1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. On this episode, 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: Jacqueline Toberoff is with us right now. She is politically activated. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: She's an author. She ran for New York City Council. 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: He's got a book coming out on being a supermom. 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: She also writes for Human Events and like me, she's 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: a fellow New yorkerl though I'm a former fellow New Yorker, Jackie. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: Great to have in the show first time. Thank you. 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be here. So you were actually 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: down there earlier this week at the Trump indictment arraignment situation. 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: Just just tell everybody, you know, what's that like? What 11 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: was the vibe, what was the feel? The vibe was amazing. 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: So Gavin Wax and the New York Young Republicans put 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: it together. This was their second one. The first was 14 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: in March on the twenty first, I think when news 15 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: first broke today. It was the second one. They had 16 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green as one of the speakers, and 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: it was they invited members to their club. So it 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: was basically all locals. No one was bust in to riot, 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: to arson, to loot, to assault. It was very orderly, 20 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: with a couple of exceptions. It turns out, after going 21 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: on to Twitter that New York City council person Shays 22 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: Say was handing out whistles so that agitators could basically 23 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: blow out ear drums of people they're protesting Alvin Bragg. 24 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: But it was very civil, orderly. Everyone was cheering for 25 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green. And again this is in New York City, 26 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: this is in Manhattan, and there was genuine support. What 27 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: do you think it means now that it's official, I 28 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: mean Trump is indicted, the indictment is out. This is 29 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: really happening. To start first with, I mean, as in 30 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: New York worker, it must be very weird. I mean, 31 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: this is how I feel as a you know, thirty 32 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: some odd year New Yorker feels weird that this native 33 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: son of New York, of Queens no less, became president 34 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: and now he's being pulled back to his hometown to 35 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: face the most absurd charges I've really ever seen in 36 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: any criminal proceeding. Yeah, I think the people that were 37 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: at this protest today, there were plenty of them that 38 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: were in support of Trump, and then there were just 39 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: plenty of them that didn't see how indicting him and 40 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: arresting him would make their lives any better. You know, 41 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: I'm a mom of two. I don't know how this 42 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: improves education. I don't know how this improves crime. I 43 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: don't know how this improves the illegal crisis, the drug crisis, 44 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 1: the homeless encountments. So there were plenty of people there 45 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: that might not have necessarily been Trump supporters, but they 46 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: were certainly not in support of what Alvin Bragg is doing. 47 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: Where do you think goes? I mean, I'm just wondering. 48 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: You know, there's there's now the possibility the judge will 49 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: throw the whole thing out. I'm sure there'll be a 50 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: bunch of motions. I would bet that it will not 51 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: be thrown out. My assumption is that they're going to 52 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: let this play out and go to a jury. The 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: part of this that I have not gotten a single 54 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: good explanation for yet is what do they want? Meaning? 55 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: If they were to get you know, usually you have 56 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,839 Speaker 1: a plead. This is a it's a misdemeanor campaign finance charge, 57 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: right that they've elevated to a felony based upon a 58 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: nonindicted federal crime that has nothing to do with the local, local, state, 59 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: statute at issue about you know, falsifying records or whatever. 60 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: Are they gonna try to send him a jail because 61 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: I mean, what, really is this going to turn into 62 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars fine for Trump? Is like buying 63 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: a soda for the rest of us, Like, what do 64 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: they think this is going to do? We know the 65 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: politics of it, but legally, it just feels like the 66 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: whole thing is just crazy. I mean, look, I think 67 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: it's so clear that these people just hate this country. 68 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: And I saw that Leezeldon put out a tweet and 69 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: he said that they are hurting America. That's the point 70 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: that they're hurting America. They don't like America. This is 71 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: this isn't a big deal to them. I'm unsure whether 72 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: they took his photo for a monk shop, but then 73 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: there was news that they weren't going to They want 74 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: him disappeared. It feels like they want him in Siberia. 