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Lee Zeldin - April 6th, Hour 3
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What's fascinating is if you look at Glenn Youncan's victory in the Commonwealth of Virginia as governor, it's it's very telling.
I called it the Canary in the coal mine.
Then when you looked at, you know, here you have Phil Murphy in New Jersey.
And and we did put on the Republican opponent, kind of lackluster, but a nice guy.
And nobody saw that we could have won New Jersey.
New Jersey's governorship could have changed.
It was that close, and nobody saw it.
So to me, from my perspective, every single race now is important.
And I don't care if it's in a state like New Jersey, I don't care if it's Virginia, and I don't care if it's in New York.
Now, since Andrew Cuomo has been replaced by uh the new governor, Kathy Hokel, um, well, uh, we now had a poll come out showing that Congressman Lee Zeldon of New York is within almost within the margin of error, four-point race, but straight up between him as a Republican and the Democrat, Kathy Hokel.
And then there's this odd, you know, you don't know what's gonna happen factor that Andrew Cuomo might run as an independent.
That's that what that would make things interesting.
What does it mean for New York?
It means that I actually truly, for the first time, believe that New York might be ready to say enough is enough and elect a Republican governor to fix things and change things, which it desperately needs.
If it wants to be competitive and stop bleeding out uh all of the residents that have I mean, the the exodus is just like California, just like New Jersey, just like Illinois, and and people have said they've had enough, and they're just they're just leaving.
They're packing their bags, selling their homes, and then moving to states like Texas and Tennessee and the Carolinas and Florida is inundated.
Home prices in Florida have never been like they are today, in large part because there's little demand, uh there's a little inventory on the on the market because there's such high demand.
Um anyway, Kathleen Hokel is now put forward a record, you know, deficit creating budget, announcing a green agenda for New York, um, and saying that by I think the year's twenty twenty-seven, you know, we're gonna have to build uh skyscrapers with toothpicks based on there'll be no use of any fossil fuels at all in the building of anything.
Well, what if you need a generator?
Where are you gonna get that generator from?
Anyway, listen.
I'm now announcing a nation-leading $500 million investment in offshore wind energy that'll create thousands of good paying green jobs.
As we build out our wind energy capacity and continue our transition to clean energy, our reliance on fossil fuels must be phased out.
In September, I announced two clean energy mega projects to put us on a path to achieve the ambitious goal of cutting 80% of New York City's power plant emissions by 2030.
New construction stable zero mission by 2027, and we'll build climate-friendly, electric homes, and promote electric cars, trucks, and buses.
She's basically surrendering to the climate alarmist religious cult, the new Green Deal radical socialist, and adopting it as her complete agenda.
This will render New York a state incapable of any significant growth, probably for a long, long time to come, because nobody's going to invest in New York.
And New York City in particular is last in the nation in terms of getting jobs back in this sort of post-pandemic time that we're living in.
You know, down by nearly a million uh jobs at this point.
Uh anyway, Lee Zeldon joins us.
He is a New York gubernatorial candidate.
Um, I'm not gonna lie, I've I've always thought this was an uphill battle.
It still is an uphill battle, but I think that all of I think that Kathy Hulkel with with this speech, this one speech has created an opening where you could actually, as a Republican, win the state of New York, and we've got an early indication in the last election as Nassau County, Suffolk County, upstate New York, Westchester County, all went red.
These were not red before.
And and things are changing dramatically in the state of New York.
I think people have had it.
Yeah, it's great to be with you, Sean.
That's right.
While there was all eyes on Virginia all throughout the state of New York, a lot went from blue to red, and it's not just about Republicans, conservatives realizing that the state's at a breaking point.
It's independent voters.
There are millions of people who don't belong to the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, and they are thinking like Republicans right now.
And then you have Democrats who feel like their party has gone too far left.
There are a lot of people who are fed up with the likes of De Blasio and AOC, one party Democratic rule in DC Albany and New York City.
You're playing a clip of a very real policy proposal being finalized right now in our state capital where they want to ban all gas hookups on new construction.
Meanwhile, the Marcellus and Utica shells are named after New York towns.
We can safely extract our own natural gas, our own natural resources, and create jobs and generate revenue and revitalize communities.
There are a whole bunch of different pipeline applications sitting up in Albany that are delayed or denied.
Those should get the green light too.
We can not only be uh providing energy throughout New York, we could be exporting it to other states, we could even be exporting it to other countries.
And I feel like right now the average New Yorker, regardless of your ideology, your political affiliation where you live, you feel like your your safety, your wallet, your freedom, the quality of your kids' education, they are all under attack.
