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Speaker 1: Every day a week. Click your ass up the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Morning.

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Speaker 3: Everybody is the j Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

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Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club Lawnla Rosa is here as well,

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Speaker 3: and we got a special guest in the building running

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Speaker 3: for New York City mayl Ladies and gentlemen, Curtis Sliwa.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, good morning. How are you feeling this morning?

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Speaker 2: Where's my beadfast?

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Speaker 1: No bedfast?

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Speaker 2: It's a beaffast club without bedfast.

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Speaker 1: You're not the first person to ask for it, and

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Speaker 1: I received it.

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you, I'm the only candidate ever

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Speaker 2: was locked up on Rikers Island. That's one of the

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Speaker 2: good things. I had good befits. Oh yeah, pancakes because

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Speaker 2: the inmates make the breakfast. So if they like you,

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Speaker 2: you get a good breakfast. If they don't like you,

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Speaker 2: I would suggest you starve. Oh first thirteen years of

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Speaker 2: the Guardian Angels, I was getting locked up all the

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Speaker 2: time by the police. The mayor at that time, Ed

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Speaker 2: Koch was not a supporter and they were trying to

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Speaker 2: drive us out of exist. So they figure keep locking

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Speaker 2: them up and you will eventually eliminate them. But all

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Speaker 2: they did was strengthen or resolved to go out there

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Speaker 2: and patrol and protect people, which is what we've been

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Speaker 2: doing for forty six years here in thirteen countries. Now

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Speaker 2: in one hundred and thirty cities.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's let's break it down, because you know where

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Speaker 3: national a lot of people might not know what the

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Speaker 3: Guardian Andjews were and what they did and why I

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Speaker 3: was created. So break down why I was created and

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Speaker 3: what you guys do for New York City.

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Speaker 1: And you said around the world.

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Speaker 2: All the hundreds of thousands of people listening, Now you

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Speaker 2: got to go to that cult movie classic, The Warriors,

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Speaker 2: it came out in nineteen seventy nine to understand what

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Speaker 2: I and the Guardian Angels were dealing with. Gangs everywhere,

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Speaker 2: especially the Bronx. There were four gang members for every

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Speaker 2: one police officer, and there were no cops at night

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Speaker 2: on the subways because of major cutbacks. I was a

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Speaker 2: knight manager of Mickey B's Mickey D's in the Bronx,

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Speaker 2: and I convinced and brainwashed my closing crew We're going

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Speaker 2: to patrol the train at night, the Number four train,

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Speaker 2: which was nicknamed the Muggers Express. Eventually, after we got

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Speaker 2: everything started. A lot of people started walking in off

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Speaker 2: the street, coming into the McDonald's, not for macfrye and

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Speaker 2: strawberry shakes, but to actually join the Guardian Angels. And

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Speaker 2: they were coming in from Brooklyn and Queens, and they

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Speaker 2: were coming in from parts of Manhattan. So we grew,

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Speaker 2: especially throughout the subway system.

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Speaker 3: You didn't have guns or knives or so how are

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Speaker 3: you patrolling?

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Speaker 2: Well, no weapons, no special powers of privileges. But if

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Speaker 2: we had to get down and dirty, that's what we

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Speaker 2: had to do. We had no choice. These gang bangers

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Speaker 2: would come at you with force. A lot of people say,

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Speaker 2: why do you still wear that red beret? You know

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Speaker 2: you're seventy one years old. Well, I'm always in the

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Speaker 2: subway every day. I'm the only candidate to actually campaign

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Speaker 2: in the subway. But it's in honor of the six

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Speaker 2: Guardian Angels who died in a line of duty. Thirty

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Speaker 2: two were seriously injured, to pay tribute to their sacrifice.

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Speaker 2: Because we've never asked for a nickel diamond penny from

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Speaker 2: government or even from the public.

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Speaker 1: We're a nonprofit though.

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, nonprofit. Obviously you got to raise money to

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Speaker 2: pay for the basics but yeah, not talking about multi

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Speaker 2: millions of dollars. And it's all based on organic principles.

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Speaker 2: You have a problem in your neighborhood, we come in,

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Speaker 2: we we train you to patrol your own neighborhood. It's

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Speaker 2: not like we come in like mercenaries or Hessians. We

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Speaker 2: believe in self help. We think more communities have got

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Speaker 2: to be reliant on themselves because government, they are dollars

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Speaker 2: short in the day late I don't care if it's

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Speaker 2: a Democrat or Republican. They come in, they promise everything.

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Speaker 2: Like you see this election cycle and you know at

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Speaker 2: the end of it, depending on who gets elected mayor,

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Speaker 2: you're not gonna get anywhere near what all the promises

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Speaker 2: are right before the final voters cast on November before.

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Speaker 4: Why doesn't that apply to you though, because some people

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Speaker 4: will say the same thing like, oh, you know you

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Speaker 4: might be out here blaunch smog of everybody asked, well.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but I've been consistent, Curtis, Curtis deceive for Curtis's

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Speaker 2: consistent all forty six years that I've led the Guardian Angels.

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Speaker 2: When I ran against Eric Adams in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 2: did I not tell you there would be k. I

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Speaker 2: forty years, and look one in done. Imagine a sitting

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Speaker 2: re election. And that's why you have zon On mondami

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Speaker 2: a year ago, not even his neighbors knew who Zoron

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Speaker 1: In February was pulling at one percent.

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Speaker 2: That's it. And then remember two months out he was

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Speaker 2: forty percent down to Angel Cuomo, who would make a

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Speaker 2: perfect zombie. You know with Halloween coming up. Nobody likes

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Speaker 2: this guy. This guy fled Albany because he feared impeachment

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Speaker 2: to go out to the Hamptons with his billionaire friends.

