K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor on the President's Public Safety Visit to Nassau County
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No, I don't. I don't either, yeah. I don't either. I have no idea of these people. I did an event in West Hampton on Sunday night, walked into the house. I didn't know these people. Turned out that Adam and Dedy Hut are lovely people. I never go to the Hamptons ever, but now making my second trip to the Hamptons in six days, but not until after I see President Trump on Long Island later on this afternoon. He's going to come, obviously, endorsing Bruce Blakeman, but talk about law and order. He's bringing Kash Patel with him and how Nassau County... For some reason, they do it right. If the rest of the country followed what Bruce Blakeman, Ryder, Donnelly, Fenton, all those great people do in Nassau County, then the crime issue would be a heck of a lot better. For some reason, they know what they're doing there, KT, on Long Island. You know, Nassau County, before Bruce Blakeman and the people you've just mentioned, took charge was a real issue. And it was a real law and order issue. It was because it was the gangs. It was a trendy Agua gang. It was the others. And God bless Bruce and all the people around him who just walked in and with common sense said, we're having, you know, this is it. We're going to govern ourselves. We're going to make sure we do the right thing for our people. We're not going to pussyfoot around. what's right and what's wrong. And so the record that he has, I mean, not just the law enforcement record, but how Nassau County works now, I'm in Suffolk. That's another county. And there are a lot of other counties in New York State that just don't work. You know, a lot of just the social services, the consumer services, the government services, you know, all the stuff that's supposed to work doesn't. But Nassau County works, and that's Bruce Blakeman. He's an amazing manager. And your county, too. I mean, I like Ed Romaine a lot. Your county executive. And, you know, you got a great police commissioner and Lu Suvello and all the guys with the Suffolk County PBA. And, you know, you got Tierney. He's an amazing district attorney. So while, yes, I'm closer with the Nassau County guys and Bruce and I are like brothers, Suffolk County, a heck of a lot better over the last couple of years as well, right? We'll be a heck of a lot better in the last couple of years. The only problem that Suffolk County has is there are a number of people who just have massive Trump derangement syndrome. So it's very hard to separate Republicans from Trump in some quarters. But I agree with you. Suffolk and NASA are so well done now. I mean, they're not quite at the Florida level of competence of government, but they're approaching it. Florida is so great. I know I had Byron Donalds's on a couple of days ago and he will likely be the next governor, Rick Scott. into Ron DeSantis, into Byron Donalds's. I know your lovely daughter lives down there. My son's about to go to college down there next year, and I live there for 16 years in Boca Raton, so I know Florida very, very well. I still love it. But they do it for some reason. You know, I guess, listen, most of them are Republicans. You get, every now and then, you get idiots like Debbie Wasserman Schultz. But for the most part, Republicans run that state, and look how it runs. So well, right? Extremely efficiently. I mean, better services. delivered for a third of the price. And that's why I'm very proud of my daughter, State Representative Fiona McFarland. She's one of five people on Byron Donalds's shortlist to be lieutenant governor.
I'm very proud of your daughter, too, just so you know I am. And I want to bring her on when her and Byron actually win coming up. His primary is this Tuesday. He's got 12 other guys running against them. A couple of real losers like James Fishback. But not to worry, Byron's going to win that thing relatively easily. And we just saw a whole bunch of other races. My friend Mike Lindell, I saw him in Bedminster a couple of weeks ago. He came in second. To be honest, it better than I thought he would do. He thought he was going to win, but came in second. But I guess you were happy like I was and Trump and many others that that lunatic hung lost in Wisconsin, right? Yeah, I'm from Wisconsin. I was born and raised in Wisconsin. What? That's right. Where? Where are you born? Where were you born in Wisconsin? Madison, Wisconsin, a working class family. And... What I've got to say about Wisconsin and all these far left candidates, in some ways, it shows that the American people have a lot of common sense. Even Democrats have a lot of common sense. But in some ways, I almost wish the crazy ones had won because the quicker the crazy ones win and we see them for what they are, the quicker the American people say, oh, I don't want any of that. Those guys are nuts. That's true. We're seeing that right now with Zohran Mamdani. And there are some buyers from Washington. Not enough. Curtis seems to love them. But, you know, I got to tell you, when I started my sports career and I was syndicated for the first time, late 1990s in about 70 markets across America. And KT, one of the markets I was syndicated in, along with places like Clarksville, Tennessee, was lacrosse, Wisconsin. And I remember