Richard C. Hoagland Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

About Richard C. Hoagland Richard C. 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 […]

Robert Astorino Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

About Robert Astorino Robert Astorino is the Republican Westchester County Executive. Prior to serving as County Executive, Astorino served as a member of the Westchester County Board of Legislators from 2003 to 2005. In 2009, he was elected County Executive as a Republican and re-elected in 2013. In 2014, he was the Republican nominee for Governor in that year’s gubernatorial election. […]

Congressman Lee Zeldin Lee Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

About Congressman Lee Zeldin Lee Congressman Lee Zeldin Lee spent four years on Active Duty with the U.S. Army and served in different capacities including as a Military Intelligence Officer, Federal Prosecutor and Military Magistrate. In the summer of 2006, while assigned to the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division, Lee deployed to Iraq with an infantry battalion of fellow paratroopers in […]

Congressman Jerry Nadler Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

About Congressman Jerry Nadler Congressman Jerry Nadler, Democrat, serves as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 10th congressional district mostly in Manhattan. Prior to his election to Congress, Nadler served in the New York Legislature from 1977 to 1992. Nadler is a member of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary and Transportation and Infrastructure committees. He is the Ranking Member […]

Governor Tom Ridge Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “Particularly from certain parts of the world, I’m just not sure that we’ve got the background information — they talk about screening, they talk about being able to review everybody in a timely way, and it may take a year or two, I’m just not confident that they’ve got sufficient information from law enforcement, the intelligence community […]

Reince Priebus Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “The Senate is important. It’s very critical and it’s always tough to hold the Senate, but I think we’re doing everything we can do to that…Our candidates are good in the battleground states that they’re in, and that’s the key — having candidates that are in tune with their states and that are unique to their states […]

Congressman Steven Israel Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “We have to do a much better job monitoring the social media of those people, that’s what went wrong. She (suspected shooter Tashfeen Malik) was actually using social media to advance really violent views, and we didn’t pick that up. That’s a mistake and it has to be corrected…She was actually using social media to advance really […]

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Speaks about the passage of the 9/11 James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act that “will give chronically ill heroes of 9/11 and their families a long overdue lifetime of health benefits. It is a historic milestone in the recovery of 9-11….It has been a top priority of mine for well over 14 years.” About Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Congresswoman […]

Senator John J. Flanagan Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “2016 is going to be a highly political year, but people expect us to govern.” – Speaks about goals for 2016 including working on “taxes, economic development, jobs and education.” – Would like to improve New York’s rate of organ donation. “The state of New York is virtually dead last” in organ donation…it is one of the […]

Alex Smith Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – The College Republican National Committee is “the oldest and largest youth organization in the country” that was founded in 1892. The first election that the Committee participated in was the re-election campaign of President McKinley. – We need to talk to young people about “why conservative values matter in their lives…young voters are not inherently liberal.” – […]

Dr. John Andrew Morrow Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Initiated the Genocide Initiative in 2015 calling “on all political players to label the crimes of ISIS as genocide.” – Issued a Fatwa in November repudiating the acts of ISIS and it was circulated to over 1 million Muslims…”In India 70,000 Muslim clerics declared ISIS un-Islamic.” To hear John CATS upcoming roundtable radio shows, tune in at 9 […]

Archbishop Demetrios of America Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Delivers a Christmas message. “Christmas this year seems to have more significance in view of what is happening in our contemporary world” including problems with poverty, conflict, human trafficking, and refugees. About Archbishop Demetrios of America Archbishop Demetrios of America was appointed by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, on September 18, 1999 at the […]

Chris Boian Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Speaks about the United Nations High Commission on Refugees and their mission, – The High Commission on Refugees was established 65 years ago in the immediate aftermath of WWII to organize the return of the millions of people displaced due to the war. The Commission’s mission has continued because of continued war and conflict in the world. […]

Ed Rendell Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “In terms of who we fear the most, the Democratic side, just speaking for myself, I would fear John Kasich and Marco Rubio as vice president. That would be the ticket I would fear the most…I would also fear Rubio to an extent, but Rubio runs into trouble, because the Republicans have argued for eight years that […]