75 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: They don't want even though this is happening in Manhattan 76 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: and there naturally has so much attention on it, It's 77 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: almost like they just want to They just want to 78 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: disappear him. It's it's really just perverted and sick, and 79 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: I mean thirty four counts. What are these thirty four counts? 80 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: I mean you've been You're from New York City. You 81 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: know what's going on here. I mean, rapists and murderers 82 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: are roaming free. I want to ask you next about 83 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: how the city, how the city's doing, or we're going 84 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: to get into how Eric Adams is doing the latest 85 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: just feel of walking around on the streets there and 86 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: you know how how we're going to get to to 87 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: all that. But but just on on this Trump issue. 88 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: I mean, do you get the sense right now? I 89 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: mean you were there, I know, with a bunch of 90 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: young Republicans club members in New York City? Is it 91 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: just Trump for you? Trump for you already? Like it's 92 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: you're don't even want to see the primary play out? 93 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: Have you already decided in your mind? Or do you 94 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: want to see I was voting for I mean I 95 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: voted for Trump before. I'm one hundred percent voting for 96 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: Trump again. I unlike some of the other people, I 97 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: have no issue with descantists. I just don't know we 98 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: have Trump. Things were great under Trump. I just don't 99 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: understand why we would go towards descantists. So I'm already 100 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: committed to who I'm voting for. UM. I think really 101 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: surprisingly that the the Democrats are counting on these suburban 102 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: moms to reject Donald Trump. I think what's going to 103 00:05:55,240 --> 00:06:00,239 Speaker 1: happen is the urban moms are going to reject the Democrats. 104 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: I I see such a repulsion here from moms again 105 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: about this, the left's attack on women, the crime school. 106 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: I just I really think we're going to be surprised 107 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 1: by New York City and specifically by the moms. We're 108 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: gonna come back to that in just a second. But first, 109 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: do you, by the way, do you have any my 110 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: pillow gear at home? 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Everyone listening to this knows that, 140 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: and I live in Florida. There are a lot of 141 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: reasons why people could go back to the many, many 142 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: shows I've done talking about this. But I still love 143 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: New York and I'm still rooting for New York and 144 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: I haven't ruled out that one day I would at 145 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: least spend part of if not, you know, permanently, my 146 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: my life back up there. How is it going under 147 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams? Like, honestly, not just I know under 148 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: de Blasio, the answer was, he's awful top to bottom. 149 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: He does nothing right, He's an imbecile. Okay, that was 150 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: to Blasio. What's the honest assessment of Mayor Eric Adams 151 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: in New York City right now? Like, walk me the 152 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: honest assessment. The honest assessment is Eric Adams is a 153 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: hundred times worse than to Blasio. He was pitched as 154 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: a moderate. This guy, let me tell you something. From 155 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: the very beginning, he ran his campaign on race and 156 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: from the basement, no one pushed back on anything. He 157 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: barely made it through his primary and he has been 158 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: an unmitigated disaster. So I have some numbers here. Within 159 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: the past two years, crime across the seven majors is 160 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: up forty five point forty percent. Okay, rape, rape is 161 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,599 Speaker 1: up six point five percent, and Graham larceny auto is 162 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: up almost one hundred percent, ninety three point five percent. 163 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: It's a disaster. Arrests are down fifty two percent of 164 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: all of the arrest have been downgraded. All of the 165 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: crimes are downgraded. We are emptying prisons. We have, as 166 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 1: I said before, a homeless crisis. We have illegal weed 167 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: shops sprouting up on every other block. It's like Starbucks, 168 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: They're ubiquitous. What else I mean? We have outmigration, we 169 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: have a wrecking ball to the educational complex. It's a disaster. 