Interview Highlights – Spoke about his early childhood of growing up poor to becoming the youngest Mayor of Ithaca at age 24 in 2012. – Inherited a budget deficit of $3 million but through “merging departments, streamlining operations, reducing the size of our staff..and growing our tax base” the deficit has been erased. – “We (Ithaca) now have the lowest […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about his recent announcement with Vice President Joe Biden to pool $38 million from his office and $40 million from the federal government to “once and for all eliminate the backlog of rape kits” around the country. – Rape kits, which get DNA samples to prosecute those that sexual assault women and men, “have remained on […]
Interview Highlights – “Ridership is surging…bus ridership is relatively flat, but the rail side has grown substantially….putting tremendous demands on the system.” – We are trying to “enhance the ridership experience, expand the system with new construction” to serve more parts of the city that have not been served by the MTA. – NYC has only committed $657 million to […]
Interview Highlights – Regarding his time with President George W. Bush in NYC in September, 2011: “President Bush that day was extremely saddened, but also extremely strong and absolutely determined…there was no doubt in my mind he was going to be like steel and he was not going to back down in anyway and do whatever needed to be done…President […]
Interview Highlights – “We have to completely change our direction in dealing with radical Islamist terrorism”, beginning with the Iran deal. – The deal with Iran “just gives a $100 billion signing bonus to a country that is committed to death to America, death to Israel, it is an awful, awful agreement that will make Iran the economic and military […]
About Vito John Fossella, Jr. Vito John Fossella, Jr. is a U.S. Republican politician from the state of New York who formerly represented the state’s 13th Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms, from 1997 to 2009 serving as the lone Republican from New York City. To hear John CATS upcoming roundtable radio shows, tune in at 9 […]
Interview Highlights – After September 11, 2001 “the President and the entire senior staff came to the White House everyday saying never again, not on my watch…there was no higher priority for him (President Bush) than keeping the country safe” – “The threat now is as bad or worse than it was on September 10, 2001.” – After the first […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about his interview with Osama bin Laden in May,1998 in Afghanistan. bin Laden’s agenda in interview “was to declare war on America…he said al Quaeda is a network that would turn into a movement.” – Speaks about the current terrorist threats to NYC and the efforts uncovering the plots. About John Miller John Miller is the Deputy Commissioner […]
About Tom Von Essen Former Fire Commissioner Tom Von Essen On September 11, 2001 he and New York’s Bravest were at Ground Zero within minutes, saving thousands of lives and facing unimaginable obstacles and challenges in two of the tallest buildings in the world. Perhaps no one knows more the bravery and tragic losses of New York’s finest on the fateful day […]
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Interview Highlights – “We’re maybe even at more risk now than we were then (before September 11, 2001), it seems like we haven’t learned our lesson from the past.” – “I’m so concerned about (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and al Quaeda in Iran, and the President’s basically kind of state of denial of the dangers that Iran […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about his recent “life-changing” trip to Israel. – “I don’t know how any American can vote for the Iran agreement. America gets nothing out of it. Four people are being detained illegally in Iran and their freedom was not part of this deal. Iran is the biggest supporter of terrorism throughout the world and is still […]
Interview Highlights – “(There’s) a crisis we have in the city that nobody’s really talking about, and that’s the crisis of 1.2 million open warrants. Most of these warrants were issued over a year ago, some over a decade ago, simply because people failed to show up, these were warrants for low level minor offenses like riding your bicycle on the sidewalks. We […]
Interview Highlights – The “volatility index”, which shows the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility gained 120% last week, “the biggest week in history”. – “The big picture is you have to find a company you like and don’t try to chase the market”. – Speaks about Wall Street’s wild past week, and the oil market and the drop in prices […]
Interview Highlights – The “volatility index”, which shows the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility gained 120% last week, “the biggest week in history”. – “The big picture is you have to find a company you like and don’t try to chase the market”. – Speaks about Wall Street’s wild past week, and the oil market and the drop in prices […]
