Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news joining us. Now he
Speaker 1: is the mayor of New York City. We have a
Speaker 1: two hour conversation to squeeze into a polite twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: and there are many many tapists to talk of. I
Speaker 1: want to talk of the immediate news. My father came
Speaker 1: home to College Point Long Island. In the distance was LaGuardia.
Speaker 1: What a celebration for New York the rebuilding of LaGuardia.
Speaker 1: Halfway there is Bayside High School where you used to
Speaker 1: darken the door, and let's not mince words, it was
Speaker 1: a challenge Mayor Adams a few years ago. I want
Speaker 1: you to speak right now to the teachers of Bayside
Speaker 1: High School who went with the other guy yesterday in
Speaker 1: their union endorsement.
Speaker 2: Well, when you look at what we were able to
Speaker 2: accomplish here in the city, we've outpaced of the state
Speaker 2: and reading and math got so much more to do.
Speaker 2: But also we're developing the illness of our children, teaching
Speaker 2: them meditation, breathing exercises, healthier food to eat. So our
Speaker 2: children are not only academically smart, but we want them
Speaker 2: to be emotionally intelligent and at the same time of
Speaker 2: what we have done in our educational system for one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty thousand children in pre K three K
Speaker 2: of the universal after school program, and paid our teachers
Speaker 2: a dawn good union contract to make sure that they're
Speaker 2: having a wage that they deserve.
Speaker 1: My youngest child, afterthought, went to a school with eleven
Speaker 1: languages in first grade. You have Acman and Lobe Wall
Speaker 1: Street support. They talk charter schools. Can you reaffirm here
Speaker 1: a better education system away from union dynamics and the
Speaker 1: silliness of it all.
Speaker 2: It's so important when you think about when a parent
Speaker 2: drops their child off to school, they're not asking if
Speaker 2: it's a charter school, if it's a baroqua, if it's
Speaker 2: a body school. They want a quality education in the
Speaker 2: safe environment.
Speaker 3: And that is what we've produced.
Speaker 2: And you know, union heads don't always speak on behalf
Speaker 2: of the rank and file teachers population of I know
Speaker 2: those teachers appreciate what I have done as the mayor
Speaker 2: and what this administration has done, and many of those
Speaker 2: teachers will be.
Speaker 3: Voting for me, mister mayor.
Speaker 4: What statement were the Democratic voters making when they selected
Speaker 4: mister Mandane in the primary? Maybe here in New York
Speaker 4: city certainly, but maybe even n Ashley.
Speaker 2: Let's let's examine this, and I think that's something that
Speaker 2: has been not really understood. Nine percent of voters voted,
Speaker 2: nine percent, ninety one percent they have yet to speak.
Speaker 2: Two point five million Democrats, a million independents, of several
Speaker 2: hundred thousand Republicans. This is the moment when we're going
Speaker 2: to see what New Yorkers want. Do you want someone
Speaker 2: who just funck defunded, just banned police departments. Do you
Speaker 2: want someone that's telling high end commerders to leave our
Speaker 2: city without understandity economics that they bring. Do you want
Speaker 2: to stop our progress and one of the healthiest economies
Speaker 2: we've ever had In public safety? He wants to empty
Speaker 2: reikis Island, seventy four hundred of the most dangerous people
Speaker 2: in our city. He wants to empty Rykers Island and
Speaker 2: have they'll come back to the communities that they offended.
Speaker 2: And so New Yorkers are going to be able to
Speaker 2: hear clear messages of what the future looks like and
Speaker 2: what that future looks like under him.
Speaker 4: Current polling Slingshot strategies have mister Mondani at first at
Speaker 4: thirty five percent of the vote. Governor Cuomo second at
Speaker 4: twenty five percent, mister slioof fourteen percent and you at
Speaker 4: eleven percent.
Speaker 3: What does that poll tell.
Speaker 4: You and what do you need to do to change those.
Speaker 3: It tells me. Don't listen to polls.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty one, they had me thirteen percent behind Andrew Yang,
Speaker 2: thirteen percent behind Andrew Yang, and we're not calling him,
Speaker 2: but you will.
Speaker 1: Not find Governor Cuomo. What do you need to have
Speaker 1: you spoken to Governor Cuomo yet in.
Speaker 3: This communicated with him several times.
Speaker 2: Andrew has a history of doing things when it comes
Speaker 2: down to African American candidates. He did it to Carl
Speaker 2: McCall when he ran for governor. He did it to
Speaker 2: David bat Patterson when he who spoke recently exactly he
Speaker 2: did it. He did it to Charlie King when Charlie
Speaker 2: King ran for a g He did it to Keith Wright.
Speaker 3: He has a history, and I think the different reporting
Speaker 3: or no.
