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unsuccessful run for new york governor in 2022. next, mr. zelman -- mr. zeldin in his own words, when he participated in a debate betwee candidates for new york's first congressional district house e. -- house seat. he talks abo topics including the and the black lights -- black lives matter movement. >> hello and good evening. my name is carol miller. i am cochair of the voter services committee of the league of women voters. and i will be moderated for the debate this evening. before we start will you all please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands. one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you.

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have to turn the ballot over to see the propositions. our proposition this year is on changes and expansion of the community development fund. so, it is very important. also, for those of you who have not registered to vote, you still can. you have to have the registration postmarked by tomorrow. registration forms are in the back him as our applications for absentee ballots. our absentee ballot process is a two-part process. have to send the application in by november 1. you will get a ballot back in the mail and you have to have that postmarked by november 7. there is no video or audio taping of this debate except by ctv, whom we have authorized to take this debate. they will air it frequently.

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studies teacher patricia bronson and her students, and then from the southhampton youth bureau we have tracy because lynn, lisa crater, and their students. we need to think the custodial and security staff. we thank them all for their cooperation and assistance. let me also introduce the others with roles tonight. ursula lynch greeted you as you entered. she, judy roth, and our student guests ob in the aisle to pick up questions you have for the candidates. so, please raise your hand, even as the debate goes on, so you can have a cause. and then fill in out and they will pick it up again to give it to our vetters. the panelists are joe shaw, executive editor of the press newsgroup a which publishes the southhampton press, the east hampton press, and 27.com.

and going and burke, sitting next to joe, copresident of the leak. they will be asked -- the league . they will be asked questions from the press group and from you, the audience, and the students. i remind the questioners that we like the questions to be identified as having come from the audience were students when that is the case. and, students, please let us know what issues are important to you by submitting questions and noting on the card that the question came from the student. we also have chair of the government committee of the league, estelle gelman, and copresident judy samuelson, who will review the questions you will be writing on the index cards. the purpose of the review is not to censor or to stifle any voice. this is done to identify those issues which are most important to the audience while avoiding duplication.

it also ensures that questions are issue-based and suitable to be asked to both candidates. one of the most important people here tonight is barbara maclean see, who is the timer. i direct both candidates to barbara. she will be showing the signs that will be telling you how much time you have left and when to stop. most important also is and marshall, cochair of the voter services committee, is in charge and is the major force behind the debate. of course, our candidates, lee zeldin and anna. now the debate format, which was agreed to by the candidates prior to their acceptance of our invitation to participate. each candidate will have two minutes to make an opening statement. candidates will then be asked a series of questions. they will have up to three

minutes to answer the question. both candidates will be asked the same question. candidates are not permitted to interrupt each other. they have three opportunities to rebut any statement in the course of the debate. they do so by raising the red card. both of you find your red cards? ok. and you can use that up to three times. when you use a red card you can rebut for two minutes. if time allows, each candidate will have the opportunity to ask a question of their opponent, and then the opponent will offer a response. he will have two minutes for that also. we asked if the candidates are given that opportunity that that question also is issue-based. finally, each candidate will have an additional two minutes to make clear -- make a closing statement. closing statements are in reverse order of opening statements.

the rules for the audience are, no taping, as i said. and no interruptions or verbal reactions. and, hold your applause until the final remarks of the candidates. there are many reasons for this. it allows the audience the opportunity to hear the response. it avoids wasting time, because if the audience is making noise the candidates cannot be talking. it limits the information available to voters who are undecided between the candidates. and the candidates came here tonight to talk to the voters. and that is the dialogue we want to have. and given the expanded dissemination, it is important we maintain a civil atmosphere. please write your questions on a card. it is important to us that the concerns of the audience be addressed to the candidates. and we cannot know what those concerns are unless we have your

questions. finally, the purpose of our debate tonight is to air issues uniquely important to us, as voters, in our local congressional district. as such, we will not discuss breaking national news. this means we will not be discussing whether bob dylan should have received the nobel prize for literature. >> exactly. all agree. >> please remember to shut off your cell phones. based on the coin toss, mr. zeldin will go first and make his opening statement. your choice, here or there? mr. zeldin: good evening. thank you to carol for

moderating, the league of women voters for hosting, all of you being out here for tonight's debate. this is what the american political process is all about, you taking the time to be here tonight and asking important questions about the future of our community and country. my name is lee zeldin. i was born and raised here on long island. now my wife and i are raising here our beautiful twin daughters, michaela and arianna. i spent four years on active duty in the army. i spent the last nine in the army reserves, where i currently serve with the rank of major. i served in the new york senate for four years. during my time a lead the fight to repeal the payroll tax for 80% of employers, cosponsored the nation's strongest property tax cap, reduce the middle income tax rate to the lowest level in 60 years, created the wire program for our veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, and what the law that protects military families from protests at merit -- military

burials. i was elected congress in 2014. i was focused on my american strength agenda to protect americans -- america's security at home and abroad, create more private-sector jobs, to fight for our veterans and first responders, improve the quality of education in our schools, pair our nations infrastructure and health care, safeguard our environment. all of these issues i'm sure are very important to all of you. during my brief time, 21 months in congress, i have been able to get three bills passed to get our veterans ahead introduced two proposals of mind to stop the sale of plum island. i got my time -- i got my counterterrorism bill passed. as was my safe bridges act, the direct funding for our state and local bridges. created a new east end clinic for our veterans in mantorville. and i'm looking forward to tonight's debate. thank you offer being here. [applause]

>> let me remind the audience, please hold your applause until the closing statement. thank you. >> thank you. hi and good evening, everyone. it is great to be in westhampton and i want to thank the league of women voters and everyone else who is here today for doing this. it is, i think, an election of our lifetime because i hope we never go through the drama we are going through now. i want to especially thank the students that took time to come out tonight. because this is your generation we are talking about. we are talking about the future of this country and the many things that are at stake. many of you know me. my name is anna thrown holst. i had the honor of serving as your town supervisor and councilwoman before that. i made the decision to run for congress because this is, by all accounts, the most dysfunctional

and effective, and mired in partisan politics congress in the history of congress. according to a very recent gallup poll more than 11% of americans feel congress is getting the job done for them. i have devoted my work in this community. i raise my four kids in this community and devoted my work to addressing issues around income inequality and lack of opportunity. as many of you know, i started the hay ground school and i started that's cool because i wanted to bring this community together. along racial lines, religious lines, cultural lines, and make sure that early childhood education was available to every child in this community, regardless of what school district you were born into. i went on to run a childcare center where we did the same thing. we brought a head start program and an opportunity to go to

college, and much needed social services. as your town supervisor i led the way on managing our budgets, cutting wasteful spending, cutting ultimately dollar deficits, getting the aaa rating, and making sure that government served you in the most efficient, cost-effective way, and protecting taxpayer dollars. we have so many issues to talk about and that are not happening in congress today. fixing the aca, fixing immigration reform, college affordability, protecting social security and medicare. so many issues. i could go on and on and i look forward to questions and a very informative meeting. thank you. [applause] >> ok. first question will be addressed top mr. zeldin -- addressed to mr. zeldin. >> whom do you support for president?

and please explain why. mr. zeldin: i endorsed donald trump over hillary clinton. i have some serious issues with hillary clinton. her record. this is not just about electing apposite -- a president. this is also about the future of our supreme court, for maybe the next 40. i care deeply about national security. i want to see our economy grow. i believe we could do a better job negotiating trade deals to help the american worker, the american company -- the american companies. the american economy as well. i have been a pretty vocal opponent of common core, going back to my time in the new york state senate. it is important to improve the quality of education and he has been outspoken as well. honestly, neither of the candidates are perfect. both of the candidates have their flaws. but on balance between the two of them i have quite candidly,

hillary clinton has, with the conflicts of the clinton foundation, with the fact that she and ms. hannah classified information and had a server in her basement, these are crimes that were committed, and unfortunately every single day we have people going to court for much less infractions. yet hillary clinton is not being held accountable for their crimes through the judicial system, and that is unfortunate. i don't think it is any coincidence that the attorney general had a meeting with the former president, bill clinton, a few days before the decision was made to not pursue any charges against hillary. again, on the department of justice building it says, when law ends tyranny begins. the fact that hillary clinton is not being held accountable -- not only is she not qualified to

be president, she could not get a job inside the file room at the fbi. so, her candidacy is a nonstarter. i disagree with her strongly on much of her positions on issues. i do not want to see my country be more like europe. i would like to see us get stronger with regards to immigration, cracking down on illegal immigration. here in the united states, providing more workers for people. more opportunities for people who are here legally. i have a lot of compassion for the person who is not here yet, because they went to their local consulate and said, how do i pursue the american dream? hope, opportunity, education? because they are following the rules, they are not here yet. hopefully on substance and on policy we will be able to focus on these during the remainder of the debate. because of the future of our country. not just the next four years, tackling and defeating isis,

strengthening our military and taking care of our veterans, but also the future of the supreme court and the next 40. that is why i support him over her. >> thank. >> i don't see how anyone can support a sexual predator. an individual who disparages a goldstar family. an individual who makes fun of people with disabilities. i don't know how anyone checks their moral compass who is in elected office and understands what it takes to be in elected office and thinks it is ok to support someone who is all of what i just said. but on top of that, that has shown in debate after debate --

two big bates now -- and on the stump that he is entirely unqualified on every single one of the issues that face the united states of america today. the contrast is hillary rodham clinton. she made a mistake with her email server. there is no question about that. she has taken responsibility for it. i don't know if any of you saw the editorial in the east hampton start today? my opponent has said that hillary clinton belongs in jail. as has donald trump. east hampton start put it very well today. only someone who thinks that the law of the land is equivalent to a third world banana republic and does not understand the law would make a statement like that. i will remind you that mr.

