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INTERVIEW: Mayor Eric Adams Talks Mayoral Election '25, Trump, Zohran Mamdani, NYC Crime, Media Criticism +More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Every day.
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Speaker 2: A wait, click, yours up the breakfast club.
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Speaker 3: You'll finish for y'all done morning.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is the dj n V.
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Speaker 3: Just Hilarius Charlamagne to God, we are the breakfast club.
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Speaker 3: Lawla roses here as well. We got a special guest
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Speaker 3: in the building. Yes, indeed, the mayor of New York City.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams.
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Speaker 2: Welcome.
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Speaker 4: Good to be here. Nice to here and talk about
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Speaker 4: the city. How you feeling, brother good man? You know,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I took my hand off the steering wheel
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Speaker 4: a long time.
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Speaker 1: Let's go.
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Speaker 4: Let God turn on my GPS. My God positioned a satellite,
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Speaker 4: got me here. He's gonna take me to the next level.
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Speaker 5: You know a question everybody keeps asking, are you dropping
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Speaker 5: out of the mayor race?
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Speaker 4: And you know what, I answered that one hundred and
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Speaker 4: one time, and no matter how I answer it, they
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Speaker 4: come back with the same Seven weeks ago when they
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Speaker 4: first raised that I had something that Gracie mansion and
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Speaker 4: said listen, I'm here to the end, they wrote that
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Speaker 4: he's dropping out. They say, then he's going to want
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Speaker 4: He's going to Saudi Arabia. I said, no, I'm not.
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Speaker 4: They then they I was going to be hud No,
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Speaker 4: I'm not. I was going to meet Donald Trump at
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Speaker 4: Yankee Stadium.
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Speaker 1: No, I did not.
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Speaker 4: Well, people don't understand when you run for mayor, one
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Speaker 4: of the most important aspects of running for mayor is
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Speaker 4: raising the money.
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Speaker 1: People couldn't beat me.
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Speaker 4: At the Poland site, and so they orchestrated and organized
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Speaker 4: to really undermine my campaign. When you hear that the
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Speaker 4: mayor is dropping out over and over again, your funders
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Speaker 4: are gone. Now I'm in court with campaign finance board.
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Speaker 4: They owe me four million dollars. They don't want to
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Speaker 4: give it to me. I spent eight million dollars the
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Speaker 4: last time I ran. I'm down to now half of
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Speaker 4: that now. So they have undermined my ability to get
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Speaker 4: my message out by making sure they cut off all
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Speaker 4: the ways I could raise money to get it done.
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Speaker 4: So now I'm in a point now when I'm meeting
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Speaker 4: with my funders. They said everything. They keep telling me,
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Speaker 4: you're dropping out. So our goal is to finish this race.
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Speaker 4: But we have to win this court. That's in case,
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Speaker 4: that's in its case, that's in court right now to
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Speaker 4: get out four million dollars.
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Speaker 1: Question.
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Speaker 3: When you first came in office, it seems like the
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Speaker 3: city loved Mayor Adams, right. They loved you, loved the
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Speaker 3: fact that you were touching the people, you were outside,
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Speaker 3: you were doing things that a lot of mayors wouldn't like.
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Speaker 3: You were on forty second Street giving away food. You
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Speaker 3: were doing a lot for the city. You were popping
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Speaker 3: up in Harlem and Brooklyn and Queens. And then it
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Speaker 3: became a turning point where people started to not like
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Speaker 3: Mayor Adams or start to dislike, why did that happen?
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Speaker 3: Do you think it was an orchestrated thing? Why do
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Speaker 3: you think people started questioning That's a great question.
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Speaker 1: Think about it. Fun moment where do people get their
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Speaker 1: opinions from.
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Speaker 4: They pick up the papers, they start reading the papers,
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Speaker 4: and they start saying, Okay, this is what's happening in
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Speaker 4: the city. When I go to town halls, when I'm
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Speaker 4: at forty projects, when I go out to a storia
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Speaker 4: and I start sharing what we have done, people say, what,
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Speaker 4: I didn't know that there was when I one mayor.
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Speaker 4: Here's the inner story that a lot of people don't know.
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Speaker 4: When I won mayor. You can't win city wide in
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Speaker 4: this city without winning what's called the New York Times Belt,
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Speaker 4: Upper West Side, Oxlo, Kyle Gardens, Brooklyn Heights.
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Speaker 1: I lost all of that.
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Speaker 4: The everyday person in the street say, this guy is
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Speaker 4: one of us, and from day one go look at
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Speaker 4: how I was covered. People don't know I build more
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Speaker 4: housing in the city than any manor in the history
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Speaker 4: of the city in my individual years. They don't know
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Speaker 4: that low income New York is no longer pay them
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Speaker 4: come tax because of me, nineteen billion dollars in black
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Speaker 4: and minority owned businesses that I put in. They don't
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Speaker 4: know what I'm doing for forced care children, paying their
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Speaker 4: college tuition, giving them life coaches until they twenty one.
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Speaker 4: They don't know what we're doing about homelessness, putting people
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Speaker 4: to permanent housing.
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Speaker 1: Nobody knows my story.
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Speaker 5: If they don't know, then if they don't know, then
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Speaker 5: is it really getting done? Because if the people should
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Speaker 5: be the ones that have impact about what you're doing,
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Speaker 5: so why wouldn't they know?
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Speaker 4: Right Well, here there's a couple of things. People who
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Speaker 4: go through it knows it all the time. They righting me,
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Speaker 4: they stopped me in the street. They tell me about
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Speaker 4: the housing they got, my universal after school program, what
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Speaker 4: we're doing about dyslexia.
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Speaker 1: Folks on Rykers.
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Speaker 4: I've been on Rykers all in the morning, the man
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Speaker 4: the history of the city, speaking with the inmates, giving
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Speaker 4: them the services they need. So those who are recipient
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Speaker 4: of it they know. But when you pick up the paper,
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Speaker 4: the average day person that's sitting down reading, all they
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Speaker 4: know is that, hey, this guy's out all the time.
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Speaker 1: Part of it.
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Speaker 4: No, I revitalized my our nightlife industry, a by yourself,
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Speaker 4: multi billion dollars, multi billion.
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Speaker 1: Dollar industry, multi billion dollar industry.
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Speaker 4: Before I became man, they were closing down these industries
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Speaker 4: with black and brown people were opening their own businesses,
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Speaker 4: they were closing them down.
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Speaker 1: That stopped under me. I said, We're no longer going
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Speaker 1: to go.