170 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: It's really a disaster. I mean the highlight was the 171 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: rally this morning. It was a disaster. So I don't 172 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: understand this part of the equation. Right, you're still in 173 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: New York. It's eighty twenty Democrat to Republican in New 174 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 1: York City, and in that's across the whole city. In Manhattan, 175 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: I think it's more like ninety ten. Right. It's Manhattan 176 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: has become an enclave of comming nonsense. Sadly, it's where 177 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: I was born and raised. You two, and I'm wondering, 178 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: what do the people who voted what do the Democrat 179 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: who voted for Adams say to you or like, what 180 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: is the conversation like with him? Do they think he's 181 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: doing a good job. Well, firstly, voter turnout, as you know, 182 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: was abysmal. It was very low. So this is what 183 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: you get with very low voter turnout. Again, he was 184 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: pitched by the media as a moderate, so people maybe 185 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: shrugged it off and thought, look, this guy worked with 186 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: the NYPD. Finally we're going to have someone who's tough 187 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: on crime. Don't forget we had some wackos running against him. 188 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: I mean we had Maya Wiley, we had someone who 189 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: was head of the sanitation. This is on the heels 190 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: of garbage piles up to the sky. It was a disaster. 191 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: So we have Adams. And I think that people are 192 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: in two camps. There are the people that are deluded 193 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 1: and they think everything is great and they live in 194 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: their doorman buildings on the Upper West Side. And then 195 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: there are the people that are really galvanizing. And again 196 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: I hate to go back to this, but it really is. 197 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: It's the moms. You know, things get real in the 198 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:13,239 Speaker 1: field once you have kids, and really there's a common phenomenator. 199 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: Everyone wants a good school, and everyone wants to feel safe, 200 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: and we have neither of those two things. Under Adams, 201 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: everything is worse. The priority is always criminals over constituents. 202 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: What is he focused on. I mean, it's just amazing 203 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: to me because you know New York it's and then 204 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 1: this is true because you know, I do a radio 205 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: show and we're on basically five hundred stations or on 206 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: base really all over the country. Right. But we always 207 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: say that New York was the place that the whole 208 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: country looked to for the Giuliani crime miracle turnaround situation 209 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: that then was replicated in terms of the policing and 210 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: the strategy in a lot of other places across the country. Right. So, 211 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: because it worked in America's biggest city in the nineties, 212 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: going from over two thousand murders in nineteen ninety two 213 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: three hundred murders by the early two thousands something like that, 214 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: maybe maybe you know, the low four hundreds. Because of that, 215 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 1: people will understand that New York is this symbol, right 216 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: for what could be possible. And Adams was the one 217 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: thing that I mean, I was still living in the 218 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: city at the time. I remember the one thing that 219 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: everybody was saying other than you know, COVID and triple 220 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: mask and be lunatics. Was this guy needs to clean 221 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: up the city in terms of crime, also in terms 222 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: of like sanitational the streets by the way, the city 223 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: was getting dirtier. It really was that. You know, they'd 224 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: cut the sanitation budget, as you know. And it seems 225 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: to me like all he has to do is look 226 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: at what has worked in the past and have a 227 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: maniacal focus as mayor on that, on bringing down these numbers, 228 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: and he'd be not just a good mayor, a national 229 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: hero and a likely Democrat presidential contender in the future. 230 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: It's so obvious. What is he unwilling to do it? 231 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: Or is he not capable of doing it because of 232 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: the realities of the Democrat Party around him today or whatever. 233 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: I don't think that's it. I really don't think the 234 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: Democrat Party believes at this point that cleaning up the city, 235 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: which includes literally cleaning it up as well as making 236 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: it safer, is a value that they share with the 237 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: rest of us. I just I think that that's the 238 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: real disconnect. I don't think he would be accepted in 239 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: those circles if he cleaned up the city at all. 240 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: I think he probably lose his value to the Democrat Party. 241 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: I mean, right here in city Council, we just had 242 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: a group I forgot how many they are a number, 243 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: but they're part of now the Progressive Caucus. They were 244 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: literally kicking out Democrats from city Council that did not 245 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: agree to completely abolish the NYPD. So, I mean, to 246 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: your point, I don't know if cleaning up the city 247 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: would secure him any higher office within the Democrat Party 248 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: at all. Well, to do it, you'd have to lock 249 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 1: more people up. You'd have to reincarceer rate instead of 250 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: d incarcer rate, which has been the mantra of so 251 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: many Democrat controlled cities for a long time now. And 252 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: I think that the activist and donor class of the Democrats, 253 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: whether in New York or in any major left wing 254 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: enclave across the country, they're just unwilling for that to 255 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: happen right now. Maybe at some level it's there's a stubbornness. 