WEBVTT - Lee Stelden Talks Getting Attacked On Stage, January 6th, Roe V Wade and More 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.360 Wait that ans up in the morning Breakfast Club. Morning. 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.520 Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.319 are to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.520 the building. He's a candidate for governor of New York 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:17.279 twenty twenty two. We have Lee zeld in here. Good morning, Hey, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.120 good Morning's great to be with you. How are you feeling. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.040 I'm feeling great. It's great to be the guys. Thanks 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.680 for having me. Yeah. Man, you know Leah interesting because 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.840 it seems like you know how to stir things up 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.400 in a good way, and I guess for some in 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.320 a bad way because you got attacked recently and dash 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.159 Bell got something in common, right, Yeah, well were you? 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.440 I thought you were gonna come save me. I was 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.160 up there on the stage all by myself. I don't 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.680 know what's going on. So it happened over this past weekend. Yeah, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.839 over in Chautauqua County. You have this author who has 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.559 given a speech and he gets attacked. He ends up 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.159 getting stabs. Yeah. Crazy. So I was given a speech 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.760 on stage and someone came up, and you know, fortunately 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.520 there's a whole bunch of people there who were able 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.000 to jump in and subdue the guy. Yeah, I'm someone 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.319 who believes that there's no place for political violence. If 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.920 you want to if you want to support any candidate 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.520 you want, you should be able to go to a rally. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.959 I don't care whether you're the candidate, you're someone in 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.600 stage there. Once you feel safe, bring your ideas, your energy. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.280 You could disagree. This is America. Um, but I mean 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.160 I was just reminded of it again just a few 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.800 days ago with what happened with someone Rushdi. Do you 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.840 know what it was that set this guy off? Like 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.000 what like, what were you saying? What was the rhetoric? 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.240 So what was wild? Well, for one household that he 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.040 was drinking. So as he's coming up on the stage, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.920 I see two things at the same time. One is 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.800 I see him wearing a hat that says Operation Iraqi 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.480 Freedom Veteran, which for me means you drop your guard. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.640 I couldn't possibly be less on guard when someone says 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.399 that they're a veteran to me. But at the same time, 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.680 I'm seeing that he has this similar to brass knuckles 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.800 in his hand. Uh. There was a couple of sharp 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.440 pointed edges of it, and so he's lifting his arm 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.280 up towards me. At the same time that I'm seeing him, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.440 he's wearing his hat that says he's a veteran. The 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.320 veteran thing goes out out the window when you see 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.760 brass knuckles, right and now, So when I was when 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.600 I was younger, and I could thank my mother for this, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.720 and one of my former commanders from the from the 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.040 A second Airborne Division was upset that I wasn't given 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.760 my military training enough credit. But when I was younger, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.560 I did karate, so I'm a black belt did taekwondo, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.440 and one of the things that we did in the 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.840 training was that someone come at you with a knife 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.760 towards your face, and you step out of the way, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.160 you grab the rist. Some folks in self defense, they 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.320 think that if if a sharp object comes at you, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.079 you should somehow go after that sharp object. If you 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.120 can gain control of their wrists, then you are able 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.040 to gain control of that knife or whatever they have 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.480 in their hands. So just the first thing was just 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.720 grab his wrist real quick, and like a moment later 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.040 seven eight nine people all jumped in. But he's a veteran. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.919 He I'm told that he has some mental health issues. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.679 That's most important for me, closest to my heart is 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.040 that there is good there's a great veteran service agency 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.880 in Monroe County. Get this guy some help because he 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.440 clearly is struggling with some stuff. Does that discourage you 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.959 from even one to continue to campaign? Like? Is it 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:10.680 worth five? Stuff like that, it's gonna happen. You haven't 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.360 even not at all. I was actually behind the stage 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:16.720 right after this was going on. Some naskm or are 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.520 you gonna go back on stage? Of course, we're gonna 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.160 go back on stage. I had thirteen more rallies in 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.840 thirteen counties scheduled over the next few days, and people 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.960 were saying, well, you're gonna keep doing your rallies. Yeah, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.560 We're gonna keep our rallies. And security increased a little bit, 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.359 so the United States Capitol police, state troopers, local law enforcement, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.880 they all have been talking a little bit more than 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.240 in the past, and that the security ramped up the 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.440 next morning and we've only actually had one one issue, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:46.800 but after that and after that, so I was last weekend, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.240 I was up in Clinton County and I'm at a bar. