October 13, 2025 • 8 mins
Mark interviews NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin on Trump’s visit to Israel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Being President Trump making a historic speech in Israel this morning.
Michael Goodman wrote a powerful column yesterday about peace in
the Middle East, and he's the best columnist in America
and he's with us right now. Michael Goodwin, how you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Doing, good morning, Mark?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I think everyone is doing pretty good this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Huh, yeah, what do you?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I assume you saw the speech? Pretty powerful, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh? Extraordinary? Yeah, I mean Trump at his trumpiest right.
It's just you know, he's a remarkable figure on the
world stage. And you know you can you can hate
him if you want, but what he has achieved here,
I believe, is nothing short of remarkable.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, now, everybody was so thrilled unless you turned over
to MSNBC. Their glasses were fogging up, the bow ties
were crooked.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The boat was thinking, eh, well.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But they were trying to sumit it. They said, you know,
are all these partners we have, these Middle Eastern country, Saudi,
those type of partners. You can't count on them. And
who trusts some us to hold up any end of
an agreement? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I guess there's got to be a little rain on
every parade.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, look, Mark, this is a remarkable day, and I
think the president, among the many other things that he
said that made perfect sense today by focusing on the
Iranian attack which the United States.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Carried out with Israel. The effects of that, and I
think probably the fall of the Iranian regime sooner rather
than later, is that it creates a whole new dynamic
in the region and frankly in the world. But you
think back to Hesbalah, right, where did they get their
(01:54):
money in arms from a moss of.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Course, big, big part of this.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Iranian terror regime, the hooties Syria. I mean, it's it's all,
it's all coming undone before our eyes. But only because
of two things. Israel's resolve and because of Donald Trump's
vision that we could change this dynamic. And he has
(02:21):
done it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, we didn't realize at the time. We just thought
it was take out the nuclear stuff, and that was
that we didn't realize the chess move that he was
playing there. Take out these terrorist groups financing, take out
their muscle, and you've weakened Hesbala hoodies, everybody all at once.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So but and and I think that within the kind
of the terrorist world, Iran has been diminished and embarrassed
and humiliated. It turned out to have been efeckless at
the at the most important moment, and it could not
you know it, Its air defenses were shredded, It had
(03:00):
no defense for an attack on its homeland. I mean,
that's the ultimate failure of any regime, in any kind
of government.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, Trump has shown a lot of things. Who's not
as tough as we think. Even if you look at Ukraine.
We always started the Russian military as a superpower, but
they're struggling now for years to try to get anywhere
with this ragtag Ukrainian army. So do you think maybe
it's the same with China, that maybe they're not the biggest,
the powerful military that we think they are.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, those are two very good points and if and
the president is clearly focused on both of them. So
if he can pull off something similar in each of
those situations, I mean, talk about your pox Americana.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Would be a remarkable event.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I mean, but.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Already what he has done in the Mid East is
I think not just unprecedented, but even unthinkable. Right that
no one thought this kind of thing was even possible
before Donald Trump got involved, and before I mean, look
Netayahu of course, is a highly controversial and even unpopular
(04:16):
person within Israel. But I think their partnership has stood
the test of time and achieved great things, not only
for Israel but for the world by by cooling the
hot temperatures of Iran, especially and all of the offshoots
(04:37):
who were taking Iranian money. That that well has dried
up thanks to the American sanctions and thanks to President
Trump's attack. I think it has. It has changed the
dynamic completely.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, hey, before we run out of time, let's just
get to the mayor ole race. I noticed mam Donni,
who's a very articulate guy, a very sharp debater. In
the last week or two, everytimes he's asked a tough question,
he goes into that word salad, not a bumbling Kamala
Harris word salad, but a skilled one. But yet the
word sellid the fact that he's being vague and not answering.