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Speaker 4: In and close down the heart and soul of how
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Speaker 4: these businesses start and how they employ one hundred thousand
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Speaker 4: people who are getting jobs through it. So so what
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Speaker 4: you do now during campaign, you take your campaign money
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Speaker 4: and you able to go over the media and speak
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Speaker 4: directly to people.
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Speaker 1: I don't have the money.
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Speaker 2: You know, over the past weekend, you didn't attend any.
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Speaker 5: P public events while a lot of the rivals with
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Speaker 5: out campaigning, and people use that to fuel more speculation
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Speaker 5: that you're preparing to drop out, So how do you
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Speaker 5: respond to that?
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Speaker 4: Sick too much to Charlamagne. No matter what I said,
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Speaker 4: they did it anyway. We were sitting down behind the scenes,
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Speaker 4: sitting down with funded, sitting down with the campaign team, figuring.
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Speaker 1: Out our strategies to go. I could be out.
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Speaker 4: I'm outside all the time. Brother, you know, I could
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Speaker 4: be outside running around the city all the time. But
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Speaker 4: anyone that knows how to build their institutions know there's
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Speaker 4: a time for you to meet with your team and
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Speaker 4: strategize what the next steps are. Just running around the
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Speaker 4: city is not how you win a campaign. And they
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Speaker 4: don't have day jobs.
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 4: I still got a day job. I had the U incoming,
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Speaker 4: a major security issue that we had to make sure
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Speaker 4: was correct. I had the high holiday, I had to
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Speaker 4: Russashana come in making sure we deal with threats.
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Speaker 1: So I still have to run the city. It's not
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Speaker 1: just about running around shaking hands.
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Speaker 4: I had a job to do and I gotta build
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Speaker 4: my strong campaign.
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Speaker 5: And that's that's what I give you credit for that
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Speaker 5: because you know they were giving you flat for not
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Speaker 5: being at the African American Day Parade. But I've seen
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Speaker 5: you at events like like the heaven up in Harlem.
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Speaker 1: Event that og Daniel did right.
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Speaker 2: That wasn't like a scheduled thing.
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Speaker 1: You're just there right right.
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Speaker 4: And listen, there's never been a man in the history
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Speaker 4: of the city that's been among the people like I have.
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Speaker 4: You know, I'll drive through Brownsville and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 4: I see a closed barber shop, closed hair salon, people
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Speaker 4: sitting in the back smoking a cigar. I'm popping in
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Speaker 4: there talking to them. How you feeling on the ground, folks,
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Speaker 4: what's happening on the ground. You know, I can walk
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Speaker 4: through any community in this city and you see from
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Speaker 4: the Upper West Side to Harlem to Brooklyn, people see that.
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Speaker 4: You know what Eric is among us, And I've never
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Speaker 4: stopped being among it. That's nothing special about me, you know.
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Speaker 4: You know I've never come across that. Listen, I'm a
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Speaker 4: man special. No, I'm the same dislects it South Jamaica
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Speaker 4: Queen's Hole and your sneak as carboys in the bottom.
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Speaker 4: I'm the same person, brother, same person. And they never
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Speaker 4: had a mayor like me, and they never want to
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Speaker 4: see that mayor do it again. What we did for
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Speaker 4: black and brown people in the city's amazing. Think about
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Speaker 4: this for a moment. A lot of people don't even
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Speaker 4: realize this. So who the victims of shootings in the
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Speaker 4: city black and brown? Twenty three thousand illegal guns off
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Speaker 4: the street, the lowest numbers of shootings and homicide in
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Speaker 4: the first seven months of this year in the history
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Speaker 4: of the city. Who is a street homeless? Black and brown?
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Speaker 4: We removed thirty five hundred people off our streets into
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Speaker 4: permanent housing. Permanent housing. Who's in our Department of Education
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Speaker 4: black and brown? Other ethnic groups are in, but predominantly
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Speaker 4: black and brown.
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Speaker 1: And we have.
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Speaker 4: Improved education in our city, our pace to state and reading,
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Speaker 4: the math, universal after school programs, one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 4: thousand children into pre K.
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Speaker 1: Who is summer youth employment black and brown?
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Speaker 4: One hundred thousand summer youth employment that we've done never
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Speaker 4: been done before. So what I'm saying is, when you
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Speaker 4: pick apart my success in my policies, you have to
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Speaker 4: say to yourself, this guy has gone after those who.
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Speaker 1: Are ignored for years. I agree with you.
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Speaker 3: But you know, the thing that we talk about all
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Speaker 3: the time is we hear all these numbers of stats, right, yes,
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Speaker 3: and we talk about we hear about crime coming down.
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Speaker 3: But a lot of times it doesn't feel like that, right,
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Speaker 3: And maybe that's what we hear in the stories, like
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm driving in today, police officer puns in
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Speaker 3: the face and knocked onto the train tracks and pulled out.
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Speaker 3: You know, shooting here, shooting there, shooting in there. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't feel as safe as the numbers would say it.
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Speaker 1: Was, right. Why do you say that? And that's a
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Speaker 1: great question, brother, Think about this for a moment.
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Speaker 4: Five point six million people ride our subway every day,
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Speaker 4: five point six million. We have five average of five
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Speaker 4: feelings a day on our system. With five point six million,
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Speaker 4: I mean, those numbers are astronomical. And so when you
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Speaker 4: city of eight point five million people, when you take
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Speaker 4: the worst thing that happens in that city that day
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Speaker 4: and you plastered on the front pages, how were you
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Speaker 4: gonna fail people? When I inherited the subway system, when
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Speaker 4: I became mayor, no one wanted to be on.
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Speaker 1: The subway system. We put police officers on there.
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Speaker 4: We went down to make sure we got people with
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Speaker 4: severe mental health off our issues, off our system. We
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Speaker 4: removed the encampments. People were living on the side of highways.
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Speaker 4: They were even in boxes and tents on our streets.
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Speaker 4: And so no, people don't feel that way because it
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Speaker 4: takes a lot of time before your perception view the reality.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes people are living in the past of what they
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Speaker 4: felt before.
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Speaker 5: So when you put more police presents on the subways,
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Speaker 5: it bought the crime.
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Speaker 1: There was a combination of things we did.
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Speaker 4: When we did in the analysis, we saw that a
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Speaker 4: lot of people say, well, hey, we want the police
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Speaker 4: walking through our trains. That's not where the crimes were happening.
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Speaker 4: The crimes will happening on the platforms. And so when
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Speaker 4: we did a combination number one putting our visible presence
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Speaker 4: on the platform, number two going after those with severe
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Speaker 4: mental health issues and getting them the care that they need.