256 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: They don't want to admit that they were wrong through 257 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: the policy change, right. But also, I mean to your 258 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: point about the people who live on the Upper West 259 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: Side in the Doorman buildings, And I know plenty of them, 260 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: and so do you. I think that they would rather 261 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: people in poorer neighborhoods live in less safety, greater jeopardy 262 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: of suffering from crime, including violent time, as long as 263 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: they themselves, meaning the rich people get to feel good 264 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: about themselves and are getting the virtue signaling points in 265 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: their peer group that that matters more to them. And 266 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: that's the calculation they make one hundred percent. I mean, 267 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: that's what it is. I mean, look at cnfol just 268 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: came out eighty percent of New York City residents say 269 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: crime is a serious issue. Eighty percent. So going back, 270 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: New York City is eight to one Democrat to Republican 271 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: and eighty percent or saying crime is a serious issue. Yeah, 272 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: it seems like this should be the most obvious, the 273 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: most obvious pathway forward laid out for a may or 274 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: for administration you could ever find. But also, you know 275 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: recently in the city, what was it just over the 276 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: weekend there was that and I know that garage. I've 277 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: actually spent a lot of time in that area, you know, 278 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: near in between Hudson Yards and actually where my old 279 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: studio used to be, and so I've just I've been 280 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: around there a lot. I know, I haven't you know, 281 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: not like super familiar with the garage, but I know 282 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: it by sight. And that guy who confronted somebody who 283 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: was coming clearly a career criminal with I think over 284 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: twenty arrests already twenty arrests. I mean, you think by 285 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: arrest number five you might start to question some of 286 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: your life choices. But twenty arrests and the guy pulls 287 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: out a gun shoots him. It's amazing. The guy Musa 288 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: I believe was his name, the employee, he turned the 289 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: gun on the individual shot him after being shot, So 290 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: he shot the criminal. It's remarkable he's not dead. And 291 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: he spent the weekend chained to his bed at Bellevue 292 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: under attempted murder charges because Alvin Bragg is a pro 293 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: criminal psychopath. I don't know how else to put it, 294 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: Like what I know, he dropped the charges, and we're 295 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: also to think that's fine. What kind of maniac charges 296 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: the I mean, the fact pattern was very clear. The 297 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: employee of the place, he didn't bring the gun in there, 298 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: he wasn't trying to steal anything like It's just, well, 299 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: how do you live with that? How do you deal 300 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: with that? Jokes on Musa, he thought that you know, 301 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: defending himself was some sort of right. It's not here 302 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: in New York City. It really again, it's it's just 303 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: pro criminal. Every single policy favors that of a criminal 304 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: over law abiding residents. It's it's really it's terrifying. Quite frankly, 305 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: it's really terrifying. You don't you go to see It's 306 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: interesting me because you're actually a lot of people talk 307 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: about like, oh, we're gonna do you run for city 308 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: council in New York. You're involved in politics in New York. 309 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: So just to be clear to everybody, you're not you know, 310 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: you're not a mom who's saying maybe somebody else is 311 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: gonna pick up the tours and try to do something. 312 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: You're you're actually trying to charge up that hill in 313 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: this nest of very wealthy commies in New York City. 314 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: Like you're actually trying to charge up that hill. Um, well, 315 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: I want to come back to that actually and ask 316 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: you a little bit about the internal political dynamics and 317 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: running for city council. And I'll tell you maybe if 318 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 1: I remember to do. There's a funny story about the 319 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 1: Austin City Council from when I visited there that you 320 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: might find worthwhile. But we'll come back that a second, 321 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: because I want ever to know you got to prepare 322 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: for what's coming financially. The recent bank failures, the nation's 323 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: largest since two thousand and eight, the financial collapse. So 324 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: if you've been on the fence about buying gold and silver, 325 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: now is the time to make the call. Gold and 326 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: silver can be a protection for your portfolio, but can 327 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: also be used as currency. I think we may need 328 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: both of those at some point. You might not have 329 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: a little gold at home, yet you should, and now 330 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 1: is the time to call the Oxford Gold Group. I've 331 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: got my gold over here, I've got my gun safe 332 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: over there, my gold and my silver over here, silver 333 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 1: over here. This is how we roll in the Sexton household. 