00:00made it 80% of the ballots counted. The race is headed to a ranked choice process. That's because
00:04none of the candidates are hitting that 50% threshold. So, while we were speaking with
00:10Alone just now, we saw that former Governor Cuomo spoke to his watch party. He said,
00:17tonight is not our night. Let's look at his remarks in full.
00:22They're a marvelous campaign and worked so hard. I've worked with a lot of different groups of
00:28people, and I've been through a lot of campaigns. But I have to tell you, this was a really special,
00:33talented group of people. I want to thank all the elected officials who stepped up. I want to
00:40thank the labor leaders who stepped up. I want to thank the carpenters where we got it started,
00:46and HTC in 1199. Give them a round of applause.
00:52They were really fantastic. I want to thank Mayor Bloomberg, who stepped forward in a big way.
01:07I enjoyed having the team back together again. I'll tell you the truth. People came back from
01:14when I was at HUD. The HUD team came back. That's 30 years ago. And the Attorney General team,
01:25that's 20 years ago. And the Governor's team and friends that go back to my childhood. So,
01:32it was, that was all, that was all enjoyable. And I'm very proud of the campaign that we ran. And I'm
01:38proud of the effort that we put forth. And I'm proud of the issues that we discussed. But tonight
01:47was not our night. Tonight was Assemblyman Mondani's night. And he put together a great campaign. And he
01:58touched young people and inspired them and moved them and got them to come out and vote. And he really
02:07ran a highly impactful campaign. I called him. I congratulated him. I applaud, I applaud him
02:17sincerely for his effort. And let's give him a round of applause. And thank you for his campaign.
02:28Now, I want to look at all the numbers as they come in and this ranked choice voting and
02:34what the numbers actually say and do. There is no doubt that there are important issues that are facing
02:43this city. That's why this election is so imperative. That's why so many people came out to vote.
02:52Because these are real issues. And they're not getting better. And they're getting worse.
02:59And that's why New Yorkers are as concerned as they are. So the challenges we face are real. And
03:07they deserve real consideration. And I want to give some thought about the best way to help address
03:14them. The best way to help the party. But most of all, the best way to help the city. And that's what
03:21we'll be thinking about as we go forward.
03:31So we'll be looking at that. We'll be having conversations with that. Because the work is
03:37what is most important. And the city is what is most important. And the progress for the city
03:43at this important time is what is most important. And in the meantime, I just want to say thank you
03:51again from the bottom of my heart for your really fantastic effort and friendship. Again, I want to
04:01applaud the assemblyman for a really smart and good and impactful campaign. Tonight is his night.
04:15He deserved it. He won. And we're going to take a look. We'll make some decisions. But I love each
04:26and every one of you. And I thank you for what you've done. Thank you very much. Thank you.
04:33And that seemed like a concession speech. This is what we're hearing from the ground there.
04:39Not sounding like someone, Cuomo, not sounding like someone who's running in the general.
04:43Says he will look at the numbers, give it some thought. But says Mom Donnie won. Says he even
04:49called him to congratulate him. Let's take a commercial break. We are continuing to take a live look at
04:56you know, I wonder if we will get a yep, there's his watch party right there. So once we see
05:03Mom Donnie come out, we'll try to take his remarks live. If we don't catch him live,
05:08we'll be sure to play them at some point throughout the night. But for now, that's the news of the hour.
05:14We didn't expect Cuomo to concede, but he did say that he called and congratulated Mom Donnie. He
05:21acknowledged that he won. This is a rank choice vote. So Zoran Mom Donnie is not officially winning
05:30the primary, but we'll watch in the coming days to see where this thing heads. AP has it. Andrew
05:36Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zoran Mom Donnie. Bringing any more
05:42pertinent information from New York City as the night progresses. For now, let's take a break. We'll be right back.
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06:55Hello Mike.
08:05An interesting story that we heard about today.
08:09But over the weekend, ICE agents saying they arrested 11 Iranian foreign nationals in 48 hours.
08:16That's according to the Department of Homeland Security.
08:18Learning more about this from our partners in Minneapolis, because one of those arrests was made there.
08:23Let's get the latest from them in this quick report.
08:26The Department of Homeland Security says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals in a 48-hour targeted operation.
08:38The arrests spanned multiple states.
08:40Here's what we know about the man who was taken into custody in Minnesota.
08:46DHS officials say ICE arrested 56-year-old Iranian national Mehran Makkari Saheli on Sunday in St. Paul.
08:55DHS says he's a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and says he has, quote, admitted connections to Hezbollah, which are U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations.
09:08According to court documents, Saheli was convicted of possessing a fraudulent immigration document in 2009.
09:17Then stemming from that in 2020, court filings show he faced a federal charge for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
09:26DHS says he was later sentenced to 15 months in prison for the weapons charge.