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Speaker 4: A thousand people we took off the streets. And so
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Speaker 4: you're right, brother, when you say, okay, you're giving us
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Speaker 4: the numbers. But when you run a city, you have
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Speaker 4: to run it based on indicators. You have to run
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Speaker 4: it based on something to determine if you're moving in
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Speaker 4: the right direction. Because when bond raiders determined are we
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Speaker 4: gonna tell people to invest in your city, we need
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Speaker 4: to see these indicators. The bond raiders raised my bond,
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Speaker 4: they said, this guy has gone through COVID two hundred
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Speaker 4: and thirty seven thousand migras and asylum seekers law fair
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Speaker 4: where they hit him with some bogus federal charges. Out
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Speaker 4: of all of that, this guy has still moved the
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Speaker 4: city forward unprecedented levels. You know, so the numbers don't lie.
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Speaker 4: You know, I can say whatever I want, But when
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Speaker 4: you analyze, here's where the city was, Here's where the
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Speaker 4: city is. We have more jobs in New York and
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Speaker 4: the history of the city. I broke the erecord eleven
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Speaker 4: times more small businesses in the history of the city.
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Speaker 4: When I came into an office, black unemployment was four
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Speaker 4: times the rates of white unemployment. We dropped it by
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Speaker 4: twenty percent in the black and brown community. We turned
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Speaker 4: this city around. Now, when people are pissed off at,
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Speaker 4: look who I did it with. First black women to
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Speaker 4: be a first deputy mayor, first black woman police commissioner,
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Speaker 4: A first Hispanic male to run the Department of Correction,
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Speaker 4: first black to be a chief advisor, first a Dominican
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Speaker 4: in the history of the city to be a deputy mayor,
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Speaker 4: first Filipino to be a deputy mayor of first Indian
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Speaker 4: to be a deputy mayor.
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Speaker 1: I changed the landscape of the city.
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Speaker 3: Do you feel like that's the reason why you're being
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Speaker 3: attacked so much because you've done so much?
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Speaker 1: I take so many minorities on. Well, no, I think
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Speaker 1: it's a combination.
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Speaker 4: Someone told me one time, they said, listen, Eric, you
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Speaker 4: don't have enough gray haired white men around you. You
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Speaker 4: looked at my administration, brother, my administration looked like us, and.
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Speaker 1: So what do they do? They say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let's start just tackling him in his community. It's the
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Speaker 1: same thing happened with David Dinkins.
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Speaker 4: You know, go back and look at the stories at
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Speaker 4: David Dinkins and see how they had the community start saying, well,
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Speaker 4: you know, David Dinkins is always dressing up in the suit.
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Speaker 4: He's not you know, he's not one of us anymore.
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Speaker 4: And they roaded his base of support. So our folks
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Speaker 4: just stayed home. You know, they just did it just
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Speaker 4: enough to have him, to have our folks stayed home.
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Speaker 4: This is you know, I'm the second black mayor in
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Speaker 4: over thirty years. We have not had a black mayor
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Speaker 4: in thirty years. And I learned from David Who Mayor
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Speaker 4: Dinkins who tutored me and told me, and I said,
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Speaker 4: I'm going I'm going to go in with a clear
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Speaker 4: agenda of how do we help those.
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Speaker 1: Who have been underserved for years? And we did it.
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Speaker 1: The record is clear.
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Speaker 2: But a lot of your criticism comes from black people though.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but why to tell me? Why where do they
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Speaker 4: get where they get their opinions from?
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Speaker 1: I keep I think.
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Speaker 4: We're underestimating the power of the media in this city.
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Speaker 1: Where do they get their opinions from?
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Speaker 2: The look at it?
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Speaker 5: You think you think it's white media shaping narratives negatively about.
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Speaker 1: You, Well, I know, I don't think you know.
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Speaker 4: You can't say only the white media, right, look across
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Speaker 4: the country, look across the country, look at the black
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Speaker 4: mans across the country.
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Speaker 1: And look what they're doing and bring it down prime
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Speaker 1: trust country.
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Speaker 5: And I'll give you credit to you were the first
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Speaker 5: person that at least put that on my radar.
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Speaker 2: Last time you would say, you said, there was an attack.
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Speaker 4: On man black man's Look at under the previous administration,
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Speaker 4: a lot of people want to talk about it. Under
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Speaker 4: the previous administration, the migras and asylum seekers went to Chicago,
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Speaker 4: went to Los Angeles, went to Houston, went to New York.
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Speaker 4: What was the same in all of those cities. They
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Speaker 4: were all black mans. And check this out. This is
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Speaker 4: the thing that a lot of people don't realize. They said, Okay, Eric,
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Speaker 4: the migros in assylum seekert issues over everything is fine.
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Speaker 1: No, it's not.
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Speaker 4: Of course, the seven point two billion dollars that is
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Speaker 4: seven point two billion dollars that I could not put
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Speaker 4: into five hundred million into chronically absent children, a billion
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Speaker 4: dollars into senior housing, five hundred millions into more programs
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Speaker 4: for our youth formerly incarcerated. That money is going to
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Speaker 4: have a long term impact on our city. We're going
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Speaker 4: to see the byproduct of what that fre this administration
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Speaker 4: did to us. We're gonna see the by product of
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Speaker 4: that for years to come.
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Speaker 5: But a lot of that is democratic messaging fault, because
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Speaker 5: you know, you created sanctuary cities and you said that
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Speaker 5: those people will welcome here. So what a lot of
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Speaker 5: those Republican governors did was put those people on planes
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Speaker 5: and busses and send them to those so called sanctuary cities.
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Speaker 2: And then when y'all got overwhelmed, y'all was like whoa They.
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Speaker 1: Said, look, let me give you my version of it.
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Speaker 4: You know, let's understand what centuary city is, because a
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Speaker 4: lot of people conflate sanctuary cities.
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Speaker 1: What we say at centuary cities.
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Speaker 4: So when somebody buy this bottle of water, they pay
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Speaker 4: taxes on this bottle of water.
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Speaker 1: Those taxes allow you services.
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Speaker 4: So if your child needs to be educated, they should
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Speaker 4: be allowed to go to school. If you're a victim
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Speaker 4: of a crime, you should be allowed to call a police.