334 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 1: So now is the time Oxford, who I've been working 335 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: with for years. They'll help you get a good position 336 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 1: for your portfolio that makes sense for you, and it's 337 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 1: so easy. Just call them today. Call the Oxford Gold Group, 338 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 1: ask about bonus opportunities by the way, that you may 339 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 1: be eligible for two and get some precious metals. Look 340 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 1: at what's going on with the economy. Get some precious medals. Now, 341 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: diversify head your portfolio, Prepare for an uncertain future Oxford 342 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: Gold Group eight three three four zero four gold. That's 343 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: eight three three four zero four g o LD. All right, 344 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: so you you tried to run Jackie in New York 345 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: City for the council there, and how how is that? 346 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: By the way, are you shocked when you because you 347 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 1: must be coming across the the Democrat positions and everything 348 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: because city council, I feel like they have to fake 349 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: The Democrats have to fake people out at the state level, 350 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: not so much in New York and California, but you 351 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: know they have to. They have to sound not completely 352 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: insane um, just because of the national level profile those 353 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: kinds of roles as well. But city council, I mean, 354 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: you know, you go to a Democrat enclave. I remember 355 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: the college. I went to the town. The town council 356 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: declared that it was a nuclear weapon free zone in 357 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: the town, like they actually passed the resolution. Like, you know, 358 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: these people can be totally wacko. How wacko is the 359 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,439 Speaker 1: New York City Council. The New York City Council is 360 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: freaking wacko. I mean it's ground zero of wacko. Um. 361 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: The good news for me when I was running is 362 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: I knew nothing. I was never politically active before. I 363 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: had no basis. It's not like I tried this a 364 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: couple times and had any sort of clue. I went 365 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: in guns blazing figuratively, and I truly it was one 366 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: of the best experiences of my life. I would encourage 367 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: anyone who is sick of the policies and what's outside 368 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: their front door, actually inside their front door, to run. 369 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: It's beyond me why people look for others to lead them. 370 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: And you know, even going back again to this rally, 371 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: all the people that were criticizing Gavin Watts, at least 372 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: he did something. I mean, people need to stop waiting 373 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: to be told what to do. You really need to 374 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: be told by someone to take off a mask after 375 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: three years, you know, you know, people need to exhibit 376 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: some sort of personal agency in their lives. Are you 377 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: coming across Democrat moms who are red pilled at this point? 378 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: I mean, are you coming across Democrat moms who realize 379 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: that they are casting votes and have been casting votes 380 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: for their own kids, especially if their boys they're teenagers, 381 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: to be more likely to get, you know, beaten with 382 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: a bottle on their way home. By some lunatic. More 383 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: likely that they themselves as women maybe assaulted on the 384 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: Street's more likely that there'll be some maniac relieving himself 385 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: on their front door wherever they live in Manhattan, Like 386 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: this is what goes on in New York. I mean, 387 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: I'm not you know, everyone can just look at the 388 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,360 Speaker 1: headlines and look at the reality. There are there Democrat 389 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: moms who are being red pilled. They're freaking attacking me. 390 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: They stopped me on the street. Anyone that lives in 391 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: my district that recognizes me from when I ran, or 392 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: that follows me on Instagram, they attack me. I mean, 393 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: I look, I'm a Republican. I've always been a Republican. 