enforcing the laws. she s says crime is not so bad. if you look at the 25 innocent people that have been shot, pushed in front of subways, assaulted on the streets, you know that she s not coming from the right place. neil: we re not making up the numbers. she said the numbers are exaggerated. the numbers are what they are. we report them. as a numbers nerd here, that s what i provide folks. anyway, howard safer, thanks very much. good seeing you again. i want to go to the other side of the country where we re getting federal charges being formally filed against the man that brutally attacked paul pelosi. let s get the late forecast christina coleman in san francisco. christina? hi, neil. yeah, according to this criminal complaint, the suspect admitted that he wanted to hold nancy pelosi hostage and possibly break her kneecaps. now he s facing two federal charges. one count of attempted kidnapping of a u.s. official.
crime, but refuse to talk about any common sense guns safety legislation. and then neil, there s this. this is the campaign sign that they had here at the rally today. typical normal one. look at the other side here. 94 pataki for governor. that s when george pataki defeated governor cuomo who served three terms. they hope that mr. zeldin can again repeat what mr. pataki did. we ll know in nine days. neil: yeah. 20 years ago the last time we had a republican governor in new york. it bears watching. eric shawn following history and politics in real time. cooler than that. meantime here, this issue of crime has been the central one for lee zeldin. but it was a bit of a surprise out of the blue we heard that the policeman s benevolent
county red. here glenn youngkin and lee zeldin teamed up. the governor came up on the stage and ripped to lee zeldin s challenger, kathy hochul. he said that her lacks policies have led to a spike in crime. she stands up for criminals and law enforcement haas been left demeaned and demoralized. youngkin says crime has become a major flash point of this campaign. the number 1 issue that i hear from so many new yorkers and rising crime, soaring crime, das letting criminals run free. kathy hochul says he doesn t
love to blame my weight thing on a thyroid condition or something like that. no, no, i like napoleons. and i have to take the bullet for that. i can t blame anyone for that. so i don t think it would hurt the president to say this happened under any watch. i didn t gauge the reaction we would get. call it a day and move on. when you question the average for gasoline sold in this country and go to some bizarre, this is lean a mean average i don t know what he went to. you can t reinvent the statistics out there. that s right. he said the gas prices were $5 when he came into office. no, they were $2.39 on average. and you know, these battleground states, we re seeing this is the top three issue. you have the economy, inflation and including gas prices and crime and you have abortion, which democrats have really pushed.
understand why it s so important why we want to lock up criminals. it shows that she s out of touch with the reality on the ground. hochul campaigned here eight miles away from where we are now with first lady jill biden over the weekend. she cause at controversy by claiming that the issue of crime is a conspiracy by republicans and the media. she crime isn t as bad as it seems. that people are scared noting that some gun crimes are down and it s not as bad as people feel. she did hold a news conference with the gun safety group moms demand action touting gun safety laws and red flag lous and trying to outlaw automatic weapons. she slammed zeldin s gun policies. people have been involved in the effort to get the guns off of our street and stop the slaughter and are sick and tired of being used by candidates like lee zeldin as part of a narrative that is false. that is that you can be tough on