C (5:16)

This is not about deportation. This is not about community safety. This is, quite frankly, this is about for profit. You know, we know that there is an investigation right now that's underway with Tom holman, who took $50,000. $50,000 from two FBI agents because Tom Holman made a promise to direct contracts to the very people who are running these detention centers who actually gave orders over almost $3 million to President Trump's campaign. The President of the United States of America has declared war on poor people.

B (5:52)

Number one, Mr. Johnson just convicted Homan. No due process, and he doesn't know anything about it. How could Johnson know? And there isn't a formal investigation. We check with the Justice Department into the director, vice. Maybe there will be. The allegation is the allegation but allegations. You know, for a sitting mayor to say Tom Homan took $50,000, that's defamation. Homan could sue the guy. Easy. Trump sued and won in settlements. Okay. With ABC and others. Can't do that. But. But Johnson doesn't believe in. In due process, and that's where the leadership comes in. You can't have somebody run a city that doesn't believe in due process. You can't have it. All right? It's Just one chaotic thing after another after another after another. So president has declared war on poor people. Why would he do that? Why? It's to Trump's benefit to elevate as many people as possible into middle class status. And therefore you pay fewer entitlements. And just on a humanitarian basis, you want people to do better. But no, no backup for that. No Johnson. So they say what they want because they know that some of their constituency believes this. People believe what they want to believe. So you feed right in. But when you hear a statement that's stupid, you gotta go, you can't vote for a guy like that. You can't. Same situation exists on a lesser extent, Los Angeles. So 1200 people have been murdered over five years there. Los Angeles is a troubled town. Everybody knows that leaves the league at homeless. Quality of life has declined. People are moving out like crazy. Tourism is down. On and on and on and on. Well, Karen Bass is the mayor of Los Angeles. No solutions at all. No. Johnson has no solutions in Chicago. None. None. He's just defaming people. War on poor people. He got no, oh, I'm going to go in and solve the violent crime problem. How? He didn't even want to solve it. He doesn't know how to solve it. Karen Bass, similar situation. La, Roll it.

D (8:30)

When I was there in Congress during Trump's first administration, they made profound changes to our judiciary system. And then you have the Supreme Court, after two decisions on the local level, the state level in California, around racial profiling of Latinos, which we refer to as the hunting of Latinos, that has created a blanket of fear around this city and has had detrimental impacts to our economy. We had two court decisions, and then the Supreme Court basically gave a green light to racial profiling.

B (9:07)

