Interview Highlights – Florida has added “940,000 jobs over the 4 years and 9 months and the unemployment has dropped in half.” – Florida is attracting new residents, especially from the Northeast because of their lower tax rates, including having no personal income tax; a “great education system”; a high state credit rating, and having safe communities.  About Governor Rick Scott […]

Interview Highlights – On the recent Democratic Presidential debate: “Bernie Sanders virtually applauded Hillary for destroying her emails, I have a list of 13 criminal statutes that Hillary allegedly violated with her conduct. She got away with murder. … This was like a love-fest.” –  On Donald Trump and the Republican Presidential GOP field: “From the very beginning I have said, ‘Do not […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.” […]

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 […]

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.” – […]

Interview Highlights – States that her husband (Chris Christie) has a record of working with members of both political parties, “I could see him transferring those skills on the national level, because he knows the issues so well and because he can really bring people together and forge compromise and get things done, he’s a real doer; he’s not just a […]

Interview Highlights – “Australia and the United States enjoy one of the closest relationships that can exist between two countries- politically, socially, economically, culturally, and strategically.” – Australia is “very excited about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement…it is one of the most ambitious and wide-ranging trade agreements that the world has seen…it represents a significant boost to the economies” that are […]

Interview Highlights – “David Brock ( long-time Clinton ally) … has been collecting dirt on Joe Biden, which they’re ready to release if Biden gets into the race, you can be sure the Clintons are not going to stand idly by and let Biden have a free ride.” – States that President Obama would endorse Biden over Hillary Clinton but “what he’s […]

Interview Highlights – States that regulations are causing Wall Street to downsize their operations, “The continued implementation of the new financial regulations – Dodd-Frank and so on – some of that is requiring changed business models where … because of that they’re selling off some of the aspects of their business.” About Thomas DiNapoli Thomas DiNapoli, Democrat, is the 54th Comptroller of […]

Interview Highlights – CUNY is the “great American dream machine…it is a place of opportunity to move generations into the middle class.” – CUNY is recognized nationally as one of the greatest values in college education with “tuition low, and the quality of education very high.” – “8 of 10 graduates leave with no federal debt, which is unlike the […]

Interview Highlights – “Hey look, this is Times Square. Quirky is fine, but creepy is not…Some commercial activity is fine but let’s not let it overwhelm civic activities.” – The Times Square Alliance conducted a survey of those who work in Times Square and found 60 percent of them said that they have had an “unpleasant interaction with either a solicitor or […]

Interview Highlights – Speaks about the upcoming election for Staten Island District Attorney and the GOP candidate Joan Illuzzi. “Her resume is incredible.” – Says that Republican Assemblyman Joe Borelli is running unopposed for the Staten Island South Shore City Council seat. The Governor may not call a special election to fill Borelli’s seat in the State Assembly. “We have […]

Interview Highlights – Speaks about the Pope’s visit to NYC. “What jumps out at you when in his presence is his humility.” – “In our inner city schools 65% of our kids live below the poverty line, yet 97% of them are going to college.” – “Our biggest challenge is trying to keep our schools financially sustainable.” – The cost […]

Interview Highlights – Speaks about the recent discovery on Mars. “It gives us evidence of liquid water on Mars today…we had known water has flowed on Mars but billions of years ago.” – Speaks about the next mission to Mars in March that will get there on September 28, 2016. The purpose is to “study the inside of Mars” including […]

Interview Highlights – When Putin came to power in Russian in 2000 he had two missions: “Restore Russian statehood… and restore Russia’s traditional zones of security on its borders.” – President Obama’s bombing campaign against ISIS “has failed”. In Syria, Russia says we need Assad to fight terrorism, whereas the White House is saying we can only join this fight if […]

Interview Highlights – “We’re going to be well into January before this thing (the Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus) starts flushing out to the point where you can even start talking about the top five and the bottom five….The people are waiting to make up their minds…” – “I am still hearing the buzz about Donald Trump, I hear people with strong opinions about […]

Interview Highlights – Speaks about her new book, In This Together: My Story.  It is a heartfelt memoir of faith, family, and survival and a message of hope that we are all In This Together.  – Speaks about her battle with multiple sclerosis and depression. – Says that all people will deal with something that” will bring us to our knees” and we are […]

Interview Highlights – “There’s so many trouble spots, you’ve got Iraq, you’ve got the Iran situation, you’ve got Syria, you’ve got several wars in Africa going on, you’ve got Columbia and Venezuela fighting each other, you’ve got the immigration issue unsettled, you’ve got North Korea, you’ve got the refugee situation in Syria – this kind of explosion of problems.” – “What we […]

Interview Highlights – Speaks about her Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. Based in London, the Foundation provides women with the skills, technology, networks and access to capital that they need to become successful small and growing business owners, so that they can contribute to their economies and have a stronger voice in their societies. – For more information about The […]

Interview Highlights – Speaks about the global reach of the Clinton Foundation. The Foundation works with businesses, governments, Non-Government Organizations, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity, and help communities address the effects of climate change. – For more information about The Clinton Foundation, go to: www.clintonfoundation.org To […]

Interview Highlights – “No one knows what Joe Biden’s going to do…I think in the end he won’t, because if you look at the polls in every significant state, he’s in third place slightly behind Bernie Sanders and significantly behind Hillary Clinton, the only way he can catch up, since he and Hillary basically agree on the same issues … is […]

Interview Highlights – Predicts that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will be the next Speaker. “He’s (McCarthy) a very bright, capable guy. He was the leader in the California assembly for the Republicans, he has been rising steadily, and he’s very widely liked and very widely accepted.” – “For Boehner, I think, he realized it would never get better than this (The […]

Interview Highlights – “Taking care of this leadership issue was a pretty selfless act that Speaker Boehner decided to make a little bit easier for everyone, I might imagine he would have been able to hang on, but the truth is he’s just not the type of guy to put up with it, so he just said, ‘Forget it, I’ll move on.’” […]

Interview Highlights – Speaks about the Second Annual Rolex Central Park Horse Show which occurred between Wednesday September 23rd- Sunday, September 27th. The show hosted the inaugural U.S. Open in jumpers, dressage, hunters, under-25 jumpers and Arabians.  To hear John CATS upcoming roundtable radio shows, tune in at 9 AM New York time every Sunday morning on 970 AM Radio: The […]

Interview Highlights – “Gov. Cuomo “just keeps putting wet blanket after wet blanket” over the upstate economy, “he has killed the natural gas industry.” – Presented the Republican plan for economic growth in NYS. – “We’ve been winning in blue areas in NYS.” Notes that when he came into the position of NYS Republican Chairman, NYS only had two Republican […]

Interview Highlights – “I’m now beginning to really look at [the] city council as a real problem for law and order in New York City, some of the things they do, I think they do just for the purpose of garnering votes.” – “There’s a fear factor on behalf of police officers with getting involved and stopping someone and, ultimately, being accursed […]