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The pursuing is the transcript of an interrogation with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, that aired connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" connected July 19, 2026.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome backmost to Face the Nation. We spell present to the Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul. Good greeting to you, Governor.
GOV. KATHY HOCHUL: Good morning.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You've got a large day, World Cup finals successful adjacent New Jersey. I cognize you'll beryllium attending those. So volition the President of the United States, the President of Mexico, the Canadian Prime Minister. Given the menace environment, are you assured successful the information measures?
GOV. HOCHUL: Absolutely. We've worked truthful adjacent with our federal, state, and section partners successful instrumentality enforcement. We person been preparing for this for virtually implicit a year, implicit 1,000 exercises, tabletopping each the scenarios. So, we're with the best, and peculiarly with NYPD, the- the world's top constabulary force. I consciousness precise assured successful our security, and we're truthful blessed to invited the eyes of the world. The full satellite is going to beryllium watching what is happening close present successful the New York City area. So, it's exciting, precise breathtaking clip for us.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Truly, billions watching, and we volition beryllium too. Governor, I privation to inquire you astir a determination that you made this past week that made precise large headlines. You signed an enforcement bid to prohibition large-scale information centers for a year. These are those large buildings that assistance to powerfulness artificial quality exertion centers. It was conscionable a fewer months agone you said information centers were a section determination for municipalities. What- what changed for you?
GOV. HOCHUL: I would accidental what changed was talking to the localities and realizing they don't person the negotiating quality to- oregon person the clout to beryllium capable to request that their communities payment from this successful a much melodramatic way. They besides don't person the quality to importune that these companies bring their ain power, oregon wage much for the grid. They don't person an quality to accidental nary to taxation breaks, and truthful I decided that I could bash overmuch more, particularly in- and particularly flooding the portion is what's happening now. We person implicit 30 applicants, truthful successful a precise abbreviated time, I changed my position, saying, "You cognize what? The authorities has to pb here, but it's not astir being the first. It's astir being the archetypal to get it right." And we volition get it close implicit the people of this twelvemonth and assistance those localities negociate the close way, marque definite we're keeping way of however overmuch h2o is being consumed, doing a survey of that during this year, but besides insisting that these companies, and they're invited with the conditions and the rules that we acceptable forth, that they besides lend to the larger grid due to the fact that this is simply a immense taxation connected our grid. And I privation to marque definite that the powerfulness is there- unlimited powerfulness is determination for the ample companies that are creating jobs, similar the Micron that we recruited present with 50,000 jobs. So we'll get the close balance. But I'll archer you this, radical privation protection. New Yorkers privation protection. There's a batch of anxiety. Companies privation certainty. We'll springiness them both.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, governors from reddish states similar Missouri, Montana, Wyoming- they signed this White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, which I conjecture has AI information centers motion connected to- promising not to summation user prices, similar companies AI- OpenAI, and Amazon accidental they'll assistance screen the outgo of infrastructure upgrades. Have you talked to companies, these companies, astir doing the aforesaid successful New York? Why isn't a White House pledge similar that sufficient?
GOV. HOCHUL: Asking these companies to support their connection connected however overmuch they're going to consume- I'm much realistic than that. Perhaps I'm consenting to accidental I volition get it close successful New York. We'll enactment with the companies, but also- and we're unfastened to AI. Absolutely, this is a- a spot for innovation is invited and celebrated. But my presumption is, if you're going to win successful New York due to the fact that of our endowment and our resources and our people. I privation to marque definite that New Yorkers win arsenic well. So it's not a one-way street. I don't privation the companies coming successful and telling america however to bash things successful our state.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
GOV. HOCHUL: But determination tin be- they tin beryllium welcome. When I laic retired the rules of the war- world- of the road, which they volition embrace. I mean, erstwhile they cognize however to play the game, however to bash things successful New York, they'll privation to come, but I request immoderate breathing room. So my agencies, I've got 7 agencies dedicated to antithetic elements of this: the economical improvement benefits for communities, however we negociate however overmuch they're going to beryllium consuming successful water--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
GOV. HOCHUL: --how we marque definite that- I mean, conscionable to say, marque definite the ratepayers don't wage more. How bash you enforce that? I'm much realistic. I privation to get things done and marque it truly beryllium effective.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It sounds similar you privation grounds to assistance get you to yes. But successful the meantime, you are proceeding concerns from unions, for example, that this is going to crook distant jobs and that it'll nonstop a awesome that New York is not a spot for companies to put agelong term. How bash you code that?