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Speaker 4: If you need medical care, you should be allowed to
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Speaker 4: go to the hospital. Because you're paying taxes. You don't
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Speaker 4: walk into a grocery store and someone say you're undocumented,
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Speaker 4: so I'm not gonna give you the tax No, you
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Speaker 4: allowed to get those taxes when people when we tell people,
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Speaker 4: if you come here, we're gonna treat you what respect.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna make sure you get the services that your
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Speaker 4: tax dollars are paying for, and we're gonna make sure
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Speaker 4: you're treated with dignity and respect. It was the federal
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Speaker 4: government responsibility to seal a border. So people can say
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Speaker 4: what they want about the current administration. When they sealed
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Speaker 4: the border, we stopped getting to flow. I was getting
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Speaker 4: four thousand a week, and the federal law said, you
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Speaker 4: can't stop the buses from coming in Eric, you can't
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Speaker 4: even allow them to work. You can't even allow them
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Speaker 4: to volunteer and give them a stifle And the city
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Speaker 4: law said, you're gonna feed, house clothed and educate the children.
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Speaker 4: So I'm following the law when they came into the city.
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Speaker 4: I don't control who comes into the country, but I
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Speaker 4: have to make sure while you're here your children are
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Speaker 4: in school. They're not they're going to be the victims
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Speaker 4: of abuse by staying home. I gotta make sure if
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Speaker 4: you need medical care, you could go to the Hospital's
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Speaker 4: not you're gonna overrun my emergency room. And people would
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Speaker 4: pray on you, knowing that you can't call a police
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Speaker 4: if you're a victim of a crime.
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Speaker 1: So it wasn't that we said whoa, whoa, whoa. I
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Speaker 1: was always saying, whoa. Control your control. The borders. Don't
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Speaker 1: put this on cities.
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Speaker 4: The cities are having to fulfill the obligations federal government.
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Speaker 4: And in spite of that, we moved the city forward.
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Speaker 4: You know, the people will tell you, you know what
16:09
Speaker 4: the guy did move the city for it. You know,
16:11
Speaker 4: the guy did turn around of the city. The guy
16:13
Speaker 4: did improve employment, improve housing. Had the city say we
16:18
Speaker 4: got it, we got it, you know, but you know what,
16:20
Speaker 4: he's too close to truck. But nobody tells you. I
16:23
Speaker 4: took this administration to court more than any mayor in
16:26
Speaker 4: the country. They sued me, you know, more than any mayor.
16:31
Speaker 4: And when we needed the administration, we were able to
16:34
Speaker 4: get the call them to get the things done. So
16:36
Speaker 4: it's not that I'm not under anyone's thumb. I'm running
16:39
Speaker 4: my city. I'm fighting for my city because I know
16:43
Speaker 4: the impact it has on those communities.
16:47
Speaker 6: Yes, what do you say to people that have given
16:50
Speaker 6: up on council altogether? Because I know you you talk
16:53
Speaker 6: about the numbers and everything. You say numbers don't lie.
16:56
Speaker 6: But a lot of people they're not paying attendions to
16:59
Speaker 6: the numbers. They paying assision to what they're going through.
17:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
17:02
Speaker 6: They see their day to day life. It ain't safe
17:04
Speaker 6: for them. It's no crime is down, I mean crime
17:07
Speaker 6: is up to them. They're not making no money.
17:09
Speaker 4: They you know, without a doubt, listen, is it expensive
17:13
Speaker 4: to live in New York. You're doing right, you know
17:16
Speaker 4: you're doing right. Jordan my Son tells me all the time.
17:18
Speaker 4: He's like dad, you know, but think about for mama
17:21
Speaker 4: what I said in twenty twenty three, a.
17:24
Speaker 1: Year in office, I sat down with the team. I said, listen,
17:27
Speaker 1: I don't have.
17:27
Speaker 4: Any control on the price of bread, but I could
17:30
Speaker 4: put bread back in the pockets of New Yorkers. We
17:32
Speaker 4: put thirty billion dollars back into the pockets of New Yorkers.
17:36
Speaker 1: What does that look like.
17:37
Speaker 4: Free high speed brought band for nightscha and other homes.
17:41
Speaker 4: That's one hundred and fifty nine dollars a month. We
17:44
Speaker 4: dropped the court of childcare if you have two children
17:47
Speaker 4: in schools, we dropped the course in childcare. We dropped
17:49
Speaker 4: the cost of childcare from twenty two twenty twenty dollars
17:53
Speaker 4: a month to less than twenty dollars a month. That's
17:55
Speaker 4: another two hundred dollars. We're paying off medical debt. If
17:58
Speaker 4: you're a low income New Yorker and you have META,
18:00
Speaker 4: we're paying that off for you.
18:01
Speaker 1: You not long have to pay.
18:02
Speaker 4: For that of universal after school program for free, paying
18:07
Speaker 4: the college tuition of night of our forster care of
18:11
Speaker 4: care children. So when you start picking apart our programs,
18:14
Speaker 4: it comes to a total of thirty billion dollars.
18:18
Speaker 5: So why are those actual actions not resonating with people?
18:22
Speaker 5: But Mandannie's messaging of affordability is because if you actually
18:26
Speaker 5: already are putting more money back in people's pockets, why
18:29
Speaker 5: is it not resonating. But his messaging of affordability.
18:33
Speaker 4: Is without a doubt, Brothers, think about for a moment,
18:35
Speaker 4: because what he has done successfully says I'm going to
18:39
Speaker 4: identify the pain that people are feeling. Yes, Eric is
18:42
Speaker 4: addressing it, but you're not learning about that. I'm addressing
18:45
Speaker 4: it because it's not being coveed. We need to be
18:47
Speaker 4: clear on that. And so what he has done successfully
18:50
Speaker 4: is says I'm going to identify the pain that people
18:52
Speaker 4: are feeling. I'm just going to tell him anything that
18:54
Speaker 4: they want to hear.
18:55
Speaker 2: But it shouldn't be no pain if you're actually addressing
18:58
Speaker 2: the issue.
18:58
Speaker 1: Though.
18:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, but going back to what with all of you said,
19:01
Speaker 4: perception is reality. Think about the fourth think think about
19:04
Speaker 4: this for a moment. He's putting down a proposal saying
19:07
Speaker 4: I'm going to freeze your rent. Right, he can't. You
19:12
Speaker 4: can't free freeze night your rent. You can't freeze Mitchyallama rent.
19:16
Speaker 4: You can't free market rate rent. You can't freeze affordable
19:20
Speaker 4: housing rent. You could only freeze and he can't even
19:23
Speaker 4: really freeze it. The board has to freeze it of
19:26
Speaker 4: the rent guidelines. Board has to freeze it if you're
19:29
Speaker 4: part of one portion of housing in the city. So
19:33
Speaker 4: now everyone is running around the city. That's in Knightsia,
19:36
Speaker 4: that's in Mitchellama, that's in market rate. Say okay, he's
19:38
Speaker 4: gonna freeze our rent.
