Peter King & Sid Rosenberg | 06-24-26

We got Peter King, former Congressman Peter King on the line. Peter's perfect guy to come on now. Peter, you know, listen, George Venezuel's point is very well taken. We want to see justice done. But, I mean, come on. You don't want to. I wish we didn't have the corruption in the first place. Am I being a Pollyanna? You being naive. Yeah. And in real way you are, the fact this is always going to be corruption. And the idea is you need official people to watch it. As far as Frank Corro and I know him slightly, you hate to see some guy get in trouble, but if he deserves, he deserves it. It's too early to judge. But the U.S. attorney in that district is very professional, very top shelf. So let's wait and see how it goes. If it is corruption, then obviously it has to be punished as to be gone after. Otherwise, the whole system corrodes, and the good people in to get brought down along with the others. So it's important to clean up the system. I don't want to prejudge Frank Carone, but right now it's going to be a tough fight ahead for him. Frank Caron's an attorney. I mean, attorney should know better. You know, this is what they defend or what they prosecute. You know, this is their life. They know the consequences. There's a lot of dirty attorneys. If you did violate the law, that's one thing. We have to wait and see whether we did or not. There's usually a presumption of innocence. There's also a real-life presumption that the FBI and the U.S. attorney and the Justice Department have put all out effort into it. They must believe that he is guilty. On the other hand, as we saw. with President Trump, you can also target someone for political reasons. I'm not saying that's the case for Frank Cohen at all. I do know that Jonas Seller in the Eastern District is an outstanding U.S. attorney, and George can talk to the validity of the FBI in New York. Whatever criticisms were being made of the FBI in Washington under the Biden administration, that really never ever applied to New York, especially when George was there. George, I mean, you were FBI 25, 26 years, four years in charge of New York. What is the batting average of the FBI in New York when they decide to make an arrest? Very high. I mean, the federal charges... In other words, they don't make an arrest. They don't make arrests, especially in the corruption arena, because you have to make sure... that it's it's it's a it's a it's a slam dunk case because you don't want to indict a high political figure and then and then have them go free because then that's a big that's a stain and there's a lot of protocols that go on when you when you investigate political figures so any political figure that's indicted i could tell you it's probably 99 percent Conviction rate. I wish I wish Frank Caron the very best Congressman Peter King how how are you what an honor to have you here?

for his opponent, for Brad Lander in that race. That's the point I was making, is that one comment or one time can bring down your career. Now you can make 10 comments a day that are hateful, anti-Semitic. And, Judge Weinberg, right now the targets are the Jews. That's the reality. And my point is, I'm very concerned for the Jews, but I also know when you look at history, it's the Jews first, and the rest of us after that. So the fact is, all of us are in danger. We have to realize that. And I say, well, it's only the Jews or telling this. If they're coming after Jews, they're coming after all of us. And we have a special obligation, obviously, to the Jewish community because of World War II and historic anti-Semitism. But just from a selfish point of view, all of us are the targets. And that's the reality. Peter King, by the way, we have Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz who's going to join us in a few minutes. He's a rabbi of a big congregation here in Manhattan to talk about all of this. But moving on from just that issue, well, I mean, taking it from that issue, you know, these candidates talk a lot about Israel. and the Jews. How does that have to do with the price of eggs in Harlem or the Bronx where the Chevalier is going to be the congresswoman now? I mean, to me, we've known for years that the Arab country surrounding Israel have used anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric to get themselves off the hook for their terrible governments, for the fact that there's so much poverty, for the fact that a country like Egypt has, I think, like 60% illiteracy. But to see it come here to New York, I mean, this is like watching the Lord of the Rings. And the orcs have come. I mean, this is like seventh century barbarism has come to Harlem and come to the Bronx and Brooklyn. This is absolutely terrifying. It really is. And again, it goes beyond the issue of Israel in the Middle East. The anti-Israel, anti-quote Zionism, anti-Semitism is really a metaphor for coming against American society. And that's why it's so important that we stand firm on this. And again, all sorts of hatred, obviously wrong. Also, I think it's important for Republicans to get our act together. And I don't want to sound critical of President Trump, but we shouldn't be talking about the reflecting pool and painting the White House gold and everything else. We should get a few key issues, focus on them, and whatever happens in Iran with the negotiations, we should never be turning against Benjamin Netanyahu and making remarks against him, which could be interpreted as being anti-Israel. You stand with your allies, and if you are going to have differences, you do it behind the scenes, you don't question that. Their motives are their loyalty. Congressman King, we had a situation yesterday in a coffee shop. By the way, this is Fernando Mateo, Congressman. Pleasure to be here. I recognize you anywhere. Okay, great. Dan Goldman was a denied service in a coffee shop. He's a congressman of this country. He was denied service because he was pro-Israel. Sort of. Right? Sort of. He's not really that for Israel, but all right. So, you know, what's your take on this situation? That to me was indefensible. That's the point I was alluding to before, is that that should have ended the campaign right then and there. There should have been a massive outpouring of opposition to Brad Lander for that because he did not denounce it, and there should have been peaceful demonstrations against it. Instead, it was just sort of glossed over.

