Thank you very much. 607 here in New York lets bring in New York Republican, congressman, Elise Stefanik Congresswoman good morning to you good, to be with you this morning, Steve its good to have you as well, obviously with that shooting outside the White House that did dominate the beginning of the press conference yesterday. The president also talked a great deal about the Covid relief bill, and he said Democrats simply would not come to the table were going to play that sound bite for you and then get your oh, no, no soundbite, sorry what he said was they are hurting people very badly. This would have been easy for them to do congresswoman sure. So. First I want to thank the secret service for professionalism. They do incredible work each and every day I know everyone in this country is very grateful on the Covid relief bill. The president was right to take executive action to provide economic relief to middle class across the country. He also provided relief student

loans in terms of the deferral of student loan interest payment. What this highlights is that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer walked away from the table of negotiation. Republicans have put forth numerous proposals to come to compromise. I have advocated for compromise on behalf of the american people. The president was right to act. Im still hopeful that this will force the Democrats back to the table because we need to have congressional certainty and relief. Brian looks like Governor Cuomo says it will cost us four dollars billion. We dont have that Governor Kemp of Georgia says we will find it governor justifiable says we will do it. Governor ASA Hutchison of Arkansas says we will scrounge around and put it up. What they are talking about doing is having the federal government give the supplemental insurance of three hundred dollars, and then one hundred dollars will come from the states and Governor Cuomo just wants a big check. He just wants a check because New York was hurt by the virus. So your reaction as the New York lawmaker do you think New

York needs money from the federal government. I think its very important to provide targeted, covid relief funds. What we dont want to do is bail out issues in New York state that predate the covid crisis. I know as a new Yorker how irresponsible they were already significantly in the hole. What I have advocated for is direct aid to the stated relief. What is most important is counties and municipalities, the rural counties in my district, who have faced the shutdown across New York, economic impact and Leftsd out of rounds of Covid relief because they were rural communities. We need funding for school districts, thats important as our superintendents have put forth, proposals to safely reopen, which is important to safely reopen our economy, not just about getting kids back to school Ainsley. A lot of people are complaining to their local lawmakers about Governor Cuomo because he put elderly people in nursing homes.

There was that order back in March, where he ordered nursing homes to accept corona patients, and many of them died, including our meteorologist Janice Dean. She is going to be on our show later on. She lost both her mother in law and father in law, two weeks apart because of covid in some of these homes. So there have been several different meetings to talk about this, and I know they have gone to Congress and written letters. Cuomo was asked about it. He says he doesnt want an investigation. Listen to this, I wouldnt do an investigation as to whether or not its political everybody can make that decision for themselves. Just look at where it comes from and look at the sources and look at their political affiliation and look at who wrote the letter in Congress and look at what publications raised it and what media networks raise it its kind of incredible Ainsley. He says thousands of those nursing home deaths had nothing to do with his march order. What do you say

its very sad? There are thousands of families who have lost loved ones, and I have spoken to Janice Dean and my constituents who deserve answers, accountability and transparency. It is shameful that the governor continues to point fingers. You heard him to the families, to New York Post, to Fox news to the president to CMS everywhere, but himself. He said at the start of the crisis that the buck stops with him. He signed that fatal order and did not follow cms guidance. Seema Verma has gone on record. Saying New York State did not follow the recommendations provided by the federal government. These families should not be dismissed by Governor Cuomo. We need answers and, most importantly, we need to ensure that these policies are updated so moving forward. This never happens again by the way, its not Republicans calling for an independent investigation, its Democrats as well. So this is about providing support and answers for the families, and it is not political, the only personal who is being political about it is Governor

Cuomo who wants to pass the buck to anyone else Steve, but you also know Congressman Stefanik. It is parts of a media narrative where mainstream media says Donald Trump has so badly bungled, the corona response, and, at the same time you have got Governor Cuomo in New York. Who has been a genius about all of this? Well, we know thats not the case, just look at the numbers and the data, and unfortunately, just high numbers of loss in New York state compared to loss across the country. Significant infighting between the governor and the mayor of New York City, in terms of you who to manage the covid crisis so despite the mainstream media voters in my district and voters that I talked with across New York state, have real issues and concerns about how the governor did not manage this crisis effectively, especially when you compare the data and the numbers to other states across the country. When it comes to the federal

government, the President and Congress stepped up to provide support for New York State nine dollars billion has already been provided. We doubled the states testing capacity and we are still providing support to New York State and we are working to provide additional funds, as I said before, to Covid relief. But the governor is so dismissive and political and again points fingers to everyone else, rather than accountability for an order. He signed himself Brian. They wanted to free up hospital bed space on March. Fifth, everybody goes back once you are in the hospital you go back to the nursing homes. A disaster. Did I not know this? Forty four percent of all the deaths came from nursing home activity, hes, not the only one. They said the six thousand six hundred who lost their lives in nursing homes. After going back there. That is not even an accurate number. They will not give the accurate number. It is actually higher and think about what Governor Cuomo says. Nothing is ever his fault. The unrest in the city is not his fault. When there is problems with millionaires or billionaires moving out, it is not his fault problem with nursing homes, its

not his fault when the coronavirus hits and he walks around and saying our hospitals can handle it. He says I dont do pandemics. No one told me this is coming from Europe, its not his fault, its amazing, how he gets a pass on this. I cant figure it out. Well, he shouldnt get a pass and new Yorkers arent going to give him a pass. He should speak to the families who have lost loved ones to hear from them directly. He should make sure that Dr Zucker, who his Commissioner of Health, appears and answered every single question. As you know, Dr Zucker left one of those bipartisan state hearings and didnt answer. All of the questions that were presented and many of those families should be aable to testify. I know that Janice Dean had been planning to testify and at the last minute was uninvited, thats not acceptable, and there needs to be accountability, and we need to make sure that never happens again. So we are protecting our most vulnerable. Who are our seniors? Ainsley Janice Dean is going to be on with us in about an hour

at 715. To answer some questions.