John Catsimatidis' Radio Roundtable

Sunday August 9, 2015 Cats' Roundtable Radio Program New York's #1 Sunday morning radio program 8:30AM - 10AM tune to radio 970AM New York click here to listen live on computer or smartphone www.am970theanswer.com Guests   John Catsimatidis was interviewed on Fox Radio this week, listen here; http: "We need to take care of Americans first..." Cats' Roundtable national edition 9:00AM   Chief J. Thomas Manger is President of the Major Cities Chiefs Association.  He has been the Chief of Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, since February 2004.  The Montgomery County Department of Police (MCP) is one of the largest police departments in the State of Maryland, with more than 1300 sworn and 550 civilian members serving 1 million residents in the greater Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. Chief Manger is a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy, the National Executive Institute, the Police Executive Leadership School at the University of Richmond, and the Senior Executive Institute at the University of Virginia, and he has also completed Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School’s Program for State and Local government.   Former Navy Admiral James Stavridis retired Admiral in the U.S. Navy, led the NATO Alliance in global operations from 2009 to 2013 as Supreme Allied Commander. Admiral Stavridis is the dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University.  The Fletcher School is oldest exclusively graduate school of international affairs in the United States.  Prior to NATO he served as Commander of U.S. Naval Institute,  Commander U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Senior Military Assistant to Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy.  His newest book is The Accidental Admiral (October 2014, Naval Institute Press); http://accidentaladmiral.com ks (2001-2002).   Former Governor John Sununu is was born in Cuban. He became New Hampshire's 75th Chief Executive on January 6, 1983, and served three consecutive terms.  While Governor he was chairman of the National Governor's Association.  He later served a the White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. From 1992 until 1998, he co-hosted CNN's nightly Crossfire program, a news/public affairs discussion program.  Governor Sununu holds a PHD in engineering and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library Foundation.  He is the father of Christopher Sununu and John E. Sununu, a former United States Senator from New Hampshire. Sununu was the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party from 2009 to 2011. http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062384287/the-quiet-man   Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who sprang to national attention in the early 1980s with her live radio program, Sexually Speaking. She went on to have her own TV program, appeared on the cover of People magazine and TV Guide, and is the author of thirty-seven books. Few of Dr. Ruth’s fans know she narrowly escaped death from the Holocaust, was raised in an orphanage in Switzerland, or that she was a sniper during Israel's War of Independence.  In spite of these difficulties, Dr. Ruth has always had an insatiable zest for life, what she calls her “joie de vivre.”Fans of all ages can find her at www.drruth.com, on Twitter @AskDrRuth, www.youtube.com/drruth. A one-woman show about her life, Dr. Ruth, All The Way, is currently touring. Dr. Ruth teaches at Columbia’s Teachers College. She lives in New York and has two children and four grandchildren.   Scott Modell is a former member of the CIA.  He was the most accomplished Farsi speaker in the Directorate of Operations, responsible for handling CIA’s most senior Iranian source network. Scott has contributed to Farsi language radio programs on Radio Free Europe, and recently published “Pushback: Countering the Iran Action Network.”  He also participated in post 9-11 operations in Afghanistan, serving on the battlefields in the southern and southeastern regions of the country as a member of paramilitary counterterrorism teams composed of CIA officers and local Afghan forces.  Scott is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies focusing on security issues related to Iran and the Middle East and a senior advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command on Counter Threat Finance operations.   Cats' Roundtable local edition 8:30AM   New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez is a Democrat who represents the Council District 10 which encompasses the neighborhoods of Marble Hill, Inwood and Washington Heights in Manhattan.  Councilman Rodríguez is the Chair of the Transportation Committee.  He is very progressive on issues of immigration reform, police brutality, tenants' rights, workers' rights and affordable housing. He is known outside of New York City for his arrest at an Occupy Wall Street rally in November 2011. In New York City he is most known for his advocacy of Public Education and the work in his northern Manhattan community.     City Councilman Costa Constantinides represents the New York City Council's 22nd District, which includes his native Astoria along with parts of Woodside, East Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights.  The Councilman is considered an expert in environmental law and has written some of the toughest laws to reduce pollution and protect drinking water.  He assisted on key legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect our wetlands, improve the quality of our drinking supply, and on other important environmental measures.     Maurice "Mickey" Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, brings more than 40 years of experience as a political writer and columnist for New York and New Jersey newspapers.  Carroll is the chief spokesperson for the New York State, New York City and New Jersey polls.  Carroll's experience as a journalist includes work with The New York Times, Newsday, the New York Post, the Passaic Herald-News, the Jersey Journal and the Newark Star-Ledger.  The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute is a public opinion polling center based at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. It surveys public opinion in Connecticut, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and nationally.   This week August 4, 2015 Quinnipiac released a poll gaging the favorability of Governor Cuomo and City Mayor DeBlasio.  http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2266   Previous programs here https://soundcloud.com/catsroundtable Forward this message to a friend Click to view this email in a browser If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: Unsubscribe Red Apple Group 823 11th ave New York, New York 10019 US Read the VerticalResponse marketing policy. > Manage your National Review subscriptions. We respect your right to privacy. View our policy. This email was sent by: National Review, Inc. 215 Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10016