joe biden is compromised. maria: i ve been asking the question for months. absurd. wisconsin senator ron johnson, we so appreciate your time. thank you, sir. we ll be watching next week. have a good day. maria: quick break, and the surge in violent crime across the nation was a major issue in the midterms, but in new york voters still elected kathy hochul despite her progressive policies such as cashless bail. former new york gubernatorial candidate congressman lee zeldin is here on what happened last week on if progressive democrats everied the message for the neer the need to rein in crime. lee seld. en is next.
all of the crime headlines that continue to be part of the news. and that s going to impact new yorkers deciding whether or not to stay in this state and for others to decide whether or not to travel to new york. maria: that, you know, crime do you think that, you know, crime has been such a huge issue, and it s because of you that the democrats had to pace it? kathy hochul had to face her cashless bail decision because you put it in front of her face, but do you think partly people left new york because of crime, left new york because of high taxes, they went to florida and that in the end hurt you because they weren t here to vote for you? you know, that s true. there were probably more than a few ron desantis voters this past tuesday, former new yorkers who decided to leave because they hit their breaking point in the state, policies that made them look to places like florida and decide their money would go further, they ll feel safer and live life freer. no doubt that s absolut
first week in december. we ought to follow suit. maria: well, you wrote about this in a recent op-ed if the wall street journal. then you ve got the democrats saying we re not going to hold leadership elections until early december. but mitch mcconnell is in charge, and nobody wants to go against him, i guess, because he s the one who s deciding who s going to get to run committees. so what are you going to do about it? well, maria, think about it. if we hold those elections right away wednesday, you probably have more campaigning done in a high school class president election than we would have in the most deliberate body in the world. it is absurd, it is preposterous. they need to be delayed, we need to have these discussions. maria: well, let s also talk about what s possible now that we know it s likely that the democrats are going to have the majority in the senate. next week you ve got christopher wray testifying in front of the homeland security committee,
first week in december. we ought to follow suit. maria: well, you wrote about this in a recent op-ed if the wall street journal. then you ve got the democrats saying we re not going to hold leadership elections until early december. but mitch mcconnell is in charge, and nobody wants to go against him, i guess, because he s the one who s deciding who s going to get to run committees. so what are you going to do about it? well, maria, think about it. if we hold those elections right away wednesday, you probably have more campaigning done in a high school class president election than we would have in the most deliberate body in the world. it is absurd, it is preposterous. they need to be delayed, we need to have these discussions. maria: well, let s also talk about what s possible now that we know it s likely that the democrats are going to have the majority in the senate. next week you ve got christopher wray testifying in front of the homeland security committee,
decisions on behalf of america. how is joe biden going to protect america, meeting xi jinping tomorrow, when we know he s taken in all that money from chinese officials tied to the ccp? it s obvious that president biden is highly compromised because of hunter biden s money influence peddling. that s what it was. and, of course, the fbi s known about this probably going back to 2014, 2015 when, you know, you had prosecutions or invests of devon around archer, hunter biden s business partner. it needs to be fully exposed. hopefully, i ll have my budget restored. in the last congress, you know, i should be i will be ranking member of the permanent subcommittee on investigations. our budget was cut back 60-70% of what it was from my committee chairman and the ranking member. that funding needs to be restored so i have enough staff to do to do the proper investigations. maria: are you going to get your budget restored? who cut your budget?