1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 2: Brad Lead are great to see you and definitely want 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 2: to talk about your campaign and your platform. But I 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: have to start with the news of the day, and 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: that is this memo that came to light. I think 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: the Times first reported last night from the Justice Department 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: to the US Attorney's Office in New York instructing that 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 2: office to drop the charges against the current mayor, Eric Adams. 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 3: I wonder what you make of that directive. 10 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: Obviously you have an acting US Attorney now he's in 11 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: a very difficult position whether to take that advice and 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: alienate probably the entire staff within that office, or go 13 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: along with it. I guess under the expectation that whoever 14 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: succeeds her, be that Jay Clayton or someone else, is 15 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 2: likely to put a rubber stamp on it. What do 16 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 2: you make of the news? What does it tell you 17 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 2: about the case that this office is built against the mayor? 18 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 4: Then? 19 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 3: What an outrageous miscarriage of justice. 20 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: The Southern District has a tremendous history for doing corruption 21 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: prosecution and this says, no, we want you to do 22 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: corruption instead. They had a strong case. They're not even 23 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: saying the evidence and the case isn't strong. You know, 24 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: they know he took illegal campaign contributions, corrupted the building's department, 25 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: but they just want to wreck the justice system, and 26 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: unfortunately New Yorkers are going to pay the consequences. 27 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: Do you think that the mayor should resign? There's this 28 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 2: swirl now about should he be partnered he and not 29 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 2: have these charges part against him. Should he step down 30 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: given what's happened here, Yes, he should resign. 31 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 1: He's effectively being extorted by the Justice Department. He's only 32 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: looking out for the interests of one New Yorker and 33 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: that's himself, not even speaking up when they come to 34 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:31,839 Speaker 1: take our lunch money. 35 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 2: There are many layers to this. It's a two two 36 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 2: page memo. I should say the acting Deputy Attorney General 37 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 2: is an alumnus of this office of the sd and 38 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 2: I which may STNY, which makes us even more astonishing. 39 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: But there's a line, a footnote buried in it, which 40 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 2: I flagged on Twitter and all the other platforms last night, 41 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: and it's just find it to be like an astonishing footnote. 42 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 2: Quote your office correctly noted in a February third, twenty 43 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 2: twenty five memborandum quote, as mister bouve Amil Bouv, the 44 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: acting Deputy Turny General, clearly stated to Defense Council during 45 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 2: our meeting on Jail thirty first, twenty twenty five, the 46 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 2: government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal 47 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 2: case for Adams's assistance on immigration enforcement. A lot of 48 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 2: absurdity baked in there and just the way that that's constructed. 49 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: But this is something that you've you've homed in on 50 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: in recent days. That is, was there some sort of 51 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: deal broker between the mayor and the president in mar 52 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: Lago or elsewhere? 53 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: It sure looks like it elsewhere in the memo it 54 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: says we're doing this so that the mayor can get 55 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: back to the business of fighting quote unquote illegal immigration. 56 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: His job is to protect New Yorkers, not to do 57 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: the president's bidding. 58 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 5: Do you agree? 59 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 4: Is David Gurrows more up to speed on this than 60 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 4: I am and a Christmaster Landers? So are you that 61 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 4: the way the language is formed, there's a threat to 62 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 4: the mayor if you don't guess what we say. 63 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 5: We're gonna bring those charges. 64 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: Back dismissed without prejudice, means we will be watching every 65 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: step of the way, and if we're dissatisfied with your 66 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: fealty to the Trump White House, see we'll bring the charge. 67 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 4: The difference is Landers studied this Chicago. I got it 68 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 4: from Perry Mason, and that's the difference. 