the quote when he says, we’re out of room. It’s not like we don’t wish we had room, it’s that we’re out of room. And everybody’s pinned to a hotel or a motel at some point and they tell you we’re out of room. That’s the final statement that gets made on these situations unless there’s some significant

4:18 help that’s going to come from the federal government, who seems to think that everybody that there’s room for everyone in New York City.

4:27 Speaker 1 Understood. And it’s a serious problem. I mean, the other serious problem we have, and I heard Bill O’Reilly talk about it the other day, a guns. Everybody’s trying to blame the guns, but it seems like the criminals and the crazies and the bad people always have the guns.

4:50 It’s the legitimate people that they want to take the guns away from.

4:54 Speaker 2 Yeah, And what’s kind of sad about the situation Lewis and Maine is that this guy was at one point an arms expert in the military. He taught other people how to use guns. Apparently he must have had some sort of intervention, And what at least he did is he did seek mental health. But if a person can

5:17 flip out and start hearing voices to tell him to shoot up the military base, and then in the end he goes and shoots up a bowling alley and a bar and a store. It demonstrates that there’s got to be some capacity for the psychiatric evaluators to make a decision even if there’s no red flag. Is there’s no

5:40 red flag in Maine, but and you can see why they don’t have these types of crimes or basically ever, the only time I ever heard of Lewiston, Maine was when Sonny listened and Muhammad Ali had a fight there at nineteen sixty five. But the issue is that there’s got to be more of an opportunity for us to

5:59 stop people who we know are having this difficulty and at least wait have them wait six months, not two weeks before we let them out, not even knowing whether or not they still have the weapons.

6:13 Speaker 1 I think it’s an important issue, the sanity issue, and if you leave these people on the streets and not in hospitals, the issue about guns taking them away from legitimate people, especially a lot of the Israelis, Governor Patterson, if they had guns to defend themselves, maybe their families would not have died.

6:40 Speaker 2 And the first thing a lot of the people when they heard yeah right, I was just going to say that. The first thing that a lot of people that you know, you saw being interviewed Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, said that as soon as they heard that there was a mass shooting, they went and loaded their firearms and their handguns.

7:00 And that’s exactly what they should do because of the being told to you know, stay in place. They have to be able to defend their property. And these are not the people we’re looking for. We’re looking for the people who are hardened criminals or people who have mental health issues that have caused them to become unnecessarily violent

7:21 and with equipped with firearms.

7:24 Speaker 1 I agree. Uh, we just have to have some common sense prevail. We’ve talked about firearms, we talked about Maine, we talked about well, is there anything else on a Sunday morning you want to get off your chest?

7:43 Speaker 2 Well, I think that it should be very interesting to see now how the House operates with the new speaker Congress and Michael Johnson from Louisiana, he was he was willing enough to make concessions to get some of them more moderate Republicans particularly six of them from Long Island to support him. And now the question will be can

8:08 they get together with the Democrats and create a spending plan that sends aid to Israel and let’s not forget sending aid to the Ukraine, and also perhaps we can use to start to offset our debt a little bit.

8:23 If we could do something like that next month, it would be a real uptick in government responsibility.

8:31 Speaker 1 Governor David Patterson, thank you for your input and everybody loves to listen to you on a Sunday morning because you have a lot of common sense. Thank you so much.

8:42 Speaker 2 Well, thank you. Take care of John