394 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: In my house. It was when we were growing up, 395 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: who is more Republican? We never had those awkward family 396 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: dinners or anything like that, so I never thought it 397 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: was weird to be a republic Again. Quite frankly, that 398 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: being said, I know my audience, and Democrats seem to 399 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: think that everyone is their audience. They always assume I'm 400 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: one of them, you know, and I'm not one of them. 401 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: But in any event, anytime I'm walking home from school 402 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: or I'm going to pick up drop off and I 403 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,719 Speaker 1: run into someone. The first thing they say is, I 404 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: can't believe I voted for this person. I don't even 405 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: care which Republican is running, I'm voting for him or her. 406 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: They are completely red pilled. I think there was the 407 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: death knell of CRT critical race theory that really did 408 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: it for them. Plenty of these parents were believe it 409 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: or not, okay masking, they were even okay vaxing. It 410 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: was really the CRT in schools. They just they've had it. 411 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: They've had it, and of course the crime. How can 412 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: you fix the schools? The public school system? I mean 413 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: to what we talked about before. In New York City. 414 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: You have all these people and I know them and 415 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: you know them. We grew up around them who will 416 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: defend the public school system like their life depends on it. 417 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: And then you'll be like, where do your kids go 418 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: to school? They're like, well, I can send him to 419 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: a sixty thousand dollars a year private school. Obviously. Yeah. Wait, 420 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: why you say the public school system is great and 421 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: you love teachers unions, but your kids? You know, one 422 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 1: of the great moments of hypocrisy if you remember back 423 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: to the back to the early in the Obama administration. 424 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: Was when then President Obama was on board with cutting 425 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: funding for DC charter schools. If you remember this, so 426 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 1: all these kids, including a lot of minority kids, who 427 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 1: were doing phenomenally well in publicly funded schools, just with 428 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 1: a different approach and not as beholden to the teachers unions, etc. 429 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: He was gonna cut funding to them where you know, 430 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: he was favorable too, I should say, cutting funding to them. 431 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: And this was in the District of Columbia, you know, 432 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: so it's a federal federal protectorate and his kids were 433 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: going to Sidwell Friends or whatever, which at the time 434 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: was forty five thousand dollars a year. And everybody looked 435 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: at this, They're like, yep, this is this is Democrats. 436 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: This is what they do. It's absolutely true in New 437 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: York City. So how do you fix the public school system. 438 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: I don't think you do fix the public school system 439 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: unless you break up the teachers unions. They are completely 440 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: political animals. They donate ninety nine point nine percent of 441 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: the time to Democrats, Democrat candidates, or Democrat causes. They 442 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: are they're a pack. I mean, they are a political 443 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: entity and they need to be completely broken up. That's 444 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: the only way you fix public school education. Like, even 445 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: on the at the city council level, you know, how 446 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: how much of an influence? Well, actually a better question 447 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: would be even for the mayor's race. For example, could 448 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: you be elected mayor of New York City if the 449 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: teachers unions mobilize against you? I mean, realistically, is it possible? 450 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 1: I think it is possible. Um. So, you know, there 451 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: are fifty one members of City Council creating this body, 452 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,360 Speaker 1: and they basically they have a lot of influence over 453 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: the mayor. The mayor like for example, Mayor Giuliani, he 454 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: knew how to rule the city council. Mayor Adams does not. 455 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: And within the purview of city Council is weighing in 456 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: on all local agencies such as the NYPD and the 457 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: Department of Education. So City Council has a big say 458 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: at education and Mayor Adams is ultimately the one presiding 459 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: over it. Again, this educational failure is his. He also 460 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: installed one of the Banks brothers, what is his name, 461 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: David Banks, one of his longtime friends. It's a really 462 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: weird It's kind of like Tammany Hall. You have Philip Banks, 463 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: who is the deputy mayor. It was like this newly 464 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: created post for him. And then you have Philip. Then 465 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: you have Philip Banks's brother, David Banks, who is now 466 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 1: head he's the Chancellor of Education. And all three two 467 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,360 Speaker 1: Banks brothers and Eric Adams go way back. It's a 468 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: very strange relationship. Can I be saying this anyway? It's 469 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: a strange relationship, and one of them is presiding over 470 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: the educational situation that we have and it's a disaster. 