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INTERVIEW: Mayor Eric Adams Speaks On The Migrant Crisis, Safety In New York, Policing, Homelessness + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning Club.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 3: And we got a special guest in the building today,
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Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, the mayor Eric Adams.
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Speaker 4: And we also have lawyer and political commentator Ola Yamyl
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Speaker 4: right here.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, man, good good good. You know,
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Speaker 2: you know, even before we get into the conversation, I
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Speaker 2: was with Jordan the other day, my son, and uh,
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Speaker 2: somehow your name came up and there was a group
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Speaker 2: of young people in the room talking about politics. It's
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Speaker 2: amazing how so many people are into politics now. And
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Speaker 2: they came up with saying something about there were people
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Speaker 2: saying that how you were trying to push Trump, push Trump,
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Speaker 2: push Trump. So Jordan pulled up this video one of
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Speaker 2: your shows or you broke down each time you were
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Speaker 2: talking about what was wrong about his race, and just
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Speaker 2: broke it down piece by piece, and Jordan said that,
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Speaker 2: you know what, truth doesn't matter anymore, No, folks, people
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Speaker 2: don't care about truth about fact. Facts no longer exists.
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Speaker 2: I've never putrump actually do the opposite exactly. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but we are in a generation where everyone gets up
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Speaker 2: in the morning, look on social media and whatever's on
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Speaker 2: there they identified as the facts the headlines exactly.
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Speaker 1: No one goes into the body of the story.
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Speaker 2: Everybody's just well, you know what, this is what the
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Speaker 2: headline said, and that's the reality of it. And so
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Speaker 2: it was like an eye opener for him of how
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Speaker 2: I said Jordan over and over again, that one moment
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Speaker 2: took away all those years of me saying, have your
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Speaker 2: own facts. Don't let anybody define for you. You define
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Speaker 2: for yourself. That's you know, that's the power of this microphone,
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Speaker 2: that's the power of media putting those facts out. If
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Speaker 2: we don't control the message, the message will control us.
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Speaker 5: We got a lot to talk about today. Lit your city.
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Speaker 3: So today we reported earlier about congestion, pricing, right, what's
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Speaker 3: your what's your thoughts on that.
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Speaker 5: I think it's gonna it's gonna cripple New York City.
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Speaker 2: You've got a lot of people.
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Speaker 5: The bridges already, the tolls already high.
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Speaker 3: It's seventeen dollars I think for George Washington eleven dollars
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Speaker 3: for the Midtown tunnels.
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Speaker 5: Parking is extremely high.
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Speaker 3: Uh, And now getting into the city, it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: even it's gonna hurt a lot of people even drive
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Speaker 3: in the city, and people are scared of the subways.
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Speaker 3: You know what everything's been going on, People getting you know,
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Speaker 3: pushed into the train station's crime, and people are scared
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Speaker 3: of New York City.
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Speaker 4: That's a lot, a lot, hold On said, but let's
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Speaker 4: let's break it down for a moment.
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Speaker 2: Let's break it down in pieces so we can really
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Speaker 2: understand it. First, Let's deal with the stuff about people
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Speaker 2: are scared of the subways. When I became mayor, no
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Speaker 2: one wanted to be on the subway. We got over
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Speaker 2: four million daily riders. I talked to one of my guys,
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Speaker 2: I was talking to your sister the other day, and
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Speaker 2: she said, you know, you have about two three hundred
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Speaker 2: crimes happening on the subway system. We have six felonies
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Speaker 2: a day on our subway system out of four million riders.
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Speaker 2: Look at those numbers. Our subway system is a safe system.
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Speaker 2: And we put it in a different additional thousand offices
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Speaker 2: to do the high visibility, to deal with the reality
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Speaker 2: because it is not only felt is perceived.
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Speaker 1: Those six felonies we got to get rid of.
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Speaker 2: We're clear on that, but people are back on our
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Speaker 2: subway system. But when you deal with specifically congesting prices,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people don't realize these are the city streets.
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Speaker 2: But we had no authority on it. Aubany passed the
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Speaker 2: law and turn it over to the MTA. This is
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Speaker 2: the MTA's baby. They should have allowed the city to
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Speaker 2: be able to control how congestion pricing was done. So
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Speaker 2: that fifteen dollars. We were able to fight to get
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Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars to deal with the environmental impact
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Speaker 2: in the Bronx. We were able to fight to get
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Speaker 2: those who are shift brocused get a discount, those who
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Speaker 2: make less than fifty thousand dollars to get a discount.
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Speaker 2: But this was a bill that came out of Aubany.
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Speaker 5: So you don't agree with it, or do you agree
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Speaker 5: with it?
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Speaker 2: No, I agree we got to deal with something with
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Speaker 2: the congestion in our city, but you don't pass on
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Speaker 2: the course of that on low income New Yorkers or
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Speaker 2: those who have to come to Manhattan. You may have
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Speaker 2: to have going to your chemo thing therapy, and this
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Speaker 2: is the doctor you have to go to.
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Speaker 1: You should not be hit over there because people that
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Speaker 1: live in the area.
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Speaker 3: They're saying that that people that actually live in the
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Speaker 3: area when they drive if they got to drive uptown
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Speaker 3: to the doctor.
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Speaker 2: They got to drive.
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Speaker 5: They get charged too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm not feeling people that live in the
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Speaker 2: area Central Manhattan east up south of sixtieth Street has
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Speaker 2: the best transportation system on the globe. You got Crosstown trains,
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Speaker 2: you have South and North trains, you have buses that
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Speaker 2: go across town. There's no place else on the globe
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Speaker 2: that you have the greatest access to public transportation than
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Speaker 2: people south of sixtieth Street. So I'm not feeling them
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Speaker 2: if they're saying that, you know, we don't have to
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Speaker 2: we don't want to pay you know what, you need
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Speaker 2: to get on the train.
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Speaker 1: I take the train, you know, so you can get
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Speaker 1: on the train.
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about low income New Yorkers should not have
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Speaker 2: to carry the burden of that, and we ask to
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Speaker 2: have more and a greater input and the shaping of that,
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Speaker 2: but we don't. People don't often realize we're creatures of Albany.
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Speaker 2: Albany passed the laws. We have to implement the laws
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Speaker 2: that are down here.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're right that there is a difference
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Speaker 6: between perception and fact and how people feel about safety
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Speaker 6: and the way people feel about the subways, And I
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Speaker 6: think it's your own rhetoric about the subways that has
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Speaker 6: a lot to do with why people feel scared, despite
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Speaker 6: the fact that millions of people ride the subway every
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Speaker 6: day without incident. But you've continued to fare monger about
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Speaker 6: crime in the subways. You've added two thousand police officers,
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Speaker 6: despite the fact that you've acknowledged that the subways are
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Speaker 6: not that dangerous, and I think there is. You're right,
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Speaker 6: poor New Yorker should not be the ones who bear
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Speaker 6: the brunt of this, but they will if they already
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Speaker 6: have the subway being turned into a place that they
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Speaker 6: have to fare, that there's a National Guard, that there's
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Speaker 6: a hyper visibility of police, that they're trying to stop
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Speaker 6: people with certain records from even using them, and now
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Speaker 6: you have this congestion price. So how do you reconcile that?
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Speaker 2: Well, let's go before. First of all, I would love
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Speaker 2: give me just give me the quotes on my rhetoric,
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Speaker 2: because I'm lost in that.
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Speaker 7: Can you give me the quote that you fair monger
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Speaker 7: about the subways.
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Speaker 6: Oh, you've consistently done that since the day one of
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Speaker 6: your administration. One of the first things you did was
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Speaker 6: add a thousand officers to the subway because you coined
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Speaker 6: that the subways are unrideable. You and Hoko did this
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Speaker 6: and said how dangerous it is, and you recently did
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Speaker 6: that when you deployed the National Guard.
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Speaker 2: But that wasn't my question. My question was what was
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Speaker 2: my fearmongerment?
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Speaker 1: What did I say.
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Speaker 7: You continuously say.
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Speaker 6: I could point to a number of videos and quotes
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Speaker 6: and everything from you, but you've said repeatedly that the
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Speaker 6: subways are dangerous, that New York is dangerous.
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Speaker 7: You complain about crime relentlessly.
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Speaker 6: So what I'm saying to you is, if you are
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Speaker 6: saying that New York is the safest city, it's one
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Speaker 6: of the safest big cities in this country, which is true,
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Speaker 6: and you're recognizing that the subway stations are in fact
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Speaker 6: not half as dangerous as they're presented to be, I'm saying,
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Speaker 6: how do you reconcile how your rhetoric has played into
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Speaker 6: people's fair and not.
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Speaker 2: Even just rhetoric.