zeldin is an attorney. and a statement like that means you have a very simple ignorance for the rule of the law in a country like ours. but you are also neglecting to understand that making inflammatory statements like that is untruthful and misleading. now, we have two candidates. one that is going to win the white house. that is going to make an appointment -- or several -- to the supreme court. one of them, hillary rodham clinton, will make sure that that appointee will get rid of citizens united, will get the dark money out of politics -- coke brothers, etc. -- of which my opponent is a very happy recipient. we'll make sure that a woman's right to choose is protected. and will work to make sure that all of the things that matter to us right here in district one, when we are talking about income opportunity, when we are talking

about tax reform, that takes the burden off of the middle-class the way our tax code is written today and shifts it to the top couple percent of earners in this country today. makes sure that corporate taxes are not lodged outside of this country. immigration reform. i can go on and on. i am supporting hillary rodham clinton because she is the only one qualified to run for president amongst the two front runners. >> thank you. the second question will go initially to ms. throne-holst. >> this one is from us at depressed newsgroup siena college and newsday recently completed a poll of first district voters. it was a small sampling of 650, but it still provided interesting insights. it found that most voters in the district won a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and think that

climate change is a real and looming threat. at the same time, most want obamacare repealed. and on guns, democrats are overwhelmingly in support of gun control, while republicans, and to a lesser extent independence, described themselves or as second amendment supporters. how can one candidate from either party truly represents such a divided district? ms. throne-holst: i think that is -- it is important to understand that we are a country that today is very divided but when i got elected to the town board in southhampton i got elected on a people, not politics, platform. i got elected on that i was going to be there to serve people, keep the politics out,

find common sense and common ground solutions. and i believed that to everyone of these issues there is such a thing. we have to deal with the immigration issues today. we have somewhere between 11 and 15 million undocumented workers in this country today. if we don't solve that and come up with a bipartisan solution to that -- and i will remind all of you that there was a gang of eight planned that was a bipartisan solution that was passed in the senate, then did not make it through congress -- but it was a bipartisan plan to solve all of these issues. on gun safety, 80% to 90% of americans want to see common sense gun safety solutions. in other words, background checks, closing the loopholes, which means that you can go on a computer today and arm yourself. want to make sure that guns are

cap out of the hands of terrorists. people with a criminal record. domestic abuse. etc. 80% to 90% of americans have answered a poll saying they want to see that. i think there is a bipartisan solution to that that absolutely protects the tenants of the second amendment, all of which i agree with. the affordable care act. they are too -- there too, if congress were not mired in partisanship, it has commonsense solutions to that as well. a number of economists have talked about, how do we do it? everyone agrees that pre-existing conditions should no longer be a reason for why people cannot buy or get kicked off of their insurance plan. bipartisan agreement on that kids should be able to stay on their parents' plan until they are 26 years old. i believe that if congress put

forward a plan today to make sure that pharmaceuticals could be negotiated that there would be bipartisan support for that. there is a great example of the kind of medications that are now fabricated outside of this country where the tax dollars from the sale of these medications are staying outside of this country, and we, through medicare and medicaid and the veterans affairs, cannot negotiate the cost of this. need to end the cadillac tax, etc. there are bipartisan solutions to all of this. i built my career on bipartisan solutions and i will do the same in congress. >> thank you. mr. zeldin? mr. zeldin: you asked for important aspects of the question, issues that were referenced in the poll. tackling national security.

the iran nuclear deal. what should we do about refugees? how do we strengthen our military? how do we take care of our veterans, form our tax code so people can fill out their taxes on a form as simple as a postcard? there are a lot of issues we could talk about. i mentioned common core. taking care of our environment. a former mayor -- a former new york city mayor said, if you agree with me nine times out of 12, wrote for me. if you agree with me 12 times out of 12, see a psychiatrist. you can make a lot of important progress. look last 21 months. people often ask me, they say, you have accomplished more in your first 21 months then your predecessor did in 12 years. the point project was funded at just over $600 million. now it is $1.61 billion. a bill to save palm island

during my predecessor's time in office is when we lost the mission and a law was written to move the -- to sell the island and move the mission to kansas. and then my predecessor introduced a bill to stop the sale of plum island that he could not get out of committee. i got the bill out of committee, and as a matter fact i got it past by the house. it passed unanimously after working with colleagues on both sides of the op. earlier on when i mentioned those veterans bills, bipartisan bills that got passed with the support of republicans and democrats. i counterterrorism bill and up getting past with the support of republicans and democrats. my bill to prevent the faa from taking negative action against east hampton for aircraft noise restrictions was done unanimously, and you have very local issues as well. right now as we go through the point plan we have local officials weighing in with specific tasks, and we are

working with them, with the army corps at the table, to make sure we do get more sand for downtown want to walk -- montuak. we do have to tackle immigration. what we cannot do is -- because we have had a republican president and democratic president. every combination of that in the last 10 years, and they have not passed one solution for all of the problems. i'm not here blaming republicans or democrats. i'm saying there is agreement that we should pass. why hold hostage when everyone agrees with in order to have a fight over what is most controversial? but if you look at my record for the last 21 months it has been filled with progress getting done by working with local

officials and people in washington on both sides of the aisle. >> thank you. the third question goes initially to mr. zeldin. >> this question comes from a student. what would you tell young voters is wrong with the current state of politics? what can they expect from you? be specific. thank you. mr. zeldin: i think it is great that you are here. get involved. there are so many people who are now eligible to vote who will not vote. by the way, if those eligible to vote -- that includes people in their 40's and 60's not voting. what is sad is going to knock door and -- not door-to-door and i asked, why are these four houses not of my list? it is because they are not registered to vote. get active, participate. don't let anyone tell you you are too young to get involved. there are people that say you have to wait your turn and then maybe one day you will have a chance to run for office. people say, how did you start running for congress when you were 27 years old?

i say it is easy. go to fec.gov. there is a form. you submitted and now you are a candidate. run for local town office or county or state. this get involved and participate in the process. you don't necessarily have to run. there are many ways to contribute. some people decide they want to join the military. others come firefighters or teachers. or you could start a nonprofit and help victims of domestic violence. there are many ways to leave this world better than you found it. at the best way to set what you want as far as the future of our community and the future of the country, you are doing by being here tonight. it does not matter, truly, when you go to the voting booth and you are circling in -- way back when we used to pull a lever. now it is different. you circle the box for whoever you want. for whoever your preferred candidate is. and you can tell people or not.

but, participate. if you are voting for me, the election is november 8. if you are voting for my opponent -- just kidding. [applause] november 8 is the election. and make sure you are getting all of your friends involved as well. because they might be eligible to vote in your thinking, i don't want to participate. you cannot wake up on november 9 complaining about the results of any election if you did not vote. that is my opinion. personal opinion is, if you want to complain about the results of any election you have to participate. but i think it is great you are here. when you go off to college and you get involved in maybe local races there, maybe decide to take a class on political science, you major in it or studying international affairs or philosophy, foreign affairs, whatever it is you pursued that is your interest, that is your passion, laughter at 110%. -- go after it 110%. ms. throne-holst: my message is

that there are a lot of young people very interested in the selection and really paying attention. i'm a little worried about what they are seeing, and i think that it is, perhaps, bringing some attention to this. and my sense amongst young people that are paying attention to this and seeing what is going on on the presidential level, and seeing how that discourse has devolved into a referendum, really, on whether we elect a sexual predator, whether we elect someone that chooses to make fun of people of different race or religion, i think young people are looking at that -- i look at my own four kids who are all in their 20's, and they are out there talking to everyone about this.

not because their mom is running for congress. they are used in the running for office. they are used to me being in office. but they are seeing a generation, which is their generation, which is worrying about, is college going to be affordable? are they going to be able to refinance their college loans? are there kids going to have access to early childhood education? are they going to be able to age in place and stay here on long island? is there going to be housing and jobs and a transportation system that works for us, right here on long island and for this next generation? these are big issues at hand. this is also a generation that has seen their parents lose their jobs. they have seen their parents and them lose their home. with the mortgage melt down that happened just in this last decade.

they are seeing people losing their farms and not able to afford their bills right here on long island. this is a generation that i'm seeing that is very ramped up to speak. to vote. to be part of this. i think the whole bernie sanders movement showed that. front and center. and i see that amongst my own kids and i see that amongst other kids that i talk to out there. and understanding what is at stake here too, and terms of the supreme court. an understanding that a woman's right to choose and your access to women's health care is at stake. the environment is at stake. this is a generation that is learning in schools and understanding what science has to say, even though my opponent here does not believe in the science behind climate change,

and that it is caused by human action and that we have a moral responsibility and economic responsibility to deal with it. kids are coming out and they should come out. >> thank you. >> next question. let's stay with the student questions. how do you feel about the black lives matter movement? >> anna. i'm sorry, ms. throne-holst. ms. throne-holst: you can call me anna. movements start for a reason. and we have a very rich and complicated history of movements in this country. but they start for a reason. and they start because a group of people feel the need to express themselves and feel a need to organize themselves. my foster child is part of byp

