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Mike Lawler: “Businesses and...longtime New York City residents [are]…”

Featuring: Mike Lawler, Republican | U.S. House, New York, District 17

EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW

Published July 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:06

They got the city back to a place where people wanted to be in New York. Yeah. And now you have Businesses and...longtime New York City residents [are] talking about getting the hell out. Yeah. And it is precisely because of the quality of life and the cost of living and the cost of doing business. (09:06–09:14)

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Asserts that businesses and longtime residents are considering leaving New York City.

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“We lead the nation in out migration.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 05:52-05:55
“I was rated the fourth most bipartisan member of Congress and...the number one most effective freshman member in the 118th.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 13:27-13:35
“I passed 11 bills through the House in...the 118th, and six of them were signed into law by a Democratic president.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 13:35-13:43
“Congress is responsible for declaring war. But as you alluded to, it hasn't been done since 1942.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 23:41-23:50
“There are about 80,000 more Democrats than Republicans [in my district].”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 03:04-03:09
“Joe Biden won my district by 10 points, you know, back in 2020.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 03:16-03:21
“50% of adults have a college degree or higher [in my district].”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 03:41-03:48
“19% of my district is Latino.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 03:52-03:56
“[The Democratic rule in Albany] has given us cashless bail and congestion pricing and shutting down Indian Point and banning natural gas.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 05:41-05:48
“We have the highest taxes, the worst business climate in the country.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 05:54-05:58
“Curtis got about 30% of the vote in the last election.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 07:39-07:43
“New York City under Giuliani and Bloomberg...they fix that city from...the economic calamity of the 1970s, the crime of the 80s.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 08:46-09:01
“The calamity that is coming if Zoran Mandami becomes mayor is going to make the 1970s look like Patty cake.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 09:35-09:43
“Curtis is the only one that stepped forward. Nobody else. Nobody else stepped forward.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 10:12-10:17
“The demographics have shifted so much...you have the rise of socialist candidates in the city council, in the state legislature.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 10:41-10:51
“He's talking about taking control of...the means of production.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 11:03-11:08
“Kathy Hochul is the most feckless, failed, incompetent governor in the country, and it's not even close.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 16:02-16:09
“You now throw in Zoran and, and you will see a mass exodus like we've never seen.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 16:10-16:17
“This war, obviously, three years in Ukraine, has fought valiantly.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 18:04-18:10
“Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are not our friends. They're not our allies.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 18:32-18:38
“They are engaged in an unholy alliance that seeks to undermine and destabilize the U.S., Israel, Europe, and the free world.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 18:38-18:43
“Ukraine falling would be catastrophic for Europe.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 18:45-18:50
“If Putin were successful in Ukraine, I have no doubt that he would not stop there, that a country like Moldova would fall in about five…”
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“Ensuring Ukraine's sovereignty is critical.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 19:56-20:00
“The secondary sanctions are imperative.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 20:01-20:05
“If Putin is not going to stop, if he is going to persist forward and continue to indiscriminately bomb Ukraine and kill innocent civilians…”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 20:04-20:23
“If we're able to bring the temperature down in the Middle East, that I think helps because it really undercuts Russia's ability to prosecute…”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 21:11-21:21
“I think the sanctions are going to be imperative to really cripple the Russian economy.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 21:44-21:50
“Presidents have obviously relied heavily on Article 2 as well as AUMFs, especially the O1 and O2A UMFs that are still in effect.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 24:14-24:23
“One of the things that Congress has talked about is reforming the AUMF process.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 24:22-24:28
“I do think the President was legally justified in his decision to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities under Article 2.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 24:54-25:03
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EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 26:23-26:33
“Making sure that [VA hospital] facilities stay open, making sure that the clinics that are being set up throughout communities are…”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 27:13-28:26
“Many of them don't sign up right away or start receiving the benefits that they're entitled to.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 27:21-27:27
“One of the programs that has been extremely successful in New York is the Joseph P. Dwyer Peer to Peer program.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 27:41-27:48
“We want to bring [the Joseph P. Dwyer Peer to Peer program] nationwide.”
EPISODE 341: CONGRESSMAN MIKE LAWLER - FULL INTERVIEW | Uploaded July 3, 2025 | 27:47-27:48
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