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Speaker 4: I would say the actions, because she's right if you
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Speaker 4: tell us, which is definitely the station is different, but
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Speaker 4: it's the same thing. Though you put a thousand police
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Speaker 4: officers in the subway, two thousand police officer in the subway.
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Speaker 2: That don't make us feel saying we think something's wrong.
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Speaker 2: If you don't let me let me first, let me
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Speaker 2: feel back again, because you got always feel back this stuff,
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Speaker 2: you know, because of oftentimes how you're depict in the media.
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Speaker 2: That I don't control is how people interpret you. I
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Speaker 2: didn't put the National Guards in the subway. The governor did.
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Speaker 7: I know, but I know what you said.
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Speaker 6: But you said you you stood with Governor Cafe Hocho
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Speaker 6: and you co signed that decision.
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Speaker 7: You did.
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Speaker 6: And I'm not saying that as someone who's on social media.
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Speaker 6: I'm saying that as an attorney in the city and
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Speaker 6: an activist who follows everything that you do.
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Speaker 2: If you I'm glad you do, and then you realize
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Speaker 2: how I turned the city around. If you follow everything I.
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Speaker 6: Do, I would say no, but we could get to
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Speaker 6: that Maxime man, listen.
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Speaker 2: And I enjoy every moment. You know, but this is
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Speaker 2: what I do. You know when you when you come
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Speaker 2: with a serious history, if you follow everything you do,
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Speaker 2: I do. You know how long I've been doing this
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Speaker 2: and you know what my record is. So let's peel
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Speaker 2: back what you just stated. When fear is perceived and felt.
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Speaker 2: That's what fear is. So no matter as I shared
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Speaker 2: that we have six felony crimes a day with four
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Speaker 2: million rioters.
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Speaker 1: If people feel unsafe when we.
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Speaker 2: Get in the subway system, and I ride the subway
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Speaker 2: system and I talk to commuters and I say, what
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Speaker 2: are you feeling? And how do I help you with
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Speaker 2: that fear? They said, we see more visible uniform offices
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Speaker 2: in our subway system, We're going to feel safe. We
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Speaker 2: got it, we got it. Oh, let me.
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Speaker 7: You can, you can feel it back.
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Speaker 2: We we so we got it that the numbers are down,
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Speaker 2: we got it that we're back on the subway system
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Speaker 2: post COVID. But when we see this is what the
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Speaker 2: public is saying. When we see the visible presence of
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Speaker 2: a uniform officer, we feel safer. Now, you may say, Eric,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to see a visible president of uniform officers,
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Speaker 2: and that's cool, but that's not what the overwhelming number
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Speaker 2: of New Yorkers are saying.
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Speaker 7: And I'm saying to you.
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Speaker 6: The New York City Comptroller Brad Lander recently put out
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Speaker 6: a report finding that fifty percent of the city is
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Speaker 6: disappointed and does not feel safe. Based on your rhetoric
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Speaker 6: about the subway is in your over police presence.
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Speaker 2: Okays, First of all, that's not what this says based
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Speaker 2: on Eric's rhetoric.
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Speaker 7: That's not you kids, No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 6: Did they say based on Eric's red you want to
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Speaker 6: talk about based on your specific system.
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Speaker 2: Going back to what you said, because your attorney they say.
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Speaker 6: They have the city is there are They have multiple
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Speaker 6: reports in New York Times, the Gothamers, the city controller,
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Speaker 6: and the federal monitor.
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Speaker 7: Who reports, who reports, who's tasked.
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Speaker 6: With making sure the NYPD and wrikers are in compliance
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Speaker 6: with the law of both submitted reports saying that since
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Speaker 6: you been there's been a return of stopping for us,
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Speaker 6: that there've been over fifteen thousand stops, ninety seven percent
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Speaker 6: of whom have been on black and Hispanic people. A
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Speaker 6: fourth of those stops and searches have been unconstitutional and
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Speaker 6: they've yielded very few results.
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Speaker 2: Let's peel it back. Eric Adams, one hundred blacks and
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Speaker 2: law enforcement testified in federal court that the federal court
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Speaker 2: judge stated, based on Eric's testify testimony, we are going
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Speaker 2: to rule against the police department. We were dealing with
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Speaker 2: a million stops, a year when I was with one
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Speaker 2: hundred blacks and law or force fere My advocacy is
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Speaker 2: what turned it around from that million stops a year.
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Speaker 2: Look at the numbers right right now. My advocacy and
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Speaker 2: showing how to do policing correctly, because it's not that
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Speaker 2: you want to eradicate proper police practices. You must make
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Speaker 2: sure they do them right. And that is what I
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Speaker 2: have been able to accomplish in the city, taking over
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Speaker 2: thirteen thousand guns off the streets of the City of
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Speaker 2: New York who the victims of black and brown people.
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Speaker 2: When I go to community meetings and talk to communit
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Speaker 2: any residents, they don't tell me, Eric, we don't want
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Speaker 2: more police, they said, Eric, we want our police doing
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Speaker 2: their jobs correctly. And that is what I'm doing.
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Speaker 6: The Federal Manitor, the Federal monitor who was tasked with
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Speaker 6: ensuring that NYPD is following the law, conducted conducted an analysis,
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Speaker 6: conducted an analysis that having eight years ago, but they're
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Speaker 6: still hair monitoring and what you're doing, and they said
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Speaker 6: that you have brought back stopping frist policies that are
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Speaker 6: worse than they saw even during the Bloomberg era. But
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Speaker 6: more importantly, they analyzed the neighborhood safe I could show
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Speaker 6: the report is available, and I know it's been available
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Speaker 6: to you because your spokesperson is commented on it. They
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Speaker 6: did an analysis of over ten percent ten different precincts.
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Speaker 6: There is factual there's a federal monitor reporting to judged.
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Speaker 6: He swain on it and present. They said that yes, listen,
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Speaker 6: let me finish so you can feel it back. They
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Speaker 6: conducted an analysis of ten different precincts and every of
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Speaker 6: the stops of ten different precincts, they found that ninety
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Speaker 6: seven percent of them, by the way of the neighborhood
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Speaker 6: safety teams that were disbanded in twenty twenty because of
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Speaker 6: their disproportionate abuse against black and Hispanic.
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Speaker 7: People that you revived.
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Speaker 6: They analyzed ten of those different neighborhood safety teams and
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Speaker 6: found that they're conductings ninety seven percent of their stops
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Speaker 6: on black and brown people, and a quarter of them
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Speaker 6: are unconstitutional.
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Speaker 7: That's what the federal monitor said, not me.
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Speaker 2: And at the same time, let's let's be clear on
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Speaker 2: this because what you're what you're given the perception of
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Speaker 2: this is a federal monitor that came in long before
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Speaker 2: I was mayor. Right, number two. I have been the
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Speaker 2: mayor for two years and three months. We've had a
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Speaker 2: tradition of over policing for generations, and that's that you're
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Speaker 2: here that I fought for. We had issues of over
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Speaker 2: policing for generations that I fought for. We acknowledge what
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Speaker 2: my history is in this place. So two years in
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Speaker 2: three months, we are turning around not only over policing,
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Speaker 2: but we're turning around the crime. Because when I came
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Speaker 2: to this city, we had a forty increase in crime,
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Speaker 2: and most of that crime black and brown communities.
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Speaker 6: Became mayor after are a global pandemic in which there
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Speaker 6: was record unemployment, business laws, homelessness, And you're not drawing
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Speaker 6: that connection. They're making no, no, But what I'm saying is
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Speaker 6: crime has a crime is connected to what is happening
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Speaker 6: in the city and the experiences of people. This is
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Speaker 6: the most expensive city in the world. We had a
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Speaker 6: global pandemic where business.
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Speaker 7: Is closed of work, So if you saw it.
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Speaker 1: Was connected to that, but also jobs come on.
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Speaker 6: Also, you're saying that you've turned it around and yb
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Speaker 6: the's abuses, But just last year we paid out one
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty million dollars in settling police conducts from
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Speaker 6: and I was double the number. That's double the number
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Speaker 6: and police misconduct since you became married.
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Speaker 2: I noticed something. I noticed how much passion and commitments
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Speaker 2: you have. It's one of your constituents, and I'm one
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Speaker 2: of my constituents. Students, you know what I'm saying. And
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Speaker 2: I grew up in the city. I love it. I noticed,
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Speaker 2: and this is what I hear often of those who
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Speaker 2: articulate when a person in the blue uniform commits an
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Speaker 2: inappropriate act, balance that with what we're doing to take
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Speaker 2: the violence out of our can unities. Because I know
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Speaker 2: what I hear when I go to these community meetings.
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Speaker 2: I know what I hear when I go speak to
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Speaker 2: these mothers who lost their children to violence. I know
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Speaker 2: what I hear. You're not even talking about that at all.