100, which is black youth project 100. these are young activists, mostly african-american, but minority, latino kids who concern themselves with their opportunities going into their adulthood. and concern themselves with feeling safe, with feeling like they have opportunity. and when we see what has devolved, unfortunately, into a divide, between understanding of what black lives matter is about, which is wanting to have a voice in wanting to come to a table and have a conversation about, how do we all feel safe? and part of that is getting guns out of the hands of people who should not have guns. 30,000 or more people die at the

hands of guns in the united states of america today, and we do not have gone -- guns -- commonsense gun safety laws. i opponent has voted 28 times on a procedural motion that would allow common sense gun safety taking guns out of the hands of people on the terrorist watchlist from coming forward for a vote. he dances around this subject, but that is, in fact, what he has done. and when we are talking about protecting the men and women in blue, that is equally important. one of my biggest honors in my time on the town board is that i also served as the police commissioner. and we went through some tough times. most of you here will remember that. but we worked very closely together, and we worked on community policing. we worked on sensitivity

training. we worked on making sure that this was a police force that strived for diversity and strive for community policing and a partnership in community. that is a conversation we need to have on a national level today. and we need to come together. and that is not what is happening in washington today. and that is what i would like to be a voice for, is bringing everyone together for this very important national conversation. >> thank you. mr. zeldin, same question. mr. zeldin: look, when anyone is unjustly and violently targeted and innocent, that is an important cause for anyone to take up, to make sure that does not happen again. what i don't believe is acceptable is when the -- that

motivation, that inspiration ends up resulting in innocent, courageous law enforcement in different parts of our country to be murdered. when there is someone who is unjustly murdered, and there should be accountability, and someone should get into a lot of trouble if they broke the law, what is absolutely not the answer is when it crosses that line where you are looting the local area you are supposed to love, and targeting innocent business owners. when you are taking a man or woman who is wearing blue summer in this country and they leave their family to keep their not just family safe, but strangers as well, and their family never sees them again. what is important is for everybody to come together, understanding that violence is certainly not the answer to solve this, in consideration of

the fact that all lives in this country matter. now, my opponent says that i voted now 28 times against a bill from peter king to prevent terrorists from purchasing firearms. which is interesting, because i have been in d.c. for a few weeks, and a couple of days ago it was 27. what you will see in her tv ads is that it is 25. you don't have to take my word for it. if you look at the tv ad itself it lists 25 bills. you can type them in for yourself. one example, the comprehensive addiction and recovery act. the number one priority for everyone who wants to combat the opioid abuse and [speaking another language] epidemic. a portland -- a .1 million

dollars to combat the opioid abuse epidemic in this country. who would have thought there would be a tv ad aired against me at the end of the campaign where this and 24 other bills would be displayed attacking me, saying i voted against pete king's bill to prevent terrorists from being able to purchase firearms? pete king voted the same way i did on all 25 bills. these 25 bills -- and you can look it up yourself -- has absolutely nothing at all to do with guns. nothing. at no part of the process. not right now, not at the beginning of the process when it was in the committee, not when it was passed in the rules committee or on the house floor, or back to the committee. i think it is important to you that we have the ability to say not just what pulls well because you want to win an election, but we want to be honest with you. and that is a flat out lie. >> excuse me, are you using a red card? ms. throne-holst: can i do that? >> yes you may, but you have to

show me. ms. throne-holst: ok, red card. can i use that for a second? you know, we have had several debates now, and i think it is time that we separate some real facts from fiction. and the fact of the matter is that the way it works on the floor of the house of representatives, when a bill is introduced by a member of congress on anything the majority can either vote for or against it, but as part of that procedure a member of congress can say, i would like to bring on a motion, because i believe there is something more pressing , and i would like to bring forward a procedural vote to bring forward -- in this case peter king's no, no by legislation.

that has now happened 25 times before we cut my commercial. three times since. 28 times. have the dates right here and circle. esther zeldin has had the opportunity 28 times to vote to bring forward peter king's bill on whether to present terrorist watch list individuals -- prevent terrorist watch list individuals from buying guns. he voted no every single time. this is fact. i have it right here come and, yes, if you google those bills, those were different bills. but the motion was brought forward, when they were voted down, to preempt them by a vote on whether to bring forward mr. king's ill on no fly, no buy. the answer is simple, if you had it before you today, would you vote yes or no?

would you support peter king's bill on no flat, no buy? mr. zeldin: there was one thing in there that was very honest. she says those were different bills. when you look at the people at it lists 25 bills, and it is absolutely true. all 25 of those bills have nothing to do with guns. and i'm not holding up -- i can hold up a book. i'm telling you to go on the internet. you can look at it yourself. you can look at the tv ad. it lists 25 different bills and you will see that those 25 bills have absolutely nothing at all to do with guns. that was the one little nugget of my opponents answer that was absolutely accurate. and if it was pete king's bill, why was it that every single time pete king voted the same exact way i did?

why? because when you fight really hard against the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic right here in suffolk county -- it is the worst county in the entire state as far as being targeted with a use. it is a personal issue. i have been to a lot of wakes myself, where families are being torn apart because of it. so, i took this because up. i had multiple press conferences. i formed a coalition with republicans and democrats in the house and senate to figure out how to get this bill done. and just think that that ill number, because i voted for it, is now one of 25 those that have nothing to do with guns that is going to be used in an attack ad to try to get you to vote for my opponent. why? i will tell you exactly why. because it pulls really, really well. if you can convince voters that your opponent wants terrorists

to be able to purchase firearms, i have been doing my part my entire life to make sure there is no threat to american security here at home or abroad. i will continue to do my part. but it is outrageous when i fight to make sure there are no more wakes to visit that that will be used in an attack ad against me. that is outrageous. >> new applause, please. >> that question asked about black lives matter. both of you are discussing issues that are of interest and important, but we are asking our audience for what is important to them, and what they want to hear. so i would ask you to try to stay within the parameters of the question. mr. zeldin: i'm going to defend

myself, though. >> you have to use another red card. [laughter] was not worth it. ms. throne-holst: how many are we entitled to? >> you have three, you have each used one. the next question is for mr. zeldin. >> this comes from the league as well as the audience. the people would like to know, regarding obamacare, if you feel it needs some fixing, which i think a lot of people do. specifically, what would you change? if you want to get rid of it, what are you going to put in its place, specifically? mr. zeldin: it is a great question, and we need to do something with obamacare. i would not have voted for if i were in congress and it came up for a vote i certainly would not vote for it now. in january i voted for legislation to repeal obama care, which the president vetoed. parts of obamacare, like covering people with pre-existing conditions, allowing children to be able to

stay on their parents' policy, those are two components that liberals and conservatives, republicans and democrats all agree upon. whether you want to keep obamacare as is or you are someone wants to repeal and replace it, those are two components that are in all of the different versions we see. we need to have more choice. in new york state we had one loan co-op, health republic of new york, that went under. 200,000 new yorkers were told in the middle of cancer treatment that they no longer were covered. not that you were going to be covered in the future. there needs to be more options. there needs to be more plans. we need to have the ability to purchase plants from outside the state. you need more providers locally willing to honor those plans from out-of-state. we need to create more pre-tax intent -- incentives for people. there exists right now, as far as being able to have affordable

childcare, to reimburse a lot of different expenses related to you, your family, your spouse, your kids. we need to have a pre-tax benefit for people to cover some of those expenses that unfortunately they don't have enough money to get treated. as a result of them not having enough money to get it treated they may end up with a more chronic, more expensive long-term element that would end up costing more. the lack of competition, the lack of affordability -- by the way, one other thing that is important is we have a lot of small and medium-size businesses on long island. to give them the ability to work together to get a more competitive plan for their employees. right now employers are telling their employees that it -- that they are getting less and having to pay more. i hear too much about higher premiums, higher deductibles, canceled policies, longer wait times. it is not working. the math on its own, obamacare

collapses in 2017. so we have to get something done. whether you want to talk about improving it, delaying it, repealing, replacing it, the fact is in 2017 this has to get done. if nothing gets done a collapses on its own. i have favored the repeal and replacement plan which was vetoed by the president. i continue to favor that plan, but health republic of new york is the example. and what happened with a business model where you put the freelancers' union in charge of creating a policy. when they figured out the math didn't work they marched down the policy and when they went to new york state to fix it new york state told him, no, they were not allowed to do it. we have to get smarter in the way we deliver it as well. ms. throne-holst: the intention with the affordable care act was two things. one was to make sure all americans had access to affordable health coverage and quality health care. regardless of income. and to start to reduce what are

the inordinately high costs of health care in the united states of america. we pay somewhere in the realm of 30% more for almost every medical procedure then you do elsewhere in the world today. and that is part of the reason this is not tenable. what i have written the bill differently? yes, i would have. i would not have given away the store to the insurance companies, the way it was written. which was a compromise. but today we have come again, a congress that will not come together and work on this. there are so many bipartisan solutions to this that are mired in the partisan bickering that is going on. and that has got to stop. you talk about repeal and replace, you don't actually put forward a replacement plan. there has been no bill, no comprehensive plan put forward

under the repeal and replace. so, it is a lot of talk right now. so, why congress doesn't get together and solve this i think is a big problem. today 20 million more americans are insured within the war before the affordable care act. we are at an all-time low in terms of people uninsured in the united states of america today. but we are starting to see the costs of health care going down. we still have some very big problems. the income bracket has to be fixed, in terms of where people qualify for tax credits and tax reductions in order to be able to afford their plans. we have to be able to negotiate pharmaceuticals. i touched on that a little bit but i will give you a frightening example of that. there is a company called gilead science. some of you may have heard about this. it is an american company

manufacturing pharmaceuticals in ireland, in a tax haven. they have the hep c cure. it is something that affects veterans more than any population. they come back and they are infected by hepatitis c and many others. the cost of producing that drug is one dollar a pill. they charge $1000 -- $1000 per pill. and we do not have the ability to negotiate that today. we have got to fix the doughnut hole. we've got to get rid of the cadillac tax. and we have to make sure that the fraud and abuse that is in their ash over $200 billion worth of unnecessary medical procedures are ordered today, and they are not stopped. there is a bipartisan way to do this, and we've got to do it. >> thank you. >> ok, the next question will go to ms. throne-holst.