471 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,479 Speaker 1: So New York City taxpayers spend the most out of 472 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 1: any person in the nation, twenty eight thousand dollars per 473 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: public school student annually. And the prize is being in 474 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: the bottom half of the nation for reading and writing. 475 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: That's what we get. Twenty eight thousand dollars. That's before 476 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: you've taken any into consideration anything else special meets children, 477 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: it's much more. But yeah, it's amazing because you think 478 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: about what, let's call it thirty grand just to make 479 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: it a round number. If people could pick where they 480 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: wanted to put their dollars of thirty thousand dollars a 481 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: year for purely educational purposes for their kids, what that 482 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: would do to the system. And you know, I've seen. 483 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, do you know Mike Ernovich really really smart, interesting, 484 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,199 Speaker 1: interesting guy, you know Mike. I mean he's fiery right, 485 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: like he'll say whatever's on his mind, but he has 486 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 1: some very interesting thoughts, you know. He tweeted out recently. 487 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 1: Look at what we've done on meaning the country has 488 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: done on constitutional and concealed carry issues, effectively expanding dramatically 489 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: the ability of law. And there was a time not 490 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: long ago, twenty years ago, when that seemed crazy, like, 491 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what do you mean, We're just lucky 492 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: they're not taking all of our guns, right, But the 493 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: work is done at the local level. And I think 494 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: that's what's so interesting. That's why one of the reason 495 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,479 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you, because you look at 496 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: things like school choice. School choice that works locally in 497 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: a city in particular, or even in one state, provides 498 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: a model for other places around the country. And this 499 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 1: is what Rohnda Santis down in Florida is obviously trying 500 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,239 Speaker 1: to do with the schools, well with everything, which has 501 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: provide a model of governance that other Republican states can follow. 502 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: I know you can't do that, generally speaking in New 503 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: York because of the political makeup. But it does feel 504 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: like any room to experiment with the New York school 505 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: system that just shows what works and shows how much 506 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 1: the current system doesn't work could have effect. Right other 507 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: places look at and say, see, which is why they 508 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: hate Obviously, it's why they hate charter schools. And Harlem 509 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 1: Success Academy comes under attack from the left, which is insane. 510 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,959 Speaker 1: I'll tell you the truth, though, there's a big issue 511 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: that no one wants to discuss regarding school choice, specifically 512 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: here in New York City, and that is that private 513 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: schools have lost their independence. You have big government, you 514 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: now have big education. The truth of the matter is 515 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: many of these private schools, if you go onto their website, 516 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: they have opted into accreditation, and what that means is 517 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: that they are beholden to public school rules. So when 518 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: we talk about school choice, we really need to understand 519 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: that this shouldn't be a Republican talking point. There actually 520 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: has to be a choice, and quite frankly, here in 521 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: New York City there is no choice. Moms, here are 522 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: the choices for you. You can go to public school, 523 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: or you can spend fifty to sixty thousand on a 524 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: private school and have it at like a public school. Well, 525 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: one thing that I do know is that even my own, 526 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: my own grammar school, which I won't name, but people 527 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: could figure it out pretty easily. I talked to people 528 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,479 Speaker 1: recently about it because I got a tour of it, 529 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: and they've spent I walked past the school. This is 530 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: actually kind of funny. I walked past the school during COVID, 531 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: just randomly. I was up on the upper eas side 532 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: visiting visiting a friend, and my science teacher from when 533 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: I was a kid just happened. She still teaches there, 534 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: So we're going back like thirty years or something. Now 535 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: still teaches there, and she which is crazier I think about. 536 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: She says like, oh, you've got to see this game 537 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: in this whole tour, and it's amazing what they've done. 538 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: I mean, they have spent tens of millions of dollars. 539 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I remember we played basketball in the lunch 540 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: room where we also had our school play. I'm not kidding. 