Retired General Norton A. Schwartz – U.S. lags in weapons

 Retired General Norton Schwartz Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Joint Chiefs of Staff. President and CEO of BENS (Business Executives for National Security) Tune in to The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis every Sunday morning at 9 am in New York on 970 AM: The Answer!, or find a station in your city by clicking here. Can’t get to a radio? No broadcast in your […]

Andrea Catsimatidis – GOP Report

Andrea Catsimatidis, Chair Manhattan Republican Party.  Red Apple Group executive.  Principal Catsimatidis’ Family Foundation. Tune in to The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis every Sunday morning at 9 am in New York on 970 AM: The Answer!, or find a station in your city by clicking here. Can’t get to a radio? No broadcast in your city yet? Listen online! The show is streamed live at www.am970theanswer.com or on-demand […]

Steve Bellone – New Sheriff in town

Steve Bellone Suffolk County Executive since 2012.  FBI Geraldine Hart as new County sheriff.  Former Babylon Town Supervisor. Tune in to The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis every Sunday morning at 9 am in New York on 970 AM: The Answer!, or find a station in your city by clicking here. Can’t get to a radio? No broadcast in your city yet? Listen online! The show is streamed live at www.am970theanswer.com or […]

Ed Hayes – Governors aid faces a long sentence

Ed Hayes, when in trouble, “Get me Hayes!”  Tom Wolfe’s Tommy Killian.  His book, “Mouthpiece.”  New York Super lawyer since 2013. The ultimate legal operator. Tune in to The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis every Sunday morning at 9 am in New York on 970 AM: The Answer!, or find a station in your city by clicking here. Can’t get to a radio? No broadcast in your city yet? […]

Assemblyman Ron Castorina, Jr. – The state of Staten Island

Ron Castorina, Jr.  New York state Assemblyman, Staten Island elected 2016. Chairman Staten Island Republican Party. Tune in to The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis every Sunday morning at 9 am in New York on 970 AM: The Answer!, or find a station in your city by clicking here. Can’t get to a radio? No broadcast in your city yet? Listen online! The show is streamed live […]

Leo Taddeo – Russians are determined to undermine US elections

Leo Taddeo is the Chief Information Security of Cyxtera.  Cyxtera is a secure infrastructure company.  By combining a modern, hybrid-ready information security fabric with a diverse footprint of 57 world-class data centers, Cyxtera delivers a secure platform for connecting and protecting dedicated infrastructure, private clouds and public clouds.  Leo Taddeo is responsible for oversight of Cyxtera’s global security operations, investigations […]

Mike Asaro – Less than 450 Right whales left on earth

Mike Asaro is the Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Branch Chief at the NOAAFisheries Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office. He oversees conservation and recovery programs for endangered and threatened marine mammal and sea turtle species in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. This includes working to prevent whales, dolphins, porpoises, and sea turtles from becoming entangled in fishing gear. Mike also oversees the […]

Steve Kates – “Dr.Sky” – China is heading for a moon landing

Steve Kates– “Dr.Sky” has been engaged in the science of Astronomy for well over thirty years.  A native of Brooklyn, Steve moved to the suburbs of New Jersey in 1967 and found the night sky clear.  He is the founder of the Hackensack Astronomy Club.  He has been a regular contributor to top astronomy publications.  “Dr.Sky” also had a regular class […]

John Catsimatidis, Jr. – Conservative PAC – Conservatives are jubilant

John Catsimatidis, Jr. is a major principal at the Red Apple Group, a family firm founded in 1968.  John is involved in all areas of the business, however focusing mainly on the energy and investment divisions.   While in college,  Mr. Catsimatidis was the Chairman of the New York State Federation of College Republicans in 2014.  John is defining his own areas […]

Dr. Peter Michalos – More security at a football game than an elementary school

Dr. Peter Michalos MD is a board-certified physician who has served in the past as Chief of Surgery and President of the medical staff of his community Hospital. He has worked in Rikers Island maximum security as a physician in the 1990s and has served as Voluntary police surgeon. Dr. Michalos is well known in medical circles not only for his expertise […]

Jay Timmons – Suing oil companies over climate change a waste of time

Jay Timmons is president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and chairman of the board of The Manufacturing Institute. Timmons is a leading advocate for the nearly 12 million Americans employed directly in manufacturing, educating the public and policymakers on issues that affect this critical sector of the U.S. economy.  Prior to his appointment as NAM president in 2011, […]

Scott Stringer – The 2019 New York City budget

United States Senator Mike Rounds is the junior Republican Senator of South Dakota elected in 2014.  Senator Rounds serves on five committees: Senate Armed Services; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Veterans’ Affairs; Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship and Environment and Public Works.  Rounds previously served as the 31st governor of South Dakota from 2003 – 2011, easily winning reelection […]

Larry Byrne – 30 years ago, Officer Ed Byrne assassinated

Larry Byrne is the Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters at the NYC Police Department.  The Deputy Commissioner is the oldest brother of NYPD Officer Edward Byrne, who was shot and killed in 1988 outside a Queens home while guarding a witness. Officer Byrne was only 22 and not long out of the Police Academy at the time. Byrne’s father was also […]

Mike Rounds – Budget deal passed, but immigration looms

United States Senator Mike Rounds is the junior Republican Senator of South Dakota elected in 2014.  Senator Rounds serves on five committees: Senate Armed Services; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Veterans’ Affairs; Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship and Environment and Public Works.  Rounds previously served as the 31st governor of South Dakota from 2003 – 2011, easily winning reelection […]

United States Senator Robert Casey – Budget and DACA. How about those Russians…?