There's a protest today. Let's a second. We have Sid Rosenberg, our guy we're filling in for, on the phone right now. Peter King can stay on the line. Yeah, Peter, don't, don't hang up, Peter. Don't hang up, Peter. But we got Sid, Rosemberg. He'll drive me crazy. Yeah, no, Sid, you should have been here. I mean, when that story broke, you know, you got a chance now to blast about this. Go ahead, Sid. While I'm speaking to you right now, I'm about, I don't know, about 100 yards away from the hotel, which is also known as the Western Walling Wall here in Israel and another beautiful, sunny, gorgeous Israel day. Look, that's a tough race for me. You know, that race for me is like asking, hey, Sid. You'd rather have AIDS or herpes. Oh, my God. I mean, I'm being serious. I mean, Dan Goldman is horrible. He's not really pro-Israel. You know, he's not as bad as Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, but he's hardly one of us strong Jews. Brad Lander is a Palestinian. He's a joke. Any decent Jew, you don't have Shabbat dinners on Friday night with Palestinians. So I don't like Goldman. I like Brad Lander even less. I guess somebody had to win, given the choice, but prefer Goldman. But either way, that Congress rate is bad for New York and bad for America. Sid, you know, there is going to be a protest today. I want to give everyone the details, 561 Lorimer Street in Brooklyn, against this coffee shop, the Poetica coffee shop. So we're hoping for, you know, I'd like to see a nice turnout there. But, you know, Fernando and I were talking about yesterday, like, the Jewish community of Williamsburg should have been surrounding that coffee shop yesterday when this story. Absolutely. Yeah, the problem is we don't do that. And we should, you know, and that's part of the problem with American jewelry, is that unlike here in Israel, where they will shoot you. Okay, bottom of mind, we'll shoot you. In New York, they're very... timid. And that's the reason why Jewish people get their asses kicked all over the streets of New York City. We just don't do that. They do that. So they can have a nice turnout outside the coffee shop. It's not going to mean anything. It's not like it's going to stop there or anyplace else. You've got the mayor, this disgusting mayor, his disgusting vile wretched wife, who goes through, of course, a coffee shop at Williamsford, Brooklyn, and sits there and make faces at the former Miss Israel, Melanie Sarabi, who has been the last couple of days. So it doesn't really matter. They could have 100 people, 1,000 people. The bigger problem is we are being taken over New York City by Jew hating, cop hating, America hating, DSA anti-Semites. If yesterday for you folks in New York doesn't wake you up, doesn't prove to you how scary the situation is. I've been talking about this guys for days. Thousands of people I spoke in front of the last couple of days with B.Benjamin Netanyahu with Mike Huckabee, with... President Herzog. And I told them the truth about America. The truth about America is it's becoming a very scary place and no scarier place than New York City. This mayor is the most dangerous politician and has more power and more sway than anybody outside of President Trump in our country. If you're not scared to be in New York now, we're half asleep. Sid, it's on the line with the Sid Rosenberg is on the line. So is a former Congressman Peter King. And I want to ask both of you this question because I think that

You know, Sid just touched on this. To me, this is the original sin or major sin of the Jewish community in the United States. If the Jews are going to continue to thrive in this country, they need to be able to say the following. If you come into our communities to attack us and hurt us, we'll kill you first. Have a nice day. And Peter King and Sid Rosenberg, I can't think of one Jewish community right now that can say that, right, Sid? I can't either. You know, look, we've got huge communities. I flew here on L.L., which is a great airline. Maybe they'll be the official airline of sitting friends in the morning. I don't know working on it. But, you know, all of Lakewood, New Jersey was on my flight, and that whole community is basically Hasidic. You've got, obviously, Borough Park, which Peter knows in Brooklyn. You've got these huge pockets. But the truth is, again, the Jewish people in the United States are not the same as the Jews here. And they don't do stuff like that. They take the Yamako off. They hide their mug and David. I tell parents all the time. The worst thing you can do is hide the fact that you're Jewish. They would almost rather you do that. People like Zohran Mamdani and the terrorists, then find a dead body in the street of Tel Aviv. I swear to God. So if you hide the fact you're Jewish, you're playing right into the hands of the quote-unquote terrorists. And that's what New York Jews do. It's really sad to watch, right, Peter? No, you're right. It really is. Listen, we're not talking about shooting people in the streets, but Jews and everyone should be standing with the Jews. Like, before you, come on, I was saying going after the Jews is almost a metaphor for going after America. It's always the Jews first and everybody else right after that. So if we don't stand united on this, not just as a Jewish issue, but as a human issue, all of us are going to suffer in the end. And what's happening here is... Almost unbelievable. You had told any of us five years ago this was going to happen that you would have this extent of anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, anti-police attitude in the city of New York, anti-military, you go across the board, anti-ice, you add it all together. This is an attack on American society as it solves on all of us, and we have to get together. I think President Trump has organized this better. Our local Republican Party has to get organized better. For instance, here in New York, and I'm not saying this politically, we have to elect someone like Bruce Blakeman. And we can't be saying you should be doing this. We should be doing that. We should have had this candidate. We have a great candidate. Let's get behind him. The fact that he's Jewish adds to that because that would even make the victory more resounding in this age of anti-Semitism. Sid and Peter, speaking of Bruce Blakeman, have you seen Bruce Blakeman's new AI ads, AI generated ads online there? very much like the Spencer Pratt ads, where he's on a subway with Kathy Hochul, I mean, you know, with a caricature of Kathy Hochul. I don't know if either of you have seen this, but to me, this is a kick, yeah, kicking up. What do you think about it, Sid? I like it, Jake. There's also a character of Zohran Mamdani, and they're both eating on the train. On the train, yes. Monsters. They look like monsters, and they are monsters. Let's be honest. You know, Kathy Hochul is not a good person. I don't know if she's a good person. She's not. She's allowing the people in her state to basically fall apart here. And the mayor is just an outright terrible person. And I did hear from Bruce Blakeman a couple of times, as Peter pointed out, he's a proud Jew. He is a fighter.