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Speaker 7: You know, I was a public defender.
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Speaker 2: But that's what you said. That's what you said.
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Speaker 7: And my original question was about how you relate to that.
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Speaker 4: You said that New Yorkers don't feel safe. So there
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Speaker 4: was a poe that came out with last week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, And in that poll that came out
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Speaker 2: by the CBC, it stated that the priorities of Mayor
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Speaker 2: Adams is moving the city in the right direction. My priority. Now,
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Speaker 2: remember two years, three months, Brother, two years three months,
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Speaker 2: I inherited a pandemic. I inherited one hundred and eighty
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Speaker 2: thousand micros and asylum seekers that can't work. That we
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Speaker 2: have to house them every day.
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Speaker 4: You called for a lot of them too, though, no,
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Speaker 4: we didn't. Brother, it was a sanctuary city. Told okay,
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Speaker 4: let's let's see.
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Speaker 2: That's why I say, that's why it's important to have
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Speaker 2: this conversation because sanctuary city and the micas the asylum seekers
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Speaker 2: are two different issues. San urry city, if you're undocumented,
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Speaker 2: we can't turn you over to ICE or authority. Micaels
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Speaker 2: and asylum seekers were parolled into here. They're here legally,
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Speaker 2: they were paroled into. But what the federal government did
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Speaker 2: and Governor Abbod did, they said, we're gonna send them
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Speaker 2: up to.
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Speaker 1: Chicago, New York, Boston. And the federal.
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Speaker 2: Government is saying, Eric, you can't allow them to work,
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Speaker 2: you gotta give them housing. You can't stop the buses
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Speaker 2: from coming in, you cannot turn them over to ICE.
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Speaker 2: All of that is illegal. If I do that, we
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Speaker 2: be breaking law. So when people look at the Migaans
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Speaker 2: that are here. We didn't call people to come here.
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Speaker 2: They were sent here by Governor Abbot. And the failure
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Speaker 2: to secure our borders is allowing us to continue. And
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Speaker 2: we're not getting any funny, any money from We got
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Speaker 2: about one hundred million dollars out of a four billion
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Speaker 2: dollar price tag. Look at Chicago right now. Look what's
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Speaker 2: happened in Chicago right now? My brother Mayor Johnson over there,
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Speaker 2: what's happening with him? Look has happened in Boston. Look
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Speaker 2: what's happening in Houston, Los Angeles? And then do a
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Speaker 2: comparative analysis of what's happening on our streets here. Wow,
15:03
Speaker 2: we dealt with that crisis, turn around our economy, outpatent
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Speaker 2: the state and reading the math of our young people.
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Speaker 2: I've been on Reikis Island more than any mayor in
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Speaker 2: the history of the city, talking with inmates and correction
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Speaker 2: officers to turn around what's happening.
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Speaker 6: On twenty twenty two and there were three deaths back
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Speaker 6: to Bath because corrections officers left their posts and allowed
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Speaker 6: it to happen. You went to Rikers to express your
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Speaker 6: support for the corrections officer. To Rikers, what I do
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Speaker 6: want you to do.
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Speaker 2: But you keep you keep giving out misinformation. I was
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Speaker 2: on Rykers Island this week. This week with a group
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Speaker 2: of twelve young brothers who recommitted themselves to Christ. I
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Speaker 2: went to see them in the morning. We prayed together
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Speaker 2: because they said, this is not the first time you've
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Speaker 2: been here. You've been here over and over, visiting us,
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Speaker 2: talking to us, nurturing us. You know, because I know
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Speaker 2: what it's like to be locked up because I was
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Speaker 2: locked up as a child, So I know what it's
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Speaker 2: like to be treated unfairly because I'm dyslexic.
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Speaker 1: When you're doing.
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Speaker 2: Analysis of the number of young brothers and sisters who
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Speaker 2: are in rikers are in jail, they're dealing with learning
16:12
Speaker 2: disabilities because it was never given it the support that they have.
16:15
Speaker 2: That's why I have dyslexia screening, so we could catch
16:18
Speaker 2: people who are thrown overboard before they get thrown overboard.
16:22
Speaker 2: So adam philosophical. We have a philosophical disagreement.
16:26
Speaker 7: No, I do, like I'm glad that feelings towards.
16:29
Speaker 2: Your feelings towards police is different from this feelings.
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Speaker 6: This is about the actual statistics that I present from
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Speaker 6: the Federal monitor monitoring.
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Speaker 2: What you're saying about her statistics.
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Speaker 7: He's a federal monitor. Do you are you disputing with
16:43
Speaker 7: the federal monitor and the actually and the.
16:44
Speaker 2: Controller talking about this moment control of brad Lander. Okay, please,
16:49
Speaker 2: but we're gonna throw people in names on who we
16:52
Speaker 2: are are independent sources. He should not be one of them.
16:55
Speaker 2: Think about this federal.
16:56
Speaker 6: Monitor, the one that was independently elected by the people
16:58
Speaker 6: of New York.
17:00
Speaker 2: But I was independent elected also.
17:01
Speaker 7: And and I'm addressing you, so think.
17:04
Speaker 2: About this for a moment. The federal monitor wants to
17:07
Speaker 2: take over Rykers. Okay, Rykers has been dysfunctional for generations.
17:13
Speaker 2: I came in decreased violence, putting real incentive programs for
17:18
Speaker 2: young people there. But I didn't do it from a distance.
17:21
Speaker 2: I went to Rikers and walked the halls and talk
17:23
Speaker 2: with inmates. We're doing workshops and support groups with inmates
17:26
Speaker 2: and find out what do you need to be here.
17:28
Speaker 2: We instituted real turnaround programs there with the sisters that's
17:32
Speaker 2: now in the correction officer. I mean, that's the Commission
17:35
Speaker 2: of Corrections there. So I didn't do like other mayors.
17:38
Speaker 2: I didn't sit back and say, let me just turn
17:40
Speaker 2: my back on what's rikers. I said to those Rikers
17:42
Speaker 2: inmates when I got elected, I'm coming here. I'm going
17:45
Speaker 2: to see what you're going through and want to make
17:47
Speaker 2: sure you leave here better than how you got here
17:49
Speaker 2: in the first place, and beside the instituting programs to
17:52
Speaker 2: do so. So that same federal monitor go look at
17:54
Speaker 2: the federal prisons. You that federal monitor wanted to take
17:57
Speaker 2: over our prisons after I had it only two years
18:00
Speaker 2: in three months. No, they wanted to take over my
18:02
Speaker 2: first year. Although crime was going was going violence was
18:06
Speaker 2: going down, and people say, well, ever, you know people
18:08
Speaker 2: are people are dying on rykers.
18:10
Speaker 1: Look at how they died.
18:12
Speaker 2: People are coming into rykers and terrible medical.
18:15
Speaker 7: Conditions and not getting their medical appointments.
18:17
Speaker 2: It's not that they were dying because correcting officers were
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Speaker 2: killing them. People were coming in with heart.
18:24
Speaker 1: Problems, but overdosing on drugs.
18:27
Speaker 4: When people to feel that, because I know, I got
18:29
Speaker 4: people that are in Rikers right now serving time and.
18:32
Speaker 2: They hate it. They think it's discussing. Is they're trying
18:34
Speaker 2: to brother who likes.
18:36
Speaker 6: Respectfully, Mary Adams, Fundamentally, the things that you were saying
18:39
Speaker 6: is untrue. You actually cut seventeen million dollars that were
18:42
Speaker 6: used for classes for people at rkos Rykers to reanenter society.
18:44
Speaker 7: Those were cut in the programs. Those were cut under
18:47
Speaker 7: your Those were cut under your administration.
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Speaker 2: We were spending millions of dollars.
18:51
Speaker 7: Thirty one people have died at Rikers since Eric Adams.
18:54
Speaker 2: Millions of dollars for these professional folks to do these programs,
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Speaker 2: reinjury programs, millions of dollars, seven people sitting inside the class.
19:04
Speaker 2: When I came into office, I said, why are we
19:07
Speaker 2: spending so much money on programs but our people are
19:12
Speaker 2: still in these bad conditions. People have propertized poverty, They
19:16
Speaker 2: have that making so much money off of black and
19:19
Speaker 2: brown people because it's a lucative business to come up
19:23
Speaker 2: with all these different programs, all these different ways. And
19:25
Speaker 2: then when you go to them and say, let me
19:27
Speaker 2: say the results of the programs that we're paying you
19:30
Speaker 2: millions of dollars for, and then you look and see
19:32
Speaker 2: what who's in charge of these programs. They don't look
19:34
Speaker 2: like us.