United States Senator Robert Casey – is the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania.  The Senator is up for re-election in 2018.  He previously served as Pennsylvania Treasurer 2004- 2006 and Pennsylvania Auditor General from 1997 to 2004.  He is a Democrat.  Casey is the son of Bob Casey – Sr. – a former Governor of Pennsylvania.   He is the first Democrat […]

Jan Vertefeuille – Ivory bans help, but elephant population dangerously low.

Jan Vertefeuille, Senior Director, Advocacy, Wildlife Conservation joined the WWF in 2002., Ms. Vertefeuille’s job is to find for ways to engage the public, change government and corporate policies, and connect our work directly to the people who live on the frontlines of conservation.  She led some of our most successful advocacy campaigns to date, including one that got leaders […]

Attorney General Pam Bondi – Tragic, tragic shooting

Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida is a Republican and avid supporter ofTrump.  She was elected in 2010 and re-elected in November 2014, receiving 55% of the vote.  The Attorney General is chairman of the Republican Attorney General Association.   She was a former prosecutor and spokeswoman in Hillsborough County, Florida where she worked as an Assistant State Attorney when she resigned […]

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. – ‘Somebody better do something about NYCHA and soon’

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.  Ruben Diaz Jr. first entered public office as a member of the New York State Assembly in 1997 – and is currently serving his second full term as Bronx Borough President – having been reelected in November 2013 with more than 89 percent of the vote.  The Bronx has seen over $7 billion in new development […]

Dr. Pamela Newman – Your local representative of the US Army

Dr. Pamela Newman was selected by the Acting Secretary of the Army, Ryan D. McCarthy, to represent south New York.  Each state, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories have one or more CASAs appointed to provide a vital link between the Army and the communities for which they serve. CASAs are usually business or civic leaders who possess […]

President Elias Husamudeen – Without solitary confinement, no tools for discipline

President Elias Husamudeen, President of the Corrections Officers BenevolentAssociation since April of 2016.  A correction Officer of more than 28 years, Elias has risen in the ranks within the Union to now leading the Union as President of the 9,500 member organization.  Elias started his career in 1988 as a Correction Officer with the New York City Department of Correction.  […]

Professor Asher Matathias – A life combating antisemitism

Professor Asher Matathias was born in Yavan/Greece in 1943 to a Romaniotefather and Sephardic mother. His parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in a cave, where he was born. He continues to advocate for Greek Jews, fighting the inherent anti-Semitism of Greek society, and lecturing around the country about Greek Jews, the Holocaust, Israel and current events.  During the German occupation, […]

United States Senator Rand Paul – Government funding archaic process

United States Senator Rand Paul a physician and politician from Kentucky. In office since 2011 – Paul currently serves in the United States Senate as a member of the Republican Party.  Paul has been considered a supporter of the Tea Party movement – and a vocal critic of the Federal Reserve System.  He has opposed NSA mass surveillance of Americans and […]

Stephen Dobson – Mosquitoes

Stephen Dobson his childhood interest in insects led to study Entomology at Clemson University.  After graduation, he served as a volunteer teacher in American Samoa. It was Samoa where he first witnessed the human pain and suffering caused by insects, seeing people afflicted with human filariasis (elephantiasis). Since 1998, he has worked at the University of Kentucky (UKY) as a Medical […]

Larry Kudlow – Market… hang on

Larry Kudlow is CNBC’s Senior Contributor. He was previously host of CNBC’s primetime “The Kudlow Report”.  He is also the host of the nationally-syndicated “The Larry Kudlow Show”, which broadcasts every Sunday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm ET on AM 970 The Answer.  Larry is a nationally-syndicated columnist and author.  His most recent book,. “JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity”, was […]

United States Senator Richard Blumenthal – 2:00AM budget agreement

United States Senator Richard Blumenthal is a Democrat serving his first term as a United States Senator from the State of Connecticut.   Senator Blumenthal served an unprecedented five terms as Connecticut’s Attorney General – fighting for people against large and powerful special interests. His aggressive law enforcement for consumer protection – environmental stewardship – labor rights – and personal privacy has […]

Richard Hoagland – A new world of space travel

Richard Hoagland is a former museum space science Curator; a former NASA consultant; and – during the historic Apollo Missions to the Moon – was science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. In the early 1970’s – Hoagland proposed to Carl Sagan the placement of a “message to Mankind” aboard Pioneer 10 — humanity’s “first unmanned probe of Jupiter”; subsequent […]

Councilman Ritchie Torres – NYCHA… 80% often without heat

Councilman Ritchie Torres, New York City Councilman was elected in November 2013 to represent the 15th Council District in the Central Bronx.  As Chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Housing, Council Member Torres oversaw the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) which is the largest provider of affordable housing in the country.  Council Member Torres is a leading voice on […]

John LoCicero – Mayor Ed Koch.. loved New York

John LoCicero is a principal in the consulting firm of LoCicero and Tan, Inc. From 1978 to 1990 John LoCicero was Special Advisor to Mayor Koch.  Before that, he held elected office, as District Leader in Greenwich Village, where he served as campaign manager for Ed Koch’s Congressional and Mayoral campaigns.  In his capacity as Senior Special Advisor to former Mayor Koch, […]