A green light to racial profiling. And so the Supreme Court wants, according to Mayor Bass, the federal authorities to profile racially American citizens. But they're not American citizens, are they? No. She's talking about undocumented migrants where she has no problem. Mayor Bass has no problem accepting every single. No restraints, okay? Person who illegally crosses the border, gets in here, overstays a visa, go to la. I don't want any. I'm not going to enforce anything. I'm a sanctuary city. I'm not going to do anything. I don't care what they do, where they go, I don't care how many resources they take up. This is poor leadership. This is not problem solving. My friends in LA are going absolutely nuts. And they say the quality of the life over the last Five, seven years, just decline. I was in Westwood, California, right by UCLA earlier this year. And Westwood used to be a jewel, you know. And it's shocking the deterioration, physically deteriorating. Drug addicts everywhere, shoplifting everywhere. No police presence at all. Shocking when you elect mayors like Johnson and Bass and now New York City. Mamdani, where are you going to get more death, more destruction? Poor leadership will kill you. And that is not highlighted enough in this country. So are you in full blown panic over Mamdani? Lots of people are, with good reason as the election is less than a month away and the communist as a commanding lead. We are awaiting new polling since Mayor Adams dropped out. But I don't expect Andrew Cuomo to be that close. However, it's not over till it's over, as Yogi Berra once said. But the spectre of financial collapse and out of control violent crime has a lot of people very worried. So let's look at the money aspect of this. So we reported last week that New York city has lost 1.5 million residents over the last few years. Most of those people, big money incomes, paying substantial taxes, gone. The people have been replaced by migrants and service workers, union people, that kind of thing where the tax revenue is much, much lower. So the big money now is, is in the corporations and they are located in Manhattan at the lower part of that borough. You all know that Wall street and on and on. These corporations pay an enormous amount of tax to New York City and State. Well, they're leaving too. So JP Morgan Chase now employs more workers in Texas than New York City and a whole bunch of others. I could give you the names, but trust me on a Goldman Sachs. They're moving to Texas or Tennessee, not so much Florida. I don't know why, but Austin and Dallas are really, really gaining. In fact, New York City's financial services workforce has grown by only 4% in the last six years. Austin has grown 27%, Charlotte, North Carolina 21% Dallas 11%. That is big money fleeing the state. Why should you care? Because once the city goes into a spiral of debt where it is now, okay, then bills don't get paid, then chaos mounts. So I submit to you that if we have a mayor Mam Doni. We will have an exceedingly filthy city. Garbage won't be picked up, rats will be everywhere. The city will decline because overtime costs will have to be cut because the city's not going to have the money pay the workers overtime. You know, on the Long Island Railroad there are people, conductors making 250,000 a year. It's crazy. And that is the liberals giving the unions what they want is across the board. Well, nobody got paid for that. The city's got to pay for that now. Mamnade will raise taxes and I'll drive more people out. Let's take me, for example. I live 22 miles away from Rockefeller center. And I used to go in the city every day. Now I go in maybe three times a month, four times a month tops. And I never drive in. I take the LIRR because you can't drive in. Going 22 miles can take you an hour and 45 minutes because the traffic is out of control. This is a city in decline, okay? And Mamdani is going to make it a hundred times worse. So all I can be is Paul Revere, okay? I can warn and warn and warn. I know the people who don't know anything aren't listening to wabc. They don't seek information. They don't care. Mandani is going to give him free stuff, so they'll vote for him, okay? The cliche is be careful what you wish for. Because boy, oh boy is going to be big, big trouble on a horizon if this guy gets in. And that'll do him, Hochul, by the way, because things will be so bad in a year's time. Hochul I don't even think should be able to run. But we'll see if my predictions come true. I want to get into your wallet. Not literally, but if you live in New York City, we are the highest tax people in the United States of America. It is insane. So the New York City sales tax is about 9% now. And then you pay a city income tax to boot. And then you pay a commuter tax if you want to drive in and out, on and on and on. But you pay extra to the city and state for almost everything. How about a real estate transfer? You buy a house, you sell a house. Big tax. Commercial rent tax. Prepared food and beverages tax. Parking, storage. Taxed. Gas, electricity, refrigeration, steam, phone, tv, cable tax. Tax. Tax. You go to a barbershop, beautician taxed. Hair restoration taxed. Manicures, pedicures, on and on. Hotel taxes are insane. If you have to stay at a hotel in Midtown, you're looking at $1,000 a night in many places. If you want to hire a cleaning person, taxed. Health club, taxed. Salon, taxed. Alcohol through the roof, tobacco, cigarettes, you know, tangible, personal property taxed. If you want to sell it, have you say you have a garage sale you want to get rid of some of the stuff that's been hanging around. Well, chances are you're not going to report what you sell, but if they catch you, they can fine you. You got to pay tax on stuff you sell on your front lawn. There's a song by the Beatles, taxman. And that drove the Fab Four out of England. They all came here to live because it was, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Now, Mandani, if he's elected, he wants to raise the city income tax by 2% for those who earn more than a million a year. And get this, the corporate tax. He wants to raise money. Four and a quarter percent. Corporations is going to go. No, not all of them, but half of them. Especially if you have a small business, you're not going to be able to do that. You're out of here. And of course, the more people that leave, the fewer tax receipts that come in. Mandani has to know that, but he doesn't care. He. He's just selling. I'm going to tax the rich corporations, the rich