19:34
Speaker 6: Moments ago you said you instituted programs. And when I
19:37
Speaker 6: brought up the fact that you actually cut programs. Now
19:39
Speaker 6: your anti program Okay, thirty one, at least at least
19:43
Speaker 6: thirty one people have died at Rikers since you became mayor.
19:45
Speaker 7: That's why I'm for no.
19:47
Speaker 2: More program, Fatherless, No More. This was the this was
19:50
Speaker 2: the brother the pastor. Fatherless No More is called the program,
19:53
Speaker 2: and I would encourage you to come and check it out.
19:55
Speaker 2: This brother here instead of saying, pay me millions of
19:59
Speaker 2: dollars to do a program to turn around the lives
20:02
Speaker 2: of our young brothers and rankings. He doesn't want money.
20:08
Speaker 2: He's committed to the cause. But you have these professional
20:11
Speaker 2: programs that were in place, and when I went to
20:14
Speaker 2: them and say, show me the results of what you've
20:18
Speaker 2: done in these programs. Show me what we produce for
20:20
Speaker 2: our millions of dollars as in many of these programs
20:23
Speaker 2: in the city that I'm saying, we're no longer paying
20:25
Speaker 2: y'all to just play us year after year. So fatherleus
20:28
Speaker 2: and no More is turning around the lives of people
20:32
Speaker 2: not being paid millions of dollars for it. If we're
20:34
Speaker 2: really true to what we said we want to do,
20:36
Speaker 2: why do we have to pay your millions of dollars
20:37
Speaker 2: to do it? You know, why don't you come on
20:39
Speaker 2: rankers like I do and volunteer. Why don't you come
20:42
Speaker 2: in and really be committed, because people are not committed
20:45
Speaker 2: to us. Brother, they've been playing us. You know, this
20:47
Speaker 2: is a street hustle that have been going on for years,
20:50
Speaker 2: and people have eaten off of the dysfunctionality of watching
20:54
Speaker 2: us stay in these permanent states of being a lot.
20:58
Speaker 3: Of people are upset to it, and they feel like
21:00
Speaker 3: the prison reform is bad for New York City. They're
21:03
Speaker 3: saying people do crimes, they get out immediately, and then
21:05
Speaker 3: they commit to crimes. We just see an officer that
21:07
Speaker 3: passed away a couple of days ago, rest in peace
21:09
Speaker 3: to him and always healing energy to his family. But
21:12
Speaker 3: they say that individual was arrested for a gun and
21:14
Speaker 3: has a record the size of we don't know what.
21:16
Speaker 3: And they're saying that people are doing crimes and they're
21:18
Speaker 3: getting back out. Officers don't want to arrest people. A
21:20
Speaker 3: lot of officers don't even want to be officers anymore
21:22
Speaker 3: because the people that they're arresting get out so fast.
21:24
Speaker 5: So what do you say to that?
21:26
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something. I say this term
21:28
Speaker 2: all the time, idealism collides with realism. This far leftist
21:33
Speaker 2: mindset that believes we should not have a criminal justice
21:37
Speaker 2: system in place, We're gonna look like some of these
21:40
Speaker 2: other cities that you're seeing. With a lack of a
21:43
Speaker 2: criminal justice system in place. We're losing correction offices. We're
21:47
Speaker 2: losing district attorneys, we're losing police officers, we're losing probation offices,
21:53
Speaker 2: we're losing school safety agents. Every piece of our public
21:58
Speaker 2: safety apparatus that the every day working class person wants,
22:02
Speaker 2: we're seeing it all of a sudden erode, and we're
22:04
Speaker 2: going to lose the foundation of our prosperity, and that's
22:07
Speaker 2: public safety.
22:08
Speaker 1: So when you look at these cases, we have three.
22:10
Speaker 2: Problems in the city that if you dig into it,
22:13
Speaker 2: you'll see how they continue to intersection between each other.
22:17
Speaker 2: We have one, we have a RECIPI this this problem.
22:21
Speaker 2: It's a revolving door. Thirty eight people that assault the
22:24
Speaker 2: transit workers well were arrested eleven hundred times. Five hundred
22:28
Speaker 2: and forty five people that were arrested for shoplifting were
22:32
Speaker 2: arrested seventy five seven thousand, five hundred times. The person
22:37
Speaker 2: who shot that police officer his driver was just arrested
22:42
Speaker 2: for having a gun in April of last year. Now
22:45
Speaker 2: he's back doing the same thing all over again. These
22:48
Speaker 2: guys are arrested ten fifteen times. It's a small population
22:52
Speaker 2: of people that are repeated offenders. The second problem that
22:56
Speaker 2: we have in this in the city is a severe
22:59
Speaker 2: mental health problem. I'm not talking about to somebody that's
23:02
Speaker 2: the price someone that's going through a bad day. I'm
23:04
Speaker 2: talking about a severe mental health problem. Go look at
23:07
Speaker 2: these cases of assaulting passengers, pushing people on the subway track,
23:11
Speaker 2: the cat that pushed the person on the subway tract
23:13
Speaker 2: the other day, in and out of the system. And
23:16
Speaker 2: so when I came into office, I said, we can't
23:18
Speaker 2: keep just walking by these people that are dealing with
23:20
Speaker 2: severe mental health issues. We need to give them wrapping
23:22
Speaker 2: around services and care. The far left pushed against me.
23:25
Speaker 2: You in humane, You just want to take people off
23:28
Speaker 2: the streets. No, I said, no, in this city, people
23:30
Speaker 2: are gonna People are not gonna live in encampments, They're
23:34
Speaker 2: gonna live in tents. Go look at Los Angeles, go
23:36
Speaker 2: look at Oregon, go look at all these other cities.
23:39
Speaker 2: When you see tent city San Francisco, you see tent cities. People.
23:43
Speaker 2: When I went out in January February. When I got
23:45
Speaker 2: elected in twenty twenty two, I went out without my
23:47
Speaker 2: security team and started visiting people in intents and encampments
23:51
Speaker 2: and started talking to them bipolar, schizophrenic, human waste, drug power, fernalia,
23:56
Speaker 2: stale food. They didn't even realize they were in that state.
23:59
Speaker 2: One cat that was an ex police officer that I
24:01
Speaker 2: spoke with didn't even realize started seeing and talking to himself.
24:05
Speaker 2: I said, I'm not going to do this. My city
24:06
Speaker 2: is not going to be like San Francisco. It's not
24:08
Speaker 2: going to be like these other cities where you're watching
24:11
Speaker 2: people living on streets in tens intents. You don't see
24:13
Speaker 2: that in New York City. The third problem we have
24:16
Speaker 2: is random, random acts of violence. Those random acts of
24:21
Speaker 2: violence are being highlighted. You have if you have twenty
24:25
Speaker 2: four hours in the day and something that happens to
24:29
Speaker 2: you in an hour and the day, you selt to
24:31
Speaker 2: define yourself as that entire day. Those random active violence
24:35
Speaker 2: are plastered on social media. They're plastic, They're plastered on everything.
24:41
Speaker 2: People begin to believe that, oh, I'm living in the
24:44
Speaker 2: city that's out of control.
24:45
Speaker 7: We are not.
24:46
Speaker 2: She made a good people New York.
24:47
Speaker 4: If NYPD is reposting that kind of stuff, what are
24:50
Speaker 4: we supposed to think.
24:53
Speaker 2: A phone brother?
24:54
Speaker 6: No, No, this recently been there so much so that
24:58
Speaker 6: they're arguing with journalists on there's YPD on their own
25:01
Speaker 6: Twitter pages that are posting and sensationalizing crime. And I
25:04
Speaker 6: said this at the beginning. You said that there's a
25:05
Speaker 6: difference between perception and reality, how people feel afraid versus how.
25:09
Speaker 7: Safe New York actually is.
25:10
Speaker 6: And I agree with you, but I said that it's
25:11
Speaker 6: your own rhetoric and NYPD's rhetoric that plays into that,
25:14
Speaker 6: and you did it just now. Because the reality is
25:17
Speaker 6: a condition of release for everybody for every crime, whether
25:19
Speaker 6: it be non bail eligible or bail eligible, is that
25:21
Speaker 6: if you commit a crime and you're rearrested, that you
25:24
Speaker 6: that you bail can and will be set on you.
25:26
Speaker 7: So that's the first thing.
25:26
Speaker 6: Second of all, they have conducted multiple studies, but the
25:29
Speaker 6: brendans that are literally just put out one less than
25:31
Speaker 6: two percent of anybody in New York City that's released
25:34
Speaker 6: on bail is re arrested for any violent crime. More importantly,
25:37
Speaker 6: in the same in the same breath that we want
25:39
Speaker 6: in the same breath that you want to sensationalize.
25:41
Speaker 7: We want to highlight and point o oh.