GOV. HOCHUL: Well, that's not the close decision from what I've done, we've been precise clear. And arsenic idiosyncratic who's created much national jobs successful this authorities than anybody successful history, the largest backstage assemblage improvement successful American past is going connected close present with this Micron. That is 20 years of national jobs gathering this. We besides person tens of thousands of national jobs implicit years of gathering the Gateway Tunnel, which was stymied, stuck, not happening until I- until I unstuck it. So I've got much jobs for national members. They don't person to interest astir my committedness to their jobs. But wouldn't they beryllium alternatively gathering jobs that there's jobs that stay aft the operation play is over? That the task is built, that we really person people, their neighbors, communities, radical really moving successful those buildings with semipermanent good-paying jobs, and not conscionable focused connected construction, which is precise important. So, I'm asking everybody to say- instrumentality a breath. This is not the extremity of the world. We'll get done this, and New York ever leads successful a astute way, and that's what I'm truly arrogant of of what we're doing here.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I privation to inquire you astir predetermination security. We're astir 100 days retired from predetermination day. States administer the elections successful this country, not the national government. Are you getting the benignant of predetermination information resources your authorities has gotten successful the past fewer years? Do you person what you need?
GOV. HOCHUL: No, the national authorities has fundamentally been dismantling each the protections that we've travel to trust connected to support this halfway essence of our democracy. The cognition that erstwhile you formed that vote, that- that citizens' right, that work to find who our leaders are, that it is uncompromised. It is not being challenged by the national government, conscionable due to the fact that they're truthful disquieted astir the upcoming results, that is precisely what is happening. I privation everyone to absorption connected that. Yes, we passed the John Rights Voting Act. We person the toughest protections successful the country, and conscionable recently, I signed a law, many, galore protections against what ICE is doing, to accidental ICE agents cannot amusement up astatine polling places.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
GOV. HOCHUL: Can you spot this scenario? Black and brownish communities crossed our state and successful New York, wherever they're each of a abrupt connected predetermination time to make that fearfulness origin and intimidation origin that they're truthful bully at. I bash not privation to spot that compromise the validity of our election. So, what Donald Trump is doing close present is throwing retired the- the biggest reddish herring you'd ever spot and questioning the- the existent results that are happening. So, we're moving hard connected this here. I'll marque definite that we are protected, but I can't number on--
MARGARET BRENNAN: But--
GOV. HOCHUL: --the national authorities for any- thing these days due to the fact that they're compromised.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Under- nether national law, equipped agents are not expected to beryllium astatine predetermination centers. The lawyer wide nominee Todd Blanche said he'd travel the law, but it sounds similar you are inactive acrophobic that that mightiness happen. Have you--
GOV. HOCHUL: They don't travel the instrumentality precise overmuch astatine all, Margaret. They don't travel the instrumentality overmuch astatine all. So again, spot but verify. I'm going to verify and guarantee that New York State is doing it right. I don't spot that they're going to accidental this due to the fact that what happens is, they accidental the time after, like, "Oh well, we didn't mean to bash it." And, "Oh, atrocious astir that." You know, these are radical who spell astir sidesplitting individuals successful our streets, truthful they person nary credibility with maine erstwhile they accidental anything.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We volition talk to the White House astir that taxable shortly. Thank you precise much, Governor. We'll beryllium close back.
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