09:32Federal officials say in June 2022, an immigration judge ordered Saheli be removed from the United States, but say he remained in the country illegally.
09:44Okay, so, as they mentioned, 11 total arrested.
09:48We've got pictures of 10 of them here via the New York Post standing by.
09:51We want to welcome in Michael Balboni.
09:54He's a former New York Homeland Security advisor.
09:57I've got to ask you, when we look at pictures of these 10 people, Michael, are these people affiliated with those so-called sleeper cells that we've been hearing so much about?
10:05Is this sleeper cell activity or not?
10:07What do we know?
10:09What we know is that over the last couple of years, we've had almost over 10 million individuals come to this country,
10:16and we don't know who they are, where they are, what their intentions are.
10:22That's really what has changed the landscape of this nation's security, and we see it right now.
10:29This follows a traditional pattern, and whenever there's conflict in the Middle East, it spans out to other parts of the world.
10:36And, of course, with Iran having been attacked by the United States to take out their nuclear facilities, this has ratcheted up the rhetoric, at the very least.
10:45But we also know that there's really good intel that says there's a great capability in-country right now should the either Iranian-affiliated individuals
10:56or folks that want to do things on their own, rogue individuals.
11:00And certainly from a cybersecurity perspective, the security forces in the United States are really on high alert for a domestic incident.
11:09Viewers often ask me about the threat of sleeper cells.
11:13Two things on that.
11:14What are they is one.
11:16And secondly, is there any evidence of Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S.?
11:20Hard evidence?
11:22So typically, if you take a look at throughout the years from an intelligence perspective,
11:26during the Cold War, when the country was first introduced to the concept of a sleeper cell,
11:32that was people who were trained in the ways and customs of the United States,
11:37they were sent in to create false identities and families and then hide amongst us
11:42and then get a note that says, okay, time to go.
11:46And then they would either create havoc or they would try to get documents or secrets.
11:51That has now changed in the sense that there's an affiliation with the sponsoring agency,
11:58in this case Iran, where people come into the country.
12:02They go to areas where there's a lot of other Arab, in an Arab community,
12:06where they kind of go to ground and mix in.
12:10And this is, you know, when you listen to what President Trump has been talking about,
12:14he's been using ICE to target not just folks that were here illegally,
12:20but folks that are members of gangs, have committed crimes, and pose a security risk.
12:26And so this is something that the White House has been very focused on,
12:29though a lot of people are not saying that he should get credit for doing this.
12:33But again, think of 10 million people coming to this country.
12:37It's a huge security risk.
12:39You've already touched on this, but I'm hoping you can expand.
12:43What are the challenges associated with tracking down, finding even, sleeper cells?
12:51How do you, A, find it?
12:54B, how do you track the activity?
12:57Typically what happens is that there's surveillance under individuals,
13:00that there are folks within a group that, you know, the undercover agents,
13:06you turn somebody in a group, you get intelligence from them.
13:11These are the typical police and security operations that are done to try to infiltrate,
13:17find out what's going on in a group.
13:19Obviously surveillance, wiretaps, the, again, traditional ways of law enforcement
13:24to try to find out whether or not people are committing or planning to commit some kind of crime.
13:29Those are the same techniques that are used when you are trying to identify folks
13:33who might be a part of an agent or agency that's trying to do something in-country.
13:38It's always very difficult, again, because we don't know how people came in.
13:43It's not like there's a date that you know that they were in this port of call for the United States,
13:48you know, port of entry, and that they, you can track them from where they went.
13:52And if they go to a place like Minnesota, where there's a very large Arab population,
13:57well, there might be an opportunity for them to really go to ground and not be discovered.
14:02And so it makes it very, very difficult for not only ICE, but for the FBI.
14:06And there's a recent report that says, you know, the FBI is really focusing now,
14:09shifting away from just simply going after immigrants who are here illegally
14:13to folks that may cause a terrorist threat.
14:16One more thing before we go.
14:18What do we know about the quantity of Iranians that enter illegally
14:21that are not affiliated with any regime-backed group?
14:25No doubt there's people like that that enter as well.
14:29Sure.
14:30You know, it's very important to think, to not think that everybody who came across the border
14:35is a terrorist.
14:36That's not the case.
14:37But I think more important, though, than that is what are the, what are the capabilities?
14:43What's the training?
14:44What's the trade prep?
14:45Like, if I'm an intelligence agency that's an enemy of the United States
14:49and I see the fact that there's kind of an open border,
14:52I'm definitely going to send in assets.
14:54And for nothing else, just to surveil, to find out information
14:56and be able to give that back to the folks that want to know what's going on in the United States
15:00and possibly exploit vulnerabilities.
15:03So that's really the challenge for all security and law enforcement agencies
15:07in the United States right now.
15:09Michael Balboni is a former New York Homeland Security Advisor.
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