541 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: We had one room that was for our gymnasium. They'd 542 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: roll tables out for our lunch. And now they've got 543 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: like an amphitheater. It looks like something out of Harvard. 544 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just crazy. And I was like, wow, 545 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: this would be amazing. And I was like, wow, you know, 546 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: I didn't you know, the bank roll would have to 547 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: be pretty big, toy'd be able to send my son 548 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: here one day. But I thought about it, and I 549 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: talked to somebody who has a kid there. She's like, 550 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: she's like, it's communists now, woke d Ei transagenda. I'm like, transagenda, 551 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: communist stuff. It's sixty K a year yep, for grammar school. 552 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: This is really this is the crux of it. When 553 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: people discuss school choice, there has to be a choice, 554 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: and right now there unfortunately, there really isn't a choice. Also, 555 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: a lot of the schools are the private schools are 556 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: looking to unionize. That will be it, that will be 557 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: the death knell to the private school. I hadn't even 558 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: I hadn't even heard that. Really, that's yeah, little Oh 559 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: I shouldn't. I'm not going to name them, but they're 560 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: quite a few, you know. I just I have to ask. 561 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: I mean, this is I was gonna say, can we 562 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: close on a hopeful note here, Jackie. I don't know 563 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,479 Speaker 1: that's really possible today given what's going on with the country, 564 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: But what keeps you there? You know? I mean because 565 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: because I used I used to talk. I was a 566 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be here when the last skyscraper crumbles, and 567 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: and the and the you know, the hammer and sickle 568 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: is flying over Central Park like I'm gonna be here, 569 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: damn it, I'm not. And then eventually during COVID, I 570 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: was just like you, the people, not the administration. I 571 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: was like the people that live here and vote here 572 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: in Manhattan. Not's that n Island, not you know, Nassau 573 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: County in Manhattan are too crazy. I can't do this anymore. 574 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: I'm out ever read it one day? Since? Are you 575 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 1: thinking about it? Are you there? Are you actually in 576 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: it to win it till the end? I'm not. I'm 577 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: not seating New York City. Wow, look at that. It's no. 578 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,719 Speaker 1: I'm not not going to abandon it back. I really do. 579 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: I think we can win it back, and why should 580 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:54,719 Speaker 1: we give it to them? I love it so much. 581 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. I love New York so much, 582 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: and I just love it. You know. It makes me 583 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: so sad that that they've done this to that city 584 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: and the people who say, oh, it's really not that bad. 585 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: All this stuff that really is actually, especially when you 586 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: understand when you've lived in another place and you see 587 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: what your tax rate is Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Nevada, you 588 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: know a bunch of them, and then you realize that 589 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: not only are you going through this stuff in New 590 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: York City and paying incredibly high cost of living, the 591 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: highest cost of living really in the country, you are 592 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: paying the city government for the privilege of being there 593 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: and the state government for them to basically spit in 594 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: your face and act like maniacs and you know, suck 595 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 1: at everything. I don't know what else to say, like 596 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: it's too much, but you're you're not You're not getting 597 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: You are a honey badger in New York City. You 598 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: just don't give a what. You are not going to 599 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 1: abandon it. And I respect that so much. Jackie. Where 600 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: can people go to follow you on social and look 601 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: at what you're up to on with the columns, etc. Yeah, firstly, 602 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: thank you so much. I really had fun. You can 603 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: go to Instagram at jack Lane for en ye that's 604 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: j A c q U E l I n E 605 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: f O R N y C. Same thing for my website. 606 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: On Twitter, I'm at j A c q U E 607 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: T N Y. I wrote it down. What did I 608 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: write down? I think it's NY something like that on 609 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: Twitter and you can follow me on Human Events, the 610 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: Manhattan Dot Press and right and when your book comes out, 611 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: come and come and talk about the book on the show. 612 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: So we're better for you on that one. That's great. 613 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: Save New York City. Let me know how that goes, 614 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 1: all right, Jackie, Thank you so much. Great to have 615 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:34,719 Speaker 1: you