25:43
Speaker 6: An officer was killed the other day, which is a
25:45
Speaker 6: rare occurrence across the United States, but let alone in
25:47
Speaker 6: New York. New York police officers have killed at least
25:49
Speaker 6: seven people this year, including a nineteen.
25:51
Speaker 7: Year old officer.
25:55
Speaker 2: I'm not going to dismiss the loss of a life
25:57
Speaker 2: of an innocent person that weighs a uniform.
26:00
Speaker 7: You do the people and the nineteen year old.
26:05
Speaker 2: I feel like I don't want to take you out
26:08
Speaker 2: of contents, and I want people to all of a
26:09
Speaker 2: sudden criticize that you're being dismissive of a.
26:14
Speaker 7: It's not going to work on me.
26:15
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to brook anything on you. I lost
26:18
Speaker 2: a member of the police department. The same way I
26:21
Speaker 2: go to see the mother of eleven year old baby
26:23
Speaker 2: that was eleven month old baby that was shot in
26:25
Speaker 2: the head. When I first became in I sat in
26:27
Speaker 2: the hospital with her. The same way I go visit
26:30
Speaker 2: these mothers who lose their children to gun violence. I
26:33
Speaker 2: go see them some other Jesus just as I go,
26:38
Speaker 2: Just as I go to see the family member of
26:42
Speaker 2: a slain police officer. I go visit those parents that
26:45
Speaker 2: lose their love, the family that.
26:48
Speaker 7: First of all, yesterday I held a writer, I represented.
26:51
Speaker 2: You went to visit you were to visit up the
26:53
Speaker 2: family members of a slain office officer.
26:55
Speaker 6: Course, no, but what about the nineteen year old that
26:57
Speaker 6: was killed yesterday by NYPD and Queen's when he called
27:00
Speaker 6: for help?
27:00
Speaker 7: Have you said anything about that? Are you visiting them?
27:02
Speaker 2: The first of all, that's New York safer or not?
27:06
Speaker 2: I'm sorry it is New York safer or not. Okay,
27:09
Speaker 2: we just showed the graph that we that we put
27:11
Speaker 2: up right, there's there's a graph that shows how many
27:16
Speaker 2: people murders based on one hundred thousand people. They shows
27:20
Speaker 2: a graph each city the large city is in America.
27:23
Speaker 2: New York is the least. New York is the safest
27:27
Speaker 2: big city in America.
27:28
Speaker 4: Should we say crime is down or should we say
27:30
Speaker 4: it's safe? Because I think it's crime is saying something
27:33
Speaker 4: is safe. Well, random thirty pounds and I lose thirty
27:37
Speaker 4: I'm still fat.
27:38
Speaker 2: Right right, you know? But random? Actually, And that's why
27:41
Speaker 2: that's why what what I must do with New York
27:45
Speaker 2: is is give them the facts, not give them what
27:48
Speaker 2: people are spewing out there. The facts, facts are clear.
27:52
Speaker 2: As I've always stated, we are the safest big city
27:56
Speaker 2: in America. And as people talk about reporting these the
27:59
Speaker 2: reports that come out and reporting how things are done,
28:02
Speaker 2: no one wants to report the fact that everyone is
28:04
Speaker 2: saying across the globe New York is the safest big
28:07
Speaker 2: city in America?
28:08
Speaker 6: Arend the right way they think the New York I
28:11
Speaker 6: don't dispute the New York is safe. What I dispute
28:13
Speaker 6: is how Mayor Adams on rhetoric is the reason why
28:15
Speaker 6: people don't feel safe. I would reread that New York
28:17
Speaker 6: is don't feel safe because of the way the NYPD,
28:19
Speaker 6: the Post and Mayor Adams go about sensationalizing prime.
28:22
Speaker 7: And I'm acting you to talk about it differently and listen.
28:25
Speaker 2: And you have a right to your opinion and your belief.
28:28
Speaker 2: We you and not have a philosophical disagreement you.
28:31
Speaker 7: That's many It's not about the people freement.
28:34
Speaker 2: Many people on the fall left disagree with me. You know,
28:36
Speaker 2: many people on the far left, they said, Eric, people
28:38
Speaker 2: should be allowed to sleep on the streets no matter what,
28:41
Speaker 2: they should be allowed to sit on your stoop and
28:43
Speaker 2: inject themselves with drugs. They should be allowed to go
28:45
Speaker 2: in stores and still whatever they want. They shouldn't have
28:47
Speaker 2: to pay on the subway system. They should be allowed
28:50
Speaker 2: to carry a gun and be able to come out
28:52
Speaker 2: the next day.
28:53
Speaker 6: Like people disagree with earlier a rhetoric, But earlier you
28:57
Speaker 6: asked me to point out specifically what you says the
28:59
Speaker 6: fair moong girl about. So I just would like to
29:01
Speaker 6: say exhibit a like what you literally just did. You
29:03
Speaker 6: continue to say in this that New York is the
29:05
Speaker 6: safest big city, while simultaneously you are the one sensationalizing right,
29:10
Speaker 6: which is a mass it.
29:12
Speaker 2: All I know is when I came in office and
29:14
Speaker 2: I stated that I wanted to take I'm not allowing
29:17
Speaker 2: people to sleep in tents on our streets. They're gonna
29:19
Speaker 2: get the care that they deserve.
29:21
Speaker 6: The far left attack, No, you made it so that
29:25
Speaker 6: people can be involuntarily committed people.
29:27
Speaker 2: Yes, and listen. If I'm sitting down with you, brother,
29:31
Speaker 2: and I'm in a tent with you on encampment, and
29:34
Speaker 2: I'm seeing human waste in the corner, I'm seeing stale food,
29:37
Speaker 2: I'm seeing drug powder, fronail, and I'm hearing you talking
29:39
Speaker 2: about you only hear until the spaceship comes to take
29:42
Speaker 2: you to your next planet. You need to be involuntary committed.
29:45
Speaker 7: Didn't I just say about sensation?
29:48
Speaker 1: This is what I saw. This is what I saw because.
29:51
Speaker 6: The activists that were actually there at the encampments you
29:54
Speaker 6: were torn down.
29:54
Speaker 7: You weren't there, but they were there when they were
29:56
Speaker 7: being arrested.
29:56
Speaker 3: People are also upset that they feel like too much
29:59
Speaker 3: money is going to Mi grints and you're cutting too
30:00
Speaker 3: money programs right. They're saying you're cutting the pre care,
30:04
Speaker 3: saying that you're cutting so many different funding from that.
30:07
Speaker 2: People have this question, brothers.
30:09
Speaker 3: People, people are saying people are feeling like, you know,
30:12
Speaker 3: they never have money for us, but when as soon
30:14
Speaker 3: as migrants come in the country, they find money.
30:16
Speaker 2: And listen, people have a right to be angry. You
30:18
Speaker 2: know who's even more angry than they are. I am.
30:20
Speaker 2: I've been to Washington ten times, ten times to talk
30:24
Speaker 2: about this subject. So people got a right to be
30:26
Speaker 2: pissed off of what they're doing to New York.
30:28
Speaker 3: Can we fixed that where these like I mean, we
30:30
Speaker 3: cut a lot of products.
30:34
Speaker 5: Day, kids couldn't go to school because migrants to go
30:36
Speaker 5: over to school.
30:36
Speaker 2: Now, that's not that wasn't that wasn't accurate. Let's let's
30:39
Speaker 2: let's let's let's first, let's deal with that we always
30:43
Speaker 2: utilize our school buildings during the time of crisis. And
30:46
Speaker 2: if we're saying to ourselves, if there's some when we
30:49
Speaker 2: had to major fire when I first became mayor we
30:51
Speaker 2: saw that fire in the Bronx, you know, we had
30:54
Speaker 2: to take a school to take care of those people
30:56
Speaker 2: who lived in the building. Temporarily, when we have major storms,
30:59
Speaker 2: we take us school to use. The temporary schools is
31:01
Speaker 2: part of the resources of the city. And thank god
31:04
Speaker 2: we had something called remote learning where people still let
31:08
Speaker 2: young people are still able to go on to learn.
31:10
Speaker 2: But we can't say we can't say we can't say
31:13
Speaker 2: that we will use a school building during an emergency,
31:16
Speaker 2: but we're not going to do it for children that
31:17
Speaker 2: are migrants. And assimum secrets learning and remote worth, here's
31:22
Speaker 2: the Here are the things that are crucial about the
31:26
Speaker 2: migrantssimum secrets that we need to We need to put
31:28
Speaker 2: the rest that people don't realize. Number One, I don't
31:31
Speaker 2: have the legal authority to stop the buses from coming in.
