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lee zeldin is with us this morning.nt that you can point to as a result of the afghanistan withdraw is the fact that the adversaries are on the march, look at china and the surveillance efforts, look at putin and russia. this all happened after afghanistan. >> they were all watching. you have vladimir putin looking at ukraine and china looking at taiwan, north korea test firing missiles, iran looking to ramp up uranium. adversaries were watching this test of the biden administration in year one and i think there is an exposure of a weaker underbelly that they see an opportunity. they have pounced. >> great to see you. i just want to know when you see president biden reflecting and you make the harry truman reference. for a president of the united states to be in that position, there's nothing wrong with taking pride if you feel like the withdraw of citizens eventually was good and that is up for debate. you would think it would be presidential to say here are the lessons learned if you have the opportunity and president

lee zeldin, adam johnson, have a great day. "varney & company" picks it up from here.od morning, maria. good morning, everyone. put elon musk on the screen, and people watch, yes, they do. he's got an opinion on everything, he

congressman lee zeldin joins us now.e are in unprecedented areas but around the country they don't understand the politics of new york. could you explain what's facing donald trump besides the politics behind the justice? >> this is all politics. alvin bragg ran and even pledged before taking the oath that he was going to be personally supervising this case. he did not know what the charges were that he was going to bring against donald trump. he didn't know what the facts were going to be that he was going to use but he was personally going to supervise this case. takes the oath, issues a day one memo where he says across the board that all different kinds of charges he was not going to allow his prosecutors to go after. all sorts of other offenses he said across the board would be down graded to lesser offenses. so, now new yorkers experienced the first few months of alvin bragg's tenure and seeing crime in many metrics go up. individual cases like the jose alva case where this bodega workers gets attacked he has to de

this race, thhe's been in it no for five months, katy, and there's an individual, his name is lee zeldinhe was the republican nominee for governor here just a couple of months ago, katy. and here in staten island, he beat the democratic nominee, kathy hochul by a two to one margin two months ago, lee zeldin was here on staten island at an event for ron desantis, the florida governor well, just in the last half hour, lee zeldin, he came out and endorsed donald trump, yet adding to the congressional former congressional republicans who are backing druonald trump' candidacy, and he said donald trump will be the nominee. and if you are another republican who's looking to take on donald trump, that is a concern here at this point because the polling consistently shows while donald trump with age being a factor could be vulnerable in this race, he continues to consolidate support here and if you're the elec electorate, you're seeing donald trump continue to maintain that sizable advantage over others including ron desantis. >> so lee szeldin was a staunch supporter of donald trump when he was

michael zeldin. he is a former federal prosecutor. michael great to see you. so um , by learning of these texts now what possible laws were broken based on this new reporting? well what we have here is the unauthorized access to this privileged computer data. there is a conspiracy to acquire and improperly distribute that data . there is probably a crime of interfering with the rights of the people of georgia to have a free and fair election. and this is this is a series of crimes a pattern of criminal activity, then it could possibly violate the georgia rico statute, which criminalizes a series of criminal activities by the same person or group of persons. so there's a lot of steak here, so this kind of evidence tells you what about the potential for prosecutors to kite and widen their probe? i think public opinion may have been they were thinking prosecutors were focusing in on a phone call between the secretary of state and a former president. but now with information like this, what does it say a

zeldin played, of course, a shepherd, and she hmm, uh, a pigger. well my friends after this round. rightly said we broke everything. well, yes, so hands are a failure, everything is 40,000 rubles. that's it, we will consider the task for today's game you have completed and then everyone will be happy with shame, right? okay, let's still try to fight a little. ahead of us, full of intrigue, the third round awaits us, and only one of you will play in it. we'll find out who exactly in a few minutes, don't switch. it's five for one. they danced so much at school that sparks flew, there was such love, nothing ended between you, no matter how you assured on monday at 21:20, they took everything in a commercial bank for a loan of up to 5 million. and now you use it from the world was in children's loans from sovcombank to the branch and online conceived made in each of us live all the monsters. they know what things you love and want to buy them, release them and buy brands with discounts, last name brands free estimates and your back gets tired because of work. i lead a sedentary lifesty

