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Ago yesterday. >> the issue is after 16 years of the same leadership, we need a new direction. that's what people voted for this november. that's what people are looking for in the new congress. >> that wasn't that long ago. what changed? >> i broke with the democrat ek le leader in june over a legitimate issue. i want to see people between the ages of 50 and 64.5 to be able to buy medicare as a health insurance option because that age demographic is getting clobbered by private insurance. so as protections that i believe needed to be made public as to what we would do if we became a majority....

New york state's income tax is so high. people say well, you know, you have a high tax state and so that cost is something that new york state needs to deal with i agree 100 percent. i know exactly how much new york state, the assembly, governor cuomo do not respect our taxpayers. we pay highest taxes some of the highest in the nation. taking the deductibility away puts new yorkers at disadvantage. i would like to see some kind of concession on that. that being said we are doubling the standard deduction getting rid of the amt. that's going to be huge help for taxpayers, especially middle inco...

Council and getting some of the facts and meetings, perhaps, with mayor zimmer, to understand how this interplays with what we're doing, if at all. >> i was just going to say, specifically on the remit of your investigation, the language that was used to create the committee that you now chair talks about the abuse of governmental power, attempts to conceal the abuse of governmental power. are those specific to the shutdown of the lanes on the bridge, or are you looking at abuses of government power that might be unrelated matters? >> in theory, they arise from the bridge, but it's very broad....

We're doing, if at all. >> i was just going to say, specifically on the remit of your investigation, the language that was used to create the committee that you now chair talks about the abuse of governmental power, attempts to conceal the abuse of governmental power. are those specific to the shutdown of the lanes on the bridge, or are you looking at abuses of government power that might be unrelated matters? >> in theory, they arise from the bridge, but it's very broad. and so we can follow abuse of government power and the attempt to conceal that abuse wherever it may lie. i think what we w...

Going to represent me. clearly, if we believe the governor, they didn't represent him. >> the governor is also on the record from that press conference saying, nobody on his senior staff had any knowledge of what was happening on that bridge, until it was all over. and we now know that's not true, because of the documents that were released by the assembly. and so the governor is on record having said something that isn't true, and so, i would feel like he at least has to clear that up in terms of maintaining his own credibility on the subject. but on the issue of who dun it, essentially, it s...