Newt Gingrich Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “I think there’s at least a 30 percent chance he’ll (Trump) be the nominee…He is not a traditional politician. I always tell people in Washington, look, you need to go and read about Andrew Jackson and read about how totally disruptive Jackson was to begin to understand what Donald Trump would be like if he won….I mean, […]

Brian Kilmeade Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Speaks about his book Thomas Jefferson And The Tripoli Pirates. “We are in the middle of a war against radical Islam, and I was surprised to find out the degree to which Thomas Jefferson, John Adams. George Washington, and our Founding Fathers were wrapped in the same issues.” About Katie McGinty Brian Kilmeade is on air 6 hours […]

Katie McGinty Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Speaks about her U.S. Senate campaign in Pennsylvania. – “The world was slow to come to terms with the real threat ISIS presents.” – “We need to pick up the pace with aggressive air strikes and intelligence (against ISIS)…we need to show the same aggressiveness and determination that ISIS has been showing to threaten the U.S.” About Katie […]

Governor John Kasich Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – On the President’s recent Oval Office speech: “The problem with that speech is I can’t figure out quite why he did it. He defended a policy that nobody in America thinks is working…If you’ve got to deliver a speech as the president from the Oval Office, you’ve got to have something that’s dramatic and something that’s solid […]

Professor Nicholas Roy Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Speaks about his research on autonomous systems, mobile robotics, human-computer interactions, and machine learning. – “Humans and robots working together create tremendous productivity gains for society.” – “We are going to see transportation become more efficient by combining people with smart vehicles.” About Professor Nicholas Roy Professor Nicholas Roy is a Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & […]

Pat Toomey Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights On Obamacare: – “If we look at what is happening right now, I think we’re witnessing the death spiral that many of us predicted.” – “Especially given a hospital has to treat someone who shows up and you can buy health insurance even if you already have an existing condition, these people are not in fact signing up […]

Zalmay Khalilzad Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – On Russian President Vladimir Putin: “He’s taking advantage of the relative – weakness, let’s call it, of entrenchment demonstrated by President Obama. He wants to show that to solve the Middle East problem, you have to work with Russia, that the United States is a fading power, Russia is a rising power.” –  “We need to oppose Russia […]

Dr. Peter Michalos Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – The second amendment is about “having the ability and the right to defend oneself and their family and to deter aspiring dictators and tyrants starting with King George of England.” – Speaks about examples of governments disarming their citizens and the dire consequences that followed. –  Only “3% of criminals are using legally obtained guns to commit […]

Betsy McCaughey Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “Hospital infections kill more people than AIDS and breast cancer combined…where is the outrage?- most of these infections are caused by inadequate cleaning and sloppy procedures in the hospital.” – The biggest predictor of who is going to get an infection in a hospital is “what room they’re assigned to” because the room may not have been […]

Mary Brosnahan Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “We have seen the numbers (of homeless) on the streets go up, if you look at the shelter census however, since January the number of families in the shelters has gone down slowly but steadily as Mayor de Blasio’s administration has implemented some rental assistance programs to get people up and out of the shelters…we are hoping […]

Jeff Klein Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – “I want to pass comprehensive legislation in the state of New York which finally bans the sale of K2, right now it is not illegal to sell K2 in New York State. We have an epidemic here in New York … we’re losing young people each and everyday to synthetic marijuana, also known as K2. It’s extremely dangerous.” […]

Mitch McConnell Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – Called President Obama’s foreign policy “mind-boggling” and it has caused “a genuine meltdown of American foreign policy across the board…You name the country. Where are we in better shape now than we were when he came to office? Nowhere.” – On President Obama’s veto threat of a defense authorization bill: “The mere threat to veto a defense bill with […]

Michael W. Wynne Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights – In Syria, we need to cooperate with the Russians “so that we don’t have inadvertent fights” in the air or on the ground…”inadvertent fights creates collateral damage…and can cause an inadvertent war with a power we did not intend to.” – “Our early attempts to arm Syrian rebels… have ended up in the arms of ISIS.” – […]