yes, yes, like zeldin, you stood on this stage for 100 years and so that you have real devoted friends awesome spectators who love you. thank you sweatshirts, mom to your grandson fedya with an inscription. i'm better than grandpa. i am the best grandson, as they approached, gorgeous. gorgeous. he liked this. he said. uncle bori hi, said, he is well done, an advanced kid. thank you really, this year, because it's different. how about a joke? now is the time when it's not so easy, when time passes, well, test time is really a place, in general , you are there for humor. if you remember, then during the great patriotic war there were front-line concert brigades that went there and performed. i'm absolutely right. i was with my theater when there were events in afghanistan there in the chechen republic in syria. i went there and worked, and we performed, uh, in hospitals. now they were performing in hospitals, performing in e. for refugees, a lot of the concerts were humor should not change. spectators coming into the hall should, on the contrary, be distracted by smiling forgetting about

joining me now to discuss this is the running mate to lee zeldin, you know her as retired nypd inspectord dough; good morning thanks for having me how do you explain bail reform with what we are seeing with the former president of the united states on tuesday. >> my is i is peril right now. alvin bragg got on national media and national news and said he cannot we will not normalize serious criminal conduct he has spent every single day in office doing nothing but these are professional boosters, thieves. this is their hustle. they are not going to stop unless we stop them. is he emboldening these criminals to take it further and further and further. do you know how quickly a burglary becomes a rape, a larceny becomes a robbery. do you know how quickly people get injured with this? i will bring you something else out the cover of "the new york post." 15-year-old strangled to death by his step-father. he gets strangled to death. this guy had already served three years in prison for assault turns out the bronx judge despite the d.a. prisonlet him out on his own recognizance. if you are a po

michael zeldin is a former federal prosecutor.nd robert mueller is a former special assistant at the department of justice, michael always great to see you. so what will you be looking for? when the details of the charges are announced tuesday? what he's charged with . i think we can be pretty clear that he's gonna be charged with multiple misdemeanors for the false business record entries. which reflect payments to michael cohen of legal fees, which really was just the repayment of the stormy daniels payment that cohen made the tricky part. fred will be how do they turn those misdemeanors into felonies? because that's what i would think they would want to do. the two options they have is to say those misdemeanors become felonies because they were part of a scheme to evade federal election campaign requirements reporting requirements. or or and or. they violated new york tax law because they were there was a deduction taken for legal fees when they really weren't legal fees, and the deduction therefore isn't improper. so how do th

michael zeldin. thank you so much. hmm. thanks. all right . the u. s treasury secretary says the economy can still dodge a recession despite the recent banking crisis to us banks collapsed last month, raising fears that they could push the economy over the edge. it happened as the fed started to dial down its interest rate hikes designed to tame inflation . but earlier this week, the wholesale inflation dropped to its lowest level in more than two years. in exclusive interview, secretary yellen told cnn's fareed zakaria she is cautiously optimistic. you think you can achieve what people are calling this immaculate? slow down where you slow down the economy enough to cut inflation , but not so much that it throws a lot of people out of work. that's right. i mean, mostly economists have often viewed this as a trade off. uh i think that is what people call the soft landing is possible. so i do think there's a path to bring down inflation will maintaining what? um. i think all of us would regard as a strong labor market. um and the evidence that i'm seei

hillyard is live in manchester, new hampshire, elise jordan, msnbc political analyst, and michael zeldinrmer federal prosecutor, former special counsel to robert mueller. it's so great to see all of you. this is a huge development, ken. what do we know about what pence might have said behind those closed doors? >> good morning, we believe former vice president pence was inside that federal courthouse in washington, d.c., for more than seven hours. and while we don't know exactly what was said, we know the basic contours of what he experienced on january 6th because a lot of other people have talked about it and testified about it, but there are some things that only pence can speak to including his private conversations with donald trump that day, and that makes him an absolutely crucial witness in the doj's special counsel investigation of whether trump broke the law in trying to overturn the election. pence was the central focus, we all recall, of trump's efforts to stop congress are from certifying joe biden's electoral college victory that day, the day rioters breached the capitol. w

a lot to keep our eyes on michael zeldin. no question about that. thanks.so much for your expertise. thanks your time. we appreciate it. thanks jim. all right, coming up . china says it is carrying out quote planned drills around taiwan why these may be intended as a warning amid escalating tensions, plus what we are learning about leaked highly classified pentagon documents that are showing up on social media sites. we have some new information on that live in the cnn newsroom. why did we e chooe safelite? we're always working on a project loading up our suv one extra pushed and. we schedule that safelite dot com we were able to track our technician and exactly when he'd arrived. we can keep working. safeght ca to us . kendrick replaced our windshield and installed new wipers to protect our new glass that service on our time safely repair safe, like replace. this is wt it feels like the file withax layer refund boss or your refund is belong to be. nope. not today. oh for free and get your guaranteed maximum refund t mobile. your business will save over 100