the program director called me and my partner Scott and said, I heard you guys are doing this party with the people tour. What we did was we called it the party with the people tour. We went to all 70 plus of our cities and spent three days in that city doing live broadcasts. And at night, we go out with the local people. He said, we want you to come to lacrosse. And I said, I don't know, we're both Jewish. Now that's going to work out, LeCross. So we ended up going. We got off the plane. It was like the Beatles. They were so happy to meet us. And it was Octoberfest in LaCross, Wisconsin. And that night, Brett Barb and the Green Bay Packers were playing Randy Moss and the Minnesota Vikings. Minnesota's right there on the border edge on Monday night football. Cheeseheads drinking. It was one of the best times I've ever had, LaCross, Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a great state in many, many, many ways. But there are, it does have a lot of the, you know, Trump Arrangement Syndrome, DEI, lunatic fringes. And that's why I think you had someone as a candidate for governor who came within a, you know, a whisker of winning that nomination. Yeah, thank God for Ron Johnson. I like him. He's a senator there. He's awesome. He is awesome. He is awesome. He's awesome. And he's, you know, he doesn't take any, he's, he's got courage. And he stands up even against the Republican establishment. I wish we had a lot more Ron Johnson's in the United States Senate. I agree. And he was really terrific along with Rand Paul, who I don't really like most of the time. But him and Paul were great together right in the Anthony Fauci stuff. Let me get to Iran because you know it like nobody else.
You almost convinced me last week, almost. We were doing a great job there. I still have some questions. I don't kill Trump about it because, again, I was all for going in in the first place. And I'm still happy we went in. I just need this thing to be over with at some point. So where are we today? I think that, you know, if you look at the big picture, he thought it was going to be easy, and it wasn't easy. So then he changed tactics, and the tactic now is to just strangle them. It's like it's called an anaconda policy, where you just slowly strangle the Iranian economy. And that, and so is, I forgot who said it last week, but the Ayatollahs fear Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, a lot more than they fear Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War. And that's because. of the strangulation of the Iranian economy. And the second thing is that when Iran says, oh, they just, I mean, they sort of, you know, put their fists in the air, pump their fists and say a lot of crazy things. But the reality is there's oil getting through that straight. And when the Secretary of Energy said, well, it used to be 20 million barrels a day before the war started now, it's probably 15, 16 million barrels a day. And that's not even counting the other barrels a day that are coming through the pipelines, that were not coming through pipelines before the war. So all the people who were saying this war is a big failure, look at the Strait of Hermuzes closed, it's not closed. Because if you look at the price of oil, if the Strait of Hormuzer is really closed, The price of oil would be $120 a barrel. It's not. It's $80 a barrel. It's about the same thing it was before the war started. So stuff is getting through the Strait of Hormuz. And I think that the great value of what President Trump has done is when this war is over, and it will be over, whether Iran wants to admit it or not. It's probably over now. Is that for 50 years, they have held the United States and the world hostage over that Strait of Hormuz. I was in the Reagan administration where they tried to hold us hostage. And the hostage taking was... Well, if you don't do what we want, you know, if you sort of get in the way of what we want to do, we're going to close that straight of Hormuz. And so it got all the Arab neighbors nervous because they needed to make their oil money. And it got the world nervous because the world said, oh, what are we going to do without 20% of the world's oil supply? But now President Trump has made that straight of Hormuz almost irrelevant. because we are getting tankers through, because the pipelines are being built fast and furiously throughout the Middle East, and within seven, 10 years, oil is not going to move through the Strait of Hormuz. It will move through pipelines. And that means Iran's great Trump card, closing the Strait of Hormuz, which they have put over everybody's had for 50 years, it's going to be irrelevant. Well, that's pretty good news. KT. McFarlane right here. That's why KT's terrific. I did also see a couple days ago, I'm getting ready for my friend Benjamin Netanyahu. to come to Israel, to New York City and watch Zohran Mamdani freak out. I actually reached out to Beebe's people. I said, me and Dershow, it's going to meet him at the airport. I can't wait to see the Zohran Mamdani meltdown. I really can't when this idiot can't do anything about it, great man, Beebe, and this loser, Zohran Mamdani. But I was happy to see a couple days ago that Lebanon is now on board with getting rid of Chasbola. Now, I always knew that. Like, for example,