Speaker 2: Sabotage in that racing trying to compel them to get
Speaker 2: out of the race. He underestimated Eric Adams, a former
Speaker 2: cop that knows what a bully looks like. And I
Speaker 2: am going to complete this race. My campaign has just started.
Speaker 2: I have not been campaigning and not have an opportunity
Speaker 2: to speak to voters.
Speaker 1: You're going to complete this. Let's be clear for us,
Speaker 1: particularly for our national audience. Eric Adams with us here
Speaker 1: at this interesting time for the city and a cost
Speaker 1: for the nation is well. Thank you for joining Bloomberg
Speaker 1: surveillance on television in radio, Mayor Adams. But the critical
Speaker 1: distinction here is timeline to the election. When does the
Speaker 1: Adams Croomo tension need to get fixed to come to
Speaker 1: an efficacious outcome for the people against mister mucdonie.
Speaker 3: Think about this for a moment.
Speaker 2: Andrew knew that Madonnie was going to be on the
Speaker 2: ballot on a Berkans family party line.
Speaker 3: He knew that.
Speaker 2: He knew I was going to be as a Democrat
Speaker 2: on my own line. He knew that, so why would
Speaker 2: he also do an independent line. He created this scenario
Speaker 2: because he thought by doing so, he can force me.
Speaker 1: Andrew Cromo created mister Mumcdoni's campaign.
Speaker 2: He created this scenario that created an opportunity to divide
Speaker 2: the vote instead of being unified around Madonnie. This was
Speaker 2: his creation and it's typical of how he created these scenarios.
Speaker 3: We're not going to succumb to that. He had his chance.
Speaker 2: Twenty five million dollars he spent, he got his message out,
Speaker 2: he didn't campaign, he didn't go out and interact with voters.
Speaker 3: He created it.
Speaker 2: Now it's time for me to have an opportunity and
Speaker 2: we will win and beat him.
Speaker 4: Has Governor Cuomo asked you not to run, or if
Speaker 4: you asked Governor Cuomo not to run?
Speaker 2: Both when he spoke, we both interacted and I said
Speaker 2: you should step aside.
Speaker 3: For the good of this city.
Speaker 2: We both agreed the city were move in the wrong
Speaker 2: direction under the primary winner, and I think he should
Speaker 2: do the right thing.
Speaker 4: If he doesn't do the right thing. From your perspective,
Speaker 4: would you run as a Republican?
Speaker 2: No, it's Curtis Lee or is a Republican primary winner.
Speaker 2: He's the winner of that party. It's too late to
Speaker 2: switch that right now. I'm going to give votes from
Speaker 2: all New Yorkers because when New Yorkers won safe Street,
Speaker 2: they're not asking if they're a Democrat or Republican.
Speaker 3: They want their street safe.
Speaker 1: The constant theme mayor of our interviews and surveillance has
Speaker 1: been committed to talking about this debate with his national ramifications,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned it earlier. The New York Police Department
Speaker 1: is a general rule. I'm speaking as an amateur. We're
Speaker 1: three thousand down on the body count of the New
Speaker 1: York Police Department. What are you going to do day
Speaker 1: one on a second term mayor to get the NYPD
Speaker 1: back to a forward motion.
Speaker 3: Well, that urgency can't happen on the reelection is happening. Now.
Speaker 3: We're in the place to.
Speaker 2: Bring on four thousand more offices by way they're starting now.
Speaker 2: We have a class that's in now. By the end
Speaker 2: of the year, we're going to be substantially higher. And
Speaker 2: part of the problem is a lot of the large classes.
Speaker 2: We saw a lttrition, We saw a lot of officers retiring.
Speaker 2: That is why I was imperative as the mayor that
Speaker 2: I settled a good contract with our union members.
Speaker 1: Eric Adams with us here the Mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1: We welcome all your nationwide. How you listen on your
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Speaker 4: Paul, mister Mary, let's talk about immigration right off the
Speaker 4: tip of Manhattan. We've got the Statue of Liberty that
Speaker 4: means a lot to a lot of New Yorkers. How
Speaker 4: do you think about immigration in this city and maybe
Speaker 4: how does that different from what President Trump thinks about Well.
Speaker 2: And you're right, that statue represents a lot, and particularly
Speaker 2: when you look at the fact that my nineteen year
Speaker 2: uncle died to protect the right of being an American
Speaker 2: and Vietnam War. But think about this for moment coming here.
Speaker 2: You should not be inflicting violence on undocumented New Yorkers
Speaker 2: or documented New Yorkers. We manage a humanitarian crisis with
Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty seven thousand microcin or silence seekert
Speaker 2: now once slept on our streets. Every one of those
Speaker 2: children were educated in our school system. And I'm going
Speaker 2: to coordinate with federal authorities to go after the dangerous
Speaker 2: at the Veniceth Whalley gang members we took down that
Speaker 2: was selling drugs, forcing women into prostitution who were undocumented.