the fact that lee zeldin almost got the governorship in new york in the last bowl tells you that. >> this is why i have a clipboard. you can go up to anybody and asked them a question about something with your clipboard. >> that will be good. >> you have to take brian seltzer off it though. >> this is the best part about it, brian seltzer. i think it's so cute. you claim to be a doctor. >> i do. >> do you think these people are just waiting? could it be that independents are normal people in the sense that they don't pay attention? they are into the playoffs right now. >> they are normal people. i am an independent. i was for years. i thought i was a libertarian until i met kat timpf. that's a libertarian. i have a heart. i cannot do that. >> it is not nice. i have a heart and care about all the same issues everyone does. i happen to think the government is not the answer to solving them. >> it was hard for me to be harsh in that way. whatever it is. in california you can register and reregister every 10 minutes. i have been in both parties. years ago i went independent and have been

brian: a lot of people are coming around to the fact widely zeldin got 40% of the vote is these policiesr lower taxes, to see how it is going, there's a life-and-death thing going on, people whose businesses are going under, major department stores closing, i will close my doors, same with walgreens. you get these people in, i don't think it's a democratic or republican issue. it is safety and convenience. stuart: 40 female athletes have signed a letter that poses a congressional bill. there action means the congressional bill would ban men from women's sports. where do you stand on this? >> it's the most idiotic thing ever. megan repeat know and sour bron and sue byrne, three fantastic athletes who are all retired or just about done. if they are 20 one years old vying for a national championship and the center across from them in sue bird's case was a 6 foot 8 man that just became a woman that took your national championship i am sure you would feel different. the 13-year-old, eighth grader who aspired to make it a national team all of a sudden gets beaten for title because a young man

but the fact that lee zeldin almost got governorship in the new yorkgove and last poll tellu that. >>s is where i have a clipboard. if you can group to anybody and ask them a question aboutdy something with a your clipboard- that wil quel be good. yeah. >> right. yes. you have to take brian off of it, though. [laughter] scare them away. >> this is best part of it is brian -- i think it is so cute. [laughter]i th you claim to be a doctor. >> i do. as paul would say i do. do you think people just waiting waiting until the very --th could it bese that independentsp are moreen normal because they e in the playoffs right now. >> they are normal people i'm on independent and i thought i was a libertarian until i met kat. and i thought oh that's a libertarian i have a heart. i can't do that. >> i have a heart. >> nice. no, no -- >> it is not nice eve a hearts i care about same issues everyone duties and i happen to thinkdo government is not the answer to solving them. >>ment yeah.olvi it was hard for me to be -- f harsh that wayor. whatever it is. i thought well government solve certain thin

lee carter, lee zeldin.cus" top of the hour. >> dana: our next guest is a college lacrosse player in pennsylvania with an amazing story to tell. 23-year-old ryan is playing the game with something new this season. something you can't see but makes all the difference. ryan has a new heart and he joins us now. ryan, you are from cincinnati originally. we have to do the cincinnati shout-out on america's newsroom. you ended up with inheriting a cardio myopathy from your father and you and somebody else you know very well ended up with a heart transplant. tell us about that. >> yeah. so i was about halfway through my junior year here at mercyhurst and i came across issues. i had trouble breathing, fatigue, shortness of breath and i put it off as allergies. at that time covid was still a thing. was it covid or allergies. i pushed it off as anything but a serious illness. one of my first games back i was white in warm-up and struggling just to do small activities and my trainer took me out halfway through and says

joining me now lee zeldin former congressman and governor candidate and jason chaffetz fox news contributornd mike davis article three founder and president. lee, you're a jewish american. is it anti-semitic no criticize george soros's involvement in da's offices in elections? >> no, not at all. and if you know ron desantis, as jason and i served with him in the house of representatives, he is someone who has a lot of fantastic relationships with the jewish community, ties that have only strengthened and something that has been a high priority for him as governor of florida. on the merits, george soros is funding district attorney candidates across the country including in new york city with alvin bragg who are looking at da as a term that should stand for defense attorney, not district attorney. alvin bragg on his day one memo said that he wasn't going to enforce all sorts ever crimes across the board and other offenses he would treat as lesser included offenses. we see with eroded law enforcement, it's the agenda, the defund the police agenda and all the different prongs of it that george