31:34
Speaker 2: That's against law. I don't have the authority to allow
31:38
Speaker 2: them to work, which they want to do. That's against
31:41
Speaker 2: the law. I don't have the authority to say I'm
31:43
Speaker 2: not going to house you and give you three meals
31:45
Speaker 2: a day. It's against the law for me do it.
31:48
Speaker 2: I don't have the authority to deport someone that commits
31:50
Speaker 2: a crime here in this city and turn them over
31:53
Speaker 2: the ice. That's against the law. So what we have
31:56
Speaker 2: to do was figure out how do we house people.
31:59
Speaker 2: So some people said, whatever you're giving them morning, what
32:01
Speaker 2: you've given us, Go to the Hirk centers where they
32:04
Speaker 2: are the shelters, the restrooms are outside, the showers are outside,
32:09
Speaker 2: they're sleeping on cots. They get three basic meals a day.
32:13
Speaker 2: And when I go visit them, they said, we don't
32:15
Speaker 2: want any of this from you. All we want to
32:17
Speaker 2: do is have the right to wrote so we can
32:19
Speaker 2: provide for ourselves.
32:20
Speaker 4: And less than thirty days, migrants won't be allowed to
32:23
Speaker 4: work for federal guidelines, and they won't be allowed to
32:26
Speaker 4: be housed in NYC anymore, ny anymos where woeld they go?
32:28
Speaker 2: After that? They're finding a way out of the one
32:31
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty four thousand sixty percent of them found
32:34
Speaker 2: their way like many of us have done.
32:37
Speaker 1: You notice you don't hear about them the.
32:38
Speaker 2: Way they're gonna get housing in thirty days.
32:40
Speaker 1: Though many of them, we're giving them intense care.
32:43
Speaker 2: We're not just telling you come here, hang out for
32:44
Speaker 2: thirty days and we're not gonna help you know, in
32:46
Speaker 2: those thirty days, and if you're a young person, you
32:50
Speaker 2: get sixty days. But in those thirty days or sixty days,
32:53
Speaker 2: we're giving you intense care. We're showing you how to
32:55
Speaker 2: find your way in our city. We're showing you how
32:58
Speaker 2: to go about applying for housing, to go about applying.
33:01
Speaker 1: For the services that you need.
33:02
Speaker 2: And some people are saying, we never wanted to come
33:05
Speaker 2: to New York at all. We wanted to come to
33:07
Speaker 2: another city, but the governor I said, no, We're sending
33:10
Speaker 2: you to New York. Think about this for a moment.
33:14
Speaker 2: We got thousands of Ukrainian migrants, thousands. Do you hear
33:18
Speaker 2: about them? No work?
33:20
Speaker 5: Just Mexican and Africans.
33:22
Speaker 2: Can you take a work? They have the right to work,
33:25
Speaker 2: so so we wouldn't even be having this conversation if
33:28
Speaker 2: we gave them the authority to work. Ain't know the
33:30
Speaker 2: real irony of this. We need workers.
33:33
Speaker 1: I need lifeguards, I need food service workers.
33:35
Speaker 2: Many of these micros from violence Venezuela are nurses and
33:38
Speaker 2: other professionals.
33:39
Speaker 1: I need people to backstretch workers.
33:41
Speaker 2: Other states are telling me Eric, we will take the
33:44
Speaker 2: migrants and asylum seekers if they just allow them to work.
33:47
Speaker 2: We're not gonna take them and just have them sit
33:49
Speaker 2: around every day. If they're allowed to work, we would
33:51
Speaker 2: take them. Agree national government. She agree with a lot
33:57
Speaker 2: of stuff.
33:58
Speaker 7: I trust you that she's on that train.
34:01
Speaker 6: I'm sitting here, Mary Adam, He's going to be. First
34:04
Speaker 6: of all, I ride the subway every day. I've worked
34:06
Speaker 6: as a public devendor in this city and represented thousands
34:09
Speaker 6: of people.
34:11
Speaker 4: Do you think more police may make people feel safe,
34:13
Speaker 4: especially black and brown?
34:14
Speaker 7: They don't black and brown people.
34:16
Speaker 2: Yes, brother, my god, I go to I just had
34:19
Speaker 2: the town hall. I just had a town hall yesterday.
34:22
Speaker 2: All these black and brown folks inside that town hall.
34:26
Speaker 2: Number one issue they came up, we want to feel safer.
34:30
Speaker 2: We want more cops.
34:32
Speaker 6: Want people want to feel safer. It doesn't mean they
34:34
Speaker 6: want more cops.
34:35
Speaker 7: And if they did.
34:35
Speaker 6: New York City as the most police in the country,
34:38
Speaker 6: want to be the largest police department in the country.
34:40
Speaker 7: How many want police? Do you want madam?
34:42
Speaker 2: Go do an analysis across the city and communities of
34:45
Speaker 2: color and ask them you want us to take your
34:49
Speaker 2: police away or do you want more police? I guarantee
34:53
Speaker 2: you you would be lost to find someone.
34:56
Speaker 4: When you had resources to that list. You want resources
34:59
Speaker 4: to get to the root of the this sho that's
35:00
Speaker 4: what people think.
35:01
Speaker 1: About the resource, about the resources we've done.
35:03
Speaker 2: Think about what we check out what we've done. Check
35:04
Speaker 2: out we've done. Advocates the far left, they have been
35:09
Speaker 2: calling for of summer youth employment for years. We gave
35:16
Speaker 2: them a hundred thousand never been done before in history.
35:19
Speaker 2: Never They've been calling for investment in Nicha. We put
35:23
Speaker 2: Nightscha as our top program. When I was doing during COVID,
35:27
Speaker 2: I was knocking on doors handling our mask to night
35:29
Speaker 2: your residents because the city refused to do so, and
35:32
Speaker 2: people were saying, why are you giving a masks of
35:33
Speaker 2: those people? When I was knocking the doors, I would
35:36
Speaker 2: ask the residents, how are your children doing the school?
35:39
Speaker 2: They said, Eric, we don't even have high speed broadband.
35:43
Speaker 2: I said, when I get elected, we're gonna change that.
35:46
Speaker 2: Now Nights of Residents all have free high speed broadbands
35:50
Speaker 2: so they children can have access like other children.
35:53
Speaker 1: We're doing the Nights of land Trust. No one was
35:55
Speaker 1: able to do it.
35:56
Speaker 2: We put more people in affordable housing using the value
36:00
Speaker 2: system than the history of the program. We transitioned more
36:03
Speaker 2: people out of shelter into housing in the in one
36:07
Speaker 2: year in the history of the city. When I went
36:10
Speaker 2: to do an analysis with all of my gang members
36:12
Speaker 2: and I asked them the question, you know, how many
36:14
Speaker 2: of you haven't learned disabilities? How many of your dyslexic?
36:17
Speaker 7: All of your gang member?
36:20
Speaker 6: That's what you're characterizing with people who are you kick
36:24
Speaker 6: with the gang?
36:25
Speaker 2: No, I mean regularly with people who you met up
36:29
Speaker 2: with some drug dealers at burger I'm glad you broughte
36:32
Speaker 2: that though. Oh let me just finish this one piece,
36:33
Speaker 2: because this is important. We noticed when we did the
36:38
Speaker 2: analysis across the country, not only in New York, across
36:40
Speaker 2: the country, thirty to forty of the inmates in jail
36:45
Speaker 2: and in prison have a learning disability. So when I
36:48
Speaker 2: sat there, I went the chances. I said, listen, we
36:50
Speaker 2: can't wait until people thank you, until people break the law.
36:54
Speaker 2: We did dyslexua screening in our schools and we were
36:58
Speaker 2: able to now catch and give them the wrap around
37:01
Speaker 2: services they need. So I want to talk about Burger King.
37:03
Speaker 2: So I'm sitting at home and I look at the paper.
37:06
Speaker 2: They say there's drug dealers selling drugs and for the
37:08
Speaker 2: Burger King. So I call up the priest and commander
37:11
Speaker 2: and I said, what is this man? We're not having
37:13
Speaker 2: open drug markets, he says, He says, Maya. We did
37:18
Speaker 2: a complete operation buying bus went to see, you know
37:23
Speaker 2: what drugs are they selling? Who's selling drugs? He said,
37:25
Speaker 2: These guys are not selling drugs. These guys are homeless
37:28
Speaker 2: and they just come to feel as though they could
37:31
Speaker 2: be around others. So when I went on Sunday, I
37:34
Speaker 2: went down and did what other people don't do. I
37:37
Speaker 2: spoke with them. I said, brothers, can we sit down
37:39
Speaker 2: and talk. Let me find out how you know what's
37:41
Speaker 2: going on in your life. We sat in Burger King,
37:43
Speaker 2: had a conversation shop brothers. They weren't even drug dealers. No,
37:47
Speaker 2: they were not drug dealers. They were just homeless brothers
37:50
Speaker 2: that just wanted to be a place where people they
37:53
Speaker 2: could communicate among others. Like other folks do when people
37:56
Speaker 2: have dog parks and people sit on the steps of
37:58
Speaker 2: a museum, And so wee there and had a conversation
38:02
Speaker 2: and we were able to identify what services and what
38:05
Speaker 2: I learned from them. You could have all the services
38:08
Speaker 2: you want, but if people don't know the entry remp
38:11
Speaker 2: to those services, then what good is it. So now
38:14
Speaker 2: we're going to devise a program that they're gonna help
38:17
Speaker 2: me devise on how to reach out to those services.
