Rep. Lee Zeldin on Hunter Biden: Americans don't want 'unequal scales of justice'

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) said on Wednesday that Republicans will "focus" on investigating Hunter Biden if they take control of the House after the midterms.

Zeldin, the GOP nominee for governor of New York, told "Just the News, Not Noise" that Congress needs to take power back from the executive branch. 

"It's the role of Congress to be providing oversight," he said.

"I believe that Americans demand that," he said. "They don't want to see unequal scales of justice."

Nearly 100 House Republicans last week called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden's foreign business deals.

"[In] the U.S. Constitution, you see a very long article, one giving powers to Congress and a very short article giving powers to the president," Zeldin told cohosts John Solomon and Amanda Head. "And it often feels like in many respects, that Article One powers are relinquished to the administration.

"I believe [in] taking back over that oversight role and certain powers that were given to Congress." 

Zeldin predicted the gavel of House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y) would fall into the hands of House Freedom Caucus stalwart Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

Republicans are planning "not to waste any time getting to work" and will start investigating Hunter Biden the first day they are in the House majority, Zeldin said.

Zeldin also criticized New York's current governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, for picking Brian Benjamin as lieutenant governor. Benjamin resigned on Tuesday after he was arrested in connection to a campaign finance scandal. 

"The first big decision she had to make, she chose Brian Benjamin, who wasn't just an advocate of the defund the police movement, he was the champion of it in the state Senate," Zeldin said.