69 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: I can't help but draw a line to what now 70 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: former President Biden did in the final days of his administration, 71 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: making these preemptive pardons to his son and others. Look, 72 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,839 Speaker 2: President Trump could have done the same thing. But there 73 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 2: is a flex a power move here. 74 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 3: In doing this. 75 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 2: You talked about the long standing independence and proud independence 76 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 2: of the SDN Y. He's testing them effectively by doing this, 77 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: I mean move fast and break things. He's breaking the 78 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: Justice Department and the tradition of independent prosecution that the 79 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 2: Southern District of New York has long had, and that'll 80 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 2: mean more corruption. You say he should resign. There is 81 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 2: another means of recourse here. If he doesn't do that, 82 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 2: you other Democrats could go to the governor of the 83 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: State of New York or to Cathy Hokland say, look, 84 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 2: you have the power to get him to step aside, 85 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 2: perhaps force and to step aside. Is that something that 86 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: you and your fellow Democrats are thinking about and indeed 87 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: would consider it this moment because of all of this. 88 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: I mean, the form of removal I'm focused on right 89 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: now is the ballot box New York can get rid 90 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: of Eric Adams and restore integrity and effective government to 91 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: city Hall. I mean people are fed up not just 92 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: with his corruption, but with his failure to deliver. People 93 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: are fed up with democratic mayors of big blue cities 94 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: who can't govern. 95 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 3: And that's what we can elect this year. I want 96 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 3: to get to your platform. 97 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 2: One last question on this, based on what you just 98 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: said there in that memo, is this criticism of this 99 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 2: case being brought close to an election. I guess nine 100 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 2: months out now from an election is too close for 101 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 2: comfort for this Justice Department. As you look at this campaign, 102 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 2: how do you see this story being a through line? 103 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: Perhaps the through line is you campaign and your fellow 104 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 2: Democrats campaign against him. 105 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: I mean, New Yorkers know that Eric Adams has run 106 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: a corrupt administration. I think it's twenty six members of 107 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:47,679 Speaker 1: his administration have either been indicted or under investigation, including him. 108 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: But he also has been failing to deliver on affordable housing, 109 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: on public safety, on childcare, on just making the government 110 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: run well, so those will go together. What New Yorkers 111 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: want is a safer, more affordable, and better run city, and. 112 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: That I think will be the through line of this campaign. 113 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 3: That's why I'm running. 114 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 5: For all your nationwide. 115 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 4: In your morning commute on Apple Car Play, Android Auto, 116 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 4: or a new digital platform. YouTube Good Morning, and subscribe 117 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 4: to Bloomberg Podcasts. An extensive conversation of our David Gura 118 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 4: with Grad Lander. 119 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 5: He counts the beans in New York. 120 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 4: He's a controller, but far far more of that is 121 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 4: David goes to your campaign. I want to frame this, 122 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 4: I said to a family member. Finally, whether you're a 123 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:32,119 Speaker 4: Republican or Democrat. The former mayor of Chicago Ram wrote 124 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 4: an essay in the Washington Post. Democrats have become the 125 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 4: party of permissiveness. That's ballot box poison. You have a 126 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 4: history of progressivism. How does the left in the Democratic 127 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 4: Party migrate to the center to compete? 128 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I want to give you some straight talk. 129 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: I think progressives, including myself, we're slow to respond to 130 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: rising disorder and crime coming out of the pandemic, and 131 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: we need to be real clear about it. So the 132 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: number one commitment of my campaign is to end street 133 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: homelessness for people with serious mental illness in New York 134 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: City who are on the streets and subways. That is 135 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: something a mayor could do. I've laid out a really detailed, 136 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: ready on day one plan. Some of that is involuntary hospitalization, 137 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: a lot of that is connecting people to housing and 138 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: services so they're not on the subways or on our 139 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: stoops a danger to themselves and to others. 140 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 2: You know, Tom and I travel, we go to Washington, 141 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 2: go elsewhere, and I think a lot of people like 142 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 2: to rag on New York, like to bring up the 143 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 2: fact that they think that the subways are unsafe, that 144 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 2: there is a sense of a lack of good public 145 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 2: safety in the city right now. 146 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 3: And you can bring up. 147 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 2: Statistics to push against that, But how do you deal 148 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 2: with that feeling? What's in the zeitgeist here that if 149 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 2: you're riding the subway there is a danger that something could. 