So this isn't just some campaign for governor.
is a rescue mission to save our state.
And I'm seeing it.
I'm feeling it on the ground.
Things are going in the right direction.
I feel very confident in our ability to win this race.
Tell me how a skyscraper can be built in New York City with these new regulations she's proposing for 2027.
Oh, you can't.
There's no way in all practicality to be able to do what they are setting out to do.
Now they they passed their ban on that safe extraction of natural resources because Mark Ruffalo and Yoko Ono and their other uh celebrity friends were all putting political pressure on Democrats up in Albany.
Now, all of the scare tactics of why they said you can't tap into that resource was proven over the course of this last decade to not be true because Pennsylvania and other states are tapping into the same resource in the same shale, and none of what they fear-mongered is actually happening elsewhere.
So, what happened in New York City?
The Williams pipeline was going to be coming uh into and through New York City, and De Blasio, Jumani Williams, who's the New York City public advocate, Alexander Casio Cortez, and all of their friends, they all block this new pipeline.
So natural National Grid and Con Ed say, well, I guess no one can hook up uh into gas going forward, and then the New York City Council actually passed a new law saying no hookup, and these same Democrats, outsized power of self-described socialists up in Albany, they're saying we should do the same thing for the whole state.
It's unaffordable, and it's also impracticable because there isn't enough of the resource to be able to supply energy throughout New York.
Every governor has talked about the issue of natural gas extraction because there are tremendous uh assets, natural resources in upstate New York that are available.
Pennsylvania next door is doing it, and it has dramatically impacted the economy there.
We had Dr. Oz, who's a Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, who I'm supporting, and and he pointed out that the in the I think it was a Susquehanna area of Pennsylvania in particular, uh that medium family income went up twenty thousand dollars in a very short period of time just because they extracted natural gas.
Uh would you do you think you would be able to work with the New York legislature and get that done because it would create so many high paying career jobs for people?
It would revitalize upstate New York, which everyone's talked about now for decades, and it's never happened.
It would be good for the overall um income, and we could reduce taxes in the state of New York for once and and get it more in line with the rest of the country.
Uh it's it seems like a no brainer to me, but every Democratic governor has resisted it.
It is a no brainer, and it should get done.
And I'm fully in support of that.
And then people who live uh along the southern tier where New York borders Pennsylvania, they see right across the border all this prosperity which is being denied to the Southern Tier and some other counties that sit on these shales.
They want to be able to tap into it.
You're talking about for a county like Broome County, where the city of Binghamton is, where you can go drive past Binghamton Plaza and see you know a dozen different storefronts vacant.
It's a couple billion dollars just for Broome County.
These individual counties all would become prosperous as soon as it's allowed.
Now, on top of winning the race for governor, we also have to get uh more conservatives elected to New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, which is going to happen.
There will be a bunch of new Republicans elected to the Assembly and the Senate, and that's going to help.
Uh but for me, as far as who's the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, how we're interpreting laws, and as we s look at that uh stack of pipeline applications on our desk, it's time for us to start stamping them approved to get this work again done, as opposed to uh pandering.
I mentioned Mark Ruffalo.
I mean, he just tweeted about this a day or two ago, where he's advocating for banning all gas hookups on new construction.
They're they're looking to appease the the far left.
Uh it's about fundraising, it's about lighting hair on fire with untruthful fear mongering.
So we're gonna have to also use our podium in the soapbox to get the facts out there, and again, as I pointed out, show that it's happening in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and none of what you're saying is gonna happen in uh in New York is actually happening anywhere else.
Quick break more with Republican candidate Lee Zeldon for governor of New York.
Uh this poll is pretty amazing.
More on the other side, and your calls final half hour straight ahead.
We continue with gubernatorial hopeful, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Lee Zeldon of New York.
It's pretty unbelievable.
Uh I can tell you, I never really thought New York could make the the switch and the turn, and I'll tell you why.
Because the exodus out of New York, because of high taxes, burdensome regulation, draconian COVID measures that have been put in place.
It is absolutely altered forever, maybe even the quality of life for people in New York.
So they said they've had enough.
And that's why so many people in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, they're all leaving.
But I I can see that people are being their minds are shifting, their attitudes are shifting, and they're sick and tired of it, and then they see other states like Florida, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Texas, and that they're living much better existences, and yet there's still an allure to New York.
I mean, people love New York City.
It was once the greatest city in the world.
It could be again if they would ever implement the Rudy Giuliani policies on law and order and crime.
So there is hope here that I didn't really have.
You know, for example, Curtis Sleewa had a very good showing running for mayor in New York, and he did it with virtually no money as a Republican against Eric Adams.