people, and give you who don't have much money, their money. Income redistribution. But there comes a point where in life, you have to make a decision for yourself, your family, your legacy. I didn't get into estate taxes. When you die, New York State will come in. So will the federal government. They'll take most of your stuff. If you have any savings or investments or your home or whatever it may be, they're going to come in for a big piece. And so we're living in a country now where we're not really free financially. We can earn a good living. But the government more and more and more is saying, I want your money. I want your stuff. Now, next is the wealth tax, where the. And this would have to be passed by the Albany legislature. Believe me, at this point, in Albany, they do it. Hogle would probably veto it, because Hogle's on the ropes. But the wealth tax is where a tax appraiser from the state of New York would come into your home, write down everything you have, and then if the state deems it a certain value, they tax it, even though you've already paid tax on the dollars used to buy your stuff. So if you have an expensive car taxed, furniture taxed, gold coins taxed, that's a wealth tax. And that what that is is a confiscation of private property. That's communism. That's Mandani. All right? The government would take what you have. That's what happens in Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, China. You know, when I was over in China, Nobody has a 401k. I mean, come on. So anyway, that's what we're looking at here. And that's why people are leaving. Million and a half in the last five years. And if Mandani's elected, it'll be another 500,000 at bail, in my opinion. You know, New York City has more Jewish people living in it than any other place outside of Israel. And you would think that Jewish New Yorkers would not be supporting Zoran Mam Doni, but some of them are, which is incredible to me. That would be like Irish people in Woodside saying that they love Prince Charles. Okay, it's King Charles now. You know, I just don't understand. I know liberalism is ingrained in the Jewish community in many places in America. It has to do with being the underdog and all that. I understand the socio cultural aspect of it, but Mandami is really an anti Israel person. I'm not going to say he's anti Semitic. I don't think that's fair. I don't know the man. But he certainly despises Israel, no question. So he puts out a statement Yesterday on the two year anniversary of the Hamas brutality. Took at least 1200 Jewish lives. He said. Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1100 Israelis, kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives, pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war. A death toll that now exceeds 67,000. With the Israeli army bombing homes, hospitals and schools into rubble, every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives, pray their families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation, apartheid must end. Okay, so this is the usual overstatement. It's a war. It's a war between the Israelis and Hamas. And caught in that war are civilians that have been killed. Okay, Mandani is not wrong about that. But picture this. Mexico comes across the border in Arizona and slaughters 1200 people in Tucson and then runs away and into the border cities, Juarez and the rest of them that line the border, Nueva Laredo, all of that. And the United States does what? What do we do? We get 1200Americans dead because Mexicans came across the border and slaughtered them. Women, children, everything. The same thing. So, of course, the US Military would go in and destroy the terrorists, the Mexican terrorists who did this, and in the process, you would have civilians killed. That happens in every single war. It has never been any different. Okay? And, you know, if you know any history at all, you know what I'm saying is absolutely true. But Mandani and his ilk, they're telling you that Netanyahu and the Israeli government want to kill innocent Palestinians, women and children. They want to, like Putin. Putin does want to kill innocent Ukrainians. He targets, for no military purpose, houses and small villages in Ukraine. Putin does that. He's a mass murderer, okay? He's a psychopath. And I document that in confronting evil, Israel is chasing, hunting down Hamas, who are hiding behind the civilians. Civilians don't have any choice. What are they going to do? A lot of them have left. And that's what I would have done had I been a Palestinian. I would have just pulled every. All my family out of there and gone anywhere on earth other than there. But you think that the Israeli war cabinet. How many babies can we kill today? Genocide, apartheid. There are a number of Arabs, as we've documented, that live in Israel, that make a nice living living there. I mean, if it were apartheid, it wouldn't be any so Mehdame. He's a foolish man. He's a foolish man. Now, there's a poll taken by Elise Stefanik, who's going to run for governor against Kathy Hochul in 26. And the poll says that when. Here's a question. When voters learn Hochul endorsed Mandani for New York City mayor, who would you support, Stefanik or Hochul to be governor? Stefanik, 46%. Hochul, 45. 9. So Stefanik pulls ahead of Hochul. When people learn that Hochul is attached to Mandani, isn't that interesting? And I believe that'll hold, because Vandani, if he's elected, it's going to do so much damage to the city, and the voters are going to hold Hochul partially responsible for that. Did you hear about this brawl between Congressman Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries? Both, of course, from New York. Happened yesterday on Capitol Hill, and it was pretty amusing. So let me set the stage. So Jeffries had just finished a news conference at the nation's capital, telling people he wants to have a compromise on Obamacare subsidies, which is closing down the government because the Republicans and the Democrats can't decide on how much money to spend on health care. And that has been A very bitter divide. The problem with Mr. Jeffries is that he wants to give Obamacare subsidies to foreign nationals. Not all of them, but the Republicans are going, no way. American taxpayers aren't going to pay for the health care of people not born in the usa. It's not going to happen. So Lawler is a conservative, represents the lower Hudson Valley, Rockland, Putnam, a little bit in Dutchess and Westchester counties. He walks up to Jeffries and here's what happened. Go.

