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Mark Simone

Mark Interviews Congressman Tom Suozzi

Mark Simone

Mark Simone

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4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Mark and the Congressman discuss Gov. Kathy Hochul's inability to take care of far left DA Alvin Bragg. Suozzi says if elected he will get rid of Bragg if he doesn't change his thinking on punishing criminals

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0:00.0

Well, hey, Republicans have a lot of good candidates for governor.

0:04.6

You got Andrew Giuliani, Rob Astorino, Lee Zeldon, the Democrats.

0:08.0

You got Kathy Hokel, who nobody's too thrilled with.

0:10.4

You got the crazy Andrew Cuomo trying to come back.

0:13.7

What do you do?

0:14.3

Well, you got a great candidate.

0:15.6

You got Congressman Tom Swazzi, who also was the Nassau County Executive for years, a former mayor, he's an attorney,

0:23.0

a CPA, and a common sense Democrat, and he's with us right now. Congressman Tom Swazzi,

0:28.0

how are you?

0:29.3

Hey, Mark, thanks so much for having me on.

0:31.9

Hey, if we're going to get a Democratic governor, first the primary, right? You've got to win this

0:37.0

primary. You were the only

0:38.2

guy in the race with common swans. Cuomo signed the no bail law without blinking. Hockel won't fire

0:44.2

Alvin Bragg. Let me ask you the most important question. Would you fire Alvin Bragg?

0:49.0

I would have fired him if he hadn't reversed his positions. I did a commercial against him saying that

0:53.4

if you're not going to prosecute commercial against him saying that if you're not

0:54.3

going to prosecute people for resisting arrest, if you're not going to prosecute armed robbery

0:59.4

as a felony, then I would remove you as governor. He since reversed his positions on that, but I'll

1:03.9

be watching what he and every other DA does. The only problem is he said he'll bump it up to

1:08.4

felony, but he still won't seek the prison terms. That's the, if he, if he doesn't put him in prison, would you fire him?

1:14.3

Listen, we have to watch, the governor has the power to watch every district attorney.

1:18.4

District attorneys cannot say I'm going to pick and choose which laws are going to enforce.

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