Uh and yet every union throw millions of millions of dollars at at Eric Adams, but you can already see that he he seems no better than his predecessor um Bill De Blasio.
And you can see that that even AOC's base in New York is is kind of they they kind of feel alienated by her.
So I think there's something changing.
I don't know.
It's a uphill battle, certainly for you, but I see the odds turning in your favor fairly dramatically, and I was a little shocked by that poll showing you within the margin of error.
Yeah, we only need 29% of the vote inside of New York City.
You run for mayor of New York City, you have to win New York City.
You run statewide as a Republican, you can only lose New York City by 40 points.
Twenty-nine percent of the vote needs 60 percent in Suffolk County and 55% in Nassau County and 43% in Westchester County.
We ran the numbers for every county in this entire state.
I've now won seven consecutive races in purple New York City suburban districts on Long Island, and that's not just with the Votes of Republicans, my congressional district has just as many Democrats as it does Republicans.
We get votes from independents and Democrats too, because we're focused on the issues that matter most to voters.
And right now in New York, they're they don't feel safe outside of their streets.
So that Asian American community sees one of their own pushed in front of an oncoming subway car getting killed or murdered in their lower Manhattan apartment.
Someone wearing a Yarmica getting beaten up a few days ago again in Brooklyn because they're Jewish or the Sikh cab driver getting targeted because they might look a little different to that criminal.
We should repeal Cashless Bell.
We should fire district attorneys like Alvin Bragg who refused to enforce the law.
We should unapologetically back the blue.
When I'm talking to black and Hispanic uh voters, families with their kids stuck in poor performing New York City public schools, their families stuck in multi-generational poverty, and they hear conservatives talking about how their kids should have access to a quality education, that we want to lift the cap on charter schools, tax credits for school choice, educational savings accounts, school vouchers, parental involvement, curriculum and a textbook transparency.
And that list goes on of what you see sitting incumbents talk about elsewhere and what we're talking about here, I think we'll win over a whole lot of swing votes, more than enough to win.
Where could people learn more about your platform only because of the constraints of time?
Zelden for New York, Z E L D I N F O R Zeldan for New York.com.
All right.
And uh people, I the I don't know.
I I I'm beginning to feel wave building.
And uh I really if New York flips, it will it will shock the nation.
And we're watching this closely.
Congressman, good to have you back on.
Thank you for being with us.
Thank you, Sean.
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Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Dan Abrams, um, who I've known for a long time, and I we've always got along with Dan Abrams, I've been on his show, he's been on my show.
And uh anyway, he runs a number of media sites.
Um law and crime is one of them.
Is that what it's called?
Law and crime, I think it's called Law and Crime, Media IT, which is like an industry um website, and it's always full of you know, pretty interesting information.
Um does his own TV show.
He also did live PD, which was one of the biggest TV breakout hits, and I wish they'd bring it back.
I I have no idea why they they canceled that show.
Um I think a lot of it was came after the it was part of the fallout of of the George Floyd incident.
Um I like the idea of cameras on cops.
I've been calling for that for years.
We now have most police uh police officers with with photo cams on them, live cams on them, so they can record what the interactions they have with the public, which I think is a good thing.
He's always been really pro-police, always been very nice to me.
Um and anyway, on his show is just ripping the left-wing media for not verifying the Hunter laptop story in the beginning, and also talked about what a shameful moment it is for you know, big tech and social media companies banning the Hunter Biden story and pointing out that conservative media is trying to lump together Hunter and Joe, which is my the only point I disagree with, because Joe is the big guy.
It's in the emails, and while Joe Biden publicly said repeatedly he's never spoken to his son about his foreign business dealings.
Now we have pictures of Joe Hunter and his foreign business dealing partners uh going to dinner together.
So uh I think the I think the information is uh coming out that yeah, that's true.
June Joe knew everything, and even Hunter whining about having to pay his father's bills and you know, Tony Bobolinski referencing who the big guy is.
Anyway, listen to Abrams' uh comments on this.
Now, it turns out that it seems that at least a lot of what was on that laptop is true.
And here's where the problem is from the left-leaning media perspective, which is why didn't they make any effort to try to verify it?
In particular, the moment that Hunter Biden admits that he's under federal investigations.
Now we're in December of 2020.
It's really Just in the last month or so that the mainstream or the left-leaning media have begun to say, yeah, well, you know, what was on the laptop, a lot of it really seems to be true.
The question is, why did it take so long when it comes to something as significant, I would argue, as not just the president's son in potential trouble, but the possibility that the president's son, at the least, sorry, uh, you know, at the time, used the vice president's name, his the former vice president's name to do business in China, potentially elsewhere.