>> i feel compelled to say this was on my list when i sat down. it seems appropriate now. it is a proposal to prevent people on the government's terrorist watch list to prevent -- watch list to buy firearms. do you support this? ms. throne-holst: as you know, i support this. i think it is imperative that we get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. today terrorists, people with a mental health record, they people with a domestic abuse record. let me go back to this. the fact of the matter is, there is a procedure that happens on the floor of the house of representatives where when a bill is brought forward, there is an opportunity to vote no on that and ask for a preemption

for something that any members of congress think is more important. 28 times. and i have them right here. and yes, if you google them or go on his website what you will find is a bill unrelated. but the fact of the matter is that 28 times, as part of that procedure, which is very commonly used on the floor of the house of representatives, members of congress, including congressman zeldin, were asked to vote on whether they would agree to bring forward for discussion and for a vote peter zeldin -- i mean, peter king's bill on no fly, no buy. mr. zeldin voted no every single time. do i support the bill? yes i do, and mr. zeldin has to start telling the truth. mr. zeldin: i wasn't actually

suggesting that you visit my website. i was suggesting that you visit any website. any website at all. and, by the way, if peter king -- it was peter king's bill. why would he vote the same exact way i did every single time? because we were voting whether or not to consider, for example, the comprehensive addiction and recovery act. now, to the question. >> excuse me. excuse me, quiet from the audience. mr. zeldin: to the question -- which bill are you referring to? >> repeat the question, please. mr. zeldin: a proposal, yes. maybe you can explain. >> excuse me ms. throne-holst. mr. zeldin: it is called the protect america act, and it is to prevent terrorists from being

able to purchase firearms or explosives. now to get past the soundbites and talk about details -- you will notice there have not been any details discussed yet -- is because there is a substantive debate if you are concerned about this issue. by the way, i don't know a single member of congress in favor of terrorists being able to purchase firearms. i don't no one member of congress who is in favor of terrorists being able to purchase firearms or explosives. now here's the question. you can be on either side of it. do you believe that the burden should be on the government to show that the purchaser is a terrorist? or should the burden be on the purchaser to prove that they are not a terrorist? that is the main difference between the legislation that pete king introduced and the legislation i introduced. i believe the burden should be on the government to show that the purchaser is a terrorist, and the legislation that exists, burden is on the purchaser to go to court and prove that they are not a terrorist. you could be on either side of it. i'm telling you what my opinion

is. additionally, 57% of the watch list are foreigners. we are talking about 3% that this debate applies to. of that 3%, i, as a member of congress, who has briefings on these topics with the director of fbi, the director of national intelligence, secretary of homeland security, i cannot tell you how someone gets on or off the list and why. what i do know is that people have been added to the list because the feds want to speak to the former college roommate of the person they added to the list. there have been toddlers added to the list, members of congress, u.s. service members, u.s. marshals. part of the protect america act is to ensure we are cleaning the list, removing the names of people who should not have been on it in the first place. if you want to use the list for new purposes and you want to say that someone can't purchase a firearm because they are on the list, you need to remove from the list anyone who should not have been on there in the first

place. by the way, of the 3% who are not foreigners, some of them for completely different reasons cannot purchase. i don't know of anyone who is in favor of terrorists being able to purchase firearms or >> the next question and to let the questioners know we will have two more questions than a question for the candidates to ask each other. two more questions. this is addressed to mr. zeldin initially. >> i would like to comment that the question that mr. short just asked was also from the audience and on the league's list. so it clearly was an issue everyone wanted an answer to. my next question is a combination again of the audience and the league.

it refers to climate change. i will just ask the question, what measures would you propose which would balance the need for more efficient energy, environmental protection while preserving jobs it the fossil fuel industry. that is the combine of what i was hearing from the audience and what the league was asking. >> mr. zeldin. >> our climate is changing. we need to do more to be better stewards of the air, land, water. i have supported many different pieces of legislation it help protects the environment around us on long island. the first congressional direct is unique because with we are almost completely surrounded by water and i have looked out stony brook and others to pursue clean green alternative energies, wind, solar, water. when i was a new york state

legislator i supported funds to allow people it make their homes more energy ever. we need to upgrade the way we deliver power on long islandment we have new plants like hateness which is more economically and environmentally friendly but other plants are not economically or environmentally friendly but they are in operation because the local area around the plants relies on the money to help pay property taxesment we need to be smarter the way we deliver power best we've outdated plants and causing harm to the environment. i mentioned earlier my two pieces of legislation it help half long island. i got 26.5 million secured for a national estuary program. it goes all way to montauk highway and around. we secured $26.5 million for that.

as far as conservation the under of last year the land trust top priority was to get a permanent extension of connection easements allowing those in the agriculture industry to put a easement with a more favorable tax assessment and pass from within generation to the next. the e.p.a. is phasing out actually is getting rid of the eastern dump sites that are directly above our district. but there is a debate as far as what to do with the western dump sites with connecticut denial waste to improve quality in long island soupltdz i introduced the stewardship act with steve israel. as far as long island sounds goes i believe that instead of the current plan it phase out open water dumping in the with respect long island sounds that we need to reduce that to no more than five or 10 years. this are many ways to be better

stewards of our environment taking care of the air, land and water. i tried to cover a lot of it in two minutes but the key is reduce reliance on fossil fuel to be more environmentally friendly and pursue alternative energy clean and green network. there are opportunities with research done here good paying jobs but also important research that we can lead the way for the country on the east end of long island. >> mrs. throne-holst. >> i think it is first we recognize science is on our side in this and it is important to work with science and the scientific community. it is an quiver calendar that climate change is real. it is one of the biggest threats to our generation but certainly to the next. when we talk about the threat we're not just talking about environment but the cost. and the economic impact of

climate change. when we talk about the threat to us right here on long island but also seeing there is a level of opportunity here, yes, we have to recognize that we are still far too dependent on fossil fuel burning plants. we are looking at sea level rise that is affecting the value of our properties and threat to or properties and to our businesses. during my time as town supervisor i led the way it put together solar rise south hampton. it avails tax credits and ability to tap into lower and lower costs solarizing infrastructure for your homes. we have partnered with niserta that allows you to tap into an audit of the network efficiency of your house and access low cost loans where your monthly payment will be less than what

difference between your new and old utility costs are. we are so well poised on long island and surrounded by water and have abundant wind and solar energy. we have the ability to get off of fossil fuels right here and now. the other big threat to our environment here is the nitrogen loading in our surface and ground waters. we talked about the idea of how do we sewer long island. you can't sewer long island the way it needs in order to stop and mitigate the problem around nitrogen loading. i led the way on the founding of the clean water technology center at stony brook university which is now a national hub incubator research and development site to bring forward new technology to retrofit each and every one of the cesspool an accept technique systems and treat nitrogen on

site. it stands to create hundreds of jobs. that is the kinds of innovation we need it support programs that when feeds to roll out and need the federal government to show leadership in that. that is not happening right now. when we talk about caseness, they want to build a $5 billion fossil fuel plants. i don't think it is ok to deregulate like my opponent did as a state senator. the burning of it isle fuels and impacts. i don't think it is ok to defunds the e.p.a. >> thank you mrs. throne-holst. for a final question mrs. thrown will address it initially. >> there was a question from the audience and we had it on our list. what is the single biggest way you plan to help veterans in your -- or your next term in office? >> it is a very important

question and it is a very important question in suffolk county because we have the largest veteran population in new york state and largest home less veteran population in new york state and i don't think we do enough. while i was town supervisor i worked with the county veterans administration to make sure we had an officer from that administration at town hall on a weekly basis is our east end veterans didn't have to travel all the way out west to access those services. we contracted with s.u.s., services for the underserved which is a wonderful organization that provides services to veterans and they are now operating out of our senior center in demanders. we need -- fla thfrpblgts ders. we need it make sure every veteran has housing, training,

housing and medical and we are not doing enough. we have seen reports repeatedly the last several years how our va hospital is not able to provide the services. it is underserved. my opponent held a congressional hearing seven weeks after having been in office almost two years. he voted against the administration's proposed budget that slashed the appropriate funding by a billion dollars which we reduced -- which reduced for about 70,000 less costly health care. he denies that but there's a record on all of this. i will work tirelessly to make sure the programs that need to be there are rolled out to make sure every veteran that comes back also a job and access to

job training, there are not for profits that want to work with this with or educational system with the companies on long island that want to hire veterans but need to make sure they are trained for it. and roll out those programs that make sure that that happens. and protect medicare and social security because our veterans are as dependent on all of these programs. my opponent voted to create a voucher program, medicare, and wants to tie social security to the stock market. for someone who managed municipal budget eight years where our pension system in new york is tied to the stock market, i know firsthand how well that works. it doesn't work. taxpayers pay the difference. these are issues that again this dysfunctional congress is not

coming together on and funding is being denied by the majority of this congress. >> thank you. mr. zeldin. >> at risk of spending two minutes on a really important topic defending myself against things that weren you truthful i will focus on veterans but i might use there red card to give myself extra time. my biggest personal passion as it relates to veterans is combatting them returning home to mental waoupbtdz. we have too many who feel isolated and alone. they don't realize that there are other veterans in their community going through what they are going through and there are people they can call strangers in the middle of the night who will come lend a helping hand. when i was in the new york i created a program and suffolk was one of four it has worked.