i know mike waltz and lee zeldin surprised many by endorsing donald trump for president.er president called you? >> look, i know that joe biden has disqualified himself. i'm frankly focused on what it takes to lower prices for my district and protect the automatic motive in my district and keep americans safe. open season on americans under joe biden of and that's got to stop. >> brian: you are going to wait on your endorsement. john james, appreciate it? >> thank you, brian. >> brian: two chicago teens charged with only a misdemeanor for stealing a car that resulted in a crash stealing a baby. we will hear from the aunt demanding a harsher sentence next. ♪ hi, i'm john and i'm from dallas, texas. my wife's name is joy. we've been married 45 years. i'm taking a two-year business course. i've been studying a lot. i've been producing and directing for over 50 years. it's a very detailed thing and the pressure's all on me. i noticed i really wasn't quite as sharp as i was. my boss told me about prevagen and i started taking it. i feel sharper. my memory's a lot better. it ju

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lee zeldin, adam johnson, have a great day. "varney & company" picks it up from here. thanks for being here. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. put elon musk on the screen, and people watch, yes, they do. he's got an opinion on everything, he makes a lot of money, and he makes things happen. last might on tucker, part two of the big musk interview and, again, he dealt with the big new thing, artificial intelligence. he's so worried by it that he thinks the government should have a contingency plan in case things go wrong. lauren's going to tell us what else he had to say just a little later. let's get to the markets, the dow industrials looking for a small loss today, down about 120. nothing small about that. nasdaq down about 112 points. red ink on the left-hand side of the screen. interest rates not helping stocks this morning, the 10-year yield at 3.62%, but look at the 2-year, powering to, what, 4.25%some almost, 4.24. this is called a rate inversion. short-term rates ahead of long-term rates. that suggests a recession is coming

lee zeldin in the studio with us this morning. your thoughts?ay i would love to have a conversation with you about they that, i would love to talk about it. maria: talk you now. >> here we are. maria: we're talking now. >> it's so frustrating. it happened so me so many times. you're asking a question like, well, we can't answer that, we have to have that conversation classified setting. oh, okay. maybe there's something really important you have to tell us and you have the meeting in a classified setting, the reason you call it classified is not because it gives out secrets, because it's embarrassing. i think it's a fair question for senator hawley to be asking the secretary, why do you deserve to keep your job? and if you're so proud of the work you've been doing, let's have they that conversation right here and there of. but instead, the secretary wants to -- he wants to cower back and avoid the accountability to filibuster the time. kudos to senator hawley and his colleagues, wanting to press the guy. maria: how much votes do you need to get

we had lee zeldin on our show earlier and also in san francisco there is a major crime problem.or overdose problem. a homeless problem there and london breed, who is the mayor there a lot of pro-police critics have said oh, now you are paying attention to the crime problem because apparently she wrote a letter, san francisco chronicle got their hands on this letter asking the u.s. attorney for federal assistance to help mitigate the crime problem in san francisco. >> brian: here is what she says the scale of the problem is beyond our local capacity. we need ongoing fawrts? the department of support to arrest drug dealers so residents, families and workers feel safe in their neighborhoods. guess who started it, guess who let everything go to hell and now you want the federal government to step in and reign in crime that's out of control because you won't prosecute anybody. she did have some positive statements over the past year but she was helped cause. this and the person who was mayor before her helped lay the foundation for this chaos. that was gavin newsom. >> >> she was kno

. >> ainsley: a lot of democrats voted for lee zeldin because of this issue.e crime. what is the goal here? many democrats are criticizing republicans for doing this because this is about trump being indicted by alvin bragg. is this to -- is it a result of that or to highlight these democratic run cities? >> it's the latter. look we anticipate doing n other cities. talk with the chairman of our subcommittee mr. biggs. we anticipate going to other cities where it's just a as bad as new york city. here because of what mr. braggs is doing using federal gundz to indict a former president for no crime, and then when we want to talk with sun someone he takes us to court. when we want to do our constitutional duty of oversight he takes us to court. for a guy who hasn't worked there in a year. so instead of photograph cussing on what he should be doing keeping bad guys off the street protecting people of this great city is he focused on politics. there is that contradiction. it's about the victims and that's who we will hear from today. >> will: to follow up on ainsle

