New York Governor Kathy Hochul faces intense scrutiny for allocating $50 million in taxpayer funds to legal services for detained individuals, a move critics label as political theater designed to incite state-versus-federal conflict. The commentary highlights the arrest of Comptroller Brad Lander by ICE agents and contrasts his situation with La Monica McGuire's potential 17-year sentence, emphasizing federal law's supremacy over state interference. Citing polls where nearly half of New Yorkers support deporting undocumented immigrants and 79% back deportation for criminals, the segment questions Hochul's integrity regarding her Little Haiti visits while noting Representative Elise Stefanik's sharp inquiries into migrant crimes, ultimately framing the governor's actions as a desperate attempt to manufacture controversy amidst overwhelming public support for stricter immigration enforcement. [Automatically generated summary]
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Feds vs New York Authority00:04:53
New York is flipping out.
Oh, gosh.
New York just, you know, they can't manage this, right?
Because they really don't like that Donald Trump is the president of the United States right now.
And they really don't like that the feds are moving in, which, by the way, they have all the authorization to do because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said, yeah, you know what, California, you're fine in terms of, or rather, Donald Trump, you're fine in terms of nationalizing the National Guard, federalizing the National Guard as they had to do.
Last week, because of all the protests that were going on.
Well, New York doesn't like that because you see, New York thinks it's on its own little island.
It can do its own little thing.
I mean, Manhattan is an island, right?
And Brad Lander, who's running for mayor of New York, he had a little bit of a dust up, of course, yesterday.
You know about that, where he got cuffed and hauled away by the feds because he tried to interfere with an arrest that was going on for somebody who was believed to be in the country illegally and had committed a crime.
So here we are today with Kathy Holkle, governor of New York.
Trying to fan the flames here, trying to set up some kind of state versus federal disaster because she's going to use taxpayer money in the state of New York.
This is fascinating considering that New Yorkers get that or are looking, I should say, for that salt deduction back, right?
They want to make sure that they can deduct their state taxes from their federal taxes or at least a certain portion of it.
Well, I don't think that's going to fly because now you want to use taxpayer dollars to fight the feds?
Come on.
All right, here's Kathy.
It's a little teeny bit hard to hear, so I encourage you to turn up.
The volume.
I'm going to watch it together with you.
It's a quick clip.
That are walking out of this courthouse, taken away from their families.
They don't have the attention.
They don't have the lawyers.
And that's why the state of New York is providing $50 million to cover legal services for people who are finding themselves in this situation.
Thank you, by the way, Whiskey Dale, for the generosity.
And you believe it, I'm not giving up on this story in this bit.
from Kathy Hochul.
I mean, this is total political theater.
Once again, they know the rules.
They know the laws.
They know the constitution.
And yet they're sitting there saying, well, we're going to defend these guys and we are not going to help the feds.
We are not going to actually cooperate with them.
I don't know what kind of island you think you're living on really in the state of New York or in California or in any of these states to think that they can sit there and fly in the face of federal law and get away with it.
I'm sorry.
The law is the law.
And Brad Lander found that out yesterday when he tried to go in between the feds.
Who were arresting someone believed to be in the country illegally and having believed to have committed a crime?
He stands in the way of that.
And they said, okay, buddy, you're out of here, cuffs and all, you know.
I'm not obstructing.
I'm standing right here in the hallway.
I asked to see the judicial warrant.
You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant.
So this video came from his wife.
Where are you taking the controller of the city of New York?
And with what authority?
And with what authority?
And where are you taking him?
You know, I will say to his credit, at least he did not physically push himself against the ICE agents, like you know, the lady in New Jersey, La Monica.
La Monica McGuire, you know, I have to say that every single day because it's just so much fun to say.
La Monica trying to be the next AOC, getting herself up on a little bit of a platform.
She's now facing 17 years.
Alina Hobbes is like, listen, you don't mess with us.
You just don't do it because that is effectively suggesting you might be guilty of assault on a federal agent, which carries with it up to 17 years in federal prison.
So at least Brad Lander didn't actually look like he was assaulting anybody there.
So it was a rather peaceful cuffing, if you would, and a hauling away.
But the point is the law is the law.
And so the feds have the ability to go in and do this.
And you can't stand in the way of that.
And yet Kathy Holkle.
Losing it.
The governor of New York.
You know, she's got the 50 million, right?
That she's setting aside.
And she just lost it with some obscenities in there.
Oh my gosh, Kathy, really watch her language, okay?
As she tried to talk to people yesterday, having just returned from little Haiti.
Yeah, she went on and on about little Haiti.
Elise Stefanik Exposed00:03:30
I don't know if that's going to play in the rest of the state the way she's hoping it will.
But you know what?
That's why we have elections.
Vote her out.
Here you go.
Do you want to know what I really think?
Please.
It's bull.
How dare they take an elected official who's been going down there for weeks to escort people who are afraid to walk into a courthouse in the United States of America?
So Brad Lander has stepped up to be a guiding help for them.
And this is what happens to them.
What the hell is happening to this country?
I just left Little Haiti.
People are being traumatized.
Small businesses, people walking down the street.
When I was there in August, the streets were mobbed.
People were walking down the sidewalks.
There were vendors everywhere.
The traffic was crowded.
Today, there was silence.
People are living in fear.
One woman just told me the ICE agents are going in and out of buildings there.
Well, you know what?
Isn't that what people voted for?
I mean, I hate to say it.
I mean, nobody wants people that are, well, I shouldn't say that, actually.
The numbers are actually reflecting, the polls are reflecting something else.
In fact, almost half the state of New York believes that if you're here in this country illegally, that you need to be deported.
But overwhelmingly, 79% of New Yorkers actually believe that if you have committed a crime, and you are here in this country illegally, then yes, you should be deported.
I mean, heck, even Whoopi Goldberg on The View couldn't disagree with that one and made it loud and clear that, yeah, I mean, if you've committed a crime and you're here illegally, then, you know, that's the way the cookie crumbles, so to speak.
Anyway, Elise Stefanik, the representative from New York, writing here, $50 million in New Yorkers' hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being used for illegal migrants' legal fees because of Kathy Holkle's illegals.
First, New Yorkers' last failed leadership in New York.
You know, I'll tell you, she was wonderful.
I'm actually not playing it because I want to look at it.
It's actually almost very graphic in terms of what she describes, if you would, at least Stefanik.
It shook me a bit because she's talking about the horrors that some innocent New Yorkers have had to deal with.
And perhaps you know where I'm going when you think about the subway incident, et cetera.
But she described them in rather very rich detail.
And so it's a lot to hear.
But she had, at least Stefanik, had Kathy Holkle there for questioning on the Hill just last week.
And so she put these questions to her.
And I'll tell you, Holkle didn't even know who these migrants were that had committed these heinous crimes.
And that's pretty telling in and of itself.
It was quite, quite an expose of Elise Stefanik.
She's very good at that.
Don't forget, she took down the lady who ran Harvard, right?
Claudine Gay owns the end of her career to one Elise Stefanik, and perhaps Kathy Holkle will too.
I mean, I don't know about you, but I could see Elise Stefanik at this point, possibly running for governor of New York and winning that.
So she just tore her part in hearings last week.
And then It's like it was just made to order because Kathy's out there saying we're going to take all this money and we're going to send it to illegal migrant fees.