150 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 3: Happen to you. And both things are true. 151 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,679 Speaker 1: I mean, we have more private sector jobs, more office 152 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: using jobs than ever in the city's history. People do 153 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: want to be here. But if you're on the subway 154 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: and you just heard the story that an unwell person 155 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: a mentally ill person push someone onto the tracks, and 156 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: then you see a homeless person who's mentally ill in 157 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: your car. Of course you're anxious. I have a friend 158 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: whose eight year old daughter was pushed to the ground 159 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: last week. So it's a real issue and a perception issue. 160 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: But what we do is get those people connected to 161 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: housing and services so they're not riding the subways where 162 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: it's not good for them and it's not good for 163 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: writers in New York City. That ends street homelessness for 164 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: people with serious mental illness will be a proud New 165 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: York and one that could show all those critics look 166 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,559 Speaker 1: at how well we're doing. But that takes a new mayor, 167 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: and that's what I'm running Fortant. 168 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 2: How do you look at the relationship when it comes 169 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 2: to transportation between New York City and the state government, 170 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 2: and of course the governor has weighed in on what 171 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: needs to happen on subways to make them more safe. 172 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 3: How important is that relationship? 173 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 2: What would you do to improve that to sort of 174 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 2: harness that effective way to make things safer for them? 175 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: I mean the city state relationship to make the subways 176 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: around well as critical. This is why I was a 177 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: big proponent of congestion pricing, and when the governor put 178 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: it on pause, I help bring the lawsuits that sued 179 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: to get it implemented. But of course now we're working 180 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: closely together to make sure it's implemented well. The numbers 181 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: are great so far. Travel times are down, traffic is down, 182 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: money is more people are on the subway. Now the 183 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: city and state have to work together to deliver platform barriers, 184 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: new station gates, new subway elevators, modern signal system, all 185 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: the things that we have to work together to make 186 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: sure it works. 187 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 4: I'm going to cut to the chase. It's real simple. 188 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 4: I live in a fancy part in New York where 189 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 4: I enjoyed a cigar in the street and one day 190 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 4: there's seven police officers around me all of a sudden. 191 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 4: And again it's crime that you mentioned. It's the issue. 192 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 4: It's almost like Nixon sixty eight to seventy whatever. Brad Lander, 193 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 4: how are you going to have a relationship with the NYPD? 194 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 4: How do you form that is mayor versus being counter 195 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 4: going after contracts. 196 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 3: I mean, this is an important moment. I have to say. 197 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: Jesse Tish, who's now and there as police commissioner, is 198 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: doing a great jobs so far, both doing reform, holding 199 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: people accountable, and providing support and that. 200 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 3: Look survivor of this administration. 201 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: I mean honestly, the fact that the mayor's corruption has 202 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 1: opened up an. 203 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 3: Opportunity for reform is great. 204 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: But I would love to keep Jesse Tish as commissioner. 205 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: I think she's got the right tone of accountability and 206 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: rebuilding and reform. 207 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 4: And I need you to go out to Stanton Island, 208 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,719 Speaker 4: next to where Mandolin Brothers was years ago. I need 209 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 4: you to go to Staten Island and bond with people 210 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 4: that look at progressives and go, you gotta be kidnaped. 211 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 5: So how do you do. 212 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 3: That when I go? 213 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: So this is a connection from being being counter. I 214 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: work with the Police Pension Fund to manage their pension. 215 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: So there was an officer, Officer Fayaz, who the mayor 216 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't allow to get line of benefit due to line 217 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: of duty benefits, and my office did. I worked with 218 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: the Police Pension Fund to make sure those officers who 219 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: had long COVID could actually get their disability benefits. So 220 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: I've got a track record of working with the union reps. 221 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: I hope you know I'll bring them out with me 222 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: to Staten Island and when I go to have that meeting, 223 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: and I hope to do it, you know, in a 224 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: way that shows, of course, we want. 225 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 3: To support our officers. 