19:39
Speaker 1: So he's selling dreams. The guy is Snake's oil salesman man.
19:45
Speaker 1: The guy and not only that, think about this also
19:48
Speaker 1: for a moment, you got a daughter, of course, got too.
19:51
Speaker 4: Excuse me, right, how do you feel if your daughter,
19:54
Speaker 4: I don't know if she's an athlete or not. Your
19:56
Speaker 4: daughter is an athlete, she plays volleyballs, she goes into
19:59
Speaker 4: the locker room and you know, after the game, take
20:02
Speaker 4: a shower. His mindset is that a male that thinks
20:05
Speaker 4: he's a woman can walk aside that.
20:07
Speaker 1: Shower with him, take a shower with him. I don't
20:09
Speaker 1: rock that.
20:10
Speaker 5: Way, No, I'm laughing. That feels but that feels like
20:16
Speaker 5: an old play. Now like that, man, I feel like
20:19
Speaker 5: an old play that you just ran. Like that felt
20:21
Speaker 5: like I feel like something than the Trump playbook from
20:24
Speaker 5: Maial No, I agree, but I'm just shocking at you.
20:31
Speaker 1: About decriminalizing prostitution.
20:33
Speaker 4: You know what, I just cleaned up prostitution over the
20:36
Speaker 4: city by connecting sisters and people who are victims of
20:40
Speaker 4: sex crimes. I've given them the services and support that
20:43
Speaker 4: they need.
20:44
Speaker 2: Decriminalized prostitution.
20:45
Speaker 1: He wants a decriminalized prostitution?
20:47
Speaker 2: Yea did he would agree with that?
20:48
Speaker 1: Shut up?
20:49
Speaker 6: Man?
20:51
Speaker 3: You know so, why is mom Donnie bad for the city?
20:53
Speaker 3: Why do you think he shouldn't do a couple a
20:55
Speaker 3: couple of tell us the reason why? Because right now
20:57
Speaker 3: it seems like he's winning the polls, and like Charlamagne said,
20:59
Speaker 3: people are lead standing behind them people.
21:02
Speaker 1: I heard it.
21:03
Speaker 2: Man.
21:03
Speaker 4: When you when you think about all the movements across
21:07
Speaker 4: the globe in history, how people when they're in pain,
21:11
Speaker 4: how they resonate those who give them these false hot
21:15
Speaker 4: I'm promising Ma, it's not new.
21:16
Speaker 1: This is not new.
21:17
Speaker 2: I understand.
21:17
Speaker 5: Example, why are they in pain if you are telling
21:20
Speaker 5: us you've done all of this stuff to relieve their pain?
21:23
Speaker 2: Is the perception and reality? I'm confused you No, A.
21:26
Speaker 1: Lot of it is perception. Number one. A lot of
21:29
Speaker 1: is frustration.
21:30
Speaker 4: You know, remember brother, I was mad for three years
21:33
Speaker 4: in eight months, three years in eight months. A lot
21:36
Speaker 4: of this stuff is systemic, you know, not doing dyslexia
21:40
Speaker 4: screening to address our brothers and sisters. Who is going
21:43
Speaker 4: to write this thirty percent of them a dyslexic. I'm
21:45
Speaker 4: doing dyslexive screen and now not dealing with mental health.
21:49
Speaker 4: You know, people are walking the past, people living on
21:51
Speaker 4: the streets. We're taking them off the streets. So a
21:54
Speaker 4: lot of this is systemic. You know, you gotta you
21:56
Speaker 4: have a mad Win. Three years in eight months, they
22:00
Speaker 4: had to go through COVID, go through a whole city,
22:03
Speaker 4: dropped in our city. And in spite of that, we've
22:06
Speaker 4: addressed the issues of people that were needed. So is
22:09
Speaker 4: it going to happen in one term? Three years and
22:12
Speaker 4: eight months? You know, really were talking three years, we
22:14
Speaker 4: turned around. Is it going to happen in one time? No?
22:17
Speaker 2: So you've made progresses?
22:18
Speaker 1: Well exactly, you haven't. Everybody, No, no, we have not.
22:22
Speaker 7: We have what about reports? So that like directly like
22:25
Speaker 7: go against what you're saying, right, because I saw an
22:27
Speaker 7: article in the New York Times and they talk about
22:30
Speaker 7: the sixty percent increase in police.
22:35
Speaker 2: There was a surgeon misconnic.
22:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, a surgeon misconmic reports.
22:37
Speaker 2: Against NYPD offices under yes.
22:39
Speaker 7: And but you talk or you speak positively of putting
22:43
Speaker 7: more police in certain places and what thats done for people.
22:46
Speaker 7: But they're saying that there are these numbers and the
22:47
Speaker 7: reports that people can go and read themselves that counter that. Like,
22:50
Speaker 7: how that's not perception, that's people actually dealing with something.
22:54
Speaker 4: First of all, remember how I cut my teeth, you know,
22:57
Speaker 4: remember how I got into this game in the first place.
23:00
Speaker 1: I started one hundred blacks in law enforcement? Who care?
23:02
Speaker 1: I was arrested? I was beat by police officers as
23:05
Speaker 1: a child.
23:05
Speaker 4: Reverend Herbert Daltrey told me to go into the police
23:08
Speaker 4: department to fight against reform. Police abuse and misconduct is
23:12
Speaker 4: not new, you know, in the department. While I was
23:16
Speaker 4: in the department, I was fighting against police abuse.
23:19
Speaker 1: And many people believe.
23:20
Speaker 4: When they shout out my car windows because of my
23:22
Speaker 4: advocacy as a police officer. So this is what I've
23:26
Speaker 4: always fought for to make sure that we could have
23:30
Speaker 4: safety and justice at the same time. And when those
23:33
Speaker 4: police misconduct cases come up, we want to go in
23:36
Speaker 4: and make sure we take out those those police officers
23:38
Speaker 4: who are abusive and abusing the authority. It's not new,
23:42
Speaker 4: this has been a long fight to do so. And
23:44
Speaker 4: while we're taking out those officers who are abusive, we're
23:47
Speaker 4: not forgetting more and Rivera. You know, two young officers
23:50
Speaker 4: assassinated while they're.
23:51
Speaker 1: Doing the job.
23:52
Speaker 4: We're not forgetting Detective Dealer who was shot on the streets.
23:55
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, I'm gonna ask me the same thing.
23:57
Speaker 4: We're not forgetting, you know, those who out there taking
24:00
Speaker 4: twenty three thousand illegal guns off our streets.
24:02
Speaker 1: So there's a balance.