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Speaker 2: But I will tell you this, if Eric had done

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Speaker 2: a halfway decent job, it would have been round two

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams incumbent Democrat versus Republican Curtis Sliwa, and then

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Speaker 2: the voters would have determined who the next mayor is.

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Speaker 1: Now, what do you think we're wrong?

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Speaker 2: Say?

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Speaker 3: You said you've seen it coming, So what did you

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Speaker 3: see right.

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Speaker 2: Out the box? I'm the swaggerman. I called him with

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Speaker 2: no plan. He was out of nightclubs at the break

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Speaker 2: of Dawn Consol up in the Bronx at four o'clock

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Speaker 2: in the morning. I knew some of some of the

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Speaker 2: school because their single parents running the household. Mister Mayor,

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Speaker 2: you know, we got to close up. It's four o'clock

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Speaker 2: because you know how a club is, it's like a casino.

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Speaker 2: They don't want you to look out out the window.

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Speaker 2: And he was he was always very respectful. But this

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Speaker 2: guy would go from nightclub to nightclub. And he loved

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Speaker 2: that tag Swagerman. That's why I call him swagger Man

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Speaker 2: with no plan? And now what plan does he have?

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Speaker 2: And notice he was embraced by Trump and then he

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Speaker 2: sat on that couch and Fox and Friends and Tom

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Speaker 2: Holman said, and when I come back down, it's like

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Speaker 2: right out of cool Hand, Luke, you know, with Paul

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Speaker 2: Newe in that chair. When I come back down, Eric,

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Speaker 2: I see the NYPD is not working with Ice. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna put a boot up your button. And he just froze.

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Speaker 2: He didn't say a damn thing. You know how many

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Speaker 2: many African Americans showed me that video. I have a

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Speaker 2: headquarters in Brownsville on Osmorne and Hegeman, where I grew

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Speaker 2: up from seventy four to seventy six. And they showed

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Speaker 2: defending himself. What outrageous thing to say. It was over,

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Speaker 2: Ferry Adam.

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Speaker 4: I want to go back to the Guardian Angel thing.

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Speaker 4: Did they ever look at y'all that as vigilantes?

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Speaker 2: Oh? First, yeah, because they didn't know who we were

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Speaker 2: They just assumed we were another gang. In fact, when

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Speaker 2: lot of the folks out there would be screaming from

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Speaker 2: come out and play, assuming that we were like cast

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Speaker 2: take subway line by subway line back by having a

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Speaker 2: the cutbacks. And then finally people began to recognize us.

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Speaker 2: First with David Dinkins and then with Rudy Giuliani, and

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Speaker 2: we haven't had any problem since we all.

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Speaker 1: Have influenced by the Black Panther Party.

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Speaker 2: I was influenced by the Black Panther Party, by the

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Speaker 2: Young Lords, by the Brown Berets. As you can see,

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Speaker 2: I'm wearing the beret. I studied radical politics coming out

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Speaker 2: marrying my first wife. I was parting Canarcia High School

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Speaker 2: before they finally said goodbye. No, everyone thinks Lisa was

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Speaker 2: my first wife. My first wife was Corn Drayton from Brownsville,

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Speaker 2: that's where I was living. She was from Saint Croix,

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Speaker 2: this club at Canarsia High School called Angela Davis, George

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Speaker 2: programs involved, especially the breakfast programs and other things that

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Speaker 2: they were doing in the community. And I saw that

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Speaker 2: for myself because I was in all these neighborhoods I

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Speaker 2: So I basically had fulfilled the trifecta, the trinity DETROITKA, Brownsville,

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Speaker 2: feel of what the outer boroughs are like neglected, never

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Speaker 2: paid attention to the Politicians talk about the outer boroughs,

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Speaker 2: but they don't really do anything for the outer boroughs.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I'm the mayor.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think those are the you know, when I

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Speaker 4: think about the Guardian Angels, the Black Panther Party, you know,

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Speaker 4: I think that, you know, the community work is the

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Speaker 4: thing that doesn't get discussed enough from from both groups.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, you know y'all taught self defense classes.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think I used to do things with

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Speaker 4: the homeless too, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, we have junior Guardian Angels also in Washington Heights.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of young boys and young girls could

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Speaker 2: he easily form into harm's way with all the influences

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Speaker 2: at gangbangers, and we not only have them go out

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Speaker 2: and take care of the homeless and the emotionally disturbed,

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Speaker 2: and the subways, the streets and the parks. But our

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Speaker 2: senior guardian angels too. Nobody's cared about these folks. Hey, look,

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams gave seven billion dollars to migrants people we

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Speaker 2: didn't even know, put them up in three star hotels,

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Speaker 2: the old Milford plact remember the commercials they do the

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Speaker 2: Milford Plast four hundred dollars a night. Then we give

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Speaker 2: them a bagel and a shmer in the morning and

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Speaker 2: they say, no, we want culturally appropriate food. What do

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Speaker 2: you want Canada sabichuelo with a chew letta on top,

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Speaker 2: No problem, grub hubbit. What are we doing for homeless

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Speaker 2: people and emotionally disturb many of them veterans, most of

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Speaker 2: them African Americans. Nobody wants to talk about that. But

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Speaker 2: I'm down in the streets and the subways and the

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Speaker 2: parks every day. I know a lot of these men

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Speaker 2: and women on a first name basis. These shelters are dangerous.

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Speaker 2: It's Darwinian, it's survival of the fittest. They have mica

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Speaker 2: shelters that I've been in for the mentally ill and

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Speaker 2: the chemically addicted, and I got to tell you, nobody

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Speaker 2: and I were destitute, I wouldn't stay in a shelter.