226 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 1: Everyone wants accountability from people who do the wrong thing, 227 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: from cops and from elected officials. 228 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 3: I've got three kids in public school in this city. 229 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,239 Speaker 2: As much as there's been a rotating cast of police commissioners, 230 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: you've had a rotating cast of chancellors as well. 231 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 3: What are your top. 232 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 2: Line plans for the hugest school system in the country 233 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 2: here to stabilize it? You know, one of the reasons, 234 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 2: candidly why we moved to New York was the prospect 235 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 2: of having universal pre K funding has been an issue 236 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 2: here in recent years. Your perspective, your platform when it 237 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 2: comes to the schools. 238 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids also went from pre K to twelfth 239 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,719 Speaker 1: grade in the New York City public schools, and they 240 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: were lucky to have good schools. 241 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 3: But boy, not everybody does. 242 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: So Look, you need a schools chancellor who recruits principles 243 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: and superintendents who support their teachers but also hold them accountable. 244 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: The state has increased the money we're getting. That's an 245 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: opportunity to reduce class size, which is something that promised 246 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: to do but really hasn't done yet. It's going to 247 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: be on the next mayor to reduce class size with 248 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: the money the state is giving us and. 249 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 5: For our audience. 250 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 4: Afterthought, when she was in elementary school here on the 251 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 4: Island of Manhattan, there were eleven languages. 252 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 5: In her first grade class. 253 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 4: I think you have to, as David says, did you 254 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 4: say three offspring? 255 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 3: I have no idea. I mean, that's what's remarkable about 256 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 3: this city. What other place has that? 257 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 4: Well, we're working at it. Okay, Kmox. She grew up 258 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 4: with the Cardinals. It's just like I used to listen 259 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 4: from Western New York bouncing off the imsphere. If somebody 260 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 4: said to me my ten great moments. One of them 261 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 4: was a guy named Mario Cuomo talking to the former governor, 262 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 4: and we said good morning to him and his family 263 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 4: about his time with the Pittsburgh Pirates. 264 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 5: It was magical. 265 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 4: Dear Mario Cuomo talk about the Pittsburgh Pirates. One of 266 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 4: his offspring may enter the race or is in it. 267 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 4: I'm not sure the details. Is it crowded a field? 268 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 4: I mean, how away from Mayor Adams upset how do 269 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 4: you frame September in October to be I mean, how 270 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 4: do you frame into. 271 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 3: It elections in June? 272 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: So Juankuner, I don't think New Yorkers will want to 273 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: replace one corrupt chaos agent with another. This is someone 274 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: who resigned in disgrace just ahead of impeachment after a 275 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: dozen women who worked for him accused him of sexual harassment. 276 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: Who sent thousands of seniors to their deaths and nursing 277 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: homes and then lied to their families about it to 278 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: protect his five million dollar book deal. Who cut the subways, 279 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: who cut a thousand in patient psychiatric beds, who doesn't 280 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: care about New York City, where he hasn't lived in 281 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: twenty five years. We're getting rid of one corrupt chaos agent. 282 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: Let's not bring another in. 283 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 2: When you look at this field of challengers to the mayor, 284 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 2: Democratic challengers, what are we going to sort out here? 285 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 2: This is going to be a robust debate, I imagine, about 286 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: the future of the Democratic Party here here in New York. 287 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 2: It's to be part of this broader conversation about it 288 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 2: here in the US. How important is it, how vital 289 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 2: is it to have that conversation right now? What are 290 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 2: we going to learn from from this, this this primary campaign. Yeah, 291 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 2: it's critical. 