Challengers to the Mayor are coming out of the woodwork.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, well, this is Governor David Patterson, like we have him every Sunday, and he really enlightens on minds, and Governor, what do you have for us this morning? There’s so many things happening everywhere.

0:16 Speaker 2 There certainly is, but I don’t think any of them tops the stunning announcement that President Trump made last Monday when he discussed the idea of clearing out Gaza, moving the people live in Gaza to Egypt and to other places, and he called it the the Riviera of the Middle East.

0:41 And you know, within minutes there was all kinds of criticism and indignation. Hamas hates the idea, you know. And what I thought was particularly interesting is let’s look at the timeline and then things start to make more sense.

1:01 He meets with net Yahoo, he meets with Yahootia, who is still in the country. This is when Trump makes the announcement. So this gives net Niyaho a chance to basically come within an inch of endorsing the plan, which only endears him and Israel more to President Trump. Now that’s part of it, But the other part of it

1:26 is that this whole situation really could just be an opening volley in what is going to be a long negotiation. But at least what Trump has done is he’s changed it from what was normally a diplomatic controversy. Nobody ever did anything, and it just became a paradigm. So I think that on first blush it sounded kind of ridiculous.

1:55 But now here’s Trump saying later in the week that they would be none of the people that lived there would be put out for any long period of time. And they are now, meaning this administration controlling the discussion, which is, you know, a step up from really think I said, the last president that was friendly to Israel

2:21 and could do something like that was actually Bill Clinton. But here this is a really interesting sort of situation that’s come up, and everybody has had something to say, you know, about this, even including a former cabinet member, a French gentleman who has written about in the New York Times where he said, at first, it looks like

2:48 craziness and that kind of thing. But Trump has raised the bar. He’s moved the discussion beyond where it’s been for the last decade or so.

2:59 Speaker 1 I could see hotels up and down the uh the Gaza Riviera.

3:07 Speaker 2 John do you when you see hotels going up and down the Gaza Riviera, open your eyes because you’ve been dreaming. I don’t think it will ever happen, but I think it’s a masterful negotiating tool.

3:23 Speaker 1 Wow. Wow, Okay, that’s breaking news. I mean, I mean it’s surprised everybody. And it seems like it seems like President Trump comes up with some real big news and then uh it was it begins the negotiation.

3:45 Speaker 2 So you probably yes, yes, And I think that’s exactly what he did here. And that’s the thing. And see, look, even that Yahoo has been put in a difficult situation because he’s never said that at least no press grounds diver here. That Netanya, who has ever said what’s going to happen to the people that live in Gaza right now?

4:06 When even this gets worked out? He said nothing. But now he’s sort of forced to go along with this plan that the President Trump has and probably loses some of his his pull in this situation because the United States now is starting to dictate the terms. And look, if there has to be a confrontation with Gaza. The

4:31 White House said on Thursday that no Americans will be in that fight. Money will be given to his early soldiers. So this is not an issue that we or our children have to worry about right now.

4:43 Speaker 1 That’s how about New York gonna make it comeback?

4:49 Speaker 2 You know, New York could make a comeback. You know, obviously a lot of what’s going on in New York has been overshadowed by the legal situation and that the mayor and his staff have had, and the potential that Andrew Cromo, who served this state as ten years for governor.

5:10 I don’t see any way that he couldn’t walk in and basically take over if he were to run and win in the primary and win the general election, which he would do easily. So these are some of the factors that are going to determine, you know, how New York’s come back you know, takes place. But it’s it’s,

5:34 you know, just kind of a tough time in the city. The Mayor’s office came out this past Wednesday and said that crime is down ten percent and the subway crime is down fifteen percent, and all those things may be right, but it takes time for that to You can’t just get up and start jumping up and down like you

5:53 won the Super Bowl and I you know, I think the governor right now is trying to get the president off of her back on the you know, the the issues of congestion, pricing. So there’s a lot of stuff going on, but nothing that I think is changing anything dramatically.

6:18 Speaker 1 So you don’t think that the federal government will be strong enough to go in and wipe out all the real bad criminals and get rid of them.

6:29 Speaker 2 Oh you mean the migrants who are criminals. Yeah, I think they can get rid of them, and I think they will. And I got to say, you know, as a hard and true Democrat, I never understood, well, listen, if people commit crime and they live in the neighborhood, forget about whether or not they are from another country.

6:52 They need to be punished. So our idea was not to deport or not, I mean, not to wait an effort to get these people out of the country. And then some new guy comes in as president. Within three or four days he’s got about, you know, forty people headed back home, and even some very serious criminals. One

7:13 major criminal who was a gang leader in these cartels was arrested in the Bronx and and you know, as far as I’m concerned, they can send them to Guantanamo Bay, they can send them to any place other than you know, killing people, but putting them out of reach where they can commit any more harm will be fine with.

7:36 Speaker 1 Me, understood. What else would you like to tell the people we got about honey left.

7:44 Speaker 2 We are embarking on, you know, a new sort of period in the country. They’re doing things differently. A judge last Thursday shut down the buyout policy at least for the time being, where the federal employees are obligated to either stay or to take the buy out. So we’re going to see a lot of things we haven’t seen before.

8:07 But that will mean that it’s more exciting, and that will mean that it will be more opportunities for me to come on and talk to you about it.

8:14 Speaker 1 Look forward to it. Governor David Patterson, we always both of us, always talk common sense, and we’ll talk again real soon.

8:23 Speaker 2 Take care of John