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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. The one

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Speaker 2: and only Joe Borelli is with us. He is the

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Speaker 2: Republican leader of the New York City Council. He is

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Speaker 2: the Sage of Staten Island. A man who knows many

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Speaker 2: things about many things. Mister Barelli, always an honor of

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Speaker 2: privilege and a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm doing good. It is great to

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Speaker 1: see you. Great. You look healthy, Buck, As they.

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Speaker 2: Say, yeah, you know, I'm trying. I'm a Florida man now,

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Speaker 2: and I will say the weather is nice. It makes

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Speaker 2: you soft, although you have to be really fit here,

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Speaker 2: so it makes you soft, like to temperature wise. But

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Speaker 2: then again, you know, I probably should like stop eating

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Speaker 2: carbs entirely if I want to fit in with the

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Speaker 2: Miami set here. But tell me this, I actually want

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Speaker 2: to dive into how are things going in good old

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Speaker 2: NYC these days? Like what what's the latest with the

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Speaker 2: mayor Adams? How would you grade him at this point?

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Speaker 2: How's it all going?

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Speaker 1: Well? I'd give him a pretty low grade. But the

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Speaker 1: irony is that if he were to lose in two

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Speaker 1: years from today to twenty twenty five is the next

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Speaker 1: mayoral election. If he were to lose, it would only

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Speaker 1: be to someone attacking him from the left, and that

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Speaker 1: would be even worse than the current situation we have now.

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Speaker 2: How is that even possible? Like, what does it take

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Speaker 2: for people in New York City to figure out that

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Speaker 2: having homeless people defecating on the streets and stabbing people

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Speaker 2: with you know, whatever they have at hand, and rising

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Speaker 2: crime and all this stuff, and the subways being unsafe

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Speaker 2: and people getting pushed in front of trains, what does

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Speaker 2: it take for the Libs to be less crazy? In

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Speaker 2: my hometown and your hometown? How does this happen.

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Speaker 1: They don't get less crazy, if any thing, They just

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Speaker 1: get more entrenched in their bizarre world. And you see

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Speaker 1: that mostly in Manhattan. You see this less frequently in

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Speaker 1: the outer boroughs, where regular assault of the earth New

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Speaker 1: New Yorkers, Jewish people, Russian people. They're all starting to shift.

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Speaker 1: But the epicenter of the problem is Manhattan. And I'll

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Speaker 1: give you a great example. I mean, Alvin Bragg is

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Speaker 1: the epitome of moronic district attorney Soros Fund the district attorneys,

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Speaker 1: and he is being cheered on right now or indicting

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Speaker 1: a police officer yesterday. So this cop was basically involved

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Speaker 1: in a situation in a Manhattan Apple store in twenty

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Speaker 2: What is what justificates an excessive force from the police officer.

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Speaker 2: That's why he's bringing the indictment.

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Speaker 1: A third degree misdemeanor, the lowest charge possible you can

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Speaker 1: again two years of an investigation, not of the person

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Speaker 1: security guard and the cop did nothing wrong. And this

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Speaker 2: Why is this? Why is Alvin Bragg? Why is DA

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Speaker 2: Alvin Bragg pro criminal? Because that's really what it seems like.

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Speaker 2: He thinks his job is to use the hower he

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Speaker 1: Why Yeah, I mean, I think the best thing we

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Speaker 1: why this is such a problem, because the voters picked this.

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Speaker 1: The voters didn't get you know, they didn't get Option B.

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Speaker 1: one memo basically said, here are the crimes we are

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Speaker 1: but not the regular people were regularly committing these crimes.

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Speaker 2: It's just remarkable to me. I would I would have

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Speaker 2: Joe in the nineties, you were there, right, you were

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Speaker 2: all over the Five boroughs, and then the turnaround during

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Speaker 2: for everybody once the city got cleaned up. And it's

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Speaker 2: not that complicated, it's literally cleaned up like the streets,

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Speaker 2: but also enforced the laws. How do we get to

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Speaker 2: this place where New York, which was the case study

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Speaker 2: You know what is that?

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Speaker 1: So this is by no means blaming the pandemic, because

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Speaker 1: a lot of big cities in the country did not

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Speaker 1: go through a similar thing. But the pandemic as the

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Speaker 1: catalyst of acceleration for some of these problems. Absolutely happened

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Speaker 1: because you even had and you got to remember, Buck,

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Speaker 1: you lived here during this time. You lived during the

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Speaker 1: first term of the de Blasio administration. That was a

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Speaker 1: pretty good time for New York Mayor Bloomberg, who I

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Speaker 1: good management, and he should be commended for that. Then

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Speaker 1: because people got arrested, people felt like they can get

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Speaker 1: away with things, and sort of the narrative arc of

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Speaker 1: crime went so quickly. Now other cities in even blue

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Speaker 1: crime went up, and the crime went down. In New York,

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Speaker 1: we're just starting to see the crime going down, largely

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Speaker 1: because of the NYPD. The NYPD is making more red

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Speaker 1: I mean low and behold right, what we always said,

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Speaker 1: that is actually happening. The crime level is down, But

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is just not happening. Build a Blasio

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Speaker 1: in nineteen forty five, we would be patting Build A

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Speaker 1: But it wasn't. The crime was actually going up by then.

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Speaker 1: Just the number of people who are criminals that were

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Speaker 2: So this is important. I feel like everyone should know

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Speaker 2: that in some of these places like New York where

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Speaker 2: you got the Soros back. Prosecutors ess actially not the police,

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Speaker 2: that are really the weak point. Necessarily, it's often not

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: It's the decision what to charge and how long to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it turns out poems don't pay the bills. So

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Speaker 1: what I believe happened? And from my conversations, both with

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Speaker 1: ten thousand people, you know, So that effect on our

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Speaker 1: actually renting hotels outside of the city limits in counties

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Speaker 1: number is insane. The number in our last budget that

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Speaker 1: Or the thirteen million they just settled with on BLM

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Speaker 2: How far off is that from becoming a reality at

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Speaker 2: I want to come back and ask you, Joe, if

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Speaker 1: Staten Island the nineteenth century is the second one. The

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Speaker 1: first one's better. It's you got more gore, more killing,

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Speaker 1: stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Very good, mister Joe Borelli, Sage of Staten Island. Great

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Speaker 2: to have you on, sir, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Book