Interview Highlights – Iran has “a resilient population striving for change under a repressive government.” – “Iran has a dynamic society with strong opposition (to the govt.), especially among the younger generation and women. They want democracy and human rights. They don’t want a nuclear bomb as its purpose is to empower the Ayatollah. – Speaks about the tragic experiences […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the Green Beret Foundation, which provides immediate and long-term support to our wounded, their families, and to the families of our fallen. – “While the Veterans Administration should be doing the job, they are not. Therefore, it falls on us…we have a moral responsibility to help them.” – On the 2016 GOP field: They are […]
Interview Highlights – On the GOP Presidential field: “It’s certainly entertaining…if you want reality television, you’re getting it. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.” – On the Democratic race for President: “Politics is a strange business, I’m probably the last guy to offer an opinion on how to win the presidency given what happened to me in 1988…Kitty and […]
Interview Highlights – The “volatility index”, which shows the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility gained 120% last week, “the biggest week in history”. – “The big picture is you have to find a company you like and don’t try to chase the market”. – Speaks about Wall Street’s wild past week, and the oil market and the drop in prices […]
Interview Highlights – “Donald Trump can say whatever he wants to say about Jeb {Bush}. But saying that he’s low-energy is wrong because the guy is an Energizer bunny”. – “Trump has more substance than we’ve seen displayed, he certainly has the moxie…if he teams up with the right kind of people and has the right kind of substance, yes, […]
Interview Highlights – The most important issue to young people is “having economic opportunities, whether it be getting a job or paying down student debt…” – “What President Obama has delivered the past 7 years has a lot of young folks turned off and feeling let down by the political process”. – Speaks about his efforts to get young people […]
Interview Highlights – “Contrary to Donald Trump’s claims, most illegal immigration to the United States is actually from Central America, not Mexico.” – “Right now the number of Mexicans crossing the border is basically flat, the immigrants that are crossing legally or illegally in both cases are from Central America now…what shouldn’t change is our commitment to respecting the rule […]
Interview Highlights – “We need to preserve and protect small businesses in New York, they are the key to our economic growth”. – “We need to do a better job regulating street vendors…but they need to co-exist with our small businesses”. – “Street vendors need to be designated in areas where they can sell their ware where it’s not in […]
Interview Highlights – “Small businesses in this city are under attack. They are under attack every single day from every type of inspection possible…” – Speaks about the plight of small businesses facing unfair competition from street vendors. “We need reasonable regulations of street vendors where they can serve under-served markets…so brick and mortar businesses can exist forever”. – Street […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the upcoming new Fox 5 show “New York’s Star of the Day” that will premiere September 19th and be broadcast from Resorts World Casino in Queens. It will air Saturday nights 5:30-6:00 p.m. The show will “create a nice local community where people can go out there and give of their talent…it will be a […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the recent U.S. District Court decision in Arizona that upheld a Phoenix ordinance that banned the sale of puppy mill dogs from any store. – Due to the above decision, “all dogs sold in pet shops in Phoenix must originate from an animal shelter or non-profit humane society or a non-profit rescue group…they can not […]
Interview Highlights – “There has been a lot of attention on the Iran nuclear weapon issue, but people should remember that North Korea has detonated there nuclear devices, we know they’re a nuclear power.” – “{China} has real weaknesses in the economy…I think a lot of their statistics are just made up, and I think the collapse in the stock […]
Interview Highlights – “Things are getting worse {in NYC}, there is a state of decline, quality of life is deteriorating, we need to stop the slide.” – “There is an increase in homelessness and crime in our city”. – “Mayor de Blasio taking away stop & frisk was the biggest mistake”. – On the GOP Presidential candidates: “Each and every one […]
Interview Highlights – “I look at what’s happening on the other side of the aisle, it’s a disaster what’s happening with Hillary Clinton right now, did she commit a crime? Is she going to be indicted? That’s what the conversation is on the other side of the aisle right now”. – “The Democrats were hoping for a coronation of Hillary […]
Interview Highlights – Regarding a possible Joe Biden run for the Democratic nomination for President: “He’s done it twice, and he hasn’t had the best track record doing it”. – “I don’t hold to any illusions that this is going to be some kind of an easy straight shot open thing {for Hillary Clinton}”. – Regarding the controversy around Hillary Clinton’s email […]