the county, a lot of private groups and v.s.o.'s have done jobs to get help in saving lives. when we lose within veteran due to suicide it is one too many and some like over-dwyer his last words were i don't want to die. he was working for temporary relief. about a year ago i introduced legislation to take the program in over a dozen counties and make it national. so whether you live in suffolk county, new york or anywhere we need to get to the point they know there is love and support and they should not give up. i lost more friends due to suicide with ptsd than who have died overseas in combat. beyond, that there is -- the department of veterans affairs needs to do a much better job the way it is operating the capital budget.

denver project is a billion dollars over budget. you have executives using the releaks program it get themselves set up with moves they want and getting themselves paid $127,000, $227,000 and when the office of inspector general said those cases need to be referred to the department of justice, the department of veterans affairs turned on their own inspector general. we have veterans who have died on wait lists. we have had employees strbgted it falsify wait time lists. we are going to have a new secretary in january and they have to improve the culture at the v.a. and tackle these head on and the house passed the va accountability act working to get a final product to pass before the end of this year because like the albany stratton hospital the department wanted to fire but the merit system

review board said you can't. the law won't allow you to fire the person who should have been replaced. so, improve the culture, change has, manage money more. we could have a well debate on veterans because there's no end to ways we could better serve them. >> at this point, if you would like to, mr. zeldin, you have the opportunity to ask one question of your opponent. mrs. throne-holst you will have two minutes to respond to that question. as i said at the beginning, we would really like it to be issue based. >> it is completely issue based if on a polls level which policy positions of hillary clinton do you disagree with? >> you made a statement the other day i supported her proposed increase in accepting

refugees from syria. over the proposed 10,000 limit right now. and i don't know where you got that because i have never made that statement. what i have said is that i do think that we need to do our absolute fair share on this issue. but until we make sure that we have an immigration and vetting system that is absolutely air tight for this, right now it takes 18 to 24 months for a syrian relieve gee to even go through the consideration process. if anyone is suspected of any kind of terrorist affinity or connection they are denied. but when we are looking at people being slaughtered, which is what is going on in syria

today, i think we have to attack our fair share of responsibility here. not letting syrian refugees into this country is one of the big else jihadist recruitment tools today. not being part of a comprehensive plan it bring stability is part of what is going on today in terms of jihadist recruitment. we have an absolute responsibility there. and i do agree with her stance on the nuclear deal. every military expert understands this and there are many both the american side of this and the israeli side of this agree that we had an absolute responsibility to make sure that iran did not build a nuclear bomb. and we managed that. we stopped that.

>> thank you -- excuse me, mr. zeldin. there is not -- >> i have a question -- i'm trying to understand. >> excuse me, mr. zeldinment do you want to use the red card? >> sure. >> but don't direct your comments to mrs. throne-holst. direct them to your audience. they are the voters. >> i have two minutes? >> two minutes. >> first off i hadden -- i would encourage my opponent to clarify because the question is what policies do you not agree with and the only thing that was mentioned is disagreeing on refugees. i would like clarification that my opponent is saying she disagrees with hillary clinton's position on refugees and that would be -- i don't want to put words in her mouth. i want to foe if that is what she says she is disagreeing with but with the available time we disagree on a few different

things just mentioned. iran nuclear deal gives up to $150 billion to the world's largest states responsible sore of terrorism. iran is pledging to wipe israel off the map and chants death to america on their holidays. they financed assad, syria, less whether. they have overthrown fortune tkpwofrplts. we had to pay $1.7 billion to the iranians money that we did not owe and we had to pay it the same time simultaneously in order to secure american hostages. that is ransom. people want to call it something else that is fine but since then we have had more american hostages that have been taken. we can call it an agreement, we didn't ask for a signature on the agreement so the secretary kerry in responding to me says it is an unsigned political commitment. the side deals that is not been put out but the a.p. has

reported iran is responsible for collecting some of their own soil samples and inspecting nook sites. the levers that brought the iranians to the table is the sanctions relief so if you want to deal with the bad activities we are not allowed to talk about anything in the news today but when you read what the iranians are doing because of what happened with the houthis you will see their aggressive behavior and we don't have the leverage to bring them to the table which is unfortunate. >> thank you, mr. zeldin. >> let's get some facts on the table. since the iranian nuclear deal was implemented and i will read you some real facts. a score sheet on iran's compliance has been kept and agreed to by the international community and oversight agencies that are now there to oversee.

they have as required removed and placed iaea the international atomic agency monitor stored 2/3 of the 19,to you sent industry tpaoupbls -- centrifuges. they have ended all uranium enrichment which can be used to create the nuclear bomb. it has removed all nuclear material from its one secrets facility which is the one we worried about the most. it reduced all of its stockpile from 12,000 kilograms it 300 kilograms and the core of a heavy water reactor which was the other thing the international community worried about has been filled in with

concrete. in other words, they have been incapacitated from building a nuclear bomb. now, does iran need to be very carefully monitored on this? there's no question about it. that was part of the deal that i did not agree with, the oversight was not strong enough. but again the international community, national security experts, army experts, military experts, intelligence experts on both american, international and israeli soil believe that this was the only way it move forward. >> thank you, mrs. throne-holst. mr. zeldin, we are talking about the iranian agreement which is important. but that question was not asked. now, is your rebuttal again on the iranian --

>> that's not ok. >> well, you do have use of one more red card. go ahead. >> so, the iran nuclear agreement, when we had our 10 navy sail also being embarrassed photography, individual ago if i and generals being given awards the iranians, russians, north americans chinese are testing us. they do not respect weakness. america's foreign policy needs to strengthen our policies but back to what we call an agreement, iran nuclear agreement, sometimes the word deal is used. it is not even signed by the iranians. when we go out to buy a car and you say i will give you $10,000, and they say no you will give me $25,000 there's no agreement. there are material terms where

both sides are disputing. for example, the americans say we're going to be able to inspect their military sites. before, during and after the negotiations the iranians said you will never be able to inspect our nook sites. we said sanctions relief would be phased in. the iranians said saeurpbgs relief will be immediate, no suspension. you can go down the material terms where both sides do not agree. what was made worse is certain components they could not agree opinion by the end was put into the verification between the iae and iran. the levers that brings them to the table is the sanctions relief. we have negotiated a way the sanctions relief were propping up the wrong regime. these are bad people. 2009 after an undemocratic election many iranians protested

the election and we said it was none of our business. now we have these people there doing these bad activities chanting defendant to america and missiles for example they are for us. all of these other issues we need to leverage to bring them to the table. >> mrs. throne-holst would you like to take this opportunity to ask a question of mr. zeldin. mr. zeldin, two minutes to respond. >> do you public a woman's right to choose? do you believe that roe v wade should be upheld? do you believe that planned partner hood should be provided to -- >> i'm sorry, mrs. throne-holst, within question. >> all kind of paid into one. -- icon of made into one. >> excuse me. >> i'm pro life and my daughters were born 14 1/2 weeks early. they were less than a pound and a half when they were born.

i'm so blessed, my wife and i that they were given that ability to be able to be born into this world. we have every amount of admiration and respect for the doctors through their process and nurses, power of prayer we accepted prayers in about 16 different religious, jewish and probably about 15 others and our daughters have grownen to be strong. but i got a chance to see life at 25 weeks. it is precious. now when i was in albany we had the debate about abortion the debate taking place right now in state governments and federal governments is whether or not we should be allowing partial birth late term i, about. i passionately disagree with allowing late-term partial birth abortion. we need to encourage more

adoptions in this country. we need to do whatever we can to provide the best amount of health for women, men, children, with the entire plant parenthood debate that has taken place when the videos were first released. one thing that is left out a lot of the entire debate is the legislation itself doesn't take money away and put it in the treasury. it directs it to women's health centers including right here. there is the he will is i owens in quorum. the one in south hampton. greenport. that is where money was going so it was going towards williams health when there was an investigation into those videos. it is a very passionate topic for everyone. but it is something that ayman apologetic, ien apologetically

have many positions i believe in. >> ok. so, please no applause. thank you. you will have your opportunity in a couple of minutes when they give their closing statements. mrs. throne-holst with you give your closing statement? two minutes. >> thank you everyone for coming out tonight and i'm glad that the interest in this election is as big as it is because there's no question that both on the presidential level and right here on the congressional level you are looking at two candidates that are as about as diametrically opposed as they could ever be. i will just talk about what i think is important right here in district one of new york but spills over to the national level and why i believe that you need someone in congress that has an absolute track record of

reaching across the ailes to find common sense solutions. we need to resolve immigration reform in this country. we need to find a path to citizenship and dream act. we need to shore up the borders and make sure the immigration and visa system goes back to a financialing level where it used to be. when need to make sure long island is affordablement we need to revamp our tax code that gives the store to the top percent of earn erstwhile giving it to big corporations appear beg oil the we need to get the money out of campaigns. we need to overturn citizens united which is where all the dark money going into politics is. we need to get common gun safety laws and make sure they are out of the hands of terrorists annie

criminals. we have talked about it. the bill mr. zeldin is talking about is not supported by law enforcement, including former new york city police commissioner. you can't on the one hand say government should stay out but say it should have the sole responsibility. it is one or the other. we have to do with we did on a local level here and cut the wasteful spending that goes on in government and make it more efficient and mac affordable living right here on long island a reality. an college affordable for all of or kids. [applause] >> mr. zeldin.