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Speaker 2: There are no rules in regulations. And there used to

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Speaker 2: be a homeless outreach unit with the NYPD. It is

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Speaker 2: what men and women dedicated to helping the homeless and

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Speaker 2: emotionally disturb. They knew the directors of the homeless shelters,

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Speaker 2: they knew the security, they knew people in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: What's the relationship with Donald Trump? Do you have them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a love hate relationship going back over

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Speaker 2: Of course, the billionaires, let me tell you straight up,

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Speaker 2: Let the people decide if they choose Orhanmandami. I'm not

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Speaker 2: former NYPD cops. Why Because I wouldn't take the payout

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Speaker 1: How much did they offer you?

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Speaker 4: I saw you on the news a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll be talking to Alvin Bragg the DA. But

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Speaker 2: They set me up. Fifteen thousand elderly people that died

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Speaker 2: Now we're like halfway there, so they keep arguing these things,

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Speaker 2: the level that I am. But we have a growing

431
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Speaker 2: population and aging population. I don't want them having to

432
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Speaker 2: go to long term home care units, especially if Andrew

433
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Speaker 2: Cuomo has anything to do with those elderly people, they'll

434
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Speaker 2: be dead on arrival. God. And most importantly, people want

435
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Speaker 2: to stay in their homes, but they need professional home

436
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,679
Speaker 2: health care aids. My mother had one, Francesca, and she

437
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,919
Speaker 2: would begin to hallucinate. You know, you developed dimension Alzheimer's.

438
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 2: Nobody noticed, Nobody wants to talk about those subjects. It's

439
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Speaker 2: a growing problem, and we have so many young men

440
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Speaker 2: and women who maybe academically can't cut it. But if

441
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Speaker 2: we had more vocational training, they're people listening to you

442
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Speaker 2: all over the country who have a trade, who have

443
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Speaker 2: a career. I had supreme Cujien cousins who would have

444
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 2: had a trade making license plates Upstate New York would

445
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,800
Speaker 2: have been doing a few years because they were on

446
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 2: the wrong side of the tracks, and they went to

447
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 2: vocation high school straightened him out and they were able

448
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Speaker 2: to provide for themselves.

449
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Speaker 3: At that time, we talked about Lincoln TCH location, h VAC, automotive, nursing, whatever.

450
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Speaker 4: Maybe the future millionaires and high earners in the future

451
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Speaker 4: are going to be those like they have a They're

452
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Speaker 4: already saying there's gonna be a shortage of skilled laborers

453
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Speaker 4: in the future.

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Speaker 2: It already is. And by the way, you know these

455
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Speaker 2: raids at the home depot, yards by ice or the

456
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Speaker 2: back of restaurants or hospitality. I have three sons. One

457
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Speaker 2: of them you may know. A year ago, my oldest son, Anthony,

458
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 2: was viciously beaten in a gang attack. His stepfather is

459
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Speaker 2: former governor David Patterson, who as you know, is blind,

460
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 2: who jumped in snatched him out. He could easily have

461
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Speaker 2: been impaired, easily have been killed. That's the kind of wild,

462
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Speaker 2: crazy crime we have. They call it, you know, crime

463
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,919
Speaker 2: that all of a sudden happens out of nowhere. No, no, no, no,

464
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 2: there's always a plan of crime. Somebody is always targeting somebody.

465
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Speaker 2: But my son, my oldest son, and my two other sons,

466
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Speaker 2: they're not going to work these jobs. These have become

467
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: essential workers as long as they're non drug dealers and

468
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 2: gang bangers and narco terrorists and sex traffickers bringing women

469
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Speaker 2: in here to sell their bodies. Those are the people

470
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Speaker 2: that you'll go to jail and they should be tried

471
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 2: here due time here and then you deport them back

472
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Speaker 2: to their country of origin. Everyone is entitled to do process.

473
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Speaker 2: But the people who are working, trying to raise their

474
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Speaker 2: families and living the American dream, we need to leave

475
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Speaker 2: them alone. Because who is going to do the jobs

476
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Speaker 2: that Americans will no longer do in the fields, picking

477
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Speaker 2: the crops, packing the crops, in the slaughter houses. Everybody

478
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 2: thinks that it's back in the thirties and forties. No, no, no, no,

479
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 2: times have changed significantly because the new generation, most of them,

480
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Speaker 2: are not going to do those jobs.

481
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Speaker 5: So question for you, with all of these things that

482
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Speaker 5: you just said that are sound great, why do you

483
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Speaker 5: think it's not hitting the people where it's like effective,

484
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Speaker 5: where they want you to be their married, Like, why

485
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Speaker 5: are you not polling well?

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Speaker 2: Well? Polling right? Polling looked two months before the Democratic

487
00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 2: primary when Zora Mandami, who nobody knew, beat Andrew Como

488
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 2: by thirteen points, he was down by forty. Everybody knows

489
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Speaker 2: Governor Pataki he beat the better Cromo. There's no doubt

490
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Speaker 2: in my mind, Mariocomo was ten times better than Arew Cromo.

491
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Speaker 2: I knew Mariocomo. Andrew is no Mariocomo. November two, two

492
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Speaker 2: days before November fourth, there was no early voting that

493
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Speaker 2: the polls said that George Pataki was behind by fourteen

494
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Speaker 2: points fourteen points two days before, only one day of voting,

495
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Speaker 2: he won by three percentage points. You cannot depend on

496
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Speaker 2: these poles. Look at Harris Trump. They said it was

497
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Speaker 2: neck and neck. Trump ends up winning the popular vote

498
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Speaker 2: in the seven battleground state. You cannot trust these poles.