My dear friend Joseph Abu, the great fashion designer. Yes. He's Lebanese. How about this one? Janine Piro, our great U.S. Attorney. Absolutely. She's Lebanese. They don't like Chasbola. They don't want Chzbollah anywhere near Beirut. So it's good to see Lebanon coming on the peace train. So a couple of things are happening. First of all, is Iran is getting squeezed financially. Iran is a big financial supporter of Hezbollah and Lebanon. So they're not sending the money to Hezbollah. Number two, because of Trump's relationship with Syria now and the new leader of Syria, the shipments of weapons that used to move through Syria to Lebanon so that the Hezbollah had those weapons, those shipments of weapons aren't going. And then the third thing is that because Lebanon, which has always been... You know, the last 20, 30 years are very weak government. It's a stronger government now. And they've made peace with Israel. The government of Lebanon has made a deal with Israel to, let's work together to get Hezbollah out. It will eventually happen for all the reasons, financial reasons, military reality reasons. But that's a big deal because if you go back of all the wars, Israel's fought throughout its history, Lebanon has always been against Israel in all these wars. And if Lebanon becomes... an ally of Israel, or at least at peace with Israel, if Syria does the same, Jim Jordan is done the same, Egypt is done the same, it's a completely different Middle East. Going away, it'll be Arab-Israeli peace. I mean, you're a student of history. There hasn't been Arab-Israeli peace going back before. Although, well, you're 100% right, and you know more about history than I do. But the good news is, while Lebanon is going that way, there are countries that Israel could count on in the past, oh, I don't know, like Turkey, who have gone the other way. The good news is the majority, yes, the majority are coming. across and who knows how big these Abraham Accords can turn out to be. But you are seeing a shift, KT, countries that used to hate Israel, now support Israel, and countries that used to support Israel are joining the Tucker Carlson team and now bashing Israel. You know, I think that President Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have a good working relationship. And I think that President Trump knows what Recep Tayyip Erdogan is doing. And I don't think that there would have been that new Saudi-Pakistani Turkey Alliance if President Trump didn't give the sign-off. Because at the end of the day, we want those countries to keep peace in the Middle East on their own. We don't want to have to be everybody's policemen. I agree. I mean, I was on the first phone call President Trump had with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Wow. And although he was speaking in Turkish. President Trump put the mute button on, and he said to me, this is one strong guy. Listen to that voice. And they've had a good working relationship. They don't agree on everything. But, you know, Turkey has been there when we've needed them, especially in the Gaza peace plan. I know, but KT, you do understand that Turkey was about to allow Iran to assassinate our beloved President Trump, if not for the Israeli Mossad and a...
I don't know, some type of truck and a new airplane. We almost had a big tragedy in Turkey. I want to find out what really happened because I can't imagine that Recep Tayyip Erdogan would have known about that and let it happen or allowed it to just go for. I just, there's so much unexplained about what happened. I think it's, you know, great James Bond story, President Trump escaping, you know, on a food truck and, you know, all of a sudden emerging unscathed, but I think there's a lot more. We haven't really heard about that. Oh, for sure. And with time, it'll make a great movie, Sid. For sure. And I was happy, though, that Israel once again saved President Trump's life, you bastards out there. All right, now, K.T., again, you're in Southampton. I'm going to reach out to the John Roberts family. Make sure you're invited tonight. You need to be there. You're one of the greatest Americans in the world today. Tell me your honest opinion, talking about Long Island, Bruce Blakeman. I think he's got a real chance. Now, look. Oh, I do, too. You do. Good. Tell me why. Okay, so, you know, in the last election, when Kathy Hochul ran against... Lee Zeldin, Lee Zeldin. With Lee Zeldin. Right. Lee Zeldin, if he had had the support of President Trump and had had money up front to help him in the election, he could have won. He was that close. And the support for him came sort of at the last minute. Now, what's happened with Bruce, Wakeman, is that he's had support from the very beginning, from the Republican Party, from President Trump. And also, New York has had four more years of a disastrous governor. So I think for the first time, a Republican stands a chance. And Bruce Blakeman would be that guy. And he would be an awesome governor. I love that. I agree with you 100%. I hope I see you tonight. I really do. But if I don't, we'll talk again next Friday. And I am proud of your daughter, too. And I love you. So thank you so much. Thank you, Sid. You're the best. K.T. McFalman right here on Sid and Friends in the morning does a tremendous job every Friday. 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... What the heck is going on here?
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