292 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: Part of the reason in New York people shifted to 293 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: voting for Trump is they haven't seen government working for 294 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: them and there is doubt about whether Democrats can govern 295 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: big blue cities. Well, folks like Michelle Woo are doing 296 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: it in Boston. We have to do it in New 297 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: York City. Get the cost of living under control, confront 298 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: and build affordable housing, deliver on that childcare and universal 299 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: pre K and three K and make the city safer. 300 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 5: Are we going to have a Gilded age campaign? 301 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,079 Speaker 4: Miche Wu in Boston's running against the craft offspring. 302 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 5: You know, you know there's the fair amount of money 303 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 5: rolling around here. How do you frame out this path 304 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 5: to June? 305 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: And you know, I assume how many people are in 306 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: the race yet right now? Yeah, eight or SOE about 307 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: SloMo getting in. 308 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 3: What do you perceive may to be Like, I mean, 309 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 3: it's going to be busy for me. 310 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,439 Speaker 1: It's going to be a question about who people think 311 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: can actually run the city well, and that's the track 312 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: record have as the city's chief financial officer, with a 313 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: history of actually delivering. We managed two hundred and eighty 314 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: five billion dollar pension fund. Our audits have saved hundreds 315 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. I can make government work, and 316 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: I think that's what New Yorkers want. 317 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 3: I mean, come full circle. Brought that memo at the top. 318 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 2: I read that footnote which had that innuendo about immigration policy, 319 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: and let's end there. And you know, a few weeks back, 320 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: I was out at Floyd Bennett Field and saw the 321 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 2: shelter that had been built there. I gather it's being 322 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 2: emptied out or has been emptied out of migrants moved 323 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: to New York City. How do you approach this issue, 324 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 2: which is one that I think is flum mixing a 325 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 2: lot of people. 326 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 3: Here. 327 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 2: We are in a city that has historically welcomed so many. 328 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 2: Now we have a federal administration that is wanting to 329 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 2: constrict that. What is the duty of the mayor of 330 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 2: this city here at this moment where we've had this 331 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 2: influx of people here and a lot of people who 332 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: are have left their home countries in great pain. Yes, 333 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 2: many without documents have come here to New York. What's 334 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 2: the mayor to do? 335 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: I mean, New York City obviously doesn't control border policy. 336 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: That's you know, federal What New York City can do 337 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: is help those folks get to work. I mean, we 338 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: need people working in construction, in our restaurants, in a 339 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: home care, in healthcare. So helping folks who have work 340 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: authorization get to work. Helping folks get work authorization critical, 341 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: and then we can't allow ice to come into our schools, 342 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: into our public hospitals. The Brooklyn District Attorney told this 343 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: amazing story about how when his brother was murdered, which 344 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: is why he became a prosecutor, it was somebody undocumented 345 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: who was a witness, and the defense got that guy 346 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: deported and there was no justice. And you know, that's 347 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: what we need is a city that's keeping at the 348 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: place where your daughter has eleven languages in her preschool class, 349 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: but we also make it work for a thriving economy 350 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: in a safe, successful city. 351 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 4: It was unbelievable the first time I walked into that classroom. 352 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 4: Five twenty nine eleven languages is just just yeah. 353 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 5: It was. 354 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 4: You know, forget about Ellis Island and all the emotion 355 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 4: of a city. You know, you think of Italy and 356 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 4: the Jewish community decades ago, to witness in real time 357 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 4: eleven languages in a perfect five twenty nine school up 358 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 4: on the East Side. It was absolutely unbelievable. One of 359 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 4: the great moments. Two kids from Bangladesh not a word 360 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 4: of English, and those teachers went into it every day. 361 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 5: Would you say goodbye to mister Landers. 362 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 2: Coptro for New York City candidate from mayor here and 363 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 2: you're great to see you. Jack Buck is smiling on us. 364 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 3: Okay, oh there you got. 365 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 5: Jack Buck is smiling at us. Bred. 366 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 3: There's a pothole. 367 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 5: How many times a week do you get a lot? 368 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 3: A lot? 369 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you so much.