499
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Speaker 2: I know my pathway to victory. I have Republicans Independence

500
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: two and a half times the number of voters of Republicans,

501
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 2: because that's the growing number of registered voters. I win

502
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Speaker 2: the Independence, I'll get some moderate Democrats, and I'll get

503
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Speaker 2: the animal lovers, and that'll be my pathway to victory.

504
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Speaker 4: You know a lot of New Yorkers think you're more

505
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 4: entertained than leader. So how do you know let them

506
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 4: know and know you really want to be a leader.

507
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Speaker 2: Well, Charlemagne the God, you're in radio DJ. You're in

508
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Speaker 2: radio right. You're an entertainer. That's what you get paid

509
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 2: to do. If all of a sudden you decided you

510
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: wanted to transition and run for political office, you would

511
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 2: have to take a much more serious bent on dealing

512
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Speaker 2: with issues. But you see, I've done both simultaneously. I've

513
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 2: been in the communities. I've been helping communities. It's not

514
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 2: like I was just in talk radio for thirty five years.

515
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm probably the oldest one in all of

516
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Speaker 2: talk radio in New York City who has survived in

517
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 2: which is a very very difficult business there. You have

518
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 2: to entertain, you have to inform, but when you're running

519
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: for office, you have to be knowledgeable. I don't think

520
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 2: even my opponents, Johann Mandami and Andrew Cuomo would quibble

521
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 2: with the fact the courteously would know. It's more about

522
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 2: New York City. All three hundred and fifteen neighborhoods, they

523
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: only go to the neighborhoods they received in all four

524
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy two subway stations platforms. They haven't been

525
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 2: in there. They don't even campaign there. The public housing projects,

526
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 2: which are falling apart as we speak. I believe in

527
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 2: trying to provide home ownership for the people who live

528
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Speaker 2: in the projects. This was an idea that resonated many

529
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 2: years ago by somebody named Jack Kemp, who was part

530
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Speaker 2: of the Reagan administration.

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Speaker 1: Republican great football quarterback, great.

532
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 2: Congressman, and he wanted people to be able to own

533
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 2: their own apartment like you own a co operal condo.

534
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 2: You know who shot him down, my fellow Republicans, and

535
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 2: he was a Republican. That's something worth fighting for. Everybody

536
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 2: has a right to a piece of the American dream.

537
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Speaker 2: And I've been in one third of the projects throughout

538
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Speaker 2: the city of New York eighteen alone in Brownsville, where

539
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 2: I lived for a brief time. People have no idea

540
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 2: the struggles that go on in public housing, how they're

541
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 2: falling apart before us. And Trump has already said I'm

542
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 2: cutting the night your budget. They've already given us a precursor,

543
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 2: a warning. And you've got to have somebody who knows

544
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 2: the city and it is going to be able to

545
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 2: go in and cushion people and prepare for the reality

546
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 2: of what's coming. Nobody knows that better than Curtis Lager.

547
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 2: And for all the millennials and gen Zas out there

548
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: who have decided to go to school here, go to

549
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 2: college here, university here, we give them an income tax holiday,

550
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 2: no income tax for five years, because they're going to

551
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 2: need the money to be able to afford the high

552
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 2: cost of living here. Because they're being recruited away. They're

553
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 2: being recruited to other states. Our cops are being recruited away.

554
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: Other civil servants are being recruited away. And remember this

555
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: about the cops. They no longer have insurance. That means

556
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 2: they're very tepid in terms of getting involved. Why should

557
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: the police be the only civil servants of three hundred

558
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: and twenty thousand who had the insurance stripped from them.

559
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 2: That means they can be personally sued. You're never going

560
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 2: to be able to recruit enough cops if you're not protected,

561
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 2: like as sanitation men is, like a firefighter is like

562
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 2: a judge, a DA the mayor. In fact, if necessary,

563
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 2: when I get elected mayor, I will say guess what,

564
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 2: or they call it qualified immunity. All of our insurance

565
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 2: gets stripped selected officials. If the cops don't have the

566
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 2: people's insurance, we shouldn't have the people insurance either. Because

567
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: a mayor can make so many mistakes, a lot of

568
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 2: people can get hurt by his mistakes or her mistakes,

569
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 2: a lot of people might end up dying because his

570
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 2: or her mistakes. And yet, as in the case of

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Speaker 2: Governor Cuomo, sixty million dollars in handouts to the sexual

572
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 2: harassment victims in his administration want to stay trooper. He

573
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 2: was protected by the people's insurance qualified immunity. He can't

574
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 2: have this double standard.

575
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Speaker 5: What things get hurt by you making some of the

576
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 5: things that you just talked about happened. Because I know

577
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 5: when you talk about the tax cuts, there was the

578
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Speaker 5: ten billion dollars from the education or the schools that

579
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 5: was going to be taken away in order to make

580
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Speaker 5: the tax cuts happen. How does that money affect the

581
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 5: schools in a negative way to achieve what you're trying

582
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 5: to get to on a positive side?

583
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Speaker 2: Or does it Right right behind City Hall you have

584
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 2: Tweak Courthouse. This is where the bureaucrats actually occupy offices,

585
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 2: any of them those show jobs. It's the old home

586
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 2: of Tammany Hall, the most corrupt political operation that ever existed.

587
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: Perfect for the Department of Education. They have thirteen deputy chancellors,

588
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: fifty department heads. When you talk to the principals and

589
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: the elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools who

590
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 2: have to hire this staff, they don't even know who

591
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 2: these people are. They make two hundred and sixty eight

592
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: thousand plus with benefits. You cut all that bureaucracy. The

593
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: other thing you have to do is you have to

594
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: promote charter schools. You have to promote other alternative schools.

