DNC this week had big hopes for Democrats.

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, it’s Sunday. For me, it’s Sunday afternoon. For Governor Patterson, it’s Sunday morning. Well, Governor, I’m seven hours ahead of year. I am traveling. I’m in the Greek Islands and the sun is shining, and you’re in New York. Give us all an update, including me, because I haven’t been in New York in a while. Give us an update. What

0:26 the heck is going on?

0:28 Speaker 2 Well more and more, John, there are these conspicuous incidents involving crime. Now, I’m sure whatever indicators that the police have than the mayor has, and they say that crime is down, but you just hear these situations that you never heard before. Let’s start with last Tuesday. There was an eleven year old kid who mugged a woman on

0:56 the seven train. That’s the train that goes into Queens by the Jackson Hights stop, and he was accompanied by a seventeen year old youth. The woman was able to track her phone to the location I think it was the Roosevelt Hotel with the eleven year old was arrested. Now, this is the woman was injured, not seriously, but she

1:22 was injured. And this kind of activity, of course, anybody that hears it. The first thing that they noticed is that this is a migrant who is in the city. And to me, it’s a product of a bunch of people being sent here without the city having any time to adjust to it, and then telling him they had

1:46 to move sixty days later, which is re enacting the delivery to the city in the first place. So that is really pretty bad. Then on Thursday, there was an outdoor rally for the Harris Walls ticket. The Democrats and all the top Democratic officials were there. Mayor Adams spoke and afterward they retreated to a restaurant on one hundred

2:15 and forty sixth Street in Broadway called The Bird in the Hand, and these protesters broke into the restaurant and set off a smoke alarm, which totally made the situation almost riotous where people are trying.

2:32 Speaker 1 To get out of the way.

2:33 Speaker 2 Did somewhere between five and ten thousand dollars to a small business in Harlem, and we’re, you know, shouting at Kamala Harris over the situation that’s going on in the Middle East and in Gaza and calling her Bamola and all these things, and this anti social totally sort of riotous frame of mind seems to creep into our daily

3:03 lives more and more, and it’s really getting out hand.

3:08 Speaker 1 Now. One hundred and forty sixth and Broadway. It wasn’t that my cousin’s old restaurant, Petit Buddy?

3:17 Speaker 2 Yes, yes, it’s what’s in that spot now?

3:22 Speaker 1 I remember going to that restaurant forty fifty years ago.

3:28 Speaker 2 Yeah, and there was another restaurant.

3:31 Speaker 1 I threw out the Greeks. You threw out the Greeks from Harlem and brought in your own guys. Yeah, they had.

3:39 Speaker 2 A restaurant that replaced it sometimes, you know, years ago. But now you know, crime is caught up with that area as well.

3:52 Speaker 1 I mean, I just don’t understand it with this my Greek. See, it’s a crisis because a it’s like inviting people to our homes. And when the migrants commit crimes and we invited them to a home, it’s just not right. I mean, if somebody came to your home and committed a crime after you invited him as a guest, what would you do.

4:26 Speaker 2 Anybody would be pretty angry if something like that happened. See. One of the problems is that the migrants who were brought to this country are socioeconomically in the same condition where they were, which is what made them want to leave.

4:43 So instead of heading to the border because they already got over the border and they’re in New York now, instead of that, they’ve turned to trying to take things away from the people who lived where they are now being settled. And it’s just not going to work. It’s too many people. And not every migrant is a criminal,

5:04 and certainly the majority of them are not, but a sizeable number of people are acting in this kind of anti cultural fashion and all it’s doing is alienating the citizens who live in the city, who try to make the city as great as it is.

5:25 Speaker 1 Well, I know, I’m away, but I was reading on the you know, the internets are excellent in Europe. That is Central Park. Central Park has become a combat zone and the NYPD and Mayor Adams is going to send in extra police offices. I mean, you know, Central Park used to be one of the greatest parks in the

5:50 world and people enjoyed walking their dogs and skating and and doing everything. I mean, what do we do.