>> i think it is important to be able to work across the aisle with people at different levels of government and just today we announced 22en doorsments that we received from east end officials with legislation i discussed tonight. all these different bills were a product of republicans and democrats working together. my opponent talking about people not politics and bipartisan ship that sounds good but you weekend why no one, political party or elect the officials, no one this served with her on the town board supports her race for congress including democrats who campaigned against her in the primary. now, during these debates we say there's a lot that you might say when you are desperate for votes, you really want to win an looks so you say whatever it takes to get elected.

what is most important is looking over the course of 21 months my office resolved over 4,000 cases. i mentioned the legislation creating aoepbsd veterans healthcare clinic. the project where we have $1.16 billion coming to restore our coastline or getting a new zip koepbd for flanders and legislation we have in a must pass bill the postal service locker room act introduced by the chairman of the committee. working with the south hampton trustees contacting the new york state d.e.c. to open the cut. i mentioned the national asteroid program to save the land and water contention funneled. when you look at my track record the cove study completing the

public comment period to restore that coastline. i ask you to look at my record and not my opponent's slant on it. i ask for year support on november 8. [applause] >> i thank the candidates, i thank the audience and again if you haven't reg sterld get out there tomorrow and definitely get out there on november 8 and vote. thank you. [applause] . >> more from l zeldin president-elect ump's choice to lead the e.p.a. in his own words in 2015 he joined c-span asart of a series of interviews with new members of the 114th congress. we interviewed him again after winning re-election in 2016.

>> i usually go to sleep around 12 or one and back up five or six. >> when you are in washington where do you live? aoeurbgs i'm one of 80 staying in my office at longworth, 1517 is my hotel room. no, it works out well for me. it is a big closet. great camaraderie at the house gym. >> is that because it is expensive to live in washington for a congressman? >> for me i just remember a few years back when i had visited here, chris gibson was my battalion commander, i remember 2010 that class coming in and thinking then if i was elected i would do the same thing. a lot of different fanatic doctors to it. i enjoy it. it maybe the army but i have an

air mattress and it is all good. >> we are with congressman lee zeldin of new york's first district. in our interview in 2015 we asked you about your sleeping accommodations on capitol hill. you said were sleeping on an air mattress in year office. is that still the case and it is are you planning it upgrade. >> i'm in a roll away. no longer an air mattress but still one of many members who stay in our office here and home for me is on long island and which will we are here just from the moment i wake up to go to sleep nonstop working. >> aside from your personal comfort what is the big else lesson you learned the first two years? >> there is actually a lot that gets done where republicans and democrats and liberals and conservatives work together. but there seems to be no room

for a lot of the national media it took about when anything positive gets done. telling people about when their government is actually working for them. you go back home and ask people what their thoughts an perspectives are of their government and they are concerned, they are pessimistic when things don't get done they should be upset but they are not coming in contact with good news. what i noticed my first term on education, infrastructure, overhauling the sustainable growth rate almost 250 times a republican congress and democratic president worked together to get something across the finish line and the american public is not we're. >> you talked about in 2015 interview you said your district will the second high else population of vets in the country. how do you think the past two years have fared for vets in

terms of congress and administration efforts? >> there have been a lot of bills passed by the house to help or veterans on so many different fronts. no matter how much has been done or anything we will do, fact is this will always be more that can and should be done. as a new administration comes in and new sbgts is picked there's a lot more that can be done with the way hospital construction budgets are being run, relocation incentive bonus program, overmedicating patients, employers appear supervisors instructing employees to falsify wait time. some laws have to be changed. there is more that can be done with next congress and new administration. >> for the next congress an new administration, the new administration laying out a very aggressive platform for the first 100 days, leader mccarthy laying out a very busy schedule for the house. what are your hopes and

expectations for the first part of the 150th? >> i expect it to be action pack the very busy. there's a lot to do. on the senate side on top of the legislation and appropriation warning and confirmations of cabinet members, new supreme court justice, on a legislative and projections side from obama care to border security, techniques reform, infrastructure spending, reforming and improving the va there's a lot of work to get done in the first 100 days. >> have you mapped out for yourself how you're going to balance that work and balance the needs of your constituents back home? >> the good news is a lot of what i just described is for, not just nor our country but my constituents back him. we have and the first congressional district hard from many constituents who are deeply concerned with the way obama

care has impacted their families, their employers. they care deeply about these border security issues and infrastructure spending and need to improve our tax policy. so, fortunately while we do have a lot of local specific priorities that we will be focused on, at the same time a lot of the broader national topics being debated and are set up for action in 2017 are all important for my district. >> you won your first district race with nearly 60% of the vote. how difficult or was it differ running for re-election given the 10 nor of the presidential election? >> my best advice for anyone who becomes a member of congress if they ask what is the secret, i would say do your job. over the course of my entire first term when we are home the mobil office hours and technical letown hall, e-mails, trying to

get goals across the finish line having a good team responding to constituents there's so much that goes into a proffer first term a lot works itself out when you get closer to the time for constituent voters to head to the ballot box. >> what didn't work for you the first two years, something perhaps the voters don't know about but we're not going that route again we are changing things either in your office or approach the day-to-day work? >> i would say my time serving new york state senate that experience helped mcnamee our entire team better prepared for serving in congress. so, a lot of those freshman lessons you learn as far as staffing, how to get a bill out of committee it be will you, communicating with the media and public and being present as much as possible, a lot of them we didn't experience. i would say that if i didn't

have those four years in the new york state senate maybe it would have been different. i don't look back with any regrets or lessons learned to say i wish i did something differently. >> we have seen the new class with 115th come in. have you had a chance to speak to them either from the new york delegation or elsewhere? >> i have. i know exactly what it was like for them. they are so excited. they are coming here at a unique time. i came in for the last two years of president obama's time in office and they are coming in at the start of the first two years of president-elect trump's time in office so their two years will be different just from that dynamic. but they are so energized and inspired. they know about the opportunities that are ahead short-term and you get a lot of energy talking to them. they are fired up and ready to hit the ground running.

>> congressman lee zeldin new york's first district. than you for beingith us. >> lee zeldin has been selected to ladies the environmental protection agency in the president-elect's next term. in 2018 he led a group of house conservatives in drafting a resolution calling upon the attorney general to apoints a secondpecial counsel to investigate possibility justice department and f.b.i. misconduct. here is a look. >> good morning and thank you for coming out. we had at least 19 members of congress sholl introduce today a 12 package house resolution detailing misconduct at the high else level of department of justice and federal bureau of investigation out lining fisa abuse, how the hillary clinton e-mail probe ended and the trump russia probe began. it calls for the appointment of

a second special counsel it investigate the gross misconduct with the understanding the justice department can't be expected to investigate itself. it is very important to note the raeufpgs were d.o.j. and f.b.i. are filled with amazing prettyic americans who love their job and perform their jobs objectively with were respect for the rule of law. these are hick legendary agencies that require transparency and accountability regarding misconduct. it is important nor these exceptional public servants an important agencies to continue their work moving forward. as the rest lags states the concerns of the american people are serious and the issues requiring an immediaten biased independent and thorough investigation are broad. in the past few days away learned that d.o.j., f.b.i. or both appeared to have planted at loose one person in donald trump's presidential campaign.

this reminds us of how necessary this resolution is as well as the appointment of a second special counsel. first we will discuss some of the misconduct why the hillary clinton e-mail probe ended then details of the vice sa view and why the donald trump russia probe began. with regard to secretary clinton there are laws that were violated with her as of a private e-mail server in her home. official communications were transmitted on an unsecured server with classified information when they were sent. in addition it other e-mails retro actively deemed classified by the country r department of statement former f.b.i. director acknowledged 65 of the e-mails were classified as shooting and 22 as top-secret. there is segui evidence the use of this private server by secretary clinton was meant it

avoid compliance with the freedom of information act to obstruct justice by not having to turn over incriminating e-mails in the case of a subpoena. various e-mails such to grant jury were destroyed on her server through the use leach bit and destruction of hardware before they can be obtained by investigators in march of 2015. in the september 2015 meeting between the then attorney general and director comb yi the attorney general said it referred to it as a matter thus watering down the severity of the investigation and aligning the rhetoric with the message of the clinton campaign. the counselor and chief of staff to hillary clinton during her tenure was offer immunity for access to her laptop that will many of the questionable e-mails. cog to transcripts former director was prepared to

exonerate her as early as april or may of 2016 when he began it draft a announcement announcing the ends of his investigation before up to 17 witnesses and several close aides were interviewed. comb yi cricked the transcripts when he stated in sworn testimony on september 28, 2016, that he made the decision not to recommend criminal chargesor secretary clinton after she was interviewed by the f.b.i. july 2, 2016. director coey allowed the agent to replace grossly negligent with extremely careless which is not legally punishable under federally. it says gross tphpblgs in handling the nation's intelligence can be punished criminally with principal time or fines. there is the june 27, 2016 meeting between lynch and bill clinton on her plane in phoenix immediately thereafter hillary clinton was excelon rated.