595
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Speaker 2: You can't say to parents or guardians or people who

596
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Speaker 2: are trying to give their children the best quality education,

597
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: it's one way your local school. What happens if your

598
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: local public school is a failing school, what are you

599
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: to do to keep sending your child there where they're

600
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: exposed to gangs, they're exposed to people cursing, not respecting teachers.

601
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Speaker 2: They have what they call restorative justice in class now,

602
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 2: So that means if Charlemagne won, might teacher and I

603
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Speaker 2: clip you right, I hit you with a baseball bat,

604
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: you would think, Okay, I get expelled, they get suspended,

605
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 2: maybe I get arrested. No no, no, no, no no, Charlemagne,

606
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 2: they set you and me down with a moderator restorative justice.

607
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 2: I know the routine. Oh Charlemagne had a bad day,

608
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 2: cross my heart and hope to die. I promise, I promise, teacher,

609
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: I'll never do it again. The moment they walk out

610
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 2: the door, snitches get stitches and end up in ditches

611
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: your mind, And now you've got to go back into

612
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 2: the same class. It's like the correctional department. Mostly now

613
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: the correctional offices of women are colored right, more than

614
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 2: fifty percent black and Hispanic. You go on a riker's Island,

615
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 2: which is on Man Damie and Andrew Coma. You know,

616
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: they just wanted to close close clothes and they never

617
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 2: been there. These weren't are getting perved on, sexually harassed,

618
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 2: sexually assaulted the inmates. There are no consequences in you

619
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: know what happens once they've been put aside for a

620
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 2: few hours, they get put back into the same tier.

621
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Speaker 2: And these women correctional offices, many of them single parents

622
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: raising families, have to deal with these guys. There are

623
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: no protection. Toughest job in the city is being a

624
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 2: correctional office at twelve hours. It's like a constant nine

625
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 2: one one call. And EMTs who have to deal with

626
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 2: the psychologically disturbed, who have to go to domestic abusers,

627
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: who have to help people having heart attacks strokes. You know,

628
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: they make less than people on bicycles delivering groove hub

629
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: who are trying to run you down in the streets

630
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 2: and don't pay attention to any of the laws of

631
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: the road. I mean sometimes it's like the Indianapolis five hundred.

632
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 2: They grow up pub delivery guys with the app make

633
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 2: more money than an EMT that accurate. Absolutely, they put

634
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Speaker 2: their life on the line.

635
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Speaker 4: I'll ask you about the student, so you know, yeah,

636
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Speaker 4: I definitely think there should be consequences of actions, especially

637
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Speaker 4: if a students.

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00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: They hit a teacher with a baseball bang.

639
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 4: But they are still children at the end of the day, Like,

640
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 4: what is the path to redemption for a child?

641
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 2: Look, a lot of reasons why a child may be

642
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: acting up. There are alternative schools to the children. You

643
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: have specially skilled teachers and many of them that can

644
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Speaker 2: deal with their needs. It can't function in a normal

645
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 2: academic atmosphere because when they're acting up and they're causing

646
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 2: problems to other children or the teachers, it disrupts the

647
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 2: whole classroom. The teacher is afraid. I can't tell you

648
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: how many times I've walked into a classroom there's like

649
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: twelve kids sitting there. You know, half of them are asleep,

650
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 2: others are just doing other things. You know, they're not

651
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: paying attention to the teacher. The teacher just figures, let

652
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: me get through this. Forty five minute period and clock

653
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: out for the day. I remember teachers who couldn't wait

654
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: to get into a classroom to fill you full of knowledge,

655
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 2: to share with you everything that they learned in their lifetime.

656
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 2: We got to get back to the basics. We have

657
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: to treat our children as the greatest natural resource we do.

658
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: I go into a lot of poor neighborhoods where I

659
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time. I've had a lot of

660
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 2: Guardian Angels who came from dysfunction dysfunctional families where they

661
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 2: start crying and you know what broke their back on

662
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 2: teachers parent Night, which every public school has every schoolass

663
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: Nobody showed up for them. Not a mother, not a father,

664
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 2: not a grandparent, not an older brother, not an older sister.

665
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: Nobody showed up for them. And in talking to them,

666
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: they said, man, I felt like I was worthless. I

667
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: felt like nobody loved me. I felt like, hey, I

668
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: might as well go and hang with a gang and

669
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: hang with my alternative family. That's why I created the

670
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: Guardian Angels. It became their alternative family to keep them

671
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 2: out of harm's way, and thousands of them have gone

672
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: on to have great careers as police officers. Social workers,

673
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: correctional officers. That's how I can keep my fingers on

674
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: the pulse of this city, by all the alumni of

675
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: the Guardian Angels who keep me updated to what's really happening,

676
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 2: not what the politician say, because basically they do the

677
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 2: ropidope the politicians, but really what goes on with working

678
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,719
Speaker 2: class people. So if people need to know who I am,

679
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 2: I am a Republican, I'm a populist. I am the

680
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: candidate of working class people. There is no other candidate,

681
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 2: well there's any working class we know.

682
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 4: I wonder does it even benefits you to call yourself

683
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 4: a Republican because at this current time, at least on

684
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 4: a federal level, not even that it's on a federal level,

685
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 4: this is a period Republicans are not the party of

686
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 4: the working class.

687
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 2: Well I disagree. How I disagree because if you go

688
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 2: throughout the country, you've seen a tremendous turnaround the Republican Party.

689
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 4: If you're cutting all of the programs that benefit the

690
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 4: least of us in this country, right and you know

691
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 4: you're responsible for more jobs being lost this year on

692
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 4: a federal level than any than the Democrats.

693
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: That's just the fact.

694
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 4: Between dogs and what's happening now with the government shut down.

695
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: They're clearly not the party.