6:01 Speaker 2 Well, It’s interesting to bring that up, John, because the eleven year old who was arrested, was also being sought in several muggings in Central Park. They knew what he looked like. They kind of thought they knew somewhere about where they live and where he lived, and he was apprehended.

6:19 You’re right, I mean, when you think of Central Park, you think of Christineness, and that there was a woman’s sunbathing in Central Park. She got attacked about three or four weeks ago. And as much as there may not be that many crimes in certain places, certain places are special places and when they happened there, they frightened everybody.

6:41 When Trisha Miley was beaten and raped in Central Park back in nineteen eighty nine, all the people that went in the park were just shocked and couldn’t believe that that would actually happen. And fortunately the person who it was apprehended years and years later and sent to prison for the rest of his life. But reality is that

7:08 after a while, people start thinking about whether or not they want to live in a place where this happens.

7:15 Speaker 1 Well, it’s scaring a lot of people away. And in the facts, that of facts, no matter what what some of our politicians are saying, it’s it is scaring them away, and uh, New York is the greatest city in the world.

7:30 I hate to lose it.

7:31 Speaker 2 To Governor, Well, hopefully we won’t. You know, there’s always a little bit of a of a bounce in crime during the summer months, but this this particular summer, it’s been prohibited. And uh, you know, hats off to the new police commissioner and also to Mayor Adams, who are you know, trying to deal with this? But this is

7:55 really becoming a topic that comes up when people are eating, when they’re talking in each other, riding the subways, and uh, there’s going to have to be a real change in policy or just deployment to try to knit this before it gets to the where it got back in the mid seventies and then repeated itself in the early nineties.

8:23 Speaker 1 Governor, one other question, and I know we’re talking about New York City, New York state politics. Nown Well how about national Uh the migrant crisis. Has the Democratic Party decided it’s going to end it? Or or what? What?

8:43 What do you think?

8:47 Speaker 2 Well, I isn’t say enough. Vice President Harris has said some things in the past few days that you wouldn’t have thoughts it was going to say, and they’ve it’s had it has pertained to changing border policy. Now, when you’re vice president, you can’t say anything other than anything the president says. So I, as I’ve told you of,

9:14 I don’t know her, but I know people who do. And one of them was a former Attorney General of New York State, Eric Schneideman, and he said that when they had the Attorney General’s Association, he was in it, and she was, that she was particularly tough on crime, and that it really shocked him because you know, she

9:32 was from California. And so that I think is a signal that she’s sending that her policies may be somewhat and even far more different than those of President Biden. Now, meanwhile, President Trump is saying that she’s copying what he’s saying.

9:55 And whether she is or she isn’t if that’s what she intends to do, it demonstrates perhaps that the Democratic Party would like to go back to where it was under Bill Clinton, where it was under Jimmy Carter as opposed to know what has happened in a number of places now and certainly her poll numbers now she’s in

10:21 the margin of era in Florida, Ohio is a toss up, and the other swing state she seems to be ahead, while President Trump is I don’t know what he’s talking about. We sat.

10:33 Speaker 2 He spends all this time talking about how many people heard him speak on January sixth as opposed to Martin Luther King, And then when he talked about his inflation issue on Wednesday, he said two years later, if it doesn’t work, I’ll just say, all, well, who cares, or something like that. I mean, it’s as close to a

10:51 meltdown as as I’ve seen, because I very much thought until about six weeks ago that he would be re elected easily. But these things have changed and the race is very competitive now.

11:05 Speaker 1 Well, President, the way I interpreted it is July because of the GOP convention. July belongs to the GOP, because the Democratic convention that August is, you know, is going to belong to the Democrats. And how’s the old swan goes.

11:27 See you in September. See you in September is when the people are going to come out of you know, come out of hiding and decide which way the country goes.

11:37 Speaker 2 Well, we’ll look forward to September. It’s just about ten days away. So we’re probably we’ll have a totally different picture that we look at this time next.

11:49 Speaker 1 Month, Governor. I look forward to seeing you real soon. Stay healthy. As doctor Mihlosa star and he says, live.

12:03 Speaker 2 Long and prosper well, I’m going to try to do that as as much as I can. Thanks for having me on. God bless