Speaker 2: The Lord does not allow us to collaborate for civil enforcement.
Speaker 2: We won't do that, but we will collaborate to go
Speaker 2: after dangerous people.
Speaker 1: I should mention again Good Morning on Bloomberg Television with
Speaker 1: Katie Greifeld and Snoli Bassic as well Mary Adams. Here's
Speaker 1: the headline. I talked to Laura Namais and this is
Speaker 1: just so important within her expertise of this city. The
Speaker 1: La Times heavily armed immigration agents descend on LA's MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1: If I'm having a beverage at the Sunset Tower Hotel,
Speaker 1: I look across the opulence of LA to a really
Speaker 1: tough part of town. And the other day we saw
Speaker 1: military enforcement wrapped around these deportations and ice marching across
Speaker 1: MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. The critics to you will
Speaker 1: say you're in trump back pocket. How are you going
Speaker 1: to push against the president and his administration if we
Speaker 1: have those tensions in New York.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the best saying is if you
Speaker 2: tell a lie long enough, you think it's true.
Speaker 3: But we need to deal with the facts here.
Speaker 2: We took this administration to court on things we thought
Speaker 2: were wrong, more than any mayor in the country, more
Speaker 2: than any mayor in the country.
Speaker 3: But when I.
Speaker 2: Needed the president to lift the stopbroke order on a
Speaker 2: multi billion dollar wind farm project in Sunset Park. Fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred union jobs, five hundred thousand homes would have benefited
Speaker 2: from it. I flew to Washington, had a healthy conversation
Speaker 2: with him. He lifted the stopbroke order. Same relationship I
Speaker 2: had with President Biden. Ten trips to Washington, two meets
Speaker 2: with the President to deal with law enforcement officer. I
Speaker 2: nicknamed myself the Biden of Brooklyn. I work with presidents.
Speaker 2: I don't war with presidents. I have to deliver for
Speaker 2: the city of New York, and it will be irresponsible
Speaker 2: for any mayor not to do that.
Speaker 1: The granularity of the election in this it's like Lindsey
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties or something.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 1: I can't keep tracking. Is Adam's an independent, a Democrat
Speaker 1: or Republican?
Speaker 3: What is wait, we don't know this one.
Speaker 1: He's an independent of Mayory Adams. My team is listening
Speaker 1: to this interview, and there has to be a clarification
Speaker 1: of your relationship with the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: When will we see that?
Speaker 3: I think you're seeing it now.
Speaker 2: You're seeing a mayor that's defending and fighting for his
Speaker 2: city in a responsible way.
Speaker 3: New York City is the largest city.
Speaker 2: In America, and if you're going to be the mayor
Speaker 2: of that city and you are unwilling to communicate with
Speaker 2: the President of the United States, if it's Biden or
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, if it's a Democrat or Republican, that's irresponsible.
Speaker 2: Governor Hku went to Washington several times. Mayors across the
Speaker 2: country are going to Washington. And so for anyone that
Speaker 2: states that the mayor of the largest city in the
Speaker 2: country should not be communicating with the White House, that's irresponsible.
Speaker 2: You're not delivering for your city. I must deliver for
Speaker 2: New York. That is my primary goal and that's who
Speaker 2: I respond.
Speaker 3: To, mister Merrick.
Speaker 4: In terms of delivering for New York City, cost of
Speaker 4: living has always been a key issue.
Speaker 3: What is the plan?
Speaker 4: Is there a solution here? Because every day people keep
Speaker 4: coming into this island of Manhattan, how do we house
Speaker 4: them all?
Speaker 2: Twenty one when I ran for office, the top issue
Speaker 2: was public safety and housing. Follow that the reason you're
Speaker 2: seeing other conversations come on the floor and this election
Speaker 2: is because we solved the public safety problem.
Speaker 3: You see was Commissioner Tish. We have the lowest numbers of.
Speaker 1: I will state, let me interrupt, I will state where
Speaker 1: I live. Folks, I can state it's not as bad
Speaker 1: as it was eighteen months ago. I still don't like it.
Speaker 1: Mayor Adam, I'm gonna cut you some slack here. It's
Speaker 1: better than it was.
Speaker 2: Four point six million people take our subway system every day.
Speaker 2: We have an average of five feloniesy to day we
Speaker 2: had a four point six million. These police officers are
Speaker 2: doing an amazing job of keeping us safe. But the
Speaker 2: issue of affordability, I know it so well. I grew
Speaker 2: up in poverty. The primary winner grew up in luxury.