696
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: Of Would you admit that both parties keep spending money

697
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 2: they don't have printing money thirty seven trillion in debt.

698
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 2: We are facing a catastrophe. When you're a populist Republican,

699
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 2: you're saying, hey, we got to live within our means. Now.

700
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 2: I don't agree with all the cuts coming from the

701
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 2: Trump administration. Medicaid cuts have been devastating to us in

702
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 2: the city. The food stamps, everybody gets hurt. Farmers get hurt,

703
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 2: the packers get hurt, the bodega owner, the supermarket owners

704
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: get hurt, the people who need food. And, by the way,

705
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 2: the horrible food in some of the inner city neighborhoods.

706
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: I call it the ICU belt. I call it the

707
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: three k's. Forget the KKK. It's Kentucky Fried Chicken, it's

708
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 2: Kansas chicken, it's Kennedy chicken. That's a guaranteed trip to

709
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 2: an er and ICU belt. And then you try to

710
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: look for good food sources. They don't exist. Now, Adams

711
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: talked a lot about that because he benefited from that.

712
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 2: I do know personally he was in dire circumstances medically,

713
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 2: but it never translated to helping people in those neighborhoods

714
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 2: have the kind of food choice. Call it trader, Jose,

715
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 2: I don't care, but you got traded, Joels. You got

716
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 2: whole foods. Where people have some money, they have choices

717
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: go to. In the inner city where I spend most

718
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 2: of my time, the choices are meager, if almost nonexistent,

719
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 2: and these people are ending up going into the hospital

720
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 2: at younger and younger ages, and that costs us a

721
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 2: lot of money that's unnecessary and plus the suffering unnecessary.

722
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 2: So we talk about these programs, but if you don't

723
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 2: have boots on the ground, if you don't really know

724
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 2: these people who are affected, you're never going to be

725
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: able to come up with the plans to try to

726
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 2: stop that. And that's where savings can be if people

727
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 2: are healthier, less trips to the er, less trips to

728
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 2: the ICU, and less aggravation for the EMTs who don't

729
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 2: are not treated with value by this city. Should have

730
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 2: paid parody with fire and the police, and they're in

731
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 2: constant nine to one one calls, you know, with the

732
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 2: sirens and the whistles going. Imagine the depression you would

733
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 2: be in if you were an EMT worker.

734
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 4: And you know your rhetoric is I agree with a

735
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 4: lot of your rhetoric. It just doesn't reflect with a

736
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 4: current Republican party. That's why I say it.

737
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: Didn't even benefit you to say I'm Republican.

738
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Speaker 5: Charge you'll get nervous when they hear a budget cut

739
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 5: to any anything education from a Republican candidate, and that's

740
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 5: why I asked you the question earlier.

741
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 2: Well, you won't hear about any budget cuts from the Democrats,

742
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 2: and that is a reality. So you got to cut

743
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 2: the fat, you got to cut the bureaccuracy, you got

744
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 2: to cut the corruption. And there's a lot of corruption there.

745
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 2: And it's not just Democrats.

746
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 4: In the Department of Education though, especially if you said that,

747
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 4: you know a lot of these kids aren't getting the

748
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 4: education that they deserve.

749
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: We should put more investment into education.

750
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: But where's the money going to come from. It's already

751
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighteen billion dollar budget. The state has

752
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 2: said they got to cut thirty six billion. They're over budgeted,

753
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 2: and the federal government keeps cutting. We got to tighten

754
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 2: our belts. I want the money to go in the classroom.

755
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,720
Speaker 2: Do you realize with a forty one billion dollar budget,

756
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 2: teachers are still reaching into their pocket and buying supplies.

757
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 2: Where's all that money going to?

758
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: I agree, I think that's disgusting.

759
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: Where's that money going?

760
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: So you don't want to cut the budget department?

761
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 2: There, well, just the bureaucracy, just the people who get

762
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: paid incredible amounts of money, and nobody in the schools

763
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 2: knows who they are and what they do. It's called patronage.

764
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 2: You get a job like this because you took good

765
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 2: care of candidates who ended up getting elected to position.

766
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: That patronage has end. Now are all the Republicans good,

767
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: of course not? Or all the Democrats good? Of course not.

768
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 2: But if you notice, I'm a different kind of Republican

769
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: than the other Republicans. A lot of Republicans don't have

770
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 2: nice things to say about me because I call myself

771
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 2: the mayor of the people. I got the boots on

772
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 2: the ground, I'm in the subways, I'm on the busses,

773
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm on the express busses. These other candidates, they have

774
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 2: no idea what's going on out there.

775
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 3: I do have to asker, I have to go to

776
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 3: These guys don't I do have one question before I

777
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: do congestion totally right. New Yorker said they hated it,

778
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 3: They said it costs too much money. They said it's

779
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 3: already hard. We just talked about all the money that

780
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 3: people can't afford. But now if they come to the

781
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 3: city for anything, if they're coming for work, and if

782
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 3: they're driving in the city, they're getting charge and tax

783
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 3: a whole lot more.

784
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 1: What is your thoughts.

785
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 2: Try they clip your nine dollars and you know nine

786
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: times two is eighteen, and suddenly it'll be thirty six

787
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 2: and it never goes down. Working class people are crippled by

788
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 2: congestion pricing. It's nothing more than another tax. And it

789
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,280
Speaker 2: was supposed to offset the billion dollars that we lose

790
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 2: in fair evasion. And look at all the storefronts that.

791
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: Are closed now.

792
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 2: Go south of sixtieth Street across some city hall. There

793
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 2: are nine small storefronts, and you talk to the merchants,

794
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: some men and women who've been there for years. Curtis,

795
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: I had to give it up my lease. I couldn't

796
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 2: pay my rent anymore. I don't have enough foot traffic

797
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 2: coming in and out to be able to sustain ourselves.