38:20
Speaker 2: Then I want those brothers to become recruiters to go
38:23
Speaker 2: inside the shelters. But you're not gonna do that if
38:26
Speaker 2: you are afraid to get on the ground and have
38:28
Speaker 2: these one on one conversations. I've been here, man. You
38:32
Speaker 2: know I know what it is to buy a nickel
38:34
Speaker 2: bag and make a joints so mommy can feed herself.
38:36
Speaker 2: I know what it is to run numbers. I know
38:39
Speaker 2: what these should do. All those things. So I'm comfortable
38:42
Speaker 2: among my folks. And the problem that a lot of
38:44
Speaker 2: people don't understand is they don't know how authentic I
38:47
Speaker 2: am about this work. But they're gonna look back over
38:49
Speaker 2: it and say, we had a mayor that came from
38:51
Speaker 2: us and deliver it for us. Even the billions of
38:55
Speaker 2: dollars that I'm putting into mwbe's that we've never had before.
38:59
Speaker 2: People gonna look back over these years and said, this
39:02
Speaker 2: brother was real.
39:02
Speaker 4: About what he's doing. Because that's why I'm doing this.
39:06
Speaker 4: You people were rapping about. I have two more questions.
39:08
Speaker 4: How do debit cards for.
39:09
Speaker 2: Migrants compare to New York City welfare benefits. I like
39:13
Speaker 2: that that's a good question because that was one of
39:14
Speaker 2: the biggest myths, and I think the Daily News you
39:17
Speaker 2: see the piece today of saying why this makes sense.
39:19
Speaker 2: So here's what happened. We were paying people because we
39:24
Speaker 2: by LAWD we got to feed them three meals a day.
39:26
Speaker 2: We got to feed the migrants three meals a day.
39:30
Speaker 2: When I told the team we spentd we got to
39:32
Speaker 2: bring down the cost of this by thirty percent because
39:35
Speaker 2: it was costing us too much money twelve billion dollars
39:37
Speaker 2: over three years, four billion dollars. Already. One of the
39:40
Speaker 2: places was food. We were seeing that we were having
39:43
Speaker 2: a ten percent food waste. People were getting food that
39:46
Speaker 2: didn't want and he just card it. So my team
39:49
Speaker 2: came together, first Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, first black woman
39:52
Speaker 2: to be a first deputy man. She came up with
39:56
Speaker 2: a team called Mulchifi MWe Black Product. They said that
40:01
Speaker 2: we can give people food cards where they can only
40:05
Speaker 2: purchase food and baby supplies. You will save six hundred
40:10
Speaker 2: thousand dollars a month. In course, people would buy the
40:14
Speaker 2: food that they want and not giving it to them
40:16
Speaker 2: from someone from some large conglamorate. Then they will have
40:21
Speaker 2: to spend the cards in the bodegas, the supermarkets, the
40:24
Speaker 2: local stores, so the money stays inside the community. And
40:28
Speaker 2: the program is run by a person of a person
40:31
Speaker 2: of color. With saving over seven million dollars a year,
40:35
Speaker 2: where no more food waste because people buying what they want.
40:39
Speaker 2: It's a black owned company, so we put money back
40:41
Speaker 2: into a black businesses like I said I was going
40:44
Speaker 2: to do, and you cannot buy anything but food or
40:47
Speaker 2: baby supplies. It's a complete win. But people heard it
40:50
Speaker 2: and it was sensationalized. Oh you're giving money to Mike.
40:53
Speaker 2: They only getting thirteen dollars a day for the three meals.
40:56
Speaker 2: It's a winning program.
40:59
Speaker 7: It's not that I have a problem, it said again.
41:01
Speaker 6: The sensationalism has a lot to do with the fact
41:02
Speaker 6: that you got up and declared that we have this
41:04
Speaker 6: migrant crisis, and I thought it was interesting your earlier
41:07
Speaker 6: point about the difference between how Ukrainian migrants are being
41:09
Speaker 6: received versus migrants Black and Latino migrants, because again, you
41:14
Speaker 6: gave a town hall where you were the one who
41:15
Speaker 6: gave this speech and incent like you incentivized New.
41:18
Speaker 7: Yorkers to feel this way, feel which way.
41:20
Speaker 6: Just feel like there is a migrant crisis where the
41:22
Speaker 6: migrants are being treated differently than them, where they're getting
41:24
Speaker 6: resources that the migrants are getting resources that are not
41:27
Speaker 6: being given to them, because you were the one who
41:28
Speaker 6: presented it to the city that you had to cut
41:31
Speaker 6: budgets across because of the migrant crisis, even though recently
41:34
Speaker 6: you decided that you all actually do have the money
41:36
Speaker 6: to handle the migrant issue, that just wasn't publicized as much.
41:39
Speaker 7: So this goes back to my original discussion.
41:42
Speaker 2: So you an attorney and you I'm amazed. I think
41:45
Speaker 2: your art is I'm just going to throw it out
41:46
Speaker 2: there and make people fin.
41:48
Speaker 7: Before you say, there's an entire council council that knows your.
41:51
Speaker 2: Lem met me, let me we we still don't have
41:55
Speaker 2: the money for the migrant We spent it twelve billion
41:58
Speaker 2: dollars in three years, four billion dollars already.
42:02
Speaker 1: What I said to New York Is at that town.
42:05
Speaker 2: Hall, this issue will bankrupt will destroy our city. This issue.
42:10
Speaker 6: You called specific countries. I remember you calling the countries.
42:14
Speaker 6: They weren't any and migrants. You weren't talking about them.
42:16
Speaker 2: So what happened when we don't have sister, I did
42:18
Speaker 2: not call the countries what they were front front.
42:22
Speaker 7: I went on the video, I went to Mary Adam.
42:25
Speaker 2: I went to Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico to get a full
42:30
Speaker 2: understanding of the flow. I went to the southern border,
42:33
Speaker 2: just as I went to those brothers in Burger King
42:36
Speaker 2: I went to the southern border to understand the problem.
42:38
Speaker 7: I remember you started that tour before you were going
42:40
Speaker 7: to go to go d C.
42:41
Speaker 6: And when you were going to go to DC to
42:43
Speaker 6: Biden to talk to Joe Biden about the migrant crisis.
42:45
Speaker 6: But you were stopped because they had the FBI had
42:47
Speaker 6: to take your phones.
42:49
Speaker 1: Could Lord, you just make up stuff?
42:51
Speaker 2: Didn't make that up?
42:52
Speaker 6: That's reported that I didn't see your phone. Yeah, I
42:55
Speaker 6: didn't see your phones. They didn't investigate what that's what happened?
42:58
Speaker 2: What did you just say you.
43:00
Speaker 7: I said, I remember that you went on when you
43:02
Speaker 7: were going to the border.
43:03
Speaker 2: When when I come back, I came back because somebody
43:05
Speaker 2: had because.
43:06
Speaker 7: It stopped, I said, I remember on the day up,
43:08
Speaker 7: I remember it because.
43:10
Speaker 2: You got amnesia and the media. This is this is important,
43:16
Speaker 2: This is important. I want you to understand.
43:17
Speaker 1: I want you to understand the hypocrisy of people.
43:22
Speaker 2: When the law enforcement does something every day, it's bad.
43:28
Speaker 2: But when they do something against Eric Adams, Oh it's good.
43:34
Speaker 7: I said, what happened. I didn't say that it was good.
43:36
Speaker 2: I don't think.
43:38
Speaker 7: For a legal can I don't think that I.
43:40
Speaker 2: Came back because of not that they had to take
43:44
Speaker 2: my phones. That is that is not true.
43:46
Speaker 7: And you just said it happened that day.
43:48
Speaker 2: No, it did not happen that day.
43:50
Speaker 7: I said, it was reported before you were going.
43:55
Speaker 6: Where your phone? Did they search your topic day? Did
43:59
Speaker 6: they search the home of the several people? Okay, yes,
44:01
Speaker 6: that's what I said. And I didn't say that was
44:02
Speaker 6: a good thing. I don't think it's good about the.