Speaker 2: Yet that same luxury he grew up in. He stating
Speaker 2: that we should not have a financial ecosystem. I want
Speaker 2: the person that drives a limousine to have prosperity in
Speaker 2: the city, and the person assists in the back of
Speaker 2: the limousine.
Speaker 3: That's the city I want to live in.
Speaker 1: The Zeitgeistchier and again learns briefing me on this is
Speaker 1: you came into office and there was a scandal. That
Speaker 1: scandal that I don't even know. It's old news for me.
Speaker 1: It's water well under the bridge. But there's a zeitgeist
Speaker 1: now that you need to get a new team as
Speaker 1: the next mayor, maybe involving some of those people in limousines.
Speaker 1: You team up acmin Lobe and the others within the
Speaker 1: financial business. If the other guys elected Mandami, every w
Speaker 1: jinare they moving to Coral Gables or to Miami?
Speaker 3: Oh? Both?
Speaker 1: This is Sirian manor this is serious tough. You've got
Speaker 1: a mandate for five How many millions of people are
Speaker 1: under your watch?
Speaker 2: Eight point five million New York is three hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty thousand employees.
Speaker 1: I want you to talk to the one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: fancy people in those limousines right now. How are you
Speaker 1: going to get them not to move to Florida.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, we're going to win this race,
Speaker 2: and in my reelection, we're going to continue what we
Speaker 2: have done in New York. As we talk about this
Speaker 2: business channel here, we have more jobs in the city
Speaker 2: in the city's history, more small businesses in the city's history.
Speaker 2: Bond Raid has raised our bond as they saw us
Speaker 2: navigate out of COVID migrans.
Speaker 3: And asylum seekers crimes.
Speaker 2: When you take twenty two thousand illegal guns off this trees,
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand illegal vehicles that will used in current
Speaker 2: criminal behavior.
Speaker 3: You have stabilized the city.
Speaker 2: The economic stimulus package of the city is public safety.
Speaker 3: Mister Marrier, given where the polls have you now, whether you.
Speaker 4: Believe the polls or not, what is your path to victory?
Speaker 3: Do you believe voters? New voters?
Speaker 2: Ninety one percent of the voters did not participate in
Speaker 2: this election. We have a substantial number. We're going to
Speaker 2: register a million new voters over the next few months.
Speaker 2: And everyone is talking about the excitement that is felt
Speaker 2: over the primary winner. What they're missing is the excitement
Speaker 2: that I am seeing every day of those who say
Speaker 2: this can't happen.
Speaker 4: How do you run against mister monamik?
Speaker 3: You sorry?
Speaker 4: How would you run against them? How will you run
Speaker 4: against them?
Speaker 2: You have to do it in layers. You have to
Speaker 2: look at the various communities. And when I say communities,
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about a geographical location.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about issues. I met with.
Speaker 2: Two one hundred and fifty bodega and supermarket owners yesterday.
Speaker 2: A government run supermarket would devastate their business. I met
Speaker 2: with two hundred and fifty of the seven hundred thousand
Speaker 2: small property owners can you imagine telling a small property
Speaker 2: owner that you can never raise the rent so that
Speaker 2: your rent rolls no longer equal the repairs of the building.
Speaker 2: Those small property owners are going to lose their property.
Speaker 2: All of these different communities are now waking up and
Speaker 2: realizing what his policies would do to them individually.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this the final question and come full
Speaker 1: circle to where we are before, and we'll again it. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much on Bloomberg Television worldwide for being
Speaker 1: with us. The distinction of this campaign is the kid
Speaker 1: you were and it was a train wreck. When did
Speaker 1: your life turn around?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: How old were you when your childhood became you as
Speaker 1: a police officer?
Speaker 3: What was the age?
Speaker 2: Where about twenty about nineteen years old?
Speaker 1: That nineteen year old bratt whoever they are today? Okay,
Speaker 1: they are voting for the tradition of Mario Cuomo. How
Speaker 1: do you get them to shift from Mario Cuomo's son
Speaker 1: over to Eric Adams? How do you get that conservative
Speaker 1: black public safety electorate to turn and.
Speaker 3: Vote for you?
Speaker 2: Well, they voted for me in twenty twenty one. And
Speaker 2: remember this as we reflect on this election of you know,
Speaker 2: my first job at twelve years old as a paperboy,
Speaker 2: then becoming a dishwasher, then working in the fireroom of
Speaker 2: Blue Cross Blue Shield. Working in the fireroom, Pete Magri Mitchell,
Speaker 2: that long legacy of blue collar work is helping me
Speaker 2: understand the needs of the working class people in the city.
Speaker 1: Mary Adams, thank you so much for joining Bloomber.
Speaker 3: Thank you great to be I appreciate.
Speaker 1: He is Eric Adams of New York City.
Speaker 3: Here