24:04
Speaker 4: Those who are abusive, as I've always done in polices,
24:06
Speaker 4: we need to target them and we need to get
24:08
Speaker 4: them out of the department if they are suitable to
24:10
Speaker 4: do so. But we trust me every townholl I go
24:13
Speaker 4: to every older adult center, I go to every community group.
24:18
Speaker 1: I go to the first thing. They said, every where
24:20
Speaker 1: our police.
24:21
Speaker 4: We want our police on our subways, we want them
24:24
Speaker 4: on our corners, we want our police. I have never
24:27
Speaker 4: been to one town hall meeting where people say we
24:29
Speaker 4: want our police out of the community.
24:31
Speaker 5: Well, question when it comes to the rise and misconduct
24:33
Speaker 5: complaints against NYPD, offices. What do you think led to
24:36
Speaker 5: that increase? Is it more public scrutiny, is it changes
24:38
Speaker 5: in reporting? Are the changes in behavior of the offices?
24:41
Speaker 1: What is combination?
24:43
Speaker 4: People is easier to make a report now you have
24:47
Speaker 4: some younger officers on that have to really get acclimated
24:51
Speaker 4: to what it is police, And so it's a combination.
24:53
Speaker 4: If you were to look at all of those rivers
24:56
Speaker 4: that are feeding the sea of misconduct, you need to
24:58
Speaker 4: damn meet river and also keeping them in an account.
25:02
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that report showed that the number.
25:05
Speaker 4: Of interactions that police are having, the number of interactions
25:10
Speaker 4: with the public.
25:11
Speaker 1: You know, how you.
25:11
Speaker 4: Interact with the public, how many times you're being called
25:14
Speaker 4: for service, And so each one of those cases must
25:16
Speaker 4: be investigated and it must be carried out to do
25:20
Speaker 4: a proper investigation. If somebody did something wrong, they must
25:22
Speaker 4: be they must be held accountable.
25:24
Speaker 5: So what immediate reforms would you push to to address
25:27
Speaker 5: that the rise?
25:30
Speaker 4: Expediting the investigation before it was taken too long.
25:35
Speaker 1: It was taking years.
25:36
Speaker 4: Somebody make a complaint, it was taken far too long.
25:39
Speaker 4: We believe you to expedite so you could identify what
25:43
Speaker 4: officer should no longer be suitable to be a police officer,
25:47
Speaker 4: or if somebody needs to be training, you know, all
25:50
Speaker 4: of the person should get in infraction for the action
25:52
Speaker 4: that took place. This is what I advocated for as
25:55
Speaker 4: one hundred BLACKSLA law enforcement who care as a police officer,
25:59
Speaker 4: going on all the way through the process.
26:01
Speaker 1: Like I don't.
26:02
Speaker 4: I didn't read about Diallo. I know the Diallo family.
26:05
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't read about an Avenue. Louima came
26:07
Speaker 4: out and endorsed me when I ran for office. These
26:10
Speaker 4: people know I've been side by side with police reform nationally.
26:15
Speaker 4: I'm known nationally for what I have done around police reform.
26:19
Speaker 4: So I'm not going to become the mayor and all
26:21
Speaker 4: of a sudden betrayed what I have committed my life to.
26:25
Speaker 1: Doing dealing with policemen reform in misconduct. Now. I also
26:30
Speaker 1: have been always strong on public on public safety.
26:33
Speaker 4: But I can't tell you how many times I'm in
26:34
Speaker 4: these hospitals, man, talking to these to these mothers. I
26:39
Speaker 4: spoke to the mother of a young sixteen year old
26:41
Speaker 4: girl the other day who was shot in the head
26:42
Speaker 4: just playing in the park.
26:44
Speaker 1: You know or you know that young girl fourteen year
26:48
Speaker 1: old shot that young sixteen year old girl.
26:50
Speaker 4: They were sitting in the school. I'm in these hospitals rooms.
26:53
Speaker 4: I don't just say, Okay, it's a shooting, let me
26:55
Speaker 4: get lost. No, I'm going and visit these family.
26:57
Speaker 1: Man.
26:57
Speaker 4: This stuff is traumatizing when you see the over proliferation
27:01
Speaker 4: of violence in our streets. And so just as we
27:04
Speaker 4: are fighting hard to stop a police abuse, we got
27:07
Speaker 4: to step up and talk these young people down.
27:09
Speaker 1: Man. They get the shooters are getting younger and younger.
27:12
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody thinks that you're not outside and
27:14
Speaker 3: that you don't do those type of things. I mean,
27:15
Speaker 3: that's one thing I say that people know that Mayor
27:18
Speaker 3: Eric Adams does. But there's things that always pop up
27:21
Speaker 3: in oppressed that make you look a certain way, even
27:23
Speaker 3: if it's not right.
27:24
Speaker 1: So that's why I love that you hear. So.
27:26
Speaker 3: One of the biggest thing was when when Donald Trump
27:29
Speaker 3: they dismissed your federal corruption charges, right, and they did
27:31
Speaker 3: it without prejudice because they said they leave it open
27:34
Speaker 3: that they can file charges later on right, and the
27:37
Speaker 3: press put it as well, that makes him excuse my friends.
27:41
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's puppet exactly right.
27:42
Speaker 1: Where you know, he can be used any which way.
27:45
Speaker 3: So what do you say to those people in that
27:46
Speaker 3: media and people that really believe that you're lining up
27:49
Speaker 3: with Trump and that might not be what people are
27:50
Speaker 3: aligned to, especially in this election.
27:52
Speaker 4: So think about think about this for a moment. It
27:55
Speaker 4: was it was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't come back.
27:58
Speaker 4: It was dismissed with regids this without prejudice. Ye, no,
28:01
Speaker 4: that's what they wanted. But the judge it is dismissed
28:04
Speaker 4: with prejudice. So many people never read my indictment, and
28:07
Speaker 4: I keep saying that over and over.
28:09
Speaker 1: People need to read the indictment.
28:11
Speaker 4: I was indicted for calling the fire department and asking
28:15
Speaker 4: them to do a building inspection, and all the text
28:17
Speaker 4: messages are there. I said, if you can't do it,
28:19
Speaker 4: let me know and I'll manage their expectation. This is
28:22
Speaker 4: done every day. They took that and said, well, you
28:25
Speaker 4: know what, you got free upgrades. You paid for your flights,
28:28
Speaker 4: but you got upgrades when you flew flying. As the
28:31
Speaker 4: Bard president, I was allowed to get upgrades. They said,
28:35
Speaker 4: you got free upgrade grades, which was not a gift.
