Extra: Rep. Lawler On Combatting Antisemitism, Shutdown Frustrations, And That Public Spat

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🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Earlier this week, FOX News Rundown host Dave Anthony spoke with New York Republican Representative Mike Lawler to get his reaction to the release of 20 Israeli hostages and the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Rep. Lawler, who is also a member of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, discussed whether he thought positive developments in the Middle East could curb the increase in antisemitic incidents that have occurred in the nation since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. The New York Republican also weighed in on the ongoing government shutdown, his very public spat with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and the challenges of being a Republican in New York. We often have to cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview. Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with Rep. Mike Lawler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.
0:07.0	I'm Dave Anthony. Today, a Republican in Congress on the ceasefire in Gaza.
0:14.8	Mike Lawler, whose district in New York, the 17th, has a lot of Jewish constituents.
0:22.7	We got his reaction earlier in the week when Hamas finally set free the last 20 living hostages kidnapped in the October 7th, 2023 terror attack
0:30.7	that left more than a thousand Israelis murdered. And it triggered the war that is now stopped
0:37.2	with that Trump-brokered peace plan.
0:40.3	But the president has since warned that Israel could restart the fighting in Gaza if Hamas
0:45.3	does not fully comply with the agreement and hand over all the dead hostages as well.
0:52.3	The group maintains it needs help and even special equipment to locate the rest.
0:57.0	Now that part of the controversy was not and really in the discussion with the Congressman when we talked on Monday.
1:04.0	The government shutdown was it continues now in week number three and I asked Congressman Lawler about the confrontation he had in the Capitol
1:12.7	with a fellow New Yorker, Akeem Jeffries, the House's Democratic leader. They sparred a few minutes
1:20.3	back and forth, and Jeffries even predicted that Lawler will be voted out in 2026.
1:27.0	All of the conversation did not fit into the rundown podcast we posted on Tuesday.
1:31.7	Unfortunately, we had to trim some out for time reasons.
1:34.4	Today, though, it is all here in this weekend extra, and we are glad you've come to listen.
1:40.9	I thank you for that.
1:42.2	We hope you keep coming back since every day we post something new.
1:46.2	And now Congressman Mike Lawler on the Fox News Rundown Extra.
1:54.4	Joining us again on the Fox News rundown, Congressman Mike Lawler, Republican, representing the 17th District of New York,
2:02.5	and we'll get to Congress and the government shutdown, which continues. But we want to first start
2:10.5	with what's happened in the last 24 hours, 48 hours. Hamas has released the remaining living
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