44:06
Speaker 4: So what happens when New York City doesn't have the
44:07
Speaker 4: money for migrants and then you know the migrants are
44:10
Speaker 4: in this city, and they probably have to do what
44:12
Speaker 4: most poor people have to do, which is sometimes resort
44:15
Speaker 4: the crime.
44:15
Speaker 2: How is that gonna make the city say right? Right?
44:17
Speaker 2: And that's and that's part of the problem. Imagine having
44:20
Speaker 2: a group of people eighteen to twenty four years old
44:23
Speaker 2: and it's being told you can't do anything all day.
44:26
Speaker 2: When you go to these hurks and you're seeing these
44:32
Speaker 2: young people, and I walk in and I talk with them,
44:34
Speaker 2: some of them coming from West Africa, South America, Central America.
44:37
Speaker 2: All they saying is, man, we just want to work.
44:39
Speaker 2: We don't want to sit around here all day and
44:42
Speaker 2: not do anything. That is why the real focus should
44:45
Speaker 2: be on our national government. That's saying, why you're doing
44:48
Speaker 2: this to New York while you check out what they're doing.
44:51
Speaker 4: They're doing it to New York, They're doing it to Chicago,
44:54
Speaker 4: They're doing it to Los Angeles, they're doing it to Houston.
44:58
Speaker 2: What is the same in all those cities? All black mans,
45:03
Speaker 2: all black mens, and so what we're saying, same thing
45:07
Speaker 2: that I'm going through here. My brother Johnson is going through,
45:10
Speaker 2: my sis Sebass is going through, my brother Turner is
45:13
Speaker 2: going through. So our folks are what they wanted to happen.
45:17
Speaker 2: Governor Appen wanted to happen. We're gonna turn these of
45:21
Speaker 2: cities against their mayors. We're gonna create this environment where
45:25
Speaker 2: they're all going to go against their mayors. Go google
45:27
Speaker 2: what they doing to my brother in Chicago. Go google
45:30
Speaker 2: what they doing to sister Bass. So the cities have
45:34
Speaker 2: now turned against these black mayors that are making real
45:38
Speaker 2: change for the first time. And and and they're using
45:42
Speaker 2: this to say, Okay, these black mans are not competent.
45:45
Speaker 2: They can't run their cities. They're getting everything to the
45:47
Speaker 2: miners and assimum seekers. This was a perfectly executed plan
45:52
Speaker 2: that we are buying into man look batter and when
45:55
Speaker 2: we're when we're doing just the opposite. We we I
45:58
Speaker 2: inherited a city that was in this array. This array,
46:03
Speaker 2: you know, and no matter how much you do your analysis,
46:06
Speaker 2: you gotta walk away with this brother got more private
46:09
Speaker 2: sector jobs in the history of the city. We reached
46:11
Speaker 2: that point. This brother had his bond rated increased forty percent,
46:15
Speaker 2: increasing crime, and I came in with now dropped those crimes,
46:18
Speaker 2: thirteen thousand guns. We moved off our city, outpacing the
46:22
Speaker 2: state and reading and writing for our children in the
46:24
Speaker 2: public schools, school system, sixty two million tourists are back here,
46:28
Speaker 2: more housing, FT vouchers. You go down the list, investing nights,
46:33
Speaker 2: you go down the list, You're seeing a brother that
46:35
Speaker 2: managed the city that people said was unmanageable, and we
46:38
Speaker 2: did it in two years, in three months. It's my
46:41
Speaker 2: last question.
46:41
Speaker 4: Do you believe the Biden administration's border policies have fueled
46:44
Speaker 4: the worst border crisis in US history?
46:47
Speaker 2: In New York? You said New York history or in
46:49
Speaker 2: the American American history New York. I think it definitely
46:54
Speaker 2: impacts us, But I think it's an accumulation of what
46:57
Speaker 2: the White House is spailing to do, and the Republican
47:00
Speaker 2: led congresses failing to do, and other administrations. People don't
47:03
Speaker 2: want to deal with the fact that we need real
47:05
Speaker 2: immigration reform. Now, let me tell you what this shit
47:07
Speaker 2: looks like. Do you know right here in our country
47:09
Speaker 2: where we are decreasing in population in many cities, we're
47:13
Speaker 2: hurting for people in many cities. When people come across
47:16
Speaker 2: the border, the national government should say, you're gonna go
47:20
Speaker 2: to this city where we need populations, stay there for
47:22
Speaker 2: three years, and then you could go anywhere you want
47:24
Speaker 2: In the country.
47:25
Speaker 1: We need to use this crisis as an opportunity.
47:28
Speaker 2: Our cities are hurting in Kentucky, they're hurting for backstretch
47:31
Speaker 2: workers in the racing industry. We should be saying, you
47:34
Speaker 2: want to come here, You're gonna go to Kentucky. You're
47:36
Speaker 2: gonna stay for three years.
47:37
Speaker 1: You're gonna learn how to be in the country and work.
47:40
Speaker 2: That's how we should do it instead of just saying
47:42
Speaker 2: go whatever you want and allowing this to be politicized
47:46
Speaker 2: by the governor of Texas and saying we're gonna Now,
47:52
Speaker 2: we're gonna hurt Chicago.
47:53
Speaker 1: Hurt New York, hurt Los Angeles, hurt Philadelphia.
47:56
Speaker 2: We just got a sister who's there was the elected
48:00
Speaker 2: may The day she was being sworn in, a plane
48:02
Speaker 2: of migas was coming in. None was coming before, but
48:06
Speaker 2: no was. No Michaels was going.
48:07
Speaker 1: To Los Angeles and Tilbass became mayor.
48:10
Speaker 2: When I when I'm when in the first female black
48:12
Speaker 2: man became mayor. When she became here, they said, let's
48:15
Speaker 2: start sending them, sending them to Los Angeles. They playing us, man,
48:19
Speaker 2: they playing us.
48:20
Speaker 4: You know that I respect any elected official who can
48:23
Speaker 4: come have this conversation.
48:25
Speaker 2: Uh, because these are the tough questions. Yeah, without a doubt,
48:28
Speaker 2: without a doubs. You know, what can y'all do to
48:30
Speaker 2: work together? We should?
48:33
Speaker 1: You're you're because no matter care. Yeah, without a doubt.
48:36
Speaker 2: You know what's an interesting You said that because when
48:38
Speaker 2: I was when I was in you know, I'm in
48:41
Speaker 2: rooms with folks, and I walk out of those rooms
48:44
Speaker 2: and I said, you know what. We both disagreed, but
48:46
Speaker 2: we both loved the city and love our people. We
48:50
Speaker 2: have to separate the ten percent of disagreement and focus
48:55
Speaker 2: on the ninety percent that we agree with.
48:57
Speaker 1: You agree that our children should be educated.
48:59
Speaker 2: You read that those brothers when they get but sisters
49:01
Speaker 2: when they get out of reichers, should come out better
49:05
Speaker 2: than what they went in.
49:06
Speaker 1: You agree that we should be saved. You agree that
49:08
Speaker 1: no mother.
49:09
Speaker 2: Should have to lose their child to over policing or
49:13
Speaker 2: to someone who is discharging the gun. We agree on
49:17
Speaker 2: many things. The temperacent that we don't agree on, then listen,
49:21
Speaker 2: let's debate that. But this ninety percent of the stuff.
49:25
Speaker 2: We agree that black women should be able to go
49:27
Speaker 2: through their school system and get into some of these
49:30
Speaker 2: employments like first man in history that have five women
49:35
Speaker 2: deputy man. First man in history Dominican, Filipino, African American, Trinidadian.
49:43
Speaker 2: You know, first man history that has a person of color.
49:46
Speaker 2: That's the police commissioner, correction commissioner. First man history that
49:51
Speaker 2: have done so many things. I know retrospectfully, I'm gonna
49:54
Speaker 2: be appreciated as a mayor that lived up to what
49:56
Speaker 2: I said I was going to do. I'm not gonna
49:58
Speaker 2: do that now. You know, people always crap on the
50:00
Speaker 2: when we in the ring. But when my when my
50:02
Speaker 2: gloves are hung up, people gonna look at listen. That
50:04
Speaker 2: was an authentic.
50:06
Speaker 8: Ball headed, earring wearing brother that did his thing as
50:10
Speaker 8: the mayor of the City of New York, the most
50:11
Speaker 8: important city on the globe is being run by a
50:15
Speaker 8: person who is dyslexic, arrested, rejected.
50:19
Speaker 2: Now I'm elected me the mayor of the City's Mayor
50:22
Speaker 2: Eric Adams. Yimmy, Oh Laurence. It's the Breakfast Club.
50:27
Speaker 5: Good morning, Wake that ass up in the morning.
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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club