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0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is former Congressman Peter King can give us an update. What’s going on in our city, a state, our country. It’s Sunday morning, Congressman King, There’s so many problems.

0:13 Speaker 2 Where do you want to start, John, I would say, mainly at the disappointment I have in the city that you know, crime maybe is down from last year, but last year was a record year compared to previous years of twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Crime is really out of control.

0:30 We saw it last week over the Fourth of July weekend where there were so many shootings and so many people injured, two people killed. And again I’m disappointed. I was expecting you more from Eric Adams by this time.

0:45 I felt as a former police officer was actually a captain in the police department, and he had made crime, fighting crime a major issue in his campaign. And also, you know, put it bluntly, the fact that he’s African American.

0:59 I thought he would be meekly, physicianed, you know, to bridge the gap between the minority communities and the police department so they could all work together to come back crime. But we really haven’t gotten the results that I think we should. And when he’s questioned too often falls back on the race card, which again, I like Eric Adams.

1:19 I consider him that has a good relationship with him, and I really am not into personal attacks and I hope that he can turn this around. But it’s really time to get serious. And the fact that his previous police commissioner is Shan Sewell, that was extremely qualified. I knew it from our days in Nassau County. But apart

1:38 from that, I mean when I talked to the rank and file cops and a number of the veteran cops at one police plaza, they tell me she was doing if she wanted to do, an outstanding jobs, a lot of ideas, but her hands are being tied by city hall.

1:53 So to lose the top police commissioner at a time when we’re not winning the war against crime, to me, it’s it’s very disappointing. It’s discouraging. There’s still time him to turn it around, because good people want Eric Adams to succeed as mayor. Right now, it just doesn’t seem to be happening, and so I’m really calling on him to,

2:15 you know, unite the people of the city. John. I don’t how many times you’ve said it. There’s eight million people and eight and a half million people in New York. There’s another probably three or four million people at least in the surrounding metropolitan areas. It’s twelve over twelve million people, and I’ve got maybe two or three thousand and most

2:33 are committing ninety five percent of the crimes. That’s you know, we know where the crime is coming from. If we could just get united as a people, we can get some sense out of the state legislature. Let the cops do their job. And now we hear the city Council it’s passing legislation which is going to require cops to

2:50 be filling out forms every time they look at somebody, for God’s sake. So it’s just they’re going to be tied down in paperwork, and you’re gonna do two things. One is going to keep cops from doing the job.

3:01 And second, a lot of cops are going to say it’s not worth it if every time I speak to someone, I just fill out a long form and explain why I did it and who I spoke to and how long it went on for It’s just is going to make the copy perpetrol bookkeeper rather than the law enforcement officers.

3:17 So that’s really my concern right now, John, is I mean people really got a tourist really going to come back, and you said we need them as the office space is going to be filled in New York the way it was before COVID. It’s hard enough bringing people back now that they got used to working at home. But

3:34 when they see the crime, when they see what’s happening on the subways, when they see what’s happening in the streets, and then you have the surge of illegal migrants coming into New York and listen at all of us want to be helpful. We want to help people. We want to you know you and I or actually you are

3:51 an immigrant. I’m a grandson of immigrants that grew up in an immigrant community, immigrants of the life blood of New York. But it has to be done an illegal away. Right now, we have over fifty thousand have come in and they’re trying to find housing for them, putting them in hotels right located right in midtime, we were trying

4:11 to get business to expand about putting them in school school buildings in Staten Island and other locations Brooklyn, Queens. It’s a situation is just getting seems to be getting going from bad to worse each day, and it’s really time for the mayor.

4:29 Speaker 1 Congress. I spoke to Governor Hocho a few days ago, and the fact is she feels she’s getting her hands tied by the State Senate and the State Assembly, and she really wants more reforms on the bill acting to keep people safer. I mean all in what I said to her is this November, there’s fifty one city consul

4:57 seats at a fifty one that are becoming eligible, and now we’re going to work hard to have common sense in New York City. And she encouraged me to have to work hard to have more common sense in New York City in those fifty one city consul seats.

