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Mamdani reacts to Trump mocking NYC emergency snow shoveler program · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Mayor, Mom, Donnie, thanks so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: The storm is New York City's ninth snowiest since eighteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty nine. Earlier today, there were reports of some power
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  Speaker 2: outages in some parts of your city. What can you
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  Speaker 2: tell us about that and has anyone been hurt in
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  Speaker 2: the storm to your knowledge?
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  Speaker 3: So it's a real pleasure to be on Jake and
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  Speaker 3: I can just start with the power outages. So we
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  Speaker 3: were alerted to the fact about ten thousand New Yorkers
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  Speaker 3: lost power, mostly concentrated in the Rockaways, and this time
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  Speaker 3: about eight thousand of them have recovered that power. We
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  Speaker 3: sent out emergency personnel to inspect the conditions, as well
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  Speaker 3: as opened up three warming centers to ensure that for
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  Speaker 3: any New Yorker who was without power, they had a
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  Speaker 3: place to stay warm and to stay safe, because, as
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  Speaker 3: you said, this is one of the largest amounts of
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  Speaker 3: snowfall the city has ever received. This is the first
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  Speaker 3: blizzard since twenty sixteen, and citywide we saw about nineteen
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  Speaker 3: to twenty inches. There were parts of New York City,
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  Speaker 3: like eastern Staten Island, we saw twenty four inches of snow.
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  Speaker 3: Thankfully that snow has come to an end. At this time,
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  Speaker 3: and now it's a question of response. And I can
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  Speaker 3: tell you that we don't have any indications that anyone
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  Speaker 3: has lost their life as a result of this blizzard.
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  Speaker 3: We have been using every tool we have to try
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  Speaker 3: and get homeless New Yorkers inside over the course of
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  Speaker 3: this snow where they can be safe and they can
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  Speaker 3: be warm.
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  Speaker 2: The storm's also, of course having a major impact on
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  Speaker 2: air travel. The last flight to depart New Yorks Laguardier
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  Speaker 2: Airport was a Southwest Airlines flight to Nashville at eight
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  Speaker 2: nineteen pm last night. You have a sense of when
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  Speaker 2: Airlines might feel it will be safe to resume travel.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can't tell you an exact time. I
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  Speaker 3: can just tell you that we're going to be using
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  Speaker 3: every tool that we have to make sure that it's
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  Speaker 3: safe to travel, whether by air, whether by bus, whether
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  Speaker 3: by train, whether by bike, or whether by foot or
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  Speaker 3: by car. And frankly, we're very lucky here in New
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  Speaker 3: York City that we have the incredible men and women
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  Speaker 3: of the DSN y Or Department of Sanitation. I began
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  Speaker 3: my day to day with them at around six thirty
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  Speaker 3: am seeing their Blade Runner two point zero system where
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  Speaker 3: they showed me that by five thirty am this morning,
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  Speaker 3: they had hit more than ninety nine percent of our
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  Speaker 3: city streets with a first plow attempt, and that continues
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  Speaker 3: through the day as they as twenty five hundred hardworking
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  Speaker 3: men and women on every single twelve hour shift. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: actually there will be about more than two thousand who
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  Speaker 3: are returning from a shift, more than two thousand about
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  Speaker 3: to go on another shift.
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  Speaker 2: Your city's urgently hiring emergency snow shovelers to help remove
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  Speaker 2: snow and ice from public areas, offering people thirty dollars
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  Speaker 2: an hour. House Republicans are criticizing you for requiring workers
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  Speaker 2: to bring multiple forms of IDENTI identification to sign up
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  Speaker 2: for that job.
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  Speaker 1: They tweeted, quote, let's get this straight.
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  Speaker 2: In Zoron Mamdani's socialist utopia, it takes two forms of
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  Speaker 2: ID to shovel snow, but no ID to vote.
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  Speaker 1: Make it make sense. Unquote. What's your response to that, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Well, here in New York City, we follow the law,
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  Speaker 3: and it's federal law to require certain forms of identification
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  Speaker 3: in order for someone to actually be paid for this
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  Speaker 3: kind of a job. And so that's what we're asking for.
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  Speaker 3: Two forms of identification. It's a long standing city program,
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  Speaker 3: it's a long standing city policy. And thanks to the
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  Speaker 3: hard work of DSN, why they've expanded their capacity for
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  Speaker 3: how many New Yorkers they can supervise at a time
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  Speaker 3: now up to eighteen hundred per shift. And so these
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  Speaker 3: hard working men and women who've signed up over the
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  Speaker 3: course of the last few days, in the last few weeks,
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  Speaker 3: they've joined the work that Sanitation has been doing, and
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  Speaker 3: they're clearing crosswalks, bus stops, fire hydrants, helping our city
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  Speaker 3: get back on its feet.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump today briefly brought brought up the snow shoveling
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  Speaker 2: situation in your city.
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  Speaker 1: Take a lesson.
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  Speaker 4: It's so crazy. You know, the mayor of New York
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  Speaker 4: and he's a very nice person. I met him, but
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  Speaker 4: he's his ideology's not too good. But we're having a
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  Speaker 4: massive snowsum right now. And i've heard that he's asked
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  Speaker 4: people to come out and help shovel the snow. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so you get a shovel and you start shoveling, what
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  Speaker 4: the hell you not can help too much, but you
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  Speaker 4: can help.