E (28:07)

Why did you vote to shut down?

F (28:08)

Ask your question.

E (28:09)

For years you always lectured about how we need to keep the government open.

F (28:12)

You're making a show of this to me.

E (28:13)

It's so relevant, it's sad. You could easily sign on.

F (28:15)

You're embarrassing yourself.

E (28:17)

Sign on to this. The only embarrassment here is you.

F (28:19)

You're in a.

E (28:19)

You could sign on to the bill. You have four Democrats on here.

B (28:22)

Why won't you sign on?

F (28:23)

Let me ask you a question.

E (28:24)

It's a, it's a clean extension for one year.

F (28:26)

You voted for the 1 billion, correct?

E (28:28)

I voted for a tax cut bill that gave the largest tax cut to Americans in history, including, by the way, the average New Yorker getting a $4,000 tax cut. Are you against that?

B (28:38)

You're embarrassing.

E (28:39)

Do you want to, you want to cut the standard deduction in Medicaid.

F (28:45)

For.

E (28:45)

That fraud and abuse? By the way, Tom Dinapoli, the Democratic controller of New York, pointed out that $1.2 billion were wasted.

B (28:54)

All right, so you know, they're back and forth all over the place and they're never going to agree on anything because these kinds of situations are all partisan. Democratic Party wants to raise taxes to give entitlements. Health care is under that two people. A Republican Party is a self reliance party that does not want massive government spending, certainly does not want to expand the Medicaid and Medicare rolls which are now leading to the $37 trillion debt the nation has. So you're never gonna get agreement, but you can get a compromise. And a compromise should be, look, we'll open up the government, then we'll discuss specifics about how to dole this money out on health care. And if we don't come to an agreement, then the next time around we'll shut the government down again, I guess, because they're never really going to agree. Now I come down on the side of the got to stop the massive spending. I would raise the age of retirement to 67. And depending on your situation, I wouldn't. It's not 100% across the board. But I would push back Social Security payments and Medicare payments, but you'd get more as you get older because you'd be paying in. And. And things like that. But we're going to have to do something. We can't afford it. And when I say we, it's the United States of America, $37 trillion, and you can't ever pay it back. We're paying more than $1 trillion of interest a year to people who buy U.S. savings bonds and our investments. And you got to look at the data on how long can we go with this before the American economy collapses? Because the US Dollar is not going to be trusted any longer. People are going to dump it. You know, most people in the world, they deal with US Dollars. I don't know whether you guys know that or not. Who wants a Russian ruble? Nobody. Wants a Chinese currency. Nobody. Because those currencies are unstable. So it's either the euro or the dollar. And most people go the euro, I don't know. So they go for the dollar. And that can change. And if that changes, boy, are we in trouble. So fiscal responsibility, and that's what this is all about. Anyway, Lawler versus Jeffrey is very partisan. We have a lot of very interesting things to tell you. You're going to be a lot smarter in 10 minutes than you are now. And it's important. And you know this stuff because John F. Kennedy is revered by Democrats and a lot of Republicans, and he's a lot like Donald Trump. And I'm going to make that case, particularly on the National Guard stuff. And people don't remember what happened in our recent history. And Trump's doing exactly what JFK did and white Eisenhower. So let me walk through it. I promise this will be boring. All right, you got. So on May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled, Brown versus Brown, that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, which means that every minority African American, all other minorities, had to be admitted to public schools if they were qualified. So if you got into the college, then you couldn't deny you on skin color and ethnicity, which was a fair ruling. It should have been done in 1834, not 1954. Okay. Then three years later, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights act of 1957 that focused on voting rights. You couldn't have a poll tax. You couldn't have a quiz before you registered. You couldn't have any of that. Every American is entitled to vote. They're over 18 years old. Now. Eisenhower was pretty mad that there was resistance to this. And then in Arkansas, a Guy named Orville Faubus, who was the governor. He wouldn't let the black kids in to a high school in Little Rock, okay? There were nine black kids. They wouldn't let them in. Governor wouldn't let them in. Governor sent National Guard to the school to deny the kids. Eisenhower did not like that at all. Okay? Now, my mentor Mike Wallace on CBS interviewed Forbis. Roll it.

G (34:04)

Why did you not instead assign a dozen troops to escort each negro child to and from classes, thereby preventing violence and obeying the order of the court at the same time? Because the best way to prevent the violence was to remove the cause. You would not have removed the cause by that type of activity. You would have had the imminence of disorder and violence within the school and outside the school. And whether or not it breaks out in the school, it could break out in other sections of the city.

B (34:37)

He was a racist and he didn't like black people and he was hurting them. And Eisenhower said no. And so Eisenhower sent Federal troops, the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas to stop the madness. Here's Eisenhower.