798
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: So you know, if you love bicycles, you love going

799
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 2: around on bicycles, you don't want to see people in cars.

800
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 2: Maybe this is your vendetta against folks, but working class people,

801
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 2: especially if you're a tradesman or tradeswoman, or you have

802
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 2: a skill level, or you got to get to a hospital,

803
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 2: or you're serving our community as a police officer or

804
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 2: a firefighter in uniform services. Why should you be taxed?

805
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 2: All that is is another tax In New York City.

806
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 2: You get taxed from the cradle to the grave. And

807
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 2: then they got these speed cameras, speed cameras all over

808
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 2: the place. Boom, one hundred and fifty dollars, Boom, one

809
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars. Put speed bumps that'll slow you down.

810
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: And if you decide that you're going to be like

811
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 2: Mario Andretti and the Indianapolis five hundred, you're going to

812
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 2: end up an offender, bended shop, your undercarriage, your ball bearings,

813
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 2: your alignment will be shot. Speed Bumps will slow you down.

814
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 2: Speed camera don't slow you down. All they do is

815
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: pick your pockets. That's what the city is about, picking

816
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: your pockets, taxing you from the cradle to the grave.

817
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 2: And we have to stop because working class people are

818
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: fleeing the billionaires. Look, they always have an out, They

819
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 2: always have a place somewhere else, they move their businesses.

820
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 2: They'll be fine. The working class people. Everything they got

821
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 2: is in their co op, their condo, their house. First

822
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 2: generation immigrants, the family pulls all of its money to

823
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 2: get a house, the American dream. Where I was in Brownsville,

824
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 2: all these West Indian Caribbeans pull their money to get

825
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 2: a house. And then they also now have the city

826
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 2: of yes, which will allow a developer to come in

827
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 2: where the bulldozer in a wrecking ball, there goes your house.

828
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 2: We're going to put up a forty story apartment building.

829
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: You have no say in that, no zoning, no community boards.

830
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 2: You don't have to go to the city council person,

831
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 2: because the mayors will then be windying the pocket lined

832
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,280
Speaker 2: by the billionaires. That's why I say this election cycle

833
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 2: will not be determined by the billionaires, because what do

834
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 2: they want? What motives a billionaire? You think they give

835
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 2: you money because they really believe in what you're doing.

836
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 2: It's how to make more money. And I was born

837
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 2: in this world with nothing. I'll leave from this world

838
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 2: with nothing, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. They are

839
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: self serving servants, many of these elected officials, Republicans and Democrats.

840
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 2: I was raised by my father and mother and my

841
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: grandparents to be a selfless servant. That's what you have

842
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 2: to do to help the people. I just got a

843
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: couple more questions if you got to go.

844
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Speaker 4: I don't know why he's walking out on this question

845
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 4: because it's about his community. But why didn't you attend

846
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 4: the Latino Business Form?

847
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 2: First off, the Latino Business Form, I knew the guy

848
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 2: who was hosting it. He didn't invite any of us.

849
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 2: He did invite Andrew Clomo, he did invite jorham On Domi,

850
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 2: he didn't invite me. I've been to many Latino and

851
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 2: Latina I think what the guy was trying to do

852
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 2: is get attention. He knows I've been there too, thick

853
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 2: and thin. And I'm not gonna dis Jorhan and Andrew

854
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 2: Clomo because I happen to think today two were not

855
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 2: invited or they would have showed up. There's no reason

856
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 2: dissal Latino and Latini community, especially to me, leader of

857
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: the Guardian Angels. So many of the Guardian Angels over

858
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 2: the years have been Latino and Latinas, I mean Dominicans

859
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 2: and Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. I mean that's without them,

860
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been able to start the Guardian Angels.

861
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: Now, a couple of things.

862
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety two, they said that you confess that

863
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 4: you and the Guardian Angels faked several heroic acts for

864
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 4: media attention in the early days.

865
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 2: That was like it was forty five years ago.

866
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 4: Said you find a false report that you were kidnapped

867
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 4: by off duty transit police officers and you staged rescues

868
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 4: and thwarted muggings on the subway.

869
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 2: That, yep, all of that true. You know, you fess

870
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: up when you mess up. I mean, I'm more than

871
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 2: happy to apologize for my faults. Anybody who's married out there,

872
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 2: or you have a relationship, I apologize to my wife's

873
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 2: three times today in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

874
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: But why did you have to do that? Because there

875
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: was actual crime going on?

876
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there was lots of Yeah, you could call

877
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 2: it youthful indiscretion, you know they use that term. I

878
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: just made bad choices. Luckily, I determine I'm never going

879
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 2: to do that again. And I haven't done anything like

880
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 2: that since. But that's forty five years ago. If I

881
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 2: had to tell you to judge somebody by what they

882
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 2: were doing forty five years ago, oh man, you talk

883
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 2: about all the drama, it probably took place. I have

884
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 2: a track record. The situation in the city is everybody

885
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 2: says nice things about Curtis Levers, like everybody loves Raymond.

886
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 2: My job is to get them to come out and vote,

887
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: and I trust the people. I trust that you let

888
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 2: the people vote, they will make the determination of who

889
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: the next mayor is. I'm not dropping out. They tried

890
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 2: to bribe me to drop out. Now they threaten to

891
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 2: kill me and my wife. I have armed security for

892
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: the first time in my life. Guess what we got

893
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 2: twenty one days ago. Boy, this is a novel idea.