(05:13):
What does that tell us about his campaign?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, look, I think he's a very shallow man. I
mean he's not He hasn't done anything in the real world,
right except get himself in this position. I mean people
like him are a dime for two dozen in Albany, right,
the kind of shallow, inexperienced, you know, good at getting intellected,
(05:38):
nothing else. And I think one of the things that's
probably happened to him is he's feeling exposed at this point.
His ideas are bad ideas, they're not popular. Anybody with
any sense would tell him, you know, all this free
stuff is a disaster in the making. You will destroy
(05:58):
the city if you try to reign in the police,
If you hate the police, if you tell them not
to make arrests or prostitution for misdemeanors, for all of
these kinds of things, you'll have no police department. Nobody
will want to be a police officer. And I think
he's already running up against problems. And of course there's
(06:19):
the budget issue. If he were to do what he's
going to do, where will he get the money, What's
going to happen to the school system, what's going to
happen to safety, to who's going to invest in New
York City? If it looks like the socialist government is
just going to confiscate everything. So I think he's I
(06:39):
think the longer this campaign goes on, the worse he looks.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, now you got the debate coming up this week.
It'll be Thursday night. Culmos not a great debater. Mom
Donnie's pretty good. Curtis is great. Could this change the race?
Let's say Curtis land some knockout punches.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's the potential. I think that the most likely potential
is that Mom Donnie will be exposed as a lightweight
or as a goofy goofy inexperience know nothing lightweight. Now,
(07:16):
whoever does that, if it's Sliwa or if it's Cuomo,
will be the big beneficiary. Whoever can draw the stronger
contrast between themselves and Mam Donnie, I think, will be
the big beneficiary. But but you're right Mark that this
could this debate could be pivotal because early voting starts
(07:38):
pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, let's hope. So well, everybody read Michael Goodwin's column yesterday.
It's New York Post. It's all his columns are up
on the New York Post website. You can go read
them all. It's every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New
York Post. Great stuff, Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh it's a pleasure. Thank you. Mark.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Take care. We've got a lot to get to Hey,
we'll get back to the Miroral race. We're going to
great detail about that debate and what could happen, and
Eric Adams and a whole lot more coming up on
seven to ten Woir
Being President Trump making a historic speech in Israel this morning.
Michael Goodman wrote a powerful column yesterday about peace in
the Middle East, and he's the best columnist in America
and he's with us right now. Michael Goodwin, how you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Doing, good morning, Mark?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I think everyone is doing pretty good this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Huh, yeah, what do you?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I assume you saw the speech? Pretty powerful, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh? Extraordinary? Yeah, I mean Trump at his trumpiest right.
It's just you know, he's a remarkable figure on the
world stage. And you know you can you can hate
him if you want, but what he has achieved here,
I believe, is nothing short of remarkable.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, now, everybody was so thrilled unless you turned over
to MSNBC. Their glasses were fogging up, the bow ties
were crooked.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The boat was thinking, eh, well.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But they were trying to sumit it. They said, you know,
are all these partners we have, these Middle Eastern country, Saudi,
those type of partners. You can't count on them. And
who trusts some us to hold up any end of
an agreement? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I guess there's got to be a little rain on
every parade.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, look, Mark, this is a remarkable day, and I
think the president, among the many other things that he
said that made perfect sense today by focusing on the
Iranian attack which the United States.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Carried out with Israel. The effects of that, and I
think probably the fall of the Iranian regime sooner rather
than later, is that it creates a whole new dynamic
in the region and frankly in the world. But you
think back to Hesbalah, right, where did they get their
(01:54):
money in arms from a moss of.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Course, big, big part of this.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Iranian terror regime, the hooties Syria. I mean, it's it's all,
it's all coming undone before our eyes. But only because
of two things. Israel's resolve and because of Donald Trump's
vision that we could change this dynamic. And he has
(02:21):
done it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, we didn't realize at the time. We just thought
it was take out the nuclear stuff, and that was
that we didn't realize the chess move that he was
playing there. Take out these terrorist groups financing, take out
their muscle, and you've weakened Hesbala hoodies, everybody all at once.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So but and and I think that within the kind
of the terrorist world, Iran has been diminished and embarrassed
and humiliated. It turned out to have been efeckless at
the at the most important moment, and it could not
you know it, Its air defenses were shredded, It had
(03:00):
no defense for an attack on its homeland. I mean,
that's the ultimate failure of any regime, in any kind
of government.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, Trump has shown a lot of things. Who's not
as tough as we think. Even if you look at Ukraine.