28:37
Speaker 4: They said, we're going to tie that and say it
28:38
Speaker 4: was bribery. It was bribery. And so I'm facing thirty
28:43
Speaker 4: three years in prison for this.
28:45
Speaker 1: You know.
28:46
Speaker 4: And so people say, well, if you didn't do anything wrong,
28:49
Speaker 4: why would they come at you, asks Brian Benjamin. I
28:51
Speaker 4: think all your callers should google Brian Benjamin High's ranking black.
28:55
Speaker 4: High's ranking black in the state they indicted in them.
28:58
Speaker 4: Also to judge dismissed his charge. When he looked at that,
29:01
Speaker 4: they saw how bogus it was. Biden said the Justice
29:05
Speaker 4: Department was politicized when he partnered his son, you know,
29:08
Speaker 4: Trump said it. So the president on the campaign trial.
29:12
Speaker 4: I never knew the president. I never met the president.
29:14
Speaker 4: He was on the campaign trial saying, look what they're
29:16
Speaker 4: doing in that mayor in New York. You know that's wrong,
29:19
Speaker 4: what they doing to that mayor in New York. So
29:21
Speaker 4: when he got in, he told this Justice Department, y'all
29:24
Speaker 4: need to look at that case. When they looked at
29:26
Speaker 4: the case and they saw some of the emails and
29:29
Speaker 4: text messages that the prosecutors were doing, they said, we're
29:33
Speaker 4: going to dismiss this case. That's part of the justice system.
29:38
Speaker 4: De j They do it all the time. This is
29:40
Speaker 4: not new This was not special for Eric. They do
29:42
Speaker 4: it all the time. They looked at cases and they
29:44
Speaker 4: make a determination do we want to proceed for it?
29:48
Speaker 4: That was the determination they made. And my attorney sat
29:51
Speaker 4: down and say, look at this case, folks, and what
29:54
Speaker 4: they're doing to this mayor. They got pissed off because
29:56
Speaker 4: I was not a good Democrat and I started voicing,
30:01
Speaker 4: this is wrong what you're doing to our city. That
30:03
Speaker 4: this is costing us too much money, this is hurting
30:06
Speaker 4: our folks. They basically said, you need to be a
30:08
Speaker 4: good Democrat.
30:09
Speaker 1: You know, it's just.
30:10
Speaker 2: They put you in your place.
30:11
Speaker 1: There you go.
30:12
Speaker 2: So say you're polling in fourth place right now?
30:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, what makes you think you can steal wins?
30:17
Speaker 4: As I as I stated, where where was Mandani?
30:22
Speaker 1: Where was Zoran?
30:25
Speaker 4: This distance out from the race, he was Andrew was
30:32
Speaker 4: beating him by twenty in the primary. Yeah, in the primary.
30:36
Speaker 4: At during the during the primary, day before the primary,
30:40
Speaker 4: there was a poll out Andrew was up by twelve percent.
30:43
Speaker 1: The day before the primary, he lost by fourteen percent.
30:47
Speaker 1: And so what I.
30:48
Speaker 4: Must do in these campaigns, because I've done it before.
30:51
Speaker 4: Remember the only one that's the only one that's running
30:53
Speaker 4: for mayor that had has ever won mayor? Is me
30:57
Speaker 4: I beat an impressive field the last time, Andrew Yang
31:00
Speaker 4: was beating me by fourteen points. You know what I
31:03
Speaker 4: must do is I need my money. I have to
31:07
Speaker 4: be able to have folks come home, open up their
31:09
Speaker 4: mail and see my story. I have to be able
31:11
Speaker 4: to have my field team on the street of that
31:13
Speaker 4: I have to pay for, and my volunteers so they
31:16
Speaker 4: can talk about my story. I need to be able
31:18
Speaker 4: to do my radio ass all the things that go
31:21
Speaker 4: with telling your story. Right now, I'm dependent on my
31:26
Speaker 4: print media to tell my story, which they made clear
31:28
Speaker 4: they're not going to tell.
31:29
Speaker 5: Me on the social media, which is terrible by the way, right,
31:31
Speaker 5: I don't know who the hell doing your social media.
31:34
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
31:35
Speaker 7: There was a video that was going viral of you
31:37
Speaker 7: like getting ready to go out to like an event.
31:39
Speaker 1: Or something like that.
31:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I mean I think it gets younger people
31:44
Speaker 7: wondering who you are and why you're doing it, But
31:46
Speaker 7: it just doesn't add well to the conversation. Yeah, it
31:49
Speaker 7: just doesn't add well to the conversation. I've always wondered
31:51
Speaker 7: what what's the strategy behind that? Like, why do you
31:53
Speaker 7: do that?
31:54
Speaker 4: You know, and this is this is very interesting that
31:58
Speaker 4: you know you have I'm not a social media I
32:00
Speaker 4: don't know. I'm the first to tell y'all nothing about
32:02
Speaker 4: I'm social media. But a lot of people are talking
32:04
Speaker 4: about the role of young people in the election. The
32:08
Speaker 4: only consistent voter in the city are fifty five plus
32:12
Speaker 4: older people.
32:14
Speaker 1: They're consistent. Everybody thought that Obama.
32:17
Speaker 4: Everybody thought that young people were the ones who got
32:20
Speaker 4: Obama elected. You're seeing more and more engagement of young people,
32:23
Speaker 4: but Obama was you know, Obama got sixty five percent
32:26
Speaker 4: of the young people vote, but it was only eight percent,
32:29
Speaker 4: eighteen percent of the total vote. You know, your grandmother
32:32
Speaker 4: and your mom, those are the ones that come out
32:34
Speaker 4: all the time.
32:35
Speaker 1: So it's and they're not on x you know.
32:37
Speaker 4: You know, they are on probably Facebook, and they still
32:40
Speaker 4: get that old fashioned television, ad mailing, et cetera.
32:45
Speaker 1: And that's what we want to focus on.
32:46
Speaker 5: So when dad said, why you be doing those ridiculous
32:48
Speaker 5: videos on social media, listen, like I said, I don't
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Speaker 5: know social media, brothers.
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Speaker 4: You know, you know, we we have a team of
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Speaker 4: folks that we put on they create of what.
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Speaker 1: The social media is. I don't know it. You know,
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Speaker 1: I know what I know, and I know what I
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Speaker 1: don't know. You know, and I.
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Speaker 4: Would love to you know, you you want to come
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Speaker 4: on board.
