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Peter King Former U.S. Representative from New York

Trust in America has dramatically risen.

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Speaker 1 Sunday morning, What is the pulse of our country? Which way are we going well with us today? Is a twenty eight year congressman. Twenty eight years in Congress is last year he was in charge of Homeland Security and Congressman Peter King Washington misses. You tell us what do you think is going on in Washington today? What do

you think the pulse of the American people are? What do you think the pulse of New Yorkers is?

Speaker 2 Well, I don’t know if they missed me or not, but i’d sell you things are getting done. I mean, I know there’s a lot of chaos and confusion, but the American people are seeing through that and they realize that the president is using a lot of executive action to do what should have been done years ago. Like instance,

Joe Biden was saying that we can’t stop illegal immigration until we have comprehensive immigration reform, whatever that meants. Well, what President Trump has shown you don’t need new legislation, you need a new president almost dramatically stopped almost all of illegal immigration. And not only have we stop the illegal immigration, but we’re finding the illegal immigrant criminals were

here and deporting them. And that was done without any legislation at all, with the President going in the right direction. Also on issues like the violence on the campus, the anti semitism, the President has stepped in on that and he’s getting the job done. Also a simple thing, John, And to me it’s simple. Unfortunately to other woke people

it’s not. It’s the whole idea of having voter ID citizenship, I D before you vote. The President’s issued the executive order on that. But I think if you ask the average person on the street, and the polls are showing that right now, it’s the highest percentage in the last twenty or thirty years of the American people think the

country is going in the right direction. Because overall, will they agree or disagree with any particular policy. They feel that President Trump is getting your job done. He’s not giving into woke ideology. He’s doing what he thinks is best.

He’s getting it done right away. He’s not going around in circles and making a big issue out of it, just doing it. And you know, the campuses may not like it, the mainstream media may not like it, some of the special interest groups may not like it, but the American people are liking the direction we’re going in

I answer even more important than the specifics, it’s the overall direction is going the right way, and basically to what you’ve been saying for years, we need common sense. People may not agree with everything you’re doing, but if they think you’re that you’re well intentioned and you have the interest of the American people at heart, they look for

the the overall results, and right now, the overall results are very positive. As far as supporting the police, going after crime, going after liberal judges, all of that is I think what the American people have been looking for.

And for whatever reason, I’m not sure every partisan of this. It seems the Democrats still can’t grasp that they’re still using their old playbook, which lost badly in the last election.

Speaker 1 Absolutely correct. You know, people feel good. You know, I get a big pulse of when I write in a taxi cab or when I right in.

Speaker 2 A you Berg.

Speaker 1 You know, I do both. And those taxicab drivers and those Uber drivers will give you good pulse of what’s going on in New York and in our country, and they feel that we’re going in the right direction.

Speaker 2 Yeah, those guys will like to see ia. They’re picking up intelligence all day from beginning ten and New York. That’s really important because he getting all sorts of people from all different racial and ethnic backgrounds, economic backgrounds, neighborhood backgrounds.

So they’re picking it up, and so what you’re hearing is what I’m hearing too. Just listen. Trump may not be perfect, he may not be the easiest guy to always get along with, the fact is he’s getting the job done. He loves America, he wants the country to go forward, and he wants to stop the nonsense where

we have all of these liberal causes that come up, where you let the bad guys out of jail, where you let the illegal immigrants come across the border, and that just that nonsense has been going on. Also, the idea of taxation, just overly taxing people at president to have tax cuts and give the American people back their money,

not even so much for the average spending, but it just with the overall economy that makes everybody healthy, not just the person getting the tax cut or the tax break if you want to call it that, but it expands the entire economy, providing more jobs everyone, more products of everyone, and lower prices for everyone.

Speaker 1 You’re one hundred percent correct, And I hope that you know. The only way we’re getting rid of criminals right now in New York City because of the bail law, et cetera. We have Donald Trump’s President Trump’s Tom Homan who’s in charge of getting rid of the criminals, and the federal government is getting rid of the criminals for New Yorkers,

and it’s not New Yorker it’s getting rid of them.

Speaker 2 It’s truly unfortunate because the police could have done that several years ago if they’ve been allowed to. But New York basically said it was a sanctuary city. They weren’t allowed to even cooperate with ICE to the federal government and deporting illegal immigrants. Now they’re involved in that more, not as much as they should be, but they are now.

In Nastra County, Bruce Blakeman actually has police office, police detectives deputized to work with ICE, to be hand and go off with ICE. You getting the job done, but we’re going in that direction. I think that Jessica Tish has more leeway now than previous commissioners had. She’s getting your job done. I think keithshan Sewer could have gotten done.

She really wasn’t allowed to. But Jessicattish is going in the right direction. But again, a lot of that is because of the pressure coming on New York and other states from Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 Congressman Peter King, thank you for your common sense. Thank you for everything you do. Washington still misses you. I get that vibe from there, and let’s catch up again real soon. I’ll see you Monday morning.

Speaker 2 You’ll get me Monday night. I’ll be there. Look for it. Thanks John, take that

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