We always started the Russian military as a superpower, but
they're struggling now for years to try to get anywhere
with this ragtag Ukrainian army. So do you think maybe
it's the same with China, that maybe they're not the biggest,
the powerful military that we think they are.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, those are two very good points and if and
the president is clearly focused on both of them. So
if he can pull off something similar in each of
those situations, I mean, talk about your pox Americana.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Would be a remarkable event.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I mean, but.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Already what he has done in the Mid East is
I think not just unprecedented, but even unthinkable. Right that
no one thought this kind of thing was even possible
before Donald Trump got involved, and before I mean, look
Netayahu of course, is a highly controversial and even unpopular
(04:16):
person within Israel. But I think their partnership has stood
the test of time and achieved great things, not only
for Israel but for the world by by cooling the
hot temperatures of Iran, especially and all of the offshoots
(04:37):
who were taking Iranian money. That that well has dried
up thanks to the American sanctions and thanks to President
Trump's attack. I think it has. It has changed the
dynamic completely.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, hey, before we run out of time, let's just
get to the mayor ole race. I noticed mam Donni,
who's a very articulate guy, a very sharp debater. In
the last week or two, everytimes he's asked a tough question,
he goes into that word salad, not a bumbling Kamala
Harris word salad, but a skilled one. But yet the
word sellid the fact that he's being vague and not answering.
(05:13):
What does that tell us about his campaign?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, look, I think he's a very shallow man. I
mean he's not He hasn't done anything in the real world,
right except get himself in this position. I mean people
like him are a dime for two dozen in Albany, right,
the kind of shallow, inexperienced, you know, good at getting intellected,
(05:38):
nothing else. And I think one of the things that's
probably happened to him is he's feeling exposed at this point.
His ideas are bad ideas, they're not popular. Anybody with
any sense would tell him, you know, all this free
stuff is a disaster in the making. You will destroy
(05:58):
the city if you try to reign in the police,
If you hate the police, if you tell them not
to make arrests or prostitution for misdemeanors, for all of
these kinds of things, you'll have no police department. Nobody
will want to be a police officer. And I think
he's already running up against problems. And of course there's
(06:19):
the budget issue. If he were to do what he's
going to do, where will he get the money, What's
going to happen to the school system, what's going to
happen to safety, to who's going to invest in New
York City? If it looks like the socialist government is
just going to confiscate everything. So I think he's I
(06:39):
think the longer this campaign goes on, the worse he looks.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, now you got the debate coming up this week.
It'll be Thursday night. Culmos not a great debater. Mom
Donnie's pretty good. Curtis is great. Could this change the race?
Let's say Curtis land some knockout punches.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's the potential. I think that the most likely potential
is that Mom Donnie will be exposed as a lightweight
or as a goofy goofy inexperience know nothing lightweight. Now,
(07:16):
whoever does that, if it's Sliwa or if it's Cuomo,
will be the big beneficiary. Whoever can draw the stronger
contrast between themselves and Mam Donnie, I think, will be
the big beneficiary. But but you're right Mark that this
could this debate could be pivotal because early voting starts
(07:38):
pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, let's hope. So well, everybody read Michael Goodwin's column yesterday.
It's New York Post. It's all his columns are up
on the New York Post website. You can go read
them all. It's every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New
York Post. Great stuff, Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh it's a pleasure. Thank you. Mark.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Take care. We've got a lot to get to Hey,
we'll get back to the Miroral race. We're going to
great detail about that debate and what could happen, and
Eric Adams and a whole lot more coming up on
seven to ten Woir
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