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.520 It's kind of like a meet and greet with a 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.480 big group of people. But the public was there, not 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.600 just people who were friendlies. So there was somebody. There 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.000 was a group of four right behind me, and they 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:06.800 were drinking, and somebody overheard this guy introduced his fifteen 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.520 year old son to me. So this woman starts to 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.960 making comments because I have identical fifteen year old girls, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.719 says some things that uh were inappropriate, and then she 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.160 starts like grabbing my arm a little bit. I'll push away, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.480 move over in the conversations. Like five minutes later and 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.680 I am nowhere near her. She like she passes by, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.680 She's like get out of my way. She's like walking 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.120 or walking outside, and she just had like a crumpled 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.440 up like napkin. She's you know, like like a foot 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.920 away and she throws it and hits the side of 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.760 my face and walks out. And the people I'm talking 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.760 to her like like, what what just happened? Lee? Need security? 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.640 Yeah that's true. Lee. I'm starting to think as you 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.800 impact on, well, you know what's wild. So, like, you know, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.680 we see the stories of members of Congress who there's 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.440 some type of a threat and then it makes national 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.120 news that that person ended up with some kind of 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.320 a threat. Every time I read one of those worries. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.840 The thing that strikes me is that the public doesn't 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:07.960 even realize how many other stories that just never get reported. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.440 When stuff happens to me, I don't put a press release. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.280 I've had I've had an intruder in my house. I mean, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.719 we've had some things. We were not there during his campaign, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.479 before campaign, but as a member of Congress. So the 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.880 person ended up getting arrested. We have security cameras in 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.159 the house, and he claimed in his defense, and he 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.000 had you know, he had some prior records too, which 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.880 was one of the reasons why law enforcement was able 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.720 to find him, because they recognized his face through their database. Uh. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.400 He claimed that he was just coming in my house 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:45.080 to warm up. But um, from some of the things 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.320 that you know, we're moved around inside of the house 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.560 and some of that activity, it's hard to believe that 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.640 he was there just to warm himself up. A look 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.880 of something in particular some documents. Was it like the 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.240 Marlin Donald Trump? Was he? You know, I'm not I'm 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.280 not sure honestly. You know, he just immediately said I 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.200 was only in there to warm up. As soon as 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.159 the as soon as law enforcement asked the first question, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.760 he had his story down and that was that. But 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.000 I'll tell you, like, the list goes on of other 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.560 crazy things that have happened through the years. But it 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.600 happens to a lot of members of Congress on both sides. Yeah, Republican, Democrat, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.800 doesn't matter, and we want people that to step up participate. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.640 There's a lot of people who serve like they're members 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:30.000 of Congress and Republicans. They might think that Democrats all 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.799 have you know, like horns coming out their head. Democrats 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.880 might think, you know, vice versa. And and actually, when 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.920 you get to know people in Congress, like we're sitting 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.719 on the floor of the House of Representatives, we have 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.680 conversations where a lot of us get along very well 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.680 with each other. But what happens it was social media. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.200 People can show like their worst part of human nature 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.000 on social media, could do it anonymously, they don't have 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.280 to put their real name to it, and it's it's 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.599 some evil stuff. My daughters they turned they start eleventh 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.600 grade next month, they're turning sixteen next month. They're not 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.800 yet on social media good and yeah, were so far, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.920 so good, um, and you know, they haven't put up 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.960 much of a fight on it. But I was. There 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.560 was one time I was at a local high school 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.120 not that long ago, and you were doing some Q 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.320 and A, and I was getting a little bit of engagement, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.320 not much, And then I asked them a question, and 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.040 I said, my daughters. I think in the time they 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.239 were like thirteen. I said, do you have any advice 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.320 for me as to when my daughters should go on 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.200 social media? All of them like their hands go open 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.600 the air. Never They were all saying, do not allow 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.400 your kids on social media. And actually some of the 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.720 kids in that class who were most engaged in that 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:41.360 conversation were the kids who might be the ones who 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.720 are getting targeted with bullying inside of that school. So 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.680 I mean I took it to heart. I mean I've 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.480 seen it on social media. So yeah, my daughters will 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.320 not get on it. So safe to say, you know, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.560 if you become governor in the year, you're gonna loosen 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.480 up those gun laws for protection purposes. Well, listen, there 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.720 are two different kinds of people on the streets right now. 