F (35:00)

Local authorities have not eliminated that violent opposition. And under the law, I yesterday issued a proclamation calling upon the mob to disperse. This morning, the mob again gathered in front of the Central High School of the Little Rock, obviously for the purpose of again preventing the carrying out of the court's order relating to the admission of negro children to that school. Whenever normal agencies prove inadequate to the task and it becomes necessary for the executive branch of the federal government to use its powers and authority to uphold federal courts, the President's responsibility is inescapable.

B (35:51)

Same thing on immigration law. Same thing. Illinois, Chicago, sanctuary cities, California, Oregon, on and on. Won't obey immigration law and are impeding federal agents, ICE agents from finding people who are here illegally. Same thing, no difference. Now, going back five years after Eisenhower's address, John F. Kennedy is president starts up again. Okay? First in Mississippi, man named James Meredith get submitted to Ole Miss, all right? Governor Ross Barnett won't let him go in. There are riots, deaths, okay? There are almost deaths in Chicago last weekend over the ICE agents. Remember that, okay, so JFK sends 17,000 federal troops, 70,000 to Mississippi, paratroopers airborne to enforce civil rights laws. Then the next year, George Wallace, remember him? Governor of Alabama, another racist. He stands in a doorway, he's blocking the kids from going into the University of Alabama. Kennedy sends more troops down. Here's what JFK said this afternoon.

H (37:33)

Following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama. That order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happen to have been born Negro.

B (38:01)

So I ask you all over the world, what is the difference? You got two presidents in the 1950s, early 60s. Obviously Southern states, some of them were not obeying the federal civil rights law laws. Blank. You, president say send them down to restore order, to prevent violence and to allow the students to attend the schools. And that was their right. Flash forward to now 2025. Oh, we're not going to cooperate with immigration law, says Governor Pritzker of Illinois. No, we're not going to do it and we're not going to. And if an ICE agent is being threatened and maybe killed, our cops aren't going to help them. Brandon Johnson, Mayor of Chicago, not going to help them. If Trump didn't do anything. And again, Biden didn't do a thing because Biden is the architect of the open border. He didn't want federal immigration laws enforced. He's the real villain here, Biden, because he caused all of this. And it's going to cost trillion dollars to round up all the people that are here illegally and to give them some kind of hearing. Remember, a lot of these people get hearings. They are not all just booted out, put on a bus and a plane and sent across the border. But we need a new immigration law. The one we are operating under is 1952. Eisenhower and Kennedy had recent laws that were passed by Congress. So you tell me, is there any difference? Civil rights, immigration, federal law, federal law, not going to cooperate. Mississippi, not going to cooperate. Illinois, dc, Oregon, Louisiana, Boston, New York. I'm sitting there, I'm going. If you can tell me what the difference is. So the same people who are objecting now to Trump using the military to enforce federal law when the locals won't, they have JFK as a big hero for doing what he did to desegregate education in the South. Kennedy is revered to this day by the Democratic Party. So Kennedy, what he did is okay. It was great. Well, what's wrong right now? The same thing. So people who live overseas outside the United States, they don't know. How would they know? It's impossible. But American citizens don't know. They're not taught what happened in the Eisenhower, Kennedy administrations. They have no idea about civil rights law. They have no idea that immigration law goes back to 1952, hasn't been upgraded since then and it should be. We need a brand new immigration law here, very specific about who can come, how long they can stay, what the process is for asylum right there. And then the dreamers, we ought to cut them a break. You're dragged here by your irresponsible parents and you're three and now you're 30. You're going to get booted back to Paraguay. That's not fair. That's not what we're about here in America. You got to revise the law. Have to. But neither party will do it because they use the law to try to whip up their base. Oh, we're so compassionate on the Democratic side. Oh, and on the Republican side. Oh, no, no. And it's wrong. And my job is to straighten it all out. And I believe that in the Supreme Court hearing, the Supreme Court will side with Trump on the National Guard. He'll win all the lawsuits against him. They're going to use the memo that I presented on the no Spin News on my television radio broadcast earlier, signed by Robert Kennedy, the attorney general, on behalf of his brother, the president. That'll be used in a Supreme Court proceeding because I know that the federal government, the Justice Department was watching when I presented that. I have the document, not a copy. I have the original. Anyway, we really appreciate you paying attention. I hope that wasn't boring. It's a good history lesson, but history can be exciting, certainly necessary and relevant. We'll see you soon. Thank you for listening to Looking out for you. Remember to subscribe to my podcast feed. Also, consider becoming a BillORiley.com premium member. It will enhance your life. Sign up@billoriley.com membership. Get access to full episodes of the no Spin News.