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Peter King Former U.S. Representative from New York

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Speaker 1 What is this Sunday morning? Is retired constant Peter King and so many things happening in the world, the condress rant King, What the heck is going on?

Speaker 2 Well, first of all, Johnny can’t be retired if we’re working for you. There’s always something going on, So thank you very much for that. Actually, to me, the main thing is going on, john That’s really tragic. That’s what’s happened at Israel. As we know, the attacks last week are absolutely disgraceful, horrible in many ways, the worst. It’s

the Holocaust to see young children, babies, women, senior citizens just killed for no reason other than to terrorize them. And now what I’m concerned about is, you know, the first few days everyone was on Israel’s side, but now we’re hearing how Israel has to be careful, can’t be being too heavy handed going after Hamas. The fact is

it is going to be tragic if civilian lives are lost. But Hamas is hiding among the civilians. And if Israel doesn’t move now to crush Hamas, to go in there, to go to those tunnels, they can do this forever.

The Hamaski continue to attack Israel because they’re always going to be civilians. They’re always going to be uh tied in with you know, with the civilians. So we have to support Israel. And when people say, you know, we have to listen to both sides, we didn’t listen to both sides in World War Two when it came to

Hitler and Roosevelt, it was we supported Roosevelt the United States. We didn’t support Hitler. And I see this being the same thing. Now what Hamas did is equivalent to what the Nazis were doing. And these demonstrators who were demonstrating for the Palestinian Skohamas and against Israel. There’s a lot of anti Semitism there, anti Americanism there, and we have

to stand with Israel. And it’s gonna be tough. It’s gonna be tough in the days, weeks, and months. This is not gonna be easy going in there trying to ruin.

Speaker 1 It’s the way I look at it. Uh. Some of these terrorists were given weapons by somebody, were given cash by somebody. They got sophisticated weapons that they found some place. It could be the weapons from Afghanistan, and they’re given I’m sure they were paid to go in there and just kill people, which is it’s not a war because

soldiers fight soldiers. They were out there just killing people.

Speaker 2 And killing people for the sake of killing them. I mean, there was no objective other than to terrorize. And I believe Iran was behind the whole thing. And also you’re right about the weapons from Afghanistan ended up there. And John, what makes it even what answer to this is the fact that the Republicans in Congress are even a Speaker

of the House when it’s in central now that we be voting on matters evolving Israel, that we’d be sending aids to Israel, and yet we can an elected speaker. And to me, the removal of Kevin McCarthy, whether people support him or not, he was to speak. You can’t be removing people and was never done before in the

history of the country just because you have some kind of a policy disagreement on that issue, especially when you have know what to take his place. This is irresponsible. It makes the Republicans look bad and that we should be united, and also that he was wrong for President Trump be criticize.

Speaker 1 In publicans what should be the strategy, how they should handle a little eight people, any any idea you mean far as the speaker you’re talking about, Yes, how to handle him in the future. They have they have eight crucial votes.

Speaker 2 They have to they have to have behind someone. They have to fight someone, and maybe someone who doesn’t have like a long term future ahead of them, someone like a Tom Cole, someone who was respected and he could agreed to serve out the rest of this year or next year. A speaker he’s not looking for anything to

advance his career. We have to have someone there so to be sitting at the table to be able to advance the legislation that we need to continue to be a world power. You can’t have the worst crisis in years happening internationally and having the Congress sideline because Republican is a fighting between Matt Gates and Jim Jordans and

Steve Scolles.

Speaker 1 I agree with your Consman Kaine. Thank you so much for calling in this Sunday morning, and hope uh sanity prevails and I’ll see you on Monday.

Speaker 2 Absolutely tomorrow, John. Thanks fine up

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