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.080 There's there's the person who is out there you know, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.960 there's illegal guns. There's there's people coming a crime after 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.640 crime after crime. This system has them still out on 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.840 the streets. It's just not yet working to keep the 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.920 streets safe. And then there are people who are law 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.920 abiding New Yorkers, law abiding Americans who want to safely 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.320 and securely carry a firearm solely for self defense. I 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.600 do not look at these two people the same way. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.960 So any idea that anybody has to go after any 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.480 type of gun crimes. And we have a lot of 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.720 different crimes that we just saw this story that happened 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.719 with the taxi driver over the weekend, you know, and 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.760 the slashing we're just talking about salmon rushdie. There's so 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.760 many different types of crimes that are being committed. But 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.520 to the extent that we're talking about gun crimes, a 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.920 lot of them are getting committed with illegal guns, and 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.400 a lot of these people are repeat offenders, and the 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.560 system is just not working to go after them. So 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.599 what are you going to do? Because you see a 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.520 lot of I don't want to say innocent people, but 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.000 people trying to defend themselves going jail right because here 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.520 you are, you know, you can walk out the station 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.080 right now, right people are looking to rob you. You 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.959 can't defend yourself, there's no cops around. And then these 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.920 people do get arrested, Like you said, they come out 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.280 the next day. So what do you do to change that? 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.120 How do you make New York safer again? So I 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.839 look at it three different ways. One is the laws, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.240 the DA's the judges. Okay, So as far as the 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.920 laws go, someone would make an argument for cashule's bail 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.400 saying that if you commit a low level offense, you 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.040 don't have a prior record, you're not dangerous, you're not 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.720 a flight risk, and the only reason why you would 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.840 have to stay behind bars is because you cannot afford 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.360 one hundred dollars in bail. Okay, that's a great example 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.840 as to somebody who should be released. Now, you're two 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.080 Mexican cartel drug smugglers who a month ago got busted 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.199 in Inwood with one point two million dollars worth of 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.680 crystal meth, instantly released on cashless bail. I would offer 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.559 that your argument to create this cashule's bail law is 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.800 not working. If those two Mexican cartel drug smugglers are 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.840 back out on the streets, I don't feel bad for 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.520 them if they can't afford their bail. They're bad drug dealers, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.440 they're bad businessmen, they're bad criminals. So that's one piece, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.320 and there's more to it as far as the laws go. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.560 So you believe in Cash's bill, if it's for a 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:17.839 low level, judges should have discretion to weigh dangerousness and 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.320 flight risk past criminal record, seriousness of the offense, because 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.800 in the case like we were just talking about, that 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.760 person shouldn't be stuck behind bars solely because they can't 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.960 afford one hundred dollars worth of billy. If they would 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.360 have had the money and been able to get out 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:37.320 on bail, then they should still be able to be released. Well, 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.839 So there are examples where I don't think that should 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.920 be the determining factors whether or not taking a four 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.559 hundred dollars But I would say that there are all 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.800 sorts of cases, Like there was somebody who's released on arson, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.440 re arrested on Cashulo's bill, re arrested on a double 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.400 manslaughter up in Yonkers. There was a person released on 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.640 Cashul's bail up in Syracuse who I don't think should 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.800 have been who ended up murdering ninety three year old 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.080 Connie Tory. There are what about the guy who attacked 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.760 too because he got let up. Yeah, it's a great example, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.400 I see. I believe in that case that the judge 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.080 should have discretion to look at the factors here. Now 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.679 you can actually argue, and I would too, that in 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.400 that particular case, you're doing a disservice to that person 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.520 who had attacked me on stage because one, he was drunk, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:21.920 that's what at least that's what I was told and 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.000 interacted with him much more in that couple seconds. And 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.080 also he had mental health issues. So let's just say 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.959 instead of rushing to release him in the middle of 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.400 the night, I got an email like two thirty in 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.400 the morning saying he's released. Let's say it's seven thirty 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.679 in the morning next day. Monroe County Veteran Service Agency. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.200 As I said earlier, I've been told that that they're great. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.760 I've interacted with them a little bit. It's seven thirty. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.000 You call up the head of the Veteran Service Agency 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.719 and say, hey, on your way into the office, do 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.880 you think you could come to this location. I have 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.679 this veteran who seems like he's in deep trouble. He 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.600 may end up getting released here at some point today 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.240 or tomorrow or the next day, and it would be 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.480 helpful if you can come in here and act with him. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.800 Tell them about some of the services I have. I'm 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.920 in my twentieth year right now in the army. I've 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.840 lost more friends due to PTSD than I have lost 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.720 friends in combat. And there are veterans who don't realize 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.280 they feel isolated alone. There's somebody who lives around the 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.160 block from them who's willing to drop the stranger, willing 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.280 to drop everything in a moment's notice at two o'clock 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.480 in the morning to help that veteran in need. The 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.040 person doesn't realize that. Now you go to places for help. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.079 Some these medical providers think that the answer is medication, 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.880 Just give medication, but that's not that's not the solution. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.640 Here a peer to peer support model that works. You 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.160 put veterans with other veterans or someone trained to run 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.520 that that that conversation to get them help, to be 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.480 able to speak anonymously to other people who might be 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.240 fellow veterans going through what they're going through. There's outside 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:57.000 the box ways to help service animals, fly, fishing, training 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.360 wild horses. I've heard so many sess stories of outside 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:05.080 the box unconventional way not involving medicine, where veterans are 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.200 able to deal with their with the mental wounds of 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.640 war without getting medicated, and you know, not losing their life, 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.400 not losing their job, not losing their family. So I 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.760 would say, like in that particular example, it's a disservice 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.480 to that veteran that you released him two thirty in 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.559 the middle of the night and you don't even know 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.439 where he's going. I agree. I mean, you know, you 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.560 have to turn these facilities in the actual correctional facilities. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.120 You know they're gonna be called correctional facilities. Let's actually 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.080 try to correct some people, give them mental healthcare, you know, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:39.080 help them get clean, whatever it is. Yeah, And and 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.280 you can't paint everybody with one broad brush. There people 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.400 who are on our streets right now who are making 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.560 a personal decision to be out on our streets. And 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.120 you could say, hey, listen that there's a shelter to 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.120 go to, and they're just choosing not to. Maybe they 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.880 even have a home that they're choosing not to go to. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.840 People need help with drug addiction, with alcohol addiction. It's 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.880 not all one size fits all. Some people they're in 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.760 ninth or tenth grade, they're deciding whether or not to 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.480 even go to class here, that's starting up in a 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.319 couple of weeks, and the diploma isn't worth enough right now. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.280 In New York, I believe that a diploma shouldn't just 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.719 be a ticket to a college. A diploma should be 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.400 a ticket to a good paying job waiting for you 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.200 the next day. So that means that in grade school 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.040 and high school, you get your hands on equipment, you 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:30.080 get experience, you network with local trades unions, and then 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.160 if you're in ninth or tenth grade, you're deciding whether 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.080 or not to go to class. If you're saying yourself, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.400 I'm not going to college, but you are saying yourself 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.920 that I have a dream. This is what I want 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.360 my life to look like. You will have a good 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.640 paying job waiting for you the next day if you 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.160 graduate now. In New York City, we have a lot 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.840 of poor performing public schools here, but we also have 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.880 some great schools as well. I want all schools to 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.280 get better, and I believe that in New York State 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.440 we should lift a cap on charter schools. We should 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.760 have parents where, especially when your kids stuck in multigenerational poverty, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.000 you should have access to a better performing school. The 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:12.400 education component is part of this as well. And you know, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.640 if we want more people riding public transportation, we just 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:20.000 we need to make the streets the subways safer. And 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.720 right now, I mean, people are telling me stories that 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.760 they ride the subway and they are holding onto a 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.400 pole or a guardrail because they're afraid of being pushed 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.680 in front of an oncoming subway car. And you hear 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.080 that story from one person, You've heard it from one 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.480 person too many, and right now that's a reality. And 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.000 you know, while some people out there like, hey, I 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.440 feel street safe on the subways, there's no issue. Well, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.320 in a way, as far as ridership goes, it's subjective. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.200 And if somebody else does not feel safe and they're 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.080 not riding the subway because they do not feel safe, well, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.240 then you have an issue to deal with. So why 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.880 should people vote for you? I believe that our states 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.680 head in the wrong direction right now, so we leave 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.960 the entire country in population loss. And you need to 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.320 be able to answer the question if you want to lead, 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:06.480 if you want to be the governor of the State 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:07.880 of New York, you have to be able to finish 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.440 the sentence. New York State leads the entire country and 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:16.800 population loss. Because now I believe that people are hitting 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.760 their breaking point because they look at these other states 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.480 and they feel like their money will go further, they 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.080 will feel safer, they will live life free or elsewhere. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.920 People are going to Carolinas in Tennessee, in Florida and 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:32.280 Texas and elsewhere, and they feel like their wallets are 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.480 being attacked, their safety, their freedom. I mean, people are 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.480 being put out of work for a personal decision whether 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.880 or not to get the COVID vaccine. If you want 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.920 to get it, get it. If you don't want to 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.800 get it, don't get it. But don't do it. Because I, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.680 as governor, call on you to be my apostle. You're 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.760 not there to serve me. Public service is about you 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.680 being there to serve the public. I want people to 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.000 feel like they're back in control of their government again, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.920 and I think that right now. For too long, it's 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.480 been this churn in cobbany where. We keep electing a 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.800 governor and lieutenant governor for a four year term, and 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.439 then four years later they're not there because they end 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.760 up having to resign and their scandal and there's arrests, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.480 their indictments, so this crazy thing happens in every other state, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.119 like all across the entire country. You elect a governor 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.000 and lieutenant governor a four year term and then four 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.119 years later they're still there, and we should try that 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.240 New York for once. I think that people that I 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.560 think it's a factor is that people are losing pride 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.680 and faith in the government here. I believe that we 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:36.040 should have balance. This isn't about Republican versus Democrat as 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.640 New Yorkers. As New Yorkers, I feel like are states 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.760 heading in the wrong direction and that there are common 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.080 sense ways to be able to survive life in New 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.800 York better. There should be more opportunity, and right now 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.560 it's just that the people are they're just not getting 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.680 the job done. Can I ask you this about because 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.879 you are running as a Republican correct, that's correct? And 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.240 so you were trying to run as an independent at first? 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.720 Is that what happened when you were trying to get enough? Well, 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.320 so I am. I've I've been running on the Republican 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:08.280 line and the conservative line, and I mean that's where 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.000 it's going to be head to head between myself and 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.000 Governor Hokel. She's running on the Democratic line in the 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.720 Working Families Party line, but there was in New York, 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.560 there used to be all different kinds of third party 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.520 just one on one. That's right. This is like, this 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.160 is the first time in a really long time it's 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.520 a one on one. And there was a petition process 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.680 that took place a few months ago where people recollecting 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.159 petitions for the Green Party and the Libertarian Party and 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.000 this party and in that party. And actually at the 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:44.920 end of the process, the only four parties that are 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.000 on the ballot for November are the four parties that 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.240 were previously on the ballot. So I believe that this 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.320 threshold that exists right now is of how many signatures 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.600 are needed, clearly is not the right number. And this 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.720 is something that Governor Cuomo had enacted previously when he 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.000 was in office, raising the threshold amount of signatures that 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.960 you need. I think it would be good to be 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:13.080 able to have more third parties running and allow people 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.320 to have their voices and have them on stage for 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.639 the debates and to bring their ideas. In the perspective, again, 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.840 it shouldn't just be about republican versus democrat. I agree. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.199 I think most people, the general public agrees to that 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.880 they want another another option other than a Republican Democrat. 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.680 But you know, Governor Hotel accused your campaign is submitting 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.760 a fourteen thousand fake signatures to run on the independent 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:38.719 party line. Yeah, our campaign didn't do that, you know, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.040 as far as I was told after the fact that 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.480 that there was somehow somebody outside of our campaign had 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:51.760 added photocopies. Now, listen, photocopies get made of petitions. I 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.560