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  Speaker 2: President actually praising you in there for nice while, kind
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  Speaker 2: of dismissing your snow shoveling plan.
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  Speaker 1: Have you talked to him at all about the storm?
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  Speaker 1: If you need federal assistance?
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  Speaker 2: How often do you talk or text with him?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I will keep those conversations private. However, what
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you is that the conversations that I
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  Speaker 3: have had in the past with the President, including that
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  Speaker 3: at the Oval Office, as he had shared right after,
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  Speaker 3: we're always focused on New York City and how we
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  Speaker 3: can make sure that we are actually helping New York City.
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  Speaker 3: And frankly, this emergency snow shoveler program is one that
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  Speaker 3: allows every single sanitation worker to be on the plows,
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  Speaker 3: to be on the salt spreaders, to get this city
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  Speaker 3: back up and running. It's why they've been able to
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  Speaker 3: disperse about fifty million pounds of salt. And then these
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  Speaker 3: snow shovelers are the ones who supplement the work frankly
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  Speaker 3: of the department. And what we've seen is here in
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  Speaker 3: New York City, as is the law, property owners have
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  Speaker 3: to clear the sidewalk in front of their property, they
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  Speaker 3: have to clear the crosswalk that's abutting them. And yet
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  Speaker 3: there were about four thousand violations in the last storm
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  Speaker 3: of this. Our interest, frankly is not an issuing violations,
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  Speaker 3: it's in finding compliance, and so this has also work
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  Speaker 3: to assist in that.
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  Speaker 2: While I have you, there are a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: going on in your city I want to ask you about.
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  Speaker 2: Starting this month, New York City is hosting a rental
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  Speaker 2: ripoff hearing in each borough to address so called bad
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  Speaker 2: landlords and predatory management companies. What will the city do
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  Speaker 2: in response to serious complaints? Obviously it's not nothing to
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  Speaker 2: allow venting and allow people to bring things to the
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  Speaker 2: attention of authorities, But what are the authorities going to.
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  Speaker 3: Do with that?
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  Speaker 2: Or is there going to be legal action? Are there
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  Speaker 2: going to be new policies developed? What will it ultimately
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  Speaker 2: actually mean?
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  Speaker 3: So it's exactly that, Jake, It's actually to inform a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the new policies we're going to be putting together.
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  Speaker 3: We want to make sure that those policies are reflections
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  Speaker 3: of what so many tenants have had to go through
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  Speaker 3: time and time again, whether it be the kind of
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  Speaker 3: absurd junk fees they're forced to pay, or the kind
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  Speaker 3: of conditions that they're forced to consider to be habitable
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  Speaker 3: when they know that they are anything but that. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when I was running for this office, I remember standing
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  Speaker 3: in front of a building where the landlord had been
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  Speaker 3: found guilty of having a beehive that was not actually
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  Speaker 3: addressed over the course of many, many months. This is
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  Speaker 3: what many tenants are living through. We're going to have
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  Speaker 3: one of these in each borough to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: when we are putting together our comprehensive housing plan, or
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  Speaker 3: we're putting together our accountability mechanisms for bad landlords, that
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  Speaker 3: they're actually a reflection of what tenants are having to
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  Speaker 3: live through.
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  Speaker 2: We've also seen in recent weeks anti Israel protests take
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  Speaker 2: place in New York City right outside Synagogue's One, explicitly
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  Speaker 2: pro Hamas, which the US government considers a terrorist group,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a group that has killed innocent Americans. In response,
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  Speaker 2: the new Speaker of the New York City Council formally
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  Speaker 2: introduced a bill to allow the police Department to ban
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  Speaker 2: protests within a perimeter of up to one hundred feet
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  Speaker 2: from any houses of worship to protect congregants' rights to
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  Speaker 2: peacefully pray and avoid quote injury, intimidation, and interference from demonstrations.
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  Speaker 2: A hearing on the bill is scheduled for Wednesday. What's
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  Speaker 2: your position on the bill?
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I've said time and time again that
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  Speaker 3: this is a city where we can hold many things
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, one of them being that this
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  Speaker 3: is a city where every single New Yorker, that includes
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  Speaker 3: Jewish New Yorkers as well as Muslim New Yorkers, Christian
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  Speaker 3: New Yorkers, New Yorkers of any faith or no faith
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  Speaker 3: at all, can be able to go and worship freely
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  Speaker 3: in a house of worship. And it's also a city
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  Speaker 3: where New Yorkers should be able to exercise their First
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  Speaker 3: Amendment rights. So, upon becoming the mayor of our incredible city,
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  Speaker 3: I directed my law department and my police department to
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  Speaker 3: investigate the legality of this specific proposal as well as
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  Speaker 3: other related ones, and to come back to me with
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  Speaker 3: a review. And what I can tell you is that
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  Speaker 3: my police commissioner has shared some concerns about the way
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  Speaker 3: in which this legislation was initially written as per its
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  Speaker 3: actual operability.
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  Speaker 2: All right, New York Mayor Zori, Mom, Donnie, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: good luck with the storm.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate your coming on the show today.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, thank you for having me, Jake, real pleasure