on july 25, africa comey union latino raily exonerated her in a public statement. one day later on july 6 announcement follow by lynch that the d.o.j. investigation into then presidential candidate hillary clinton would be formal my closed with no charges. in september of 2016, the f.b.i. during examination of the personal lap top of anthony weiner as part of an unrelated investigation into him sending sexually explicit emergencies to teenage girl discovered previouslien examined classified e-mails belonging to less spouse top clinton aide. it took until october 28 of 2016 for director comey to announce via letters he was reopening the investigation in hillary clinton and additional egregious delay after the f.b.i. failed to examine the e-mails when at the discovered them. the deputy director's wife was

running for virginia state senate and as of october 26 had received 675,000 in donations from the virginia democratic party and common virginia aeuplt. layer pac controlled by the virginia governor. an investigation conducted by the off the d.o.j. noted october 27 of 2016 director comey required that deputy director mccabe remove himself from a conference call regarding the clinton e-mails it avoid the appearance of conflict of interest after media reports noted the donations. for the investigation into with then the deputy director and other f.b.i. officials sought to personally delay the release of the illicit e-mails for politicly motivated performs is warranted throughout the obama administration the d.o.j. failed to investigate serious concerns surrounding former president

clinton and secretary of state clinton and connections to the russian company there received department of state to purchase uranium mines. a family foundation controlled by the chairman of uranium one made $2,350,000 in contributions to the clinton foundation not possibly disclosed in violation of an agreement secretary clinton had with the obama white house to possibly identify all donors. in 2010 while russian state interests were working to require a majority stake in uranium one an purchase american mines bill clinton was paid $500,000or a speech in moscow by a krpl lin linked invest many bank. a confidential informant who worked with the f.b.i. to uncover bribery and reduction was threatened with reprofile understood lynch when he tried to come forward in 2016. the senate judiciary committee

launched a probe to investigate the-in one matter including whether department departments and agencies knew the f.b.i. was looking into possible corruption before the deal was approved. appear investigation conducted by the office of the inspect toor general noted that a multistate investigation into the questionable dealings of the clinton foundation with corrupt donors was shut down in august of 2016 when pressure was asserted on the f.b.i. by senior officials within the bottom justice department. the same i.g. report noted shutting down the investigation into clinton function impropriety and influence was connected to high ranking officials in the d.o.j. and f. about. i. the same i.g. report found that deputy director mccabe after consenting to the political pressure to shut down the clinton investigation attempted to later use unauthority leaks to the press to create false narrative that was opposed to

the closure of the investigation and did it to salvage his reputation following revelations of questionable clinton money donated to his wife's virginia state senate campaign. with regard to vice sa abuse. the f.b.i. and d.o.j. used up verified fors to get warrants issued by the united states vegetables that added in the surveillance of u.s. citizens. it granted sweeping power to collect both information and conduct about collection which results in surveillance of a broad array of sraoeufrt communications including those of u.s. citizens not spell targeted in the viia warpblt. to object detain them they submitted unverified dossier prepared by christopher steel to the court failing to disclose that christopher steele was hired by a firm which was long

island railroad by the document national committee and hillary clinton to prepare the dossier and it was unnen reliable and would be t.ed. the court was not informed that christopher steele feels telephone opposed to the looks of donald trump, that he was the unnamed source cited in the media reports that the f.b.i. used to corroborate less dossier and fusion g.p.s. was hired to perform prefer ant-donald trump. the woods procedures the vetting procedure for all fisa assured that all the facts are accurate it clearly support probable cause for a warrants were not followed. former director comey admit pdz sworn testimony to a senate judiciary committee material in the steele dossier was known to be unverified. since fisa warrant applications are rarely turned down are

present pdz closed court with no public report where the dort is not challenged bid any did he ever it is imperative that the government take care to validate the next before they take the extraordinary step of waiving rights of u.s. citizens without his or her knowledge or opportunity to present a defense. at the fisa court the government has a responsibility not only to provide the best evidence in support of its case but best evidence against its case. tkhaoepsly flawed and questionable fisa applications using illicit source the and biased sources were approved at the dealt o.j. a.m. f. benefit levels. it was further not disclosed to the fisa court that the wife of bruce worked for fusion g.p.s. and christopher steele directly transmitted the door yea for submission to the fisa court.

to it day there's not been any evidence that donald trump colluded with the russians to win the 2016 election. there is evidence that he didn't commit any crime. the probe was launched in all-of 2016 based on questionable and insufficient intelligence and biased motivations. as we have learned in recent days. d.o.j., f.b.i. or both appear to have planted at least one person in donald trump's campaign to infiltrate. text messages between f. pwfplt b.i. agent and lisa page duringa 16, 2015 contains serious evidence of political bias and improper handling of investigations within the agency. the texts have egregious evidence of bias including lisa page stating quote trump should go f himself and peter struck

saying f trump. those text messages were not stored in the f.b.i. archive system. it was blamed on a technical glitch and after turn partially recovered in 2018 manien answered questions remain regarding impropriety. comey prepared a serious of certain memorandums with classified information including notes on his conversations with president trump. comey admitted in sworn testimony to the senate committee joon 8, 2015 he had leaked there to a personal friend and encouraged that friend to share the material with the press to trigger a special counsel investigation. an investigation by the senate judiciary committee found the person was denial richard columbia law school appear comb can i provided him with now of the certain maps. comey's actions are a violation of none disclosure games as a condition of his appointment and clear violation of f.b.i.

protocols regarding dissemination of sensitive information based on provisions of the privacy act of 1974. march 2018 former f.b.i. director mccabe was fired by jeff sessions who noted mccabe lacked candor including had par taken unauthorized disclosure to the news media. other violations after a wide reaching investigation into deputy director mccabe's conduct. a myriad of d.o.j. and f.b.i. personnel have been fired, demoted or resign resigned clog. mccabe, chief of staff general council james baker, struck, page and f.b.i. special agent campbell and d.o.j. senior official orr, the assistant director. the d.o.j. failed to timely

kphraeu with several document requests by congress providing members of congress with heavily redacted versions of some but not all the documents and offering members limited in person viewing is an inadequate response it repeated requests after months of delay. as i prepare it introduce my colleagues i would like to point out that while many in the media and american public have been trying to bring down the president without etched that he concluded with russia to win looks there's a ton of real misconduct that those same people have been attempting to completely sweep under the rug. i believe in equal scales of justice and no one is above the law including regardless of has name and people at the highest level of the d.o.j. amount f.b.i. when it is done in the performance of duties while trying to take down elected officials and candidates. no official at the justice department can allow their

political bias to overwhelm their objectivity and responsible performance of duties. the second special counsel must be appointed as transparency is demanded. with thatter we are covered they will move forward stronger tan they have ever been. >> have you spoken about this idea about a second special counsel? >> as the author of this resolution i have not had any conversations at all with the pr president. with regard to this resolution and the call for a second special counsel. this has been 100% a product of talking to colleagues who are signing on to the resolution, 100%. >> have a clarification on bruce orr. does the evidence show that bruce orr was given information by his wife who work for fusion

g.p.s. and that was used to obtain or renew a fisa orders? >> he was in directs tkphraeugs with christopher steele so there's this doubt that connection, that conflict, was real and within it resulted in information passed through bruce orr to justice department to the fisa court as a intermediary. what seems crazy is when you have the former attorney general meetings with the former president the husband of the target of an investigation on the tarmac and then immediately exonerating hillary clinton. what seems criticize to me is bruce orr wogs wife work as fusion g.p.s. is it serving as an intermediaary and james comey would be writings an ex-honor arrest before meetings clinton and all of her close he is aids.

with seals crazy to me is you would go to a fisa court and be presenting this dossier and not be telling the fisa judges that the information is an verified, that it was paid for by hillary clinton and the democratic national committee and providing all the other information that feels important for those fisa judges it not only know the government's best evidence was but the worst. as far as what is crazy about all of this is the fact that every single thing in that resolution is accurate. that is crazy. all the concerns about not being able to provide information for national security and you provide it you see there's nothing in it that risks national security. the facts are after you read the documents that the real reason they are saying national security is it with cause embarrassment to people who did the wrong thing. last question. >> so you made it clear you are

pursuing information because the american people deserve transparency but you don't get to the question did the president encourage this effort at all? >> i answer black and white absolutely not. >> none of you had conversations with the president about there? >> in those who answered your earlier question they said the same. i can just speaking for myself as the author of this resolution 100% of my conversations of my interactions with anyone have been working directly with my colleagues signing on are signing on to this resolution. -- this was a product of those discussions entirely. i have not spoken to the president in any way, shape, or form as far as the purpose of this resolution. >> thank you very much, everyone. >> more now from lee zeldin,

president elt comes picked to lead the environmental protection agency in hiswn words. inay 2020, he joined fellow hoe republicans imeeting president trump at the white house amid the coronavirus pandemic. >> mr. president. house republicans are in washington, d.c. to work. we want to deliver for the american people. we are honored to be here today. hopefully the speaker calls us back into session at the beginning of next week. we will see. should have been here this >> wa, what's going on? cooks i actually think she is trying to consolidate more power in her own gavel per choice the feeling of that gavel in her -- come january of 2021, she will have to hand it over to kevin

mccarthy. in the meantime, she's trying to consolidate as much power as she can. when she brings house democrats to washington. there's a process where we are able to participate crafting legislation. she won't be able to dictate as much of her obstructionist radical agenda that appeases and ranged liberal base that put the gamble in her hands in the first place. many of us in the room were on the beaches of normandy. we honored to be back here today on ve day. not just as a member of congress, but also as an army veteran. thank you for your support for our military. in so many ways, our military was weakened before you got into office. troop strength reached levels that were pre-world war ii levels. it wasn't just troop strength, but also with our equipment. whether in support of the

military, preparing troops to win, understanding you don't send our troops into battle unless they are sent to win. send them to win or not at all. you have been following these principles of understanding our enemies don't respect weakness, the only respect strength. as someone who still is in the army reserves, knowing we have men and women abroad, they in their parents can feel good when they go to sleep at night knowing they have their back. in the latest generation that fought for our freedom and liberty 75 years ago, they fought for the flag in our constitution and made the conversation possible. i saw them when they were with you and normandy. the veterans calling out to you from the backdrop like they were 18 or 19 years old again. they wanted a moment to share with their president to get a thumbs up back.