5:15 Speaker 2 Well, John, there’s an opportunity where the mayor and the governor they spoke out together and work together to elect, you know, the people who are going to be tougher on crime, even tougher which I’m well for, but being reasonable to get away from some of these terrimory so called reforms in the last few years, which have tied

5:34 the hands of the police, put bad people back on the street, and just not providing any of the mental health care that’s needed, but also not providing the you know, the bare reform that we do need. The Bailly for me need right now is to not be letting violent criminals out or people who are had twenty five thirty

5:57 crimes or offenses in their apt sheet and they’re let out without any you’re having to post any bail at all. So this is an opportunity and it is for the governor and the mayor to come together, and I think it’s right now. I think the legislature is taking power away from the governor. The book, the Assembly, and the Senate,

6:17 the City Council is trying to take power away from the mayor, and they get for their own survival after the survival of New York City and New York State, the mayor and the governor should basically form an alliance and get out there and not worry about the partisanship of the policies. Get out there and really denounced and

6:34 go after those who are not doing their job, who are not well affording the police, and support candidates that.

6:39 Speaker 1 Congressmen, that God is giving us another chance to have common sense in our city by having this election of fifty one out of fifty one seats. And if we can get some common sense going in our city, maybe the State Assembly in the state Senate will come to their senses and say, whoa, let’s be afraid that the

7:03 people are revolting against the socialism. I mean, look, what’s happening to Anheuser Bush stock. It’s went down twenty seven billion dollars because of what Ben and Jerry’s is doing, you know, leave the stock is down two and a half billion dollars. So maybe there’s when common sense Americans revolt, maybe the message will get out because right now common

7:30 sense democrats are so scared that the socialists will go after them.

7:37 Speaker 2 No, they are and it should be the socials. So we’re scared that the common sense people are going to go after them. And I agree. I the Anheuser Bush could be a model to use how people that down deep people want to do the right thing. They want to get away from this whole culture that’s out there,

7:53 They want to stand up to it, and they want to really get common sense results. So again, if the governor and the mayor can work together to bring that about, that would be fine. But also, you know, if you know always want people who do the right thing because it’s the right thing. But if they do the right

8:09 thing because of fear, that’s good too. If they’re afraid of losing their job, they’re afraid of not being re elected and that and that caused them to do the right thing, fine, I’ll take that, even you know, the threat of people running. I mean, Hank Schinkopps is one of the leading political analysts in New York City. He

8:26 is a column this week were he’s saying that gishaun Sewell might make a good candidate for maya, the former police commission the outgoing police commissioner who just resigned, you know last week.

8:37 Speaker 1 I agree. You know, you never know what’s gonna happen. When I said to what I said to Mayor Adams when he first got elected, that if he could show leadership in New York City, maybe the other Democratic cities will come to some common sense. I mean, uh, San Francisco is dead. San Francisco is dead, Baltimore is dead,

8:57 phil Duphia is dying, Chicago is dying. Right, So when did the democratic cities realize that they’re going to roll up the sidewalks?

9:07 Speaker 2 And Eric Adams is in a position where he could be a national leader. If he wants to think of a national office, there’s no better way to do it than to have New York be the example, be the leader, and bring these cities on the roads to salvation. Really, I mean this is he could do it, and he

9:24 still has time to do it. The fact that, again, the fact that, and I’m sure the police manager hasn’t given it a thought, but someone like Hank Schinkoff was a long time Democratic advisor and analysts and strategists that he is even mentioning the former policemission of Keishan Sewell send trackways to Eric Adams. The fact that he could

9:44 be challenged, you know, within his own party, not just from the crazy progressives, but in the common sense wing of his party. So listen, one way or the other. It has to be turned around, John. It can’t go on much longer. It’s going to be too late. I hate to see us vice San Francisco. I hate to

10:01 see us end up like Chicago. But basically what we saw last weekend in New York, we’re getting closer.

10:07 Speaker 1 We agree. Congs from Peter King, thank you so much for everything you’ve done for our city, or state our country and continue to speak out, and we’ll catch up with you again real soon. I’ll see you Monday.

10:18 Speaker 2 I see it tomorrow night the studio, John, Yes, sir,