894
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 2: Let's trust the people to make the proper decision, and

895
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 2: I will be more than happy to live with it

896
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 2: because I'm not fleeing like Andrew Colman said. Oh, I'm

897
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 2: fleeing with my billionaire friends to Florida. I stay. I

898
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: fight for what I know is right. I improve, I

899
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: don't move, and there are a lot of other people

900
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 2: who will do exactly that.

901
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: But there's a couple of things.

902
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty four, they said you and some other

903
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 4: Guardian angels accosted a man that you're wrongly accused of

904
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 4: being a migrant and a shoplifted, But the man was

905
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 4: actually from the Bronx and police found no evidence of shoplifts.

906
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 2: No, there was no arrest. That was dealt with. Obviously

907
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 2: we moved on. This is what happens when you're very

908
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 2: active each and every day, situations are going to arise

909
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 2: and you learn from it.

910
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: In profiling, did you profile a man?

911
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 2: Now, it wasn't profiling, it was just at the moment.

912
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 2: But again, nobody ended up being arrested. Everything was fine.

913
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: And what about this political event?

914
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 4: They said that you stated that anti Semitism was innate

915
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 4: to gentile saying it's in our DNA.

916
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, when I said that that was at a

917
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 2: rally in Staten Island to a group of Israeli reporters

918
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 2: who were there. My wife confronted me because she had

919
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 2: seen that going. Li said, well, that's a pretty stupid

920
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 2: thing you said. I said, yeah, I didn't say it

921
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 2: the way I should have said it because I'm not Jewish.

922
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 2: I have my two younger sons are Jewish. Their mother

923
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 2: is Melinda Katz, who is the Democratic District Attorney in Queens.

924
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 2: But they didn't handle it well and theyn apologize. But

925
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 2: when you, for instance, all of you were involved in

926
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,959
Speaker 2: radio every day, Yes, sir, if you had to apologize

927
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 2: for everything you said in radio, you'd have to go

928
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 2: on an apology to it. I've certainly had to do

929
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 2: that for thirty five years and talk radio. I would

930
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 2: listen back to what I had said. I say what

931
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: I was pretty stupid, and you got to apologize, especially

932
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: if you give wrong information. And so that's what I've

933
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 2: learned over my seventy one years. When you mess up,

934
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 2: you fess up, and you move on and hopefully nobody

935
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: was injured by what you said or any deeds that

936
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 2: are attributed to you.

937
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing the debate on Earth.

938
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh you know me.

939
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 4: And if you do drop out before the race, the

940
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 4: safe assume you took the ten million.

941
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 5: Dollars or the job because they said you had a

942
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 5: job offer from Trump too.

943
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 2: There's no job offer from Trump. Even if he were

944
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 2: to called me up and say, Curtis, I'd like her

945
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: to come to Washington I'm not going to Washington. I'm

946
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: saying right here in New York City twenty one days

947
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 2: to run for mayor. Charlemagne, you can put money on

948
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 2: the fact that I'm not gonna drop off. Once you

949
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 2: set up a little waging board. You know everybody loves

950
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 2: to bet nowadays. Maybe they can do fan duel Curtis

951
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: Leewit is not dropping out. They've tried to bribe me.

952
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 2: They threatened to kill me and my wife. Why do

953
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 2: you think all of a sudden I drop out now?

954
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: Ten million dollars?

955
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 2: Ten million dollars, No, fifteen, they have to anty a

956
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 2: little bit if they anted it up right that like that?

957
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 2: Remember that Academy Award winning movie Anyone Wanted to be

958
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 2: a Millionaire?

959
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: No?

960
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 2: I was never motivated by money. People know me. No,

961
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 2: that's not my motivation. And so they tried.

962
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,919
Speaker 1: A million for every point you're polling at.

963
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 2: Nope, just ain't gonna happen. Charlemagne. Okay, you know, could

964
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 2: we could be playing five cardsu O poka here. You

965
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 2: know I ain't folding. I ain't folding.

966
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 1: Do you like your chances?

967
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 2: I love my chances because I treat the people like

968
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 2: a march pit I dive into a group, whether your

969
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 2: friends or foes, people always asking questions. Johan used to

970
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 2: do that. Now he's very guarded in terms of just

971
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: going into places where he knows he's gonna get a

972
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 2: lot of grief. And Andrew Cuomo, he does not like people.

973
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: He has like a phobia. But I kind of understand.

974
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 2: People look at him and they see the grimorypo They said, man,

975
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 2: I don't want that guy. Yes, Maya, there's a cold

976
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 2: hearted dude. Come on, we need a man who's not tough.

977
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 2: I look, Zorn, I'm gonna be tough with Trump. And Andrew,

978
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be tough with Trump. Look, I'm the toughest

979
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 2: guy of war. What we need is a male's compassionate,

980
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 2: caring and considerate. We have people with serious problems in

981
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: our city. Stop trying to be the tough guy. Real

982
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 2: tough guys don't have to tell you they're a tough guy.

983
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 2: Take it from me, a real New Yorker, a real

984
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 2: tough guy who's earned it the hard way.

985
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: Tell him what to donate to your campaign.

986
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 2: Go to Sliwa for nyced dot com. That Sleiwa for

987
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 2: NYC dot com and you can see all of the programs.

988
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 2: What I would do for the first hundred days when

989
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 2: I'm sworn into office January first, twenty twenty six, and

990
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 2: I know everybody here in this Breakfast Club studio is

991
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 2: gonna be saying, damn. He told us he who was

992
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 2: gonna win? An he won? Wow, you should have believed him.

993
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: It was Curtis Lee. What is the Breakfast Club? Thank

994
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: you for joining us, brother.

995
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 2: My pleasure.

996
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. Click your ass up the

997
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.

998
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 2: Finish for y'all.

999
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: Done,