they were little kids, even though they saved the world. thank you not just for setting up our military for success, but taking care of our veterans. they should be treated with the, dignity, and respect. as a new yorker, thank you for what was a phenomenal effort to deliver us during the coronavirus outbreak. we had well over -- as of now, over 70 positive cases of coronavirus. between the comfort, javits center, field hospitals, army medics, when you're state asking for public testing, immediately approved, private lab testing, immediately approved. i got on the phone with mark meadows, we needed ventilators, 4000 ventilators showed up within 48 hours. i remember getting on the phone late, 10:00, 11:00 at night.

we talked about how they were out of regular n95 masks. the next day you are in the white house talking about how you are sending hundreds of thousands of n95 masks. they arrived in the next 48 hours. and a quarter million masks show up instantly. i got on the phone with the secretary treasury about the municipal facility set up to talk about how there is a need for these -- a county like mine, not quite 2 million. a population of 1.4 8 million. secretary mnuchin, the night of getting the last bill passed, he's on the phone and working to take care of our issues. what jared has done and berkowitz, and others involved in that effort on the ppe, thank you. the dreamliner's bringing ppe in

right now that suffolk ordered. it is a huge help. i stayed to the point not just as a member of congress, but a military veteran, also as a jewish veteran. what happened to me when i was with you on normandy and many others who support you. it happened again this morning when i put out the message on the 75th anniversary of ve day. i got attacked as a jew for supporting it. the things they were saying about you was so highly offensive to me. there has never been a president ever who has had the back of jews in this country and around the world like you have. whether it was moving the embassy in israel to jerusalem, signing the tailor force act into law, recognizing israeli sovereignty on ice, and fighting anti-semitism at home.

when i see them attacking me and attacking you, especially you and your team, when you are all in more than any other president. not just delivering on your own campaign promises, delivering on the promises of presidents in the past. thank you. the speaker, we should be in the same foxhole right now with rifles pointed in the same direction. we are all here in the same foxhole with you with rifles pointed in the same direction. while you recognize the enemy is coronavirus, the speaker believes the enemy is you. it is important for the speaker to look around this room right now of people who serve in the house of representatives who want to work today, they need to fight for the american public as hard as we do. thank you for your leadership on all accounts in what truly was a phenomenal way. >> thank you very much,

appreciate it. >> we will wrap up our look at lee zeldin, president elect trp's pick to p -- lead the envinmental protection agency. with his remarks at the 2024 turning point conservative conference. >> 80 years ago today, our nations greatest generation, many made up of teenagers, wrist everything to save the world. it was the ultimate battle of good versus evil. we defeated hitler and the nazis, liberated concentration camps, we preserved freedom. we lived in a country that is

worth fighting and dying for. we are the greatest country in the history of the world. but there are still great challenges, many from within. with every fiber in our body. with every ounce of energy harnessed to achieve the extraordinary. in this moment, we have to work harder than ever to be able to save america. the space had never been i'd. i'm here today with my 17-year-old daughter. my wife and i have identical twin girls. michaela and arianna. they were born in their second trimester. they weigh just 1.5 pounds. two weeks from today, they will

be graduating high school. protecting life, education, and family is as personal as it gets. also i started probably my 22nd year of service in the u.s. military. if i had to go back and do it again, i would sign up in a heartbeat. because defending this country and freedom is as personal as it gets. for americans like us here in this room. this election in 2024 is as personal as it gets. we can't fail in this mission. if we do our part in january, we will get to watch trump force

one wheels up from long beach carrying our next president back to washington, d.c. [applause] on that plane, our dreams to have a more secure border, stronger economy, less crime, and more freedom to have a government again and belief exists to serve the people rather than the other way around. this is a campaign about the story of american greatness. redeeming the american spirit. if it all goes well, there will be historic events on both sides of the capital on january 20, 2025. i'm not talking about republicans and democrats or the house and senate. i'm talking east and west. on the east side of the capital that day, joe biden will board

marine one for a final time to leave office for good. [applause] james madison wrote manifest his tempers of local prejudices where sinister designs made by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means. the suffragists and the interests of the people. hunter biden, our country has been heading downhill. open borders, high inflation, rising crime. exploding anti-semitism, a disastrous foreign policy and weaponization of the government against its people. it is up to all of us to turn it around. on the west side of the capitol, on january 20, god

willing, donald j. trump will be sworn into office as the 47th president of the united states. the trump administration can't come back fast enough. james madison also wrote the federalist 39 to ascertain the real character of the government . it may be considered in relation to the foundation on which it is to be established. to the sources from which it's sister ordinary powers ought to be drawn. to the operation of those powers. to the extent of them. and to the authority by which future changes in the government are to be introduced. we are in a campaign to make our country the best version of itself. unlike democrats who are trying to change our country into being like some other country somewhere else.

we just want to make america great again. [applause] i remember just because -- just before covid, it felt like the strongest economy we ever had. the borders were secure, the wars were ending, parental rights were being defended. america was back. finally now, it is once again within reach. we have to work as hard as we possibly can to make sure we do not come up short. after eight years of congress in 20, i ran for governor in the blue state of new york. where new york is only 22% republican. but we are able to get just under half the vote. and importantly, we were able to flip several house seats and end

the one-party democrat rule in washington and get rid of speaker pelosi and jeremy abner -- [applause] there was so much going so wrong in the time of the order. democrats were prioritizing criminals over law-abiding citizens, electing prosecutors who were refusing to prosecute. my first act after getting sworn into office was to be to return to the -- to let him know he is being removed for his refusal to enforce the laws in the books. raising taxes, eclipsing freedoms. we've seen disastrous one-party democratic rule in washington or inside state capitals and inside their blue cities. but there are two things to take away from my remarks here.

i would share one of the reasons we did as well as we did was by our campaign against everything that was wrong with the democrats. in fors to have the next level of momentum to get americans to open up their heart , for them to know what they are investing in, to provide their time and energy. as a longtime democratic voter whose never wrote -- voted republican before, we need to tell them not just what we are against, but what we stand for as conservatives. with the america first movement means for them as americans. [applause] and on top of letting voters know what we are against, letting them know what we are for, it is the time now as we are here today in detroit.

and as we saw with the president and the sound brought -- south wrong, i'm telling democrats everywhere we are coming to blue cities near you to talk to longtime disenfranchised voters living under screwed economic policies, living to hope something different, to save their families and their future. prioritizing family and prosperity and security above all else. we need to bring our message to the cities. president trump is now polling better than ever than we've seen anyone do with black voters, hispanic voters, asian voters, and others. longtime democratic voters or deciding they want to vote for president trump for the first time in 2024. they want to make america great again. welcome to the make america great again --

[applause] i'm grateful to turn to charlie kirk for the invitation to be here. as chairman of the pathway to the 2025 project of america first works, i have been working with turning point action on this year's campaign. we all have to work together. we can't have everyone in their own individual foxholes firing in different directions. we've seen the left for a long time working together as one ecosystem while we fight amongst ourselves. the military, we called it force multiplication. working together to accomplish our shared dreams and goals, to make sure we do not come up short. we all need to be out there knocking on doors, and i'm sure you will, donate five dollars, or $10, or make phone calls.

we need to do everything in our power all day, every day, understanding the stakes have never been higher to ensure we do not come up short. and if we win, and we better win, 80 years from now, americans will be looking back at this time. what we all faced, -- combined with great risk from beyond. with an eroding border that is needed in order to have a nation at all. with an eroding rule of law that is needed for our country to have a backbone. -- in this moment to save the republic. history.

-- history falls on all of us to meet this moment and save our country. and on november 5, we will be on to victory when standing on that stage once again, our 45th president of the united states of the great victory speech not just for himself, for us, this flag, our country, our constitution and the liberties. on to victory on january 20th, 2025 when this president is sworn into office and we will be on track to once again making america great again. thank you for your fight. thank you for being all in for america. our families, our military, law enforcement, fire fighters. we will not lose.

god bless. ♪ >> ahead of the presidential inauguration on january 20, american history tv on c-span two presents a four-week series. historic inaugural speeches. each weekend, listen to inaugural speeches from franklin roosevelt through barack obama. on saturday, inaugural speeches by president jimmy carter in 1977. >> i believe america can be better. we can be even stronger than before. >> president reagan in 1981. >> government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. >> and president george h w bush in 1989. >> to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

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mcconnell has spent 40 years in the united states senate. 17 of those as leader of his republican colleagues. that is the longest any senator has been at the top of the leadership rung in either political party. senator john thune was elected a few weeks ago to head up the republican majority in the senate in 2025. journalist michael tackett's book, a profile of senator mcconnell, is called the price of power and subtitled "how mitch mcconnell mastered the senate, changed america, and lost his party." mike tackett, the deputy washington bureau chief of the associated press, conducted over 50 hours of interviews and was granted access to never before released oral histories. >> journalist michael tackett with his book "the price of power: how mchcconnell mastered the senate, changed america, and lost his party," his episode of book notes plus with brian lam. book notes plus is available on

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