Those are legitimate questions, I think that the media didn't.
There's no question that it was an embarrassment to the social media giants that this was uh banned from being shared, right?
It was declared misinformation.
I mean, there's no question that that's a a shameful moment.
Um, that they that they isolated this piece and said, Oh, you know, you can't share this.
This is disinformation, etc.
Because there was no evidence that it was disinformation.
Now, it is true that when you think about the story at the time, it sounds insane, right?
Oh, Hunter Biden goes to some random computer shop and just happens to leave his computer there and forgets to pick it up.
He picks up.
And he picks it up.
I mean, the story is a bit, you know, hard to believe.
But that doesn't mean that the mainstream media, a, shouldn't have done more to try to see is this true or not, and B, the level of censorship that it got.
Um social media.
Oh, on social media, et cetera, was clearly a mistake.
So the left wing media deserves criticism for the Hunter Biden coverage and lack of coverage.
But what what many on the right are trying to do is they try and use the term the bride the Biden crime family.
Right.
The Biden this, the body and it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's be specific about who in the Biden family were talking about.
What do we know?
As of right now, there are isolated allegations um about Joe Biden was supposed to be able to get uh a piece of the action, etc.
Money that he never actually got, and that in and of itself should show that he was corrupt.
I mean, the as of today, there is no evidence.
Now, the right would say, well, the reason there's no evidence is because people aren't digging.
They're not looking hard enough to try and find it.
And why are they not believing um a former business partner of Hunter Biden's who says that the big guy, Joe Biden, was supposed to get a piece of this.
Well, you know, the Wall Street Journal was given all of the information, the journal, not the Times, not the Washington Post.
Correct, was given all of the information in connection with this guy, Tony Blubelinski, who was this uh friend and and business partner of Hunter Biden's, and they came to the conclusion that we don't see anything here which implicates Joe Joe Biden himself.
Now, that doesn't mean that the question can't be asked.
But but don't ask it in a disingenuous way, which is well, you know, I just wondering what Joe Biden's well, as of right now, there is no evidence of Joe Biden's role.
If you've got some some facts, if you want to talk specifics about an email or what do we know, fair enough.
But what you're seeing for some on the right wing media is this effort to kind of lump together Hunter and Joe.
So you remember the president said over and over again, I've never a single time ever talked to my son, zero experience hunter about his foreign business dealings.
Well, we have pictures that prove that he's lying.
Uh Jen Saki echoes that lie yesterday.
The president never spoke to Hunter about his business dealings.
But we've got pictures.
Listen.
And the president has said that he never spoke to his son about his overseas business dealings.
Is that still the case?
Yes.
Now, we have Joe Biden saying that his son is innocent.
Now remember, the Department of Justice is part of the executive branch of government.
It's a big deal.
Anyway, so the Department of Justice, Gensaki says they'll decide if there needs to be a special counsel for the Hunter Biden case.
There needs to be.
Jonathan Turley made the case.
Ken Starr made the case.
Here's Jen Saki saying it, but I promise you, she doesn't believe it.
A lot of stories about Hunter Biden servicing this week.
So to ensure the independence of the investigation, would the president support the appointment of a special counsel?
Well, first the president has never had a conversation with the Department of Justice about any investigations into any member of his family.
He said that during the campaign, and he will continue to abide by that.
So I'd pointed the Department of Justice for any additional steps they would take.
they would make those decisions independently.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Many of you have been very patient.
Let's say hi to Mike in California.
Mike, how are you?
What the hell are you doing out there?
I know the weather's great, but I know there's a lot of in-and-out burgers there, but there are cheaper places to live.
Yeah.
I called you uh I'm uh second time calling you.
I was that truck driver telling everybody to stay home.
I don't know if you remember me.
Well well, why did you tell them to stay home?
Just because uh, you know, I don't want everybody blockading or causing trouble out there because they could take advantage of that.
Do you remember I said Oh, you mean the convoy?
Yeah.
Yeah, I I don't have a problem with freedom of speech.
I don't have a problem with people, you know, expressing their differences with their government.
Uh, you know, I think that in a free society, it's it's critical that we have the right to do that, and it has to be done peacefully.
Didn't happen in the summer of 2020.
Uh nobody there's no committee investigating that.
They only care about one riot that suits their political narrative, not the five hundred and seventy-four riots that kill dozens of people, injured thousands of cops, and cost billions of property damage.
You know, so things can get out of hand with crowds, but the antidote to that is policing and good policing and crowd disbursement, you know, techniques that we know work, including tear gas.