You know, he showed up with me at Columbia University. We were the very first people to get there. There was no Eric Adams. Sorry, folks, no Eric Adams. You know, a couple days after us, Mike Johnson, and Nicole Montefatka showed up. But I was the first one there with Michael Rappaport, Anthony D. Esposito, Mike Lawler, and the upper mentioned Bruce Blakeman. He's a wonderful guy. And Peter is right. We've got to win that race. And honestly, I said to Ed Koch just last week, I think the mayor feels like he's already won his second term. You know, he's already... He's already out there campaigning for his second term. He's not even six months into his first term. So the Republican Party in New York has to find some very serious mayor candidates to, or the mayor is going to walk right back into office. And he'll be stuck with Kathy Hochul again, which I don't think she'll win. I think Bruce will win. But if she does, another four years of Zohran Mamdani, that makes seven more years of this. The city will be gone. It will be gone. Sid, this is Fernando Mateo. First of all, congratulations on your award. I don't know if you heard our breaking news. Yeah. inducted into the Hall of Fame. Yeah, we're very proud of you and we're very happy that you are taking a break because it gives us an opportunity to sit in your studio while you're away and fill in for your shoes. Fill in your shoes. Fernando's enjoying this, Sid. I'm enjoying it. Sid, I've always wanted to do you on your show. You better come back soon. You better come back soon. Sid, take another week. We're going to need a crowbar to get him out of this chair. He wants to know why he didn't get in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, why didn't I get in the Hall of Fame? But it's a matter of time, Fernando. You've only been a broadcaster for five minutes. Maybe get a rookie in the year. But I'm on WABC. That's what's important, guys. That's what makes heroes. And wait to hear the announcement who's starting this week. Really? Listen, you can't duplicate me. It's a super announcement. Oh, boy. It's a super, super announcement. And. Wait to you hear it. John, I can't wait. Last word to you, Sid. Yeah, we'll say this, John, and this is a testament to you, and it's not anything to hear it from me, but here in Israel, I'm 7,000 miles away, and you would be, maybe it wouldn't be actually, John, but you wouldn't be shocked, but you'd be happy to hear how many people here in Jerusalem, listen to us on WABC. I mean, I got to tell you, guys, it's surreal for me, but I get stopped in the street multiple times a day. I mean, multiple times a day, and I got to ask them. How do you know who I am? And they go, what do you mean? WABC, we listen every day. So even here in the Middle East, this little country. Here in Miami, too. Yeah, Miami, too. They love us in Miami. That's right, John. Yes. Sid, while you're there, please tell them to hear Fernando, Mateo, no excuses, Sundays between six and seven. Please make some palm cards. Yeah, and... I said, you think this is all a joke, but I'm not happy when I go to see for Dina. People start talking me about you. I don't care about Tim Rosen. And the only question is, is Sid, really crazy or what is? Yeah, he is. Believe me, he is. They love you. Sid, anyway...

I love you, so I don't know. Sid, we got to take a break, but thank you so much for calling in from Israel. We do want you to come back, all kidding aside, and thank you for letting us take these chairs these last few days. Don't forget me, Sid. All of you guys, I won't forget you, too. Thank you for the Hall of Fame, too. I appreciate that. I've worked a lot of years and went through a lot of trials and tribulations, most of which were my fault. I'm accountable for it, but... to be recognized as one of the all-time greats in our industry is pretty surreal. So thank you, guys. Thank you very much. You're the best. You're going to get Lou in the Hall of Fame next. Yeah, Lou's next. Oh, Lou's got to be in the Lou. Come on. He's a legend. I agree with you, George. I agree. Lou Rufino, certain Hall of Famer. One of the greats. We're all standing on his shoulders. Thanks for listening to Sit and Friends in the Morning. You can hear Sid and Friends in the Morning, weekday mornings at six. If you like the podcast, share it with your friends, and listen anytime at wabcradio.com and download the Wabc Radio app. Hit that subscribe button on all major podcast platforms. Plus, follow WABC on social, on Instagram. TikTok, Facebook, and X. See you next time for a new episode, so you never have to wonder. What the heck is going on here?