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Speaker 5: I think you just screamed because you be outside. But
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Speaker 5: the narrative, the narrative is, I know, we got to
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Speaker 5: get out of it. The narrative, the narrative is if
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Speaker 5: you stay in the race, then you and Cuomo will
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Speaker 5: be taking votes away from each other and that'll make
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Speaker 5: it easier for Mondani to win.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So, and let's look at the facts of that.
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Speaker 4: The ballot is the ballot right now. You can't change
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Speaker 4: the ballot, you know, So no matter what happens, you
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Speaker 4: can't change the ballot. There's going to be five people
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Speaker 4: or even one of the can is Jim Walton try
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Speaker 4: to get off? The court said no, you can't. So
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Speaker 4: the ballot is ballot is a ballot. What people need
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Speaker 4: to focus on and ask themselves is what direction do
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Speaker 4: they want the city to go? That's what we have
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Speaker 4: to ask ourselves. We've come so far, do we want
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Speaker 4: to go back? Do we want to go back to
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Speaker 4: the running off, running out millionaires and saying that you
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Speaker 4: don't want billionaires in the city. Who pay fifty percent
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Speaker 4: of our taxes. That's how we have teachers and firefighters
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Speaker 4: in our streets paid. Do they want people who want
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Speaker 4: to destabilize our local supermarkets by saying you having government
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Speaker 4: run supermarkets. I've been to Venezuela and Cuba. I don't
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Speaker 4: want those type of supermarkets here. And I don't want
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Speaker 4: to hurt my bodega's, my Dominicans, my Koreans, my Chinese supermarkets.
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Speaker 4: Do you want to legalize prostitution in our city and
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Speaker 4: go back to people standing on our street corners?
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Speaker 2: And he says, yes, up man, prostitutions legalized.
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Speaker 1: And so it's just the quality of life.
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Speaker 4: And you know who hurts the most, brother our communities.
34:34
Speaker 1: Our communities can't hire private security. Our community can't go
34:40
Speaker 1: into making sure that some.
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Speaker 4: Homeless person is not defecating on their street corners.
34:45
Speaker 1: Or sitting in their school yard.
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Speaker 4: Our communities will impact be impacted by these policies that
34:52
Speaker 4: idealism collides with realism. So I'm not in favor of
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Speaker 4: defunding our public safety apparatus. I'm not in favor many
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Speaker 4: four hundred people on Riker's Island, He says right away,
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Speaker 4: he wants to get three thousand off. You know, I'm
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Speaker 4: not in favor of that. I'm not in favor of
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Speaker 4: putting them back in the communities that they prayed on.
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Speaker 4: Give them the services they need, like what we're doing
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Speaker 4: with our credit program and training people to have their
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Speaker 4: CDL license so they can be gainfully employed. But what
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Speaker 4: we must do is not take our communities back.
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Speaker 1: And that's the question.
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Speaker 5: And if people look at it, you said, well, we
35:25
Speaker 5: must not take Yeah, gotcha that.
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Speaker 4: If people do do an analysis and say, listen, hey, Eric,
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Speaker 4: we hurt you, We saw what you've done. But this
35:34
Speaker 4: we want to rock with this guy. Be careful for
35:37
Speaker 4: what you ask for, you know. And and and then
35:40
Speaker 4: look at his supporters. Look at his supporters. You know,
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Speaker 4: these are the same his heart and soul of his community.
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Speaker 4: At those same gentrifiers that moved us out of our
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Speaker 4: communities and are disrespectful in our community.
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Speaker 1: That is the heart and soul. So we're buying into
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Speaker 1: a concept of a person.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
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Speaker 1: Look at look at look at his supporters.
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Speaker 4: Those are those are the same his supporters that mean
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Speaker 4: spirit pocket those Indians.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what do you mean?
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, When you when you look at
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Speaker 4: Harlem best eye other parts of our community. When you
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Speaker 4: saw the change of our demographics, you saw gentrification come
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Speaker 4: into our into our communities, those are that's the hardened
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Speaker 4: soul of his supporters. That's the hardened soul of other
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Speaker 4: people have brought into the message and started growing. But
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Speaker 4: the hardened soul of his supporters are those same people
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Speaker 4: that came in and gentrified our communities in the first place.
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Speaker 4: Won't patriolize our restaurants. Uh wanted to change people because
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Speaker 4: they're But no, not, it's not even justification specific.
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Speaker 1: Gentrification to me is not the ethnicity.
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Speaker 4: Ethnicity is a mindset when you come in and you
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Speaker 4: cannot incorporate yourself into a city, that's a mindset.
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Speaker 1: You know, you could, you could be of any ethnicity.
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Speaker 4: But if your belief is that, hey, I'm going to
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Speaker 4: come and complain about the noise that's coming from that
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Speaker 4: building on the corner.
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Speaker 1: That's a church, folks. Now church has been it for
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Speaker 1: such or such you for years. That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: That mindset of displacing those long term term folks from
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Speaker 4: communities is that the heart and soul of his base
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Speaker 4: of support.
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Speaker 5: My last question, gotta get out here. Yeah, they're gonna
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Speaker 5: block the screech down to the unit in town. What
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Speaker 5: is Mondanie doing better than you?
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Speaker 1: Selling a lie? You know, selling a lie? You know.
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Speaker 4: He was an assemblymen for four years. He's missed fifty
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Speaker 4: percent of his votes. Like, where is his record? The
37:37
Speaker 4: reason you're able to critique me is because I have
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Speaker 4: a record of over forty years, over forty years of
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Speaker 4: doing this. You can't critique him, you know. And he's
37:46
Speaker 4: just selling the lines. When he was asked the other day,
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Speaker 4: what is your policy or decrimination decriminalized prostitution. I haven't
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Speaker 4: figured out yet, figured that out yet. He's gonna sell
37:56
Speaker 4: a lie until he gets into office if he were
37:58
Speaker 4: to win. So the reason you could sit me on
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Speaker 4: this show and say, Okay, here's what you've done, you know,
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Speaker 4: you can't do that with them.
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Speaker 1: You don't know who we don't know who we have.
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Speaker 4: You know, we have a person that's a good actor,
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Speaker 4: good communicator, and knows how to tell people whatever they
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Speaker 4: want to hear it to get elected.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, ladies and gentlemen, Mayor Eric Adams, we
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Speaker 3: appreciate you for joining us.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 4: Doing anything in your campaign, Eric Adams twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 4: Make a donation to make sure I can communicate.
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Speaker 3: With you all right now, we gotta get out of
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Speaker 3: here because we're about shut the streets down so we.
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Speaker 1: Don't follow you out.
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Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club, is Mayor Eric Adams.
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Speaker 2: Every day awake, click up the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Do y'all finish or y'all done it.