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joining me now, lee zeldin, former new york congressman, gubernatorial candidate, former gubernatorialdidate. >> congressman, is this just about money? >> china has it and the democrats want it. no, this is this is about a lot . see, there's votes. >> the asian-american community is getting more active politically here in the city. it's actually a great, vibrant asian-american community. and many of them are here fleeing the scene. >> right. and they want a great quality education for their kids. >> they are concerned about rising crime. they want safety on our streets. so the ccp is finding opportunities for espionage. they want people on the ground who could provide human intelligence. there's the activity in hacking emails. there's a lot for new yorkers to be on guard. but especially if you're an elected office, if you're chuck schumer, what does he get out of it? that's my point. what does schumer get out of it? political power. but it has to be money to . i'm not saying money from china. we'll leave that to the biden crime family. we're talking about these democrat politicians see

part of the reason also why congressman lee zeldin came close to defeating kathy hochul. bragg tweeted some crime statistic. you were talking about how the crime statistic were higher in republican districts here's what alvin bragg says about manhattan, hburglary down 23%, transit crime down 11.5%. total crime down 2.4%. he's also saying that to have this field hearing here is a slap in the face of the hard work the nypd is doing give me an idea of what's going on with the field hearings i don't remember ever seeing one before >> they're not out of the ordinary, they usually don't get enough attention a number of committees held field hearings this year the judiciary committee had one on the border, the ways and means committee held a field hearing in west virginia they're sometimes designed to get right to the heart of where the issue is, but, you know, i asked several republicans today, would you have had this field hearing if it weren't for donald trump's indictment, and none of them came right out and said yes, but they certainly danced around it and tried to refer ba

capitol capitol hill next weekti for a congressional meet and joining me now to discuss all this, lee zeldin, former new york congressman, gubernatorial candidate, mollie hemingway, editor in chief of, the federalist fox news,fo contributor. and tom bevan, co-founder and president of real clear politics. now, i'm reading this piece in the new york times tonight, which kind of builds out on this report that desantis supporters are calling aroundoui to the florida delegatiodankeepy and saying, hold your keep your powder dry, don't jumoup yt . for trump, it's too early.at a what aboutbout the timing, lee? i think that if you're a republican , whether it's governor desantis, or anyther potential republican candidate, not yet in this field,idate no your window is the next eight weeks now for state governor desantis. >> he has a state legislature that's in session for a fe legiw more weeks. so maybe that window is about five weeks after the end of the legislative session. but one of the biggest mistakes ha that wve we have witnessed over the last couple of decades is for a candidate to wait too lo

let's get some perspective from former federal prosecutor michael zeldin. good morning to michael.ook you just heard there from jessica schneider. we don't know what the charges are. we don't know what the evidence is. the indictment is under or seal at least until tuesday, when trump will be arraigned in new york. but we know, according to sources that there are more than 30 charges in this indictment. do you believe that all of these charges will have to do with the hush money payments or you think there's more there? well, that remains to be seen. but if you look at the facts of the case as we know them in the public domain, trump is alleged to have authorized $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. he then repaid michael cohen, who made that original $130,000 loan in 10 or 12 installments, calling them legal fees. so each of those stormont installments is a false record on the business records of the company. so you have in each of those cases. on count two counts three counts. it's really one bundle of activity, but they break it down in these cases by each payment being a separat

part of the reason why the zeldin had one of the best performances going all the way back to 1994 was because the fact that there is concern for safety in the city and the fact that we have a d a. that doesn't prioritize issues, i think finds a lot of people who knew you were saying this political go ahead. i'm sorry. this is just such a gop talking point. the guy is in trouble for paying off his mistress. the woman that he had an affair with with his third allegedly had an affair with, uh, while he was married to his third wife. this is a this is about a politician. this is not about crime in new york. i mean, the gop talking point on here is so crazy. i don't think it's that crazy when you look at the fact that again, alvin bragg has failed in many ways as a d a. i think that's a perception that a lot of people across the political spectrum have shared and i think that if you're looking at having the conversation about is this the best allocation of resources they're great number of people perception that's been egged on by, you know, a prominent news network and a whole sort of che

part of the reason why the zeldin had one of the best performances going all the way back to 1994 wasbecause the fact that there is concern for safety in the city and the fact that we have a d a. that doesn't prioritize issues, i think finds a lot of people who knew you were saying this political go ahead. i'm sorry. this is just such a gop talking point. the guy is in trouble for paying off his mistress. the woman that he had an affair with with his third allegedly had an affair with while he was married to his third wife. this is a this is about a politician. this is not about crime in new york. i mean , the gop talking point on here is so crazy. i don't think it's that crazy when you look at the fact that again, alvin bragg has failed in many ways as a d a. i think that's a perception that a lot of people across the political spectrum have shared and i think that if you're looking at having the conversation about is this the best allocation of resources they're great number of people perception that's been egged on by, you know, a prominent news network and a whole sort of cheering