S8 Ep511: Elizabeth Peak, columnist for The Hill and Fox News, criticizes Mayor Mamdani's inexperienced response to a deadly blizzard, arguing his ideological refusal to seek veteran advice endangers vulnerable citizens during extreme weather emergencies. 2.
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with Elizabeth Peek of the Hill of columnists of Fox News, |
| 0:19.8 | a columnist, and we're looking at the blizzard of 26, which was indeed a beautiful Nor'easter coming from the Greenland-Issland gap, spinning counterclockwise right at us, and it smacked right into where my farm, smacked right into it. |
| 0:34.8 | So I've got 15, 18 inches of snow out there to test my heart in the next |
| 0:41.5 | days. However, New York City struggling. 19 dead because they were not brought in from outside |
| 0:49.8 | to shelters during these cold snap and then the storm. 19. |
| 1:01.9 | And the mayor, Mayor Mamdani, now reverses his policy saying that we will oblige people to come in from outside from these encampments. |
| 1:04.3 | Well, they're not all encampments, Mr. Mayor. |
| 1:06.9 | There's some just wondering because they can't take care of themselves. |
| 1:10.6 | I use this as an example. |
| 1:13.0 | I don't blame Mom Donnie. |
| 1:14.1 | It's a tough job. |
| 1:15.7 | But his lack of experience shows right away, Liz. |
| 1:19.1 | He's a man who learned his job from textbooks. |
| 1:22.2 | You need that. |
| 1:23.5 | But come back in 10 years, kid. |
| 1:26.3 | 34 years old isn't enough time if you're born in Uganda and you spend your life in academic circles |
| 1:33.5 | and you're an ideologue from the assembly. |
| 1:36.8 | You're not ready to take on the toughest city on the planet. |
| 1:41.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, I think also compounding his problem is that he's appointing people for the |
| 1:47.7 | most part with perhaps the sole exception really of Jessica Tisch's police commissioner who were |
| 1:53.0 | untried, untested, and again, in the same ideological vein where they have no idea what they're doing. |
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