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0:00 Speaker 1 With us this morning is Governor David Patterson, and he has a lot of things going on in our country or city or state the world, and he’s got some ideas, Governor, So John.

0:16 Speaker 2 On Friday morning, I joined Rabbi Joe Potasnik and the reil Ta Keith Cantowitz and a number of New Yorker as. We held a preference in front of the Second Avenue Delhi, which is at seventy second Street and First Avenue. It has twice now been riddled with defaithing from swastikas that were painted right on the store itself and symbols that

0:44 were left across the street, which is absolutely outrageous. You know, it’s interesting, the cleaning up the mess won’t take long. Nobody was hurt, nobody was killed, But the message it sends is similar to the message in Crystal Knock when the Jewish people would chase through the streets in nineteen thirty leading to a horrible incident and the Jewish people

1:12 who were insulted and mistreated, and that led to the worst violence the world has ever known, the Holocaust. And so when you look at this at this particular time, I just don’t understand why people can be reacting this way to people of a faith, many of whom live in Israel and were attacked in the most unprovoked, barren

1:39 kind of way. Synonymous was of violence used to go on BC, and it’s just unnerving that we have these types of problems.

1:53 Speaker 1 Well, obviously, this Hamas group is a terrorist group. I mean, I jokingly said the Iranian Foreign Legion, but I’m not sure it’s really a joke. It’s for sure somebody gave them the weapons, somebody gave them money to go out and do their ill doings. And there were such crimes, there were such crimes that my mind went to these

2:23 are crimes that Hitler would have had, and it was just horrible. But how many howms are there? Are there ten thousand? Are there? Twenty thousand? Are they thirty thousand? We really don’t know.

2:35 Speaker 2 I wonder how many Nobody really knows. And they’re spread out, so it’s hard to determine who is someone isn’t when they are, in a sense almost using the Palestine shields. And it’s just this period that we’re living in now, I’m just shocked. It’s the kind of reaction. I mean, I remember back when I was a kid. There was

3:04 a woman named Viola Liuzzo and she was helping the Freedom Writers and doctor King March and she was murdered one night by clan’s people. And after that, the head of the Ku Kluck Flan, Robert Shelton, made a statement, why wasn’t she homeminding the children? Because the woman lived in Indiana and she believes in civil rights and she

3:24 went down there to help. And that attitude, which I thought to a lot that we’ve gone very far in our country now we don’t have these types of things happening, but it’s coming back logarithmetically, it’s happening everywhere. I mean, there was a judge who was kicked off the bench in upstate New York earlier this week because he pulled

3:49 a gun on a black defendant. That the judges can carry guns, but they’re only supposed to kill them when they think their life is in jeopardy. Well, the defendant had already been searched before they brought him in, but he goes ahead and does that. Somebody threw two people on the subway tracks again this week here in the city,

4:08 and it’s beginning to the point where people don’t even want to go out of their houses. I was out on Thursday on the Upper East Side and they were just saying that everyone was staying home. They were afraid of being attacked or hurt.

4:24 Speaker 1 People are scared to walk around in our city, Governor, because I walk around at night. You know, our stores used to be open the midnight, our stores, a lot of stores open the midnight, But that anymore because people are scared to walk around.

4:41 Speaker 2 Yeah, that was you know, a time when you know, maybe you’re having guests or something, you run out of stuff, you could just run over to the Delhi before it closed, which might be midnight or one o’clock. That just doesn’t occur anymore.

4:57 Speaker 1 It doesn’t occur anymore. It’s just very sad, and I think that’s the number one problem in our city. All of a sudden, we went to our cities problems versus what’s going on in Israel, and there’s many, many problems.

5:15 There’s also problems with our borders because these these some of these migrants that are coming in, nobody’s checking them.

5:25 Speaker 2 And of course that’s how some of the people got into Israel, so that they could operate from the internally. Just a couple of weeks ago. In addition to that, the fact that so many younger people are involved in these protests, and you just get the impression that they have not been educated to what’s really going on. You know,

5:50 education institutions. Now, there’s freedom of speech. If people want to protest, they can. But what I’m saying is when you hear them talk, it’s very clear they are about what’s been going on in the world for the last fifty or sixty years.

6:06 Speaker 1 Absolutely, And the question, Governor, if you were president, where would you stop at all these messes?

6:18 Speaker 2 Well, what I would say is in the midst of this, President Biden, who we’ve been critical of a lot, has said the right things and done the right things. His going there meant something. His pronounced support for Israel, We’ve got your back. I think that’s a very good place to start. Now, we’ve got to get our Congress to

6:51 vote for assistance that we would send to Israel. And don’t forget Ukraine. I’m sure Putin is the happiest man on the planet since to attack in Israel because it’s diverted attention away from what he’s trying to do to the Ukrainians. But it’s I think We’ve got to put our resources where our statements are and that will be.

7:14 Speaker 1 A very good thing, understood. What do you think is going to happen with the Congress? Any any ideas yet?

7:24 Speaker 2 Well, you know, since they have an interim temporary speaker. In my opinion, since eighty percent of the congress members are going to vote for this aid, that they could just go in there and do it right now, but with an interim person taking their place. I once substituted because we didn’t have a lieutenant governor. I substituted even

7:48 though I was governor and acted as the President of the Senate, so we could surpass some aid to localities back in two thousand and nine. I mean, it’s one thing to be fighting over issues, another thing when you basically all agree but can’t seem to find the mechanism to get into the chamber and vote for it. I

8:06 think it’s pathetic, and it was exposed by the issue this horrible attack in Israel, which demonstrated that in an emergency, apparently there are some sectors of our government that don’t act quickly enough.

8:21 Speaker 1 What else would you like to cover another minute or two to cover?

8:25 Speaker 2 Well, John, in the last seconds that we talk. I want to send my prayers and sympathies to Governor Hochel, whose father was eighty seven years old but not sick, suddenly died back here in the United States. And she went to the whaling Wall and wrote a beautiful note to him. And she works very hard, and she also

8:48 liked the President took the trip to Israel to demonstrate our support. He much the largest Jewish community outside of Israel is here in New York, and I thought it was a great gesture on her art. And I send my prayers to her family.

9:03 Speaker 1 All our sympathies from all everybody at WABC, and sympathies to Governor Hochel. To lose a father, no matter what the age is, it’s always very difficult. In eighty seven years old not being sick is a young age these days.

9:19 And may you have strength. Governor Patterson, thank you, thank you for calling in this Sunday morning, and we’ll catch up again real soon.

9:30 Speaker 2 Thank you, John. Talk to you next week, Okay.