I'm John Batchew with my good colleague Elizabeth Peake, who writes a column for the Hill,

Calum of Fox News, and it's written of the anxiety that New Yorkers feel because of the change of mayoralty come the first of the year.

Mayor-elect Mamdani presenting policy after policy that are unacceptable

in general polite parlance in America. And now this, New York Post, Zoran Mamdani taps

ex-con rapper to serve as a criminal justice advisor. Liz, when I first read this, I thought it was a send-up.

It's not.

He hired somebody who was in for a gun crime on robbery and did seven years in jail, I guess,

under the understanding that you have to be an ex-convict on a gun charge to know ex-convicts

on gun charges?

Is that I, it seemed, it seemed like a satire of himself.

I know it's true.

The New York Post is not deceiving me.

But your, your concern about Mum Donnie not being right for the moment,

looks reinforced by this decision on his part.

Yeah, and it's not just this fellow who served, I think, seven years for armed robbery.

Is he really the guy that we want determining how we enforce the laws and subdue crime?

I don't think so. That's part, he's part of a bigger

narrative from the left that incarceration is terrible. Mamdani has said things like that.

You don't cure crime by locking up criminals. Instead we, instead of police dealing with

criminal activity and disruptive behavior, you should send in social workers.

You know, John, all that is headed for disaster.

It always has been a disaster when you've had these left-wing soft on crime policies and people involved.

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