Um is it pleasant to watch a crowd being dispersed?
No.
Uh, but if people are getting violent or out of control, that's that's the only option police have.
It's and it's non-lethal.
Yes, sir.
Well, the reason why I called today was uh about the uh the the talk about everybody thinking we're gonna have a landslide this coming election.
And we are I think we're definitely behind just looking at the Article 5 convention of states.
We only have half of that going for us.
So we really need to stop talking like it.
Like we're gonna win.
That's what I wanted to say.
No, I think we I look, my honest take is I think this is going to be a change election.
Uh how big it is, I don't know.
It's too early to tell.
Um I'm taking nothing for granted.
I will say that to you on election day in November.
I'll say it to you in the days and weeks and months leading up to election day.
I never take any election for granted.
But certainly we've never had a situation where a president is messed up so badly than this one, and things have turned so dramatically worse uh under a president than this one.
I I could make a pretty compelling argument in a pretty short period of time that Joe Biden is by far the worst president in my lifetime.
So the conditions are such that when you have a 40-year high of inflation, record high gas prices, a disaster at the border, you run out of COVID test, and you're not producing monoclonal antibodies, uh, you artificially reduce the world's supply of energy, and now we have we're paying record prices for a gallon of gas and for everything we buy in every store we go to.
Uh you want to get airline ticket, it's gonna cost a hundred bucks more.
Everything is costing more.
It's costing each American household thousands and thousands of dollars.
Bloomberg estimates around five thousand two hundred extra dollars a year because of Biden inflation.
So the conditions are ripe for change, uh, and this being a change election, uh, but never underestimate a Republican Party's ability to screw it up.
So uh I'm I'm telling everybody stay focused and do not get overconfident and and fight as if the country is at stake, because it is.
This is a an inflection tipping point election.
America's future is literally hanging in the balance.
If the Democrats were to hold on to the House and the Senate, there is no check and balance, one party rule in Washington.
And if they ever, God forbid, picked up seats, it would be a disaster.
It would be build back better socialism.
We'd never be able to undo the damage that they're they want to cause.
And only because of we got lucky.
Joe S Joe uh Manchin and Kristen Cinema have they been held in check way more than they otherwise would have been.
So we can't count on them.
It's up to Republicans to make the case of what how they will change things around and make this country better, make our schools better, make our cities and towns safer, uh, how we can become energy independent, what we'll do to control our borders, how therapeutics will be fast tracked and warp speeded so that anybody that gets COVID can get treatment right away available at a moment's notice.
Those are things that work.
Also the idea of peace through strength.
So there's there's a lot of work to do.
The agenda is not hard to lay out.
The Republicans just have to want it.
Anyway, Mike, God bless you for what you do.
We appreciate it.
Uh let's say hi to Joe in Florida.
Joe, what's going on, sir?
Glad you called.
Mr. Hannity, I'm a big fan.
Uh I just want to talk about how I think the Clintons changed everything when they got in the 90s.
Corruption is just like it went to a whole new level when they went in power.
You know, if you look and they cleaned up Justice DePaul.
I mean, Hillary took all the files, everybody filed, Republican and Democrat.
And I think it was a big turning point for the country in a bad way.
Listen, you know, Democrats used to try to hide their socialism.
Democrats hid their true agenda.
Now they're just the party has gone so far radical left.
They're actually saying what they always believed.
And these are things that they used to try to work through the courts through judicial activism, things they could never get done at the ballot box or legislatively.
Now that now they are getting it done, they're saying they're fighting to get it done, and they have now opened themselves up, I think, and expose themselves to people that may have doubted what their true intentions are.
I never doubted it.
Mr. Hannity, the border.
They used to talk about stealing the border.
They used to talk about border security.
We have 7,000 people a day.
And I think somebody should make a chart on how many of them go on welfare, food stamps, and what it costs uh the average taxpayer.
I'm an ex-Suffolk County resident.
You know, the uh what it costs the schools in Suffolk County, because you got these kids coming in that don't even speak English, they're behind, they're in the fifth grade.
Listen, every I I gotta run because I'm looking at the clock.
But let me tell you what you're saying.
Is all these people that are dropping off in the dark of night uh that don't have any money, those states have to provide food, water, shelter, medical care, education for you know, millions of people that do not respect our laws, borders of sovereignty.
And that burden is being passed on to us.
We're the ones that pay that bill.
We can't afford to pay it.
And that's why we need the secure border policies that Trump had in place so this doesn't happen.
That's why this next election is actually the inflection point I'm talking about.
Anyway, I wish I had more time.
Thanks for a good call.
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All right, that's gonna wrap things up for tonight.
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